how far has the p.l.o. come to achieve its hopes and dreams including the turbulent story of the struggle for palestinian. history of a revolution. donald trump says the relations with russia have never been worse as he prepares to meet. welcome to al-jazeera headquarters in doha with me and of the peron i'm also ahead they've been waiting twenty years for a party like this france celebrates late into the night after a thrilling world cup victory. malaysia's major change nineteen new faces enter parliament after a shocking lection earlier this year and. risking their lives to take

a stand against their government. u.s. president has declared that relations between his country and russia was than ever as he prepares for software that it may putin and finland troubles in helsinki where he's met the finnish president in the lead up to his one on one with pollution the discussions happening against a backdrop of fraying western alliances and the investigation into alleged russian meddling in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. election well let's get more on all of this and talk to our diplomatic editor james bays who's live for us in helsinki that big that meeting still ahead james but people are already scratching their heads over comments from donald trump to the finnish president. yes that's right president trump just a couple of hours away now from his meeting at the presidential palace on the

waterfront of helsinki with president putin but there is another palace where the president resides and he met president sali mean yes at that palace in the last hour the beginning of that meeting he talked to reporters and he was asked about the recent nato summit in brussels. and i think nato has never been more together. people are now agreeing to pay and we were having a lot of problem with a lot of people not paying its president will tell you and they're paying and they're paying more rapidly and at a later probably never been stronger than it is today. well there you hear it the president trump referring there to the president of finland suggesting i think implying that he was involved in that nato decision making he was there as an observer but he isn't one of the nato leaders finland is not a member of nato could that have been

a slip of the tongue by president trump it seems a small detail but it's worth reminding you that president putin is the master of details western leaders come and go with elections president putin as president and for a time as prime minister has led his country since the year two thousand and he really is a master of diplomacy and this sort of negotiation where as president trump has only been in his job for eighteen months and has not really been involved in these sorts of negotiations other than the meeting in some singapore or north korea which some were slightly skeptical about the outcome off and james yet we have the u.s. president saying that relations between the u.s. and russia in that time that president putin has been and power have never been worse tell us more about. well he's been tweeting again and one of the

issues that certainly domestically is the one that resonates the most is the whole issue of election meddling and the fact that russia some believe was and was guilty of cyber war against the u.s. in the twenty sixteen presidential election of course president trump has a way of dealing with that issue which is to blame president obama again referring to it as a rigged witchhunt so that is his view on that one of the issues that is likely to be mentioned at least maybe in passing in this summit obviously they're also going to be talking about what seemed to be the closing stages of the syrian war the scituate. in ukraine where many of nato allies want president trump to continue to press president putin hard and the issue of arms control remember arms control for many years there being treaties in place between the u.s. and russia one of the most important of those treaties and is about to have to expire will president trump renew that it's interesting again he said in the past

that new start treaty was one of the very bad deals made by obama and that very big issues on the agenda looking forward to your coverage of it james that is james bays life arrived in helsinki. let's move on to other news now they did it twenty years ago and now they've done it again from the football world cup champions after they beat croatia with a convincing four two when a one nine hundred ninety eight champions took the lead after eighteen minutes through a croatian on goal but the first time finalists battled back ivan parasitic equalising just ten minutes later a controversial penalty awarded following video replays and false lead to one at

half time in the second half proved too strong for the appointments a powerful strike from nineteen year old chilean embar pay securing the world cup let's go to our russia cause fodder now royal challengers joining us live from moscow a day after what has been widely regarded as a successful world cup but the party is overbore will any all of the positive changes that we saw in vi should do in the world cup last do you think. well of course the physical infrastructure is going to endure the stadiums and things like that but the sort of less tangible things there has been russia for the last month a kind of warm glow we foreigners and russians interacting with each other in a way that it's pretty rare i think something that russia hasn't really seen on this scale for many many a year. i think that on both sides there have been preconceptions sort of broken

down with this interaction and hopefully some of that positive feeling will hang around for a while i think russia is also trying to work out whether there are any policy changes that it should. make more lasting the visa system was relaxed for the world cup and actually an announcement was made on sunday that for the rest of the year anyone who came here and got their fan i.d. which effectively became a visa to get into russia can carry on using that fan id for the rest of the year as a visa so it's possible that the kremlin is working out whether there should be some sort of longer term relaxation of the visa process but other things like policing and that sort of thing which during the world cup was very relaxed that might return to normal there was an anecdote that was doing the rounds halfway through the well car of a man with a party in full flow clutching a drink walking up to a russian placement to say hey am i going to carry on being able to do this after

the world cup is finished and the policemen are saying well if you're russian you know you're not. very this was a course this world cup was a big project all laddie made which and just how much of a p.r. victory would you say it was for him and although we did see him at a couple of games he wasn't as visible as you would have thought he'd be. well this was an enormously important project for vladimir putin for the kremlin in his iraq in two thousand and ten when russia was awarded this wealth copy traveled there to kind of personally accept the on us but actually while the told him it is being going on the sort of the notable by his absence he was there at the opening match and of course of the final but i think there was a pretty prudent decision taken by the kremlin to essentially step back and allow the p.r. work out allow that diplomacy. has been very effective to be done by russians themselves ordinary russians and that has worked so what putin was concentrating on

what all that was going on was the high level diplomacy and we had a huge number of leaders coming into the country we had picked all band of hungary . bass the palestinian leader we had netanyahu we had macro on from france all. all of these people coming here and meeting with putin while while they were in the country and of course now the world cup is finished there's this big event isn't there health sinky where a person is doing what he's wanted to do for a very long time sit down and have this test at texas with the president of the united states donald trump. thank you very much for that but now that is more a challenge live in moscow. well french celebrations lasted long into the night after their team's victory thousands of people gathered on the. lake into the night until. the celebrations turned violent police dispersed fans with water cannon.

despite the heartbreak it's been a significant world cup ron it is the first time the country of just four million people has ever reached the finals thousands of correlations gathered in the capital zagreb main square to watch the match there were tears after the team's loss its only defeat in the tournament but they were celebrations as well as the many were happy that their team bridged the. and the world cup for the world cup now over and russia all eyes are on the next hosts cattle as they prepare for the tournament and twenty twenty two the gulf country will host the first world cup in the middle east. scott went behind the scenes to take a look at how preparations are going. it may not look that impressive but this piece of concrete is the spots where the cats are twenty twenty two world cup will kick off it can also be seen as symbolic of this country's solid determination to make this tournament a success as it enters the second year blockade imposed on it by its gulf neighbors

initially that prevented some construction material from getting into cats are but organizers now say that all eight stadiums are on schedule with all of them ready to years before the world cup kicks off frankly speaking. it hasn't affected construction on the site there were materials originally sourced from. countries however some of the only sources of material there are plenty of other alternatives and we quickly by virtue of our sourcing to other places the world and other shipping routes things are back on track instantly so. no factory. let's say a stadium maybe he will host the opening game and the final and when it's finished in around two years' time it will seat around eighty thousand spectators now with the tournament being moved to december it also means those fans will avoid the kind of summer heat that we're experiencing today as part of its winning bid council promised to take apart many of the stadiums set the end of the world cup and send

sections to developing countries to help them grow the game of course that's only part of the legacy cattles leaders and woke up organizes a still hoping football can bring this region closer together football always has a has a way of bringing people together sport in general does look when it comes to the point of view of the state of qatar we haven't stopped anybody from entering qatar we are the ones that have taken the decision to cut ties or to blockade anybody. all fans are welcome fans from the blockading countries are welcome i really hope above everything else that people will walk away with a true sense of what our hospitality is middle east the most dollars he is unique and goes above and beyond and in all regards and i really hope that people will feel that i'm fairly confident that they will so well the next global festival of football will make history in the arab world it also comes with its own unique set

of political goals. still ahead on the belgian a test of media freedom and myanmar has turned journalists have reported on the one hundred crisis on trial and the pressure of demolition rooms of a school in the occupied west bank would have a life or. are you just told. me today the weather is sponsored by qatar airways hello there we've got a bit of rain that's pushing its way into the northwestern parts of europe at the moment you can see it on the satellite picture here is giving us some wet weather it's also dragging the temperatures down a bit and it's also breaking up as it works its way eastwards so a few shopper outbreaks of rain on much during the day on monday and then as it works its way eastwards for tuesday it breaks up a bit but it's still bringing down the temperatures so london. will be twenty four

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back to life and bring you updates on the. documentary. rewind continues. we're going back to a poor south african neighborhood where music and tradition come together in an annual competition. we want. to have you with us on al-jazeera these are our top stories u.s. president donald trump has declared that relations between his country and russia a worse than ever as he prepares for

a summit. in finland and helsinki where he's already met the finnish president in the lead up to his one on one with him. and french celebrations lasted long into the night after their. champions in the football world cup thousands of people gathered on the. late into the night. and russia has officially passed. twenty twenty two games that will be the first middle eastern country to host the tournament. well let's get more on the french victory now we're joined by sports journalists french sports journalist julian he is joining us live from paris very good to have you with us on al-jazeera so how important would you say this victory is for france as a country especially after the difficult times its head over the last few years with the attacks the divisions that followed.

well you know france experienced the three very tough years since all the. other country has to face so actually it's a really great mormons to enjoy because the last time so many people gathered on the shores of these there was in two thousand and fifteen after the. reduction of charley a famous newspaper and it's very actually nice to see so many people coming and rejoin altogether but for more. let's say an incredible pictures of the sooner she off people getting together all over the country but do you think it will last beyond the celebrations beyond this victory. can you repeat the question do you think that the unity that we're seeing from in france from you know people from all different walks of life whether it's all that unity lost after the celebrations of the world cup end.

yes actually. the most important point is not to take this victory as a political victory because in the original eight when the war won the walter there was that so-called black blogger generation who was instrumental lies political instruments allies as a as a political movement to try to artificially unite the country the victory of yesterday was so so normal for the people that we we have just to hope that the people in the streets all the population will enjoy the moment as. you know as the players as well. just showed a way to unite the country because they all come from different social backgrounds and france is a very. let's hope. now the population will follow

the example of the players and. see the country. as a as a very specific country. just like. that's it us thank you very much for your time on this that is julian joining us live from paris thank you. now eritrea is reopening its embassy in ethiopia and a further sign of growing ties between the two long time. president has in the capital addus for the opening ceremony his three day visit aims to cement time as after the two neighbors declared their state of war. well let's get more on this now we're joined by our correspondent. who is live for us in addison certainly a significant sign that the embassy is reopening in ethiopia after all these he is

. live this. long since. last month by prime minister. ready to accept you as a commitment to the war between. this morning together the two leaders opened reopened. used the last twenty years there's been. little interaction that we want to. do with the. king who came here for this three day visit and was really celebrated by the europeans during this trip. even of the unions it's being built here so the reopening of the embassy. it.

signifies the formal. diplomatic relations between the two countries and so much more needs to be done before for example the border democracy and so what more can we expect in terms of progress in the harman and what does it mean you know for both of those countries that the state of war that has lasted for twenty years that they spend so much money on the military in maintaining one end. well that is the question specially for a trial which has been in the. military could have which has led to force because this is an me but i was forced many many thousands of people to leave the country looking for better life role or now will change a chair which has been criticized by the human rights groups. change and have more

freedoms those are the questions lingering in will you observers mimes for this because it is. economically ethiopia was a declared lovelock once the war was all no more your views in the. editorial which were traditional polls now if you're looking forward to be using the. government like that of other possibilities the force. of about. twenty years will take off on the one stage so there's a lot of benefits but again as i said there's a lot needs to be done before they come in all the issues are concluded of course mohammed thank you very much for that for now that is mohamed as though live an address thank you. to malaysia now where a new government is getting ready to officially begin work in kuala lumpur after the sixty one year vote of the same political party came to an end in the elections in may. promised

a month in muhammad and one thousand new members of parliament have been sworn in they switched parties to lead a campaign against. the jeep is now facing corruption charges over the disappearance of billions of dollars from the state fund. to do it we have to show that to practice a constructive democracy previously when we were in government we got blamed a lot so not know how to muhammad's past you has to show us the other new for the opposition to raise concerns for example in today's public speaker issue of florence louis has more from kuala lumpur. the first session of parliament more than two months optimal asians voted in a new government has seen quite a dramatic opening all but a handful of opposition m.p.'s staged a walkout before they were even sworn in they wanted to protest against the government's nomination of the speaker of the lower house they said procedure had not been followed and have asked for a fourteen day postponement of this parliament session there since walked back in but have indicated that this may be the subject of

a legal action now the government's choice or candidate for speaker is significant he is a retired judge well regarded in legal circles and is not active in politics quite a refreshing departure from his pretty criticise that there's also a lot of hope riding on this new government that promised greater transparency in the way they govern this country as one of the first steps nine government agencies will report directly to parliament including the anti corruption agency as well as the public prosecutor's office its government agencies that previously been tightly controlled by the prime minister's office many people are also looking to this new government to repeal repressive laws including the fake means act passed by the previous administration just a couple of weeks before the last election widely seen as an attempt to not just stop debate but also the distribution of information on one end d.b. . to syria now where the government has launched more air strikes at rebel

positions and these that are countryside. the bombs have the town of the western part of the province the syrian army is trying to capture a strategic hill for a push into neighboring. the syrian observatory for human rights is reporting fierce fighting on the ground control of both the provinces will consolidate president bashar assad's hold on the country self. now a community school in the occupied west bank is opening early for the new academic year as it faces the threat of israeli demolition the palestinian bedouin village of qana to be bulldozed to expand an illegal israeli settlement but earlier this month israel's supreme court issued a temporary injunction blocking the demolition of schools future remains uncertain as the israeli government pushes for villages relocation landfill site stephanie decker has moved. in the occupied west bank. the school of carnal ahmad in

this small community has opened a month and a halt early and according to the palestinian education minister browsing authorities education minister he said this is to proceed israel's demolition order now the supreme court is going to rule by august the fifteenth whether that school and indeed this village is to be demolished what the palestinians here will tell you is that this is all part of a wider israeli policy and the village may look on significant and may look on important if you look around it is surrounded by illegal israeli settlements the that one is mana i do mean and the feeling here is because this area is scattered by at least eighteen of these small bedouin communities that israel is trying to push them off this land to make way for israeli settlers and the people we've been speaking to here they don't want to leave they've been here since the one nine hundred fifty s. but they will tell you that they're certain that israel will do everything to make them go. at least two people have been killed in protests in the grose of

unemployment and a lack of basic services the protest has become. in a shooting in the city of somalia south of the capital baghdad over the past week dozens of activists have been injured in demonstrations that started the government is now promising billions of dollars to provide services. colombia cheney and putting more pressure on nicaraguan government off to ten people were killed as paramilitary groups targeted protesters in the city of messiah human bots watch group says at least twenty two vehicles carrying government security forces have arrived in the area money on the sanchez reports from managua. a caravan of paramilitary forces operating in the open the masked men are backed by the government rights groups have accused them of carrying out attacks on people in the city and now the and the surrounding area when a super. it's a situation without precedent we are submitted to

a terror war where there's no rule of law where anyone kills you or kidnapped you we've never lived something like this before and despite this nicaraguans are showing their ability to resist it. the government says it's fighting against opponents plotting against it but international organizations say the government is condoning the disproportionate use of force against civilians. but we condemn the repressive acts we're seeing around the country including harassment individual and collective detentions houses being mocked and deaths we are very worried about what's going on. rights groups here say paramilitary groups in some neighborhoods kidnapped people from their homes. they say that men are operating with police protection. in men now when many that are one say they are not afraid to fight government forces even with weapons homicide in the shadow despite the dangers we

will continue fighting to have a free country because we deserve it. was good i learned opposition groups are no match to the heavily armed paramilitary forces and human rights organizations have urged the government to bring an end to the violence this is the most. in our reports we emphasize the need to par if i what these mosque forces that seem to operate in the country with impunity. an attack on sunday left at least ten people dead it came a day after paramilitary forces attacked students trapped inside a church in my now one in a siege throughout the night that lasted more than fifteen hours two students were killed and more than ten wounded in. the crisis in me get i was quickly spiraling from peaceful protests demanding pension reforms to indiscriminate attacks of illegal forces in joint operations with police acting with impunity around the

country. of the innocent just. leslie has allowed hundreds of refugees and migrants stranded on her ships to some . after negotiations with other e.u. countries that had blocked their entry until other european nations agreed to take in some of the four hundred fifty people on board prime minister says france germany spain and portugal will each take fifty refugees from the ships. and i'll get out of the problem in doha with the headlines on al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump has declared that relations between his country and russia are worse than ever as he prepares for a summit with vladimir putin in finland trampas in helsinki where he's met the finnish president in the lead up to his one on one with person meanwhile trump has hailed the nato summit which he attended last week as

a success and said members had agreed to increase military spending. i think nato has never been more together. people are now agreeing to pay and we were having a lot of problems with a lot of people not being as president will tell you. they were rapidly i think there's probably never been stronger that it is that. the european council president has warned world powers against starting a trade war donald tusk says the u.s. china and russia have a duty to improve the global order by reforming international trade rules because part of the high level european delegation currently in beijing for their annual e.u. china summit french celebrations lasted long into the night after their team was crowned champions in the football world cup thousands of people gathered on the shops and he's a. two voices journalists have gone on trial in myanmar after more than six months of pretrial hearings the pair was investigating the killing of ten behavior men and

boys when they were arrested they've been charged with violating myanmar's official secrets act and could face up to fourteen years in prison. and you malaysian government is getting ready to effect. the. political party came to an end in elections in may. and new members of parliament. is facing corruption charges. and. the problems. may bring. the headlines on.

and it was. hello and welcome again to rewind am fully back to full since the launch of al-jazeera english back in two thousand and six we've built up a library of award winning documentary and here on rewind we've been delving into the vault to pull out some of the best of them today we're going back to two thousand and seven to a poor south african neighborhood just outside cape town when using honor and tradition come together in an unusual annual competition in recent years south africa has seen huge political upheaval and corruption scandals and cape town south

africa second largest city has been feeling the impact of climate change and struggling with drastic water shortages.