the remaining. unconventional methods to eliminate corruption remain people. on. this. island welcome to the new. headquarters and. coming up in the next sixty minutes. germany is. captive to russia what a way to begin don't trump attacks germany in a test breakfast with the nato chief. of the cave and well the first pictures image of thailand's rescued young footballers in hospital. close. to

hand over control of key oil facilities as china. for the latest threat and their trade dispute. with the sports. book that plays then the wild cup final. england croatia the trophy will have all the action. the u.s. president has accused germany of being a captive of russia and an extraordinary ahead of the nation summit in brussels speaking during a breakfast with nato chief. trump railed against germany for its dependence on russian energy and missing defense spending targets. now could you look at it

germany is a captive for a ship because they supply they get rid of their coal to get rid of the nuclear they getting so much of the oil and gas from russia i think it's something that they are asked to look at i think it's very appropriate for you and i think we did it appropriate i don't know what you can do about it but it certainly doesn't seem to make sense that they pay billions of dollars to russia and now we have to defend them against russia. no maintenance the non-so trying to mine me. there are some parts differences son needed them to do so and also some disagreements on that i've got a. problem for for the german small issue with a lot of these three but the span fullname two is the respond to these differences we have all been able to unite to romo for poles good to protect on the phone to tell the people from the sound of your story would you give them a call. to go to world war from the cold war focused on your story together or.

how are you going to get what a country is getting its energy from the person you want protection against or simply because from the start of the when we stand together also when dealing with her strong or stronger i think will become seniors no you just make you richer rich or well that deliberately making rich richer with a good deal of even the cold war made dollars for trading with the rush of other of the in this room and so both while on the trade agreements we've through the i think terry is wonderful i think energy is a whole different story and the energy is a much different story than normal trade and you have a country like poland or except. you take a look at some of the countries there were said to because they don't want to be captive to russia but germany as far as i'm concerned is captive to russia because it's getting so much energy for such so listen first of projects surely getting their energy. from russia explain. this to you

well then rejecting allegations and going to merkel reflected on her youth in the soviet controlled east germany. was given them unless it's given the location i want to say that i've experienced being a part of germany controlled by the soviet union and i'm very happy to do that for united freedom as the federal republic of germany and can best say that we can determine our own policies and make our own decisions and that's very good especially for people in a former east germany. our correspondents are following reaction dominic casey kane is and the german city of new york while rory chalons as standing by for us in moscow we'll go live to both after we speak to our diplomatic editor james bays who is there for us in brussels and we heard james from the european council president donald tusk just days ago saying that donald trump should remember who has allies are going into this nato summit it doesn't it seems like that might have fallen on

deaf ears we were expecting tension and trump has certainly delivered. we've never seen tension like this at a nato summit and particularly coming from the dominant partner in nato the united states president trump knew exactly what he was doing at that breakfast meeting the reporters were invited in the white house crew who did not ask them to leave after a few moments they let them stay quite clearly they knew that president trump was going to start a tirade against nato allies and in particular one ally germany slowed to some awkward scenes here as we've seen all of the nato leaders arrive all twenty you know they came out for the opening ceremony and certainly chancellor merkel did not seem to be smiling very much she did not seem to be talking to president try. they seemed in the group of leaders to be keeping themselves apart from one another they

then went into the formal meeting of all the leaders when nato gets together around a table it's called the north atlantic council that meeting has now been taking place what's important though is that we know that in the next few minutes two of the leaders are going to leave and they are chancellor merkel and president trump they're going to have a one on one meeting and we're told by the white house that the president will reiterate what he said earlier so expect that to be a difficult and controversial meeting worth telling you there are no cameras around for that one here i'm not surprised james after this morning's after what came out of this morning's me saying so as well as that meeting between trump and merkel what else is on the agenda for the summit. well they'll be the normal discussions that nato has about its areas of interest around the world

particularly what's going on in afghanistan they'll be talking i think about ukraine about russia and the threat from russia but clearly now the whole issue of spending is right at the top of the agenda as it was before this summit as it was last year's summit when president trump raised it nato had a deal it did in wales back in twenty fourteen that each country would get to a phase where it could say that it was spreading two percent of its gross domestic product on defense and that was over a ten year period well i think the pressure now is rigged to speed up on that james thank you very much for that for now that sir james bays live and brussels let's go to dominic casey in his life arise in munich and dominic there has been no love lost in the past between donald trump an anglo-american but calling germany a captive of russia and what's been the reaction to that there.

well you heard earlier that angela merkel referred to her time growing up in communist dominated east germany where the soviet union was effectively in charge and how did she help shape her life course that that's why she she greeted freedom when it arrived in germany and it allowed germany to forgit zone way in the world to create its own policies and also saying that nato germany's role in the so is a serious one that germany provides troops for peacekeeping operations in afghanistan because it has troops on the eastern edges of nato in some of the baltic states providing some reassurance the two baltic states in germany is a fundamental partner so clearly you have the sense there that angle americal is not happy at all about what is being said by president trump but bear in mind the lizabeth that this is not some isolated incident mr trump president trump rather

has been effectively railing against what he considers to be the shortcomings of german foreign policy for many many months indeed it was part of his campaign as candidate trump that he would raise this issue this failure in his eyes germany to meet its its proper commitments that james was referring to there that were agreed in wales and twenty fourteen and if donald trump brings out all of this up with. me saying that's expected to happen over the next few hours dominic how will the chancellor merkel sell this idea that trump wants so much of germany to spend two percent of its g.d.p. on defense so the german public. well it's be clear about this germany currently is spending some estimates suggest as much as one point four percent of those suggested a bit lower one point two five percent but in any event in order to reach two percent of its g.d.p. on defense it has to spend

a great deal more money will people really want to have their tax money being spent on defense instead perhaps of on health care on education that sort of thing those are the really fundamental questions pointed here also this is not strictly speaking in germany in a domestic sense a party political issue because but because the christian democrats wrangle americal and the social democrats who were vying for the chancellorship last september they both were saying in their election policy pledges that they were not going to reach two percent in the time of this current parliament so it's hard to see where their angle americal is going to be prepared to because of what mr trump the president has been saying be prepared to change course to change policy and given the fact finally also that the government has been going through a crisis of its own regarding migration and other issues so they really want to she really going to want to throw yet another spanner into the works as it were that might cause coalition problems here dominic thank you very much for that as dominic

came in munich let's go to for a challenge he's joining us live from the russian capital so we've heard the reaction from germany. has there been any reaction in russia to these comments about germany being captive to russia because of its energy needs. they're staying pretty quiet about it at the moment i think there will be people in sides the russian hierarchy of power who have heard what donald trump has said and are rubbing their hands with glee to a certain extent in as much as this is a trump wrecking ball taking large swings at the nato alliance russia hates nato and has done for some time it of course hated it when there was the soviet union around and nato was deliberately set up to counter soviet power then in the post soviet periods moscow thought that nato broke promises not to expand eastwards and

that nato is still essentially targeted against russia it sees nato as a as a us imperial project essentially so anything with the stabilizes nato russia and its leadership likes however the trunk wrecking ball is not just swinging at nato it's also swinging at russia and the content of what donald trump says was essentially reinforcing the idea that russia is the enemy so that will concern people here the other thing that will concern people here is that trump is taking aim at the central pillar of russian security essentially it's its energy exports it's saying that rushers energy exports not just prop up the country economically but also are a key plank of its foreign policy arsenal and anything that weakens that will concern people in moscow beyond all this but i think it's worth pointing out that

there are there is a view here in russia and it's a view that is shared in many parts of europe as well and i would say it's shared in germany that there's something else going on behind what the united states is doing here and you can see it in perhaps the the act that was put out in u.s. congress in two thousand and seventeen countering america's. bursaries through the sanctions act basically sets out opposition to the north stream two gas pipeline linking russia with germany and then on to the wider western european gas markets are following this basically very close to this clause it has also a bit that says that what america should be doing is boosting its own gas sales to western europe as a way of promoting u.s. jobs and u.s. energy security so there are people in moscow people in western europe who think that basically what america is trying to do here is get to you or western european energy markets or i thank you very much for that as roy chalons in moscow well as

donald trump maintains his assertion that other nato members oh the u.s. money here are some facts about how the organization is actually funded members payments are based on the size of their economy america have in the bogus makes the single largest contribution just over twenty two percent of nato's three billion dollars budget germany france britain and as only combined pay nearly forty four percent four years ago all members agreed to work toward spending at least two percent of their g.d.p. on defense by twenty twenty four well this was never going to be a direct contribution to nato nor a payment to the u.s. right now most members are spending less than this including richer countries like germany france and canada well let's get more on all of this now we're joined by our senior political analyst bashar he is joining us live from london so much to unpick here might one let me start by picking up on something that warry was saying

you know what could be behind trump attacking where germany and other western european countries get their energy needs from russia because of the u.s. has interests what do you make of that and also the fact that donald trump seems to be telling everybody else where to get energy from you know not iran not russia. certainly for everything from says that there's a logical sort. of lot of it starts with trump himself being the motivation for trump speaking there's a certain eccentricity or ego centricity about everything he says and does including his provocations and i think now we are almost two years three years since his candidacy began and his presidency some eighteen months ago and it's really the style of course has been more of the same for some it's in thirteen ing

for others it is tiring but be that as it may there is some logic beyond the personal and that is he does see the world in transactional ways and he does think that it's not in america's interest to be the guardian of the liberal capitalist order but rather to be simply caring for its own state and business interests through transactional ways including of course promoting. others and going after its enemies and of course that's confusing its allies in europe and elsewhere because for now seventy years we've lived the liberal order that's been basically built and protected by the united states so for most people today the question is do we need to wither of the forty years of trump and then hope for the better or are we really at the cost of a crossroads of

a new era in the world and is what he's doing will also be confusing to russia because on the one hand you have him saying things before the summit like he expects his upcoming meeting with the russian president to actually go better than the meeting with his allies and yet he attacks germany for buying energy from russia. look i think we need to unpick what comes out of washington on two levels level number one the administration. and the pentagon the state department and so on so forth and by the way i really looked at the face of secretary pompei when you can see how embarrassed he is by the way the person from expresses himself but be that as it may i think you i think the administration still views russia with lots of suspicion and they still claim that in fact they are harsher and harder on putin that obama was in fact secretary

pompei or said that in those exact words we were harsher on on on putin but but the president trumps instincts and initiatives are different so he congratulates putin for his elections even though most people think it's not exactly democratic he also. basically recognized or accepted russia's annexation of crimea even though later on he did a bit of a u. turn under pressure so the white house and trump himself is eager to bridge the gap with moscow and really come to cooperate with putin and by the way not so different from what president obama did in his first term in office there is a sense that we're not when a president comes in in his first ten year he'd like to do a reset so obama did

a reset with russia at the time it was president madrid of and this year president trump is trying to do a reset of relations with putin and whether that works or not of course we'll need to wait until monday and the reset of course despise what the u.s. congress is actually trying to do and i do want thank you very much for your analysis on this matter under shall live and london. and the rest of the day's news is still ahead the field riots may be over and haiti but the anger remains protesters call for the resignation of the president also broken top is why greece has ordered the expulsion of two russian diplomats and christiane over naldo quits real madrid up to nine seasons tatyana will tell you where he's going next and. the first pictures of the rescue thais schoolboys have emerged since they were

brought out of the cave this is them recovering in an isolation ward of a hospital and chiang rai doctors say the boys and their coach are each about two kilograms life otherwise in pretty good health the young football team spent seventeen days trapped underground. let's go to our correspondent and she is joining us live from chiang it looks like they're on the road to recovery now jim and. well yes definitely and at the press conference just about less than an hour ago the medical doctors basically said that all of them are in stable condition that they are good both physically emotionally and mentally three of the children contracted lung infection they are going through laboratory tests at the moment they are to stay in the hospital for seven weeks for seven days before they are sent home and they have to stay at home for about thirty

days still have not been reunited with their families the families are still able to see them through a glass window because they're still under quarantine at that press conference as well the government also expressed gratitude to those who participated not just those from the seals group but also from other countries who came in and brought in their expertise basically to help on the president the operation at the time of so much division here in southeast asia and the celebrations over this extraordinary rescue continuing. yes indeed i mean there have been deports that they're all gathering basically celebrating in different restaurants there were reports that the seals basically have managed to share a drink last night and a light moment we're seeing some of the volunteers already going home this is going to be something that will be remembered for a long time not only here in thailand but all across the globe for the first time

basically it didn't matter that some of the countries who came in for help had conflict with thailand over border economic issues it didn't matter that they were in contrast with the foreign policy of foreign policy of thailand what mattered was the came here together and this is actually what makes this collaboration unique this is a test case of how defense and humanitarian agreements can be done and should be executed within southeast asia together with other partner countries so this is something that can be remembered for a long time also observers have said this is the story of the football team and what they went through in that cave after several weeks of basically and their very difficult conditions is also in keeping with the world cup fever at the moment you know they exhibited teamwork brotherhood unity and these three together really exactly the kind of values the world cup and sportsmanship espouses you know this is something that makes this story very special elizabeth thank you very much for that has gone with the very latest on the boys condition from chiang rai thank you

now cleanups underway in the capital of haiti after days of protests against fuel price rises they have since been shelved but as a result of reports from port au prince demands for the president to resign continuing. a puzzle activity at first glance it appears like just another regular day in haiti's capital city. but don't be fooled this is a country again dealing with a political and economic crisis port au prince has in recent days been the scene of large scale protests thousands took to the streets at one point officials temporarily closed the capital's international airport fearing the crowds the anger was directed at the government police used tear gas to disperse people apparently threatening to overrun the presidential palace several people were killed during the melee. the unrest was sparked by the government's decision to increase fuel prices by up to fifty percent the increases cover gasoline diesel and kerosene

sales however it's kerosene which stands apart from the others being the cheap fuel of choice for the millions of poor haitians to power their stoves and generators people of this economically country most of whom make less than a couple dollars a day are furious at what they view as an inept and corrupt government the fuel hike was the last straw down the bucket we are taking to the streets because the president is keeping the people hostage everything is overpriced unemployment is high and people are hungry we need to free haiti from all of that citizens if the president doesn't step down we'll continue protesting we've given lawmakers and ultimatum either they force him from office or we will burn the parliament down to the ground. the government says the gasoline rate increase was needed and it would have brought in tens of millions of dollars to fund much needed infrastructure

projects throughout the country but faced with a backlash the government backed down and halted the rate increase at least for now but this is still a country in deep political crisis people here saying they'll go back on the streets to protest until there's a change in government georges lucien is a historian and political analyst who says these protests are different from the ones in the past because now the anger is focused not only on the political leaders but also at the business leaders as well. these policies not only affect the poor but also the middle class until the government starts working to improve people's lives there's no guarantee the recent unrest won't return so far all the government policies are pushing people out of their lands they are building sweatshops in other industries for imports but ignoring local production on edge a proposed fuel price hike that is now to fuel inflating the end of a long suffering people. and gabe is joining us live from port au prince now and

more protests called for today day. yeah that's right after a couple days of colm here on the streets of port au prince that could be changing as you're right the opposition has abruptly called for more protests on the streets here. today and also in the coming days as well those protests have not began yet but we'll be watching them closely to see if they are at the levels that they were over the weekend those protests as you saw from our story over the weekend were quite violent and they were some of the most intense protests this country has seen in many many years there is still a lot of anger here on the streets as people calling for a change of government meanwhile the president giovino maurice has been meeting with the international community in emergency meetings over the last day or so those meetings will continue and he's also meeting with business leaders here in

haiti as well touch trying to get a better grip on how he is going to respond to the street protests and the demands by the people on the streets the rate increase for the fuel has already been temporarily suspended that was his first step but there's clearly still a lot of anger here will he be given a chance to respond given the anger and protest is still calling for him to step down could that happen. yeah the parliament to say that they will be holding a no confidence vote on this saturday against prime minister jacques de la on power that a no confidence vote is scheduled by the parliament on saturday they need sixty of one hundred seventeen votes and that would be a no confidence vote that would mean that the prime minister would have to step down there is clearly

a consensus growing in this country not only on the streets but also within the business community that there does need to be some sort of government change here and this is a big if if the no confidence vote does go through the prime minister has to step down which again we don't know if that will happen but the no confidence vote is scheduled for saturday will that call mistreats potentially no because as you heard from our story a lot of patience here are not only calling for the prime minister to step down but also the president himself but as of now the president have has given no signs that he plans to do so for i gave thank you very much for that for now that he gave you an elizondo live and for five friends but it's time for the weather with chad now and news of flooding and landslides richard in tibet and that's right i mean the the monsoon monsoon is really active at the moment so if you look at the satellite imagery you can see just about everywhere the slimy looking clouds and coming in from tibet we've got these shots of landslides taking place if i have the same

situation of poor more than fifty people have lost their lives over the last two weeks and a combination of flooding and more often landslides the situation many areas is really i should expect so this time of the r.'s look at the indian monsoon figures and the dement department some places are in deficit some places are in surplus but really it's very much a typical monsoon here moment we've got some really large rainfall totals all the way down through the western coast room by all the way down to coachy there with that more than eighty millimeters right with us really what you expect. elsewhere you see some showers all the along the foothills of the himalayas extending all the way to the eastern states of india nepal and bhutan and all the way up into that bats and southern china and as we look at the forecast again we've still got lots of rain coming down through those western ghats central areas bring plenty of rains be a little low pressure system which has been their night poor move north west was the still a weakness there and still those showers coming in also where there has been

a slight deficit is part of the eastern states of india here would like to see some pretty heavy showers hundred will see some very important those continuing over the following twenty four hours thank you very much for chad still ahead on the news hour why isn't bob ways main opposition party is rallying against the first presidential election since robert mugabe's downfall more controversial presidential pardons in the u.s. this time a father and son have inspired protests against the government and as for twenty three time grand slam champion serena williams is close to the semifinals at wimbledon and closer to another title. a new series of rewind a can bring your people back to life i'm sorry and bring you updates on the best of al-jazeera documentaries the struggle continues from. these

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to have you with us on the al-jazeera news hour these are our top stories nato secretary general. has tried to play down differences between member countries the u.s. president. and allies for their trade relations with russia in a heated exchange with trump said it was unfair that germany relies on the u.s. the defense to buy its energy from russia. told young footballers and they are recovering in a hospital after a seventeen day ordeal inside a flooded cave has emerged about. and a cleanup is underway in the capital of haiti after days of protests against fuel price rises. at the moment but locals fear a number. on wednesday. to libya now war has agreed to

return control of major oil ports to the internationally recognized government following appeals by regional powers as well as the us. russian half those forces started an offensive last month against a rival group for control of export terminals the fighting in the so-called oil and crescent prevented tankers from docking and cost the oil dependent economy nearly a billion dollars at the. after three weeks of blockade finally warlord hefted has responded to the international pressure by international players and he has decided to hand over the oil terminals in the east of the country to the internationally recognized the tripoli phased national oil corporation now according to the n.o.c. the national oil corporation their oil exporting operations are going to be resumed in the oil terminals after three weeks of blockade we understand that the meeting

that was held in rome on tuesday was held by the united states representatives and also representatives from italy the u.k. and france and that pressure was put on the eastern rivals especially. for hefted and the presidency of the tobruk based parliament and that message according to informant sources was meant to isolate the oil sector away from any conflict in the east of the country according to the national oil corporation there too to loss of the three weeks of blockade by have to his forces has cost the libyan budget around one billion dollars since the beginning of the conflict on the fourteenth of last june now the end of the conflict of the hand over of the oil terminals to the national oil corporation does not mean the end of the conflict in the east of the country we understand that have had plans to hand over the oil

terminals to their parallel corporation to the rival and to see the evil oil corporation in but of ozzy which is elia to the top of the government now we understand that the. handover of the oil terminals to the tripoli national oil corporation does not mean the end of the conflict as have that his forces are still based in the oil terminals and they are trying to put themselves as the guardian of the oil terminals. a suicide bomber and gun battle in eastern afghanistan has killed at least ten people. all three of the attackers blew themselves up at education department offices in jalalabad the capital of province afghan special forces arrived to confront the attackers before the battle ended a group is claiming responsibility but both and the taliban have carried out previous raids there. now proserpine government forces have attacked eisel

controlled territory in the southwest and that our province it is the first time they've targeted the. base and stronghold since the campaign to retake the problems began three weeks ago the enclave borders both jordan and the israeli occupied golan heights opposition activists say this photo shows the aftermath of russian airstrikes targeting those ice positions earlier i said it was behind a suicide car bombing that killed more than a dozen pro-government fighters on the edge of the conclave one of the rest of the province more rebels have agreed to the so-called reconciliation deals that paved the way for government but what the government advance comes fear for hundreds of journalists and opposition activists who are now surrounded saying the hunger is following events from the lebanese capital beirut. the syrian government says almost eighty percent of is under its control more towns and

villages continue to surrender agreeing to so-called reconciliation deals that pave the way for a return to government rule tens of thousands of the displaced syrians have since returned but the united nations says some two hundred thousand people continue to seek safety close to the border with the israeli occupied golan heights so there are media activists and journalists who are considered by the government to be terrorists for their involvement in opposition activities colleagues are appealing for help. some two hundred seventy journalists a trust in the borders a closed face imminent danger and their lives are at risk they fear they will be killed or arrested we also be given safe exit we've lost contact with many of them . some of those opposition media workers are under siege in the rebel controlled southern half of that our city since sunday army soldiers and their allies encircled the opposition and clave in the provincial capital. government opponents

are to be given safe passage to rebel controlled areas in the north that condition was among the terms of friday's ceasefire deal between the rebels and the russian military which was negotiating on behalf of the syrian government the opposition says the transfer to adlib will happen once the rest of the deal is implemented. many syrians are afraid to live under president bashar al assad's rule syrian human rights activists have documented twenty one cases of executions and dozens of arrests since government troops moved into opposition areas during their almost three week offensive. we have seen this happen before in aleppo. even in the homs district of the regime executes people despite assurances that it is no different we have the names of the victims and eyewitness accounts they kill children and the elderly on the basis that their sons or relatives participated in

the fight against the regime. the takeover of is another win for assad who now controls around sixty percent of the country but these victories are doing little to foster peace and security for all syrians russian commanders say military police are being sent to guarantee the syrian government won't exact retribution on civilians who lived in rebel areas it's a promise that has been made in the past and a promise the opposition doesn't trust. so. the route the u.s. secretary of state has called for gulf states to end a blockade against cutter as he visited the united arab emirates held talks with crown prince mohammed bin laden in the capital darby pompei a push for an end to the diplomatic standoff saying it will strengthen iran standing in the region the u.a.e. saudi arabia bahrain and egypt imposed a blockade on in june last year now china says it will respond firmly against u.s.

threats to put more towers put tariffs rather on more products washington has flagged ten percent levies on two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese goods that would be on top of the tower of already announced our china correspondent adrian brown has more from beijing. well more angry words from china's commerce ministry on wednesday a spokesman saying that the latest u.s. action was unacceptable and that china was shocked saying that the united states was accelerating and escalating the trade dispute with china he warned that china would take countermeasures but didn't specify what those would be but it's got many firms u.s. firms here in china worrying that perhaps the chinese government might start harassing u.s. firms here now china has also said it's going to sue the united states at the world trade organization we've heard very little from the w t o's so far remember this

was the organization set up to deal with disputes just like this meanwhile stock markets here in asia have not been reacting well the hang seng index dropped more than two percent on wednesday morning the nikkei index in tokyo dropped also by one percent the markets are worried about inflation and about economic growth china meanwhile is taking measures to try to insulate its economy it's reaching out to other countries that have fallen out with the united states over trade germany in particular the chinese premier has been in germany earlier this week he talked up the prospect of new trade deals between the two countries and next week china will be hosting e.u. leaders at a summit here in beijing where the theme is going to be free trade over protectionism russia says it will expel greek diplomats and responds to athens a decision to do the same greek media is reporting the decision to expand russian

diplomats came after suspicions of moscow's involvement and undermining and inclement of neighboring macedonia the government of athens has so far not confirmed those reports but says it will not tolerate any behavior that violates international law break prime minister elect to suppress as known to have close ties to the kremlin. now the only surviving member of a germany or nazi cell which carried out a series of racist murders has been sentenced to spend the rest of her life and prison the chap was found guilty of ten murders and bomb attacks targeting turkish immigrants eight were killed along with a greek and a german policewoman during the seven year campaign the forty three year old member of the national socialist on the ground group is planning to appeal the group's been lent to police and security agencies with opposition parties accusing them of tolerating right wing extremists. to zimbabwe now with the main opposition party is threatening to try to prevent elections from taking place later this month valen in

the capital harare the m.d.c. and its supporters accused of looting zanu p.f. trying to steal the vote they cite what they believe are number of discrepancies in the electoral system and clearing fake voters but i'm a tosser has the latest from her body. opposition supportive in zimbabwe say they are too many ghost votes is on the vote to swallow they say some names i.p.m. more than once they say some addresses don't exist and some are i d's and look suspicious it might seem to be electoral commission in the capital harare to ma and think that something could be done about it the officials at the electoral commission had said that the algorithm to listen to the concern was all business and supports it but they say god said they have been told no no balls vote yes on the votes are all i'm not at the sun proposition someone said if they see off the ballot paper they are demanding to see if they want to be able to be taken to make

so they are no irregularities in the economic model is to try and rig this election you have the commission says involved was law does not allow oppositions applauses to look at the paper before getting it said for security reasons but these people say they are having that again threatening to try and stopping it soon from going ahead if that does not happen again next time it was on june i think it's a national observers already in the country and watching the games and very very closely it will be the first annexing without robert mugabe the former president on the ballots. the international committee for the protection of journalists has called on egypt to drop so-called false news charges against a group of journalists and release them immediately a week ago egyptian authorities detained h journalists including prominent blogger while abbas the committee's statement says it's a continuation of a crackdown bush before elections and macho it says the purpose of the charges are to curb the critical reporting on the government of president at the fatha and sisi

. the u.s. president has issued another round of pardons this time it's that two men convicted of setting fire to public lands six years ago they later became the inspiration for protests by armed groups against the authority of the federal government id show castro explains. it all started with fires dwight and stephen hammond in mid setting on their own ranch land which they claimed accidentally crossed on to federal land but a jury convicted them of arson and the father and son were sentenced to five years when they went to prison little did anyone know that the cases of these two men who were opposed to the u.s. government controlling grazing land would become a rallying call for some the hammonds of turn themselves in it's time for you to leave our community in two thousand and sixteen the plight of the imprisoned father and son attracted the attention of a group with a political agenda armed men who saw themselves as defenders of rural landowners

abused by federal government overreach broke into the offices of an oregon national wildlife refuge because we have allowed our federal government to step outside the bounds of the constitution. come down upon the people and are prosecuting them now directly the armed protesters faced off with police for nearly six weeks ending in one protesters death meanwhile the father and son who inspired the standoff remain in prison until now on tuesday president trent granted the men full pardons a statement from the white house press secretary reads the hammonds are devoted family men respected contributors to their local community and have widespread support from their neighbors local law enforcement and farmers and ranchers across the west the presidential pardon though has sparked concern in may in bold and more protesters to take up arms they're looking for another opportunity to take over

public land or have a showdown with law enforcement agents and this will only embolden them i do fear that it's just a matter of time before we see another standoff. there's also the question of a pattern to trump's pardons most of the eight people who've received pardons are figures popular with trump's. they include a conservative writer convicted of campaign finance fraud a sheriff who racially profiled suspected illegal immigrants in a former vice presidential chief of staff convicted of obstruction of justice the father and son ranchers now joined the fault with the right wing applauding another win delivered by trump. castro al-jazeera washington. now the remains of thirty five recently identified victims of the storm and it's a massacre have been buried during commemorations marking the twenty third anniversary more than a thousand bosnian muslim men and boys were killed by serb forces led by general

coleman lederach another thirty thousand were displaced dutch united nations peacekeepers were outgunned and failed to intervene was sentenced to life in prison by u.n. war crimes tribunal which he's appealing. taking you live now to brussels where. u.s. president donald trump and german chancellor angela merkel have been meeting these are live pictures just following i believe that meeting that's taking place at the nation's summit in brussels this is of course after a previous summit meeting where donald trump said germany was captive to russia because of its energy needs. right sport as of right ahead and. as. for a place in the final of the world cup over any waiting list for next.

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is very subtle that he expresses but it's very an expression is a shy kid although he doesn't speak he would still stand up for his dreams but his belief. the nation will give you a lot of difficulty because you know the truth but when it when it comes down to flipping those pages and understanding animation or everything goes for cost at least my first five line drawings following for that off because i don't know what the book like i did and they were not working on though there was this one man that i started to like and i said yes i'm going to go it's really. i can't tell you the number of problems that i phased you. bang my head was i would not have been on a mission right when again making baghdad on the lake my mind was always walking in one particular direction because i have been born and brought up but those are the

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a lot of people see them as victories for me to win from having these victories for anybody search yourself in fear of a new series of head to head coming on out which is iraq. all standing together but it's not a happy family the nato summit gets underway in brussels after an extraordinary. and welcome to al-jazeera live from our headquarters and the parana also ahead comfortable in recovery mode office view of the boys for you after that mammoth rescue effort. and time to let it flow a libyan border agrees to hand over control of the oil facility.