witness on al jazeera. the question of russian interference in the us elections dominates us president has a highly anticipated one on one meeting with vladimir putin. some of this is al jazeera live from london also coming up welcoming home that well compares france's triumphant football team parades down the seans elisei. another step towards peace after twenty years of conflict eritrea it reopens its embassy in ethiopia. and we speak to nicaraguans risking their

lives to take a stand against their government. once follows now seemingly friends u.s. president donald trump and russian leader vladimir putin have wrapped up one one talks in helsinki admitting that meeting was constructive and they would now be working together on certain areas of mutual interest they also address the burning issue at hand to whether russia colluded with the trunk campaign in the twenty sixteen election with both leaders issuing denials. could you name a single fact that you want to definitively prove because. this is it out amongst themselves. just like the president recently mentioned.

there was no collusion with the campaign and every time you hear all of these twelve and fourteen it's stuff that has nothing to do and frankly they admit these are not people involved in the campaign but to the average reader out there they're saying well maybe that does it doesn't and even the people involved some perhaps told mysteries old bill in one case the f.b.i. said there was no lie there was no somebody else said there was. we ran a brilliant campaign and that's why i am president. diplomatic i said james bass has been following developments from helsinki. you might think that if you have the most two most powerful people in the world meeting and they reach broad agreement on an important issue then then the world should be rejoicing but this most important issue is the most toxic issue in the united states and we saw president putin coming up with some new suggestions following the indictment of those twelve

russian hackers that the special counsel robert mueller say were members of russian intelligence and president trump said that they were great ideas suggesting perhaps that he would suggest that they should be pursued but these ideas i don't think are going to go anywhere with regard to much of the political establishment in washington or with special counsel miller because what president putin is suggesting is that either he can investigate those twelve suspects his own or thora says but of course they are accused of hacking on behalf of president putin or remarkably there could be a joint team from the u.s. and russia who could come investigate this and speak to those twelve that sounds good but then president putin set a condition for that would that team would be able to go to the u.s. as well and investigate people there and proceedings then got even more unusual

when president trump was asked whether he believes president putin that there was no hacking and no collusion or whether he believes the u.s. intelligence agencies and he completely dodged the question and started saying we've got to find the servers referring to hillary clinton's e-mail service he then went on about the twenty sixteen election even though it's twenty two months on saying i beat hillary clinton easily relate to gating a race and trying to reassert his legitimacy of most other. unusual news conference which is already seeing john brennan the former head of the cia take the amazing step on twitter of accusing a sitting president in a news conference with the russian president of treason u.s. lawmakers from both parties have criticized chung for failing to hold russia to

account well let's get more on this from pemberley halkett who is in washington there's been no shortage of reaction kemble including those from the republican side. right so there's no surprise that the president's democratic critics have been criticizing this performance where the surprise comes is that members of his own republican party are also doing so now albeit the fact that some of the strongest criticism has come from some that have been vocal against donald trump in the past but certainly there is widespread outrage by members of congress in terms of the performance by donald trump there seems to be concern not only is the sort of moral equivalency is james bays discussed there the fact that. perceptually blamed both countries for the deteriorating relationship many have said that this is shameful disservice but others have gone even further like the republican senator john mccain saying that essentially this is one of the most disgraceful

performances by an american president in memory the concern being that downturn essentially excepting the explanation by vladimir putin in terms of the denial of any sort of wrongdoing or meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. election in fact the top republican in the house of representatives paul ryan had a very strongly worded statement he said there is no question that russia interfered in our election and continues attempts to undermine democracy here and around the world again republican members calling the sort of acceptance of this denial by putin by donald trump shameful and a disservice to the united states and some of the fiercest criticism sushma come from the intelligence agencies because of is anything like me to come of it. all right so donald trump essentially denied the conclusions of more than a dozen law enforcement intelligence agencies even the republican led senate intelligence committee leading top democratic the ranking democrat on that

committee mark warner to say that there are times when the senate needs to stand up this is one of those times so what i expect that we could have in the future are potential hearings into the sort of loyalties of donald trump certainly there are many that are concerned one even suggesting that perhaps there needs to be a renewed push for legislation bipartisan legislation we should point out i mean as a democrat and a republican or a support of putting in place something known as the deter act if this were to come into law what would essentially do is make sure that if there was russian interference in the twenty eighteen elections that in fact there would be a snapping back of sanctions or snapping or putting in place of sanctions against russia's oil and banking sectors a line from washington d.c. reacting to events in.

france's world cup winning football is time for turn from russia to a hero's welcome these are the scenes on the show and they say in the capital paris has hundreds of thousands turned out to greet them from secret ratio for two in sunday's final to become world champions for the second time and i'm having a private audience with french president emmanuel macro before i celebrate or a posse let's bring to natasha's buchla who is in paris natasha you were on the show is in these area what was the atmosphere like and what sort of things are the thais up to now. i mean there were extraordinary english all over me they i'm still just on the side of it now but even. by tell me we saw a french fly through the wall even the tricolor flagler in the blue sky and then the plane came in and that was a full american crowd went out to movies while some of the things the hours waiting for the players arrived to give them

a hero's welcome i mean many of them that said to me that they are you can travel proud got a car it was fine for the travelled from across the country good policy to all night you just felt they had to be taught that they had to take up the on the phone on the show and he's a paris is most style most are going to people would dog thing they were singing they say they're going to continue celebrating quite a while and then the play is a were taken to the presidential policy a palace where they have met the french president and they are being awarded from the highest on the face y'all don't know this is one of the well it is called does youngest present a model michael just forty years old with this team that was one of the youngest in the tournament so i really have been an image of you but isn't quiet many people across prague really seen this game the diversity in them and they used and said that you know this is a good thing for for all real sense of unity people is really the theme in some ways you could say thirty one people called the tasha hijo the path to grace is

coming out of paris. croatia's losing finalists have also arrived home and have also been given a hero's welcome these are the scenes all route from the airport to the capital zagreb as hundreds of thousands of people greeted the players who have become national heroes over the past month croatia playing in just their six world cup and have the third smallest population of the thirty two teams in the tournament. at least eight people have died in protests in southern iraq where anger is growing over the lack of basic services and high unemployment the government is promising billions of dollars to address their concerns but many are skeptical as on the bench of a reports. that they want to look tricity clean water and jobs. the protesters have continued to congregate in southern iraq for a second week these people say police stopped them from setting up a protest camp at the bus for governor office that was not guarded the government

said we were sitting peacefully and along convoy from the army and golden division stormed our tent we said we are peaceful protesters and not terrorists they said you have to remove your tent or you will be arrested and i want to move out we are strong we want to own free will we are not breaking from maliki buddy we are simply raising own demands. on sunday the protest spread to many southern provinces including with an as similar city. at least two people were killed and dozens injured including security personnel watch it and it's an adequate security forces response was excessive it was disproportionate to the peaceful protest angry protesters made a bad was but live ammunition was fired at protesters. some of green attacking offices of major political parties but bus rides main port and the airport in niger have reopened a novelty or gov down a little if we disrupt oil production everyone will run to us including the us and

respond to our demands do not push us to the limits so far we are peacefully. mistreating in these protests are merely a warning some of that it must always we have the residents of pastor and not infiltrators was simply raising our demands which are clean water electricity basic services and jobs are peaceful protests are met with bullets of the iraq senior cleric has supported the demonstrators grand ayatollah sistani says people facing extreme lack of services. are the leading contender to form the new government after a contested election earlier this year has sent a delegation to basra he asked people to protect public property outgoing prime minister head that he has tried to offer ten thousand jobs in basra and pledged three billion dollars for education health water and other public areas but so far it's failed to convince people who say they don't trust any of the politicians some of the job it is their. you know watching their ally from london still to come on the program

a test of press freedom imam are two journalists who were investigating the killing of a hang a man and boys down trial. court on the palestinian children who cut best summer holidays short to protect their communities go from demolition in the occupied west bank. hello this is a potentially good news for those countries stricken with drought this dry year and i'm thinking particularly of belgium denmark latvia this curler clouds coming out of the east does contain pretty heavy showers and they are drifting this general direction now for the rest of europe will freeze no it'll curl around southern france and spain and the islands in the west and mary give you a few big shows which could be sundries well now none of these make his particular difference the temperature temperatures by their easily middle twenty's low

thirty's in places it's nice warm mid summer it has been particularly dry so the encroachments this rain will be welcome though it is slow moving ahead has have the potential for a bit of flooding and of course the first gets into poland and germany and really trying to get much further west and that in the next two days it remains dry to the west i mean dry right way down towards the north coast of africa that's right the mediterranean be hard pushed to see anything that resembles an thing like a shower and there's the the forecast for tuesday surtees around the coast really but even on shore breeze thirty seven in cairo back in regret robots were just below the thirty mark no breeze here is just beautiful sunshine if that's what you want. i had a briefing today from a man named steele who has been out there working with the security forces

a veteran of el salvador's war sent to iraq you seem to be without portfolio doing whatever it is that he wanted to take interest in and i expect him counterinsurgency 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 searching for steel on mount is iraq. where are the top stories here on al-jazeera donald trump has denied colluding with the russian president vladimir putin to win the twenty sixteen presidential election former cia director john brennan has called trump's comments treasonous

while u.s. lawmakers say he missed an opportunity to hold russia accountable. france's world cup winning football squad have arrived home to a hero's welcome huge crowds gathered in paris to greet the players who were crowned champions after sunday's four two win over croatia. and at least eight people have died in ongoing protests in southern iraq where anger is growing over the lack of basic services and high unemployment. irish nationalists have been holding a rally in belfast and that's time to show they can control violence in their community after days of trouble in northern ireland that includes an attack on friday night on the home of the former shin fein leader gerry adams for lawrence lee is in belfast for us lawrence what is this about is it sectarian tension. no no it isn't and i think it's absolutely worth pointing that out this is not the republican side of northern ireland worried about attacks by their traditional

enemies the probers loyalists they're worried about what you might call and a sign of struggle that event here is now finished as a small patch of grass in republican west belfast to three hundred people turned up for sufficiently serious for the leaders of nationalisation famed from both sides of the border to come and speak to the community here and say to them it's up see you suppose leeson control your own community because there are elements of the republican unity which want to bring down the peace process and return to the armed struggle and those elements don't like what we're doing in the republican leadership to try to move things forward in what as you said what we've seen over the last few days in the city republicans called derry night elf knights of violence fermented by the real ira the real hardcore where they sent children out into the streets to throw stones at the police and then an attack on the home of gerry adams who is now the elder statesman really of the republican movement he was

here as well and i think the reason why they're so worried about this ultimately they need these elements of the real are a been there for a while but there's no functioning government in nor not in the hasn't been for eighteen months and i think what they're deeply concerned about is the way in which these very hard core elements might try to exploit the political value vacuum and bring the whole thing down and so the event here was named to the rest of the world or or people like us at all it was aimed directly at the republican community in northern ireland and a message to them with gerry adams holding babies and hugging people which said to these people look this guy is a man of the people people it is a man of peace and you're not going to be to basically of course all this is going on with the backdrop of the breakfast negotiations and the border exactly where you are being one of the big questions how is that going to influence what's happening . and that's and that's just as big if not a far bigger worry really than the lack of

a political settlement for him for the devolved governments in northern oil and the complete mess the british government itself has got is going to self into over what to do about it it's still not clear that there won't be a hard border and we've reported and it is it is widely believed that those hard core elements would actually like the return of a hard border because it would allow them to attack it and restart the arms struggle and and the war in the game and so the message again from the public and leadership is not just on people but the british government as well you've got to keep the border open if you want to keep the peace going to touch a larger slice leaving is a very latest from belfast eritrea has reopened this embassy anything you know peer a further sign of improving relations between the longtime rivals eritrea's president is in the capital at this hour for the ceremony last week the neighbors declared their state of war over mohamad zero reports. embassy in addis ababa closed for the

past twenty years is now an army of workers have been giving it a facelift for most of the past week and it was operated by president files of world trade together with the prime minister of ethiopia the. size of one piece of business was considered almost inconceivable just weeks ago because he was the money blamed for the stalemate between the two countries for most of the past two decades but when he came he was warmly welcomed treated will be a few people lining the streets where he went chanting his name and all these proximity and all your relationship between the two countries is definitely going to benefit the people of the two countries in eritrea has been the force conscription and military are lost something that a truth i hope will now use in ethiopia alone broke the country needs that to force the trail hearts which have been traditional horse and also the first flight from

europe to. eritrea is planned for they so a lot of benefits for both sides of the border. former u.s. president barack obama has edged kenya's lead us to come ethnic tensions during his first visit to his father's first country since leaving office he's helping his half sister launch a sports and training center in their ancestral village of kogelo a bomb at kenya's president of her kenya he's heading to south africa next to mark the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of nelson mandela six children and two adult migrants have suffocated inside a shipping container in northwestern libya ninety others were found in a christian condition in the same truck libyan authorities say the migrants have been locked inside the shipping container for a long time and investigation into the deaths has begun. one of the royces journalists on trial

a man mark for obtaining state secrets is tell the court he hasn't broken and indorse while own was arrested alongside his colleague chore so in december he says they're being punished for reporting on the killing of ten revenge of men and boys step vassal has more from bangkok finally it was his time to speak after being detained for seven months and a pretrial that lasted nearly as long as journalists while alone for the first time got a chance to tell the judges what happened on this number twelve two thousand and seventeen . that's the day he and his colleagues chelsea were arrested after being invited for dinner by police officers and were handed secret documents. the measure illinois where are testified in court today that are contracted with tell you in order to cover a story and story or drawing operating we tried to contact the person in charge in regard to a story in order to be balanced in covering the news he and his colleagues house

who are charged with violating myanmar's official secrets act the law dates back to the colonial era and can land them in prison for up to fourteen years the reuters reporters were investigating the killing of ten raw enjambment in the village of in then when they were detained their arrest is seen as a warning from the military to journalists not to investigate what happened during the crackdown against the muslim minority during the violence thousands of for him joe were killed and nearly seven hundred thousand fled to neighboring bangladesh a few weeks after the journalists were detained the government confirmed a massacre had happened in and the soldiers responsible were sent to prison for ten years while reuters has reported it was civilians who were executed in the village the military had said they were terrorists. since the crackdown media and myanmar have come under a lot of pressure the case against a reuters journalist is seen as

a test for press freedom in a country that started a fragile transition to democracy eight years ago a. step fastened to syria bangkok. blasien lawmakers including indicted ex leader. have taken the oath and parliament was charged with criminal breach of trust and corruption in this scandal that led to his coalition's electoral defeat in may two hundred twenty one lawmakers were sworn in on monday including the new ninety three year old prime minister mahathir mohamad made his return to parliament. international pressure is growing on nicaragua as government after the deaths of ten more protesters on sunday at least three hundred mostly on arms demonstrators have been killed since april by armed groups linked to the government according to human rights groups mariana sanchez reports from the capital 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 cities get another and the surrounding area. 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. 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 say they are not afraid to fight government forces even with weapons i must tell you the shadow but despite the dangers we will continue fighting to have a free country because we deserve it. good i learned a position 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. in our reports we emphasize the need to par if i what these forces that seem to operate in the country with impunity. and attack on sunday lift at least ten people dead it came a day after paramilitary forces attacked student. it's trapped inside a church in my now were in

a siege throughout the night that lasted more than fifteen hours two students were killed and more than ten wounded. the crisis in the ghetto 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 now when we get our a cease fire between israel and hamas is on the threats after an israeli airstrike on two hamas posts in northern gaza israel's military says the strike was in response to arson attacks by hamas on israeli territory on saturday both sides accepted an egyptian brokered cease fire after the latest round of violence in gaza in which two teenagers down lines now to the occupied west bank where a palestinian school is having to start its new term six weeks early because it faces demolition it's located in

a small but when community of khan which israel wants to bulldoze so it can expand the settlement stephanie decker reports from can mark any occupied west bank for. their summer holidays been cut short but none of these children seem too bothered they all know why they are here. so that we have people inside the school so the israelis were demolish it. a sally lives a ten minute walk away over the mountain this school doesn't only serve. but it's the only school in the area for these bedouin children. we want to demolish the whole community and transport us and take the land these ready supreme court will set a day to respond to an appeal to stop the demolition by the fifteenth of august and as of today with the clearing the opening of the next scholastic you should have started on the first of september but rather today on the sixteenth of july we decided to launch its will to proceed any attempt on the part of the occupation

forces to knock down the school it's not just the school which is our predestination but this entire village looks like a small basic and unimportant bedouin community that when it comes to this conflict it is all about land and who has access to palestinians tell you what is happening here is indicative of a wider israeli policy to push palestinians off this land and replace them with israeli settlers we need oh man an israeli student he's come from tel aviv to see for himself what is happening here i mean it's an obvious strategy to try to push. communities into cities and expand the settlements around here and basically clear idea area for potential cities to jewish israeli cities settlements to expand and in the meantime make life of palestinian harder and harder that's already apparent just by looking around here large illegal israeli settlements and smaller outposts

overshadow the scattered bedouin communities the bedouin have been here since the one nine hundred fifty s. and they don't want to leave but they say israel is doing everything it can to change that stephanie decker al jazeera. you can visit our web site at any time just click on al-jazeera dot com. let's get you up to speed to the top stories are an al-jazeera the leaders of the united states and russia have denied colluding in the twenty sixteen presidential elections donald trump over the may putin met for one on one talks in helsinki agreeing to cooperate on certain areas of mutual interest but they both family denied any form of collusion with trump insisting he won because he had the better campaign former cia director john brennan has described chants comments as treasonous while lawmakers say he missed an opportunity to help russia accountable

it was no collusion with the campaign and every time you hear all of these twelve fourteen it's stuff that has nothing to do and frankly they admit these are not people involved in the campaign but to the average reader out there they're saying well maybe that does it doesn't and even the people involved some perhaps told me stories of the one case the f.b.i. said there was no lie there was no somebody else said there was. we ran a brilliant campaign and that's when president. france's winning footballers are back home from the well cup in russia hundreds of thousands of supporters gathered in the show to celebrate their success. for two in sunday's final to become world champions for the second time eritrea has reopened its embassy in ethiopia in the latest sign of improving relations between the former east african

fires president asked a s f wacky travel to this for the ceremony which came just a week after the twenty year state of war was officially ended. at least eight protests have died in protests in southern iraq where anger is growing over the lack of basic services and high unemployment about two hundred protesters have rallied outside the main entrance to the seabright natural gas field on sunday hundreds of people were dispersed after they tried to storm the main government building in the city of basra and six children to adult lie grants have suffocated trapped inside a shipping container in northwestern the bia of us were found in a critical condition in the same shock it's unclear how long they were stuck inside there's a headline stay with us this train is coming up next. hi

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