influence which seems to be exerted only on the risk of what's in the 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 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 still ahead on the bulletin yes my son stayed there sitting and i said i'll be back and he started to scream calling mommy mommy. separated at the us mexico border my friend mother says her

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the news conference with the blood in me and send. a u.k. based investigative agency has attained documents revealing an expensive lobbying effort by the united arab emirates and both russian and the u.s. to spend watch report says secret meetings were held between abu dhabi's kuan prince and russians former prime minister david cameron and security has been stepped up at oil fields across southern iraq as anti-government unrest spreads the deadly protests have continued for more than a week amid growing resentment of government corruption and a lack of basic services. shelling by hope the rebels in south west and yemen has killed at least three people have enjoyed six others the iran backed fighters fired a missile targeting a residential area and died. the hope is control the outskirts of the city elsewhere and you have in the battle around the port city of holiday that is intensifying relentless air strikes and a lack of aid making and over to die

a humanitarian crisis even worse for people across the region mohamad jump june report 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 because i dare 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 her date 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. and. 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 young children we have no shelter we call of the government to consider our situation not leave our homes out of luxury we were forced out. but most of the displaced people now residing here don't believe those calls will be answered any time soon. forces loyal to president of regain control of it off stronghold in the city of messiah the police and armed pro-government civilians began advancing into monday before dawn on tuesday while they gained control of the neighborhood at the center of resistance to president or government rights groups say two people died in the violence on the sanchez has more from the capital. well since the early hours of tuesday the city of messiah was under siege by paramilitary forces close the

entrance to the city which is south east of the capital 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 there was a lot of shooting around 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 roadblocks it's a cleansing operation strictly ordered by president and his wife. he said that the order was to clean up whatever the cost the un secretary general. has said that the. number of deaths in the nearly three months of protest are 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 typified by the international humanitarian law the government here has not condemned the arrest of any of these individuals and instead as the police chief. has said the government here is directing them more aggressive 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 holliman reports. this was the first arrest but a corruption scandal has been brewing over the proving judiciary for me than a week on friday five judges were suspended and the justice minister was sacked i

know. it all started with the release by website idea ripple taro's and the panorama t.v. programme which appeared to reveal a network of bribes lim fluids peddling judgment to rios was to be one of the leaders of. the rest of the president to the superior court of justice and 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 discounter 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 power 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 the

authorities to deal with the rampant top level corruption of the last five presidents before this got to two faced charges well was jailed a woman resigned just before an impeachment. shows that we defeated the dictatorship but we did not defeat the political system that they organized now the latest incumbent is facing the. of beginning to restore trust john holdren how does either. the group that campaigned for rushing to leave the european union has been fined eighty thousand dollars for breaking spending balls election officials say the vote leave exceeded limits by funneling money through a different youth organization called believe the founder of that group has also been fined says the reports are politically motivated now a guatemalan migrant in the u.s. says his son is still suffering from trauma after he was separated from her at the

texas border in may your lawn adela cruz has now been reunited with her four year old jeremy and says her family has legitimate asylum claims she's been speaking to our correspondent 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 you know your he paid for it and he will continue to pay for it one federal judge says with a trumpet ministration did is unconstitutional another says authorities have until july twenty sixth 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 modest 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. now tens of thousands of russian orthodox worshippers have marked one hundred years since the country's last royal family were executed the murders of son nicholas the second and his family ended

a three hundred year dynasty it also helped of the rise of communism in russia or a challenge reports on the modern legacy of the murderous. 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 to where the bodies were first buried for these worshippers russia's last czar is a martyr here he's in the example of a highly spiritual man noble who suffered through all of this but remained a real human nothing broken down to use force to 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 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 remodels was forbidden 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 romano's remains canonized in two thousand there's his family and now saints and symbols the church uses to preach to conserve it. and so for alliance it wants russia to adhere to united. we. no promises of

a new happy life or support from outside allegedly by more educated advanced people who must tempt our people but while the states has venerated other russian princes an emperor has recently the symbols of a strong and resilient russia on a list maria lipman says this last isn't one of the reasons folds out maybe the sick and is not an achiever he's a failure he lost his temper he lost his family lost his life old rusher in the war so to put in he is not an especially. attractive or a proper hero disagreement over the ramon of his one of the many examples of the difficulty russia has in reconciling with his bloody past will reach alan's how does iraq. sports news now and toggle was a sound and confident ahead of his return to golf oldest major tournament the british open the three time when i will play at the championship for the first time in three years after recovering from back surgery was hasn't made

a great comeback at major this mage's the c.f. and tied for thirty second at the masters and failing to make the cut of the u.s. open but the american believes the calmness takeoff in scotland could be his best chance of adding to his fourteen major titles it's great seeing it on t.v. but it's even better in person and i remember how it feels to come down lost all of the chance to win it and knowing that i'm i may never have that opportunity but there were some sometimes in there were just didn't feel very good. but now had opted to come back to carnoustie to play here in scotland again. it's i've said this before it's right this year it's been a blessing. there were some times where i didn't think i'd ever build do this again and lo and behold here i am playing my third major of the year the latest one a. woman's tennis major is making the most of what she calls a career highlight as wimbledon champion and julie has returned home to germany

after beating serena williams in straight sets in saturday's final the thirty year old is the first german to win the silverware since her idol steffi graf in life in ninety six and she says she is better equipped to deal with the added attention than when she captured the australian and us open titles in two thousand and sixteen. say involved could be about to set back into the sporting spotlight on the football field before the world and then pick champion sprinter as in talks with a stranger in a club at the central coast mariners about a potential six week trial the thirty one year old has previously trained with her with your daughter went to germany and the witch inside god said since retiring from kinetic last year. and again on the problem in doha with the headlines on al-jazeera donald trump has

been forced into a very public and embarrassing climbdown the u.s. president now says he accepts the intelligence community's assessment that russia did meddle in the two thousand and sixteen election trump says he misspoke at the news conference with bloody myth in finland. i have full faith and support for america's great inventions agencies always there. and i felt very strongly that well russia's actions are a no win at all on the outcome of the election let me be totally clear in saying that and i'm certain many times except our intelligence communities conclusion that russia is battling the two thousand and sixteen election took place. a u.k. based investigative agency has obtained documents revealing an expensive lobbying effort by the united arab emirates and britain and the us spend watch reports

a secret meetings were held between abu dhabi's crown prince and bush and former prime minister david cameron security has been stepped up at oil fields across southern iraq as anti-government unrest spreads deadly protests have continued for more than a week amid growing resentment of government corruption and the lack of basic services shelling by who the rebels in southwestern yemen has killed at least three people and injured six others locals say the iran backed fight has fired a missile targeting a residential area in thise forces loyal to nicaragua's president have regained control of an opposition stronghold in the city of messiah police and armed pro-government civilians began advancing into monday before dawn on tuesday by afternoon they gained control of the neighborhood at the center of resistance to president or thick as government rights groups say two people died in the violence . the group that campaigned for britain to leave the european union has been fined eighty thousand dollars for breaking spending rules electoral officials said the

vote leave exceeded limits by funneling money through a different youth organization called believe. those are the headlines on al-jazeera do stay with us the stream is coming up next thank you for watching. egypt is now china's biggest trading partner in africa more than ten thousand chinese and living in cairo and wanted to see the payments in september one thousand nine hundred five became my friends to egypt many started a small trade is now successful in business when i began to do business in two thousand and three or two thousand and four at the time it was small but then it began to expand al-jazeera well meets the growing chinese community in egypt egypt made in china on al-jazeera. today india's economy is booming about many indian women have chosen to remove

themselves from the country's labor market we'll explore some of the reasons why the dean and you're in the stream live on al-jazeera and you tube so tweet us and leave your comments in the chat we'll do our best to get them into the conversation . names that i had. them in this new our industry. india is among the world's fastest growing economies but fewer women are participating in its labor markets the world bank estimates that just twenty seven percent of working age indian women have paid jobs figures for those working in the agricultural sector projected to be even lower the world economic forum's twenty seventeen global gender gap report also ranked india hundred eight out of one hundred forty four countries one of the widest gap in south asia despite increased female enrollment in educational institutions but like countless women around the world many are prevented from joining the workforce to to social and cultural pressures prime minister narendra modi's government is trying to close that labor

gap through their promotion of skills programs and in two thousand and seventeen parliament passed a bill to double the amount of paid maternity leave to twenty six weeks but even that move could potentially cause women's jobs to disappear. so here with us now to help unpack the reasons why there's been such a drop in india's female labor force participation rate many asks is a data journalist space and chennai india and today's about india a need to ananda is the director for a conference and that's a communications consultancy firm and enter in italy saying barack is the program manager for the international labor organization training center he previously served as deputy director of ilo india welcome everyone to the stream of course to our online community i want to start with the tab this article has been circulating online from the economist not too long ago it was released the missing two hundred thirty five million why india needs women to work and in particular scrolling down

to this stat here shows that female employment rate in india this is both the formal and the informal economy tumbled from an already low thirty five percent in two thousand and five to just twenty six percent now many what's going on how do you make sense of back. i think citizens this is happening on the diseases there's movement in. education and a families can. choose to move jobs in. these. economic necessity but some of the reasons i guess and some of them have to do. something nice i feel that they're just i'm thinking. good enough jobs and some of these. even when the family.

whose families. do want to jump in there on your take on why we've seen this significant drop. thanks and i think many hit the nail on a number of the key issues so indeed participation of women has folded as you noted in the intro during a high period of growth and this is being attributed to you know increased involvement of girls and young women in education that's something positive but at the same time there is a concern around access to jobs and i think it's important to stress that the largest pool happened in rural areas that particularly with women withdrawing from agriculture we in itself is something positive in the sense of women withdrawing from the back breaking work in agriculture but the question then remains where are the other jobs that women are aspiring to. take up and join that market

and you know i'm sure you have something to say about this but before we get to i want to share with you what i asked on our community has said while the literacy rate specifically among female children has increased in india the women in the labor force has drastically decreased there can be plenty of reasons for it she cites lack of support early marriage pregnancy or inability as she says to to keep up with work and human i guess it's homely duties in your experience what do you think is the cause and what do you make of that juxtaposition. i think it's very true the comment because. you know the india is is a very old and a very traditional society it's very few people speak. it's there's a lot of headroom in the and the traditionally roles for men and women have been. very much divided it is very clear that men go out to do the work and women stay

home and the whole notion of well well it almost never defined as well when you take care of the home and the children and the spouse of the in-laws the elderly it's never considered well work is defined as something you do when you step out of the house and you get economic compensation and that's global. or the nomenclature for work but i'm talking specifically about work outside the home that for a very early age both men or women are socialized to believe across the board that women will eventually grow up get married have children and men will grow up and have to work and support their families and despite the fact that we modernized with the fastest growing economy when a very large. and just and adding to what many said there are positive

signs reasons why women are not going to well the fact is that women to be out of the workforce is not good for society and not just economically it's because women need to feel relevant outside of the home and the society really it's men and women scientists just jump in there yes just on that i just on that point i think it's it is important to you know in our in our group in what was just me to just said but i think it's. it's important to stress that you know i think this is a six and i'm sure all of us are not suggesting women are not working they aren't you know they're working very much in the household is that the burden of domestic care except in the crux of the matter is working outside the home and what are the opportunities and the choice to. join the labor market and find jobs in growing sectors and from an i don't perspective we would stress the importance of accessing

well ity employment as well as the opportunity to also start their own businesses and the see in that perspective i think you also want to repine this candlelight and balancing i mean this is something that actually hits home and reporting that around that area i'm not but really meaning it because i'm one of the that isn't getting the government doubling what maternity leave does have my second degree and under that midnight in that i have not even an evil to do this i have been two items me. and i would think as with him her that i think that. that in the end they lure me for sharing of domestic. burden onto me to me and it is much they're doing to me one thing let's take a listen to this video comment from padma judge joshi who actually points out how maternity leave could actually be driving women out of the workforce so scientists talk about all the nice sector the mitterrand of women in the old and i think the

thesis is not black is my duty here are. a few days in terms of maternity he's not progressive legislation was going to which more than doubled the mound of maternity leave that women get from twenty eight it was recently six weeks the thing is that most small companies whether it be in this in these or start out they would not know not would include women at all and give this kind of benefit because twenty six weeks of unbeaten lead to a woman in the city according to these companies. them unproductive as it's not far from benefiting then you'd actually be just blow dried out of the workforce on. i mean i see you're nodding but we're uniting about well i agree completely with the person who just scary and. i also had twenty eight years ago when i was living in it to be in working for the insurgency i went back after three months. i felt that that that. i wasn't grist i guess if i was it would be two more months

but i do know one thing a lot of work in women's organizations and women have worked for me and i have worked for them that it's very important for women to stay in the whole force because like the common men if you're out for twenty six weeks chances are you're going to be out of the workforce all because what plumbing was very organizations carried on before you have women be away for the law and to be high on it you know there's a whole slew of women that are coming to that will cause you know that a lot be asking for the joke of the doctor and to take care of the mother in law. of the jail because the child is there are these all these social conditions which are never discussed actually admit talking about figure they will leave the los and

apologies to the shares and apologies to you but these are all statistics statistics if you had to be doing well you know so i mean i think that i think what's so interesting about what you said is that twenty six weeks is too long and this is speaking as someone who is in the unit united states where we don't have any mandated maternity leave and that sounds like a dream but i want to i want to pick that apart a little bit and i'll throw that to you brooke me because i know you're nodding your head there if that is too long and that is the government's plan to help encourage women in the work place in the workforce what that is the answer. well i disagree that it's too long and i don't think that i am disagreeing really because i'm in the position i think of it as if he's leading any give. him any direct effect on me that even as long as him tempy that haven't suffered for it in fact legal fraternity leaders and they can get that. and i would see that in ny and the customers mental disability he seems like the minimum wages are increasingly.

companies cannot believe his employees and only push back on them. completely or have a clue to go between the worker benefits and work employers who prefer that i would run my country and i would want the government to. even put movie be hanged because the. then let me just jump in there quickly as well. yes sorry just i don't you know support group he said because you know countries that have even more generous attorney benefits and even a much hyped just gratian rights may be able to find that equilibrium. you know employs of course. you know supporting the this and of course it does tell some cost but also that the government and work as well and it needs to be some sharing of those responsibilities and i think you know india is working towards that and

that is a positive step but it's not the full picture of course in terms of the responses needed and it's certainly not you know to try and give a little fuller picture a lot of people talking about you know you mentioned a few other countries making comparisons perhaps to countries in the region but what about the western paradigm in all this then cat on twitter saying for example first of all western media should stop doing the role of women in society through prison and expect the life of women everywhere to follow the same trajectory as the west reason being modern west is right striven society whereas countries like india are duty bound society of course this is an argument we. here often with many issues in terms of you know the lens but then quickly before i hear from you anita on this tweet we just read chandra responding saying i would say that's a regressive thought rooted in our patriarchal society this idea that western culture would take over indian traditions no progress has ever been achieved anywhere in the world by keeping women within the four walls of home and what's wrong in following western culture if it's good for the nation and home and they

are smiling. and i think that will let me enjoy this and love it just that i think that role models are great i think work. developed west and it all means especially in europe. is awesome seriously but the truth if it is the comparisons can only go so far we can use them as role models but we also have to look at the reality of india he added you know if it is we have a very large population that is looking for well and if you extend since we're talking about connectivity act and since many many people have lobbied and it would be very empty feminists and it would be very and you're going to criticize it but i have openly said that it's not a good day because eventually it will be this woman when you look at the big picture it really beetles and employers will push back and say we can do this they would not hire women they were not take the women back it's getting to. she looks

like he did to a dying to jump in here and share here that it's right to take on this issue of norms and you know try and. see what the part would be for india you know i think it's important and you know those in india can confirm but you know and it is of young women in particular changed drastically over recent years with education and in the work that we did and it while i was there i saw very you know very fluid views on their aspirations and their desire to join the workforce in not you know in this arena western context for example starting their own businesses or becoming developed his eccentricities we should be careful to assume that you know social norms and the cultural rules are fixed in time because by. then i. should see the progress that is also being made in many areas oh sure you're actually if i ever say but i think we need to scrutinize the laws and traditions i'm not saying

we should accept them in your one hundred. that aspirations of women aspirations a society a changing very rapidly and since i entered the workforce one nine hundred seventy which is a very long it's amazing it's amazing. and it's such a joy. for us and it's such a shame that more. i mean because you know because you talked about the reality forgive me i want to just bring this up because we're getting live commentary about what that reality really love is like in india paul saying it's dangerous for example for women to travel to work do the treatment by indian men as perceived by media reports and then we also heard earlier from has son who said this hypersexual is a sign of the indian media landscape combined with the increasing penetration of smartphones has created extremely potent safe spaces and feedback loops indoctrinating and enabling someone a society defined by a heavily stratified social structure and he goes on to describe how you know it's

a bit verbose but his point there being that it can have a positive and a negative in fact do you think that's true in the hyper sexualized asian of women in media maybe we can ask cher is that is that one factor. well i don't know if i could comment on that. but i think it is true that safety is a concern and safety for women particularly this will act as a barrier so you know i would discourage women from from working or commuting to work etc so there out there are concerns that dictate the metro's around the safety of women you know maybe others are better you know position to comment on. the underlying issues around so if you are concerning and the steps are being taken in cities to try to improve so you security but these this remains a key challenge i could see written in any nodding their heads there i want to i want to bring up this week that we've got many and i'll track this to you this is

from peter who is talking about something that i need to brought up she said we need to scrutinize our traditional norms so peter here says well a lack of support from families combined with the stereotypical belief that women should be concerned with domestic chores more than the corporate world is playing into this i pulled up this headline here someone who might seem to agree from life meant the marriage penalty on women in india wrote me what i'm wondering though is that india is not unique in this we see this all over the world and indeed even in the united states and western countries so what is it that makes india unique. there's definitely a combination of issues that i think one thing that's important is that the that these incidents noms and the guys didn't notice fictions and then in some sense get felt about it and they can mention it again then. that is brought into it i think you know maybe talked about motives like station countries or even some other

southeastern countries and such so it doesn't but i think that this that these numbers are being carried out and this focus is being put on in europe because sometimes you know these issues on discuss what example and then they just. like the distance to the things of this and that people don't usually associate get that example had governing you know the people were not fit to speak about of this speech and there's this is equally a debate that should be happening in india you know distinctions i'm not women the ownership of. property all of that means on bank accounts essentially have to sort of usually just in the song distinction underpins our doesn't mean. how much how much is education factor into this and yet i'm curious because a lot of the comments we do have talked about educating women educating children education opportunities leading to employment and

a country on twitter says educating our brothers fathers friends is hard to do because of the taboo discussion but it is the only way we can dispel the myths around womanhood women are brought up to think their existence burden society how is that empowering as are you are brought up and is not a factor in preventing women in the workforce. i was rather very differently i had a very progressive parents and no brothers in the family so there was no no need to favor one sex and with the other so i was one of the lucky ones but i think that is a tremendous school for awareness raising and many women's organizations and some men's of medicines are doing this in india but i want to point out something which i think is is quite deeply entrenched in indian society and molokai us this question will look really about what makes india you need i don't know if you need is the work but it's a particular problem we have in any any society that is moving from

a traditional and leap frogging into a modern society so in some ways you know we say we are empowering women we're giving them choices we're giving them education we're giving them degrees and skills and of course we can well do well they get to be equal to men ok we say all that but deep down there is a deep distrust of women and if we give them too much freedom what they're going to do with that if we allow them to work and make their own money are they going to become the bosses of men are they going to start families are out is it going to go to the head so in some ways it's a very schizophrenia kind of messaging that comes to women for example goes up well you can be whatever you want to be but we know that's not true because we lost in the share sink point it was you look at sexual harassment in the right section has spent in public johns or on the street you know so there are all these obstacles

that we must consider and i mean obviously our family structures and relationships and dynamics are shifting and all of that schizophrenia to use your word a mere want to say in the sharing one experience this is her personal experience in a joint family to go through. looking and to find hanley.

one part of the process chinese. model or experience congressman and comedian partington it should be an equally important to be funny to me because if you are ten thousand women who do want that. and that are going hunting entering sure that there is a significant percentage of women who are in. life and the ability and health that you didn't tell you or anyone to be living will want to have that kind of need to be providing their. own incident and then. share yeah well i just you know that's that's really spot on because i would stress that word choice and i think no one is suggesting that women have to work because in the poorest countries in the world the labor force participation of women is the highest because they had no choice but to work it's really about the choice to go to work and also work decent work jobs productive jobs and so this is really the

crux and i think you know porton positive trend has been the increased education of of girls and young women in india then a really important gains have been made in the two thousand during this period but that you know the the real challenge is once these young women have education and you know there's a passing you know boys in secondary school they're you know up to twenty six percent of circle for young women in tertiary education once they had this education how they're able to use it in terms of accessing better quality jobs in where they are and this is where you know these some of these constraints still matter so if you know rural part of india and you have some education what are your choices why are you going to have to move to a city or can you work me by and this is what i've heard also doing field work in hope parts of rural to predation you know the largest indian state in the north where expression rights are some of the laws you know i mean some of these poorest

communities you know. girls are getting educated and this really was about this and well work wise allegations will be in this village well the next. time we are seeing barack i have to pause there thank you so much for your thoughts and you to on and rock many of us thank you for being part of our conversation that's all the time we have for now but of course you can continue this discussion by following us on twitter or act a.j. stream the next time. we understand the differences and the similarities of cultures across the world. we'll bring in the news and current affairs that.

when diplomacy fields and fear sweeps in our borders are wide open wide open to drugs terrorists we've proven the barriers are built to impose division and its ill to sixty's instead of being an obstacle. into became another obstacle to peace in a four part series al jazeera revisits the reasons for divisions in different parts of the world and the impact they have on both sides walls of shame on al-jazeera. except our intelligence community is conclusion that bush is meddling in the two thousand and six election took place damage control for donald trump

a change of story political story. and i welcome to live from my headquarters in doha with me elizabeth also ahead. a promise of new jobs and improved public services does little to stop the widespread protests in iraq human rights watch says thousands of refugees children in greece are being denied the right to an education and fighting for control of the nicaraguan neighborhood at the center of the battle against the president. there's been damage control for donald trump has been forced to pull back from comments made during his health news conference with putin the u.s. president now says he accepts the intelligence community's assessment that russia

did meddle in the two thousand and sixteen election white house correspondent has more. stunning reversal by u.s. president donald trump the word mordred sort of word. faced with nonstop criticism over his press conference with russian president vladimir putin in finland trump claims he misspoke and now accepts the conclusion of u.s. intelligence that russia meddled in the twenty sixteen presidential election i have felt very strongly that while russia's actions had no impact at all on the outcome of the election let me be totally clear in saying that and i've said this many times except our intelligence community is conclusion that russia's meddling in the two thousand and sixteen election took place terms of arks paulo a barrage of condemnation from members of his own political party for his initial

acceptance of putin's denial he just said it's not russian of any election interference by the kremlin i remain as i thought it was shameful i think it needs to fix it mourning the republican speaker of the house of representatives equally unequivocal not only did russia interfere in the past it threatens to do so again they're doing it around the world they did it to france they did to moldova they're doing it to the baltics russia is trying to undermine democracy itself democrats are pressuring republicans to reinforce those words with action if donald trump was such an easy mark in helsinki. president putin will realize he's an easy mark elsewhere that's why lawmakers are pushing for further sanctions against russia many are also demanding trump requests the extradition of twelve russians indicted last week on charges of interfering in the twenty sixteen u.s. vote but like previous administrations my administration has and will continue to

move aggressively to repeal and they have friends and we will we will stop if we were. any efforts to get if you're a hero like some democrats are calling for legislation to prevent the president from criticizing the f.b.i. and the department of justice as the president has done in the past so that the special counsel robert muller can continue his investigation into russian interference in the u.s. presidential election kimberly help at al-jazeera the white house now john africa is a former communications director at the democratic national committee and he says u.s. politics is an uncharted territory. donald trump's supporters don't much care what he says and if he offend somebody or if the media says he got it wrong that doesn't bother them in the least they like that he bothers people in power frankly and he's very good at that and so he's had this sort of tough law not

unlike ronald reagan before but i think this really does change things i mean that the outcry from the republican side of the aisle we have not seen this before and so there is some advice for democrats to say when your opponents are not doing well stay out of the way so we'll have to see how this unfolds but i think this is really seeing donald trump seeing an american president. to an ex k.g.b. officer really is shocking for american republicans for whom ronald reagan and his winning the cold war and beating the evil empire is is a huge point of pride for them so i think we're kind of in uncharted territory i think we're in a different conversation after how sneaky than we were before let's move on to other news non-processed across southern iraq is still underway despite a promise by the prime minister to create new jobs and improve public services the best begad of the oil rich province of last week it has spread to several other

large cities. and polls. even late at night brutus does continue to block roads and security forces trying to stop the demonstrators lit fires on many streets in oil rich president the prime minister's office for more jobs and cash for development and feel to convince them well. we don't feel we have been listening to the calls and demands of all iraqi citizens and also they had grievances we also providing sufficient budget to cover old 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. 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 borton and in other southern provinces have

largely remained peaceful. this protest was invited to problems 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 for two weeks iran has cut off a 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 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 solid and job out of there. to syria now where rebels have reportedly reached a deal with iran to evacuate almost seven thousand people from to share towns in the north the tells and as the problems have been under siege from sunny revel

battling the iran backed syrian government while interesting hundred civilian and rebel presidents will be released by pro-government forces and returned for the evacuation. a u.k. based investigative agency has obtained documents revealing an expensive lobbying effort by the u.a.e. and both russian and the u.s. spend watch report includes e-mails from an m r r t lobbying group trying to influence the baby sees coverage of the arab spring paul brennan has more. of a 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 bushes will stop british petroleum getting all concession in the law that was successful in extraordinary effort by the each actually to jaw 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 is flatly denied that it caved in to any political pressure. spin 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 deny 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. 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 u.s. 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 prevent the sort of influence which seems to have been exerted only on the risk of what's in the 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. still ahead on the hong kong political party first tree and another sign of a fall on the. a cinema fans in the south are. from the north. how the southwest monsoon is fully invaded now so on this side of your screen you just see the the white clouds that represent thunderstorms in pakistan the tri

everyone can show themselves not even east in iran but that's an unusual surge otherwise it's just draw and of course it's hot mid-summer but a few showers around the caspian sea them are going to others but i wouldn't.