i mean. it's been a painful battle because we have confronted an opt in spear is he financed by internal forces that we know and external forces that we have identified as well. i'm happy enough to train months of how to spend even some is of this nation i celebrate the use of revolution.

the protesters are. more. to. give him back the rights to retire to the children he's given education to all the families to. the rices has divided families who predicts them say that what they want to topple a dictator has turned into a dictator himself but others people the support say that a lot of that they have a lot to thank him and that he should stay up until two thousand and twenty one were still ahead on al-jazeera. i plan to just continue to draw and to continue to try to speak truth to power. and american hearts and history says he was fired for us and our work fights back and. a fierce public backlash after one

of french president's top aides leading up protest. i. mean the weather sponsored by cattle. welcome back let's look at weather conditions across the levant and western parts of asia it's a fine picture in this region at the moment bit of a breeze picking up down through rice that could be some dust issues around but generally it's fine conditions still we have some showers across the caucuses there still pretty potent but likely to get no worse during the course of the weekend we were on the eastern side of the mediterranean weather conditions are looking fine beirut sunny and twenty nine degrees in the arabian peninsula temperatures only in the low forty's for between america and riyadh whereas here in doha we've got to forty four degrees as

a nice one but the winds are going to stay quite light see community fairly high but it will get a developing cheer in the course of the early part of next week so expect that humidity to drop forty three is our expected high on saturday moving down into southern parts of africa here it's a fine picture sunshine in capetown highs of eighteen some patchy cloud along the coast of mozambique and also on the eastern side of madagascar where there could be the odd shower but otherwise is largely sunshine all the way twenty and a bright lusaka moving into central parts of africa we have some showers across down and towards the gulf in the region we're looking at some pretty heavy rain across parts of west africa by mccomb ali is like to see some showers. the weather sponsored by cattle. remarkable portrait of a remote japanese village in the aftermath of the two thousand and eleven earthquake and tsunami. seventy years later how has the community of meow

cole been able to move on and rebuild their lives. japan two mouth of a catastrophe on al-jazeera. watching al-jazeera let's recap the top stories for you now the white house says president trump wants to host russian leader vladimir putin in washington but then months that is despite the controversy surrounding their meeting in helsinki. thousands of syrian shia civilians and fighters have arrived in government held areas after at least three years under siege by sunni rebels and it looked province hundreds of

rebel prisoners are expected to be released by the government and return. was president in ortega has denounced the recent violence in the country as an attempted coup and made the remarks at a rally celebrating the thirty ninth anniversary of the sandinista revolution point three hundred people have been killed in months of anti-government protests. two hundred million dollars in compensation will be paid to the families of people killed in a south korean ferry disaster the court ruling though hasn't been welcomed by everyone as foreign salute reports from seoul. the say well disaster caused months of mourning the ferry was on a routine voyage off the southwest coast of south korea when it capsized four years ago three hundred four people mostly students on a school trip were killed grief turned to anger when investigators found the vessel was structurally unsound overloaded and capsized because it was speeding as it

changed course for the first time a court in seoul acknowledged the government's liability and audit the state and the ferry operator to pay around two hundred ten thousand dollars to each family relatives say the judge's ruling doesn't go far enough. we are not pleased that the court has acknowledged liability we take it as a matter of course we wanted the court to explicitly state what this country had done wrong and to what extent the company should be responsible for their actions not whether or not they were guilty the civil lawsuit was brought by the relatives of one hundred eighteen victims they had rejected the government's earlier offer of compensation because they wanted a legal ruling on the government's liability. suits advice on evidence and we had difficulty providing liability with the information we could gather such a simple media reports so we needed further objective evidence from the relevant institutions such as a special investigation committee the say was sinking caused whitebread outrage not

just over poor safety standards but also to the president at the time for his slow response that provoked the largest ever protests in south korea which eventually led to him pietschmann last year florence italy al-jazeera egypt's president is in sudan looking to smooth over tensions about water security in disputed border regions things have been strained between the two nations particularly over the construction of a hydroelectric electric dam on the nile victoria the reports. this is president abdel fattah el-sisi fifth visit to sudan since he came to power four years ago analysts say it was hastily arranged his next trip to khartoum had been shed jeweled full oct aus before c.c.s. arrival the sudanese government banned international media from covering the two day visit it said it was mirroring action taken by the egyptian government during president omar al bashir his visit to cairo in monch the talks will focus on the

controversial grand renee sounds dam project in ethiopia egypt fear is it will significantly reduce the amount of water flowing downstream in the river nile but the she has been a supporter of the project. we have to have complete coordination between ourselves in order to support any joint strategic projects or policies in any sphere political economic and cultural. there's also tension over a border territory known as the how the yap triangle the oil a mineral rich area is claimed by both sides and sudan wants egypt to hand over control its demanding united nations mediation i did. this visit god willing will be very useful we have wasted many years but now we need to move forward in a different way. egypt is one of four countries that have cut diplomatic ties with cattle both sides have been courting support from african states i think

a more sinister. approach might save some. some c. b. because of the same time. the soldiers were in the four agreements with some cities being the sudan has remained neutral during the g.c.c. diplomatic crisis and they say visit may be part of a cool plans with other nations victoria gave him be al-jazeera human rights watch as accuse cameron security forces and armed separatists of committing abuses against residents of its english speaking regions the group is warning that the situation is at a crisis level than in cameron's western angle phone areas feel marginalized by the french speaking government protests turned to violence in late two thousand and

sixteen after a heavy handed response from the authorities here in rights watch says angle phone separatists avick store did kidnap and kill civilians as well as prevented children from going to school government forces are accused of killing civilians torturing suspected separatists and setting fire to hundreds of homes more than one hundred eighty thousand people have been displaced by the conflict since december two thousand and six chain on the panel is an emergency is research and human rights watch says the violence is pushing more people into armed groups. right now we are at the tipping point when it comes to decide to asian india and the phone regions of cameroon this is a situation that has been brewing for two years now we have groups of separatists that are becoming stronger by the day receiving support from the diaspora from abroad who have a very strong sense of what they want independence for camps for the english speaking regions of cameroon and on the other hand we have

a government that is responding to the security situation in the extremely problematic manner using scorched earth tactics that have been pushing in fact the population towards armed separatists towards the more extreme factions so this is really problematic moment in the history of cameroon the elections are coming up in a few months and this is quite honestly a very worrying situation for us france is the latest country to send help to sweden where local crews are struggling to get on top of about forty wild fires flames are being fueled by severe hot dry weather affecting the entire nordic region sleekness called on european countries to help control the fires as it battles its worst drought in more than seventy years. but u.s. emerged showing one of french president's top aides beating up a protester the aide wasn't reported to police after the incident and that has

triggered a fierce public backlash so i got reports from paris. was a violent attack on two protest is but the man who took them isn't a police officer he's an example banana a former bodyguard and currently an aide to president 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 so he didn't guy who was beating up on the floor close in proximity to power may fall under the illusion that they actually wield it and what should have happened is that mr bennett a lot also been reported to the police but he wasn't and that's left many opposition politicians saying that it is one role for those close to mr mack as

another rule for the rest. but not was suspended from duty for fifteen days but he was soon back working even accompanying the victorious french football team on the open top bus tool 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. and. leaving it instead to the prime minister to denounce banal as actions i don't get that why he was authorized to observe he went beyond the status of the. will 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 his detractors it is yet another example of a president growing increasingly out of touch with that image. paris

spain has dropped its european arrest warrant for former president carlos perched on a private they say the judge made the decision after a german court agreed to extradite but only on the charge of mrs misuse of public funds and not on more serious charge of her belly and the charges relate to catalonia fail secession bid last october all six are still abroad and they'll be detained if they return to spain. european commission has warned member nations and businesses to prepare for a no exit in case the u.k. crashes out of the block with no trade agreement or the biggest sticking point is the border between northern ireland part of the u.k. and the republic of ireland and a new state british prime minister theresa may has a visited talking about ways to avoid customs and other friction over the border when the u.k. is to leave early next year and the u.k.'s new secretary has been meeting with the

michel barnier in brussels. certain weeks left before the october your friend comes from. during these three short time we have two things to do we must finalize the reason the rug remained and we are not yet their. documents. we must prepare for forty two celtic operation on our future russian ship i've come out today to discuss and the detailed proposals that we've got in our white paper that you will see and i'm looking forward to with renewed energy viggo and been looking at the details of all of this says michelle has told us the clock is ticking and so i'm looking forward to intensify heating up the negotiations and making sure we're in the best position to get the best still last month a major u.s. newspaper fired editorial cartoonist rob rogers after his publisher rejected the

artist cartoons critical of president on a truck adams cartoons are on display at the corcoran gallery of art in washington d.c. where roger spoke to al-jazeera about his work and freedom of the press my name is rob rogers i am an editorial cartoonist now freelance from pittsburgh pennsylvania i've been drawing professionally for thirty four years nine years at the pittsburgh press and then twenty five years the pittsburgh post gazette editorial cartooning the purpose to me is to be provocative and thought provoking and to be edgy it's meant to be. a way to to get a point across to continue a conversation about a certain issue but also i think it's a vehicle to point out injustice. in the past the publisher mostly stayed out of the business of dictating what what i would draw and actually so did so did the

editor in march of twenty eighteen the publisher promoted keith burress who. was the editorial page editor in toledo at our sister newspaper and so over the last three three months that i was there he managed to kill one thousand cartoons were ideas in that short time and and a normal year for me would be two or three never in my all my thirty four years of being a cartoonist have i ever experienced the kind of censorship that they were putting on me the reason this is different is because it seems like it's influenced by the politics of the day which is you know trump trump telling everybody that you know it's fake news or that or that the the media is the enemy to have the newspaper as the watchdog somebody that it's sort of keeps check on the people in power is still very important and when the people that run the newspaper decide no

we're going to give this guy a pass and we're going to write complimentary things about him then that becomes very dangerous i plan to just continue to draw and and to continue to try to speak truth to power and. to to try. afflict the comfortable i love my job and even though i don't have a newspaper anymore i will continue to do it because it's something that i really believe thousands of. hero and anime fans of all shapes and sizes are descending on the u.s. city of san diego for comic-con the biggest comic book convention in the entire world it started in the seventy's as just a comics watch me now takes in one hundred thirty thousand visitors over its four day run this year is highlights include the introduction of the first female for the cult t.v. show dr who. al-jazeera

these are the top stories right now the white house says president trump wants to host russian leader vladimir putin in washington within months that is despite the controversy surrounding their meeting in helsinki a structure of national intelligence john coates was surprised by the news of trump's invitation to putin as he learned about it during a conference. say we have some breaking news the white house has announced on twitter that is coming to the white house in the fall. so what we do i. owe. you. an imprudent. ok. that's going to be special i think of the european union has expressed concern about a new israeli law that defines the country as the nation state of the jewish people

it makes hebrew the sole official language in downgrades arabic to having special status palestinians describe the law is racist and verging on apartheid. thousands of syrian civilians and fighters have arrived in government held areas after at least three years being under siege by sunni rebels and in the province hundreds of rebel prisoners are expected to be released by the government and return. to iraq as president daniel ortega has denounced the recent violence and violence in his country as an attempted coup he made the remarks at a rally celebrating the thirty ninth anniversary of the sandinista revolution only three hundred people have been killed in months of anti-government unrest. european commission has warned e.u. states and businesses to prepare for the possibility of a new deal breck's it in case the u.k. government fails to negotiate an agreement comes as prime minister theresa may visits northern ireland which is part of the u.k. its border with southern ireland which is a member of the e.u. is one of the biggest roadblocks in the exit negotiations. and those are the

headlines the news continues keep an eye on al-jazeera the stream is up next. and you're in the stream now live on al-jazeera and you tube i'm going to have a dean today we're diving into three stories that really have our community talking

we begin in washington d.c. where the fallout continues following u.s. president donald trump's historic meeting until thank you this week with russian president vladimir putin there is even more confusion about what president trump believes or does not believe about russian interference in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. presidential election on monday and how think he'd trump would not say if he believes u.s. intelligence officials assessment that russia meddled in his country's election and election he won his misstep sparked admonition from both democrats and republicans and put the white house on the defensive so on tuesday he attempted to correct the error. and you realize that there is a need for some clarification it should have been obvious i thought it would be the is but i would like to clarify just in case it was in a key sentence in my remarks i said the word would instead of would. have said should have been i don't see any reason why i would or why it would be rushed.

but latest twists have seen president trump at odds with his aides and that one point with himself joining us to discuss the fallout and how the white house and the president are handling it is al-jazeera has very own white house correspondent kimberly how cut welcome to this stream kimberly i want to start with a tweet where else president trump's twitter feed this was tweeted july eighteenth just this wednesday so many people at the higher end of intelligence love to my press conference putin and i discussed many important subjects at our earlier meeting we got along very well with truly bothered many haters who wanted to see a boxing match big results will come really has the president in your mind and based on your reporting and poll numbers that you've seen has he convinced voters here that he takes allegations of russian interfere and seriously i think there's been widespread concern by both democrats and republicans about the president's

sort of wavering back and forth with his reluctance to accept the intelligence very prominent well respected not just members of the u.s. government but also members of his own administration that's been concerning to members on capitol hill in fact so much so we've seen just even here in washington on thursday a vote in the senate and what's so interesting about this vote is that it was unanimous what they were voting on is something that was discussed behind closed doors between lattimer putin donald trump in helsinki have been very concerning to members of congress and this is the idea that there could be this exchange back and forth between the united states and russia where russia could essentially question two u.s. citizens a former u.s. ambassador and also u.s. businessmen fact one that they haven't convicted in absentia of corruption and in exchange the united states would get to question twelve russian intel. since

officials with regard to them being indicted by the special counsel robert muller well this is just outraged members of congress particularly democrats who say subjecting diplomats to what they've called putin study is an abuse of power so they voted in the senate ninety eight to zero to make sure that never happens what we're seeing is this pushback by the against the president by the legislative branch and in a divided america this is really stunning and kimberly to your point you know a divided america there are so many divisions between the different branches of government and also between the people and a lot of people asking the questions about loyalty who is donald trump loyal to a.g. flora's for example saying at the helsinki summit trump revealed his loyalty is to himself above all else and aligning himself with putin over his own intelligence community trump demonstrated his willingness to throw america under the bus in pursuit of self preservation and completely self preservation is hardly an unusual pursuit for politicians but in this case is this really the watershed moment it's

been made out to be trump said that it's a shame there's even a little bit of a cloud over his election you know kind of tying his election to the russian investigation is this is this a pivotal moment certainly there are many in the united states that believe it is often we can't tell without a little bit more distance what i can tell you is significant donald trump reverting to his standard playbook and that is to blame the fake news media for the negative coverage that you know whether you're liberal or conservative in the united states most people have this being an example of where the president bast was out early unprepared for that very very pivotal meeting when you take into context the historical significance of a u.s. president and a russian president standing side by side given the history of the two countries being adversaries there was no question that the president should have prepared for the conversation and showed that he wasn't so in terms of self preservation donald

trump we know from his presidency has this need. need to be accepted well liked when things go wrong instead of looking inward reflecting and improving upon listening to his communications team taking the advice of his director of national intelligence saying there still is russian interference something that was underscored again on thursday by his department of homeland security secretary he instead lashes out this is because default setting he's continuing to do this blaming the media blaming those of that lack the higher intelligence he believes in order to understand the complexities of the nuances but we all saw it for ourselves the president messed up and now he's in damage control mode the white house has been doing so for four days and so can really the question on i think a lot of people's minds in the international community is is it working or will it have an effect on his base. well we have poll numbers that tell us exactly that and so far no i think what's interesting to note is that the president is essentially blaming the media for what happened to the perception that this did not go over

well and republican supporters overwhelmingly agree with the president i think the reason that some of this exists and we have to look at some of the gallup poll numbers going into the helsinki press conference and some of it russia doesn't register on the radar of the ordinary american voter the same way issues like the economy do the same way immigration does and governance at the end of the day we have to look at why donald trump was selected it's because there's dissatisfaction with the system there's no transparency accountability and capitol hill is to blame for much of that but we've not yet addressed that underlying issue and so this continues and perpetuates and can really when you talk about this continuing and perpetuating looking at the international perspective on all of this what about the future i mean casey on twitter saying what does the rest of the world think of the fact that produce is a pathological liar who counted to a russian dictator and is now considering sending a u.s. diplomat to russia for interrogation what does this do when president trying to cast so much doubt on this specific case whether russian interfered in the u.s.

election. when there are future elections around the world at stake whether in chechnya or whether elsewhere around the world certainly the the u.s. relationship with its allies is changing in large part because of the relationship with donald trump we've seen many of his policies being very insular he was elected on an america first platform he certainly is doing that on a myriad of issues immigration and trade this is no exception but certainly it leaves allies nervous looking for other pathways because there is no longer this belief internationally that the u.s. can be trusted and counted on when it comes to lying politicians well let's be honest it's probably not the first politician that hasn't told the truth when it comes to u.s. presidents we've got a lot of examples of that but certainly it is egregious and i think if anything and i've certainly said this a number of times what donald trump has done is he has awakened a rather reluctant electorate one that's been a little bit. lazy to it for lack of

a better word so the fact that there is engaged now maybe the best thing so far to come out of this presidency looking towards the november elections in congress that's where there is the real opportunity to be for there to be change and for voters to be engaged and yet so much more new before we get to that november day we will how. we can bring it all we have to follow the conversation there thank you kimberly to see more of what she's covering at the white house including a look at what it's like in the west wing follow her on instagram her handle is that can really help cut d.c. . turning to haiti where al jazeera correspondent gabriel elizondo has been using his instagram account to show some of his reporting on the recent protests there haiti's prime minister has resigned following days of violent demonstrations sparked by the government's decision to raise fuel prices the protests started on friday july sixth after officials announced an increase in prices of up to fifty percent and joining us to talk about this from port au prince economist cousin or

for al and in new york gabriel who just returned from covering the unrest in haiti welcome everyone gabe i want to start with you. know on twitter is something this up in a sense saying i was there in haiti for five days and there was no electricity in my part of town those five days and i was in port au prince after the earthquake in two thousand and ten they didn't give electricity for weeks so the haitian people need a break from the corruption that has plagued our country and you know we've heard from many different people raising these kinds of issues more long term concerns but then fed lee went to this saying that thirty percent hike on gas is a death blow in haiti it would would be like you know if gas prices in the u.s. went to five dollars a gallon could you can text realize this for us why did this happen. yeah listen i mean it's it's this gas hike is more than just a simple hike on gas because it affected all of haitian society it was a hike on gasoline a hike on diesel fuel and also and this is key fifty percent hike on kerosene now

you say why is kerosene important because millions of haitians rely on kerosene to power their homes because of a lack of electricity so you say ok kerosene let's just say it's two dollars per liter i'm just picking that number there it's somewhere around there let's say goes up by fifty cents oh really isn't is that really enough to take the streets and riot well you know what if you're one of the more than six million haitians that lives on less than two dollars a day the simple fifty cent increase in kerosene that powers your home is a big deal and that's why we saw this spiral like the way it did in the gasoline of course affects primarily the business community that have trucks that they use to move their products around the diesel fuel so it affected the middle class it affected the business community and it also. the poor what the kerosene did if this would have gone through east. kassner you hear gabriel there explain how

a gas price hike could lead to the fall of a prime minister i pulled up this headline here from al jazeera dot com haiti prime minister jacques uniform thought he resigns after days of protests i'm wondering in your perspective what you think the mood is like now because of course we saw the protests the violent at times what's the atmosphere what is there still tension and history. the mood is much better one week. i said what. did i see but i can tell you is that there was by that time management because the prime minister. one week after and under pressure from the parliament and also from what i would say in government is read when. it was in his party but you know what do. people use eat and why is that cause only thirty percent of the population. in study person concentrated in the west and.

so by thanking the killers in much more than the gas i mean if you would look at it and say so i did what i consider what is much better but you still having some i could say the consensus is government president is trying to get in touch with other people. it's interesting you know the more we learn about what's actually happening on the ground this is often being framed as well and a historic kind of contacts we have a street from family actually again saying that the international audience should really realize that the haitian people have been taken advantage of for years the government elected takes advantage of the international community takes advantage of them the french took advantage of them. you know with this latest incident this decision even who is really staged again and who is being taken advantage of if

anyone. well that's a big question you have about an hour after. i wish you knew there were a whole another series of tweets asking emanuel mccrone for example to actually step in and you know kind of live up to his part of the bargain right i mean listen that's a that's kestner can probably answer that better than i can but i would say that this is just to give a little context on this gas price hike or proposed one guess who proposed the international monetary fund because haiti interdict to a deal with the i.m.f. in february of this year the deal was this the i.m.f. said we're going to help you get ninety six billion dollars much needed funds that money was going to come from the world bank the i d b and the e.u. in exchange though the i.m.f. told eighty we want you to do several things one of which is raise the price of gasoline because the gasoline prices according to the i.m.f. were too low and haiti was losing income because they were subsidizing gasoline so

this all stems from the i.m.f. so really pushing haiti quite frankly to adopt this plan the haitian government knew it was going to be wildly unpopular and so you do you know why or i'm sorry when the haitian government decided to announce this you'll never guess in the middle of a brazil world cup game why then because the vast majority of haitians love brazil they love brazilian football and they were all watching the world cup game so the government thought that they were going to announce this maybe people won't notice it turns out that wasn't the case it went all over social media as soon as the game was over brazil lost people took to the streets very upset and there you go the rest is history and we're seeing we're seeing themes from that day on our screens right now castor taking this back to the world bank the i.m.f. and of course having people online point the fingers there saying yes there's corruption our country but where does the actual guilt lie i'm wondering what your

take on that. is this a deal that the haitian government should have entered into in the first place. the police. much more complete get used to all the media price includes. some big government and what you can call the good of the leadership my way because the government was something that we had made for the last year and that the making. and the going to go to the will. of the public looks like we might have just lost caste ne'er he's coming to us from port au prince and that does often happen to gabriel he was talking about a point that you know our community is pointing the finger is that i imagine the world bank. yeah they really are and i mean this in the haiti has a long relationship with international donors so that's no surprise there but what

what kestner was saying when he got cut off or what i think he was saying was this is more than just the gas price hike or proposed gas prices this is more than simply the i.m.f. it's easy in one way just to point the finger at the i.m.f. the world bank but you talk to almost all haitians it looks like you got cast in that that's great right you point to all haitians and they usually mention one thing and correct me if iraq is corruption i don't permit corruption because and just because you bring up corruption i'm wondering the type type if we type politicians to these concerns are haiti right now we have a tweet saying is owned by the i.m.f. donations meant to aid charities went to salaries and administration but then we have asking will the resignation of the prime minister bring a reduction of fuel prices your thoughts cousin or. i think. for like the next. problems it was a subsidy that they get. one hundred sixty million dollars.

in the losing one of the fifty million dollars like. losing one hundred million million dollars also from the subsidies. million dollars. only two point five billion. mismanagement. that's what i was. surprised but also in. the. obviously that conversation is not going to and here but we're thankful that you both joined us cousin or for gabriel is on you and if you're not following him already that is gabriel you can follow him of course on instagram as handel's gabriel died and we end in iraq where

a wave of protests across the south of the country have now expanded how does their correspondent emraan hashmi is on the ground covering the story the demonstrations which began in basra entered a second week in despite the government's attempt to contain the unrest at least eight people have been killed in clashes with security forces joining us from baghdad to discuss the growing protests is al jazeera correspondent and racan welcome back to the stream emraan i'm starting with a piece that you wrote for the out there website iraq struggles with economic energy crisis as protests spread this july eighteenth how long has this tension been building and buster. i was actually building for the last fifteen years has been severely underdeveloped when it comes to electricity infrastructure but what's up these talks with the fact that the iranian government supplies it just so cut off supplies because the iraqi government. won't point five billion

dollars in unpaid bills now who just came out on the street with me it's just difficult itself they didn't blame the iranians claims when you brought government words saying that this was another. incompetence and corruption that those bills were paid and that they are now suffering be anger you can see. just below that and it's been a very long time in the making now what we also saw was the protests is really asking for to keep things they want and it lets you see credit courses but they also want the economic reforms school buses the oil of iraq it's all producing region but they blame the foreign oil companies reporting for work is not local iraqis they say that's having an in there as well so like you say very long to make however it was only stopped in the last two weeks of the government's very worried about this very worried. right place like back to it's it becomes widespread

movement. in iran we have a lot of people commenting on twitter dot and highly for example about the corruption and some of what you brought up saying widespread corruption fraud and embezzlement in both public and private sectors alongside with mis allocation and mis i proposed the appropriation forgive me of public funds are the two main reasons behind the lack of development and work opportunities in iraq alley says only people that are connected to political parties can get jobs and this violates the equality of opportunity you touched on some of that but you know how big a problem is not that ism and some of these allegations of corruption. you know you have to osca any iraqi what it's like to try to get anything done you know basic things like getting your possible done and they will talk to about what's that they need instant somebody to help them get it done it's almost a way of life many iraqis are used to it but they're getting more and more angry at

the fact that you have to be connected now to a political party to get somebody to get anything done to get your government killed in the whole there iraq is very frustrated about this and they are taking to social media to complain about oh the government shut down most of the city in the country since these protests started so the fact that you were able to see those tweets quite extraordinary given that you can't get on to what's going on and that shows you just how worried the government it is. that the social media element. so they're shutting down social media i'm wondering is that the answer to the question i was about to ask me with what they got what is the government doing about this what is their official response and then not to respond. well the official response is to try and get a. solution to the energy crisis in the south like i said iranians want once i get those five dollars so the iranians are things like that next year so what's

the iraq government to send a high level and if you get to saudi arabia or saudi arabia and iran key rivals in this region saudi arabia has always been very worried about iran's influence in iraq so they see this as an opportunity to get some sort of political influence in iraq and the iraqis are trying to negotiate a deal if that happens they'll be connected to the region just grid which alleviate some of the problems in the south but it won't cost is that is it because all factionalized country could see those books brought and those then be put to saudi arabia that's an unseen political cost that we don't know what's going to be and what this deal is if any is struck with saudi arabia unofficial government and. media. troops out of the streets. and they're trying to read the constraints like i say if this becomes the white nationwide movement then that spells disaster for

going to realize that the government currently is still waiting for contested election results so it hasn't been able to form the new government and most of it was one of the big winners in the elections tyshan sent out a tweet today saying that until protesters demands that met or at least listen to we should be taking a look at forming a new coalition government we should be listening to for exists that's an incredibly popular move by him because it plays right into the hands of his supporters and you have to remember in the south that's where he gets his support from so a lot of politics going on but again much like in haiti it's ok to be able to guess talk about when you still have our energy going through but he. and that's what it's right and taking to twitter as well yes right here is says iraq needs a fresh start because that what happened in two thousand and three contributed to years of instability and weak governance hearing from

a lot of iraqis online please keep your comments coming but unfortunately i have to pause this part of the conversation and in the entirety of the conversation right here on instagram at emraan isms for more of his and our other correspondents reporting head over to al-jazeera dot com until next time we'll see on mine.

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the country the nation state of the jewish people. the revolution the. talk to voters about their main concerns and whether any of the twenty four presidential candidates. bowed by swirling criticism of his helsinki summit with latimer purdon donald trump wants to have the russian president over to the white house for another get together before news of the invitation emerged the us president announced he was backing away from putin's offer of a joint investigation as a white house correspondent kimberly helka. after days of doubt about his

allegiance to his own country u.s. president donald trump delivered some of his toughest talk yet and a threat to russia's president vladimir putin about their relationship be the worst enemies ever had the worst he's ever had but for days trungpa signaled a willingness to work with putin despite overwhelming evidence of russia's interference in u.s. affairs who work here returning from capitol hill the controversy continues yes. you're right. democrats pressuring there were public in cali. they want more money to protect u.s. elections for future russian meddling republicans voted it down democrats also want the translator president monday's closed door trump meeting to testify on capitol hill and there are new concerns about putin's request to question americans are

with me in finland putin said the kremlin should be able to interrogate one of his most vocal critics u.s. born businessman bill browder in exchange for the u.s. questioning twelve russian hackers indicted for meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. election the russians also want to question former u.s. ambassador to russia michael mcfaul it wasn't until thursday four days after putin raised the proposal with trump the president weighed in through his press secretary who stated president trump disagrees with it the resolutions agreed to on thursday the u.s. senate passed a unanimous resolution to protect any diplomat from extradition meantime further proof trump is acting unilaterally his top intelligence chief caught by surprise by a white house invitation lattimer putin is coming to the white house in the fall. so let me give. you. an

imprudent coming out here. ok. the colts reaction is further proof the white house is still reeling from donald trump's public relations disaster in finland and is working to repair the damage caused by trump at the helsinki summit can really help at al-jazeera the white house. karen greenberg is the director of the center on national security at fordham university school of law he says the trump ministrations credibility is in question because there is no transparency. it is very significant that there doesn't seem to be an out of an injury agency conversation going on in this white house normally when you're talking about the national security council or national security affairs there are a number of agencies that are brought into the conversation what we've learned here is a child and donald trump and maybe wanted to advisers and that's it and in that particular

meeting there was really no one except for the two translators well it's also about transparency there's a lot of distrust of this white house and this president who seems to be privileging the desires and aides of latin america over the well just in a series of his own constituency and people and as with his hesitation about whether or not he would turn consider turning over in a basket or might not fall to the russians so there's a worry about what he's saying and there's enough allegations you know to train some tried and true. diplomacy and state grat their opinion has expressed concern about a new israeli law that defines the country as the nation state of the jewish people and makes hebrew the sole official language downgrading arabic to having special status palestinians describe the law as racist and origin on apartheid report so mr

assad. moments after israel's parliament passed the controversial new law defining the country as the nation state of the jewish people. and other arab members of the knesset ripped up copies of it hours after the bill became law and in this family or serene setting b.b. was no less enraged this that is saying it isn't. arab citizens who are not equal. and you are maybe just and we are not we are the owner of the stand we have a right not in this land but only. we are the indigenous the legislation adopted by sixty two votes to fifty five makes hebrew the only official national language and defines the establishment of jewish communities as being in the national interest it also stipulates that israel is the historic homeland of the jewish people and adds that they have an exclusive right to national

self-determination in it the law is controversial among israelis many have joined in the protests against the legislation saying it legitimizes discrimination palestinian political analysts say the law gives license to segregation is the way in is of telling the world this is going to be in terms of geography and they're not going to use over into the jewish exclusive jewish take it or leave it but i know with a side of what would happen on this land we will never ever recognize anybody before us we will never accept anybody after us many palestinians fear the new law will further marginalize their already marginalized population that that want to now. so if we are talking about citizenship then you have to give all citizens the same rights regardless of their religion or political affiliations or their social or economic background if they give rights only to jews then palestinians will be considered second class citizens this will be really bad. to mum is an israeli

palestinian who says she's dealt with discrimination her whole life the fullest the biggest the best the fia young un sort of given that we who we are palestinians but there is racism between arabs and jews and it's obvious when jews see us wearing the he jobs they think we're going to hit them palestinian rights groups say the new law also features elements of apartheid making it illegal under international law while condemnation from palestinian leaders has been constant since the law was first proposed many promised any as we spoke with today said they also want to see and hear the international community speak out forcefully against this new legislation which they say will only make their lives more difficult or how much improvement does either west jerusalem the move this being watched closely by the trump administration and john feder access to campaign for agenda chairman he says he believes israel's government consulted with the white house before pushing through the new law. you couldn't imagine a situation where the israeli government would go forward with this kind of a sweeping change that basically has now disenfranchised over two million

palestinians living in israel they're supposed to be israeli citizens they felt like second class citizens before now what this law has done is they have legislated the legality of basic discrimination it's kind of hard to imagine that the israeli government would it would not have done this without some assurances that the trump administration was going to look the other way i don't think they're going to come out in favor of this but obviously they thought there was not going to be the type of reaction that they might have had in a different situation i think moving the israeli capital from tel aviv to jerusalem which was a campaign promise of the president president trump that he followed through on definitely embolden the israeli government to do this but the problem is they've got two million palestinians there and they have legislated them into basic

non-citizen oblivion and the only way you're going to turn this around is with international outrage twenty four hours later that's not really happening and while prime minister benjamin netanyahu has called his one carrying counterpart a true friend of israel despite allegations of anti-semitism viktor orbán has visited jerusalem's holocaust museum he did this during his first official visit to israel there was an outcry among jewish groups last year when or pond praised the man who ruled hungry to world war two and who collaborated with the nazis and netanyahu says one has been an advocate for israel on the international stage. i did some of them is. the scourge of the jewish people for thousands of years. it claimed horrible. tragedy committed in the greatest tragedy of them all the holocaust in the twentieth century it must be fought continuously relentlessly on

a big useless. sponsored the statements into you and your condemning which is in march you are not doing the renovated synagogue and. you said it was quote the jews live without fear and practice religion freely and israeli airstrike has killed a palestinian man in gaza who was suspected of flying burning kites across the barrier fence twenty. member of hamas and after the strike mortars were fired into southern israel israeli army has reportedly been ordered to prepare for a military offensive in gaza burning and kites continue to be launched from the area . and syria thousands of civilians and fighters have arrived in government held areas after enduring three years under siege. province began arriving in aleppo province earlier the windows have been shattered by rocks thrown at the fleet as it

passed the rebel held territory about seventy thousand people. are evacuated as part of a deal struck between the government and rebels hundreds of rebel prisoners are to be released and return. a retired jordanian air force general a military analyst who says it is clear the conflict in syria is coming to an end. i think remain the. book which is between gold in syria and israel. and i think they will reach an agreement to go to. i think. it's a. which is east of home so this is otherwise there will be wiped off with the russian air power and the syrian forces so it is almost over. and by going to the 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.