in the southern suburbs of tripoli the armored groups that have the support of the you and backed government of national accord have retreated to the city center random shells have a strike everywhere here a rocket penetrated the ceiling despite this terkel turkey says his family was lucky they were gathered in another room when their architected saw. everything shattered into pieces and smoke was stored banned for the night when everybody was screaming my biggest concern is look for the kids and get them away. civilians have been killed or wanted by stray rockets during the past week but it is not known exactly who was firing then and rival on with groups battling for control of the area are accusing each other of being behind the attacks. armored groups have been fighting for control of the capital. the tripoli base the

government does not seem to be strong enough to rein them in. and his family are blaming the government for not doing enough to protect them but with lawlessness and chaos in libya there are fears that civilians will continue to be targeted. tripoli. we've got a lot more to come here at al-jazeera including the guatemalan pharmacist struggling to revive land destroyed by volcanic ash and from nothing to twenty six million now new york scientists have revived this it is doing going on step up healing. through tranquil radiant can you. can free to use and if any should go until it. have been in austria in the last twelve hours to say

to see some beautiful thunderstorms wandering around you get an idea from this little circulation that big mass of white is the sun's to this effect slovakian it's apparent in germany too but to get fifty millimeters in the international airport in just one hour suggests a bit of flash flooding and it's not going anywhere very quickly either is all part of a little slow moving frontal system which is probably the most major thing in europe at the moment and ahead of it is a ton of warm air coming through northern germany back towards the low countries high twenty's it's woman still still in spain and portugal says to madrid it's hasa down in the southwest corner that might generate a shower certainly a little bit of cloud but the main focus the big showers could be the same areas such as down through croatia almost towards northern greece news there for the next couple of days even warnings slowly east was but not really leaving austria at all so that's the action in europe in the mediterranean is generally find there's a circulation of a breeze which makes the biggest difference and although it might bring

a shower two to morocco it seems not particularly likely but that direction main wind means in russia back to cool twenty four but because you're drawing some warmth of the interior in tunis would back up to a hot thirty eight. the way the sponsor. use. to music has brady. has cracked down. the targets the activists who fought for democracy. five years. china's democracy experiment on al-jazeera.

to take a look at the top stories. decision to jail train boys. who were found guilty of possessing state secrets it was sentenced to seven years in prison the journalists say they were trained by the police. a state of emergency. government in libya after a week of fighting in the capital at least forty one people have been killed in and around tripoli one hundred others were injured including many civilians almost four months after. progress has been made to form a government this is the scene live from the iraqi parliament in baghdad to begin its first session since the election in just

a short walk eleven political groups have agreed to create an alliance. that china's president xi jinping has promised african business leaders that investment doesn't come with political strings attached he was speaking ahead of a major summit. ended deepening ties between china and africa president she says beijing sakal belsen road initiative could bring both sides common prosperity but there is concern that chinese investment might be saddling the poorer countries in africa with too much debt adrian brown has more from dating china has been investing in africa at a blistering rate africa is important to china because in the past africa of course has and remains rich in the resources and minerals that china needs to fuel its economy but now in recent years china has become a customer a customer for chinese loans these are loans that are used to pay for the vast

infrastructure projects we are seeing in countries like south africa nigeria and kenya to name but a few but the problem is a lot of these loans come with some pretty tough strings attached the i.m.f. says that it now believes a third of countries in africa and now having trouble repaying these loans will china says a lot of this debt is not debt that's the result of chinese loans it's the result of borrowing from other lenders a lot of african leaders also say that actually china treats africa as an equal partner and the chinese investment has been responsible for rising prosperity and more jobs but there is no doubt that the issue of debt is of concern to a number of countries and debt will almost certainly feature on the agenda of this summit also likely to be discussed is president xi jinping signature economic policy the one bill one road policy this is the president's grand plan to revitalize and expand ancient trade routes from china through central asia the

middle east europe and of course africa but a number of african countries will be worried that signing on to this deal will simply mean more dead. all right we have seen sally kohn such you now there's a financial analyst and see rich management and that's in place cool advisory firm he's joining us now from the kenyan capital nairobi and ali thanks for joining us and given that china is the biggest single investor of african infrastructure how would you characterize the relationship between african countries and china well i think you've got to look back twenty years ago when china really came on the african scene and for about ten years it's been the largest trading partner for the continent and actually the cumulative trade is greater than the e.u. than the u.s. and others put together so it's a very very big player but as your report was saying it's real worries now

about truck diplomacy we've seen what's happened to the hambantota port in sri lanka where the chinese have taken it for ninety nine years because the sri lankans couldn't make that infrastructure pay and there's a worry on the continent that this infrastructure has been inflated in price and is highly unlikely to make a return on investment that is necessary for these countries to get in order to pay back the debt indeed dominoes already beginning to fall so well you know i was going to also you actually further what do you think the president she's where to african business leaders who he met with just before the official official start of the summit when he said that chinese investment in the african continent does not come with political strings attached what does that mean and who does that actually favor. that's that's an interesting point that they're always they they make two

points no strings attached and we won't we won't interfere in your internal affairs but i think you're seeing a change of tone a change of voice from seeing playing it's a bit behind the curve i know he's sacked his propaganda chief last week but i think the looking to recalibrate the language that they're using until now i think you know these loans these big ticket infrastructure loans have largely favored the elites governments in power and what we're watching on the continent is a very dynamic situation developed just over the border in uganda we've had the situation with bobby wine in prison was the veiny and i think increasingly the better or the leadership on the continent is not looking such a good bet especially when you want the african citizen to pick up the tab and the african citizens increasingly queering some of these projects and increasingly it's becoming becoming very obvious that many of them are white elephants and i think

a lot of folks are now beginning to worry i think there is the future of siena african relations is going to depend entirely on how china manages this debt situation a debt situation which is spiraling out of control and this is why western powers that be have been nosing around we've had to raise the main town merkel in town last week who revisited president trump not to long ago it's because they can sense the opportunity and they can sense the problem. with at least forty percent of the low income countries on the continent teetering on the edge of distress as per the i.m.f. how do you think they are going to respond then to china's request for their inclusion in this one belt one great initiative which china has huge plans for. i think you know obviously this is an overarching vision a chinese vision and i think you know countries who want to participate we're

trying to have to find some way of of aligning themselves with this project but you know wherever you look today a lot of what's been already put in place is simply not justified this is infrastructure built for twenty years down the road paid in the now and a lot of these lesser developed countries simply will not be able to afford it so what we're looking at is the redux of what we saw in the one nine hundred ninety s. the question is is china going to play and i.m.f. structural adjustment role or is it going to be far more benign and be a little bit like santa claus which is what ultimately our leaders think china is all right. good to see you again thank you now follows in guatemala are struggling to make ends meet two months on from a volcanic eruption that destroyed much of their crops as david meserve reports now from. failed after failed is still blanketed in a thick layer of ash and rocks. the rich black soil on the side of the stall kaino

in guatemala is normally the stuff of farmers' dreams but on the ground knows firsthand that what the volcano can provide in bountiful harvest it can just as quickly take away the flag of volcanoes deadly eruption in early june dumped tons of rocks and ash onto his field the twenty eight year old was counting on his corn harvest to feed his young family for the coming year but all was destroyed. a thought. that they had to think that. there was a layer of ash or thirty centimeters deep that was super hard like cement so all of that well it's off now because we've tried our best to work the ground but this corn won't give us anything like this plant here no cob no nothing. the rep sion of killed hundreds of people a few kilometers north of the scene of the disaster ash and volcanic rocks not only

damaged thousands of hectares of corn and beans but also cash crops such as vegetables coffee avocado and fruit trees ronald is just one of fourteen thousand smallholder farmers who lost their crops after june's volcanic eruption these people are already some of the country's most vulnerable and now they say they need help. in the highland town an hour away government help is starting to arrive guatemala's ministry of agriculture is providing shovels machetes and other tools to thousands of farmers official say that those who lost all their subsistence crops will also receive food assistance for up to three months. this is the agriculture ministry is first response but soon will be providing new coffee plants will also be giving away seed so farmers can replant their fields but these are medium term plans it will take two or three years to be able to recover these crops . in the meantime family is relying on public

donations in order to survive. their year had begun with such promise his family rented extra land and planted all the seeds that saved from previous year's harvest in the hopes of getting ahead now they have nothing to show for their efforts. paying for corn means buying one hundred to two hundred pounds every month depending on the size of your family so you could be paying around fifty dollars a month for corn but often you only make twenty dollars a week. for the money doesn't go far enough. despite the setback his family are determined to get through the year ahead he and other farmers here have faith that the same volcanic ash that killed this year's harvest will help produce a bumper crop next year david mercer al-jazeera and the department of. what amounts . to people have been shot during anti-government protests in nicaragua. by unidentified gunman in the capital. tensions the mounting between pro and

anti-government factions for months president recently it's spelled the u.n. human rights mission after i explained his government. crackdown on protests as activists say three hundred people have been killed in the armrest since april. brazil's president says hundreds of years of history have been destroyed in a massive fire at the national museum the two hundred year old building in rio de janeiro was engulfed in flames as workers tried to save some of the twenty million items inside they include human fossils and ancient egyptian it's a spokesman for the fog department said that efforts to fight the blaze were delayed because hydrants nearest the museum wasn't working. yemen's government has ordered a temporary halt to imports of luxury goods in an effort to prop up the struggling local a common a common me people in the city of agent have been burning tires and blocking roads

in protests against the country's worsening economic situation the yemeni reale has lost more than half its value since the saudi u.a.e. coalition began its offensive in twenty fifteen now oysters were once plentiful in new york city's waters then they virtually disappeared but now scientists are helping them make a comeback as kristen salumi now reports. long before lady liberty graced new york harbor its waters teamed with oysters sustaining generations of native american cabinet out in the water scientists along with volunteers are now attempting to return new york's waterways to their former glory as part of the billion oyster project in the fixed and hundreds it was tough to navigate the waters because there are so many i story it's over two hundred twenty thousand acres so this is a project that is native to new york's history. this site in brooklyn is one of

eleven where the project is attempting to recreate reefs with shells collected from local restaurants and baby oysters some from farms on the east coast others grown at a local school with the help of students by nineteen zero six new yorkers had a in every last oyster their reefs had been dredged up or covered in silt and the water quality was too poor for their regeneration it stayed that way until one thousand nine hundred seventy two in the passage of the clean water act which prohibited dumping sewage and waste into the harbor even now the waters aren't clean enough to eat what lives there but he always to reach have huge benefits for the local ecosystem. as i have a little superhero very tiny about they pack a punch and they really they provide such habitat for in the biodiversity of new york harbor nicholas jacobson helped make the metal cages that create the reefs and volunteered to help place them in the water the oyster slide in like a file cabinet so in the city there's not many options to really connect with

nature it's mostly concrete and steel. but this really gives an opportunity within the city to kind of connect with nature and. i guess just give back to the environment because we do take a lot and when it comes to the health of new york's waterways cultivating that connection may be just as important as cultivating oysters kristen salumi al-jazeera brooklyn new york. i. you know without time for us to take a look at the top stories to reuters journalists found guilty of illegally obtaining state secrets have been sentenced to seven years in prison by opposing me and. learn and char so who were arrested while investigating the death of ten men at the hands of me and my security forces the un has said some military general

should be investigated for genocide. you know this is unfair i want to say they are obviously threatening our democracy and destroying freedom of press in our country we will face the situation calmly and the best way we can we are afraid of nothing as we did nothing wrong nearly four months after iraq's parliamentary election and progress has been made towards forming a government a coalition of eleven political groups appear to have sufficient strength to elect a speaker and form a government actions are due to take place later today iraq's election was held in may but a manual recount held up the forming of a government un's the libya's un backed government has a credit state of emergency after almost a week of fighting in the capital tripoli at least forty one people have been killed and one hundred others were injured many of them civilians forces backed by the government of national accord have lost several important locations to

a breakaway faction armed groups are battling for territory near the city's only functioning airport. china's president xi jinping has promised african business leaders that investment doesn't come with political strings attached he was speaking ahead of a major summit aimed at deepening ties between china and africa china spent billions of dollars on the continent in recent decades working concern that some african countries are taking on too much ted the project has faced recent complaints that it saddles foreign countries with too much debt. two people have been shot during anti-government protests in nicaragua tensions mounted between pro and anti-government sides since saturday in the capital men i'll go before those president will take his decision to expel the un human rights commission. all right you know today those are the latest headlines i'll be back in about thirty one minutes but that's after who can china's democracy experiment. on counting the cost

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