to block roads and security forces try to stop the demonstrators lit fires on many streets in oil rich president the prime minister's offer for more jobs and cash for development have failed to convince them why even. we have been listening to the calls and demands of all iraqi citizen and also their grievances we also providing sufficient budget to cover all basics electricity water and job opportunities such . as day broke iraqi security forces had to fire in the air to disperse hundreds of protesters at this oil field and for days southern iraq has been seething with high temperatures and public anger a number of demonstrators have been arrested some protests turned violent but the demonstrators at oil fields at the main port in bastrop and in other southern provinces have largely remained peaceful. this protest was invested province with people chanting the same demands for jobs and better public services. we demand

that they fix the institutions and i'll admit corruption and we demand also that they complete the i'm finished projects there's been widespread criticism of internet blackout and the use of force iraq's interior ministry says more than two hundred people have been injured and dozens of security personnel have been treated in hospital. we are adamant to protect the ongoing demonstrations against any malice by infiltrators who attempt to undermine the safety and well being of protesters and state institutions those infiltrators who undermine the safety of our citizens and the people's resources will be dealt with firmly and with zero tolerance. one of the biggest issues people face is the perpetual lack of electricity which becomes worse during the summer. private generators meet the demand with spaghetti of electric cables on every street. but two weeks iran has cut off one thousand megawatts because iraq hasn't paid its bills and iraqi delegation failed to convince iran to resume supplies and.

iran supplies six thousand five hundred megawatts which is hoth of iraq's nationwide electricity production that's why when iran pulls out from providing electricity it means a collapse of iraq's power grid i believe that a visit by the iraqi side to saudi arabia is very important because the saudis have expressed their readiness to supply iraq not only with electricity but also in other areas like hell's in and transport a new government as soon supposed to take charge in iraq and its future success will depend on whether it can provide jobs and basic services solomin job there. plenty more ahead on the news hour including a traditional state of emergency is declared in peru as a corruption scandal spreads as the international criminal court marks its twentieth anniversary we speak to its chief prosecutor luis moreno ocampo. and in sports tiger woods gears up for his first open championship in three years hear from the fourteen time major winner later in the program.

u.k. based investigative agency has obtained documents revealing an expensive lobbying effort by the u.a.e. in britain and the u.s. the spin watch report includes e-mails from an m a rocky lobbying group to influence the b.b.c.'s coverage of the arab spring paul brennan has more on. the two thousand and eleven arab spring summer 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 was made by the uni to 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 i will stop british petroleum getting an oil concession in the law that was successful i mean 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. and 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 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. piaf quilla to claim that views changed and the report highlights the ways the two thousand and seventeen blockade against cats are sore the intensification of the us p.r. campaign including bitter criticism of catalyst twenty twenty two world cup the lobbying rules are woefully inadequate it seems to me and explain what the greater safeguards to 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 legitimate lobbying become undue influence and to quote the report itself

promising billions in return for influence 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. i don't doubt a mesh is a national security and foreign policy analyst and he's joining us now on skype from san francisco in california thank you very much for being with us on all jazeera give us some context. here sir if you would how much should be species surprised by this countries all over the world inveighs invest in other countries qatar does it does it the u.s. and u.k. japan does it what's different with this one. so let's start by saying that in recent years because of the political climate here in the u.s. and also in europe they were lobbying has turned into a dirty word as a matter of fact lobbying is

a way to combine political influence early will meet if you look at many countries where rule of law is weak to buy influence on either used to use the power of the purse bribing illegal bribery or the power of the sort through a whole host of illegal activities and countries where the rule of law or the rule of law is present you would want to have a system through which individuals interest groups corporations ideological groups or a whole host of entities that those nations and so on and so forth can pursue their agenda further their interests and also be under you know under the guidance of the law and that's why you have lobbying and that's why you have supervised lobbying a lot of lobbyist have to register and so on and so forth problems arise when you have a lot of gray areas where there's too much money involved and control of those and then to the money not exactly clear be transparency sort of loses

its way to dealing more interest and influence and see where you have a foreign country or governments trying to advance their agenda on or in soil creating a whole set of tensions what's happening here is you have a small country not an m. or arab emirates they while the are of the gulf cooperation council yet her sewing and agenda where a is alienated alienating some of its own arab brethren the it is leading to some sort of unforeseen consequences or blowback for instance some of the lobbying sort of activity of the united arab emirates and led to rise of islamophobia in that country which to some extent was not exactly. outcome but there's a whole host of reasons and there is some sort of historical reasons for that but again lobbying has turned into a dirty word and be a lot of new players and this role saudi arabia united ever even current or for

that matter have tried to use their money and wealth too fast too quick and perhaps the jump the gun lobby and is always most effective when the client is also asian. how much does the responsibility for whether or not lobbying for influence or buying influence is effective live with the person to whom it's being offered rather than the organization which is making the offer. you know again as long as lobbying is done within the confines of the law there's no problem with what the chatham house one of the most reputable thanks things in the world not just the u.k. or any law firm or any lobbying firm for that matter again as long as everything is done transparently and within the confines of the law and i don't see really any ethical or any moral or legal objections now i think what you need what you may see here in the case of friends. and their lobbying efforts both in the u.k.

and here in the u.s. is that many critics would say that u.a.e. was jumping in bad you know with. the muslim world or the enemies of the arab world some people would say that in recent years the saudi arabian lobby in the u.s. has been focused solely to sort of isolate iran achieve that end. goal they have you know becomes you know strange bedfellows with israel for that matter or very sort of hard core elements of certain political parties in the united states so the element that sort of comes up is not necessarily the illegality of it because it's not for the most part as far as i can see the unforeseen political consequences of these lobbying efforts where a lot of people around the world or people in the home countries of these countries are going to u.s. or saudi arabia are not exactly where the house is political know how this money

being spent on political ends is this money exactly out there to achieve. this isn't there also an argument that in the end users of the information that is being influenced needs to be more skeptical about the sources of info of information that they're getting that if for example as you were talking about transparency earlier on if there is a suspicion that an organization or a particular group is providing information but is funded by a specific set of different organizations or other countries and it's down to the individual who's taking that information to go off and find other sources isn't it really but have we lost that ability to be skeptical in that sense. it is and you know we are on our expectations times are way too high you know you can't when various organizations institutions countries you name it lobbyist groups interest groups by lobbying time or lobbying efforts a lobbying sort of time and not this this money could be spent for advertising

through direct targeting through facebook email twitter t.v. so on and so forth the audience on the receiving end for the most part the audience is specially for certain. sort of widespread lobbying efforts are not your most sophisticated audiences so you can expect that vacuum. a resurgent they get home from an era ten hour shift when they have to tend to their children and take their pets out for a walk in the come home and do independent research on the computer and see whether this message that came out of chatham or brookings or carnegie was influenced by money coming from qatar u.a.e. or saudi i mean that's that's having high expectations but. do you expect policymakers do expect people in the beltway in washington d.c. in new york and london who have either the knowledge and the expertise to decipher between good and bad messages and also have the staff and policymakers on capitol

hill or in or investment was westminster to know what's good and what's bad and what's third and short term and long term national security interests of the united states european union and so forth but let's not expect too much from people who may not have the time nor the expertise nor the skills actually sent there and sit through every single message and are being bombarded with we appreciate your time so thank you very much indeed. dozens of displaced syrians have been warned off by israeli soldiers as they sold sanctuary in the israeli occupied golan heights good. ever. the group including women and children eventually retreated from the border friends to refugee camps they've been displaced by a russian backed syrian government offensive in the southwest seventy dekker has more from the israeli occupied golan heights we're just further down the road from

where we saw those few hundred people approach the fence we're in the israeli occupied golan heights the fence behind us right behind there is syria now it's been a very active frontline while we've been here and 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 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 need to cation 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 retaliation 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 when he gives an indication of how desperate the situation has become. or arrests are expected in a corruption scandal surrounding peru's judiciary audiotapes appear to expose judges and magistrates granting favorable rulings in exchange for financial incentives to home reports. this was the first arrest but a corruption scandal has been brewing over the proven judiciary for more than a week on friday five judges were suspended and the justice minister was sacked i don't. know what it all started with released by website idea

ripple terrell's and the panorama t.v. program which appeared to reveal a network of bribes lim fluence peddling judgment to rios was to be one of the leaders of. the arrest of the president to the superior court of justice of k.l. is a good reaction from the very justice system itself however we believe that more arrests need to be made. it's a big test for recently appointed president martin b. scott a who pledged to cut out corruption after his predecessor. was also brought down by on the cover recordings he's called together a group of legal experts to plan a judicial reform if we see the justice system must not and cannot be an instrument in the service of dark powers but it must have the basic conditions for equal access but all citizens to it. to the proven public it's yet another failure of

authorities to deal with the rampant top level corruption of the last five presidents before this got a two faced charges when was jailed a woman resigned just before an impeachment. this shows that we defeated the dictatorship but we did not defeat the political system that they organized now the latest incumbent is facing the uphill task of beginning to restore true vince trust john home and out zita still ahead on al jazeera we meet the migrant mother who says her child is still suffering after they were separated at the u.s. border honoring the vision of nelson mandela thousands turned out in johannesburg to mark a one hundred you says his book and is the same both dream of becoming a professional footballer about to become reality details in the sport but touch on a.

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president now says he accepts the intelligence community's assessment that russia did meddle in the twenty six election trump says he misspoke at a news conference with vladimir putin in finland. security has been stepped up at oilfields across iraq his anti government. deadly protests have continued for more than a week amid growing resentment over government corruption and a lack of basic services. and u.k. based investigative agency has obtained documents revealing i'm expensive lobbying efforts by the u.a.e. in britain and the us spend watch report says secret meetings were held between abu dhabi's crown prince and britain's former prime minister david cameron. the international criminal court has had some notable successes but it still faces many obstacles one hundred and twenty three countries are members but china russia and the united states among the nations that haven't signed up since its founding the

i.c.c. has issued fourteen indictments and secured just four convictions and all of those were for suspects in african countries it was found guilty include three from the democratic republic of congo and a mali in rebel leader some cases have collapsed when states refuse to cooperate and referrals from the un security council a subject to states that are even members of the court earlier loren taylor spoke of the former chief prosecutor at the international criminal court luis million or compote he says the court has come a long way in twenty years. when i took office in june two thousand and three there were many doubts about the entire project i was at harvard teaching in those days and from the me told me don't take the job you do nothing for nine years would be a shame. now you saw the reality i see city involved in different countries around the world and everyone is asking for it is see so it's a reality now. twenty years ago it was a dream now it's

a reality that the issue is not just as it is in effect a reality because it's all they were having a building and an investigation is but if it's perceived not to actually get the results then that's not much help to people is it the courts look i see it like it is so fun ok great invention but it is no wife i thought for not working similarly good to see you in this program i was listening about syria conflict ok syria is no way if i insert in for i.c.c. i do seek and not intervene in syria because looking for that treaty you talk about nicaragua in nicaragua there is no what if i because i sneak i was not the state parties so it is not about the court isn't that what this form is about the white five how we do a very strong signal on why if i don't the world do we sure justice is done everywhere. or you do you have any idea how you achieve that because at the moment

as you say in instances like with syria that contact until there are these big situations where the reach of the r.c.c. for whatever reason whether it's vetoes at the u.n. security council whatever else isn't there how do you how do you change that in the current climate. no we did leadership we need political leadership the secretary general of the organization american state just issue a report showing crimes in venezuela asking for countries to refer to this edition to as you see political leaders doing that particularly herself is doing the case but not the state is standing so is it time for small countries leaving it's time for arab countries imagine if it were justice for the conflict in syria or iraq and then you don't need to fight each other we don't need to kill each other that you've got to put your community you can use just this other mechanism that's what we need we need imagination we need new generations understanding how to manage

conflict their advantage is now you have this you see twenty years ago that there is nothing now or it is exist tell me this was an example of president omar and i where so he was he was one of the people who was actually referred to to the i.c.c. and there was no arrest warrant issued for him to for genocide a war crimes yet he is still free is there what he does that the person does that disappoint you after after all these years now is a point before the big things but imagine if you are a victim of genocide and your mother is still in the camp and your sister is raped each two days and you are desperate because no one even listened to you because there were no one talk about genocide in their food so that's a problem that they were if i thing there's no one was bigger then you see issue it's job in in sudan in darfur issue others who aren't but then there was negotiations president obama decided to give up on the genocide and make

an agreement with pretty and bashir and that's who i am but she was a sceptic in the south of sudan independent person but she was supporting the division in yemen by the way president obama leads the sanctions. no it's fine is legal president obama has legally sanctioned but therefore no if there is no activity to implement what are they going to do nothing only on a more sort of perhaps in the broader note what would you say briefly is that the biggest achievement in the last twenty years of the i.c.c. the existence the existence. if you mean a justice is national there was no idea to do a permanent international justice system that's something you did the entire global system and the worst imagine in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight and the lucy book. and different countries countries from all over the world they made an agreement and established it and now it's

a reality that is that most carriage of men is a reality you were going to court to go in the past impunity was the rule not chance to mitigate the crime now we have the court is the beginning it's just the beginning but it's a good beginning. forces loyal to the nicaraguan president launched an attack on the opposition stronghold of maceo on tuesday this comes as international calls and months of violence months at least two hundred seventy five people have been killed since demonstrations against president daniel ortega began in april but reports from the capital managua but a student who was shot and killed while taking refuge in a church has been buried. family members are burying twenty year old 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. and 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 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 including 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. only.

with this policy but government is not contributing to a peaceful resolution it's creating obstacles you're to them to open channels for real dialogue. nearly three months of protests around the country have you. 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. well 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 our biggest 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 bury their friend singing the national anthem for will for their fallen hero. the innocent decide to see the one now when we get our guatemalan migrants in the u.s. says her son is suffering from trauma after he was separated from her at the texas border in may you landed on a clothes has now been reunited with four year old jeremy lin she says her family has legitimate asylum claims she's been speaking to our visitors kristen salumi four year old jeremy isn't the same since he got to the united states he still likes to draw favorite color blue but he wakes up in the night grasping for his mother yolanda the two were reunited just days ago in an airport six weeks after

getting arrested for crossing the u.s. border illegally yonder describes the moment she was taken from her child by border patrol agents yes my son stayed there sitting there and i said i'll be back and he started to scream calling mommy mommy but i couldn't go back. there were other children there my son was the smallest. they had traveled from guatemala and tried to file for asylum at official points of entry in texas she says she was turned away three times before deciding to try to cross illegally jeremy was held with other children first by immigration and customs enforcement in texas then he was sent to a private facility contracted by the government in arizona you wanda didn't talk to her son for thirty days. traumatized by what happened he has nightmares wets the bed and he tells me please don't send me back to that place.

her lawyer gustava terra's accuses federal officials of using thousands of children like jeremy for political gain if you want to break the law yes it was a misdemeanor or felony it was a misdemeanor. the germy break any law no he paid for it and he will continue to pay for it one federal judge says with the trumpet ministration did is unconstitutional another says authorities have until july two thousand and six to reunite some twenty five hundred or so children who are separated from their parents at the border but the trump administration isn't backing down from the zero tolerance policy of prosecuting anyone who crosses the border illegally and advocates fear that these immigrants once reunited will be deported without due process to says she and her son were threatened by gang members but attorney general jeff sessions announced on june eleventh that domestic violence and gang violence are no longer grounds for asylum she was released from jail with an ankle monitoring device and ordered to check in with immigration officials in september

did you know about the zero tolerance policy before you came to she says she would not have come if she knew her child would be taken from her but that was not her understanding of how things work in america kristen salumi al jazeera east orange new jersey former u.s. president barack obama has paid tribute to nelson mandela on the one hundredth anniversary of the south african leaders both obama spoke of the universal appeal of monday of his message and urged people around the world to respect human rights it's his most high profile speech since leaving office through a sacrifice and i'm labeling the leadership. and forever most of all through his moral example men.