political factions here in gaza calling people to turn up on the borders tomorrow and continue these protests hamas basically says that these protesters have every right to continue protesting using what it describes as normal violent means but certainly there is a lot of concern that israel may respond with what certainly the israeli media is reporting could well be a heavy military response the one media channel saying that the israeli government have given hamas a deadline to stop these balloon attacks and we understand that that deadline could end tomorrow. although trump has tweeted that he's looking forward to a second meeting with russia's president vladimir putin the u.s. president was widely criticized for failing to confront putin over russian election meddling during a summit on monday while the white house correspondent kimberly halkett joins us

now kimberly how are americans reacting to the latest wavering by the president when it comes to russian election interference in the u.s. elections obviously does it continue to dominate the conversation. it absolutely is dominating the conversation barbara if you look at some of the latest polling well the president continues to blame the u.s. media for fueling this rush of controversy when it comes to republican supporters they tend to be inclined to agree with the president blaming the media for what many across the aisle are pointing the finger at donald trump saying that he is responsible for what many have handed in terms of performance in helsinki having said all of that there has been renewed concern on capitol hill and there will be a vote shortly in the u.s. senate to restrain one of the proposals that was made in that press conference and that is the entertaining of the idea of exchange in exchange for the u.s. being able to question twelve russian intelligence officials that have been indicted by the special counsel robert muller there was this proposal put forward

by the russian president that the former u.s. ambassador to russia and also a wealthy businessman who has been indicted in abstention in russia has been a very vocal critic of lattimer putin that they should be extradited to russia now this is important because the white house press secretary was asked about this and wednesday seemed to entertain this idea this has outraged democrats on capitol hill but just in the last half hour barbara stick with me i know it's confusing but just in the last half hour the white house has now come out with a statement very forcefully saying that in fact this proposal made in sincerity by president putin is one that president trump disagrees with hopefully putin will have the twelve identified russians come to the united states to prove innocence or guilt guilt now the white house statement really is in contrast to what donald trump said when he first heard about this idea calling it an incredible offer put

forward by putin but now it seems after days of reflection the white house saying that that just simply won't happen. but obviously a lot of speculation continues about what actually happened in the meeting between donald trump and putin i guess even president from supporters and say he's not the kind of guy to sweat the details so to speak so how much do we know about what the president did know about election interference before he actually went into that meeting with vladimir putin. well certainly some of the president's statements have been a direct contrast to members of the administration most recently his department of homeland security secretary kiersten nielson who while the president has seemed to waver on whether or not he trusts the intelligence of his chiefs and whether he truly believes there has been meddling by russia in the twenty sixteen u.s. election he certainly was given a very detailed briefing we know as far back as january of two thousand and seventeen by the former f.b.i. director james comey by the former director of national intelligence james clapper

and also the former head of the cia john brennan they both said that not only was putin personally ordering the hacking he was personally authorizing that this information campaign we know existed in the twenty sixteen u.s. election still we know after that briefing donald trump came out issued a public statement saying that not only had russia been trying to discredit him and so discontent within the u.s. electorate but also he pointed the finger at russia or rather china and many other countries so certainly this is interesting because donald trump appears even back then as now to be reluctant to say that russia has been a major player despite overwhelming evidence presented in january twenty seventeen and still being presented by members of his own administration today the story of said to keep on rolling kimberly have our white house correspondent kimberly thank you. watching the al-jazeera news hour live from london still to come on the

program. the sound of gunfire is russian troops drive through a village in armenia the prime minister tells of his iraq it's a provocation. they're part of the world's most famous football team now but some of thailand's rescued boys still face the challenge being stateless plus. your truth doesn't matter you matter and you are not alone. the victims of the biggest sexual abuse scandal in sport receive an award for their courage in speaking out. footage showing one of the french president's top security officers beating a student protester in may that's triggered a fierce public backlash alexander was not on duty at the time but he was given permission to observe police operations so niggle reports now from paris.

was a violent crackdown to protest. but the man who took them isn't a police officer he's an example banana a former bodyguard and conti an aide to president mcconnell he was only given permission to observe the may day protest topple hosp says he was there and filmed the incident. i didn't recognize him at the time i thought i was filming an example of police brutality so i feel his face looked like he was worried about being recognized. and even the guy who was beating up on the floor my clothes in proximity to power may fall under the illusion that they actually wield it and what should have happened here is that mr bennett a lot also been reported to the police thought he wasn't and that's left many opposition politicians saying that it is one role for those close to mr mcconnell and another rule for the rest. but not was suspended from jus t.

for fifteen days but he was soon back working even accompanying the victorious french football team on the open top bus tour on monday the president has since been accused of a cover up he said little on the matter when asked by journalists on thursday really commenting that the french republic was steadfast. in and they were. leaving it instead to the prime minister to denounce banal as actions. that while he was authorized to observe he went beyond the status of the investigation will allow us to look at how and why this happened. the incident has so far reflected badly on president michael he has been careful about cultivating an image of a dynamic youthful leader but for his detractors it is yet another example of a president growing increasingly out of touch with that image something i go out

jazeera paris. armenia's prime minister nicole has criticized russia for carrying out a military exercise inside his country earlier this week he made the comments in an interview with al-jazeera foresty a walker who joins me now from a year or so robin tell us a little bit more what actually happened then why is this so sensitive. so this took place on the seventeenth which was back in chiefs on tuesday when the units from russia's one hundred second military base in the second city you know media fury i took part in the firing axes exercise in which they drove was seen driving their military trucks through local village and firing off automatic weapons now the deputy commander of the military base has since

apologized and we understand that the russian soldiers were only firing blanks not my friends but the questions being asked why the villages allege they were not informed about these military exercises and even if they were informed why they would have been taking place within a built up civilian area so when we spoke to the prime minister we also question. about armenia its relationship with russia with those military bases and what happened this week and it took quite a strong line on this is what he had to say. force provocation against the armenian independence for armenia so right into all of armenia and nod and dairies investigation that started it and i think that who is guilty for that incident should be punished. well then the prime minister question and called

it a provocation and what do you think he meant by that. yeah well it's it's also important to mention that he also said this was a provocation against russian media relations it's the russian i mean relationship and i think the reason why he pointed that out is because he's going to be reluctant to actually point the finger of blame. at the kremlin directly because russia and armenia have had a long history of working relationship here russia provides economic is an economic lifeline to armenia and most military bases have been here for some time russia acts as a kind of security guarantor for armenia. because of its war that armenia had with azerbaijan over nicole no care about. which is the territory students and i see recognize as belonging to azerbaijan that conflict could always potentially reignites an army as a difficult relationship with turkey as well borders

a closed on both sides with army with azerbaijan and but there have been incidents not just this one but in the past that have already made it difficult and it's to tensions between armenians and russians a few years ago to the one thousand nine were russian soldiers in a gunfight some children were killed in a landmine military base in this area and in twenty fifteen seven members of an armenian family was shot dead by russian conscripts so difficult relationship between unions and the military presence here a nickel question who has just come to power of the back of the velvet revolution. promising pick changes for all media has a very delicate balancing act to play he needs russia they need support and yet at the same time he wants to make changes here and they. this is sara lee that compatible with his roots with that relationship with russia he wants to introduce

liberal democratic reforms and he wants to tackle the oligarchic system here that has ties to the russian state so as i said this is this is a tough political situation i've been in passion and to be in from you need to be here with that relationship with with russia from been forced to walk away from this is that in the arab and robin thank you and you can see robin's full interview with nicole passion on saturday july the twenty eighth at four thirty g.m.t. on talk to al jazeera syrian state t.v. is reporting that ten buses of entered a village in connecticut province to begin ferrying rebel fighters in the north earlier isil government planes carried out air strikes in the province the spy be evacuation agreement reached with the opposition the area has been the focus of an intense aerial bombardment over the past few days. know why it is a retired jordanian air force general and the military analyst he says it's clear

the conflict in syria is coming to an end i think the only book at remain is the the ice the law book it which is between jordan syria and israel that's the area and i think they will reach an agreement to go to i think eastern syria the desert area which is east of holmes so this is there were otherwise there would be we wiped off with the russian airpower on the syrian forces so it is almost over now and by going to the accord of one nine hundred seventy four the buffer zone which is allowed the syrian army to go to that that's mean the hezbollah. is there old so the syrian air force can fly over the buffer zone according to the one nine hundred seventy four accord so. assad regime on control of the south was sincere.

media reports from eritrea suggest that troops are being withdrawn from the heavily militarized border with ethiopia it's the latest sign of improving relations between the neighbors the leaders of both countries signed a peace and friendship agreement earlier this month ending a twenty year state of war the eritrean embassy and reopened on monday and ethiopia has appointed. to every trail. british detectives are reported to have identified those responsible for poisoning a former russian spy and his daughter the press association says police have obtained security camera video of suspects thought to be russian planting a nerve agent said again you were poisoned with a nerve agent. in march the russian government has the night any involvement. will stay with us here on the news hour still to come on the anniversary of the revolution that propelled him to power nic i was president faces both internal and

external calls to step down the chinese movie that's forced the government to take action over access to cheaper cancer medication and in sports the basketball fights that's ended up casting costing rather both sides more than three hundred thousand dollars. welcome back let's look at weather conditions across advance in western parts of asia rosa requires across this region a moment yes it's hot but it's not a sox it has been. a chance of a little bit of lifted thus i don't think it's any great problem we have got a few showers around the caucuses on the southern side of the black sea but otherwise fine conditions finer on the eastern side of the mediterranean term which is close to thirty five by route through the next couple of days who. down to the

arabian peninsula temperatures in the low forty's for medina and mecca as they have been for recent days here in doha you look at highs about forty four degrees we will find additional wind picking up after the weekend but until then winds lie and probably on saturday humidity is likely be quite high let's move down into southern portions of africa where it's a largely fine picture to see from the satellite imagery so we're looking at fine conditions for k. ten there eighteen degrees and a fair amount of sunshine across the rest of the region not a great deal of change expect as we head on through into the start of the weekend for central parts of africa it's looking pretty lively we've got some big shows around the gulf of guinea and those showers extend a long way towards the west even wanted to thunderstorms i think over the course the next twenty four hours likely to affect mauritania. the pressure is on for fifteen thousand people posing an imminent threat to israel

use knives as they work to reform but top israeli diplomat a must people not palestinian the old garage no no they are the same thing that it does on the bay are sending them to die it's a cause coalitions and when they come and attack us it's a war zone he was attacking maybe his son goes head to head with danny and on what israel's doing is deliberately choosing to slaughter houses and al-jazeera. when people think of cuba they think of revolution but ivana is undergoing a new revolution in the field governance of the east and the golden age we're here to discover if those changes are reflected in the plea business q what is the q and future. russian owner i'm trying to bring more to david root a.j. it's on al-jazeera. here's

a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera arab lawmakers in israel have angrily protested the passing of a controversial bill which to clear israel the nation state of the jewish people critics say legalizes discrimination donald trump has rejected an offer by vladimir putin to allow twelve russians accused of election meddling to be questioned in return the russian president wanted to question u.s. citizens including former ambassador michael mcfaul armenia's prime minister has criticized russia for carrying out a military exercise inside his country earlier this week nicole says it was right

to armenia sovereignty. the organization of american states has condemned what it says a human rights abuses committed in nicaragua by police and pro-government civilians it's calling on president danielle if they get to agree a date for early elections or if they get meanwhile is preparing to celebrate the thirty ninth anniversary of the revolution which put him in charge of the country for the first time he ruled from one thousand seven hundred nine for eleven years before his return to power in two thousand and seven. reports now from the capital . thirty nine years ago. put side by side with the new law and other revolutionaries who toppled dictator anastasio. leaders of the sunday least the revolution the dreamed of a country free and democratic. he's now eighty two years old but in past or is

a staunch supporter of president that he not data has governed that i will for eleven consecutive years in three presidential terms. there are social projects food bonuses hospitals free health care that's the social economic and political transformation i fought for and that's what daniel was doing. inspired by ideals of social and economic justice got lost by you was a young urban guerrilla fighter but now he says the sandinistas have taken away his greatest love of his eighteen year old daughter. she was arrested i am frustrated because as young people we are dreamers idealists we dream that our country will be a paradise. but godless and all these families here are waiting for their children to be freed from jail human rights organizations say hundreds of people have been detained in the past three months of protest some of them are here at the prison

and they could be charged to twenty years in prison under the new anti-terrorism law. but biggest government says it is fighting terrorist groups that want to overthrow the democratically elected government. but rights defender says he's desperate or now they think that after you know now that the july nineteenth celebration of the revolution is on i think he wants to show that he holds all the power with everyone celebrating him but he's desperate you know he's he's got everything against him. but for a revolutionary like it or to go and his government have been exemplary at the very liberal gilmore you know i thought i was going to die in peace watching this triumphant revolution and thinking that if we were on the same path for ten more years would have immigrants coming here to work would be the envy of the region. now and. that our ones are in the deepest social and political crisis since the

revolution i'm certain of what will come. the us green party is holding its annual national convention in new time over the next four days hoping to capitalize on public dissatisfaction with the republican and democratic parties the greens policies sit well to the left of america's two mainstream parties they support greater access to education renewable energy noninterventionist foreign policy and higher taxes on the rich their two thousand and sixteen candidate as jill stein is a lifelong environmentalist and political activist who's been a vocal critic of both major parties she won barely one percent of the vote in the election but importantly should took votes away from hillary clinton in several midwestern states which donald trump won by

a razor thin majority well chris salumi is live in salt lake city for us where the green party convention is taking place well i guess with one percent of the vote there are likely to be major players any time soon in the u.s. about out what is their convention focusing on now. well they want to advance their agenda and change the direction of the country capitalizing on the. anti-establishment party sentiments in the united states right now and they are planning to announce some national and local candidates over the weekend coming up and put them out in the national stage and they feel like they really do have a. platform and an opportunity now to make a difference despite their small numbers this is a third party and what is essentially a two party system here in the united states their numbers are relatively small but they are getting a lot of attention and to talk more about that now i'm joined by the co-chair the

national co-chair of the green party gloria i'm a tara thank you so much for joining us i know you're a candidate yourself in new york a lot of people look at the greens as more left leaning democrats just simply more progressive democrats but i know jill stein the presidential candidate had a lot of criticism for the democrats as well so how would you respond to that are you just simply more progressive democrats where democrats we are the green party people are members of the party in many states in terms of registering as a green party member some states don't have that opportunity just because of the draconian electoral laws we are. i wouldn't even say where more progressive democrats we are left of the democrats we are independent we believe in transformational politics we take no corporate money which is very different than any of the other corporate parties and we really are a party where you can be

a member you can influence you can dialogue you can make decisions locally regionally and national grassroots is the word that is often brought up with the green party chris the challenge of that is taking on these other parties with such big money you know the criticism you're going to split the opposition to president trump the democratic vote will be. diluted if you will would you gain more in advance your issues more if you worked more with the democrats in your candidates working with the democrats first i'd like to point out that the green party candidates on the presidential level have never influence the election terms of spoiling or deciding who might be elected one thing you can go back from two thousand and do the math but the other really thing is that people don't democrats republicans they seem to think with their corporate money that votes belong to them votes voters should vote what they want their conscience their vision but let me interrupt because people would say in michigan and wisconsin the number of votes

that went to joel stein had they went to hillary clinton would have been enough for her to win the state i think that's kind of a basic kind of too basic of an argument there is the electoral college there's a fact that clinton did win there's a fact that democrats corporate democratic candidates for president going back from al gore actually refused to stand up for their party and for winning an election by the popular vote is only the green party that is actually said we're looking into voter fraud whether it's democrats republicans a state locally nationally and i feel that we people want a third party they want a different party independent of the two corporate parties probably the. anywhere from sixty five sixty to seventy five percent of young people in particular are saying that this is what we need in this country and we're here to offer that core of a tariff from the green party thank you so much for joining us and as you just mentioned there are some surveys that suggests that millennial is in particular are very keen

on having a third party option. clearly also we've learned that the greens are fighting not only the policies of donald trump they really want to take on the entire two party system in the establishment system the opening ceremonies getting under way here in just a couple hours time will be back with more of what the green party stands for and what they are hoping to accomplish in the upcoming election we'll check in with you later for the moment chris and salumi in salt lake city thank you. for all of the members of the thai football team rescued from a cave are stateless but they're not alone nearly seven hundred thousand people in thailand are stateless including one hundred fifty thousand children although they're now treated as heroes by the authorities and were invited to appear on national t.v. they barely have rights in thailand step vasant reports of the most northerly tip of thailand the hometown of the wild boars the football team trapped in a cave for eighteen days nothing more than

a small river device may sight from neighboring myanmar. like many other members of ethnic minorities in this border region for members of the team are stateless go check up old chum to won't cross into thailand to look for a better education after his parents from the shan minority died. the twenty five year old is seen as the man who taught the boys how to survive in the cave. they all gave blessings at a local temple i am happy to be home i was finally able to sleep well last night despite a night of rest his future status is uncertain born in myanmar he doesn't qualify for thai citizenship which makes work and travel difficult nearly seven hundred thousand people in thailand are stateless including hundred fifty thousand children an organisation who promotes education for people in the highlands visit schools in an effort to help kids such as me pull them out. i really want to tie

citizenship because when i graduate i want to continue my education i want to get a job so i can send money for my siblings to go to school in myanmar i'm the eldest of seven children i want all of them to have an education like me. the plight of the stateless children is in the spotlight since a team's dramatic rescue. i was happy to say that the stateless boys weren't treated any differently to the others some people were suggesting they should have been taken out of the cave last choice tyo non time we all have the same human rights that's far from reality for most other stateless children many growing up without their parents for five instincts part of you to do the fighting spirit of the sadist members and the wild boars for buffy from an early age they learned how to deal with hardship and survive in a country that doesn't officially accept them now many hope we haven't face to face

that chance and hope to be rewarded citizenship the local district chief says he has yet to receive the applications for citizenship and they will only be successful if they were born in thailand and have birth certificates so while the team spirit of the wild boars has become stronger after the cave or deal some players won't have the same rights as their teammates any time soon step fastened al-jazeera may for a long north thailand. china's premier league china has called for cancer medication to be made cheaper after the release of a film which for the issue to mainstream attention in china dying to survive has been a huge box office hit as adrian brown reports now from beijing well this is a film that's really struck a chord here in china and this is one of the many cinemas in beijing that is now showing dying to survive some reviewers say that it's destined to become china's movie of the year it is based on the real life story of

a chinese shopkeeper who imports drugs from india to sell at a profit to leukemia patients here in china who can't afford to buy those drugs in china at first he's in it for the money but gradually compassion creeps in as he realizes all their lives could be saved so what impact has this film had on people who've seen it all and i cried many times the feel me is very a list it is shows many problems about the medical care system in china. many ordinary people cannot afford expensive medicine i can feel their desperation this is a sensitive subject because cancer it's estimated claims the lives of some four million people a year in china it is the country's biggest killer and some medical experts attribute some of those cancers to the sort of pollution we have in beijing today pollution that also afflicts other towns and cities across china dying to survive has now

caught the attention of china's premier league who has said more has to be done to improve treatment for cancer patients in china it is an acknowledgment that inequality exists in china's health care system the issue has now started a big debate online but for now the censors appear to be holding off. modern day slavery in rich countries is far higher than previously thought that's according to the latest global slavery index the report from the walk free foundation says more than forty million people across the world are living in slavery and the gallagher reports now from the u.n. headquarters in new york forced to work against their will on any given day across the world millions of modern day slaves toil in fields in factories seventy percent of them are estimated to be women and children the problem isn't restricted to developing nations according to the walk free foundation researchers say despite

strict laws slavery is a growing problem in the world's wealthiest nations the numbers of modern day slavery a much higher in reached developed countries like the united states like the united kingdom but my home country a strain of the numbers of modern day slavery in those wealthy countries is much higher than the previously understood the study also says that north korea is the slave capital of the world and to an estimated two point six million forced laborers for this latest report fifty defectors were interviewed forty nine of them say they suffered some form of slavery are there is children or adults going to the thing that sets them apart is that they don't really understand what's being done to them because they're told this is the way to live this is just how things are. on the high street to the impact of modern day slavery is a growing issue will free foundations save billions in at risk goods that use forced labor of flooding the market every single thing that.