church cardinal joseph zen talks town jazeera. zero. hello i'm maryam namazie this is the news hour live from london coming up in the next sixty minutes. but. burying their dead hamas holds funerals for fighters killed by israeli air strikes as an uneasy truce hangs over gaza. the u.s. president accuses his former lawyer of potentially acting illegally off to reports he secretly recorded a conversation with trump about paying off a model. wildfires rage across central sweden as the country suffers its worst

drought in seventy four years and the baby who symbolized the controversial u.s. policy of separating migrant families is reunited with his parents in honduras. and far a spot have all the day's sporting including formula one world championship leaders the bastion battle rory encore position first home german grand prix. an uneasy truce appears to be holding along the israel gaza border after hamas agreed to the second such deal in a week israeli tank fire hit dozens of hamas targets after a palestinian sniper killed an israeli soldier the truce brokered by egypt in the united nations started at midnight local time stephanie deca has more from gaza.

her masses military wing in 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 to 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 the same story because many problems over the. people in. the pattern of escalation ceasefire as relations ceasefire between israel and hamas

well i continue on that the long term plan to leave a 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 the meaning of humanity is missing and most people are educating the confines work people have straight on to pressed people are willing to die those who are married cannot feed their children patients can't get medication and there's no electricity this is really painful and sad. palestinians here have little power to influence the political decisions made either in gaza 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 well i'm

a gem jim has the latest now on the israeli government response from leicester so the israeli officials we've been speaking with are not calling it a ceasefire they are saying in fact that calm has been restored in israel's border with gaza they are saying that activities are returned to normal but they are not calling it a ceasefire now hamas also wasn't going to cease fire when they were talking about this cease fire for all intents and purposes that's what it is but it is a very shaky truce at this point now we did hear about one incident that happened several hours ago in gaza the israeli army released a statement saying that a number of suspects infiltrated israel from the northern gaza strip the suspects then returned to the gaza strip in response an i.d.f. tank targeted a hamas military post but beyond that we've heard of no other incidents throughout the day as of now still calm but there is a lot of unease because people here very much aware that any little thing could

could spark something that could be a wider conflagration really at any time. well nathan stark is a non resident scholar at the middle east institute and joins us via skype from the usa to south carolina thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us so as you're hearing from our correspondent there the indication from the israeli government right now is that the appetite doesn't exist for another war in gaza but if we see the rocket fire and this sort of tensions over the incendiary kites that are being sent over the border if that continues could that calculations change. well first of all thank you mariam i agree that neither hamas in gaza nor israel are interested in another war having said that as your peace made clear. whatever cease fire agreement has been reached in the last day or so does nothing to address the underlying issues the israeli egyptian closure of gaza. and the terrible

economic conditions in the territory the closure produces so as long as that remains the case even though neither side wants war tension in gaza and frustration with the status quo is going to remain very high and the possibility of an armed conflict will remain ever present what we're hearing just about the. israeli government's focus on semantics they don't want to coal this current agreement to cease fire why is that. i think there is a political sense to beauty in israel to anything that smacks of. concessions to hamas even an arrangement with a mouse so that may influence their thinking but i would argue that since the twenty four team work how mass and israel have never

really done the work of negotiating a serious and thorough going cease fire agreement that would address the underlying issues that have been keeping the relationship for a bomb a time. right so where does that lead then if the conditions inside gaza are not changing if you have a trumpet ministration and an israeli government that is blaming hamas for mismanagement for corruption for just misrule of the gaza strip on top of the humanitarian economic conditions how mass is in is is what does that mean for that position now. hamas is going to continue to play for time. they will continue to be open to the ongoing egyptian efforts to reach some kind of arrangement with their palestinian political rivals just the other day

hamas agreed to another egyptian brokered palestinian reconciliation proposal how mass is open to a point to giving up governance in gaza and bringing the palestinian authority in back into the gaza strip to some extent if they think that that could ease the plight of the population and ease their own difficult political position so if there is a way out of it that's one possibility. to date palestinian president abbas has not been particularly supportive of those efforts and frankly neither have israel or the united states but one way out is some sort of interim palestinian political arrangement. either way it order for the relationship to stabilize there needs to be measures to address the underlying israeli policies of the israel needs to lift its draco nian restrictions on the movement of people and goods so that gaza could

once again develop some semblance of a functioning economy so that people can import raw materials to export finished goods that farmers consent produce out of the gaza strip if those fundamentals aren't addressed then the future is quite bleak all right well thank you very much for now a sharing your thoughts and analysis with us joining us and nathan stock from the middle east institute. well now to our other top story this hour the us president has accused his former lawyer michael cohen of potentially acting illegally after it was reported that he secretly recorded donald trump discussing payments to a former playboy model the recording was seized during an f.b.i. raid on the property earlier this year in new york in the recording trump reportedly discusses paying money to carry mcdougall who says she had a ten month affair with trump more details let's go to her tanzi who's in

washington and so the president appears to be trying to shift the focus today he's blaming the f.b.i. and his longtime lawyer michael cohen. right so to tweet several hours ago he said the following inconceivable that the government would break into a lawyers office early in the morning almost unheard off even more inconceivable for the law i would tape of plans totally unheard off and perhaps illegal the good news is that your favorite president did nothing wrong first of all it isn't illegal for michael cohen to recorded that conversation it is legal in new york through a system of one party consent one party on a phone call can record the conversation as long as they consent secondly what president trump is referring to there is the f.b.i. raid on michael cohen's office in april after the special counsel robert mueller referred the case to new york prosecutor saying that there might be something here to investigate what it seems that they're investigating is where the campaign finance laws were broken during the last few months of the election campaign that

payment was made to karen mcdougal under fifty thousand dollars by the national enquirer or at least the publisher of the national enquirer ostensibly to get the total rights of macdougal story of this alleged affair with donald trump was donald trump has always maintained didn't happen and to give her a column on health care. but what actually the national enquirer was doing was what's called a caption kill that is buy the rights so that the story never emerges no one can ever actually cover the story she can never tell her story to the media this happening so close to the presidential election leads to the question was this deal done with michael cohen's involvement in order to help donald trump's presidential campaign in which case that could constitute a campaign finance contribution and it's illegal for corporations to directly coordinate with all the titians on campaigns in an election cycle and anyway the maximum campaign contribution is around five thousand five thousand dollars so if that is the case this could be very serious for michael cohen and potentially for

the far more serious than anything we've heard off as far as russian collusion from the special investigator special counsel's office has come from about russian collusion this could be far more serious we don't trump potentially. thank you very much with all the latest from washington still ahead for you on this news hour from london zimbabwe's president is attempting to woo white voters head of this month's election. as state elections approach in germany chancellor merkel's coalition partners have shifted to the right in an attempt to win votes there. and legendary italian keep. syrian rebels who surrendered in southwestern connection have started arriving in opposition held areas or than fifty buses carrying two thousand three hundred

people have reached the town of my brook in the western province of hama the families were given safe passage in a surrender deal with the government syrian army forces have since entered the city the deal is a major victory for president assad these forces have retaken much of the south. in the rebel held area in hama where those rebels and families from connector have arrived. well some of them have a lot of little vacuum hoses carrying people displaced from connecter have arrived in hama province fifty five coaches containing more than three thousand people this is the first group from connector 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 south to

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. an ancient town in yemen is at risk of being destroyed by an offensive to take a city nearby zammit is in esco world heritage site with thousands of historic homes religious institutes and lost it south of the data which the saudi u.a.e. coalition has been fighting to take from hussein rebels aid agencies fear the battle could create a humanitarian catastrophe well now to sweden where dozens of wildfires are raging across the country which is experiencing its worst drought for seventy four years the swedish prime minister says all resources are being mobilized to prevent a greater disaster and. firefighters in sweden say their battle

for control is far from over remarkably nobody's been injured by the dozens of wildfires i the government's appeals 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 fatah don't business 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. and usually 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 as the thing else alive. in some areas homeowners have been moved to safety while thousands 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 i mean wheat and at the moment the focus is on delaying and requesting and trying to well delay and there 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. white voters

in zimbabwe are being publicly courted by the ruling zanu p.f. for the first time since president robert mugabe was deposed last year president and is a man of god was told them the government's controversial policy of land grabs are a thing of the past as he campaigns to be elected on july thirtieth opinion polls suggest it's a close run race. has more from harare. many white zimbabweans had 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. who's 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. not. from from politics and voting day at the end of the month will be the first without deposed president robert mugabe the elections are being closely watched by the international community. generally. even. for intimidation. or general. to give their 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 public assad as its new leader because on a replaces the former prime minister mariano rajoy stepped down last month after losing a vote of no confidence as appointment is seen as

a lurch to the right for the party taking a hard line stance on the catalan dependence crisis. taxes on our politicians in the german state of bavaria are trying to win over voters ahead of elections there in october a c.s.u. party which is in coalition with merkel's christian democrats as moved further to the right in an attempt to stop people voting for the and hema gratian f.t. party but the poll suggests that could be against the public mood as dominic cain explains. on a warm summer evening for many bavarians the beer garden is a must certainly that's true in gales forth 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 for the voters through 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 of 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 needed. coverage of migrants and especially here. 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 guess who from the c.s.u. insists instead it's based on humanitarian pragmatic policies but as october's election draws nearer perhaps that pragmatism may well be tested dominant kain al-jazeera in bavaria shock was in every on

a feeling the penshoppe to the value of its currency hogged in less than a year the economy is further threatened by the imposition of u.s. sanctions and loss of oil customers after president trump pulled out of the nuclear deal while some people blame the americans others a saying their own leaders should have known better same bus driving reports from to iran the price of one of america's best known exports is pretty much the same wherever you go but in iran the falling 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 electronics 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. it's also going on. 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 rio 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. the dollar rate to what it was in one nine hundred seventy nine one dollar seventy rio 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 i'm going to. i'm concerned about whether i can afford rent

and food in this expensive city as a student i shouldn't have. i should have enough money to focus on my studies 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 iranians say their leaders should have seen incoming government leaders said the signing of the twenty fifty nuclear deal was the light at the end of the tunnel but for many iranians that light turned out to be a train. still ahead for you on the program pakistan head to the polls next week to elect a new leader but there are fears about how much influence the military is going to have all about militias bringing fear to the streets of managua after helping suppress anti-government protests in nicaragua. and thousands mourn the death of an

olympic figure skater who was murdered in his native kazakhstan. the end. hello there is still very warm for many of us across europe at the moment but for sweden where we've got a major problem with wildfires there have been a few showers there now the rain may well be quite welcome but unfortunately there's been some gusty winds associated with that rain and so that hasn't helped with the fires atoll elsewhere that have to be more persistent rain that's been over parts of russia this stretching into ukraine we've also got some thunderstorms that are over the central belt of europe and they're just going to spread down towards the southeast there as we head through monday watch out for these because they could be some very large hail and some flooding rains out of them towards the west is generally looking bright for us on monday and hot again with paris topping

at around thirty one degrees now for the other side of the mediterranean we're seeing just a little bit of cloud over parts of morocco and algeria and that is just giving us more in the way of humidity really in keeping the temperatures down so twenty nine degrees the maximum they but for hotter force in chu nudes. the area of tab just drifts a little bit further east with there as we head through monday so that will drag the temperatures in chu days down for the central belt of africa are lots of thunderstorms here all rattling their way towards the west as you'd expect some particularly heavy ones over sudan there and they gradually work their way towards the west and into nigeria. young men who joined in the battle for somalia. many never return. to understand.

from the north and with. syria. we're here to deduce computer covered israeli palestinian affairs we cover this story with a lot of intimate moments we covered it with that we don't dip in and out of this story we have presence here all the time apart from being good government it's also very important to be a journalist you know the story very well before going into the fields covering the united nations and global diplomacy for al-jazeera english is pretty incredible this is where talks happen and what happens there matters.

welcome back to the news hour live from london here is a look at the top stories funerals have been held for hamas fighters killed by israeli airstrikes along the israel gaza border on friday and on easy truce brokered by egypt in the united nations does appear to be holding a. u.s. president has accused just form a lawyer michael cohen of potentially acting illegally off it was reported that he secretly recorded donald trump discussing payments to a former playboy model. syrian rebels who surrendered in the southwest have started arriving in opposition held areas of the province of hama more than fifty buses carrying two thousand three hundred people reached the town of my book. well the stories we're following a flotilla carrying aid for palestinians is leaving in italy it will make its way down to messina in sicily before heading for gaza freedom flotilla coalition

campaign says its goal is to peacefully end the israeli blockade it's expected to take just over one week to reach israeli waters dylan and ronnie is a. boat one of the organizers of the flotilla. while i am here at palermo italy the port of a little more in italy and behind me you can see allowed the boats and how they know every means return return to gaza return to palestine this is the main boat of the freedom flotilla which is about to be sailing towards gaza it's basically a fishing boat from norway that's been transformed for this trip and the people of the coalition of the freedom flotilla coalition they are aiming to reach gaza and give this fishing boat as a gift to the fisherman in gaza with me here is also our chamberlayne she is the representative of the coalition on the allowed up boat so our i know you have been involved in the coalition for many many years and this is the first time you are

traveling on the boat towards gaza what can you tell me about your feelings well you know we are doing this to. send a message of solidarity and hope with the palestinians in gaza but our aim is actually to lift the blockade so we made a long way we stopped in many ports and our objective is to raise awareness and to make people pressure on their governments to stop being complexes with the crimes that israel commits against humanity so basically you keep doing this trips even though the final destination is not guaranteed why you keep trying . exactly the same thing that i just said because we want to leave the blue. ok the blockade will not be lifted by just one boat getting to gaza the blockade will be lifted if enough international pressure if enough sanctions are put on israel to

change its policy all right one last question on a personal note i know that you are an israeli citizen and you are taking this trip . with the palestinian people in the with the palestinian especially the palestinian people in the gaza strip do you have a message to your fellow israelis yes we know that the israelis just passed a new law the national a and i don't know jewish say in the state whatever and i really feel ashamed i'm disgusted by a despicable i think he sees another sign of us dehumanizing a all people who are not jewish but especially the palestinians and i think we lose our own humanity by doing so so my message to these rallies is while you still can call to you know to save your own souls basically we cannot do decent people even there we have to leave together with our neighbors and it's an israeli and as a human being he's my obligation to make these strikes so thank you very much there

are so live together as human beings this is the message of one of the major participants in the freedom flotilla coalition this year. on wednesday pakistanis will head to the polls to vote on a new national assembly election is widely seen as a two horse race with imran khan's pakistan to where he can self. head the former cricketer who is thought to have the backing from a powerful military as promised to tackle corruption also in the running the party of former prime minister nawaz sharif now led by his brother the pakistani muslim league is betraying the election is a vote on democracy and its claims of meddling by the military and then there's the pakistan people's party led by bilawal bhutto zardari son of assassinated former leader benazir bhutto they could be in a strong position if the close contest produces a hung parliament in

a move that's why human rights groups though the election commission has gone to pakistan's military the power to punish people for electoral violations at polling stations welcome all hyder is in charge of the district near the border with afghanistan where he's been meeting voters from outside the country's main cities. awash majority of the budgets county population lived in rural areas where dime has . although did take part in the election rigorously they have not seen the kind of results by their leadership in a country where corruption runs high in political political leader direct. typing all the billions of dollars from their country ended rural areas people do not have clean drinking water they do not have education they do not have medical care and all those things are necessary for the nation. and

for political leadership change will translate into a change. in a. snippet any change to a law is what i'm doing now is what i think. there is no change for the poor in this country and it's going to. for the poor elections only mean a change of thing 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 associated media days now are in a bad name and political leaders are getting a grilling from the population to what they have done in. government and goal by day 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 as to what happened next. well joining us now is wade yousef he's the associate vice president of the asia center at the u.s. institute of peace thank you very much for speaking to us on the news hour so has enron khans time finally come will the task of forming the next government likely fall to him well that seems to be the conventional wisdom i'm not so sure quite frankly myself i think as you explained it is a two horse race. should have spotted the former prime minister p m l and still is showing very strong numbers in the key province the battleground of fun job which is pakistan's largest province so i think morse likely you're going to end up with some kind of compatible numbers for imran khan's body and of us uni's body and then it's up to the classic coalition building coalition making in by elementary politics that will decide who ultimately takes the lead in forming government and

essentially announcing their own prime minister but for iran i think this is the chance and i think he understands his body understands it if it's not this time it's unlikely that he'll have such a short strong showing going forward what gives him the edge of his competitors this time. well unfortunately it's not electoral politics as it should be it is that. you know had serious legal and political troubles he was ousted by the supreme court of pakistan on corruption charges he sits in jail as we speak and also that is a dark cloud over this election if you were to believe and sort of the public reporting this isn't necessarily as fair as it gets been allegations of free fall rigging the military. has big favorites and iran is the one that they're banking banking on and backing or one of us should leave so it's a lot of

a lot of that conversation quite frankly that's given him around the space and the edge and his body to become a real contender yet to go before the former prime minister nawaz sharif was and problem started with the supreme court he seemed to be in a very city and sitting sort of pretty to win this election and since then it's been down and for him and uphill for him ron so. why what is the purpose behind the military's role in this and why would and ron con be more palla palatable to them. well look i mean first of all you know if you were to talk to the military of course they would say that they have nothing to do with this so i'm going by what we know and what what sort of the status of the of the public rhetoric and the information out that is. very much alleging that this is what's happening i think if that is true the military's real aim here was not getting iran in power perhaps but there was

a clear confrontation between should even the military the novice's been very sort of vocal about trying to push the military back into sort of the batiks and out of politics in the buckets and specially has always had in exaggerated role in the country's politics so it's really i think more all the discomfort with not even a machete of discomfort which has been very evident with the military more than perhaps siding with a particular. outside of the pm l.-n. or imran himself as an individual all right well thanks very much for sharing your thoughts with us on this story only youssef joining us there from washington on. hundreds of anti-government protesters have been watching in nicaragua's capital in defiance of a recent crackdown on dissent by president daniel ortega three hundred people have died in three months of unrest in the country police and paramilitary groups are said to have laid siege to the last opposition stronghold of one in the east of the

capital from. 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 clean up 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 road blocks have been lifted there are still some tensions here in the neighborhood of morning as the paramilitary continue to patrol the streets here i was thinking of food vendor one of she's out selling stew for the first time in more than two months she's still afraid to tell the philippines there's a look at the floor 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 clean up operation was ordered by president that he looked to god and his wife. confronted. 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 dead. 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. elsewhere in the region as fears grow over a trade war between the u.s. and china the g twenty finance ministers is taking place in what is iras but protests have also been happening in argentina against i.m.f. driven austerity as a condition of international financing to tackle the country's economic crisis. left wing groups gathered to protest against the international monetary fund in one

aside is on saturday. last month the i.m.f. stepped in to shore up the argentinean economy with a fifty billion loan agreement but people like the boy believe it won't help improve people's lives. we already had the i.m.f. on a crisis we know what happened in greece they will fire state employees they will reduce salaries and take away workers right what is today one. argentina's economy has been struggling in recent months due to a drop in investor confidence in emerging economies that beso currency lost over forty percent of its value and inflation has continued to rise this people are protesting just a few blocks away from where the g twenty finance ministers and central bank governors are meeting by they were prevented from getting closer by security forces and this people that you can see here i hope christine lagarde the director of the

i.m.f. . will hear their message and their fears that the austerity measures implemented by the government. will generate more poverty and unemployment but christine legarde who came to attend the g. twenty summit showed strong support with what is trying to do there has been significant progress in terms of monetary policy as well where clearly the measures that have been taken by the bank of restored and managed a much better situation with less volatility more transparency of. protest because of policy suggested by the i.m.f. are not unique to argentina there has been strong opposition in countries like jordan and haiti international n.g.o.s like oxfam and others have suggested at the i.m.f. should rethink its standard recipes. the take away power from labor unions do not help lower unemployment and demand action of government spending which leads in

most cases to an increase in poverty levels. the essence of the i.m.f. is the same it is to prioritize the physical deficit. images it's the same old i.m.f. with a change in discourse look at what's happening in other parts of the world like jordan. and that's why many here are distrustful of the current government's economic policies because they believe it will only deteriorate the lives of those who need government help the most. a one year old honduran baby who symbolized the u.s. policy of separating migrant families at the border finally been reunited with his parents ten month old johan was separated from his father upon arrival in the u.s. and placed in an arizona detention center his father meanwhile was deported back to honduras was only after being granted a voluntary departure order that yahaan was allowed to fly home and be reunited

with his parents after five months in the shelter the child took his first steps spoke his first words and even had his first day in the facilities. service if. they told me what we are going to do is take away your child to separate you from your child i asked them were you going to do that the child is still young but they told me because you cannot be in the united states you cannot go further with a child you cannot enter the u.s. with him. he had his birthday of there he will not turn one year old again that has passed and i missed it when he learned to walk it's not going to happen again either i missed that because of them they should not have done that he is a baby he can't defend himself he's not an adult to say he does not want that so if he wants anything. so i have for you this hour we need the needer of america's green party is hoping to make a gains in the midterm elections in formula one while champion lewis hamilton has a miserable day i have the latest from qualification for the challenge in sport.

life in the islands fringing the antarctic peninsula is abundant the place of seemingly endless variety the whole region is richly biodiverse a living example of how things are pretty much free from the influence of. getting to see the astonish you want life here is by no means straightforward the weather. makes everything a challenge the environment where wildlife is living is incredibly fragile incredibly delicate little sorts of threats that they're up against from climate change to cruel fishing and then of course there's this tourism the number of tourists coming down here say the beginning of the two thousand is from somewhere around four hundred thousand a year we're now over thirty thousand people

a year. is still in pretty good shape but it's apparent this year big landscape needs to be very carefully managed as multiple threats begin to lube on the horizon . now the green party in the u.s. is hoping to capitalize on voter frustration with president donald trump and all the politicians in washington candidates for an advantage as mid-town elections are being proposed at the annual conference in salt lake city possibly to chelles stein has been explaining her aspirations to our ports and christensen to me. she is the woman democrats love to hate many believe jill stein cost hillary clinton the

election in two thousand and sixteen arguing the green party candidate diverted crucial votes in swing states that nearly went for now president donald trump recent revelations have only fueled her critics we know from the moller investigation that the russians not only took out ads on behalf of donald trump but also on behalf of you are you worried about russian intervention in the elections one facebook ad with the kind of you know among i think it was three thousand ads if i'm not mistaken that were attributed to this russian internet agency those ads cost one hundred thousand dollars compared to know donald trump got six billion dollars worth of free air time from corporate t.v. why because he was quote damn good for their bottom line according to the c.e.o. of c.b.s. for example so you know if you're looking for intervention in the election or

interference how about the interference of big corporate media that had billions of dollars in free airtime to throw around for a candidates that benefited their bottom line but then there is this photo of her sitting next to russian president vladimir putin and former trump national security advisor michael flynn at a moscow dinner in two thousand and fifteen i was in russia to talk about a piece of offensive in the middle east to talk about nuclear weapons and to talk about climate change and ending fossil fuel use this was not selling out to the russians i did not receive funding i wasn't paid by russia they didn't even pay my way. and as greens put forward a slate of candidates running for congress in the mid-term elections she dismisses concerns that their progressive platform would divide up. position to the party of trump as democrats work to retake control of the house of representatives people

are not buying into trump paving and russia baiting that's really the extent of the democratic party generate now at least it's its establishment its leadership people are ready for something different and the better alternative stein says is green kristen salumi al jazeera salt lake city utah time now folds fought with. marion thank you so much the bastion that will put for our young pole position for his home german grump rain or city's driver valtteri bottas had thought he sealed the position but that was before the world championship leader moved to the top of the leaderboard with just seconds left in qualifying vettel produced a nearly perfect final lap to edge bottas who will race from second on the grid it was a very good day for ferrari with can be right can and thirty six. excellent excellent session follows the cars for 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 q three it was important to put the laps together which was the case so really really have been yeah you don't have many of those days especially at home so let's reverse. stop stop stop stop. but not a good day for vettel is title rival lewis hamilton who suffered a major setback the mercedes driver had to get out of his car try to push it back to the garage after his car was hit with hydraulic failure if inish down in fourteenth place hamilton is eight points behind vettel in the standings. 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 it won't work so hard when you're fighting for

a championship this close kind of four days like this golf's open championship has become a really tight affair three players are tied at the top jordan speed was particularly presses on saturday with a sixty five and the third round is tied on nine under with kevin chester and zander shuffle. tiger woods is tied for six and is five under who has won the competition since two thousand and six. that was that was that was big for me just to not finish on it was too big slice three holes play as well as i did. i've set a really good at bat shuttle eighteen and. a lay up i don't which is perfect the left side so i mean what that's like. at eighty three yards. i figured this is just haiti six like a practice a back yard and the number watch the scores this morning near the course was very

gettable seem like i said pots short putts for birdie on every hole starting out and sometimes it's good to see sometimes it's not so good to see but a bonus for to get onto the green and obviously for the kind of curl and. it was a dream start for the day. pre-season football tours are taking place all over the world premier league champions manchester city phased dortmund in the opening game of the international champions cup in chicago and it was the german side who opened the scoring through a penalty markets he has stepped up to put his team ahead of twenty eight minutes. cities at record signing riyadh marez made his debut following his eighty million dollar move from a leicester city the algerian striker failing to score his first goal with a free kick before half time final score dortmund one city.

dry stage this is stupid this is good so i don't know that'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. blade good in the game. all the players the very very good seems to. prefer to win but. it's the season who just prefer the team for their coming back is the best of legendary italian. made his public debut for paris and earlier it wasn't the happiest bow he could have hoped for p.s.g. went down three one to bar in munich two of the goals were however conceded by p.s.g. sub keeper after bush went off on the sixty sixth. double olympic champion shelley and frazier price has continued her successful comeback to

athletics the jamaican won the hundred meters in a time of ten point nine eight seconds at the anniversary games in london the seven time world champion gave birth to her son last august fastest time since her return beating out american deseret riots. there was a bizarre ending to the women's three thousand meters in london ethiopia's fan two would stop suddenly with two hundred metres left in the race work who had just overtaken kenyans illegally and rang carol to lead and thought she'd won it when she realized her mistake it was too late. ended up clinching the victory. kept her as nasser only two years won the opening leg of the silk way rally the two time dakar rally winner claimed three hundred and eleven quander stage began in a strong russia. the eighth edition of the race will take drivers through a total of seven stages covering more than three thousand five hundred kilometers

with the conclusion in moscow's red square all thousands of turned out to pay their final respects to olympic medal winning figure skater dennis han the twenty five year old died from injuries he sustained in a knife attack in his native kazakstan on thursday ten was trying to start two men from stealing his car mirrors when they stopped the stopping happen ten became the first skater from kazakstan to win an olympic medal when he got the bronze in twenty fourteen. and that's all your sport for now it's now back to marry him thank you farai we're now in france a tightrope walker has scaled it parses hill and reached the sucker could basilica tatiana. made the attempt with no assistance or any safety net on a rope pounding thirty five meters above ground started walking tightropes when she was just eight years old and says she's been preparing for this for a year that's if the news i'll be back in

a couple minutes. a new perspective can change a wild. for one chin is ian what began as a hobby has grown into a passion a way of life. teaching the next generation to strive for a higher level. and ensoul instilling in his country a sense of freedom and strength. new heights my chin is yeah on al-jazeera. a new poll ranks mexico city as the pool with worst in

the world for sexual violence many women are attacked while moving in the crowded spaces of the metro buses and even at the hands of taxi drivers the conversation starts with do you have a boyfriend you're very pretty and young you feel unsafe threatened i think about how to react what do i do if this gets way no money on the uses a new service it's called loyal drive it's for women passages only and drawn by women drivers pull for some extra features like a panic button and twenty fourth's of among the train of drivers. when people think of cuba they think the revolution but havana is undergoing a new revolution. of the it's an abode and we're here to discover if those changes are reflected on the plate but this is a few what is the queue and future of the restaurant owner i'm trying to create

more to dave through to a.j. it's on al-jazeera. burying the dead hamas holds funerals for fighters killed by israeli airstrikes as an uneasy truce hangs over gaza. hello i'm maryanne demasi and london you're with al-jazeera also coming up u.s. president accuses his former lawyer of potentially acting illegally after a pause he secretly recorded a conversation with about paying off a model. the militias bringing fear to the streets of managua after helping suppress anti-government protests in nicaragua and as for the first election since

gabi was ousted we look at the ruling party's efforts to.