resident abandon what he called the fatally flawed agreement last month at the shanghai cooperation organization summit iran urged other participants in that deal to provide guarantees it would be upheld flawlessly reports from beijing. a pledge of support for iran's nuclear deal russia iran kazakstan promising to fully imagine that the three year old agreement is despite the u.s. pulling out. of course our country cannot be but worried about iran nuclear program u.s. withdrawal from the comprehensive plan of action can further destabilize the situation russia is in favor of consistent and unconditional implementation of the deal. i. put in spoke at the shanghai cooperation organization s e euro summit held in the eastern city of qingdao russia is one of the eight s. and you know members together these countries represent forty percent of the world's population and twenty percent of global g.d.p.

should. well for germany and a power politics still disease in the world the growing call for a more just and equitable international order must be heeded democracy in international relations is an unstoppable trend of the times the aesir was formed seventeen years ago mainly to strengthen security cooperation but trade issues have become important to some s.c.l. members i involved in building infrastructure for china's belton road project dubbed as the new silk road to boost twenty first century economies in the coming years. as your most likely will pick up more security considerations or chill political considerations and the corporation a model as your members involving the observer states in security or even for example moving into quasar military cooperation will not be impossible therefore as

c.e.o. is expanding its mission is moving forward to deal better with the new challenges in the world and as the u.s. is apparently becoming increasingly isolated from its allies because of troubles policies and tariffs and his readiness to withdraw from trade climate. the unity presented at the s e o is in stark contrast to the g. seven summit in canada where don trump refused to endorse the final communique some analysts say the unified message from china also presents a challenge to the west in that world order florence three al-jazeera beijing or not also to come here on the news hour including fire streets through an iraqi ballot storage center just weeks after a disputed election. it's just weeks before women are given the right to drive in saudi arabia but some of them could be behind bars when the ban is finally lifted and support the king of claim to change his throne in paris rafael nadal makes it

eleven wins from eleven french open for us also to. another german chancellor says the european union will respond in kind to us tariffs on european steel and aluminum under merkel says she was disappointed that president donald trump refused to sign a final communique on trade at the g. seven summit in canada white house advisers accuse canada's prime minister of betraying washington and engaging in bad faith diplomacy wasn't jordan as more. the canadian prime minister declined any further comment in the course of the day leaving it to his foreign minister to reiterate canada's position and the ongoing argument about trade tariffs the national security pretext is absurd and frankly insulting to canadians being closest and strongest ally the united states

has halves we can't post security threat to the united states on saturday donald trump went on twitter to say that he was pulling out of the g seven communique which he had just signed at the summit in canada on sunday his trade advisor peter navarro then he doubled down on the criticism of justin trudeau saying quote there is a special place in hell for any foreign leader that engages in bad faith diplomacy with president trump and then tries to stab him on his way out the door meantime the german chancellor angela merkel said that she was both sobered and depressed to learn that the president had such a negative view of the g seven communique but that it would not dissuade her and other members of the european union from imposing their own we're telling a story tariffs on the united states the u.s. has recently announced it's going to impose tariffs of up to twenty five percent on european steel and alan minium imports to the united states. however there is still

the deep concern being expressed by president trumps domestic critics the g seven partners our closest allies in the world we share values we share interests we share security and for the president the united states to walk into that session and to essentially blow it up and disrespect our allies while embracing. russia. and giving benefits to china countries that are not our allies and in the case of russia indeed our declared adversary is very worrisome and very destructive the divide created by what was once a united g seven group clearly illustrated in a series of photos released not by the news media but by the white house itself rosalyn jordan al-jazeera washington and in a tweet a short time ago trump accused u.s. allies of benefiting from washington's contribution to nato while enjoying an

advantage on trade the annual nato conference is coming up in july and this is what trump had to say and add to that the fact that the u.s. pays close to then ta cost of nato protecting many of these same countries that rip us off on trade they pay only a fraction of the cost and loff european union had a one hundred fifty one billion dollars surplus should pay much more for the military. saudi arabia kuwait and the u.a.e. have pledged two and a half billion dollars in financial aid to jordan comes off an earlier pledge of twenty three million dollars by the european union for the e.u.'s foreign policy chief said brussels would continue investing in an ally in what she called the most heated and difficult area of the world jordan has seen a wave of protests against a proposed tax hike. we are here to support a company to share our own experience if needed and if useful. to provide advice if asked for but most of all to go on t.v. or to try to guarantee that the good steps that are taken are financially and

economically supported we are here not as a just of a gesture of. charity if you allow me the expression but as an investment well let's bring in holly or just an he's executive director of the arab center in washington who joins us via skype from there good to have you back so saudi arabia kuwait and the u.a.e. have given jordan two point five billion dollars but that's just a drop in the ocean compared to jordan's over forty billion dollar public debt is that going to be enough to really make a difference i mean that or just about cover jordan's interest payments on its loans when's it. that's true. jordan is approaching forty billion and it's ninety percent of the g.d.p. of the country and. the interest rate alone is one point nine billion annually so when you put all this together you would basically assume that this is

probably a band-aid being put to it to cover necessarily a more serious bleeding that the country is suffering from economically but with all due respect i don't think this is only an economic problem jordan is suffering really from a very serious political problem that seems to be ignored and swept under the rug economic difficulties have always been there and this is the fourth such crisis in the last six years and i'm sure it will come back again in the future but what is different what is new this time and what explains the intensity of the protests is the fact that jordan is having a hard time adjusting to new political realities in the region so what do countries like saudi arabia and the u.a.e. want in return i mean the gulf crisis has put jordan in a very difficult position trying to stay friendly with countries like qatar for example and its main benefactors expect to jordan to cut relations with cattle.

well jordan has always been a crucial country particularly to the west and arab allies of the west. because of the proximity and that all it plays in the palestinian problem and it and it separates for relations i guess with israel. but and in this case i think. jordan is also spaying a price for the role it has played in other regional conflicts and what that's why the interests of countries like saudi arabia and the. emirates because jordan has been very crucial in the conflict in syria the ongoing conflict in syria it's a poster more than a million refugees from syria and i dish until historically you know seventy years it has been the host country to the largest palestinian refugee population outside

of dallas nine in addition to still about four to five hundred thousand iraqi refugees remnants of the uniforms you problem from the your rocky conflicts so with all that in mind and the current crisis and the gulf people who would like jordan to somehow take sides in a much more pronounced manage than it has thus far a final thought from you what about other international stakeholders hellyeah let mean the e.u. has promised twenty three million dollars that's a tiny sun but the u.s. has downgraded its aid package said you think washington is likely to give more help this time round. they have to you know and you can't have your cake and eat it too the u.s. has been using jordan for all kinds of. you know issues that it deems in its own national interest and it has to pay the price for that rainy speaking on behalf of the u.s. not a blank as we just heard earlier in the program that this is not

a presence in the region and her meeting with king abdullah was not just for charity purposes that this is an investment in jordan so the west has invested in jordan and can't simply wash its hands off the gulf countries pledged three point eight billion dollars a few years ago they stopped that package about a year ago twenty seventeen now they seem to resume with a partial commitment nothing necessarily grants but the commitment to invest in jordan that you want to have two point five billion whether that would solve the problem i doubt it might basically alleviate some of the intensity of the economic problem but will not solve the political dimension of what jordan traces today. thank you very much for talking to al-jazeera my pleasure thank you now thousands of protesters have rallied in romania's capital book arrest to support investigations into corruption at least twenty eight male senators and hundreds of

public servants have been prosecuted in the past year demonstrates in responding to a much larger rally on saturday against the investigation that the ruling social democratic party believe that prosecutors have too much power and say they're unjustly targeting government figures. fire has swept through a building which houses half of baghdad's ballot boxes from iraq's disputed parliamentary election the prime minister described the fire as a plot against iraq's democracy parliament had already demanded a nationwide recount of votes now there are calls for the may elections to be rerun but has more. thick black smoke over the risk for districts in eastern baghdad iraq's ministry of interior say the fire started in a building used to store ballot boxes and electronic voting machines from the disputed parliamentary election a month ago. iraq's parliament voted last week for a countrywide to manual recount of ballots after allegations of voting fraud one in

peace it was started deliberately and cooled on the government to better protect buildings where ballot boxes are being stalled. imagine this three warehouses there are important but it's boxes in that firefighters are inside trying to present the fire earlier in the day nine judges were appointed to oversee the manual recount of votes nationwide. the process is expected to take at least a couple of weeks. the government sank senior members of the election commission which oversaw the vote counting prime minister hydrilla body has banned them from leaving the country and warned that anyone suspected of being involved in election fraud could face criminal charges iraq's first election since the defeat of i still was praised for the lack of violence in the run up to and during polling day on may the twelfth but since then much has changed allegations of fraud leading to parliament's vote for

a countrywide manual recounts of throwing the transparency of this election into doubt a fire at a building containing potential proof of how people voted make accusations of voter rigging even louder. by. more than six hundred migrants stuck on a rescue ship waiting for the move to take them in italy threaten to close its ports to rescue ships if it doesn't accept the people who were saved this week malta's brushed off the request saying it had nothing to do with the operation of the libyan coast it's in his new interior minister matteo salvini campaign strongly against immigration in the election in march. break here now when we come back. are you sure you knew. a song for freedom another region in spain has its eyes on a chance for independence. and in sports you play us and we will play you that's the word from nigeria as football footballers as they get ready for the well come

on up stay with us. i. mean the weather sponsored by cattle i always alison shot are still suffering from flooding no big surprise but it's been extensive recently because of the remains of the tropical storm they are no longer in evidence indeed the forecast even gives the seasonal rains a step back for a day and so hong kong look strong there is rain to the west of grand dong and further west and when you get into vietnam otherwise china's looking for a couple of days rather quiet because the action may be to the south and to the east for example across the philippines it really has got where recently it was several hundred kilometers folding you can get the impression from the satellite picture i would repeat that in the full cost as well around the capital service lose all sense of that little cloud around but showers well dotted including

possibly still singing in singapore but they're more of a rarity than a regular r.t. the monsoon rain there has started to boost itself again in myanmar and more especially down the western side of india ratnagiri is two hundred seventy one millimeters is a huge figure and it's not that unusual from mumbai science woods it's been like that i mean the forecast it may well continue west and get your notice i think around kolkata as well we could see some pretty big shots but really the focus is on the west in india or me and are. the weather sponsored by cattle i always say. in afghanistan billions. of dollars of international aid have been donated to girls' education but where has the money gone when east meets girls desperate to learn and asks why is the system failing them on al jazeera.

bureaus spanning six continents across the globe. i would do serious correspondents live and bring the stories they tell of the other but you'd never know unless you. were at the mercy of the russian camp for palestinian bread i'll just zero food in world news. on counting the cost jordan's economy is struggling to cope look at why i.m.f. backed price hikes are proving the last straw for many people plus why the world's top poker grows one of the biggest share of the global chocolate market. counting the cost and i just.

welcome back a quick recap the top stories here on al-jazeera donald trump and kim jong il have touched down in singapore ahead of the first of a talks between a serving u.s. president and a north korean leader trump hopes to win a legacy making deal that sees the full denuclearization of the korean peninsula. the german chancellor says the e.u. will respond in kind to us tariffs on european steel and other many i'm speaking after a chaotic g seven in canada donald trump pulled out of a joint agreement to be ready signed white house adviser says because the canadian prime minister had engaged in bad faith diplomacy. and saudi arabia kuwait and the u.a.e. have pledged two and a half billion dollars in financial aid to jordan comes after an earlier pledge of twenty three million dollars by the e.u. jordan seen a wave of protests against austerity measures aimed at cutting its debt which stands at around fourteen billion dollars. now more flows of ash from the four hugo

volcano in guatemala have forced emergency teams to abandon their search for survivors rescuers say there's now little chance of finding anyone else alive after last sunday's massive eruption new evacuations have also been ordered a week after the initial explosion that killed at least one hundred ten people nearly two hundred missing and thousands of homes have been destroyed marianna sanchez has more now from a screen in guatemala. well we're in front of them or it here in this queens where family members here are waiting to hear news from the remains of their loved ones they are some of them have been here since monday a woman telling us that she lost sixteen family members she has been able to over. six but she still has ten more to go so it's a very difficult and sad process for these people now they say that no one from the government and no governmental agency has come here. and tell them that they will be held to receive any help these of course are very poor people who have lost

their loved ones who have lost their homes and their farms but they do want the government to help them they say that after a few days everyone will forget them of course the most important thing for them right now is to be able to find their missing family members and to and to be able to. say this is one of more than one hundred victims of the eruption. boiling ash walks in fields were blown nearly two kilometers into the sky much of it landed including c.d.'s bill each she and many others didn't have time to escape. there were two sons and two grandchildren. in total eleven family members died sissy's may go to see her brother in law her body was one of the last to be recovered. it was the most to

medical clinic irruption weatherman in decades nearly two hundred people remain missing more than twelve thousand others lost their homes. twenty one year old model a letter keane and her two children are adjusting to their new life in a shelter they flagged down a passing car and flew a blue leaving everything behind our door you both of my children cried in fear and i begged god to save them so many children have died survivors have been helped by teams of social workers and volunteers children are showing clear signs of stress we must persevere carried out in their drawings they showed rocks red water like logs or trees without leaves i'm not a psychologist speaking tell they are traumatized there are twenty one shelters like this house and more than ten thousand survivors have been given food and water and medical care the expectation is that they'll be here for

a while experts say the danger may not yet be over apart from the. heavy rains. further putting at risk the lives of people in communities around the volcano. where who continues to spew deadly clouds of. rocks and films experts say the volcano will calm down but it may take a few weeks before that happens. a lot and then go what their man. u.k. rights groups say saudi arabia has arrested two more activists who had campaigned for the right for women to drive the rainy was arrested after publishing a letter of support for detained campaign that north jury nineteen activists have been arrested in the kingdom since the fifteenth of may reports. the saudi arabian traffic department releases a video showing women in riyadh receiving their driver's licenses it's been decades in the making with just two weeks before women are free to drive. but some women's

rights activists will not be behind the wheel but behind bars has was the first to be arrested in a government crackdown the began on the fifteenth of may. security forces then swept up blogger him and the activist and professor as easy use of human rights lawyer abraham moved a mic and one of the kingdom's early feminists money and she took part in one thousand nine hundred campaign to lift the driving ban they could face up to twenty years in prison the saudi state news agency did confirm a wrists on the eighteenth of may saying seven suspects were charged as foreign agents reporting they did to violate the country's religious and national pillows and last week the saudi public prosecutor reported coordinated moves to undermine the security of the kingdom seventeen people who had been arrested eight were released. the government has not said what threat to security the activists pose

but analysts say saudi leadership want to ensure the lifting of the driving ban a seen as a gift rather than a concession to domestic or international pressure they are telling the women in that you should not ask for more including you know ending male guardianship this. or that right of women to issue their first or without merit console and it's very alarming and we are very. much concerned about what's going on in saudi arabia. right now the kingdom is trying to modernize but it has come at the cost of a crackdown last year academics religious leaders and activists were detained well riyadh's ritz carlton hotel became a prison for some of saudis wealthiest mean the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon promoting a more modern kingdom globally well new sharing challenges at home charlotte dallas al-jazeera protesters in ramallah demanding the palestinian authority lift

sanctions against gaza saying they hurt both israelis and palestinians have called on palestinian president mahmoud abbas to end salary cuts for officials but also demanding reconciliation between the west bank and gaza strip gaza suffering from a shortage of basic goods and electricity after israel cut its power supply by almost a half. egypt's president. has agreed with ethiopia's prime minister. to resolve the nile river dam dispute ethiopia's on the taking a four billion dollars hydroelectric project on the river which cairo fears threatens its water security the leaders say they'll work on an agreement to improve bilateral ties and increase investment in infrastructure. we have come a long way to achieve confidence and to enhance bilateral cooperation and we will continue and on his efforts in order to overcome any mutual challenges at the forefront is to reach a final agreement over the renascence dams to secure egypt's use of water from the

river nile which is indisputable because it is the only lifeline for egyptians and at the same time contributing to achieve ethiopia's development and prosperity opposition supporters in the democratic republic of congo have declared their backing felt moyes cut somebody the exiled opposition leader is seen as the main rival to president joseph kabila has seventeen years in power could end in the presidential election jus in december fintan monahan reports. thousands gathered to hear the man they believe is the democratic republic of congo's best hope for change but moyes could tumbi hasn't set foot in the country for more than two years in this video message sent from exile he promised to unite the opposition and bring an end to the rule of longtime leader joseph. oh. this was a demonstration to everyone showing that moyes is alive and he's preoccupied with the situation of all congolese and also to say that we have a project which can properly resolve all these problems we want to transform the

congo to restore its greatness but also we want to unify the congolese people the support today about people is showing that we will overcome. lead the d r c in two thousand and sixteen when prosecutors accused him of hiring foreign mercenaries one month later he was sentenced to three years in prison for real estate. fraud he denies all the charges against him as promising to return for a presidential run. president joseph kabila has ruled that the r c for seventeen years his term in office officially ended in december twenty sixth team but elections have been repeatedly delayed was a drop of the protesters are accusing him of trying to hang on to power the constitution bars him from seeking a third term but could be still hasn't confirmed that he won't run again elections are now separate december but whoever emerges as leader will have major challenges to deal with more than a million people have been forced from their homes in eastern province as the

military battles armed groups the chaos has left nearly eight million people on the verge of starvation. the opposition are optimistic but there's still a great deal of uncertainty. will risk arrest to be returned home it's also still unknown it could be low will seek to hold on to power or if the election will be delayed once again since monohan how jazeera. nearly two hundred thousand people formed a human chain across spain's basque region calling for the right to decide whether they wish to be independent the country still dealing with a failed succession bid from the catalonia region in october thus called penholder reports from the turia people hope the new central government in madrid will be more sympathetic to their demands. it sounds a little sweet to be a protest song yet it is a call to vote and before. this demonstration in the basque region marks the start

of a new bid for greater self rule or maybe even to break away from spain together. we've been calling for our rights for years and today is another chance to see that there's a significant percentage of citizens who want to vote and this type of putin. last month the armed separatists organization announced it was disbanding that gives peaceful campaign is the chance to draw a line between themselves now violent uprising which lasted decades these are the last links in a human chain that stretches from here more than two hundred kilometers or one hundred twenty miles away right up to the border with france. it wound along the highways and byways through one of the richest corners of spain the ne basque region already has wide ranging devolved powers over health education and even taxation but some like quantrill of scores who came with his grandson dream of

having their own country when. there are steps to be taken first self-government and so fraught and then independent i'm not sure what that will look like but it needs to recognize people's rights sundays event comes amid turbulent times the dispute over catalonia is attempt to declare independence from the rest of spain is far from over and earlier this month the central government in madrid was toppled by a corruption scandal the incoming socialist administration has known with giora teeth and no room to maneuver on key issues such as greater self rule for space various regions but among but organizers except it may be along the campaign. different factors mean we're closing one chapter and beginning another we must base this new chapter on democratic values and the will of the people it's hard to see how government leaders in madrid would ever accept moves to carve up spain into

independent states. but ask these basque demonstrators join together they chant the power in the future is in their hands. victorious spain police in spain the rest of twenty four people on suspicion of involvement in a child pornography ring they're accused of possessing and distributing pornographic images of children online the suspects include citizens from britain ghana pakistan and ecuador. when we come back a level of sports including. gold takes the lead in the formula one championship after winning his fiftieth. status.

welcome back now tens of thousands of people have marched in britain to celebrate a hundred years since the first woman won the right to vote the suffragette movement campaigned for decades for women's rights using protest and direct action and sunday's event was a reminder of modern day struggles too there's nothing bad in our reports. a river of green going to invite. the first letters of those colors used by the suffragette movement g w v signifying give women the vote one hundred years ago some british women finally got it and these women are remembering their struggle with a unique march in the u.k. so national capitals edinburgh cardiff belfast and here in london community groups have been working with the.