he saw it people room in this building. and we're just annoyed he didn't tell you. is the new generation of liberal leadership he's wearing yourself australians are generally unhappy with what they see as a revolving door system of leadership scott morrison now faces the difficult task of uniting his party before facing the australian public in a federal election in less than a year before that marise in government which has a majority of just one seat is likely to have another electoral test. malcolm turnbull says he'll leave parliament soon triggering a byelection for his electorate kathy novak al jazeera sydney australia has had a revolving door of prime minister since two thousand and ten six to be exact and that year labor leader kevin rudd was replaced by his deputy julia guillard while re talk to leadership from her in june of two thousand and thirteen but his party

was beaten in that year's election by the liberals led by tony abbott abbott then lost a leadership challenge to malcolm turnbull in september two thousand fifteen so we got here ok mark wolfe is a lecturer in political science at the university of new south wales he says this leadership drama is working in the favor of bill shorten the opposition labor party leader. the labor party you seen as having a good alternative to the government they're not part of themselves but got a series of strong policy positions but bonds by bill shorten times as well or all the time and so they're seen as having credibility but you've undertaken a number of modifications within the party will open a solution to stop easy leadership. and i think that's something that the liberal party will have to contemplate in the future as well to try and build confidence and hence we haven't seen the light of party bill shorten being deposed by educated

and he backed interim all right i'm sure this has people talking online trying to keep up it really does well on line sentiment makes it pretty clear really that people are really just tired of politics acting like a popularity contest now while the sentiment online is mainly against the new prime minister there appears to be overall frustration with australia's political system to begin with now the front page of the n.t. news or the northwestern territory news says it all it says here paying your heads in shame several people are posting that picture online now several you also in this video responses of your reactions take a listen. just in regards to what's happening with the political situation in australia at the moment this neophyte of most frustrating in regards to the fact that when we have an election we vote for a leader and we expect that person to lead this country regardless of what happened

regardless of what thrown at them what they do or don't want they have a care of duty to the people of this country to lead this country to the base of their abilities and that's exactly what they should be doing it's really the search process right now with politics and spot in the list. box cutters jack my goodness you're right. i'm not. consciously hiding the. change i mean this is a conflict over. the fact that we're going to. be the same person for that period of time i think a lot of hostility here in my ministry earlier is that there's a lot more going on in the ground than the political debate there's a leadership change we have off almost the comma if you want to make sure you weren't going to drown we are now. on the topic and really the country with a lot. of the wealth in the current political climate where there is already.

living on the wrong thank you to those who sent us and those videos to all the online commotion about australia's new prime minister has made it one man in austin texas in the u.s. a bit of a star there is the kicker is his name is also peter dutton the same name as the home affairs minister who tried to replace malcolm turnbull he tweeted saying i wish the people of australia would look at my profile and realise i'm a thirty year old black man before sending me tweets and dns he followed that up by saying he's pretty sure my last tweet has made me the leading candidate for pm of australia usa it's been real mate he says here he is on a morning talk show in australia soaking in his new found fame. experienced the influx of tweets this week that were kind of harsh so i kind of dug into it myself to try to figure out what was exactly going on and then i kind of you know inform myself on everything and you know the tweets didn't stop but you know once i put the announcement out you know i just decided to embrace it and enjoy it and have

some fun with my new found all the family. and. when this started happening did you think what the hell ways a struggle. when it first started having me picked up a little bit last night and my wife was trying to get some sleep and she was like why are you still scrambling around and i was like you have no idea what's happening right now but you know. he calls himself the people's prime minister and has a go fund me account to try to get him to australia he has five thousand followers so far it really did happen overnight now if you are down under we want to hear what you think of your new prime minister how this whole process happened and what you think of the country's high turnover rate for prime ministers you can write me directly at harding agent or join in our conversation with our hash tag is always good and sure australians that are frustrated appreciated having something to laugh about ok as we mentioned julia guillard was the prime minister from two thousand

and ten to two thousand and thirteen the first woman to hold that position while she sat down with talk to al jazeera back then to talk about the challenges she faced including the sexism you can find that program if you go to our website and just search julia killer hundreds of palestinians have gathered on gaza's border with israel the protests have been going on for months the great mark of return the israeli government accused some of the demonstrators of being what they call terrorists wanting to cross into territory and carry out attacks while stratfor is live for us at the gaza israel border and charles tell it tell us what's happening now and what is the state of egypt getting back getting least these talks back to me to mediate the situation. we are this is the twenty second week in a row that we've seen these protests every friday hey along the border according to the gaza ministry of health at least ten people have been injured so far the self the noon of course one hundred sixty seven people have been killed since these

protests started and these fairly safe to say though certainly this week we're seeing less crowds we're not seeing the amount of people this week that we have done in recent weeks and of course there is this great concern that anything that is deemed as being a provocation by either side could initiate some sort of escalation again it has been quiet for the last couple of weeks since we saw that huge escalation the the greatest amount of fighting between hamas and israel since the two thousand and fourteen will certainly people here are saying one of the reasons why we're seeing less people here today could be because of these expected resumption of talks in cairo these talks into being mediated by the egyptians and the u.n. we know that how mustela gay sions and other faction delegations that you in-car in the next couple days of the eight we've also had confirmation now that fatah will be sending a delegation from ramallah there was

a lot of pressure. from egypt on fatah to attend these two and of course israel has denied that it is c talking directly to have mass but we've already had certainly of what can be expected from any kind of potential deal between hamas and israel and they include possibly the reconstruction of there is of gaza using for and funding an increase in humanitarian aid and there's even talk certainly a possible prisoner exchange is a low that we understand from hamas that they will as a separate deal not associated with any last thing ceasefire say that the protests are ongoing and there is great concern as we go into the evening that any kind of provocation could lead to an escalation of course that would seriously jeopardize those told see the car in the next few days ok charles stratford i fry said he had gas and her water thank you charles. there's some breaking news to bring to you now that the us federal prosecutors have granted immunity to allen weisel berg he is

the longtime chief financial officer of the trump organization and this is part of the investigation into president onil trump's former personal attorney michael cohen says a lot to follow she joins us live from washington d.c. even for the trump presidency these developments keep coming very very quickly now every day she adds so this is a big deal put this in some sort of context for us. right and as you said this is in connection to that particular probe and prosecution. pleaded no longer prosecution but that some of the plea deal of michael cohen who is trump's former fix relates to the the hush money that was given to two women during the election campaign of twenty sixteen who claim to have had affairs with donald trump michael cohen said he was part of a criminal conspiracy to subvert the will to break campaign finance laws by funneling that money to those two women to bury their stories in order to help

president trump election campaign that would be a crime now this. i mean he's been working in the trump organization for decades he knows intimately how the trump organization is financial flows what he was able we testified in the grand jury. the grand jury as to what he knew about those financial payments we understand according to the wall street journal so that's quite significant he got immunity os for immunity and he received immunity that suggests two things you also for immunity because clearly you think that your testimony will put your sleep will put you into legal jeopardy he thought that his testimony to the grand jury would implicate him so he tried to avoid that what's interesting of course is the prosecutor has grown to him that immunity which means whatever he was saying they thought was worth it they said we would prosecute it proposed to you just tell us what you know it's

a very significant that it's also one of the other questions here as well we don't know how far this goes he has now this immunity deal but is this purely connected to what he knew about those two payments to those two women or is this investigation continuing would is he now going to be finishing other information about how the trouble guys are other other investigations underway we just don't know any of those questions but certainly as you said. it's just another part of the trump financial empire his business dealings just an episode of the moment where everything just seems to be closing in at least on the financial dealings of the trump organization and i would always best specify it doesn't this isn't to do with a special counsel investigation a russian collusion it was referred to new york prosecutors by the special counsel as he was rooting around in france business affairs and so you might want to take a look at this but it has nothing to do with the russian votes to go and that's an area that's a very very fair point and sometimes an investigation starts one way and then they

get information and it leads them to something else has i can't get on twitter i've been trying to get on twitter she adds or get any response from donald trump to this he did not react very well to michael cohen he used language such as he flipped on me except or etc and that he felt on some level it should be illegal to flip on somebody has he said anything else anything yet about the fact that one of his former executives is speaking to authorities about him why keep updating as you as you. were three hours ago no nothing yet but as you say he does worry that people apparently go around him all flipping i mean this is no the third person in his close circle who has flipped the other one we mentioned on thursday it was david peck a long time friend who is the publisher is the publisher of the national enquirer the tabloid magazine and other things who it appears from the allegations was

parts wasn't just a magazine publisher he was part of the trump campaign an entire group of there was a reward room he would he would locate potential threats to donald trump the money would be funneled to those threats to silence in order to silence those threats again all in violation campaign has been released and you have i believe that's what it's alleged. yes exactly so you could buy the story but when you sit on it you don't publish it there are no disclosure agreements with everyone involved so there are david pecker with michael cohen we have weiss weisel but great to the speculation as to where this goes from here whether this is simply connected to the michael cohen case or whether these immunity deals do have implications for other investigations into trump's business empire moving forward ok that is a big development she has thank you for getting that information to us so quickly appreciate it human rights watch has criticized the saudi led panel investigating alleged war crimes and yet and so let's take

a look at what they are criticizing the group looked into in the panel's work over the past two years and concluded that it's not credible and says the investigations lacked credibility transparency and dependence most of the time the coalition concluded it acted lawfully or made a mistake and did not carry out a reporter attack and investigators failed to provide redress to the civilian victims christine barclay is a human researcher of human rights watch she says the coalition members have failed in their legal obligation to and best to gate alleged war crimes. and i think perhaps more damning is it paints a very different picture than the one we see on the ground that the one yemeni groups are reporting on human rights watch amnesty and others are reporting on in terms of the absolute devastation that coalition airstrikes continue to cause and the many coalition air strikes that appear to not only violate the walls laws of war but the potential war crimes unfortunately what that body has done is really primarily help shield coalition states from any form of accountability and when i

say that what i mean is say for example the coalition's investigative body says ok you know what the coalition unintentionally targeted this well or partially damaged this residential complex even in those statements they don't say saudi arabia carry out the attack the united arab emirates carry out the attack have any steps been taken to ensure that those states hold potential war criminals accountable so really what we're seeing is you have this investigative body that says it's credibly investigating but is in fact not at all an accepted an acceptable sort of substitute for the states themselves actually carrying out credible investigations now in addition to children being the targets of violence they are also being forced to take part in the fighting pro-government forces and who these are accused of enlisting children in the war there has explored that issue on inside story you can find a link to the program if you go to our web site and search yemen. so right now those of you watching us on facebook live we have a relaxing story for you how far would you go to get and. take about

a trend that is catching on also on the news spread flooding and landslides and hawaii they came lane is fast approaching the eye a little take a look at how people are bracing for the storm. hello again we're here across the levant we are still working those temperatures into the mid forty's for many locations dry here on the satellite image not much to talk about in terms of clouds mcquade city on saturday we do expect to see a very high temperature few of about forty eight degrees not much of a break as we go towards sunday maybe dropping down one degree there up towards tehran thirty four and even warmer up towards back khufu what we have seen over the last couple days you can be seeing about thirty degrees as a forecast a high there well unfortunately not good news in terms of humidity across many

years of golf don't have forty three degrees but over the next few days the admitted he is going to be on the rise sunday is going to be a fairly humid day we do expect to see the top your miti reaching maybe eighty percent there so thirty nine degrees a factor in the heat index is going to be very uncomfortable for many there down towards the south a lot of clouds over parts of oman and with scott we do expect to see thirty three degrees and your forecasts i now want to take you down here towards the southern parts of africa we are watching one funnel system that has moved through but for the next few days keep to not looking too bad in terms of the forecasts we do have one just off the coast that is making its way on so keep tell fifteen degrees few there on saturday and as we go towards sunday dropping to attempt or a twelve. on counting the cost of crippled by its currency crisis full rich venezuela takes desperate measures to steal what it's struggling economy plus it has

a market value of billions but is yet to turn to for profit we delve deeper into what's going on at tesla. counting the cost and i just. love struggling. over there. full of pleasure. out of the goodness of. the but i mean. what an intimate look at life in cuba today. but the comment that my cuba on.

at our website the school. oris that we have been the ones in particular that have gotten your attention and you can see here us attorney general jeff sessions has been up pushing back at the public criticism of donald trump has been giving him

the number three story there is something we lead with the courts in zimbabwe has ever seen an opera in a god way that is part he is the rightful winner of the election al-jazeera talk is our website. claims that the military really put on a show of force to mark twenty seven years of men dependents from the soviet union . each week the parade feature hundreds of military vehicles and over four thousand personnel president petro poroshenko used the event to paint ukraine is playing a vital role in defending europe's borders he also criticized russia saying it was trying to ruin the e.u. u.s. national security advisor john bolton was at that parade he met with more shango in the to discuss the ongoing conflict in the eastern ukraine there has been a recent surge of violence in the area on thursday five ukrainian soldiers were

killed in the worst fighting in months rest in ukraine has been going on for years now and although things seem to have simmer down recently the situation is still very tense it all began in two thousand and thirteen when pro e.u. student protests force president victory in a coach out of office he was closely aligned with moscow his ouster spooked russia which successfully annex crimea from ukraine in two thousand and fourteen the russian separatists then seized large parts of two eastern regions of ukraine fighting there is killed more than six thousand four hundred people despite international efforts to end the tensions there the rebels in ukraine continue to accuse each other of violating the current cease fire. john herbst is the director of the eurasia center at the atlantic council and former u.s. ambassador to ukraine he joins us from washington d.c. appreciate your time very much so john bolton's presence at that parade what does that say to you it says that the u.s.

government stand strongly with ukraine is that fights russian aggression and done boss and more broadly against all of ukraine. i had a difficult time hearing you there so the the rhetoric is from so i repeat it. no i think the viewers heard but i appreciate that very much that they're what i was going to ask you so this this push to to say that they are vital to the security of the european union how much weight does that carry well what is vital is that russia is committing aggression in europe it tried to change borders in georgia by war in two thousand and eight it is doing it now again in ukraine since two thousand and fourteen this is a very serious danger to european security and the russians need to be defeated in ukraine was going on don't bosses not local separatists a russian led finance a war russian soldiers are fighting russian officer in charge russian money and

russian weapons or is the root of it and if moscow thinks and get away with aggression in ukraine as it got away with aggression in georgia we will see russian aggression elsewhere it seems as though they are getting away with it. well not so much the russians are surprised that ukraine has fought back and that the war has become a stalemate ukraine has stopped russia from going further into ukraine and russia is paying a price because the united states and the e.u. have put down serious sanctions on russia for its aggression those sanctions cost the russian economy anywhere from point five percent point five percent of g.d.p. per year to one percent of g.d.p. per year it's affecting people close to putin and many people in russia realize that this is not good for russia eventually russia will withdraw from done boss. i was just going to say how is this going to be resolved this stalemate but you think that the persistence of ukrainians will pay off yesterday with the with the

support of the united states and the e.u. and other european countries ok you know we have it it hasn't really been in the headlines very much that the last two years when it first happened but tell us just how we're looking at these pictures of this awful destruction how that hasn't been on the ground this fighting for people who live in the russian occupied territories of done boss for people who live in the rest of ukraine near those territories it's hell on earth when they're shelling every day scores of shelling every day the kremlin is responsible for most of it but not all of it and of ukraine suffers casualties every week i don't think it's a coincidence that five ukrainians died yesterday because the russians want to send a message about independence day but russians are suffering casualties too but since the kremlin law is to its people and says its soldiers are not fighting there

they hide those casualties from their own people mr ambassador we really appreciate your time and your insight very much ambassador john harp's thank you my pleasure thank you. the mass exodus of migrants from venezuela is building towards the refugee crisis in the mediterranean that is a stark comparison coming from the united nations growing numbers are falling economic meltdown and political turmoil in venezuela threatening to overwhelm neighboring countries alison serapion he is in the army chalk a border crossing between colombia and ecuador so what is happening where you are at that crossing alexandria. well we shall remain those. that have expected me in the middle of the night the ecuadorian government spends thirty two buses for the go crossings like this one where we are to pick up business where lines of migrants that were stranded here with or without

a passport they were picked up on these boxes and they're being brought to the border where the final destination for many of the migrants is it is easier for them for the weekend for them to find a job there. in contradiction with the day restrictions that's where they're put in place just days ago they decided to try and help them to do to move them across ech weather and to get to their due in time for the rest fixed take place take effect and through. on saturday but take a look at what's happening with the situation here at the border once. but there's just hours ago. on a bitterly cold morning the finish when migrants are trying to catch a ride to the ecuadorian border they've been traveling for two weeks from foot or in the back of trucks hoping to reach their final destination and before new

immigration restrictions take effect from saturday. back to you why do a former law student says the restrictions should be lifted going to help them a whole minute on we are not regular immigrants we're just. placed by the dictatorship that has kidnapped our country kids are dying of hunger the elderly for lack of medicine and the young who should be the main engine of the country a leaving penniless. yet south american countries are making it harder for venezuelans to enter into faith in their countries in the early august their first declared a state of emergency when twenty thousand migrants arrived to its border in four days then began requiring a passport to let them in this has left many stranded. and many i mean those are made it to the border with her husband and five year old daughter but unlike bears her passport is about to expire. they told me i can't pos it knocked me down how can my husband and daughter leave without me what am i to do i tried to renew

my passport for two years before we left it wasn't possible. ecuador on but this man office says she filed a challenge to ecuador's decision is. demanding protective measures for these people based on our constitution and humanitarian law crime and we hope the judge will and the state session. for those stuck here there is some help nurses provide free shots for children in need to fix scenes there are tents to spend the night in even a day care. but most migrants are deciding to continue their journey despite the new measures daily arrivals at this former crossings have gone down from forty five hundred a day to less than five hundred and while some might be remaining in colombia the great majority are taking the risk of crossing illegally while hundreds are now walking through ecuador others get stopped trying to be in denial of them or if

there's no other way we'll have to pass illegally we can't stay here and we can't go back there's no life left in venezuela none with no end in sight to the economic crisis back home in its will and will continue to migrate well the countries in the region will need better solutions to cope with this ever worsening crisis. else under this is a obviously a regional crisis that requires the entire region to deal with it that this particular regional body alba ecuador says they're leaving that regional body why. well because. essentially couldn't. have been if it was created by the late president chavez spearheaded by the hague. ecuador in process to withdraw from this organisation out of frustration they say

because they don't see there's any political will and then it's well that's right and so the deal with this situation. xs it's very nice to have but also to deal with the crisis in the country in a way that could be back sound that relates the brings to the i proved in the country and there could be a quick government believe the only way to reduce the number of people that are leaving the country. now and other countries in the region are looking for alternative ways to start dealing with. this issue and for a coordinated matter which they probably should have been doing even earlier but it has been quite difficult especially because the business does not record i'd wager next monday and tuesday will be the first meeting migration of three people and whether they would get to do that all right alexandra robbie at a live for us on the economy ecuador border thank you now but us a new man is

a latin american analyst and c.e.o. of a special kind of political risk consultancy says venezuela's economic crisis because this president gerald may lose support among his socialist base and the military. in the ruling coalition was always sort of a mixture of parties you had like military and nonmilitary you had some you know former socialist and communist and ideologues the ideologues have a long time have parted ways with him some have even joined some of the opposition coalitions and even the ones that he did manage to keep you know the you have a lot of infighting one of the aspects that will also erode military support for him is the getting away of the arbitrage opportunity of all the different currency exchanges by sort of devaluing and trying to bring together the different currency exchanges he actually uses one of the main ways of illicit finance that has caught

loan out quite illicit finance that has kept the military going which is foreign exchange arbitrage so. says that we expect that you know the inflation will continue to spike possibly even over the one million percent that the i.m.f. said the exit is will continue to spike and the question is you know will the will some a greater parts of the military. you know rebel against him the economic crisis is forcing sundin insulins to take desperate measures just to feed their families are on line is this is how poor people are willing to go to survive.

do you. doesn't that fish him any. shred of a little rubber suit you know notion workers of america and remember your competitors are pretty friendly. to miss universe. where the simple because of their parents or their lab where they. will be very nice everyone at. least somebody i'm not going to meet at a party going to see her last i see. you soon see a quarter. i lost in wonder if the gas house sees we don't get these d. v d v d c c eight you want out.

some venezuelans or even turning to scavenging and reverse for valuables al-jazeera captured some of those rare moments when something of value was found more often than not though it is a first listen devore you can see the pictures on our website al-jazeera dot com. so let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world turkey's foreign minister has warning a military solution in the syrian province admitted would be a disaster and made the comment after meeting the russian foreign minister and moscow syrian government forces are sending reinforcements to surround and live the last remaining rebel help province the military has been on the move in neighboring hama and aleppo the government is also dropping leaflets urging people not to

resist meanwhile negotiations with rebel groups are said to be happening in saudi arabia is reportedly seeking eleven billion dollars in international bank loans to fill the hole left after it postponed listing its state oil company around co a report by the financial times said riyadh is now shifting its focus to other forms of financing the share sales and aramco had been expected to raise about one hundred billion dollars far less than the two trillion originally hoped for the funds are key to crown prince mohammed bin solomons economic reform plans to help reduce dependency on oil and also cut debt south africa has some of the top u.s. diplomat in the country to discuss president onil trump's tweet a land reform it's disappointed by washington's failure to use diplomatic channels south africa has accused trump of fueling racial tensions after he said land is being seized from white farmers and many of them are being killed trump said he'd

ask a secretary of state to examine the policy when a south africa's biggest farming organization says killings are at a twenty year low former south korean president park and pace expected to spend an extra gear in prison after prosecution appeal the court ruled that her sentence should be increased by five months that means she'll be in prison for twenty five years and april souls' high court found part guilty of several corruption charges including bribery and that followed a scandal which forced her from office in two thousand and thirteen. firefighters in germany are working to put out a fire that's the size of about five hundred football fields privileges in the southwest of the capital where land had been evacuated local police warn that it will take some time to get the fire out because of unexploded munitions that have been buried in the forest since world war two. hurricane lane has reached y.-e. bringing with it heavy rains emergency teams have warned people to expect flooding

and landslides in some places like the island of oahu the hurricane has been downgraded but it's still packing strong winds schools and universities have been closed and there are emergency shelters that are ready to take race and his update from honolulu let's give you an update on conditions here in honolulu right now we've seen the wind intensify at times the search been growing for hours here the rain's been on and off we're getting a break from it right now but this system is slowed down a bit and that means the worst of conditions from hurricane lane we will feel those here for quite some time across the island chain though we've seen severe flooding that a result of driving range as well as a bit of storm surge the winds knocked down power lines so you've got some without power here and it's a situation that's going to continue for the next couple days here this is a huge and slow moving storm at this point here once the rain begins in earnest we expect to see it for one word to thirty six hours if that's the case

we're going to see severe flooding in some of the low lying areas officials are warning those who are writing this to make sure they have enough food water and medicine for fourteen days it could take teams a full two weeks to get into some of those hardest hit areas. all right lee has been following the storm and people's reactions to it on social media right it's trending in the west coast the united states and of course and hawaii it obviously is a very serious storm but people are trying to have a little bit of fun with it too so just how bad will it be well you can always consult this weather is just hang in here if the coconut still means it's calm outside if it's moving it means it's windy and then if the coconut is gone it means there's a hurricane so you can check back on my twitter page tomorrow to see if it's still there and in the coming days as the storm moves through now apparently in hawaii you're also supposed to leave your shoes outside when you go inside jeanne posted this saying we take or we refuse rather to take our shoes and flip flops indoors so

here's what hurricane prep for my hawaii friends looks like now on instagram people are using the hash tag hurricane lane and hawaii hurricane to share videos and photos of preparations and the rain damage and on snap chat people are sharing videos using a special story and filter for the occasion take a look i really believe we're going to. see this. on the brink of. that south. it's coming north. not only perkins on its way. i. pray for the state of hawaii. yeah i think we'll be feeling the effects through the weekend there's no water left cars full.

blown through her keenly. was two three. if you still have power and you're watching us from hawaii dusun and pictures of course stay safe but send the pictures if you can of the rain or the shelves like in the grocery store that we just saw as always you can write me directly at leo hardy. and kalia coming up right now if you're watching us on facebook why we're going to show you how one woman in nigeria is turning trash into cash and she is thriving also ahead on the news spread in sport is the dominance of one team turning people off german football first though a look at some global weather.

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am. i going to fit those we're talking about in the sports world today thanks for self well by in munich will kick off their efforts to win a seventh straight german title later this friday their dominance is causing some concerns that the blunders league is losing its global appeal well a buy in will have a new manager in charge for the game against hoffenheim nico is taking over from

the retiring poncas by in one last season's championship with five games to spare and finished twenty one points clear of second place shall well by end of one the german league a record twenty eight times with annual revenues of close to six hundred million dollars they are the world's fourth richest club know the german team is in the top ten their closest financial rivals obduracy dortmund who are ranked twelfth well earlier i spoke to german football broadcaster nico he says fans have been staying away from much as in germany which is also undergoing some soul searching after their world cup knockouts. i honestly think it does and you can see it actually in germany already less people came to the matches last year less people attended the measures which is not a good sign especially put a bullet in the end it always was basically solid any stadium all the time and the bully a somehow in a vicious circle at the moment because. by it is just getting stronger and stronger

they actually weaken their points on purpose by by play of the best players so by and just get stronger and get between the rest of the bullets they get they have to buy and get bigger and bigger and that doesn't only mean that teams can compete in a title race but it also means they can compete in europe and that is a big problem because if you want to raise awareness raise interest all over the globe which you need is success in the european cup and european competitions and besides player no t.v. was able to compete in europe and let's be honest and start month into doesn't thirty in my opinion german football heavily over reacted to what happened there definitely was disappointing especially the performance itself not only the outcome . but it's hard to tell what the adjustments are going to be because germany still has very very few it work in you system there's still young players coming up they're still workless players and tony cause money annoy and all these guys so i

got a few of germany's a bit over reacting to the situation and might come up with the wrong conclusions and the wrong ideas what were just. well let's see what lights a quick hash tag blunders league it comes through on this alex b. has drawn a graph the illustrates bonds financial superiority each of those players averaging about twenty three million dollars more worth than the next most expensive same and then this from goal. even joshua kimmage the defender admits the bundle you get can get a bit dull with bind winning the league by twenty points every season just let a few more goals josh and across the pond radio in the us going to be interesting to see if those plucky upstarts from munich are going to be able to make a run at the title being a bit ironic i think that well you can get in touch with us using the hash tag a.j. news grids or tweet me on a race car will have the latest on the starts of the poems league

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hello and welcome and you're watching algis there live from london also coming up calls for peace as about ways top courts confirms president my god was election victory dismissing the opposition's fraud complaint. international condemnation after an airstrike kills more children in yemen the country branded the world's most dangerous place to be a child. on the street john morrison. gets yet another prime minister after malcolm turnbull becomes the latest victim of the cutthroat world of history and politics. donald trump's week appears to have got worse u.s. media says federal prosecutors in the united states have granted immunity to alan wise old bird he's a long time chief financial officer of the trump organization weisel board has already been called to testify that's into the inquiry into michael cohen that's

president trump's former personal lawyer cohen pleaded guilty on tuesday to campaign finance violations this comes as trump stepped up his feud with the attorney general jeff sessions saying he must investigate corruption of among the president's perceived enemies. ok let's get more on this from washington d.c. where a will be speaking to bruce fein a former us associate deputy attorney general thank you very much for talking to us today kelli first to talk about. why silverberg being granted immunity how significant is this in the case in the cohen case and perhaps the knock on effect to trump. well it's significant in at least two respects first of all it is an absolute crime for a corporation to make any contribution to a political campaign they can't spin one cent providing that assistance directly to

a candidate and so granting immunity based upon the public record that seems as though substantial sums were paid from the trump corporation to pay off or to reimburse mr cohen for payments made to these porn stars or the playboy bunny for the purpose of influencing the outcome of the election so that being a campaign contribution and that is what basically muster cohen has already pled guilty to the corporation is equally guilty and those who operate the corporation you grants immunity because under the united states constitution unlike in great britain there is a so-called fifth amendment that enable someone to remain silent in the face of questioning if they believe an answer could incriminate themselves or their close company in crime but by granting immunity now they will compel

a complete confession of whether and how in the circumstances in which these payments were made but there's a second element here that comes into play it appears from what mr cohen has said that the corporation was paying phony invoices that were disguised as legal services when in fact they were campaign contributions legal services payments can be deducted as an expense on an income tax form by a corporation but a campaign contribution that is illegal cannot so it may well be that with the grant of immunity the corporation will also incriminate itself and mr trump in an income tax a crime namely knowingly deducting. it's that you knew was a campaign contribution and was not an expense so what you're saying or are you saying that this case can now go much further than just the pavement to those alleged the alleged payment to those two women and the current case and can become

much bigger if so should the administration be more concerned about what can be revealed will of certainly it can be and especially now it's just it's tax it's tax fraud basically by one of trump's companies and remember this is in the context of a president who has been insistent on concealing his tax returns going back for many years despite the fact that tradition is been that presidents do reveal tax returns so this may create even more pressure to come forward in disclose whether or not there are other years and other payments that were made that were illegal under the internal revenue laws and i expect that pressure will climb and certainly americans of all sorts who feel compelled to be exacting in paying income taxes will not feel comfortable if the president is cutting corners on that score ok i'd like to now. ask you about this exchange between jeff sessions that's the u.s.

attorney general and donald trump and trump is now asking him to investigate his perceived enemies softer previously criticizing him will this have any impact in the way jeff sessions as you know as you have worked and the attorney general's office before will this impact in the way he thought he will be operating or conducting his own investigations. well this in the investigations begin if you have credible evidence that a crime has occurred there's nothing other than an assertion by mr trump that there is credible evidence that a crime has occurred there was at the time of those the emails but that was investigated the case was closed and with regard to this basic idea that the president who doesn't know anything about the law should be dictating what the department of justice investigate really is outrageous now i served about twelve

fifteen years in the department i was there at the time of watergate and the idea if the president of the united states gave an order to investigate someone for political purposes there would be nobody in the department of justice who would comply they would all quit or say i'm not doing that because the department is to pursue justice not political vendettas and that's what i think would happen if the president ordered mr sessions or his deputy or anybody else to begin an investigation of miss clinton or mrs clinton or the f.b.i. my view is what happened in watergate with the attorney general and deputy attorney general they would all quit and there would be an immediate disaster i think trump's presidency would be soon ended bruce fein former deputy u.s. the pharmacy u.s. associate deputy attorney general thank you so much great to get your thoughts. well the family of u.s. republican senator john mccain says he's topping all treatment for brain cancer

mccain announced that he had the disease last year and his family says he's quote surpassed expectations for his survival the eighty one year old mccain has been a vocal opponent of u.s. president donald trump and he's also a military veteran who spent years as a prisoner of war in vietnam. to zimbabwe now where the president emerson man of god is calling for unity after the country's top court confirmed him his disputed election a when the main opposition party challenge the results saying the july thirtieth election was rigged in favor of money gaga that led to violent street protests but in a unanimous decision the constitutional court found the vote was free and fair. the good things that the applicant is to please before. the.

direct. sun. and critical if you do. their duty regularities that he alleges monti the election approaches might be existed you know that with me. over the ability of these irregularities. president my god well welcome the decision on twitter saying i want to get in we iterate my call for peace and unity above all now since my door is open and my arms are outstretched we are one nation and we must put our nation first let us all now put our differences behind us it is time to move forward together. a lawyer for the opposition says there are still questions over the legitimacy of the vote. ultimately they're.

going to have. to come up with. but these serious. issues. as our correspondents are with us or has more from outside the courts and her are. just. lions only gave general allegations nothing no proof no evidence that the election was rigged he declared innocent and the winner of the july thirty polls to what happens next according to the constitution he has to be sworn in within forty eight hours the swearing in ceremony will happen on sunday at the national sports stadium in harare was the way forward for the opposition the m.d.c. and they think that on wednesday the national council is going to meet and decide the way forward they think either be political which could involve including the regional body. the united nations to come in and intervene they have been.

on the first of august when opposition supporters were angry with the results as a little on the street the silence that erupted after the state some people six people were killed by soldiers so some people are wary of are going back on the streets they've also said they haven't quite ruled out the possibility of a power sharing deal with the rulings on the pier party that of course has to be discussed in the national council meeting that have been weighing say. they have no plans. according to them they say they won this election and it was three and. a saudi led panel investigating a legit war crimes in yemen is they accused of lacking credibility and independence the human rights watch criticism has emerged as yet another airstrike raises questions about the targets of the coalition that the rebels say at least thirty were people were killed in an airstrike near the data and at least twenty of them were children alan fisher has been monitoring the situation from neighboring djibouti. civilians again the think tim's after saudi led coalition air strike in

yemen. really interact with the fighters say at least thirty one people including women and children have died in that attack on their vehicles in the western province of editor although some sources say the number of dead is lower. dead children and women are disgusting crime. victims were trying to escape a camp in which the coalition says was being used to launch missiles. they hit us while we were on the road this little boy survived but it's just two weeks since another thirty coalition air strike hit a school bus that killed forty children and eleven adults in what saudi arabia declared to be an appropriate military action it is promised to investigate. as more theorems prepare to weep over their children's graves the charity save the children estimates an average of one hundred forty children have been killed every

day since the beginning of the circulate coalition strikes against these if the united nations will not conduct their own investigation.