a nation where corruption is endemic now embroiled in a battle to hold the power to account. how does this radical transformation occur. i mean it i mean if you want to shedding light on the romanians pressing for change and the unconventional methods to eliminate corruption remain people. on al-jazeera. of opinion and waits that take that view is no point to make an argument that i have no basis in fact for an esteemed chamber of debate in every important think of an examination of the ideas the thinkers the theorists believe a lot of people see them as victories for me to win for them they haven't been victories for anybody six yourself continue a new series of head to head coming soon own al jazeera.

this is. color i'm certain this is a news hour live from london coming up in the next sixty minutes. away should fans go into celebration overdrive as they beat england to secure a place in the world cup final. by complaining about this all the time like a never been allowed to happen but germany is totally controlled by russia not holding back a donald trump lashes out at germany and slams nato members for not paying their way at a tense meeting in brussels i'm the first images emerge of the twelve type boys recovering in hospital after their dramatic rescue from a flooded cave. i'm tatiana sanchez in doha more world cup news later in

the program also in sports twenty time grand slam champion roger federer is knocked out of wimbledon missing out on a ninth title. croatia have crushed england in the world cup semifinal scoring a second go in extra time to secure a vast vault in the final for the first time ever they'll be playing france in sunday's match there were scenes of absolute ecstasy in croatia for the england fans have been left to devastated and richardson has been watching the reactions in moscow carraige haven't even gained independence when england last played in a world cup semifinal this is the credible cheaper for them on the. yet really. they came into this game having just come through so much is that how to go to

extra time and not only that but how to come through penalty shoot outs as well we were down in sochi for the quarter final against russia. well they weren't just taking on eleven russian players they seem to be taking on the whole stadium the whole nation they somehow came through that experience there were concerns from some around the creation team that perhaps physically and psychologically they wouldn't be able to raise themselves one more time for this semifinal and in the first half england really did dominate they took the lead through kieren stripy looked to be the better team perhaps could have had another gold medal perhaps be sort of ruing of those missed opportunities in the first half and then after the break something croatia looks very strong it was. looks very leggy and weary and in the latter stages of the game to marry a man so you could scoring a historic goal for his country in extra time to take them into their first ever world cup final and date and england with that early goal that didn't really

dominate early on and even though no one people pick over the bones of this match they didn't embarrass themselves. they didn't and i think beyond the sort of everything has been going on back in england i think around the the england team in russia that has been slightly more of a reserved approach to things going into this game they're very aware that they've had quite a lucky draw this world cup normally on the sort of the draw you'd have expected had things going as they normally do it world cups germany argentina and spain to be in the last four as it is england of come through to this semifinal having bateson chin is here in panama in the group stages teams they would expect to beat they played belgium and lost against them all be it was a funny game with with both teams playing their sort of be teams in that game because they're both already qualified they then came through against colombia team that were very defensive and they need through on a penalty shoot out and then play sweden so they were very aware that they been quite lucky to get this far and it looked like

a game too far off and physically they were good for the first forty five minutes but then they became very weary and it was a a moment of hesitation in the defense that allowed. to pounce a moment of tiredness a moment of mental weakness that just allowed a cry should sit to stay many get that the gold i needed to pass on the riches and that the match in moscow well let's go across to zagreb i dish and touch a nickel h. is that i define the sound in the croatian capital i don't know if you can sum up really what this means not just to croatian football finds the to the home country . for fully. to see his. olympic medal gold medal to both little. never ever scored to put something better something. close to find that the book couple of for his country so

to speak the love for good should this. to close to the road followed by back as a celebration that it was. such a above the success as their national team they did. to close the players play tonight to go d.h. to manage to play the set of clothes for the last because pros then return to these coaches big stars like my dad to say is gold from the lotos most of these guys managed to go to the bottom of the whatever to do with that model though hoping to be the biggest sporting heroes know this well disposed and should just talk is that europe. from this point i suppose these people didn't think to be celebrating this month but no logan to the knowledge of. the final of sunday gets closer next they're going to have a just the biggest with bud's own approach national be losing that semifinal in the

tonight. roseburg at the hotel for the first time you know croatia with just three votes to put the for the prisoner would be their history. so it read. just on the match against france do people believe they can beat france especially with that precocious talent. i. suppose but. good. luck to you for so much to play. the kids up to. the trenches the finest. the good source of their national t.v. well prepared so they. chose. the game for the return really it's

a guessing game the road to the frozen. lot of problems. they're about to see but a little thing so let's listen no so the. american football. background i know is that. line from the fans and sonographer let's switch to the fans. which i suspect is a lot quieter where it is with england. the anthem is being football's coming home but it's coming. very quickly become like a. huge crushing sense of disappointment partly just because of. but also because of the hope. that the much. found. throughout the police would win tonight and that would go on to win.

decades of college so people are crushed. but of all the suspects. that will be mixed with a big. of pride as well because that is what i think is envelop. the feel good factor is exactly what's happened we've had weeks of unbroken sunshine and in england so which nothing was expected winning again and again a team of gentleman. they were conducting themselves in the right manner and i think therefore when people look back many years to come as well on this. they will look at it as a china point for how people perceive the national pride i can show in them indeed and they are very young. arabs you say they transform the relationship with football fans and national team so it all looks good for the future and all the tournaments they take on in the coming months and years. what it doesn't also say

we're going to remember here is the inventor of the world champions are under seventeen and under twenty level that i was told was last year so england the world knows has this crop of players and another couple of players that are coming from the could be a very dominant force in world football after years of struggle what wasn't expected was that gaar southgate's team would do so i won't know there was talk that archie anger might be a false intellectual championship in two years' time and then the following would do well in the qatar world cup this was not it was expected but to watch the darkness now those players who are a lot of them will come into the tournament the casual for proof i wouldn't have known who they were people like because i would take food value of become just on to the mind and there could be a big stars for years to come certainly no one will forget what i achieved it is total because people were expecting nothing. in the ghost town there is the fans in

central london thankfully. favre is taking legal action against a saudi arabian company which it claims is pirating world cup matches and entity called be out q has allegedly been using the twenty eight team well cut broadcast signal fever is urging the saudi government and all countries where illegal broadcasts are taking place to support the fight against piracy. to brussels now for what was supposed to be a standard nato summit it's usually a predictable affair not this time that's because donald trump is the u.s. president didn't waste time in demanding nato leaders increase their defense spending and he launched a public attack on germany which he says is controlled by russia our diplomatic editor james bates reports. never has the u.s. commitment to its nato allies look to the shaky is this even before the summit had started president trump used his breakfast with nato secretary general to attack

his allies focusing on one in particular germany is totally controlled by russia because they were getting from sixty to seventy percent of their energy from russia and a new pipeline and you tell me of that's appropriate because i think it's not and i think it's a very bad thing for nato and i don't think it should have happened and i think we have to talk to germany better the secretary general look taken aback maybe the lowrance will bite me but the president kept up his extraordinary attack but germany as far as i'm concerned this captive to russia because it's getting so much energy from russia so we're supposed to protect germany's. energy for america chancellor merkel who's just survived a bruising political battle at home had this response to this fresh assault. and tired though it's months i have myself witnessed that parts of germany were controlled by the soviet union and i am very happy that today we are unified in freedom as the federal republic of germany and that's why we can say that we make

our own policies and we make our own decisions. despite that comment she looked as though the ferocity of trump's words had affected her she was hardly smiling as she interacted with the others. the president and the chancellor of boarded each other out walking at different ends of the procession then what's known as the family photo at a time of family feud as helicopters flew overhead the tension was high the leaders clearly aware the current divisions are among the most serious this alliance has faced in its almost seventy years of existence. finally when chancellor merkel and president trump actually met the language was much more conciliatory than earlier. versions. perhaps the president decided to back down he's been known in the past to avoid confrontation in face to face meetings or the two decided to declare

a truce for now either way damage has been done to us germany relations and to the image of unity they wanted to project here james bays out just zero at nato headquarters in brussels. well we can speak now to former u.s. ambassador to nato robert hunter who joins me live and this isn't the first time that the president has come up with this sort of comment but isn't just hyperbole he's obviously saying they need to put more money in the pot but is that actually going to be damaging to their relationships. well i think it probably will be damaging to the relationship because the fundaments of nato are the resolute commitment of the united states to the security of all the other countries just as their. quired to come to our defense if need be

now the president did not however back away from article five of the nato treaty which is the central core of the alliance the want to which everybody agrees to come to the rescue of any other it may well be that this was just throwing dust in people's eyes prior to his meeting with putin later this week you see i'm tough on on defense spending by allies i'm tough on the things that russia is doing when i'm speaking at nato so that later on he won't look like a perhaps you putin now another thing of course is the president has a trade dispute with the europeans in particular the germans so i think he was trying to bring it all together but having said that the core of the alliance is strong you can't go around doing the kinds of things that trump has done and not expected to have serious damage this man is a calamity well for my country and i think also for the alliance indeed and you

mention i would damage of course if you were the principal architect of the new nights when it was kind of born is it damaging to the principles that you set out way back when. well the damage to one of the principles which was trying to reach out and have russia not become a new enemy that's damage was done long term time ago but the idea of unimpeachable american engagement in europe while on paper is still strong it may be that trump was going to be a bad boy on some of the rhetoric while the communique and everything reinforces those commitments is a way of being able to have center stage to show that that he can get away with whatever he wants but over time that does corrode the confidence people have in the united states because you get to a point where if you have a crisis center question with russia people don't have time then to go back and say

there's america really i mean they're going to be with us we have to have demonstrated that and when you have a president in the white house who cannot because it was not consistent and you cannot be trusted to get things right then you're going to have a problem. the year paying council president donald tusk came out saying i think it was in a tweet the america appreciate your allies after all you don't have that many of them it seems at the moment the donald trump is almost talking to his own electorate he's talking to the american people the extent of the. well he's certainly talking to what they call his base here those people who pay attention to nato pay attention to american foreign policy and i think most of us are really horrified by what he's been doing around the world not so much some of the things like i think it was

a border meet with president camel goats career it's important for him to me with putin but the the atmosphere that has been created is in some ways diluting and taking away his own potential potential achievement you have to be able to rely upon the president the united states and i don't think there's anybody anywhere who could really rely upon it now another issue is to try to get the allies to spread more on defense that's a good point but he came out today with this amazing statement instead of trying to go to two percent of gross domestic product which nato has talked about for ten years how about going to four percent well come on nobody are going to need to they're not going to be for if they're mad for then people start worrying about germany and on top of which the united states doesn't meet four percent and if you come out of the stuff that we put together just for your we don't need two percent so among other things mr trump doesn't get briefings on the facts from his people

and he has some people working for him who frankly shouldn't be in government at all they are very grateful for your insight on this thanks so much for joining us. thank you you know watching me out just as i live from london is much more to come on the program. an upbeat rally on a very serious issue thousands of opposition supporters gather in zimbabwe's capital to call for free and fair elections about down in libya why helly for hafter is handing back control of major oil facilities and then score all number one rafael nadal battle since way into the wimbledon semifinals edging his way closer to a third title. divers

in thailand to help bring twelve school boys and their football coach to safety from a flooded k u five called their rescue a miracle the first pictures have emerged showing the boys recovering in hospital and their dramatic rescue from chiang rai step bus and reports. they're looking surprisingly healthy considering the ordeal the rescued boys are being isolated from their parents to reduce the risk of infection in hospital. i do sarc want john gave his son a big thumbs up when he saw him he was one of the first to stop looking for his son long blue when he disappeared almost three weeks ago. i didn't feel confident that my boy can do this even though he knows how to swim but i'm not sure if he's a good swimmer he only got basic swimming lessons at school but i'm very happy and proud he came out safely he can't wait to hold his son but understands it might take a few more days. the first thing i want to do is hug him all parents have the same

feeling i want to see the face of my child and embrace him and ask him how he feels and how he's doing the five hour long hazardous journey out of the narrow flooded gate system has taken its toll on the children and their coach the commander of the time navy seal divers who played a vital role in the rescue says they were very called mast. the boys got special full face masks with oxygen circulating all the time the divers carried them out and they were wearing wet suits to keep them warm we made them relaxed and calm and slowly moved them out but they were very cold. the complexity of the rescue operation became clear when trucks full of equipment drove away hours after the last cave rescue was completed twenty tons of oxygen tanks ropes lights and food supplies have been fairly underground cleanup has started after a rescue operation unprecedented for its scale and complexity has been called an

extraordinary example of human frank and resilience family one cape and the rescue of the wild boars soccer team will now go down in history of the moment where the impossible was made possible. to him while their families school friends and everyone else in thailand celebrated their safe return the footballers will have to stay in hospital for at least a week to recover hoping that the first talk with their parents will be sooner than that that fasten al-jazeera chung right thailand. haiti's prime minister jack guileless entente has given no indication he will resign over widespread antigovernment protests have been four days of unrest over the government's plan to raise fuel prices in the impoverished nation well let's go live to gabriel elizondo he is in the haitian capital port au prince i believe the prime minister has been speaking to the press what has he been saying gaev.

well insured not much quite frankly the prime minister did speak today he called the press to his office he said he was going have a press conference it really wasn't a press conference he started about an hour and a half late and all he did was come out and give about a sixty second statement and the statement essentially was i met with the head of parliament we had a good discussion i am listening to the streets on the voices from the streets i want to get haiti moving in the right direction but beyond that that was it and then he left but the key message from his statement was he gave zero indication that step down despite the fact there is this country is really up in arms quite frankly and there consensus here not only with the business community but also with the economically disadvantaged people of haiti as well that this government cannot go on the way it is clear message from protesters that they want him to step down

and step down immediately but there are no indications of that so far as of now saturday parliament will be host having a vote on no confidence on the prime minister if that boat is successful if they get sixty parliamentarians to vote positively in that regard that would mean that the prime minister would need to step down certainly a lot of suspense and tension still here in the country and all those tensions gave out four days of unrest do you get the sense that that is going to ramp up or is it indeed receding a bit. it receded on monday into tuesday a little bit we did see protests here in the capital of port au prince here as the prime minister was speaking however the police stopped the protest before it could grow into any sort of significant size protesters are out on the streets however though and to answer your question frankly i would say most likely the. protests

will increase in size in the coming days ahead of the parliamentarian vote on saturday also by the fact that the prime minister is giving zero indications he plans to step down so protesters are indicating that they will need to take to the streets with even more force in or enable in order for the government to hear their calls as they say for the prime minister to step down basically they will not stop the protests they will not back down until his. that is gabriel is on to the speaker's life and for the princess about the break up on the pitch of. zimbabwe's main opposition party and thousands of its supporters have around it in the capital harare to call for free elections the country will head to the polls on july the thirtieth the first time without long time ruler robert mugabe but the electoral commission has already been accused of failing to prepare properly for the vote to prevent rigging ghost ballots as more from harare.

opposition leaders on the march in the capital say the voters' role has a lot of ghost voters on it they say they have proof some names that in duplicated and several addresses and id numbers on the register don't exist they calling on the independent electoral commission to allow them to personally inspect ballot papers before elections to prevent vote rigging one. problem. was. very. obvious their. election organizers say it is possible for some people to have the same first last name and date of birth and for security reasons it's illegal for political parties to inspect ballot papers before elections should we continue to. given that would have exercised.

to build consensus in the first place perhaps we should just stick to our very strict constitutional mandate and exclude everyone these are things that we're going to sit down as a commission and discuss. whatever voting day at the end of the month will be the first without deposed president robert mugabe on the ballot except for the explosion at president was really employer last month campaigning has been incident free so far police say the right up to this election has been listed violence than in previous years and few cases of intimidation have been reported so far the running sunny pay part of denies opposition allegations is planning to manipulate voter numbers by tampering the ballot paper for international observers who were banned by robert mugabe have arrived for the first time in sixteen years the european union says a disagreement between the electoral commission and opposition parties can be resolved. the prince you use. for

instance. some countries provide for some countries of what we discovered in different places is a. credibility problem but the main opposition leader nelson chamisa says if nothing is done to resolve the stalemate his party will announce their own final results will vote counting is complete a move some say could jeopardize the credibility of the polls. i'll just. say with us on the news hour still to come on the program japan's prime minister visits the areas worst hit by doubly floods a promising to return things to normal as quickly as possible. dislike ugandans take to the streets over a new social media tax and former world number one novak djokovic battles his way through to the semifinals when. on the details coming up in sports.

still plenty of warm sunshine across western parts of europe at the moment largely clear skies once again little bit of cloud just spilling its way out into the atlantic and that will not just well little further research as we go on through the next couple days with essentially it does look fine and dry so we are going to see plenty of sunshine here meanwhile some rather wet weather into good parts of germany said of course east assata germany into were part of this little area cloud here will spin away bringing some wetter weather cola too for berlin just twenty degrees celsius meanwhile well twenty six celsius there for moscow in between the showers are russia showers there you notice down into the baltic states into poland pushing back down once again towards northern parts of roumania and also into the balkans for the west generally dry now just some wet weather just starting to push

into the southwest approaches of england southern parts of wells and western england seeing a little more the where right as because through friday heavy fog is right though for london temperatures hit twenty seven celsius the heat continuing to build twenty nine degrees there in paris but said it good for the tennis at wimbledon all the parts of africa a lot of hot sunshine here once again succumb touching thirty five degrees a high of forty eight she missed the day and hotter still by friday afternoon. when diplomacy fields and fear sweeps in our borders are wide open wide open to drugs terrorists reproving the barriers are built to impose division and external to sixty's instead of being an obstacle to do the job we used it to became another obstacle to peace in a four part series al jazeera revisits the reasons for divisions in different parts of the world and the impact they have on both sides walls of shame on al-jazeera.

fresh perspectives new possible to see. c.n.n. stand in the sand dollar been made north of the public support debates and discussions when you see tough questions like this what comes to mind how do you respond to people how global of all could you see out zero zero mood winning programs take you on his journey around the globe. only she's here and. welcome back reminder of the top stories say on al-jazeera croatia have crushed

england in the world cup semifinal scoring a second goal the next a time to secure the best spots and the final for the first time ever everything from us and sunday's match donald trump has launched an attack on germany at the nato summit in brussels he says berlin is totally controlled by moscow because it buys billions of dollars of russian oil and gas and the first pictures have been released of the twelve time boys on their football coach being treated in hospital that follows a dramatic rescue mission to free them from a cave they were trapped and. on more than she would. place in uganda have fired tear gas to disperse protesters demonstrating against new taxes including a levy on access to social media ups the move has provoked widespread outrage as malcolm web reports from uganda. i. many people here in uganda's capital kampala on tapi about having to pay to use the internet's most

popular services i hope the wine a pop star and then peace that a demonstration against the new social media tax crowd quickly gathered. there for somebody at that because it is their personal i doubt the young people of uganda i think the media even now that i think that it's really i think they don't think that if you had not i personally think that the just the the president i'm afraid because they know what it's up to and the telling stake to myspace and such a media users have to pay about six cents a day to be able to access whatsapp facebook and other services i president during a seven he said the tax will help to reduce costs that the activists here safely indiscriminate attacks that hurt the poor most of the people i work here in downtown i was the one who was least wealthy internet users access to dates is kind of on the map if they have

a bit of money twenty cents fifty cents they buy some credit i would have done that they'd be off going again maybe for a couple of things i really think i should like i just like i. put off to just minutes of marching he's going to stop the protest i face it it's all awful demonstrations have been heavily restricted in uganda since anti-government protest seven years ago this time i think the no difference. meanwhile kiosks for mobile phone payments davis is usually busy down quiet they're also subject to a new tax. recent years services to transfer payments directly from one phone user to another become a key part of the economy but the government says it needs the revenue. but it. was gunned up by a not so on one hundred but. i'm thinking about the bandung. want a good assumption. on that we don't want to do it we also know that it's

not to be there but. with those who think it is a burden given long to expresses police arrested protest leaders. the wind supporters managed to drag him away the prime minister since told parliament that we don't deal with the the controversial taxes. city clear that these kind of opposition to them won't be.