country has faced some very real political challenges in the last year or so that saudi led blockade the cultural authorities saying that it hasn't really put any dent in the momentum in building the kind of necessary infrastructure. we understand that the metro system is due to start working in the next couple of months there are big plans for expanding the air pool roads are being built to load the place they're used to sense in the country now of real movement. still ahead for you on this news hour from london palestinians bury to tame teenagers killed in an israeli air strike on gaza as both sides tried step back from the brink of war. also britain's prime minister reveals the bracks advice donald trump gave her which she decided not to take. and it's passing time and price action and reaction while i'm in school.

now at least two people have been killed and dozens injured in violent clashes across iraq southern provinces a curfew has been imposed in bastra after hundreds of people tried to storm a government building and internet services have been shut off across the nation it's the second week of protests over high living costs and a lack of basic services. on has more i frustration pours into the streets of iraq demonstrators say they've had enough no jobs and limited services have reached the breaking point i fear and the people in coming back to eat we have to reject the still lying in the streets are two of those who were taken away was 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 going

to see those who assault the institutions of the state and the security forces and its investments to disrupt the aspirations of the people here 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 i and in the city of najaf they still. in the airport in the ruling party's headquarters 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 protest iraq's prime minister hided all a body has promised to invest three billion dollars in jobs housing and services. but the people of a rapper whose impatience with the country's pressured politics the government is not totally in control of the situation that i thought is the militias of the other

bodies 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. pattillo place at a young al-jazeera. well judith nearing is a journalist based in the northern iraqi city of erbil she says that there is a great deal of anger amongst the parts of the population in the country because of a lack of services. does have been happening for i think about eight or nine years every summer because in that area in basra it's about fifty degrees it goes over fifty degrees and every summer again there's not a left enough and interested to see if you don't have money you don't have a generator either so people really suffer. and then this is the day area of iraq where all the income comes from ninety five percent of the iraqi income

comes from the oil from osama so people are saying why don't we have jobs it's all foreigners working there so give us the chops and as for the electricity we also see a role of iran in these iran has been providing electricity and water for the past eight years on and off. but this summer and it has cut they say because it has not been paid but it seems that there might be a relation to the problems there are between iraq and a sorry iran and washington over the nuclear deal it could be that iran is trying to make. a signal to america look if you are not working with us if you leave us hanging like this. we can do a lot of problems. in the region syrian rebel say government forces

a widening their offensive in the south west government and russian allied jets have fired more than eight hundred missiles at a stretch of opposition lined in the countryside of connect which is four kilometers from the israeli occupied golan heights government forces are also said to have advanced on a vent edge that the rebels have reportedly fought back killing several soldiers. meanwhile the first rebels and their families have been moved from dare our province in southern syria they were given safe passage to leave off to russia brokered a cease fire between the government and opposition fighters eight days ago syrian forces and now in control of most of their own after an intense bombing campaign the rebels will be taken to a position held parts in northern syria. and a convoy of humanitarian aid has reached towns in more than three thousand food parcels were delivered in the towns of nessie and on the way in near the border with jordan hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by the government's offensive on the province which started in june. or elsewhere an egyptian brokered

ceasefire between israel and hamas appears to be holding after the latest flare up of violence in gaza two palestinian teenagers were killed in what israel says was the most powerful daylight attack on a mass it's two thousand and fourteen united nations is saying an all out war was only narrowly avoided but it's myth has more from gaza. america why weren't fighters or even protesters the teenage friends were just playing outside in a park in central gaza when an israeli missile smashed into a deserted building next to them. the boys were killed another dozen people injured israel says the building was a hamas urban training facility now it's become another reminder of israel's air power over gaza. israel says the target was hamas in response to rocket attacks and israel has warned repeatedly of a harsh military response if hamas which runs gaza did not stop protestors from sending burning kites and balloons into israel and setting fire to crops all they

can do just send bellew's since light fights and we've seen that no israelis were killed no one was done while in the palestinian side one hundred more than one hundred thirty five people killed where you have. that response to it. god sides and killed the will kill it target the children so i don't think it's up to the equation belin does not equal to. life. after twenty four hours of israeli airstrikes and hamas approved rocket fire egyptian mediators managed to broker a cease fire the u.n. special envoy to the region says all out war was narrowly averted. the frustration that people here in gaza feel is completely understandable it is boiling over for it has been boiling over for months before the protests started i think people felt

that they had lost hope in any other alternative on the ground but i worry very much that it is not just a humanitarian crisis it is also a political crisis and a security crisis and that is why any approach to moving forward needs to address these three factors not just one of them. the special envoys referring to the failed reconciliation of hamas in gaza and faster in the occupied west bank while israel's blockade is seen as the root of gaza's problems the palestinian political crisis is making things worse hamas and other armed groups here have much larger rockets at their disposal but they haven't used any of them an indication perhaps of the desire to avoid an escalation into an all out war but gaza is still under siege and the frustration to do something about that grows stronger and stronger every day burnitz with al-jazeera gaza. at least ten people have died and more than

fifteen injured in a suicide blast in afghanistan's capital the attacker blew himself up in front of a government government ministry in kabul as the workers were leaving their offices as been no immediate claim of responsibility the united nations is saying that the number of civilians killed in afghanistan has hit a record high at least one thousand six hundred ninety two people were killed in the first six months of this year and twice that number wounded the u.n. mission in afghanistan is saying most civilians were killed or injured by anti-government groups mainly i still in the taliban but there's also been a rising casualties from as strikes by u.s. and afghan government forces after attacks on the taliban was stepped up the u.n. expects the violence to get worse with elections coming up in october more than three hundred civilians have already been killed or injured in election related violence well donald trump has arrived in helsinki in finland for his landmark summit with russia's vladimir putin on monday the u.s.

president and first lady flew into helsinki from scotland surrounded by high level security speaking before he left he was keen to keep expectations of the meeting low saying that maybe something good will come out of it maybe. all thousands of people i've been protesting in helsinki ahead of monday's meeting demonstrators messages were directed at both presidents and that included issues around human rights immigration and press freedom. diplomatic editor is live for us in helsinki and joins us now so james there appears to be no clear plan all strategy for this summit is just two leaders meeting. absolutely and meeting in that building just behind me that's the presidential palace here in finland that is where they will be in helsinki on monday morning for

this meeting president trump arriving here in the last half hour on air force one and now making his way into the city of course he sees himself as the master negotiator who doesn't need to do a great deal of preparation for events like this but if you look at the two men meeting trump may be the elder of the two but putin is the one who has the decades of experience on the international stage he has been president or prime minister of russia for eighteen years trump has been the president of the u.s. for just eighteen months trump wants a loose meeting with no agenda it's not entirely clear why he wants the meeting at this time i can tell you some white house insiders say he's beginning to like being on the international stage like the destruction that he caused that nato and in the u.k. in recent days unlike singapore that saw summit with kim jong un apparently there he told aides after that summit that there were more some more cameras there

covering that summit in singapore than are in. there for the oscars in california so that may be one clue this is what he told c.b.s. news about the upcoming summit. i have absolutely it was mutually agreed let's have a meeting i think it's a good thing for to meet i do believe in meetings i look i believe that having a meeting with chairman kim was a good thing i think having meetings with the president of china was a very good thing i believe it's really good so having meetings with russia china and north korea i believe in it i don't think bed's going to come out of it and maybe some good will come out but i go in with low expectations i'm not going with expectations i don't. i don't really i can't tell you what's going to happen but i can tell you what i'll be asking for and we'll see if something comes. so james

trump says he believes in these meetings he very much enjoys having these meetings are there some concerns about who might have the upper hand in this meeting. yes i think there are he says nothing bad can come out of this but i think you'll find there are diplomats from some of the u.s. is close its allies who are concerned concerned number one just having the meeting is a win for vladimir putin remember that in twenty fourteen of the next ation of crimea russia was shunned by the rest of the world it was kicked out of the g eight in this really is a day of double coups for president putin there at the world cup in moscow then meeting the u.s. president just a few hours later so a big win before they've even discussed them a thing all right well we'll leave you for now james thank you very much on diplomatic editor james bays in helsinki. britain's prime minister trees amaze

reveal the advice the advice the u.s. president gave front brakes it which was to sue the european union donald trump criticize mays plan for breaks in a newspaper interview that was published during his u.k. visit the president said he told me what to do about frank said that she didn't listen and have planned could kill a trade deal with the u.s. but then he later backtracked on that criticism saying that a trade deal could be done the whole country wants to know probably does the what was the brutal tough suggestion he told me i should sue the you so the sooner the e.u. not going to negotiation sue them actually know about the. negotiations with them but interestingly what the president also said at that press conference was don't walk away don't walk away from the go see i think he said all stark so i want to be able to negotiate the best deal for britain. still ahead for you this hour breaking the state secrets or punished for reporting on the rich will have the

latest on the trial of two voices journalists in myanmar. lost relatives finances and now food crops we report on the plight of nigerian communities affected by deadly flooding. we're going to bring you more of the action from the world cup final between france and croatia. well again look at weather conditions across the levant and western parts of asia first of all we have got one or two showers in the southern side of the caspian sea so let's size chance of a shower towards tehran otherwise pretty brisk winds i think then across much of rice and lifted dust likely to be the problem here still plenty of showers around the caucuses particular for georgia and could be some flooding as a result those showers continue as we head on through into choose day otherwise

eastern side of the mediterranean all looking fine and dry temperatures in excess of thirty degrees here in the arabian peninsula temperatures well an excess of forty degrees at this time of the year and with low humidity and a brisk wind and low temperatures in tow how to get up to forty six degrees celsius far higher than on the other side of the peninsula we're looking at forty imogene and forty two in mecca has moved on through into monday not much change expected still very hot and sunny so let's move down into southern parts of africa we're seeing quite interesting moment quite a strong southerly wind so if the eastern cape all way through towards mozambique in the pushing into southern parts of tonnesen you may see some sherratt seventy patchy cloud around zambian zimbabwe otherwise no fine through much of the movie we've lost the rain it should be a sunny day in winter with highs here of twenty three.

i had a briefing today from a man named steele who has been out there working with the security forces a veteran of al salvatore's dati board sent to iraq you seem to be without portfolio doing whatever it is that he wanted to take interest and acts about in counterinsurgency and while this interview was going on with jim steele there were these terrible screams about pain and terror but what was his mission and what legacy did he leave a sad change amount is iraq. al jazeera. where every.

welcome back our top story this hour france have won the two thousand and eighteen football world cup off to a thrilling match in the russian capital they claim victory with four goals to one of them a controversial penalty decision well as you'd be expecting hundreds of thousands of french fans are in for celebrating wildly in the streets of central paris this is that second world cup title after winning. in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine the celebrations in. all the top stories this hour two more people have died

in violent protests in the oil which south of iraq a curfew has been imposed in the city of basra and the internet has been blocked across the country protest as a demanding better public services and an egyptian brokered ceasefire between israel and hamas appears to be holding off to the latest flare up of violence in gaza israel launched as strikes on saturday in response to rocket fire and order protest from hamas. well israel is saying that bunning kites being flown across the gaza border by palestinian protesters are increasing the tensions the kites which began as part of weekly friday protests against the occupation have been thousands of acres of israeli land stephanie decker has more from jerusalem. these kites handmade with flaming rags have become a tool for palestinian protesters rallying along gaza spens they've not called a single death but they have burned more than seven thousand acres of land on the

israeli side the israeli prime minister issued a warning about the kites at sunday's cabinet meeting hours after his military targeted had mass in gaza. i heard it being said that israel has agreed to a cease fire that would allow the continuation of terrorism by incendiary cuts and balloons this is incorrect we are not prepared to accept any attacks against us and we will respond appropriately. for now the egyptian brokered cease fire between hamas and israel appears to be largely holding but it is fragile israel will not tolerate a scenario by which its citizens will be constantly held hostage by the hamas so hopefully there will be. the problem is. sometimes. in this city by which a can the government is here till something can spark a huge explosion. on the streets of occupied east jerusalem we also palestinians

how they feel about the kites and israel's attacks and they have a certain they don't have any other tools it's true that these cuts coming home full it's our land the burning of the land is occupied and they don't have any other way to resist and the gazans are real mean but we here are very weak if we had the right mindset we would all close our shops in solidarity with gaza the march of return rallies are now into their fourth month with protesters demanding the right for palestinian refugees to return to their homes they were evicted from one thousand nine hundred forty eight scores have been killed by israeli snipers it's a political problem for israel the refuses to go away we're told israel doesn't want an escalation its army is already busy on its northern border in the occupied golan heights but israel has made it clear that if the flaming kites continue it is ready to increase its military action the army and the intelligence services have been warning the political leadership that the current blockade on gaza is not sustainable and if it continues it could lead to an all out conflict the flaming

kites have already led to the biggest escalation since the two thousand and fourteen war the question now is will they stop and will the palestinians of gaza be getting anything in return stephanie decker al-jazeera jerusalem. turkey has been marking the two year anniversary of the failed coup against its government president. started off commemorations by attending a qur'an recitation in ankara promising the families of the victims that they would not be forgotten on july two thousand and fifteen in july two thousand and fifteen factions within the turkish military tried to overthrow nearly two hundred ninety people were killed in the resulting clashes and hundreds more wounded. now the egyptian government has been accused of exploiting counter-terrorism and state of emergency laws to crack down on opposition or pork by human rights watch found the laws were especially abused in the run up to and after the march presidential election is accuses egyptian police and security forces of unjustly arresting

journalists activists and critics of president until sisi to reuters journalists arrested in myanmar last year will go to trial on monday after more than six months of pretrial hearings the two men face up to fourteen years in prison for allegedly violation the official secrets act they were investigating the killing of ten rangar men and boys when they were arrested step voss and explains. why loan and child say they were just doing their job the journalists who are investigating the death of them were in germany in recurring state last december and police officers invited them to dinner they soon discovered what was really on the menu they say the arrived were handed some documents and were put under arrest shortly after the journalists of the news agency reuters and now charged with breaching the official secrets act dating back to nine hundred twenty three after a pretrial that lasted six months. we didn't commit any crime what i would like to

say in relation to the court's decision today is that we will not give up the court's decision is not the decision that we are guilty even though we are charged we are not guilty we have an opportunity to defend ourselves in the upcoming sessions we will testify to our innocence we will not tremble before the charges laid on us the charges lead to condemnation worldwide and are seen as a test for press freedom in myanmar you have had evidence introduced which effectively said that the case against the two journalists while alone and jaw so it was a put up that the police intentionally handed them documents precisely so they could arrest them and charge them under the official secrets act by any international measure of judicial process has been a farce so far right it's been a travesty of justice the government of nobel laureate aung san suu kyi is facing international condemnation after a military crackdown on the range a minority that the u.n. has called textbook ethnic cleansing it is estimated that thousands were killed

more than seven hundred thousand have fled to bangladesh in a recent interview she did night the case against a two journalists is connected to the investigation into the killings of four henjak when i'm trying to achieve one the elections three years ago maybe on me on my turn from one of the most restricted in asia to one of the freest of these new freedoms didn't last long right. say that now media myanmar have become and not a victim of the crackdown against their way into a minority the committee to protect journalists has recorded cases of violence arrests and intimidation of journalists in myanmar in the past year several were charged with a telecommunications law that carries a maximum penalty of three years in prison and can be used by anyone who feels insulted by a publication the trial against the reuters journalist is expected to last several weeks stop fast and al-jazeera bangkok. at least fifteen people have been killed by

a landslide it jade mine in northern man maher thousands more people were injured in the accident in catchin state the bodies of fourteen men and one woman were covered search for more victims or survivors is being hampered by heavy rain though these accidents are common in myanmar's jade mining region where people often scavenge for remnants of. flooding and heavy rains are affecting many parts of nigeria thousands of people have been killed and as ahmed idris reports crops have been lost raising fears of food shortages order cheese a community in mourning sixteen people from this village recently died in a border accident that was caused by two racial rains or more a worker survived the accident but the death of his brother means he will have to take on the additional responsibility of looking after the large family he left behind two wives and sixteen children. were ten years we've witnessed

floods but this year's is the most tragic we lost a brother most of us can't farm any more even if you wanted to all of the victims are buried in the cemetery near the village. this is a sport where thirty nine farmers like killed just a few days ago there were troubling in an all well ordered wooden board like this one when it sank and many are still missing locals here say the floods and death and on the local roads that are also affecting agriculture production despite the devastating loss mahamudra nick you say so really back at work after losing a large chunk of his farm in the flooding he really has no time to mourn the loss of three family members. we've lost twenty hectares of farmland including the crops the losses are huge i can't afford to take a break his priority is to grow food for the family now he would have to replant his crops if he is to harvest enough many farmers the actually depend on rain to

help produce crops. the situation in moderate is repeated in many farming communities throughout nigeria and experts are warning that more heavy rains are in the forecast the consequence is what it will have effect on agricultural productivity and the quantity of profit that will be produced farming is a leading means of survival of these people and if it continue yet in year out with out me to get in the menace of this flooding definitely the push curity situation will deteriorate as the rain speak in a few weeks time many farming communities living in nigeria's for the sins are bracing for more losses why do implications on the country's agricultural output committee agrees al-jazeera more dutch a concept has been held in ethiopia to celebrate the end of hostilities with eritrea the president of eritrea isaias of wacky is on his first visit to the

country in more than two decades in praised ethiopia's new prime minister abbey adding that his actions led to the sudden thawing in relations mohamed adel has more now from. it's a new era of normalization of relationships between a trader and if you appeal to countries that have them bitter enemies just weeks ago the visit by at a tram president. is feeding only his general sense of exile and within the ethiopian public that find any peace is possible between editor and if european a low taz been achieved already the two leaders have agreed on that a connection or form lines that have been used for the past twenty years the reopening of embassies in both couples are also the first flight from at this ababa to us mara for the first time in two decades later this week. what many people are awaiting for is when these two countries start discussing the nitty

gritty of what actually started about war in one thousand nine hundred eighteen which tens of thousands were killed where will the border pass which a village that is disputed will either go to eritrea or would come to ethiopia but they are saying they're willing to compromise for the sake of peace between the two countries. so at this hour in sports a familiar face gets back to winning ways that's coming out with farah and the friendly face of russia the country's cup i think skills of praise for the changing public opinion of the country and its leader. he has no passport yet he's politically active in two countries i was the only one who got the bullets down the power of peaceful transition when because official term expired you know part of the world some people think you are stupid and crazy

if you do that mikhail saakashvili former president of georgia and ex governor of the odessa region in ukraine talks to al-jazeera. the new poll ranks mexico city is the pull first in the world for sexual violence many women are attacked while moving in the crowded spaces of the metro buses and even at the hands of taxi drivers the conversation starts with do you have a boyfriend very pretty and young you feel unsafe threatened you think about how to react what do i do if this gets worse no money on the uses a new service it's called loyal droid it's for women passages only and drawn by women drivers pull for some extra features like a panic button and twenty four seven monitoring of drivers.

one of the biggest problems facing our oceans is the loss of seagrass meadows which rule for roughly fifteen percent of the ocean's total carbon storage right after they hope to wife as much carbon dioxide as rain forest and there are also russian marine habitats for many endangered ocean species. but here on elkhorn slew in central california the tide could be turning for sea grass thanks to some

unexpected allies. oh yeah i mean they're. this nine hundred hectare asked you where it is where rivers throughout this region meet the pacific ocean this is the agricultural powerhouse of the united states and fertilizer and pesticide runoff threaten the balance of this delicate ecosystem so having farmers so close to the ocean on what what impact does that have on the water quality well anywhere where you get coastal environments close to urban centers coastal environments close. you get like this. it grows with the rock it eventually starts decomposing over half of the world sea grass meadows are in decline but here in el corn slew they're making a surprising comeback. oh wow.