bushell 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 all thoughts is all he said they could set up a joint us russian investigation team and with one condition know. this kind of effort should be a mutual one and then we would expect that the americans would reciprocate and they've they would question fishbowls including the officers of law enforcement

and intelligence services of the united states whom we believe who have something to do with illegal actions on the territory of russia. trump called that an incredible offer he was then asked a straight question every u.s. intelligence agency has concluded that russia did what hu my first question for you sir is who do you believe remarkably he said 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 though you're going to sublimate yes i do 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 by al-jazeera helsinki still ahead to own the bulletin documents already in the u.a.e. is attempts to tighten his grip on the debate at home and abroad.

hello there we've had some very violent rains over beijing recently we look at the satellite picture we can see why we've had this area of cloud making its way across us and you can see from the way it's really developed over the past few hours that it has given us some heavy rains and some strong winds as well so these pictures there from beijing then in the surrounding area showing how violent those storms have been and the result lots of water there clogging many streets so more wet weather still to come in beijing as we head through the day on thursday and again some of those are likely to be very heavy the rains are to the west of us really as we head through thursday but one or two of them during the day will drift their way towards us so there's still the risk of seeing a few downpours at times towards the east is fine unsettled force across the korean peninsula but hot now seoul up a thirty five degrees and also pretty warm in tokyo up at thirty four as we head further south we have

a few storms here that are developing the first one is working its way towards the west and it's here as we head through. day on wednesday more or less slap bang over high now and that will then work its way towards the west for the still and into the northern parts of viet nam so here we've already got heavy rain at the moment so more wet weather on top is likely to give us quite a few problems with flooding thursday is looking like a wet day. i had a briefing today from a man who has been out there working with the security forces a veteran of el salvador. sent to iraq you seem to be without portfolio doing whatever it is that he wanted to take interest in next about in counterinsurgency. this interview was going on with jim steele there were these terrible screams about pain and terror but what was his mission and what legacy did he leave searching for stealing his iraq.

have you with us on al-jazeera these are our top stories a group of displaced syrians have approached the border fence between syria and the israeli occupied golan heights waving white flags israeli soldiers called to move back from the fence prompting some to move to a nearby refugee camp it's thought many were attempting to seek help or sanctuary following strikes in the area israel is planning to ban fuel imports are the only commercial crossing into the gaza strip the food and medicine will need permission to go through the obvious of them crossing israel says the decision as a response to hostility from hamas and us president has arrived to severe criticism

siding with russian president vladimir putin on accusations of election meddling speaking after their followers and fenlon of his own intelligence agencies which found evidence of. the international criminal court as marking a major milestone that was set up twenty years ago to bring justice to victims of atrocities like was genocide and crimes against humanity. there are questions that just how successful that's been trying to hold 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 so many victims and i think it set out also to do many things at the same time while apparently you cannot do that they only had twenty 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 super powers aren't even members and in which vetoes at the u.n. security council are a barrier to justice in some of the world's most blighted places. the i.c.c. was founded as a permanent court from which no leader rebel group or army could hide now if permanence is not in question but there are significant gaps in global commitment to the. russia is blocking efforts to send syria to the international criminal court even though the assad government really with putin's backing has deliberately targeted civilians as a way of waging this war china seems to be standing in the way ascending neon mark . even though it ethnically cleansed seven hundred thousand wrote him to muslims in the course of a month you know the united states is continuing to try to protect israel to protect saudi arabia so there is

a very unprincipled approach to international justice all of that puts alleged war crimes in syria and gaza beyond its reach but the i.c.c. is tackling 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 the hague. value k. based investigative agency has obtained documents revealing an expensive lobbying effort by the u.a.e. in britain and the us the spin watch report includes e-mails from an m rotty lobbying group to influence the b.b.c.'s coverage of the arab spring some journalists and managers were targeted for a second the report says as proof of secret meetings between crown prince mohammed bin saif and former british prime minister david cameron side the pouty threatened

to pull billions in deals of the u.k. fail to designate the muslim brotherhood a terrorist organization and writing minister of state for foreign affairs on water that it is accused of pushing journalists to create a pro u.a.e. anti muslim brotherhood and iran and cut their media narrative and it's alleged the u.a.e. is lobbying company offered twenty six thousand dollars a month to king's college london to focus research linking katha with terrorism let's. more on this now are joined by correspondent paul brennan who is live outside parliament in london as a very long and very damning report paul has there been any reaction to it from the various individuals or organizations it mentions. not yet although we have reached out to various organizations and individuals who have been named in this report hold up the report a copy of the report here for you to see the cover and the title the u.a.e. lobby subverting british democracy question mark is the is the title or isn't that

is the thrust of what the spin watch organization which compiled it are saying essentially what they're saying is that lobbying happens in many different democracies but to make it proper and to stop it being insidious it has to be transparent you have to know who has the ear of whom what is being said what kind of gifts and exchanges are being made for information and for favre and the details that are contained in this report suggests strongly that the u.a.e. in its dealings with particularly the cameron government between twenty ten and twenty sixteen was not an entirely open in the way it went about its business that decisions that were made came about as a result of lobbying that was done in less than transparent ways and i spoke a little earlier to david miller who's the founder of spin watch and he said that

the pressure that was put upon the british government went all the way to multi-billion pound leverage. the threat was that if you do an inquiry into the muslim brotherhood which had no basis in security russia then we will. unify to typhoon deal three billion pounds with a fresh air space or we will stop b.p. from having it all concession which they've had. more or less in the since the one nine hundred thirty s. so there's that real economic muscle behind some of these threats and the. particular case was successful and the government didn't brotherhoods acquire it which in the end was a bit weird because in the end the muslim brotherhood isn't a terrorist organization big surprise. now it seems that the motivation for the u.a.e. a appears to be the fear of political islam the fear of the rise of political islam but in the closing remarks of this report spin watch says the following lobbying is a legal activity an important elements of democracy but there have to be limits and

promising billions in return for influence infiltrating the british media and threatening to interfere in british parliament some would see as a step too far paul thank you very much for that for now that is paul brennan live in london thank you. and staying in the u.k. the official u.k. group that campaigned for breaks that in two thousand and sixteen has been fined eighty thousand dollars for breaking spending rules electorate officials say vote leaves worked with another campaign group without declaring it but the organization says there's no evidence it did anything wrong and describes the allegations as politically motivated. the european union and japan have signed a free trade deal that will eliminate nearly all tariffs presenting a united front as the trumpet ministration puts up trade barriers as the biggest deal to date creating a trading zone covering six hundred million people and nearly one third of the global economy the day after warning the u.s.

china and russia again starting a trade war the european council chief says this agreement sends a clear message. we are putting the largest bailout the world trade. this is a locked off. for the rules based international law. at a time when they are questioning this old. reoffending a clear message that we stand together against protection. you and chafey antone a terrorist says paramilitary fighters length to nicaraguan government or use an unacceptable lethal force against protesters which must stop immediately at least two hundred seventy people have been killed since demonstrations against president daniel are think up again and april marianna sanchez reports from the capital and. family members are burying twenty year old didn't ask us on friday he was one of

dozens of students and trenched inside the church for more than fifteen hours spare a military forces shot at them. his family says he was hit by a bullet from an a k forty seven according to other students agonized for more than an hour. lisa loud ambulances to take out the wounded friday night she was not one of them died on saturday morning as the siege at the church to. something meant to come across them we feel helpless seeing our brothers getting killed and we can't do anything because we don't have weapons to defend ourselves and we don't really want them because nicaragua is no place for civil war. the government says students and other political opponents are terrorists and coup plotters and are responsible for the deaths of policemen during the crisis influence on this mast men who are supporting the government say they will attack anyone who builds a barricade rights groups accuse them of going around the country terrorizing the

population. they say paramilitary and government supporters have attacked members of the national dialogue group sabotaging the resolution to the crisis. with this policy the government is not contributing to a peaceful resolution it's creating obstacles yours them to open child for real dialogue. nearly three months of protests around the country have left more than three hundred people dead and many say the crisis is far from over many analysts say the government doesn't really want to negotiate they say it will continue to respond to protests with the use of force as they did here at the church where the students took cover. i can assure you the government is obstructing dialogue and the way to destroy it is by pushing aside the bishop says mediation is to name some clowns unconditional to them. political opponents say president

and his wife vice president. want to hold onto power indefinitely but the president's allies say biggest term in office ends in two thousand and twenty one and they will stay. friends of general baskets pleaded to fight the precede intent to he leaves office in this small cemetery of the capital but they bury their friend singing the national anthem for a will for their fallen hero. and now when we get our. now video has emerged of the moment a tourist boat was hit by flying lava in hawaii the visitors traveled plunging into the ocean from the killer way a volcano on begala and. at least twenty three people were injured when the molten rocks rained puncturing the

both side to say explosions happen when the thousand degree valve or enters cold seawater. i don't get all the there's a problem with the headlines on al-jazeera a group of displaced syrians have approached the border fence between syria and the israeli occupied golan heights waving white flags israeli soldiers have called the group to move back from the fence prompting some to move to a nearby refugee camp it is thought many were attempting to seek help all sanctuary following strikes and the area. in other news israel is planning to ban fuel imports through the only commercial crossing into the gaza strip food and medicine will need permission to go through the most of them crossing israel says the decision is in response to hostility from hamas. u.s.

president donald trump has arrived home to severe criticism after siding with the russian president vladimir putin on accusations of election meddling speaking after this summit and fed cast doubt on his own intelligence agencies which found evidence of interference. the european union and japan have signed a free trade deal that will eliminate nearly all tariffs presenting a united front as the trump of ministration puts up trade barriers it is the use of biggest deal today to creating a trading zone covering six hundred million people and nearly a third of the global economy when the day after warning the u.s. china and russia against starting a trade war that you.