Killed since the fighting began 5 years ago he cranes recently elected president the lenski says he wants to revive peace negotiations with russia hes been seeking support from european leaders recently and hes spoken to president Vladimir Putin by phone the Prisoner Exchange could be an important step towards further tentative talks this what is being seen as a victory for both president s putin and selenski a potential suspect and witness in the downing of the Malaysian Airlines jet a crane 5 years ago has also been released despite protests by the dutch government who had many of its citizens on the flight that suggests the lenski not only had to make concessions but that russia will be a tough negotiating partner in future talks to end fighting in Eastern Ukraine. Victoria be there Matthew Kupfer as editor at the kiev post he explains what the president transfer is mean for Ukraine Russia relations i think this is a positive step and it shows that there is the ability to negotiate over important things but i think that in order to ease tensions screen the 2 countries and stop the war in Eastern Ukraine and resolve the issue there are a lot of other issues that need to be resolved and many of them are much more difficult than Prisoner Exchanges this was not a big compromise by anyone the biggest compromise here was ukraine deciding to handle human someone the m 817 suspect or witness to russia this is a big victory for president skins a big victory for ukraine as for the man who was a suspect or a witness to the mh 17 downing but with some of this is of course what i meant when i said perhaps russian needed someone back at this moment of course the netherlands would have preferred that he not be handed over although the investigation and that 17 did manage to question him and he was also questioned by the Ukrainian Security service but i think with some mark there was a there was a challenging issue here russia wanted him back in this exchange they made that clear and crane at the value of getting their own prisoners back was much higher than simply keeping this man and handing him over to the dutch so i think that was the difficult choice for ukraine theres a likely was an International Element to it in the russian president met with french president mccraw i think it was several weeks ago and its likely they discussed this issue there at the same time there it looks like also just a matter of certain agreements came together at this moment there was a lot of effort put forward and perhaps there was a need to on the russian side also to get some people back too and that led to this prisoner swap happening now and the exact reasons why now are hard to understand. Hong kong police a fired tear gas to Disperse Protesters gathering for a 2nd night in the district of kowloon the crowds were pushed back from a Police Station where they were demanding an independent investigation into the allegedly yousif Excessive Force earlier officers stopped another protest from targeting the airport with a major security blitz trains didnt stop at stations on the way to the terminals to prevent demonstrators getting there there were a number of minor scuffles but the planned demonstration failed tests or shut down the airport for 2 days last month and has more from hong kong. This time the police and security were prepared last time they came well into the chaos well after protesters that paralyze the airports and the transportation linking to these competing against their strategy this time they were here at the airport hours before protesters were due they were here in large numbers and they also instigated stop and searches at young people that they suspected of the protesters and thats basically because the protesters to change their tactics they called on those who were willing to take part of the movement to come to the airports and try to blend in as toddlers to tell them not to wear their customary black shirts masks that helmets and even maybe take. Prints out fake boarding passes so that they could be seen as legitimate travelers so in response to what the police has been doing is searching anyone that the suspected of not being at the airport with a valid reason to be at the airport and theyve also set up checkpoints at various tunnels and highways and train stations that would take people to the airports and conducted searches there anyone they suspect of being a protester they turned away plenty more ahead on the al jazeera news hour including another blow to Boris Johnson as a member of his cabinet resigns criticizing the way hes handling both breck said and his own party. Celebrating brazils Independence Day but the countrys president is still under pressure in sport 23. 00 time champion Serena Williams is beaten by a grand style roquet at the u. S. Open for the 2nd time in 2 years. But 1st hopes of salvaging the 2050 nuclear deal with iran have taken another blow to her and now says it has the ability to enrich uranium to a much higher level but it also says that capacity could be quickly reversed if europe delivers promised sanctions relief for such a bari has the latest from to run. Another step back from the 2015 nuclear deal but a step forward for Irans Nuclear program the latest phase of iran reducing its commitments further to the agreement with 6 world powers is its most serious and technical one yet. More which just lifting limitations on a research and development imposed by the deal is link lou developments of more rapid and advanced centrifuges we have the capacity to enrich uranium beyond 20 percent but we dont have any plans to do so for the time being this is where the more advanced centrifuges have already been installed as a friday than a tense Nuclear Facility is now capable of enriching uranium at a much faster speed since the United States withdrew from nuclear pact in 2018 and imposed a series of harsh sanctions iran has been reducing its commitments to the deal president has and rouhani announced this latest phase on wednesday but said all these changes were reversible when and if the European Countries who signed up to the deal up held their end of the agreement that would include protecting irans oil exports from u. S. Sanctions what youre saying is that they can go back to that they really dont want to and one character. And to do is to get some more leverage these are the. 3 models of the us of this negotiation and you start to grate with criminals who wish to honor partners lead to somewhere the acting chief of the United NationsNuclear Watchdog well head to teheran on sunday for talks with the reigning foreign minister Mohammad Javad zarif iran has given britain france and germany and the other 60 days to see if they can do anything to salvage this deal and the head of Irans Atomic Energy Organization has told aljazeera that after the next phase iran will have officially abandoned all of its technical commitments under the Nuclear Agreement or such a Party Al Jazeera tech wrong well lets take a look at what different grades of hearing him in richmond actually mean when you raney him is mine that has less than one percent of the material used the Nuclear Reactor is but that increases once its concentrated when enrichment reaches 5 percent it can be used the Nuclear Power plants once it hits 20 percent uranium is usable for Research Reactors or for medical purposes vats just a short technical step away from 90 percent purity thats the uranium grade needed to produce a nuclear bomb well despite this latest move francaise its still committed to getting iran to it here to been clear a deal again heres what the defense minister Florence Party and her american counterpart said after they met in paris earlier new prove. To me we can only confirm our goal which is to bring iran to fully respect the vienna deal and we will continue to push towards this or diplomatic efforts oriented towards this the president is personally involved in it so it must be. Im not surprised that iran has announced that its going to violate the j. C. P. O. A they have been by they were they would have violated the Nuclear Nonproliferation treaty for many years so its no surprise that the iranians are going to pursue what the iranians have always intended to pursue. Lets take you back to our breaking news story but really brought you at the top of the show and thats u. S. President Donald Trumps revelation that he had planned talks this weekend with taliban leaders at camp david but that those meetings have now been canceled lets bring in jeff stacie hes a National Security consultant and a former u. S. State Department Official under the Obama Administration hes also just returned from a visit to cavil hes joining us from our studios in washington thanks for speaking to us just they say on this breaking news what do you make of Donald Trumps revelation that the secret meetings have now been canceled how significant is this well its actually positive that they were going to take place to begin with and this was an Unexpected Development its a positive one the sense that it shows how seriously this president s who is very unpredictable and has certainly not been consistent with regard to afghan policy its a Positive Side it confirms that its being taken very seriously in their very careful diplomatic moves in state craft occurring the fact they were canceled just suggest that there is just a little difficulty in the latest discussions theyre trying to move the taliban further towards the american and Afghan Government goals and theyve been getting closer so its not really that big a deal it actually is more positive than negative well he also said that if the taliban cannot agree to a ceasefire during peace talks they probably dont have power to negotiate in meaningful agreement. Well i would take that with a grain of salt hes not really that into the weeds on this hes relying on his negotiators and his top advisors what we see is that theyre actually pretty close but the government in kabul is right now not reacting favorably basically both the us and afghanistan its government need the taliban to move a bit further but we should step back a 2nd and look at the wider strategic element of this which is that all of this has come much further much faster than any of us expected thats positive we for example know that pakistan which is a major sponsor obviously of the taliban that and some of the most. Violent elements of it the 2 sides as they in the Afghan Government have just agreed a deal on electricity provision something that actually is very positive for both countries it will come from central asia through afghanistan to pakistan this is another confirming element that the pakistanis are nudging the taliban further in the direction of peace so we just have to really keep at it here and i think we now see prospects of a deal coming toward us how does it how does the u. S. Then in the Afghan Government keep at it as youre saying and when you say that they need the taliban to move further. One how do they get them to do that and to what exactly do you mean by by move further what are the sticking points right now with the chinese the turks the gulf states russia iran all of these countries including pakistan that ive already mentioned have stakes in afghanistan at present. And for the 1st time in history all of the countries that i just mentioned have a joint interest in stability in afghanistan and that means peace so thats the wider strategic lens on all of this now your specific question relates to basically the taliban have to agree to sit down with the kabul government they have not agreed to do this yet and they need to frame out exactly what those talks are going to consist of and give the Afghan People who are see the ng and their opposition to the taliban leadership not necessarily the low level fighters we saw back in june during the ied welcome. These taliban fighters into the streets and embrace them and that is really one of the reasons all this is move forward so were closer than most people predicted we would be i suspect were going to get some further Movement Pakistan in particular has been helpful we just need to sit tight and let this play out im just looking at trumps twitter feed where he tweeted about the secret dave camp david meetings and he did say then that unbeknownst to almost everyone the Major Taliban leaders and separately the president of afghanistan were going to secretly meets with me at camp david what do you make of that in particular that both were going to be there and both were going to meet. Well thats what weve been looking forward to when the taliban actually will sit down with president ghani and his ministers his chosen negotiators thats the next step here thats what were all looking for in terms of a confidence Building Measure from the taliban so thats actually positive if they were some snags you know the taliban have their own audience as it were and and centrally pressure you know from their own extremists so that is actually pretty positive and i suspect theyll get them going again soon and remember we just heard that secretary of state pompei would not sign this agreement which was a surprise and a mistake but the fact that the president himself is so personally engaged for the 1st time after people like senator graham of convinced him to stay the course on this is actually a very positive development indeed and means that were actually closer than we thought we were even a couple of days ago despite the breaking news that these talks are off. And you get the sense that the President Trump is engaged perhaps for his own sort of domestic. Audience because this is one of his pledges during the election he pledged to get american troops out of of donna stunt so any sort of deal is important for trump it is and this is also positive because we need him to do this with regard to china with regard to brechts it he doesnt realize that of variety of things are harming him politically and this is one of them so if he wants to get even 5000 troops out he needs to get engaged and the fact that he now personally is probably means of the taliban will start to move some more he just had a very positive meeting with Prime Minister imraan khan from pakistan and that bodes well in addition all right yes they say we thank you very much for speaking to us from washington. Now saudi arabias reiterating that it wont lift the blockade on qatar the air sea and land located by saudi arabia the u. A. E. Egypt and bahrain was imposed more than 2 years ago they accuse qatar of violating a 2014 agreements with members of the Gulf Cooperation Council by meddling in Regional Affairs and supporting terrorism strenuously rejected the allegations and says the blockade is an attack on its sovereignty. Still ahead on the aljazeera news hour back in court sudans deposed president is denied bail as he faces tough questions. And in sport find out why this to 85 year old has decided to call stumps after playing the game he loves for 16 years. I was there have we yet seen the back of her can do or ian not quite there it is stuck closed the guts of the atlantic is out of the tropics diner longer hurrican it went across nervous scotia and is now just north of newfoundland that is the position daytime on sunday in its wake whatever its done its now quiet weather wise that there is more weather of some use coming in to the west we see its a pretty big thunderstorms recently in wyoming in particular have a depth of 10 centimeters anywhere down towards utah even new mexico you could see yet more thunderstorms the southwest monsoon which brings rain to this part of the u. S. Mexico is now showing some signs of life but the more active stuff is this across the plains states idaho and wrapping around it so on the Canadian Border otherwise enjoy the fine weather if you havent been able to recently now there are no more hurricanes in the media future is probable there are plenty of big showers in potential jamaica hispaniola and cuba seem good folks is want to like ones coming through the less around tillys as well but the concentration as is often the case is the rain this gathering in costa rica and panama if you go further west big mess go for example very few storms. 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Hello again the top stories on the aljazeera news our President Donald Trump has revealed secret meetings involving the taliban an afghan and the Afghan Government have been cancelled he tweeted a short time ago saying its because the taliban cannot agree to a ceasefire after they admitted to an attack in kabul that killed more than 11 people. Dorian has left a humanitarian crisis in its wake with thousands of people fleeing their destroyed homes evacuations are taking place in the bahamas after entire villages were ravaged by the storm which killed at least 43. 00 people. Ukraine and russia have. Carried out a Prisoner Exchange thats being hailed as a step towards ending the war in Eastern Ukraine 35. 00 prisoners have been released by each side including a witness in the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight m. H. 17. Lets go back to the bahamas in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian there lets bring in jenelle ellies shes the director of International Communications at the American Red Cross shes joining us via skype from a nassau thanks very much for speaking to us so were seeing the pictures coming out of the bahamas the devastation looks immense and just talk us through what youve been seeing absolutely so even just a moment that you fly over parts of abaco you can see that the trees are uprooted some are ripped in half and there are communities that are demolished other communities there are houses standing but their roofs are ripped off or they have water damage inside weve heard some really horrific stories from people who have survived this storm we heard from one mother who spent 3 days just trying to keep her kids alive she was able to evacuate and she doesnt know what shes going to do next but she was glad to be able to get out and start getting the help that they need and in regards to that help what is it that people needs the most right away. Right away in the 1st couple days of 1st week its about food water and Emergency Shelter medical care is also really important of course all those physical needs the to be met water and sanitation is huge if thats not addressed they can lead to secondary humanitarian concerns another thing that at the red cross we recognize is that disasters like this take a huge emotional toll on people a lot of people we spoke to they didnt know whether their loved ones were dead or alive and they really just wanted to inform their parents grandparents sisters and brothers that they were alive and so in the days and weeks ahead or rolling out a program to help reconnect people. And for the red cross besides the Service Program which obviously is incredibly important so what kind of work are your teams doing on the ground and how challenging has the work been considering the devastation on the ground certainly logistics of getting aid in has been challenging thats everything from flooded airports to a flooded roads and tell it connected to the but red cross aid is on its way to the most affected areas and that aid is things like Emergency Shelter kits which have hammers nails ropes tarp things that people can use right away for Emergency Shelter as jerry can so and Water Purification system so that can help people stay healthy and hygiene items and as well which are really important other focuses are food and water and in the mid term people are going to need to figure out how to restore their income i spoke to people who lost their bicycles the stocks in their store their fishing boats those are things that people are really going to be dealing with in months or years to come you have a long term effects of the disaster ok well leave it there we thank you very much and to know only for speaking to us from nasa. The former sudanese president bashir has been denied bail by a court heard to his accuser corruption an illegal use of foreign funds the sheriff says the 25000000. 00 received from the Saudi Crown Prince mohammed bin said man wasnt for personal gain but denies all charges against him but morgan has more from hard to. This is the 4th quarter hearing in the corruption charges against vance former president bashir where hes being charged with a list of financial gain corruption and bribery now the former president had previously stated that he wished the whole trial was secretive because he did not want to mention the name of Saudi Arabian crown Prince Mohammed bin solomon where he previously stated that he did indeed receive 25000000. 00 from the crown prince investigators also revealed during the 1st hearing that he received millions of dollars from the United Arab Emirates ruler as well now the former president has continued to plead not guilty to the charges against him and his defense lawyers which comprised of more than 130 lawyers say that they won the charges against the former president dropped because when the money was given to him it was given to him as a person and not as a president today the judge listen to this lead to the witnesses from the defense side and said that all financial dealings every single money he gave away was documented and that they had documents to prove that and receipts to prove that the president did not only spend the money that he received but. Our witness testified that Africa International university which the president admitted giving money to had indeed received money in the sum of 4000000 euros and that that was documented in University Records our 2nd witness who was an Office Manager of the president also confirmed that the president gave him money in which he had been distributed to other people. Now the charges that are not being mentioned in this trial are the charges against him for inciting to kill protesters things demonstrations began nationwide in december now the Transitional Government which has been formed has said that they are going to try to set up an. Independent judicial system to hold the president took into account for crimes not just committed in the water region of darfur but also in the southern regions of the nile and South Kordofan but people in the streets have been protesting and theyre saying that the whole trial is a sham and an attempt to divert their attention from the real crimes that have been committed not just by the former president but by his government as well theyre saying that throughout the 30 years they have been so many crimes committed so many lives lost and they want to make sure that not just the president but those who were his allies and with telling the government are also held to account and theyre saying that if that justice is not delivered in they will consider that the revolution that they started is not yet complete the british Prime MinisterBoris Johnson has lost another m. P. From his party and this time its a senior cabinet minister work and pensions secretary amber rudd has resigned from her government position and from the conservative party she says she believes the government wants to leave the e. U. With a deal. The move comes a lot of work going on tonight im not an on going into it. And then on top of that ive seen 21 of my colleagues good strong conservative m. P. s. Moderate christian values excluded from the indicating to the conservative party that is such a force for good incumbent in this country no longer has a place for me to see you see that you. Are not. Meanwhile Prime MinisterBoris Johnsons refusal to delay leaving the e. U. Has prompted angry protests on both sides of the brics that issue far right and to europe demonstrators clashed with Police Outside the houses of parliament the violence mainly came from a group called Democratic Football Lads Alliance some members tried to reach an anti bricks of protest but were stopped by police so im going to go was that an anti bracks a demonstration in london or protesters are calling for the Prime Minister to resign after he said he wont delay leaving the e. U. He may have been in a. 45 days im going to find mr morris johnsons. Country behind his version of rex it already proved to be very difficult to. Another demonstration today in Central London also capping off toughest weeks of these hard hops almost more difficult than he could have ever imagined we saw him coming to severe criticism for having such 21 members of his im. Resigning from his cabinet and also the house of. Opera house grooving a bill that would effectively block. And put a 3 month delay in order to try and get a deal to avoid a disorderly exit from the European Union now while Prime Minister course johnson did say they would rather die in a ditch his words rather than i asked for an extension. The fact that he has already been hemmed in by his own words the director of Public Prosecutions himself said that if he did not obey the law then there is a good chance that he would standing intensive and could even see himself a possibility of being put in jail for not abiding by the laws of this country far from having taken back control by minister Boris Johnson now finds himself being controlled last in downing street. Opposition candidates a mosque or asking voters to sundays Regional Elections as a referendum on the government the elections have led to large protests in russia in years after more than 30 opposition candidates were banned from running for moscows Regional Government parliament stuff also reports. Salesman was detained during a protest in late july charge for pulling the or. Policeman who was arresting a protester. As he was caught up in the demonstrations after coming from a business meeting hes been sentenced to 2 years in a penal colony but youre wrong in cases like this people usually receive suspended sentences and sometimes even have their cases dropped considering that the case has a political status the president knows about it has influenced the sentence he will shew cough got 3 years in prison for touching the helmet of a policeman. The harsh sentences are part of a government crackdown after protests dominated moscow streets for weeks they started when opposition candidates were banned from running in moscow slow collections more people joined after many were arrested in. United russia is trying to hold on to power using the right Police Batons they are the only pillar of support even afraid to candidates to run in the election let alone have a fair composition of what was in the only way to make this election meaningful used to turn it into a sort of referendum on the government after being released from detention for organizing an unsanctioned protest opposition figure alexei now funny changed his strategy on his you tube channel he started campaigning for what he called smart urging voters to subscribe to a website on which his team has announced which candidates will have to chance to be the governing United Russia Party probably through friday the opposition between those who still want to continue the 3 protests and those who despite its flaws one took a 5th of faith in this election and analysts have pointed out if i did opposition can be creased the chances of the opposition to be the government candidate and maybe this socalled smart vote a success. Is one of the government candidates likely to benefit while the opposition has strongly campaigned against her after her competitor was not allowed to run she said. She wants dialogue. It is a big lie these following a scenario in which the war situation the better meaning the less qualified most could do the more critical the situation is the better i want to dialogue because the situation is very intense people dont one radical change but they want to improve their lives whatever the outcome of the elections for those who have to spend. Some 4 but dissipating in unsanctioned protest its a high price to pay but many here say even that wont deter them from taking to the streets again in the days and weeks to come. Aljazeera. Resilient president has used the. Independence day to send a message about the sovereignty of the amazon rain forest also mara joined a parade in the capital urging brazilians to in his words show the world that the amazon is ours has been criticized for his response to the Record Number of fires there by continues to refuse International Aid not everyone was out celebrating though with protests in several cities are a lot america was at one in sao paulo. This is a national Independence Day in brazil and while in the capital brasilia the president is leading the military parade here on the streets of sao paulo people are dressed in black that is their sign of protest and this year theyre out on the streets protesting against budget cuts in education and against the governments policies in the amazon rain forest because they should be praising me with education we acquire knowledge and without a recall and do anything it means well be at the mercy of our political leaders thats why we are fighting for decent public