That is causing an outcry in mexico and the long shadow of thailands military could the Thai Government be harassing and filling exiled dissidents abroad we hear the story of a group of chinese issues in laos fear for their lives. Im burnt off to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome we begin tonight with the latest attempts to pave a path to peace in the middle east today the United States launched a bid to drum up 50000000000. 00 to invest in the palestinian territories a 2 Day International conference was held in bahrain led by jared cushion u. S. President Donald Trumps son in law and senior adviser. Its billed as part of a wider white house in. To resolve the Israeli Palestinian conflict but palestinian leaders theyve already rejected this plan calling it an attempt to further exploit the plight of the palestinians. And neither the israeli nor palestinian governments attended todays event here is jerad cushion or explaining his vision of peace the goal of this workshop is to begin thinking about these challenges in a new way lets try to view this conflict and the potential of the entire region through a different lens and Work Together to develop a concrete plan to try to achieve it for a moment imagine a new reality in the middle east imagine a bustling commercial and Tourist Center and gaza in the west bank where International Businesses come together and thrive imagine the west bank as a blossoming economy full of entrepreneurs engineers scientists and Business Leaders and magic people and goods flowing quickly and securely throughout the region as economics become more integrated and people become more prosperous lets take the story now to our correspondent in washington d. C. Oliver selling you need to you. We know right from the start there is little support for the cushion or plan does the United States actually believe that this plan can work. Well the idea behind this plan is obviously theyre trying to silence the palestinians with lots of money here so the palestinians have been hoping for a 2 state solutions for decades that has always been at the foundation really of any middle east peace plans and the proposal put forward here today by jared cushion or comes as a radical change the 3 2 state solution the term is not mentioned in this proposal. Instead focusing focuses on Economic Development on creating a certain level of wealth here in the occupied areas in the palestinian areas. Basically focusing on the assumption that theres a lot of poverty also especially in areas like gaza where you have an Unemployment Rate higher than 50 percent so the idea is to invest 50000000000. 00 u. S. Dollars create a 1000000 of new jobs within the next 10 years so that all sounds very reasonable but its not even clear who is going to pay for this at this point we dont know whos going to pay and are people even willing to pay i mean there at the moment we dont know who is willing to put up their own money for this do. Thats right and especially here to sell this to the American Voters would be a quiet challenge to say the least the least the u. S. President is struggling to get funding together for his own projects here 3 just look at the southern wall with mexico for instance that has been one of the core promises of his election come pain to build a wall he always used that claim and he will have mexico pay for it so neither of that has happened so far he has also called on his International Partners to raise their National Defense spending and budgets in order to redistribute this tribute to the funding of nato more equally among the nato members so non of this is really working out. The spending 50000000000. 00 for a middle east peace plan will be simply difficult to sell to American Voters head of the 2020 Election Campaign but its a simple idea its in line with donald trump who likes to think that you can buy almost anything why does the white house think that an economic rather than a political solution is the way forward. Well 1st of all because of the assumption that poverty in this region and that by solving this by creating new jobs by creating wealth you would basically have the opportunity perhaps to perswade palestinians to see this as a prize for them to give up on the 2 state solution but they are of course are fighting back because the 2 state solution is something that is for the palestinians something that isnt on negotiate a bull and that comes as a very big challenge especially since they were not included in these in these talks and this is another aspect that they call on and that creates a lot of frustration on the palestinian side just as well as to the ins and that was really is their day oversell it in washington on the story for us tonight all over thank you. Here are some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world iranian and u. S. Leaders today have been trading insults iranian president Hassan Rouhani saying that u. S. President trump is mentally challenged trump in turn threatened obliteration if iran attacked quote anything american last week iran shot down a u. S. Drone and its also suspected of sabotaging oil tankers near its coast president john has named Stephanie Grisham as his new press secretary grisham was the spokeswoman for the 1st lady malani as she will replace Sarah Huckabee sanders who has had a contentious relationship with the media and stuck to the decades long tradition of Daily Press Briefings space x. And launched its falcon heavy rocket from florida carrying 24. 00 Research Satellites into orbit on its most complicated mission so far satellites include an atomic clock that could enable spacecraft to navigate all tongue honestly plus a solar cell which will become the 1st spacecraft in earths orbit propelled slowly by the sun. Spanish authorities have evacuated homes and closed roads around the petro Chemical Plant fire the blaze broke out near gibraltar in the southern part of the country no injuries have been reported but officials have recommended that people nearby keep windows closed busy and stay inside here in germany prosecutors have brought charges against 8 members of a suspected right Wing Terror Group called the revolution chemists of the 8 suspects reportedly planned terror attacks but wanted to trick police by making the crimes look like the work of far left and mark. Christian kane the alleged ringleader of the revolution cam thats protest movement he and 7 others stand accused of planning Violent Attacks in berlin on german Unification Day last year. They allegedly planned the details through an encrypted online chat the group is also accused of raising funds and making a list of weapons they plan to acquire but when their homes were searched no weapons were found. According to media reports members admitted to interrogators that they planned to do more than fire warning shots they were planning to murder. German authorities warn that extreme right wing groups are gaining new momentum. Since the attacks are very simplistic theres no complex planning behind whats happening you know a long term concept they often just shoot from the head. Of the group took its name from last years demonstrations in chemists after a deadly knife attack involving immigrants right wing extremists rioted and the police partially lost control of the situation and. Are tonight beyond braggs believe it or not the European Union has plans to expand to balkan states North Macedonia and albania are hoping to become the newest members of the European Union with talks over a session do later this year driven president front halters fine meyer today hosted his knesset dhoni counterpart for talks on the issue here in berlin the e. U. Had been due to start in session talks with North Macedonia and albania earlier this year but e. U. Leaders postponed discussions until november and official reason was given but members of the french delegation had voiced opposition to accepting new members for now until breaks it is completed my colleague spoke with the president she asked him what role that he hopes his country could play in the loo would like to be in the European Union or. So we are a small country with a bit of pool resources and certainly we can all be ones being communal community we can all be the key stakeholder that bob would like to go through that process of europeanization and theres the reason why we need the socalled external evaluator from brussels went to all of these dirty 5 chapters in order to better the lives of all us citizens and to have most institutions that we have at the moment but theres been a stumbling block to say the least of course some e. U. Member states that most notably france germany and the netherlands have said back off a little bit because we need some more time in october well let you know how do you expect them to give you the green light or to hold off talks on the session we expect 100 percent that were going to be given the green light you know why because at the moment theres no in single government of the e. U. Member states saying that north must win it doesnt deserve to start and to open this negotiation talks so thats 100 percent sure weve got assurances by our friends in the germany we have a clear assurances by france and we have korea and so to say by holand and then not a few of the countries which have some kind of remarks last year when you looked in you got to that conclusion to have no muss and all then you are going to be decided next june of the deal with issues of closed so we are quite sure that september. Will taken that decision and you will immediately after that in brussels all humans there is well vote for opening the negotiations because what im wondering though is like everything in life timing is everything the countrys rich joined the bloc back in 20042007 they are at loggerheads some of them with the European Commission to do with rule of law to do with not effectively fighting corruption is that making that challenge for North Macedonia show much more difficult you know we would like to be the collateral damages of some eventual pas the best performances and being in the European Union you do not perform well the south to those countries what we are asking for from. European Union Friends judge us on individual notes you ask for this we delivered last june you have asked for a few of the many preconditions we have delivered including the famous and the historic i was impressed by them so please judge us on our individual achievements in the meantime so i can agree that some of the newcomers in the European Union in the pubs there kate has not performed quite well but thats up to these countries you cannot judge north must vania together with a lot with 510 other countries including our direct neighbors just judge us as a set on an individual achievements and thats all we are asking for this 1st you feel that North Macedonia is not getting a fair shake by the. Us is that is the feeling among our people and we think that that should be amended somehow in the months to come because we have been promised the north must and will do any on the last e. U. Summit in sofia as a clear sentence in the final communique from that summit saying that no less than you and all men are going to get they want to open negotiations in june 2000 we are again postponed was good in all of that that is only a technical postponement but believe me i have difficulties and many other people around me being cannot currently in power in skopje to explain to the come the people that it is really only a technical post on. If you dont get the green wire october what with that mean for your government from at long island undermining c. D. s on the money going to put it up in forces or your old files are going to be put in the corner im not speaking of old who is going to be the winner of the next Parliament Elections im a devoted beginning of my term as the president of the country so i can put aside that plea to televisions at least for a while but its very important for the region as a whole is if you like finally brussels to send a positive signal to the whole of the nation because of and what each country of the west will completely be in for so long sidelined by your absence and getting a positive message thats a good positive message for the region as a whole so what were waiting for is give us the chess to prove ourselves to do so very long and mysterious process of european ization we are not esque in october for the full fledged membership we asking for the factions to start that very long process and thats not too much i think to ask from europe in conclusion mr president now it just so happens that in october that date coincides with the United Kingdom scheduling schedule is to leave the e. U. London has been of course an ally when it comes to a large amount of the European Union how much has them leaving the bloc hurt your bid we would like to see you seeing huge opinion if you like if you ask me and the people around me and the old people in most of them because we know that ukraine has been one of the most dynamic power behind the little bit behind european integration but even leaving i think that we still have enough of you to files in brussels including the people from the complete political elite in germany is a we still call them them and we know that done a lot of the original bestival. That was the president of North Macedonia you speaking with my colleague leila iraq earlier this evening. Well how far should Border Guards go to guard the border a video showing Mexican National guard troops chasing and capturing migrants on the border with the United States is causing an outcry among mexicans now mexico is under pressure from washington to stem the flow of migrants who are trying to reach the southern u. S. Border but tonight mexicos president Andres ManuelLopez Obrador says he never gave orders to detain migrants trying to cross illegally into the u. S. Bracing north from the city of juarez but stopped just short of the border. These are the images fueling outrage in mexico National Guard troops detaining migrants bound for the u. S. And mexican president now says the troops did not have orders to do so and may have abused their authority. Is the. Conscious if hes incidents occurred noises the army did not have instructions to act in such a way. Noice its not their task as it is not all of this is a job that belongs to the migration agents absolutely not the army i was a hint as any of us you. Know i look if. The controversy comes as washington piles pressure on its southern neighbor to crack down on migrants traveling north to the u. S. Facing the threat of u. S. Tariffs mexico has been forced to deploy over 20000. 00 troops on its northern and southern borders to help reduce the flow of migrants. The u. S. Is also planning to send more Asylum Seekers back to mexico to wait while their claims are processed. You know that there is and though the u. S. Is returning 200. 00 migrants a day to juarez and the plan is that in the future it will be 500. 00 migrants per day. We really dont have the capacity that even with a National Guard to attend to them you know one of the not in the dawn of them. But ive been there on the other side of the border u. S. The immigration authorities are overwhelmed at this texas facility hundreds of Migrant Children were moved to shelters after it emerged they lacked adequate food water and sanitation with thousands of migrants still crossing into the u. S. Every day poor conditions could become even worse. On new years eve last year police pulled out 2 bodies from the mekong river on the thai well supported they had been gutted in stuff with concrete the idea was to make the body sink and make the crimes disappear but both of these bodies they were identified they were friends of tight dissident circ i dont want to sort see right here the anti monarchy activists and military opponent has himself been missing from wells since last december all these are just a few in a series of disappearances and deaths in Southeast Asia the targets exiled opponents of the Time Military and monarchy Human Rights Watch says that threats are at a new high or one of those on the receiving end is the protest band theyre young they are living in levels and they or were they they could be next on the hit list. It looks and sounds like a happy sing along but the members the fiat are far from relaxed the band fled to laos out of fear that be arrested for publishing songs that criticize thailands cheap oil is the power of the monarchy and the military. Saying ajami mocks the military full of wresting Street Vendors who sold red buckets ecology and see establishment the band believes videos like this one have put a target on their back. Tonight and. We have to live from day to day. Just focusing on how we will survive on how we will live today one. And one states over one and then we have to think about surviving the next day when you know about how to be safe and how to know how to get abducted. When the military seize power in 2014 it did say with a vow to crack down on antiroyalist. Activists claim this crackdown doesnt stop at thailands borders and theyre worried its taken a dark turn 6 exiles living in laos are said to have disappeared under suspicious circumstances in the last 6 months in december the mutilated bodies of 2 Anti Government activists washed up on the banks of the mekong river. In tire storage fees have denied playing a role in the disappearances and deaths but yami and bandmates are convinced that someone is seeking extrajudicial the tribulation. From whole lot mc when he dukkha can pass society shouldnt punish those who think differently by killing them you should be able to choose what kind of society we want to live in what kind of society we want it to be according to each of our own ideals we dont have because when we got that. In a statement to w. Fire and said they would continue to fight for freedom of expression in thailand even if it means living in fear. Or thai authorities they have the knife playing a role in the disappearances and we spoke to Catherine Gerson a while and campaigner for Amnesty International we asked her if the military junta really could be tied to these that. Its very hard to say responsible for these disappearances in going to not. An independent. Investigation has to take place and we havent seen any news coming out. Any suspected traitors being identified we also have to say that these are individuals among those who are individuals. Being explicitly pushing. The link you know. And it is. It is not the ferry. These. To do that to and. Its individuals well to me and more now where an internet shutdown has plunged more than a 1000000 people in conflict ridden rockline state into an information blackout large groups mourning the shutdown which was ordered by the government could be a cover up for gross Human Rights Violations already hundreds of thousands have fled the area amid a brutal crackdown by the army the words why he joins me now to talk more about this alex why in the world why has this drastic move in undertaken by me in mars government well the blackout began on friday without warning when the government ordered for Telecommunications Companies to stop all access to the internet in 9 areas in these 2 states and chin and that was because of more fighting between the military overseen by the government and insurgents the socalled arak hand army and they want to kl autonomy for the rock kind budget now is estimated that already of around about 30000 people have been displaced in the last year and this is the same area where almost 3 quarters of a 1000000 were hinge in with limbs were displaced by the military 2 years ago so it shows that this is happened before the government is saying that the internet shut down is in line with their telecommunications nor they say services can be suspended when an emergency situation arises and not is how they are describing this violence as an emergency and whats been the reaction in the black oh well across the board theres been condemnation but in particular from the u. N. With the special expert to me and my young he lives saying i fear for all civilians theyre cut off and without the necessary means to communicate with people in. Side and outside the area and shes obviously concerned that this blackout could be cover for more human rights violence on monday more than 20 civil and date organizations based in the country also called on the government to get rid of this blackout may also said youve got to change your own you know because its not in line with the u. S. With the u. N. Security Council Resolution that includes uninterrupted Internet Access i mean this is all this is the whole marks of regimes weve seen in sudan recently trying to oppress people keep them cut off is there any indication of what it will take them to get the government to turn the internet back on well the government has said that they will turn it back on once peace has been restored to the region but you know what does that mean if you decide its been peace has been restored it looks like this is the government saying we need to crush these insurgents once thats happened yes well turn it back on so obviously there will be more pressure from outside the country but whether thats really going to make a difference we have to wait to see Internet Access as a weapon we would have thought are going to force one thank you for the singapore and weve got a competition that draws bird lovers across the region its a contest probably unlike anything youve seen before zebra dogs chirping or seen you go hartselle. Its just after dawn at this sleepy park in singapore but the competition is already taking off. And this company. 150 zebra doves vying for best birdsong. This gaggle of retirees oist up their best. Even offer some coaching. And sit on tenterhooks during the 4 hour contest. Mr tam has high hopes for his bird his tone is like a human seeing the beauty food and his sweet top performers are worth thousands of dollars and judge jerry lie has his ear out for a winner he says the best songs feature a christian though or an ending that soars. For the theater the best birds can sing longer its sound Something Like this i thought a wall would go whoa whoa whoa or others sing like this. Before who had it but they cant sing as long with their voices are thin so thats not so good. Reason to think we go. To the winner. A trophy and bragging rights that might ruffle some feathers in this neighborhood. Mr tams bird only one 3rd place but hes convinced it singing career will lift off. First time 2nd time we cannot be a success roman not be in a day. But one day his bird could be crowned lord of the wings. All right after a short break ill be back to take you through the stick around for that. Whole. Carefully. Soon. To be a good. Match. Discovered. Subscribe to a documentary on. What secrets lie behind a small. Find in an immersive experience and explore fascinating Cultural Heritage sites. D w World Heritage 306050. Its been 50 years since the moon landing. And all our pete was the 1st man to walk on the moon as a small boy he dreamed of the stars. As a pilot he soon no matter how dangerous. As an astronaut he took part in the greatest adventure story or. Art. That. Armstrong starts july 20 s t w. Today jericho snow u. S. President trumps son in law presented his blueprint for constructing peace between the palestinians and israelis a 50000000000. 00 project thats missing 2 important elements israelis were not invited today and the palestinians they refused to attend saying the u. S. With trump as president is a bankrupt broker tonight trump