i'm as democracy experiment i'm just saying. this is zero. public i'm going with all this is the news hour live from up and coming up in the next sixty minutes. three people are killed in zimbabwe as soldiers opened fire on a position supporters. tens of thousands crammed the streets to welcome opposition leaders on here bamba back to the democratic republic of congo. u.s. turkey relations on the pressure the white house sanctions two top officials over the imprisonment of an american pastor. and on he descended into hell with all the

de sport england all playing the one thousandth test match but it's india who are very much on top at stumps on day one in birmingham all of that story and more later in the program. a very warm welcome to this hour of news it's first to zimbabwe with three people have been killed in post-election violence in the capital harare. soldiers fired live rounds on opposition supporters who were protesting against the slow release of election results the opposition m.d.c. poncy believes the election commission's taking too long so now is the window of monday's poll president emma cement and dad was one two thirds of the seats in parliament thoughts the result of the presidential level isn't yet known he blamed the opposition leadership for the outbreak of violence. the alliance and its leadership has forthwith to remove its violent supporters from the streets

so peace returns to our country you know asking them to take this step government is simply reminding them of their youth is as responsible political player as and as citizens in any electoral process it is understood that some women while others lose but those who would lose should never translate their disappointment into. the toughest following events for us from harare. president agogo is clearly warning the opposition that they should not cause any more trouble the police issued a statement and they said some of the protesters really they were blocking roads burning tires breaking into stores they say the numbers were too much for them they

were overwhelmed they had to call in. but the main opposition is saying that the way things happened today were wrong they say the country is going back to the dark ages and they're very very worried and they told us that the country is moving into dangerous times today we saw the deployment of military tanks and firing of live ammunition on civilians for no apparent reason. civilians are allowed to demand the respect of their rights in a lawful manner. disorder may be dealt with by the police who are best trained for public order. soldiers are trained to kill during war. we are serious limit to wonder what this means are we in a war of civilians the enemy of the state harare is generally calm most soldiers we saw earlier in the day have gone back to the barracks there are a few right soldiers on the street outside key buildings like the little commission and the zanu p.f.

headquarters but things are generally calm all eyes now on the presidential results when would they be announced right now no one doesn't really know people are concerned especially from the opposition the longer it takes the more suspicious they will be and how within people react what people have been told is that the main opposition leader nelson chamisa says if he loses he will not accept defeat and if that happens how will his supporters react. join the studio by zimbabwean journalists a georgian a god when you know this is not how this was supposed to go i mean there were so many high hopes weren't there for this moment and what's your reaction to the developing picture that we're seeing it's as you say it's not how this. if he was meant to end we we really have hopes for the new zimbabwe that after the the not a coup that things would pan out that there would be free and fair elections and that we would see a democratically elected government and a government that didn't need to use strong arm tactics on its people government

that doesn't need to rule through the barrel of a gun it's clear that hasn't happened these allegations of rigging which is one of the things that sparks the solve these are not just arbitrary allegations these are documented by n.g.o.s by citizens organizations people have been working towards this for a very long time because there is a precedent we've known for years and years that this is what happens at elections and so for weeks and weeks people have been setting up hotlines that late information all of those forms that come up outside polling stations have been photographed or as many as possible there will be a correlation between all of that information will be out there and this election monitors can sign off on this that it's an absolute travesty because i believe there will be proof that nelson chamisa has won perhaps he was wrong to announce that in advance. but the point is that the really there are so many people in

zimbabwe who have worked so hard for a peaceful resolution and to make sure that the correct results are known if the international community walks away from us now then really i don't know where we can turn to the voting patterns that are poor what do they suggest they suggest i'm afraid this is just wrecking because why would you vote for a parliamentary candidates from one party and a presidential candidate from another now the results that we're seeing and i have to stress again these are not the official results yet but the results that we're seeing suggest that nelson chamisa in the m.d.c. have carried the presidential election if that's the case how design a p.f. gets a three quarters majority now perhaps he hasn't won genuinely i find that very very hard to believe because of all the reasons i just gave you. he says that he will not back down. we've already seen violence so what could happen i mean

it feels like a kind of tinderbox moment if i can put it like that really does feel like a tinderbox moment and and the leaders have a huge responsibility who orders their army to fire live bullets on innocent civilians the person that did that is the person that can not do it next time it does that has to stop obviously we want people not not to put themselves in harm's way but if people feel genuinely upset about this if people want to make their voices known why shouldn't they that's their democratic right and it's absolutely appalling that they should be killed that they should be murdered just for saying what they feel it was interesting the justice minister was courted as saying in relation to why the army was on the streets you know we need to restore i think of peace and tranquility was the phrase then they've put the onus of the violence on to the opposition supporters we heard it there that described as hooligans and it's

a kind of narrative sometimes that we see in this situation is and say what does that tell us you know i think that there's a time for blame a portion meant and there's a time for problem solving and this is absolutely the time when we need to solve this problem we can go back later they can make arrests or do whatever it is that they want to do but when you're saying you're putting people out there to keep the peace well arrest them you don't need to kill them. in a god when thanks very much for joining me. democratic republic of congo office russian leader and former rebel commandos song pierre bemba has returned home to a hero's welcome after ten years in prison for war crimes that before back from the netherlands us are successful appeal of the international criminal court in the hague he already says he wants to run in december as a presidential elections catherine soy was with the cheering crowds in the capital kinshasa. when john pierre bemba in march from the airport in the democratic

republic of congo's capital kinshasa thousands of his supporters went into a frenzy i know you was there although many of them say they never thought to be back home any time soon. i have a contingent of police escorted his convoy who was not allowed to make any stops to address the many people who lined the streets to catch a glimpse of him his first order of business was a meeting at his party headquarters he's expected to submit his documents to the electoral commission in the coming days so he can run for the presidency john the arab mbak you are the window all these bodyguard cords and he's been waving i bet hundred of them here and they have been singing his praises and saying that he all you want he can provide like change all of the leadership of this country or even bring the opposition together to support one candidate. was arrested in belgium for crimes against humanity

a decade ago he was sentenced to eighteen years in prison by the international criminal court in twenty sixteen the judges held him criminally responsible for militias of his former rebel group convicting him of political killing raping and pillaging in the neighboring central african republic between two thousand and two and two thousand and three he appealed and in june the conviction was overturned his supporters say the trial was politically instigated was unhappy because bemba. being vindicated by the same court that convicted him now he's here and we're just glad to see him oh we're suffering in this country children are not going to school things are not moving his return gives us hope then but faces some hurdles in his bid for presidency the low ses a candidate has to be in the country where he stay yeah before contesting an election the fact that the has been away for ten years and still has a pending witness tampering case at the international criminal court could hottest

chances katz was on al-jazeera kinshasa. turkey's condemned the us decision to impose sanctions on two of its top ministers it's the latest effort by the trumpet ministration to get the turks to release an american pastor and her grandson was detained and twenty sixteen accused of helping the group the turkish government says was behind a failed coup attempt an official has the latest from washington d.c. . angry words have been exchanged between the u.s. and turkey over possible sanctions now the u.s. has decided to act at the president's direction the department of treasury is sanctioning turkey's minister of justice and minister of interior both of whom played a leading roles in the arrest and detention of pastor brunson the two ministers targeted a senior figures in the turkish government still a man so i loue is the interior minister abdul hamid gul is the justice minister the u.s. says they are involved in organizations responsible for the continued detention of

this month american pastor andrew bronson the taxi he's a spy who was involved in the field twenty sixteen coup in turkey the americans insist he is simply a christian pastor who's been targeted because he met many people from different communities while in the country the u.s. sanctions says that any property or share in property that two men may have in the united states is no blocked and it says that any u.s. citizen business or entity should no longer cut any transactions with the government ministers from talking. president all trump has tweeted his support for the pastor well vice president might pence has repeatedly called for his release the president aired a one in the turkish government i have a message on behalf of the president of the united states of america. release pastor andrew bronson now or be prepared to face the consequences for pastor bronson was recently released from prison in is me if it remains under house

arrest. has yet been sent for his trial alan fischer al-jazeera at the white house you're watching the al-jazeera news our lives from london and there's much more to come on the program france a prison bill to speed up the deportation of failed asylum seekers a makeshift medical center for people on the brink of famine in what was once known as yemen's bread basket and a massive meltdown from this strange tennis player pete so we'll explain why and why but later in sports. a group of opposition candidates in mali are pressuring the government to give details on the number of people who couldn't vote in sunday's election they say the vote was rigged and that they have secured enough forms to take the presidential election to his second land mohamed vows the latest now from bamako eighteen presidential candidates including opposition leader some might say have held

a press conference this morning and they are now totally direction of the boat that took place on sunday described it as a project and they accuse the government of vote buying and vote rigging and manipulation of all sorts and kinds they have also accused the constitutional court of being biased against opposition candidates we think in place the count of votes he's still going on the officers of the office of the subs out to be announced on friday and the only entity that is allowed to do with us is the high electoral commission how what those that have been leaks during the last few days about the results of our very much in favor of president if i am talking to and according to our service here that is why the opposition has anticipated that by making this declaration today. the french national assembly has voted in favor of changes to a new immigration law that reduces the time refugees can claim asylum from eleven

months to just six that was aimed at speeding up the deportation of those denied asylum and the processing of those who accept said david chase has more now from paris the number of refugees in the suburbs of paris may be as high as four hundred thousand according to a parliamentary report city authorities are struggling to cope the conditions in the parks and streets are becoming intolerable in the middle of the heat wave raids by riot police have cleared the large tented camps where many of them found temporary refuge but the tough new laws just passed by the national assembly will cut the time period during which they can claim asylum the claim is rejected that only have fifteen days to lodge an appeal and the time they can be kept in detention waiting for deportation has been doubled to ninety days now via a sale voted against the bill she believes france would take in more refugees and be less scared in for coolies all but once people have left their home there it's

a whole dual and we cannot just send them back i believe we have to look at the situation differently you can't just say we don't want that it's a way of closing your eyes that is meaningless it's a way to deny reality their original here. charity workers have described the situation as explosive the refugees are being forced to share the streets with drug addicts and dealers in crack cocaine public baths are being closed and fights are breaking out to find supplies of water. it's been estimated a total of five hundred refugees are arriving in paris every week the government say the new reforms i meant to make a much more efficient system for asylum seekers to to actually try and sift out those who are genuine refugees and those who are economic migrants we found william and his wife baking for food they have a four year old child they escaped violence in ivory coast but never applied for asylum here they now face deportation the police are constantly moving them on what

the food court orders zeph to follow them you must understand them you treat become an alkie for everybody start sleep on the streets everywhere sometimes i don't know where to sleep i sit on the bench i chip my little wife by my side i hope we pray and we keep. the deputies at the national assembly will not have heard of william he has a master of arts and philosophy he's passionate about french culture and literature but it's no life for him on the streets here and he's already lost everything in his homeland there are tens of thousands more like him david chaytor al-jazeera house the southern german state of the area has opened its first migrant center called anchor census the facilities are designed to reduce the number of refugees in germany by speeding up the deportation of unsuccessful asylum seekers but this case is a controversial and critics one the anger centers will create ghettos don't like

cane explains. this institution is one of seven up and running now anchor centers places where asylum seekers are rife are evaluated as it were and find out what their fate will be will they be allowed to stay in germany indefinitely or will they find out where they're going to be sent back to the country they came to germany from the point here is that this institution is still basically part of the the of. plans put forward by the government if you will recall the the arguments between the different conservative parties in the grand coalition about exactly what sort of shape these centers would would take when you go inside the center you can see that there is considerable capacity for family some of the children here walking through the classroom areas the bedroom areas the kitchen areas one gets the real sense that the or for a season ten for there to be many people coming here remember the most important

thing about this center from the federal government's perspective is to accelerate the process from the refugee from the asylum seekers arriving and putting their case forward and being told what their fate will be that's what the center is all about question remains what sort of civil liberties questions are thrown up so far at least the government thinks it's all of them iranian lawmakers have given president has some rouhani one month to appear before parliament to answer questions on his government's handling of the country's economic problems it's the first time parliament has some of the iranian president who says the pressure from hardline rivals to change his cabinet since relations with the u.s. have deteriorated the makers want to question him on why the country's currency the reale has lost more than half of its value since april qatar's main stock benchmark has recovered all losses since the blockade was imposed on the gulf state

by a group of neighboring countries almost fourteen months ago the q.e. index was one point five percent of the close of trading on wednesday which in levels not seen since may twenty seventeen saudi arabia the united arab emirates upgrade in egypt severed economic diplomatic ties with qatar in june twenty seventeen accusing it of funding terror. city rebels say they'll stop attacks in the red sea for two weeks to support peace efforts as follows attacks on two vessels last week one of the world's most important trade routes the bab al mend the strait the attacks are hitting a vital lifeline for yemenis struggling to access much needed food and also medical care mohammed the reports are from djibouti which is just across from yemen. this is the impact of more than three years of war the city of saddam from hold for both the fighters was once known as yemen's bread basket much of it is now destroyed

people are desperate and on the brink of a farm in roads and bridges have not been spared either limiting the supply of vital supplies of food and fuel to a population already suffering monetization is up an old time. at a teen shack that now serves as a temporary health center acutely malnourished children up that high protein peanut paste. that i'm not going to forget the women are scared to death every hour we see a plane i'm not exaggerating at all we wish for peace peace and safety. but the prospect of peace in yemen remains of a more distant relentless efforts by the u.n. to broker peace have failed on one side others who think rebels trying hard to keep control of huge swathes of the control on the other pro-government militias buck by the sooty u.a.e. coalition. in recent days they have intensified their outcomes to wrestle control of the vital part of the data from both the fight is the city has been heavily

militarized forcing half of its population to flee controlling the day that is important to both sides it's the main and two point four much needed aid and most imports into yemen this is with from australia more than anything else the yemeni people now desperately need peace with peace and stability we can start to get people back on their feet start to rebuild their livelihoods their fears any escalation in the fighting could cause a shock tunneled of white told put causing fava devastation in what is already the world's last humanitarian crisis some twenty two million people in the yemen need many of the war displaced have no way of surviving without food hundreds on their fears to outbreak of diseases strikes have destroyed yemen's water and sanitation

facilities something that's already call from outbreak of cholera the u.n. now say the country could be one asked like a wave form on the brink of the fatal disease how many other wild disease or djibouti. afghanistan's election bodies and presidential elections will be held in april next year all afghans must register to vote a drawn out process that has been marred by accusations of fraud and also abuse shiela ballots reports now from kabul. hundreds of women recalled the names of the countryman compiling an electronic list of who decide afghanistan's next. nine million people have registered to vote a quarter of the population but here that means nine million men yelling treats and this is the. name of that person and their father named them for their it is very day then business and then we go to the next. this hospitalized with seven hundred

people working for two hundred dollars a month out of an old u.n. compound on the outskirts of kabul the registration forms are being flown all trucked here and a military a schools the nation's election chief wants afghans to feel they can trust the process despite logistical and security challenges. unfortunately they're in secure areas in afghanistan so we can't register people there those areas that are under the control of the government and that we have access to people should go there for registration the government assisted in putting our registration centers there there's been a lot of criticism from election watchdogs observers about the registration process that there may be fake or duplicate registrations are you concerned about that. of course there is some complaints about the registration when it's not possible to do biometric registration and if it's a manual system like ours it's natural there may be some a duplicate registrations. name is in charge of ten thousand observers on election day and says registrations need to be chicks more thorough really and voters

assigned to specific polling stations there is a willingness among the people although they are not the economists about what's happening but when i would election that is no other than if i'm the. but it made their life better. afghans died in their hundreds this year for a chance to make their lives better the worst was in april in kabul with fifty seven people were killed and more than one hundred wounded in a suicide bombing at a voter registration seemed. afghanistan is working its way towards credible elections one keystroke at a time. from power outages to bombings patiently they push on charged with holding an election that cannot be disputed shelagh balance zero people stay with us on the news hour still to come a us judge drugs out how to print your own gun from being published on my. rates of violence against women saw or protesters take to the streets

a sad africa demanding government action and as for alex sanchez shines against real madrid as football's preseason continues. hello and welcome to international weather forecast apart from stockholm in the north. i mean current in the south and moscow in the east is thirty degrees plus across the whole of europe in our chart for thursday and indeed can interfere in potential is in excess of forty degrees with every prospect of temperatures over the weekend rising to between forty five and forty eight degrees celsius across southwestern parts of spain and on into portugal so basically very hot situation across many parts of europe but also with some isolated but quite severe thunderstorms across the alps tone through the balkans lead up towards the baltic

states we could see one or two storms developing so heading down into north africa the weather here is looking fine and fairly quiet at the moment temperatures much you'd expect for this time of year thirty seven in cairo and then heading on into friday conditions remain cheery fine tunas looking at my son thirty six degrees into central parts of africa we've got some heavy showers across the ethiopian highlands across parts of sudan and south sudan and then particular towards the gulf of guinea and into. further north chutney also picking up some significant shower i seventy that's expected to continue on into friday bamako mali could see some heavy showers with highs of twenty nine. the middle east's most religiously diverse country you still have nineteen just communities you don't have one vision for the future you have nineteen of them divided along sectarian lines the confessional system in lebanon has destroyed the

only problem and heavily influenced by regional allegiances and i would have one prevailing over the other you have civil war so it's always this balance that said he kept following its first parliamentary elections and nine years people in power investigates the state of lebanon on al-jazeera. the scum of the world of al-jazeera. the best films from across on the network of channels for the line this is a model to be good but i'm about to be fresh perspectives and new insights. to challenge and change the way we move from. al-jazeera. this time on al-jazeera.

the mind of our top stories the. soldiers in zimbabwe's capital fired live ammunition at opposition demonstrators killing at least three people concerns them over the country's election camp which is still going on two days after battles democratic republic of congo opposition leaders on pierre bemba has been welcomed by supporters on his return to the country the former rebel commander who spent a decade in jail plans to run for president. the u.s. will impose sanctions on two turkish officials over the trial of an american pastor in turkey washington says andrew bronson led a protestant church and is mere husband unfairly to take. a us john just brought the release of software that allows consumers to three d. print guns well nine u.s.

states have filed a lawsuit against the trump administration after it reached a settlement of texas based defense distributed to publish the printing files online for votes now from l.a. this is the computer generated weapon that's causing the uproar a crude single shock plastic pistol the united states of america will be the biggest export of terror. if we fail to stop the gun specifications for the gun were developed by cody wilson a self-styled anarchist as long as you have the right to keep and bear arms you have the right to make them in june the trumpet ministration abruptly gave up on a years long legal battle to prevent him from putting the gun plans on line wilson's diagrams allow a variety of firearms models to be made by anyone including convicted criminals mentally disturbed people or children this means that more people who are dangerous will have guns and they will hurt more people with them in three d. printer technology machines extrude minuscule layers of plastic or resin that

gradually build up three dimensional objects using computerized patterns we asked professional three d. printer peterman adi to make one for us. consumer printers are available for as low as three hundred dollars so anybody that has three hundred dollars can essentially print one the designs have already appeared online and have been downloaded thousands of times three d. printed guns have no serial numbers so they're untraceable they don't require permits or background checks so anybody can have one and because they're plastic they can go through any metal detector law enforcement officials are opposed and president donald trump questioned the action of his own administration tweeting that the idea of three d. printed guns quote doesn't seem to make much sense but the guns may be less dangerous to the public then to the person wielding them in tests by the government firearms oversight agency three d.

printed guns often exploded when fired they are not as strong or precisely machined as metal guns it could explode on you you could lose a finger you could use a hand. it could catch fire there is so many things that can go wrong which is why printing it is one thing using it is an entirely separate thing democratic lawmakers are calling on trump to overturn is the administration's decision and are introducing legislation to ban the weapons but in a last minute decision a federal judge granted a temporary injunction blocking wilson from distributing his blueprints online the ruling came after nine states and the district of columbia brought the matter to court the legal fight will continue robert oulds al jazeera los angeles and speak man to terry willis he's the president of one associates a consulting firm that focuses on three d. printing and he joins me now from fort collins in colorado and terry

a very warm welcome to the program so inside was terry like basically these you know making these guns would be accessible just on the basis of who can afford to buy a three d. printer. well that's correct it's quite easy to purchase one certain but it's all nother level to produce a good quality product with one of these machines and. even under the circumstances it could fail and even explored as was mentioned so it's not a given that these things would be used safely and now they could harm the person shooting the gun or someone around. it's not a very good idea in my mind and terry i guess that the quality of the final product if i can even call it that what that depends on the standard of the prince of that the expertise of the person using or is it is it kind of a oppressed bill well in the end. you push

a button it does begin to build but it does require some skill on the part of the user of the machine and then the machine itself the range in price from a few hundred dollars to more than a million dollars a high end machines can be all parts and metal and of course metal is much stronger than plastic but even the strong rigid plastic can include hell in the bill may not know the building parts lire by the way are not a layer may not be joined well together and so it's just. it's just not a good idea terry i guess one of the potential problems with this given that i suppose a lot of these three d. printed guns wouldn't be that reliable is it is that keeping track of them i mean i believe that these plans of have already been downloaded numerous times. well that's right they have been downloaded it was these plans the files that represent

the guns they had been down were back in the two thousand and twelve two thousand and thirteen timeframe before a start was put to it to acquire our u.s. government your and and so you know fortunately yesterday a good decision was made to to bring not to stop once again who knows what the future will hold but yeah it's. anybody's guess as those who are might go. you know many of us can help educate policymakers and those who are korean laws and so. maybe we need to understand the consequences make decisions and around this need to understand what what could happen if. if this becomes a very popular activity terrill us there joining me from a fort collins terry thanks very much for joining us with your expertise thank you

what. thousands of south africans have marched against gender based violence the total shut down process i think in place across the country organizers say abuse against women is systemic and they are demanding government action overall it's estimated one in five south african women will experience sexual or physical violence in their lifetime will some women in south africa and i using social media to seek some sort of justice malcolm webb reports from johannesburg. yolanda kyunki had just started a degree at rhodes university in south africa but she says she was raped she went for a drink with friends she doesn't remember anything else the following day other people told her that two different men had sex with her it's just really made me angry. really angry and through kid and i mean it has affected my relationships with him in their eyes. obviously he didn't come to after they had my trust in people in

general. and i guess i just as a become a business really and gets to say mostly you landers met many other students who are tired of their universities and police not acting on reports of sexual assault . on the exchange students marched in broad university in twenty sixteen as part of their campaign they published a list of students and university staff on social media they said were responsible for sexual assault and students have also protested here at the university has run in johannesburg and since the student movement began thousands more south africans have taken to social media to express their anger at the lack of justice for women who have been raped or killed when carol mcqueen i was found murdered in johannesburg last year it prompted hundreds of thousands of tweets activists say the pressure pushed all thirty's to act her boyfriend was found guilty of the

murder earlier this year ten james one a study the movement she says the social media activism and the naming of suspected rapists may not always bring justice but it breaks the silence because of the of help quickly hashtags pick up you're able to call out your repurposed and there's a bunch of people who say i believe you this is your first interaction been going to the police and saying this is happened to me and the police saying well what we were where were you what time was it south africa some of the highest rates of sexual violence in the world activists say less than one in ten. supported rapes result in conviction we asked the state prosecutor what she thinks about frustrated victims receiving justice on social media instead for the good i love there. you do go from i think it were extremely well where the burden of proof is on the accuser at least as a prosecutor i know i can flip foundry at night because i know if it can convince

the court that someone is guilty that person really screwed you on the says a rapists have never been held to account this is the authorities failed her you know justice has been done malcolm webb al-jazeera johannesburg student protesters have been sprayed with water cannons in chile's capital santiago they were demonstrating against the government plans to restrict the work of students can do much they can earn their work hours student activists are also demanding the government fully fund public schools stop funding private schools provide free transport. wildfires in california are showing no signs of abating with the u.s. state set to record one of its worst fire seasons in history firefighters are still battling seventeen fires burning across the state were eight people have been killed in the last week alone while the fast moving flames have destroyed nearly one hundred and twenty thousand hits that i was in take tears of land and last year was the worst season on record when the only five hundred thirty thousand hectares

burning. as the heat wave in northern europe continues farmers in britain have called an emergency dr summit suggests the impact that the heat is having on food security farms in many parts of england and wales haven't seen any significant rain since the end of may which could affect the yields for some crops john holl explains. with an almost rain free july following the driest june since one thousand nine hundred twenty five britain is sweating its way through both the heat wave and drought at the moment the news we're hearing about the lack of rain for speculation about shortages it's not a local sort of northern european or british issue this time it's the whole of the northern hemisphere i'm reading hearing reports from the us canada russia sweden about long periods of high temperatures drought conditions and it's

affecting harvests everywhere farmer robert lord takes me on a tour of his parched land wheat prices a way up that's good for farmers but bad of course for consumers he's worried about his livestock so your big concern now is is the grass that you have lost effectively that would mean feat. and it's got to the situation in the last few days that we've actually had to get in and bring it out of the field the national farmers union has called it a crisis we have all feed on our shelves twenty four seventh's and we often don't actually ever really think about where food comes from or indeed how it gets on the shelves so i think it's a wake up call in many areas and not least around situation of market failure volatility. crucial component of a future approach of policy the long hot summer of two thousand and eighteen is a reminder says the national farmers union that britain shouldn't take its food

production for granted and a timely one at that as concerns grow about the possibility of this country exiting the european union without a trade deal resulting in food shortages even stockpiling in the months ahead we cope with it whether we manage with whether the one thing is giving us is a lot of uncertainty a. going forward and always saying as a politician's squabbling as the drought continues both briggs it and the challenging climate looks set to ensure challenging times ahead so how al-jazeera out for cheer iran is suffering its will serious drive and half a century it's estimated there's a chronic sort of water in ninety seven percent of the country some blame the weather others think it's a us conspiracy and aren't blame government mismanagement same bus ravi reports from. every day

a small group of iranian farmers meet up at the edge of their town once where the fields of the spawn lush with crops now barren land by a dry can now they beg for government help. out of them you know we're a mean citizens too we are aliens who live in this part of the country we just want to be hurt people are really tired the can't make ends meet they go to bed hungry most of the lost an eye during fighting between police and protesting farmers in march acute water shortages are worsening problems such as inflation and unemployment. and there are warning signs of rising anger. more conflicts are expected to break out an empty stomach doesn't have any religion people are going to have to fight for every single drop of water especially in dry regions like this that are hit hard by drought and climate change environmental experts say weather is a small part of the problem they blame years of government mismanagement for the manmade water crisis since the islamic revolution in one nine hundred seventy nine

the government's rush to develop industries meant skipping environmental impact assessments before building dams and piping water around the country one solution has been to try using less water for things like these but most of iran's water is used on farms where old ways of watering crops means waste on an industrial scale environmental experts also say the government needs to take the problem more seriously. first we need to revise some laws and adopt the procedure for the stable development and management of water resources so we can better preserve water and control usage so we can be hopeful to have better conditions in the next one or two decades even by summer standards these river beds in the north of the capital are drier than usual that's being felt downstream where they feed ancient underground springs. from up here you can really get a sense of the impact of the country's water shortage on public facilities in just

twenty years a single generation what was once a sizable body of water has been reduced to little more than awaiting. people who live here say they had to plug part of the pool to collect enough water for kids to play and escape the summer heat. some of them are old enough to remember when the pool was full. i remember my childhood i mean my friends used to bike here and swim now it's fifty square metres but then it was about five thousand it was deep and considered dangerous for us. for now it's enough for these kids to cool off and have some fun and concern perhaps but when they have children of the room the little water they have loved probably won't be here the same bus robbie old zero ron saves in a speedboat have gotten away with two crowns and an oar from sweden's crown jewels seventeenth century royal treasures were taken on choose they during a lunchtime fare at

a cathedral west of stockholm two men were seen escaping across the lake by multiple crown jewels are being displayed behind a locked and alarmed display case sports up next here on the news hour stan wawrinka struggles for for us the former grand slam champion has a get over early exit and wishing a very happy fiftieth birthday to a groundbreaking cartoon character from the one nine hundred sixty s. back in just a sec. business updates.

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much wednesday marked a major milestone in the history of england's cricket team they walked out onto the field in birmingham for the one thousand time in the sport's longest format england started the first of five test matches strongly heading to lunch at eighty three for one captain joe root and jonny bairstow then put on a hundred runs for the fourth way get but when they fell in quick succession the english tail quickly collapsed four wickets from robbie chandran ashwin putting india in control at the close of play england going to stumps at two hundred eighty five for nine ashwin finishing with figures of four for sixteen from the twenty five overs route the best of england's batsman and said he was run out for eighteen sam curran and james anderson will look to guiding glen through to at least three hundred on thursday. i suppose market if you've got three hundred the board if we can come out and be pretty relentless in the way we go about it in my areas some

point tomorrow. you don't actually know what it would score so yes on one hand it is a missed opportunity go another you don't know what a good scores it was i was about to leap pema chodron covers cricket for u.k. newspaper the independent he says it is unlikely that another side will reach the milestone of a thousand test matches in a harry. australia closes but even if they pay ten tests a year it's going to take them another thirty years to get their indian need another fifty years carol creating a journey to get there but i really can't see that happening right now apart from england india and australia the game simply isn't commercially viable anywhere it's what they can do is to ensure that three countries i mentioned does maybe park silence or keep playing amongst themselves because they have tradition rivalries which mean something to that in the long run i see say india playing new zealand twenty years from now in test cricket in terms of the players' mindsets

a lot of them will tell you yes but this is the most lucrative form of the game not by a long shot if you look at of football the champions league the e.p.l. in the league play the players the most in terms of salaries that's not true test cricket no tell that changes the mindset is going to fluctuate greatly in the coming years. in the fifty year version of the sport south africa have taken a two no lead in their five match series against sri lanka on wednesday the hosts won the toss and battered but it looked like the decision it backfired in just the second over fast. dismissing who saw members of consecutive deliveries open innovation because one of the stars of the bad to quit contravening sixty nine before losing his week it to andy. captain angelo mathews talks scored for the hosts with an unbeaten seventy nine as they posted two hundred forty four for eight in the fifty overs in the cock and put on

a ninety one run opening partnership for the south africans in their chase of the target skipper fifty policy then falling one short of his half century as the tourists closed in on victory youngster to hit the winning runs with the visitors the four we could win coming with seven years to spain. twenty three time major champion serena williams has suffered the worst loss of her tennis career the american won the first game against great britain zero in a concert but that was as good as it would get for the decorated champion williams then losing the next twelve games to bow out in straight sets six one six love in just fifty two minutes console will now meet the fear ken in the second round of the silicon valley open. three time grand slam champion stand very good has lost his opening match in the city open in washington american qualifier donald young upsetting the swiss in three sets. has been struggling for form after

having two surgeries on his left knee last year. peignoir pairs elimination from the tournament was much more dramatic the frenchman had a huge meltdown at the end of his match against marcos baghdatis of cyprus. he is. likely to be fine for he's repeated outbursts that so him doctor point at the change of ends the world under fifty five didn't attempt to play on match point around the belt the six three six three six six two loss by smashing a third record and then being booed off the court. manchester united have wrapped up their five game pre-season tour of the u.s. with a win over rail madrid in miami and alexa sanchez had a major role as united beat the european champions to know the chilean forward schooling the opening goal before providing the assist and. chose

a marina said he hasn't learned anything from the to but he still impressed to see sanchez back here he's been seized. as all saying we're just trying to survive and to have the best the best possible results but as i was saying to the players some of my players there will be in an amazing condition you imagine alexis such as fresh and the way that the man is is running after playing for match for matches ninety minutes i think he is in a fantastic condition so let's look at it for the positive sides. story incandela i'm delighted with my team we have a marvelous challenge ahead of us which is to recreate the team without christiana we will try to do the best we can and every since will try to reinvent the team it's a thrilling challenge as a coach and we convince that we have the elements and the tools to be able to do so

. there was also a win at the international champions cup for tottenham hotspur the london club school the only goal of the match against italian side ac milan after forty seven minutes spurs begin the premier league campaign on the eleventh of august against newcastle united. before. many youngers that stood up and they behaved very well. off the beach and that is the most important. and a youthful barcelona side took on a s. roma in texas without the you know messi in the line up the spanish champions looked like they missed him as they were comfortably beaten for two on this occasion boss's boss suggested they could follow up their recent signing of brazilian melcombe with more new players.

that had what a squad is the team is always looking for good players i am the trainer we all work on it but we have more people who spend more time looking for good players the team decided that malcolm should join us because we are very happy with him so far we can also see that he has great potential. yet the tampa bay rays have beaten the los angeles angels ten six on tuesday but it was a center fielder mike trout who kept the statistician's happy he's home run in the seventh inning was his thirtieth of the season that means he is now the second m. l.b. player to steal twenty bases then hit thirty homers in a season three times before turning twenty six. and that's all the sport for now more later. peter thank you now fifty years ago at the height of the u.s. civil rights movement a leading cartoonist made a small the very significant contribution to racial equality. introduced his first

black character well inside charlie brown in the famous and here's the popular peanuts newspaper strip modern cartoonist carrie johnson looks back at the legacy franklin my name is carrie johnson i'm a professional caricaturists and cartoonists as a kid i really didn't have a lot of people of color to look up to the characters i'm a caricature illustrators or cartoonist when i see franklin in the newspapers i realize wow that's good to see a person of color of color in the charlie brown series someone asked me do you think frankly i haven't franklin and newspapers really helped the black community or the way people look at african-american cartoonists you know maybe i can only say that because there are so few of us out here doing doing this if it's never took the risk to put franklin in history up who knows would have made that that

happen because one thing about it was already popular he didn't need it frankly but his teeth i think a lady wrote him a letter i remember reading about it a few years ago and he said well i don't want to thin the african community however you took a chance and it worked ok i think this time to wait frankly wasn't stereotyped you know get a place will do this here but his deal was pretty straight forward troy brown and then when the holidays are coming around you'll see franklin with the with the birds peppermint patty loose the liners and then we're just you know i think they want to missed you most everyone but i enjoyed that. you can find out much more about the stories we're following it's our website the address is that we've. got loads of video on demand and two from our experts and of correspondents around the globe that's it for this news hour i will be back it would just say with much more of the day's news.

young rich and famous in china one of the news goes behind the great chinese fire wall to meet the cyber celebs of a booming multibillion dollar business. on al-jazeera. jeannette morales was just ten years old when a devastating earthquake struck mexico city in one thousand nine hundred five the quake damaged her family's apartment and the government moved them to distant shack around seventy families who lost their homes in that earthquake still live in this camp say i'm going to get up that because of the government raised our hopes and

then abandon us politicians have promised that they won't allow a repeat of what happened after the earthquake in one thousand eight hundred five but the cost and complexity of housing hundreds of people living in camps is a major task and one that many people here think the government failed. a survivor of the genocide there are people who beg me to kill them when they're suffering but it didn't have the power to do who's dedicated his life to searching the woods for bones of the victims of the srebrenica massacre. the women here is to do all. you know hope of finally laying the pass to rest and giving peace to the victims' families because if i could just find a finger i could bury her bone hunter on al-jazeera. al-jazeera where every.

three people are killed in zimbabwe as soldiers opened fire on opposition protesters. all of them she went on this is al jazeera live from london also coming up tens of thousands crowd in the streets to welcome former rebel leaders here ben back to the democratic republic of congo relations between turkey and the u.s. to tear it further as the white house sanctions two turkish officials over the imprisonment of an american pastor and sid security fears here in britain the farmers call an emergency write sonnets.