it's 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 when 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 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 shortly after that news conference the u.s. director of national intelligence dan coats this is a statement it said we've been clear in a cessna it's of russian meddling in the twenty six in the election and they're only going pervasive efforts to undermine our democracy and we will continue to provide unvarnished and objective intelligence in support of our national security

white house correspondent kimberly how kate has been following reaction in washington. for a president who loves to talk about his ratings and reviews there was nearly universal criticism 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 night even egotism false equivalence and sympathy for autocrats is difficult to calculate many republicans

are concerned that. blamed both countries for the deteriorating u.s. russia relationship jacked 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 as a threat opposition democrats not surprisingly were 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 and fears it will happen again in twenty eighteen there are times in the senate when people have to stand up and see

which side you're right 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's oil and banking sectors should it be found to interfere in any future u.s. election can really help al-jazeera washington hillary mann leverett is a former white house national security official and she says president trump is trying to play to his home. 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 we take a step back and a sober assessment of what's going on here and looking at the substance i would say that having a constructive relationship with russia is really the grand prize here theatricals not withstanding 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 troubled approaches his campaign 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 trump's constituencies these types of comments

these type of theatrical plays well with them. protests are continuing into a second week in southern iraq spreading to even more cities and that's despite at least eight deaths and promises by the government to fix the problem there's anger at what many see is a government failure to address crumbling infrastructure and a lack of basic services as a sum avenge of a dreadful some protests is now threatening to disrupt the region's all oil production which is vital to iraq's economy which they want to make tricity clean water and jobs was the protesters have continued to congregate in southern iraq for a second week these people say police stopped them from setting up a protest camp at the bus for governor office that was not guarded the government said we were sitting peacefully and along convoy from the army and golden division stormed our tent we said we are peaceful protesters and not terrorists they said you have to remove your tent or you will be arrested and i want to move off we are strong we are acting on our own free will we are not picking from

a leaky 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 a lot of 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 have reopened a novelty or got down a little if we disrupt oil production everyone will run to us including the us and respond to our demands do not push us to the limits so far we are peacefully demonstrating in these protests are merely a warning him about it but we have the residents of pastor and not infiltrators with 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 face an extreme lack of services. the leading contender to form the new government after a contested election earlier this year has sent a delegation to bus for people to protect public property. prime minister had the law but he has tried to offer ten thousand jobs in buster and pledged three billion dollars for education health water and other public areas but so far it's failed to convince people who say they don't trust any of the politicians some of the job it does are well below what is a fellow at the washington institute for near east policy and he says resentment towards the government's been building for a long time your 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 road maps 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 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 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 isis or 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. israel says it will impose even stricter border measures on any cargo destined to go

through the car and abu salim crossing to gaza is set to ban all fuel in pulls into the area until sunday food and medicine will need permission to go through the southern crossing last week israel said it would halt exports of produce from gaza in response to what it described as continued aggression from hamas. european leaders have warned china of the united states and russia against a trade war as they met chinese counterparts in beijing the international monetary fund meanwhile says the terrorists to attack the began last week could end up damaging the entire global economy including the u.s. from washington cripple. 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 gather 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. the 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. it's not that we're 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 dion esterbrook al jazeera washington well we've been speaking to deborah elms who's executive director of the asian trade center and she says the terrorists and their resulting economic uncertainty a bad for consumers. last just

the first the first salvo if you will of this trade conflict which is only the sort of the beginning of what is becoming an escalating trade war how does that affect real people trade in steel and aluminum goes into so many things that consumers in particular need everything from you know washing machines in refrigerators to automobiles to steel pipes and everything and so the issue there is that you have to pay more for those products that firms have to pay more for those components and parts and in order to pay twenty five percent more over night because that's the extent of those tariffs many firms are finding themselves unable to do so and literally closing their doors leading to job losses bankruptcies except and the longer this goes on the harder it is for firms to sustain economic growth the more you have bankruptcies job losses except our other war prices escalate the more inflation pressure leads becomes and that's why they're

suggesting overall reduction in global growth which i think is alarming especially since that's only from the first round of these trade disputes that we're having as you move towards the greater problems between the u.s. and china especially the tariff escalation between us and china that also is going to reduce global trade growth and lead to greater challenges from the global economy and for consumers who are going to love want to come here at al-jazeera including mexico's newly elected president fulfill the promise to cut salaries of public servants and he started with this area. a rise in hate crime in the u.s. has one minority group changing the agenda for its national convention. to get.

hello there are still showers in the southern caucasus satellite picture reflects upness and decent thunderstorms coming out of that which means flash flooding and then there's nothing all across iran afghanistan to the disk at the edge of your screen is a pretty bright bump so that's the furthest west edge of the southwest monsoon producing some decent weather for park a stand that has of course been some decent weather in the point of view of heavy rain if ghassan rather too much in one place i'm afraid the mugger and two other showers around kabul but it's a large it's dry picture beyond that northern iran choose one says the caspian is a source of moisture here otherwise it's just hot sunshine the breeze is quite consistent now coming out of iraq moving south again it's all more or less a northwesterly which means it carries some dust with it it's a very dry direction if east and saudi kuwait and the gulf states which tend to also allow tempers to come up forty five is the forecast and there are cooler in

abu dhabi thirty nine and slightly cooler in the western side of saudi this grainy sea it always hints at showers it may not may produce one to thunder storms it's probably a fairly dry picture is consistent along the amanti coast particularly in salalah otherwise this is the middle of summer you'd expect middle forty's expected bit of a breeze ashame how an awful lot of sunshine. on july fourteenth. two thousand and sixteen. an attack on the city a day in nice change people's lives. to b.c. has killed at least sixty people. on. the french muslim families who lost their loved ones. truck attack a nice on al-jazeera.

let's take a look at the top stories here of al-jazeera the swarming donald trump is back in washington where he'll face questions about what he said at the helsinki summit with. the shuttle to meet members of congress on tuesday he faces widespread criticism after he appeared to side with russia over accusations it interfered in the twenty sixteen u.s. election the funerals have been held for some of the eight people killed in antigovernment protests across southern iraq the protests which have now entered their second week over better access to basic services and jobs the international monetary fund has warned a trade war could damage the global economy the i.m.f.

left its global growth outlook unchanged for this year and for next year but cautioned that terrorists are increasing the risk of an economic crisis. now twenty years ago the international criminal court was set up to bring justice to victims of some of the world's worst atrocities and they include war crimes genocide and crimes against humanity but political divisions on the un security council and the use a veto can overshadow the pursuit of justice for the i.c.c. and it has more from new york. the united nations security council has a great deal of responsibility the people that sit in this room are charged with maintaining peace and security across the world one of the powers the council has is to refer cases to the international criminal court human rights activists say it's an important piece of legislation in essence that means that perpetrators of atrocities can be brought to justice when they otherwise might not in the twenty

years since the i.c.c. was formed only two cases have been referred from this chamber in two thousand and five it was the darfur conflict six years later it was war crimes in libya but the security council's been accused of double standards critics say nations like china russia and the us use their veto power to protect their allies interests in two thousand and fourteen france drafted a resolution to bring the situation in syria before the i.c.c. but it was vetoed by both china and russia where human rights violations have been reported in may in march for lanka yemen and gaza no referrals were made recently the security council made a recommitment to the i.c.c. but when that statement was made the american delegation was absent perhaps an indication of the challenges the i.c.c. will face over the next twenty years. britain's prime minister has been criticised for bowing to pressure from bracks its supporters in our own party to accept key changes to customs well the amendments relate to trading across u.k.

eve borders after britain leaves the e.u. in march critics say terrorism a is wrong to accept the changes one of which could stop the u.k. from collecting terrorists for the e.u. many insist the amendments are consistent with her plan. we know from our discussions with you and other industries how friction at the border would not just jeopardize the uniquely integrated supply chains and just in time processes on which millions of jobs and livelihoods depend but how divergence in regulations could result in complex and expensive multiple tests for different markets the u.n. secretary general has denounced the use of force by nicaragua's government saying it's getting in the way of finding a solution to the crisis at least two hundred seventy people have been killed since protests against president danielle ortega began in april. where the number of deaths is shocking and the use of lethal force on behalf of state related entities

is not acceptable and crowds of march through nicaragua's capital managua to demand justice for those killed in operations by police. several people died during a violent siege at a church on saturday the catholic church has been leading peaceful between the government and opposition but there's been little progress in said it has become the target of attacks. mexico's president elect has honored an election promise by cutting his own salary and those of other politicians and those man lopez obrador cruz to a landslide victory two weeks ago valen to take on corruption and the political elite he's taken a pay cut a sixty percent john hoeven 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 when

incoming president and raise money well lopez obrador announced this year well you know. i'm going to receive one hundred ninety 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 swept 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 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

they are for corruption ease why their salary cuts at the headlines but in total lopez obrador rolled out fifty anticorruption in the upstair it's a promise is 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 the power will have absolute autonomy but some civil society groups complain that he's shown little enthusiasm for their plan to change the law to guarantee the independence they say could be a major sticking point without an impartial referee to enforce them the ambitious anticorruption policies could count for little john homan al-jazeera mexico city. video has emerged of the terrifying moment a tourist boat was hit by

a blast of flying lover in hawaii the visitors traveled to see love a plunging into the ocean from the killer way of ok no on big island. at least twenty three people were injured when the motion rocks rained down puncturing the boats roof scientists say explosions of varying sizes happened when the thousand degree lover enters sea water that's much colder. than the national association for the advancement of colored people the end of a c.p. is the most influential civil rights organization in the u.s. its annual convention is underway now and that's provided an opportunity for african-americans to consider the forthcoming midterm elections i do joe castro reports from san antonio texas. for the second here in

a row president donald trump declined an invitation to attend the n.w.a. c.p. convention i'm not at all. disappointed or feel like we're missing anything since trump selection a documented rise of hate crimes in the us 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. is looking toward

the upcoming midterm election hoping that it's voters will have a democrat every day before 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. huge crowds have turned out still welcome home france's world cup winning football is these were the scenes along the shells are losing in the capitals paris

france beat croatia four to sunday's final to become world champions for a second time. i. traverse a look at the top stories here at al-jazeera the salon in the white house says u.s. president donald trump will meet members of congress on to say he's returned home to face criticism of his performance at the helsinki summit with his russian counterpart vladimir putin mr trump defended moscow against accusations it interfered in the twenty sixth election i do feel that we have both made some mistakes i think that the the probe is a disaster for our country i think it's kept us apart it's kept us separated there was no collusion at all everybody knows that president putin was extremely strong

and powerful in his denial today and what he did is that in credible offer he offered to have the people working on the case come and work with their investigators with respect to the twelve people i think that's an incredible of. could you name a single fact that would definitively prove because lucian the visit other nonsense just like the president recently mentioned the funerals have been held for some of the eight people killed in anti-government protests across southern iraq the demonstrations have now entered their second week and people are demanding better access to basic services and jobs. the international monetary fund as well the trade war could damage the global economy the i.m.f. left its global growth outlook unchanged for this year and next but cautioned that terrorists are increasing the risk of an economic crisis. crowds of

march through nicaragua's capital managua to demand justice for those killed in operations by police several people died during a siege of the church on saturday at least two hundred seventy people have been killed since protests against president valley of failure began in april video has emerged of the terrifying moment a tourist boat was hit by a blast a flying lover in hawaii the visitors travelled to see lover plunging into the ocean from the killer whale volcano on big island at least twenty three people were injured when the rocks rained down culturing the boat's roof those are the headlines counting the costs is there. getting to the heart of the matter if not stuff like injury the turkish cypriot leader calls you today and says let's have talks would you accept facing realities what do you think reunification would look like there are two people think the peace corps unification is the only option for prosperity or for south korea hear their story on talk to al-jazeera.

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