which have produced considerably more evidence than they have previously been able to do the message is the same from russia we have heard from the foreign ministry earlier which said once again we urge the u.k. side to switch from public accusations and information information manipulation to practical cooperation through law enforcement agencies the ministry of foreign affairs also says that the two suspects that have been named by the u.k. mean nothing to them they don't know who they are we also heard from your readership of who is an aide to the kremlin and he seems confused saying that he doesn't quite know what the british authorities are trying to do with all this info that's just being released he finds it rather confusing can't understand it so the russian response again did i deny deny well let's get the view now of charles shoebridge cheesey security analyst and former u.k. counterterrorism intelligence officer his life from london thank you very much for being with us on al-jazeera prime minister recently gave quite

a lot of details today in his statement how much of a bombshell was it all for you to hear me pointing the finger at russia's intelligence and military services and what do you make of the fact that it took them six months to identify the suspects. i suspect the suspects such as they've been named today were identified some time ago after all if we think about the actual investigation such as we know so far the material produced has been of a pretty basic nature. i agree with a correspondent it's a great deal more than we knew before today but nonetheless that information could have been obtained fairly quickly and i say that because for example how these suspects actually made some effort to avoid detection and subsequent investigation for example by coming to the u.k. not directly from moscow but via some intermediate airport for example many intermedia airports that would investigate his job very much more difficult indeed all that eventually had to happen amongst all the other investigative actions is

that the detectives would go to heathrow and access the c.c.t.v. the video surveillance there and sure enough one would have thought the vet one of the very first flights they would have looked up they found the suspects to match those insults pre and indeed it's in many ways such a pos investigator myself one looks at this very major crime and wonders at the sheer extent to which the suspects first of all the pits of acted quite incompetently for example in not succeeding in their mission and also discarding the novel wattle supposedly but also in not attempting to cover their tracks in any way so bear in mind this is been at least least a day media much in advance it doesn't come as much of a surprise all the time as you suggest is a surprise i hear a lot of skepticism in your comments and a lot of people indeed are wondering why it would russia risk so much to target a former spy on foreign soil. it may well be that russia is guilty of this and of course there is a motive as well as for other parties to have carried out this incident although

just before the world cup just before the russian elections and of course in such a brazen way even novacek itself of course points to russia and the person who organized this attack would have known of course but that doesn't mean to say that russia didn't carry out the attack it's just that even now even with this new evidence produced today the russians are correct in saying that actually you don't have the evidence yet to secure the russian state of caring so this doesn't mean they didn't cut it out or that i don't believe it is just that we have to wait and see what the evidence is after all the british police today haven't even stopped wish the real names of these people they don't actually know who they are and you've got the british government claiming very certainly that these are russians and furthermore that they are agents of the g.r.u. so what do you expect to happen next if anything i mean it's highly unlikely that they will be extradited to the u k. well i won't be extradited primarily or first of course because the british have said they're not going to request the expedition and the second reason of course is the reason behind out that russian by law can

extradite their own subjects but it would be difficult to extradite people that you don't have a name for anyway and it's a pity in many ways if of course the russian government is guilty of this crime one can understand that cooperation with the law enforcement bodies would be futile and indeed would perhaps even mislead british investigators but if indeed the russian state as such is innocent of this if indeed that's the case then it is a great pity that british investigators are not able to access the support and help of their colleagues in russia who would be to take this investigation further for example with the d.n.a. with the fingerprints and song which was that a british government and the british police haven't mention that i've got i'm sure that i probably do have and which of course they would need in the end the help of russian law authorities to actually identify who those forensic remains actually belonged to but it remains to be seen of course if there is no trial in this case it may well be that we never actually do get to hear the full extent of what the evidence is or perhaps it's not that the british authorities actually possess

because now that suspects have been named even though they're not their real names . of course is then open to the british government authorities to say that i can't release more evidence because to do so might prejudice a trial that my a tight place in the future even though as you suggest correctly that's unlikely to be the case very interesting on this thank you very much for speaking to us charles shoebridge showing us and from london. much more ahead on this al-jazeera news hour including after years of petitions and protests and israeli court decides the fate of a bedouin village in the occupied west bank. will tell you who the u.n. planes for human rights abuses in. and coming up in sports with peter we'll see how the economy cap and nike deal has been received by the u.s. president and people on the streets. the un's first yemen peace talks in two years have been delayed by twenty four

hours to friday a previous attempt to strike a deal between rebels and the internationally recognized government collapsed the un special envoy for yemen martin griffiths says he is trying to get the two sides to trust each other. building confidence between the parties so they can address issues together resolve issues through compromise concessions and. because of trust in each other confidence building measures a design partly to help build this trust through grievance on them to actually deliver some benefits to the people of yemen and probably to send a signal to the international community and people of yemen that something is happening again in like in any of the conflict desperately in need of a signal of. high court judges in israel have approved the demolition of a village in the occupied west bank the judges said there was no evidence to prove the buildings in qana where legal the bedouin tribes living there well originally

moved out of the negev desert more than five decades ago israel wants to relocate them to an area next to a landfill which advocates say is against international law but as smith has more from the village of qana lama. the community here economy and the occupied west bank of exhausted all legal avenues now by court order homes and importantly the school will be demolished the one hundred eighty children who go to that school now have to try and make arrangements to travel to other schools maybe an hour or two hours away the order is for the demolition of the homes it is not for the eviction of the people living in them so in theory the better when living here say they can come back and rebuild their homes but they will only be destroyed again by the israeli military and the solicitor victory is not about stopping the demolition it's about stopping the transfer but fighting against forced displacement transfer

and ethnic cleansing the danger here is can it's only the beginning of the ethnic cleansing of more than two hundred twenty five palestinian communities in the area of the west bank under full israeli control clearing out the better win from here will allow the israeli all farces to expand illegal settlement construction deep into the occupied west bank effectively splitting it into and that will make the viability of a contiguous palestinian state very very difficult to achieve so reading off from on this let's speak to you in london he's a professor of international relations relations at regent university thank you so much for being with us and we heard the israeli defense minister earlier today congratulate the high court judges and at the same time accuse a palestinian president the left and european countries of he proc recy offer their support for the people at this finish what is first your reaction to this high court ruling. well i think this is really isn't by the by this storm by the

powerful it's easy for a very strong country to exhaust all legal avenues and eventually everything it's a hundred and eighty people fifty something families after they lived there for four decades let's bear in mind it's generally in. the bedouin type was expected fellas in the one nine hundred fifty s. for me finis in the native there from the negev desert into will they leave no and of course you can't compare the power of the state to power for relatively poor types you know the israeli defense minister can celebrate by the end of the mobley it shows the bankruptcy of the occupation and they could have actually negotiated with with this type and the people of the tribe to move them to some somewhere which is livable instead what they offer them is either to live next to a sewage sewage plants or to are basically what is a landfill right

a place so this was not really you talk about moral bankruptcy and it's very interesting to hear a use that term i mean it looks like israel is going to expand settlements all the way across the west bank and you know other people will be affected by this do you think this is the start of perhaps israeli victim or palestinians from their land. well this happens all the time even then the another four hundred to put together for bedouins in the same place when they want to evict this this paper in the journal in. the confiscation of flint is ongoing the expansion or of certain meant in this case is the area of the one that's going to connect between jos a limit jerko and problem in my lair domain if this is part of a plan either i think it's on or because there is no of there is no peace process

all of the here is actually supports from from from the american administration in not doing anything to improve the conditions or move towards a peace process all stop the settlements so they feel empowered to do whatever they like so what is than the alternative if any for these people for these palestinian villages i mean the policy of forcibly transferring people from an occupied territory is considered a walk crime under international law can the palestinians turn to the international community for action or is that also a lost cause. well first of all it's no doubt a violation of the full geneva convention so that every international lawyer will will approve it so that it's but what we are going is an ongoing issue and the big issues is bigger than that is is trying to prevent a viable palestinian a palestinian state to prevent any chance of peace of peace process and in the

process of all of this there are more and more victims and in this case it's the jail in a try but in other cases other people that are not allowed to build their homes you know there are natural increase in population among the palestinians but then you everyone knows to get any permission from the easily or solar to use to build houses is next to impossible so it's just a probably would hear on another case another day but this is the only that it's to look at the policies that strike to expend the settlement make a palestinian viable palestinian state impossible and ensure that its one point to another israel can actually annexed large parts of the west bank in this consist the one area of jerusalem thank you for speaking to us and sharing your thoughts with as you see making a back professor of international relations at regents university. all right we are

getting a tape payout of us present donald trump's meeting and hosting coates i mean at the white house this happened just a few minutes ago he's covering a lot of topics let's listen in to what the two leaders had to say this investments in the united states buying a lot of equipment and a lot of military equipment in particular which we encourage that's jobs for the united states nobody makes jet spiders and all of the different components better than the united states we're way had been so over anybody. and that advancement is really been enhanced over the last short period of time we've given them a great incentive but we appreciate the big purchases that you've been making and frankly we're working very hard to bring some stability into the middle east yemen is a tragic situation when you look there's so many tragic areas in the middle east very hard it's a very hard thing to do very complex in a jigsaw puzzle but we're making big strides a red is

a very much different place from when i first took office the rand is in turmoil right now they were in total turmoil when i took office it was just a question of how long until they took over the entire middle east now they are just worrying about their own survival as a country and we'll see what happens with the rand whether they want to talk or not that's up to them not up to me i will always be available but it doesn't matter one way or the other we'll see what happens but iran is a much different place than when i took over the presidency i can say that for a lot of countries around the world the united states is stronger now than ever before we have the highest stock market that we've ever had if you invested in the stock market on average we're up over forty five percent of the various markets you have to be quite happy about that but i view it differently i view it is jobsite. it is a strong economy i view it as record setting unemployment we have unemployment that

are at the lowest levels that we've ever had and in particular with certain groups african-american asian hispanic they have the lowest levels in the history of our country so we've been doing very well and we appreciate the big investment and the confidence that you have in the united thank you very much. and. we just a minute ago you have an. i am i'm happy with the capital hearings i watched today for a little while i saw some incredible answers to very complex questions he's an outstanding intellect decent an outstanding judge he was born for the position i heard as long as ten years ago people were saying he should be a supreme court judge i didn't know him at the time but i was hearing from a lot of people friends of mine from washington and other places saying that brett kavanaugh should be a supreme court judge someday and i'm honored that i gave him the chance i've

watched his his remarks and watched his performance i've watched his statements and honestly they've been totally brilliant i think that the other side is grasping at straws and really the other side should embrace it because you're never going to find better in terms of talent or intellect than what you have in brett kavanaugh and survivor i am telling god what is the lie i'll start if i was already married. and charlie probably don't know the book human on the buggy the book means nothing it's a work of fiction already general mattis has come out very very strongly and i think you know general mattis he does what he wants to do is a very independent guy he was insulted by the remarks that were attributed to him and he came out with a very strong statement i assume you read it i hope you read it last night general john kelly the same exact thing he said he was insulted by one. they said he's right here he's insulted by he couldn't believe what they said then and he put out

a very very strong statement and many others and other statements are coming out the book is a work of fiction if you look back at woodward's past he had the same problem with the president he likes to get publicity sell some books but we have done more as a administration than any other administration in already less than two years it's incredible we will soon be approaching two years but there's no administration probably and even you folks have generally acknowledges that has done more work when you look at tax cuts regulation cut supreme court justices the court system generally and so much more even if you look at the health care programs that were passing and all of the things we've done we're saving social security the democrats will destroy social security we're saving medicare the democrats wanted to screw medicare you look at what they're doing they're going to destroy medicare and we will save it we will keep it going we're making it stronger we're making social

security stronger we're making our whole country stronger so. you have to do is look at the achievements but i was very honored when without my even knowing about it statements were put out by general kelly by general mattis highly respected people by everybody including yourselves and the book is a work of fiction it's a war and it really will if you look at it it was put out to interfere in my opinion at this time with the capital hearings which i don't think it's done because so many people have come out against it so many people who have been written about it said that i never said that rudy giuliani is another one who's very insulted by the book and what was stated in the book so we run we do run a strong white house has no question about it and we are doing things that nobody else has ever been able to do and our country is stronger now than it's ever been and in a very short period of time seven. hundred billion dollars being spent on the military

the next year seven six to seven hundred sixteen billion dollars we will actually be far stronger than we've ever been and that's what we need thank you all very much. from the u.s. president donald trump as he hosts the emir our current weight chef saba donald trump commenting there on a number of issues from the confirmation hearing of covenant as the next u.s. supreme court justice to the controversial book by bob woodward about his administration he also mentioned the u.s. economy of course touting his administration's achievements over the last year. also briefly mentioning the situation in yemen relations with iran again as he hosts the emir of kuwait share saba to the white house this happened just a few minutes ago let's see some more about this now to mahmoud share cowie who joins us here in doha on set he's a professor of conflict resolution at george mason university thank you very much

for speaking to us and being here with us. so as we've said a number of issues there that didn't necessarily have much to do with the current situation in the middle east his presence there quite important and interesting at this time because he's led mediation efforts to resolve the yearlong g.c.c. crisis what are you expecting to come out of his meeting with donald trump i think the significance of this summit hose two parts one is buy a lottery it is a number of women are going to be signed between kuwait and the united states in terms of trade security and all the fields of cooperation but what is more significant is the deal really in the end the mention of this summit this proves to me the kuwaiti mediation is still viable it's still on truck and i think we will see a new momentum start but they have to be much more went in the last year what makes you think that it's on track that something. can be a. factor is that imminent one later this month president

trump will try. a meeting of the security council about how to contain or how to deal with iran and he would like to mobilize all the arab nations including the world nations in the meeting number two he is also trying to work his diplomacy to world in a golf u.s. summit sometime in october with the hope that he can formulate what is going to be called the middle east strategic alliance including the six gold nations and jordan and egypt and the united states so this is probably the trajectory of what we are now looking. indeed they've been several reports about this alliance to basically counter iran's expansion in this region but given the current climate the current tensions between these various gulf countries the g.c.c.

crisis was mentioned of course and qatar being boycotted by jerry again for the last year can it is a kind of conducive to create such an alliance when i think there was a diplomatic opportunity in april when. the white house was pushing for this golf summit he wanted me getting reports now my producer telling me in my ear that this gulf us summit that was planned for october as you said just a few minutes ago has now been delayed to december so what does that tell you but this is an order from missed opportunity actually and it seems that probably the white house is not fully off the perimeter of the differences over the feud within the gulf region in other words he thinks that he can maintain his approach of. the gulf leaders to come together but he hasn't done much in terms of how marine down the differences and i think the goal is steve are sharp. it was six all all

six months ago so unfortunately hasn't been much progress on the diplomatic front however there hasn't been a comb the or a parlay will scale ation toward iran without considering how we how can figure out a formula of bringing in the arab and the gulf states together toward this mobilization and i think now the iran issue will become counterproductive for the white house the promise all right thank you very much for speaking to us. from george mason university on the visit to washington. and in the u.s. where facebook bosses and twitter bosses have been questions about how they're working to prevent their platforms being useful fake news campaigns which threaten to impact the u.s. midterm elections the senate intelligence committee wants assurances from social media companies after facebook said it was aware of new attempts to spread disinformation possibly to influence the outcome of the vote twitter says it

stepped up its campaign against fake accounts and is deleting more than a half a million suspicious loggings every day that speak to hide in washington who's been following the hearing for so do the senators appears satisfied with what big tech companies are doing to counter foreign meddling. well they certainly are finding these efforts praiseworthy foley it's been a remarkably positive attitude that the senate intelligence committee panel has greeted the executives from facebook and from twitter remarkably a different tone than the one they struck when mark zuckerberg the founder of facebook took a grilling that lasted three days back in april but today the senators said that these tech giants were making good progress even as sheryl sandberg of facebook and jack dorsey of twitter opened their statements today both by issuing statements of responsibility for having been caught off guard in early two thousand and sixteen

and previously to this foreign efforts to meddle and impact the results of the campaign sam sandberg saying further that facebook has taken these recent measures as you mentioned canceling more than six hundred accounts that have been linked to an authentic users in iran and in russia also hiring now more than twenty thousand content moderators who speak fifty languages as far as the senators go though they said they found this progress but they still have doubts and they do not believe that the tech giants can continue regulating themselves and so they did issue warnings that very likely government regulations for social media in the u.s. is coming down the road ali thank you heidi heidi live for us in washington d.c. . and we are saying in the u.s. for this next story one of the most contentious and racially tinged matter times has. any nonsense is about to begin for his in the united states is about to begin

as a jury is selected the shooting of a black teenager by a white police officer four years ago in chicago sponsored massive protests and a change in police policies john hendren is covering this for us from chicago joins us now live on the news on tell us first about the mood as this is about to start. fully the mood is somber but tense this is the first time in decades a chicago police officer has been charged with first degree murder and there's a lot at stake there are about two hundred protesters who were outside here earlier now they are inside and that is where the judges overseeing jury selection jury selection is in a racially charged trial like this in a county that is half white about a quarter black and a quarter hispanic each side will be trying to select jurors that favor their point of view the judge has a few decisions to make yet one of them is whether to move the trial as the defense has requested the defense of officer jason vandyke says they believe that the jury

pool here that the public is so biased that he cannot get a free trial here then after jury selection vandyke can decide whether he wants a trial by that jury or whether he wants a bench trial with this just the judge deciding and finally the judge has to decide on a prosecutor's motion whether to throw van dyck back in jail or raise his bail now one point five million dollars and that's because the judge says he violated a gag order and gave a couple of media interviews on the eve of this trial we talked to people around chicago and this is what they had to say. in the most violent major city in the us the trial of a generation threatens to set a match to a racial tinderbox we had a young african-american male executed executed also dates in van dyke the kate. hinges on this video when sixteen shots it captures the racial tension of the most segregated city in the us propels the black lines matter movement and threatens to draw

a bright new red line over which police cannot cross. most of chicago police officer jason van dyke's bullets landed in look kwan mcdonald's back jason day a toxicology report found macdonald had taken the drug p.c.p. he was carrying a knife later found closed but was clearly shown walking away vandyke was reloading when a fellow officer told him to hold fire now the jury's verdict or a sound not just here in chicago but across the u.s. and perhaps around the world. the tape itself on review shows no imminent threat to officer vandyke safety or to any of the other officers at the scene none of the other officers weapons were drawn although the other officers testified that oh look juan mcdonald lunged at the officer with a knife there is no evidence of that a determined blue line of police stands behind their colleague but the reality is

this if he gets a lighter sentence or if he's not found guilty i think chicago's already on the brink of exploded i think this would lead to a mess mass chaos. no one is more aware of that they invent dyke we have the right to play well if you let him away i'm sure. i'm. going to present our. act. you know for many african-americans who disproportionately fall under police sights it's a test of whether a black man can find blind justice in chicago we want justice for all secada as we don't want a segregated justice a certain justice for one group of people and a different justice for another. mcdonald's family is calling for peace but

demanding accountability in the streets of this city and others across the u.s. neither is certain. it took about a year after that two thousand and fourteen shooting for the video to come out through a public information request and when it did people lost their jobs the first one was the police superintendent mayor rahm emanuel fired gary mccarthy and then the county prosecutor who eventually brought a murder charge against jason van dyke well she was not reelected the public apparently did not feel like she had acted quickly enough and then the final shoe dropped just on tuesday of this week that's when mayor rahm emanuel himself said he would not run for reelection if he was expected to do he didn't cite this case but it certainly damage his reputation this city has already settled a five million dollars potential lawsuit with the family of look one mcdonnell and three other officers stand accused of conspiracy and of struction of justice and

their trials will come up in november but the big question here is whether if there is an acquittal or a light sentence there is rioting in the streets of chicago foley john hendren in chicago thank you for that. crimes against humanity going on unabated in burundi say u.n. investigators who blame it in part on hate speech from the president haunting me the u.n. says they off you will bodies in the streets than before but this just sells a shift in tactics. reports. some political analysts say bruni's recent problems began three years ago when president announced he was running for a third term the constitutional court ruled in his favor ok protesters took to the streets they said couldn't deezer was violating the constitution which then limited presidents to no more than two terms in office security forces violently disperse protesters killing some injuring and arresting. some army officers organized

a coup when couldn't diesel was at a summit in neighboring tanzania but it failed the government shut down some privately owned radio stations accusing them of participating in the overthrow attend tens of thousands of civilians continue to feed to tanzania rwanda and the democratic republic of congo meanwhile currencies are pushed ahead with plans to stay in power in july that shia he won a third term in the presidential election with saving two percent of the votes many in the international community say the election was marred by violence and intimidation and try to intervene african union wanted to send in five thousand troops to protect civilians two years ago the bahraini government refused to accept outside interference. the european union suspended direct financial aid to the burundian government in protest against the violence in defiance became the first

country to officially withdraw from the international criminal court. shortly after the pullout last october i.c.c. judges announced they were investigating whether they'd been crimes against humanity in burundi and why at least one thousand two hundred people were killed in the last three years. the streets of vision border are now quiet there'd be no major protests in a while opposition leaders say that's because many of its supporters have fled or are scared local groups such as the people attached to the ruling party the corner a curry which is really in part is youth wing are taking land of people taking property of people and doing so in a climate of total impunity because the government won't act against them because these are the people in two thousand and fifteen who went on the streets beat protesters and so forth and so the government feels it owns these people. the indian government denies security forces targeted government critics the leaders of

the ruling party say many people have returned from exile but aid workers and human rights workers say many remain too afraid.