Youre watching the news hour live from headquarters. Coming up in the next sixty minutes a dramatic turn in the gulf crisis as a member of the cats a reward family accuses the u. A. E. And saudi arabia of orchestrating the dispute to seize qatar as well. After days of threats kurdish fighters say turkey has started shelling its positions in syria as northwest. Begins the final leg off a politically sensitive visit to south america. And far its all sport news including top seed rafa nadal storms into the fourth round of the off screen you know. Hello the gulf crisis has taken a dramatic turn aljazeera has obtained an audio recording of a qatari royal Family Member. If any in it he threatens to take his own life as a result of the pressure he said he was put under by saudi arabia and the u. A. E. He was portrayed by saudi arabia and the u. A. E. As the main opposition figure to the cats are a government. Is now accusing both countries of fabricating the g. C. C. Crisis in order to seize cats ours wealth he also says mohamed bin sandman and hama been ziad the saudi it will be crowned prince says plotted the entire crisis. I mean this is. And is to them. He said. But. Im. Not. Also why not. Let him out. To. Ship. One. Let its a little while it. Would be. Well the blockade against qatar is now in its seventh month on may the twenty third katz harz state news agency was hacked it reported statements attributed to the emir but despite the government saying the reports were false saudi and immorality backed media continued to broadcast the false statements on june the fifth the embargo was imposed by saudi arabia the u. A. E. Bahamian and egypt air routes were closed forcing Qatar Airways to make major detours and saudi arabia close qatars only land border and on june the twenty third the blockading countries issued a list of thirteen demands including the closure of Aljazeera Network qatar has rejected the demands calling them an infringement on its sovereignty efforts to resolve the crisis have fallen short in the seven months since then and in the last week qatar followed two complaints at the un over alleged violations of its airspace by m. R. Razzi military aircraft following that the u. A. E. Alleged cats are a fighter jets intercepted two of its passenger planes qatar called the claim completely untrue joining us on such as measured in saudi is a professor of sociology at Qatar University thanks for joining us on aljazeera to talk about this audio that has now been released off. I know that you have heard it just give me your initial reaction to it well theres i mean theres no surprise there we know that he has been pressured to do the past couple of months we know that he hasnt been in light. Of most no he hasnt been as visible as he was in the beginning of the crisis which tells us basically that he wasnt cooperating with his no captors of girls and how significant is it that what hes saying is in this tape is the recording rather is that the gulf crisis is based on interests and the desire of mohammed bin say it and some of been said man to usurp the wealth and riches off of qatar initially saying that is what the crisis is about basically i mean theres nobody whos better situated the. And i believe in and i need to talk about with daily one because he was basically a partner of them during this crisis he was in on everything he was part of the attempts against other through this design of being a placement for the emea through what he said in the media but its clear that there was only so much that he can do and so much as he can so much that he can go to when it comes to how. Bad things he could say about other well in the recording he also spoke about the pressures by them and the constant threats what could he have been referring to here. Well i mean he he himself said in there according of course that he himself was under threat he himself was under bush and we know that he was in the u. S. And the sponsorship of providence and he was asked to be there by by invite from him and he was not allowed to leave the country this much at least we know and we know that two of his daughters were with him there and theyre quoting here first to them a lot saying that he wouldnt want any harm to come to them he doesnt want them to be harmed because of him and he wouldnt be able to take it if harm came to people he loved because of him and therefore we know that the threats on him or not only threats on his life its apparently threats to his family and the blockade now entering its seventh month what does this all mean for any hope of some sort of political or diplomatic solution i dont think this is a significant. Piece of. The tail i mean this is certainly something significant in the means that it shows how the u. A. E. And saudi arabia deals with their partners before dealing with their enemies but when it comes to the case of the glow kate itself now we know that the americans now have a new. Wave of communication that theyre doing theyve already contacted his highness the emir of qatar his highness the emir of kuwait we know that there are some rumors about things happening in d. C. Now and one thing to initiate some kind of dialogue between the like what are you referring to here well i mean the still there we dont have any confirmation but its apparent that the white house would like to end this crisis as quick as possible they dont want it to log on anymore and now we know that the white house is actually much more invested than it was before and during the crisis just qatar emerged stronger from this crisis well certainly i mean we had. International. Relations has have actually betted since the beginning of this crisis we have actually more partners than we had before we have signed many agreements with the various entities the last one was yesterday with nato so i think qatar has. Bloom through this experience i think that we were able to first of all cut ties with powers that were happening to us down i mean saudi and the u. A. E. And other nations in the in the gulf and special of the three that are blocking us will always hamper towards couples International Opposition to us. Development even the simple fact like having elections were cut i was demanded by the three countries not to hold elections and parliamentary elections. During that time so. This is breaking the leash of saudi arabia the u. A. E. And buying venturing into the world making new partnerships and it was a good time actually to showcase how reliable partner and they are liable player within the International Community ok imagine one saudi we thank you for speaking to us on aljazeera. Kurdish commanders say Turkish Forces have intensified shelling against villages it controls in the off districts of Northern Syria the bombardments from turkish territory began around midnight and continued into friday morning a y p g spokesman told words or is this mark the heaviest turkish showing since the turkish government stepped up threats to launch an offensive Stephanie Decker joining us from the. Crossing thats on the turkey syria border youre monitoring the situation in the this was expected somewhat stephanie but however the turks seem to be stepping up of the operation rather quickly. Well certainly the rhetoric has increased weve just in the last hour or so turkeys state news agency reporting that the russian they of course have a presence of around a couple of hundred military personnel in the area that they were withdrawing you know in all the sort of local channels this is breaking news Nothing Official still confirmed we spoke to a source who say that there is some Movement Light withdrawal but in terms of the heavy military presence of the russians in that area they remain why is that important because to be honest turkey can probably not do anything without russias tacit approval russia also controls the air space but certainly when it comes to the rhetoric also we have heard from the turkish minister of defense minister of defense he was saying that will happen and it should happen soon and that they had no other choice but to do this and we also understand theres been some shelling that has resumed just north of here. But i think we do have to be cautious when listening to those sort of local even if its official state news agency of turkey theyre saying that with joy it doesnt look like the russians are fully withdrawing as of yet because that could be an indication that turkey could go in and just about twenty four hours ago when he was saying that it was going to step up the operation and there were strong words as well that came out from the Syrian Government itself about this operation. Thats right syrias Deputy Foreign minister saying that its air defenses were ready and if any turkish jet violated syrian airspace it would shoot it down and i know that you know the syrians also say this when it comes to israeli jets occasionally it is a message of course that the syrians of damascus is not happy about this but i think if were really going to cut to the chase during its the russians that call the shots on this one and this is why weve seen the you know the chief of staff the turkish chief of staff and the head of intelligence yesterday in moscow talking to their counterparts today as well talks are ongoing to try and figure this out the turkey has been so clear i mean the political rhetoric during over the last week here has been from the president from you know the foreign minister now from the defense minister saying we are going to go in with the picture on Turkish Television tanks reinforcing the board seems very embarrassing if you will if this is no if something isnt going to happen but russia absolutely holds the cards and i think with everything in syria it is a negotiation process what will. He give back to russia if russia allows it to go into our free its complicated but certainly when you listen to the turkish language coming out from the upper echelons of government they say its going to happen its going to happen soon ok stephanie. Plenty more ahead on the aljazeera news hour including. We made it clear that it was a pledge it was not a guarantee. More trouble for palestinians the u. S. Goes back on a promise it made last month. The u. N. Warns more than a quarter of a million children and war torn south sudan face starvation. Coming up in sport this little mistake has big consequences for a former olympic champion details coming up a little later. Well the u. S. Says it will withhold another payment to the uns Relief Agency for Palestinian Refugees the forty five Million Dollars payment which was earmarked for food aid was promised last month at the time that we provided that note that information to honor and we made it clear that it was a pledge it was not a guarantee and that it would need to be confirmed later at this time we will not be providing that but that it does not mean i want to make it clear that does not mean that it will not be provided in the future well this follows washingtons announcement on tuesday that it was withholding sixty five Million Dollars a one hundred twenty five Million Dollars aid package the u. S. Provides the largest amount of funding to the agency and last year the Obama Administration gave more than three hundred fifty Million Dollars or helped an estimated five million palestinians in education in health care and housing and is active in palestinian occupied territories as well as gaza syria lebanon and jordan and are simmons has more from the occupied west bank. This was an emergency funding appeal which went in december only less than four weeks ago and this was the response of the u. S. Yes well put in this amount of money forty five million its a pledge we will do so to help this cause what were hearing now is that that money has been pulled back its not being x. Completely its being withheld and of course this is really humanitarian dynamite for the palestinians because their bottom line is that theyre dependent on its a very Different Things of u. N. H. C. R. Which is for refugees outside of their countries of origin this is an internationally agreed agency a u. N. Agency its got nothing to do with any attempts at peace talks anything to do with the pen its politics it is a service for refugees five million new put the context together in that intro you have people who need access to this Service Teaching education a chance to try to get a job food and this is particularly what were talking about right now because this funding is directly onto the plates of those in need emraan colonising gaza with a look at how this will affect families who are already struggling. This house is typical of many in the gaza strip now currently theres an electricity blackouts they get like steve blackouts for about twelve hours a day now the u. S. Is withholding food aid but what does that actually mean i know our supply things like this sacks of flour rice the basics that they supply now the only supply them about once every three months so a sack of flour about this big needs to last a family of nine for that long so theres already a cute shortages. Getting. Worried because this is the only help we have to live we have no choice from where else are we supposed to get food we cant buy we cant work there is no work and they decrease to eight what shall we do theres about two Million People in the gaza strip now about one point one million of those people rely on food aid in some way or another is people like these that are going to be affected the most now the u. S. President has said that he wants changes to the way under operate she also wants the International Community to step up and donate a lot more aid he said that the u. S. Is very generous but other countries need to step up whether by withholding it is actually taking food away from people like these. Areas the Regional Media advisor in the middle east for the Norwegian Refugee Council he says withholding funds will only hurt those who are already suffering. For all you want to start the Financial Year with half of its budget still. Unfulfilled disastrous and i wonder why is rightly asking for other International Donors to step up the Us Administration and mr trump directly has been have been seen as transparent in their motivation it has been stated that the palestinian leadership needs to get back to the negotiating table so it is clearly politically motivated politicize ation of a politically motivated cutting of aid to people who need it to score a political point and that goes against all the principles of having humanitarian impartial neutral aid given to those who need it these are these are ordinary Palestinian Refugees civilians families children who have no day in the political scenario that is that theyve been suffering from for decades. To yemen our people and heard a doris resorting to rummaging through garbage to find food u. N. Aid agencies are calling for the citys port to stay open beyond friday to allow aid to continue the Saudi Led Coalition had these the three week located but the deadline has out speired brandys alexander has more. This mountain of trash is not simply a garbage dump its now home to the growing number of displaced yemenis in the control city. Despite health risks it provides a place to sleep food and even a source of income for an eleven year old are you its newest resident again when. We came here to eat and drink from the garbage i collect bread in plastic and i go back to sell it for money to buy food the nearly three year war in yemen has led to a deep theory an outbreak that spreading quickly a cholera outbreak thats killed more than two thousand people and the deaths of thousands more from the violence disease and malnutrition the Saudi Led Coalition has been an utter disaster for the civilians of yemen on top of that the blockade which while they are temporarily used to still quite severe so its urgent really to address the Worlds Largest humanitarian crisis in yemen and the only way to do that is to squeeze the saudis and its that international squeeze thats led the Saudi Led Coalition to ease the blockade that was imposed on ports and airports in november now u. N. Aid agencies are calling for the port of her data to remain open after friday the date set by the coalition to allow the continued delivery of lifesaving goods and feel rather mad magazine a must that that there is no future in the country better do this and bag we gather plastic bottles and bread and make do with what we can get the u. N. Says for mobile cranes arrived in her data and for now the port is open but the fate of millions of yemenis facing famine rests with the coalition randi said xander aljazeera. The new executive director of the uns childrens Agency Unicef has warned hundreds of thousands of children in south sudan may die if Emergency Action isnt taken to boost Food Security ongoing fighting between forces loyal to the president and rival fighters loyal to his deputy continue to devastate the country millions have been displaced unicef says two point four million children have been forced to flee their homes since the conflict began in twenty thirteen more than two thousand children have been killed nineteen thousand have been recruited into armed groups with at least one in three schools damaged or closed more than seventy percent of children are not getting an education unicef director henrietta four who is visiting the country told aljazeera the civil war is also causing widespread malnutrition. Others has meant that many of the farmers have run away from their fields their trade to do the farming and as a result there