we are going to take all the necessary action to defend our country but much like the world what do you count words in this is first of all this is not there is nor any serious military threat out of this but it's the way it's been used to justify it. or to create any disturbance in the region is just unacceptable so. is going to treat this. the same way they have we have treated their legal blockade we are going to seek or the international fora to make sure that this behavior is not repeated will come to go ahead and buy the s. four hundred missile system or are you a tall rethinking that in light of these reported threat. may made all the options open for its defense for its defense procurement so we are seeking the best quality of to defend our country and we have all the options open for this so it's possible that you may not need to buy the s four hundred says i

what you're saying this is subject to the evaluation of the military people it's not a decision which will be taken in light of that letter of the letter that that threat has absolutely no bearing no political bearing on the decision on whether you. remain independent country and that's protecting this independence this is would not be a subject for any compromise issue. well the blockade surprised many people here's a closer look at what happened on may twentieth last year u.s. president donald trump signed a multibillion dollar deal with saudi arabia just three days later the council news agency is hacked attributing false and insightful statements to the amir of qatar u.s. intelligence agencies confirm that the u.a.e. was behind the attack next comes the big move june fifth bahrain the u.a.e. saudi arabia and egypt cut diplomatic ties with cancer and impose an economic

embargo they accused of supporting terrorism which doha denies other neighbors try to ease the crisis q eight begins mediation turkey sends cargo planes full of food to casa and iran opens up its airspace on june twenty second the blockading nations released a list of thirteen demands including the closure of al-jazeera u.s. support for the blockade starts to waver in july as secretary of state rex tillerson visits kasa home to the biggest u.s. military base in the region in september immy addresses the un general assembly saying the blockade was an assault against a sovereign state not a violation of human rights but the blockading countries refused to sit down at the annual g.c.c. summit with cutters and the air in december meanwhile ties between the us and canada continue to strengthen president trump welcomes the amir to washington where he praises him for taking a stand against i saw a new secretary of state mike pompei o travels to saudi arabia in april his main

message on his first overseas trip resolve the gulf crisis and end the blockade of gaza. takes a look now at what cattle is done in the past year to combat the blockade. it has not been an easy year for qatar but for now protests from all over the world fill up store shelves cranes other most visible sign of the huge push to build mega projects in time for football's world cup in twenty twenty two but a year ago on the fifth of june during the fasting month of ramadan qatar is work up to an unprecedented crisis saudi arabia the u.a.e. behind rain and egypt cut off diplomatic ties with qatar and imposed a land sea and embargo the blockade in countries accuse the qatari government of sponsoring terrorism accusations doha strongly deny it attempts by the emir of

kuwait and regional leaders to and the diplomatic feud have made no progress so far unfortunately we don't see any credible indicators to suggest that there will be a solution in the near future i think there have been serious at them so in the past serious efforts invested to broker this crisis and to reach an agreement but unfortunately the parties are still stuck in their positions and unable to move forward with a solution. for arab countries were hoping to see the blockade isolate internationally but what was a qatari diplomatic offensive led by the shit i mean been hammered home at world leader as his country's signed major arms deals with friends it's ali the u.k. and an agreement with the u.s. to combat terrorism financing. in april the emir met president donald

trump in washington d.c. the u.s. leader had qatar as a force of stability in the region and trump who also me. saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin sent a man around the same time expressed concerns about the fallout from the crisis it's a very unstable region and the gulf has always been the most stable part of an unstable region and this crisis has kind of thrown this region into a quagmire that they didn't have to be in and i think the truck ministration realizes that you know at least we have to provide one pall of stability and the center of gravity of the arab world in general has been the gulf in recent years so why the region there in crisis there is something that that had to be avoided at all cost. trump has invited the g.c.c. leaders to meet in the u.s. in the hope of finding a political solution but that invitation has been delayed

a the blockade in countries insist no talks will take place until qatar meets their demands. is iraq. let's get the thoughts of troops wary who said director of the gulf study center cast universities with me in the studio now michael payout the u.s. has made it quite clear to saudi arabia that it wants this crisis over this why isn't it simply i think there are two reasons why this one the united states is not using. what should be done or what should be used to convince whether morality and so use and we know that how much americans were able to influence so that even the past it doesn't seem doesn't this administration is tough enough and has the tool enough to influence sodium artes and dimension i think it goes back to the chain of american foreign policy since i would say obama came to power there is change

and of living of influence of shaping international politics we witness that in syria where they give russia the platform we witness that in iraq we witness that in libya and yemen so they're making the american foreign policy does not seem strong solid as it was in the past in term of influencing the its own alliance i think that's the reason they will not be able to convince o.d.s. to end the crisis basic life in cancer is completely normal the country has weathered the storm and despite the fact that there's this p.r. campaign against castro and if you look at saudi media u.a.e. maybe media they're always telling you that life here in doha is terrible and the blockade it isn't life is actually better than perhaps that that it was before we got a better range of goods in the shops how has cancer been able to do that so i think there are three views in. health or hope that those two to tackle this

one is the rationale of tackling the crisis well i mean rational rational. here is being stable solid and think a few steps and this was this kind of foreign policy behavior on level of a statement a level of engagement in international politics the other one and it applies to people as well is that it's brought it's brought people of the country together as well absolutely the other two and the second what i'm coming to this point where basically you bring all people this is a front internal front it was brought together whether butter is on one part is the brought to the other without being influenced by the state that's important people when they when they use for example the. image of the mirror. and they were signing all of this it. it wasn't directed by the state or by the government it's the initiative by the people themselves and this shows you the level of i would say the unity within the site and the third that we should quickly is that

the contradiction with within the argument of the blockade states where they would not be able to convince the others of their argument it was a spontaneous show of solidarity really i was really the group that's critically cast has definitely won the war in the court of public opinion how much damage has this done do you think to the reputations of the leaders of saudi arabia the u.a.e. i think them is more would happen to the saudis base because of the the position of saudi arabia as the largest stomach country and as they are they have this kind of position of being leading islamic world so i think they will be more affected my marti's because people they have a high expectation of soldiers to be more wise more rationale in their decisions but it doesn't seem the surprise is they were acting as as should be i think they are losing more of the public opinion more than it is the expectation of them very

. very well so these that's the reason i think you know the saudis they are and the term of support they are losing support within muslim world and the criticism to their own behavior and this a crisis more and more and we witness that actually increasing in the last one year in the last year always good to talk to my pleasure steve marshall syria. here with a new all al-jazeera still to come on the program the u.n. calls on the united states to stop separating immigrant children from their parents at the border plus. he'll help asylum seekers you face the risk of being thrown in jail a controversial verse in the latest crackdown on refugees by hungary's government. and its course the washington capitals on the brink of changing the. championship title that story coming up a little bit. mexico

says that it will impose tariffs of fifteen to twenty five percent on u.s. steel and agricultural goods that's in response to president donald trump's levies on mexican steel trump used national security to justify his decision the move has complicated talks with mexico and canada to rework the north america free trade agreement al-jazeera skimpily hellcats can tell us more she's with us now live from washington d.c. what are we to make of this kimberly. well certainly it was expected in fact when the commerce secretary was briefing reporters late last week didn't seem fazed by it and some fact expected that this is what likely what would happen this comes on the heels of action by canada when the united states announced it would no longer be exempting canada and mexico for the steel and aluminum tariffs for their products coming into the united states canada followed calling this totally unacceptable saying that they would be launching

a dispute mechanism with the world trade organization claiming this is a violation of the north american free trade agreement so canada responding to the u.s. actions late last week now we see the same coming from mexico in fact the u.s. president responding to all of this saying that he doesn't see this as being particularly an enormous problem given the fact that he knows that there are negotiations going on right now for the north american free trade agreement agreement that involves the three nations canada the united states and mexico been in place for decades but one that donald trump campaigned saying was lousy for the united states so this is a continuation of donald trump's campaign promises america first protecting american workers he says so what he believes is that there may not be a future for the north american free trade agreement this could have literally the agreement it's been in place for so long now he says that what he's hoping for are separate trade agreements negotiated individually with canada and with mexico

certainly the allies not liking this much particularly since the united states using national security as the argument for doing this saying that they're weak economy hurts u.s. national security something allies are taking exception to the committee that he thinks could really help. it washington. the u.n. human rights office is calling on the u.s. to stop separating migrant children from their parents the trumpet ministration announced last month that it would begin separating all families to tamed at the border trying to cross into the u.s. without documentation the president trump has responded in a tweet saying separating families at the border is the fault of bad legislation passed by the democrats border security laws should be changed but the dems can't get their act together started the wall again hicks is the senior director with the un human rights office in geneva she joins us now via skype good to have you with us peggy was interested to read today that the u.s. apparently is the the only country in the world not to have ratified the un

convention on the rights of the child is that right that's true it's the most widely subscribed of all the human rights treaties and and up into a little while ago it was just the u.s. and somalia now it's just the u.s. right not to do this practice of separating families but it does amount to unlawful . interference in in family life doesn't it and is a serious violation of the rights of the child yes absolutely it's a violation of the range children should not be separated from their families and should not be detained for either of their own offenses are for their parents migration benson's under any circumstances all right so what is the u.n. saying about this. well look we have to look at the perspective that the u.s. government is putting forward here of course the u.s. government has a responsibility to protect its borders and and nothing in human rights law would stand in the way of them doing that but the question is how you do it and what they've said is that they need to do this because of an overwhelming number and

they've implied that this is the only way to do it and both of those premises this is not the case there is not a huge upsurge in numbers the number is historically about the same as it has been in the past it's more than twenty seventeen but the same with twenty sixteen and the reality is there are all sorts of other ways in which they could handle these these families that are coming across many of them under very dire circumstances you know people are not being in the attorney general's world smuggled in children are not being smuggled in they're being brought because their parents see that there is risk to the children and risk to their families so it's the u.n. at united states has to adopt a policy that's consistent with the best interest of the child and there are lots of ways to do that that don't violate the standard all right so what are you calling the u.s. authorities to do. well there's really a tuple problem here one is the trump administration policy that sets

a zero tolerance for all immigration situations and says that they're going to criminalize this rather than treated as a ministry of civil offense and that everybody will be detained that's problematic they should be looking at non custodial matters because that's sort of the crux of the problem once you decide to detain all the parents then you do have a much bigger problem as to what you do with the children if they have children with them so that's one side the second piece of course is that even under those circumstances if you have families with children you have to find another way to deal with that there are non-custodial ways you can separate out those cases and you can treat children humanely which is consistent with u.s. values in so many different ways including its support for families overall take a really good to talk to many thanks indeed for being with us that's peggy hicks the city a director with the un human rights office in geneva thank you hungary's parliament as debating laws that would criminalize people who help undocumented migrants

navigate the system it's part of a crackdown on immigration by prime minister viktor orban rightwing government shortly john a whole joins us live from budapest but first here's his report. where once there was an open border of the european union now there's an electrified fence migrants and refugees still trying to enter europe welcome in hungary alone slide win in parliamentary elections in april has encouraged prime minister viktor orban and his feet as party to go further despite protests by the e.u. and local activist groups a new law is being debated that would criminalize any supporting clued in legal advice given to asylum seekers who do make it through access to justice and due process their fundamental values and this legislation specifically targets that saying asylum seekers shouldn't be helped because if you help. you face the risk of

being thrown in jail. i put that to mr all band spokesman your question implies there. that are active and operating the borders to both sides of the borders or if it's about migration are humanitarian organizations and. are finding is that they are actively promoting migration at the borders of europe. but where are these mainly muslim illegal migrants that state run media relentlessly warned during the election campaign would flood hungary and undermine its christian values the advance of victor and his policies has proved unstoppable in three consecutive parliamentary elections meanwhile the advance of muslim migration on this society has been pretty comprehensively stopped at what is now hungary's heavily fortified southern border it is as if this new legislation is aimed less abt illegal migrants and more at civil society which brings us to the other great fear that stalks

hungary's prime minister the billionaire financier george soros and the network of liberal minded n.g.o.s he supports he made it. clear what kind of future he thinks of europe he's pro democracy he's probably. right the kind of democracy in the form of democracy he promotes and his organizations are promoting are very far from real democracy because they rely or would like to relight so-called n.g.o.s that have been founded and financed by the shore and the like minded people the new measures being debated are collectively known as the stop soros bill in anticipation of difficult times the soros funded open society foundations announced last week it was pulling out of hungary that's a loss to free thinking society but a win for one of europe's most illiberal governments that now looks unassailable but those new laws are being debated in parliament in budapest from joins us now

live. adrian the vote when it comes in a couple of weeks' time will be something of a formality in that parliament building behind me but let's talk about the consequences i'm joined by julia yvonne she's the director of amnesty international here in hungary thanks so much for joining us let's be honest this is in the end a breach of basic rights it's also a breach of international law or an asylum isn't it it is because if this draft law is adopted by the anger in parliament it will basically raise asylum from hungary and legal institutions it's going to forbit to permit. protection for anyone who comes from a safe third country which means that basically from damascus someone should teleport him or herself to budapest to be granted refugee status this is unacceptable and also even when they do get here absolutely no help can be given to anybody not even food that's the other problematic point with this draft no it's criminalizes those who help refugees it threatens us human rights defenders to be

put in prison which is completely unacceptable in the e.u. member states in two thousand and eighteen julia to what extent does it do you think affect the wider activities of n.g.o.s and civil society in this country we are afraid of people will be discouraged from being activists from being supportive of the right causes of you know being humanitarian of being philanthropists so this is a very very harmful and very serious risk on a democratic society we are if we are afraid of losing a good part of of an independent civil society in hungary well in that sense i've heard concerns that this is essentially just an end of the wedge that today we're talking about refugees and migrants tomorrow maybe it's minorities then ethnic groups then freedom of speech and so it goes it could be anyone it could be people it could be those who are for you know environmental activists or the roma community or religious communities such as the jewish community so we've seen very

bad examples in the in the history. we've also seen the criminalization of lawyers for doing their work in the fifty's which was the darkest communist times in hungary we're going to leave it there thank you so much such is life from the perspective certainly of the human rights organizations and civil society in or burns hungary back to germany thanks to jonah hell the live in budapest time to get some weather stuff is looks pretty nice in budapest much of europe enjoying some sunshine a lot of sunshine lots of rather warm weather but if you catch a shower well don't underestimate it that's all i'll say because all of these areas of cloud look very small off satellite picture but where you do see the clouds there's often a lot of thunder reactivity with it in fact i've got a picture showing you where all the lightning strikes i can see plenty over the southern parts of france there and across into spain but then you look at those over the eastern parts of europe so it's not like

a christmas tree there is plenty of money in fact in the last twenty four hours we've had three hundred fifty thousand lightning strikes across europe and of course this has been going on for weeks now we've had plenty of sunshine and plenty of thunderstorms in that fun china as well so the thunderstorms certainly are severe these for me a nice showing a funnel cloud that's developing there and then the showers that we saw in the northwestern parts of france in lamar well they gave us some flooding so clearly the showers a very potent and this still with us in fact here they are as we head through the day on wednesday plenty more of them all the way across france and further east and further north the stock home here it has been very very warm with also being very warm in norway as well we saw the temperature as high as thirty degrees higher than we've even seen images read the so far this year incredibly hot the temperatures are easing a bit you can see twelve degrees there remote but then the temperatures rise once more and it looks like this hot under a spell is set to stick around adrian. is either with

a cold lovely many many thanks steph this is that from our. still to come on the program. we were all yelling run and get out because some people didn't believe what was happening the bleak picture following a volcanic eruption that killed at least sixty five people in guatemala. rights groups reveal evidence that the u.s. may have committed war crimes in syria. at a formal my just a city has some haas were harsh words about the club's title winning manager the details in around fifteen minutes in sport.

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it is good to have you with us holloway three and for going to hear into how this is the news hour from al-jazeera our top stories iraq is those who find the u.n. of its plans to accelerate the early stages of uranium enrichment to iran's atomic energy organization says that it's begun working on infrastructure for building advanced centrifuges but it's not tense facility. others insisting that it won't back down a year into a blockade imposed by saudi arabia the u.a.e. bahrain and egypt the foreign minister says that his country won't be intimidated by reports of saudi threats of military action if by is a defense system from russia and the u.n. human rights office is calling on the u.s. to immediately halt its policy of separating migrant children from their parents it says that detention should be the last resort for those escaping countries where violence would give them the right to international protection. spain's former

prime minister says that he'll resign as leader of his people's party his decision comes less than a week after he was forced out of government following a corruptions. involving dozens of party members socialist prime minister petro sanchez took over on friday after part of a pasta a no confidence motion against both ways government let's go live now to madrid zeros david chase is there for us david what's said about why he's stepping down. what he's said adrian little political careers and didn't but the end of money on a holy was to keep the peace with you mediate see he was reaching senior party members here at the headquarters of the people's body in madrid but he came up with all this and had a very unexpected resignation statement it was an emotional farewell and many of

the people in the audience and delegates were very surprised that he didn't decide to carry on at least for a while until a government is formed at the sanchez in his position as need of the people's body but he said no it was time for him to move on and for fresh leadership to take up the bathroom and the challenge for the people's party and in the end i think it was the the complete shadow of the of what the judges described as institutionalized corruption within the people's party that forced his resignation but he couldn't help but. give a few political bobs that the new. socialist prime minister petro sanchez he said that spain was facing a very uncertain future and federal sanchez was leading a very weak government in fact he described it as a frankenstein government and he said he'd chosen some very dangerous traveling

companions that is of course the boston actions otty in the catherine separatists who backed sanchez is motion of no confidence in the hallway which has forced his resignation given the whiff of scandal the hands. the the people's party who's likely to take on the mantle of leadership. well i'm no prophet on that there are many contenders but most of the observers now are looking more at how the process of reconciliation or negotiation will go with with the catalans separatist issues well he started speaking at last to the new capital and head of the recent administration in barcelona at kim taught and they have been in contact and it's thought that as soon as possible that meeting will be arranged but behind all of that of course is as you said who will the people's

party chooses their new leader what attack mode will they take they'll be highly critical of trying to reinvigorate their opposition and they'll try and undermine anything that headrest sanchez does to change the situation with the catalan separatists david many thanks di don't exist david chase of them live in madrid. italy's new prime minister is promising radical changes his government faces of those of confidence and whether it can take power prime minister is happy conti has presented his plans to the centers of broome county declared the european union's immigration policy a failure and demanded that it be renegotiated. rescuers in guatemala continuing to try to reach remote areas of the volcano destroyed villages and killed at least sixty five people thousands more have been forced to leave homes al-jazeera is david reports now from the packages. in the village of send me get

this there's evidence of destruction everywhere a massive volcanic eruption unleashed a torrent of lava mud an ash which engulfed the community the flow raced down the side of the flag a volcano giving people little time to escape rescue workers struggled to find bodies many of which were buried inside their houses. access is very difficult and it's really hot in the places we're trying to dig bodies out of the ash the deeper you dig the more intensely. by morning the scale of the disaster was becoming clear the volcanic mudflows buried entire families this is the epicenter of the fly and it's the focus of the rescue efforts right now rescue workers pouring out across this area going into houses and poking out bodies in just fifteen minutes we've seen four bodies bowl poll out there's not a lot of hope for survivors. sunday's volcanic eruption shot ashmore than six

kilometers into the sky and sent lava streaming down a highway it was the flag of volcanoes most powerful eruption in decades more than three thousand people fled to temporary shelters but while they might be out of harm's way the memories still linger oh it wasn't going to be we were all yelling run get out because some people didn't believe what was happening so many people died it was horrible all we have left is what we were able to carry what almost president visited the site on monday he promised to release government funds to help with reconstruction dating the family in the. until the early hours of the morning to ensure that all the legality of the nuclear weapons are functioning not just to go back to the congress to put the sources into opposition with complete transparency but for many of those who survived it's difficult to imagine what it will take to recover the scale of this disaster is simply too great david mercer

al-jazeera second the pec is what amala at least eleven people have been killed in a mine explosion in the north east of china state media says that twenty five people are still trapped underground and or mine in downing province a vehicle carrying explosives is reported to have blown up at the entrance nine people are reported to be injured us president donald trump's former campaign manager has been accused of witness tampering prosecutors say the poor man if it tried repeatedly to contact two people who may be witnesses against him while he's on bail he's been indicted on charges including money laundering tax fraud and failing to register as a foreign agent special counsel robert mueller is asking a judge to revoke his bail and to send benefit to jail while he awaits trial. and a terrorist strikes by the u.s. and its allies targeted civilians in the syrian city of raka the.