people in power investigates are rockets of such magnitude that it threatens governments and redefining the rules of impunity. the carwash. the un's highest court orders the united arab emirates to reunite cat three families separated by the gulf crisis. alone barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up on the program president trumps all caps warning to his a rainy and counterpart the latest in an escalating war of words. after a five hour standoff kurdish security forces killed three gunmen who stormed the

government building in at a below plus panic grows and shares in chinese pharmaceutical companies for over make vaccines given to babies. thank you for joining us the un's highest court has issued an order in favor of qatar in the case that it brought against the united arab emirates the u.a.e. is one of the four countries that imposed an air land and sea blockade against catherine more than a year ago the international court of justice says the measures taken by the u.a.e. after the blockade amount to racial discrimination and that kathy families should be reunited it has instructed the u.s. to ensure cathy students can complete their education there and be given access to their records if they choose to transfer elsewhere and the court also ruled catherine is affected by the blockade should be allowed access to courts on tribunal's in the u.a.e. need farquhar is at the hague. well the u.s.

highest court has sided with qatar in granting something called provisional measures which is an urgent immediate ruling by the i.c.j. that forces the u.a.e. a key signatory of the convention on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination hold its obligations but it's accused of violating it is now being ordered by the i.c.j. to avoid anything that leads to the separation of families to allow students to continue their studies or at least get the stiffness they need to be able to study elsewhere it would also allow people to access judicial services something the qatari government says that its nationals have been denied over the course of the blockade on the country but also a key. message here by the from the i.c.j. to both countries to avoid anything that would escalate tensions between atta and the u.a.e. going forward of course katter over the course of this legal battle has accused the

u.a.e. of racial discrimination is focusing on what it says was a policy to expel qatari nationals from the u.a.e. at the start of the blockade we now need to see exactly how the u.a.e. will implement these recommendations and exactly when. william or star is a senior lecturer at the hague university of applied sciences he spoke to us earlier and said it could be years before the outcome of the case is no anyone necessarily being favorite despite today's ruling. the problem is the people who are separated from their spouses or trying to do education or or their property is rights have been disrupted these people can't wait that long and so one of the mechanisms that the court has is to say let's just issue this emergency injunction where we would rescind some of these measures so that people are not overly

prejudiced and they don't have all this irreparable harm to their to their lives and to stress and upset and that way they can continue their lives while the case is being heard so in the end it may be on the guitar loses that is definitely one possibility but for now so that these people are not overly prejudiced we have these provisional measures. president donald trump has warned iran never to threaten the united states again warning it will provoke consequences which quote few throughout history have suffered trumps tweet came just hours after iranian president hassan rouhani warned of that trumps hostile policies or leading to the mother of all wars iran has faced increased economic pressure and possible sanctions following the u.s. withdrawal from the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal shelob ellis has. with

television as their platform a ratcheting up of three it's between iran's president hassan rouhani and the trumpet ministration on sunday secretary of state mike compare spent a full twenty six minutes criticizing rouhani and his leadership the ayatollah are in on the act to. judging by their bass well they seem more concerned with riches than religion these hypocritical holy men advice all kinds of cricket's games to become some of the wealthiest men on earth while their people suffer as the us administration is attacking iran from multiple angles in may president trump withdrew from the twenty fifteen nuclear court in august he will reimpose sanctions aimed at crippling iran's economy pump a are one tehran its exports will be squeezed in the coming months and is pressuring allies to stop importing iranian oil by november its biggest source of income and now the us administration is seizing on process in iran to begin a media campaign president rouhani referred to the strategy and three trump against

turning his people against him but doma shootable as you know which don't play with the lion's tail you will regret it forever you cannot carry out these measures it is out of your capability you cannot force during ins to act against their own country you have clearly shown you are against the iranian people. those comments got this response from president trump who tweeted in capital laces never ever threaten the united states again or you will suffer consequences the likes of which few throughout history have ever suffered before we're no longer a country that will stand for your demented words of violence and death be cautious . to tweet is a flashback to trump and north korean leader kim jong il on kim was also at the wrong end of a new caps tirade last year for the two leaders came together at a summit in singapore in june. but the difference with iran is protests the soaring

cost of living has pushed iranians to the streets numbers not seen since twenty twelve but analysts say a media campaign to win them over will be received as u.s. propaganda i think it's quite clear that as much as they are frustrated and deeply frustrated with the government of iran they're not jumping onto trump side anytime soon from california to tehran the high stakes verbal sparring will be watched by its target audience iranian people shallop ballasts al-jazeera. and the governor has saying is an iranian n.p.n. national security spokesman it although they were the trams outburst was motivated by anger. on. americans have been trying for two to three years now to convince other countries to confront iran instead of cooperating with iran but they haven't succeeded even their commercial partners like the europeans and china they clearly announce they

won't go with the sanctions naturally russia won't cooperate nor will other countries in our opinion america is angry because it is isolated itself and it feels that it remains alone against iran. joins us live now from washington d.c. i mean obviously there have been tensions between the u.s. and iran especially since trump became president but why is all of this happening right now. right well the tensions really go back decades but certainly donald trump campaigned in twenty sixteen on saying that he didn't like the iran nuclear agreement that was negotiated between the united states and iran and other world powers to limit iran's nuclear program and then we saw in may the united states withdrawing from that agreement and certainly there has been sort of this escalation of rhetoric ever since then the feeling being here in the united states that there is somewhat of an opportunity right now given the fact that there

are these anti-government protests that's why you saw that very strong speech from the secretary of state mike pompei o sensually this is sort of what the united states has been carefully doing moving forward and that is trying to pressure the top leaders in iran so not only is there the strong rhetoric but we know that there are going to be anti-government broadcasts that are going to be put together by the united states and broadcasting into iran on social media radio television why is all of this happening while we also know that in addition to withdrawing from the iran nuclear agreement the tie to that is the sanctions was very tough sanctions that were lifted as a result of the twenty fifteen agreement snapping now back into place so we've got the first ones happening in about three weeks that goes towards the banking sector but the real heavy hitting sanctions that will be snapping back into place in november those ones targeting oil markets and at the time that donald trump pulled

the u.s. out of that agreement he said that this is just the beginning and expect this to be painful and we're seeing evidence of that in kimberley and maybe hard to say but is that likely to escalate or deescalate. at this point it appears the united states is quite comfortable with the escalation if you look at the statements that are being made by a number of different members of the trumpet ministration and this goes beyond sort of just the united states and iran the united states is accusing iran of many things including destabilizing the broader region that's one of the things they felt that the. did not address so it appears that the united states is not only escalating the this but continues to do so given the fact that one of the staff changes they've made in recent months is the adding of the national security advisor john bolton and john bolton is very very clear about his views of iraq he believes that it's destabilizing the region he believes that it is anti israel and

this is a very israel friendly administration and he even called for the overthrowing of the iran government so it does not appear at this point although they have said in the past they're willing to negotiate with iran's leaders the united states does not appear to be trying to deescalate the tensions kimberly how kit with the latest from washington kimberly thank you kurdish security forces have killed three suspected i still find who's who attacked the governor's building in. the gunmen fired at guards before entering the building and taking hostages later security forces around the building were targeted by a suicide bomber a government employee was killed during the clashes and two policeman who did it being is the seat of the kurdish regional government that has largely been spared isolette tax in recent years imran khan has more now from baghdad. the attack began around seven am local time when gunman burst into the gov building injuring two security forces soldiers that were on duty that they then moved to the third

floor and started to open fire from a third floor window on security forces outside it was at that stage that the kurdish security forces cordoned off the area and mounted their attack they went into the building moving up to the third floor about three hours in four hours into the into the situation a suicide bomber blew himself up and then snipers killed one of the attackers and then injured another that person then later succumbed to is injuries in the hospital now the attack was all over in about five hours but there are still plenty of questions to be asked who was responsible and how were they able to get into that building will could if politicians blaming eisel for this certainly bears the hallmarks of an ice let's hack multiple gunmen a suicide bomb so. politicians are very definitely have claimed responsibility as of yet however questions are being asked of the kurdish authorities themselves how

would the gunman able to get into one of the most secure buildings in the city of erbil. so to come here are now just in iraq campaigning wraps up in one of pakistan's most unpredictable and elections yet we'll have the details plus a new state of the nation address philippine president. pledges to continue his one drugs saying the fight will be as relentless and chilling as when it began. hello there we've been talking about the showers around the black sea for a while now they've been with us for at least a week and they gradually making their way towards the northeast towards the caspian sea but this certainly given the some heavy downpours and also some rather more active types of weather as well this waterspout was spotted in the southwestern parts of russia so clearly very active storms that more still to come

during the day on tuesday but i think for wednesday is generally looking drier and many of us could get away with a dry day still want to showers though are likely just around the coast of the caspian sea so to the north of tehran could be a couple of showers hip elsewhere though and across the region is just hot as you'd expect at this time of year forty five degrees the maximum in baghdad now here in doha it's been pretty windy over the past few days but the winds are easing and that will allow the temperatures to sneak a little bit higher so i think we'll get to around forty four or forty five degrees as we head through the next few days to the south of us there is more in the way of clouds over parts of a man and into yemen could just give us one or two showers particularly around. if we head down towards the southern parts of africa largely fine and dry for most of us here not really a great deal of cloud showing up on the satellite picture at all we'll see a bit of cloud i think in the eastern parts of mozambique that could give us a shower.

when people think of cuba they think revolution but ivana is undergoing a new revolution can be because the last we spoke with cuba isn't the building we're here to discover if those changes are reflected on the plate but this is q what is a day q and a. russian owner i'm trying to make more today move a.j. it's on al-jazeera. welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera the un's highest court has ordered the

u.s. to reunite families separated by a blockade imposed on the gulf country last year the u.s. president has warned is a rein in counterpart has on the rouhani risks provoking severe consequences for his country as the two trade threats and after a five hour standoff the kurdish security forces have killed three suspect that isis fighters to the governor's building. the syrian government has condemned israel's evacuation of white helmets rescue workers as a criminal smuggling operation the evacuation had the backing of the united nations u.s. and britain and its all four hundred twenty two members of the organization ferried overnight through the usually occupied golan heights and into jordan the government has repeatedly accused the white helmets of being a front group for rebel fighters meanwhile the syrian government and its our live russia have stepped up their offensive against controlled areas in the south

western area people in northern israel have reported been hearing sirens. we've been witnessing an intense air campaign throughout the day also heavy shelling on this area behind us which is essentially the only opposition held area left in southwestern syria it's controlled by a group affiliated with ice so there is no negotiations on the table for them certainly at the moment we've seen small groups of people trying to seek shelter close to rocks close to the fence the fence that demarcates these really occupied golan heights with the syrian side the war is very close here and it really does look like the syrians together with the russians are really pushing this campaign forward now trying retake the entire area of southwest syria the israeli army here more on more alert certain that we've seen in the past couple of weeks more soldiers monitoring the area taking pictures earlier on monday morning rockets

sarin were heard here is that gives you an indication of just how close the fighting is russian foreign minister sergey lavrov has met the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu in jerusalem with talks focusing on the iranian presence in syria as of the hour reiterated israel's position which is that he expects syria and its ally iran to honor the nine hundred seventy four agreement which sets out a demilitarized zone along their shared from here russia a key ally has warned it would be unrealistic to expect their round to fully withdraw from the country. a funeral has been held for a palestinian teenager who was shot dead by israeli soldiers in the occupied west bank the fifteen year old was shot in the chest at a refugee camp king of bethlehem during an israeli raid israeli military says it's true for the troops fired after being attacked with rocks and were names at least

twenty five children have been killed by israeli forces in the first half of the sphere. campaigning is wrapping up in pakistan's most unpredictable election yet over one hundred million people will be voting on wednesday in a poll which has been dogged by claims of rigging and corruption former cricketer and p.c.i. chief among them is widely seen as the powerful military's choice for next leader he'll be facing a challenge of from ship as sherry to the brother of the former prime minister nawaz sharif who recently returned. from a high there is more now from the one in pakistan's prime job province. electioneering brought. down the voice of god will be heard on the twenty fifth but the election campaign really have to come to all by midnight on monday evening.

surely if the younger brother of no watch ready for work get required by the board and it qualified for life now in a drawn one your genetic party can turn. to win enough war to end it wrong or. right there the next prime minister of the country why do you gauge and again good option. the killing of a foreigner and then the duty of the whole. political party to really be throwing there for the last few hours of the electioneering campaign the pakistan people's party brand gone or dr who why and try to appeal to the public to get the maximum number of war the next forty eight dodge will be critical and it will be imported kooky. the philippine president says his war on drugs is far from over during his annual state of the

nation address. said his administration's offensive will be as relentless and chilling as the day to get. reports from. his government promised president really good attorney does third state of the nation address will be his best it was meant to highlight his administration's achievement over the past two years but it ended up becoming one of the most chaotic national events in recent times the president was an hour and a half late that's because of a political drama that played out in congress before his address factions within allies in the house of representatives launched a leadership challenge former president gloria macapagal arroyo was a congresswoman now moved to unseat the house speaker this prevented the ratification of the peace agreement between the government and the liberation front

rebel group. signed it into law on monday it was supposed to be an important part of the president's state of the nation address still in there to manage to deliver his speech the war against illegal drugs is far from over despite public outrage. and truly. if you will be. begun every relationship with turnover mess not mean. men will be friends. in the west philippines. as deter to spoke inside there were protests outside this is the biggest anti-government protest since

president rodrigue oded you was sworn in two years ago and there is no shortage of anger and frustration here activists say his government is zero press and they want him to resign. these protesters see this deed of division speech is an attempt by the government to could see a grave violations against the for the people these women a bit they do not understand some of the issues mentioned in the speech they say security is a concern but they are more worried about the rising cost of food and other basic goods. i hope that the prices of goods will be lowered especially rice i hope that promise will happen because the poor are getting poorer. the state of the nation address is meant to be a showcase of the government's achievements but the political drama inside congress overshadowed the speech and what it revealed instead are the cracks in deterred his

leadership. and al-jazeera manila. police in china have launched a criminal investigation after hundreds of thousands of children may have been given faulty vaccines health regulations found the drug maker violated safety standards it's the second scandal to hit the company in the past week adrian brown has more now from beijing. it is a worrying time for parents across china. outside beijing's top children's hospital we found many still absorbing the fact the china's second largest pharmaceutical company has been producing vaccines for babies that are fake you know your god you know the people who made this fabricated vaccine should be executed right away without any hesitation they did it to babies not adults he added this mother is especially concerned her one year old son was inoculated for rabies last month he has a fever and the scandal has heightened her anxiety my son was born very weak he always

has fevers now his dad and i don't know if it's related to the fake vaccines in china or vaccinations to prevent diseases like tetanus hooping cough and rabies are free but now some parents no longer trust the made in china versions. calumny to me at least three chinese vaccines cannot meet correct safety standards i would have to think about buying imported vaccine so far there have been no reports of children harmed by the vaccine or having contracted rabies. the trunk shroom biotechnology company in northeast china produced the fake vaccines executives have now admitted falsifying test results for its rabies vaccine production is halted all vaccines are being recalled were still just last thursday this same company was fined over its substandard production of other vaccines jane tami she at the end after we found out that the company forged the records of production and production

inspections and modified technical parameters and equipment at will the actions seriously violated there a live one stipulation of chinese law this scandal broke four days ago but it wasn't until sunday night the china's premier league spoke out urging severe punishment for all those responsible now the government says that all companies that produce vaccines in china will be subject to unannounced inspections this industry was already in trouble just two years ago another pharmaceutical company was found to have improperly stored tens of millions of dollars worth of vaccines many of them had expired but in unusually open coverage china's state controlled media have called for an overhaul of an industry which one newspaper editorial said had been contaminated by scandals adrian brown al jazeera beijing japan has recorded its highest ever temperature is a deadly heat wave continues to grip the country the temperature rose to forty one

point one degrees celsius in the city of course that's northwest of tokyo and that is nearly twelve degrees hotter than the average for this time of year at least thirty people have died over the past month because of the heat. meanwhile firefighters in greece are tackling a fast moving forest fire that's already forced the evacuation of three communities it's burning through a mountain region around forty kilometers west of the capital athens strong winds they keep shifting direction are hampering efforts to fight the blaze. french politicians have questioned the interior minister here hard to call all over his knowledge of an incident in may when president micron's former bodyguard was filmed beating a protester the president himself has not yet commented on the case which is causing him major political embarrassment they've a traitor has the story always in the thick of the political fray with the manual

macro before and after his successful bid for the presidency alexandra but clearly had the trust of the new occupants of the lease a palace but that very close in this now threatens to overwhelm the man he was sworn to protect how much did the president know was there a coverup. bernardo was filmed at the may day protests in paris this year wearing a police armband and carrying a police radio he was supposed to be just an observer but mobile phone footage later showed him wearing a riot police helmet and visor tackling a demonstrator. suspended for just two weeks he was back on the security detail when the french football team returned in triumph to paris with the world cup french deputies of the national assembly on monday was examined interior minister gerard calmly why did it take two and a half months before a prosecution was brought against the bodyguard he sounded like he was passing the

bus. the office of the president and the police professor i think only syria information to take action i consider does the fact that we're flagged were being dead too easy appropriate clever so i did not get involved further in this issue when president was elected last year he promised to bring a new face to the say with accountability and transparency but opposition m.p.'s saying he's proving the opposite. the hearing of the interior minister that lasted two and a half hours confirmed the worst suspicions we had namely that there isn't fact a parallel structure in our country which would fall under the presidency of the republic. banal or had just been assigned a luxury flat on the banks of the senate reserved for employees of the elisei as well as a chauffeur driven car before finding himself in police custody as for president mackerel ready accused of being elitist by his enemies and out of touch with

ordinary people he's seen his popularity ratings drop to just thirty nine percent they may have further to fall the traitor al jazeera paris. much more on that never thing else we've been covering on the web site the address al-jazeera dot com. and now a reminder of our top stories the un's highest court has issued an order in favor of qatar in the case that it brought against the united arab emirates the international court of justice says the measures taken by the you. amount to racial discrimination and this should allow capital families to be reunited the u.a.e. is one of four countries that impose the air land and sea blockade against calcutta more than a year ago by eat voters to serve in. the united arab immunities

must be sure that. one families that include qatar. separated by the measure is adopted by the united arab immunities on five hundred seventeen our unite. president donald trump has warned iran never to threaten the united states again warning that it risks provoking consequences which few throughout history have suffered his tweet came hours after iranian president hassan rouhani warned that trumps hostile policies could lead to the mother of all wars iran has faced increased economic pressure and possible sanctions following the us withdrawal from the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal. kurdish security forces have killed three suspected i saw fighters who attacked the governor's building in. the gunmen fired at guards before entering the building and taking hostages later security forces around the building

were targeted by a suicide bomber a government employee was killed during the clashes in two policemen were warned that it would be in the is the seat of the kurdish regional government and has largely been spared isolette tax in recent years. you know the syrian government has condemned israel's evacuation of white helmet rescue workers as a criminal smuggling operation the evacuation which also had the backing of the united nations the u.s. and britain so four hundred twenty two members of the organization ferried overnight through the years really occupied golan heights and into jordan became in the wake of advancing syrian government troops and the growing threat from other on groups those are the headlines a live news hour for you in less than half an hour coming up next it's inside story thanks for watching the buy.

a new iraq for china africa relations xi jinping promises to strengthen economic ties that he makes his first visit to west africa as president but how will africa benefit as beijing seeks new markets and is it a win win situation this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm fully back to china has had a strong presence in africa for years beijing has built countless roads buildings and provided economic support right across the african continent now.