with the head of the parliament he gave no indication of any plan to step down. this morning i met with the head of the national assembly joseph lambert and we talked about our common interests and how we can move forward from the current crisis. has only been prime minister for seven months he had never held public office before there is now a growing consensus here both with the business community and also with the poor that his government is weak and his days in power are number. of confidence has been scheduled in the parliament percent today there is intense pressure on the prime minister to step down before then. a change of government won't fix anything the problem is the system it's rotten and can't bring change on its own we need to change the whole political system otherwise there's no hope for haiti. i hope the parliament votes the prime minister out of office we need a government that's more representative and

a prime minister who can bring people together. more protests are expected in the days to come so patients were the prime minister. could provoke the opposition and raise the risk of even more violence for now most here believe it's not a matter of if but when. port au prince but more ahead on the news. broke. greece has ordered the expulsion of two russian diplomats plus. protests in uganda after the government moves to tax social media ops. taking legal action against a company that's pirating world cup broadcasts the so-called q. has been using the twenty world cup broadcast signal. without having purchased

broadcast rights the company is using a saudi owned satellite for its broadcasts and its allegedly based in the kingdom and other sports federations including the governing bodies of tennis and formula one racing urging the saudi government in all countries where any goal broadcasts are taking place to support the fight against piracy timing is a global sports reporter for the new york times he says fifa will face a lot of difficulty taking legal action in saudi arabia. they try to get legal representation in saudi arabia where they have had months and months of saying they represent and the reason they want to do it in saudi arabia of course is the fact that the deed is done through arafat time arab satellite transmission company which is based in riyadh of course they can only take action in saudi arabia quite as in a way. if you can't get

a lawyer if you can't take legal action you're not going to get it and this is been going on there for the best part of the year this is not something that in their bedroom it seems this is a very sophisticated operation. as well as part of their broker they have been able to stream this on the internet and as we're talking about now through a staff like this cost millions of dollars. and it is fairly complicated they must . beat the competition and it seems like it's not just that the in sports channels that it's like there are other other other sports right. and it seems they feel they can do whatever they like because they've been able what are they like. syrian state media is reporting that israeli missiles targeted syrian army positions near haditha in connecticut

province it says air defenses managed to intercept them and there was minimal damage caused there are reports of an agreement between the syrian government forces and rebels in the city the syrian state news agency says rebels will hand over their weapons and people who are trapped will be allowed to leave the syrian government has widened its offensive to recover and south western territories including an enclave held by isolate fighters russian warplanes are backing the assault on the yarmouk basin which borders the israeli occupied golan heights and jordan u.n. spokesman stefan to do judge says the situation for the civilians is dire as they continue to flee the region. up to ten thousand people were reportedly displaced towards the dar and could nutra county countryside judith fighting in the your base of up to two hundred thirty four thousand five hundred people remain internally displaced in daraa and in the extra governorates in south in the country this

includes the majority who are in camps including extra as well as some thirty thousand to thirty five thousand who have moved into areas that have recently changed control with the advance of regime forces across that are calm fears for the safety of hundreds of journalists and opposition activists who are now surrounded in a quarter is following events from beirut. the syrian government says almost eighty percent of dead 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 home but the united nations says some two hundred thousand people continue to seek safety close to the border with the israeli occupied golan heights some there are media activists and journalists who are considered by the government to be terrorists for their involvement in opposition activities are appealing for help

. some two hundred seventy journalists are trapped in the borders are closed they face imminent danger and their lives are at risk they fear they will be killed or arrested we also be given site exit we've lost contact with many of them some of those opposition media workers are under siege in the rebel controlled southern half 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 in. shading on behalf of the syrian government the opposition says the transfer to will happen once the rest of the deal is implemented many syrians are afraid to live under president bashar assad's rule syrian human rights activists have documented twenty one cases of executions and dozens of arrests since government

troops into opposition areas during their almost three week offensive. we have seen this happen before in aleppo in eastern even in the homes 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. their leader beirut ok let's return

now to our top story that contentious nato summit that's got underway on wednesday in brussels that's when donald trump has demanded more money from the u.s. allies and he's launched a very public attack on germany calling it's being controlled by russia while all of them again is a science and technology policy adviser for the national diversity coalition for donald trump and he's joining us now on skype from lubbock texas we appreciate your time sir thank you very much indeed do you think that setting on realistic targets and criticizing member nations of nato is really the way to persuade people to increase their defense spending. well robert thank you for having me tonight this is really about the guns that money but really. fair and fair money fair trade with dealing with the money and across the nation in the partnerships economically but also he's asking for about two to four percent increase in

protecting and building to guns. by two thousand and twenty four so he's really saying and tying his foreign policy to his domestic policy which is really about america first. we're changing from where we were post world war two where that was more of a relational foreign policy amongst the nato nations to now in the age of trump we're looking at more of a transactional foreign policy because the world is changed in this time rob it's really about fast capital fast technology and fast growth so we've had to really look into how we do foreign policy through fast transactions rather than longer term diplomatic relations and he's still trying to preserve diplomacy but he's really trying to say that that diplomacy is going to be tied to how we do fare practices in trade but also equitable defense spending no longer than he can the

united states spend four percent of his g.d.p. g.d.p. and other countries are spending less than two percent of their g.d.p. so he's really trying to get some equity across the border. having said that that there is a certain sense that demanding that certain countries go either up to two percent an excessive of two percent gives the impression to those of us looking from the outside that the president isn't really aware of the economic situations within each of those countries and put painting a broad brush approach to the defense spending across the board in nato is actually showing dare i say it some degree of lack of understanding about the way that the world economy works given the fact that he is so dependent and so determined. to maintain trade links and that the economy economics of all of this. well don't trump is doing right now foreign policy wise rop what he really campaigned on which was really saying that he always felt that it's time for america to get tough he

also thought that america wasn't really getting a good fair deal across the board particularly on trade but also on the military spending particularly across the nato nations so the american people are back at him on this are really saying we're not really interested in really trying to break the backs of our international partners a canonically because they're finding ways to use their money in other places particularly germany is now taking its excess cash and looking at the gas and energy with russia so he's really trying to position himself for his next week talks with putin but at the same time he's trying to talk to these nations coming off the big step in the meet in quebec and saying you know we're really about trying to get. equitable trade this is about the china games with regards to what they're doing with the trade and also he's going to be speaking candidly with russia and putin about what they're doing in trade as well he's really looking at the trade leg or the ledger in the united states and stand by i got to get some equity across of this letter and then we don't get that look at the guns ledger

he's down by about a twenty nine nations weren't really necessarily adding to nato as well forgive me for interrupting but you did raise an interesting point i mean donald trump made a geisha in that jam he was taking between about fifty and seventy five percent of its gas from russia and to some extent according to e.u. figures that i've seen yes that is correct the misunderstanding may well be is that although it is taking that amount of gas from russia that only makes up about twenty percent of the energy that germany actually uses so to some extent that is misleading isn't it yes it's taking up to about seventy five percent of its gas from russia but that only makes up a smaller proportion of the amount of energy that germany is actually using on a daily basis it's that kind of shall we say misinterpretation of a situation that does lead people to be very skeptical when they come to believe in donald trump. well i think you used the right word rob misunderstanding and

misinterpretations because really when you're dealing with transactional foreign policy it's really about how you do the dealings in the small negotiations are all about in a small relational term foreign policy is what we see in post world war two or broad strokes of our show plan and how we really shape foreign policy for long term periods tens and twenty years right now we're trying to deal with how we're going to deal with the next five years how we're going to deal with the next two years or three years because of the fast nature of the capital takes place rob and then what you're trying to do is to try to look at how you're and used the faster technology to be able to build those guns and the monies and then at the same time try to get rapid growth because everybody's in the growth game in this country right now and it's growing really fast united states trying to get to a plus four percent growth model china's already had a thick spurs the growth growth model and the natal nations are trying to get growing fast as well because they're all using the same capital and they're all

it's all about how you do with the currencies across the currency market and i think even the small vagana forgive me when talking i do take your point of course america first is the policy of the trump administration they make no secret of that but the u.s. does for better or worse have to live alongside the rest of the world in a significant part of that is defending itself now nato is a fundamental part of maintaining the security around the world isn't there a risk that by by taking this aggressive stance towards his fellow nato members that donald trump is actually putting the the structure of nato and therefore the defense capabilities of nato at risk. well he did sign the agreement. in the summit so that's not too aggressive as people might want to paint what he's doing he is also being very aggressive with his rhetoric and that is classic from

we've seen this for two years i think media is pradeep right now getting used to it but there is a genius behind what he's doing in the rhetoric he's really saying to folks in rustbelt america folks in florida folks in the middle part of the country who really back in one hundred percent that they want to go to be a little bit more tougher on the stage they they like the hard rhetoric that trump is making and really as i said in beginning of our segment rob he's really tying his foreign policy to america's domestic policy and make no bones about it other nations are doing the same thing to protecting our borders they're protecting your stress national incomes but also they're trying to build their infrastructure so through the three eyes of donald trump and i think he's trying to spread that across other nations that get on board with this because the fast i don't you know let me let me interrupt you again i'm sorry but time is against us very briefly if you don't mind as you rightly said we are seeing a particular ox that follows a negotiation from donald trump he goes and hog the on the settles people and the

hope that they're going to be unsettle enough to give them what he wants is they're going to come a point do you think where world leaders particularly around the globe are going to look at this when it all starts we've seen it in north korea we've seen at the g. seven now we're seeing that with nato that they're going to see this begin and they're basically going to sit back and say we'll just get this bombastic part over and done with and then we'll actually start the negotiations and that might actually undercut whatever leverage donald trump might have. well he has leverage he united states controls about eighty eighty five percent of the world's capital so that's leverage going in the door what he say it is since we already have that leverage capital and it's moving faster it's time for us to start really getting tough with the rhetoric as america so that he can then say hey we can basically carry the carrot and the stick we will give the carrots but we're also shake a big stick and it's also going back to what you see in earlier times of reaganism

all the way back to roosevelt. in teddy roosevelt in what he had done and you know kerry speak softly but carry a big stick so the thing is is that that's what he's really doing is sort of speaking loudly and carried a big stick at the same time i think he must be not some carrots although all of them again thank you very much indeed for time for your time and for joining us on al-jazeera thank you rob. still ahead on al-jazeera an emotional reunion for one migrant father and the son who was separated from him at the u.s. border. and in sports world number one rafael nadal battles his way into the wimbledon semifinals edging his way closer to a third title. and it is great fun game in. the weather sponsored by cattle i always how i once again we have the remnants of typhoon maria now bringing

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tough questions like this what comes to why how do you respond before how global of all blow could we see al-jazeera is they all moved winning programs take you on a journey and found that the. only. you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour u.s. president donald trump has told nato leaders they must increase their defense spending to four percent of their economic output that's double his previous demand and double the group's current target you know as the public attack on germany

accusing it of being too dependent on russia. we have the latest pictures of the twelve tied boys and their football coach inside the hospital since their dramatic rescue from a flooded cave the tiny navy has also released new video of the complicated operation diver say the boys were sedated to avoid panic. that are being peaceful protests across haiti calling for prime minister jack ton to resign it follows four days of violent unrest over the government's plan to raise fuel prices in the impoverished nation the government has now suspended the increase. the u.s. government says all eligible migrant children under the age of five will be returned to their parents by thursday they were separated at the us mexico border under president trump's zero tolerance immigration policy a federal judge had given the government until july the tenth to reunite the families and of warned there would be penalties for missing the deadline many migrant parents and children have been traumatized by their ordeal. i never

imagined they would separate us when i came in they took my biometrics and they told me the president changed a couple of laws and the kids were going to be separated from us they had told me that someone might have adopted him and that i would not be able to see him again. a study arabia has issued a royal pardon to troops who've been given disciplinary penalties for actions in the war in yemen forces from saudi arabia and the united arab emirates are backing the yemeni government in the fight against who the rebels saudi state media hasn't mentioned any particular crimes but it says the move was to show appreciation for what it called the heroics and sacrifices of its soldiers all sides in the conflict have been accused of human rights abuses. and amnesty international report has criticized the armed forces of the united arab emirates and yemen for what they say is a system of enforced disappearances arbitrary arrests and torture in southern yemen

based on more than seventy interviews the authors say there are cruel and unlawful practices in u.a.e. run detention centers amnesty calls on the amorality government to immediately stop the torture and to release detainees in the meantime and says the u.s. should suspend intelligence gathering cooperation with the u.a.e. and stop supplying it with weapons the report says some detainees have been unaccounted for for more than two years many of the families who spoke to amnesty feared they'd never see their loved ones again amid credible allegations of deaths in custody the authors document what they call an opaque system of u.a.e. run formal and informal detention centers operating across five governorates in southern yemen it's left hundreds of families in the dark about the fate of their relatives who have no access to lawyers rights group concludes that there is significant evidence that the u.a.e. and yemeni troops it supports have committed a range of violations which cannot be justified under any circumstances it says

those suspected of criminal responsibility should be put on trial earlier my colleague martine denis spoke to today on a haas and all of this to international and she explained how the report was compiled. almost has been investigating some serious abuses of international humanitarian law and international human rights i u e forces and sources of bet the united emirates arab emirates we've done this through interviews with families. and both occurrence and form a detainee we've done this through you know encrypted conversations that we've been able to do which is incredibly difficult but we've also been on the ground in an age where we're able to do a therapeutic investigation and also in this point to really alarming patterns of live use been ongoing now for well over a year and they are taking place in an absolute culture of impunity. absolutely no

steps taken to address any of these says i eat you a. little relevant authorities what are the specific acts of. torture of violations of human rights that are particularly alarming for amnesty international. well there are any number of egregious violations that we documented in this latest investigation in killer it's arbitrary arrests of hundreds of men which has taken place over two years as well as being forced disappearances the many ways it has taken place over the last two years that actual continues to take rights and then you know i think somewhat most alarmingly is that there's been absolutely no news of many each aids and families are actually. spoken to here and during long term suffering is a search without any fruition or loved ones and then of course there are very

serious allegations of torture which are taking place in nice detention facilities now should add that some of these detention facilities are not actually official detention facilities what we and others have uncovered in our investigations is that there is a network of secret detention facilities listeners the most egregious violations are actually our current and well united arab emirates and of course it's back in continue to operate the sort of detention facilities you know which are outside. the preview of the yemeni authorities and outside of the law or essentially and that is where some of the worst violations are taking place there is a un. indeed but there are allegations that all parties to this conflict it's not just. the pro-government side and those status was supported by the u.a.e.

that are accused of this kind of violation of human rights the rebels are also accused of violating human rights as well as other fighting groups. oh absolutely i missed international actually documented serious abuses in detention facilities. in the north of the country such as under control but what we're really calling for is point and on the basis of the findings of this report is that we have only what we have established is that in this current network official and unofficial detention facilities which are run by the us. forces allied accelerants is that these disabilities are wisdom and most egregious abuses take place and they just must end there are very concrete steps for example the disappeared and those that are unaccounted for but it is it resentment because they they and they they are allied nations going for it he surely. if they. are those that

have and we have documented cases where he died in detention in those cases the families must be united everybody's must be returned to its emilie's so that anyone dignified burial. and which has and is going through this and then he encountered the i mean what we've documented here serious abuses of torture dogs be hung up in stress positions are also. these are serious allegations and they must be investigated recreate on earth what we do know is this culture of impunity simply asked and israel's foreign minister here is summoning the irish ambassador after our now in the senate voted to ban imports from illegal settlements the senate supported a draft law that would ban the import of goods from all occupied territories around the world including israeli settlements which are illegal under international law the bill still has to pass the lower house of parliament francis black is the outer

senator who proposed that bill and she says the ban supports the current international laws. this ban is about banning goods from the illegal settlements and that's basically what it is and we know that their settlements we know they're illegal under the law and and and we know that international law has really really said these are illegal so that's what we're doing here and we believe that banning goods from via illegal settlements is the right thing to do because we've we received them here in ireland it's like receiving stolen goods greece has to expel two russian diplomats for interfering in its internal affairs athens is accusing moscow of trying to undermine a recent deal of the name of its northern neighbor macedonia john psaropoulos reports. diplomatic expulsions are a slap in the face in the midst of an otherwise cordial relationship they haven't happened since the cold war unofficial information suggests the greek government is

upset over moscow's efforts to undermine greece's recent agreement with former yugoslav macedonia that agreement settled the name issue that's been separating the two for a quarter century and opens the door for that country's entry to nato as north macedonia but nato has pushed to absorb the balkans has annoyed moscow. whole region of southeast europe is a big question mark for russia in the past few years it clearly doesn't have the relations it had during the communist era situation needs to be resolved soon various states want to be nato and the e.u. this is not pleasing to russia nato and policies in greece bulgarian at their back and countries are not leading people to believe that nato and will benefit their economy and society. sentimental most greeks harbor friendly feelings towards their fellow orthodox russians and consider that true hostility between the two people is all but impossible but politically greece belongs to the west and the line including imposing sanctions on russia for its annexation of crimea four years ago

so even though greece and russia have no tangible common interests here as elsewhere russia tries to exploit cultural bonds to create divisions in the western alliances harass us soft power. there is the island of course all. the scent of the core while antisense be needin if you go to. city or four times been a year you can see. russia and say no one's going around it but aids we think the icon of this sense been done it is something common for fork or for but this speaks to the souls of the p.p. it is this kind of influence this soft power that. the orthodox world of good. moscow has watched helplessly as all its previous allies in eastern europe have entered the western orbit bellerose ukraine and the balkans the last bits of europe left up for grabs russia intends to fight for them jumpstart ople us

al-jazeera athens thousands of bosnian muslims have gathered in southern and said to mark the twenty third anniversary of the massacre there they also buried thirty five victims who were recently only identified more than eight thousand men and boys were killed in july one thousand nine hundred ninety five by said forces led by general luggage such united nations peacekeepers were outnumbered and failed to intervene nottage has been sentenced to life in prison by a u.n. tribunal for overseeing atrocities throughout the bosnian war the other negotiate supports. these people waited for years for their family members to be found and the second those remains were not found in the one but doesn't the graves so people were killed buried then moved on to another location then the second one that there are so when you can and you see this memorial center.