risk she's accused of conspiring against the us government does alicia of evil traits of the national rifle association gun lobby group. at wednesday's court hearing the u.s. justice department successfully argued that maria booty know would be an extreme flight risk if released pending trial the judge agreed and ordered the twenty nine year old woman to be held without bond in court filings prosecutors allege who posed as a gun rights activists and gain access to the top tiers of u.s. conservative groups the powerful national rifle association was her primary target photo show with the n.r.a. is former president and other notables on the american right prosecutors say she gained access to conservative v.i.p.'s through a romantic relationship she struck with a top republican operative and in two thousand and fifteen buthe is believed to have interacted with none other than then presidential candidate donald trump at

a forum prosecutors say buton a acted as a russian agent under the direction of alexander torsion the deputy head of russia's central bank torsion is currently the target of u.s. sanctions for maligned activities pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy and failure to register as a foreign agent her attorney says she is innocent of all charges but the american government argues that this case shows the breath and the depth of russia's activities in an attempt to influence american politics. members of the thai football team who've been trapped in a cave for more than two weeks have attended a buddhist ceremony to rid themselves of misfortune. the beauty in the ceremony is believed to extend life and ward off danger the boys and their coach were released from hospital on wednesday a week after their dramatic rescue they'd been tweaking publicly for the first time

at a news conference which was broadcast live around the world they described the moment they were found as magical step plus a report from china i. thank the happy faces of what is now one of the world's most famous football clubs the wild boars can finally go home well no not for the performances on the pitch but for my regular survival and rescue from the pitch black of a cave in thailand. a try to go into the water and dig to see if we can go through but i could feel that the bottom was all sand and the top was just rocks a pulled the rope and the boys pulled me back afterwards i told one of the boys that we cannot exit this way and what was planned as a one hour visit to the cave turned into an ordeal for eighteen days and nights closely watched by news viewers around the world. we found a sunday hill and there was water dripping from cliffs and rocks so i told everyone

that we'd better stay near the water so we decided to spend the night there before we went to sleep i told him we should pray together before sleeping the youngest is only eleven years old maybe. i tried not to think about food otherwise i'd feel it in more hungry. after nine days they finally were found. and we heard some noises of people talking at that moment so we told each other to be quiet and listen to the noise we weren't sure so we listened and it turned out to be true i was surprised. a team of international divers finally managed to swim them to safety in what experts this cry by one of the most difficult and dangerous cave rescue operations ever remarkable stories of survival told by the boys and their coach for the first time with no food at all trying to hide any clean water they could drink all the time they were trying to find a way out as they became weaker and weaker by the day. the father of the fourteen

year old goalkeeper says he wants his life returned to normal as soon as possible i mean of course i am worried we can't see in the future but i will tell my boy when he returns to the normal world he may face things he has never experienced before i try to encourage him to make sure he will be ready to face this issues only speak about what he wants to say things that hurt him he should avoid the wild boars will all become a novice monks for a period of nine days to pay tribute to the former tiny baby diver someone who lost his life during their rescue. di artists have made this mural in chiang right to honor the extreme bravery and international teamwork of everyone who participated in the rescue operation after sharing their stories with the world the boys can finally go back home step fasten al-jazeera chiang rai. the organization

of american states has condemned the recent violence in nicaragua accusing the police and the pro-government militias of human rights abuses in the past week security forces are still major strongholds of anti-government protesters including in the city of messiah at least two hundred seventy people have been killed since the protests against president broke out in april marianna science has sent us this update from the capital managua the tensions mostly have been in the last twenty four hours in the city of messiah which is about forty five minutes all of the capital the city was under siege the entrances since yesterday were closed and they were blocked and their members of the of the police and paramilitary were shooting and. the objective of this was to leave to the road blocks that were set up in messiah and specially in the neighborhood of morning ball which which is

a neighborhood and emblematic neighborhood of the revolution here the people there were. against the government but now the vice president. who is the wife of president. announced that the everything was clear and that the roadblocks had been lifted and that peace had been restored in the neighborhood there however human rights organizations have not been able to go in some of them are we're being told have not been able to go in we understand there's been one woman killed and one policeman killed we don't know how many wounded or how many people have been arrested yet. lots more to come here and out there including girls of protests that say they'll keep flying their flaming kites and balloons despite the threat of israeli military reprisal. and the mission over unions after the first commercial flight in twenty is from ethiopia to eritrea.

hello hot sunny dusty and breezy those words apply quite happily for most of iran backs or iraq and beyond there is some cloud just run the periphery the edges of your screen which won't produce a shower to as far west as karate i think nothing much else temperature wise around about the thirty mark or more from the lebanese coast inland easily middle forty's in baghdad highs to when you run to the southern part of iraq and certainly southwestern iran where we see the highest temperatures in the world fairly typically at this time of year that the breeze a fairly steady north west leads picking up some days it comes down the gulf so bringing with it dust which affects q. way east inside the. but maybe more obviously is the amount of cloud that's just

to the side and that's the edge of the monsoon and it gives this beautiful view in salalah on the arm on the coast three months worth of cloud drizzle and of course rain flowing as water on the ground it's an annual thing but it's there in the forecast is there on thirty very obvious that cloud extend a long way down through the yemeni coast as well but otherwise there's nothing to accompany you come but further inland it's halts dry and dusty forty five ish in doha. capturing a moment in time snapshots of other lives other stories. providing a glimpse into some. inspiring documentaries passionate filmmakers everybody.

on al-jazeera. israel has passed a law that for the first time declares it to be the nation state of the jewish people. of the knesset. to build. and encourages the building of communities exclusively for jews. says he holds russian president vladimir putin personally responsible for meddling in the

presidential election this is the. language from the u.s. president has been criticized for failing to. members of the. blessed. me to protect them from danger they describe their rescue is a miracle and pay tribute to the former navy seal. sending burning kites into israel have every right to keep doing it. the israeli army is preparing for a large scale military offensive along a strip if the cuts continue to be flown. over the border fence towards israel through the government says they've set for.

destroying millions of dollars worth of crops. this protester insisted we hide his identity he's a member of a group calling itself the sons of. it's named after the man who helped hamas acquire drone technology and was assassinated in two musea in two thousand and sixteen and. we will not stop launching the balloons and kites until israel lift the siege the ball is in israel's court we don't decide whether there is a war and we are not afraid we have suffered in a war against this every day since israel started the blockade i was twelve years ago. israel responded to the kite and balloon flying protests over the weekend by targeting dozens of hamas positions the attacks were seen as the worst escalation of violence between hamas and israel since their war four years ago the sons of saudi describe themselves as a loose organization with around

a hundred members now i must say is that the youth of gaza have every right to protest in a way that it describes as nonviolent until israel looks the siege. a hamas spokesman told us the protests will continue despite israeli media reports of a large military operation being planned to stop them. the. first these cuts in balloons or a peaceful form of protest they used by protesters including young people they have the right to use all kinds of peaceful resistance along the border to demand a lifting of israel siege. at least one thousand five hundred civilians including five hundred children who killed in gaza during the two thousand and fourteen war protesters like this man who's actually supported by hamas and other armed factions in gaza say they won't stop despite israel's military threats channel strafford al-jazeera gaza. the syrian government has stepped up its bombing campaign on the

largest remaining rebel held city in the south of the country reportedly killing at least a dozen people the ground and air attacks on now are that in dara province came after negotiations with the rebels broke down on tuesday as forces have retaken nearly all of the province in an offensive that started early last month and meanwhile in the north of the country to besieged towns in italy a province they've now been evacuated after a deal was struck between opposition fighters and pro-government forces thousands of people have been passed out of full year and a fryer in the northwest these are shia towns and they've been under siege by sunni rebels for more than four years pro regime forces and their families are among those leaving and they're being taken to areas that are under government control in aleppo in exchange the government is expected to release hundreds of opposition

detainees. the first commercial flights in twenty years from ethiopia to eritrea has touched down in a smart to cheers and celebrations hundreds of people boarded the flight for emotional reunions with family separated by the long conflict the holiday ripples out from the therapy and capital addis ababa dignitaries journalists and businessmen board what if you opened a land schools it's but of peace it's the first flight from addis ababa to there to train capital last more of this century this is how. we. and the fact that we have nice shows in. there and that is that. the airline operated two flights within fifteen minutes of each other because of overwhelming demand the majority on board are people separated from their funds by

the board which began in one thousand nine hundred eighty. we caught up with that is hard to go a journalist with the state media as he packed his bags he was separated from his a chair wife and two daughters seventeen years ago she was forced to flee if the being sacked from her government job in ethiopia because of on this knowledge that he just got a good look at this and i will believe this is not a dream when i lived in asmara i had never imagined the possibility of peace between ethiopia and eritrea during my lifetime the weight and lack of communication with my family was painful i felt like i had an incurable disease us model becomes the one hundred fifteen for this the notion for if you have been ellen's which is also announced because of quiet twenty four seventh's of the little known at a friend's allies the road linking the two countries as a full function of a to evolve vehicles allowed to fly again. at

a train has agreed to grant access to its ports a boon for ethiopia which lost its main group to the sea with the outbreak of the wall twenty years ago if we started connecting our populations we have big market. by some token a chance with the push and soon the fifty so it's all hope that the opening of the port relaunching to penalized was not a good for the strings in the twenty first deals a bit of trip. to new ties with its much larger neighbor with a population of more than one hundred million people also raises the prospect of revival for a trade ailing economy many are now hoping the tricky excess. marketing the disputed border. quickly and smoothly as the process to normalize relations. a south korean court has ordered compensation be paid over the twenty fourteen say

wall ferry disaster all the three hundred people mostly schoolchildren drowned when the overloaded vessel capsized a group of victims' families filed a lawsuit against the government and the ferry operators saying they were liable for the disaster the court has ordered each family be paid about two hundred ten thousand dollars. the chinese president xi jinping is on his way to africa he'll make stops in senegal and rwanda before heading to south africa to take part in a summit of the world's five major emerging economies the brics china is investing heavily in africa both financially and militarily adrian brown has more from beijing. well this will be president xi jinping third visit to africa in less than six years that is a measure of just how important africa is to china right now he's going to be away for ten days the highlight of his african tour is probably going to be an address he's due to make of the brics forum in south africa brics of course comprises the

world's five leading developing economies that's brazil russia india china and south africa and given that china is now in broiled in a trade war with the united states it's fair to assume the president xi will deliver a robust defense of free trade and multilateralism which is something the brics believes in so he's going to be among allies and friends at brics africa has become hugely important to china it recently opened a military base in djibouti on the horn of africa where the united states also has a base china relies on african minerals to help fuel its economy and of course china is behind some of the biggest infrastructure projects in africa recently a new light rail system opened in nigeria that was paid for and built by china and of course china has hundreds or thousands of labor is in the country at the moment that's all helping china's g.d.p.

but we are starting to see a push back especially in places like kenya and ghana a feeling that after the china is in a sense acting out of self interest and is becoming more and more like an economic colonialist good will says it will appeal against their record five billion dollars fine handed to it by the european union the e.u. says the tech giant uses android operating system to cement the dominance of its search engine so you're ok again explains. a three year investigation and a record five billion dollars fine a steep penalty for google accused by the european union of abusing its power as they call it an entire sector in the phone market who has engaged in illegal practices to cement its time and market decision internet search it must purchase an effective end to these contacts within ninety days or face

a penalty payment at the heart of the issue is android the tech giants operating system for mobile phones used to more than eighty percent of the world's smartphones it is essential to google's future revenues it's easy to make fun of the video calls for to the european commission found google have blocked competition by forcing phone makers to pre-install services such as search engine and map software as a condition of using its operation system it also paid phone manufacturers incentives if they installed google search without rival services the case would seem to prove the point that there's no such thing as a free lunch when tech giants come bearing gifts and google is finding out to its cost it's having to concede this is already the case in countries such as china and russia the french government has welcomed the decision to stop it from squeezing out any rivals. google will have to change their practices in terms of licensing of

the virus and wrote software up occasions that in turn would have a considerable impact on their commercial policy google has said it will appeal against the decision it may only be a fraction of its revenue but the real challenge will be if the e.u. forces it to change its future behavior. paris. time for to take a look at the top stories here at. israel has passed a law that for the first time declares it to be the nation state of the jewish people arab members of parliament shouted a ripped up papers after the vote the bill downgrades the status of the arabic language and encourages the building of communities exclusively for jews donald trump now says he holds russian president vladimir putin personally responsible for moscow's meddling in the twenty six team presidential election it's the latest

shift in language from the us president he's been criticized for failing to confront peace in at the summit in finland. you agree with u.s. intelligence that. russia meddled in your sixteen years and i've said that before yes i have said that numerous times before and i would say that that is true but you haven't condemned putin specifically do you hold him personally responsible well i would because he's in charge of the country just like i consider myself to be responsible for things that happen in this country so certainly as the leader of a country you would have to hold him responsible yes members of the time football team who were trapped in a flooded cave for more than two weeks of being blessed in a buddhist ceremony to protect them from danger earlier they'd described their rescue as a miracle and paid tribute to the former tie a navy seal who died the organization of american states e.o.'s has condemned

recent violence in nicaragua accusing the police and pro-government militias of human rights abuses at least two hundred seventy people have been killed since protests against president danny almonte there broke out in april. the syrian government has stepped up its bombing campaign in the largest remaining rebel held city in the south of the country reportedly killing at least a dozen people the ground and air attacks on our province came after negotiations with the rebels. say president assad's forces have retaken nearly all of the province in an offensive that began early last month a south korean court has ordered compensation be paid over the two twenty fourteen seawall ferry. all the three hundred people mostly schoolchildren drowned when the overloaded vessel capsized the court has ordered victims' families be paid around two hundred thousand dollars each. today the headlines what. the i.m.f.

said riyadh's a break even price twenty eighteen is likely to be around eighty eight dollars a barrel why is argentina again turning to the i.m.f. for help now we bring you the stories of the economic world we live in counting the cost on al-jazeera.

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