get the families back together the un's highest court rules against the u.s. blockade of castle which is keeping relatives. live from doha also ahead. the language grows increasingly heated u.s. and iranian leaders trade threats. long hot weeks ahead greece struggle to contain wildfires as the death toll climbs and villages all. and kicking off

a big debate decision to quit the. questions about race and football. highest court has labeled actions by the united arab emirates against thousands of countries as racial discrimination judges in the hague say the move has families and they should be reunited cattle to a case against one of four countries that some pows and land and sea blockade for more than a year. from the hague. qatar's legal battle with the united arab emirates has dealt a defining blow the international court of justice says the measures taken by the u.a.e. after the blockade of qatar amount to racial discrimination according to. the u.a.e. has failed to respect the obligation is the i.c.j. order of the u.a.e. immediately to allow qatari families expelled from the country to be reunited

students to finish their studies and those qatari affected access to courts and tribunals the order said the i.c.j. president is compulsory because they are fairness that this all of that is on. and that article forty one of these that. effect. and that's a international legal obligation is for any part to her the provisional measure is that it's last june the u.a.e. saudi arabia bahrain and egypt sever diplomatic ties with qatar and imposed a land sea and air blockade accusing catarrh of funding extremism accusations it denies qatar says its citizens were either illegally expelled or denied access to the u.a.e. separating families and denying people access to health care education their

properties in assets of course the u.a.e. is the only one of the four countries to have imposed a blockade on cattle but it's the only one out of the four to be brought here before the international court of justice why because it's the only country out of the four that signed up to the international convention on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination but bahrain egypt and saudi arabia will be watching this case closely and drawing their own conclusions this is a statement that there is a likelihood of discrimination so one would think that the other states in the region would say that means something again likely that this is a violation in earlier hearings the u.a.e. denied any policy of expulsion saying it's measures were designed to have the least possible impact on ordinary citizens it said his argument was with the qatari government not the qatari people but the u.a.e. must comply with the court or face further legal action qatar could go to the u.n. security council and demand an informant order this is one of

a string of legal challenges mounted by qatar to try and end the blockade a ruling the country will welcome but whether it will help end the blockade now in its fourteenth month is less certain nieve back at al-jazeera the hague. same is a politics expert with the trim and national security project in washington she says the decision shows the blockade can be fought and won through legal means this is a very significant ruling by the international court of justice there are fifteen judges that weighed in on this decision eleven of those fifteen judges ruled in qatar's favor on three main issues the first issue was the issue of reuniting families that have been separated as a result of this inhumane blockade the second is to allow students to have had their studies interrupted as a result of the blockade to either continue their studies or obtain their records

and the third is to allow qatari citizens to own property in amerinds to be able to access judicial systems in order to pursue their rights within the united arab emirate the qatari government is essentially fighting back but they're not using violent means they're using legal means just to purely defend the rights of their citizens of their people and i think that the other parties to the blockade saudi arabia bahrain egypt should be concerned because i don't think that this bodes well for their legal future before the i.c.j. before the i.c.c. at the hague. iranian foreign minister has released a tweet mocking donald trump's late night threats from the republic of consequences never seen before but the u.s. president says he's unconcerned as he may be heightening tensions she ever tons of before. the iranian foreign minister's tweet mimics of the all caps late night tweet from the u.s. president color us unimpressed it said the world heard even harsher bluster

a few months ago and iranians have heard them albeit more civilized ones for forty years we've been around for millennia and seen full of empires including our own which lasted more than the life of some countries be cautious exclamation mark be cautious is how donald trump's tweet ended as well thanks at the white house donald trump was asked if he had any concerns about provoking tensions with iran this was his response. things have changed in the administration everywhere now those around on from who have long advocated for regime change in iran notably national security advisor john bolton he released the following statement if iran does anything at all to the negative they will pay a price like few countries have paid before but white house press secretary sara saunders argued that the administration's approach to iran has been consistent and the president's been i think pretty strong since day one in his language towards iran he was responding to comments made from them and he's going to continue to

focus on the safety and security of american people the president's tweet came at a time though when much of the international community is arguing that withdrawing from the iranian nuclear deal has made everyone less safe not more diplomatically i think a lot of countries are very resentful of the united states they think the u.s. pulled out of a perfectly fine nuclear deal that iran was complying with i think they're diplomatically maybe iran feels like it's with europe and russia and china saying that the u.s. is overdoing it here world has become on sunday secretary of state mike pompei said the u.s. would attempt to stir unrest in iran by beaming antigovernment broadcast into the country but beyond that it's still unclear what the long term strategy of the trumpet ministration is almost three months since the u.s. withdrew from the iranian nuclear deal she had. washington. for us and he's been following reaction from the iranian government. a late night tweet from the american commander in chief to the iranian president was

a textbook example of donald trump's twitter diplomacy a warning in all caps the u.s. president is angry never threaten america again he said or else. the husseini is a senior iranian national security official and says trump is really angry at himself that. 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 let 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 that. at the center of this latest escalation in the war of words is trump's vow to block the sale of iranian oil the country's biggest money maker earlier this month rouhani threatened to

respond by disrupting international shipping lanes in the strait of hormuz an important part of the region's oil supply chain in or. is it wise that while we have all these shores under our control we will not be able to export oil and other countries will this is not smart. in a speech on sunday u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o took aim at iran's leaders the level of corruption wealth among or a leader shows that iran is run by something that resembles the mafia more than a government it has to be said that many iranians would be just as critical of their own government the wealth gap is getting bigger and complaints of corruption are common but for every anti-government protest by nature or by design there have been bigger pro-government routes some people specifically mention general qassam so the money a senior revolutionary guard commander who many here consider a national hero he's been part of iran's campaign against immortalized in this

twenty seventeen animated film it depicts a military victory against u.s. naval forces with leading the charge. for many iranians this is the inevitable conclusion of american hostility towards their country and even peace makers here agree the closer these two sides come to open conflict. the harder it will be to walk. strong winds have become the new enemy for firefighters already struggling to control wildfires getting closer to the capital state of emergency is already in force in two areas and more than twenty people have been killed many things will only get worse diane reports. smoke spreads across the greek capital carrying fear of what the summer may bring around athens fires having got several towns homes have burned to the ground the hillsides no match for the raging flames thousands of people have evacuated many

who managed to escape are still in shock if the course of any thought i think it becomes about us i think thankfully the sea was right there and we went to the flames were chasing us all the way to the water it started burning our back so we dove into the water yes the fire has led greek prime minister alexis tsipras to cut short an official visit to bosnia. just there with but it's i want to believe that despite the adverse weather conditions we will do whatever is humanly possible to get the fire under control in spite of this i'm still concerned by the parallel outbreaks in the east and west of africa this is one of them but one of the owners of the firefighters the coast guard and army are teaming up to respond to the state of emergency the fires are burning in several areas including the small resort town of kmita about fifty kilometers from athens northeast of the capital the area is also affected as well as the southern island of crete the low visibility has led to

flight delays the closure of roads and a main highway. in the village of monte charred cars cover the streets greece is now asking the european union for help not to make honest greece has submitted a request through the european civil protection mechanism for international ground and air assistance. still fresh in the country's memory are the devastating two thousand and seven wildfires. more than eighty people died as fires burned for days across greece. over a decade later firefighters know it's a race against time with unforgiving flames destroying everything in the way. italy's foreign minister says migrants rescued from the mediterranean will be allowed to come ashore nations tackle the issue of migration at least new

government has taken a hard line on migration turning away rescue ships carrying migrants and refugees over the next five weeks countries will discuss how those rescued at sea could be distributed across the block so he has waded into the debate over german football a mess a decision to quit the national team and adviser to the turkish president has said there's no excuse for discrimination and the way as always treated is unforgivable nazis were timed on sunday saying he had suffered racism and disrespect because of his turkish descent from berlin dominic cain explains. his international career is over now club duty's with arsenal have taken mesut ozil to the far east but in his absence the fallout from his retirement is reverberating around germany the newspapers have seized on his statement in which he pointed the finger at the german football association specifically and its president hein hardaker linda accusing him of having a racially discriminative background earth still has been in the spotlight for his

off the field actions since this moment posing with the turkish president both alone and with other german players who have turkish roots red chip type area one is a divisive figure in germany as are the policies of his government but in the turkish community in berlin even among those who oppose aerotow on many support earth will and i think. begin fighting racism begins with showing people where the limits are we've had enough someone needs to say that to the german football federation that all players with nine german backgrounds are welcome and we will make sure that you feel well in germany if you have a second or third home that's ok but you're here and you're a part of our society some in the football world here remember what happened after france won the world cup in one thousand nine hundred eight how that multicultural team acted as a catalyst for the then german hierarchy to change its thinking first of all they

tried more integration they tried to build up more schools and as you see it worked and whether you were twenty one in four thousand or nine and with or without a team in two thousand and fourteen in brazil. you know that if there are success nobody discusses where they come from. and yet after this summer's french victory in russia some did highlight the racial background of that team with one comedian describing the victory as africa winning the world cup something french officials angrily dismissed saying there is no hyphen in people's nationality they are french and only french. here in berlin mesut ozil does have one very powerful ally angle americal says she values him as a great footballer who did a lot for the national team and in his career he wore the national jersey ninety two times scoring twenty three goals and helping his team to win the world cup but

now he says the levels of racism and disrespect he's received mean he will never wear this again dominic came a girl and. so has her on al-jazeera the last chance to convince voters in pakistan a twenty four hour stop on campaigning has now begun. and how much did you know the french interior minister is grilled over the presence of a bodyguard who beat protesters. and oh there were plenty more rain over parts of north america most of it is in the eastern part of our map and you can see one swirling mass of cloud here and then plenty of thunderstorms towards the south and another belt across the plains working its way towards the midwest now this one's fizzling out really as we head through the day on tuesday but for the eastern parts it's going to stay very

unsettled lots of heavy rain here as the winds will feed that moisture gradually north with that system still sticks around as we head through wednesday and on wednesday and now the system will try and crop up out of the door them planes and that will be again working its way east with an easing a little bit as it does say now behind it is going to stay hot seattle there are thirty one degrees a very warm day for us for the central americas here we've got our usual rash of showers over the bahamas stretching down through parts of cuba jamaica and across into his ponyo more showers are likely here as we head through the next few days generally in between the showers though there is some sunshine coming through unlike further south where we've got so much rain over parts of the. costa rica that at times is pretty grey throughout the day and pretty soggy as well down to our south america and forth here is pretty cool at the moment a maximum just of ten him when azeris or so ascensions pretty cool are maximums only thirty the shower is a movie east. capturing

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a reminder of our top stories this hour the un's highest court has ruled in favor of cas are in the case it goes against the united arab emirates court of justice says the measures taken by the u.a.e. off the blockade against amount to racial discrimination. more than twenty people have died or wildfires close to the greek capital athens strong winds one hundred firefighters and states of emergency have been declared in several areas. and turkey has weighed into the debate over german football and decision to quit the national team and advised president has called his treatment unforgivable overtired on sunday saying he had suffered racism and disrespect because of his turkish descent. tens of millions of pakistanis have less than twenty four hours to make up their minds before they head for an election many see as one of the most contentious ever campaigning has ended with candidates banned from any more attempts to sway voters the party of former international cricket column is widely

tipped to when osama bin java had reports from lahore. from the rooftop to the seats arranged below political workers gathered in their hundreds charged by the anthems of change they believe the twenty eighteen election will turn the tables on the tradition of venice. it will be a one sided contest from the rule belts we will sweep the pakistan muslim league nawaz party we will also win from urban areas this is the last time they can express this confidence before the july twenty fifth election campaign activities have been suspended by the election commission twenty four hours before pours open it's the last day of campaigning and crowds have been gathering at various rallies being held by the box they can solve this is the party being led by forget to turn politician in wrong han who according to polls has been leading in the race to words the pakistani parliament the importance of punjab the heartland of pakistani politics the province holds one hundred forty eight out of the two hundred seventy two geographically constituencies which make up the national assembly. god

really gives the nation this chance to change their faith these corrupt politicians have been ruling the punjab since ninety five even their children are billionaires . but it's not going to be an easy fight for imran khan a crowd of now jailed former prime minister in the musharraf is also fired up we often have a shitty because he's done a tremendous job in making projects like the natural gas holds at the orange line train that's why we'll only support him the numbers the is now led by his brother shahbaz sharif who has been criticised by his opponents for not being a crowd puller. insists that his support is among the masses who have benefited from his development projects and people in his party's constituency seem convinced waters of the muslim league see their leadership and party has been targeted unfairly by the judiciary and the military establishment.

people will vote for the lion because they have performed in the past five years whether it's the china corridor or a network of roads buses and trains education and health sectors where they did a great job. instead of a single large rally all major parties finished their campaigns but smaller political gatherings marred by some incidents of violence campaigning is ended now votes will decide which political party succeeded in getting their message across. israel says it will reopen gaza's main commercial border crossing and expand its fishing zone on tuesday if a truce with hamas holds its been in place. the two thousand and fourteen war memories of that fifty day conflicts still linger in the minds of palestinians. mohamad a silex says his wife and children were preparing food for the evening meal when these radio and strikes hit their home it was july the thirtieth two thousand and

fourteen during the third advanced recent to israel. suddenly there was a massive explosion my wife screamed where is my son when we went upstairs there were eight bodies some with out their heads. this. was mohammad rushed to the bodies of his sons and daughter from the rubble the tank showing started. yet when the first ambulance arrived tank shells started targeting the area that's when my leg was hit the ten members of muhammad's family who died that day including eight children were among the one thousand five hundred palestinian civilians killed during that war six israeli civilians were killed. now four years later palestinians have been protesting against israel's twelve year land air and sea. a blockade of gaza using kites and balloons carrying burning

ranks across gaza's border fence israel says the fires have destroyed large areas of crops and private land. and some israeli politicians have called for another large scale military operation in gaza is to try to balloon protests don't stop the gaza border fences about half a kilometer in that direction now during the two thousand and fourteen war is ready tanks and mortars almost completely destroyed this neighborhood of. the israeli military is still there you can still hear israeli military drones overhead now there are fears here that a new war would once again destroy this neighborhood and the lives of the people living here. this is what was left of the neighborhood of four years ago most buildings were either damaged or completely destroyed. and this is now most of it is being rebuilt using some of the billions of dollars donated by the international

community. why no job or his house still hasn't been completely rebuilt he and his family fled when fighters with hamas and other groups took up positions in the neighborhood to fight is raging soldiers. and i'm very worried about a future war all of the world is watching us and nobody cares when a muslim dies it doesn't count that anything consider him an animal that when a jew dies it's the end of the world. some of these children which is babies in two thousand and fourteen may be too young to remember but now older no liberty to care for their parents so dread. that al-jazeera dollars or. as an american it is amazing in mexico in the hopes of rest overseeing trade and economic ties after recent elections in colombia mexico and chile mexico is trying to integrate with the economies of south america and make itself less dependent on the u.s.

john holeman has more from the summit imports over yet or. between them the four countries that make up the pacific alliance chile mexico colombia and peru have more than a third of latin america's g.d.p. and a combined population of more than two hundred million the focus of their alliance is on free trade between them and opening up business with other countries particularly in asia and they feel that this could be their moment. the alliance has a golden opportunity if it plays its cards well that's because of a world that they feel is becoming more protectionist particularly the united states. is. if the warnings of trump come true the tariffs will go back to a situation like the seventy they believe that that means the international trade could swing towards them and they do have some momentum with more than fifty observer countries some of which like canada australia new zealand and singapore

looking to become associate members look it up with an employer doesn't let in a meeting and then people will go to latin american integration efforts are needed now more than ever because we're seeing a very volatile international scenario but missing of the two new president elects of colombia and mexico they may have their own agendas especially incoming mexican president under his manual lopez obrador who was meant to come to the summit and didn't he seems to be banking more on nafta or the free trade pact between mexico the united states and canada and is pushing for a speedy resolution of renegotiations all of that deal for mexico the united states in trade terms is simply more important than it's latin american friends french politicians have quizzed the interior minister about what he knew of an incident involving the president's former bodyguard he was filmed beating up protestors false wearing a police helmet and the case has turned into a major political crisis for money on david chase our ports. always in the thick

of the political fray with emanuel macron before and after his successful bid for the presidency alexandra banal and clearly had the trust of the new occupants of the lease a palace but that very close nurse now threatens to overwhelm the man he was sworn to protect how much did the president know was there a cover up. 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 cross-examined interior minister gerard calm why did it take two and a half months before

a prosecution was brought against the bodyguard because he sounded like he was passing the buck. the office of the president and. i think only syria information to take action i consider 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 least 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 is in 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 at the least say 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 david chaytor al jazeera parents. without zero these are top stories the u.s. highest court has ruled in favor of qatar in the case it brought against the united arab emirates international court of justice says the measures taken by the u.a.e. after the blockade against cattle amount to racial discrimination by voters to serve in. the united states must be. one. separated by the measure is adopted by.

iran's foreign minister is warning the u.s. president to be cautious after little trump threatened iran with severe consequences on twitter tensions between the two countries have escalated since the u.s. withdrew from iran's nuclear deal in may and said it will reimpose economic sanctions more than twenty people have died in wildfires close to the greek capital athens strong winds are hampering firefighters in states where measures have been declared in several areas italy's foreign minister says migrants rescued from the mediterranean will be allowed to come ashore nations tackle the issue of migration at least new government has taken a hard line on migration turning away rescue ships carrying migrants and refugees over the next five weeks e.u. countries will discuss how those rescued at sea can be just to beat it across the block turkey has weighed into the debate over german football

a decision to quit the national team and advise its president has called his treatment unforgettable overtired on sunday saying he suffered racism and disrespect because of his turkish descent. and campaigning has ended for pakistan's election candidates now mark what's called a day of silence as more than one hundred million people prepared to go to the polls on wednesday the campaign's been dogged by violence and claims of vote rigging your former international cricket in one column is why the tips to win the poll will be facing a challenge from shahbaz sharif the brother of the former prime minister nawaz sharif who recently returned to pakistan. with all the headlines and back with more news here on al-jazeera after with us. getting to the heart of the matter unless we have new generations growing up to understand better our relationship with the natural world then soon there will be

nothing left facing reality or our friends and allies played a positive role in preventing and his condition from taking place here their story on talk to al-jazeera. of the years it was good when we can meet all of the family to. me yes let's get real commitment look i'm going to be real thrilled when i. see.