this competition at the lowest ranked team in the tournament actually did very well got through to the quarter finals despite being no footballing giants well cats are in four years time will have their work out for them they've never qualified for a world cup before rory many thanks out as he was worried challenge their live in moscow kick off there in moscow in what just over forty five minutes time now u.s. president all trouble fly to finland on sunday before a summit with russia's leader vladimir putin trump incest that he'll meet president putin alone and that's worrying diplomats from a diplomatic editor james bays. helsinki a city that joining the cold war was used as one of the few places where western allies and the soviet union could talk some believe relations are almost at a cold war level again yet one leader keeps talking up the positive and i said putin may be the easiest of the more you never know the biggest blow to relations

was russia's seizure of crimea from ukraine the first time a part of one country had been stolen by another in europe since world war two at the time it was condemned by the us nato and the you. however in recent days two news conferences in belgium and the u.k. president trump was asked if russia should give back crimea and each time he dodged the question what will happen with crimea from this point on that i can't tell you well we'll have to see what happens far from here the syrian war seems to be entering its final phases the assad regime would support from its allies iran and russia has the upper hand the u.s. and israel want to reduce iranian presence in the country and its influence in the region could there be a grand bargain in the works. only days ago israeli prime minister benjamin

netanyahu was in moscow putin could perhaps persuade a sad to ask you ron to leave his country trump could lift objections to russia's control of crimea far fetched perhaps but just listen to the way the ukrainian ambassador to the u.n. is clinging to previous statements by members of the u.s. administration on crimea i think that. that will come from several times by the book but by many many other u.s. official thrum. and mr bolton to all the the the the you spokesman for the white house and many other. officials who come from the principal ballers who'll be us wolf they've assumed that the illegally fish no crimea but actual should never be recognized remarkably for part of this summit in finland's presidential palace trump is likely to meet putin alone just as he did in singapore with kim jong un in june the u.s.

is closest allies are worried what this most unpredictable president might agree to behind these walls james pays al-jazeera helsinki we're going to weather up take next here on al-jazeera then haiti's now former prime minister a sudden resignation following violent protests against fuel price rises. and european leaders asked china to meet approval conditions before opening the door to more business. hello and welcome back it's looking pretty wet across many parts of indochina at the moment certainly across mayor mark am again some heavy rain but for laos and vietnam also some very heavy showers looks quite wet although up as far as hong kong is where the circulation here runs. this region once you get north is into food to shanghai weather conditions largely dry and fine but circulation tends to

weaken a little bit through tuesday but again northern parts of vietnam the rain could be heavy enough to see some flooding hong kong on the northern edge that rain systems that may be drier at times but still quite cloudy and breezy and drizzly are suspects now as we look at south asia a massive cloud here heavy rain in many areas and that's expected continue all were down through the western ghats this circulation across the eastern side of india is almost looking pretty active so could be very wet in kolkata still plenty of showers across the hill stations and northern india through into the poor bhutan but for dirty looks should be largely driving a fair amount of climb over the odd sherif turning up during the course of tuesday but dry crossed much of pakistan with a maximum of thirty four in karate here in the arabian peninsula the breeze means the humidity is dropping in qatar but that allows the temperature to rise and it's certainly going to be a woman in doha with a maximum of forty six. when

diplomacy fields and fear sweep then our borders are wide open wide open to drugs terrorists we've proven barriers are built to impose division and it's ill to sixty's instead of being an obstacle to tell wastes it became another opes to closer 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. again the same stories here on al-jazeera curfews be imposed in the iraqi city of

basra of police they used was a can of the tear gas test as he tried to stall the government building people up and demonstrating over the past week against the high cost of living out of a lack of basic services and castro has officially been handed the reins to host the twenty twenty two football world cup russia's president vladimir putin passed the ball to cost us a mere five feet as president at a handover ceremony in moscow well it is the big day for football fans or certainly if you're french or croatian as france take on croatia in the world cup final in forty two minutes from now fans been lining up for the big game of moscow's nikky stadium. this is the scene in moscow right now can we show you the scene in paris what we got and this is the fans in paris right now oh good grief is that rain though someone's lot of a smoke bomb. now notice that

a lot of these fans are certainly in the door an atmosphere out. doris i'm going to take you live now to a fan zone here in doha which of course. is where the world cup will be held in twenty twenty two you'll notice stratford is there but it's indoors because it's too hot certainly outside to play football to all to watch it even at this time of the if that's ok we were talking earlier about how different world cup will be one of those differences is that it will begin in november when it's a lot cooler that. much right i mean. the possibility of such a people going outside to watch this guy. you say this is one of four finds in a very loud there's a band playing of them over this we wait for. the next forty minutes or so it's very difficult to gauge. weakside. people to come out of this find so simple but what you can't use in

a men's sense of excitement and an incredible variety of college kids that have coming today to see the sky let's not forget that played around the fifty different nationalities of people living here in qatar not be speaking to a few in the build up took a call from one of the things they consistently said when they were very excited to see the world cup to come here be held a news time because suddenly amongst the arab will be lation of the arab spectators here they were very keen to say that. the middle east. completed. the call. to the. goals. to be to. say well try to take the spending on some five hundred billion despite very real political it's not

located. by saudi arabia. but you get a lot of the policy. excitement building the spine so if this is any indication of the economy for you time. to get into the doctor just because you want to be center right it will be plenty. of possible but your cousin here in moscow stay said that it will be hard for council to repeat russia success as as a world cup host as castle is a small country what he did say is though what we doe is that they're going to give it a damn good try out they had it it will be an amazing well cup in twenty twenty two . well i don't like you on the tour a long time twelve it's two thousand and ten this country was given the world cup voted to host it itself basic to see how this country has tried school sit stay.

the build up schools build a got a structure goes all done all of it not a day or a week goes by where you don't see some sort of change with respect to say the funding you speak on the stand because the metro system said. now we must find a time or example to be out but it will be able to speak a spine as well roads being built the request to talk about how he's got a holiday will be up to one point five million coming will be the standard you tell to be built in control but six feet it doesn't but ocean liners being able bulleted suborn the full. height of the. i don't want to say. the last of the massive job there's a very real sense in this country that they all get. twenty twenty two says not so but the wider region we tend not to talk about the place from which we broadcast

charles but i mean it really is changing. fos our advice from shore should be a twenty one who is thinking of coming to try to try to book a ticket traffic for the fans and many thanks indeed it is now thirty eight minutes to kick off at the world cup final now haiti's prime minister has resigned after days of violent protests jack thomas government has been under pressure since unveiling a plan to remove fuel subsidies zeros game is in haiti's capital port au prince. he arrived to parliament as a prime minister facing his political fate and calls to resign jacques de la phone tones unpopular fuel price hike which he abruptly suspended after riots a week ago that his government in deep crisis the chamber of deputies had planned to force the prime minister out with a no confidence vote on saturday but abruptly resigned instead of.

before even coming here i sent my letter of resignation to the president. the resignation it a week of political tension in haiti most people from the middle class to the poor say the prime minister who had only been in office seventeen months needed to go and the calls for him to do so grew louder by the day that the gas price hike and reversal were just seen as another sign of an ineffective government his eventual downfall came on a day of tension in the capital. the streets there were protests not nearly as large as the ones last week that turned violent but still anger at the government and calls for more resignations it did layo you know. this is also a message to the lawmakers a warning to everyone waits telling them to be very careful our problem is not only with the ex prime minister but to everyone in this corrupt system including the president. coming out of it in parliament it day of confusion members of the

chamber of deputies yellow. and each other as they debated the prime minister's future before they knew he was going to step down but after combe was restored in the prime minister resigned they focused on what it all meant. now we need a new government one that inspires confidence with all sectors we need someone who understands the political dynamic that works across the board we need big changes that can have systemic. he currently has no functioning government right now now that law has stepped down all of his ministers go with him so what happens next there will be the president as well as the two heads of the parliament that will decide who the next prime minister will be. left parliament quickly after stepping down without taking questions a country now hoping the political chaos of the last week also goes with him. port au prince britain's prime minister tourism a has revealed

a piece of advice that the us president gave over briggs's numbers to soothe the european union and not go into negotiations donald trump criticized maze plan for briggs it in the newspaper interview published during his u.k. visit in it he said he told me how to deal with brings it but she didn't listen and that her plan could kill a trade deal with the us he later wrote back on his criticism and said that a trade deal could be done so he gago reports now from london. given the amount of times that the us president has actually managed to do about a complete u. turn and on many things in this visit i think she's sort of took it within her stride and perhaps with a pinch of salt because then he rolled back that idea and told her later on that what she shouldn't do is walk away from the negotiations otherwise she would be stuck really clearly indicative of the kind of. activity and behavior that we've

seen from the u.s. president this entire trip where there have been so many cross messages that that have completely opposed each other it's very difficult to sort of exactly make out what he would advise her to do but one could almost imagine him saying that in that very sort of reality t.v. star way that he should just sue the e.u. as if the that is simply a matter of very simplistic proportions that. but i think in this case the prime minister did manage to handle it well and she did make underline the fact that this white paper that came out last week was the vision that they were going to be taking to the e.u. and she did say that donald trump did in fact come around to that vision so perhaps there's some ports says that some support for her on that. european leaders will be in beijing on monday for an e.u. china summit they'll discuss issues such as climate change and security but trade

is expected to dominate the agenda as adrian brown reports. germany is the dominant economic power in europe which is why china's premier league was there last week signing deals worth twenty four billion dollars. on monday he'll host a summit in china's capital with leaders of the european union they've also fallen out with the u.s. president over trade. much harder bourne heads the european chamber of commerce in china he says europe doesn't want to take sides in the current u.s. china trade dispute but many of the chambers sixteen hundred members complain the investment climate remains to restrictive at the same time china needs to recognise that the root cause of the problem is the perception that china is dragging its feet in fulfilling its own promises of reform and opening korea are sure that some china's president xi jinping likes to portray himself as the standard bearer for

free trade promising to widen access for foreign investors yet the results of a recent survey of european companies in china showed some had serious concerns about the pressure and restrictions applied by china's government echoing the concerns of president trump and we asked our member companies if they have felt compelled to transfer technology for market access and nineteen percent percent that seem to be a case. bassong. it depends on how you look at the issue but the should be zero so for now it seems your appears wary about moving too close to china there is no one issue on which both sides agree reform of the world trade organization which china joined seventeen years ago and that could mean new rules that could constrain some of china's trade practices this summit could well determine just how much china is prepared to concede. by coincidence w t

o officials have been reviewing many of china's trade policies the e.u. and the united states are china's two most important export markets both are currently suing china at the w t o a further reminder of this complicated three way relationship adrian brown al-jazeera beijing. it's good to have you with us adrian fell again here in doha but the top stories this hour on al-jazeera it is the big day for football as france take on croatia in the world cup final in less than half an hour fans have been gathering for the big game of moscow as news nicky stadium in paris in croatia capital zagreb and of course in at fans' owns rights around the world. and cast has officially been

handed the reins to host the twenty twenty two football world cup russia's president vladimir putin passed the ball to count as a mere fifty first president of the handover ceremony in moscow. we will try to make it an excellent world cup because this event is very important for the whole region as you know many arab countries face difficulties the well coupler help us overcome them a curfew has been imposed in the iraqi city of bass rather tough to police used water cannon. and tear gas on protesters who tried to storm a government building people have been demonstrating over the past week against the high cost of living at a lack of basic services israel has reportedly accepted and the gyptian brokered cease fire with hamas after an escalation of violence in gaza on saturday israel targeted the group with what it says were its most powerful daytime air strikes since the twenty fourteen gaza war the un special coordinator for the middle east peace process is arrived in gaza and says the cycle of violence between

palestinians and israelis must stand yesterday we were on the brink of war and it has taken the concerted efforts of everyone to make sure that we step back from a confrontation a confrontation that nobody wants nobody needs and a confrontation from which everybody would lose a list indians in gaza for the last decade who lived through three conflicts israelis across the plains who live with a constant threat of rocket attacks for the last decade this cycle cluster stop it has to end. the first rebels and their families are being moved from southern syria is dead our province they were given safe passage to leave after russia brokered a cease fire between the government and opposition eight days ago the government is now in control of most of the town. here with a news group in a little over twenty five minutes here on al-jazeera if you're watching the world cup final may your team win now and i'll just zero also shame. on counting the

cost why china wants an expanded economic role in the middle east look at which countries are leading the way in innovation plus safe cancer causing one of the world's most profitable and widely used killers goes on trial counting the cost. this is the u.s. mexican border a harsh landscape that's become the focus of bitter debate between the two countries. yes. ok well bill the long haul is going to pay for. the right got it right for. the film we're about to show you first in two thousand and seven it questions a policy that's become even more contentious today. the

sonoran desert in the south of the united states a harsh hot and unforgiving landscape straddling the border with mexico a natural barrier not so much a protective wall but a regional belt dividing the bodies of two nations. thousands of illegal migrants cross into this area of arizona every year to them it represents a gateway to a better life. in reality it's often a lot of deaths from which they may never return. crossing the desert to avoid these steel and concrete pools which mark the border in urban areas where the main road like this with look for. anybody out here they could be standing on the side of the road if they had made it this far.

volunteer catherine ferguson and physician norma price all samaritans. rescuing those who are in desperate need of help illegals you've been physically and mentally defeated by the deadly conditions people walk not only trails but they walk in circles because they're lost so you could have a child walking out here you could have a man a grandmother or you could have a group of people and all i'm doing is looking for anything that looks like a human being. but katherine and norma all the only ones on the lookout. and then. tell first who took us to the united states government has. as many border patrol and border patrol backup as there are stars in the sky. in an attempt to secure its borders the current administration is spending billions

of dollars on enforcement money many argue is doing little to stop the human traffic merely rebooting it since they've closed the ports it forces people out into the secure. desert and people are dying so. it is supposed to send a message back to the villages in mexico that if you come here you'll die out of the desert it's a policy of death. they really don't know what they're facing i mean they don't know how hot and dry it is most of them if they haven't been here before they don't know about the desert and mostly women in high heel shoes are wedge issues and they all have one bottle of water and in this environment that is so hot and dry and desolate. if they need if they have a degree of heat exhaustion illness they need to be in techno hospital me in the heat literally just code for the brain the heart the kidneys and see a lot of pregnant women and that also. increases the risk that they'll get into

trouble. the worst saddest of all course is the children and we see a situation where children. bond for those making the passage it's a terrible choice a gamble really face death and avoid capture or seek help even if that means deportation or. a head in the distance emerging from the scrub stands a solitary figure. his decision has been made paying with his life is too high a price for passage to the promised land. what does this in your. so most somebody saw was the night.

frightened disorientated and exhausted his story is like so many of those left behind when he couldn't keep up with the group. the specialist want to know what they. think. what will be. the going. to be an iraqi journalist. and they will. base. what it. wants us to. think. but all. let me tell you that. i found myself a white boy in. the hood and they know about it and committed you know we will need to would a little bit more chief and. just been you know they want to thank

you for. before you read. through word with. amir you're. thinking. the samaritans present him with his options but his face betrays the arms. peers who simply. play the fed up and. going to see us nor means the samaritans can do nothing but call the border patrol placing an illegal in their own car would mean

a possible jail sentence anybody that gives them a ride would be arrested if they're caught we can't do that they could spend five years in prison for transporting. and ten years for conspiring against the united states government. with little time to collect his thoughts and belongings he's arrested by the border patrol. and this is a first time blow up the more you stay in bed the least like you are. i apologize for america they're really nice americans here those guys were nice. but if the authorities appear to be taking a hard line there's a reason for their lack of hospitality the truth is many who attempt to cross illegally will do so again and again until they succeed and that means zero

tolerance. on. like. all. those you know the well. they have the orange oh my goodness these are human beings we're dealing with intelligent feelings since you know beans and we can't give them socks or water there's something very wrong with that. we have a schizo frank sign at the border we have this big sign that says keep out and at the same time metaphorically we have the sign that says help wanted we have there's a tremendous number of jobs we have significant sectors in the economy that need large numbers of low skilled workers that were not producing in the native born population and there are no legal channels for those workers to command and therefore the only way those workers can enter in large numbers it's illegally.

judith is an academic and an immigration x. but she knows the statistics speak for themselves since two thousand people have been entering at the rate of about eight hundred fifty thousand a year there are currently investigated twelve million people in the country illegally and that's a huge number but the other thing is happening is that immigrants are going to what we call nontraditional states communities all over the country are suddenly waking up to find large foreign born populations in their midst in their schools and it seemed like it happened overnight in felicitous and wait a minute what's going on and there's a feeling that the system is out of control which in fact it so i mean there are serious problems with our immigration system. a series of fences dotted along the three thousand kilometer border between the united states and mexico were designed to stem the flow of illegal movement in the areas based on current estimates the system is

a failure. the walls have not been an effective deterrent they have to. the way the costs and getting at the time of the fence was put up in california the assumption was that the desert was too difficult environment and the desert itself would be an effective wall and people would come in through the desk that has turned out to be false people have come into the desert and as you know a lot of people died trying to cross. despite this the walls will continue to go up with president bush signing off on the secure fence act in two thousand and six approving the construction of a war stretching one thousand kilometers on the other side of the fence the lure of the american dollar appeals to both citizens the mexican government like mexico benefits tremendously by having its workers here. remittances money being sent home by mexican citizens working in the united states to their families in mexico is the

second largest source of foreign currency in mexico that lessens the social pressure within the country so mexico in a real way doesn't have a huge incentive to stop this. over doro all she can see is a separation barrier which has divided her family. by the only book people. love him. but without legal status one can move between the two countries so for the past fourteen years he hasn't seen his family in mexico. but i want to tell me. not i'm all.

well i want to. it's a sacrifice millions have been willing to make and many more. to follow. their. mexico a country of more than one hundred million people but more than forty percent live below the poverty line for so many that the poverty line here at the border with the united states. on the other side stands opportunity employment and dreams of earning a high old way. but standing in their way approved such as this.

this is american border patrol u.s. citizens doing their bit to keep illegals out of. the organization is led by glenn spencer his arizona ron sits directly the border thanks to glenn anyone can patrol it via the internet. this is one of american border patrols remotely operated border cams this camera is wireless and operated by solar power. so really you could run this camera from your home in new york to watch the border so that we can have thousands of americans watching the border was real vigilance twenty four hours a day seven days a week. glenn says the u.s. government secure border initiative is a disastrous failure and he's compiled hours of video footage to prove it this is

the most highly policed area in the country right and we could walk through even in daylight right with a huge atomic bomb on our back. and they would know and they could stop it if they wanted to but they don't. i will bet you there are at least sixty illegal aliens holed up moving through the river in the washington right now you have to understand this goes on for. hundred miles of the united states border. all along you're now people say well i don't see anybody well they don't want to be seen and to make sure they are being seen american border patrol is spending millions of donated dollars on surveillance equipment this is our border hawk you avi u.a.b. stands for unmanned aerial vehicle and basically it's not a lot different than

a remote control airplane except this has a computer inside of it if eyes by itself. and underneath it down here this is our little pan and tilt system here this is one we designed it had built for us and this allows us to look around three sixty and i interrogate a target as it would be called where you can look at some and stay on it as the plane is moving a former military man mike king knows how to catch the enemy so when the federal aviation authorities stopped him flying on mind aircraft he simply changed tactics plan b. was a viral airplane and so we did we purchased a cessna two to a six and we get a lot of video that way it's been a extremely effective tool for us to gather intelligence on what's happening on the border what you train your eye to see in the bush is you start picking up pretty easily as you fly along or especially the south side as they're staging. there are

aspiring illegally means at that point there is a lot of it you don't see it because they don't want to be seen but they're everywhere and we first got a thermal camera put on the house and i turned in i swung into the south just looking into mexico for people down there and the next day there were people down there and the next day there were people down there and that every night i was catching groups of twenty thirty walking just west of the property here for like three weeks straight for in three weeks i caught like five hundred people i don't pretend like i'm not involved you know my i get my conscience when i see it happening you know getting into my country today and i call the border patrol so let them deal with that we don't go out and tackle anybody. this all may seem a little excessive obsessive or even slightly odd but considering that more than three billion u.s. dollars is being spent on border security glenn showed al-jazeera exactly where that money isn't going for projects now the. international border between the

united states and mexico. i'm now going to step into mexico. and here we are. self of the border. down mexico way. this is the first line of defense for the united states against an invasion from the rest of the world it may stop some but not many come much money we're spending on defending the borders of iraq. our borders are wide open and the government knows it wide open to drugs terrorists and we've proven there. and they know it. but there were being sacrificed on the altar of globalism and longer believe in the nation state they want to merge mexico the united states and canada together and if a few thousand people are sacrificed in the process as just press.

for many who have tried to cross and failed they arrest receive medical treatment for cuts and blisters and then get ready to do it all again and here in nogales in mexico people smuggling is big business. stuff in this man is a. he won't show his face because he imports goods from the united states but it's human exportation and exploitation where the real money is a. pleasure sandwich board as it will get a god. but there in lies the irony of the

situation the legal route into the us is fraught with as many obstacles as a trek through the desert. regardless of one's political allegiance regardless of whether someone's an activist or humanitarian you can't. turn away from those and i hear often i hear people say well i like the migrants i just don't like the illegal migrant or like immigrants just those who come in legally and i think these people are either extremely naive or. stubborn or you know turning their back on the situation because there's no way these people can come in legally. though as the saying goes do good fences make good neighbors many would argue it's merely the symptoms that are being addressed not because that is an issue for both sides of the fence but i

think a chain fall that a country as rich as mexico. is forcing poor people to come to another country to work i would suggest that it is shameful that the president of mexico calls people who go to other countries illegally to work heroes . and i think it's shameful that of both our countries that we can't get together and work out some sort of a sensible policy. melissa owens lives with the reality of illegal migration this is her backyard it stretches as far as the eye can see well basically mexico is about four and a half miles right over that ridge right there this is due south but she's seen enough of the problems and trespass is on her. i would say we would have at least

one group of fifteen to twenty people at least every night sometimes groups of men but sometimes women with children in their arms. waking me up you know they have no idea what to do the last they just need help. they've been told by their guides their call your days that it's six miles to wherever they're going to get up to the top of that ridge and there this is the view they get to look out across the valley obviously there's nothing. but within the picturesque landscape melissa's ranch resembles a fortified compound enclosed by rays a while to keep her safe and intruders out i had some men i don't know how many it was attempt to break in my house while i was here and they were actually kicking in the door. and i was so i was here by myself and it was

it was it was not a good experience so i think i'm pretty tough but i don't particularly want to have that happen again alone in such a remote environment melissa is prepared to defend herself and her property when i work away from the house i wear a small head and i have it on my belt almost all the time i wear it for protection i hope to god i never have to use this gun and i don't like having to wear it doesn't make me feel. powerful or important but on the other hand if i'm ever in a really bad situation i want to be able to defend myself. an emotionally charged issue that legal migration has polarized americans it's an issue debated by politicians thousands of kilometers away in washington d.c.

but one which affects individuals at the border directly if i didn't have the greatest respect for hispanic culture i sure would. be here is that in mexico border. i'm not talking about race i'm not. king about nationality i'm talking about people who are on my land and in my country illegally i don't want. people i don't know walking across my land and i don't care whether they're from finland or togo or water mala. i don't want them here. it's a small war zone. people don't know what it is i wish they would come here at the moment it's very quiet with beautiful big clouds but at certain times of day their helicopters out here their horse patrols their a.t.v.'s around their guys that look

like darth vader they're completely covered in black and they carry guns and they're out here looking for people like the man we met today it's another way to instill fear in americans since this film first the u.s. continue to increase spending on border security at no other time in history has there been as many border patrol officers on duty as there are today and now the authorities are bracing for a new challenge children since twenty fourteen the number of families and unaccompanied children apprehended at the border keeps skyrocketing young people are filling family detention centers having fled poverty or extreme violence in central america. today the border issue is taking center stage in u.s. politics as u.s. president donald trump gets serious about one of his biggest campaign promises we will build the i guess we will. know.

a lot though. of course. we understand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how you take it al-jazeera will bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you al-jazeera about fifty thousand people were arrested under

a policing strategy that is stop and frisk the car got a ball here with a guy coming behind me and picking him up back how many of your children gotten caught in this trap i have seven sons and six of them have been arrested for drug charges so me against the wall maybe take over last think is what sod sweep down for you to the atmosphere that always was the bad guys exploring the dockside of american justice the system with job an engine on al-jazeera. fresh perspectives new possible. thing in the sand in the sand. the public's support to paint some discussion when you see tough questions like this what comes to mind how do you respond to people how global could you see al-jazeera winning programs take. down the line. he has no passport yet he's politically active in two thousand trees i was. stunned

the power of peaceful transition because they're much part of the world some people think you are stupid and crazy if you do that mikhail saakashvili former president of georgia and governor of the advancer region in ukraine talks to al jazeera. this is al jazeera live from studio fourteen here at al-jazeera headquarters in doha. welcome to the news corps the protests in iraq spread there is on rest from karbala to the capital baghdad and where it all started a curfew is now in place what started as protests over the cost of living and a lack of jobs is now becoming a widespread movement against a fragile interim government and internet inside iraq is down but we've managed to

speak to people inside the country trying to reach family and friends connect that's their hash tag is also on the grid it's the big one the world cup final in moscow kicked off just seconds ago we will have live updates from the match we're going to be with the fans in france and then for a way sure is that head to head and also marking the moment that the official figure football was passed from russia to the next hosts in twenty twenty two. and sure icebergs move slowly but does that matter when one is literally makes is from your doorstep in greenland the inhabitants of one remote village living a slow motion nightmare as a giant iceberg edges closer and closer. but the news grades live on air in streaming online through you tube facebook live in al-jazeera dot com twenty four hours ago here we were talking about protests in basra now we can add in karbala and baghdad as well protests spreading across iraq

against corruption against poor governance lack of basic services at least seven people have been injured and baths are off the police fired tear gas and water candidate activists were trying to storm a government building at the top as are the young reports now on the unrest the curfew and the heightened state of alert across iraq i frustration pours into the streets of iraq demonstrators say they've had enough no jobs and limited services have reached the breaking point we have been to people in kennel evacuate we have to inject was still lying in the streets and two of those who were taken away. in the oil rich city of basra like across the country security forces are on high alert they've used water cannon and tear gas blocking protesters from storming the main provincial government building. with growing protests people have recorded an internet shut down and disconnected telephone lines without getting that those

who assault the institutions of the state and the security forces and its investments to disrupt the aspirations of the people he should be held to account. unrest has been simmering over the past week against a backdrop of political instability following maze contested an unresolved election results protesters have blocked roads and burned tires. and in the city of najaf they stormed the airport and the ruling. the party's headquarters of security concerns lead at least two major airlines to suspend all fly so that city. the acting government says violence will not be tolerated responding to the protests or ranks prime minister harder on the body has promised to invest three billion dollars in jobs housing and services. but the people of iraq are losing patience with the country's pressured politics the government is not totally in control of

the situation then other thought is the militias of the which are fighting between each other the racks government is calling on people to be patient but many on the street say their patience is wearing flame i have tayloe place at a young al jazeera was just quickly putting it on the map here to give you an idea of where all the stuff and this is bouncer it's down in the south close to the coast important port area but as we say we're also looking at baghdad further in the north and where is couple of gone just a little bit further south as well that's the holy city of karbala now we're obviously not talking nationwide but when you zoom back out and see which are the populated areas of iraq well it's pretty well covered from baghdad down to basra all this anger comes at a particularly sensitive time in iraq still trying to form a new government after parliamentary elections back in may the shia leader mccardell saad a surprise win was tainted by claims of fraud and irregularities in the voting system to the point where last month iraq's supreme court ordered

a recount which is happening in a number of providence right now in what prime minister how about hi there everybody who's having a fragile can take a government has promised to address the people's grievances state media says he will release funds for specifically for was a electricity and health services but that's unlikely to make a big difference to the situation across the country really billions of dollars a needed to rebuild the country after three years of war against eisel left it in ruins all logic. lots of it at least he's laying out to talk this through well you made the point of the sunset is actually problems with the internet it's been really bochy so how do you guys manage to get through well people are using v.p.n. which makes our job a lot easier in the protests they really have been playing out online we've seen dozens of videos showing thousands of people in the streets. people here chanting kick will not shut up anymore three cars the area where these protests are taking place however online as come on just mentioned iraqis are

reportedly being shut up after last night the videos online stopped that was followed by reports that the internet had been turned off in parts of the country on saturday night there were also reports that facebook was blocked across iraq except in the northern kurdistan region then kurdish media tweeted that the blackout included that region as well so it started to grow you can see here that this media outlet kurdistan twenty four english are using the hash tag twitter kurds and busta protests many are using those hash tags also to voice their frustration over the matter as we were saying a lot of them are using v.p.n. zur virtual private networks the people we're hearing from though are mostly outside of the country in mind here says that this is reduced ridiculous basically the iraqi government's strategy to solve problems during the buster protests is to ban facebook and instagram in iraq including kurdistan region and instead of providing basic human rights bus and then said that the iraqi government had two

options to work immediately on providing the basic services or to shut down the internet and deploy counterterrorism forces she said ironically it's hard to be a politician in this man wrote sharing these pictures saying protesters are using their phones as weapons while the government are responding with military tanks now we spoke to one man who told us what the situation is like for him on the ground. after one pm o'clock then turned near ties being disconnected in baghdad i thought of iraq without any warning that the situation here in iraq or the surgeon is different because the dental services have not been fully should down only on social media sites but anyone with vivian appreciation can open it so no you're lucky people haven't turned their. news on to twitter on to our start you know protest otherwise everything here or everything in but you know it. was

stopped due to cuts. such as buying. most of organization companies to become an issue companies are not. good at nurturing as a journalist base in the northern iraqi city of erbil where we just heard from him we spoke to her earlier and she said what's happening in iraq is really all part of a chain reaction. religious and leader ayatollah sistani he has already said what is happening here it's a shame because this is very rich area people are not getting what they should get so he's getting off the signal do something about it now jobs is going to be very difficult because government only has so many jobs that they can give out most of the international oil companies do not have space for all of these iraqis that often are not well educated. it's a very big problem but it's really all starts and ends with electricity with the

surface is so good that india kristie and very important also put back in internets cutting internet makes people feel and we're back in the dark ages where back in saddam's time where any time you spoke out you your head would be pushed back on the descent so this is the main things i would say the iraqi communications ministry responded and their spokesperson told local media that work is under way to address the imbalance in the cable the power cable for internet specifically in the province of buffalo and they are and my son services are expected to return in the coming hours he says if you're watching from iraq you can read us on several platforms including whatsapp and telegram you can also use your hash tag jane it's great thanks there you're keeping an eye out for any responses we get there in the meantime rid of months over with us on skype from london a fellow it chatham house and always good to talk to your hyper haven't taken you

away from the football will be perhaps tell me then about these protests because they have been boiling for a number of years really when you think about it at a lower level what is it that's brought up to the surface so much in the last week or so. yes certainly you're right it's usually around this time of the year you know when the temperatures are so high and hot that what citizens kind of need a bit more electricity a bit more want are that the everyday boils you know one could say to do these type of frustrations and says to the other pretty good team particularly you've seen this protest movement although it's a big decentralized there is a protest movement that has continued to protest every friday since that point and every summer it's become bigger and bigger now this time it seems to be even more significant than previous summers and i think a lot of it has to do with the elections that we just had an iraq in may so on cue months ago where a citizen this illusion was very obvious and one that you know the turnout was

lowest ever with the lowest ever turned out since two thousand and three and really many iraqis you know have spent time around the country gentlemen meaning many iraqis and most iraqis would say what's the point and you know what they were right because we are now in a government formation process where most likely the same leaders in the same negotiating amongst themselves who is going to keep what close and who is going to become in europe what mr so i think what iraqis are learning and it's a very sad lesson is that change won't come institutionally there are things like elections so there's an inherent problem that you have that they are effectively protesting against a lame duck government we don't know what will happen who will be left in this government when the votes are finally recounted and hopefully a government is formed i wonder if that could make things worse that actually this could get more out of hand because there is not a strong government in place. so so far there's been a few months of what they call the horse trading which is everybody coming in and

trying to do a metric and sort of term and who will be the leaders so far many iraqis would have predicted that the same leaders will somehow come in and form a government i don't think that you'll have any big surprises they just think basically there's the big there's a big gap between the leadership the elite and then the common person that the people and the government formation process whatever the new government is they fear will not address that and because of that they have no hope in the same leaders and these are the same leaders who have run the country since two thousand and three are making promises that they're going to tackle corruption the making promises they want to bring about change what to bring about change the tide of corruption and the talk of themselves as iraq is kind of you the whole process the whole horsetrading negotiation government process as a bit farcical.