well great. people in our investigation for now just zero. zero. there you're watching the news hour live from doha i'm headed home and coming up in the next sixty minutes a caretaker prime minister is appointed to head a technocrat government in italy but the country's political crisis deepens. south korea's president may join donald trump and. if the u.s. and north korean leaders finally arrange a summit. and the hero they're calling a spider man in france a refugee from mani who climbed a building to save a child dangling from

a balcony is now awarded citizenship. a criminal investigation is currently underway in sri lanka after al jazeera has reported on suspected match fixing and international cricket. i think is president has appointed an interim prime minister to head a technocrat administration to run the country kano cuts already and a former i.m.f. official has been tossed with the job the president's plans for two populist parties to form a coalition government following weeks of post-election talks after he vetoed a your say a euro skeptic nominee for economy minister john hall has more details. political convulsions in italy meet the new prime minister designate not a political figure but a former international monetary fund official. i

must underline that the government will maintain a neutrality a total neutrality with respect to the electoral debate. must now come up with a workable list of ministers but he's unlikely to survive a confidence vote in a parliament stacked against him so the new government will likely become a lame duck interim government until fresh elections in the autumn on the weekend president sergio rejected the euro skeptic finance minister proposed by the five star movement northern league coalition dashing their hopes of becoming europe's first far right populist government. last night was the darkest hour in italy's democracy president chose to ignore his constitutional prerogatives and prevent from power political force the five star movement which received eleven million votes they've been calls for mass protests and the president's impeachment as head of state the latter seems constitutionally unlikely but it's

a nasty turn that sets the scene for a potentially ugly standoff we are going to see throughout the next three. years and the overarching the people versus the. establishment that with the head of state for the first time becoming the main target of the entire campaign there's also the economy to worry about italy's cost of borrowing is rising with the political uncertainty if the country's sky high debt were to become unserviceable then real crisis would arrive in the euro zone's third largest economy add to that a debate that will only grow louder perhaps angrier now about italy's membership of the eurozone as the nationalist northern league and ante a stab. meant for an even bigger slice of the next electoral. carlow culture really did his best to calm the waters. in the past few days

tensions have increased on the financial markets you know that the spread has increased but. still growing and the budget remains on to control i can assure you that a government. will guarantee a prudent. public accounts. in italy political instability is a fact of life so they'll be little surprise about these twists and turns but no less anxiety over the outcome. now reaction to the appointment of carter early as interim prime minister has been mixed on the streets of the capital rome. the situation is complicated i don't know what the best scenario is but let's hope for the best and that carlow council really will be able to lead us to new elections. i think italians had expressed themselves during the election and what has happened now seems to be cancelling this expression so even if i don't really know this. we are left with

a bitter taste here. joining us live now is laurence kotlikoff a professor of economics at boston university thank you sir for being with us so cut the really has this new role as we know to try and at least calm the nerves in brussels and frankfurt but there are concerns really about where these potential elections could look for next and that is worry about whether they would be looking to leave the. yeah this is a yet another kind that was sort of italian instability and danger in a way has gone with demagogues in the past. go back to recently where scone first clooney you know people that have no clear out. direction but are trying to energize the masses with no clear again or direction so it raises the concern about italy. and i will see they've made some

progress in recent years it's been very slow growth has been very slow unemployment has come down from about fourteen percent to twenty fourteen down to about one percent today but many people who are especially young people are still unemployed so i understand the frustration but the way forward is not your. job or yourself from the rest of the of your trading partners to kind of rise isolate yourself it's not to eliminate the you are moving away from the euro stable currency and restart the lira and then that with hyperinflation which is surely the result and and default the government debt so you need to have it's one thing to change governments and it's another thing to. choose governments that actually know have some idea what they want to do in a way that's actually going to fix things and so i applaud the president of italy's decision to give it only

a breathing space to understand the implications of what it's trying to do here really is through out a direction of policy or form it's going to be similar to things that have been successful in other countries it's quite a different success stories and we are what just says to follow switzerland or sweden or denmark or the netherlands or you know you know honk kong so has plenty of examples not lawrence explain to us how this is affecting the markets all of this political see that we've seen of the last couple of days. well we're seeing a tie and bond rates go up i mean if you think a really potentially leaving the euro. leaving the. the sort of the european union in the euro then it's really likely to have to the fall instead that means that investors and chinese government bonds are going to require a higher interest rates are going to remember that interest so we're going to see the italian short term government bonds go up significantly in the west

a day or so just to give us just today the stock market drop i think two percent this will just get worse into the next few months and was he said two parties and the rest of the giant google system internationally and i don't see policies that will fundamentally get their country back on track and so on time since and we grew out of it as a result respectable rate you know it's not the european union that's causing the problem is many members of the european union that are doing just fine. operating within the european union so well i mean you know he you are the euro is not the answer it's getting your house in order. to call thank you so much for your time seth my pleasure thank you now donald trump says he will meet japanese prime minister shinzo abeyta head if is planned a summit with kim jong un its latest move in

a flurry of diplomatic maneuvers surrounding the possible kim meeting which was counseled but now it's back on the table south korea says it see that pres if he if president going to end could also have a seat at the table at a thomas has more details from seoul. what a difference one frenetic weekend can make and now looks like it's full steam ahead for a summit in singapore on june twelfth as originally planned has been the u.s. delegation inside north korea on monday led by song kim south korean born but the u.s. ambassador to the philippines he's been ambassador here in seoul in the past though he was very much involved in the six nation talks that took place while president bush was in office later president obama he knows the issue backwards he's been meeting with north korea's a vice foreign minister chase on he again fluent english speaker she knows this issue backwards from a north korean point of view meanwhile in singapore over the coming days they'll be u.s. delegation and the north korean delegation meeting to discuss the logistics security

arrangements protocol that's all happening simle time in your sleep and if there is a summit on june the twelfth will president moon of south korea be there the blue house the presidential palace here in seoul said that though we're working on plans for president moon to be in singapore probably not for the beginning of the bilateral but if it goes well between president trump and kim jong un if indeed it happens and president moon montjoy in at a later stage possibly minutes hours later but in singapore as well he's been crucial to getting the other two leaders together and he would like a seat at the table to get more now from mike hanna who is live for us in washington d.c. so like how significant is this meeting between chairs are they and donald trump. well it is significant indeed the japanese leader has been insistent that japan has its own concerns about talking to north korea in particular has massive security

concerns and wants to make absolutely certain that president trump is fully aware of these concerns that japanese holds now there has been constant contact between a stairway and president trumping fact there was another conversation in the course of the day the plan now it would appear is for the japanese leader to either come through washington on his way to an economic summit in could work or to actually have a meeting with president trump on the sidelines of that summit now what also appears to be the case is that she is intent on getting the ear of president trump making his concerns absolutely clear before president trump goes ahead with it some but should it indeed go ahead on june the twelfth and then now we're looking at a trilateral meeting with mungy and involved in this summit and we also know that moving in and his administration has pushed really hard for the summit. well president tramper certainly expressed his gratitude to president moon for his role

in resuscitate in the talks which appeared to be over when president trump canceled them last thursday but at the same time we've got to look at the character of president trump would he be prepared to have a third seat at the table when he meets a north korean leader that could be advantages to that given president moon's apparently warm relationship with kim jung un they've met twice that we know in the past few days including that secret meeting on saturday evening but it all comes back to what president trump wants to sensually whether he wants to have a one on one with kim your whether he's prepared to allow president moon in those discussions or would prefer to have him join later if that so certainly the i advanced teams as we know in singapore from north korea from the u.s. they are planning the logistics of the meeting and this is just one of the discussions that is likely to be underway and michael i was just wondering about u.s. congress and what is the reception there at the moment because we know that president

trump is being keeping kim jong un on his toes but also wants to be the first president to really go this far with the north korean leader what are they saying. well there's a degree of confusion among members of congress when president trump wrote that letter on thursday canceling the summit there were a number of members of congress who welcomed that move saying that it was showing commune exactly where the united states stood that there was no softening of the u.s. stars on matters such as sanctions or indeed protecting its allies in the region from north korean military aggression but at the same time many members of congress have welcomed the fact that at the summit could be back on track again so there is a division of opinion within congress the majority though would appear to believe that these talks can bring about some kind of good and can improve the national security interests of the united states should they be successful ok mike hanna

live for us in washington d.c. thank you mike coming up on al-jazeera. egypt detained journalists and activists before unpopular economic steps are announced. and why spain's prime minister is to face a vote of no confidence on friday. and that wasn't the plan stan a year after finishing runner up for rank ahead said barton at the french open topped out to have all those details later in sport. and twelve soldiers from a saudi arabia have been killed in yemen joining up or a sions this brings the total number of saudi casualties to over a thousand that's according to its media the saudi led coalition forces are now approaching the rebel held city of haditha and they are now about twenty kilometers away the coalition is trying to retake the city from who think rebels but the u.n.

is warning that any operation to seize who data would put a risk humanitarian ships shipments to yemen. hate agencies have struggled to bring help to many ends of desperate get minnies had a huckster has more let. the conflict in yemen has been described as the world's forgotten war but three years after it began the violence shows no sign of ending saudi arabia which has been leading a coalition to fight to flee rebels says more than a dozen of its soldiers have been killed bringing the total number of saudi casualties to over a thousand that's according to state media saudi arabia's military power is ranked twenty six in the world according to global firepower big yemen's terrain has made it difficult to get a foothold in this rugged region of hundreds of kilometers of mountains and valleys has turned into an open battlefield near the northern who's the stronghold of saddam to some saudi soldiers and now openly talking of the anger and resentment of

been neglected by all thora tease you and you know we live in fear we don't have enough food we look as if we have begging we didn't ask for millions or promotions we just need to pay out debts and get the services we deserve we need our salaries to send them to our families for them to be able to live i wish you would give us more attention saudi arabia's defense ministry is paying compensation to families of dead soldiers king salmon has not visited the front lines unlike his predecessor king abdullah who visited troops in two thousand and nine crown prince mohammed bin salman who's also a defense minister launched the latest operation in yemen in two thousand and fifteen who forces have suffered significant military losses local sources say tens of thousands of their fighters have been killed since the war started and who see weapons were suspected to rein in help appeared to be getting more violence of rockets now capable of reaching riyadh. the u.n. estimates that twenty two million yemenis are in need of food aid and more than

eight million threatened with severe hunger plus the impoverished country is struggling with an outbreak of cholera and diptheria a war that was only meant to last a few months has gone on for more than three years and it's civilians who continue to suffer the world's largest humanitarian crisis. and the syrian government says it will continue fighting rebels despite a u.s. warning us against a possible offensive in that province the region mostly controlled by opposition groups is close to the israeli occupied golan heights israel has warned it will not tolerate a permanent iranian military presence in syria russia has we emphasized its support for the syrian government has more from beirut. the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov saying that the syrian army should be the only force present at the southern border syria's southern border russia making clear its position as well we

understand behind the scenes negotiations continue between international and regional players to find some sort of an arrangement for the future of the provinces in southern and southwestern syria. the syrian government as of late really the government media they've been beating the drums of war saying that they have been sending troops to the front lines and dropping leaflets from government helicopters telling rebels to surrender so the syrian government making clear that that is their next target but that is different from other areas because there are international regional players involved the united states israel jordan because of its geo strategic location jordan and israel for example they both do not want to see iranian troops or iranian allied troops on their borders so if there is any arrangement or any deal that it will be. involved iranian troops taking part in any battle but we understand is

what they're trying to do is reach some sort of an arrangement whereby the rebels decide to lay down their arms and to surrender those who want to leave to the rebel controlled problems have it live in the north west will be able to do so but state authority will return to this area jordan doesn't want to see any escalation as well because it will create a refugee crisis it also wants to open its border crossing there which is really vital for trade so all growing international and regional negotiations behind the scenes to try to find a solution to this corner of syria what to do in this corner of syria to avoid a military military conflict that could bring in regional powers. now forty five hundred pairs of shoes on display in brussels one for every life lost in the israeli palestinian conflict in the last ten years they've been set up outside the building where the e.u. foreign ministers have been discussing the recent violence people across europe sent the shoes to campaigning group of oz is calling on the e.u.

to put sanctions on israel over the killings of. palestinian protesters a spanish prime minister. is set to face a no confidence vote after his ruining people's party was linked to a corruption scandal parliament will vote on friday to decide whether the socialist leader petro sanchez should take over has been under increasing pressure after a court ruled his party profited from an illegal so. twenty nine people have been sentenced in the case including the party's former treasurer. is the director of iberian studies program at stanford university he joins us live now from palo alto in california thank you very much indeed for being with us so old boy has always denied any wrongdoing here but how damaging is this going to be for his leadership . it's actually damaging because the court sentence indicts the whole four of it's not just a few individuals here or there but it is

a massive scheme and he has been all these is it this is it it has been known that all these years he's always been pleading ignorance and yet one after another people very close to him have been indicted and in some cases sentenced to terms in prison so now it is the whole organization that in essence been described as a criminal organization it's going to be very very hard for him to get out of this well what's the likelihood that we're going to be seeing the step and the action and what are your full costs for this. i think that nothing will happen on friday because the socialist party lacks the votes in congress to be able to monitor. a need to say actually the majority in the spanish congress has one hundred seventy six deputies the socialists have only eighty four. which is the the another party is still not able to add sufficient deputies for him for

a center that is to will become the majority and he'll be sure about twenty five votes and his position the way he's locking cell in within spain because of the cuts in the situation will prevent him from obtaining those votes but some would argue that this could potentially be the least damaging option for the country politically and economically. politically certainly because the most likely winner of any elections at this point would be the far right parties who the winners and if that party came to power anything could happen i mean these are extraordinarily aggressive people and they have no clear direction for the country so. given the situation in spain that would be a bomb that would explode and so the country into utter confusion so spain is now faced with continuing to have. a party in power a very clear and well known systemic corruption or risk having

a party that could even go further into the structure span of the markets that there are just talk us through the structure at the moment in terms of spain's governance and in some a crowd excess. you know one of the existing issues right now for the concert is that the catherine successes dr yes that everybody knows that. the socialist they both together launched these article one fifty five which was something that had never been done before in the constitution article wanted to negotiation and they interpreted it in such a way that they launched a complete takeover of the continent government since then there were elections in and back in december which were won again by the separatist parties in the meantime enter a wholly has not allowed any kind of government to be formed to these day there is no operating government in place and so this whole situation of freezes also the possibilities for hoyer or for the spanish congress to come clear

of the situation that has just burst upon the country with these recent court sentence ok so on and i thank you so much for analysis leisure. now a migrant from mali is being awarded french citizenship and a job as a firefighter after he rescued a toddler dangling from a balcony i'm going to go sama has been called a real life spider man after he climbed to the fourth floor of an apartment building in paris as well. thank you it was an extraordinary act of bravery in just thirty seconds a young man scaled a building in paris on saturday night and safety a child had been dangling from the fourth floor mobile phone pictures of the heart stopping moment went viral prompting a search for the hero he was soon identified as twenty two year old mammoth sama. who fell from the fifth floor i think i like children

a lot i don't want for something bad to happen to them in front of me it would have broken my heart i ran i thought of ways to rescue him thank god i climbed up and i saved him because the next day the mayor of paris said she'd spoken decus summer revealing he was a molly and refugee without papers he explained to me that he had arrived from mali a few months ago dreaming of building his life here thousands of people had signed an online petition calling on france to grant guest sama residency hailed as a hero by so many people he was invited to meet the french president and with the good news in due time when i began to climb it gave the courage to keep going. to get through it all happened very fast after i save the child i suddenly became scared the police came and took us inside the apartment i was shaking all over. the summer had arrived at the elisei as an illegal immigrant and came out with a promise of french citizenship an award for his bravery and a job with the fire brigade in the neighborhood where the events took place people

had gathered to look. well this is where that amazing rescue took place if you look up at that friends with a sharp points on the top manager i guess some would have had to dale that then the bones for welcome isn't from that perspective it looks incredibly high and that is why is the act of bravery has really captured the imagination of so many people bought from across the world was left in a chair laura i think you did it spontaneously and did not think it would have this impasse. it's great he's been recognized french authorities say the father of the boy had gone shopping leaving his son alone he's been taken into custody meanwhile gus arm is coming to terms with his new found fame in a country where the debate over refugees has a long divided opinion its national butler al jazeera paris. the results government says it has reached an agreement with the main truckers union to end an eight day

strike feel and some food items are in short supply as many drivers continue to protest the reports from sao paulo. in brazil yet they're saying they've reached agreement on the protest is over but brasilia is a long way from here a most of the rest of brazil. at least truck drivers tens of thousands of them either haven't received the message or don't plan to heed it. we are not only here for the truck drivers but for all brazilians who are suffering with the rises in electricity water gas everything brazilians have to work just to survive we are not members of any political party we are the people who are suffering the most yet the same the rise in the price of diesel makes it hard for them to earn a living and tempers afraid and this used to be a strike now it's more than a strike brazil is realize that we can't keep going with these politicians who over the years we've seen involved in corruption bribery and scandals. the government

has offered a ten percent reduction but can hardly afford the more than one of the costs a billion dollars it will have to pay the state or company petrobras in compensation was taken many here by surprise is just how quickly a country as well developed as brazil with the seventh largest economy in the world can be brought to its knees with the economy fragile a weak government can only offer temporary partial solutions with everybody here now very well aware of how reliant we all are on a constant flow of fuel. protesting drivers have been blocking roads across brazil it means many gas stations have run out of fuel while those still have supplies attract lines of desperate motorists that can stretch to several kilometers is. no the economic recovery many experts second is happening. in illinois. brazil's economy is not weak was weak as the political movement in this country we've had

a former president arrested and now have a weak president in office he has no leadership or charisma and the increase in oil and gas prices is just added to the problems. even if all of brazil's truck drivers return to work immediately it would still take several days for the country to return to normal but the presidential election is due in october it would be a normality fruitless tension and the threat of more strikes and protests. when there are just. several prominent journalists and activists have been detained in egypt in the past week human rights groups say it's part of a systematic government campaign to silence critics call them explains now why the arrests may be tied to the government's plans to lift fuel and electricity subsidies has them. once campaign for president abdel fatah el-sisi but he since called support of sisi his biggest sin and has been vocal about his

opposition on sunday he was arrested and we've seen a number of bloggers journalists and other prominent human rights defenders and civil society activists who were in the last years since the government. has come to power have been brought in on charges or sometimes in pretrial detention without any charges. basically because they are critical of the government blogger well abbas was a longtime critic of the government and internationally recognized for his work he was detained last week in a pre-dawn raid. this recent spate of arrests of bloggers journalists and opposition figures may be linked to a government measure that could anger many egyptians grappling with a weak economy and high inflation. the government fears the consequences of steps it plans to take in july part of the fuel and electricity

subsidies will be lifted we have seen an embarrassing rehearsal when the government increased the metra tickets and people broke their fear and express their anger for reporters without borders calls egypt one of the world's biggest prisons for journalists at least thirty four are behind bars including al jazeera journalist mahmoud hussein. since sisi led the coalition that removed the democratically elected president mohamed morsy from power in two thousand and thirteen human rights groups say the government has waged a systematic campaign of crushing criticism one voice at a time. supporters say tough security policies are needed to bring stability especially as the government fights armed groups in the sinai peninsula and journalists and bloggers know that this isn't difficult environment in egypt but nonetheless even today people are tweeting people will continue to speak out

but with few independent media outlets left and many journalists and activists jailed people have no choice but to hear the government's message very clearly natasha going to zero. and still ahead al jazeera three u.s. states are bracing for rising water from a tropical storm plus. how greece's economic crisis and austerity has created a class of working poor. and back in the big time a dominant display from the bron james as he needs his team to yet another n.b.a. finals. hello there we've seen some major flooding in merrylands so from this area of cloud here in the east and from back we saw

a line of thunderstorms develop that gave relentless rain to this city and you can see exactly what happened there flash flooding and it's the same place that saw some similar flash flooding less than two years ago now this system we can see plenty of cloud across this whole eastern corner of the u.s. at the moment and within that we're also seeing our first named storm of the season as well that one's working its way north woods it's here on tuesday gradually working its way across nashville there as we head through wednesday so a very heavy downpour still to come and so the east from that we're also still going to have plenty of moisture here plenty more in the way of heavy rain in fact that way whether it spreads further south to you can see plenty of cloud to chasing that storm system and then wrapping itself around the center of it plenty more wet weather still to come we've already got flooding in cuba more heavy rain for choose day gradually though a wednesday it will begin to break up but still don't underestimate some of the show is that likely to be very very heavy if we had down towards south america plenty of sunshine for many of us here more in the way of cloud forest over parts

of argentina and that cloud is thick enough to give us a few outbreaks of rain in santiago a temperature of twelve. al jazeera is investigative unit exposes the criminal gangs fixing international cricket matches sixty to seventy plus investors you can say they say fix their fix bribing professional players they send beautiful goes to the players they give them housing rolex watches. cricketers. or five of them. al-jazeera investigations cricket match fixers. i remember the first time i walked into the newsroom and it felt like being in the general assembly of the united nations because it was so many nationalities. just that we all come to different places but it's one that gives us bankruptcy us the

ability to identify the people who claim the other side of the world but we can understand what it's like to have a different perspective and i think that is a strength for al-jazeera. again you watch al-jazeera our mind of our top stories this hour at least president has appointed former i.m.f. official called of course already as interim prime minister to head a technocrat administration but the country's political crisis continues it comes off the president's surge i want to read veto plans of two puppet populist parties to form

a coalition government. donald trump says he will meet japanese prime minister shinzo abbay as preparations continue for his possible summit with north korean leader kim jong un and abbay say they want the palin and the sit dismantlement of north korea's nuclear program. and brazil's government says it has reached an agreement with the main truckers union to end an eight day strike fuel and some food items from a in a short supply as many drivers continue to protest. now sri lanka's cricket authorities have called for a criminal inquiry into suspected match fixing following an investigation by al-jazeera a player and an official have been suspended as cricket's world governing body the i.c.c. investigates the case david harrison has will. surely be mendus a sri lankan player an. assistant manager of cool international stadium were suspended i was off to algiers investigation into cricket corruption was broadcast

. all. you know to show the world that be on top of it and that we are not being caught aging and these type of things we will not tolerate even in the past or in the future. indy could describe on camera how we docked at the goal cricket pitch to fix the results of two international test matches sri lanka against india last year and another game against australia in two thousand and sixteen the australia much race especially at the time and raises important questions about england's planned game goal stadium in november the groundsman told al-jazeera that he could fix the result of the match he said he was very forward a bit. about this and deacon maintains he is innocent and the player to are in demand has declined to comment on the allegations meanwhile cricket boards in australia and england on investigating wider claims made in the film by an indian

gambling syndicate that it could be bribed international players to fix schooling almost sixty to seventy percent that is. because we can say we say fix fix and you do just international games or which allegations to fix international. your queen was going to have players in every national team yes both the astray and england teams deny any wrongdoing england test captain joe root said i'm aware that there was a documentary and it's outrageous that our players have been accused all the players have the full backing of the e.c.b. the international cricket council is now facing a major investigation into corruption in cricket in three different countries david harrison al-jazeera. the commons will be voting in a presidential runoff in three weeks the choice is between a critic of the government's historic peace still with rebels and

a former congressman who supports the agreement and that's an american attitude of cinnamon reports. you're going to humanise and his wife struggle to make a living selling orange juice there among the millions of colombians who voted for . the first leftwing presidential candidate with a serious chance of winning. i voted for gustavo petro because i'm tired of the old political class that doesn't care about the poor it's time that the working class gets a chance at a decent life. the former mayor of the capital who was once in in one thousand urban guerrilla has tapped into massive discontent with the political establishment he is seen as a champion of the poor and the marginalized but high macassar warns that pedro who is close to venezuela's hugo chavez is a wolf in sheep's clothing don't think you're going to get them he must be clear petro is a populist disguising as a leftist populism can also be disguised as a center or right wing but in the end it's

a strategy to get power and to not let it go. on the opposite extreme of the ideological divide is evander seen as a younger version of his mentor conservative former president. he represents the status quo and those opposed to historic peace deal signed with forked rebels. inexperienced but charismatic at this rally he comforted a woman whose missing mother was kidnapped by far gravels ten years ago promising to see that justice is done. the showdown between the two candidates will undoubtedly impact a still fragile peace agreement that ended more than fifty years of armed conflict with the fark thread there and they have less than three weeks to win over colombians will voted for other more moderate candidates in the first round but many people tell us that they would rather cast a blank ballot rather than vote for a president they don't want. and that gives dougie who won the most votes

a decided advantage through is wasting no time trying to assure colombians he won't take from the rich to give to the poor rather that he will make the poor rich or at least middle class if you can defeat the fear factor he might stand a chance you see in human. they're a wonder may lose some of its trade benefits with the u.s. because of a discreet of a second hand clothes and started when rwanda raise tariffs on used american clothes to protect its domestic garment industry the u.s. responded by threatening to pull one does judy free access to some of its products that benefit is set to expire on monday and uganda tanzania and kenya also try to raise tariffs on used american clothes but backed down after threats from washington well ali khan statue is the chief executive at richmond sprint and also an investment advisor based in nairobi he says that africa has become

a dumping ground for cheap goods from other countries. if we're going to develop our industries we simply cannot compete against this deluge of cheap clothes i think president me is one individual who's not going to be rolled over in this particular situation and he's going to make a stand and this is an attempt by africa to get leverage on the value chain it's an attempt to develop industry it's an attempt to industrialize and essentially you know we've seen all our industries hollowed out one of the classic examples is actually textile manufacturing which is now being addressed in east africa and i think it's important that we look at things holistically and if we're going to look at it holistically we can't talk about the industrialization of africa on one hand and then be dumping africa with all kinds of of goods and in this case in the case of used clothes so i think he has to stand he is the president of the african union

and absolutely we've got to draw a line in the sand somewhere and this is the right line to be drawn now some tropical storm alberto has made landfall in florida it's expected to bring heavy rain and flash flooding in four u.s. states and thousands of people are currently in shelters and a day earlier another weather system swept through the coastal area of the state of maryland in the northeast and the gallagher has more. eloquent city in maryland for a time it's main street turned into a raging river after torrential rains fell on sunday. cars all washed away in property damaged his authorities continue to look for a missing man who was reportedly helping rescue people flood waters are now receding an issue to clean up operation is underway some here are still recovering from similar floods almost two years ago i don't think without exaggeration saying that this is worse than july thirtieth of two thousand and sixteen i can tell you

my heart is broken. thinking about what the people are going through here and to people's lives who were devastated years ago and when they rebuilt and now they're face of the same daunting task again. on the coasts of florida alabama and mississippi a state of emergency has been declared as the first named storm of the hurricane season approaches so tropical storm alberto is expected to bring tidal surges high winds and may even trigger tornadoes as it makes its way inland some areas mandatory evacuation orders are in place be very very very careful out there you know we're going to get a lot of rain so the rain's going to him down hard some places or if you're you need to travel just make sure you're very cautious about that and when i mean for sure don't drive into standing water where we have a chance to. fly sliding that we've got a chance of tornadoes you just follow local weather the two thousand and eighteen

atlantic hurricane season doesn't officially start until friday although far from being classed a hurricane forecasters say the effects of alberto will be felt across the southeast of the u.s. for days to come and a gallica al-jazeera. now greeks continue to suffer from the effects of an economic crisis that hit the country almost eighty years ago so void bankruptcy greece received the largest bailout in history but it also meant that workers took a huge pay cut with incomes forming around fifteen percent reports from athens. several times a week alexa. sings for his son he owns about twenty dollars an hour four times as much as in his regular part time job as a shoe salesman with two sources of income he helps support the household he grew up in but he cannot invest in his own future five years ago he unrolled in a robotics degree course at the polytechnic two hours' drive from athens but he

can't afford to rent an apartment there so his studies are progressing slowly. or at the present rate it'll take me another ten years to graduate i'll be thirty five and that age it will be really difficult to find a job in my area of expertise he's one of the many victims of salary cuts averaging fifteen percent during the economic crisis creditors demanded cuts to make the economy more competitive the official minimum wage is now six hundred ninety dollars a month before tax but experts say the salary cuts one defective in the absence of other reforms. while salary cuts should have led to a cut in the prices of products and services they didn't because part of markets are to a great extent monopolies are all the companies we have a large number of multinationals operating in this country which didn't lower the cost of their products they benefited from the salary cuts but they didn't become more competitive. hough of all new jobs a part time or seasonal and that still leaves twenty percent of workers unemployed

around a million greeks and there is so much under employment the labor institute greece's leading employment think tank says the real jobless total is closer to twenty seven percent but the worst effect of the crisis is loss of income the dramatic drop in incomes has created a class of working poor the risk of poverty has doubled during the crisis to thirty five percent of the population that's a rate unmatched anywhere in western europe and it is twice as high among working age adults and the children who depend on them as it is among pensioners many greeks such as me money this no longer see the point in learning skills or higher education greeks are forced to accept jobs their overqualified for which leads many to go broad the labor institute says government leaders need new policies to encourage entrepreneurship and employment entice companies to lower their prices and for the cost of labor to fall without serious reforms like these many greeks

fear for all their education they'll likely remain the buskers of europe jumpstart ople us al-jazeera athens. now my twenty fifth the number of disabled people in the world is expected to reach and nine hundred and forty million and the loss of a serious looking at the global disability access and ivorian artist speaks to us about the difficulties he faces and his hopes for the future. my name is. i am a painter. my painting is based on nature and villages to show everyone that it is nature that feeds me. with these beautiful colors the sky it gives me strength to live it i paint small and large paintings and people come to pay. even the

government things a fuss about means of transport we must fight like everyone else. there are no toilets for the disabled in this country but my friends and brothers help to clean the toilet for me before going there it is very hard for me. when the toilet is not clean i get rashes. it hurts me a lot in africa many people denigrate the disabled. and think. that for me being disabled is in the head my dream is to create disabled to train i would like people to help me realize my biggest dream. all the sporting a world cup warning hungry for more success.

it's time for sports now has tatyana thank you very much i have come up to the start of russian adults defense of his french open tennis crown the spaniards opening match will be completed on tuesday off to rain ended play the world number one with two sets off against italian theme on a three love down in the third the doll is the hot favorite to win an eleventh title at roland garros a year off to losing to the da in the french open final standard brinker has hit a new low the twenty fifteen champion will drop to outside the world's top two

hundred fifty after losing in the first round the first baseman in the five set mark and by fine he had more got to. the brink and now in the queue to pick up games after a knee injury. you start doing much as simple as that sort of practice rather than you know get your level back and you can much is a new team once you're back at your level if you if you play one that's so simple as that you know when you're out on the two because of injury that's that's for sure you're on king will drop no matter what because you didn't play but for me that's not the most important. another former champion whose battled injury has to the second round novak djokovic beating brazilian qualify at a video booth with phil but in straight that takes three think four on thick for the former wild number one defeated to twentieth the tournament on top of that it's now two thousand within the last won a grand slam tournament. to receive

a specialist for clay plays with a lot of energy and he's a big fighter. so it wasn't easy you know it was a three set solids to our match win. but it was it was good for the first match it was a good test it has been difficult to face injury the major injury most. challenging injury that i ever had so. it's been it's been a long. twelve months behind me but. i'm starting to play better. in the women's draw two time wimbledon champion petrarca vetiver scraped through her opening round match the czech who suffered career threatening injuries from a knife attack at her home lost the first set to veronica but she recovered to win the next two three six six one seven five was the final score in fact i.

have to say i don't know if feel right now but. not sure if i did feel it was a fighter so. i did have great mentors on the clay which i'm taking very positive i think for me this crazy it's great and i'm just here to have some maybe more bonuses which i already did today so taking him very easily and this tournament is very a bonus as i said. so we'll see how everything but i'm just happy to be in the second row no second seed caroline wozniak he was put to the test in her opening match american danielle collins taking the first step to a tie break for an iraqi adventure lee winning it and staying in control in the second for a seven six six one victory the twenty seven year old dane twice made the quarterfinals

at the french open. lebron james is shown again to reach his eighth straight n.b.a. finals james with the standout performer of his playland cavaliers beat the boston celtics in game seven of the same conference finals aside to three year old getting thirty five points fifteen rebounds and nine assists three time champion james leading the cavs to an eighty seven to seventy nine when. i've been healthy you know claude is raanan and you know put a lot of work into my body into my craft and being available to my teammates and being available to my friend to franchise them with blood as ron is was. the more pulling me than anything. you know always been available so now. not be available for for at least four more games and. we see what happens chelsea football club the russian jewish billionaire owner is reported to be

looking at israeli citizenship roman abramovich has faced delays and renewing his u.k. visa there's been diplomatic tension between britain and russia after the poisoning of a former russian spy in england abramovich did not attend chelsea's f.a. cup victory this month and is a man united the israeli move could benefit him financially new citizens don't have to pay tax on foreign income for ten years a simple wild card broadcaster is urging favorite to take action against what it calls piracy in saudi arabia qatar baseband sports has the right to show all sixty four matches in russia says a saudi network's been illegally transmitting is broadcast since october favor says it takes matters of intellectual property very seriously and says it's working with partners to minimize issues relating to infringement of its rights in the manner region. one of germany's top footballers has spoken of their hunger for more success as they prepare to defend their world cup crown the twenty four team

champions the warming up at the italian faith an app and they've already saw imposed success and russia winning last year's confederations cup they qualified for a football showpiece event with ten wins from ten and a european record forty three goals but they're wary of any complacency ahead of their opening match against mexico on june seventeenth had a starts actually so. i think the last years have shown that it is not easy to defeat the title that's a warning for us we have seen what happened to spine i think that we have appeared for it we know what we have to do to keep up the hunger the coach always speaks of and that we probably will have to invest even more than twenty fourteen to make it again i believe in the strength of the team and the will to win that we have and that is overthe ball for now more later i can also find much more a web site al jazeera dot com for the latest news analysis and video to simply live

stream us thanks for watching i'm here i'm home at my back and i went with another full bulletin. the nature of news as it breaks this is one of the areas where protestant had blocked the road for the final higher than anything i think the fight with detailed coverage because now there's an extremely hot muggy facade theme that everyone striving for the good of the state from around the world this museum aims to be a way of pasta thore of our regions history and its perfected war that has divided

tribes here for generations. getting to the heart of the matter if will stuff i can see the turkish cypriot leader calls you today and says let's have talks would you accept facing realities what do you think reunification of look like there are two people think the peace for unification is the only option for prosperity of south korea hear their story on talk to al-jazeera. conservation is helping kick is stowed to recover it's snow leopard population to see the results i traveled up to the remote nature reserve of saudi chat at a touch camera traps have identified a healthy population of up to twenty snow leopards as the technology improves we're finding all these ways in which our guesses are are getting corrected the latest evidence suggests they're more cats than previously acknowledged but the snow leopard trust believes it's premature to downgrade the cats on the international

list of threatened species. if these presidents named a stopgap prime minister who's promised a new election soon to resolve the political turmoil. at that time or a little homage this is al jazeera line from doha also coming up south korea's president mungy and considers joining the north's leader and donald trump as efforts continue for the high stakes summit. and chaos and scarcity across brazil as trungpa strike and tis it's the second week despite the government meeting some of the demands.