i know that where i lived up in stratford up here, the pinnoch, i think, was the first family. when burgoyne's family came down to try to split new england by going over vermont, the family of stratford had eight sons, and seven of them turned out to -- and volunteered to enlist to fight burgoyne. and a lot of them are kill down in saratoga and the other areas. so you think that -- and i followed one person who was a young piper in the american army who got captured in the epic battle here and ended up having to, as a prisoner. and he went out, and his account of trying to escape and get home to new hampshire was riveting because he was always being chased by loyalists who wanted to kill him. so there was a strong loyalist element in vermont that they don't address, people don't realize. >> was it your or or living here -- living here in vermont, was that the spark that drew you into the inspiration to this book? was it being in stratford, or could you tell us some more about the birth of this book? >> yeah. well, you know, i had, i had, i'd moved up here when i left new york,

emma simpson, bbc news, stratford—upon—avon.cy skills, according to new research. the education secretary. damian hinds, says it's a "persistent scandal" and that children left behind early on rarely catch up as adults. he's called on parents to read and learn new words with their children. here's our education editor bra nwen jeffreys. it might be summer but they're still coming to school. in one of london's poorest boroughs, a council—run scheme to help families keep learning, to give these children a love of words. some of my favourite words are "like" and "that" and "and". lovable, valuable and empathy. when you read or write you get good gcses and then you get a good job. the school already runs classes for parents. they told me more advice can only help. if children learn what language is, and the sort of foundation blocks of it before they go to school, it gives them a head start. it doesn't take that long to read, five or ten minutes, you know. even if it is a nursery rhyme. reading to your child is one of the most impor

thang bernard let's continue this discussion though and cross over to charles stratford he's on the israeli occupied golan heights or israel syria border and i'm wondering charles what's becoming of people who are stuck at the border there. well in the distance behind me i'd say around about a kilometer is one all of what we see is around about sri camps of displaced people that have paid in the last two weeks or so since this crisis started now the u.n. is saying that there is a need of getting food water sanitation infrastructure into these camps the u.n. saying that children there our are particularly vulnerable where on shore as to how many people there are all there but it's fairly safe to say that unless some sort of ceasefire agreement is agreed appall we can expect many more people arriving in these areas in the days i hate the israeli governments have come out and said that they're not going to open the bullet is here to these refugees it's simple to recognize that israel has also said that it will continue so promising as yahoo says with humanitarian assistance when necessary the

i was only there for about four years and then grew up, stratford. >> stephen: stratford on avon, shakespeare'ss, lady arden's house, reciting shakespeare throughout school. it was a pain in 9 ass. >> stephen: is there good food in shakespeare. >> no, dreadful, heavy, full of oats and just cooked for three weeks and tasted all [bleep]. not good. >> stephen: i don't want to get too politics but there is iu had th a hearing about. yookedr vladimint >> yes. >> stephen: how is the pleasure on that. >> if i [bleep] that one up i su something back. >> i flew in this morning, right, from the u.k. >> stephen: i did not know that. >> i arrived about 10:30 and behind me was tony blair. so how funny, we are talking about cooking, literally for both of those incredible men. and an amazing lunch and that kind of lunch you [bleep] make sure the seasoning seasoning is, quite nerve-racking but at the same time pretty-- putin he say tough cookie.> >> stephen: i hear he is a nice guy, supernice guy. you have got this show, where you are driving around the united states. the show is called 24 hours to hell and ba

you very much for that finale that is child stratford joining us live from gaza court thank you. well the weather is next then. there are those latest victims of their aid as the government faces more pressure to end its crackdown and a new warning that u.s. trade tensions could put the global economy is shaky ground. and we're seeing some very heavy downpours in manila over the past two or three days and that's caused problems now we've seen scenes like this which has given rise to scenes like this so lots of flooding around at the moment that water really is quite deep and it's all thanks to the rain that we've had over a number of days and as you can see from the satellite picture that cloud is still with us now we do have a tropical storm it's not too far away from us but that's actually here to the north so it's not that really that's causing our in hans rains over the philippines the philippines has just had heavy rain over the past few days and is plenty more still to come that you can tell from the dog blue colors here on our truffle wednesday that again some of that rain

next stop, one of stratford—upon—avon's top hotels.cted vacancies to fill. housekeepers, spa therapist we're, receptionists food and beverage waiting staff are all areas that we are trying to recruit and we have never seen such a broad issue inside our hotels. and that is before we leave the eu? yeah. which is, you know, even more worrying. he is, you know, even more worrying. he is not the only one looking for staff in a town which is —— has next to no unemployment. they need to make a full—time scoopers here. lovely! as unemployment has fallen, tourism has been increasingly reliant on eu workers. they feel almost half of all vacancies over the last three years. this industry reckons it is going to need a million new staff by 2024, the big question is, where are all these workers going to come from? the ambition is to provide training for chefs and caterers... in this region, they are hoping to fill the gaps with home—grown talent. this local landmark is being turned into a —— into one of the uk's first hotel training schools. what is

saying could be a very serious escalation of violence if these balloon attacks don't stall chance stratford with the latest from gaza charles thank you. footage showing one of the french president's top security officers beating a student protest during may has triggered a fierce public backlash this mobile phone video appears to show alexander banal as dragging the protest there on the ground before hitting him in the head several times when i was not on duty at the time but he was given permission to observe police operations the government has launched an investigation and i imagine when the problem is not commented on the inside. so now you go as more of this from paris. this is the latest criticism of and title men that mr mccloy has been facing in recent times and this time it's concerning his aides alexander. who had been filmed in that quite shocking video where he was seen driving and hitting out protesters now what opposition politicians are i'm going to about is the fact that as a public servant mr bennett should have been immediately reported to the police for really acting out

four palestinians die in retaliatory asterix and tank fire let's go live now to gaza city charles stratford is the chance what's happened since this cease fire agreement came into effect at midnight local time. it seems once again that we've been brought back from the brink of a full scale conflict in gaza but interestingly in the last how the i.d.f. the israeli military announced that one of their tanks targeted a hammer specific ssion in the northern area of the gaza strip off what it says suspects trying to infiltrate into israel the the army saying that off to that tank attack the so-called infiltrators went back into gaza shows you that although there is calm head calm is always a relative term when speaking about gaza there is this constant risk all of an escalation happening again but certainly with respect to how much his response last night to what israel says were the talks says the targeting of sixty eight have lost positions we understand those positions to have been in three main commerce complexes they want all across gaza indication as to how mass not wanting an escalation wa

stratford is that what's been the situation since this cease fire came into effect at midnight local time. but it seems agent that once again full scale conflict has been brought back from the brink it has been calm since that cease fire was cool that restoration of calm was cooled full last night at midnight as you say was the first israeli soldier to have been killed we understand by a sniper fire since the two thousand and fourteen war the israelis responded with so the i.d.f. so the israeli military say by hitting sixty eight targets sixty eight hammers targets in gaza things as i say have been calm overnight we were expecting more of a response from hamas certainly old indications suggest that like israel hamas does not want another war in now we understand that hamas did respond with three rockets before that cease fire was cooled two of which at least were intercepted by the iron dome we also understand that there were around full to be fooled at that call for calm was announced at midnight in the north of got sort of the south of gaza. so things are a lot better than they wer

next stop, one of stratford—upon—avon‘s top hotels.tionists. food and beverage waiting staff. all areas where we are currently trying to recruit. and we‘ve never seen such a broad issue inside our hotels. and that‘s before we leave the eu? absolutely, yes. which is, you know, even more worrying. he‘s not the only one looking for staff in a town which has next to no unemployment. they need two full—time scoopers here. 0h, lovely, thank you. as unemployment has fallen, tourism has been increasingly reliant on eu workers. they‘ve filled almost half of all vacancies over the last three years. this industry reckons it‘s going to need a million new staff by 2024. the big question is, where are all these workers going to come from? the ambition is to provide training for chefs, and caterers. in this region they are hoping to fill the gaps with home—grown talent. this local landmark is being turned into one of the uk‘s first hotel training schools. what‘s at stake is the future of the industry. i think, if we don‘t start to train the future wo

the fire near stratford is still smouldering this morning.issed. the gallery says the group, who were responsible for explaining the stories behind its paintings, were freelance and they've been offered the chance to apply for new jobs. luton airport is celebrating its 80th anniversary today. luton municipal airport, as it was then known, opened on this day in 1938. during the second world war it was used by the raf. it was renamed london luton airport in 1990 and now carries 16 million passengers each year. teenage tennis playerjack draper from sutton says playing at wimbledon has been "like a dream". the 16 year—old narrowly missed out on becoming the first british winner of the boy's singles title in over half a century. unseeded, he lost in a gripping final yesterday. as i said, it's surreal to me. i dreamt about it as a kid and watched murray win here in 2013 and it's very inspiring and i'm lucky to have been able to get this deep into the tournament. let's have a look at the travel situation now. 0n the tubes — minor delays on the overg

emma simpson, bbc news, stratford—upon—avon. newsnight is coming up on bbc two, here's emily.bour's latest anti—semitism row a turnaround for the party? we will be discussing it across the spectrum of the left. join me now on bbc two. here on bbc one time for the news where you are.. hello, and welcome to sportsday. england are through to the quarter finals of the women's hockey world cup, thanks to a 2—0 win over south korea in the play—offs. the father of british snowboarder ellie soutter says the pressure of elite performance could have been a factor in her death. we all thought that ellie had come out of the other side of a particularly dark time in her life, and that was a lot to do with the fa ct and that was a lot to do with the fact that she was unable to compete. and england turn to rashid to turn their test fortunes around. he's the only specialist spinner in the team to face india tomorrow. hello, and welcome to sportsday. there was a full house at the olympic park this evening, to see england's women take a must—win victory over south korea which means they progres

saleman and his fellow villagers say they will not leave stratford al-jazeera. in the occupied west bank turn attention to turkey were caught in turkey has jailed journalists it says are linked to the july twenty sixth in failed coup thirty journalists and executives from these newspaper were arrested in september of twenty sixteen but all denied any involvement the sentences range from eight to almost eleven years. six hundred newly elected m.p.'s in turkey will take the oath of office in a couple of hours' time not just last month the president wretch uptight heard one was reelected with more than fifty two percent of the vote his governing party won two hundred ninety five seats in parliament falling short of the three hundred one required for majority in the parliament which is made up by forming an alliance with the nationalists action party they won forty nine seats the opposition national alliance coalition got one hundred eighty nine seats the kurdish people's democratic party won sixty seven seats but the role of parliament has been put to question by p

twelve kilometers away near a landfill so laman and his fellow villagers say they will not leave stratford al-jazeera. in the occupied west bank french investigators say a cockpit fire likely cause an egypt air jet to crash into the mediterranean two years ago this contradicts egyptian aviation authorities who suggested the air bus was brought down deliberately and said traces of explosives were found on victims remains all sixty six passengers and crew died when flight eight hundred four crashed on its way from paris to cairo a turkish court has jailed journalists it says are linked to the july twenty sixth failed coup thirty journalists and executives on these newspaper were arrested in september twenty sixth seen but all the knowledge any involvement the sentences range from eight to ten and a half he is the man which has been shut down was linked to u.s. based character to laguna for the turkish government blames for the coup attempt. british police in ames when soulsby are searching for a small vial feared to be contaminated with a nerve agent novacek police believe a couple may have

israel has also reduced fishing space for gaza's fisherman from six to three nautical miles told stratford has more. human here in gaza have been feeling steadily increasing strangulation over their livelihoods for twelve years since the blockade started it's estimated that around fifty thousand gazan families someway involved in the fishing business here so you can imagine the kind of impact that it has economically and it's also. stressing having spoken here to the heads of the fisherman's union he says that gaza needs around four thousand tons a year of fish just to sustain its local population he believes that with these new restrictions they'll be lucky to get around eight hundred tons of fish a year i stay in gaza regularly close to this poll you're often woken up in the mornings by israeli gunboats firing warning shots at fishermen close to the shore trying to keep them within these restricted areas the fisherman's union says that since the blockade started at least thirteen people thirteen fishermen have been killed two in this year and around two hundred injured so these new restr

offense an offensive along the gaza strip if the kites continue to be flowed well i'll just charles stratford has more now from gaza. the palestinian authorities are saying that the man that was killed in this attack by israel today was a twenty two year old man a member of the kasam brigades that's the armed wing of hamas at least three other people injured in that attack the israeli say they targeted the area because it was being used by protesters to launch these balloons carrying incendiary devices which a floated across the gaza fence and so israel says it burnt three thousand hate of land in the last four months now there are serious concerns of an escalation in violence as we go forward into friday big protests have been called for by various different political factions here in gaza calling people to turn up on the borders tomorrow and continue these protests how mass basically says that these protesters have every right to continue protesting using what it describes as a violent means but certainly there is a lot of concern that israel may respond with what certainly the israeli medi

charles stratford live for us in gaza as we can see for ourselves the tear gas being dropped from jones there charles thank you to occupied east jerusalem now where israeli security forces have reopened the gates of the oxen mosque after closing in briefly following cautious with palestinians. stun grenades were used to disperse crowds that had gathered for friday prayers police said earlier that people suspected of plotting fireworks and rocks at them were barricaded inside and for summonses near the ox a mosque compound in occupied east jerusalem so where do things stand now andrea. well it looks as if this has come to walk could be destroyed something of a peaceful and this is the lion's gate the door of open just only ten minutes ago and a cooler fairly large number of demonstrators who had been praying outside of the precincts of the al aqsa mosque compound ahead of me here they all and so forward i was amongst them and these are the security forces who were holding them at bay here for up to something like five hours and there was no way in and there was no way out there was a sit

the world successfully reached gaza israel's foreign ministry said it provided permission charles stratford is at the port city of ashdod so what is the latest now on charles. well all indications would suggest that the israeli navy have now come and did control of these boats or at least chaperoning them we've heard reports they may be towing them here to the pullout of ashdod the last tweet put out by the organization. regarding the boats situation was about an hour ago we understand that the israeli military sort of these very navy had used loudspeakers and to the wall of the boats that as you say they were going to take all of a couple measures to stop the course of the. boat we understand it's carrying around fifteen thousand dollars worth of medical equipment. there twenty three activists couple of journalists on board as well from sixteen different nations septics sixteen different countries now we reached out to try to reach out to these radii military and their statement was that they cannot elaborate on i.d.f. israeli defense forces activity a statement was put out about half an h

emma simpson, bbc news, stratford—upon—avon. of the proposed temporary solutions — to convert a 13—mile stretch of the m20 into giant lorry park — could actually last "many years". simonjones is in dover with more on this. dover of course could be on the front line if there is no deal. they are talking here about wedlock dover, it is another busy day down at the port especially with holiday—makers heading off on their holidays but this assessment by dover council raises concerns about lorries. to give you an idea of how easy it is, it is that if you lined up easy it is, it is that if you lined up all the lorries that passed through dover in a single day it would stretch from dover to calais and back to dover twice. the report says if these queues were introduced, if extra checks when needed lasting just a couple of minutes that could lead to queues of around 70 miles. we may have heard details about that before but what is new in this assessment is their questioning the contingency plan that by the government which would see par

nation state law that cements jewish identity is the central theme of israeli citizenship al-jazeera stratford reports. the skies over gaza have turned black with smoke from burning tires every friday for months now israeli army snipers and all the troops have killed around one hundred forty palestinians since the e.p. protests started in march thousands of others have been injured protests to say they'll continue to fly kites in balloons carrying petrol bombs and burning ranks across the border into israel lifts its twelve years siege of gaza israel says fires started by the protesters have destroyed three areas of farmland and crops this protester who insisted we hide his identity says life in gaza has become so one bearable he and his friends are determined to force change. a shade in the middle is a definite fact our aim is to end the siege completely the situation in gaza is unbearable often no lecture city not enough medicine no good life unemployment there's no future for young people here we use simple materials like the incendiary balloons to protest this is the palestinian way so wha

right charles stratford there thanks for that. german chancellor angela merkel is said to meet hungry prime minister she tries to sell her migration plan to e.u. member countries victor audubon has signaled his willingness to strike a deal with merkel that would limit the number of asylum seekers arriving into europe on monday merkel reach a compromise agreement with conservative coalition partners to set up migrant transit centers in germany's border with austria germany's interior minister is heading to vienna to try and get the support of the austrian chancellor. live to dominic cain now in berlin she's got a a few more meetings with the e.u. leaders she got to thrash out some common positions right. yes absolutely but quite how she trashes our common position with byron given the fact that he has used his parliamentary majority in recent weeks to criminalize giving assistance to illegal immigrants and to insert into the constitution a reference to the need to keep hungary safe from an alien population is quite hard for angela

>> i would not hold somewhere like stratford. definitely if you were in central, somewhere like soho. >> we do hold hands in public. we were eating andhen we kissed. a man ran up to us and was talking about how we are going to hell. he threw like a bible at us. i get it all the time. you are not really gay, you are tooeminine to be geay. why do you have long hair? twgirls with long hair date? ridiculous. reporter: the government has now announced a new actionlan, including a ban on controversial gay conversion therapies and improvements to gender laws to make it easier for trans people to change their identity. this man is gay and muslim.e he says vernment needs to do more to help people from all backgrounds.ha >> we sort o marriage s uality in northern ireland. i think there also understanding of certain minoritiesfor example black and asian minority ethnicities. layers, idd on two think the government really needs to understand what is going on. reporter: four and a half million pounds will be made available in england for the

look at this area in gray which does bleed into the central valley south of modesto towards stratford. air qualiy warning because of all the smoke down there. nearly 2 million people affected by that particular smoke. we've also got one around san luis obispo until 3:00 this afternoon. along the cy llnd s franc it's going to be even hotter inland this afternoon with the mid 90s at 4:00. still pretty comfortable around the bay, 80 and coolest at the coast, 61. we'll talk about when this heat breaks coming up. here's alexis. >> good morning, mike. we are talking about the fog once again. a dense fog advisory for golden gate bridge. there you go. there's the reduced visibility starting off pretty dense this morning. slow down, drive for conditions. that is not causing any delays. also actually still looking good out of the central valley. we were in the green a moment ago. just flipped over to the yellow. westbound 580 tracy to castro valley 43 minutes. highway 85 to the san jose airport, 11, highway 1 to san francisco wide open at 10 minutes. >> thank you. >>> this morning, the suspect

thousand people have been forced from their homes by the fighting to recapture that our province char stratford is in the israeli occupied golan heights the kind of reports that we're hearing are that tens of thousands of people are living in pretty appalling conditions desperate situation there very little shelter many of them obviously without tents the israeli government's position here is very specific prime minister netanyahu has said that as you say the borders will not be opened here but as you know i was also said that the israelis will continue to deliver humanitarian assistance where they can and there's also been a large troop deployment in this area reinforcement of israeli troops that are in this area anyway and have been here for decades but it really foresman of the two hundred tense division new videos been released showing a junior thai football team in good health despite their eleven day ordeal below ground food and medical supplies have reached the twelve boys and their coach scott report from chiang rai new video of the stranded thirteen shows a tiny baby seal emblem drawn

may be preparing for an offensive along the gaza strip if the kites continue to be flown charles stratfordhas more from gaza. the palestinian authorities are saying that the man that was killed in this attack by israel today was a twenty two year old man a member of the kasam brigades that's the armed wing of hamas at least three other people injured in that attack the israeli say they targeted the area because it was being used by protesters to launch these balloons carrying incendiary devices which have floated across the gaza fence and so israel says it burnt the oldest three thousand hate is of land in the last four months now there are serious concerns of an escalation in violence as we go forward into friday big protests have been called for by various different political factions here in gaza calling people to turn up on the borders tomorrow and continue these protests how mass basically says that these protesters have every right to continue protesting using what it describes as known violent means but certainly there is a lot of concern that israel may respond with what certainly

i would not hold hands in somewhere like stratford in east london.hold hands in public, and we were sitting next to each other and we were eating, and then we kissed, and this man ran up to us and he was talking about how we are going to hell, and he threw, like, a bible at us. i get it all the time, you're not really gay, but you're too feminine to be gay. why do you have long hair if you're gay? oh, can two girls with long hair date? it's ridiculous. the government has now announced a new action plan, including a ban on controversial gay conversion therapies and improvements to gender laws to make it easierfor trans people to change their identity. asad dunham is gay and muslim. he says that the government needs to do more to help people from all backgrounds. we still don't have marriage equality in northern ireland, for example, and also there isn't an understanding of certain minorities, for example, black, asian, minority ethnicities and then when you add on layers, i think the government really needs to understand what's going on. it's 2018...

crossing the fishing zone open to boats from gaza has also been hard to three nautical miles john stratford reports. trunks gather at the column border post it's the only official crossing for goods and fuel into gaza from israel but the israeli government has now closed it it says it will let food and medicine in on a case by case basis but is not a fuel essential for powering gaza's basic services many of the almost two million people here only get electricity for four to six hours a day. for the most serious then you know this fuel blockade doesn't last because it will cause hundreds of problems and life will stop sewage and rubbish will pile up and other projects will come to an end people will not be able to go to work the ministry of health will not be able to treat patients that official in gaza city will say tells us that gaza needs around seven hundred thousand liters of gasoline and diesel every day just to meet its basic needs now with these new restrictions by israel that fuel simply isn't coming in any more of course gazans have already suffered twelve years of israel's land an

i would not hold hands in somewhere like stratford in east london.like soho. we do hold hands in public, and we were sitting next to each other and we were eating, and then we kissed, and this man ran up to us and he was talking about how we are going to hell, and he threw, like, a bible at us. i get it all the time, you're not really gay, but you're too feminine to be gay. why do you have long hair if you're gay? 0h, can two girls with long hair date? it's ridiculous. the government has now announced a new action plan, including a ban on controversial gay conversion therapies and improvements to gender laws to make it easierfor trans people to change their identity. asad dunham is gay and muslim. he says that the government needs to do more to help people from all backgrounds. we still don't have marriage equality in northern ireland, for example, and also there isn't an understanding of certain minorities, for example, black, asian, minority ethnicities and then when you add on layers, i think the government really needs to understand what's going

trial stratford has moved from gaza. very tense situation here in gaza one can only believe sudden israel as well the smalling following an escalation of violence last night now the israeli military saying that hamas kucing how massive using children as cover for a sniper attack the military saying that's a group of around twenty children approached the fence around seven pm local time last night and the israeli military went down to the fence to investigate and that's when they say the sniper opened fire one israeli soldier injured in that attack the israeli military responding with strikes against various hamas posts three members of hamas military wing the kasam brigade killed in those attacks israel says that there were nine projectiles what it describes as project cells launched from gaza last night one of which was intercepted by the r. and the rest landing on what it describes as empty ground now a massive come out with a statement the smalling saying that israel will pay the price with its blood for these attacks

interested to supply the palestinians had been cut from eight hours to just six hours a day which are stratford has more from the crossing. so trucks now have started taking this vital fuel this this oil this petrol and this cooking gas from the israeli side they the trucks arrive from gaza they fill up and then go back across the border there's great relief here in gaza there was a a press statement released by the palestinian healthful thora to the smalling saying that unless this fuel starts to be delivered at mediately then health services were a risk of actually having to be closed down and we understand that the power station is still not operating that stopped yesterday there were only one of full turbines that were operating in that power station before that closure and that's a different issue the power station does not rely on oil from this border has been relying on it to be supplied from egypt thomas says it simply does not have enough money to pay for that vital fuel for the power station is also the issues of the amount of money that people simply have in their pockets to pay thei

political factions are calling for more protests on friday along gaza's border with israel john stratford reports. the skies over gaza have turned black with smoke from burning tires every friday for months now israeli army snipers and all the troops have killed around one hundred forty palestinians since the weekly protest started in march thousands of others have been injured protests to say they'll continue to fly kites in balloons carrying petrol bombs and burning ranks across the border until israel lifts its twelve years siege of gaza israel says fires started by the protesters have destroyed areas of farmland and crops this protester who insisted we hide his identity says life in gaza has become so on bearable he and his friends are determined to force change. our aim is to end the siege completely the situation in gaza is unbearable often no lecture city not enough medicine no good life unemployment there is no future for young people here we use simple materials like the incendiary balloons to protest this is the palestinian way so what would it take for israel to begin to lift t

london fire brigade sent a0 fire engines to the blaze on wanstead flats near stratford just after 4pmisible across the capital. the fire brigade say they are making steady progress. as france and croatia faced off in the world cup final, another famous football team have been playing today — the senior team of the wild boars. theirjunior counterparts are still recovering in hospital after being trapped in a thai cave for more than two weeks. 0ur correspondent howard johnson was there to see them play. we are here at a senior game of the wild boar team here in mae sai. what we heard earlier before the game kicked off was two of the players telling us that they really miss playing with the younger team—mates. they say that normally they train with them every night after school, and that obviously over the last two weeks, they've really missed their presence. now, what we also heard earlier was from the ministry of public health. they said that they had allowed the parents to tell their children inside chiang rai hospital the sad news of the death of the former navy seal diver saman guna

the world cup which will be the first time that one of them has played in the middle east child stratford was amongst excitement at a world cup fans on and the capitalist are. you'd be forgiven for thinking that the world cup has already started hearing because of this crowd representative of the old and fifty different nationalities that live in this country it doesn't matter who you speak to everybody will tell you how excited they are about the world cup coming to cut off on the middle east for the first time in a second the amazing. amazing in every possible way to say to me the basement of captivity. soviet exhibit. why way we had to rig the forty is he said don't you think when you get on an honest look at this thing that was not. there not. a cool solution the world cup in qatar such a small but exceptionally wealthy country is not without major challenges and that's not the gate the culture is space the saudi led land air and sea blockade of the year now the cultural sources are saying that's made very little to date on the progress that they make in building the infrastructure in

organizing this fertility says that's exactly what it's aiming to do as well thank you very much child stratford and ashdod. zimbabwe's phone president robert mugabe has given a surprise news conference on the eve of monday's elections speaking in harare the ninety four year old time is back on his form a zani p.f. party and the military saying he could not indorse those who have illegally taken power he refused to endorse his former deputy and successor and someone gaga saying opposition candidate nelson chamisa was the only viable candidate. garcia back on board for the party. or those. who are. just now or the people. involved have. meaning to this. country for. the do you see my. tribute to. the. opposition to nelson chamisa says monday's vote isn't about the former president please leave me alone mr when and how in your zambia people deal with your old man you know you have disappointed him is so disappointing that please make your way make your amends with him i have nothing to do with what president mugabe would want to say is of what is this it is that it is not my duty as a candidate to

millions of dollars worth of crops have been destroyed and further attacks won't be tolerated child stratford has this report from gaza. it's been almost four months since protesters in causes started flying kites carrying petrol bombs and burning ranks over the border fence towards israel the israeli government says they've set far too many had to have learned destroying millions of dollars worth of crops this protest insisted we hide his identity he's a member of a group calling itself the sons of the warre it's named after the man who helped thomas acquire drone technology and was assassinated in tunisia in two thousand and sixteen. we will not stop polluting the balloons and co it's until israel lift the siege the ball is in israel's court we don't decide whether there is a war or not we are not afraid we have suffered in a war against us every day since israel started the blockade twelve years ago and. israel responded to the clinton polluted flying protests over the weekend by targeting dozens of from a specific in this. the attacks were seen as the worst escalation of violence between

from palermo in italy a week ago carrying twenty two people including some israeli citizens charles stratford has more now from a dog. the israeli ministry released a statement saying that the navy had intercepted this vessel because it was trying to violate what it describes as the illegal blockade on gaza it said that the navy had been monitoring and indeed the interception of this vessel was carried out according to international law it was around about the same time that the old when a zation responsible for this flotilla put out a statement calling on the governments of the various people on board to act immediately now the organization the international freedom flotilla coalition says that it was fully aware that there was a very strong chomps that israel was going to do this that israel was going to stop this flotilla from reaching but he said it was important that it was done anyway as a means of trying to highlight the suffering of the gazans on the international stage and i have just come from gaza today and trying to describe the conditions for the two million people living there i

began at midnight local time one hour from charles stratford who's on the israel gaza border. these men say it's their duty. palestinians to protest against israel's occupation. they put together their kite clipping its tail which they say will keep it balance as it carries the burning cloth over gaza's border fence they soak the sackcloth in petrol and oil because they say it helps it slowly through jamestown are their land we are here to prove to the whole world that we will never leave the island we're going to do with burning kites was that occupied land and i'm not afraid of the israelis i'm only afraid of. sits close by but he has come to support the protesters. i must say the kites and balloons to carry the burning rags into israel are a peaceful form of protest israeli snipers have been targeting balloons that the protesters have been launching well behind the main demonstration these protesters say they will continue launching that kites holding those incendiary devices until israel lifts the siege. the men like the rock and the kite drifts all too and now it's the bu

suspended more than half of its annual funding to the agency has told the trial stratford who's live for us from gaza charles less than twenty four hours ago we were talking about this particular issue and at the time there was see the anger vented at the head of the u.n. agency there in gaza it's a very different sort of chuen today. well that seething anger certainly amongst those losing their jobs with under the palestinian employees losing their job the anger has got even louder even worse we were down. on rose headquarters many people literally overwhelmed. by the news we saw all the state of the office all the full more operations schieffer all of on rather there have been a kind of painted red or rob other lens on my dual demanding that he leave people was saying that there was no way that this could be justified the protesters all those that are losing their jobs are saying that the kind of cutbacks that are being made will them losing their jobs is no way going to save on the amount of money that he's going to make up the shortfall as you say the u.s. withdrew funding from h

demonstrations as protesters demand the right to return and an end to the israeli blockade on gaza charles stratford has more now on the day's events. these men say it's their duty as palestinians to protest against israel's occupation. they put together their kite clipping its tail which they say will keep it balance as it carries the burning coals over gaza's border fence they soak the sackcloth in petrol and oil because they say it helps it slowly regaining power in africa land we are here to prove to the whole world that we will never leave the island we're going to launch burning kites tools that occupied land and i'm not afraid of the israelis i'm only afraid of god come us leda ismail honey sits close by he has come to support the protesters i must say the kites and balloons to carry the burning rags into israel are a peaceful form of protest israeli snipers have been targeting balloons that the protesters have been launching well the best.

nearly four months now israel has threatened a military action if it doesn't stop but its child stratford reports from gaza palestinian political factions have called for further mass protests on friday. the skies over gaza have turned black with smoke from burning tires every friday for months now israeli army snipers and all the troops have killed around one hundred forty palestinians since the protests started in march thousands of others have been injured protests to say they'll continue to fly kites in balloons carrying petrol bombs and burning ranks across the border until israel lifts its twelve years siege of gaza israel says fires started by the protesters have destroyed flown to areas of farmland and crops this protester who insisted we hide his identity says life in gaza has become so unbearable he and his friends are determined to force change nothing or. our aim is to end the siege completely the situation in gaza is unbearable often no electricity no enough medicine and no good life employment there is no future for young people here for you simple materials like the brillia

than fifty years ago the israeli government says it can move to an area near a landfill charles stratford reports. to who was born here in the bedouin village of trial in the israeli occupied west bank he's lived here with his family all his life. these rady government wants to demolish and many other bedouin villages as part of a plan called easy one which involves expanding the illegal settlement of mala i do mean completely surrounding jerusalem and separating the north from the south of the occupied west bank. i am like any man i'm asking for freedom like any israeli i have the right to live and to have my freedom like he does they photo out of bed and still leave in one nine hundred forty eight and now they are forcing us out but where can we go. what is really security forces raided connel on wednesday arresting and injuring a number of people. a day later bulldozers began clearing a path to the village. but late on friday israel supreme court put a temporary injunction on the demolition of the village to the palestinian authority submitted documents it saves show palestinians have

again close to the border fence continuing those weekly demonstrations our correspondent is charles stratford and charles how is the situation developing there. well the situation is very tense here we understand we're hearing reports all the at least twelve palestinians injured so far the self known since these protests began in various different locations close to the border along the gaza strip we also heard how my saying that there was an israeli drone strike against what israel was describing as a group of people trying to launch those incendiary believes that in an area of gaza called the too far neighborhood we have heard of no casualties in this strike so far but yes such a big task elation in violence between hamas and the various factions here and israel in the last week the situation here is very tense how massive say it that these people have every right to come out and protest in what they describe as a simple sorry as a as a pan a passive all peaceful manner hamas have also said that they have every right to defend their people from the israeli military and of course we saw last

of civilians have been forced from their homes in recent days by russian syrian offensive chance stratford is in the israeli occupied golan heights with more. well you can see there on the horizon is one of a number of makeshift camps that have appeared in this area in the last couple of weeks since the syrian government offensive started in there and cool nature now deborah is around ten kilometers in that direction certainly this morning we heard what certainly sounded like strikes coming from that area the israeli government here have said that they will not open these borders to refugees but it is also said that it will continue she managed tarion assistance where necessary prime minister netanyahu saying that israel will react to any threats to its sovereignty the israeli military has reinforced troops in this area in the last few days reinforcements for the two hundred tents division we understand of course this area is very sensitive it having been occupied by israel in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven the big concern for israel here is one of security of special concern is the

attention to the plight of one point eight million people living in gaza under that siege right cal stratford i fest in austin thank you. hundreds of syrian refugees have begun to return home from lebanon as part of a russian brokered plan three buses take refugees back to syria through the border crossing around thirty buses had been deployed to transport then president michel says the russian initiative aimed to return nearly nine hundred thousand syrians. if the rebels in yemen say they have been attacked by dozens of airstrikes by the saudi coalition the targets include the capital sana in this or t.j. port city of. follower has the attack on saudi vessels in the red sea and an alleged drone strike on the airport. cambodia's ruling party has claimed victory and in general election that rights groups say was neither free nor fair the party had been predicting a landslide victory for prime minister when sen but he was always expected to win because the main opposition party was abandoned its leaders jailed or exiled and he reports on phnom penh. this could have been a day of political chang