and more refugees and migrants dying in the mediterranean whilst trying to reach europe we'll give you details of a u.n. report. in sports the former african player of the year who isn't quite managing to relive his former glories and cast. iraq's first parliamentary session since a disputed election in may is under way eleven groups have agreed to create an alliance it includes those loyal to shiite cleric. whose bloc won the most votes. or bodies group is also part of that coalition between them they have one hundred seventy seven members of parliament that gives them an outright majority and then opposition looks set to be high. mary's fattah alliance which includes many pro a rainy and former paramilitary fighters they secured forty eight seats in the election

but they can count on seventy two votes because of an alliance with former prime minister nouri al maliki these two books will control more than two thirds of the three hundred and twenty nine seats in parliament. as the director of the house of iraq iraqi expertise foundation think tank he's also a former advisor to the speaker of the of iraqi parliament and he joins us now live from istanbul us watching these proceedings pretty closely and with much interest we've seen this leading coalition. and the body is a good one. well and until now there is no clear vision about who will which which is the biggest block that it will make the iraqi government because everyone is saying that i have the majority i have rethink i can't talk to the kurds i can't i have the sunni inside and all of these things but the most important thing the most important thing is that until now we didn't

manage to have a real candidate or let's say only one could debate or the prime minister for the president and for the speaker it looks like there are a huge divisions inside the sunnis inside the shia and inside the kurds that until now didn't manage to have the right candidates for for those three major positions i think the the old m.p. that it will be the head of the session now will call for the candidates but the problem there is no majority so he will. by make it making it as an open session for about fifteen days to have the talks told to make talks about those three main positions that makes it sound like this is going to be quite a protracted process and could be out of a functioning government for some time to come. well yeah yeah and in two thousand ten lasts about eleven months and so we had

a government at that time but the most important thing now there are we have two players now two players on the on the iraqi ground the iranian and the americans at that time it was only the iranian in a way or another of the americans accepted that role for their own and now i don't think the americans will accept any role for the iranian inside iraq in a way in another they actually threaten everyone is that we can make some sort of blockage economical blockage just what we did in turkey to to iran and to everyone if the iraqi the next iraqi government will be closer to iran because it will help to her on to escape from the blockage from the economy and also to have the upper hand inside inside iraq and start to manipulate the financial issues to what supporting the militia and side iraq and maybe. the middle east has some some say this is quite a positive development what we're seeing out of these alliances here that these key

leaders have nationalist agendas that override any sectarian influences do you share that enthusiasm that iraq is on the right step now. yes definitely yes definitely yes it's now different it's a new era and the political process in iraq we are now seeing not a one united shout bloc we are seeing two blocks that they are asking the sunni and the kurds to join them would show you that we are the step we are actually going forward in the step forward in the political process now how the our leaders how the iraqi leaders can manage this new situation this is the most important thing but looks like it's not a one shot it's not only this session it's not only the coming days maybe you want to see so many changes in a few months the most important thing is that everyone saying if the iraqis next the iraqi government didn't have some sort of or solved government or let's say

some sort of a solved structure like the prime minister needs to do to speak english to have a ph d. and also to have some sort of a support from the international communities and also. other ministries other important ministries like minister of planning minister of oil minister of finance and minister of foreign ministry which means that this solved the government if it will be made maybe and i'm saying maybe it is going to save iraq ok if it is more. more structured by the extremists from the shia side it will be a problem and the same vice versa ok but kind of rocky is actually wait this long for the government to sort itself out because there's a myriad of problems facing the country not least for saying these protests over a lack of clean drinking water and no one able to actually deliver these. yeah you're right you're right definitely you are right linda but that's why i thing

most most of iraqi things is that the next government has so many problems that it should work professionally and also even the iraqi leaders and maybe i'm talking about so you don't they are not really want to engage to make the new iraqi government because they are actually seeing things differently is that ok let the iraqi government from the other side become an iraqi government and let's do all the demonstrations against them and try to form to make some sort of arrows and some some sort of acceptance from the iraqi. people against this government in about let's say one year after one year we can make the whole government it's a theory that iran can depend on. i'm not sure it's true or not but it looks like that the next iraqi government will have so many problems to deal with if there will be no profit in their work there will be so many things will happen to this to

this government has a lot riding on it many thanks for joining us there from istanbul. now one hours of every eighteen migrants who tried to cross the mediterranean this year has died that's according to the un refugee agency and with people smugglers now taking greater risks he says he says european leaders must do more to try to save their lives which are a case of the reports. these images of three year old alan curtis body shocked people around the world it was a reminder of the human cost of the syrian war and the refugee crisis three years on the dangers faced by other refugees trying to get to europe have increased a report by u.n.h.c.r. shows more than sixteen hundred people have died or gone missing while attempting to reach europe so far this year well the total number of people arriving in europe has fallen the rate of deaths has risen sharply particularly for those crossing by

the mediterranean sea in the central mediterranean one person died or went missing for every eighteen people who crossed to europe in the first half of twenty eighteen compared to one death for every forty two people he crossed in the same period last year dear reason the traffic has become more deadly he's the traffickers are taking more risk because there is more surveillance exists. cause god's on the air trying to get to coast it does cost them more to keep those people longer in their warehouse and their captivity the drivers of forced migration remain unchanged conflicts in africa and the middle east are forcing people to leave their homes the solution should not just be new up to europe to sort of lead us to be exemplary in its response but it's quite clear that it's already too late when the people are in need we need to work downstream in country first in country

of origin and that takes time despite information campaigns the more warnings through social media about the dangers they may face refugees feel they have no choice but to risk their lives crossing the mediterranean victoria gate and be out there. germany is co-hosting a conference with the you where nigeria and norway to bring attention to the humanitarian needs of millions of people living around the lake chad basin region includes the four countries bordering the lake cameroon chad and nigeria internal and cross border conflicts have led to the displacement of over two point four million people the u.n. says more than ten million people tell million vulnerable people need lifesaving humanitarian assistance and protection women and children are particularly at risk it also says a lack of jobs extreme poverty and climate change have worsened the problem. is the

director of the norwegian refugee council in office he joins us live from the conference and very good to have you with us i were talking about the world's forgotten crises i mean this must be up there amongst one of the most forgotten can you tell us a little bit about the situation around lake chad. it's definitely one of the most forgotten crises and also i would say one of the world's worst humanitarian crises today and as you just mentioned yourself there are over ten million people there are affected there are five million people who are malnourished or don't have enough food secure we've got in northern nigeria eight hundred thousand people that we can't even reach because of the situation you cannot go to the remote areas and looking at all of this you go to we talk about global acute malnutrition under five children and there are areas in nigeria again where these rates are up to fifty percent and the crisis threshold is at fifteen so the figures are staggering

a lot things are happening people are starting to move back but it's also it's not only about we talk about two point four million have been displaced but it's also about the host populations that really took the brunt of the burden when people started fleeing and cannot be left out so it is a multifaceted multipronged crisis that we have a movie talk about violence insecurity in this region what is the violence that blights. well there are different sources and this is again one of the most important things protection of people people do not have the rights of being subject to violence by groups by militias they. there's violence inside the camps and you also have a you haven't forgot that in many respects education crisis you haven't had education for a number of years people are unemployed youth are unemployed they hang around in big groups do not know what to do there's

a lot of drugs going around there also in a way gang violence are on a different number of levels and of course you can't forget that you don't have the freedom of movement you can't outside the local town to the areas you can't move if you do that you may be subject to abuse violence kidnapping and so so there is violence in many different levels and it doesn't really matter who subjects you to violence or abuse the thing is that the person has certain rights not to be subjected to violence now six hundred seventy two million dollars were made in pledges at a summit last year this year the u.n. says much more is needed all that still willing danas out. well we certainly hope so and one should look also at the fact that the money that would raise that the also come for this last year actually prevented a famine in the region but that conference was also you all almost only humanitarian looking at life saving projects now this conference in berlin is

bigger because we want to get the development actors also the going to work in the longer term to create an environment to create a resilient society so this time it's not only about the humanitarian unitary needs are still here but there we need also development actors to come in to work in a more long term basis and we hope there is still funding we just heard a pledge of forty million dollars from the norwegian government over the next three years and we surely hope that other governments will will come across also but it needs not only it's not only about pledging it's really about getting an interest or getting to get altered not into the humanitarian actors but the development actors see the situation start working to highlight the important work this been done by the civil society so there are many things that come together here have iman very interesting indeed to speak to thanks for shedding light on this part of the world. now brazil's president says hundreds of years of history have been

destroyed and a massive fire at the national museum a two hundred year old building in red has never held twenty million items including some of the region's best preserved human fossils and ancient egyptian artifacts jessica name has more. flames shot through the french windows and ornate iron balconies of this former nineteenth century palace. museum employees and art lovers watched in frustration. as firefighters try to say who rio de janeiro's national museum and in doing so preserved centuries of cultural and artistic history and we'll be you doctor. i just saw a piece of my history the house of the emperor where the emperor of the second of brazil used to live being destroyed i see the history of my country becoming ashes it has no price i am devastated. president michelle to mayor echoed that sentiment calling this

a sad day for all brazilians who have watched two hundred years work investigation and knowledge lost the fire began after the museum closed its doors on sunday evening eighty firefighters worked through monday morning to put it out. a fire department spokesman says they were hampered because two fire hydrants closest to the museum weren't working and fire trucks had to be dispatched to retrieve water from a nearby lake. good to him the question is showing injects a loss for the world the can never be recovered for the people of the building there's no way to get it back thankfully no one died but the loss can never be recovered and. even before the flames were put out there was anger among museum employees they blamed budget cuts by the government and a chronic lack of support. the national museums hundreds of rooms featured ancient

egyptian artifacts the largest collection in latin america and the oldest human fossil in brazil known as louisa the museum turned two hundred this year now twenty eight thousand will also be remembered for this devastating fire natasha going to aim al-jazeera. in a few moments rob will be hit with all the weather and that in the ahead on al-jazeera. a state of emergency has to close in libya after days of fierce battles between viable groups. and meet the japanese photographer who takes you back in time how he captures the present pulse preserving the poss. coming up in sport defending champion slain stevens turns on the style in one of the best rallies of the u.s. open so far. by

this guy knowing if. or off the coast of the italian riviera. hello again the fifth time food in the season's on its way to japan the third one similar coast to be honest now it was the biggest so far recorded but in open ocean you'll be pleased to hear you know as it gets to the closer closer to the smaller islands this is always giving fifty six kilometers per hour winds and forty five minutes that right it barely qualifies all those definitions as a typhoon but it is of course cities now are slowly weakening now it's code gebbie sustained winds actually around the center of the storm itself one hundred eighty kilometers per hour and he's had enough time to generate meta ways that could be a worry potential as it goes up its track two hundred fifty millimeters all more how ever there is some good news in this story it's track does indeed take it across coby kioto fairly rapidly up towards the car into the speed of movement

might be the critical thing here although the first range just started to appear in the not huge sixty four millimeters you'll notice it doesn't really start to affect the mainland just yet but within twenty four hours it will be there and there's the spin there of course it's going to go on the coast you just saw but look at the speed at which it passes it's the speed it could save the bacon it may not be quite as wet or windy for as long. the weather sponsored by cat time race. one of the best health care systems in the world my love is you never. trust with local doctors as the gatekeepers we have a good concept to catch people well makes you a better doctor but as the population ages what challenges does the u.k.'s national health service face that's a big problem of people in the interim a practice in drugs because of the stress of paperwork and juice financing the u.k.'s frontline on the people's health on al-jazeera. when people need to be

heard. what has been the refugio most told his lawyer it's not a normal life show and the story needs to be told we do stories that are in fact all suspect i testify in the law to make sure that the bad guys behind al-jazeera has teams on the ground to bring new documentaries and live news on air and online . and there again you're watching al-jazeera has a reminder of our top stories there has been widespread condemnation of myanmar

court's decision to jailed to avoid journalists while lone and chores so who were found guilty of possessing state secrets and sentenced to seven years in prison journalists say they were framed by police. china's president xi jinping has paid sixty billion dollars in financial support to africa and is hosting a major summit in beijing aimed at deepening ties but there's concern chinese investment may be saddling poor countries with too much debt. and iraq's first parliamentary session since disputed election in may is underway and eleven political groups have agreed to create an alliance that could give them a working majority coalition is made up of those loyal to influential shiite cleric . and prime minister. let's return now to our top story that seven year sentence for to reuters journalists in may and joining us here in the studio is giles trundled he's the managing director of the al-jazeera

english news channel good to have you here with us now is a news organization al jazeera knows only too well about its journalists being on trial was to response to this but it was sourced in so firstly i think it's a travesty of justice and it's shameful attack on media freedom we stand by reuters journalist colleagues and can condemn it we call for the immediate and unconditional release we ourselves as al-jazeera know something about this sort of attack on our media with how journalists ourselves imprisoned we have three of our journalists imprisoned for over four hundred days we launched an international campaign. to put it out there and basically say that journalism isn't a crime they were eventually part and then released after four. under days but there are still a journalist in prison in egypt from our sister channel al-jazeera arabic who's been in prison detained for over six hundred days without formal charge so we

call on not all situations like this on all the tax against media we condemn them one hundred percent effective our campaigns like ours where we spread the message that journalism is not a crime did that bring pressure to bear the bring the release of the journalists i think it did i mean it got a lot of publicity we had presidents we had politicians we had international human rights organizations n.g.o.s press freedom campaign activists and organizations and other journalists as well including colleagues from reuters who who joined us in the campaign to free al-jazeera staff and under the slogan journalism is not a crime you can't lock up people to conceal and cover whatever nefarious actions you're doing you know you can't put john this behind bars i want to comes to covering stories like the range of crisis in miramar which is pretty heavily restricted for international jenna's we do rely very heavily on local people but

i'll be at risk of putting these people in the line of fire making their work risky well that the supreme irony of this is that the two journalists have been imprisoned and yet for what you know for for apparently what their government is saying is a crime but the real crime was that was what they were covering they were covering the killing of ten. men and boys and it seems that the two journalists have got a tougher sentence than the killers so it's the supremum irony there that journalism is not a crime we need people to be reporting and to be a witness of what's happening in the world and to be reporting frankly and fairly on everything that's happening. society needs that but how much protection can local journalists get to expect from international media organizations well we i mean talking about al-jazeera we have a very rigorous risk awareness and risk self assessment. protocols that we

put in place and that's the most you can do we provide all of the safety that we can and the well being and the safety of our journalists whether they are staff will freelancers is of the most important but once they're out there in the field there is always a certain amount of. unknown really that you can't really count for because i feel a bit that the media is sort of under attack the world we need to look at america to see some of the greatest attack so this is a country that's supposed to be a leader of the democratic free world was very worrying when the president of the united states of america talks about a media being the enemy of the people and i am very worried that media in general is coming increasingly under fire both the profession and the practitioners of that profession becoming increasingly under attack you are having people who describe incredible journalism as fake news and conflating journalism to terrorism these are

hugely dangerous things to be doing and we completely condemn them just turned over into indeed speak to thanks for coming in to join us. now libya's u.n. backed government has declared a 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 injured most of them civilians forces backed by the government of national accord have lost several locations to a breakaway faction groups of battling for territory near the city's only functioning airport with reports from tripoli. has so long he's in mourning. a stray rocket killed two of his nephews when they were playing in this garden. they were fifteen and fourteen years old he said as. the boys were torn apart by the rock at their pleasure are scattered everywhere why

is that it just came down from the sky we don't know where it was launched from. but if the explosion was huge say eyewitnesses sure up near flow in all directions and damages everything seven days of fighting between rival armed groups has taken a heavy toll on civilians. the seventh infantry brigade from the city of hona and its allies from the city of misrata have recaptured civil as threat t.g. cloke asians in the southern suburbs of tripoli the armed 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 the thirty

three everything shattered into pieces and the smoke was stored ben's 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. in libya the fear is that civilians will continue to be targeted.

tripoli. yemen's government has ordered a temporary halt to imports of luxury goods in the attempt to prop up the struggling currency people in the southern city of aden have been burning tires and blocking roads in protest against the tyranny economic situation yemeni reale has lost more than half its. coalition began its offensive in two thousand and five meanwhile exiled yemeni president. is preparing to travel to the united states for treatment for a heart condition he's been living in saudi arabia since the war began promising struggling to make ends meet two months on from a volcanic eruption that destroyed much of their crops as they report some. field off the field is still blanketed in a thick layer of rocks. the rich black soil on the side of this volcano in guatemala is normally the stuff of farmers' dreams but knows firsthand that what

the volcano can provide in bountiful harvests it can just as quickly take away the deadly eruption in early june dumped tons of rocks an ash onto his field the twenty eight year old is counting on his corn harvest to feed his young family for the coming year but all was destroyed. athol. but i do think that. there was a layer of ash or thirty centimeters deep that was super hard like cement so all of the folk liable to get. it soft 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. they represent 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 because 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 and we both work on. and our goals are the money doesn't go far enough. despite the setback ronald and 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 the now go what amalek. take a celebrates its one hundred fiftieth anniversary this year as the capital of japan as one of the world's most modern cities then a country known for its inevitable technology we meet one photographer he uses a technique older than tokyo itself to capture the present preserving the past is

his story and his own words. my name is to the human one though i'm a photographer. so i think of my studio as a theme park where you can travel back in time i want to show everyone this is what it looked like back then. coming the camera lovers come here to see the origin of photography others come looking for something different from digital for us. this is the second oldest photographic technique in the world and dates back to the eight hundred fifty s. . it's what people used before film and it came here in the eighteenth sixty's. i just bought the cameras decoration but had examined and repairs. that made me want to shoot with it. but it's so exciting and.

this is more of a machine than a camera i can actually put it to work. would you like this method uses collodion solution which takes a month to prepare. a port on the glass plate soak it in silver nitrate solution in about five minutes the plate becomes the film. the models have to freeze for six seconds using a supporting device to keep your head still. i need to shoot and develop it right away before it dries everything has to be done while the plate is still wet you have to be fast luck is a part of this method too you might get spots on the photo and people prefer the look of imperfection because you can never recreate it. almost japan's wet plate photographs appear more rustic compared to other countries that's the look i'm trying to revive. a lot of young people come.