zero. other answer to this is the news out live from london coming up the question of russian interference in the u.s. elections dominates this president as a highly anticipated one on one meeting with vladimir putin another step towards paying off the twenty years of conflict eritrea reopens its embassy in ethiopia and welcoming home the world cup paris france is triumphant football team parades down . i'm tatiana sanchez in doha with all of the day's sport well while top runners up croatia also receive

a hero's welcome as they landed back in zagreb that story and a lot more coming up. u.s. president defended russia against allegations it interfered in the election brought him to power trump and his russian counterpart vladimir putin met in the finnish capitol hill sinking just three days after twelve russian hackers were indicted in the official probe into the twenty sixteen presidential election i want to promote it correspondent james bass was the. we face to face ahead of a solo meeting a meeting that lasted over two and a half hours but if you were hoping they would solve any of the world's problems you'll be sorely disappointed instead when they spoke to reporters their comments were dominated by their views on the most toxic political issue in the u.s.

an issue that just got more controversial as they seemed mainly to agree on it during today's meeting i addressed directly with president putin the issue of russian interference in our elections i felt this was a message best delivered in person spend a great deal of time talking about it. and president putin may very well want to address it and very strongly because he feels very strongly about it and here's an interesting idea putin then explained that idea he get russian or thora his to interview the twelve hackers even though the allegation is they were working on behalf of those same or forces or he said they could set up a joint us russian investigation team with one condition north of the witness which we will this kind of reference should be a mutual one then we would expect that the americans would reciprocate and they've

they would question the shoals including the officers of law enforcement and intelligence services of the united states whom we believe who have something to do with illegal actions on the territory of russia trump called that an incredible offer he was then asked a straight question every u.s. intelligence agency has concluded that russia did. what hu my first question for you sir is who do you believe remarkably he answered by switching to a completely different subject which is not part of the investigation hillary clinton's e-mails what happened to hillary clinton's e-mails thirty three thousand e-mails gone just gone i think in russia they wouldn't be gone so easily twenty two months after the election he still seems determined to reaffirm the legitimacy of his win i beat hillary clinton easily the electoral college is much more

advantageous for democrats as you know than it is to republicans we won the electoral college by a lot one last question was simple yes important to president putin did you want president trump to win the election. yes i did because he talked about bringing the right us relationship back to normal i've lost count of the number of times over the last eighteen months that i've described comments by president trump as extraordinary but this what was supposed to be a summit between the two most powerful leaders in the world was taking things to a new level the president may have been trying to robustly make his case about the twenty sixteen election but there seems little doubt that he's only made matters worse for himself james al-jazeera helsinki. or let's get more from patika hainan china's now live from washington d.c. patty we've seen reaction coming in since this summit from both sides of political

divide and from the intelligence agencies. we really have and it has been swift it has been strong language universally across the country that through the halls of power people are condemning this appearance by president donald trump i mean let's think about this very rarely does a one day go by where he doesn't either tweet out or say to the cameras there was no collusion between his campaign and russia something that is the subject of multiple investigations including that of special counsel robert muller so he is obviously very bothered by this claim so you would have thought if you want to dispel any of those questions he would have come out he would have challenge the russian president on the world stage instead people are saying that he appeals ten that he looked weak there are some people are saying that his talk was in fact treasonous and that is something that could lead to impeachment and we're hearing this from democrats we're not so much hearing impeachment talk yet from republicans but we are hearing republicans in power usually the very first people to defend the

president they're in there staying silent or their issue and in some cases like the house speaker pretty strong language condemning his entire conversation and the entire press conference so across the board it is without anyone else defending him everyone saying that was horrible but when they found range amount to anything with that should be any repercussions. yes me that of the candidate who said during the election that he could shoot someone on fifth avenue and he wouldn't lose that he supported every time there's a controversy it seems to bear that out so there have not been very very consequences for any of these norms that he has broken or any of the alliances that he is trying to tear apart. is this going to be different well we don't know here's what i'm going to be watching for if you talk to trump voters supporters during the campaign even now what they say is they voted for him because he won't apologize for america that he'll be strong in the world stage this press conference did not

send those messages so new watching how fox news the conservative media outlet how they covered this already we've had one of their prominent anchors call it disgusting so that could start to change and move the needle the other factor here is let's not forget this trade war that the president has launched the world into it is going to slowly start to bite consumers it's already starting to hurt producers farmers lobsterman industries really across the country with it starts to really bite at what people can buy what they can afford to pay what they're if they have a job then you might have them looking at this in a more harsh light but too early to tell so far he's been pretty tough line and i know we've said that about previous politicians but this is unlike anything we have ever seen in our lifetimes is that any about his tendency to tend to twitch his teacher began as an aide just to cap it all off. oh he is not happy with the way this is being perceived and he is basically saying one of his

tweets is he has great confidence in my intelligence people you capitalize my which he likes to do sometimes but he basically saying if you want to get anything done you can't focus on the past another tweet political risk in pursuit of peace is better than the risk of peace in pursuit of politics than another one full graphic tweeted out discussion is good for the united states and for russia and for the world so this is a president on air force one likely watching cable news seen the tweets and they have been everywhere from all sides also parts of the political spectrum condemning him he is going to feel threatened and when he does that he tends to double down i have to say though the last time we saw this kind of condemnation is when he equated the actions of peaceful protesters with white supremacists in charlottesville we saw a lot of criticism from and then nothing happened we'll see if that stays the same case now good to get your thoughts on this president and then washington d.c. well when i'm joined by mark simak of skee who is a nonresident see

a fellow at the atlanta council's eurasia center also in washington can't very much for coming on to al-jazeera i just want to put some of the things that have been said about present trends behavior at this press conference today the famous cia director said his behavior was treasonous john mccain the senate senator publican senator most disgraceful performance by any u.s. president and the republican senate intelligence chatter richard chung should see as a lie any statement denying meddling he's really taking the presidency to another level . you know this summit was an opportunity for president trump to bridge the distance between those that accuse him of being too close to president putin to ignoring the facts of meddling in elections and a set a new tone for a strong american president that can stand up to our adversaries he failed on all

counts in many ways he actually widen the gap between those that don't feel the u.s. president has the capability and the credibility to implement u.s. foreign policy and the fact that you're seeing republican pundits and congress members and even supporters of the president come out with criticism i think showcase that in many ways the historical aspect of this summit is that this could be actually a spring moment for further opposition to president trump as well as further ammunition for special prosecutor mauler and his investigation of president campaign is dies to russia as a correspondent just said he is now a tweet saying because he does not like the way it's playing out it does seem that he's misjudged the way he handled himself there what do you think the reaction reaction of some of the nato countries is going to be already bruised obviously from what happened when he was talking to them very recently. you know i think this

meeting was a natural extension of the brussels meeting a natural extension of a president who clearly is more comfortable criticizing allies and adversaries in many ways this meeting in russia though is contradictory to what the u.s. signed up for in brussels the us signed up to a whole range of strong deterrence measures and statements that criticize russia out of the communique particularly statements mentioning russia's nefarious activity in ukraine so i think allies if not surprised because i think this summit showcase really would present trump is about is about not being interested in litigating russia's activities of the past and focusing on the future irrespective of russia's actions many allies will further state this is a what a reason why they don't trust president trump and why in the in the likelihood we're going to see divisions within the alliance on the nato again i think this this meeting in helsinki was to be expected if many i think people don't understand

the depth of president trumps opposition to countering and actually showcasing frustration with president putin he's really focused on the future and again in that way i think you miss an opportunity to defend american interests and miss an opportunity to defend allied interest but the most important thing is i think president putin saw an american president who's acting alone he's not acting neither with the support of his allies and also he's not acting with the support of his administration because on several occasions including this afternoon with the depth with the director of national intelligence came coming out with a statement opposed to what the president said in helsinki which is it's clear that the russians meddle in our elections and the u.s. needs to continue to highlight the fact that they're likely going to meddle in our elections in the fall in twenty eighteen very grateful feel thoughts on this thank you so much for joining us mark. thanks for having me. you're watching the al-jazeera news out live from london also coming up don't forget the message from

yemenis living on the cycling back to the island of subculture as war rages on in the mainland. demanding water jobs and electricity protests in southern iraq and second week plus. the richardson of moscow is are you finding out about one of the unexpected consequences of this football world cup. eritrea has reopened its embassy in ethiopia a further sign of improving relations between the long time rivals ira china's president is in the capital addis ababa for the ceremony last week the neighbors declared that state of war only mohamad reports from the south. embassy in addis ababa closed for the past twenty years is now open and workers have been giving it

a facelift for most of the past week and it was opened by president of a train together with the prime minister of ethiopia at the moment as a whole includes a visit was considered almost inconceivable just two weeks ago because he was the month blamed for the stalemate between the two countries for most of the past two decades but when he came he was warmly welcomed treated thousands of ethiopians 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 there's been the force conscription and military allow something as truth i hope will now ease in ethiopia a land locked country at least the two course that's at a trailer house which have been traditional ports and also the first flights from ethiopia. eritrea is planned for today so

a lot of benefits for both sides of the border. and the 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 from a sinking billions of dollars to address their concerns but many are skeptical of some adventure of aid for. yes but they want to look tricity clean water and jobs. 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 that 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 off we are strong we are acting on our own free will we're not picking from a buddy we are simply raising our 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 watching as an adequate security forces response was excessive it was disproportionate to the peaceful protest angry protests as many a bad was but live ammunition was fired at protesters. some of been attacking offices of major political parties but bus rides main port and the airport and niger have reopened a novelty or got done a lot if we disrupt the oil production everyone will run to us including the us and respond to our demands do not push just of the limits so far we are peacefully demonstrating 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 the iraq senior cleric has supported the demonstrators grand ayatollah sistani says people face an extreme

lack of services. but 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. 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 field to convince people who say they don't trust any of the politicians some of the job it is their. syrian government forces backed by russian jets are making sweeping up bounces on rebel held territories in the south for nearly a months now the allies have been bombarding and launching ground attacks on the provinces of daraa and connection as they inch closer to the sensitive frontier with israeli occupied golan heights both u.s. and russian leaders have promised to work together to protect israel's security mohammed john june has the latest. troops loyal to syrian

president bashar assad are targeting rebel positions in the dock countryside as the bombs fall on the town of tell how to in the western part of the province and government forces try to recapture a strategic killed and push into neighboring. rebel fighters and their family members meanwhile have been leaving southern city on buses bound for opposition held areas in northern syria syrian state television has been broadcasting video of these buses which it says are carrying the fighters and their relatives well many are being evacuated from others are being displaced thousands of families have fled to nearby when a theater and humanitarian concerns are growing aid workers have set up tents and are distributing food but they say much more is needed. we cannot afford to cover the needs of the influx of i.d.p.'s who arrive in huge numbers we're coordinating with all the relief agencies operating in the country to join forces and lend

a helping hand in connection to the highest possible numbers of i.d.p.'s having now captured most of that i province the syrian government backed by the russian military finds itself at a turning point a city was the birthplace of the syrian uprising which means these gains are both strategic and symbolic and with the victory here it means syria's government is much closer to gaining full control of the country once again mohammed jim groom and. six children migrants have suffocated inside a shipping container in northwestern libya ninety of those were found in a critical condition in the same truck the libyan authorities say the migrants had been locked inside the shipping container for a long time and investigation into the deaths has begun. senior members of northern ireland's republican movement have been trying to calm the community following several days of rioting the violence included an attack on the home of

four machine fein leader gerry adams hard core descendants inside the how could dissidents inside the republican movement are being blamed low on sleep reports from belfast's. keeping a lid on violence in or not it is always virtually impossible but here with the republican leadership calling for calm not between the two traditional sides in the conflict but inside its own community the points of the rally was an attempt by irish nationalists to prove they can police themselves against a rising tide of anger in fact going to come along with even to stand in solidarity and testimony to the good news here about hans un further of a summer always means trouble but this wasn't fighting between irish republicans and pro british loyalists in the city republicans called very hard core elements sent children out to throw stones at the police apparently in the hope someone might get shot they're accused of wanting to bring down the peace process by their own side and restart the armed struggle but also explains the attempted attack on

the home of gerry adams the four machine fein leader who brokered the peace process a powerful firework more an insult but a genuine attempt on his life irish republicans are prepared to hear leadership but none the less of the time of such political uncertainty in the province the last thing they need this is going to meet. the lose the facts understand. that you will say. that we will prevail. that we will overcome and that we will not be denied air united communities that magic and words you were united are not isolated maybe an act in the heat of summer they hope so the backdrop of course all of this is a gigantic power vacuum in northern irish politics with no functioning local government for eighteen months and the british administration still in terrible

trouble over bricks it which could still lead to the emergence of a whole border in islands it is assumed that the people who touched gerry adams and set the riots might want to hold border as well as a sign of partition in the still divided islands. in the end this was a display of shielding gerry adams personally from harm as well as portraying him as a man both of peace and of the people the pictures aimed squarely at the republican community it has proved over the course of years its ability to move away from violence it seems it is now being goaded not by a traditional enemy the british but a section of its own selling barnsley al-jazeera belfast. one of the righteous journalists on trial for obtaining state secrets has told the court it also hasn't broken any laws while our own was arrested alongside his calling choice in december he says that being punished for reporting on the killing of ten were hanging men

and boys so vasant 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 judge just what happened on this number twelve two thousand and seventeen. that's the day he and his colleague chelsea were arrested after being invited for dinner by police officers and were handed secret documents. the most you know no word of her artist of art in court today that are contracted with tell you in order to cover a story and story you're drawing operating as we tried to contact the person in charge regarding the story in order to be balanced in covering the news he and his colleague 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 men 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 me on my 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. step fastened al-jazeera bangkok france's world cup winning footballers have returned from russia to raucous

celebrations in paris a big croatia fortune in sunday's final to become world champions for the second time that's the reports from paris. the colors of france's flag were edged into the sky above paris as she was affable for the players it was the homecoming they had dreamed of for the fans a joyful moment they would never forget. what's happening it's a party where united we are twenty years ago and now again we are world champions. we have some difficulties in front of the attacks so this is a moment of pure happiness. the team or one of the youngest in the tournament they use this touch people here and so has their diversity. that we are happy because it shows you can be from the suburbs and sixteen. percent they represent us because they young like us and bob is only one year older than us persons in things like

this since ninety ninety eight when fault was won the world cup back then it was a mess of multiculturalism to many fans there that sense of unity but the squad is actually really similar to the one from one thousand and eight because as you said a lot of of players are coming from the suburbs whether they're from big cities and or the from the countryside from small villages the players on the pitch show that you can come from several different backgrounds and still have good time together after the parade the french president welcomed the players to the lease a palace for a garden party attended by hundreds of teenagers from all over france the hope is that this young team can inspire the next generation to. al-jazeera paris. stay with us on the news hour more news just ahead the european council president warns global powers against getting sucked into a trade war at

a meeting with his chinese counterparts and sport christianity right now there is officially a rancher's player details with tatiana later in the program. 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 curl of cloud is coming out of the east does contain pretty heavy showers and they are drifting this general direction now for the rest of you it will largely cloud fresno it'll curl around southern france and spain and the islands in the western med a give you a few big showers which could be sundries well now none of these make its particular difference the temperature temperatures by their easily middle twenty's low thirty's in places it's nice warm mid summer was eight has been particularly

dry so the encroachments this rain will be welcome though it is slow moving ahead as have the potential for a bit of flooding and of course the first gets into poland and germany and didn't really try to get much further west than that in the next two days it remains dry to the west i mean dry right way down towards the north coast of africa in fact throughout the mediterranean be hard pushed to see anything that resembles an thing like a shower and there's the the forecast for tuesday thirty's around the coast really but even on shore breeze thirty seven in cairo back in regret robots who are just below the thirty mark and no breeze here is just beautiful sunshine if that's what you want.

right. in the wrong waste inefficiency and a growing population of lead to do when dealing water so. you're going to try to extract water from in the sewers possible this is what you see as a result of the country's future it's. attitude to change and innovative solutions are being found. people in power investigates iran's move to crisis on al-jazeera.

welcome back reminder of the top story say on al-jazeera donald trump has denied colluding with the russian president vladimir putin to win the twenty sixteen presidential election on the cia director john brennan has called trump's comments treasonous while u.s. lawmakers say he missed an opportunity to hold russia accountable eritrea has reopened its embassy any theo piano and the latest sign of improving relations between the former east african phones and 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 to sunday's four chink win over croatia. mexico's president elect has only had an election promise by cutting his own salary and those of all the politicians undress manuel lopez obrador cruised to

a landslide victory two weeks ago vowing to take on corruption and the country's so-called political elites john homan polls. the bling on showing congress another reminder for mexicans of the yawning gap between themselves and the highly paid scandal rocked the political class that's why it was music to the years of many incoming president and that is money well lopez obrador announced this your way out and i'm going to receive one hundred eighty thousand pesos per month in other words i'm going to receive only forty percent of what president pena nieto commonly receives. as well as cutting the president to wage by more than huff he promises to restrict the salaries of other high earning public servants. satisfy his base lopez obrador switch to power on the promise to patent what he calls the power mafia but it could also cause problems there are two thousand years

on the one hand losing good public servants on the other hand if you go very low then you can open the door for corruption precisely what you are trying to fight so i mean there is not that there is a guarantee that with good salaries there is not going to be corruption and we have seen that in nowadays with the current administration but if you go very low that dollar for corruption is why there the salary cuts the headlines but in total lopez obrador rode out fifty anticorruption in the old stereotype promises he says that public servants will lose their protection from prosecution and that they'll have no new cars and a limit on pay devises trips abroad and juicy bonuses government contracts will be observed by the united nations. lopez obrador also said that the country's attorney general's office long considered a tool for whether zim power will have absolute autonomy but some civil society

groups complain that he's showing little enthusiasm for their plan to change the law to guarantee the independence they say could be a may just sticking point without an impartial referee to enforce them the ambitious anticorruption policies could count for little john homan. mexico city. international pressure is growing on nicaragua as government after the deaths of ten more people on sunday at least three hundred mostly demonstrators have been killed since april by armed groups linked to the government according to human rights groups mariana sanchez is live for us now in the capital managua this is been going on for months marianne that. do we think the conflict is now deepening. i think there is an escalation of the conflict that began i would say one week ago we were members of the. the cardinal and the bishop were attacked by

a group of government supporters that were hung and also there's been attacks on other people as well. yesterday on sunday he was. taken out of his car his car was riddled with bullets by government forces this has been going on for the throughout the week and also there's been arrests of the peasant leaders who have been members members of the negotiating table main representative of the prison is disappeared at least in the one knows where he is so there's been absolutely no can the nation on the part of the government about these attacks and the so rests no word from the government at all at the same time there's been paramilitary parading around the country throughout the week intensely we have seen the joint operations with the police in many places.

also here in this past weekend where there were students that had taken refuge of a church well the police made a ring of security and allowed the paramilitary in there to at tack and shoot for many hours it was a fifteen hour siege at the church it was something that was very difficult for the . clerk you meant to stop at the same time having said this at the response from members of the opposition has been. very strong there's been policeman killed and also we've seen yesterday the body of what would be a perhaps a police man or a paramilitary burning at a barricade with all the small islands going on maria count dialogue between the government and opponents can it was in this week.

well it's been it's very difficult for the clergy to have a dialogue with the government as i was saying is the cardinal and. the roman envoy the vatican and boy have they tried to. stop the siege on friday they were not able to then they went back on saturday until they were able to free the students but it was very difficult to even to what to make it to help their ambulances going to get. it out and so on obviously there is no conversations between the clergy and the government and there's been many attacks like i said a attacks at members of that negotiating table so it's very difficult than many people here are saying well if the question is whether if the government really has the political will to negotiate many thanks for the. speaking to us.

it's now almost two months since the yemeni island was battered by a sonic clone and residents are still facing a major shortage of supplies the minute you stand off on the island between the united arab emirates on yemen's government is no it's helping the relief efforts and with war raging on the mainland so culture residents are worried they are being forgotten priyanka gupta has more. the port was damaged to the both sides months ago when cyclonic will hit this region but not much has changed in the yemeni occupier go off school the un says sixty thousand people were affected by the cycle in may when yemen's government declared a state of emergency and more than. we have shortages mostly of food supplies including flour sugar and oils these food items used to arrive aboard ships these ships used to carry food supplies to oman answer katra five of the ships loaded with food supplies to psychiatry were destroyed during the storm it's called the

most alien looking place on earth but its rare sokoto dragon trees are likely to be chopped down to be used for fuel people here rely on food imports and demand is expected to get bigger during the monsoon season which usually lasts for four months. due to the storm and the low tide water level dropped three to four meters as a result large vessels cannot call at the port terminals vessels are transferred to another destination to offload. but no progress is because of the conflict between yemen's government and the united arab emirates over the presence of everybody troops on the island the u.a.e. insists it's strong it's a cold drive humanitarian but the local authorities seize the u.a.e. as an occupying force m.l.t. forces have agreed to leave but there's no clear plan and who will replace them the u.a.e. had promised to build housing for the families affected by another cycle on back in twenty fifteen it's still under construction in the one hundred eighty when we

listen when we get no one knows why the project has not been completed we are other citizens attending to our cattle or fishing to earn our daily bread maybe the government officials know the reason or only god knows. this was supposed to be part of the u. he's campaigned to with hearts and minds of the people of sokoto but people prefer to state huts to see that you really built houses weren't built properly. these are difficult conditions severe heat and extreme called every aspect of life is very hard. so just looking means is likely to be hit by bore harsh weather and people hope that those in power who fight over control can deliver on their promises of a better life priyanka gupta al-jazeera. a ceasefire between israel and hamas is under threat after an israeli airstrike on two hamas posts and northern gaza israel's military says a strike was in response to austin 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 stoned. and to the west in 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 the small bedouin community of khan which israel wants to bulldoze so it can expound a settlement stephanie decker reports from qana lock in the occupied west bank. with 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 won't 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 of the opening of the next scholastic you know what 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 the life of palestinian harder and harder that's already apparent just by looking around here the 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. china the united states and russia are being warned by european leaders not to start a trade war european council president donald tusk made the comments during talks in beijing and jim brown reports from the city. just ten days after the start of a trade war between china and the united states a timely summit in beijing china's leaders are hosting the european union's top officials one of whom had an urgent plea directed at china as well as the united

states and russia does it come on duty. of europe and china. america and russia. not to destroy his old. much to improve it. not to start through a divorce. which turned into the conflict so often in our history china's leadership wants a united front against the u.s. president donald trump's trade policies and is hoping for an ally in the e.u. which is also quarrelling with trump over trade as well as defense to the u.s. trade friction is the problem between us china doesn't want to trade well with the u.s. we think there is no winner from a trade war any actions of violate the world trade organization rule serve the interests of no one. even though e.u. officials disagree with president trump very main wary about being part of

a coalition against him that's because many european business executives here also share trump's concerns about doing business in china china's leaders have promised to further open their economy to foreign investors the message from the e.u. officials on monday we hope you mean it this time china has made strong pleas to keep markets open and fight protectionism this is reassuring to the e.u. and its business community however we would like to see these encouraging words translated into more concrete action from china to further open up investment even before the trade war began ten days ago china's economy was starting to slow a monday figures showed the growth fell slightly from six point eight to six point seven percent in the last quarter factory output was at its lowest in two years most of what these factories produce are for export which for now underpins china's economy but

a protracted trade war could slow growth by much more adrian brown al-jazeera beijing. still to come on this news hour it will help bring international criminals to justice. in the world for the i.c.c. and in sport. it may not look that impressive but this piece of concrete is the spots where the. preparations for the next world. business updates brought to you by qatar airways going places together.

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the international criminal court. kind of a story of its founding treaty on choose day it was designed to be the first global tribunals capable of bringing justice for war crimes genocide and crimes against humanity but in this era of conflict and growing cynicism medicare asking if it will survive another twenty years journey home reports from the hague. a billion dollars is a lot of money to pay for just four convictions out of ten investigations so say critics of the international criminal court as it turns twenty this week but it has truly global reach and acts as a deterrent to perpetrators of some of the world's worst atrocities so say its defenders the truth is somewhere in between the court was set up basically with so many goals at the same time not only rendering justice and meeting up punishments

but also bringing truth bringing reconciliation bringing solace through many victims and i think it set out also to do those many things at the same time well apparently you cannot do that they only have twenty years africa has been a particular focus of the court's work with critics complaining of biased see even though cases have been referred to the i.c.c. by individual governments but africa has also highlighted some of the court's weaknesses no international police force means it relies on the cooperation of its one hundred twenty three member states over darfur for instance despite years of investigation and multiple indictments including of sudanese president omar bashir not one arrest has yet been made if the past of this relative legal infant then is one of teething trouble in finding its feet then what of its future in a world in which conflict is increasingly multi-lateral in which the superpowers

aren't even members and in which vetoes at the u.n. security council are a barrier to justice in some of the world's most blighted places. the i.c.c. was founded as a permanent court from which no leader rebel group or army could hide now if permanence is not in question but there are significant gaps in global commitment to the court russia is blocking efforts to send syria to the international criminal court even though. the assad government really with putin's backing has deliberately targeted civilians as a way of waging this war china seems to be standing in the way ascending myanmar deja actual criminal court even though it ethnically cleansed seven hundred thousand of him to muslims in the course of a month you know the united states is continuing to try to protect israel to protect saudi arabia so there is a very unprincipled approach to international justice all of that puts alleged war crimes in syria and gaza beyond its reach but the i.c.c.

is tackling of the challenges you investigations in venezuela the philippines and afghanistan may build support and assuage suspicion across the african continent but the rise of nationalism and disdain for global institutions elsewhere almon a signs for the strengthening of international justice jonah how al-jazeera the hague now or ever to touch down that with a list sport. thank you very much as we have been hearing world cup winners france have been celebrating that tchiowa with fans in paris after beating croatia four two in sunday's final in russia the team returned to the french capital and showed off the trophy to hundreds of thousands of supporters packed onto the show as they leave and they might not have won the main prize but her aisha's world cup team returned home to a hero's welcome as well fans turned out in their thousands to greet the players in the capitals are going to question how the population of four million people only

have been gripped with football fever since the team be england to reach the world cup final for the very first time. well over the last five weeks hundreds of thousands of fans and a few hundred footballers have made russia of their higher it was a host nation that was unexpectedly good on the pitch and where the people showed the world it could be the venue for a global party and the riches and reports from moscow. this is eagle the eagle newly named in honor of the soaring performances of russian goalkeeper eagle ak in favor of the world cup and nailed the number one attraction at moscow's do you really new with your thoughts well our team have never played like this and we wanted to celebrate our brilliant goalkeeper eagle akon fair an eagle is similar to a keeper with its quick reactions and sharp eyes he hopes but we never expected russia to do so well now it would be unfair to describe igor as a legacy project but his name is just one of the many unexpected consequences of

this world cup the bigger question is once all the fans and footballers are flying home what's of true value and importance aside from a goal will be left behind. russia has spent billions of dollars on new stadiums that will benefit some elite level teams but photographer novikov has chosen to spend the last six years focusing his lens on the sort of pitches where world cup stars would fit to tread he says the lack of basic facilities for many young players is a problem untouched by these finals i found out that many facilities for football now in the country. from soviet times you can see the stadiums and even previously the professional teams are as many spectators. so now. amount of people who go to stadiums and. people and all the infrastructure and

facilities is not well. developed. the event has given many russians a rare chance to meet fans from all over the world and for preconceptions to change on both sides an unusually relaxed police presence affectively giving the green light to a five week street party journalist yuri supper can believe something more meaningful the memories will be left behind was i've never seen anything like this before the constant celebrations like the whole of the like first of all for a carnival it's a new feeling the feeling that the people are connected not to stay to the channels not. the people sitting in kremlin but to the people on the football field. this is being a world where real life connections made by football fans. rather than social media

noise made by politicians has been the story and the richardson al-jazeera moscow. all eyes are now on the next host cateye as they prepare for the tournament in twenty twenty two the gulf country one hundred. the first world cup in the middle east john i got her oscar went 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 cattle 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 people came

in countries however those are not the only sources of material there are plenty of other alternatives and we quickly diverted our sourcing to other places the world and other shipping routes things are back on track instantly so the factory. let's say will stadium maybe here 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 big cats are 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 world cup 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. of phones 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 of us dollars he is unique and goes above and beyond all regards and i really hope that people will think 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. we don't know yet whether christiana rinaldo will play in his fifth that world cup in qatar bought for now the portugal captain's focus is on his new copy of dentists where he was officially unveiled on monday the thirty three year old underwent a medical entered in before greeting hundreds of supporters who had gathered to get

a glimpse of the new signing when all that has joined the italian champions on a four year contract worth one hundred seventeen million dollars and in his nine years stay a spanish giants real madrid was. that. i prefer to think of me in the present tense so the present is very clear i enjoy football and i'm still rather young i have always liked challenges in my life so from sporting to manchester to reality and then you ventus and so it was a dream career challenges are part of my life and i think this new challenge will be as good as the others ok does all this ball for now more later. thank you tatyana that is it from a suit for this news hour i will be back in a man with another half hour of the day they still need them.

a bit of a strange day to start the center fuse we just heard at today to city of aleppo has fallen. or should we say liberate that. one or four astonishing stories toads and their own wives how did you know who to trust and not to trust. a stranger came to town witness on al-jazeera. the nature of news as it breaks although thousands of women have reported rape and other sexual atrocities in south sudan's were threats are going

to say this figure is likely much higher with detailed coverage nearly fifty schools took part in the drive each one responsible for the whole acting a different diet of school supplies clothing from around the world variable focal they're still very new here but these players are very old for them they won't be able fully goals are made people want to avoid all the international studies. the question of the fifteen thousand people posing an imminent threat to israel use one of their sleeves to reform but it's going to be deeply must people don't believe you're going to watch law and order there is a saying the little girl in the bay are sending them to god it's a cost rotation period when they come in to talk to the woman who was attacked and maybe her son goes head to hate with daddy and what israel is doing is deliberately choosing to slaughter house. elders a. u.s.

president donald trump dismisses claims of russian election meddling as he holds face to face talks with them uprooted. hello again i'm seated and this is al jazeera live from london also coming up a heroic welcomed hundreds of thousands gather in paris to welcome home now the world cup winning football team. another step towards paying south to twenty years of conflict eritrea reopens its embassy in ethiopia. and the death toll climbs to eight as antigovernment protests continue across southern iraq.