barriers coming off the threat of trade wars but president trump says his actions who helped cut the u.s. trade deficit by fifty billion dollars these tax cuts particularly on the business and investment side are going to be boosting wages livelihoods and jobs for middle american ordinary working folks and it's starting to take effect and that's why i agree with president this is a boom that will be sustainable wage increases have not kept up with overall economic growth but for an administration facing a lengthy probe into the president's ties to russia and a diplomatic feud with allies a growing economy and rising unemployment numbers even in manufacturing is cause for celebration and a hastily scheduled presidential appearance we have added three point seven million new jobs since the election a number that is unthinkable we are in the midst of the longest positive job growth

streak in history those numbers could prove hard to sustain as u.s. trading partners around the globe raise tariffs answering a trade war set off by trump himself john hendren al jazeera twitter shares have lost more than twenty percent of their volume up to the social media site reported a drop in active users the sites recently purged many fake accounts the number of users has been dropping to three hundred thirty five million shares dropped to thirty five u.s. dollars despite twitter reporting record quarterly revenues kristen salumi has more from new york. first it was facebook then twitter making this a tough week for tech stocks twitter's more than twenty percent drop came after it announced a decline in monthly users for the second quarter and predicted further declines in coming months like facebook which lost nearly twenty percent of its value on thursday twitter is trying to reduce hate speech and abuse on its platform but that

is affecting growth and growth is one of the things that investors value the most this was definitely a bit of a go up on for the bulls just given the decline in users as well as the outlook going forward i mean will it seem what you saw on facebook this is not a week that sushi media bulls were ever forget as it's been very negative across the board i think it just speaks to some of the general headwinds we g.d.p. are private you know overall user growth especially in north america the fall came despite the fact that twitter's revenue was actually higher than expected thanks largely to people world cup and video ad sales the company's value had actually doubled over the last year as it became profitable for the first time but friday was a tough day for twitter investors and it was a tough week all around for tech stocks. the number of dead from monday's dom collapse in laos has risen to twenty seven with more than one hundred people

missing many people have been trapped in remote areas and evacuations are still ongoing as water levels receded villagers are questioning why they were moved to safety sooner and there are conflicting reports on claim cracks in the newly built or first spotted forms louis has more from strong trying province in neighboring come badia. now the water level in the se kong river which runs through the northern provinces cambodia right next to the border with laos is slowly decreasing near the border the water levels have dropped by about sixty centimeters here in still trying provinces it's still quite high at about twelve point four metres but it appears to have peaked its state roughly the same level for twenty four hours now further south in crossing province the water level is about twenty metres which is still two metres below the danger level there is a flood alert in place in crocky province but no one has been evacuated officials have advised farmers who have crops in low lying areas to harvest their crops early

in case there are floods now and still in trying province the number of people evacuated remains the same roughly about five thousand people and over in neighboring laos rescuers are still searching for the missing that number still stands at one hundred thirty one according to government officials and we are unfortunately no closer to understanding finding out power and why the dam collapsed on the south korean company mainly in charge of construction of the dam has said that subsidence of the dam was first noticed around the days of questions now floating around about whether or not that warning should have been given much earlier whether or not people living in the area around the dam should have been evacuated. a federal judge in los angeles says she'll appoint an independent monitor to investigate the living conditions of migrant children in u.s. detention centers that follows reports of spoiled food insufficient water and

spartan living conditions in child migrants and their parents in texas the move follows the u.s. government's failing to meet a court imposed deadline to reunite all the separated children with their parents by thursday night i think to seven hundred children have yet to be returned to their families by immigration authorities al-jazeera is hiding joe castro has more . alone and left behind despite thursday's court order deadline for the trumpet ministration to return all of the children who've been taken from their parents at the border about seven hundred remain in government custody most of them have parents who've been deported and i should outraged all of those that they did children five year old a new younger to learn from their friends with no plan whatsoever to reunite them every year like the government has labeled these children in eligible for reno vacation they include children whose parents have been deported or who according to the government have criminal backgrounds that make them ineligible for reunification not knowing when they get to go or if they get to go is well written

they will have developmental delays they will have long term chronic care problems they will have a question in their developmental status that morning everybody thank you for being here this morning the government says every deported parent had a willingly left their child behind but immigration attorneys insist that's false citing client after client who say they were forced to abandon their child that's a question that all parents get back to us when am i going to see my child again some fourteen hundred kids have already been returned to their parents their emotional reunions taking place in detention centers airports and bus stations across the country. i was sad. it's hard because i wasn't together with my father. thursday's court ordered deadline for the government to reunite all children and parents separated at the border was a hard one victory for civil rights activists but this display of shoes left behind

by migrants is a reminder of the many families who even now remain separated indefinitely i want to call to remember that this is not the end of the fight right now comes the challenge of tracking down the deported parents and giving them back their kids castro al-jazeera mccallan texas. nicaragua's association of human rights says at least four hundred and forty eight people have been killed in anti-government protests over the past three months it's accusing security forces of detaining opponents of president daniel ortega in clandestine torture centers from managua alyse and human reports. it's been one hundred days since the garage began burying their loved ones killed in a conflict too reminiscent of the country's civil war in the one nine hundred seventy s. this week at least three more people were killed in the northern city of reportedly

by pro-government paramilitary forces while in managua a brazilian medical student sympathetic to student protesters was gunned down by unidentified assailants. at a news conference nicaragua's association of human rights said it had tallied ninety seven killings in the last two weeks alone and four hundred and forty eight deaths since april a teenage. girl. was seen operations outside of the framework of law by groups paramilitary in fogs who were carrying out detentions torture terrible selective assassinations as well as writing homes destroying private and public property motivated by political party and ideological fanaticism human rights leaders tell us that in these one hundred days in the rubble has become a. fair statement still given the interim everywhere you can see it on the road for example it's only at this hour would be true to traffic but instead if you want to see there are buses to get to before it gets dark. a small group of students

nevertheless came out to mark the anniversary of the civil uprising ok and we say to the government that we aren't afraid they say they want peace but they are killing us. president daniel ortega blames the killings on alleged terrorists who want him out his wife and vice president. deal went further in a radio broadcast this one a little read. they are drug addicts and alcoholics linked to all sorts of delinquency the negro one people know all that some have taken their own lives so they can blame the government. rights organizations refute the claims and accuse the government of setting up clandestine detention and torture centers when we are seeing monstrous repression with all the perverse methods that the state can resort to jeer in war time even though the country isn't at war and it's using them

against its own people president or take to insist that the country is getting back to normal but the rising number of deaths and disappearances of opponents tell a different story you see in human al-jazeera managua still ahead in al-jazeera unlocking the thirteen hundred year old mystery of mexico's lead queen. and in sport channel donaldo of voids jail in spain but he has to pay the price for tax evasion details coming up with joe a little later. hello there's a possible tornado touchdown in massachusetts you know july maybe not a regular occurrence a frontal systems unwinding from canada darn through worries the northeast now i would tend to tend to drop temperatures bit i mean we're ahead in the low thirty's

behind it and this is now behind it just below thirty but for fresher feel big showers are dotted around the plain states and down towards texas and around the canyons down in the desert southwest are quite poky shadows of course you know about the wildfires in california temperatures too high the wind does nothing to help nor indeed will the right this drop south out of the u.s. into the caribbean the gulf of mexico and here is daily showers and there they are in cuba briefly big than they drift off sure if you're lucky you get something in jamaica as well as a good scattering of showers throughout the caribbean and the gulf of mexico affecting panama nicaragua mexico to some degree but not excessively say want to likely be quite big downpours and of course you cut off the right half way down in colombia that it should be a dry picture with a little winter for most south america but there is rain developing again in brazil you require and probably affecting one a series at about twelve degrees not to be there saturday and half of sunday.

august on al-jazeera european muslims today are facing the consequences of having their faith linked to on the attacks even though they two of victims of the bombing the largest multi-sport event on the continent asian games in jakarta will host athletes competing in a mix of traditional and the limpid sports a vibrant new series of character led documentaries from immigrant neighborhoods across europe as a rainy and brace for u.s. sanctions due to get back in place on the sixth the buddhist al-jazeera will cover the developments from town wrong in a three part series al-jazeera uncovers the motivations and impact of the brutal feelin explode teaching system then laid the foundation of today's global powers ogust on al-jazeera. for the first time since problema lobby was forced from power by the army the people of zimbabwe wolf blitzer and the next president but

a struggling economy and frustration amongst many young voters means the result on the twentieth of july is still hard to predict follow them balmy election on opposite. you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour a group of opposition political parties in pakistan are rejecting the outcome of wide and stays election official results show that the party of former cricketer imran khan has gained the most seats in the national assembly opposition groups say the vote was rigged and that the military interfered in the process. israeli soldiers are strong they are locks a mosque compound an occupied east jerusalem firing tear gas and stun grenades at

muslims they closed the gates of the compound preventing palestinians from entering pushovers held a city at the gates and. test against the closure. the u.s. economy is growing at its fastest rate for four years economists say it's due to a boost in consumer spending and farmers rushing shipments of soybeans to china to be to retaliate to retrain tariffs but also a question of whether such growth is sustainable. ok let's get more now on our top story pakistan's election and what increasingly looks like a victory for him on khan and his p.t.i. party upon the panda is director of the initiative on the future of india and south asia hudson institute she's joining us from washington d.c. we really appreciate your time and thank you very much indeed given the amount of control over see that this election has already provoked particularly the military

suspicion of military involvement in with regards to among khan's party can he actually have the credibility to do anything once if and when he gets into power. good evening no i clearly a man can't has a problem he's seen as a military operate the military civilian facade as you know well for the last few decades the spark of stanley military establishment has tried to bring in and keep in bar any civilian prime minister who provides them with a facade any day and a civilian prime minister tries to exercise some some part of his own where there is no law shareef. all been easy to put two in earlier times those prime ministers have been removed so mr non-country is the problem that he. that his election is seen as rigged not only by domestic but by international observers most people

believe that the military backs him completely and saw any so if he wants to be as independent man he will need to take decisions which will cross the red line of the military the significant part of khan's vote came from the young people of course very going to react do you think if he fails to deliver. the people who are wanted for the young people the primary reason is in iran is seen as somebody who's not corrupt mr clean is a messiah who will come in in jeans dynastic politics in pakistan unfortunately. the problem there is that one. most of the people in iran's party who have been elected are people who belong to other political parties where the p.p.p. all. those and they are and they are the the same cut up politicians whom iran promised to get rid off secondly as the all know most politicians most parties do

end up being corrupt and so corruption is not going to go away simply because a man has come into power. and thirdly the main problems that the young people face which is employment. education a stable society. pushback against the jihadi an islamist elements may not happen under him iran. because because his b.s. as well as the military support those policies so the young people will very soon actually see the reality that they are pakistan a new pakistan is actually more like old pakistan for those who is watching this from outside there is a sense at least or a perception that the military the pakistani establishment as it is has a suspicion of the public and citizens' rights to exercise votes that it doesn't trust them to be able to act in an appropriate fashion as far as imran khan is concerned what kind of fine line is he going to have to be able to walk to be able

to convince the military and the establishment that he is the right man for the job done that should keep him in there and at the same time try to be seen to deliver something for the people of pakistan. it is going to be an almost impossible task. it's an ally sharif was the military's guy in the one nine hundred eighty s. in the one nine hundred ninety s. and early two thousand and. two walked a fine balance where he would support the military's policies and crush me initially even on india and afghanistan and on the other hand tried to deliver at home saw economic growth in punjab punjab did really well under him but sooner or later he realized that if he really wanted pakistan google if he wanted pakistan to have better relations if he wanted pakistan to move out of its isolation. then he needed better relations with india with afghanistan and for all

and for that he would have to change the policy towards these countries and that is where he started crossing the red lines done by the military if you mean on. one still sort of stay within the red lines of the military and yet wants to ensure that pakistan goes economically and the seeming international isolation ends that pakistan does not have an economic crisis or. and that he's able to for sort of push back against the rise of islam is he will end up crossing that red line in the military there is no there is no way that he can balance board let me widen this out a little bit you were talking about relations with india and afghanistan and song. how do you think that this preserve the how do you think that the congo over moment if and when it comes into fruition. is going to be regarded by the u.s.

by india by afghanistan are we going to see any sort of change in policy when the the imran khan government comes into place. so i just first press conference in iran said that india takes one step towards pakistan pakistan will take two steps so they are people in india who have said you know iran is a cricket for former cricketer a number of indians did like him around and used well known how over at the end of the de more i mean every indian prime minister does what you want better relations with pakistan india has tried it and all civilian prime ministers are naturally human. will be literally dictators legs musharaff but the pakistani military changes its stance towards india and it stops using jihad there's a level foreign policy it would be impossible for india to really have better relations with pakistan and iran will not be able to do that yes there may be

a meeting again i mean with him and more the all at us are all one of the i see your meetings or un general assembly sideline they could also be the start of a dialogue would in india and pakistan but things will not really move anywhere respect to afghanistan. iran's views are the same as that of the military that the afghan taliban are freedom fighters and that sort of the united states should leave the region and allow all. and the people of afghanistan to decide what they want to finally come into united states he has said that the u.s. relationship with pakistan has been one sided and pakistan has done more actually you can believe that the u.s. has mean the other side of the view is the united states has given forty five billion dollars of aid since nine hundred fifty four thirty three billion after

nine eleven. the american second on road and ask what have you deceived for this in assistance that we have given pakistan. up on the pond is director of initiative on the future of india and south asia at the hudson institute thank you so much for your time u.s. president donald trump is denying he knew about a meeting between his aides and a russian delegation that offered to to help him win the twenty sixteen election transform a lawyer michael cohen has claimed he was present when the president's eldest son donald trump jr told his father about the meeting according to u.s. media reports cohen is willing to speak to the miller investigation into alleged russian meddling in the election. as the u.s. president worked to focus the american media on strong economic numbers the question of his potential ties to russia continue to follow him right here right oh it just days after donald trump postponed a white house invite to russian president vladimir putin

a reciprocal invitation was extended for trump to go to moscow but whose comments come as there are fresh allegations against trump from his one time personal lawyer michael cohen cohen claims that then candidate trump was aware of a twenty sixteen trump tower meeting russians with ties to the kremlin met donald trump jr and son in law jared cushman and promised dirt democratic presidential opponent hillary clinton and if the president didn't know about the purpose of these meetings with russian officials and their representatives and trump tower then that would create the knowledge element necessary for a criminal charge for months the white house is denied the president knew it's a claim the president repeated on friday on twitter i did not know of the meeting with my son don jr sounds to me like someone is trying to make up stories in order to get himself out of an unrelated jam and he was on the tweet indirectly refers to

cohen now being investigated by federal prosecutors for potential campaign finance violations as he attempted to suppress negative news stories about trump cohen may now be cooperating with special counsel robert mueller investigating russian interference in the twenty sixteen u.s. election and whether trump's campaign colluded with russia cohen statements could complicate the president's legal troubles but there are questions about the credibility of cohen's claims in two congressional interviews and subsequent reports there is no mention of cohen's allegations against the president. trump's claims are also in question as e-mails between trump's son and russians went back and forth in two thousand and sixteen then candidate trump told supporters i am going to give a major speech on probably monday of next week and we're going to be discussing

all of the things that have taken place with the twins i think you're going to find it very informative and very very high that major speech never materialized but it does suggest president trump may know more than he claims kimberly hellcat al-jazeera washington iraq's top shia cleric has demanded that a government should be formed as soon as possible to deal with corruption and poor basic services the call by a grand ayatollah ali al sistani reflects those being made by protesters across iraq demonstrations have started in the oil rich city of basra in the south thousands of protesters there say the government is neglecting the region and exploiting its resources. lost rather to go back to our little i'm only if the government fails to keep its pledges or if the parliament or judicial system blocks the implementation of those pledges then the people would have no option but to escalate their means of peaceful protest to impose their will on the officials

supported by all the forces of good will in the country and then the scene will look very different compared to today however we hope that there will be no need for that and that the officials will put reason wisdom and the interest of the country first before it is too late. the greek government says some wildfires which have killed at least eighty people were started deliberately beach resorts is near athens are in ruins some people who are still searching for missing relatives are blaming the government's slow response. also i am informing you that we have serious indications and significant findings of criminal activity concerning arson we are troubled by many factors and there have been physically findings that are now the subject of an investigation. heavy monsoon rains have forced thousands of people to leave their homes in southeast me i'm on the country's eastern kayin state on the border with thailand has been worst affected large areas have been evacuated and people have been moved to shelters to wait for the water to subside.

photos of a whale being caught up in iceland are infuriating animal activists there demanding a ban on commercial hunting there and d.n.a. testing has revealed the meat from the latest killing can't speak sported to restaurants in japan and o'clock in reykjavik explains why. iceland has much to based off when it comes to natural resources its dramatic scenery and geothermal springs draw tourists in their millions and there's the marine environment to tens of thousands of people go whale watching every year there's even a whale museum where you can immerse yourself in an ocean of life size whale replicas the one thing iceland tries not to publicize too much is the fact that whales are still killed commercially here which in rage is a big sector of society doing these they are going to steps backwards into the viking times and the whaling nowadays especially well not just in iceland but the

whaling in iceland show that people is not doesn't have a low buzz they really think to show the world that they are so it's something of a p.r. disaster when photographs like this appear what is suggested to be a highly endangered and protected blue whale killed and brought back to shore for processing d.n.a. sampling has since shown the whale was in fact a rare hybrid between a fin well which icelandic whale is do have a quota and the ban on blue whale kristen lawson he runs the company that killed the whale says his whale is acted in good faith their way is working for us they've been doing it for decades and the. time here and when being approached him and then when even in which. they went after his one i think for one hour there is no question in my mind. nothing else than a pin way when it was taken but turned out to be a hybrid these are images of

a fin well being legally processed at the whaling station most of the products are exported to japan the killing of the hybrid well which is banned from export has led to more cools for the industry to be finally halted in iceland this hunting is very inaccurate they cannot know the difference between a hybrid bluefin wage and often which they cannot make a distinction that's what they say between the two so you know for that sake they should absolutely stop it. so this is where to whaling ships come in from the ocean with their catch and take it up the field to the processing plant to hunt for about one hundred days a year between june and september and this year they have a quota of one hundred sixty one fin whales it's an activity that has drilling support among so icelanders ten years ago about seventy percent of the population were in favor of whaling today that figure is more like fifty fifty and as tourists seek out whales alive in the wild still there's

a pressing issue what to do with several tons of hybrid whale caught up in a freezer with nowhere to go nick clark al-jazeera reykjavik iceland scientists in russia say they've brought tiny round worms back to life after forty thousand years thawed out some permafrost sediment from the arctic and in some samples they found some round warm zone nematodes after several weeks at around twenty degrees they started to show signs of life the discovery could have an impact on current investigations into cryogenic freezing but there's also concern that the melting permafrost could allow destructive pathogens to come back to life. she's known as the red queen she was wealthy and she lived in what is now mexico thirteen hundred years ago she was found about a quarter of a century ago and a secret lion chamber but now archaeologists say they've discovered more about what life was like in one of the most powerful ancient empires in the americas john

hallman has more from mexico city. the red queen one of mexico's most famous archaeological treasures a restored funeral finery has arrived in the nation's capital more than one thousand three hundred years after she took her last breath experts believe she was a prominent figure in the maya world is like i said the only natural she's the head of a long line of governors and a lady that headed up confrontations between other my and political centers. she was laid to rest in polling the ancient mayan citadel in the jungles of southern mexico placed in a red sox in a red chamber both came a great sacrifice experts say many would have died in getting the radioactive mercury so far it used to paint them the colors exact significance was lost over time so it was the red queen until nine hundred ninety four when archaeologists

found her now they've carefully reconstructed have features along with her funeral garment precious jewels and the death mask made out of more than one hundred pieces of metal to closely resemble her features so what do we know about the red queen well her real name was who are how mixed but tell us that she arrived in pulling the time of regional tension but her marital alliance with the great leader park how help to calm things down she also lived a long life by the standards of the time she was between sixty and seventy when she died. then it was time for her spirit to take the canal running under playing into the sub aquatic him for world but she didn't go alone a mystic. there was a young girl fifteen to sixteen years old and a boy of eleven to twelve who were. one of them was decapitated the other had their chest opened and. a funeral traditions of change but.

she's still being treated with. practice.

stand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the way. al-jazeera.

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