it's called many were seeking help or century following airstrikes in the area. u.s. president donald trump has a arrived home to criticism after siding with the russian president vladimir putin on accusations of election meddling speaking after the summit in finland trying to cast doubt on his own intelligence agencies which found evidence of interference. at a ceremony is taking place in johannesburg to remember one hundred years since the birth of south africa's and the apartheid icon nelson mandela america's first black president barack obama is there to deliver the lecture marking the occasion. not the international criminal court is celebrating twenty years since the signing of the treaty that led to its creation a ceremony has been taking place at the hague to mark the anniversary of the rome statute established the world's first permanent court for war crimes genocide and crimes against humanity now the i.c.c. has some notable successes but it still faces many obstacles one hundred twenty

three countries are members but china the united states and russia are among the nations that haven't signed up since its founding the i.c.c. has issued a fourteen indictments and secured just four convictions and all of these were for suspects in african countries those found guilty three from the democratic republic of congo and malayan rebel leader some cases of collapsed when states refused to cooperate a referrals from the united nations security council are subject to states that aren't even members of the court or journal has more 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 while 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 and 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 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. the assad government really with putin's backing has deliberately targeted civilians as a way of waging this war china seems to be standing in the way ascending myanmar to 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. now the un chief on turning a tariff says paramilitary fighters linked to nicaragua his government are using an acceptable lethal force against protesters which must stop immediately at least two hundred seventy people have been killed since demonstrations against president daniel ortega began in april but i was sanchez reports from the capital with. family members who are burying twenty year old daughter vasquez on friday he was

one of dozens of students and trenched inside a church for more than fifteen hours as paramilitary 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. on this allowed ambulances to take out the wounded friday night she was not one of them died on saturday morning as the siege at the church continued and they 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 masked 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 that will leave. you 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 me. 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 do you 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 didn't ask is pleaded to fight the president until he leaves office in this small cemetery of the capital they bury their friend the national anthem for will for their fallen hero. just now when we get our the european union and japan have signed a free trade deal little eliminate nearly all tyrants presenting a united front as the trump administration puts up trade barriers is that used biggest deal to date creating a trading zone covering six hundred million people and only a third of the global economy a day after warning the u.s. china and russia are again starting a trade war the european council chief says this agreement sends a very clear message. politically. in the

increasing darkness of international politics we are sending a clear message. that you can count on us we are predictable both japan and the you are responsible and will continue defending. based on rules on freedom transparency and commerce. and this political dimension is. even the more visible and significant today then tomorrow. two months ago and i love slickly sure that you know what i mean. today we have scientists is storable japan you economic partnership agreement and strategic partnership agreement signing of the e.p.a. comes as protectionism sweeps across the world and shows the undeterred determination of japan and the e.u.

to lead the world just flag bearers for free trade. meanwhile the international monetary fund says the recent round of tyrants could end up damaging the entire global economy including that of the united states diane estabrook 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 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. this is not that way 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 diagnostic broke al jazeera washington. south africa one of our top stories that we're covering the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of nelson mandela leaders great past and present speaking the former american president barack obama is talking let's listen to what he has to say with each day's news cycles bringing more head spinning. and disturbing headlines. i thought maybe it would be useful to step back for a moment. and try to get some perspective. so i hope you'll indulge me on. this fight the slight chill. as i

spend. much of this lecture. reflecting on where we've been. how we arrived at this present moment. in the hope that it will offer us a roadmap for where we need to go next. one hundred years ago. i did but was born. in the village. listen. then denied it's right when i'm inside the. bezel. was truly because the so called my live stuff. so it is all about to feed the strides i have each other he's looking after cattle

is playing with the other boys. they actually attend the school where his teacher gave him the english name nelson and as many of you know all he's quoted saying why she had stored this particular. name upon me i had no idea. there was no reason to believe. that a young black boy. at this time in this place. could in any way also history. after all south africa was then less than a decade removed from full british control. already laws were being codified. to implement racial segregation and subjugation. that work of laws that would be known as the parts are. most of africa. including my father's

homeland was under colonial rule. the dominant european powers having. ended the horrific world war just a few months after but it doesn't work. you did this continent hadst people primarily as spoils of a contest for territory. and abundant natural resources and cheap labor. and the inferiority of the black race. an indifference towards black culture and interests and aspirations. was a given. and such a view of the world. that certain races certain nations certain groups. were inherently superior. and that beilenson coercion

is the primary basis for governments. that the strong necessarily exploit the weak. but won't is determined primarily by conquest that view of the world was hardly confined to relations between europe and africa. or relations between whites and blacks. whites were happy to exploit other whites. when they could and by the way blacks were often willing to exploit other blacks and around the globe the majority of people lived at subsistence levels without a say in the politics or economic forces that determine their loss.

often they were subject to the whims and cruelties of this in leaders the average person saw no possibility of advancing from the circumstances of their birth you want to go to zero where barack obama is speaking in johannesburg at the one hundredth anniversary of nelson mandela's birthday reflective keynote speech and lecture marking his impressions of the first black president of south africa. the senior members of northern ireland's republican movement have been trying to calm the community following several days of rioting the violence included an attack on the home of the formation fein leader gerry adams lawlessly has more from belfast. keeping a lid on violence in northern ireland is always virtually impossible but here with the republican leadership calling for calm not between the two traditional sides in

the conflict but inside its own community the points of the rally was an attempt by irish nationalists to prove they can police themselves against a rising tide of anger in fact come along with even the sound of solidarity and testimony to hear about france summer always means trouble but this wasn't fighting between irish republicans and pro british loyalists in the city republicans called derry hardcore element sent children out to throw stones at the police apparently in the hope someone might get shot they're accused of wanting to bring down the peace process by their own side and restart the armed struggle but also explains an attempted attack on the home of gerry adams the four machine fein leader who brokered the peace process a powerful firework more an insult than a genuine attempt on his life irish republicans are prepared to hear leadership but nonetheless at a time of such political uncertainty in the province the last thing they need going to. be facts understand.

that you will fail that we will prevail. that we will overcome and that we will not be to know where you are you know you can't communicate news that magic words you were united and isolated maybe an act in the heat of summer they hope so the backdrop of course all of this is a gigantic power vacuum in northern irish politics with no functioning local government for eighteen months and the british administration still in terrible trouble over breakfast which could still lead to the emergence of a whole border in islands it is assumed that the people who touched gerry adams and set the riots might want to hold border as well as a sign of partition in the still divided islands. in the end this was a display of shielding gerry adams personally from as well as portraying him as

a man both of peace and of the people the picture is aimed squarely at the republican community it has proved over the course of years its ability to move away from violence it seems it is now being goaded not by a traditional enemy the british but a section of its own selling barnsley al-jazeera belfast. his tachyon of places all about france the world cup it is thank you very much for how the french football team and their coach will be awarded the country's highest honor off to bringing home the world cup president emmanuel macro made the announcement as he joined hundreds of thousands of fans who celebrated the wild champions return to paris as this hash a butler reports people en france have been touched by the youth and diversity of the team. the colors of france's flag edged into the sky above paris says she was a advocate for the players it was the coming they had dreamed for the fans a joyful moment they would never forget what's happening it's

a party where united we are twenty years ago and now again we are world champions. we had some difficult years in france with the attacks so this is a moment of pure happiness to some. the team or one of the youngest in the top of it they use this touch people here and so has their diversity. we are happy because it shows you can be from the suburbs and succeed. is what they represent us because they young like us and pays only one year older than us for our citizens in cities like this since nineteen ninety eight when france plus one who woke up back then to tell you the same symbol of multiculturalism for many fans here that sense of unity that the squad is actually really similar to the one from one thousand nine hundred eight because as you said a lot of players are going to from the suburbs whether they're from big cities and or the from the countryside from small villages the players in the show that you

can come from several different backgrounds and still have good times together after the parade the french president welcomed the players to the lease a palace for a garden party attended by hundreds of teenagers from all over france the hope is that this young team can inspire the next generation to. al-jazeera paris. australia's ten k. hers calling time on his career after four world cup a parent says the thirty eight year old is australia's leading international goalscorer with fifty goals and one hundred seven caps senses davey in two thousand and four he came off the bench against peru in the group match he was unable to lift the team into the knockout stages he tweeted this earlier on he said today is the day that i'm officially hanging up my boots on my international career with the socceroos no words can describe what it's meant to represent my country massive thank you to everyone for the support throughout all my years wearing the

australian patch. and the world cup has just ended but africa's top club teams a straight back in the thick of the action in the group stages of that continental champions league on tuesday egyptian giants who actually will host botswana township roloson will be desperate for the when having lost and draw in their opening two games in group i the bottom of the table new coach patrice carter on took his team on a short training camp to croatia as he looks to turn things around important to me to talk a lot with them because those players came back from the world very use mentally physically so we had a really short period for to present so i did use it. like i told you to work in good facilities and good circumstances. and also to have a lot of time for me to spend with an international player to talk it out with them we are going to play our game so we didn't change anything there is no special

teams. for the game. it's only the way we play we are new to this tournament so you had to make i mean stage ten of the tour de france has just got underway but ahead of that the wild best of female cyclists competed in the fifth edition of course the one day race followed a similar group through the alps to choose day stage of the men's tour and that was a thrilling finish the defending champion and me from gluten overset fellow doug tried to anna van de break in in the final fifty meters to take the victory comes just a day after them gluten won the ten day road so in italy. this was a race results and believe over to the years ago i still fourth i got second and then i saw a dying and i really like this. oh i didn't know it and i'm in good shape.

very good but excitedly sure it was a really. tough right but beautiful well the hoff way through the major league baseball season and that means the traditional all saw game will be played on tuesday but before the best players from the american league take on the pick of the nationally the all star higher month abhi takes center stage in a tournament not count for much because take each other on and head to head contest attempting to hit as many high runs as possible within a regulated amount of time being four minutes since the event with taking place at nationals park in washington d.c. it was fitting the bryce harper of the washington nationals would play college of the chicago cubs in the final what it one thousand nine hundred eighty. you know i think just having the crowd out there and you're really thriving out there and. we have some of the best fans in all baseball and you know that my

family out there as well. you know it's an incredible moment not only for me but you know this organization in the national and you know very. arjen time legend diego maradona as a giant of football and his larger than life personality was on show with he took up a new job on monday in fact maradona looked more like he was invading the belorussian city of brest on his way to taking up his new post as chairman of dynamite the team is currently a fix in the ballet russian league the former wild card when it says he needed a challenge. i am not afraid of the challenge i'm not afraid of the serious projects and these people seem very serious to me today we were wondering what if i close my career in breast and maybe after that i stay to live this is what i dreamed and i still need to know a lot of things. thanks very much that's how to see later. now workers from the

online retail giant amazon are going on strike during the company's biggest sales event activists say two thousand employees walked off their jobs in spain as amazon kicked off its prime day event thousands more in germany plan to follow suit the workers are demanding a company share its wealth by improving salaries and benefits that was the al-jazeera news are back with another full half hour on the other side of the break until then thanks for your time but accompli. i am. it's. just.

a way when this idea. that when they're on line it's undoubtedly chief. of opinion equality in our society today or if you join a sunset criminal justice system is dysfunctional right now this is a dialogue what does it feel like to go back for the first time everyone has a voice and allow refugees to. change join the conversation on our own and monday put it on. us and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of the west africa but what to do with these resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of the days looking forward to full drive this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly

unable to escape the lure. leap. a remarkable portrait of a remote choppin used in the in the aftermath of the two thousand and eleven earthquake and tsunami. seven years later how has the community of meow cole been able to move on and rebuild their lives. to mouth of a catastrophe. syrian refugees are told to turn around and go back out to approach ing israeli occupied territory.

on so robin you're watching al-jazeera life my headquarters here in doha also coming up donald trump flies home into a storm of criticism after defending russia against allegations of election meddling. also trying to previous as a broker obama was making his highest profile speech since leaving office marking a century since the birth of the anti apartheid leader nelson mandela. i also nicaragua his latest victims are buried as the government faces more pressure to end its crackdown. what damages there are more than one hundred syrians have approached the israeli border fence that separates that country from the occupied golan heights now they appeared to be asking for help or sanctuary from a russian backed syrian army offensive which is recaptured much of the southwest of the rep of the rebels area speaking through

a megaphone an israeli soldier warned them go back we don't want to hurt chief the crowd of women and children among them heeded that warning returning slowly to their internal displacement camp not too far away some wave white cloths in the direction of the soldiers stephanie decker has more now from west to slip. that group of one hundred or so syrian in turn the displaced getting closer to that fence israel's fence with the occupied golan heights the israeli army is calling over loudspeakers for them to move back because certainly the situation for people inside syria has been desperate the borders remain closed israel's borders and jordan's borders remain closed there is an active campaign going on by the syrian army backed by russia to take those areas back from the rebels that the u.n. estimates around one hundred sixty thousand people have been displaced because of that fighting and they have nowhere to go there's another concern that people have

been living under rebel control for years is repercussion the measures by the syrian government there activists in these areas there are journalists their families are simply afraid of what will happen to them one government forces take over the villages where they've been living and this is something that's been happening on a daily basis so it just highlights the desperation of the people inside syria they are now getting close to the fence with israel israel has made it very clear they will not be allowing any syrian internally displaced into israel it will however provide humanitarian aid which it has been doing but it is the first time in awhile that we're seeing people getting this close to the facts. the golan heights has been a flashpoint for decades israel captured it from syria in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven and has occupied it ever since another move has never been recognized by the un the golan heights gives israel a military advantage and is a key source of water israel has built more than thirty settlements in the territory meanwhile israel's tightening its siege on almost two million people

living in gaza by further restrict the flow of goods into the territory it's planning to ban all fuel imports through the ball slalom crossing while food and medicine will need permission to go through car was stolen is the sole commercial crossing into gaza now it's vital for the flow of fuel necessary for people to or who only actually get six hours of electricity a day u.s. president donald trump has arrived home to severe criticism from both sides of american politics of the siding with russian president vladimir putin on election meddling speaking after the summit in finland trump even challenge the findings of his own intelligence community from helsinki here's our diplomatic editor james bass we face to face ahead of us 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 forces or he said they could set up a joint us russian investigation team with one condition north of the witness which

we will this kind of effort 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 who 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.