alliance with the usual show of unity is largely up to the man from washington john hendren zero city let's talk more about this with very powerful who is director of the brant scowcroft center on international security. council he joins me now live from washington d.c. thanks very much for coming on to al-jazeera as john was saying there it's almost like president trumps turning the well that side down now taken izing the allies over everything from tariffs and and climate change in iran deal and making nice with authoritarians could this calculation backfire. i think it's already backfiring we saw the statement today from six of the g seven i called it on twitter the birth of the g six where they signed a statement talking about common values free trade rule of law longstanding ties i mean the united states actions are serving to self isolate it and to reduce our

influence and i understand the approach of posturing in gaining leverage points before you sit down at the table to get a better deal but these are our allies and i think one could sit down and drive a pretty hard bargain quietly with friends these are not adversaries where you need to use a megaphone and come at them and talk about national security threats from canadian steel it's almost as if he's saying that the other nations in the g seven need the united states more than the other way around is that a risky thing to do. i mean it in some areas this is a general strategy that i see the trump administration taking its high risk high reward and i think on north korea one could argue it has led to the potential opportunity of a century as some have called it but i think we should be treating our allies very differently the united states is the only country that has a global network of allies and partners that is really our greatest asset and has

helped secure the peace and prosperity since world war two more than almost anything else that has led to this unprecedented period in human history you start to not tend to that to not cherish it to not treat it the way it should be treated as close minded longstanding allies who share values and they are not going to be with us when we really need them after the next nine eleven style attack people all over the world have had to president america first policy do you think in some respects he is risking america's reputation as a glow believe by the way he's behaving only is different. now that unfortunate that's exactly what i'm what i'm saying is to be a leader you need followers and there is no doubt that the united states fundamentals of its power in the world are still very very strong in a number of ways but i think the administration's actions have led to

a growing and strong perception that we are an unreliable nation and when we even commit to something it could that commitment could be undone very shortly thereafter and so i think it's really important for the strongest country in the world still to start establishing a pattern of reliability and of treating its allies like allies very grateful for your time on perspective on this five a thanks very much for joining us. a meanwhile the united states has struck a deal with the chinese telecoms giant said t e to enter massive sanctions that threaten its survival as n.t. was punished for deals with iran and north korea in a settlement includes a one billion dollars penalty and accepting a whole new board of directors imposed by the united states they do for the new dusun two billion dollars the opposing those road up front we have them put four

hundred million dollars grow food total deal was a billion four hundred million that money will be for food if anything whether it's morning or slowing trims or only thing you know. we still return in the power to short the good with much more to come on this news hour bishop's office to broker peace between nicaragua as president and protesters after months of violent demonstrations russia's president in the hot seat for his annual found in with the public but this year things went on a little differently and peter will tell you how the warriors put themselves within a win of the n.b.a. title. there are reports of a new effort to end the three year long conflict in yemen where a saudi led coalition is backing the government against toothy rebels the reuters

news agency says a un special envoy has put forward a peace plan proposing the who sees hand in that weapons including ballistic missiles in exchange for an end to the coalition coalition bombing campaign it also refers to a transitional government with all political factions equally represented the u.a.e. has hinted that it would support a plan meanwhile the red cross says it's pulling seventy one staff out of yemen because of security incidents and threats concerns are mounting of a possible offensive to. take the port of her data from the who says the ports is the main lifeline for humanitarian aid into the war zone country pro-government forces backed by the u.a.e. which is part of the saudi led coalition fighting hooty rebels have closed in on the city on wednesday they dropped leaflets telling people to rise up against the who says the u.n. says any assault on the city well have dire humanitarian consequences the u.s.

is also warning against an offensive to capture the ports. international organization for migration says around ninety percent of high yemen's food has to be imported with seventy percent coming through data about ninety percent of its fuel also has to be imported half of that comes through her data. ports and is a point of entry for much needed medical supplies and other essentials with more than twenty two million people in need of. the international organization for migration describes the situation in yemen as a hidden crisis the country is a transit point for thousands of refugees and migrants trying to find work but as mohammed evolve imports many die on the way their voyage started from the port of bosaso in somalia on tuesday headed for yemen but they'll smuggle a boat never made it to shore these pictures of survivors believed to be each open were provided by the international organization for migration the boat capsized

that they break off the coast of yemen as boat city of aden on wednesday from over one hundred migrants on board nearly two thirds drowned forty six confirmed dead and sixteen are missing it's the latest in a series of similar accidents involving african refugees and migrants trying to reach yemen. the iowan estimates more than seven thousand people take a dangerous journey every month it says they face difficult conditions and appalling treatment at the hands of people traffickers there's an awful lot of the use of these migrants and they come across they don't necessarily have as many resources as those comical west africa do but the my at the those predating on the nose picking up on the role of the take the most sellers and torture them are doing exactly the same thing they're burning plastic bottles out of their skin getting to call their families back home in ethiopia primarily so they'll send whatever they can quite often it might be twenty fifty dollars is nothing in january last year three hundred people were thrown into the sea by smugglers off yemen

a southern province of szabo in the gulf of aden most of them teenagers from somalia and ethiopia more than one hundred of them drowned pushed by war and poverty in the horn of africa many choose yemen because of its proximity and with the hope they can cross into wealthiest table gov countries in search of better living conditions but in yemen they're often kept in miserable detention centers and face systematic deportation on saturday one hundred thirty each o.p.'s were sent back to the country from the port of who data human is already devastated by a civil war that's led to what the u.n. calls the worst humanitarian crisis and the chaos resulting from that conflict especially around the state of baba meant that has made the area even more risky for refugees one hundred five hundred zero zero. turkey has suspended a deal with greece which allows athens to return refugees and migrants cross from turkey is in italy ation greece's refusal earlier this week to allow the

extradition of eight turkish offices who fled to greece after the twenty sixteen crew at least twenty people have been killed after a joint test reich's by syrian and russian. president shall area of the rebel held village of sadhana in a province and is one hundred people were injured in the strikes many rebels and civilians are being moved to the province as part of a cease fire deal ending fighting in other parts of syria. a man who carried out a lorry attack which killed five people in sweden last year has been jailed for life. from his becky's down over a stolen truck into a crowd of shoppers in the capital stock home last april the thirty nine year old expressed sympathy for i so i was sentenced on terror related charges archelaus had had his bid for asylum rejected before the attack. suspended rescue efforts around saying rain on the hot volcanic material and making it too dangerous

prosecutors have ordered an investigation into the official handling of sunday's eruption after the national disaster agency was criticized for not warning people in time of the danger from the volcano at least ninety nine people. david meserve reports from the disaster. trapped in a state of uncertainty the tamal family gathers together to wait for news of their loved ones daughter sons brothers nieces and nephews haven't been seen since the fire go volcanoes violent a rupture and now more than three days have passed since the deadly explosions and the family is prepared for the worst similar yet on this he says going to sixteen people died in the house there will be a brotherhood even went to giving just one single house and they all didn't we still haven't heard anything about them. 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 want to print itself 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 a lot is are still missing but with them 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 of the most more so many i mean

there's a lot of boccanegra to that is built up we calculate is around fifteen to twenty kilometers worth of material the material needs to come out and the more material accumulates it will also have to come out this is a resupply to 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 allowed to go what amala. a group of bishops in nicaragua is meeting president daniel ortega in an effort to stop the continuing violence across the country the bishops will discuss resuming church mediated talks between the government and protesters more than one hundred thirty people have been killed since mid april in violence between forces loyal to president or taken and opposition groups demanding his removal man already sent us this update from an aqua. where we are now is on the road between my now i walk and

must side of these cars that are passing by or humanitarian workers members of the catholic church but are actually the only vehicles that are allowed to pass along this highway if you look down the road here to my right there are several barricades we're talking about dozens of barricades that we've seen as we've been making our way toward must saya messiahs the city where a lot of the violence has been concentrated over the course of the last few days amidst the unrest here in the guy what's become a sort of symbol of the resistance against the government of president daniel ortega this is where we've seen the majority of the violence now in terms of where the negotiations in the peace talks are at this point the archdiocese the catholic church had set up a dialogue between civil society and members of the government on may sixteenth those talks deteriorated quite rapidly because of the ongoing violence in the crackdown against protesters here in the can i was the catholic church bishops have announced today that they will once again be meeting with members of the government

to negotiate the terms of a renewed talks and we will be monitoring the situation to see whether or not there will be more violence which is what doctors in the medical in the medical community are expecting or some sort of peaceful outcome to this unrest and he said i would like them at putin has held his annual direct line t.v. of parents as i think saying is time he's holding found in russians from all across the country cold writes all send videos asking different questions or we challenge reports from moscow on what was discussed this year. there were some tweaks to this year's direct line with putin outs when the studio audience in came an array of ministers and regional governors waiting to explain to watching the russians why gas prices are too high or holes in the road unrepaired as usual most of the discussion was on the mystic affairs with the oft repeated message that russia is

heading in the right direction is the boss putin rarely wastes an opportunity to tell the west it's political and financial pressure on us work. defending our interests must be done consistently not rudely in the spheres of politics and economy we have always done that and we will keep doing that we are always looking for compromises this pressure will come to an end when our western partners will realize that the methods they employ are ineffective counterproductive and harmful to everyone. russia has highly sophisticated new weapons in development negotiate with russia on global affairs he urged or risk escalating conflict what we knew there was the understanding that the third world war would be the end of civilization in this understanding must restrain as from extreme and dangerous steps in the international arena russia's renewed capacity for hard power projection most of president right now in syria and putin said there is no immediate end to russia's military involvement. our

forces are deployed there to secure russia's interests in this vital region of the world which is very close to our territory and they will remain there as long as it is beneficial for russia it is one of the features of this event the topics range from the ultra localized to those of global significance from topics of war and peace to those of sports and to tell human so naturally attention was paid to the fee for two thousand and eighteen world cup due to start in russia next week. putin assured russians that stadiums and facilities must be used properly after the games to benefit children and russian sport and of course he hopes the home side will do well to do what i should do it not as we hope that our national soccer team will shoot up in the upcoming tournament and will show its best qualities the chances of that are questionable to say the least as putin acknowledged the team's recent form

hasn't exactly been stellar rory chalons moscow still to come on the news hour spain says a new benchmark in gender equality swearing in a cabinet that's sixty five percent female the journey that changed the histories of india and south africa we marked one hundred twenty five years since mahatma gandhi was forcibly removed from the whites train and the world number one simona halep is on the brain. kathy asked and i grandson. how i was there are plenty of showers across central parts of europe lots of thunderhead showing up here has been rumbling away for many the west the weather also affecting a good part of the western med seeing the same lively shallows going on here

recently they'll notice the way a little further east which as we go on through friday system heavy downpours there was no the policy of italy up into the alps and pushing back into southern areas of chamisa front still a little disturbing coming in behind only eighteen celsius forward rate that's still really on is it that's pretty poor we could have twenty one in london with the sunshine some values as we go on into west sassed and by sas day hopefully things cheering up for much of spite all the nor the boss could still see want to see showers some wet weather pushing up towards the rest peninsula having said that showers there back into a central positive here they will dry across northern italy but on the other side of the adriatic it does still stay rather unsettled stockholm's looking warm once again twenty four celsius not to woman moscow quite breezy as well with a high of just fifteen celsius some breezy weather to across northern parts of africa says and lifted dust inside a possibility into a libya into algeria pie and large warm and dry pretty much sums it up at a high of twenty two celsius and repat getting up to around twenty seven now it is

. uncovering fol de forensic analysis by the f.b.i. more than twenty years ago reports being written without my knowledge or authorization equipments dirty testimony is being given that's way beyond people's expertise the state has announced its intention to attempt to retry john after trees crimes for which he's already served thirty two years their evidence was the only physical evidence that put really manning in that car the system with joe biden jack on al-jazeera. and monday pointed float on the. u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for the dry riverbed tonight case one five years on the

syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country haven't truly been able to escape the war. welcome back reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera president says he and kim jong il could sign an agreement to end the korean war of their summit next week speaking after meeting japan's prime minister he also said he could invite the north korean leader to the u.s. if that talks go while the leaders of france and canada say they will have blunt and frank discussions with president trump over trade what promises to be a tenth as g seven summits on friday and at least twenty people have been killed

and more than a hundred injured after a joint syrian and russian asked rice hit the rebel held village of sadhana in edgeley province. jordan's incoming prime minister has promised to withdraw a controversial tax law. thousands of people have rallied against the changes near the prime minister's office in amman for the last seven nights they say the tax plan has the poor and middle class. inspired by the king's letter of appointment we've decided to withdraw the tax draft law severity important law it touches every citizen and all trenches of society it didn't take enough time for discussion and income to be a controversial issue we need dollars to send to each other. the united nations has accused saudi arabia of using its broad antiterrorism laws to crack down on

peaceful dissent public executions and the torture of imprisoned critics were condemned in a report by a un special rapporteur on counter-terrorism international rights watchdog say at least eleven activists most of them women have been detained in saudi arabia over the past few weeks the u.n. is calling on the kingdom to bring its human rights and terrorism laws in line with international norms. the israeli army has told palestinians in gaza to stay far from the israeli border during demonstrations that on friday planes dropped leaflets warning residents of the gaza strip not to approach or damage the security fence or carry out what israel calls acts of terror more than one hundred palestinians have been killed during weeks of protests against the ongoing blockade of the territory and the relocation of the u.s. embassy to jerusalem. at least eighteen people have been killed in baghdad after a stockpile of weapons exploded in the basement of

a mosque ninety others were injured in wednesday's blow last which destroyed surrounding buildings and carles it happened in the southern city area a stronghold of nationalist cleric tother. the united states has welcomed the afghan president's announcement of a weeklong unconditional ceasefire with the taliban the holton fighting his set to coincide with the end of the muslim holy month of ramadan operations will continue against other armed groups like i still the taliban has not given and the response jennifer glass has more from kabul. president gandhi's announcement of a unilateral ceasefire it seems to be a calculated gamble following on his offer instead of the afghan taliban for unconditional peace talks and a seat at the political table if they came to negotiations so for that hasn't borne any fruits but he made clear in his announcement that this ceasefire only applied to the afghan taliban afghanistan movie that the government of the islamic republic

of afghanistan announces a ceasefire from the twenty seventh of ramadan until the fifth day if you don't fit or following the historic ruling of religious scholars afghan national defense and security forces will only stop offensive maneuvers against the taliban and will continue to target eisel another foreign backed terrorist organizations and their affiliates the question is what will the taliban do now will they respect this ceasefire through one of the holiest weeks in the muslim calendar and how will afghan security forces tell the difference between taliban fighters and those i just saw and other militant groups the president danny says his army and other security forces will continue to fight manmohan you an agent says have signed an agreement that could mean some of the seven hundred thousand to hinge of muslims will be able to return to mammal but for many who run from a brutal military crackdown in august last year there's not much hope that it will actually happen stuck in makeshift camps in bangor they're. trying to make the best

of life where they are stephanie decker reports. mohammad prays before breaking his ramadan fast with his family this year they're observing ramadan as refugees along with hundreds of thousands of other crammed into this camp in cox's bazaar. last year in ramadan it wasn't so difficult in our home village in myanmar at least we could get all the basic essentials like fish meat and vegetables but over here we just can't afford them now we only have rice lentils cooking oil that we get from the aid agencies it's really difficult here. it's the monsoon season heavy rains and winds lashed down on the flimsy tents turning the ground into deep mud that's why aid agencies are trying to build new sturdier housing this is a safer location away from the hills which are vulnerable to landslides and some of

the refugees are being hired to help build their new homes. our community is facing a lot of challenges many of us are living on bindra skills in rough terrain and the bad weather conditions put our lives at risk now where making new homes in a safe zone to accommodate some of the range of families. the expansion of the camps also means that no one is expecting their agenda to be returning home to me in mar anytime soon there are almost a million of them here in bangladesh many say in this holiest month of ramadan they're thankful they're safe but their lives remain a daily struggle stephanie decker al-jazeera the u.s. authorities are planning to transfer some sixteen hundred people who have been detained by immigration and customs officials to federal presence as according to a report by they will just news agency also says find a federal presence all set to temporarily taking detainees who are awaiting civil immigration court hearings with long jail in california preparing to house

a thousand people. facebook has had another privacy meltdown has been revealed that a glitch last month switch privacy settings for posts from private to public felt that could have affected fourteen million users the bug reportedly occurred when the company was trying a new feature on may the eighteenth and continued until may the twenty second it was eventually corrected on may the twenty seventh the company has apologized for the glitch and says affected users will be notified spain's new cabinet has been sworn in with the highest proportion of women of any government in the world socialist prime minister pedro sanchez has named eleven women in his seventeen person cabinet including top post former e.u. official calvin takes over as a colony minister making mocking a shift to a more prone to european stance while former supremes court judge marguerita

regulus takes on defense sanchez's socialist party has the backing of less than a quarter of the country's and pays so appointments from outside the party also include financial grand dame alaska another former judge as interior minister and spain's first astronaut pedre duke a has been appointed science minister of public culture on latinas is a lecturer in spanish studies at aston university in the u.k. is the biggest issue facing the new government is how to deal with separatists in catalonia. there is a chance maybe to reset the negotiations and hopefully to start again from a more open perspective in a more on a friendlier perspective it really does that then on the leadership because who knows well this eve they can compromise has to be some sort of compromise there's no denying that the position of the socialist party is still far from the position of the bias of the sort of the guts of the nationalists they're not going to give

them independence don't want to give them independence but there's certainly room for compromise with the box and it really depends on how. close they can they can become and how they can say into account racially goshi asian the fresh socialist government scientists from the u.s. space agency nasa say the carrier city rover has discovered the best evidence yet that life once existed on mars there rover has an organic molecules preserved in three and a half billion year old rock in the base of a crater that believed to have once been a large shallow lake it means there's a possibility that microorganisms once populated lost the closest planet to earth on joining us now via skype from the u.s. city of phoenix is tanya harrison director of research at arizona state university's new space and initiative i don't be cynical but this is breaking news from three and a half billion years ago but what does it tell us that they discovered from that very cool crater. so this is really exciting in terms of mars discoveries because

it's a lot of organic material compared to what we've seen before and it's preserved very close to the surface and on the surface of mars the radiation conditions are such that organic material should break down pretty quickly and so we're really surprised to find this much preserved so close to the surface that tells us that we might be able to find better and more well preserved stuff bury deeper down so if there is or was life on mars this gives a little bit of our basically a boost for our chances of finding it rather than it being completely destroyed by the radiation so a lot of talk a surrounding this about that the search for me thing gas as well as a reporter if if if the rover can indeed detect anything. so this is significant because we've had a lot of detection is before we thought we'd seen methane on mars but now we have confirmed action with curiosity and we know that the levels in the martian

atmosphere change over time now methane on mars should be destroyed in the atmosphere on a pretty short scale over the course of about three hundred years so wherever this methane is coming from it has to be continually produced for us to be detecting it and the two main sources of methane that we know about from earth are life like microbes that produce methane as their byproduct or some type of geologic activity where you have water interacting with rocks that can produce methane and anywhere we finally quit water on earth we tend to find life so that makes it a pretty exciting discovery for mars but it doesn't necessarily mean that there is or was life there it's just one possibility of where this that thing could be coming from a full a person might be a sound a stupid question what does this mean that life could develop if there's a soul will say that even if there's no life then now it could end up happening in the future. i would say it's pretty unlikely the conditions are so harsh that you'd

really need something that evolved to survive in the conditions that we have on mars in terms of low temperature low pressure got a lot of water around and so unless we had something that was introduced that happened to be able to survive in those conditions i think it would be unlikely for something to arise on mars at this point but you never know it could be something that's unlike any life we've ever seen before with same pitches of the rover the curiosity rover there for the cost to send it to. is really seems to have done its work while he's been up that doesn't oh definitely you know it's been almost six earth years at this point and we've made a lot of really interesting discoveries in terms of the past habitability of mars and the rover still going strong so we've got a lot more of this mountain of layered lakes that emits to drive up so we don't know what else we might be able to find very grateful for your time tony arson thanks very much for joining us. thanks so much for having me. still ahead this news hour.

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