right now we are joined live by mohammad shot feet from the ramadan foundation to discuss this story thanks for being with us here on r t international. so british counter-terror police have announced that two people who were rushed to the hospital following this exposure to an unknown substance were in fact exposed to the nerve agent novacek is there any possibility that there could be a connection to the screwball case last march. first of all i'd like to wish them well and hope they make a speedy recovery it's an extraordinary development four months after that alleged poisoning insult we are seeing other british citizens now being subjected to this same threat i would just caution the police to complete their inquiries let's not jump on to you know aggressively target one country or another unless wait for the facts in the evidence before jumping to conclusion and one of the criticism if you like of the british government when they reacted to solve was even before the evidence had been completed and the inquiry had been completed they decided to lay the blame russia and i hope th

achmet mohammed ramadan is a busy man he's a marketer and elected mayor his district can be found among the ruins of western mosul. from his workshop he organizes clearance of rubble and booby traps and is also in charge of food and water distribution the recent past is ever present even in these mundane tasks. why when there's an assessment for food and somebody says this is the son of an i.a.s. family as i go out there won't be any food for that family. then this guy blames another family who wasn't i hafta and so they don't get any food either. you. have to run man says about half the people in his district supported the i.r.s. some from fear some from conviction. the evidence of what that led to is everywhere in mass graves like this one. the oh god how do you know my son just wanted to cross the street they shot him in the back he was my only son. so he had six children i. have to rock man asks for details tries to comfort her but there's nothing he can do you know oh wow. accusations eat through the community to try to find out what's real and what's not after a man is registering

zero zero zero zero achmet mohammad ramadan is a busy man he's a marketer and elected man his district can be found among the ruins of western mosul from his workshop he organizes clearance of rubble and booby traps and is also in charge of food and water distribution the recent past is ever present even in these mundane tasks. the minister. my when there's an assessment for food and somebody says this is the son of an i.a.s. family as i go out there won't be anything for that family. then this guy blames another family who wasn't what i had and so they don't get any food either. you. have to run man says about half the people in his district supported the i asked some from fear some from conviction. the evidence of what that led to is everywhere in mass graves like this one. here they all go away how do you know my son just wanted to cross the street they shot him in the back he was my only son. so he had six children. after rocket man asks for details tries to comfort her but there's nothing he can do. accusations eat through the community to try to find out what's real and what's no

and they have come to dubai to film a drama for primetime in the ramadan season, when people tend trelax after a day of fasting with some time at the tv. nothing unusual about that except tt aghadeer is one of the only women on camera in the kingdom. [music pling] narrator: if there is one luxura that affe air travel has brought us, it is the ability to move around the world just to meet new people and new things. [music playing] lucy: they tried to interview me how awesome my life is. and it actually haven't been that way all the time. came to dubai because i believe so that dubai's the place where you can get a lot of opportunities f a job. you can grow professionally here way much faster than somewherero in . it's way much harder in europe. for example, in slovakia, it's,, it's just-- more people are jobless than ine dubai. here by myself and if nd a job right away. and i just took took my cd and i [indistinct] r a couple of restaurants and they gave me jobsnowhere like dubai, righ only new york. ha! ha ha ha.[m usic playing] i just got my dream job, whh means i'm gonna travel the wor

commentator amir oren and the former director of the palestinian non-governmental organisation network more ramadan shared their views on the recent conflict. hundreds of palestinians if you accumulate the numbers have either died or been injured at the demonstrations but this is not happened because israel has used force. to the contrary israel only reacted and israel tried to keep the entire border quiet it is not in its interest to try and repair hundred. number of but the scene and war show did differ on that either sort of does without any dangers. from time to there is that it is served as it just is being slogans and it is seeing the voices and asking the international community to work to brush up to the end that she'd get of movement and can look at this to the to the senior to live as normal people. you might be and live in. with the dust not even settled on the trump putin summit in helsinki the u.s. president has stirred it all up again announcing he is inviting his russian counterpart to washington later in the year second meeting potentially with with. is that in the works is it plann

you're watching al-jazeera as the whole ramadan day are these are all top news stories a group of displaced syrians have approached the border fence between syria and the israeli occupied golan heights waving white flags. israeli soldiers called out to the group to move back from the fence prompting some to turn back to nearby refugee camps it's thought the syrians were attempting to seek help all sanctuary following airstrikes in the area near going to try. meanwhile israel's typing it seemed almost two million people living in gaza by further restricting the flow of goods into the territory it's planning to ban all fuel imports through the kind of crossing of food and medicine will need permission to go through carol siloam is the sole commercial crossing into gaza it's vital for the flow of fuel necessary for people who only get up to six hours of electricity per day u.s. president told trump has arrived home to severe criticism after siding with russian president vladimir putin on accusations of election meddling speaking after their summit in finland trying to cast doubt on his own int

amir oren and the former director of the palestinian non-governmental organisation network moshe and ramadan shared their views on the recent conflict. hundreds of palestinians if you accumulate the numbers have either died or been injured at the demonstrations but this is not happened because israel has used force. to the contrary israel only reacted and israel tried to keep the entire border quiet it is not in its interest to try and repair hundred. number of but the scene and war show did the from that is that you disorder does without any dangers. from them to theirs or you to sirte it just isn't slogans and it is being voices and asking the international community to work to brush up to to intercede and get of movement and promote it as to the buddhist senior to live as normal people. you might be and live in. the dust not even settled on the trump putin summit in helsinki the us president has stirred it all up yet again announcing he is inviting his russian counterpart to washington later in the year second meeting potentially with with your putin. is that in the works is it planned ha

that they were going to be allowed to go ahead with this because we have seen an end to the month of ramadaners of the lgbti community and organizers say this event is very important for them because it is a time of the year where they remind people here that they exist and that they are demanding equal rights. they have they say felt discriminated against. and they say they have been brought up to feel ashamed of their identity. but for some this ban on this event taking place is not just about lgbti rights in this country, it is also a reminder of the clampdown we have seen in recent years on freedom of expression in turkey. jomana karadsheh, cnn, istanbul. >> jomana, thank you. >>> do you remember the man named spider-man? that was his nickname after he scaled a building to save a child. a 22-year-old migrant, he climbed four stories to rescue a 4-year-old boy dangling from a balcony. this happened back in may. just look at that. watch him get up there. it's amazing. now we understand mamadou gassama has started a new job. he's a member of the paris fire brigade. in addition to wing a pos

so we have had an experience of the birds being stolen here in the past, during ramadan in 2014. 150,e stolen. theyjust came in, took all the birds in one night. they took a lot of them, which has really impacted our breeding programme, because a lot of the best couples were in these blocks that were targeted. that must have an heartbreaking for the staff here, to lose so many birds. yes, they remember it as this awful time, coming in work finding the cages ripped open. if they got stolen again, that's probably it. it's difficult to comprehend that a break—in at this one remote centre could mean the extinction of a species. these birds, the rarest of the rare, will remain here under lock and key. but is there anywhere left injava where they can fly freely and safely? a stone's throw from the chaos of the city is the taman safari park. this is a jungle fairground, an eclectic home to creatures from all over the world. with its roots in the circus, it boasts animal shows and close encounters which have brought criticism from animal rights campaigners. but there is a particular focus her

it was the month of ramadan. he was visiting a family.e had the breaking of the fast at this family's house. one of the members of that family had just come back from being treated in cleveland. they had just come back. to cut a long story short, after the meal, sheikh mohammed likes to take a walk. many of our meetings are over long walks, which is a challenge when you have to carry documents, and particularly with our weather. when it is very hot some days, believe me, it is one of the hard parts of my job. anyways, we took a walk and sheikh mohammed turned to me. it was night, maybe 10:00 at night at that point. he said, this gentleman just spent six months in cleveland. we are one of the wealthiest countries in the world. we have a small population. we invested well in terms of infrastructure. why don't we have a hospital with the quality of cleveland clinic here in the uae? it is not acceptable. my people deserve this quality health care, and i want you to handle this project. why don't you go figure out how you can build a cleveland

political commentator amir or in the former director of a palestinian civil rights organization moves in ramadan share their views on the recent escalation hundreds of palestinians if you accumulate the numbers have either died or been injured at the demonstrations but this is not happened because israel has used force. to the contrary israel only reacted and israel tried to keep the entire border quiet if he's not in its interest to try and repair. number of but the scene and war show did differ on that either sort of does without any dangers. from them to theirs or you just heard they are just getting their slogans and that is the other voices and asking the international community. to end the seed. of movement and what it does to the buddhist you know to live as normal people. you might be and live in. a media outlet funded by the u.s. government has deleted a series of it placed on facebook which targeted american audiences it comes after radio liberty was i cheered for potentially violating u.s. laws meant to shield citizens from domestic propaganda killed by ben picks up the story for us.

there's good none zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero half with mohammed ramadan is a busy man he's a mixture an elected man his district can be found among the ruins of western mosul from his workshop he organizes clearance of rebel and booby traps and is also in charge of food and water distribution the recent past is ever present even in these mundane tasks. that when there's an assessment for food and somebody says this is the son of an i.a.s. family as i go out there won't be anything for that family. then this guy blames another family who wasn't i and so they don't get any food either. you. have to rush man says about half the people in his district supported the i asked. some from fear some from conviction. the evidence of what that led to is everywhere in mass graves like this one. the old why how do you know my son just wanted to cross the street they shot him in the back he was my only son. so he had six children. the rock man asks for details tries to comfort her but there's nothing he can do. all of the. accusations eat through the community to try to

really are forces launched massive air strikes on hamas positions in garza let's bring in mosen abu ramadan who's a political analyst good evening to you how severe do you think is the escalation that we're witnessing is there a chance this could break out into war out war. that is there are many options regarding the situation in gaza because of the skittish recently. conducted by. the defense minister of israel. because he it is of these threats against but a senior that a senior. but if that is. the atmosphere or the environment of the war and they are starting to strike some sites. around. the think about that the action about sort of. movement may be cleared in new atmosphere of the new escalation clashes between two sites the claim coming from the israeli side is that the reason the danger here to civilians is that something that you're worried about is certainly something that we saw four years ago civilians being killed. i want to know but they talk about that because siena says really and still now more than one hundred fifty civilians. and more than sixteen thousand were injured a

commentator amir oren and the former director of a palestinian civil rights organization most in up over ramadan share their views on the recent conflict. hundreds of palestinians if you accumulate the numbers have either died or been injured at the demonstrations but this is not happened because israel has used force. to the contrary israel only reacted and israel tried to keep the entire border quiet it is not in its interest to try and repair hundred. number of but the scene and war show did differ on that is that you the sort of does without any dangerous. from them to that is are you disorders they are just reading slogans and. voices and asking the international community at over to brush up to israel to intercede and get to free them of movement and promote it as to the for the senior to live as not people. in the human being and live in the. it's now been a year since the iraqi city of mosul was liberated from islamic state the city had been the terror group's de facto capital in the country for nearly three years. iraqi security forces launch a counterattack to liberate mosul from eisel

commentator amir or end of the former director of a palestinian civil rights organization motion ramadan shared their views on the recent escalation. hundreds of palestinians if you accumulate the numbers have either died or been injured at the demonstrations but this is not happened because israel has used force. to the contrary israel only reacted and israel tried to keep the entire border quiet it is not in its interest to try and repel. but the scene and will show did the from you to sort of does without any dangerous. from time to that is that it is so does it just today i think slogans that is the voice is asking the international community over to brush up to the end that she'd get to freedom of movement and can look at this to the biggest you know to live as normal people. you might be and live in the. right students and an english university remove a poem from a campus building. describing author rudyard kipling as a racist reaction to that story and much more of the weekend's news that short break you are watching trash. independent means that you're not going to take instructi

last month we had ramadan. 1.2 million muslims came to temple mount to pray, and they went back home safest and quietest times we ever had. and they all said, thank you, mayor, thank you, the police, for helping us and improving our quality of life. he does not report that. interesting you say that and you couch everything in terms of security because you made an interesting speech to some supporters couple of years ago when you talked about your philosophy of coexistence, and you said, "i have requested quotas and curfews acrossjerusalem, we have put 30 closures in place. "if you walk around the entrance and exit of the palestinian areas today you will see concrete blocks. "this philosophy creates our level of coexistence". what kind of coexistence is that? there was a time... let me explain to you why. when we had incitement and riots all over the city for no reason, riots for no reason, the riots and incitements was because israel wants to change the status quo which is nonsense. we had a peak of violence, whenjews were killed in the city ofjerusalem by violence. i said, hang on t

commentator amir oren and the former director of a palestinian civil rights organization most of the ramadan share their views on the recent conflict. hundreds of palestinians if you accumulate the numbers have either died or been injured at the demonstrations but this has not happened because of his role has used force. to the contrary israel only reacted and israel tried to keep the entire border quiet if he's not the in its interest to try and repel. number out of but the scene and will show did the from that you to sort of does with out on it then just. from him to there is a way to sort it just that is saying slogans and that is the voice is asking the international community to push up those right to end that she'd get of movement and can look at this through the visteon at the live as not but people. you might be and live in the. coming up in the program students at a university in england remove a poem from a campus building describing off the record kipling as a racist the details on that story more after a quick break. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speak

russia's presidential elections and the football world cup mohammed who is the chief executive of the ramadan foundation says it would be wrong to jump to conclusions while the investigation is still underway. four months after that alleged poisoning in salt we are seeing other british citizens now being subjected to this same threat i would just caution let is allowed the police to complete their inquiries let's not jump on to. aggressively target one country or another and let's wait for the facts and the evidence before jumping to conclusion will have to wait and see in the morning there is an emergency cabinet meeting which is called a corporate committee which is the security committee of ministers and i'm sure after that particular meeting the british government will provide its response and one of the criticism if you like of the british government when they reacted to solve was even before the evidence had been completed and the inquiry had been completed they decided to lay the blame at russia and i hope that they learn the lessons on this occasion important thing here is that britai

they marched for almost seven hundred kilometers across afghanistan during the month of ramadan no less these eighty men made their way across the country south to reach the capital kabul many of them bearing the scars of war they've had enough and wanted to set an example and that's why they struck out they passed through taliban areas and contested zones before finally reaching kabul after four weeks. from the first moment when we left helmand people were really friendly to us. both from the taliban and the afghan army or less even if they were women or people who were injured and just everybody. for a moment in mid june the unthinkable seemed possible first the afghan government proclaimed a unilateral ceasefire to honor the end of the month of muslim fasting the taliban match their troops it came to touching scenes of taliban fighters and afghan government soldiers who otherwise fought bitterly shook hands the president seized the opportunity to call on the taliban to work towards lasting peace. what is possible. has surprised the world in want peace. we should solve our problems to

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thing that has east somewhat is that egypt has opened the law for crossing that's been open since ramadan and thousands of palestinians have managed to leave but again getting a permit to leave is not easy the way the palestinians see it is that nothing has been achieved since these protests started the way israel sees it they will say these balloons need to stop what kind of concessions are going to be made who's going to blink first are going to have to wait and see but certainly at the moment is still a lot of rhetoric angry talk that they will escalate and continue these attacks unless hamas stops these balloons incendiary devices across the border good to torture stephanie decker that line for us in jerusalem. every trius president says history is being made on his first visit to neighboring ethiopia in more than two decades as i as i received a warm welcome to the capital only three zero pm prime minister. is the latest step towards reconciliation and peace between the longtime rivals last weekend the lead leaders signed a pact to restore diplomatic and trade ties bringing an end to

go away, the game show heather: welcome back, north carolina inmate was suppose to be fasting for ramadan's suing because he says he he's suing because he says he got how longry, he was discriminated against by being force today eat only two meals a day but during muslim holy month only two meals are allowed. local islam leader say that is the jail was respecting his faith, suing for quarter million dollars. are you carrying major student debt? game loan could help you with that. >> you could build a structure that would represent student debt, what would it be? >> giant middle finger. heather: giving college students a chance to wipe away all of their debt, it's unclear exactly how much they're willing to clear but some students have loans the size of $50,000. the good, firefighters in county in florida, not only saving the man's life but stepping up to finish his yard work. he was laying out sawed when he was doing yard work and finishing because he was concerned about hoa fine. the bad, nfl players blasting tsa for spilling his mother's ashes. new york giants defensive tackle expressin

. >> ramadan. >> hey, look, an infidel. >> don't let the fact it's animated and don't let the fact thatwe're taking the boys on a weekend boat trip to discuss jesus' role as the navigator of our lives. >> catholic boat trip? ♪ the catholic boat is going to be heading on out today ♪ >> people who hate religion have glommed on to our show because we make fun of religion. we make fun of everything. >> i have, in my possession, an ancient book britain on gold plates, that tells of jesus christ's second coming, here, in america. >> in america? really? that sounds kind of -- ♪ dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb >> "south park" guys clearly live in a bunker or they're sociopaths. they do not care who they offend. they burn every bridge and they have absolutely no fear. >> category is people who annoy you. audience, keep quiet. >> i know it but i don't think i should say it. >> five seconds, mr. marsh. >> i would like to solve the puzzle. huh? >> i don't think we've come up with something and been like, that's going too far because you can't do that. the groups that come and get angry at us, we're like,

was at the white house when the iraq war was not going well before the surge.ic the breaking of the ramadan task, all of the religious observances were done properly by the white house and we were focused on it. the east room was indeed a ye furniture, and exactly the moment of sunset, and e mom called all the guests who were prominent muslim clerics, ambassadors from countries with muslim populations call them to prayer and invited them to pray in the east room and a number went in and closed the door than the prayers went on and they came out and the dinner began and i remember standing there feeling so impressed and proud that i was working in this white house where yes, the war was going terribly and everyone was angry at us and couldn't do anything right and we were exhibiting this level of religious tolerance to the very people who had knocked down the towers and we made the intellectual distinction between terrorism and religion and i always think of that as i my private is proudest moment at the white house. >> many of you know ronald reagan was a man who understood the extraordinar

going well before the surge and the president decided to do an is * jenner which is breaking of the ramadan fast dinner and it's a very complicated dinner so on the religious observances were done properly by the white house and we were very focused on it. the east room was emptied of furniture. prayer rugs were put down and exactly the moment of the sunset they stood in the grand foyer and called all of the cast who are prominent muslim clerics which had muslim populations called them to prayer and invited them to pray in the east room and a number of them went in and closed the doors and the prayers went on in the making on the dinner began and i remember standing there feeling so impressed and proud that i was working in this white house where yes, the war was going terribly and everyone was angry at us and that we couldn't do anything right and yet we exhibited this level of religious tolerance to the very people who had knocked down the towers and we were able to make that intellectual distinction between terrorism and a religion and i always think of that is my proudest moment at the

people have been demanding clean drinking water and protesting against corruption and price rises ramadan has more. the protests started on saturday in several cities including. bandar evident and continued until late sunday night there was a. state media reported injuries when unknown gunmen fired shots during a demonstration in the city of homs. the faeries protests were invariably broken up by security forces who accused protesters of disrupting public order protesters denounced government mismanagement water shortages and water quality. and also condemned corruption and the rising cost of living linked to soaring inflation rates etc i just came on the study most of the commodities that we buy unnecessary i can ignore some commodities that have become more expensive but some commodities a basic and we need them milk for instance mineral water yogurt that are produced in iran and have nothing to do with the price of the dollar those also have become more expensive why you're an economy was damaged for years by u.s. sanctions before they were lifted after the nuclear deal three years ago

have to ramadan says about half the people in his district supported the i asked some from fear some from conviction. the evidence of what that led to is everywhere in mass graves like this one. you know well how do you know my son just wanted to cross the street they shot him in the back he was my only son. so he had six children. the rocket man asks for details tries to comfort her but there's nothing he can do. accusations eat through the community to try to find out what's real and what's not after iraq man is registering everyone he sends the data to the police military and secret services to be checked against lists of known i asked perpetrators. those who didn't do anything can stay those who cause problems after the. some of those thought to have worked with i asked are still in the neighborhood. but they're not coming out talk. to. their houses clear i asked we want your blood it says. for omar more than can understand such sentiments i asked snipers killed his nine year old son. shortly afterwards his brother's entire family was killed in a bomb attack. p.i.a.'s family shou