try to understand. from the north with i'm starting. to see how. this is zero. hour i'm soo tired so this is the news out i'm from london coming up. burying bad dad how much cold funeral for finds us killed by israeli airstrikes as an uneasy calm settles on gaza. wildfires rage across central sweden as the country faces its worst drought in seventy four years. the militias bringing fear to the streets of managua off to helping suppress antigovernment protests in nicaragua and

we have a rising tide of rubbish that thrusting the dominican republic golden short. and i'm far a small have all the day sporting clearing formula one world championship leader sebastian vettel put ferrari on pole position for home german club create. an uneasy truce appears to be holding along the israel gaza border it follows a day of violence on friday the saw israeli airstrikes and tank fire hit dozens of hamas targets following the death of an israeli soldier four palestinians were killed and at least one hundred twenty wounded a ceasefire brokered by egypt sound the united nations status of the midnight local time stephanie decker has the latest from gaza. i. have

masses military wing the kasam brigades are burying their dead three of their members were killed on friday afternoon israel struck various ham ass monitoring posts along the border soon after an israeli soldier was shot from gaza he later died of his wounds sixty sites belonging to ham ass were attacked by israeli forces late into the night a few rockets were fired from gaza in response and a cease fire was announced hours later it's the second ceasefire in a week by the think. would last for a long time i think it's better for us. unfortunately we will have just. two of those or stories after that will have. many problems over. people in. the pattern of escalation ceasefire as elation ceasefire between israel and hamas well i continue

on that in the long run to lead the way the situation for the people here almost two million people are living under this blockade and everyone says the same thing how impossible life has become here. i can't afford anything to work as a tailor in israel before the blockade i made around a thousand three hundred dollars a month of the moment i can't even make three hundred dollars a month exchanging money i work two shifts a day morning and night ma that's the meaning of humanity is missing in gaza most people are educated the confines work people have to straight on to pressed people are willing to die those who are married cannot feed their children patients can't get medication and there is no electricity this is really painful and sad. palestinians hear of little power to influence the political decisions made either in goals or israel no one wants another war but as one woman asked us what do we need to do to be able to live like everyone else stephanie decker al-jazeera gaza.

or mohammed john journey is live for us now in west jerusalem we've seen they say size come and go what do you think the chance of this all holding. well so it's a very good question that we just can't answer at this point because look the fact of the matter is that you know yesterday at this hour when this operation was ongoing many people here were convinced that war was going to break out again the fact that it's been able to retreat from that and that there is this tenuous calm on the border today i mean that is a significant achievement or really goes to show how much pressure both the u.n. and egypt have put on how mas and how much willpower there is by the powers that be on both sides of this equation to not have this become a full fledged conflagration a full fledged conflict you know at this time that all being said there was one incident today that happened even though it's been relatively calm earlier in the day we heard from the israeli army and they said that there were

a number of suspects that had infiltrated israel from the northern gaza strip and that the suspects then returned to the gaza strip in the because of that and israeli defense forces tank had had shelled house position that all being said though nothing more has happened beyond that so while people are optimistic that it is calm there is still a huge amount of worry that any little thing could spark a wider conflict that could happen at any time we must remember also that yesterday hours before the protests that were going on in gaza hours before the operation that took place in gaza you have the israeli defense minister who was giving comments to an assembled audience in the town of stood up on israel's border with gaza and he told the assembled audience that israel had shown restraint but if there was going to be more violence imitating from gaza they would do whatever was necessary to make sure that that stopped so that's mohammed gendron there live for us in west jerusalem when joining us now in the studio a human of us policy fellow at the european council on foreign relations thanks

very much for coming in to al-jazeera we feign agent to the united nations with some real success of managing to get the cease fires to get there but then not the last thing the test of time when you think we are on that with these latest one. so absolutely i think what we have at the moment is a very important but very short term ceasefire that reflects very much the fact that both hamas and israel don't want to go to war again but with the cease fire does it do is of course it does it tackle the political context and the drivers behind this current round of escalations namely the you minute humanitarian and social work economic situation in the strip so i think absent something to actually address that then we'll be condemned to repeating cycles of escalation until at some point things are pushed too far and we have another conflict and indeed i think the un has just said there will be the conditions will be unlivable by twenty twenty or listen to stephanie decker's report there and people are saying that kind

of there now and they do feel like they're at the end of their tether some of the comments that were made at the border during the various days friday days of violence there does seem a sense of the moment that the tipping point is so much closer to turn to now it doesn't seem that anything that is happening between any kind of ceasefire being broken is changing that in an area and actually since the u.n. report came out a few years ago things of gotten much worse for gazans we've seen tightening israeli restrictions against the strip but also tightening sanctions again from the palestinian authority against the strip and now what we're seeing is very much as really the development of gaza and so yes things are becoming i think untenable both for hamas in terms of the pressure that it is under but also for gazans themselves and again i think you know unless you can actually provide an outlet for that pressure which you know has to involve some sort of easing of israeli and p.a. strictures on the strip then yes we'll continue to see either continued violence by

palestinian factions in gaza or continued popular mobilization such as we've seen before and all this has the potential for for escalation again go there another teller about to try and make its way to guard circumspect it obviously to be stopped on. weigh in but there is some sort of sense of international concern wanting to do wanting to put pressure on the relevant parties that you just mentioned is there a chance they'll be listening so certainly gaza has worked its way back up the list of priorities for policymakers and we've seen the trump the mystery talking about gaza much more having brainstorming sessions in the white house op eds in the washington post except for what we don't see is really a political vision for solving gaza beyond throwing more money at the problem beyond you know what i would call soundbite diplomacy which is very much just repeating conditions that hamas simply cannot and will not meet and so we invariably find ourselves back where we are each time off to each war in gaza how

do you think their current incumbent of the white house and washington d.c.'s plays into this whole scenario and its closeness to the israelis and so i think when one looks at this putative u.s. peace plan that's been put together by his team jared cushion or jason green that there's you know i think there's been a lot of concern voiced by the palestinians the european union the arab states and others and quite frankly i think there is cause for concern in terms of the political vision however i think at the same time it's notable that the white house has placed an emphasis on gaza now again the political vision of that could be questionable but if we do have a white house that is prepared to put some investment political capital time and effort into addressing gaza then this would seem to be one small issue where you could have a convergence of interest amongst all the parties to try to at least stabilize and try to start to open up open up gaza over the long term program your time on this like a very much you love it on the european council on foreign relations. as i said the

facility carrying aid for palestinians is leaving in italy it will make its way down to messina in sicily before heading for garza the freedom flotilla coalition campaign says its goal is to peacefully and the israeli blockade is expected to take just over one week to reach israeli waters. syrian rebels who surrendered in the south west have begun arriving in opposition held areas of the country's north more than fifty buses carrying two thousand three hundred people have now reached the town of my mabruk and how my province the fighters and their families were given safe passage in a surrender deal with the government syrian army forces have since entered the city of connection the deal is a major victory for president bashar al assad whose forces have retaken much of the south and. is in my book the rebel held area and how those rebels and families from connecticut have arrived while some of them have

a lot of little to look like you asian bourses carrying people displaced from connector have arrived in hama province fifty five coaches containing more than three thousand people this is the first group from connecticut and will be followed by many others the total numbers will be more than thirteen thousand going from south to north this displacement followed a wave of offensives by the syrian and russian military says it takes place after negotiations between opposition groups and the government which resulted in the opposition surrendering heavy weapons and allowing people to leave from sosa north syria this will take place today tomorrow and the day after there will be more people coming here coming from south to north there will need to be a lot of resources and a concerted effort to accommodate such numbers of people they will initially be taken to already prepared shelters in northern syria. coming up on this news out from london china launches a charm offensive in stunning goal to win over hearts and minds to chinese trade and investment zimbabwe's president is attempting to woo white voters ahead of this

month's election and spoke with an manchester city's latest record signing school is dead. dozens of wildfires are raging across sweden which is experiencing its worst drought full seventy four years this we dish prime minister says always or says are being mobilized to prevent a greater disaster the dean baba hospital. firefighters in sweden say their battle for control is far from over remarkably nobody's been injured by the dozens of wildfires i think governments appeal for help from other countries it's really france and norway have responded by sending water bombing helicopters

and planes as well as emergency personnel reeling in albania that government is ready to take all necessary decisions and supply all needed resources our duties to support all agencies so that they have what they need to get the fires under control and therefore the government is following this event closely every minute every day. unusually high temperatures across the whole nordic region up to thirty three celsius coupled with virtually no rain for several weeks have made the vegetation here highly flammable finland norway have also had wildfires in the last week but it's sweden that suffer the most. this dairy farmer says the grass is normally much longer right now and that's a real problem we don't use this much. normally. i think we've used to feed about three or four a day. and now it's five or six. think of a life. in some areas homeowners have been moved to safety while fowls of swedes

have been warned to stay indoors with the windows shut to avoid breathing in smoke the situation is very serious and the rescue services do not see that their biggest fires will be able to be extinguished in the near future due today weather and wheat and at the moment the focus is on delaying and requesting and trying to well delay and they're disbanding of the fires swedish authorities say that as of thursday an area equivalent to twenty thousand football pitches had burned that's ten times the size you'd expect in a normal year and some fires are still spreading the al-jazeera. an ancient town in yemen is at risk of being destroyed by an offensive to take a city nearby as a unesco world heritage site with annals of historic homes religious institutions and mosques is south of her data which the saudi u.a.e. coalition has been fighting to retake from the rebels aid agencies for the battle

could create a humanitarian catastrophe. riot police in the philippines have fired water cannon demonstrators protesting against the u.s. and china hundreds gathered outside the u.s. and chinese embassies in the capital manila they are angry about the ongoing u.s. military presence in the country and accused president deterred say of not upholding philippine stuff and say they also want him to do more in the south china sea dispute with beijing disparities due to deliver his state of the nation address on sunday. campaigning is underway in pakistan for wednesday's general election a while bhutto zardari the head of the pakistan people's party and son of former leader benazir bhutto has been rallying in the southern city of karachi but the

july just twenty fifth vote is widely seen as a two way race between the parties of former cricket star calm and the now jailed former prime minister sharif whose brother is running in the polls over three hundred seventy one thousand soldiers have been deployed across the country to guard polling stations come all hina is in charge of the district and the border with afghanistan has been meeting voters from outside the country. awash majority of the budgets gone the population lived in the rural area where dime has. although it did take part in the election rigorously they have not seen the kind of results from it by their leadership in a country where corruption runs high in political political leader derek you of typing all of them really and of dollars from their country in the rural areas people do not have clean drinking water they do not have basic education they do

not have medical care and all those things are necessary for nation building to the ordinary poor people and our political leadership change we're drawn slated to change. as a snippet port any change to a law what i'm doing now is what i've been doing for many years there is no change for the poor in this country are not going. for the poor elections only mean a change of face nothing more but it matters a lot to the elite class who are sucking our blood through corruption for their own good and they have gone from millionaires to billionaires but the poor are still suffering. because of the social media dated now are nowhere near and political leaders are getting a grilling from the population to what they have done and up by budgets gone head of government gone many goal but they have not been able to deliver on the promise

of trying to better the lives of the watch majority of its population and therefore did a question mark after what happened next. the u.s. president has accused his former lawyer michael cohen of potentially acting illegally after it was reported that he secretly recorded discussing payments to a former playboy model the recording was seized during an f.b.i. raid on conan's property this year in new york in the recording reportedly discusses paying money to karen mcdougal he says she has a ten month affair with trump. joins us from washington and patsy the president turned to his favorite medium to push back on this. he did he gave a long link the rebuttal in the new york times no of course not he went on twitter let's take a look at what he said he said it is inconceivable that the government would break

into a lawyers office early in the morning almost unheard of even more inconceivable that a lawyer would tape a client totally unheard of and perhaps illegal the good news is your favorite president did nothing wrong ok let's break that down because both basically none of this is true the government did not break into michael cohen's office the government does not do that the f.b.i. went to a judge presented enough evidence that it would have met a much higher standard a much higher bar when it comes to getting into lawyers files that they believe that a crime was taking place judges don't often give those search warrants they did in this case the f.b.i. went into his office with a search warrant it is illegal he says for michael cohen to record him we'll we're not sure but if we believe that this recording happened in new york state new york state is something called a one party consent rule which basically means if one person knows that the recordings are taking place then that's perfectly legal it is unusual for a lawyer to tape his client but keep in mind when it comes to lawyer attorney

client privilege those are only privileged if they're discussing legal strategy it's not as if every conversation you have with an attorney is privileged and as for america's favorite president or your favorite president no he is very popular among republicans republicans make up less than a third of this country the vast majority of americans disapprove of him and the job he's doing in previous presidents is just that tweet would have been incredibly damaging but what about the whole question of this issue is it going to do him home . you know if this is a president who said during the campaign that he could shoot someone on fifth avenue in manhattan and he would lose any support and he has been plagued by scandal after scandal controversy controversy every norm broken and his core supporters have not walked away from him i think it's important to point out that just the scope of what we're talking about any other politician if you could imagine that they were found out to have lied about denying the affair that they

had with a playboy bunny two months before the election just after and the affair took place just after his wife gave birth to their child that would have been career ending donald trump just is beyond teflon but keep in mind he is most often able to dismiss any bad stories to his supporters saying fake news it's not true sources are made up this is on tape this is his voice so that could be different depending on what was said but the bigger issue is we believe that this is just one of many tapes and it's widely been reported that michael cohen did this you recorded conversations he apparently played these conversations with other people to the president but apparently the president never thought that he would take that step and actually record him michael cohen has given interviews he is making giving indications that he's perfectly willing to share not only the tapes but all the information he has with federal authorities and we think that this is just one of many tapes that he has with the now president the united states discussing god only

knows what remember his campaign he was going to drain the swamp to washington d.c. to kill hein thank you very much white voters in zimbabwe are being publicly courted by the ruling zone and p.f. for the first time since president robert mugabe was deposed last year president. has told them the government's controversial policy of land grabs earthing of the process as he campaigns to be elected on july thirtieth opinion polls suggest it's a close run race are in a tough has a mole from harare. thank you so many white zimbabweans have a farm seized and given to black farmers because of land reform laws passed when robert mugabe was president over the years some felt his black economic empowerment policies excluded them from mainstream politics and job opportunities the army forced mugabe to resign last year and the man who replaced him says land grabs would no longer be tolerated president. hu seeking reelection has been looking for

votes among whites the barbarians at a rally in harare. near what. must be. one. with some a skeptical about the timing of the president's reassurances to white voters a few days before the parliamentary and presidential elections others are more optimistic we need to come together and interact with our councillors our. not. from from politics and voting day at the end of the month will be the first without deposed president robert mugabe elections are being closely watched by the international community. generally in a brew to come in peacefully. for intimidation.

or generally. to give your work. but the main opposition leader nelson chamisa isn't he believes the electoral process is forward alleging the voters' role could taint so-called ghost voters and that the rulings on the party is tampering with ballot papers election observers are urging politicians to resolve their differences through dialogue before voting day time is running out the general election is on july the thirtieth some opposition supporters say they will protest next week if the issues aren't addressed these accusations and counter-accusations have heightened tensions something election observers say they are aware of how these disagreements are managed could determine the success or failure of the first post mugabe elections since one nine hundred eighty.

spain's opposition popular party has chosen the right wing congressman pablo casals though as its new later because saw there were places former prime minister mariano rajoy stepped down last month after losing a vote of no confidence because on his appointment is seen as a lurch to the right for the party taken a hardline stance on the catalan independence crisis and wants to lower taxes politicians in the german state of bavaria are trying to win over voters ahead of elections in october the c.s.u. party which is in a coalition with merkel's christian democrats has moved further to the ranks in an attempt to stop people voting for the anti immigration a.f.g. party but polls suggest that could be against the public mood has done when it came a pause. on a warm summer evening for many bavarians the beer garden is a must certainly that's true wolf and tonight accompanying the salads and

schnitzels there's also political chat because the local m.p. has dropped in to hear people's concerns as this is election year the christian social union is taking no chances this is a belief that once we're here to speak to the voters to persuade them that ours is the right way as a genuine people's party we can govern bavaria that we can keep our society pulling together not apart and so our economy prospers and iraq share in it. but that's the problem for his party. traditionally this parliament has been a stronghold for the c.s.u. in election after election since world war two it seemed to have a stranglehold both on parliament and politics here and yet if the opinion polls are accurate that grip may be slipping where once the c.s. you could count on winning almost half the votes now that's fallen below forty percent the nearest rivals are the center left green party with the social

democrats a few points back in third place and the far right anti immigrant a.f.d. close behind some people blame this man for the c.s. use present predicament horsed zero for federal interior minister and long time party leader his plan for tougher border controls and an accelerated program of deporting failed asylum seekers pleases the far right but it's also galvanized the left and center left in opposition and some analysts say some of his ideas seem to be a serious threat to civil liberties it is a very slippery slope in that sense that you gradually have a degree deshaun of after the rule of law and of human rights because if you look for instance at their. media coverage of migrants and this. more right wing media you see that you have they don't see migrants as humans anymore they see them as an issue such thoughts seem quite distant and sunny gives whole from the c.s.u.

insists instead it's based on humanitarian pragmatic policy but as october's election draws nearer perhaps that pragmatism may well be tested dominant in al-jazeera in bavaria. more to come on this news hour if the o.p.'s prime minister has passed an amnesty for thousands of political prisoners but some are saying his reforms don't go far enough young people in iran are looking to leave the country as the economy continues to struggle and thousands mourn the death of another them pick figure skater who was murdered in his native kazakstan details coming up in sport. hello there we're still seeing showers over georgia they've been with us for

a few weeks now and you can still see them on the satellite pictures stretching just from the northern parts of turkey there and across towards the caspian sea these downpours have been very very heavy and we've seen some rather large hail out of them as well further south is just dry as you'd expect at this time of year so force in beirut we're expecting a temperature of around thirty or thirty one degrees over the next few days and in baghdad will be up to around forty three so more hot weather for us to further towards the south and here in doha the winds are going to be a real feature of our weather as we head through the next couple of days that we firing down from the northwest so picking up a fair amount of dust but it will be dry so a draw i heat for us we're looking at a top temperature of probably around forty five as we head through monday for the south a little bit more cloud might be around the coast over there might just give us a little bit of drizzle and for the west it does look like we'll see a few thunderstorms that are down towards the southern parts of africa we've got a few more areas of cloud that are plaguing the southwest they give us

a few showers looks like it should clear those we head through sunday so then cape town will be up at around twenty two degrees and been told at around twenty three for the east little bit of cloud just around the eastern part. to some they are worth millions of dollars to the nepalese they are living god. one east investigates the fight to reclaim the polls stolen. not a zero. when people need to be heard. but he's been a refugio most told his lawyer it's not going no more. and the story needs to be told we do stories that. i testify in the fall of law to make sure that the bad guys appeal to. al-jazeera has teams on the ground to bring new documentaries and

live news on air and on. the form a bishop of hong kong says the pope is sending out china's catholics to pieces of things. but on those information he's a leader in setting up the church cardinal joseph zen talks town jazeera. welcome back reminder of the top stories here in al-jazeera funerals have been held for hamas killed by israeli airstrikes along means rail gaza border on friday an uneasy truce brokered by egypt and the united nations appears to be holding the.

syrian rebels say surrendered in the south west to begin arriving in opposition held areas of the northern province of hama more than fifty buses carrying two thousand three hundred people have reached the town of number of them and dozens of wildfires are raging across sweden which is experiencing its worst drought for seventy four years. international monetary fund has warned world leaders that a recent wave of trade tariffs could significantly harm global growth i.m.f. chief christine legarde is in one of those areas where she's meeting g twenty finance ministers and central bank governors u.s. treasury secretary steve menuhin has been defending president chum's recent tariff announcements saying he's not trying to influence currency markets elsewhere and when there is protestors have been rallying over the government's decision to take a fifty billion dollars loan from the i.m.f. . cuba is set to approve

a new constitution that will recognize private property something which the communist state as long rejected as a remnant of capitalism lawmakers hope the sweeping reforms will help to stimulate the economy and encourage foreign investments but president to make our day as can now says the island's political system will remain the same. more antigovernment protests are expected in nicaragua when nearly three hundred people have died in three months of unrest the demonstrators want president daniel ortega to resign and have accused him and his supporters of heavy handed tactics police and paramilitary groups said to have laid siege to the last opposition stronghold of muslim bow east of the capital from there are some reports. thirty year old man this had disappeared for three days but on friday his family found his dead body at the coroner's office in the capital. his father

a man this is cuts to his arms show signs of abuse. he was tortured he was beaten here in the head in the back and was shot in the chest and leg he didn't have weapons or mortars. his family says he wasn't involved in the protests but he was taken away by security forces. they took him away outside the house but since those an attack going on we couldn't go out. since security and pro-government forces launched a so-called cleanup operation in tuesday to lift barricades a caravan of heavily armed and masked gunmen have taken control of driving around in vehicles without license plates many businesses and homes here are still closed but the roadblocks have been lifted there are still some tensions here in the neighborhood of mourning as a paramilitary continues to patrol the streets here i was thinking of food vendor

one says she's out selling stew for the first time in more than two months she's still afraid of the political best if the fire because of the situation we can't talk we can't say anything but we are ok because we are back to work. police say the cleanup operation was ordered by president degas and his wife vice president. says the government confronted protesters to bring back stability after weeks of turmoil. it has been our duty once again to defend peace for everyone it's been a painful battle because we've confronted an armed conspiracy. violent protest to me that i will have left nearly three hundred people good. morning boas a bastion of rebel resistance since the sundanese to revolution thirty nine years ago and also during these months of protests on tuesday's confrontations at least

two people were killed but the crackdown is not yet over. by the. money. shoppers in iran are filling the pension after the value of its currency havs in less than a year the economy is further threatened by the imposition of u.s. sanctions and loss of oil customers the president donald trump pulled out of the nuclear deal while some blame the americans as usual others say that only should have known better. the price of one of america's best known exports is pretty much the same wherever you go but in iran the following value of the local currency the real means what someone here might have paid for a smartphone last year has doubled a thousand dollars in iran now costs twice as much i would try next is just one sector feeling the effects of american foreign policy iranian say from food to

clothes to rent sanctions have made everything more expensive. not yet i see the purchasing power of people has been reduced a lot inflation is going up rapidly instability of the dollar price has caused tensions in the markets and it causes problems for everybody i think we need a change in our economic administration this change could help our economy. the iranian president's chief of staff said last week a reshuffle was in the works to bring new faces into the federal cabinet to deal with economic issues but experts say years of economic uncertainty have created such a negative business atmosphere that no one seems to know how to turn things around . a common saying in iran is that the price of the real always gets worse never better it's value has dropped so much in recent months that many exchange companies have stopped selling foreign banknotes just to get a sense of how bad things have gotten many of the dollar rate to what it was in one nine hundred seventy nine when one dollar cost seventy rio's now that price is

nearly eighty thousand in the decade since the islamic revolution iranian men and women aged thirty or under have become the largest segment of the population many say they want to leave iran for a better future abroad. but. i'm concerned about whether i can afford rent and food in this expensive city as a student i shouldn't have these worries i should have enough money to focus on my studies this is empty and i'm very worried about what to do i think the cause of these problems is mismanagement it is said it's because of sanctions but i think that's just one part of the problem. while u.s. president donald trump is blamed for many of iran's problems iranian say their leaders should have seen them coming government leaders said the signing of the twenty fifty nuclear deal at the end of the tunnel but for many europeans that light turned out to be a train. run. joining us now from washington d.c.

. thanks very much for coming on. and we just saw there in reports a little bit about how this devaluation is affecting everyday life in iran can you give us a sense of how how much. how people live. sarsi issue of as it was mentioned by people inside iran issue of mismanagement also highlight those of corruption are something that are going hand in hand together with the shock that has been. given to the iranian economy after president trampled out of the nuclear deal in which the promise of their reimposition of sanctions that are going to kick in soon all of that has created a formula for their own economy to come to the current situation inflation has been growing is pretty high the prices of everyday goods has been increasing in even products and go bodies that are not really imported or somehow related to

sanctions are being adjust to this psychological wave that's the expectation of sanctions hitting and it seems like just everything in the market in prices has increased and has had a toll on every day life of iranians of all costs a lot of life especially the middle class and also the working class that are struggling for their day to day life it's with the threat of history with these u.s. sanctions when they do kick in if indeed they do how much of an effect is that going to have a war or these sounds like quite a difficult situation. it is going to have an enormous effect means u.s. sanctions are actually reinstated when president tom pulled out of the deal but there is this grace period that the u.s. is offering for companies in that are already doing business with iran to basically wind down their business the first deadline is kicking in august and then eventually die hard deadline is in november and on this the u.s.

government issues specific exemptions for some companies like european companies or even asian companies a lot of these businesses are planning to pull out of their own ian market their investments their businesses and that is going to be the next shock wave to the iranian economy there is not too much government inside can do about it i mean they're talking about planning an independence economically or relying on other partners but at the end of the day this is going to be the next big shock unless both sides find a political solution basically to this economic problem we've seen protests already in parts of the country expect to see more protests if indeed living conditions do get worse i think so you see a lot of these protests people who basically have nothing else to lose people have come to and it's not just the economic situation it's combine with environmental problems with air pollution with

a drought shortage of water and now recently we've seen these cut off of electricity at different hours in major cities across iran and i think everything basically if the status quo doesn't improve we're going to see more if not less of these protests very great for your time and your thoughts on this and much as of a thank you very much for joining us. now with the u.s. slapping five hundred billion dollars of tariffs on china this week beijing is having to work extra hard to promote alternative trade president xi jinping is on an official visit to west africa to promote ties with senegal the first stop but as nicholas haq reports from dhaka there's been a rise in anti chinese sentiment there and she will have to work hard to win over hearts and minds. until two years ago she was a rice farmer in a henan province in northern china now he's making the final touches for the you know gratian city girl's first wrestling stadium. is due to be open on saturday by

china's president xi jinping who's making his first visit to west africa and no detail is being spared for his arrival everything has to be perfect for tiger you'll learn a former restaurant owner from sichuan who is now a mason thank you very much we've been working here for years we're proud of what we've done and we want people in china to know what we build here it's more than just a stadium. with one point six billion dollars in investment the chinese government says it's senegal's largest foreign investor and with it has come an influx of chinese migrants who've made to carve their home this is where they live chinatown is right on the capital's main avenue. most migrants come from china's poor provinces after working in construction some set up shop selling chinese goods descending lease customers. on the run i have been living here fifteen years my

sister my aunts my brother in law all own a shop around the corner senegal is my country too. although there are no government migration statistics estimates range from two hundred fifty thousand to two million chinese living in africa or not at all welcome dozens of chinese vendors have been killed in the past five years no arrests have been made. so many chinese riot grinstein using to make this place their home there's a. teacher can you sense i mean not just here in senegal but throughout africa and so china's government is now on a charm offensive trying to win over hearts and minds in countries it's investing in. this is one of forty newly open confucius instituted africa here the chinese state offers classes in the martial art type sheet and making green tea as well as mandarin language lessons for adults and children. i want to see the great wall of

china eat their food and speak their language because my mom says it will be useful one day she didn't bring is due to sign additional agreements with senegal's president mike you saw including the first chinese garment factories in west africa promising thousands of new jobs for both senegalese workers and chinese migrants alike. nicholas hawke al-jazeera the car ethiopia's parliament passed an amnesty bill for those arrested during protests between two thousand and fifty and two thousand and seventy so it's taken office and april prime minister has overseen the release of thousands of political prisoners and the state of emergency and announced an economic liberalization plan but many young people say only democratic elections can say that country reports. when a group of young men started protesting here against the location of us school playground told private developer little did they know all the while starting a movement that they've been truly led to

a change of leadership of the days of protest in the spall town dudes in other parts of all media neighboring i'm hotter region become protesting for political rights university student ops up this was one of the first to protest in. you know both or neither but i mean. it's a sieve everyone else will whip in for a treat or a planned expansion of and a city which would take only land from many from us poor one of the perfect grievance to rally a porn and then we started calling for more freedoms. hundreds of people were killed in two years of protests from two thousand and fifteen tens of thousands was arrested. as one of the protesters at the literalist from prison is just the muttering of i was tortured in prison they would heed to me all over until i fainted no medical treatment was a lot of tensions among the four parties in the lead coalition on how to deal with the protest led to that is english and of the then prime minister i limit him to

selling. after weeks of negotiations for to two year old former army officer. was elected prime minister by coalition members. the new prime ministers from the ethnic group he's elevation loadout intended as an olive branch to the rest of. the good in the process the people of this region and what they call the historical marginalization of the people. they have been pushed to the margins of mainstream if you have here three months after one of their own was elected to leave the country some here are still uncertain whether the presence the new deal there why do. we consider him just a. cure to what. the future depends on the next elections and whether they are free and fair. since taking office in approved the new prime minister has hit the ground running promising widespread economic and political reforms and ordered

the release of political prisoners in their thousands the prime minister fully believes on love unity as well as forgiveness so. chasing everybody with. every issue is we need to release them all though he enjoys considerable support prime minister but faces the challenge of coming the uncle of ethiopia's young people and there are many of them in the population of one hundred million who complained they are politically and economically marginalized he will have to deal with hints of discontent within the ruling coalition whose one hundred eighty council members are far from unanimously behind . al jazeera. still ahead on this new news hour in london don't look down and out of this french tire walking makes it to the end of the line. and formula one world champion lewis hamilton has

a miserable day at the latest from qualification for the german grand prix in school. the world's primary cocaine producing nation is at the forefront of the war on drugs and we're talking about serious organized crime as a country where reaching a critical point while some have made fortunes many others have suffered at the hands of this multi-billion dollar industry both in this business will go on forever it will not change owners global policies do who are the winners and losers of this illicit trade snow will be andy's on al-jazeera. when people think of cuba they think the revolution but ivana is undergoing a revolution. could be because unless. it's an. we're here to discover if

those changes are reflected in the plea this is a q. what is the q. and do. you personally all know i'm trying to warm to believe me. it's on al-jazeera. waves of plastic and danbury have washed up on the coast of the dominican republic conservationists say they've already removed sixty tons of rubbish it's a beach near the capital santonio mango but there is so much waste that the military has been brought in to help with that can you know. charles moore is the

founder of marine research foundation a member of the plastic pollution coalition he says what's happening in the dominican republic is a small example of a bigger problem. we're losing the battle i predicted this twenty years ago that it would happen when i discovered the great pacific garbage patch that dozens of miles from shore now it's invading the biosphere and soon our salt our sugar our water our air our honey our beer and just because we see big pieces floating up now people are taking notice but when you see a bunch a little bit plastic you gotta understand there's a bunch of micro a nano sized plastic as well and that's invading our bodily tissues so this is a worldwide problem and we've got to deal with this too late to put the genie back in the bottle but it's not too late to turn around our probably got lifestyles we got to stop throwing things away everything is

a resource everything can be really used everything can be put back into service it's got to be respected but it's also got to be feared or plastic gives us a great amount of freedom and we must not abuse it we've got to reduce the amount of plastic that we consume it's plastic substitutes for things that were formerly really usable here in our office we sell re-usable as refillable things we use over and over again we must constantly be throwing stuff away in order to make new stuff so i have a half hour with the spill. thank you so much susan for ari on pole position for his home german grand prix mercedes driver about three daughters had thought he's still the position but that was before the world championship leader moved to the top of the leaderboard with just seconds left in qualifying that all produced a nearly perfect final lap edged autists will race from second on the grid it was

very good day for ferrari with kevin reichen in third fastest. excellent excellent session for us the car was from the movie in q one i could already feel that yeah i can play so then it was you know about getting through and trying couple of things and in q three it was important to put the laps together which was the case so really really happy and yeah you don't have many of those days especially at home so that's reverse. stop stop stop stop. not a good day for vettel title rival lewis hamilton who suffered a major setback the mercedes driver had to get out of his car and push it back to the garage after his car was hit with a hydraulic failure to finish down and fourteen place hamilton is eight points behind vettel in the championship standing just. trying to see if i can get the car back together to try to push it back in the hope that maybe they can they can fix

it but. i could see there was liquid hay and it was a long way to go and they wouldn't let me push it back and forth. which is tough you know everyone works so hard when you're fighting for a championship this close kind of four days like this also open championship has become a really tight affair of this how things stand in scotland three players tied at the top kevin costner jordan speak and zander shuffle are all online under speed was particularly impressive with a sixty five. pre-season football tours are taking place all over the world english premier league champions manchester city face brussels dortmund in the opening game of the international champions cup in chicago and it was the german side to open the scoring through a penalty mario get c.-a stepped up to put his team i had twenty eight minutes city's record signing re of mara's made his debut following his eighty million dollars move from leicester city the algerian striker failing to score his first goal with a free kick before half time final score dortmund one city. drives

this is this is good too i don't know that it's good it's always good to win of course everyone is satisfied but we also have to see how things go but there are many things which are very very positive. a legendary italian. far made his public debut for paris a sure man earlier it wasn't the happiest bow he could have hoped for p.s.g. went down three one to byron unic two of the goals were however conceded by p.s.t.'s sub keeper after befalls went off on sixty six minutes. double olympic champion shelley and fraser price has continued her successful comeback to athletics a jamaican one hundred meters in a time of ten point nine eight seconds at the anniversary games in london these seven time world champion who gave birth to her son last august clocked the fastest time since her return beating out american deseret right. international olympic

committee president thomas bach says he likes the idea of including east sports and future olympia but clarity is needed around how it would fit into the i.o.c. use existing rules. these two players. i don't know the answer to notice. one then said we don't need it because duping does not play a role. i know this excuse for a mother. is so. very. serious and serious. of questions to which we have no one answer yet this is why we said we want to get to know each other we want to better understand each other then we will see of thousands turned out to pay their final respects tell him pick medal winning figure skater dennis tan the twenty five year old died from injuries he sustained and

a knife attacked in his native kazakstan two days ago ten was trying to stop two men from stealing his car mirrors when the stabbing happened ten became the first skater from kazakstan to win olympic medal when he got bronze at the twenty fourteen such a games two suspects have been detained over the killing. and that's all your sport for now it's now back soon in london. thank you for a look away now if you don't like heights for this stunt is certainly not for the faint hearted and from a tightrope walker has scaled paresis momart hill and crocker basilica and i must say a long longer maybe attempt with no assistance on a rope hanging thirty five meters above the ground on longer started walking tight rope was when she was eight years old and she's been preparing for the show for a new. set for me sue turton for this news my colleague mary of the master

will be with you in a moment with much more of the day's news don't go away. when diplomacy feels and fear sweet then our borders are wide open wide open to drugs terrorists we've proven the barriers are built to impose division and it's ill to sixty's instead of being an obstacle or tornado wastes into became another obstacle to peace in a four part series al-jazeera revisits the reasons for divisions in different parts of the world and the impact they have on both sides walls of shame on al-jazeera.

the pressure is on for fifteen thousand people posing an imminent threat to israeli snipers as they work to reform both told israeli diplomats come must people not palestinian people going to watch no no they are the same thing that it does on the bay are sending them to die it's a cause chodesh is a gift when they come and attack us it's a war zone he was attacked and made to his son goes head to head with daddy and told what israel's doing is deliberately choosing to slaughter houses and al-jazeera. a remarkable portrait of a remote choppin used in the in the aftermath of the two thousand and eleven earthquake and tsunami. seven years later how has the community of meow call been able to move on and rebuild their lives.

in japan aftermath of a catastrophe on al-jazeera. burying that dead how last holds funerals for fighters killed by israeli as strikes as an uneasy truce hangs of a guy. oh i'm in london with al jazeera also coming up the u.s. president accuses his former lawyer of potentially acting illegally after reports he secretly recorded a conversation with trump about paying off a model. wildfires rage across central sweden as the country suffers its.