trying to get them to agree on a customs plan now this is pretty basic stuff i mean that is basically it's hard to imagine anything more basic than your trading arrangements and what kind of organization you're going to be attached when it comes to tyrants and she has been unable to get any agreement around the cabinet table on that issue for that reason there's essentially been no progress. for six months that is a quarter of the entire time table was able to do this and for now just when it looked like she'd actually secured something she's absolutely and i was going to say that from from outside it looks i must say this is a governing week governing policy that is pretty much with itself. that's entirely correct it is a war with no clear idea of what it wants it is split between people who would like to happen prioritize the continued existence of the conservative party on the one hand and those in the conservative party probably about fifty or seventy of them thought who basically think that the e.u. is an axis tension or threat to great britain and they will prioritize even the

anything the two and then a small minority of about let's say about twelve who actually remains who would rather stay and who are sort of fighting the regard defense against any kind of that situation it's hard to have a tory party stays together over this the only saving grace it has is that other parties in britain most notably the opposition labor party just as divided as what city of brussels what is making. brussels at this stage isn't entirely sure that britain is a viable negotiating partner which is an extremely dispiriting thing to say of course but if you are negotiating partner cannot come up with one coherent idea of what it is trying to achieve let alone how it is trying to achieve it and it's very very hard for brussels to sit there and go where we can do with you because of course anything they sign up to the british government is very likely to have to change on the basis of ministerial resignations or parliamentary rebellions you think back to december when they signed an agreement in december very very important agreement on withdrawal budget on rights for citizens on the irish border

issue the next day or seventy days afterwards david davis a man who has just resigned stood up and went oh it's only a vague agreement we can go back on it if we want a staggering thing by him to have said so again brussels is constantly put in this position where the promises that have made cannot necessarily be stood up and they are not entirely sure if the prime minister has the authority to make them in the first place and the and finally the rather swift appointment of dominic robb to take the place of david davis what difference would he make really quite new to rob comes from the same kind of type he's a pretty pretty sort it on bracks he's a bit younger he's seen as a sort of like bridge back to a younger generation of bracks it is however if he's going into this job it is because he signed up to the plan david davis has resigned and secondly he is also accepting the premise that rex it is now being run from downing street it is now being run by the prime minister and eight rather than by the bracks department in

that context one imagines that assuming to resume can hold assuming there aren't moment still resignations to come assuming the government survives in that context sure the raw being put in opposition really adds up to about much right and down thank you very much indeed. lots more to come on this al-jazeera news hour including mystery surrounds how a british citizen died after coming into contact with a dangerous they have agent. the u.n. appeal for access to syria's there are provinces humanitarian conditions get worse . and installed roger federer continues his best friend nine wimbledon title on a busy day of action at the one in the club and jay will have the details. now british police have confirmed that a woman who was exposed to the nerve agent last week has now died during sturgis fell ill after apparently handling an item that was contaminated with the substance

now the health authorities are trying to come residents in the community that seen several military grade poisonings just a matter of months. reports. for over a week doctors at salzburg district hospital battle to save the life of dawn sturges to no avail they've now confirmed the death of the forty four year old mother of three who had fallen critically ill after being exposed to what british authorities believe is the same deadly nerve agent known as no b. chalk used to target a former russian spy and his daughter in march i want to express my condolences and those of everyone here at seoul's bridges st hospital to john's family our staff a talented dedicated and professional and i know that they will be hurting too they did everything that they coach. we continue to treat one other individual who remains in a critical condition the circumstances under which sturgis and the forty five year

old man charlie rowley came into contact with the military grade substance are still being determined but a tweet from the british prime minister following the news of sturgiss death leaves no doubt as to the nature of the investigation theresa may said i'm appalled and shocked by the death of dawn sturgis and my thoughts and condolences go to her family and loved ones police and security officials are working urgently to establish the facts of this incident which is now being investigated as a murder but the investigation led by britain's counterterrorism unit has yet to confirm whether or not the same batch of novi chalk is behind the two incidents sturgis and her friend came into contact with the parties in the town of amesbury just eleven kilometers away from source bree where the scriptures were attacked britain's public health authority has tried to calm locals fears of contamination the risk. is very small and it is very small because there's not a lot of it is

a very large area and you have to come in contact with it with your bare skin because. well if you do we know this is after the march attack on the script falls british politicians were quick to point the finger at moscow sparking the biggest western expulsion of russian diplomats since the cold war but mystery still surrounds how a deadly nerve agent ended up on the streets of a usually quiet corner of southern england won the silver. all right we can go live now to our correspondents on your gago she's there in seoul sprit and sonia my guess is then the police will be first and foremost trying to establish a link between what happened to the script insoles where you are and what happened to charlie rowley and dawn sturgis eleven kilometers away in ames very.

indeed martin in fact they did state from the beginning of this new event this latest saga they believe that it was linked that's the lie and that's the theory that's being taken at the moment that they don't believe it's a new attack but rather a hangover as it were from the original attack on the script piles in march and of course now it's developed into a murder inquiry you have more than one hundred counterterrorism police officers working on this and it's really this death as is really leaving the public health body here scrambling to try and reassure people here in salzburg as much as they possibly can. the city is generally safe that there is no great risk to the public with this but you know people here are definitely rattle's they

are. definitely cost a pall over this city it would just when they were getting over the initial attack on the script powells and that things seem to be moving forward it seems it's now being cast right back into that again so really they need to do a lot to reassure people and certainly that's going to sort of come with more intense investigation as to how exactly happened did that did the two people in question the two victims did they what exactly did they touch to get them to have been contaminated with such a dangerous. compound and really there are answers that they're looking for and they're hoping to find that out in the next few days martin thank you live in the schools rooms of the new england. now there are reports of nother israeli attack on an airbase in syria's homes province state media is reporting

that its military syrian military that is struck an israeli fighter jet and shot down six missiles which were targeting the tea for air base israel so far hasn't commented on the reports but has carried out dozens of air strikes on alleged iranian targets in syria in recent years that he for air base was targeted back in april with syria and russia blaming israel. and elsewhere in syria rebels have confirmed the government forces have surrounded opposition held parts of their our city and that's despite a russian break a cease fire agreed on friday for the province of the un's calling for unrestricted access to the south western province in order to deliver aid to the tens of thousands of people it says a desperately in need the fighting has displaced more than three hundred thousand people within the past two weeks and this is the largest exodus of the seven year

war in syria we'll go live to then a holder our correspondent who's following developments from neighboring lebanon the capital beirut and say yes another humanitarian crisis on an epic proportion as a result of this war in syria. yes but now the united nations is saying that tens of thousands of people who were taking shelter close to the jordanian border have returned to their homes but what has happened to those people is really anyone's guess because there are no international monitors on the ground tens of thousands of people are still refusing to return to their homes those people are camped out close to the border the border of the occupied golan heights they are too scared to return there even making appeals especially opposition activists media activists people who are considered terrorists by the gun government simply because they engage in some sort of opposition activity they cannot return home

without international guarantees now when we hear about negotiations between the russian military which has been speaking on behalf of the syrian government and rebel factions they're all talking about russian guarantees but this is just not enough for the people of there are they want to guarantees from the united nations before they can return to their homes which are now under the control of the syrian government the syrian government now controls seventy percent of that up province so many people still fearful of returning to their homes without those international guarantee. that they will not face some sort of a persecution or a rest of an execution from the syrian government forces of reception is the un request for access to these people well sort of reception is the government and its allies giving that request. well the united nations says they have trucks and trucks of aid to parked close to the jordanian border all they want is permission from the damascus government to enter the province of the us in order to reach tens of thousand people who knew really need aid not just in there but in the

neighboring province of could nature but so far the damascus government is not giving them any aid also the united nations demanding protection for those civilians now what is happening at the moment on the ground is that the syrian government has taken more territory and laid siege to did our city this is the provincial capital which is divided the rebels controlled the south of the provincial capital and it is now under siege now we don't know how many people are trapped in there some activists estimate around five thousand but many of them are fighters and their families who want safe passage to leave to rebel controlled areas in the norse now the opposition is accusing the russian military of violating the deal by not allowing these people to leave but we are hearing from the russian military that there should be there might be some sort of back away sion tomorrow zana thank you very much live in beirut now japan's prime minister shinzo abbay has canceled a planned trip to tarun sure rains have killed at least one hundred people evacuation orders are in place for nearly two million people

a multiple landslide warnings have been missing and a large scale rescue operation is underway with more than fifty thousand emergency workers as well jazeera is foggy salami is in tokyo he has the latest. indeed the pictures we have been showing very huge the tragedy happening there the problem with that is to have forces that. are in the countryside with maybe not over three. months in a geography and this means that. companies defense forces want discussed there more than forty eight thousand troops have been to class through the areas it means thus it's difficult for them to be patient to help people and also even with the using helicopters it would be difficult to learn in such places taking into consideration that most of the areas that are. rice fields would be difficult

to even produce the people that many of the rescue efforts are depending on the local people themselves. who know that they are stranded or they are they know they are missing and to know that there is about ninety people could raise more within the coming hours or days and there are more than fifty eight people still missing until now. since the tsunami filed that report the death toll has gone up from ninety to one hundred we can now say to name any amount to his imagines he missiles coordinator at the japanese red cross and she's joining us from the headquarters in taking it thank you for talking to us he sounds like an immense operation that is exceedingly difficult. thank you very much yes indeed as the situation has been described the numbers have been added by alice and also we've been seeing the situation evolving over the hours and so far for the japanese red cross since the very early stage of the disasters and also since also people have been evacuating

to the emergency centers we have been trying to distribute blankets as well as emergency kits and also sleeping kits so that people can have settled sleeping and also hygiene situation in these evacuation centers but as it has been also mentioned earlier we have also been hearing from our team on the ground about the challenges of reaching to these locations i mean to say that luckily we have been having these hospitals all around japan to be preparing for these kind of disasters but still having said so i think this is a really a scale is quite big compared to the previous is where we have seen floods and also landslides but this is something that would be something more much more devastated than compared to those past disasters that we have been seeing what is the biggest concern would you say in a crisis situation like this what is the greatest concern for the red cross. so far as it's being shared has been challenges about people who have been losing

their houses and they would be staying in these evacuation centers what as to peace because we are seeing that this is not just on one day to day operations but we also have to think about these people how they would also and secure their health conditions for example we're hearing that there could be a potential of a race of heat of the coming days what does what are the needs for those heat strokes and also how to keep the sanitations as much as possible so these are things that we're already seeing as challenges as well as on the at the knees that would be racing shortly and of course many people who are now encountering will remember with a great deal of dread and horror of the events of eleven of course in the tsunami. yes thank you very much yes we as mentioned earlier we are really trying our best and all medical teams are really working round the clock and really trying to reach these parts of clue cations. creations would continue thank you very much indeed.

talking to us from the japanese red cross headquarters in. thank you very much well in just a few moments everton bring us the weather and also coming up on this hour a common bond german and chinese leaders meet to discuss their opposition to donald trump's huge international tyrus. now this french legend will go up against his countrymen in the last four of the world cup joe will have the details in sport. and if i was proud. of staying. there whether sponsored by cattle. while that would start with a look at the weather in japan you can see from those pitches just a few minutes ago that it is drawing now with some sunshine around last week clear

skies across japan rain not too far away the flooding rains they have sneaked away the slot state down towards more of the northwest pacific this next rain band that's coming through and that's going to bring some very heavy downpours in across the korean peninsula more especially across the north korea over the coming days and alice actually see the system is pretty much stuck that japan on the other hand will stay fine in tries to go on through the next few days a real chance to dry out here i am pleased to say thirty two celsius there in tokyo we'll see if the cloud in the rain further north that will extend this way towards northern parts of china actually beijing could see some flooding over the next day out sim a senator can get the possibility of flooding heading towards the southeast of china as we go on into the middle part of this week here we have super typhoon maria sustained winds two hundred forty kilometers per hour as the equivalent of a category four hurricane on the southeast simpson scale to see the system make its

way towards the north of taiwan so we're going to see the flooding rains coming in here or tuesday on into wednesday and then as we get into the latter part of the week flooding problems for food province. the weather i can't time. one of the really special things about working for al-jazeera is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much empathy and contribution to a story as well we cover this region better than anyone else. you know it's very challenging liberally but to give because you have

a lot of people that are divided on political issues. we the people we live to tell the real story so i'll just mend it is to do the work in-depth journalism we don't feel inferior to the audience across the globe. tarver to take a look at the top stories here at al-jazeera one more boys been brought out safely from inside a flooded cave system in thailand and is now in the field hospital inside an elite team of divers is bringing out three others from the flooded cave where they've been trapped for more than two weeks on sunday the first four of the twelve young

boys in their cage were rescued. the british government official in charge of the u.k.'s against nations to leave the e.u. has resigned david davis quit as directed secretary just hours after prime minister to resign may announce she was going to take her cabinets platen for leaving the european union to brussels this is may has now pointed dominic grab at britain's new breadsticks secretary. u.k. police have confirmed that a woman forty four year old dawn sturgis who was exposed to the nerve agent novacek has died and her male friend. who was with her at the time in the town of ain spree is also critically ill police suspected of the same batch of novacek use on of russia. double agent and his daughter in march. that he journalists have been ordered to stand trial in miramar accused of breaking the country's colonial era secrecy law. and why learned he worked for the reuters news agency were arrested in

december while they were investigating the killing of muslim or hindu they've pleaded not guilty and say police planted evidence on them. to murder we did not commit any crimes but i would like to say regarding today's decision by the judge that we will never give up today's court decision does not mean that we are guilty we still have the right to defend ourselves. more now from our correspondent florence looming in kuala lumpur. the two reuters journalists have been charged under the official secrets act which carries a maximum penalty of fourteen years in prison the case will now go to a full trial which means it could be several weeks possibly even months before a final verdict is given now the defense lawyer had argued that this case ought to be thrown out because the prosecution failed to prove that these men are threat to national security that the so-called secret documents they had of them were already in the public domain the court also heard testimony from a police witness that

a senior officer had ordered his subordinates to plant the documents on one of the reports is to trap him yet these two men have been charged now and there are several things troubling about this case apart from the circumstances of these journalists arrest one concerns the issue of press freedom these two men have been arrested they've been denied bail since their arrest in december for simply doing their jobs as report says the second concerns what's happening in recalling state as some rights activists put it these two reporters have been locked up for trying to expose the truth about what's happening there where the myanmar military has launched a crackdown since august twenty fifth causing more than seven hundred thousand ethnic rule hinge on minority to flee to bangladesh to escape persecution the u.n. itself has described the crackdown as containing elements of genocide as a textbook example of ethnic cleansing yet the myanmar government and the military

continues to deny or downplay the seriousness of what's happening in riccarton state and as human rights watch puts it the authorities in myanmar appear to be falling back on an old tactic of locking up those who are trying to tell the truth . well we can speak to matthew bua now his from the organization article nineteen which defends human rights and promotes and defends freedom of expression and he was acting coach in a small inning and matthew thank you very much indeed for joining us so what happened in court today because these two journalists are now being accused of having broken the national security act of mia ma yes so the two journalists were charged today by the court meaning that they'll go to a full trial and it was really a heartbreaking scene i think first of all these journalists deserve a wards for their courageous reporting of what was happening. and instead they're

facing these rather absurd legal proceedings but also their families were there i was sitting right behind the wife and small daughter who and the two journalists really tried to put on a brave face and gave thumbs up and smiles to their colleagues and to their family but really it's very clear that this is a tragic miscarriage of justice and elvis say this is causing doubts on the independence of the judiciary in myanmar. yeah that's certainly true there's no other way to describe this case then as a farce the two men were arrested very shortly after they were given documents by police officers and those of the documents that mace make up the basis of the charges under this official secrets act there was another police witness who was reading notes off of this hand in court and another that admitted to burning notes relating to the case the police whistleblower who described the is now in

jail so really the this is this case is a complete farce and it really calls into question how the judiciary is making these decisions or rather who is making these decisions to move on with this case indeed article nineteen year old denies ation has has described this as being part of an assault on press freedom which is a defining feature of the government's dreadful human rights record that's a client yes. so this government is proving that they'll go to any length to sort of quassia any independent or credible reporting of the conflict that's going on in rakhine state we have to keep in mind this is the government of a nobel prize winner who at one time with was a staunch defender of freedom of expression and now this government's overseeing ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity as well as a really remarkable crackdown on press freedom it's. a difficult thing to watch

absolutely it would have been that long ago would it. like yours would have been in stores defense of. her own personal liberties which as we know were taken away from her for many years so how disappointed is article nineteen about the way on some cheese conducting government which of course she is the de facto leader of you know it when i started doing work about human rights in myanmar on sunset she was still in prison and if you would have told me then. that she would now be in power i would have said that's unbelievable and there's almost no way that you could have convinced me that she would be in power and would be cracking down on freedom of expression to this extent it's just it's mind boggling matthew thank you very much . now germany's chancellor is meeting the chinese premier in

berlin talks between angle america only chang will focus on training and to follow his u.s. president donald trump in addition of new terrorists and goods from both china and the european union of which of course germany is part both leaders have criticized transfer me with china accusing him of starting a global trade war dominic cain has more from berlin. when they meet on monday angela merkel and likud chang will do so as partners on the world stage trade links between germany and china are strong but right now all eyes are on their collective commercial relationship with the united states the policies of the trumpet ministration have caused them real concern on the ball garion leg of his european visit the chinese premier spelt out why bush's about view that trade war is never a solution china would never start a trade war but if any party resorts to increasing tariffs when china will take measures in response to protect china's development interests uphold your foti and

efficacy of the w t o and safer multinational trade regime operating within that trade regime has generated vast amounts of revenue both in berlin and in beijing germany's total trade with china was worth two hundred thirty billion dollars in twenty seventeen a ten percent rise on the previous year but despite this the united states remains the biggest market for german companies in the last twelve months for which we have figures the u.s. trade deficit with germany reached nearly sixty seven billion dollars a fact president trump believes is justification to impose tariffs on alumium and steel imports and which the german chancellor worries may lead to other measures it's a lot of follow me you missed out on p.r. but we now have tariffs on alimony m and steel and we have a discussion which is very serious it appears cost who will be imposed with tariffs when. they're imported to the us ladies and gentlemen this has the character of

a trade conflict i don't want to use any other word for now it's worth every effort to try to defuse this complex so it doesn't turn into a war but this obviously takes to. trade is not the only area of policy where beijing and burlington's interests coincide both were instrumental in arranging the nuclear deal which brought iran in from the cold both were united in their opposition to president trump's rejection of that deal but there are still some policy differences on significant issues such as china's approach to human rights on which the two countries do differ and yet it's clear that when likud chang and angle americal meet it may well also the a meeting of minds dominic keynes al-jazeera. brazil's former president lewis in asio lula da silva will stay in prison for now at least earlier a judge ruled that lula would be released sparking a series of contradictory judicial decisions over the politicians fate the

confusion was finally settled by an appeals court chief justice who said the former president must remain in jail for the time being illiterate serving a twelve year prison sentence for corruption daniel shiela has more from one of us . there's been a day of high drama in brazil with different judges in different cities around the country disagreeing with one another on whether the former president of the suitable should be allowed out of prison he's serving a twelve year one month prison serve in the city of could achieve on corruption and money laundering challenges but one judge in the southern city of the world were deliberate ruled on the writ of habeas corpus that the former president should be allowed out to finish off the appeal procedure and he should be free to be able to do that and the initial judge the judge who sent to prison in the first place back in april he said that that judge did not have the authority to allow for the

president to do with out of prison it went to and fro with other judges stepping in and so the federal court judge was finally asked to make a ruling he said the president or president of the silver should at least spend the night in prison but the the impasse is by no means over other judges are likely to step in the country is polarized the country is split on whether the former president should be allowed out on not he has expressed his innocence all along he says he's the victim of a political vendetta and what many believe it is if he is allowed out and is allowed to stand the presidential elections in october he would in fact with his portions believe this and opinion polls in to indicate that would be the case so a very difficult situation now in which the president knew that sooner that depending on the legal wranglings with either spend the twelve years in prison or perhaps by the end of the year it could be president again or brazil. oh it's a year since iraqi forces brought i saw three year occupation of mosul to an end

but iraq's second largest city remains in ruins and as many on a whole new rippled many living in the rubble fill their government and the world have abandoned them. oh many people only heard of the islamic state of iraq in the levant just four years ago that's when in two thousand and fourteen abu bakar al baghdadi stepped up to the pope put mosul's thousand year old grandson re musk and declared an islamic state covering huge swathes of iraq and syria four years later i still fight his blew the mosque up the last stand in mosul a defector capital as a rocky forces closed and it was in july last year that iraqi prime minister haider on the body into mosul and declared victory over i still but the city he and his forces left behind was in ruins more than ninety percent of whiston mosul's old

city was destroyed in the nine month offensive by iraqi forces backed by the u.s. led coalition.