corruption is definitely a huge problem in iraq is ranked as one of the top ten countries worldwide according to transparency international dealing with the construction corruption issue but i think it also goes deeper than just corruption you have isis who the world is kind of turned its attention away they're still launching attacks across iraq and they've actually gained strength in recent months and then in addition to that you have a really just difficult economic situation general very little private sector growth and there's just a limited in terms of how much the government can and themselves provide jobs we have the moment have a kind of government. still waiting for the election do you think there is a real risk that this unrest could spiral if there isn't some way of putting a handle putting a lid on it well you're right it's a very dangerous situation so on june thirtieth was when the parliament and the prime ministers were supposed to change in their terms expired and now we still have the same problem and prime minister

a body is still in control so i think it's really important there were these election irregularities and they're doing recounts in various areas they have to finish that it's quickly as possible the u.n. released a statement today and they called for that but it isn't even if they change leadership and solder is likely to appoint a new prime minister they really have to deal with these economic woes and less of just changing power because people see the government is continuously especially in basra taking so much of their wealth and providing very little return very grateful for your thoughts on this and thanks very much for joining us and. thank you. you're watching the al-jazeera news hour long from london still to come on the program. the big drought no refugees ready. to go back as they approach the occupied golan heights. to mark one hundred years since the birth of nelson mandela but the challenges facing his country as

acute. coming up we'll hear from angelica adjust to life as a wimbledon champion. u.k. based investigative agency has obtained documents revealing an expensive being efforts by the u.s. and britain and the u.s. this spring reporting from one. group to influence the b.b.c.'s coverage of the arab spring paul brennan has more. the two thousand and eleven arab spring saw a wave of democratic grassroots protests which toppled longtime leaders and offered the hope of a new vision for the middle east the response by some of the kingdoms and emirates of the region was just as dramatic a report by the spin watch group says that in the u.k.

the united arab emirates mobilised a narrative against the muslim brotherhood in britain in the highest echelons of government it says the abu dhabi crown prince and the then prime minister david cameron had several undeclared meetings and it says through a combination of persuasion and threats the u.a.e. campaign produced results one threat which is made by the david cameron was if you don't institute an inquiry into the muslim brotherhood we will cancel the typhoon fighter jet deal from bush's place of will stop british petroleum oil concession in the law that was successful really extraordinary effort by the each actually cajole and bully the british government into pursuing its foreign policy the success or failure of the other u.a.e. lobbying is less clear spin watch says that the u.a.e. put pressure on the b.b.c. over its coverage of the arab spring but the b.b.c. in a statement has flatly denied that it caved in to any political pressure it's been watch also quotes

a source suggesting that iraqi donations to the think tank chatham house may have affected that institute's research but chatham house has vigorously denied that it could be affected in that way but the u.a.e. foreign minister is known to have had close contacts with selected u.k. journalists meetings which led the u.a.e. p.r. firm quilla to claim that views changed and the report highlights the ways the two thousand and seventeen blockade against katsa saw the intensification of the us p.r. campaign including bitter criticism of catalyst twenty twenty two world cup the lobbying rules woefully inadequate it seems to me and explain what the greater safeguards. to you know prevent the sort of influence which seems to have been exerted on the on the british government in the way in which is has been and of course you know some of the only time the consequences have been the growth of islamophobia in this country and we're seeing the expression of that on the streets of britain the report notes that now theresa may is u.k. prime minister abu dhabi's clout has diminished significantly but there seems

little to prevent a possible slide backwards the central issue in all of this is one of transparency when does the jetsam at lobbying become undue influence and to quote the report itself promising billions in return for improvements infiltrating the british media buying politicians loyalty donating to think tanks and trying to influence media coverage some would see as a step too far paul brennan al-jazeera central london. as the co-author of this reporter says look a journalists were targeted. we've been told that consultants which was employed as the company in london run out research on b.b.c. journalists that the u.a.e. felt were too pro muslim brotherhood. views that whose views they objected to.

we know that the u.a.e. personally dobby the government about the b.b.c. coverage and that i was pushed back by the british government saying well we can't control the media is just you know this is this is this is britain this is what happens we know there are a lot of unpublicized private last minute. meetings between mamak inside the crown prince of abu dhabi and david cameron they developed a very personal i mean they developed a personal friendship. these two text each other and they clearly got on well and that was a key. that was a key rootin for the u.a.e. to spread its message to the british government israel is tightening its journalists two million people living in gaza i further west strict thing the flow of goods into the territory and spanning all flow imports to the qur'an i was salim crossing the fishing boats from gaza has also been half to three nautical miles charles traffic reports. trunks gather at the column border post it's the only

official crossing for goods and fuel into gaza from israel but the israeli government has now closed it it says it will let food and medicine in on a case by case basis but is not a fuel essential for power in gaza's basic services many of the almost two million people here only get electricity for four to six hours a day. for the most serious then you know this fuel blockade doesn't last because it will cause hundreds of problems and life will stop sewage and rubbish will pile up and other projects will come to an end people will not be able to go to work the ministry of health will not be able to treat patients and official in gaza city will say tells us that gaza needs around seven hundred thousand liters of gasoline and diesel every day just to meet its basic needs now with these new restrictions by israel that fuel simply isn't coming in anymore of course gaza is have already

suffered twelve years of israel's land and sea blockade in these latest restrictions come after the worst escalation of violence between hamas and israel since the two thousand and fourteen war. israel says it launched dozens of air strikes at hamas targets in the gaza strip in response to palestinian protesters kites or balloons carrying molotov cocktails across its gaza fence hamas responded by launching around two hundred rockets mortars and incendiary devices and egyptian brokered cease fire was announced on saturday night israel says fires caused by the coyotes have destroyed more than ten thousand hectares of crops and private land in recent weeks has also put further restrictions on gaza's fishing industry reducing the area fishermen can work in from six to within three nautical miles is just amazing to at least fifty thousand families are in some way involved in fishing in

gaza. it's real has been decreasing our fishing area for years they have killed and injured fishermen and confiscated forty five boats they are trying to get us out of the sea and put the economic pressure in gaza. between hamas and the israeli military is holding but hamas says it cannot stop every palestinian from protesting using the crates and balloons israel says it will continue to target them until they stop. that al-jazeera gaza israeli soldiers have repelled thousands of displaced syrians who approached the border fence that separates syria from the israeli occupying golan heights. the displaced syrians were seeking sanctuary from an offensive by the syrian government forces on russian jets in kind that's the crowds which included women and children return to their refugee camps in israel and jordan which border the

area where the syrians are fleeing has refused to grant asylum to the syrian citizens but have offered some aid and medical help stephanie dhaka has more from the israeli occupied golan heights. we're just further down the road from where we saw all those few hundred people approach the fence we're in the israel keep i go to new heights the fence behind us right behind there is syria now it's been a very active frontline while we've been here oh we can see the smoke in the distance we can hear the explosions the syrian army backed by russia is making very fast headway against the rebels the u.n. estimates around one hundred sixty thousand people have been displaced because of the fighting and this is why you see the people that we saw today move towards the fences the closest that they have come to the israeli fence the soldiers through loudspeakers in arabic telling them to move back to the people holding trying to portray what is a white flag using white t. shirts white material to try and indicate that they come in peace certainly no

indication of how desperate the situation is for them they're living in makeshift camps there is no aid handouts where they are yes the israeli army has helped somewhat but the borders remain firmly closed it is a war zone and then on the other hand you have the concern that people have having lived under the rebels for around four years now that the syrian army is taking over their villages and people are afraid of some kind of rich evasion by the troops so this is all ongoing a desperate situation for the people here i think that shows you because the narrative certainly inside syria is that israel was never really a friendly ally i think we can put it that way for them to come that close to the fence and to also for help really gives you an indication of how desperate the situation has become. there you are in this human rights office is calling for an arab league for force against demonstrators. and says the police and security forces have tortured and killed protesters and imprisoned people without due process and that's to mates of three hundred almost mostly anti-government

demonstrators i will kill since protests began there and sanchez reports. i family members are burying twenty year old rascasse on friday he was one of dozens of students in twinged inside a church for more than fifteen hours spare a military forces shot at them i am 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. police allowed ambulances to take out the wounded friday night he was not one of them died on saturday morning as the siege at the church continued to come across the most 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 and world peace 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 but when. you go to deal 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 where you're like well i feel i can say categorically that the

government has obstructed dialogue the talks are going nowhere the government doesn't want to negotiate they would rather the talks broke down completely. political opponents say president and his wife vice president do you want to hold onto power indefinitely but the president's allies say or they just term in office ends in two thousand and twenty one and they will stay. friends of general baskets pleaded to fight the president until he leaves office in this small cemetery of the capital they buried their friend singing the national anthem for will for their fallen hero. you know scientists are just now when we get our. stay with us on the news hour still to come. on the streets of beirut lebanon struggles economically and political. open for business

a new free trade deal between japan and the. account for a third of global g.d.p. pain and culture same goals dream of becoming a professional footballer out account. details coming up and spoke with the town. however throughout eastern europe has been it just a poll of clouds it's produced many thunderstorms so much have been useful most of which just decorative and the arc which is remaining is pretty obvious nowadays north of austria running up through poland it sits over an area fairly woman middle twenty's but where it's gotten this return to thirty one for example in bucharest is typically thirty's around the south and to the west is one we have again in france it's still pretty hot in spain and it's increasingly warm offer dismal start

to the summer really for portugal now given what's going on the sun still shines on the western side to europe but that mass of green is still the remains of that cloud it's warm enough to be sundry in warsaw twenty nine degrees and we wind we still got twenty seven in stockholm in fact as a heat warning out for all of finland the last two days were two parts of sweden as well nothing much changes the next forty eight hours this is the air if attentional thunderstorms some which will be useful i do mean use focus as a drought for example in the lot for you and belgium but most probably won't be on the sun prevails mostly to the west although a hint to sharon's developing the baby ski suggests something rather more sundry potentially in western france and in northern spain. the promise of peace in the middle east not. enough

but a new dilemma after the death of the man at the center of the palestinian struggle . now more than forty years after to stablish mind how far has the p.l.o. come to achieve its hopes and dreams concluding the turbulent story of the struggle for a palestinian home. history of a revolution on al-jazeera. we here to jerusalem butyl covered israeli palestinian affairs we covered this story with a lot of intimate knowledge we covered it with that we don't dip in and out of this story we have presence here all the time apart from being a cameraman it's also very important to be a journalist to know the story very well before going into the fields covering the united nations and global diplomacy for al-jazeera english is pretty incredible this is where talks happen and what happens there matters.

welcome back her mind all the top stories here on jazeera u.s. president donald trump is forced into an embarrassing after a media storm following his seeming defense of russia over claims of meddling in the u.s. elections in a speech to the nation iraq's prime minister hi there other promise to address the concerns of protesters in the south of the country angry over public services lack of employment and a new investigation has revealed documents detailing an expensive lobbying efforts by the u.a.e. in britain and the united states. the humanitarian situation in yemen sports city have had data instead terror writing a soundalike coalition is attempting to take this to change it to read support for

her same levels caught in the middle of thousands of civilians many of whom have been forced to flee their homes. reports as the humanitarian situation worsens for people in yemen so does the displacement crisis at this makeshift camp between the southern port city of other and the has the misery is apparent most of these people fled the violence in her day the province and as bad as the conditions are here things back home are even worse. they're not much else when raining down on us god only knows how we manage to survive. the united nations says tens of thousands of families have been displaced from what they did as a result of the fierce fighting there while the saudi u.a.e. coalition attempts to take control of the area from who the rebels analysts say little progress has thus far been made in this military campaign here the young trying to play even as the old are constantly confronted with how dire things remain and no matter how terrible the sanitary conditions parents will do what they

can to make meals for their children and to provide them with comfort knowing in advance if they are pollyanna we try to take shelter in one of the tents but we were denied we were told that there were no more tense available now what are we supposed to do especially since for young children we have no shelter we call in the government to consider our situation not leave our homes out of luxury we are forced out. but most of the displaced people now residing here don't believe those calls will be answered any time soon. lebanon central bank has suspended loans for subsidized housing saying it simply does not have enough money it's left people struggling to pay for the economy struggling the failure to form a new government is the problem zain a hollow reports from beirut. abba hired is one of the protest 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. the government's repeated 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 governments housing. real. spending the housing has got. 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 too are on able to complete projects because of a shortage in cash to use their drive the economy because we're talking about an important chunk of the g.d.p.

because we're not talking only about contractors and developer but we're talking about horse. goes 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 to lebanon for infrastructure and economic projects but first lebanon's government must employment fiscal reforms and reduce the budget deficit which according to economists is growing five times faster than the economy but they implement reforms there need to be a government. i mean this is politicians are still fighting over ministerial portfolios weeks after party elections we want a government these protestors say but they are demanding new faces.

right now they can make a living. the world bank says lebanon loses ten billion dollars a year to corruption. is 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 heard to. be the. former u.s. president barack obama has paid tribute to nelson mandela's vision for the say on social inclusion during especially event marking one hundred years since the anti-apartheid. barack obama spoke of the universe. message to people around the world to respect human rights as his most high profile speech since leaving office through a sacrifice wavering a leadership. and perhaps most of all through his moral example.

mandela. the movement he led would come to signify something larger. that came to embody the universal aspirations of this possessed people all around the world the hopes for a better life. the possibility of a moral transformation in the conduct of human affairs. wednesday ceremony paid. many believe hill south africa when nelson mandela became president in one thousand nine hundred four. of the rainbow nation but that's how much also reports many challenges still remain in a post mandela south africa. nasser attended the truth and reconciliation commission hearings in south africa shortly after apartheid ended she wanted to find out why government soldiers shot her brother at a train station in one thousand nine hundred three she was never really told the

truth about why he died and says she can't forgive and forget she's now part of a group where people like her me to try and find a way to heal anyone and you know there were three bodies that lay on the side of the tracks they had been shot a week later we were told his remains were at a mortuary i had to go see the body bags looking for him. nelson mandela so that for his first black democratically elected leader made reconciliation a priority of his presidency one of his biggest achievements was his role in sitting up a truth and reconciliation commission it investigated crimes committed during apartheid on both sides to try and unify a racially divided nation political analysts say it worked to a certain extent at that time there was uncertainty by the country's future and whether the different races could live together but more than twenty years later south africa still struggles with the race and other challenges factions in the ruling african national congress threaten to defy the continent's oldest liberation

movement millions of black south africans continue to live in shanty towns with little access to running water electricity or quality healthcare now also mandela's legacy of father and and reconciliation has been threatened or will be years by social conflict in south africa this country has one of the highest rates of inequality in the world the poor black majority said they want jobs and land some sort africans feel the promises of a better life for all made in one thousand nine hundred four haven't materialized in many countries. and are going to see employment in their lives it's a question that needs to be repeatedly some young people born after apartheid are starting to ask questions about whether mandela spent too much time focusing on reconciliation instead of improving conditions for the poor. no my russia and others in her group say that my mandate is willingness to forgive people even those who refuse to apologize for the crimes they committed during apartheid she says

she's still trying to find that straight and hopes today's leaders work harder to build a more racially and economically inclusive south africa the kind of country some say mandela would have wanted to see. out as their. japan and me have a great show and free trade deal that will create the world's largest open economic area accounting for a third of global pain the want ranging agreement as a rejection of u.s. president our chance move to impose tariffs on imports which has raised fears of a trade war and japanese leaders say video sends a message that cooperation and fair trade almost voluble protectionism. but the impact of today's agreement goes beyond our shores. we are making this in with the statement about the future the fear and three. that we are stronger and of when we work together. and exactly three weeks time the

first wave of u.s. sanctions against iran will come into effect iran's economy is expected to be how the government is desperately trying to secure support from other nations as a misra it has the latest from the capital tehran iran news conference of iran's atomic energy agency more defiant rhetoric from a government that knows it's running out of time in a battery of weeks more crippling u.s. sanctions will hit the already struggling iranian economy of course to some measure . the. eventual. eventually increasing the number though. if it is. iran has consistently threatened to restart production of nuclear material that is considered weapons grade and despite its best intentions leaders here believe

europe will be unable to meet obligations under the twenty fifty nuclear deal for now iran is still abiding by that agreement but restarting nuclear activities may be inevitable two thousand and eighteen has already been a difficult year for iran's economy and august sanctions won't be the end of it more sanctions take effect in the vendor this time targeting the country's biggest source of revenue the oil and gas and earlier this month iran's president was in switzerland and austria to secure trade ties a senior advisor to the supreme leader was in russia to discuss investing in iran's oil industry and iranian on boys were in india and pakistan this week to reaffirm cooperation in iran also hopes china will continue to be one of its biggest oil buyers even in the face of american threats iranian leaders are even taking america to court on monday foreign minister zarif announced that iran has filed an official complaint with the un's international court of justice to quote hold us accountable

for its unlawful re imposition of unilateral sanctions. as the us president met his russian counterpart in helsinki this week he was also recognized at an awards ceremony and to her on donald trump is the winner of this year's wet gunpowder award an iranian accolade recognizing the most hated international person of the year trump has now won two years in a row. oh you turn on show mo mr trump we know you are someone who pretends to be a human but you have no human features at all we know you as someone who breaks probably says i'm sorry for the people of america for having such a president he says one thing and the next hour he says something else iran's money has lost half its value in less than a year trying to do damage control iran's government has been cornered at every turn this may seem like a lot of pomp and circumstance to call the american president names but as the deadline for more sanctions gets closer it seems all iranians have left to do is

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