should decide the future of the country our lives introduce our guest now from beirut we have sami nada who is director of the levant institute for strategic affairs from london we have mahmoud no our retired jordanian air force general i'm from in italy via skype joshua landis director of the center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma thank you all very much indeed for joining us can i start with you mark moon in london because the words there we've just heard of that f.s.a. commander suggest that any kind of political deal is not at all acceptable they're not prepared to accept the authority of the government of president assad so a battle is inevitable my question therefore is what sort of support to the rebels have and are they likely to be completely wiped out from this. i think they lost the whole support from the region and from the american and their friends. as the american suggested that they should put any assumption that the american will interfere on that region of southern part of joe the southern part of syria so i think they are in deep trouble. if i we

who should decide the future of the country arliss introduce our guest now from beirut we have sami nada who is director of the levant institute for strategic affairs from london we have mahmoud no our retired jordanian air force general i'm from in italy via skype joshua landis director of the center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma thank you all very much indeed for joining us can i start with you mark moon in london because the words there we've just heard of that f.s.a. commander suggest that any kind of political deal is not at all acceptable they're not prepared to accept the authority of the government of president assad so a battle is inevitable my question therefore is what sort of support do the rebels have and are they likely to be completely wiped out from this. i think they lost the whole support from the region and from the american and their friends. as the american suggested that they should put any assumption that the american will interfere on that region of southern part of joe the southern part of syria so i think they are in deep trouble. if i we

who should decide the future of the country arliss introduce our guests now from beirut we have sami nada who is director of the levant institute for strategic affairs from london we have mahmoud no our retired jordanian air force general i'm from in italy via skype joshua landis director of the center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma thank you all very much indeed for joining us can i start with you mark moon in london because the words there we've just heard of that f.s.a. commander suggest that any kind of political deal is not at all acceptable they're not prepared to accept the authority of the government of president assad so a battle is inevitable my question therefore is what sort of support do the rebels have and are they likely to be completely wiped out from this. i think they lost the whole support from the region and from the american and their friends. as the american suggested that they should put any assumption that the american will interfere on that region of southern part of joe the southern part of syria so i think they are in deep trouble. if i we

meddling in the two of the sixteen presidential election then you'll times is reporting that george nada has been questioned over possible attempts by the united arab emirates to buy political influence in the trumpet ministration is believed to regularly visited the white house in two of the seventeen the latest developments suggest special counsel robert mueller has broadened his investigation beyond russian interference. south korea has announced plans for a special envoy to visit the north it's in response to an invitation presenting by kim jong un sr during her visit to the pier on chang lympics can go live now to rob mcbride our correspondent who's in the south korean capital seoul so it seems very much as are the south koreans don't want to lose any momentum on this have responded swiftly to the invitation and are sending a high level delegation. that's right martin this delegation is being led by two ministry level intelligence officials one of them is an expert in korea and u.s. relations the other is an expert in into korean relations so it seems as though this delegation has a

into meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential election the new york times is reporting that george nada has been questioned over possible attempts by the united arab emirates to buy political influence in the trumpet ministration nanda is believed to have regularly visited the white house in twenty seventeen the latest developments suggest special counsel robert mueller has broadened his investigation beyond russian interference china has urged the united states to exercise restraint in taking unilateral trade measures it comes after the us president announced he'll introduce sweeping tyrus on steel and aluminum imports president trump is also valid to increase taxes on european cars. south korea's announced plans for a special envoy to go to the north the five person delegation will leave for two days of talks on monday same response to an invitation by kim jong un sister when she visited the olympics those are the headlines to say or is there. just. some journalists decided to sacrifice their integrity for out in the media are they listening to at this time on al-jazeera. you. will. s

who should decide the future of the country arliss introduce our guest now from beirut we have sami nada who is director of the levant institute for strategic affairs from london we have mahmoud no our retired jordanian air force general and from events in italy via skype joshua landis director of the center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma thank you all very much indeed for joining us can i start with you mark moon in london because the words there we've just heard of that f.s.a. commander suggest that any kind of political deal is not at all acceptable they're not prepared to accept the authority of the government of president assad so a battle is inevitable my question therefore is what sort of support to the rebels have and are they likely to be completely wiped out from this. i think they lost the whole support from the region and from the american and their friends. as the american suggested that they should put any assumption that the american will interfere on that region of southern part of the job the southern part to see so i think they are in deep trouble

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death fierce fighting there is damage water supply which may have caused the spike in color but no but nada is spokesman for save the children he told us earlier how serious the situation is on the ground our team spoke to a mother of two who suffers from acute watery diarrhea and their whole family is forced to drink water from an open and a dirty well because they just don't have any other choice and her husband hasn't been paid a salary for over a year and so they don't even have enough money to buy the cooking gas to boil the contaminated water that they that they collect and this story is repeated hundreds of thousands of times across yemen this is not a unique story so we need to get clean water to these communities and to these families but we also need to urge the warring parties to come to the negotiating table in good faith and actually find a political solution because they're losing an entire generation of children i mean where hundreds of yemenis have been protesting in the southwestern city of thais against the rising cost of living and the failing value of the yemeni riyadh c

into meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential election the new york times is reporting that george nada has been questioned over possible attempts by the united arab emirates to buy political influence in the trumpet ministration is believed to have regularly visited the white house in twenty seventeen the latest developments suggest special counsel robert mueller has broadened his investigation beyond russian interference china has urged the united states to exercise restraint in taking unilateral trade measures it comes after the us president announced he'll introduce sweeping tiris on steel imports president also vowed to increase taxes on european call's south korea's announced plans for a special envoy to go to the north the five person delegation will leave for two days of talks on monday same response to an invitation by kim jong un sister when she visited the olympics those are the headlines talked to our jazeera is next. some journalists decided to sacrifice their integrity for hours. at this time on al-jazeera. for many years people have been fleeing to eritrea. a steady strea

into meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential election the new york times is reporting that george nada has been questioned over possible attempts by the united arab emirates to buy political influence in the trumpet ministration the latest developments suggest special counsel robert mueller has broadened his investigation beyond russian interference. and al-qaeda affiliates says it was behind the attack that killed sixteen people and became a fast so on friday the attackers targeted army headquarters and the french embassy in the capital is all right up to date those are the latest headlines for us here at al-jazeera coming up next it's inside story. and the differences. and the similarities of cultures a clash there with. al-jazeera. two attacks in the heart of book enough capital it happened despite a regional military offensive that's meant to prevent such attacks so is that campaign working the intervention needed this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. fighters have once again targeted book enough asas capital we're going to go their last show coordinated attacks o

and nada has now parted with the subsea opted for another course and i hope it's of the best interests of the country which i doubt. the alliance was a result of an election that brought president is sixty's media to his party to power and i came second in the polls since a twenty eleven uprising which started with became known as the arab spring tunis he had had nine cabinets all faced economic problems which included high inflation and unemployment the coalition had been regarded as the arab spring only democratic success avoiding the upheaval theme in egypt libya syria and elsewhere the islamic and the party and secular new debt tunis which was formed in twenty fourteen had promised a constitution granting far reaching political rights limiting the role of religion and holding free elections but the current political fallout which started when president is tipsy called for prime minister yousuf shahid to step down as the government struggle to revive the economy has brought fears that to newseum may be slipping away from the democratic reforms that came from the twenty eleven protes

and nada has now parted with the subsea opted for another course and i hope it's in the best interests of the country which i doubt. the alliance was a result of an election that brought president is sixty's needed to his party to power and i came second in the polls since a twenty eleven uprising which started what became known as the arab spring tunis you had had nine cabinets all faced economic problems which included high inflation and unemployment the coalition had been regarded as the arab spring only democratic success avoiding the upheaval theme in egypt libya syria and elsewhere the islamic and the party and secular new debt tunis which was formed in twenty fourteen had promised a constitution granting far reaching political rights limiting the role of religion and holding free elections but the current political fallout which started when president is tipsy called for prime minister yousuf shahid to step down as the government struggle to revive the economy has brought fears that to newseum may be slipping away from the democratic reforms that came from the twenty eleven prot

talk about war and peace issues in the united states i have one of the organizers here with me now nada carter thank you so much for joining us and you guys came from out of the city to be here why is this issue so important to you and what do you hope to accomplish here we feel very strongly about human rights and we feel strongly about the freedom of all people to peace and peacefully express their opinions occluding journalists including reporters there doing important work and who are here to demand justice for mile for shoki was last seen last tuesday walking into the saudi consulate in istanbul we want justice for the perpetrators of this crime a crime has been committed whether it's been a forcible disappearance or actual murder we know that a crime has been committed and those who have engaged in committing this crime must be brought to justice in a court of law thank you so much for joining us here i know from talking to not our earlier she's also calling on the champion ministration to follow through with its promise to get to the bottom of what happened with this journalist t

previous ones as well for a bit more on the implications of this announcement i'm joined by job of nada who heads a network of afghan civil society nongovernmental organizations how realistic do you think this prospect is it's a bit difficult to tell because today we had a better solidarity of the international community on the peace. countries such as the united states and russia who have recently not been i to eye on afghan peace they emphasized on their common positions the regional countries also said that this fully supports an afghan led peace process so there is that international and regional solidarity but on the other hand we see that the taliban are expanding their control they are consolidating their control over large swathes of the country but also threatening more population so they are at the moment expanding militarily so there is very little hope that those gains military gains can be compensated by international solidarity we know that the taliban have not issued any official statement about their conference today which is actually a good news. the afghan president sa

fourteen villages remain missing but hopes of finding them alive all fading jimmy duggan has more from nada we are at the mass we held for some of those who died in the landslide this is right behind the mayor's office in the city of. incivil province. this is the body of nora cop way she died at five am when the landslide struck thursday morning. her husband is still fighting for his life while some of their grandchildren remain missing to this day. these are some of the members of the family are said no fifty year old female a boy. we've spoken to survivors to say they have been encouraging and asking the government to stop worrying operations they were aware of the danger but they had very little choice they did not want to leave the area because they've had that land for generations and now they feel they simply do not have any choice. president for the good that they're to was here the other the and this call for quarrying operations across the country to be stopped for fifteen days. but many here feel what they want really is a full stoppage of quarrying operations in the area. so thi

family you know name in their book and never not their mother for the name of their children in for nada so i think the only hope that's will the game from a different profit. named lot of people need to be gotten included in the idea that all right we're going to have to leave it there we are out of time i want to thank all our guests ron i you've prim shank way jock and i'm on dude and thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page at facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle is at a.j. inside story for me my mage and join in the entire team here i for now. august on al-jazeera european muslims today are facing the consequences of having their faith linked to on the attacks even though they too of victims of violence the largest multi-sport event on the continent asian games in jakarta will host aff leaves competing in a mix of traditional and the olympic sports a vibrant new series of character led documentarie

have been killed in protests against president danny a lot take john home and reports now from go to nada on how business in is a struggling to make ends meet. this staircase ronnie and his family put everything into restoring this hotel in granada nick and i were from ruins to the splendor of its colonial past now he's worried they could lose it all and that will be my dream but probably. that will be me and i will hopefully if that quandary no because what will be my first tour if i don't have. my my you know my heir for my investment if and here you know because i was tourism industry was booming since opening four years ago really had never had an empty night until this april when protests in a subsequent crackdown from police and paramilitary groups changed everything there would have been spent a week without anyone in doing. tourism has plummeted the small hotels association says occupancy sit down eighty percent the number of flights is home and a third of restaurants are closed just about everyone in beautiful clothes or not has been affected the city's famous for its whole stron

twenty soldiers security forces were also targeted in lashkar gah and another attack happened in nearby nada ali i still has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in kabul also tony berkley brings us more from the afghan capital . another bloody day in afghanistan three suicide bombings at a large scale taliban attack on an afghan army base the first attack was in kabul at eight thirty on saturday morning the target was intelligence building afghan intelligence building where people were killed and wounded this was carried out by islamic state they claim responsibility the other attacks were by the taliban there is concern i think especially for the attack in kabul you may remember the large ambulance bomb that was set off in january killing more than one hundred people but after that the afghan president. ghani said there was a new security strategy you've seen on the streets greater numbers of army and police greater defenses but still with this in place islamic state were able to strike so that's causing concern and of course the taliban is beefing up their attacks as well is preem

amazon the leader of the catholic church met indigenous leaders in the southeastern city of part of the nada in a speech he denounced human trafficking and hailed the importance of protecting the environment where the pope traveled to proof from chile where he had to deal with allegations surrounding bishop kwon bar us just before he left the country he denied covering up the abuse of teenage boys by another priest did get me thinking everyone will be the day that they bring me proof against bishop paris then i will speak there is not one bit of proof against him we believe it is slow and it's not clear. well father tom reese is a senior analyst at the religion news service and believes pope francis's handling of the scandal is in danger of overshadowing the positive work on his toll the sad thing is the pope was doing so many good things in chile defending migrants expressing concern about the environment condemning the human rights abuses that occurred on pena shae an artery in a bishop who defended human rights under the military regime then so that you know and i think he was well receiv

announced it will establish relations with china instead the deputy foreign minister carlos custer nada and china's foreign minister one need seal the deal by signing a document during a ceremony in the chinese capital beijing salvatore's the latest diplomatic ally of taiwan has lost this year the development means only seventeen countries currently have diplomatic ties with taipei venezuela's president nicolas maduro is a new monitor reforms are now in place in a bid to control the country's economic crisis but many venezuelans are confused by the measures and opposition parties have already called for protests neighboring countries have also started cracking down on the venezuelans trying to cross the border to escape the crisis australia's prime minister malcolm turnbull has survived a leadership challenge by home affairs minister peter dutton turnbull won the vote forty eight to thirty five doesn't resign as a minister after losing the vote turnbull had been under increasing pressure and was forced to make changes to his energy policy this week after members of his own party threate

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and nada has now parted with the subsea opted for another course and i hope it's in the best interests of the country which i doubt. the alliance was a result of an election that brought president is sixty's new debt to his party to power and i came second in the polls since a twenty eleven uprising which started with became known as the arab spring tunis he had had nine cabinets all faced economic problems which included high inflation and unemployment the coalition had been regarded as the arab spring only democratic success avoiding the upheaval theme in egypt libya syria and elsewhere the islamic and the party and secular new debt tunis which was formed in twenty fourteen had promised a constitution granting far reaching political rights limiting the role of religion and holding free elections but the current political fallout which started when president is tipsy called for prime minister yousuf shahid to step down as the government struggle to revive the economy has brought fears that to newseum may be slipping away from the democratic reforms that came from the twenty eleven pro

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on the turkey syria border mohammed thank you well let's bring in somebody nada he's director of the institute for strategic studies joins us live now from beirut something out of the syrian army in the outskirts of man beach we're not sure if they're actually in the in the in the center of the city but developments happen pretty quickly on the ground how significant is this. i mean this is a pretty significant here i think that the cdn troops are getting into. that. could accept because turkey doesn't want american troops to be. mended and why the other part of the turkish troops to be members so i'm not surprised to see that both parties have accepted this compromise to trust the syrian regime to control of this area though. that. today are fearing a scenario similar to what happened. some time ago but i don't think this would happen this time why at these two decent. was. as it's hard to which is not the case today and second that tension that no mistake tension between. government. and kurdish opposition was. at its acme so today this was did all was seems to be coordinate that a

was meeting they tell us what happened to their shops had nothing to do with genuine demonstrations nada there is doing what they wanted to get a problem but they're not involving them and we're not just doing anything you're just doing business residents of this region continue to wait for answers but these are difficult issues that may not be fully resolved fairly soon catherine saw al jazeera making south africa over the north hundreds of nurses have protested in zimbabwe's capital after more than sixteen thousand were recently fired the dismissals of forced major public hospitals to close. and reports. was these nurses want to go back to work they went on strike hoping for higher pay and better working conditions instead they got fired by the government we love our country we love our patients please do not make us suffer any more do not make a person suffer you want to go back to work. medical teams say they are overworked and underpaid in public hospitals medication and resources are limited patients are sometimes asked to bring their own supplies lower paid nurses earn less and th

twenty soldiers security forces were also targeted and lashkar gah and another attack happened in nearby nada ali and i saw has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in kabul tony he has more from the afghan capital. another bloody day in afghanistan three suicide bombings at a large scale taliban attack on an afghan army base the first attack was in kabul at eight thirty on saturday morning the target was intelligence building afghan intelligence building where people were killed and wounded this was carried out by islamic state they claim responsibility the other attacks were by the taliban there is concern i think especially for the attack in kabul you may remember the large ambulance bomb that was set off in january killing more than one hundred people but after that the afghan president. ghani said there was a new security strategy you've seen on the streets greater numbers of army and police greater defenses but still with this in place islamic state able to strike so that's causing concern and of course the taliban is beefing up their attacks as well is preemptive perhaps for th

trying to leave the war zone for jordan the director of the levant institute for strategic affairs sami nada says the offensive in there are clearly violates the deescalation zone original agreement. i think behind the development that is serious at them from the syrian regime and backed by russia to test how much the united states is committed to defend this agreement and how much f.s.a. aid at least in our army is ready on the ground and at the core of this escalation agreement is that you're saying and but as and in south sense here and this was dragged in is that i entered into the picture. is that i am. keen to keep. to keep iranian forces far from its borders its north their own border at this was their key issue for the last three or four months how much iran would be closed today is that i.e.d. border and that there are talks that russia has to get from a commitment that it would have had. to to push the iranian forces far from that is that i.e.d. borders but it won't surprise against this so the question here is russia backing this development trying to strike a deal to confirm it's

that is nada tawfik, part of the tea m that is nada tawfik, part of the team in new york. toyota is investing $500 million in uber to jointly work on developing self—driving cars. it's a chance for both companies to catch up to rivals in the hotly competitive business. let's go to our asia business hub where shara njit leyl is following the story. they really want to work together, talk through what they have for each other. that is right, they both have a lot to gain from this deal. it is a lot to gain from this deal. it is a chance to play catch up with rivals. they both seem to be lagging behind in developing self driving ca i’s behind in developing self driving cars compared with other firms, and a chance to show the r&d costs, you will recall uber lost millions of dollars in the last quarter as it tries to expand and sink money into research and development. more than

nada, thank you for now, nada tawfik in new york. nada tawfik in new york. so more on that storyjust after half past. kimjong—un might take place next month after all. want to do it, we'd like to do it. but first here's laura bicker with the view from seoul. blast! the destruction of its only known nuclear test site. meeting with the us president. tested its nuclear weapons. before they were blown to smithereens. blast! the longed—for summit was off. some in south korea could not contain theirfury. they feel their best hope at peace in decades is now slipping away. pyongyang attempted to take the moral high ground. and we cannot but feel regret for it," they said. regardless at any time. the un is also urging both sides to find a way to meet. of the korean peninsula. it was about ending a near 70—year conflict. all of its nuclear test sites. but president trump suddenly changed his mind. he will change his mind again. translation: i think north korea must change itself for their people. the other side are wrong. it is just bein

that is nada tawfik, part of the tea m that is nada tawfik, part of the team in new york. toyota is investing $500 million in uber to jointly work on developing self—driving cars. it's a chance for both companies to catch up to rivals in the hotly competitive business. let's go to our asia business hub where shara njit leyl is following the story. they really want to work together, talk through what they have for each other. that is right, they both have a lot to gain from this deal. it is a lot to gain from this deal. it is a chance to play catch up with rivals. they both seem to be lagging behind in developing self driving ca i’s behind in developing self driving cars compared with other firms, and a chance to show the r&d costs, you will recall uber lost millions of dollars in the last quarter as it tries to expand and sink money into research and development. more than $1 million a day according to some reports has been on self driving technology. uber needs this. they had to scale back self driving trials after fatal crash in arizona in march when a self driving u

nada tawfik, thank you to you too. ba ka re nada tawfik, thank you to you too. bakarejon nada tawfik, thank you to you too. bakare jon sopel in nada tawfik, thank you to you too. bakarejon sopel in washington. what is your reading of things there tonight? —— back tojon sopel. the polling stations will close soon and we will shortly after that get and we will shortly after that get an indication of whether there is a wind of change blowing across america. we will look at what happens in florida, virginia, kentucky. those will be our early warning radar, if you like, on what is happening in the rest of the country. with the senate seats we will have to wait longer into the night before we get a clear indication of that. i thought it was pretty significant last night that donald trump talked about softening his image and bringing his daughter on stage and bringing his press secretary sarah sanders and his counsel kellyanne conway, because what has happened is donald trump, who lead among women in the 2016 election, white college educated women, they have moved

despite her work, nada's dream is to go herself and settle in europe. on this extraordinary journey from europe, i have met so many people along the way, each with their own unique story as to why they have turned their back on europe. but one thing they all have in common is their desperate struggle to find a home where they can be happy like they once were in syria. let's see what the weather is up to over the next few days. in the short—term, very warm and humid but volatile atmosphere and a risk of thunderstorms through the rest of the bank holiday weekend. this is the bank holiday weekend. this is the satellite image in the last 12 hours or so. you the satellite image in the last 12 houi’s oi’ so. you can see angry clouds hours or so. you can see angry clouds across western europe. this is that unpredictable area of atmosphere with storms popping off like popcorn almost anywhere and, true tomorrow, the risk of storms across southern and south—western areas, tracking from the south—east, across the midlands, wales and ended up across the m

despite her work, nada's dream is to go herself and settle in europe. on this extraordinary journey from europe, i have met so many people along the way, each with their own unique story as to why they have turned their back on europe. but one thing they all have in common is their desperate struggle to find a home where they can be happy like they once were in syria. i want to update you about how we are seeing the rest of the holiday weekend. the rest of the weekend, it looks as though it there will be a lot of sunshine around but a risk of thunderstorms. initially they manifest themselves across the southern counties of england, that's because you're close to the main area, activity across biscay, front and parts of iberia. that is how we start the new day on sunday, with this potential for some really heavy showers or thunderstorms and a muggy feel. further north, a lot of dry weather and sunshine, that's for sure. a fresh start across scotland, temperatures down to single figures in places but they soon pick up with all the sunshine pouring through

despite her work, nada's dream is to go herself and settle in europe. on this extraordinary journey from europe, i have met so many people along the way, each with their own unique story as to why they have turned their back on europe. but one thing they all have in common is their desperate struggle to find a home where they can be happy like they once were in syria. hello. good morning. the distribution of downpours will vary from one day to the next, but the general weather pattern remains the same. so, we still have some warm sunshine around but a chance of more storms. tuesday was a day of extremes. heavy rain in a short period of time closed the m2. it was especially difficult in kent, but also flooding in london. north and north—west, look at that, 27 in scotland yet again. drier to the north—west and wet in the south. closer to low pressure and the spiralling bands of cloud. you can see the cloud has been growing. that rain will go south to east anglia. to northern england and the midlands, across towards wales, allowing the south—east of

let's go over to the bbc‘s nada tawfik in detroit. we just heard a little clip there reverend jesse jackson speaking. he also said registered to vote. it would dishonor aretha if americans did not. really that speaks of her passion for taking up causes. doesn't it? yes. we have heard that reflected here by a number of people. president clinton as well, paying tribute to that impact she had on american culture. the reverend al sharpton also sang. —— also think she was a feminist when it was not popular to be a feminist him as he was a civil rights activist when it was not popular. again speaking to the fact that she used her talent and her musical genius to champion causes and social justice. we have heard that from a number of people speaking. she was a close family friend of doctor martin luther king. she took the proceeds from some of her performances and actually donated to doctor came. and i think that is why we're seeing so much love there for the music legend because again, of her uplifting americans, especially during that

nada tawfik there. ahead of that meeting of the security council, nada tawfik caught up with un goodwill ambassador cate blanchett. the actress was recently in bangladesh, where thousands of rohinja muslims have been forced to flee. well, i think that they're — you know, part of the security council's remit is to highlight and to continually and unfailingly not give up. just coming from speaking to the secretary general, when the situation is impossible, you have to push harder, and despair is something we cannot give into. and when you see the resilience of the refugees themselves, and when you sit in a school with children who have lost parents, you know, children who have seen their grandparents pushed back into burning buildings and set on fire — you know, i sat with one particular girl who was 14, who had her three—year—old brother dismembered and thrown into a fire in front of her. and when you see them, you know, moving forward, positively, trying to go to school, it galvanises me, and ma

nada , thank you. nada tawfik in toronto. in a few minutes, we're going to turn to armenia. in over three years. we'll talk about why it's connected to donald trump. to discuss anti—semitism "disappointing". and thejewish leadership council. this was a disappointing meeting, a missed opportunity, they said. missed opportunity, they said. improve discipline procedures as are top priority. top priority. and that tone completely different. completely different. it as a missed opportunity, another sees it as constructive. sees it as constructive. there is indeed a lack of concrete plans in that statement. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. president macron on his state visit to washington. ballistic missile programme. let's pick up some of the main stories from bbc world service. stories from bbc world service. israel has announced it will not forcibly deport african migrants. who entered israel illegally. israel cancelled a deal with the un to relocate over a five—year plan. that is from bbc somalia. the amaz

nada tawfik, thank you very much indeed. don't forget you can get in touch with me and some of the team on twitter, i'm @geetagurumurthy. hello, good evening. a mild weekend will give way to something chilly over the next few days. this band of rain will be pushing its way southwards overnight. some heavy rain for a while across scotland and northern ireland and later coming into north—west england and north wales. to the south, a bit cloudy with blustery winds. very mild to the north of the band of rain, we have some chilly air. the band of rain continues to push southwards on monday. the last of the mild air getting squeezed into the near continent and something milder will follow on behind. we head into the mild air in the morning. i'll start once again across southern parts of england and wales, across to lincolnshire where it will probably be dry for the most part. mid north wales beginning to see some rain coming in. some heavy rain over the hills of north—west england. behind that, we are into the chilly air where

nada tawfiq looks back at her career. people have been expressing shock over the news on social media, but also paying tribute to the designer, sharing their stories of their first kate spade bag, and sharing funny quotes from her. for such iconic design. it was the eta accessory to own. kate spade is known not just eta accessory to own. kate spade is known notjust as a talented designer, she created bright and cheerful handbags that were very functionalfor cheerful handbags that were very functional for young women, but also because of her entrepreneurial skills and her business mind. she grew a company out of her apartment in new york into this global lifestyle brand and really paved the way for future female designers to do the same. and so a loss of tributes are being paid to her in both those respects. it is interesting because she was speaking to glamour magazine in the past and she wanted to be known not only as a good businesswoman, but a great friend, and a heck of a lot of fun. that was nada tawfiq, looking back

nada tawfik, bbc news, in south carolina. nada tawfik, bbc news, in south carolina. president trump's former campaign manager will co—operate with the investigation into links between russia and the trump campaign during the 2016 us presidential election. paul manafort has admitted two criminal charges, and as part of a plea bargain with prosecutors he's agreed to help robert mueller‘s investigation. our north america editor, jon sopel has this update paul manafort had already been found guilty of bank and tax fraud and month ago, and he was due to face another trial when, at the eleventh hour, he cut a plea deal with robert mueller, the special counsel, the man investigating whether there was collusion between russia and the trump campaign and whether there was obstruction ofjustice. after manafort was found guilty a month ago and was facing ten years in prison, donald trump tweeted about what a brave man he was for not doing a deal, what an example he was for standing firm. well, now manafort has flipped. it means he will agree to testify in any other proceedin

nada, toxin. there is nada life for us in new york. —— thanks for talking to us. stay with us an outside source. the latest of alastair leithead's special reports from the drc. it appears it doesn't pay to be loyal. it turns out that millions of people who stay with companies for insurance and mobile phones for years are actually losing out, by around £900 a year. that's a verdict of the competition watchdog. more from simon gompertz. the loyalty penalty can grind off your hard—earned cash without you noticing. nick near doncaster found he was paying more than £1000 a year more than he needed to for house insurance. we were paying £1929.82 a year. loyal for 21 yea rs, the cost had tripled. shopping around got him a policy for less than £500. it's an easy way for them to make more money, so they'lljust constantly put the price up. insurers say they're taking action against the loyalty penalty. the provider santander explains nick made claims, though he says he only ever got £200. at doncaster market nearby, such explanations from insurers, also mobile phone