mount a long term campaign and this time the but on the story is significant isn't it from a military point of view as well because of course several countries have military bases on the djibouti coast for example there's going to be a certain amount of concern i would have thought from those countries at least about the any sort of attempt to restrict shipping or in some way close access to that part of the strait absolutely and i think you'll find there any other coalition vessels who attacked it in this way you'll see a pretty swift response from those countries because freedom of navigation particularly net since the waterway is something that is really essential. to the maintenance of the economic loss lines in the coalition will take. take significant steps to ensure that debt occurs and we may well see as well additional force protection from maritime assets in the short term to ensure that there is

no geisha and. economically vital supply lines good to get your point of view in this thank you rodger shanahan my pleasure pro-government media in syria reporting at least or hundred forty seven people have died in eisel suicide bomb attacks that happened in the southern city of also a way to close to the border with jordan syrian troops are trying to clear an i still held area close to the israeli occupied golan heights from where stephanie decker reports. a rare attack in the government held town of psuedo syrian state television says a suicide bomber blew himself up in the market and two more attackers were killed before they could detonate their explosives according to the reports. we heard the sounds in the early morning people started screaming there's an explosion stay away . i salute claim responsibility for the attack it says it targeted government soldiers the group has lost huge swathes of territory over the last few years one

of the last pockets of territory that i still controls is here behind us in the southern golan heights how the bombardment has also been very close to the fence where the israeli occupied golan heights has been intensive campaign underway by the syrian government and its russian ally to take it back he's really army is keeping a close eye on what is happening. russian jets roared through the sky before unloading their explosives we've seen syrian jets to one of which was downed on choose day by two israeli patriot missiles we heard the warning sirens go off we immediately saw this field on fire and we moved closer to find out what we could see we weren't the only ones these israeli soldiers arrived soon after to inspect the ground. another field on fire and this one right opposite the offensive against eisel and in the area where the jet went down. on wednesday both syrian and russian jets were back

in the sky sources tell us that the syrian government is sending reinforcements to this area and one succeeds here it will be back in control of all of southwest syria stephanie decker al jazeera in the israeli occupied golan heights. plenty more ahead on the news hour including u.s. secretary of state michael is facing questions from senators about donald trump's recent meeting with vladimir putin. thousands wait for rescue in laos some stranded on rooftops after a dam collapsed flooding the remote villages plus. tested again assuming no williams claims she's being discriminated against by anti-doping officials it's coming up with joe sport. the u.s. secretary of state says he personally warned russia of severe consequences over the alleged interference in the twenty sixteen u.s.

election like compare was being questioned by the senate foreign relations committee but he also faced scathing criticism for the administration's changing position on russia our state department correspondent roslyn jordan reports when u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o entered the hearing room he knew what was coming criticism of president donald trump's recent closed door meeting with russian president vladimir putin i think your pay for it tremendous faith and madness but it's the president's actions. that create tremendous distrust pompei of this response demonstrate just how tough the administration has already been on russia over two hundred sanctions two hundred sanctions under is reflective of this in mission administration steadfastness with respect to our willingness to push back against russia pump ale also said the president doesn't question what happened during the two thousand and sixteen presidential election excepts our intelligence

community's conclusion that russia meddled in the two thousand and sixteen election he has a complete and proper understanding of what happened i know i briefed him on it for over a year but the senator skepticism was bipartisan and considerable compare the following barack obama speaking tough on russia and doing nothing those are true it is trying to see if you want to rewrite the obama policy on russia the remarks reported by russian news agency summed up the mood that mr trump sided with the kremlin over his own intelligence agency so there the russian media characterizing the meeting and we have no readout to dispute any of that pump aoe did get to talk about ending north korea's nuclear weapons program and about curbing iran's influence around the middle east but at the end the hearings focus returned to tromp statements in helsinki and the panel's top democrat was having none of that please don't talk to me about politics. well talk about politics if president obama did what president

trump did in helsinki i be peeling you off the capitol stealing money from pails job on wayne state was to defend president francois hollande said he was very glamorous in his testimony but it doesn't appear he changed any minds at least on the senate panel. al-jazeera capitol hill. president donald trump has pushed back his proposed meeting with president putin on u.s. soil until twenty nineteen the white house says the summits been delayed because of the ongoing investigation into russian interference in the twenty sixteen u.s. election trump invited president to washington after their controversial talks in helsinki on july the sixteenth many members of congress had objected to the two leaders meeting again and said putin wouldn't be welcomed. a group of republican politicians has moved to impeach the man overseeing the russia investigation for the us department of justice the group's accusing deputy u.s.

attorney general rod rosenstein of hiding information from congress rosenstein has been a frequent republican target because he appointed robert muller a special counsel for the inquiry both trump and some in his party have been criticized for trying to undermine the investigation when the us president has reached an agreement with the european union to reduce the impact of the global trade war almost immediately u.s. financial markets have responded with cautious optimism al-jazeera white house correspondent kelly hawkins reports. after weeks of escalating trade disputes in tit for tat tariffs u.s. president donald trump e.u. chief john closed younker and now as they have forged a new relationship i had the intention to make a deal today and we made a deal today we have identified a number of areas in which to work together. work. on industrial goods.

combined the european union and the united states make up more than half of the global g.d.p. the two leaders agreed to create a commission addressing shared goals and while they didn't mention it by name it was clear their new relationship is designed in part to combat the growing global influence of china we will therefore work closely together with like minded partners to reform the w t o and to address unfair trading practices including intellectual property theft forced technology transfer industrial subsidies distortions created by state owned enterprises and over capacity the u.s. has accused china of being behind over production the motivation behind recent u.s. tariffs and foreign steel and aluminum imports into the united states the top administration also recently slapped twenty five percent tariffs on thirty four

billion of chinese imports which china retaliated trump said hundreds of billions more in tariffs could be in the works we've spent decades developing these markets let us have access to them in the trade war now troubles been criticized from members of his own republican party particularly in rural farm states feeling the pressure from china's tariffs on u.s. goods china is among the top purchasers of u.s. pork and soybeans challenging problem with world trade china became a member of the world trade organization on the day we january one two thousand and one they started cheating on january too but what president trump did not suspend our recent steel and aluminum tariffs against the european union instead for now he offered a promise not to impose more can really help get al-jazeera the white house. the chinese president has said there will be no winner in

a global trade war she doing painting is now urging the leaders of developing economies to work together in the face of threats of tariffs by the u.s. president on with us reports from the brics summit in johannesburg. leaders from brazil russia india china and south africa say they are united in fighting protectionism and promoting global trade is the first time presidents on the brics trade bloc are meeting since donald trump's administration said it was ready to impose tariffs on all chinese imports a movie karima say could also hurt smaller countries like south africa we are meeting here ladies and gentlemen. at a time when the multilateral trading system is facing unprecedented challenges we are concerned by the rise unilateral measures that are incompatible with world trade organization rules and. we are worried about the impact of these

measures especially as they impacts developing countries and economies. the five countries in the brics block some of the world's biggest emerging economies more than forty percent of the global population china has a world think of largest economy after the united states cities one hundred one flea markets to buy and sell their products countries. have become privatized. community activists feel describable resources could undermine human rights and good governance in perspective of india there are many infrastructure projects coming which are causing a lot of human rights violations so we have foremost we are fighting against the land. there's a project called industry pardo that's coming which will acquire forty percent of the india's line and so we are just concerned about the amount of displacement that when having some economists say improving and increasing trade among brics

countries could make the matching economies more competitive and perhaps challenge the u.s. it was some insist is an attempt to stoke tension and start a global trading. janice but. at least twenty four people have been killed and more than a hundred a missing after adama in laos collapsed on monday the district governor says around three thousand people are still stranded in the floods thousands more have been forced from their homes teams from thailand and china are helping with the rescue effort the last six members of a japanese culture responsible for a deadly subway attack in the one nine hundred ninety s. have been executed thirteen people were killed and nearly six thousand people were injured after the group released poisonous sarin gas on the subway in march one thousand nine hundred five the group belong to the omission that he killed doomsday cult its founder was executed earlier this month. it's now known that at least eighteen people have died in greece following wildfires near athens rescuers are

searching both the sea and on land as they try to track down missing people the barque reports. lifeguards scour the sea where hundreds fled for their lives many people are still missing including children. a relief efforts underway to get supplies to those in need two and a half thousand homes have been completely destroyed four thousand uninhabitable many survivors have been relocated to hotels in the capital as the search continues the death toll is expected to rise iris amazing is that where here moving closer. than you imagine that one mountain to the shore the time that the fire needed was about ten to fifteen minutes so it was not possible to evacuate. the whole area. only one hour. to get. some locals have returned to a town they scarcely recognize this is where twenty six people died their bodies

were found locked together at the top of a cliff in a final embrace the owners of this land had opened the gates to allow people to flee down to the sea but the fire swept through here at such speed and such force they had no chance of escape the place it was my paradise but now. it's gone the owner's son saw everything the fire was in front of them so it was impossible even you think knew how to access the beach to go there because there was already a fire in front of them behind them they were trapped when they were kids small kids were taking them down the cliffs only a pregnant lady i was helping them until a certain point. and then. i said to him we have lost everything everything. without rain the most effective defense greeks have is the sea

water scoop from the a g.n. is flown to fire still smoldering in the hills in this parched brittle landscape small fires can quickly become infernos. in the town of marty the cleanup has begun streets normally bustling with holiday makers a clogged with burnt out. the place was so intense it turned metal into liquid many seaside businesses were relying on a profitable summer season now they're salvaging what they can grease is no stranger to wildfires but many public services including the fire service have been crippled by years of a stereotype the full scale of this disaster is still unfolding but the author of investigating the possibility some of the fires were started deliberately whatever the cause is the consequences have ruined homes and destroyed lives need barkha al-jazeera marty a wildfire is forcing fisons of people to leave their homes in the u.s.

state of california communities are being threatened in the southern part of the state some homes have already been destroyed the fires as one of several across california caused by a heat wave no injuries have been reported so far. still ahead on al-jazeera more grief in gaza the un relief agency for palestinian refugees says it's cutting hundreds of jobs and blames the u.s. . a rare collection of powerful historic treasure from america's civil rights era goes up for auction. plus racing through russia we hear from two time dakar rally champion not set up as he stays in the hunt for another when. i. mean the weather sponsored by cateye always.

hello again we're seeing lots of heavy rain over the northern parts of vietnam at the moment you can see it on our chart there for thursday plenty of it northern parts of vietnam through laos and into the extreme southern parts of china as well so this region is looking pretty wet even as we head through the next couple of days a bit further towards the south it's been incredibly wet for some of us here recently as well but the show is a slightly more broken up now across the philippines yes there are often heavy ones but in between there should be more breaks than we've seen over recent days so that's generally how things are looking as we head through thursday and friday as well towards the west plenty of showers too stretching across into thailand for the south generally looking a little bit dry with just a handful of shouts perhaps for kayo force in singapore forcing jolly looks fine and dry as it does across bali here it should be fine to settle for friday and saturday too as we head across towards india though it's quite different lots of wet weather as you'd expect or in the middle of the monsoon plenty of rain forest across india through puff nepal and into bangladesh as well even in pakistan with

a one or two rather lively downpours at the moment that's the way things are really going to stay as we head through the next few days is this region again where we'll see the wettest of the weather for the south it does look a bit drier but it has done recently mumbai at twenty nine. the weather sponsored by qatar airways so. where were you when this idea to get into. whether online it's undoubtedly. cold all over again in equality in our society today or if you join the sunset criminal justice system is dysfunctional right now this is a dialogue what does it feel like bring you to go back for the first time everyone has a voice and allow refugees to be discrete fears for change join the colombo conversation on how to zero until now the coverage of latin america and most of the world was about covering khuda todd's tragedy was quakes and that was it but not. how people

feel how they look how they think and that's what we do we go. five and a half months up to one education system that was introduced to. latin america back to zero has come to fill a void that needed to be filled. here watching al-jazeera on the reminder of our top stories this hour saudi arabia says it will temporarily stop oil shipments with a straight after attacks on two tankers crying carrying crude oil saudi arabia blames who the rebels who think say they targeted

a warship belonging to the saudi emirate a coalition not a commercial ship. there are celebrations in pakistan as any election results put the party of retired cricket star imran khan ahead in the polls but the tightly contested general election has been overshadowed by a suicide bomb in the blood just a region which killed dozens of people. pro-government media in syria are reporting at least two hundred fifteen people have died in iceland suicide bomb attacks happened in the southwestern city of also wedo close to the border with jordan syrian troops are trying to clear an i still held area close to the israeli occupied golan heights. the united nations agency for palestinian refugees says it will axe more than two hundred fifty jobs in the occupied west bank and gaza strip it blames the united states for slashing three hundred million dollars in funding the job cuts have led to fear and frustration in gaza as charles strafford

reports. of two weeks of negotiations with their employer the shock of being told they had lost their job was for many too much to bear the united nations refugee and works agency in gaza says lack of dona funding means it doesn't have enough money and so jobs must go to i've been told that i will no longer have a full time job after the thirty first of august then we will i need be able to work part time until the end of the year then my job will end i'm really sad not just for me but for my colleagues that have families this is the office of the head of the u.n. agencies operations in gaza. shamali we shop around outside the building on monday night by hamas guards protecting her from the angry crowd. the head of the workers union here says strikes by employees will continue and threaten to close down u.n. aid distribution medical centers and schools if the jobs are not reinstated.

climbing was the sit in and certainly we were not expecting this from a humanitarian organization like anwar we've tried to find a solution for three weeks since negotiations started but it looks like they have their own agenda from the start the u.n. refugee and works agency says it needs around two hundred seventy million dollars to sustain its work in gaza this year it says an emergency appeal for money from international donors has failed or hearing. years of shortfalls in their funding as the crisis here has got worse this latest announcement not only has devastating implications for palestinian employees on the road. but potentially for others working general across gaza as the people here continue to suffer israel's blockade all the hearts of gaza's population relies on humanitarian aid from the u.n. organization. the job can't show just how desperate the situation has become in

gaza conditions for the two million people living here continue to deteriorate and finding a lost in political solution to ending the violence between hamas and israel remains remote chance traffic al-jazeera gaza. israeli forces have targeted hamas military positions in the gaza strip killing at least three palestinians israel's army says its troops came under fire near the border with gaza in response it fired shells that hamas posts only a few days ago hamas leaders agreed to a cease fire with israel to prevent a still ities from escalating. yemen is on the verge of a second cholera epidemic according to the charity save the children more than a million people were infected last year and in just the first week of this month around three thousand new suspected cases have been reported politics out in has more. in yemen's port city of what data eight month old lena is suffering from

severe malnutrition two of her siblings have already died from diarrhea and fever. lena is exhausted and suffering she's in a weak state we buy food as much as we can afford but everything sketches we have had enough be all frayed and weary tens of thousands of yemeni children like lena risk of contracting cholera in these hot summer conditions the disease could spread rapidly last year her data had one hundred sixty four thousand cases out of more than a million nationwide in the first week of july alone thousands of new suspected cases were reported charities like save the children say they are doing all they can to help kids like lena we are able to help but how much longer if we can get humanitarian supplies in here if we cut get medicine in here save the children says her data could be ground zero for new cholera epidemic in one district new cases

increased by one hundred ten percent between mid may and mid june food emergency supplies and medicines were already scarce and the saudi emirate he led offensive against with the rebels has turned hospitals into rubble and damaged water and sewer pipes thousands who have scaped are living in makeshift camps with no sanitation and water these conditions have left children especially former ball that many children hair and these children have seen things children should never see i just saw a game where they learned about explosives i saw at play where children are going through the trauma of being bombed with the possibility of hard data being besieged save the children is warning children here won't have a chance to survive. paltrow dirge on al-jazeera the trump administration has lifted restrictions on one hundred ninety five million dollars in military aid to

egypt and the money was withheld in august last year because of concerns over human rights abuses by the egyptian military a us state department official says the egyptian government will not have access to the funds because the u.s. believes egypt's taken steps to address the concerns of our rights groups accuse egyptian security forces of continuing to use torture and attention to silence political dissent a swedish student activist has halted the deportation of an afghan asylum seeker by refusing to sit down in a plane at an essendon lifestream to protest a facebook from inside the aircraft it was due to fly from goteborg to cup ball but couldn't take off while she remained standing the video was widely shared on social media and received around two million views by wednesday refugee was still deported and arson may now face legal action. there is another matter. in two years that it's going to get there but. very likely get killed at the airport

and the people working here are trying to take away my phone and people trying to take. me down actually. forced to leave and try to force him to move me. the high commissioner for human rights in iraq says ninety seven prisoners out of a total of one hundred five detainees have been released protesters were arrested during recent demonstrations in basra over poor living conditions and a lack of jobs in many people are still behind bars pending an investigation at least four people have been killed in nearly two weeks of protests. south sudan's rival leaders have come to a new power sharing agreement three years after their previous deal collapsed salva kiir and react much are will sign the final accord on august the fifth sudan's official news agency says kier will lead the transitional government march i will

return as vice president the two men are attempting to bring a political end to a four year civil war symbolic ways main opposition leader is accusing the electoral authorities of bias just days before the first vote since robert mugabe was forced out of office nelson chamisa says monday's presidential election will be fraudulent but he says his party will not boycott the vote he's up against the zanu p.f. party of president emerson and god will. go to the polls in presidential elections on sunday with twenty four candidates vying for the top job the votes taking place amid the country's worst security conditions since the civil war of two thousand and twelve hama devolve reports from bamako. mali's president de bar he has come to go looking for votes the northern city has been hardest hit by violence during his five years and. believes he deserves to be

reelected so. i'd like from the depths of my heart and my soul to once again serve this country well you can trust me with this wonderful task for five years and today for people across the region to withstand the storms and the winds and the rain to attend my meetings for hours means a lot to me. but some may disagree with keith assessment of his popularity. will i won't vote for kirkuk because it will mean more poverty corruption killings and unemployment when he banned the use of motorbikes here he denied many young and old people their only means of making a living if you was a good president the country wouldn't be in its present condition k.-tel was elected in a landslide majority in two thousand and thirteen after a french military intervention to drive out a qaeda link to groups from northern mali soon other forces joint including a un peacekeeping mission and the west african joint force more than twenty four

and armies operate here under those missions but all of that has not brought stability to mali the number of attacks by armed groups has reached unprecedented levels since two thousand and twelve the fighting has killed and displaced tens of thousands of civilians. teeters detractors see him as a mere french beneficiary who turned his country into an international protectorate he managed to bring together two elegant arab nationalists to sign a peace agreement in two thousand and fifteen but so far it's largely remained in one paper and there has been another three billion under his watch in the region of mopti ethnic flemmi tribesmen have taken up arms citing social injustice and racial exclusion by the majority in bamako the army has been accused of carrying out extrajudicial executions of full only civilians mass graves found me i'm up to a good widespread condemnation by human rights organizations but for now the

president appears to have the support of most tribal leaders in the north and south being be incumbent president. can use state if it was just six even state funds to his advantage is also likely to get support from a big chunk of his own tribe the bottom because the to the majority in the south and if he still has french support many. i believe he has the best chance to get to be elected. but. the a break in democratic republic of congo is officially over less than three months after it began it's a big achievement for a country struggling with many internal problems but in a honda has more. for two and a half months people in the democratic republic of congo battled what they feared might become an epidemic the d.s. sees health minister was at the front line of if it's to contain the a bowl of virus congolese health workers teamed up with the world health

organization bringing in new health procedures using social media to educate and demean izing more than three thousand people with an experimental new vaccine the minister admits he never imagined it would be over in just ten weeks. we are right to celebrate the end of the ninth the bull outbreak in the democratic republic of congo but our work does not stop here we must continue our efforts and remain vigilant. it was an early may that people started to fall ill and hard to reach rural areas as well as a city that was home to a million people and with access by the congo river to ten million more and the capital kinshasa countries in the dia seize border were on high alert the a bone of virus is thought to be spread by bets humans can get it through infected bushmeat and it's passed on through body fluids. more than eleven thousand people died in the nippy dimmock in west africa that started in two thousand and fourteen

but contrast that with this d.s.c. outbreak thirty three people died of the list than three months the west africa if the dimmick win tone for three years the government was quick to respond weak to invites a board where needed and quick to inform the public above the risks of the diseases the faction really have because the fact that we will bring factions munitions we were bringing home not death it's a welcome victory for a country in crisis four and a half million people have been displaced by entering violence and fighting with rebel groups the united nations says millions could starve without help. and the ref is of more violence in the run up to elections now two years overdue president joseph kabila has refused to step down since two thousand and sixteen. against this backdrop the a boulder announcement is remarkable but the w.h.o. says it's not

a matter of if but when they'll be another outbreak it's already fine churning it's a bowl of response plan and in the meantime it's.