and commuters reassessed existing tariffs on steel and aluminum this will open markets for farmers and workers increase investment and lead to greater prosperity in both the united states and the european union it will also make trade fairer and more reciprocal. say says he's personally warned russia of severe consequences of alleged interference in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. election my pompei was being questioned by the senate foreign relations committee but he also faced scathing criticism for the administration's changing position on russia state department correspondent wasn't on the ports. 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 paper tremendous faith in 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 that are is reflective of this in mission administration steadfastness with respect to our willingness to push back against russia paul pale 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. on talk about politics if president obama did what president trump did in helsinki i'd be peeling you off the capitol stealing money from pails job on wednesday was to defend president trump's russian appalled saying he was very glamorous in his testimony but it doesn't appear he changed any minds at least on the senate panel rosalind's we're al-jazeera capitol hill. a group of republican politicians has moved to impeach the man overseeing the russia investigation for the u.s. department of justice the group's accusing deputy attorney general rod rosenstein of withholding information from congress as a sign has been

a frequent republican target because he appointed robert mueller a special counsel for the inquiry both trump and some in his party have been criticized for trying to undermine the investigation. is a political allison author of standoff how america became ungovernable he says the group republicans could have an ulterior motive. it can't possibly go all the way to the result that they're looking for which is the removal of rosenstein that would have to be there would it first have to be a vote on impeachment in the house then it would have to go to the senate two thirds of the senate would have to vote to convict him and the republicans have nothing close to that so what are they trying to do well here's a good guess what they're trying to do is give the president evidence for removing rosenstein because the fact is he doesn't have to be impeached president trump can remove rosenstein by firing him any time he wants to do that and replace him with someone else who then theoretically could end the miller investigation or could

even if he can't indict the president which is a matter of legal dispute he could send the congress a letter or a report that indicates that the president may be guilty of a number of malfeasances even crimes that could be used as justification for impeachment and remember there's an election in november if the democrats win a majority of the house of representatives they will be under enormous pressure from their own supporters to impeach the president and muller could provide the evidence and the justification for doing precisely that. so i have hey i'm out of there are more grief in gaza the un relief agency for palestinian refugees says it's causing hundreds of jobs and blames the u.s. . and a recollection of powerful historic treasures from america's civil rights era fortune .

oh you just told. me to do the weather sponsored by qatar airways hello again it's mostly dry and hot for us across the middle east at the moment there is the risk of just seeing one or two showers in the northern parts of iran there and perhaps a bit further north as you head up towards georgia as well but elsewhere it does look drawing on it looks pretty warm as the temperature there in baghdad makes it up to a very hot forty three degrees but a whole weather them flows down through kuwait where we're also getting forty three and then works down the gulf towards us here in doha of forty five will be our maximum temperature up to the south of us there's a little bit more in the way of cloud it could just give us one or two showers around the coast in the cloud then begins to thicken up in the southwestern parts of saudi as we head through into friday down towards the southern parts of africa for many of us find unsettled at the moment we are seeing more in the way of cloud

in the northeastern parts of madagascar that's they can off to give us quite a few outbreaks of rain but they should gradually begin to ease during the day and then further west is just looking draw a following and it looks like cape town will get to around nineteen degrees the temperatures in cape town though will ease as we head through into friday more cloud and rain will roll their way across us and a wind will pick up as well so our maximum this time just sixteen for the central belt of africa plenty of showers here they're pushing quite a long way north at the moment so for some of us in asia it's also looking rather wait. so whether it's sponsored by qatar airways. as armenia's velvet revolution has forced the ruling party to step down you have to rush twice you've just got back from brussels how are you going to balance the relationship between russia and the worst armenia's new prime minister challenges era.

hello again you're watching out there as a reminder of our top stories saudi arabia says it will temporarily stop oil shipments through the on monday straight after attacks on two count tankers carrying crude oil say they attacked a warship belonging to the saudi and rossy coalition not a commercial set. celebrations in pakistan as early election results but retired cricket thought and wrong calls party ahead in the polls the tightly contested general election has been overshadowed by a suicide bomb in the police to stand region which killed dozens. and

pro-government media in syria reporting at least two hundred fifteen people have died and i still saw a side bomb attacks happened in the southern city of al psuedo close to the border with jordan syrian troops are trying to karen eisel held area close to the israeli occupied golan heights. yemen is on the verge of a second cholera epidemic according to the charity save the children well than a million people were infected last year and in just the first week of this month some three thousand new suspected cases have been reported. a small. 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 have been on the condition lina is exhausted and suffering she's in a weak states 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 eye to so again 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. gian al-jazeera. united nations agency for palestinian refugees says it will act more than two hundred fifty jobs in the occupied west bank and gaza strip and blames the united states for slashing three hundred million dollars in funding cuts of that affair and frustration and gaza as charles stratford reports. of two weeks of negotiations with their employer the shock of being told they had lost a 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 here 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. but shamali was chaperoned out of 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 un 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 only what 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 and we're 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 work in general across gaza as the people here continue to suffer israel's blockade all the hoff of gaza's population relies on humanitarian aid from the u.n. organization. the job cuts 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 strafford al jazeera gaza. outbreak in the democratic republic of congo is officially over less than three months after it began as a significant achievement for a country struggling with significant internal crises while health organization says it's down to the swift response by the congolese authorities when a hand 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 bowl a 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 the invites aboard were needed and quick to inform the public above the risks

of the disease the faction really helps because the fact. we're bringing actions communications we were bringing hope. 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 rest fears 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 the specter up the bowler 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 working with congolese officials to stamp out of the killer diseases like cholera and polio. al-jazeera. and dozens of rare historical artifacts and by

a comic african americans will be auctioned off on thursday but the highlight as a tiny house once lived in by legendary us civil rights activists rosa parks it's expected to fetch up to three million dollars under reports from new york it's not just any door it's historic and opens to history of the civil rights movement in america the door was on the home of rosa parks he black woman who famously refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man which led to the montgomery bus boycott one of the most instrumental moments in black struggle for equality in america parks is considered a historic figure and recently the house she lived in during that period was saved from be demolished and put back together as a piece of historic art most recently touring germany. the tiny one room house is now disassembled and is going up for auction organizers hope it will be showcased

to the public but rather end up in a place where the public will have access to it where though a simple modest house that's what it signifies that may hopefully inspire many down the road but it's not only rosa parks home that will be auctioned there are dozens of other important artifacts from african-american history that will also go up for auction. their personal artifacts by our tatum he black musician who in the one nine hundred fifty s. was considered the finest jazz piano player who ever lived there is also the original manuscript of the i do biography of malcolm x. the muslim minister and human rights activists in red ink for his handwritten notes for the publisher their original handwritten score sheets from the temptations of black vocal group that revolutionized soul music and then there is this the first

ever contract for the jackson five that piece of paper gave birth to the careers of the jackson five and most notably michael jackson. but it's the parks would be the highlight of it all it would organizers are calling one of the most powerful auctions of african-american historical artifacts ever assembled. your. and plenty more can be found on our website a special edition covering the pakistan elections vote counting still underway all that and much more al-jazeera dot com. the top stories this hour saudi arabia says it will temporarily stop oil shipments to straight after attacks on two tankers carrying crude oil. say they attacked

a warship belonging to the saudi coalition not a commercial ship. celebrations in pakistan as early election results put retired cricket star emraan khan's posse ahead in the polls for the tightly contested general election has been overshadowed by a suicide bomb in the baluchistan region which killed dozens. the last six members of a japanese cult responsible for a deadly subway attack in the one thousand nine hundred have been executed thirteen people were killed and nearly six thousand people injured over the group released poisonous sarin gas on the subway in march one thousand nine hundred five the group belonged to the rico doomsday cult its founder was executed earlier this month pro-government media in syria reporting at least two hundred fifteen people have died in eisel suicide bomb attacks they happened in the southern city of on the border with jordan syrian troops are trying to clear and i still held area close to the israeli occupied golan heights the united states and the european union have

agreed to work together to lower trade barriers in ousmane follows a meeting at the white house between president trump and european commission president. 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 into the twenty sixteen u.s. election campaign voigt invited putin to washington after their controversial talks in health think in july many members of congress had objected to the two leaders meeting again and said putin would not be welcome a group of republican politicians has moved to impeach the man overseeing the rush or investigation for the u.s. department of justice groups accusing deputy attorney general rod rosenstein of withholding information from congress is a sign has been a frequent republican target because he appointed robert mueller a special counsel for the inquiry both trump and some in his party have been

criticized for trying to undermine the investigation they are up to date with all the headlines i'll be back with more news after the street. al jazeera where every. family ok and you're in the street and i'm really could be allowed to date france clock while at a race in the wake of a world cup when some are asking what does it mean to be friends and we are diving into a topic pitch by a member of a community and a my case listen during the world cup a lot of people joke that they would support the black an african team and by the time the final rolled around that black

african team somehow more entrenched and i saw a line conversation tweets going viral this conversation around citizenship and race and religion in france and i wanted to hear from actual french people especially minorities black and muslim and others about what it feels like what it means to be french and and to observe this global conversation about the impact of the team on contemporary french citizenship south african comedian travel no adding fuel to the debate on nationality with a joke about france's wealth cup when referring to the large number of players of african descent. so what happened was let's start at the beginning of france won the world cup. and so on the show we celebrated that and i had this joke where. i said africa won the world.

while this joke has drawn fierce criticism no continues to stand by his remarks meanwhile the conversation on what it means to be french rolls on and here to discuss that from france retired the other she's a writer journalist and t.v. host of bt france in paris pierre haski he's a better and journalist and commentator. our dean he's the deputy city counselor for the paris suburbs and sent to me and in new york louis sarkozy he's a french philosophy and religion student at new york university is also the son of the former french president nicolas sarkozy how everybody is good to have you here and for those of you watching live on you tube you can leave your comments in the chat box and we will try and get them into this show so french guests yes it's lovely to have you. for disclosure here i am of african descent i know that may have been a surprise to some of you i didn't realize as i was following the means of the

jokes about the french team that it within france there was some friction some tension about these jokes let me show you that moment when i realized and this is from one of our producers senior producer of al-jazeera he's based in france and he says dear twitter it is time to stop this front on african team nonsense if you don't understand why that's hope for them best to just sit let france enjoy this moment the idea of it being full p.s. can you explain why some people would find what seemed to be a little bit of teasing a little bit of a joke why that would be so painful for french people. you know when. other people make the same joke as martin le pen the leader of the far right in france about the french team being an african team there's a problem and that problem is that it implies that you cannot be french and black

or french an arab and that's that's the core of the issue obviously there are a lot to say and we will come to that later probably about discrimination about the lack of equality of chances within the french society for minorities but the basic thing is that this team is seen by. very very large majority of french as the french national team and joking as trevor never said oh africa won the world cup is a way of denying those players their frenchness although they are born in france they have played with the national team they are they have full citizenship and that's where that's where the problem lies. i i don't really agree with the end of what you say and i was fully agreed with someone when he

said that in a way i want to work on because we all know that player is to play in the french national team have to be french but we also know that they have. ascendant and we know that many of the french players. their parents come from africa or from other countries and i think that we should really think about what is being french today and i think that we can be french from african descendants and be fully fully integrated into french national team so. that's what trevor said. completely agree with what you say he said not a good time when you respond well not an answer. i'm

very interested in that conversation because everyone seems to understand that when you're african you kind of the french at the same time i understand why it is a problematic to refer to french players as african in the french context on fast especially because you have many people from the far right who deny the fact that they are french by saying that they are from growth that they don't belong and that they are africans so in the french context i mean from people from the far right it means denying the fact that they are french but as myself being a woman from african descent i'm french but my tummy comes from africa i can understand why people of african descent all around the world and i think it's important to say a triple in south africa how they can relate to that success and how no have how did you have the will to to share that moment of joy because it's not because you i think in that you've got you're going to be french at the same time so i understand

that i would be angry if someone from the far guy's political landscape was said that those cases are african because in the french context it means something different but from someone who is from african descent trying to share you know heavy trade you know come on come encourage a common belonging to the. over jeans with the african continent isn't it something because we don't have so many opportunities to see people's african descent descending to the great ice as a national hero so i understand you know what if what he won what do you did want to sit by and i want to take your point and push it a step further you mentioned contacts and i think that's what's so important here so this is a tweet we got from john paul he says these i didn't to tarion at the right of the far right meaning the ultra right or the first to say that the french team should better be called the team of africans so of course that is what a lot of people have a problem with but on the plus side is that this person on twitter and i'll give

this to you louis cuts a kani says bringing. at back to national identity to say the french national team which they rightly are are not african smacks of supremacy and implies that they must choose one or the other which sides being racist and this person's view is factually correct can you talk to us about that but the having to choose aspect well of course well i think it's a very personal choice to make to begin with i mean it is choice that these players need to make themselves i don't think anybody could make it for them the problem i had is that other people were trying to certain the nationality on to the french that it was excuse me then you must go ahead we were going to take up because my side out of it i just had a child and tragically in tameside about that how on the government no worries no worries so my problem is that most of the articles i've read at least the people saying that it was really an african team were reason criteria is to deny the freshness that could very well played to me so as i heard my of my colleagues and i forget what his name what he said while the other african ancestry well my ancestry

is from gary and i don't have a french name either psycho's he's hardly a french name so if they are not crimes then one might french and to me if he's the sole difference i see skin pigmentation and this is where i see that the problem and perhaps a discriminatory underpinnings of this whole theory is that every criteria that is being used to deny their freshness quote unquote could very well be applied to me or anybody who has ancestry from outside the country and according to the to the four of us we have not denied it yes i'm sure he meant it that way we're still essential of course and not only not always a number but just the fact that we're having this conversation means that some people don't adhere to them fully for example new custom and this whose parents are from spain nobody nobody seems to be denying his frenchness despite having a spanish name but right from europe and nobody would say point. so you're opposed to his on your. well people tell you are not facing the same racism as

people from african or from not africa ascendance of course the only critters we are questioning the the frenchness are black or arabs we never question the fact that for example i'll translate among say if you go that's all spanish and french you find your exact way example myself you know so i think that's the way people. the way people dress their french ness is very. fine the word. dutch with a different tree to come from europe from africa it's obvious to me. there's a problem. i think there's a problem there of confusion between identity on one side what makes you french and on the other side the fact that there is racism there is discrimination there's

a lack of equality in the country i think these are two different issues and the same standard should be used to define frenchness whether you come from hungary spain or like me i'm a jew from tunisia i was born there my family was in tunisia before the french arrived in tunisia to the french by accident and i feel one hundred percent french so that's the whole issue then there is the question of discrimination and defy the fact that this society has done division for you. yes one question for you. do people get you back to your always seems like back several times do people question your frenchness. no because there's a difference between visible minorities and none visible already and we all know you are real know that and that so have i only just came here i want to jump in

here because i hear the point you were making machines and here the point you're making here you mentioned earlier that there are two different issues here you know the racism that minority groups often face and this issue of being called something other than friends our community though is linking those two things so this is a common we've got live on you tube this person says racism is alive in france make no mistake people are being denied jobs and rents because of their ethnicity and minorities are profiled by police too so that's one aspect of this we also got a video comment from someone who says this is what it takes to be considered a friend this is our the francois on and he's actually in kazakhstan but this is what he has to say have a listen so historically in france the dominant conception of politicians as always been civic conceptions meaning that the attachment to the french nation is solely based on people's willingness and desire to voluntarily join the french family so

being part of the national team in france is similar to being part of the armed forces notwithstanding your origins or religion people will accept us part of the community because of your willingness to sacrifice everything for friends sort of a i don't you are trying to get in there he says it's all about the willingness to sacrifice everything that is a high bar but what do you make of this comet i think that. communication. what i find interesting is that so many seem to understand that you can be both african and french there is one of the payor i do honey who says he's moroccan no work and french on the same time so there is a way to deal with both you know both identity if you are from african descent and you are french and i think that the debate that we're having here right here is never ask ways from and why imagine a time when i can it is constantly asked you know where you're from how come you speak such

a good friend as if we're not if you were not the defense it has to do with what this it's like we tend to see to think that being french being white and what i find very interesting in that story is that you have millions of french citizens who are on a daily basis denied their citizenship and i have the feeling that you faced when the what kept to be finally because as a french you know you have so many people who are targeted by discrimination by what is because you and nobody can know one of the number of the people who you know stand to say that the team is french we never had the ability voice to defend the citizenship of the young people the was the way to refine our faith in this current going to nation if i may i would like to hear about what you can might eventually for example of course but if i may the way to fight this work that discrimination that needs to be fought wherever it is found is to say that even the black and the muslim players on the french team are as french as anybody else it's not by writing or the question was going on at all how do you say that it was i was dreaming up. ok and i think. there are we can all agree on

that why do you among us now and so yes i'm saying i know it's a question and i think. if i may it's funny you know i'm the oldest of four and when i was young. thank you the key word was as you need a simulation to be considered a friend you had to give up your original your identity and that's what happened to my generation and i think the country has moved a long way in that direction in the sense that today as well said there are budgets so you can be french and african you can be french and it doesn't mean that discrimination has gone away and it's far from that but i think we need more we are in a society today you know when president mccourt welcomed the team at the elysee palace he had hundreds of kids from the clubs that raised the players so many

mostly from poorer sections of the population and he told them one thing he said to the players he said don't forget where you come from and i think it didn't mean this is certainly africa where they were he meant your identity your background and i think the french society is moving probably too slow in the direction where you can keep retain your identity what's the core of your origin and family identity and because you did french we're still a long way and i agree one hundred percent with you there's a lot of work to do but it's a very different country than the one i grew up in forty years ago i met a question that yes i can i say this to you if i may lean forward looking at your skype i'm just going to show you this this is from sports and this is the breakdown of the african roots of the roots of liberal or the french football team and then this is playing to many of the. yeah and this is this is what he did he changed it

yes calling the french flag and then he has a little wink fixed itself is the pressure is out pressure to say ok i'm not anything else i'm just going to be french. no i don't think that the response that gentleman made was to say that he was on the french. but i think he wanted to say i'm french i'm french playing in the french national team and i also tried of my origin and i think that the problem is from more and more people questioning your identity many people ask me where i am from me if i believe in god or not it's time not. so it's very difficult in france. forty years. after what. many people want.

a singular a unique franchise they want us to cut two to two cuts with our roots they want us to forget where we come from and i have a message for them we want. we won't forget where we are we all struggle allegiance we are brothers. we know where they came from different countries mine came from algeria many years ago and i have two passports and i the two possible us and i feel french and jerry but you know i don't. want any more people that get to me back to our region letting me think that's not a stretch of the our but i'm born in front and i should have the same rights as any other french. citizen but there is the reality is that a person like me which is nonwhite has twenty times more

probability to be judged by the police in the street that's a white. person and that's also the right the reality we are facing despite the fact that. so there's. someone here who would agree with you their misdeeds this is supreme to assess the french african person i think that's a struggle i go through every day in france i'm always reminded that i'm algerian and algeria i'm always reminded that i'm french and if i feel like identity it's complex but people force us to choose one identity so i want to pick up on that theme of being forced to choose because we got this tweet here pierre from someone who says diversity is a beautiful thing it's a plus not a minus the french policy of assimilation robs the people of their racial roots and so in itself is a racist pair your take on that. well yeah we're not discovering that we're leaving the time of identity politics and identity politics is poison it's leading

to confrontation to conflict so many people are playing with that it's. the fire of the moment whether it's in europe whether it's in burma with the rowing or whether it's in the us with the trump administration so we should not play as if we were discovering that and so they should be. a common front here of defending this right to have complex identities to have your triple quadruple identities i don't care. and that's where the joke. was badly mistaken this is like any other thing i noticed and if you go ahead i also want i need to quote the french embassy in the u.s. because he's contradicting the planet us even you got us for a second first i just wanted to respond to my jeans and of course we all know these numbers and these are perfect numbers where minorities are more likely to be

profiled etc but the way to fight against that but you did if you were walking in the street and somebody told you well no you cannot be french look at you look at the color of your skin look at your religion i mean this is exactly what's happening with these people saying that they're not really french are not fully present that african heritage and then i'll be willing to be in the street with you and fight and say no yes french no matter what its color is a number of what is religion is i don't i'm not a problem people in target in the same problem but we're targeting it from different sides so i understand that yes mccain is i mean yes so he has this is the french embassy the u.s. from columbus i'm not i want to keep going back to a comedian strike or anybody but it's a larger point here plus since he can be for multiple places and still be french the french and the c. in the u.s. has to once there is no hyphenated identity with an interview. to reality by calling them african teams it seems you are denying that frenchness kyra go ahead yes i'm i was kind of shocked by that statement or from the ambassador because to

me kind of friends us who are french from you know different backgrounds because i think that there are helping a few identities in a sense as we said in fact as we said earlier one of the failures of you know honey says that is friends and work and reach me that there is something you know in addition a few frenchmen and not you could not i think that is an offense over people from france who are groups abroad and what i can add is that as not it's what what what really brought us in the debate is that whether french african french and african only french. it's true then i think that we need to be sent to them and the way that they define themselves what's problematic is to impose an identity from one that doesn't and to label someone against his or her own will and that's what we kind of experience of minor which is instead of being quite responsive to question

that's not not when you attach us to another country but also united because that's we are truly fair and. actually you are right you know if you can. i think this person would agree with you on twitter they write that yes you can be french and african at the same time but that doesn't cover how white french people will treat you it's a fact that immigrants are marginalized and face layers of obstacles in society and ironically football is one of the past for many to come out of poverty and then they go and win the world cup. and i comment on that story well. if i could just i'm going to measure. ok sorry just a short remark it's true that football all over the world has been passed for the underdogs of the society to come up you know whether it's socially or ethnically or where they were but they should be another point raised here one of the most

popular politicians in france today is a black woman his gentle being is a former justice minister and there are many people on the left. who are dreaming of having her as the next president so i think you know this society is a bit more i don't play. so. and lewis and machine we actually have thirty seconds left and we have days of conversation left in us i know what it is like briefly want to succeed in a sentence like a point so i just wanted to say that the french national. i'm not sure of what. she did or. something about the french i don't and i'm very proud of the image of the team and i'm very proud of the ukridge would. suggest it's been really great having you here giving us insight into these ideas the french identity started by a world cup win congratulations to you all i'm going to leave you with the mood the

public was in on friday i thought that might be an appropriate way to underscore the side. so how much at m i want to pay that price or whatever what is the next time. carl.

what is the relationship between culture religion and a deeply divided city everything here is overshadowed by politics even the most basic of things food in two thousand and eight al-jazeera traveled to jerusalem to see if the food could cross deep lines of division village he's doing it with it together we could together we can show the people that the world is we. rewind street food jerusalem on al-jazeera. good. luck. let. one.

lucky lucky lucky . saudi arabia holds all shipments to a key waterway off the coast of yemen after the rebels attacked two ships. one of them. live from doha also coming up celebrations as early returns put

cricket star in wrong party ahead in pakistan's elections but also devastation after a suicide bomb kills dozens a polling station. thousands wait for rescue and laos some stranded on rooftops collapsed remote villages. and more grief the un relief agency for palestinian refugees says it's cutting hundreds of jobs and blames the u.s. . saudi arabia says it will temporarily stop transporting oil through the strait and says who the fighters have attacked because carrying crude oil one is said to have been lightly damaged the straits located between yemen on the arabian peninsula and djibouti and eritrea in the horn of africa the coalition says it's trying to protect shipping routes such as the gulf of aden and red sea which he used to bring

middle eastern oil from asia through the suez canal to europe. now of oil contracts it through an important channel like that even for a short time it could lead to substantial supply and delays and higher shipping costs that could push up energy prices worldwide saudi arabia and its coalition of sunni muslim allies have been fighting in yemen for three years against the who thiis the rebels have been linked to iran during that time the us has issued several warnings to its commercial ships about using the route they have been attacks on u.s. turkish and saudi embassy coalition boats but in the most recent incident has the media isn't mentioning an oil tanker and said two separate reports describe an attack on a coalition warship off the western coast of yemen. is an oil and gas industry expert and he says it could have a major global impact it's already had about a dollar per barrel price effect were prices are up after hours trading today

this kind of shipping halt will clearly affect supplies in terms of delay they move about five million barrels a day through that straight from the western side of saudi arabia and that will be delayed some of the crude can move to the other side of the of the country and and be shipped out of the persian gulf but this clearly is going to have some effect on global supply well like in the u.s. we have a fairly large supply of a strategic oil is our selves here but in terms of demand typically the the price reaction of crude or other brother commodities been especially crude is exaggerated to the amount of the shortage and so this very sensitive to shortages so it even a small shortage like two or three or four million barrels a day could have a substantial effect on on crude and that causes an accordion effect throughout other global economies so it could have

a long term effect. five people have been killed in a suicide attack on national security forces in the afghan capital. ability of the blast in kabul's district the dead include four members of the security forces and one civilian police investigation is underway. and counting is underway in pakistan's tightly contested election where millions of cars but the elections have been marred by allegations of fraud manipulation and violence. they came to cause their ballots against the law. believes her vote is her strength . many were that i thought it so our country can prosper i'm paralyzed but i came to because i love pakistan. to stop people from exercising that power a suicide attack happened outside a polling station the bomber was stopped as he tried to enter the busy area more

than thirty people were killed. is an attempt to disrupt the political process but people will not be affected by this. and for the most part they were not millions came out to vote even for those convicted of corruption and serving jail time get. my vote this for. me forget the criticism are hardest with. the rights activists a breeze concerns about people manipulation in these elections and international monitors say not enough observers with their future bureaucratic delays and we have just a hundred and twenty observers make of you on the ground there working in teams over there in islamabad. in the game and. not in the place because of security reasons. as the votes were being counted supporters of iran fun came out to celebrate for them the result was pre-determined

. this is the first time we've had a chance to defeat the two parties who've been in control taking turns of power. in an early morning news conference the most i'm legal i said the election was rigged they claimed their party was targeted that voting was deliberately slowed down and results were manipulated. it's not about government or opposition it's about the future just going tree it's about the many to the people it's about you know bogs down to earth being posted to. the larger issue not just the p m l n but all major political parties apart from involved in every tick tick the preliminary results on thursday they will decide what to do next this was a landmark election when the civilian government handled her power for a second time but even before voting began it was being called one of the dirtiest elections in pakistan history and with further allegations of manipulation and

a controversial vote count. maybe in strength and even further. to come ohio has the latest now from. according to the preliminary to. august on. party led by imran khan a sweeping the polls but these are north final results the election commission of course will be announcing. on their twenty seventh day had already announced before the elections this is a large country and. from. all of the election that took place on their great deal now most of the old dog had been rejected in this new election. in a very strong position in. fact the number of independents who have won this election

day. by day of the independent board to. solve which is right now emerging as a clear winner then the next government will be buggered off with imran khan the new prime minister of pakistan already. sticking to their guns saying. what their future plans august on many people do to get instability. not to accept this war but so far. have. i needed you know name for change but all six members of the japanese culture responsible for a decade in one thousand nine hundred have been executed thirteen people were killed and only six thousand engines off to the group released poisonous sarin gas

on the subway in march one thousand nine hundred five along to the week kid doomsaying cult is found was executed this month. at least twenty six people have been killed and more than one hundred missing after a dam and laos collapsed on monday the district governor says around three thousand people still stranded in the floods thousands more have been forced from their homes teams in thailand and china helping with the rescue efforts joins us live from the capital problem pen. through those rescue efforts how the rescue is a tough thing to get through to these people who are very remote area. absolutely it's not just remote but a lot of the roads have now been damaged have been flooded because of the collapse of the dam so that reaching these people some three thousand people who are still in need of rescue stranded they're reaching them using boats and also using

helicopters to well using aircraft to distribute food and much needed supplies to the people who are stranded as you mentioned this is an effort that not only involves law authorities but also an international effort with teams from south korea and taiwan and china who are there trying to assist in these efforts now and we know that south korea the south korean company that was in charge of the main construction work on this dam has yet to be completed but it's due for completion in two thousand and nineteen they've sent in a team of emergency workers as they've said that set up a headquarters in the capital as well as in the affected area and we also know that the number we have now a definite number of people missing after the flood collapse the prime minister said his number stands at one hundred thirty one initial reports had said his number could be as high as several hundreds but now we know that it's one hundred thirty one missing and twenty six people who are confirmed to have died from the floods if one has rights groups have repeatedly warned of the dangers of building

these sorts of dams on very fragile river ecosystems where those warnings just completely ignored. well that's what we were hoping to have a more comprehensive report about really how this accident happened. what we have know so far is the south korean company said that they discovered that there was a part of the dam that was washed away on sunday and they immediately notified authorities they immediately started to try and move more people move the people in villages near the area to safety then there are some reports that also suggest that it could have been because of the excessive rainfall that that area had seen over the last few days that caused the partial collapse of the dime that caused the wall of that caused these torrents of water to flood over the areas so we're really still waiting for the reports but certainly this collapse of this dam as well as one last year that took place in laos in the northern province now and they really

do highlight the risks of these huge infrastructure projects and highlight just how fragile the ecosystem in that area could be ok for the latest from and thanks very much brian. pro-government media in syria reporting at least two hundred fifteen people have died in i sold so aside bomb attacks happened in the southern city of else wager on the border with jordan syrian troops trying to clear an i still held area close to the israeli occupied golan heights israeli forces have dogs of hamas military positions in the gaza strip killing at least three palestinians as well as army says its troops came under fire near the border with gaza and in response shelled several hamas posts it comes just days after hamas leaders agreed to a cease fire with israel to prevent hostilities escalating. united nations agency for palestinian refugees says it will 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 for job cuts have led to fear and frustration in gaza reports.