this is al jazeera. hello i'm rob matheson live from doha this is the al-jazeera news hour coming up in the next sixty minutes backing an old foe and failing to back his own donald trump's discussion about russian election meddling ends with smiles in finland and outrage in the u.s. . hockey central in paris the victorious french football team gets an official welcome home after that extraordinary world cup. promises of money and change from the government about protests go on in the southern iraq no oil supplies are

being threatened. and be where what a trade war could bring the i.m.f. warns of a global recession and financial crisis. treaties and issues like ukraine were on the agenda but instead the summit between donald trump and vladimir putin is causing a stir for what was said afterwards the u.s. president sided with russia instead of his own intelligence agencies over allegations of meddling in the election that brought him to power the pair met for more than two hours in the finnish capital just three days after twelve russian hackers were indicted in the official probe into the twenty sixteen presidential election but trump defended russia against allegations it medaled even describing an offer from putin to send a team to help with the inquiry as incredible well has been condemnation from both

sides of politics in the u.s. from some mocs described as bizarre dangerous even treasonous more from the u.s. in a moment but first our diplomatic editor james bays reports from helsinki. 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'd get russian authorities to interview the twelve hackers even though the allegation is they were working on behalf of those same or thoughts is or he said they could set up a joint us russian investigation team with one condition north of the witness which is this kind of reference should be a mutual one and then we would expect that the americans would reciprocate and dave 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 at 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 president putin did you want president trump to win the election. yes i did because he talked about bringing the right us russia 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 is 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. well back home u.s. politicians from both parties are condemning remarks white house correspondent kelly holcomb has that story. for a president who loves to talk about his ratings and reviews there was nearly universal criticism by members of the u.s. congress over his performance in helsinki and his apparent acceptance of russian president vladimir putin's denial that russia interfered in the twenty sixteen u.s. election president putin he just said it's not russian but more than a dozen u.s. law enforcement and intelligence agencies have concluded just the opposite leading

some members of the president's own political party to rebuke his actions republican senator john mccain called the putin trust press conference disgraceful in a statement he said the damage inflicted by president trumps naive in egotism false equivalence and sympathy for autocrats is difficult to calculate many republicans are concerned that trump blamed both countries for the deteriorating u.s. russia relationship ject into giving what they call moral equivalence to a traditional u.s. adversary what many label a propaganda win for putin this was the primary objective of a lot of the putin was to sow permanent instability in american society and political culture so that we're so busy fighting each other we don't have time to take him on the threat opposition democrats not surprisingly equally outraged at what the president did. side with our number one enemy who is attacking the united

states daily in a variety of ways and be literally kneecapping our allies is just appalling and demands some kind of explanation the senate intelligence committee has also concluded russia meddled in the us elections fears it will happen again in twenty eighteen times in the senate when people have to stand up and see which side of those one of those times this is one of those times there may now be in the u.s. congress a renewed push for bipartisan legislation known as the deter act that would snap and severe sanctions against russia is oil and banking sectors should it be found to interfere in any future u.s. election can really help al-jazeera washington. well hillary mann leverett is a formal white house national security official she's joining us now from washington d.c. as always hillary thank you very much for joining us on all jazeera donald trump of course got into office saying he was determined to make america great again how

much do you think he has sacrificed america's greatness internationally in the pursuit of good relations with russia i'm not sure i would say that he has sacrificed the united states here i think he has in fact he is really dealing with with reality in fact reality that the united states is no longer the sole superpower on the international stage that there are important powers that include russia and that the united states needs to in its own interests have a constructive relationship with russia and whoever is in charge of russia so i think you know we take a step back and as sober assessment of what's going on here looking at the substance i would say that having a constructive relationship with russia is really the ground prize here theatricals not withstanding. let's put it into the context of the recent nato meeting of course that was very fiery it was very untidy in this state how do you think the

u.s. is fellow nato members are regarding the comments that they're hearing and the relationship that they're seeing between donald trump and president putin today i think they are they are concerned they're on record i think expressing their concern their concern i think is twofold one that president trump has said really from the beginning of his campaign that he does not he does not like he does not want the european union really as as as a as a construct he wants to deal with each one of these countries individually is the united states has a has more power over them and then that he's willing to deal with them individually and have them basically on their own individually have to deal with russia is also part of i think trump strategy we may not like it but there is a real serious substantive trust strategy here that president trump is pursuing and the world including our allies are going to have to adjust as long as president trump is in office which i think i'd fortunately for many maybe for quite some time

let's talk about that because if i understand it correctly today he was quoted as saying he was willing to take up political risk in pursuit of peace and to risk peace and pursuit of politics obviously there was a backlash happening in the u.s. at the moment to what has been said you and i have discussed the various statements that he's made over his time in office so far where do you think these statements rank in relation to previous ones he's made in these you're going to survive this one in the way that you survive the other ones. these statements like many of his other statements are extraordinary in the american political context but i think they're quite deliberate and i think they are very carefully choreographed both in terms of strategy and in terms of social media and how how trouble approaches his campaign these type of comments where trump is seen as taking on the elites in the united states particularly in congress foreign policy elites both democrat and

republican it's extremely important to his constituencies here you know trump did not win the popular vote in the united states he won key constituencies and for those key constituencies the fact that president trump is on the world stage taking on u.s. foreign policy elites and what they call the deep state here in the united states that is something that i think will benefit him in the in the mid-term elections in november and set him up very possibly for reelection victory in two thousand and twenty it's something that most political analysts here don't see coming but if you look carefully at president cut constituencies these types of comments these type of theatrical plays well with them let me ask you about the intelligence references that we were hearing the fact that donald trump appeared to side with president putin's comments with regard to allegations of interference in the twenty sixteen elections this is obviously contrary to what the intelligence agencies in the u.s.

have been putting out. is there a circumstance under which you could see the intelligence agencies reaching a tipping point and this i'm starting to work on the fish really against the presidency given the fact that they are fed up with being undermined like this so publicly. i'm not sure i spent over twenty years in the u.s. government primarily at the state department the white house at the national security council but i had many contacts throughout the intelligence community and they have been wrong on some very serious occasions principally leading up to the invasion of iraq the head of the cia that's at the time called that a slam dunk that the united states knew that saddam hussein's iraq had all sorts of weapons of mass destruction which they did not have the intelligence community has in fact presided over some very serious failures but in each case what i find most

striking is that the intelligence community more often than not falls in behind the sitting president now in part that's because a sitting president appoints the head of the cia and can purge those who disagree but in fact the cia in almost every case whether they disagree at first with the president. strongly or not the they fall in line and they produce analysis that the president wants in the end hillary among never in my experience has every month leverage as always great to get your opinion on this thank you very much indeed thank you very well those trumpets putin met in helsinki nato and ukraine were beginning jointly will drills in the black sea the ukrainian american led exercises involve military forces from nineteen countries during maneuvers the ukrainian president petro poroshenko expressed concern about russian coast guard ships in the nearby see the drills followed last week's nato leaders summit in brussels with the u.s. president accused allies of not spending enough on defense. thank

you. a long night of celebrations in the most famous street in front has been replaced by a massive parade for the country's new heroes hundreds of thousands of people have packed the shows in is a in paris to welcome home the french football team and the world cup in a repeat of scenes twenty years ago france beat question four two in sunday's final . is in paris. the colors of france's flag edged into the sky above paris as shaznay avenue for the play is it was the one coming they had dreamed dull for the fans a joyful moment they would never forget the look what's happening it's a party we are united twenty years ago and now again well champions was

going to take we had some difficulties in france with the attacks so this is a moment of pure happiness something i the team or one of the youngest in the tournament thank you just touched people here and so has their diversity i know that we are happy because it shows you can be from the suburbs and sixteen i don't know what they represent us because they young like us and only one year older than us because there is that missing things like this since ninety ninety eight when france plus one who woke up like that and to tell you the same of multiculturalism to many find it that sense of unity was the squad is actually really similar to the one from one thousand nine hundred 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 and 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 welcome to play is 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. well as the celebrations go on across paris many friends are already impatient for the next world cup the twenty twenty two event will be played in qatar its first time in the middle east the amir of qatar says he hopes the tournament will help unify a divided region return to get reports from the capital. on big screens across cattles capital the message is clear despite the political differences between cattle and some of its neighbors in the region the twenty twenty two world cup aims to be a source of pride for all arabs. who will try to make it an excellent well top because this event is very important for the whole region as you know in many arab countries face difficulties the well cup would help us overcome them outside

cats host the first world cup in the middle east the qatari citizens and the many ex-pat treats who live here is a genuine sense of excitement it's taken the amazing. amazing eleven forcible way to meet the first world cup ever so we have. a wider way here to rig the forty s. . it's a don't miss in one ear on the fathers. of course screens like this one are a reminder that hats off posting the world cup is not without major challenges the gulf nation has faced the land and everyone paid for more than a year now after saudi arabia the u.a.e. brain in egypt thought that the magic relations last year but officials here in this that had little impact on preparations for the big. cattle has hosted big

sporting events before including the asian games in two thousand and six and it will put on the world athletics championships next year officials say the building or the necessary stadiums roads and facilities to host a successful world cup and the hope is that sports will transcend politics and help unify a divided region victoria gates and be al-jazeera. plenty more ahead on this news hour including why some palestinian children cut their summer holidays short and turn to school. it was set up to help bring international criminals to justice but twenty years on is there still a place in the world for the i.c.c. . it may not look that impressive that this piece of concrete is the spots where the cats are twenty twenty two world cup will kick off we go behind the scenes to check on preparations for the next world cup.

protests are continuing into a second week in southern iraq spreading to even more cities despite at least eight deaths there is anger of what many see as a government failure to address crumbling infrastructure and a lack of basic services as a summer binge of ed reports some protesters are now threatening to disrupt the region's oil production. yes that they want to make tricity clean water and jobs was the protesters have continued to garner good 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 but not guarded the government that we were sitting peacefully and a long 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 want to own free will we're not picking from

a 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 protests as many a bad was but live ammunition was fired at protesters. some of been attacking offices of major political parties and bus rides main port and the airport and niger have reopened a novelty or have done a lot 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 demonstrating in these protests are merely a warning some of that in. 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. 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 people to protect public property. prime minister head the lead body 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 does their below one harbors or what wagner fellow at the washington institute for near east policy he's joining us now from washington d.c. thank you very much indeed few times to have any indication who's leading these protests good to be with you rob so far the protests seem to be spontaneous the reasons behind these protests are quite basic lack of services like

of potable water the rampant corruption that the recent elections on july fifteenth did not present on may fifteenth i'm sorry did not present any roadmaps to solving them and the record temperatures in southern iraq basically were all contributing factors to some deep seated grievances that the iraqi society are facing and of course this is deep into the majority shia regions where on the one hand they see the oil that the accounts for the majority ninety five percent of iraq's exports and therefore ninety nine percent of iraqi government revenue comes from oil right in front of them and yet they don't have a drink of water on one hand and then on the other this is their own government the old excuses of blaming a minority government like the sunnis or ice is. the boss the return of the ba'ath party all of these excuses have been exhausted they are angry at their own government at their own representatives in baghdad who have failed them if i

understand it correctly many of the protesters in fact possibly most of them are from the shia community and of course it used to be the case that one of their significantly this would be mocked out on assad or we would see him at the forefront of these protests he's of course now part of the government process where does he stand in all of this. it remains unclear in fact he's been eerily quiet on this despite sending a delegation we haven't heard usually he would come out and him being a populist leader in the past being the man behind such protests as we saw in baghdad a couple of years back this time has been has been rather oddly quiet which on the one hand means that these protests are perhaps more spontaneous than the iraqi government and generally elections so the protests in the past have been on the one hand on the other he is still waiting to see where this leads because this is the.

symptom of the fracture in the ruling shia house in iraq and while they have been so far generally peaceful and spontaneous the chance of these protests becoming violent and chaotic are quite possible especially if they reach the oil and gas industry as your reporters in baghdad alluded to which is the iraqi government's keeley's he'll turn violent given all of the guns that are available to the you walk in the various militia groups that might be able to ride the tides or perhaps where these elections were to reach baghdad of course in that case it will become more national and the euro percussions on iraqi politics will be more pronounced so again really the political leadership has been quiet and i hope that this is more of a pressure on them to forming a government rather than colluding on how to right the tide of public anger let me just ask you about the point that we heard in some reports there one of the

protesters saying that they were intending to take the oil. producing facilities and if they did then people would be forced to listen a do you think it's going to get be allowed to get to that stage and b. if they do take them will people listen. yes and yes and that's the challenge that prime minister about these presented with because without the oil infrastructure the iraqi economy will literally be crippled and in a way the solutions that the iraqi government can offer and the public are demanding would basically be undermined by the protesters own actions on the one hand by seeking attention they will begin their mining the government's ability to release some of the funds that the public is asking for through the public sector power. nation and maybe creating more jobs the iraqi government pledged three billion dollars to be poured into the water economy just to quiet the protests and yet the

protests continue because these kind of short term emergency solutions have taken place in the past and yet the chronic problems persist. we appreciate your time as always so thank you very much indeed good to be with you israel says it will impose even stricter border measures on any cargo destined to go through the kerem shalom crossing into gaza it said to ban all fuel imports into the area until sunday food and medicine will need permission to go through the southern crossing last week israel said it would hold exports of produce from gaza in response to what it described as continued aggression from hamas earlier israeli jets hit for its military says were to hamas posts in northern gaza threatening a frontal ceasefire it says the strike was in response to arson attacks by hamas on saturday both sides accepted an egyptian brokered truce after the latest round of

violence in gaza and these two palestinian teenagers were killed when israel launched what it called the most powerful daytime attack since the twenty fourteen gaza war. in the occupied west bank a palestinian school is beginning its new term six weeks early and made the looming threat of the building being demolished it's located in the small bedouin community of khan. israel wants to expand a settlement but it supreme court has blocked the move until at least next month stephanie decker sent this report. their summer holidays been cut short but none of these children seem too bothered they will 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 her 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 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. still ahead an al-jazeera rise in hate crimes in the u.s. has one minority group changing its agenda joining its national convention. why mexico's newly elected president's promise to cut the salaries of public servants could cause even more problems. and in sports christiane over non those officially unveiled as a juventus player we're going to hear from him later in the program. how

all the rain in the u.s. although coming in the southwest monsoon here in california is really to be counted to the east where you might expect it is a bit of a cult front running through here which to be ours isn't changing temps as much for the little dots around here hinted where the humidity in the heat come together big showers all the way from its colorado through oklahoma dancer's the southern states up the eastern seaboard temperature around about thirty mark cotta still in dallas and that's enough to trigger some pretty big storms otherwise it's just warm sunshine i said the monsoon there was a short monsoon season is showing up in little bits a cloud in green across southern california and beyond retouching new mexico that sort of area otherwise hit the sas if you want the big storms there are some in the

plain states too and there is a potential for tornadoes was not a huge potential at the moment and science of all this and that includes florida's dry pictures and of late there are daily showers forming in the big island of cuba maybe florida and hispaniola otherwise you probably need to look suit beyond mexico dancer costa rica and panama for the thirty persistent and regular rains and i'm saying rains rather than showers because this is where you tend to get persistent areas of cloud with persistent rain is that tommy. about fifty thousand people were arrested under a police in strategy known as stop and frisk the car got a ball here it was a guy coming behind me and picking him up back how many of your children gotten caught in this trap i have seven sons and six of them have been arrested for drug charges so me against the wall in the table plus think is what thoughts down for

you to the atmosphere that the police was the bad guy exploring the dockside of american justice system with job on al-jazeera the growing up in the united states i learned that the first amendment is really key to being a good thing freedom of the challenge is going to be. men and women to the resources that are available but it's an al-jazeera story is that we just don't tell you what the subject of the story wants to know the government is not going to do the one thing the demonstrators want apologize for staff what al-jazeera does we ask the questions so that we can get closer to the truth.

you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour the u.s. president has sided with russia instead of his own intelligence agencies over allegations of meddling in the twenty sixteen election donald trump met his russian counterpart vladimir putin in helsinki his comments are being condemned by both u.s. republicans and democrats. can also been held for some of the eight people killed in antigovernment protests across southern iraq the protests which have now entered the second week are over better access to basic services and jobs. france's world cup winning football team have returned home to a hero's welcome huge crowds in paris greeted the players who were crowned champions after beating croatia four two when it comes twenty years after france's first world cup try. the national association for the advancement of colored people of the n.w.a. c.p. is the largest civil rights organization in the u.s.

its annual convention is happening now and it's used as an opportunity to organize minority voters and the midterm elections fast approaching this year's convention is even more critical al-jazeera is hydrogen castro reports from san antonio texas . for the second year in a row president donald trump declined an invitation to attend the end in mention that at all. disappointed or feel like we're missing anything since trump's election a documented rise of hate crimes in the u.s. has troubled civil rights activists a white supremacist rally in charlottesville virginia last summer and it in the death of a counter protester trump blamed the violence on both sides since then video showing apparent racism toward blacks at coffee shops and other businesses have gone viral and the trump administration separated migrant families at the border and days ago the president declared europe was losing its culture trapped in pre

racism and hatred he's only opened the door for those who practice it out loud the question now is how to channel the outrage that many american minorities feel toward the trunk administration into something useful for that they end up looking toward the upcoming midterm election hoping that it's voters will have a democrat every day for all of congress. for turning out black voters in november may be difficult african-american turnout fell in the twenty sixteen election when the nation's first black president was no longer on the ballot. many attribute hillary clinton's loss to the lack of enthusiasm among african americans everyone who believes and knows that this hateful bigoted administration needs to be voted out of mesa to do it right. despite the upcoming challenge few nationally known democrats are speaking at the convention. a sign that minority voter turnout in

november will depend on the grassroots to show up castro al-jazeera san antonio texas. european leaders have warned china the united states and russia against a dangerous trade wars they met chinese counterparts in beijing the international monetary fund says tit for tat terrorists could send the global economy into recession has more from washington d.c. . the i.m.f. says booming economies in the united states and china continue to keep the global economy on track but warned it could be to rail if an all out global trade war breaks out between the u.s. and its trading partners these are substantial hits to growth and in an environment where. you know for many wage earners. incomes have been very slow to rise and this is a source of political pressures and so you know we kind of need all the growth we

get a trade has been a disaster u.s. president donald trump fired the first shot in the trade dispute slapping tariffs on thirty four billion dollars worth of chinese goods earlier this month and threatening to up the ante to two hundred billion dollars. the u.s. also leveled tariffs on steel and aluminum against mexico canada and the european union all countries have retaliated with similar duties on u.s. products the i.m.f. says the tariffs could shave up to a half a percentage point off of global growth by twenty twenty the i.m.f. says the tariffs come at a time when other risks threaten the global economy rising oil prices political turmoil in latin america and changing migration policies in europe the i.m.f. says growth is already slowing in europe japan and latin america. he added shock of a trade war could ripple through the global economy because trade affects about three quarters of world output the u.s.

economy could also be at risk because of inflationary pressures and further retaliation but the i.m.f. says the ones who could be hurt the most are the ones who can least afford it it's usually the poorest who are who are hurt by these sorts of measures so you know. this not the one not the way we want to go the i.m.f. thinks escalating tensions could still be avoided if the u.s. and its trading partners would negotiate with help from the world trade organization die in a surprise al-jazeera washington donald trump invited me to put in a vow to work together to secure israel's border with syria syrian government forces pushing further into the southwest that up province which borders the israeli occupied golan heights mohammad jump to is the latest. troops loyal to syrian president bashar assad are targeting rebel positions in the deadlock countryside as the bombs fall on the town of tel 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 there are others are being displaced thousands of families have fled to nearby when a threat and humanitarian concerns are growing aid workers have set up tents and are distributing food but they say much more is needed and most of it is 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 their our province the syrian government backed by the russian

military finds itself at a turning point that our city was the birthplace of the syrian uprising which means these gains are both strategic and symbolic and with a victory here it means syria's government is much closer to gaining full control of the country once again mohammed. egypt's president now has the power to grant senior military officers immunity from investigation for certain crimes a new law applies to offenses committed between mohamed morsi was overthrown in july twenty third team and president of the cc's first day in office a year later it includes that a bomb massacre in august twenty eighth thirteen when security forces raided two squares full of pro morsy protesters more than one thousand people were killed twenty years ago the international criminal court was set up to bring justice for victims of some of the world's worst atrocities include war crimes genocide and

crimes against humanity but there are questions about just how successful it's been john holl 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 salas 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 had twenty in africa has been a particular focus of the court's work with critics complaining of bias and 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 it 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 be 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 yes. 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 criminal court even though it ethnically cleansed seven hundred thousand rohingya muslims in the course of the 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 are all men assigns for the strengthening of international justice jonah how al-jazeera the

hague mexico's president elect has honored an election promise by cutting his own salary and those of other politicians others manuel lopez obrador cruised to a landslide victory two weeks ago vying to take on corruption and the political elite john hope reports. 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 raise money well lopez obrador announced this year well yeah. 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 half he promises to restrict the salaries of other high earning public servants. definitely satisfy his base

lopez obrador switch to power on the promise to what he calls the power mafia but it could also cause problems there are two thousand years on the one can't 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 and now they say with the current administration but eve you go very low that dollar for corruption isa why there the salary cuts at the headlines but in total lopez obrador rolled out fifty anticorruption and old stereotype promises he says that public servants will lose their protection from prosecution and that they will 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 home in. mexico city . one of the writers journalists on trial and me in law for obtaining state secrets has told the court he hasn't broken any laws while or was arrested alongside his colleague george sold over in december for reporting on the killing on ten or injure nine service and reports finally it was his time to speak after being detained for seven months and a pretrial that lasted nearly as long writers journalists well known for the first time got a chance to tell the judge just what happened on december twelfth 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. to where artists referred in court today that are contacted we tell you in order to cover a ballot story and story or drawing. we tried to contact the person in charge in regard to our story in order to be balanced in covering the news he and his colleagues who are charged with violating myanmar's of facial 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. the. transition to democracy. for. still ahead. on the world cup. next.

there's tachyon though with the sport. thank you very macho as you've been hearing wildcat one is france has been celebrating that triumph with fans in paris off to beating croatia four two in sunday's final and russia the team returned to the french capital and showed off the trophy to hundreds of thousands of supporters have packed onto the seans elisei. and they might not have won the main prize but croatia's world cup team returned home to a hero's welcome to fans turned out in the thousands to greet the players in the captains are going to throw a shot has

a population of just four million people and has been gripped with football fever since the team be england to reach the world cup final for the first time was when i was going to take you croatia say cusack this is a dream come true thank you for everything and we will believe all it was over the last five weeks hundreds of thousands of fans and a few hundred footballers have made russia their higher it was the host nation that was unexpectedly good on the pitch and where the people showed the world it could be the venue for a global poverty 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 lean you lose your thong well our team have never played like this and we wanted to celebrate our brilliant goalkeeper legal action 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 goes to stadiums and. people and all the infrastructure and facilities is not very 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 moscow street party journalist yuri supper can believe something more meaningful the memories will be left behind oh well 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 the state t.v. 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 while the fast a 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 in the world 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 both factory. let's say will stadium maybe he will host the opening game and the final and when it's finished in around two years' time it will seat around eighty thousand spectators now with the tournament being moved to december it also means those fans will avoid the kind of summer heat that we're experiencing today as part of its winning bid council promised to take apart many of the stadiums set the end of the world cup and send sections to developing countries to help them grow the game of course that's only part of the legacy cattles leaders and 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 walk away with a true sense of. what our hospitality is middle east of us dollars he is unique and it goes above and beyond and in all regards and i really hope that people will see that 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 wild 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 the supporters had gathered to get a glimpse of the new signing with 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 so. course 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 a 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 and that's it for me right matheson for this news hour i'll be back in a moment with more of the day's news wife and. the

world's primary could change producing nation. is at the forefront of the war on drugs we're talking about serious organized crime as a country where reaching a critical point while some have made fortunes many others have suffered at the hands of this multi-billion dollar industry both of this business will go on forever it will not change all of the global policies of the who are the winners and losers of this illicit trade snow of the andes on al-jazeera the sams in archaeology graduate from iraq is also a part time going to billings pergamon museum which includes

a reconstruction of the famous ishtar gate in bubble most of the people he's showing around came to germany as refugees this is just one of several billion museums taking part in the project called multicultural meeting point and as well as bringing people together one of its aims is to emphasize the contribution of migrants right up to the present day to western culture office in a language he had been because i've been here for some time i can help them with lots of things that mrs ford to me the great thing is it's not just about museums about forming a new life it is a part of life it's culture. a remarkable portrait of a remove japanese villagers in the aftermath of the two thousand and eleven earthquake and tsunami. seven years later how has the community of me akhil been able to move on and rebuild their lives. in japan to mouth of a catastrophe on al-jazeera. donald

trump's discussion about russian election meddling ends with smiles in finland and outrage in the u.s. . i'm about this and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. promises of money and change from the government but protests go on in southern iraq now oil supplies are being threatened. european and chinese leaders to discuss their separate but growing trade wars with.