Macro side. Aljazeera paris still to come why academics in israel are being targeted in a socalled witch hunt by right wing nationalists. And where in ethiopia where villagers say the water wells have been in desperate need of repair. Hello there its been a very unsettled picture of course across much of Southern Europe this is an improvement the weather picture as we head through the next couple of days saw a bit of chat on the satellite and actually quite a bit of activity across Central Regions of western europe but what about the rain just yet but the good news is a sigh is that much of the south in the southeast those strong thunderstorms that really are clearing through certainly by friday the rain pushing using say across much of the black sea quite a bit radical central areas and there is a band of rain stretching really from germany down tools and old and if they more widespread rain here on saturday carrying out towards the west and i say london with a high of 23 and pretty good su across into turkey wants us to some upholstery so 24 in ankara and 28 celsius with my sunny skies in athens then we had down to Northern Africa has been very warm into tunis for really the last few days and again the temperature here is pretty high compared to the average but no so a lot of cloud to talk about and sunny not really anything in the way of range 35 is the temperature on friday a very warm day in cairo for she wanted degrees celsius then as we head off into south of d. C. That time it comes back down again but as you can see tunis up to about 38. 00 so thats about 6 degrees above the normal but sunny skies but it will be a hot day. What went wrong in society that opened up the space. Race is the european problem and its not accountable and its impossible for the people to bear the costs for link up our people ready dont want to take more of a lead that if not a stronger man or song woman while getting the growth of rejectionism its probably because the models of europes forbidden colony episode 2 on aljazeera. Going to one of the top stories here now to 0 police in gibraltar have a rest and the captain and chief officer from a detained Iranian Oil Tanker theyre accused of breaching e. U. Sanctions on syria the rest come amid claims iran tried to impede a British Oil Tanker late on wednesday leading to an intervention by the british warship. The Un Human Rights Council has agreed to begin a preliminary investigation into what it calls a Staggering Number of murders in the philippine governments war on drugs. And france has passed a controversial tax bill targeting tech giants like google apple and facebook has prompted u. S. President donald trump to order an investigation into the planned levy a move that could result in the town a tree terrorists. A masters from 22 nations have condemned chinas treatment of ethnic and religious minorities in unprecedented move they shoot a letter calling for an end to the detention of week of muslims here in experts say at least 1000000 are being held in camps but you know what i am has one. This fun stuff building is called a Vocational Center in china critics say its more like a prison one of many detention camps run by the government. The target they say are ethnic and religious minorities mostly wigger muslims in the Northwest Region of change young activists say at least 1000000 people are detained in similar camps where extreme surveillance force assimilation and abuse are common the camps have long sparked International Criticism in an unprecedented move 22 nations signed a letter to the Un Human Rights Council condemning disturbing reports australia canada and japan are among the signatories along with britain france and germany they call on china to stop the mass detentions respect religious freedom and grant independent experts meaningful access to the region. Countries that did not sign the document raise just as much interest out of the 22 nations assigned as none of them were muslim majority nations which is really quite telling because china is using their pocketbook to gain influence in many of these nations as well. China defends the practice the government says its not about eliminating peoples identity but about teaching employment skills and pushing out what it calls extremism year far surely by ceasing up locational education and Training Centers in accordance with the law we aim to education save those who were influenced by religious extremism and committed to mine it legal or fix it. The letter is not tied to a vote or a resolution but it will be published as an official document of the uns Human Rights Council activists say its a good sign but chinas government has long stood defiant against foreign criticism katia locus of the young aljazeera. When haye is monitoring reaction in beijing china his ministry of Foreign Affairs has responded to the letter signed by 22 countries regarding the situation in shin jang province and predictably i guess it was dismissive of this letter saying that this was an attempt to politicize the issue of human rights and that this was a domestic affair for the government in china to deal with and it wasnt up to anyone outside china to comment on the situation there it also pointed out that there has been no terrorist attack in the region for the past 2 years evidence it says that this program is working remembering that the government maintains that these are not Detention Centers in shin jang province they are vocational schools with one of the main aims being to prevent terrorism and extremism and also responded to a request in the latest sign by these countries that inspectors experts be allowed meaningful access to the area the government saying that it has already organized trips involving media and socalled experts diplomats to the region and what they reported when they returned it was quite different to what has been put trade in the western media the important word to emphasize here is meaningful in those trips in the past those trips have been very much controlled by the government controlled by the Security Forces and the government really only showing the people on those trips to shin jang exactly what it wants the outside world to see. A car bombing in the libyan city of benghazi has killed at least 4 people and wounded dozens of blast targeted the funeral of a former military commander who was aligned with the former libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi the head of libyas special forces which is one of the control warlord honey for have to was attending the funeral but was unharmed. And he said evan people have been killed in a car bombing in northwestern syria 35 others including children were injured the explosion happened in the rebel held city of a freend which is near syrias border with turkey observers say the blast was near a checkpoint where vehicles were lined up to enter the city. Its been a year since the Syrian Government and rebels in the province of dera reached a cease fire agreement observers say violations started immediately after the deal and the government has since done little to fulfill its reconciliation promises its been hotter has more. It was a symbolic moment in syrias war when the opposition surrendered in july 2018 the Southern Provinces where the prodemocracy Movement Began back in 2011 we taking it had special significance for the government even though the opposition remained in control of some towns as part of russian brokered reconciliation deals that avoided further fighting a year later state control seems weak and fragile well the situation has really regressed over the previous 3 months where weve had a spate of different assassination attacks by unknown attacks on syrian army which is something which we havent really seen in areas which have been agreed upon reconciliation the state hasnt been the only target for rebel commanders particularly those who joined units of the army as well as civilians who joined state institutions have been killed its not clear who is behind the violence the opposition believes the government has much to gain. There have been many assassinations of civilians and former leaders of rebel groups who agreed to reconcile theyve been killed so the aim is to create a state of fear eventually change the socalled reconciliation deals. Some say the rest and there are is linked to the battle for influence between government allies russia and iran they have been recruiting locals and former rebel fighters into the different government affiliated military and security branches they control. Rising tensions between the reins on the russians across syria on on Different Levels 1st militias backing each other and do senior positions the latest of which was basically changing all of the heads of the security agencies in syria in all different sides on the ukrainian within the iranian callers are reporting rising tensions with russia and its allies. To return. The state to the Southern Province has not improved peoples lives syrians have shown their anger they have protested in towns where Security Forces arent present speaking out against the lack of jobs and essential services as well as the arrests and detentions International Rights groups have accused president bashar assad of reestablishing repressive rule if there are people continue to strive for freedom in the birthplace of their revolution senator beirut. At least 14 people have died in a train crash in central pakistan a passenger train hit a stationary Freight Train iraqi media in southern punjab region dozens of injured people are being treated in nearby hospitals. Palestinians say at least one and a half 1000 olive trees have been destroyed in attacks by Israeli Settlers they were set on fire in berean south of nablus according to the un the illegal settlers have destroyed more than 4000. 00 trees since the start of 2019 the same year it recorded 178. 00 incidents of settler related damage to palestinian properties. In while israels Intelligence Agency has reportedly been enlisted to counteract a palestinian led campaign against israeli oppression and some academics who back the campaign say they are being targeted by right wing nationalists very force that has more from occupied east jerusalem. In january this video of a University Professor arguing with a student over her decision to were army uniform to class turned into a major controversy for the Hebrew University in jerusalem. Loss of the professor carol hill frisch can be heard telling the student shes naive if she thinks she can wear the uniform and expect to be treated as a civilian university apologized taking out advertisement encouraging students on mandatory National Service to attend in uniform professor who preach maintained that the student to deliberately initiated the confrontation she later decided to stop teaching following hate mail and reported Death Threats the video was released by a right wing prosiness Organization Called him ted sue it has long campaigned against what it calls attempts to undermine the state of israel from within in recent weeks its launched a website publicly naming dozens of leftwing academics who made accuses of doing exactly that the website new york professor lists 85 academics of Public Institutions nationwide who have among other things advocated boycotting israel or refusing to serve in the army the site encourages interred souse thousands of student members and others to suggest further names to be added to the list israels council of University President s has called the project a witch hunt carried out by political extremists loss of the professor and a martyre is one of those named she says as a known far left activist with a permanent job or tell of university she doesnt feel under pressure but theres a broader threat there are trees young faculty. All of these i know it affects the way they think their way they react they were the right even the choice of topics for writing to the surprise of many of these same tactics are being applied within israel itself into denies its created a blacklist or that its seeking the sacking of individual professors it says it student members have been threatened with unfair treatment by leftist academics whats not completely acceptable or desirable is to say i believe my country should be boycotted on the world stage i believe my country should be viewed as an apartheid state as a pariah state thats not to my way of thinking acceptable especially when the state is paying your paycheck into it sue says its in gauging the continual fight to preserve the zionist state its critics say that by naming and shaming individual professors is threatening something vital to the health of that state freedom of expression for israeli academics are a force it out to syria occupied east jerusalem. Almost half of the People Living in ethiopia dont have access to clean Drinking Water and when a well is dug the upkeep of the pump is crucial to ensure water keeps flowing but as they are hoarding reports wonder going it in the southeast but i just say the wells have been urgent need of repair the women in ethiopia carry the burden of the water crisis fetching water is their responsibility when aid agencies dig wells the pumps inevitably break from wear and tear for some girls that means missing school. Back in dozens of boy dont fetch water they keep up with this School Better but because im a girl i help with chores at home as well as take long journeys to fetch water. The well pump in asters village broke 9 months ago she spent hours a day tracking to get water why accounted for this well boseman taint we used to fetch water from a far we have benefited a lot of to this will was dug which freed us from struggling and it broke down soon after and we are back to the struggle we have asked the local administration for them to fix but they didnt life is infinitely harder when the water stops flowing in ethiopia half of well pumps stopped working within 5 years when a water pump breaks the only a media solution is to find an alternate drinking source now there is a spring but its about a 3 hour round trip journey from here the other option is to drink from this river now while people still use it to bathe and wash their clothes the issue is that livestock use it too so if people were to return to drinking this original water source its incredibly likely that theyd get very sick. After nearly a year of waiting help finally arrives here to diminish the works with nonprofit drilling groups as a private contractor to fix the pumps when agencies leave and the parts break with hundreds of broken wells like this to keep him busy hes finally in town to fix this one. Hes like royalty here everyone knows his name. After disassembling the pump he finds a problem. Hours later. Theres a break through to the pumps fixed the other local work they have and the girls and women living nearby those wells that dont work are 1st to travel long distances to fetch water fixing this well makes me very happy because it will leave you the burden off women and girls. The hours of back breaking water carrying are over astor can go back to class. But 8 now that this wall to wall is fixed i can finally attend school on time and we focus. On this sacred resource hidden below their feet is finally accessible again to our good to. Be a hardy an aljazeera one to go net in southern ethiopia. And one you can always catch up with all the stories were reporting on by checking out our website address for that is our dot com. A lot of the top stories here now jazeera police in gibraltar have arrested the captain and chief officer from a detained Iranian Oil Tanker there accused of breaching e. U. Sanctions on syria the developments follow u. K. Allegations that iranian vessels tried to impede a British Oil Tanker in the strait of hormuz leading to an intervention by a british warship iran though denies any such confrontation took place the British Foreign minister says the u. K. Doesnt want to increase tensions in one of the worlds key oil shipping channels. Where were very concerned this is a very serious escalation of the situation and you know we are proud that the royal navy was that to protect their heritage. But we are monitoring the situation very closely we dont want to escalate tensions we want tensions to come down. The Un Human Rights Council has agreed to begin a preliminary investigation into what it calls a Staggering Number of murders in the philippine governments war on drugs its accusing president. Of inciting violence against drug dealers as well as intimidating judges and degrading women Human Rights Watch estimates at least 12000 filipinos have been killed since 2 tatars Campaign Began in 2016. France has passed a controversial tax bill targeting text giants tech giants like google apple and facebook the 3 percent tax affects any Digital Company with a revenue of at least 844000000. 00 of which at least 28000000 is made in france but the u. S. Says it unfairly targets their companies and President Donald Trump has ordered an investigation into the potential effects ambassadors from 22 nations have condemned chinas treatment of ethnic and relig