one where russia plays its all cold war cards by saying look this is my zone of interest as it is yours you have your clients so with israel and so on so forth i have my own clients the iranian regime syria and others i can guarantee they will act accordingly if you can you have your people israel and saudi arabia would also act accordingly i'm not sure i would go along but certainly if the escalation continues to her on will need russia this might involve certain compromises in syria this might involve certain compromises in iraq but certainly the way forward will involve iraq american deal whereby iran would feel more comfortable that russia can guarantee that the united states does not escalate any further it's only going to be a fascinating summit between putin and trump and this just another added element to it and i want to share of thank you. new video has been released showing

a young at time football team in good health despite being trapped in a cave for eleven days now rescue teams are giving them crash courses in swimming and diving while experts assess conditions for getting them out safely but as scott had the reports from chiang rai just how and when that will happen is still not clear new video of the stranded thirteen shows a tight navy seal emblem drawn on the cave ledge where the teenagers sought safety eleven days ago the words say move past thirteen lives referring to the name of their youth football club meaning wild boar. personnel from the navy seals are staying with the boys at all times reported to be in good health after treatment for minor injuries. rescuers are under intense pressure to get the twelve boys and their coach out quickly there has been a pause in the monsoon season rain but it's expected to start falling again in the next few days keeping water levels in the cave system down is critical for the rescue one option is to train them on the basics of scuba diving something one

diving expert at the cave thinks will work if they use a full face mask. and it won't take long it is basically just a cave fix a saw as you do it them sitting on the sand you put the mosque on they get a feel for it they get an understanding. use a through water column so they understand that they have a communication they can talk to the diver who guides some mold and if they see any problem they can calm down the governor of chiang mai province says that the trapped thirteen might not all come out at the same time they were evaluate each one and bring them out only when they're ready the u.s. is one of at least six countries assisting the rescue will getting them out is the goal providing food and supplies is critical the assistance portion in the recent finding able to provide supplies to the shoulder and you know it's a very very relevant to the operations that are being conducted and how we're able to support our thai partners in anticipation of that moment everyone at the cave

entrance is waiting for were hershel's are being held and when it's not a thai soldier playing a role it's a member of the teenagers move paul football club scott hi there al jazeera chiang rai coming up on al-jazeera this news hour malaysia's former prime minister pleads not guilty to corruption charges connected to the disappearance of state money. to. protests outside and inside poland's a supreme court has its top jobs turns up for work in the finance of a uniform a new law forcing her. and the other is to retire and in sports the australian basketball team returned home after an ugly poll of the world cup qualifier against the family. but first you can't police have declared a major incident after two people were hospitalized following what's being

described as potential exposure to an unknown substance that happened close to where russian double agent assegais script and his daughter were attacked with a nerve agent in march the man and woman are in a critical condition after being found unconscious in amesbury on saturday security officials have confirmed samples are being tested at the government's the fence research laboratory at porton down amesbury is just thirteen kilometers from solsbury where the script files were poisoned it was initially believed that the two patients fell ill of to potentially using contaminated illegal drugs however further testing is now ongoing to establish the substance which led to these patients becoming ill at this stage it is not yet clear if a crime has been committed. so he go is live for us in salzburg against police they

are not really making an official link so what else did the police have to say at their news conference. that's right barbara in fact i think they've been trying to do as much as possible up until now to try and keep the situation as calm as possible remembering of course this is the town this is a city in fact which has only recently got over the shock of the case of the script but the police did say that. they said they've been dealing with other agents here including the public health body here and they said that given the amount of casualties the two casualties that they did not believe that it posed a significant risk to the health of the public but they did talk about how the situation did uncover itself for example that paramedics were called twice once earlier in the day after the female victim just collapsed after complaining of

headaches and then later on in the day to collect the male victim charlie rowley they did say that they were working also with other agencies in the u.k. and the government emergencies committee cobra has also held meetings on this really to underscore exactly how seriously they're taking this incident but they did say as was noted by the police officer there in question that they are not quite linking this to any particular criminal investigation yet but they are being open minded about it what was what is really the cause of this is in fact what they were exposed to as well samples are being taken from the victims in the hospital as well and have been taken to the defense facility nearby and it all remains really exactly to nail down what was that substance that the two were exposed to a lot of unknowns still in so we can see parts of behind you it looks like what it

is a beautiful quite tranquil city in quite a tranquil part of. how do the people there feel about being in the spotlight once again. there's almost seems to be a sense of they can't quite believe it i mean yet again obviously there are there is a tendency for people here to sort of really kind of try to make the link towards that but really there is from the authorities they are trying to keep the situation as calm as possible but it's no surprise to people who were already really quite shocked by what happened to said gay and yes here in this sleepy english city they are hoping of course that it is not the same thing it would be almost too much of a coincidence for a lot of people but it certainly has left a lot of people here rattled that there is yet again the testing of an unknown

substance and of course people are jumping to conclusions here as they've already seen already one crisis over a known substance before so together with the latest there from muscles resign your thank you. poland's prime minister has the fended a controversial new law which forces around forty percent of the country's a supreme court judges into retirement he says his country has the right to the side its own legal system it's the latest in a number of changes of the judiciary implemented by the ruling law and justice party since it took power in two thousand and fifteen but is they've a change to reports the latest move has infuriated the e.u. . a drumbeat of defiance was sounding as thousands of protesters converged on the supreme court it was a boisterous reception for the former chief justice. who returned her death on the first day of her in first fertile. ground of almost lost in the crowd she declared

she was determined to defend the legal order of the country not to play politics but to bear witness to the truth but far removed from the sounds of the protest the ministry of justice was turning a deaf ear to her claims of a vague and toward the building of a can be there of a can they can be there as a guest but a vacant worker's judges because they are required. that uncompromising line was repeated by poland's prime minister when he addressed members of the european parliament in strasbourg eucharistic right each state has the right to shave their legal system according to their own traditions but with the european commission bringing legal proceedings which could land poland in the dock of the european court of justice the e.c. j many experts are predicting a compromise so i am expecting the polish government to show the respect of the

rupee and union as well and to at least freeze the law not to appoint new judges to allow them. to decide on this issue at the moment the highest court in the land appears to be in a state of the legal limbo with neither side showing any signs of backing down. once again protesters are gathering outside the supreme court determined to defend the country's constitution and limit the growing powers of the government david chaytor al-jazeera warsaw. the german chancellor angela merkel has urged parliament to get behind her new migration policy in her last speech before the summer break it follows a compromise the all with their historic allies the christian social to limit the number of asylum seekers arriving in germany merkel needs the backing over other coalition partner that's the s.p.d. along with the e.u. member states if the deal is to succeed so i didn't feel that. it is my

firm conviction and the firm conviction of many others that the handling of this migration issue will decide whether europe will insure because it's such a moving issue it's important that we come to this agreement. dominic cain has more now from berlin. after speaking in parliament on wednesday angle americal went on german television and in an interview she gave more detail about the sort of shape the plans for migration detention centers might take the crux of this is establishing where in the the person concerned them the migrant the person being detained first claimed asylum deal forages here in germany would have forty eight hours to hold that person and if they can't establish which country to send that person back to in that period of time the detainee will then be sent to a place where they can they're not going to be held against their will separately to that we received information that suggests that mr minister is a hole for from the christian social union he's talking about three centers that

are already federal police headquarters or bases where these detainees might temporarily be held remember all of this will be contingent on getting support from the social democrats who are the main partners to angela merkel's christian democrats in the grand coalition so the meeting on thursday where all this will be thrashed out will be pivotal in establishing whether this compromise solution between the two conservative parties in the coalition will actually then go on to be a settled policy of the grand coalition. well a private humanitarian rescue ship has docked in spain after being refused entry to both literally and the malta the astra which belongs to the open arms organization is now in the port of barcelona after rescuing sixty people from a rubber boat off the coast of libya on saturday italy has banned the private rescue boats operating in the mediterranean saying that they encourage human traffickers taking refugees and migrants from africa to europe. but we managed to

rescue sixty people unfortunately since we left the area and i think if i haven't lost count almost five hundred people have died in the last four days these demonstrates that what's happening is viable the closing of the poor. if they get ships like those out of the way as evidently italy and other european countries want what happens is that people will die. well it was italy's new anti immigrant interior minister matteo salvini who decided to ban charity rescue ships from docking in italy since the country's coalition government was formed he's emerged as the country's de facto leader but there are signs of divisions over the migration issue with the parliament speaker roberto fico who is a senior figure in the five star movement that's the other coalition party saying it's only as ports should stay open to migrants well joining us now via skype from rome is. assistant professor of international relations and global politics at the

american university of rome thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera so the two coalition partners the league. and the five star movement are we seeing splits between them or parts of the five star movement over the immigration issue which of course is matilde most crucial most pressing issue. so first of all good evening yes i mean the problem is probably the division within the five star movement rather than a split between the league and a five star movement itself so as you rightly pointed out the problem is that there is. a coalition within the coalition in the sense that there's a group of members of the parliament and within the five star movement who actually claim and have declared publicly that today appreciate and praise the work of n.g.o.s who we have been saving lights in the mediterranean and these of course

clashes with the official line of the minister of interior which is being himself and i was also raised some concerns within the five star movement because of course . it was weak in reacting to the kind of the corporations and say that they reflected the personal opinion of faecal rather than an official position within the five star movement i mean the five star movement was always a bit of a i suppose strange party in a sense because there were a lot of different people with different ideas their little bit left wing a little bit right wing and a lot of people criticize them for not really having an identity but if you look at the votes they got the five star movement got i think thirty two percent the lead got seventeen percent and yet if you look at the government now it would almost seem that vini is that the fact the leader is almost acting like a prime minister in a way going beyond his remit of of interior minister is he in effect managed to kind of steal the election and the results from the five star movement. absolutely

i mean so media has been extremely collaborative stream leaves shruti not a perfect mystic way to sense that the feeling that many have right now in italy is that something is actually biding his time and waiting for the lead to. climb up in the polls even more than it's already doing and then call for new elections that could be that they could decide to strategically exit does coalition with the five star movement he said you recently said i think it was the other day he said he is ready to roll the telly he wants to rule italy for the next thirty years is never concealed he is really wants to be prime minister and he's effective been manipulating the public opinion and the media. in that yes and it is very much acting as if he was still campaigning in a sense such a little is so what i mean there also you know the things he's been most

controversial for the closing of the ports which also allowed italy to go to the you with i guess sounding you know some would say like a bully and some have accused of acting that way but how is that gone down with the italian population because as you say actually the ratings the poll ratings for civilian the lead have been going up since he became interior minister. i mean probably salvini he is talking to the belly of the country in a sense it's probably i mean many many people many voters feel or felt like they have been left behind by the mainstream parties and this is why the turned to the five star movement that brought up i mean prevalently in the south and to the league in the northern part of the country so he is again his it's kind of a party mystic mall but at the same time it speaks to a part of the public which has been forgotten so proposing this kind of quick fix this is proving to be particularly remunerating from the electoral point of view to

cheer so to lot assistant professor of international relations at the american university of roe adam thank you for sharing your views with us. thank you lots more still to come in this hour including chaos says israeli bulldozers move in to demolish a village in the occupied west bank it was instrumental in removing. his military maintain its. elections plus. i'm on the richardson of the world cup in russia finding out why so many chinese fans are here you cannot attain. welcome back it's time to look at weather conditions across the levant and western

parts of asia in the east the region we have got some heavy showers still across parts of stan and extending into specky stan but i think the touch count and the weather conditions shouldn't be too bad it's fine around the caspian sea is very warm in baghdad forty seven degrees other parts of iraq pushing the fifty degree mark once again it seems to be most summers now temperatures getting towards that fifty degree mark fine conditions around the eastern side of the mediterranean but we have got the risk of some showers across the caucuses gere in the course of friday afternoon here in the arabian pinches or pretty static at the moment temperatures there in the mid forty's for medina on the other side light winds are certainly some high humidity affecting doha might some of forty three more creative change heading on through into friday snip across into southern portions of africa will weather conditions for the most part are looking good we've got some cloud across the east coast up into mozambique with a chance of some showers but otherwise weather conditions looking dry and fine for

the most part not a great deal of changes ahead on through into friday though johannesburg struggling temperature wise highs of just twelve degrees into central parts of africa some big showers across west africa could be a wet one in guinea-bissau. the afghan national army. guardians of the country ravaged by decades of war and occupation abandoned by to liberate his. young men each day could be the last to continue to fight for a future free from chaos. afghanistan's battle and witness documentary on al-jazeera. we have your zip data we know the products have been buying everything that you're doing that's really where the power of the all powerful internet is both a tool for democracy and the threat you believe that any of your companies have

adana fied the full scope of russian active measures on your platform in the echo chamber world of fake news in cyberspace the rules of the game left changed there are no precedents people in power investigates this information and democracy. welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera there are reports that russia has resumed their strikes in southern syria after talks broke down between russian rebels and syrian rebels and russian officers hundreds of thousands of civilians

have been forced from their homes by the russian syrian offensive around. iran's revolutionary guard say they're ready to carry out president hassan rouhani threat to disrupt oil exports from the gulf if u.s. sanctions prevent iran from selling oil markets and a new video has been released showing a tiny youth football team in good health despite being trapped in a cave for eleven days experts are assessing how to get them out safely. rescuers have repeatedly said the getting the boys out of the cave will be a hugely difficult operation and they went to meet cavers darbyshire in northern england the find out why. entering a world most people never get to see these caves in northern part of an elite in the skills i mean they're called upon to take part in rescues usually it's one of the caves are in trouble but sometimes it's the general public and they don't know all about the challenges facing the rescue team so you're in

a very remote very wilderness location so transporting your quit to and from the sites can take a great deal of. power and when you throw in the flooded sections some as well. slows you down even more that reduces the pool of people you have who can manage equipment in those conditions and it's generally coast time scale it can be overcome but it takes longer these are actually some of the easiest conditions you can find didn't tell you very good these british papers and their colleagues have got long. so the experience of operating in and saving people from extremely difficult situations. to break. to britons who first made contact with the tiny boys in their coach were affiliated with a local group here like all cave rescuers they've gone through extensive training like this exercise in hoisting an injured person on a stretcher. and last week it was this sense that the got the call for specialist

communication equipment for the time rescue efforts which sorted out for example firings the place for then contacted us to get into heathrow so i came up here collected them from blue light to the white heathrow to get the nine o'clock airplane and they caught it with the divers and i've been in thailand the following morning but despite immense efforts to pump water out of the thai cave and local teams teaching the boys to swim and scuba dive the experts say it's definitely not going to be easy the only way out seems to be out and out the. cave entrance cost only naturally in the floods. the problem then is how to do it. there's been talk of teaching the teaching the boys how to dive and years diving equipment and then letting them dive out but seems fraught with all sorts of perils

because cave diving is not more to diving these caves use their passion to save lives they say they're driven by a sense of camaraderie and right now i can't help thinking about the ongoing rescue efforts in thailand the al-jazeera darbyshire in the olden includes malaysia's former prime minister najib razak has been charged with a number of corruption offenses there in connection to billions of dollars missing from a state investment fund but he said while in office but the sixty four year old remains the five telling reporters the upcoming trial will be his chance to prove his innocence for an slew of reports. was not arrived at the fall of the poor high court to want to charges of corruption and criminal to trust which carry a maximum twenty year prison sentence. outside his supporters mostly from the political party he wants light to read not just. the month he's the former

prime minister and party leader who's done a lot for malaysians now that he's facing such trying times i've come here to lend my support to him and his family malaysia's former prime minister pleaded not guilty and off to be released on bail set the case against him it's a political vendetta so. i expected this this is what the new government wants if this is a price i have to pay for my twenty four years of service to the nation and its people i'm willing to pay that price but i hope and pray that the court process will be fair and in accordance with the rule of law i believe in my innocence this is the best chance i have to clear my name. the court said to be. two hundred fifty thousand dollars an audit not just to surrender his passport he's accused of using his position as finance minister and prime minister to enrich himself with public funds and transferring ten million dollars into his bank account in two thousand

and fourteen and two thousand and fifteen prosecutors say the money came from s.r.c. international a former subsidiary of the state investment fund one. this case is part of a larger investigation involving one m. d. from which not jim and his associates are alleged to have a four and a half billion dollars let me state the obvious when we use the word want to be when everybody uses the word want to be. it's a it's a shorthand. statement to describe what happened over forty five years so we'll be able to discrete separate transactions. over four five year period which is the public to me the fraud scandal is also being investigated in several countries including the us the initial investigation into this case started several years ago but stalled when one ship was prime minister allegations of a cover up have been made since the new government came into power in may it has

made recovering money stolen from one and a top priority not tips trial will likely start next year he's the first person linked to the scandal to be prosecuted and is likely to be the last florence. several people have been injured after israel moved into the story a bedouin village in the occupied west bank a military exclusion zone has been established around the village and desperate protesters put themselves in the path of the bulldozers have a force at reports. on the dusty rocky ground below the bedouin village of qana heavy machinery prepares the way from friday this will be a military exclusion zone a clear signal of the villages impending demolition near the threatened homes israeli security forces moved in another bulldozer had been stopped in its tracks by protesters stand off and then they started dragging people away. that was ready for

a force if that was now the pressure was as they tried to remove the activists the ministers all this was a no no this is what the activists are trying to do to try to stop what is activity this seemingly imminent demolition area and they're being moved out of the way by israeli security force was the that the treatment was marginally better for members of the media judged to have got to close. the apparent aim to allow for easier access to the area for large vehicles potentially required for the demolition of the villages one solid structure it school. has lived here since his birth he says the pressure on the community has mounted drastically in recent days when one of. we haven't been sleeping not just last night we haven't slept for two weeks since the decision came out every day they show up on the top of the hill over there they come here they scare the children in the school there are going to. the village lies in the way of a long planned expansion of the illegal israeli settlements in circling jerusalem

in the occupied west bank in may the israeli supreme court ruled that khan our school and homes had been built illegally in military controlled area c. and therefore could be demolished with its. didn't transfer to a palestinian town on jerusalem's eastern fringe of burials just for the international community is. how we come in fear one day that israel can be held accountable or if not it means you're pushing this region towards a deeper hole deeper hole of violence and counter-violence and it seems. the israeli operation ground and the scuffles continued to break out the palestinian red crescent society treated dozens of people injuries in the background the bulldozers moved with a sense of inevitability laying the groundwork for what now seems the imminent destruction of this community are a force that al-jazeera. in the occupied west bank. the u.n.

envoy to yemen has expressed optimism after meeting the top leader of the who the rebels in a bid to end the country's devastating civil war at a news conference before leaving sun i aport martin griffith said all sides express the strong desire for peace the u.n. hopes to prevent a full scale coalition assault on the port city of the data which is a vital lifeline for the country a saudi led coalition allied with president had by the governments who had these internationally recognized government has been at war with the who these since two thousand and fifty hundreds of thousands of people have been forced from their homes by the latest outbreak of ethnic violence in southern ethiopia the u.n. and the ethiopian government say that eight hundred thousand people have fled they give their all and. in the last month alone as many as one point two million have been displaced since interestingly fighting first flared up in the area in april.

zimbabwe's military commanders are hoping to convince voter that they will voters they'll remain neutral in this month's elections the military was instrumental is in unseating robert mugabe eight months ago and since then military officials have taken up key posts on the electoral commission how do with us as for now from harare. joining robert mugabe's rule army commander supported his rulings on it and the military vowed not to allow the opposition to take over the army which forced mugabe to resign last november say this year things are going to be different this in baba different forces is not directed role in the upcoming homeowners the elections are all in the elections is mainly to support the zimbabwe republic felice in their role of maintenance of roi in order in the country before during and after the elections previous elections juma got israel were often marred

by violence voter intimidation and fraud opposition leaders often said security forces were involved allegations tonight by the commanders nelson chamisa who leads the opposition m.d.c. alliance is concerned about virtue and intimidation we are ready to prove its people are well we have problems with certain people who are problem us quote i ding is the army it could be that is not the army but they must be able to then move those people out so that they are not in the rural areas just yesterday in there they are people we must go to the soldiers. human rights workers say they are also concerned about the army's power at least fifteen percent of the. commission the secretariat. all former military officials. the military should make the commission more independent and professional by removing said the little fishes from the board some political analysts say the july polls will be a battle between the old guard of the one nine hundred seventy s.

independence war and the younger generation these are the first elections without robert mugabe on the ballot since nineteen eighty more than five million people.