there are these terrible screams about terror but what was his mission and what legacy did he. change the steel. pole. into a storm of criticism for defending russia against allegations of election meddling . and unwelcome to al-jazeera headquarters in doha with me and is a problem also ahead. with more restrictions on goods going through a crucial crossing. victims of chief puts more pressure on the government to end its violent crackdown and twenty years after it was established to prosecute the world's worst atrocities we look at the legacy and the international criminal court

. the us president has arrived home to severe criticism from both sides of american politics after siding with the russian president vladimir putin on election meddling speaking off this solider in finland trump even challenged the findings of his own intelligence community from. diplomatic editor james bates. 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 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 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 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 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 the former cia director john brennan was particularly scathing of the u.s. president's comments tweeting donald trump's press conference performance and helsinki rises to exceed the threshold of high crimes and misdemeanors it was nothing short of treasonous not only were trump's comments and the slick is wholly

in the pockets of coton republican patriots where are you a white house correspondent kimberly helka takes us through more 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 truck 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. truck 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 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 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 are one of those times this is one of those times there may now be in the u.s. congress our 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't really help al-jazeera washington well how russians reacting to the president's performance on russia cost. us live from moscow so little of the criticism of trump and the u.s. but i imagine it's a different story where you are already. well yeah the foreign minister of russia sergey lavrov was pretty bouncy half the the press conference to finish yesterday was and he described it as better than super but actually in the russian media today the state t.v. channels except for the reaction has been

a bit more muted because i think lots of people here are noticing the lack of detail that was talked about in the press conference between the two leaders this was something that was about kind of emotions about ambitions but not really about the nitty gritty and of course donald trump made it as much about domestic politics as anything else so i think the view here is that this was a warm up meeting starts of something rather than anything that you can happily say led to deliverables are going to wait for the follow up diplomacy the view i think is the this was two men who were trying to do their best and trying to move forward in a spirit of partnership and the russians of course are pointing to the howls of protest that are being heard in the united states at the moment saying this is indicative of the opposition that donald trump faces from what is viewed by

russians in the establishment here is as the american deep state the american deep state is trying to sabotage the trump project and to apply it to illustrate this they pointed to the arrest of this russian woman in the united states yesterday while this was going on the charging of maria buttin a russian woman who is being accused of secretly working to influence american politics and they say this was an act of spite from the d.c. establishment trying to sabotage what trump was doing in helsinki all right thank you very much for that for now that is rory chalons of the view from my. thank you we're going to move on to other news now and israel is tightening its sea on nearly two million people living in gaza by further restricting the flow of goods into the territory it's planning to ban all fuel imports through the abu salim crossing while food and medicine will need permission to go through them as the sole

commercial crossing into gaza it is vital for the flow of fuel necessary for people who only get up to six hours of electricity a day well let's get more on this our correspondent stephanie decker's following the story from west jerusalem stephanie why is israel imposing even more restrictions on a territory already under siege and what impact is it going to have. this is all part of israel's strategy campaign against what it calls terror kites we've seen these these makeshift kites and balloons as part of these protests have been going on for over two months now sent over the fence you know they're very sort of basically made attached to them is a flaming rabble the consequence of that is certainly no deaths but it is burnt acres thousands of acres of land on the israeli side now israelis are very concerned about this the prime minister is under a lot of pressure of course the palestinians will tell you that this is the only

form of resistance that seems to be working at the moment this is why we have that major escalation on saturday between the two sides so even though there is a cease fire in place the prime minister and the army have made it very clear that when it comes to these cuts and balloons that does not fall under the cease fire and even yesterday the prime minister said that there was an ongoing campaign to end that so what you're seeing now because they close this crossing last week this is the only sort of economic goods crossing into gaza what's been added to it as you were mentioning is fuel is cooking gas and also they've further restricted the fisherman what where they can go used to be six multiple miles now it is only three at the moment the defense minister said that is going to be in place until sunday also egypt interestingly in terms of timing has closed that off for crossing this is the crossing in the to the south that's been open since remedy and they closed that today according to the language on

a technicality but it's interesting so i think yes certainly it seems israel is squeezing stepping up its pressure trying to make stop these kites going on to the borders everyone is sort of waiting to see how things are going full but at the moment certainly still that cease fire is holding a lot stephanie thank you very much for that for now that is stephanie dechen live and westerner sort of thank you saudi arabia is blaming hoofy rebels in yemen for firing a projectile into the kingdom injuring three people. meanwhile what they may be a say at least seven people were killed and by the sound the coalition and the west on how they the province the coalition is helping yemen's government to retake are they the city from the whole thing the u.n. says the fighting has displaced thirty five falzon people since june the weather is next then farmers going hungry the devastating effect effects of land seizures in myanmar plus. right now they can make a living. eleven and vent their anger at a stagnant economy made worse by

a political deadlock. 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 clouds coming out of the east does contain pretty heavy showers and they are drifting this general direction now for the rest of europe will freeze no it'll curl around a sudden france and spain and the islands in the west and mary give you a few big shows which could be sundries well now none of these make his particular difference the temperature temperatures by their easily middle twenty's low thirty's in places it's nice warm mid summer i will say it has been particularly dry so the encroachments this rain will be welcome though it is slow moving ahead has have the potential for

a bit of flooding and of course the first gets into poland and germany and didn't really try to get much further west and that in the next two days it remains dry to the west remains dry right way down towards the north coast of africa that's right the mediterranean be hard pushed to see anything that resembles as you like a shower and there's the the forecast for tuesday's thirty's around the coast really but even on shore breeze thirty seven in cairo back in ribbeck robots who are just below the thirty mark no breeze here is just beautiful sunshine if that's what you want. where were you when this idea popped into it when they're online it's undoubtedly. call. of opinion equality in our society today or if you join the sunset criminal justice system is dysfunctional right now this is a dialogue what does it feel like bring you to go back for the first time everyone

has a voice and allow refugees to be the speakers for change join the global conversation on our. good to have you with us on al-jazeera these are our top stories u.s. president donald trump has arrived home to severe criticism after siding with the russian president vladimir putin on election meddling and speaking after this summit and fenlon trumped cast doubt on his own intelligence agencies findings and to fear israel is planning to ban fuel and through the commercial crossing into the

besieged gaza strip food and medicine will need permission to go through the cut a mother said then crossing israel says the decision isn't response to hostility from hamas. now protests are spreading to more iraq he says he is despite the government announcing plans to fix services and increase employment at least eight people have died and now demonstrators are threatening to disrupt oil production as a solomon job at the ports. they want to clean water and. protesters have continued to grow in southern iraq for a second these people say police stopped them from setting up a protest at the bus or government office as well. we were sitting peacefully and a law. 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 sudden provinces including with an as similar city. at least two people were killed and dozens injured including security personnel watch it and it's about adequate security forces response was excessive it was disproportionate to 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 or merely a warning them about it. 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 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 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. because their. human rights watch is calling on myanmar's government to compensate hundreds of farmers who've had their land illegally confiscated activists believe thousands of square kilometers have been seized by government and military leaders since the one nine hundred ninety s. a new human rights watch reports as many rural families are on the verge of starvation and with no access to basic necessities hundreds of farmers have also been prosecuted for protesting against the seizures are refusing to leave their

homes leader aung san suu cheese party the national league for democracy campaign to end the confiscations bot farmers have seen almost no progress since the n.d.p. one elections in two thousand and fifteen well phil robertson is the deputy asia director for human rights watch and he says farmers lives have been destroyed. the loss of land for farmers means everything to them this is them losing their independence this is them losing their financial security earning enough to survive this is them not being able to send their children to school this is not being able to the hospital this is losing their community they've lost everything and they are being transformed from independent farm land owners to people dependent on daily manual labor at very very low wages really this is a crisis of accountability for me i mark that the local people the farmers who form

such a vast majority of the people of myanmar are being left worse by government actions there needs to be clear laws there needs to be independent committees to investigate land seizures and there has to be processes to hand the land back or to provide compensation to farmers who've lost their land fair compensation not just the smith and it's small amounts that are given clear sort of make the problem go away and this is the thing that has to be a top political priority for the n l d government led by aung san suu kyi. now un chief antone of the tazz palin monetary fund has lent to the left government to using an acceptable lethal force against protesters which must stop immediately at least two hundred seventy people have been killed or sends demonstrations against president you know to think up again in april. the number of deaths is shocking and the use of lethal force on behalf of state related entities is not acceptable.

well earlier mourners marched through nicaragua's capital of monoglot to demand justice for the latest people killed. several people died during a violent seizure at a church on saturday the catholic church has been leading peace talks between the government of the opposition but there's been little progress instead it's become the target of attacks. now the international criminal court is marking a major milestone was set up twenty years ago to bring justice to victims of atrocities like war crimes genocide and crimes against humanity but there are questions about just how successful it's being 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 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 bias 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 multilateral 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 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 to court even though it ethnically cleansed seven hundred thousand 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 allman assigns for the strengthening of international justice jona the hague. video has a measure of the moment a tourist court was hit by flying and. the visitors travel to say plunging into the ocean from the killer whale on but island. well at least twenty three people were injured when the molten rocks rained down

puncturing its roof scientists say explosions happen one day a thousand degree and has saved. now lebanon central bank has suspended its housing saying it simply does not have enough money and that's left people struggling to pay for their homes the economy is flatlining and the failure to form a new government is adding to the problem so you know how the reports from they were. hired as one of the protests organizers there are many reasons why he along with other lebanese have taken to the streets. this is about condemning the state of the economy. the governments who. failures to provide basic services like electricity the rise in school fees the high pollution levels and the recent decision to suspend subsidized loans provided by the government housing. real. spending the housing. were planning to get married thousands of lebanese have now

postponed their weddings because of this people are already struggling and they can't afford an interest rate i'm one of them. the property market is now stagnant apartments are vacant some people made down payments and say they can no longer continue to pay without receiving the loan developers to are able to complete projects because of a shortage in cash. economy because we're talking about an important part of the g.d.p. because. only contractors and. everything. lebanon's economy is far from healthy shops are closing down government revenue can't keep up with spending more than seventy percent goes to paying public sector salaries and debt servicing. international donors have pledged

eleven billion dollars in loans and grants. structure and economic projects but first lebanon's government must implement fiscal reforms and reduce the budget deficit which according to economists is growing times faster than the economy with a implement reforms governments. politicians are still fighting over ministerial portfolios weeks after parliamentary elections we want to government these protesters say but they are demanding new faces. the world bank says ten billion dollars. enough is enough is what they chant but it's not the first time the lebanese have raised their voices and it's not clear if this time they will be.