no one whether you're a republican a democrat or an independent why the the presence that donald trump exhibited in finland and i think that the world is weaker for it certainly america is weaker for it but that's temporary that can easily be regained and i think that blossom or putin would be wise to think twice if he decides to do anything besides talk at this point really good to get your thoughts on this much frank thank you very much indeed for your time and thanks for having. people are still protesting across southern iraq despite a promise by the prime minister to create jobs and improve public services the unrest began in the oil rich province of basra last week and it spread to several other large cities demonstrators say they're not benefiting from iraq's vast oil wealth because of government corruption and mismanagement reports. even late at night protesters continue to block roads and security forces try to

stop the demonstrators lit fires on many streets in oil rich by the prime minister's offer for more jobs and cash for development have failed to convince them why even. feel 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. as day broke iraqi security forces had to fire in the air to disperse hundreds of protesters at this oil field in basra 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 investor and in other southern provinces have largely remained peaceful. this protest was invited 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 un 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 that spaghetti over electric cables on every street for 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 half of iraq's nationwide electricity production and 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 housing 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 solid and job aid to their. u.k. based investigative agency has obtained documents revealing an expensive lobbying effort by the united arab emirates and britain and the us the spin watch reports includes e-mails from and iraqi 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 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 i will stop british petroleum getting an oil concession in the law that was successful in extraordinary effort by the each actually cajole and bully the british government into a pursuing its foreign policy the success or failure of the other u.a.e.

lobbying is less clear it's been 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 says 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 is 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 katsa saw 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 the greater safeguards to prevent the sort of influence which seems to have been exerted on the on the british

government in a way 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. has a national security and foreign policy analyst he says u.a.e. lobbying has had a severe backlash. what's happening here is you have a small country not an m. or arab emirates they wealthy are the gulf cooperation council yet her soon to gen

the where a is alienated alienating some of its own air 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 it led to rise of islamic in that country which to some extent was not exactly desired outcome but there's a whole host of reasons and there is some sort of historical reasons for that but again lobbying had turned into a dirty word and a lot of new players in this rail saudi arabia united ever even carter for that matter have tried to use their money and wealth too fast too quick and perhaps the jump the gun lobby and always most effective one of the client is also a patient client now i think what you mean what you mean here in the case of for

instance the and their lobbying efforts both in the u.k. and here in the u.s. is bad many critics would say that you a e was jumping in bad you know with sort of the enemies of the muslim world or the enemies of the arab world some people would say that in recent years the saudi saudi arabian lobby and in the u.s. has been focused solely to sort of isolate iran to achieve that and then to achieve that 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. plenty more ahead on the news hour including as the international criminal court marks its twentieth anniversary we speak to its chief prosecutor luis moreno ocampo. the political. refugees israeli soldiers tell displaced syrians to go back as they approach the occupied golan heights. and in sports tiger woods gears up for his first open championship

in three years we're going to hear from the fourteen time major winner later in the program. to nicaraguan our forces loyal to the president have regained control of an opposition stronghold in the city of must say a police and armed pro-government civilians began advancing into more nimble before dawn on tuesday by afternoon they gain control of the neighborhood that's become the center of resistance to president daniel ortega has government rights groups have reported gunfire as they say two people have died in the violence but on a sunday shows has more from managua. well since the early hours of tuesday the city of messiah was under siege by paramilitary forces who closed the entrance to the city which is south east of the capital money people have been calling throughout the day early in the morning and into the afternoon people have been

calling desperately at the television stations radio stations asking for help they said that there was a lot of shooting around at these paramilitary forces were in caravans going around now the chief of police of messiah said in a press conference that the order to clean up the road blocks it's a cleansing operation strictly ordered by president and his wife vice president he said that the order was to clean up whatever the cost the u.n. secretary general petraeus has said that the number of deaths in. nearly three months of protest shocking and that the use of force on behalf of the state is not acceptable but human rights organizations say that the police and the paramilitary are doing these joint operations and that the lethal use of force is being directed towards the unarmed population acquire to be fired by the international

humanitarian law the government here has not condemned these actions and it's not a rush that any of these individuals instead as the police chief. has said the government here is directing. the political violence in nicaragua began in mid april with protests over the president's plan to trim pension benefits the government's heavy handed response to spark a wider protest against ortega's rule since then more than two hundred seventy people most of them civilians have died on monday the u.n. chief called for the end to violence and resumption of dialogue with the opposition the cut in violence comes after years of calm in nicaragua it's the worst since the sandinista movement battled u.s. backed contra rebels in the one nine hundred eighty s. christine wade is a professor of political science and international studies at washington college she's joining us now on skype from just a time in maryland thank you very much indeed for your time why was the government

response so heavy handed this time round. i think in part because the government was caught by surprise by how widespread the protests were throughout the country and the number of people that were turning out. we've seen protests and you know i was on a variety of different issues such as they can now or regarding elections or even against my mining but nothing this widespread and i think it calls the government by surprise is there any chance of some sort of negotiation because if i understand it correctly the catholic church was a central part of that but that's it's become enmeshed in this violence as well it certainly has there were two attempts at a national dialogue but it has been a broken down and they're currently at a stalemate and i think at this point that it's going to be very difficult for the catholic church to continue as a mediator with the faith of the government at this point what are the chances that the president is eventually going to be forced from office well this is the

question everyone wants an answer to right now i think that a couple of weeks ago we were talking about the possibility of early elections coming as early as perhaps a spring or fall of twenty nineteen given what we've seen in the past couple of days it seems entirely possible to me that were taken will hang on for the duration of this term the united nations is calling for a halt to the violence and it wants to be able to send in monitors i believe as well but how likely is that is that to happen do you think. i think that that will happen at some point that the second dialogue the government and the civil society negotiators agreed upon a truth commission from iran when they have ceded the members of that truth commission and i would expect that to continue at some point in the near future in the event that the current state of violence does and what's the future for nicaragua in the in the short term because you're still left with a society which has clearly got a tremendous number of grievances and

a president who will not step down from office that's exactly right i think that the one thing that while it's gone beyond human cost is that is deeply eroded what legitimacy or take i have remaining he may cling to power but it will be a government without the backing of an awful lot of people and i've let this point christine where he's a professor of political science and international studies at washington college thank you very much indeed for your time thank you rob. more 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 john heilemann reports. this was the first arrest but a corruption scandal has been brewing over the prove in judiciary for more than a week on friday five judges were suspended and the justice minister was sacked i don't. know. it all started with the audio is released by website idea

ripple terrell's and the panorama t.v. program which appeared to reveal a network of bribes lim fluence peddling judge will 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 but however we believe that more arrests need to be made. it's a big test for recently appointed president martin b. scouter 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. 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 one 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 through vians trust john home and out his. still ahead on al-jazeera. mandela. the movement he led would come to signify something larger barak obama travels to south africa for a tribute to nelson mandela on the centenary of his books. another sign of a thaw in the korean peninsula cinema finds in the south taken movies from the north. and we find out of his same bolds dream of becoming a professional footballer is about to become reality details in sports

a touch on. the weather sponsored by cattle i always. have i we've already seen flooding in the philippines particularly luzon and recently flooding in hard on the bits of vietnam and with this circulation you might imagine we've got a repeat performance anything up to half a meter of rain is forecast in the next three days again it's going to be a loser west inside know the onshore breeze and with this circulation through high now and probably just running into north vietnam and northern laos as well it's like to be named would still a tropical storm but i think again the stronger than i think it will keep his name as a storm that goes on land it's not when the surprise obviously is the amount of right it keeps most of the rest of china rose have you draw all that energy is down here

for as close a narrow strip become sas the philippines to borneo that's where you run out of moisture so this is the active area satellite proves the point and it's been very wet recently and will be the next couple of days on the coast of myanmar in parts of thailand as well with shallow scattered to the south of that but for the most part malaysia and especially indonesia it is a dry picture and we saw a dry season briefly disappeared to a flurry of thunderstorms but it's more the strike season back again but you still might get a few showers in singapore. the weather sponsored by cattle i always say. about fifty thousand people were arrested under a policing strategy known as stop and frisk the car got about here with a guy coming behind me and kicking my back how many of your children gotten caught in this trap and i have seven sons and six of them have been arrested for drug charges though me against

a war. is what we've now created the atmosphere the police the back that exploring the dark side of american justice the system with job on al-jazeera. fresh perspectives new possibilities. seem to mean there's an alibi. the public support to fade some discussion when you see tough questions like this what comes to mind how do you respond before how global could you see al-jazeera winning programs take you on its journey and this can.

be watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour donald trump has been forced into a very public and embarrassing climbed up the u.s. president now says he accepts the intelligence community's assessment that russia did meddle in the twenty sixth election from says he misspoke at the news conference with the mayor putin in finland security has been stepped up at oil fields across southern iraq as anti-government on the west spreads deadly protests have continued for more than a week amid growing resentment to government corruption and a lack of basic services. and u.k. based investigative agency has obtained documents revealing an expensive lobbying effort by the united arab emirates in britain and the us the spin watch reports 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 are among the nations that have been signed up since its founding the i.c.c. has issued fourteen indictments and secured just four convictions all of these were for suspects in african countries it was found guilty in food three from the democratic republic of congo and the mali and rebel leader some cases have collapsed when states refused to cooperate and referrals from the un security council are subject to states that aren't even members of the court earlier laurent spoke with a former chief prosecutor at the international criminal court this morning or company he says government leaders in need to be forthcoming with information to the i.c.c. we need leadership we need political leadership. general of the already taken american state just issue a report showing crimes in venezuela asking for countries to refer to this is as

you see political leaders doing that there are some of these do in that case but not a state is standing so is it time for small countries leaving them for arab countries imagine if 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 like to put your community you can use just this other mechanism that we need that we need imagination we need new generations understanding how to manage conflicts their advantage is now you have this you see twenty years ago that there is nothing. on the 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. you mean a justice national there was no idea to do a permanent international justice system that something did the entire global system and the worst imagine in one thousand nine hundred eight and the lizzie book

and different countries. all over the world they made an agreement and stablish it and now it's a reality that is it must care regimen is a reality do we have a court to go in the us impunity was the rule not chance to mitigate the crime now we have the court and it's a beginning it's just the beginning but it's a good beginning dozens of displaced syrians have been warned off by israeli soldiers as they sought sanctuary in the israeli occupied golan heights. a group including women and children eventually retreated from the border fence to refugee camps they've been displaced by a russian backed syrian government offensive in the southwest stephanie decker 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 are 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 is there for them to come that close to the fence into also for help really gives you an indication of how desperate the situation has become it's being described as the strongest move today to put the hong kong government to clamp done in the city's nascent pro independence movement top officials in the city are seeking to ban the party the advocate separation from china on the grounds that it threatens national security but it's left critics wondering who will be targeted next as the government increasingly resorts to legal action against opponents jarvis over reports. very recent arrival in hong kong. tical seen and despite their marginal influence top officials in the city have gone above and beyond to curtail their influence the hong kong

national party a pro independence group that advocates separation from china has been given a three week ultimatum now they have until august seventh to explain writing why the party should not be banned of course this is a political question. as possible for the political parties and. seizures. every year the first of the next one is coming up what's coming up on tuesday police delivered a letter to the group's founder and chan saying it was recommending a ban on his party due to national security concerns in hong kong we have freedom of association but that such rights is not without prescription. valvular the rights holder the rules. of restaurant chanst can be made by law. if it is necessary in the interests of national security john lee warned that he

did he decided to ban the party anyone attending meetings or making donations to the group could face up to two years in prison he added however they'd still be given a chance to appeal his decision with hong kong's most powerful politician the city's chief executive kerry lamb. it marks the first time a political party's targeted under the society's ordinance a piece of legislation that has been previously criticized by a un human rights body for unduly restricting freedom of association calls for hong kong's independence have grown louder in hong kong after a wave of pro-democracy protests that brought the city to a standstill twenty fourteen failed to achieve its goals. was since then activists seeking more autonomy or all out independence for the city have been barred from running in elections are even detained but many chinese city that has prided itself on the unique freedoms enjoyed by its citizens alarm bells

are already ringing as concerns spreads over whose freedom will have to be limited next in the name of national security when the silver al-jazeera. at least three people have been killed and six others have been injured in shelling by the rebels in southwestern yemen locals say the iran backed fighters fired a missile targeting a residential area in ties who has control the outskirts of the city elsewhere in yemen the battle around the port city of how data is intensifying relentless airstrikes and a lack of aid are already making a dire q monetary and crisis even worse for people across the region hama jungle 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 our then 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 and that's why they're not much else going 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 her data 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 try 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 he would deny it we were told that there were no more tense available now what are we supposed to do especially since we had 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. former u.s. president barack obama has paid tribute to nelson mandela marking one hundred years since the former south african leader was born and obama spoke of the universal appeal of mandela's message and he's heard people around the world to respect human rights it's his most high profile speech since leaving office through a sacrifice and unwavering leadership and perhaps most of all through his moral example mandela. and the movement he led would come to signify something larger he 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. tens of thousands of

russian orthodox worshippers of not one hundred years since the country's last while family was executed the brutal murders of son nicholas the second in his family and a three hundred year old dynasty it also had ordered the rise of communism in russia which will go on to shape the new world rory challenge reports in the modern legacy of the murders of one hundred years on russia's faithful still mark the date and in this sent ten or a year the crowds in here catherine burke were especially large first communion had the church on the blood standing at the site of the remodeled execution then a twenty one kilometer procession where the bodies were first buried for these worshipers rushes last czar is a martyr here he's an example of a highly. noble who suffered through all of this but remained a real human being nothing both him down. as russia's revolution descended

into a chaotic civil war the captive imperial family were moved from sin petersburg to central russia on the night of july the sixteenth one thousand nine hundred eighteen they were woken by bolshevik guards led down to a cellar and was shot and bayoneted to death for much of the soviet period discussion of the romanow schools forbid now multimedia projects like this from a state broadcaster and the federal archive of publishing passing all photos. but the ultimate fate of the three hundred year denotes the that turn russia from a fragmented northern european backwater into a pan continental empire still brings up disagreements. internal rifts mean the russian orthodox church is still reluctant to recognise as authentic what forensic experts have long believed to be the remodels remains canonized in two thousand and

his family and now saints and symbols the church. uses to preach the conservatism and self-reliance it wants russia to adhere to unite the e.u. but the little molehills here with me no promises of a new happy life or support from outside allegedly by more educated advance people who must tempt our people but while the states has venerated other russian princes an emperor as recently as symbols of a strong and resilient russia analyst maria lipman says this last isn't one of them the reason falls out may be that nicholas the sick and is not an achiever is a failure he lost his embarking lost his family lost his life old russia was no war so to put in he is not an especially. attractive or a proper hero disagreement over the ramon of is one of the many examples of the difficulty russia has in reconciling with.