i'm sami's a damn this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up lasers former prime minister is back in colton a corruption case and denying new charges. a new leading man for colombia the divided country celebrates the swearing in of its youngest president. and wants compounding problems for rescuers in indonesia as they search for earthquake survivors.

his own ally here's what general sami cough one of the jordan border guard forces had to say we. know that some people or isis people wind up inside the camp. they. have been for them. to control and to create some sort of sims inside the can. still maintains that the presence of islam mixtape fighters inside rookie camp is a russian conspiracy theory promoted by the united nations and jordan perhaps n.b.c.'s reporting might convince them otherwise to say so or at least it's meant to be but the jordanian military pilots who took us in wouldn't fly over it and the ice is showing jurors these people fled from our inside it's reporting in washington dan cohen our t.v. . over and over i've seen this happen since i've been here at r.t. and it's one thing i just there is so much talk right now about reporters being you know that the journalists are the enemy of the people and there's so much of that going on and causing such division and here is someone literally going out there and saying that reporter is an r.t.a. that we're all just a bunch of liars that we don't invest people liter

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international interest a current affairs news magazine he's in london for us thanks for your time sami. no surprise i guess that something like this was going on but the cooperation with israel is interesting i think yes i think it's been one of those was the worst kept secret in the middle east that there are these underhand dealings with israel but the viewers are the emirates i think what is quite profound is that idea that you were you were spying on some of the saudi princes there is often this belief that the saudi and the u.a.e. are partners in crime or partners it was a part of whatever probably not the best expression to use but the idea that they are very much bound together as close as possible whereas in reality there is this undercurrent of a power struggle struggle going on the u.e.c. itself is trying to expand itself as a key major force in the region and using the type of underhanded techniques if it was a library i think it's very interesting that the report brings that there was spying on the likes of prince mit have been abdullah who is a rival of mohammed bin said a

ladin must be brought back from tunisia last month regional authority said the tunisian national donor sami back to his home country before his appeal against the deportation order was. germany's government plans to allow a third gender option on official records chancellor merkel's cabinet agreed on a draft law that will last a lot of people to list their gender as diverse rather than male or female last year germany's highest court ruled that exist in those do not respect individual rights. democratic party voters in the u.s. state of vermont have nominated a transgender candidate to run for governor christie to help first defeated three other democrats in tuesday's primary she now faces a popular republican incumbent in november's election. now a grand jury in the us state of pennsylvania has published its report into the sexual abuse of children by roman catholic priests saying that at least a thousand children were molested and raped by hundreds of priests over seventy years the report goes on to accuse senior church leaders including the current archbishop of washington d.c. of system

i'm sami's a dan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming out and bob weighs routings out of piaf party wins a majority in parliament. the date for afghanistan's presidential election has been announced the vote being held them april the twentieth of next year plus.

the night the focus is on the search for survivors natasha butler al jazeera genoa italy for medical sami is associate professor of structural mechanics at the university of southampton he says many factors going to combine to result in the collapse. there are a number of reasons that might cause a break. so obviously the response was built but it years ago we all know that it's truckler demands are the lifeblood to traffic been increasing over the years since this bridge was cut procket so normally bridgend uni over the years they look at the capacity of the bridge. with the current loading of the structure but this is not the only scenario police bridge that they are there are some of the nation. so some of the one problem could that would cause a bridge collapse if you ration you to messire to combine with other factors such as rapid loading or it can be air or it can be. over the yet dynamic loading. dynamic due to truck and other dynamical in which is result. of the material. after days of heavy losses the turkish lira recovered some ground on tuesday but the route between turkey and

so please join me in welcoming bayan sami abdul rahman. [applause] >> i also want to say that the representative has put out this wonderful booklet of genocide that encompasses a number of genocide, both of the kurds, the yazidis in the christians and there are copies in the hallway right outside the room. thank you. .. >> genocide has been the fate of many groups in kurdistan and iraq. it's important that we recognize what happened to them, to the christians, the kurds,ing the arabs -- the kurds, the arabs, the people of halabja, the people of kirkuk. and there are many others who have suffered through terrorism, oppression and violence. the challenge for us is to keep the memory of these horrific tragedies alive, to preserve the dignity of those we have lost, and at the same time to move forward without allowing hatred and division to grow. we must never forget the crimes that isis committed four years ago when it rampaged across iraq, and then on august 3rd, it targeted sinjad and other maces across nineveh. we must do all we can to see

his own ally here's what general sami cough one of the jordan border guard forces had to say we.now that some people or isis people in the inside of the camp as i said they could have been for them. to create some sort of sims inside the kingdom of colonel ryan still maintains that the presence of islam mixtape fighters inside rookie camp is a russian conspiracy theory promoted by the united nations and jordan perhaps n.b.c.'s reporting might convince them otherwise to say so in the horrid least it's meant to be but the jordanian military pilots who took us in wouldn't fly over it and the isis fighters these people fled from our inside it reporting in washington dan cohen our t.v. . wow over and over i've seen this happen since i've been here at r.t. and it's one thing i just there is so much talk right now about reporters being you know that the journalists are the enemy of the people and there's so much of that going on and causing such division and here is someone literally going out there and saying that reporters on r.t. that we're all just a bunch of liars that we don't inv

his own ally here's what general sami cough one of the jordan border guard forces had to say we. know that some people or isis people were in the inside of the camp as i said they could have been for them. to create some sort of sims inside the. still maintains that the presence of islam and state fighters inside rick braun camp is a russian conspiracy theory promoted by the united nations and jordan perhaps n.b.c.'s reporting might convince them otherwise to say so the horrid least it's meant to be but the jordanian military pilots who took us in wouldn't fly over it and the isis fighters these people fled from our inside its reporting in washington dan cohen our t.v. . wow over and over i've seen this happen since i've been here at r.t. and it's one thing i just there is so much talk right now about reporters being you know that the journalists are the enemy of the people and there's so much of that going on and causing such division and here is someone literally going out there and saying that reporters on r.t. that we're all just a bunch of liars that we don't invest people l

i'm sami say this is al jazeera live from coming out south africa's president says he'll go ahead with land reforms and white farmers why would be compensated. a lucky escape all one hundred three people on board a mexican airliner survived as the plane crashes just after takeoff plus. i'm saying in the south of tehran where iran's water crisis is making it more difficult to beat the summer heat. we begin with the breaking news from zimbabwe where the ruling party has won a majority of seats in parliament after monday's vote that's according to the electoral commission it says no p.f. has taken one hundred nine of the two hundred and ten seats in the national assembly the results show forty one seats for the opposition movement for democratic change while results for fifty eight seats are yet to be declared no results have been announced so far for the presidential election. both sides had been sure of victory heading into the poll service said it was too close to call though president emerson among the supporters to be patient and wait for the results meanwhile his main rival the m.d.

thank you as always for your time and your expertise unfortunately we have run out of time that a sami haven't they joining us live from london thank you. now turkey's foreign minister is warning that a military solution in the syrian province of idlib be a disaster he made the comment after meeting the russian foreign minister in moscow meanwhile syrian government forces are sending reinforcements to surround the last remaining rebel held province the military has been on the move in neighboring hama and the government is also dropping leaflets urging people not to resist meanwhile negotiations with the rebel groups are said to be taking place but one of the most powerful that. has promised to fight till the end. the u.n. has been forced to start using armed escorts to get into a bowl affected areas of the democratic republic of congo the latest outbreak was declared in north kivu province on the first of all the rest so far sixty three people have died and seventy six have been infected ballasts has the latest. this is a united nations video of a thirteen year old boy. the youth the

accused or convicted of committing crimes for myself they were arrested by security forces in the sami autonomy's kurdistan region over the past two years to actually get a met some of them in our bill where they're taking part in a rehabilitation program to turn their lives around. in this juvenile detention workshop inmates are learning how heat can break down and revolt even the toughest of materials staff have been trying for the past two years to do the same to their most challenging inmates all convicted or accused of committing crimes in the name of the art on the phone often on a book that is out of my head and i change my behavior and i have some skills in a trade i want to work and become a professional football player there are seventy five eiffel teenage inmates isolated from the rest of the population they're all male and as young as eleven years old their crimes include murder and rape. the warden admits at first even staff are afraid of these young men the rehabilitation program doesn't just include learning trade skills such as cutting hair or repairing air conditioners

began considering something far more draconian-- separation of parents and children at the border, the samya had rejected. >> force them back.de >> are you, thrtment of homeland security, considering a new initiative that would separate children from their parents if they try to enter the united states illegally? >> yes, i am considering, in order to deter more mo along this terribly dangerous network, i am considering exactly that. >> we were very concerned about the consideratioof a blanket policy of this nature. so we continued to monitor the situation. but we were unable to get confirmation that there was a policy in place from the ministration. what we were told repeatedly was that it was being considered and that they continued to see it as the solution for how to prevent people from coming to our border and asking for asylum. >> there's been reports that you are considering separating children from thr mothers at the border, and i want to know, whether that's true. >> only if the situation... >> smith: a month later, at a senate hearing, kelly publicly walked bachis earlier statement

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brought back from tunisia last month that regional or thors he said that you news international noticed sami al-haj back to his home country before his appeal against deportation could be. though a grand jury in the u.s. state of pennsylvania has published its report into the sexual abuse of children by roman catholic priests saying that at least a thousand children were molested and raped by hundreds of priests over seventy years the report goes on to accuse senior church leaders including the current archbishop of washington d.c. a systematically covering up reports of paedophilia brought to them by parishioners . pressed many victims of way to decades for this investigation that pain evident as they attended a press conference by the grand jury it found three hundred and one priest sexually abused children in that over one thousand child victims were identified by our investigation so the grand jury knows they believe that number was down satish. investigators say in many cases records have been lost and some victims were too afraid to come forward the abuse states back over seven decades

i'm sami's a down this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up turkey increases tariffs and calls for a boycott of some u.s. products as the lira steadies decades of sexual abuse by priests revealed in the u.s. investigators believe the victims could be in the thousands and behold the grail of shipwrecks at the center of a dispute between colombia's government and treasure hunters. rescue workers in italy are searching for survivors in the wreckage of a highway bridge that collapsed in the city of genoa at least twenty five people were killed and many others injured when the miranda bridge came down these are live pictures from the scene the accident happened during heavy rains sending vehicles plunging to the ground it's an industrial area on a main highway that connects italy to france reports. from the air the scale of the devastation is clear a huge section of geno's marandi bridge simply government. where. the bridge collapsed on tuesday morning during a storm sending vehicles on his motorway plunging to the ground. oval office i heard a loud rumble and i went flying i flew a

dreamt about before the tournament ireland reached the final in london having defeated spain and the samis their opponents this time were the defending champions and world number one side the netherlands very lopsided contest ending a six victory for the dot cheer about seven eight title for about six more than any other team. yeah it's going to be disappointed when you get us over world cup model but i'm going to church because they were just another cost of doing. they are by far the best in the world for a reason and they deserve the victory today but i'm look we're extremely proud of high far we've come we were extremely proud of what we do and i'm high we've represented our country i'm never going to go up and accept our seven medals with some of the smile on her face. or an outstanding thoughtfully national team and they deserve their winning their miles apart while that of everybody in the world right now and they truly deserve the gold medal that's the level we need to aim for everybody young people at home it's hard to play the sports and that's what we need to aim for so i go to

it was events assumed to lead just three minutes in sami with the drone. back came here over the head over from emmanuelle jacket. into the second object he was found in the box and then school second of the next to put cable to one half. or another were so close to leveling it for you ventures but was denied by a great say from stefano sorrentino but they knew they did get the equaliser and only go from the abers matiya bunny and right at the end in the second minute of added time they wanted with a go from fifty to go bed medeski so you ventus another off to a winning start in the italian. ac milan and croatia defender even strain which is taking a break from football after being diagnosed with a heart condition he played in last month's world cup final but routine tests detected the problem which miliband say needs further investigation. chelsea a top of the english premier league off to beating arsenal in a thrilling london dobby arsenal fourth from two goes down to draw level a two two only for aiden hazard to school nine minutes from time elsewhere n

now sami ham the is editor in chief of the international interest that's the current affairs website and he says saudi arabia's political and economic situation has changed since the i.p.o. was announced. i think what we have to remember first and foremost is the context in which the i.p.o. was originally announced it was definitely designed to build confidence to show the world that nothing is off limits that so it really is genuinely sincere its pursuit will go versification so i think it wanted to leverage this particular program it was also designed to garner support from donald trump or to help boost that foreign policy by angling around who as potentially being this that in the new york stock exchange since however the announcement tomorrow rio things have changed while the oil prices have started to go back up as opposed to being low as they were before but also saudi arabia foreigners don't donald trump is having more and more domestic troubles and their foreign policy around him is now under threat in other words it doesn't want to give up its state secrets. get its biggest

now i'd like to introduce the honorable bion, bayan sami abdul rahman who is the representative of the k rg and she has been in addition to a diplomat in her life, she's spent 17 years as a journalist for which she won awards. her father was a leader for freedom and kurdistan and iraq during the saddam hussein period and he and her brother were both killed in a dual suicide bombing attack in 2004. so please join me in welcoming bion to the podium. >> thank you so much. i also want to say that the representative has put out this wonderful booklet called echoes of genocide that encompasses a number of genocides that have occurred, both the yazidi and the christians and there are copies outside the room. >> good afternoon and thank you very much nina. and ambassador you seem. speakers, ladies and gentlemen. i'd like to thank you all for joining us. i'd like to thank the hudson institute for hosting this event for the religious freedom institute. it's important as his excellency said that we commemorate and honor the victims of genocide. >> genocide has been the fate of many groups in kurd