supreme court it was a boisterous reception for the former chief justice margaret. who returned her death on the first day of her in first fertile. 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 vacant and told the building of a can be there of a can they can be there as guests but a vacant workers judges because. that uncompromising line was repeated by poland's prime minister when he addressed members of the european parliament in strasburg 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 to their opinion as well and to at least to 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. well you were head of the news hour and quoting. a desperate attempt to stop israel's move to forcibly evict villagers in the occupied west bank. bus germany's chancellor calls for support of her new migration

policy and to save her government from collapse. and in support of the top seeds and wimbledon has crashed out sana we'll have all the details. to turn to the news that iran is threatening to disrupt gulf oil supplies if the u.s. sanctions prevent tehran from selling oil in the global markets and their shimmy is director of the center for middle east studies at the university of denver he joins us now via skype from toronto in canada and we appreciate your time so this threat to disrupt what does that actually mean or think it means to prevent other countries in the region from selling the oriole through the persian go particularly the straits of hormuz and so iran now is i think responding to the

that it's feeling as a result of all trumps tough law and against the islamic republic. particularly attempts by the trumpet ministration to prevent the sale on oil roams leaders are saying if we can't sell our were oil no one else in that region should be able to sell their oil but what does that really look like i mean when when they say just fraught in what way. how well we don't know but for those people who are familiar with the history during the iran iraq war there was a similar confrontation between united states and iran that will revolved around the oil tankers traveling through the persian gulf and you were on was able to in a limited way to try and destruct that particular floor and that means using high speed gunboats to intimidate tankers possibly pontin underwater mines that would prevent

the navigation of international tankers care iranian oil so we don't know the exact details but i think this is a threat that you are on the shooting response to american threats to try to destabilize the iranian economy ok so the u.s. sanctions how effective can they actually be if other countries don't join in. well not as effective. as a comprehensive global sanctions regime but as we're seeing right now. they can produce quite a bit of disruption in iraq and economy and they have gotten the attention of you wrong as a leader so what we've seen right now as a result of human lateral americans engines the drop in the value of the iranian currency by roughly fifty percent over the last several weeks or seeing. major economic protests taking place in iran that are not directly related to americans

and shoes but are indirectly connected to deteriorating economic conditions so united states is you know perceived as tougher hardline policy and iranian leadership is starting to panic and i think these threats that we're seeing to you know shut down the straits of hormuz or to restart the nuclear program is really an attempt by iran to push back against the pressure that is feeling at this moment so about that about the nuclear program am iran obviously if they're not taking these threats lying down they've also alluded to the fact that they may not continue to cooperate with the nuclear watchdog group but how likely is that. well we don't know i think iran now is trying to feel its way you know forward it is you know officially stated the supreme leader that is at the end of may officially stated that you are on reserves the right to restart its enrichment program which effectively means pulling out of the nuclear agreement if you can't get the economic guarantees from the other remaining members of the of the joint

comprehensive action plan the agreement so i mean it's dangled this threat in front of the europeans effectively saying that your past to provide iran with those economic guarantees to keep its economy afloat if it doesn't that it will pull out of the nuclear agreement restarts which can program and then we will be back to a situation where we were rough. twenty twelve twenty thirteen twenty wrong was spinning centrifuges making progress toward a nuclear weapon and the international community was deeply concerned that if that if that really happened it would be a game changer and something would be would have to be done to stop iran from obtaining an atomic bomb so i think the this is a very dangerous game of brinkmanship we don't know how far iran will go but it's certainly trying to play all the cards that it has to advance its own international position ok now there has to me thank you so much for your insight we appreciate it thank you the ones on what c.n.n.

is optimistic about bringing an end to the three year war after meeting the leader of the hit the rebels and sana are in deficit as all sides have a strong desire for peace and offer concrete ideas on how to achieve it the u.n. hopes to prevent a full scale saudi i'm right a coalition attack on the port city through data which is a vital entry point for a coalition allied with president abed rabbo months or hobbies internationally recognized government has been at war with the heat the rebels since two thousand and fifteen during this visit i have held meetings with the leaders and representatives of one sort or another and the general people's congress. i am breaking reassured by the messages i have received which would be positive and constructive many thousands of a many have been displaced because of the fighting officially fifteen hundred are currently living in ethiopia although the reality it could be more than four thousand and one hundred so reports many are not very

hopeful returning home anytime soon. these assault on a box to talk about discipline is a popular meeting point for human to fiji's. when some have been here from the onset of the war three years ago. just arrived. eighteen year old abdul hamid shirty arrived just six days ago he told me about the long and difficult from the yemeni city. and then. he would see. that there are. i first came to aid in the travel by boat to djibouti before boarding a vehicle for the ethiopian border officials at the border who are respectful they feel government has an open door policy for yemeni refugees alike refugees of other nationalities here they've been allowed to be in this access to jobs remains a challenge for them as this country of one hundred million people has a huge unemployment problem profit but is chairman of the yemeni refugee community

and if you appear. and. we thank the ethiopian people in government for the way they welcomed us we live here like it's our own country this is because of the huge performance dating back thousands of years between ethiopia and yemen once they cross the border into ethiopia yemeni refugees pass through security and nationality screening procedures before they are just without that they can't get assistance from the un refugee agency. delays over settlement programs to a third country to their hardship plan or better prices about seventy dollars a month per person it's not enough to live on that rent and the cost of living high yet many here have little hope it will quickly. and into the conflict is a long way of our country is the setting of a proxy war between regional and international powers. but few places in yemen are

these safe and so for the refugees this is home for. several people had been injured after israel began to destroy their one village in the occupied west bank a military exclusion zone has been established around the village and protesters but themselves and the path of the bulldozers are fosset 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 breach standoff and then they started dragging people away. that was racially forces delivering now the pressure was away as they tried to remove

activists the ministers of this whole days are going to this is what the activists to try to do to try to stop the terrorist activity this seemingly imminent demolition area and they're being moved out of the way by israeli security forces was the that the treatment was marginally better for members of the media judged to have got too 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 its school. has lived here since his birth he says the pressure on the community has mounted drastically in recent days. 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 that are going to. the village lies in the way of a long planned expansion of the illegal israeli settlements in circle in jerusalem in the occupied west bank in may the israeli supreme court ruled that qana school

and homes had been built illegally in military controlled area c. and therefore could be demolished with its residents transferred to a palestinian town on jerusalem's east infringements. international community is. how we come in fear one day that can be held accountable or if not it means you're pushing this region. and the more horrible violence and violence and themes back in can the israeli operation ground on 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 a private humanitarian rescue ship has docked in barcelona in spain after being

refused entry to italy and malta along through the proactive open arms a charity that rescued sixty people from a rubber boat off the coast of libya on saturday it'll be a case as private rescue operators have encouraging human traffickers to take refugees across the mediterranean from africa to europe. which. it's enough that we managed to rescue sixty people on fortunately since we left the area i think if you haven't lost count almost five hundred people have died in the last four days this demonstrates that what's happening is viable the closing of the ports in italy and malta 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. this year migration continues to cause problems for the german chancellor angela merkel has urged parliament to support her new migration policy at all as a compromise deal with her conservative coalition partners the christian social union to limit the number of asylum seekers arrivals are also needs the backing of

her other coalition partner the s.p.d. and the european union so i didn't look at all but. it is my firm conviction and the firm conviction of many others that the handling of this migration issue will decide what the europe will enjoy because it's such a moving issue it's important that we come to this agreement time and again has more from berlin. all of this week in parliament on wednesday anglo-american 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 a way in the the person concerned that the migrant the person being detained first claimed asylum feel 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 that the seine 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 christine 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 extra police had been sent to a city in western france after a fatal police shooting of a driver led to a series of violent protests shops and buildings were set on fire not police say they shot the twenty two year old man after he had an officer during a traffic stop prosecutors have opened the judicial inquiry and police have launched an internal investigation. italy's interior minister is showing his

commitment to fighting organized crime by taking a splash in a swimming poll details of a nice swim laps at the villa near sienna that had been seized from a former mafia boss the property was seized in two thousand and seven after twenty four years of legal proceedings it is since been turned into a resort sylvaine he says combating organized crime is his government's top priority. still ahead on al-jazeera for helping to remove robert mugabe from power base army makes a major promise ahead of elections later this month. and fighting back about frenchie chirps on a move that threatens to weaken the power of their union class i'm on the richardson of the world cup in russia finding out why so many chinese fans are here you cannot explain why don't you qualify.

how i once again welcome to another look at the international forecast i'm seeing some rather lively showers recently into central parts of canada dance awards at least this side of the u.s. still the clutch of storms just spilling out so if the canadian prairies person cross the northern plains and that will ease its way further east with as we go through thursday then say fair amount of warmth around thirty three celsius the autumn we getting up to twenty nine in new york city to the forty's say down into the southeast in kona but some places of cloud right shabby right heavy downpours from time to time to be some wet weather making its way out to texas arkansas same some of that cloud right eventually it pushes through louisiana and mississippi and it's a little further east was going on so the a reasonably high temperatures for the southeastern corner not quite as hot it's still pretty humid up tools in the northeast is because through friday said twenty five twenty six for all to and also for new york sim a value two for seattle there was fine and right pleasant sunshine coming through

here not a pleasant sunshine say into the caribbean so western side of the caribbean they will see the lion's share of the heavier rain over the next couple of days some big downpours coming it's in the correct or a costa rica on jew risk tamala but she brought across the eastern side of the region wanted to shallow as that for the greater antilles.

this is a friendship between a filmmaker and the seven year old girl mean. to her future. in the face of deep rooted tension between the binny's and the refugees. my syrian friends laugh bisect on al-jazeera. al-jazeera let's recap the top stories for you this hour british police say two people critically ill in southern england have been exposed to the same

a nerve agent used to poison a russian spy and his daughter a man and woman were found unconscious on saturday in the town of amesbury that is your solsbury work sergei and your script were poisoned and march iran's revolutionary guard says they're ready to carry out their president's threat to disrupt oil exports from the gulf a summer and he has warned of taking action if u.s. sanctions prevent iran from selling oil on global markets syria's government and russia have intensified their bombing campaign in southern terra province that's according to opposition media which says strikes as collated strikes escalated the ceasefire talks with what rebels that broke down three hundred thirty thousand people have fled their homes since the offensive began more than two weeks ago. rescuers are building up their strength of the young football players trapped in that cave in thailand as they work out how to get them out one option is giving the twelve boys and their coach a crash course in how to scuba dive has more from shot. new video of the stranded

thirteen shows a tie a navy seal emblem drawn on the cave ledge where the teenagers sought safety eleven days ago the word say 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 and 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 common occasion they can talk to the diver who guides somali and if they see any problem they can calm him 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 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 rehearsals 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 it's got hi there al jazeera chiang rai. so why is it such a difficult job getting the team back to the surface. county.

at closely connected to the mission. entering a world most people never get to see these caves in northern england a part of an elite and their 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 about the challenges facing the rescue team thailand's you're in a very remote very wilderness location so transporting your quitman to and from the sites can take a great deal of time and effort and manpower and when you throw in the flooded sections some see as well and then that slows you down even more it reduces the pool of people you have who can manage equipment in those conditions so it's generally a case of time scale it can be overcome but it takes longer these are some of the easiest conditions you can find didn't take a very british papers and colleagues have got lots of experience of operating in

and saving people from extremely difficult situations. the right. to britons who first made contact with a 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 and sought it out for something times the place for then contacted us to get into heathrow so i came out here collected from blue light to the lighter haste to get the nine o'clock airplane and i 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 or the only way out seems to be out and out the. cave entrance.

for all the floods. the problem than his house to do it. has been talk of teaching they teach in the boy's house to dive and use diving equipment and then letting them dive out but seems with all sorts of perils because of diving not more to diving these caves use their passion to save lives they say they are driven by a sense of camaraderie and right now they can't help thinking about the ongoing rescue efforts in silence. dogood share in the opening. at least fifteen people have died after two days of monsoon rain in the pakistani city of lahore it's the heaviest rain there nearly forty years officials say most deaths were caused by electrocution or homes caving in the rain is expected to continue this month.

malaysia's former prime minister has vowed to clear his name on corruption charges as a result has denied counts related to a state fun that was set up during his tenure in office or its lawyer reports from kuala lumpur. i. arrived at the fall of the poor high court to want such charges of corruption at privet open to trust which carry a maximum twenty year prison sentence i. side his supporters mostly from the political party he wants to talk to three notches. 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 is a political vendetta. 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 set bail at two hundred fifty thousand dollars and 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 fifty prosecutors say the money came from s.r.c. international a form a subsidiary of the state investment fund one and. this case is part of a larger investigation involving one for which not jim and his associates to have a four and a half billion dollars let me state the obvious but he was the would want to be anybody who says they would want him to be. it's such it's a shorthand if. statement to describe what happened to bill for five years

so we'll be able to discrete separate transactions. a wonderful five year period which is really the public told me the fraud scandal is also being investigated in several countries including the u.s. 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 chips trial will likely start to next year he's the first person linked to the scandal to be prosecuted at his og likely to be the last florence. on the loop and. hundreds of thousands of people have been forced from their homes by a new outbreak of violence in southern ethiopia the un and ethiopian governments eight hundred thousand people have fled the dale and west zone in the last month

alone as many as twelve million have been displaced since interethnic fighting began in april. konis top prosecutor has charged nine people with manslaughter over a dam collapse in may at least forty seven people died when the dam in occurred county failed to managers of the commercial farm where the dam was located have been charged as well as county leaders and officials from the water and environment management agencies. zimbabwe's military commanders are hoping to convince voters they will remain neutral when elections planned for the end of the month their army was instrumental in unseating robert mugabe eight months ago and sense then officers have taken up key posts in the electoral commission. more from harare. joining robert mugabe's rule i mean come on to support it is willing. and the military vowed not to allow the opposition to take over the army which forced to resign last november say this year things are going to be different different forces is no direct role in the upcoming homeowners the elections.

our role in the elections is mainly to support the zimbabwe public release in their role of maintenance of roi in order in the country before during and after the elections previous elections jima got israel were often marred by violence voter intimidation and fraud opposition leaders often said security forces were involved allegations denied by the commanders without nelson chamisa who leads the opposition m.d.c. alliance is concerned about for tricking and intimidation we are ready to prove as people alledge where 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 get out of the soldiers. human rights workers say they are also concerned about the army's policy at least fifteen percent of the

electoral commission the secretariat. or former belittles the shows. but the movie. shows. some political analysts say the july polls will be a battle between the old daughter was the one nine hundred seventy s. independence war and the younger generation these are the first elections with robert mugabe on the ballot since nineteen eighteen more than five million people have registered to vote if no single presidential candidate with an outright majority there will be a runoff in september the army says it will respect the constitution even if the opposition wins the man who replaced him president. promises these elections may be free and capable. colombian football players had been receiving death threats since being knocked out of the world cup by england one team member

carlos sanchez received threats earlier in the tournament after being sent off twenty four years ago defender andres escobar was shot dead days after conceding an own goal that resulted in colombia's world cup exit. police have detained a woman who tried to climb the statue of liberty to protest against the u.s. presidents immigration policies she was on new york's famous landmark for about two hours before she was arrested woman said she wouldn't climb down until donald trump's administration released all the children it is to taint at the border with mexico. and the driver ministration has reversed and obama era policy that promoted racial diversity in universities down as affirmative action as attorney general jeff sessions revoked an extensive set of guidelines that comes as harvard university faces a discrimination lawsuit accusing it of limiting admissions for asian americans. the federal guidance that had been issued during the obama era was an important tool for colleges and universities that were trying to do the right thing and were

trying to revise modify institue admissions policies that. were mindful of the supreme court's ruling in fisher and at the end of the day helped to achieve diversity on their campus it sends the message that the federal government doesn't believe in racial diversity and we run the risk that we may see school officials going back to the drawing board revising their policies and changing their approach in ways that can be really harmful to us as a country and many unions in the u.s. are expecting there to fall following a supreme court decision at all that public sector unions can no longer collect workers who choose not to join the largest teacher's union says this won't stop them from political advocacy john hendren of a.