when i won the homes are still being evacuated in guatemala three days. at least ninety nine people have been killed and hundreds are missing rescuers have been assisting through heart in search of survivors david mercer reports from the disaster zone. trapped in a state of uncertainty the family gathers together to wait for news of their loved ones daughter sons brothers nieces and nephews haven't been seen since the flag over ok knows violent to rupture now more than three days have passed since the deadly explosions and the family is prepared for the worst so what he had on this he say spared going to sixteen people died in the house there will be another good everyone together in just one single house. we still haven't heard anything about them but. rather than wait for news out of road decided to join the search he

walked for hours to the disaster zone hoping to get close to his brother's house but the ash was too hot and the house too far up the volcano alberto was forced to turn back but alvarado isn't the only one who put himself at risk to search for his missing family on tuesday we met others looking for answers in the disaster zone. where you're from where this man was searching for his pregnant daughter and given to me. my daughter lived here but nobody has found her that's why we're here struggling to find her her husband of thirteen family members living with them and they're also missing. hundreds of people from the town of san miguel is last days are still missing but with the meters thick layer of ash and mud carpeting much of the town the hope of finding survivors is gone now the question is how to prevent more disasters like this one is the most. i mean i mean there's a lot of folk and it may. that is built up we calculate is around fifteen to twenty

kilometers with the material you make of this material needs to come out and the more material accumulates it will also have to come out this is a recipient for disaster. this tragedy has brought guatemalans together in a country beset by natural disasters uncertainty about the future is one feeling shared by all david mercer al-jazeera a little mango what a model for hawaii's kilauea volcano has been erupting for more than a month but experts say the past twenty four hours have been devastating lava has reached the big island's coast swallowing communities and destroying at least eighty buildings and he gallagher reports. plumes of toxic gas rise off the coast of hawaii big island as a landscape succumbs to the power of killer whales for more than a month a volcano has been spewing lava consuming hundreds of homes in its path and

changing this unique community for good many residents have lost everything you got a pretty good sense of loss and bad and then you know are you can do is pick up on your wall experts say there are at least twenty four separate fishes each venting toxic gases and lava top of hoby each one of the islands most popular destinations has been all but wiped out this one's picturesque but he is now filled with molten rock most residents of evacuated but officials say some are refusing to leave you still have some people. who. make up their own minds in decide that maybe they don't need to evacuate when civil authorities tell them that they should evacuate so far around two and a half thousand residents have been evacuated to get away with showing no signs of slowing down and the gallacher al-jazeera. still ahead on al-jazeera. i'm john hendren in quebec where donald trump is expected to have

a showdown with world leaders on trade. we do is all about trying to create change and trying to make the world more just and the vision that lives on fifty years after the death of bobby kennedy. welcome back a look at the weather across the americas this time so as we look at the weather across north america you can see we've got an area of client across the upper midwest and through into the canadian prairie so some showers are likely here too in the course of the eastern seaboard is all looking fine much of the west is also looking pretty reasonable for the brain over the rockies but no big deal and then as i move the forecast on see that system begins to move further towards the south and east certainly for she could be a wet day at times of heavy rain but with us southerly flow is still looking pretty

warm that washington d.c. in the upper twenty's meanwhile down in the caribbean region you see was still a fair amount of cloud across cuba and towards the bahamas but otherwise jenny weather conditions not looking too bad despite the cloud the still be enough sunshine for lights of kingston jamaica there with highs of thirty two through central america still plenty of rain looking pretty wet at the moment and that rainy stand southwards once you get further north you can turn potential in mexico looks fine plenty of sunshine but mexico city could see the old shower so heading down into south america we've got some heavy showers still across venezuela northern parts of brazil and towards ecuador and colombia further south we've also got a weather front just affecting southern parts of it still so rio could be closed it stands for the chance of showers in the mice and temperature of twenty five. a year is passed since the start of the blockade. cosmos foreign minister talks to

al-jazeera about the impact of the crisis on regional politics. and how his country is coping with. hello again the top stories on al jazeera iraq's parliament has ordered a manual recount of every vote cost in last month's parliamentary elections after accusations of widespread fraud and this comes a day after prime minister high deadlock baddie's said there had been serious

violations and banned high ranking election commission officials from leaving the country the president of argentina's football association has apologized for canceling a friendly match with israel saying player safety was at stake palestinians who protested against the game being held in jerusalem which is a contested city bones are still being evacuated in guatemala where go volcano continues to erupt at least ninety nine people have been killed and hundreds of gone missing since sunday xerox and. leaders from the g seven countries are heading to canada for a meeting which could be a difficult one for u.s. president donald trump his decisions to unilaterally withdraw from the iran nuclear deal and impose tariffs on e.u. countries canada and others are causing a rift in the group the meeting may be one of the last opportunities to avert what appears to be a looming trade war john hendren reports from québec city. the gathering of world

leaders was supposed to be is celebration but instead of highlighting the global economic expansion the talk at this year's g.'s evans summit is all about diverting the trade with. the great disruptor donald trump and his america first agenda levying tariffs of twenty five percent on steel and ten percent on aluminum coming from allies in canada mexico and europe the trouble ministration has managed to alienate systematically almost all of the allies who would be involved in this so canada mexico the european union are new additions it is going to be a tense meeting i would imagine canada's prime minister displayed in diplomatic anger and announced retaliatory sanctions somehow this is insulting to them the idea that the canadian steel that seven military military vehicles in the united states the canadian aluminum that makes here at your fighter jets is somehow now a threat the idea that we are somehow

a national security threat to the united states is quite frankly insulting and unacceptable. europe's leaders are also irate and threatening sanctions on a litany of iconic american products from levi's jeans to kentucky bourbon to harley davidson motorcycles. all made in the republican states trump needs to keep his party in control of congress in this year's midterm elections instead of celebrating their usual unity diplomats from seven of the world's largest economies are scrambling for common ground there was consensus under trump's predecessor barack obama on iran and climate change now there's a budding trade war that threatens to turn allies into adversary but some analysts expect a last minute agreement to avert an escalating trade conflict it's mostly done for posturing and because trump sees this as part of his base is particular the swing voters in midwestern states that got him elected and he wants

to show or pretend that he's doing something but again i don't think these tariffs will stick with it a family photo of world leaders that traditionally ends the meeting depicts an awkward alliance with the usual show of unity is largely up to the man from washington john hendren al-jazeera quebec city. well the u.s. defense secretary has played down the impact of a trade war james mattis said the tariffs won't damage security ties the fact that there are disagreements i recognize make new all the harmony of what's going on the growth and budget that's not new you know that that's what we expect but we will focus it's almost like you have an orchestra play and you've also got classic will address the no problem you know they wake everybody up and. nod off from the audience you know but at the not refute the fact that the violin harmony and for

a lot of other three. the japanese prime minister has arrived in washington to make sure tokyo's concerns are not forgotten at the historic u.s. north korea summit next week we'll have two hours to put his points to president donald trump before they both leave for that g. seven summit in canada japan has a u.s. ally has been absent from recent dealings with north korea and its concern trump could make concessions like agreeing to reduce the american military presence in the region well the u.s. has evacuated two more employees from its consulates in the chinese city of. they appeared to have the same symptoms as their callie who sustained a brain injury more than two weeks ago u.s. secretary state my campaign says it was a result of a sonic attack similar to last year's cases in cuba florence louis has more from beijing. this could turn out to be more serious than previously thought a u.s.

medical team is currently in the southern city of congo conducting medical screenings on u.s. government workers those u.s. diplomats and their families who've already been sent home from china complained about the same symptoms suffered by their colleagues in cuba including hearing loss north sea air and headaches those same diplomats and their families in cuba were later diagnosed with minus signs of brain injury including concussions and china has yet to comment on the latest cases but it had said and this is in relation to the first case offered by the u.s. a u.s. diplomat last month has already been sent home that it had no explanation for the case now and these illnesses come at a time when ties between the u.s. and china are becoming increasingly strained for a number of reasons one is trade the u.s. and china are in the midst of trade talks to avert a possible trade war where both are threatening to slap tit for tat tariffs on about one hundred fifty billion dollars worth of goods each and then those job

paula takes with the u.s. recently uninvited china from taking part in a naval exercise in the south china sea citing china's militarization of parts of the disputed south china sea and finally you have the upcoming summit in singapore where u.s. president donald trump is due to meet north korean leader kim jong un in just a couple of days the two are going to talk about nuclear disarmament of north korea and the success of those talks in part will depend on cooperation from china a very close ally of north korea. spain's prime minister has unveiled his new cabinet and it's dominated by women petra sanchez has appointed eleven top posts including deputy prime minister of economy and justice six men have been chosen including a former astronaut as science minister sanchez was sworn in on saturday after ousting his predecessor mariano to hold and no confidence vote over

a corruption scandal u.s. is warning the united arab emirates against launching a proposed offensive to capture yemen's hyundai the ports the red sea port is the main lifeline for getting much needed aid supplies into the war torn country the saudi military says the yemeni government forces as part of a coalition with the u.a.e. are now within ten kilometers of the hole with the controlled city u.n. experts are warning of a humanitarian crisis if the military assault against the area gets underway. the former chief executive of cambridge analytical has refused to answer questions about the extensive use of people's information on facebook speaking to a u.k. parliamentary committee alexander next blamed the global liberal media for the collapse of his data consultancy firm cambridge and america is accused of mishandling the data more than eighty million facebook users to help manipulate

election results in several countries. i'm sorry if members of this committee are on happy with the outcome of the referendum i'm sorry it moves its. way to go from being president of the united states but you can't simply. put forward your prejudices onto me and make sweeping assumptions about. our involvement with a particular campaign simply because that's what you want to believe because that narrative your view of the facts. evidence to. a conspiracy theory. half a century ago u.s. senator robert f. kennedy was shot to respect each and los angeles he would die the next day and today many people are convinced that kennedy's political talents would have made him want to america's greatest presidents rosalynn jordan looks back at his legacy

. robert kennedy was everything a working class hero wasn't supposed to be but in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight with the country in political and social chaos kennedy supporters thought he could be the president the nation needed you don't really care if he won or lost he salt. he was all about trying to create change and trying to make the world more just change mantra ending the war in vietnam stopping racism and discrimination and erasing harvard he from every corner of the country history may not repeat but it often rhymes conditions are different now but a lot of the anxiety that swept through the country in one nine hundred sixty eight echoes the anxiety of today. kennedy's early career was linked to that of his brother the president but john's assassination in one thousand nine hundred sixty three pushed him into the spotlight and martin luther king's killing in one

thousand nine hundred sixty eight kept him there he was on his own he wasn't his job had been to take care of his brother in no it was robert kennedy doing what he thought was the best thing to do kennedy entered the race i am announcing today my candidacy. for the pregnancy of the united states among his opposition to the law and order candidate richard nixon and senator eugene mccarthy who opposed vietnam it took a chat with a mccarthy supporter to make kennedy more willing to mildly call for an end to the war he said i'm getting all of for eternity boys who make scenes and and mccarthy is getting all the a students i want to know why that's true moreover kennedy's popularity soared because people believed he understood their struggles my thanks to all of you and now it's on to chicago in life with. but then a gunman shot kennedy on june fifth at

a campaign rally his presidency would never be well i think that that sense. of love primarily certainly and and the quest for social justice as an expression. on this are robert francis kennedy dead at age forty two but his vision of a better world lives on i dream things that never were and say why not roslyn jordan al-jazeera washington. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera iraq's parliament has ordered a manual recount of every vote in last month's parliamentary elections after accusations of widespread fraud it comes a day after prime minister has said there had been serious violations and banned

high ranking election commission officials from leaving the country the vice president of the argentine football association along with other members of the team have welcomed a move to cancel a friendly match with israel the decision comes off the pressure mounted from pro palestine activists who say israel is sports washing its crimes against palestinians the president of argentina's football association did apologize for canceling that match saying player safety was at stake palestinians who protested against the match being held in jerusalem over fears that will normalize israel's claim to the contested city business owners in the capital are calling for a national strike to pressure the government and its violent crackdown on protesters nearly one hundred thirty people have been killed since demonstrations began in april at apollo has more from the capital. what we're really seeing the biggest impact to the economy here and you could i well is when it comes to the tourism sector because the guy was been working for years trying to build up this

reputation as the safe country as his popular tourism destination for all of the travels all around the world and if you look around the city and if you look to to some of the more popular tourist cities like that now then later on there's been a lot. in these cities and there's just no tourism that compiled with the travel warnings from different from from different governments that you can really see that the media impact on the tourism sector here and he got out the homes are still being evacuated in guatemala volcano continues to erupt at least ninety nine people have been killed and hundreds have gone missing since sunday as of rupp's and villages surrounding the volcano have been destroyed spain's prime minister has unveiled his new cabinet and it's dominated by women heather sanchez has appointed eleven top posts including deputy prime minister economy and justice six men have been chosen including a former astronaut a science minister talked to al jazeera is next.

in this. each one a story. one. that. he's going to be. with. you may be. on. the world is watching with anticipation the first meeting of a sitting u.s. president and the leader of north korea is set for june the twelfth in singapore. bringing the breakthrough to reduce a global nuclear threat find out on al-jazeera. in the world it is all for me it isn't easy.

it's been the years in saudi arabia the united arab emirates behind in egypt imposed a blockade on carter cutting off land sea and links so how is the state of qatar the world's largest exporter of natural gas coping with the crisis. and what's the impact on the region's future. i'm sammy's a down in talking to carter's foreign minister about one year on from the worst diplomatic crisis in the gulf cooperation council history one hundred been our. talks while dizzier my. it's been years since a blockade was imposed on carter and this anniversary is marked with a resurgence of threats against your country i'm sure you're aware of the reports that talk about the saudi king sending a letter to the french president in which a threat was made that carter would face military action from saudi arabia if your

country purchases russian missiles do you believe that qatar could face an attack from saudi arabia. first for just let us make it very clear that. the posture of. any military equipment is a sovereign decision which no country has. anything to do with so there is no illegitimate it leave this behind this letter and threatening violating the international law by writing all the international norms and. most importantly it's violating. g.c.c. charter which is the countries of the g.c.c. should not launch and the attack against each other so we believe that this letter has no any legal basis to justify. any action we have been subject to a unilateral measure which was taken by by the saudis unfortunately as reckless

behavior from what do you make of the saudi claim that it would disturb the balance of power that represents an escalation for cutter to obtain the s four hundred says well it's unfortunate that they see this as destabilisation because qatar is not representing any threat for the saudis but what most importantly we have to look at the behavior of the saudis since the past year when we see the actions how it's going in yemen or what they have done with the prime minister and the recently. the president of france himself he said that he saved the country. region from a war by helping in raising the prime minister of lebanon so this is something that they have been continuing as a pattern in their behavior do you see this report according to the information you have do you believe this report in the press that saudi the saudi king really made

this threat do you think it's credible world we are seeking for a form of confirmation from the french government and received any response one of they said their response. should be to more if it's confirmed what would your response be to the saudis we are going to respond legally by. as a response of a country that this is not violating international law and as a threat for our country which is not acceptable by the international community does cotta need to take any defensive military steps in light of this reported thrill we are going to take all the necessary action to defend our country but it's like well what do you controversy this is first of all this is not there is no any serious military threat out of this but it's the way it's been used to justify. 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 a legal blockade we are going to seek all the international fora to make sure that this behavior is not repeated one year on does carter face the threat of military invasion from anyone for the last year there was an announcement by they made of quid himself that he prevented a military action in the region. after the blockade of qatar and we have heard several countries reported the same thing that was unfortunately i thought it was coming from the region but since. since september we have seen that those threats being eliminated and thanks for all the friends and allies not hers that make make sure that region states well this is going to be my next question is who do you credit amongst your friends and allies for blocking these attempts or reported

attempts to invade caught or our friends and allies played a positive role in this in preventing any escalation from taking place in the region because they understand that there is and cannot afford further discussion saw our friends in the region like turkey. and iran and kuwait of course. as well as europe and united states come back to that point in a minute if i may but i'm curious to know will carter go ahead and buy the s. four hundred missile system or are you are tall rethinking that in light of these reported threat. made all the options open for its defense for its defense procurement so we are seeking the best quality 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 for how this is and where you are so this is subject to the evaluation of the military people it's not a decision which will be taken in light off that letter of that threat has

absolutely no bearing no political bearing on the decision on whether you. went into country and that's protecting its independence this is would not be a subject for any compromise issue but there is a long standing ally of the united states of america you have a lot of american and western hardware in your military forces why do you think carter needs now russian military systems is that an indication at all of perhaps your feeling or carter's feeling that he needs to diversify some of your foreign alliances just mission to. cut out of the furnace. department is evaluating all the different options we are a longstanding ally and we are not going to compromise our alliance would be nice to switches order number one. military ally we have a military alliance with several other countries as well it's part of the first letter g. the option is to procure any defense equipment will be subject to that

a difference. but has anything changed i guess is my question in the last year we've seen for example more turkish troops deployed in qatar we've heard an announcement that turkish air and naval forces will be at some point deployed in carter. there was a cooperation deal signed military cooperation deal or ammo you signed with russia in december carter announced deals to buy jets from france from the u.k. i mean if you put all this together is it would one be justified in saying that in the last year carter is sought to perhaps diversify some of its friendships the military alliance first before turkey is. any to member and we have a strong strategic relationship and partnership with with turkey and also france or you ok they have been part of our of the first system. since dec it's nice to us

as well where we where we horst the largest u.s. air base outside more than eleven thousand u.s. troops so all this diversification is nothing and you are taught that we are hosting the center of command of the content of the. coalition and you have no worries that you can still count on the u.s. there is your traditional ally. the u.s. has been a longstanding partner with and qatar has been committed and the u.s. has been committed to this partnership do you believe that if faced any military action do you believe the u.s. would come to your aid if you needed. our defense cooperation with the nicest we highly appreciate it but the first line of protection for the state of qatar is that property can abilities. with all due respect they can't match the capabilities of saudi arabia and the u.a.e. . the u.s.

defense cooperation agreement is stated very clear that the u.s. will. be in qatar is if it's its will be required and this is also stated in order joint communique when we have conducted this so i think that dialogue in and of january and also and the joint defense. collaboration which we have signed. you'll still confident that will be the u.s. position even in this era of change in the u.s. the us understand very well the region cannot afford to further escalation and the us is a strong ally for qatar and for the other g.c.c. run but they have played a positive and constructive role so is this a bloc at this started and we are counting their constructive vote to be continued as well i'm glad you mentioned the u.s. role there if we think back to perhaps some of the early statements by the u.s. president don't trump on june the ninth he was talking about how the nation of qatar has historically he said been a funder of terrorism at a very high level on a probably tenth of this year we heard a different tone from the u.s.

president when he referred to meir of carter as a friend of mine and quote a gentleman do you see a change not so much in the overall u.s. position but particularly and specifically the white house position on carter will . the u.s. position is the u.s. institutions and administration has been since this illegal measures been taken against the state of qatar remember very supportive to me in calling for the escalation and for unity within the g.c.c. . the president at the beginning of the question is not reflecting. what we are as a single evaluating our relation with the us based on. the president has been informed by his institutions about the relation between qatar and the united states and. we have very strong and very constructive. engagement with the president

himself and the president himself here he has spent a lot of efforts in the escalating the situation and calling for to begin to tee off the g.c.c. trying to convene a meeting between the g.c.c. countries in order to feel that that can reach a solution you've had has. has it had an impact on the white house has had an impact on the u.s. president and perhaps softened his position the communication mainly happen between within the us system but our communication command at the highest level. since this crisis started and the us president himself from the first call with the beginning of the crisis he expressed his support for this relationship and his desire for this relationship to continue. to be stronger and calling for the unity or for that you see as well following the blockade a number of other nations from chad in as.