the second week of protests of a high living costs and a lack of basic services security forces have been put on high alert and internet services have been shut off across the nation at the lopez had all yet has been i frustration pours into the streets of iraq demonstrators say they've had enough no jobs and limited services have reached a breaking point beyond the people in cattle 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 but that given that he has seen those who assault the institutions of the state and the security forces and its investments 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 i and in the city of najaf they stormed the airport and the ruling party's headquarters security concerns led 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 iraq are whose impatience with the country's fractured politics the government is not totally in club of the situation that. is the militias of the other which are fighting between each other that iraq's government is calling on people to be patient but many on. streets say their patience is

wearing high and. low to young al-jazeera. joining us now from washington d.c. is bill baeza wagner fellow at the washington institute and specializes in iraq in politics sir thank you so much for joining us here on the al-jazeera i mean looking specifically at the case of basra here is a region of town the culture toots a lot i think about ninety percent plus of iraq's revenues and yet we're seeing that a lot of basic services aren't really there right now and of course it's also happens to be one of the hottest areas in geographically temperature wise in iraq so people suffering from that as well but why is it that this parity in a sense that one area there should be one of the wealthiest is actually one of the poorest. it's good to be with you barbara in fact for oil dependent countries basra is

a textbook example rather than. an outlier the example being of oil curse countries and cities were by you have very rich countries and very rich governments yet with poor people and poor societies were basic services like drinking water and electricity would be missing and bust is continuing on that model and so far the society and the citizens of basra and iraq in fact in general have been generally quiet and giving their governments a break given other priorities such as the war against isis but right now the government has run out of excuses on one hand and the elections that we just had recently has really delivered in offering the citizens a window into a better future is the same similar faces economics has never been a priority in sectarian and ethnic basically ethno sectarian politics since two thousand and three has done very little to give people not only to give perform in

good governance and service delivery on the one hand but has even failed to give them a future where the people can see how the future the economic development the employment rate the better services can can be so the heat is simply the match that has fired the anger the society and put them on the streets that's why the anger is targeted at government officials and their corruption. where you mention corruption and i think iraq is the ranked that tense joint tense in the corruption in the ex for the most corrupt country in the world you mentioned the political system there were elections in may a proper coalition government still hasn't been formed by the prime minister of a fragile caretaker government but i guess he would say that his government said you would release funds to badger for things like water electricity to health services and he's announced investments of three billion dollars for a bad rep province but those announcements don't really seem to have calmed the

people of basra tour why do you think that is is it just seen as empty promises. this is sadly i think even of the people believe in it they have seen this movie before there is a cycle. of public protests and the government's throwing money at the problem rather than addressing the grass the very root causes of the of the conflict so for example every time the public protests the government comes in classic case for jobs in and hire a bunch of people in that quiet society and that would have been enough good enough in the past but i think having been through the cycle several times since two thousand and three i believe the public wants more than painkillers for these chronic diseases that the iraqi economy suffers from so this is this is on one hand on the other this also creates incentives for other cities to rise cookers also or

oil rich the rates of unemployment is high this is up in the kurdish region and security situation is deteriorating so when the government comes and responds by pouring money into the society as ones they speak up that on the other hand creates incentives for other cities to rise as well so in the absence of structural reforms addressing the root causes of the problems in a way that the public understands and trust by a legitimate government i think the cycle will will continue and this time around the public doesn't seem to be buying it but i guess i mean the structural reforms that you mentioned would need a new government not the caretaker government we have right now but some kind of government that reflects the results right all of the election i mean it's been what two months more since those elections where do you see the possibility of a new government emerging from those results because so far it doesn't really seem to be clear. so these problems the problem of corruption of service

delivery of economic reforms were not really the priority of any of the political parties that competed in selection and therefore none of the parties have a have a mandate or an agenda or a clear vision or a strategy to address these chronic diseases that iraq suffers from however right now the pressure is on prime minister about it because in the absence of parliament he is the head of the caretaking government and therefore he is the face of the government so all of these pressures will be on him so this creates on the one hand an opportunity for him to stand up and deliver and lead iraq through this difficult situation on the other hand the decisions are very difficult and very tough them actually create enough of a backlash against him especially with his opportunities for a second term however this might help the outsider who's left came in first in the elections although his list did not have

a clear economic agenda either but at least his populist movement focused on fighting corruption and getting the services again even in the absence of how to get there so the efforts of the past few weeks of government formation of sidelining souther i think would be more difficult to sideline souther given the public protests that iraqi cities especially in the south enough facing. what have . been a fellow at the washington institute for thank you very much for sharing your views with us. well coming up on this news hour from london four hundred fifty syrian rebels and family members leave their ra is government forces continue their offensive to regain the southwest kabul is hit with another suicide bomb attack as a new report shows afghan civilian deaths have hit a record high and then scores a familiar face gets back to winning ways that's coming out but far.

but first 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 hamas since two thousand and fourteen the u.n. says an all out war was only narrowly avoided and it's has more now 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 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 flying kites and we've seen that no israelis were killed . while on the palestinian side one hundred more than one hundred thirty five people killed where you have. killed people killed. children so i don't think that's up of equation then larry 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 put

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 in the security crisis and that is why any approach to moving forward needs to address these three factors not just one of them. was the special envoys referring to the failed reconciliation of hamas in gaza and fatah 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 have much larger rockets 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 liberal says burning kites being flown across the gaza border by palestinian protesters are increasing tensions between the two sides the use of kites began as part of weekly friday protests against the occupation they've now burned thousands of acres of israeli learned stephanie decker has more now 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 ceasefire between hamas and israel appears to be largely holding but it is fragile israel would not tolerate a scenario by which its citizens will be constantly held hostage by the hamas so hopefully there will be. but the problem is sometimes. in this city by which a can the god that 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 on their person they don't have any other tools it's true that these cuts come home full it's our land the burning of the land is occupied and they don't have any other way to resist. gazans a real name that we hear of 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. syrian rebels say government forces are widening their offensive in the south west government and

russian allied jets fired more than eight hundred missiles at a stretch of opposition land in the countryside of out connla which is four kilometers from the israeli occupied golan heights government forces are also said to have advanced on a village there are the rebels have reportedly fought back killing several soldiers . meanwhile the first rebels and their families have been moved from their raw province in southern syria they were given safe passage to leave after russia brokered a cease fire between the government and the opposition fighters eight days ago syrian forces are now in control of most of that up. in the convoy of humanitarian aid has reached several towns in that our province where the three thousand food parcels were delivered to the towns of nessie been on my thing with jordan hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by the government's offensive on the province which began in june. 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 ministry in kabul as the workers were leaving their offices there has been immediate claim of responsibility. for the united nations says 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 that's twice and twice that number wounded the u.n. mission in afghanistan says most civilians were killed or injured by anti-government groups mainly i saw the taliban but there's also been a rise in casualties from air strikes by u.s. and afghan government forces after attacks on the taliban were stepped up the un 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 this much more still to come in this news hour including

widespread condemnation of nicaragua's president after two students are killed in a siege on a university campus and their interests president visits ethiopia as the decade's long rivals pursue a new era of friendship plus in sports we'll have the best of the action from the world cup final between france and croatia. hello the rain is pushing its way into the western parts of europe now to be a bit of a shock for some of us because it's been hot and dry for a while now but here's that area of cloud as it gradually edges its way eastwards and as it does so it will bring a drop to the temperatures but not too much for london there will still get to around twenty four degrees on shoes day for the south it will still be warm for many other parts of western europe but we'll also see one of two thunderstorms some

of them over the alps could be rather violent and bring you some hail and some damaging gusts of wind those thunderstorms also extend down across the coast of the adriatic as well and for the eastern parts of year it's a bit different here we've got an area of low pressure in charge so it's cloudy it's wet it's also not that hot and that's the way it's going to stay as we head through the next few days and no major change for us across the other side of the mediterranean you can see the winds feeding down from the north so for the north coast of egypt the temperatures on that high that go inland and the temperatures quickly begin to jump up further west it's already pretty hot forcing chewed up but knowing degrees does change there was we had to choose they were going to change in wind direction and then our maximum would just be thirty four for the central belt of africa more shall we say they have brought us a little bit of flooding in places and they'll be more lively shells on monday.

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welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera france have won the two thousand and eighteen football world cup after a thrilling match in the russian capital they claimed victory against croatia with four goals to two one of them a controversial penalty decision hundreds of thousands of french fans are celebrating in the streets of paris it's their second world cup title after winning in paris in one thousand nine hundred eighty. and egyptian brokered ceasefire between israel and hamas appears to be holding after the latest flare up of violence in gaza israel launched airstrikes on saturday in response to rocket fire

and border protests from hamas and two more people have died in violent protests in the oil rich south of iraq a curfew has been imposed in the city of basra and the internet has been blocked across the country protesters are demanding better public services and job opportunity. donald trump has arrived in the finnish capitol hill sink after spending two days in the united kingdom on monday he will meet the russian president vladimir putin at a summit but says he has low expectations for the historic meeting that he is in helsinki for us so the d. me at quite an interesting reception here in the u.k. one president just here what sort of reception has he been getting in finland. well barbara i think it would be fair to say that even before president trump arrived here he didn't get a similar kind of reception in terms of large numbers of people turning out on to

the streets to protest for a small country like as finland it is there was a good crowd perhaps three thousand people marched to the center of helsinki earlier on sunday and bringing up themes which we heard in those london protests in scotland things like immigration policy things like women's rights and even now you might not be able to see but behind me projected on to that building which is the presidential palace a small group of protesters some of them from the u.s. a projecting slogans calling for what they call what they say is the persecution of gay people in chechnya to stop so obviously a message for president putin now there will be smaller protests all monday but the protesters won't be anywhere near the presidential palace where the talks will happen presidential trump president trump excuse me right now we believe is at a hotel near the president's residence where the two men will have breakfast on

monday before coming back to the palace for the serious business of that summit my colleague james bays looks ahead to what we might expect from the. arriving in helsinki on air force one ahead of his day long summit with blood amir putin donald trump prides himself on being the master negotiator at this meeting though when it comes to the experience of international diplomacy he is the novice he's been in office for just eighteen months his russian counterpart has served as prime minister or president for eighteen years putin seen here with the french president emmanuel mccraw hours before his country's victory in the world cup will be hoping once again to take center stage on the world's political arena his country was kicked out of the g eight after the an accession of crimea it faced sanctions for that and widespread condemnation for election meddling and for its involvement in

syria. what does trump want out of the summit some officials close to him say the president is beginning to enjoy his role on the world stage causing disruption in recent days at nato and on a trip to the u.k. . reportedly he bragged that there were more cameras in singapore for his meeting with the north korean leader kim jong un than for the oscars in a u.s. t.v. interview he said he believes his face to face diplomacy can achieve results 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 there is no formal agenda of these talks president

trump says he wants meeting and he said at one point he may meet his russian counterpart one on one that i can tell you worries some of the u.s. his closest allies who are concerned what he might agree to james by. helsinki. before the president sets off he famously said that between the nato meetings u.k. meetings and letting me putin volume of putin may be the easiest meeting that he would have so what do you think we can expect to see tomorrow well as james was saying in his reports there is no official agenda is fluid and of course president trump is known for his unpredictability he did say when he was in england that they'd be talking about things including syria ukraine a nuclear proliferation but we wouldn't be surprised if they turn out to discuss other topics and that's what's worrying some of those european governments just in the last few hours it's come to light that in that c.b.s.

interview he also called the european union a photo that will have gone down very badly in much of europe and very well perhaps among certain supporters of president putin that's the fear by among some people that he's just playing into the hands of president putin he says that he will bring up the question of meddling in elections but he's also said recently that he accepts rather me putin's flat out denials already whether anything will come of it in terms of policy he's put a damper norn or he's tweeted in the last few hours that even if no matter how well i do he says that. i would return to criticism that it wasn't good enough he's he's saying that he called get a break he's also again criticized the media and there are a bonus up there opposes rather by a newspaper here saying to the donald trump welcome to the country of the free press similar slogans in russian but whether that will get through we'll wait to see it will be embattled releases from helsinki nadeem for the moment thank you.

the leaders of ethiopia and eritrea have embraced warmly at a concert celebrating the end of a long state of war eritrean president is a key who was on his first trip to the country in twenty two years called for joint growth and the making up of last time the former east african foes afford a border war from one thousand nine hundred ninety eight two thousand in which tens of thousands of people were killed mohammed though has more now from the seven. at a train an ethiopian flags fly side by side a middle eastern titian's displays of affection thousands gathered at a state of guised consent to welcome that a champ because didn't until last month the size afford he was its u.p.s. most hated figure the bogeyman about two decades conflict that's pretty instability across the whole three his visit would have seemed inconceivable just weeks ago i

had never in my life imagined this day to come because situation and the political . side was big government in egypt that was not willing to give these they do come. was to the not of people ride the right sort of probably the brightest for growth the first the forty three european and many here say they're surprised by the speed with which things are calm about peace is up last look impossible between out of tehran ethiopia. together the two leaders we've got the hop the cops. because of our past historical and cultural synergy we have ever come the plot to spread hate amid an argument and we are determined to move forward together to register and development prosperity and stability in all aspects since coming to power eighty appears prime minister

obviously but doesn't explode the country with his informal style charisma and energy on and. as with nelson mandela abi broke the ice last month by fully embracing a peace deal that ended on one thousand nine hundred to two thousand board a war that killed tensile thousands and left for melissa prated about forgiveness is to count the trespass is the pushes and pains caused against you in today's and tomorrow's journey. so father he does have a good tutors told diplomatic trade and. there will also be open embassies on flights which this week the old at the train embassy in addis ababa is getting a facelift the militia committee runs a bookshop next to the embassy. where we will be happy because. he's getting. older you know the people there can be. a citizen of ethiopia i think. the seventy two year old despite his use the

will be three of his refusal to disputed areas to keep in a train a state of military readiness with a system of compulsory conscription that led to thousands of veterans fleeing the country many are now wondering where the peace really she appear would be that a trail along criticized by human rights groups to a pent up and embrace new freedoms mohamed at all does either a disembodied. egyptian government has been accused of exploiting counter terrorism and state of emergency laws to crackdown on opposition a report by human rights watch found the laws were especially abuse than the run up to and after the march presidential election it accuses a gyptian police and security forces of unjustly arresting journalists activists and critics of president of the. there's been widespread international condemnation

of nicaragua's president after a siege on a university campus in which at least two students were killed the protesters who are occupying the campus to call for president than he looked they guess resignation overall more than two hundred seventy protesters have been killed since the anti-government protests began three months ago mariana sanchez reports now from managua. after more than fifteen hours in the suit students at neuchatel. national antonymous university where freed. the cardinal and a mass armored tank negotiated the release with gunmen. who pleaded for her life during the siege came out alive. we fought back with stones and mortars but they shot at us with high caliber weapons a k forty seven and i don't know what else the priest come out with a white flag to ask the ceasefire. this student says they all thought they would be

killed. at some point we didn't have any more mortars or molotov cocktails to respond with i didn't think we'd come out alive. for hours families sang and prayed the access near the church was blocked by police while heavily armed gunmen shot at the students. it was a desperate wait to see their children florida says she's also afraid because her home has been under attack these past days. and see what the barrier their last hours have been tragic we haven't slept or eaten but we were at on a grateful to god our children only wanted which forms. the government calls protesters terrorists and coup plotters it blames them for the deaths of policemen in three months of bloody confrontations around the country but rights groups say the majority of attacks are perpetrated by government forces the seed has left many got one family's devastated but the question is whether the

government will continue with the use of force or will sit at the negotiating table this week. cardinal brain is said this by the clergy has also been targeted they want to resume peace talks between protesters and the government on tuesday however they are worried about the safety of the students and their families. we will also continue to conduct negotiations with the government so the lives of the students and that of their families are respected. but the lives of these students and their families may continue to be at risk for protesters say they will continue to fight to topple president than a lot bigger. and well government forces do nothing to arrest the government in plain clothes and heavily armed shoot in plain daylight with impunity. again a sanchez i just see them and now when he got out.