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 the 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 java ministration as reversed and obama era policy that promoted racial diversity in universities down as affirmative action as attorney general jeff sessions provoked 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 and 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 and ruled that public sector unions can no longer collect fees from workers who choose not to join the largest teacher's union says this won't stop them from political advocacy john hendren reports in minneapolis. the

largest teachers' union in the united states says it has a secret weapon in its campaign to boost school funding a lot of our own teachers a lot of educators have said we've spent so much time trying to convince politicians to do the right thing maybe we should be the politicians. unhappy with political leaders on capitol hill and in state houses across the u.s. national education association president lilly is skills and garcia says the union is turning teachers into legislators we had over one hundred. educators just at this last go around on the ballot in the primaries seventy percent of them are successful and they will be on the ballot in november the move was planned ahead of a u.s. supreme court decision last week that found public unions like the n.e.a. can no longer charge fees to nonunion members who are covered by union agreements the n.e.a.

says that ruling is likely to cut its income from dues by fourteen percent over the next two years it has silenced my voice and has really. taken away my ability to have some collective power on behalf of my students and my colleagues in my profession unions are the last line of defense that's what this was about the move was praised by republicans including president donald trump who called it a big loss for the coffers of the democrats supreme court he said it over asians can make unlimited political contributions but the court is limited to those shores using union contributions nevertheless these teachers seem enthusiastic determined to make a difference. the high court ruling will not affect states like florida with so-called right to work laws that already bar nonunion workers from paying dues but it does affect public union workers and twenty two other states that don't it is going to make a speech more strategic and how and what races we can go after

a. races we can't the union's president says republican backers will not stop them from moving ahead what they've used the supreme court decision to do is to encourage members to drop your membership knowing that if enough members drop their membership that our union will disappear that is not happening. union teachers say that even with less money they plan to forge ahead with more protests that began in west virginia this year and spread across the u.s. winning teachers' pay raises in budget increases john hendren al-jazeera minneapolis minnesota. still ahead on al-jazeera and sport the australian basketball team returned home after an ugly brawl at a world cup qualifier against the philippines.

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time for sport with saddam. thank you very much the tops he's continued to fall in the women's draw at wimbledon with carlo wishnie akki the latest to exit determined while in the midst of all roger federer remains on track for a ninth title at the all england club for port. wimbledon has never been kind to caroline wozniacki in the past eleven outings she's never made it beyond the fourth round. russian it's rina makarova and sure that tradition continued on wednesday was an iraqi trailed five one in the third and saved five match points before eventually losing seven five in the decide. you know i think i did everything i could have thought of her so i could and i.

can't even be mad at myself because you know. you know playing up to the level that i can and. and i think she played above her level really race fitness williams came back from a sit down to dominate world number one hundred forty one alexandra de giru four six six love six one so we keep versions in the third round. and it was an easy straight says one for sister the serena who needed just an hour to beat victoria tom over the seven time champion says she's getting better with every match. i think overall i just played better you know right. more consistent still i work on getting my first serves in more but overall it's definitely a little bit better than the first round. so it's a federal lived up to his nickname as the speed through second round match slovak lukash let's go had no answer for the fifth explain.

the eight time champion straight since one coming in just an hour and a half and i. organizers will need to play catch up on thursday after ryan brought an early end to the day's play prevent worth al-jazeera. in his dramatic first ever penalty shootout when at a world cup means all of the quarter finalists are now in place belgium are the only side who haven't won a world cup but in a stacked set of matches to be played on friday they meet brazil are your go i face france we all on the other side of the draw hosts russia take on croatia and after

they went over colombia england square off with sweden both of those games are on saturday there will be supporters from all over the world that those quarterfinal match as many of the fans who have traveled to russia come from countries that aren't even participating at the world cup that includes tens of thousands of chinese fans who are looking forward to a time when their national team is back on football's biggest stage as andy richardson reports from moscow. finally and you are un ought to have more than sixty thousand chinese fans in russia at home in beijing can they watch the spanish league now they're buying in to the world cup experience we had lovers of football where the football fans we always watched the different games in china and we support different teams and different you know football stars. despite the national teams failure to qualify for russia is on the up in china president xi jinping is

a fan and cash is pouring into the domestic league. for years. these finals are a chance for chinese supporters. watch the players they follow on television in european competitions all enjoy the games because they don't see a lot of beautiful soccer beautiful. so they want to see the highest level of just football in the world cup lots of people want to see china back to the walcott maybe we have a chance to hold slow. so. if we talk about. seven chinese companies are sponsoring this world cup and president xi has said it's his dream for the country to one day host the event china of qualified just once for the world cup that was in two thousand and so and i lost all three of their gangs the current saying is ranked down in seventy fifth in the world but the official aims of the chinese football association offer the same to be an asian power by

twenty thirty and for them to have a world class side by twenty fifty one one one one one zero for the man who is in charge of china only will come here and says careful planning is required to happen if you choose. to do for the future this is the more more the world with young people to discover. the passion for the game. this is reported to play to. one. of the strengths. of. china's fans have made their presence felt at this world cup much still has to change if the country's football is to one day follow suit ok thank you andy richardson al-jazeera moscow for time to the france winner chris froome says his looking forward to focus in on racing again after his anti doping case was thrown out on monday the team sky leader says the decision to drop the case of last year's

failed urine test by was a man's governing body the u.c.i. is a huge weight off his shoulders ahead of saturday's openings the. here is race is going to be the biggest challenge of my career i think. even this is for friends who are i'm doing consecutively. it's a massive goal for me trying to transform your faces from the big three foreign service consecutively on the back to the insurance for that i have never done before so this is. because of the support of me to get around me and. i don't mean australia and the philippines are waiting to find out the punishments after a basketball match between the two turned into complete chaos a massive brawl broke out in the third quarter of their world cup qualifying monday thirteen players were jackson's from the game off to both benches

a work cleared filipino fans also joined in the fight the much had to be called off with australia in the lead eighty nine to fifty three australia apologised on their arrival home but blamed the philippines head coach for inciting liberal this is out of the party log on to stood with coach. you know all things he was embarrassed applying i think he was embarrassed. for years and. for they would look me in the yard and we don't know shit is terrible thing it was embarrassing to the school a lot of the time some more from the. rain all north and south korea have played their first friendly game in pyongyang and fifteen years the game was played between drawing women's teams with one called peace and prosperity the matches that were suggested by kim jong un in the meeting with the south korean president in

april south korean men's team will play against the north on thursday. and the four we'll have more later on. that's all for the news hour here on al-jazeera i'm richelle carey thanks very much more news there on the other side of the break keep it or. a new series of rewind a care bring your people back to life i'm sorry and brand new updates on the best of al-jazeera documentaries the struggle continues book from bob did till now for

use distance rewind continues with the return of the lizard king steve shall from one to one east upwards of two hundred species are going extinct every twenty four hours and a lot of that is attributed to wildlife trafficking rewind on al-jazeera. al-jazeera . you read and for your. this is one of the most fun parts of our judicial system what to do with children examining juvenile justice he didn't adult crime he's got to face an adult sons adolescents should not

be denied the rest of their lives for actions that are taken at their q you don't fear life's he's just as guilty as suffers the same consequences that's the long exploring the dark side of american justice the system with joe burden on al-jazeera. to people in the u.k. remain in critical condition after being exposed to the same nerve agent used to poison a former russian spy and his daughter. i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up disrupting oil

supplies iran threatens to block oil from the gulf if u.s. sanctions prevent it from selling oil on the global markets plus. the syrian government and russia step up their offensive after talks with gravels and tara break down. oh. and show support for poland supreme court judges after the government approves a controversial law that could force about a third of justices to step down. british police have confirmed that two people critically ill in the hospital in southern england were exposed to the nerve agent nobody shot that is the same substance used to poison former russian spy service cripple and his daughter yulia and march a major incident was declared in the town of bay area where the man and woman were found unconscious on saturday sunday over reports. it seems almost unthinkable that

the same nerve agent could strike twice in the same place and yet it did leaving two people critically ill and a town swirling in shock these two patients are in critical condition following exposure to the nerve agent no victual following events in march we have a well established response to this type of incident and clear processes to follow our priorities at this time on to care for the patients the couple in question dawn sturgis and charlie rally both in their forties both british nationals collapsed at a house on saturday initially suspected of having had an overdose of contaminated illegal drugs but those tests proved inconclusive were they for first those drugs now they know it's not the drugs it is.

the places they had visited have since been cordoned off as a precaution and police people who have visited those areas to wash their clothes and it's not just sites in amesbury that have been cordoned off but also by geographical coincidence in salzburg as well here at the queen elizabeth gardens not too far away from where the script pals were found when they were poisoned earlier this year so was pretty came under intense scrutiny when the screen pals fell victim to poisoning by the nerve agent nabil chalk the british government pointed the finger to russia and a diplomatic rift ensued samples from the victims were taken to the nearby defense research facility at porton down where scientists were able to pinpoint exactly what caused the couple to fall so ill the u.k.'s national health body has said that there is no risk to the public but counterterrorism police have now taken over the investigation as once again this choir. corner of england is plunged into the

center of one of the most serious cases of poisoning in recent times sunny diagonal al-jazeera souls free iran's revolutionary guard says they're ready to carry out president haasan rouhani says threat to disrupt oil exports from the gulf rai said the measures could be taken if u.s. sanctions prevent his country from selling oil on global markets the u.s. pulled out of the iran nuclear deal in may and warned countries to stop importing iranian oil by november or face penalties alan fischer has more. the reunion president has been in a two day visit to switzerland one of the main topics of conversation the u.s. decision to violate the iran nuclear deal by pulling out now the u.s. wants countries to boycott really annoying this part of stronger international sanctions the president hassan rouhani has appeared to threaten oil exports from other middle eastern countries if the u.s. pushes ahead. it is incorrect in unwise to imagine that somebody or producer

countries will be able to export their surplus oil in iran would not be able to export its oil now really and fishes have threatened to disrupt oil shipments in the past to do so they would target the straits of hormuz that's a major shipping lane but it's also a small stretch of water between iran to the north and oman on the ribbon peninsula to the so at its narrowest point there are just fifty five kilometers between the two pieces of land twenty percent of the world's oil passes through here but i don't think iran will ever need to really exercise this threat we have to remember iran is not the only country that is upset with the u.s. pressure on opec all the idea of the oil exports not coming from iran remember the opec countries the whole reason a lot of these countries are in crises in the first place is because of the u.s. shale oil industry which brought prices down in the first place the u.s. has previously warned countries they must stop all imports from november or face sanctions from america no exceptions our focus is on getting as many countries

importing iranian crude down to zero as soon as possible. we are also working with oil market participants including producers and consumers. to ensure market stability iran has warned any boycott of the oil industry could push prices higher it company provides around two percent of global supply or three million barrels a day the u.s. is already concerned about rising prices at the weekend u.s. president donald trump called so to rebias king solomon and said they do agree that the saudis would boost production but there's no sign that prices are dropping particularly as the global economy is growing and demand for energy is up india south korea turkey all u.s. allies are major importers of very you know oil they might not be able to switch providers quickly or even want to the trumpet ministration would then have to decide have sanctions on them would follow the other signatories to the nuclear deal say they still support it and are looking at ways to save it.

and me as tractor at the center for middle east studies at university of denver hardline approach is forcing iran to make drastic counter threats. i think this is a threat that iran has issued in response to american threats to try be stabilized the iranian economy as we're seeing right now. they'd. produce quite a bit of disruption in your wrongs economy and they have gotten the attention of the wrongs of leaders 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 canonic protests taking place in iran they're not directly related to americans and shoes but are indirectly connected to deteriorating economic conditions so the united states as you know perceived as tough or hard won policy and the 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 a nuclear program is really an attempt by iran to push back against the pressure that is feeling at this moment. the syrian government and russia have intensified their bombing campaign in southern terra province that's according to opposition media which say airstrikes escalated after talks with rebels about a ceasefire fails three hundred thirty thousand people have fled their homes hence that offensive started more than two weeks ago bernard smith is in the air crossing on the jordan syria border. these people move to the border area to escape the fighting in daraa province but they also fear the syrian government which considers them terrorists the being involved in opposition activities among them army defectors media activists and employees of rebel run administrations at least for now returning to their towns and villages that have fallen under state rule is not

an option. people are afraid there will be reprisals retaliation or even executioners this is why they are asking that any deal is guaranteed by a regional power like a jordan or another our country or international guarantees from that. the opposition had a few cards to play but hoped they'd have more leverage by resisting government attempts to recapture remaining rebel areas in dara but the negotiations have now broken down with the opposition saying the russians were asking them to give up too much the rebel groups say it's because of an insistence by the russians rebel groups hand over their heavy weapons however it was understood that one of the conditions the rebel groups laid down was that they were willing to give up their heavy weapons if the syrian regime forces left areas they had recently taken control of and allowed a greater role for the russian military in policing areas that the rebel groups surrendered to regime control russian military control jordan had been mediating

its foreign minister imanol safadi went to moscow for talks with his russian counterpart sergei lavrov about how to implement a settlement in south syria after rebels surrender their areas. because look at the situation in the south of syria with strong concern to believe that the fundamental goal is to resolve this crisis through a political process that would like to begin with a cease fire and then proceed to solving the question that would help to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe in this area but it's clear that it is absolutely unrealistic to expect iran to withdraw from syria and that it won't be possible to solve the problems of the region without the participation of key countries including iran saudi arabia jordan egypt and many others there are no plans yet to restart talks and so the bombardment of dera resumed on wednesday evening but jordan particularly is keen to get all sides talking again hundreds of thousands of syrians trying to escape the fighting

a gathered along the border with jordan tens of thousands more could be heading here jordan has already said it won't be letting anyone cross bernat smith al-jazeera on the jordan syria border. hellens prime minister is defending a new law that forces supreme court judges to retire at the age of sixty five he says the country has the right to decide its own legal system. warning the move will threaten judicial independence david schaper reports from warsaw. a drumbeat of defiance was sounding as thousands of protesters composed on the supreme court it was a boisterous reception for the former chief justice. who returned her death on the first day of her and first fertile. don't have 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. and told the building. they can be there as guests but. because judges because. that uncompromising line was repeated by poland's prime minister when he addressed members of the european parliament in strasbourg cars that drive each state has the right to shape 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 eagle limbo with neither side showing any signs of backing down.