i will jus' iraq where every. donald trump has relations with russia have never been worse as he prepares to me lead him into ted. i don't welcome to al-jazeera live for my headquarters in doha with me elizabeth rodham also ahead they've been waiting twenty years for a party like this from celebrates later to the night after a thrilling world cup victory plus. a curfew is imposed and the internet blocked in southern iraq as the government struggles to call angle

of unemployment poor services and places major change new faces into parliament after a shock election victory earlier this year. u.s. president has declared that relations between his country and russia a worse than ever as he prepares for a summit would lead him a putin and finland trumpets in helsinki where he's met the finnish president in the lead up to his one on one with putin 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. and action well let's talk to our diplomatic editor james bays now he is joining us live from helsinki and that big meeting taking head in just over an hour james people already scratching their heads over comments from president trump to the finish president. yeah that's right there are two presidential palaces

here in helsinki there's the one where the big summit will take place between trump and putin that's where the finnish president works but earlier on president trump went to see presidents only mean yes though in his residential palace and there he was asked by reporters about last week's nato summit. 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 it's present i 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. as the president will tell you he said there was another reference to the president at the nato summit when the president of an was at the nato summit but he wasn't involved in those negotiations on nato finland is not a nato member so perhaps president trump wrongly implying that the villain was

a nato member and possibly misspoke there maybe a small detail but remember in a few hours' time he's coming up against a master of detail someone who has run his country for eighteen years as president and prime minister when president trump has only been the leader of the u.s. the president of the us for eighteen months putin has when you look at the experience so much more experience of international relations he studied law and then became a k.g.b. officer forty two years ago so there really is a bit of a mismatch here as they go into the summit yeah absolutely james no one doubting. knowledge of relations between these two countries president trump saying that relations have never be worth ahead of the summit. yeah absolutely it's interesting that the things he's been tweeting about sees what's he

refers to as a witch hunt which is the allegations of election meddling by russia and the ongoing inquiries of the special counsel in the us remember in the last few days we've have indictments of twelve russian intelligence agents certainly many back in the u.s. urging president trump to be very tough on this but in those tweets president trump again blaming the obama administration for their inaction that seems to have been his seems to be now his stock defense on the subject that among a number of other subjects which are likely to come up in the discussions here including. the war in syria which seems to be coming towards a close the situation in ukraine another issue that many u.s. politicians want trump to stand up to putin on and also the issue of arms control or james thank you very much for that for now that is james bays live in helsinki.

let's move on to other news now and for only the second time in twenty years from other world cup champions croatia for two and one thousand nine hundred ninety eight champions took the lead after eighteen minutes through a croatian own goal for the first time finalists battled back passage equalise and ten minutes later a controversial penalty awarded following video replays meant to want to time the second half it's proved too strong for their opponents a powerful strike from nineteen year old killian and securing the cup for let's get more now from our russian sponsored voyage hallums who's joining us live from moscow a day after what has been widely regarded as

a successful world cup and president putin has been speaking about it. well yeah he's been speaking about things which he said are essentially national security matters in the aftermath of this world cup world cup which by all accounts is going very successfully a war he said i think is interesting considering it comes just a few days. james was just mentioning there the indictment. of twelve russians from the g.r.u. the military intelligence unit of russia. involved in what the u.s. says was a cyber hacking essentially of the democratic national congress and what putin has said is that actually during the world cup there were numerous cyber attacks that russia was a victim too we can hear

a bit more about what he says on this. just now. there have been almost twenty five million cyber attacks and other criminal acts against the russian informational in the structure which have been intercepted all relating to the world cup in one way or another. ok talking about cyber attacks but other than that for how much of a success would you say this world cup has beena and p.r. victory for putin. well i think in many ways the p.r. victory is for russia itself and russians because it's been noticeable being here over the last month it's one of the the main features of this wild card has been the way that russians and foreigners were interacting with each other in a spirit of. friendship really that on the streets of moscow there were parties

going on with africa with their arms around russians russians with their arms around europeans you know it's been one long party in which a lot of preconceptions have been broken down i think on both sides that foreigners may have preconceptions about russians which they had before coming to this world cup and russians have preconceptions about foreigners so i think a lot of that warm feeling hopefully is going to last some time longer than we produce and i think largely kept himself out of this he made winning the world cup for russia the hosting rights one of his main personal projects back in two thousand and ten when the award was given to russia but actually while the totem has been going on he's been largely an absent figure and he's concentrated on the high level diplomacy so there really a great number of world leaders coming through we've had netanyahu of israel we've had. protestant and occupied territories we've had. we've had all of

hungry and. krone france all of these people and more have come through and putin has been meeting with those and then of course we've got the health and peace summit which is going on today that's a meeting with donald trump which brought him a piece in has been wanting for quite some time for thank you very much for that and now that his royal chalons live in moscow and french celebrations went into the night after their team's victory thousands of people gathered on the cities they bought some fort worth police who fired water cannons and tear gas for croatia though despite the hosp record has been a significant world cup run it is the first time the country of just four million people has ever reached the final thousands of questions gathered in the capital zagreb smain square to watch the match there were tears after the team's last from sets only defeat in the tournament box there were celebrations too as many were happy that their team reached this. well the countdown is on for the twenty twenty

two world cup which will be the first time the tournament has played in the middle east on a gadget or off scale went to see 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 cattle that 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 the people came in countries however some of the only sources of material in the world there are plenty of other alternatives and we quickly diverted our sourcing to other

places the world and others. i think. things are back on track instantly so both agree. let's say well stadium maybe he will host both 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 well 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 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 because i'm fairly confident that they will so while 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 bulletin a test of media freedom in myanmar as two journalists who reported on the one hand to crisis go on trial and the french of demolition looms over the school in the occupied west bank to have a live report. hello

there we got plenty of rain over the philippines at the moment it really has been very wet here over the last couple of days and there's plenty more cloud with us at the moment that cloud also stretches towards the west covers many of us across viet nam and then into thailand to say this whole northern stretch of our map is where the wettest weather is currently and where it's going to be over the next few days we've also got a storm is developing to the east of the philippines so to keep a close eye on the weather here over the next day or say towards the south that's where it's generally dry and brighter so for many of us across borneo and into java and barley should be fine and settled as we head through the next few days that australia all the wet weather here has been in the south recently and that's where it's going to be over the next couple of days as well just one little system grazing the southeast after another but these systems are pulling together i was far is making an impact on the waves is concerned so across the south coast some of the waves could be pretty lively as we head through the next few days weather wise though more cloud working its way into the southwest the eighteen degrees the

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good to have you with us on al-jazeera and these are our top stories frank celebrations have gone nation to the night after the team won the football world cup for the fourth to when other croatia thousands of people gathered on the chantilly say they lost one thousand nine hundred ninety eight. for russia's past world cup hosting duties to cathay for the twenty twenty two tournament the gulf nation will be the first middle eastern country to host it and u.s. president donald trump has declared that relations between his country involve a worse than ever as he prepares for a summit with plenty of hussein and finland trampas in health care where he's met the finish president in the lead up to his one on one with. and while that meeting

goes on and had in helsinki a year and chinese leaders are meeting in beijing again urge president trump against escalating trade tensions he has a china correspondent adrian brown. well in theory you'd think that the e.u. and china would be allies right now after all both of fallen out with president donald trump over trade in the case of the e.u. not just trade but also defense china though is looking for more than just trade deals at this china e.u. summit they want an ally a coalition partner to stand up to president donald trump's trade practices but e.u. officials appear wary about wanting to do that at the moment president donald trump is weighing up whether to impose judi's of up to twenty percent on imports of all european cars and so european leaders don't want to do. anything to antagonize president donald trump they don't want to appear to be seen to be ganging up on the

us leader now the president of the european council donald tusk came here with an urgent message not just for his hosts but also for the leaders of russia and the united states it is a common duty of europe and china america and russia not to destroy dissolve the. but to improve it not to start through a divorce which turned into a hot conflict so often in our history. but bravely and responsibly reform the rules based international order well the timing of this summit is of course significant coming just ten days after the start of the trade war between china and the united states timely for another reason also because on monday new figures came out which showed that china's economy is continuing to slow in the

last quarter it dropped from six point eight percent to six point seven percent not a big fall but a reminder that if there is a protracted trade war then the fall could be much bigger eventually to iraq now where protests that have been sweeping the southern part of the country have now entered a second week about two hundred demonstrators have gathered at the main entrance to iraq say about natural gas field as anger grows over unemployment and lack of basic services on sunday two people were killed in a shooting in the city are some are south of the capital baghdad the government is promising billions of dollars to address people's concerns but many remain skeptical that here lopez holding on to poland's i frustration pours into the streets of iraq demonstrators say they've had enough no jobs and limited services have reached a breaking point we are in the people and cannot get back to wait we have to inject we're still lying in the streets and childless 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 giving them those who assault the institutions of the state and the security forces and its investments to disrupt the aspirations of the people and should be held to account. unrest has been simmering over the past week against a backdrop of political instability. following maze contested in unresolved election results protesters have blocked roads and burned tires. 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 flights to that city. the acting government says violence will not be tolerated responding to the protests or

acts 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 pressured politics the government is not totally in control of the situation that other parties the militias of the other which are fighting between each other the rocks 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. eritrea is reopening its embassy and ethiopia an affair the sign of growing ties between the two long time regional rivals try as president is in the capital at his ababa for the opening ceremony his three day visit aims to cement ties off of the two neighbors declared this state of war well let's get more on this how cost bonded maha mother though is live for us and the capital at us out

of the reopening of the embassy mohamed one of a number of moves as these two countries reconcile. yes and it leads in the last thing president as far as a full work here but it should be just before he departed cost model the embassy has been a huge for the past twenty years on and i mean of workers have been giving it a facelift in the past week or so on the opening signaled the formal press publish mental diplomatic ties between if you are. and it's something that was inconceivable just months ago now size of work is. if you look here was conceivable just weeks ago because he was one of the most just political figures by your peons a booby month of the conflict that has engulfed this region for the past twenty

years and now has not only been fainted and celebrated something that shows the changing situation of this region and of course the ethiopian people as well as eritreans and their countries have so much to gain muhammad from this two decade state of war ending. yes indeed the two countries have suffered a lot following the conflicts between one thousand nine hundred and two thousand and then the tail made the situation of no war nor was this that for the next eighteen to twenty years now that a trade ins have been facing a situation or a military or a lot in the force conscription of plows and into that is something. thousands of us out of the country in search of a life outside they can turn the economy there has not been doing well if you

appear been declared live in london look at a trail. go to way with the red sea. but if you're used to say i was a province of if you appear on the portal and i thought which of the traditional ports you have to use now. you have found something if you will really want to use and already signed an agreement with the editor in government over so a lot to gain and many people want to see the events of the past fifty years behind mamma thank you very much for that for now that is muhammad the live in address. to malaysia now where a new government is ready to officially begin work in kuala lumpur after the sixty one year rule of the same political party came to an end and elections it may promise to mahathir mohamad and nineteen new members of parliament have been sworn in. to lead a campaign against. rajiv is now facing corruption charges over the disappearance

of billions of dollars from the state fund. we have to show that to practice a constructive democracy previously when we were in government we got blamed a lot so now to muhammad's past he has to show us the avenue for the opposition to raise concerns for example in today's parliament speaker issue 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 speaker of the lower house they said procedure had not been followed and have asked for a fourteen day postponement of this parliament session since walks back in but have indicate 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 government agencies that previously been tightly controlled by the prime minister's office many people also looking to this new government to repeal repressive laws including the anti 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 and d.d. . two russians journalists arrested in myanmar last year have gone on trial they were investigating the killing of ten men and boys when they were arrested they've been charged with violating official secrets act step vasan is monitoring

developments from bangkok. this is of course a trial that everyone around the world who was watching me on maher is watching very closely because it's not only seen as a task for press freedom because as you know in two thousand and twelve it became much more freer for the media in them myanmar before it was extremely restricted it was one of the most restricted media in asia but and suddenly there was this new spring a lot of more freedom people could go in journals could go and report on stories or when i'm trying to achieve became the state conflict that was still going on there was still this freedom but then of course the rohingya crisis the whole crackdown happened against the ranger and of course this is now seen as a strong warning by the military to all media all journalist in myanmar not to investigate what actually has happened against the range or because that was exactly what the reuters journalists were doing they had investigated this massacre

of ten men in a particular village and interesting we asked who they were detained and arrested the military actually arrested some soldiers who they say were involved in that exact same a massacre and they have been put in prison for ten years now so basically the government and the military was admitting that that massacre the reuters investigate it was actually really really had happened. to syria now where the government has launched more air strikes at rebel positions in the countryside. the bombs hit the town of the western part of the problem its government forces are trying to capture a strategic for a push into neighboring the syrian observatory for human rights is reporting fierce fighting on the ground control of both the provinces consolidates president bashar assad's hold in the self. tens of thousands of people have marched in morocco as capital against the jailing of protest leaders.

demonstrations first began two years ago when a fishmonger was crushed inside while trying to recover a fish taken by police now people are protesting again after thirty nine people were jailed for up to twenty years. 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. to be bold to expand an illegal israeli settlement but only the small israel supreme court issued a temporary injunction blocking the demolition bought the school's future remains uncertain as the israeli government pushes for palestinian villages to relocate the land stephanie decker has more from. the school of modern this small bedouin community has opened a month and a half 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 but if you look around it is surrounded by illegal israeli settlements the that one is mine i do mean and the feeling here is. because this area is scattered by at least eighteen of the 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. to indonesia now were a group of people have killed nearly three hundred crocodiles under protection center and west palm province the crocodile's was at all for a local man was killed by one of the reptiles at the farm police say they want unable to stop the retaliatory attack and they may now impose criminal charges

against those involved. a bus has been left hanging from a bridge in spain off the driver lost control and crashed through a barrier the bus was taking people to and from a music festival in northern madrid but luckily no passengers were onboard at the time the driver skate with just a few injuries. again as a problem and 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 letting me putin and finland trumpets and helsinki where he's met the finnish president in the lead up to his one on one with pollution the discussions are happening against a backdrop of fraying western alliances and the investigation into alleged russian meddling in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. election. has hailed the nato summit meanwhile that she attended last week as

a success and said members had agreed to increase the military spending. 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 as president will tell you if they were in there they were rapidly i think there's probably never been stronger than it is today. in iraq the protests that have been sweeping the southern parts of the country have now entered a second week about two hundred demonstrators have gathered at the main entrance to iraq's civil natural gas field as anger grows over unemployment and a lack of basic services on sunday two people were killed in a shooting in the city of somalia south of the capital baghdad the government is now promising billions of dollars to address the issues that the move shows no sign of cooling their anger the syrian government has launched more air strikes at rebel positions in the that our countryside the bombs hit the town of the western part of

the problems the government forces are trying to capture a strategic hill for a push into neighboring. new malaysian government is getting ready to begin work in kuala lumpur after the sixty one year of rule of the same political party came to an end in elections in may were promised a mother mohamed and ninety new members of parliament have been sworn in. and for only the second time in twenty years france the world cup champions are to be to croatia for two in moscow in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight champions took the lead after eighteen minutes to a croatian own goal but the first time finalist battled back i'm in paris which equalising ten minutes later a controversial penalty awarded following video replays translated to one at half time in the second half france proved too strong for their opponents those are the headlines witness is coming up next. he has no passport yet he's politically active in two thousand drinks i was doing. our traditional. bar you know

some people think you are so. crazy if you do that mikhail saakashvili former president of georgia and ex governor of the odessa region in ukraine talks to al-jazeera. he. slipped off on the.

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