warmer in vienna twenty eight degrees and then much windy across much of the u.k. and we're going to be seeing eighteen degrees but down towards the southwest which madrid is still warm in cloudy and those clouds are also extending across parts of north western africa and in these clouds we've been seeing quite a bit of rain charge to be anywhere from algeria all the way up here towards tunisia those showers will continue really across the atlas mountains over the next few days temp was about average for this time of day we do expect to see a little bit more sun as we go towards friday and those temperatures will be coming up tonight about thirty degrees in algiers at about twenty nine and then down here across much of central africa heavy rain showers across much of the kosik specially a new tropical wave possibly developing out here towards the west but across the coast at twenty nine in lagos with some confusion rainy twenty seven. police suspect a lone gunmen is behind fifteen unsolved shootings in the city all targeting

immigrants an ethnic minority an attempted murder on a young life friday evening police were out in full force again after another man was shot out in the cycling disillusioned with the state prosecution or the victim's sister strikes up an unlikely relationship with the accused in letters to serial killer and witness documentary on al-jazeera. hello again you're watching al-jazeera has reminder of our top stories this hour the russian and chinese militaries are undertaking joint war games. training exercises russia's largest military drills and the fall of the soviet union is the

first time russia has invited china to participate in training drills inside its own borders. unsung suchi has admitted her government could have handled the rangar crisis better suit cheney has been speaking at the world economic forum meeting and how noisy seven hundred thousand trying to muslims have fled a military crackdown in myanmar since august two thousand and seventeen. and israeli forces in the occupied west bank and cleared account for activists beside a bedouin village which is due to be demolished israel's top call to prove the destruction of the village of qana last week. rival factions in south sudan have signed what's being called a final peace deal after months of negotiations the leaders will now have to form a transitional government governance story reports from ethiopia's capital addis ababa the deal the size. another green men aimed at peace in south sudan

the last time this leader signed a passion twenty fifteen it collapsed barely a year later after valiant clashes between the two are in sides in the capital juba they say this time the deal that provides for man other things five us presidents and five hundred fifty members of parliament will halt despite mistrust between the groups the confidence reading is a process it is not an event so it is a process which is actually thrown for all the conduct and the conduct of the people and i'm sure this will happen that trust will be built the confidence will be built as we are we move. to implement the agreement south sudan's leaders are under immense pressure at home and internationally to make it work the regional heads of state did not specify any action against spineless it still remains a possibility i think they sanctions and things like a possible sanctions and it is just sanctions and. a lot of them going to us today

and it's not it's not the not terrible but we know the use of the terminology who had them we said before and i must say. i'm not ruling out if anything happens now if there's any good for good french or all the signatories say it's not a path x. deal but they are committed to implementing it so now they have eight months to form a transitional government which will run for three years opposition groups that have signed this deal say they have concerns with the division of roles in the executive and legislature security arrangements as well as the number of states and boundary demarkation and. they also have reservations about how and who will be involved in driving a constitution whatever we do not get. this process. is a progress a process and it is a process a transitional process that will take. two years or three years.

we will honored some of this thing. with. regional leaders and other stakeholders who witness assignee expressed optimism they say failure is not an option anymore for millions of south sudanese displaced from their homes those unable to fend for their families because of their kind of me or those who continue to live in fear of violence in their own country catherine sorry al jazeera i disabled the. us actually of state mike pompei or has told congress that saudi arabia and the united arab emirates are actively working to avoid harming civilians in yemen the u.s. is under increasing pressure to withdraw its support for the war over the large number of civilian deaths last month the saudi ambassador admitted mistakes and been made and it bombed a school bus killing more than forty children. brazil's leading a presidential cancer polls also not zero as in the serious condition in hospital

having undergone emergency surgery he was stabbed last week during a st ronnie the attack has boosted his approval ratings a new anti bull social media campaign could also hurt him politically this in yemen has more from. the aftermath of last week's attack against also not only during a campaign rally has become the latest source of controversy surrounding the brazilian presidential candidates two new polls show his approval ratings rose from twenty two to between twenty four and twenty six percent not as much as some had predicted. political violence is always there but. it was a crazy man with. go what jimbo or an organization and i think their vote in brazil it's very good but the barrage of photos and videos of posts were not all in intensive care released by his campaign and family members

has sparked an outcry even some allies say using them for electoral gain is in poor taste and manipulative but. while he awaits a second abdominal operation one piece of good news for the ailing candidate was tuesday's announcement that imprisoned former president lula da silva was withdrawing his candidacy with brazil's most popular politician now officially out of the race. is well in the lead but now his main enemy may not be a rival candidate but rather the exploding and not all campaign also show media. leading the charge are women also not as controversial comments against gays blacks and women are galvanizing opposition to his presidential bid and. is one of those who. to gather more than a million supporters in less than two weeks. a man who says that engendering

a girl rather than a boy is a failure what does that say about his opinion of women. in the us a man who says in front of cameras i won't rape you because you don't deserve it does anyone deserve to be raped women make a pretty three percent of the brazilian electorate and could decide the election also not all has attempted to tone down some of his most politically explosive opinions but with more surgery limiting his chances of returning to the campaign trail before october seventh election it may be too late to undo the damage you see in human al-jazeera brazil. thousands of people have protested in guatemala city demanding president. reverses a policy closing a un backed anti graft commission reports. thousands of people take to the streets of guatemala city to protest their president. the demonstration is led by

subsistence farmers and indigenous organizations this is the third consecutive day they've rallied together in different parts of the country they're calling for president jimmy morales to reverse his decision to force out an international anticorruption group when its mandate expires next year and a band to prevent the group's leader even velasquez from returning to the country even more or less. the only thing jimmy morale is in these bodies congressman is doing its particular themselves and protecting corruption because they definitely corrupt and they will go to jail so they're doing everything they can to get rid of c.c. and not be investigated since starting in two thousand and six the international commission against impunity in guatemala or seasick has helped public prosecutors jail ex presidents congressman and drug traffickers earning praise from governments around the world last year the commission started investigating morales and his family for alleged corruption and calls for his impeachment morales

a former comedian denies any wrongdoing backed by the army he announced on aug thirty first that sea sick is highly politicized and has overstepped its remit. last year at the united nations secretary general was made aware of the many concerns that the watermelon state had with the responsibilities of the commission with many members of its team violating our laws enticing people and institutions to participate in acts that are corrupt and have been punitive. six critics say guatemala sovereignty is under attack and by the move out of more than one hundred ninety countries the only one in the world with a seasick is guatemala. and it hasn't worked it was a failed united nations experiment if we analyze it we see the main problem was trying to impose an organization that was above the law. but most political analysts say that their work which is continued in spite of this crisis is essential graham visible fulfill faneuil's during these eleven and twelve years of

work since he has laid the existence of illegal tender started security groups and over the top three years depict prosecutor's office with technical help from sissie could have weakened these actors and the ways to can operate. one of all is wait for the nation's top court to decide whether the president's actions are legal these protesters have already made up their minds organizers say the street protests will continue until the president and his cabinet step down but jimmy morales shows no signs of wavering and that could mean that this political crisis will be heating up. there out there on one of the city. the philippines president has criticized his military commanders for refusing to arrest one of his opponents . and to form a navy. and ordered his arrest refused saying the order is not lawful to get reports from manila. what was the widely anticipated media

conference ended up becoming one of the most jarring interviews ever held by president to the go to terror for most of the one hour and a half long interview to vented his anger on the philippine military exposing the strained relationship between soldiers and their commander in chief. and i only started now don't let this drag you plan to sabotage me then go ahead and be firing a few rounds won't work then assassinate i'll be happy to die in your hands he accuses soldiers of citing with a staunch critic and doing it on this the senator accuses the doubt there and his family of amassing illegal well which is denied chilian this was also one of the proponents of a complaint in the international criminal court against the terrorist war on illegal drugs. that they ordered arrest which the military did not carry

out. their younis was a navy officer one of the many to mutiny when gloria arroyo was president despite his detention for seven years he complained and won a senate seat he was granted amnesty by former president binney lucky no seven years ago there to revoked the amnesty saying it was avoided but documents show the amnesty was legal and absolute and because an amnesty is your revokable juliana's says what the doctor has done is unprecedented and only done by a desperate leader there will probably. be psychological help for the commander in chief because they didn't expect that from their commander in chief who will actually incite so the. against against himself and it threatens to split the military institution that has. gone

through major reforms over the last thirty years critics say it is unheard of for a president to challenge his commanders to the politics or the. client relationship he dispenses dispenses. people would think that they're to us the logical wrong to run but i look at this person us a calculating person and he is not to be underestimated the senate leadership has given giuliani's sanctuary so he remains within the premises for now meanwhile the military has made a commitment that it will only follow orders that are in line with the constitution still many here are worried they say do terror does relentless pursuit of juliana's no matter the costs may further destabilize the country's already fragile democracy dog and al jazeera mandela. lawrence has been downgraded to

a category two storm as it heads towards the east coast of the united states but weather forecasters are still warning of disaster this is the latest satellite image of the storm is now around four hundred fifty kilometers off shore is expected to make landfall on the coast of north and south carolina bringing a life threatening storm surge ten million people are now under hurrican warnings. and a high level conference on climate change is getting underway in san francisco leaders of u.s. states and cities that are defying the trump administration's retreat on climate policy along with representatives of civil society organizations from around the world they hope to act on their own even if the u.s. government will not become a fornia the world's fifth largest economy the stakes are high for brunell's reports. more intense fires more devastating droughts deadly heat waves with tens of thousands of premature deaths a rising ocean and disastrous floods that's the future california faces due to

manmade global warming over the next century according to a major new state climate change assessment university of california scientist stephanie penn's cell helped review the findings the future seems dire point on to anything the assessment says heat waves and polluted air could cause up to eleven thousand deaths annually by mid century the pain of climate change will be felt most acutely by vulnerable poor and marginalized people the poor are going to be had by the apocalyptic picher like the poor are always hit by any a cup apocalypse harder and worse aging infrastructure like this major dam that nearly failed last year will be heavily stressed by heavier rains and flooding associated with the changing climate california is already dealing with the biggest most deadly outbreak of wildfires in state history but the assessment

says the area burned by such conflagrations will increase seventy seven percent by the turn of the century and two thirds of california's themis beaches could completely disappear by then devoured by the pacific rising nearly three meters above its current level in response to these dire warnings about climate change california's legislature and its governor instituted a new law that would phase out the use of all fossil fuels to generate the state's electricity. the law requires california to rely on renewable sources like solar and wind power for sixty percent of its energy by twenty thirty and for using only carbon free sources including nuclear power by twenty forty five it's not going to be easy and it will not be immediate but it must be done california is committed to

doing whatever is necessary to meet the existential threat of climate change but with president donald trump's repudiation of the paris climate accord and his efforts to increase coal mining and relaxed standards for fuel efficient vehicles california is taking the lead hoping other states and cities will help with state law a fiery and foreboding future robert oulds al jazeera los angeles. with alexander the top stories in the russian and chinese militaries on taking joint war games close to the two countries borders of a stop twenty eight thousand training exercises russia's largest military drill since the fall of the soviet union it's the first time russia has invited china's a participate in such a large scale operation and the war games coincide with both china's president xi jinping and russian president vladimir putin pushing to strengthen bilateral ties.

she has admitted her government could have handled the rangar crisis better suit she has been speaking at the world economic forum meeting in hanoi and seven hundred thousand range of muslims have fled a military crackdown in manama since august two thousand and seventeen. israeli forces in the occupied west bank of clare's a camp for activists beside a bedouin village which is due to be demolished israel's top court approved the destruction of the village of qana last week it's expected the land will be used for illegal settler homes. nearly three million syrians in the province of idlib making final preparations as an all out offensive looms more than three thirty thousand people have fled the last rebel held enclaves the syrian government and russian as strikes intensified last week many have escaped to a nearby town of suter that's an area controlled by turkish backed rebels

u.s. actually it's a smart pump air has told congress that saudi arabia and the united arab emirates are actively working to avoid harming civilians in yemen the u.s. is under increasing pressure to withdraw its support for the war over the large number of civilian deaths the saudi embassy coalition admitted mistakes had been made when it went to school bus killing more than forty children. and hearkened violence has been downgraded to a category two storm as it heads towards the east coast of the united states but weather forecast as a still warning of a disaster. this is the latest satellite image the storm is now around four hundred fifty kilometers off shore it's expected to make landfall on the coast of north and south carolina and bring a life threatening storm surge ten million people are now under hurrican borning. there's i had lines where back with more news here on al-jazeera of the inside

story. we understand the differences and the similarities of cultures across the world. so no matter where you call home al-jazeera international bringing the news and current of things that matter to. al-jazeera. joint military drills and huge business deals russia and china are boosting up their relationship but are they building an alliance can they trust each other and what do the u.s. and its allies think this is a sad story. be . hello and welcome to the program i'm adopted honeyed with a firm handshake the presidents of china and russia have announced stronger ties

bloody mirror putin is hosting cheating ping as well as the japanese and south korean leaders at the three day eastern economic forum in vladivostok it aims to boost investment in the far east region of asia but putin is warning trade barriers are a threat to asian economies as the world stopped two economies the u.s. and china imposed trait terrorists on each other as the talks began so did the largest war games by chinese and russian troops since the soviet union three hundred thousand troops thirty six thousand tanks and armored vehicles and a thousand war planes and ships are all on parade in siberia and from the fire into the frying pan as putin introduces tce to russian cooking rory chalons takes a look at how the countries are stretched and the bilateral ties.

with the slight awkwardness of two leaders who probably don't spend much time in the kitchen sheeting paying hands bloody made through tin conducted some pancake diplomacy in blood of all stock the chinese president is here for the eastern economic forum and his meeting with putin this year despite the presence of other asian leaders it's russia and china strengthening ties that are the bedrock of this event and with caviar and vodka the two presidents were happy to let the world know how close they become we were constantly meeting this year for example in beijing in johannesburg and now here we are in the blood as fausto if we keep close contact with you it means we have good relations i am ready to strengthen these relations from now on including the exchange of ideas through close cooperation china has the largest delegation with almost a thousand people it is quite clear we have a really close cooperation we had eighty seven billion dollars of trade last year this year will almost certainly reach one hundred billion dollars the corporation makes sense the two eurasian giants are next door neighbors and china's hungry

economy needs natural resources which russia has in abundance this growing relationship is about more than just the kind of business and energy deals on offer here at the eastern economic forum it's about the threats that both russia and china feel a share in the modern world. while she jinping and putin were talking the heavy metal of russia's military was moving into place china's two it's been invited to take part in two thousand and eighteen russia's biggest war games since one thousand nine hundred one a sign of friendship and a message to one particular address or is the only we can see continued. to push more between russia and china because of or very assertive line of the united states. against both countries and in this regard because we can. say the problem is the major patter on all four russian trainees.

because the relationship washington has imposed sanctions on russia trade tariffs on china each country is too independent minded to make a full alliance at all likely but they still want the us to know that if a regional crisis ever exploded into conflict with russia and china could present a united front or a challenge how does a lot of us talk to you. so let's bring in our panel joining us in moscow pavel felgenhauer russian military analyst from beijing michael coverage he's a senior advisor for northeast asia at the international crisis group and from washington d.c. michael purcell director of operations at the center for global interests gentlemen welcome to the program pavel let me start with you we're seeing strong pictures

coming out of siberia what is the main message here. well day's. exercises or actually war games happening in the russian far east are really a big deal there's a lot of russian troops being mobilized and moved forward it's happening from the our take in the pacific and then. the far east and partially in siberia but the main ground action is going to happen in the transom by cowher zakk by call yet region which is actually north of the chinese border russian them exercises happened there is a regular basis and always before they had that bit of a kind of over town that this could be posh a way to be prepared for a process will clash with russia china and so this time for then to be no kind of

speculations on that the russian military invited the chinese contingent that they part also contingent small contingent from mongolia so a chinese brigade size force over three thousand men would about thirty aircraft have been deployed there together with the russian troops at one specific point this is a very big wargame but it's one specifically for instance one training range and so go and there's about twenty five thousand russians and three thousand chinese and there's going to be the climax of the action putin is going to be there at the climax this week to see all the fireworks and most likely there is going to be a chinese delegation to so there's the russians and the chinese as brothers in arms preparing to fight alongside each other against foreign foe which most likely means america and its allies and the political leadership overseeing that happening

so this is all very significant well michael is that is it the same view china i mean that. has something at stake here what exactly is the message china's trying to send to the world. thank you so this is obsolete i fully agree with our caller gets a strong message from president xi jinping both to have these large military exercises and have chinese troops participating in them for the first time ever that's really quite significant china and russia have done military exercises before together of course but not within russian soil and not at this scale so that sends a very strong message of increasing military cooperation that has really been growing strongly under president xi and president putin for the past several years and then has accelerated under the trumpet ministrations policies for the united states and secondly you have president xi turning up at the economic forum in vladivostok

again the first time a chinese leader has attended that forum a very strong display of diplomatic support and of respect for president putin risks rip's reciprocating is putin's visit to beijing in june of this year and that's three visits three meetings that the two leaders have had this year again marking an acceleration over the last several years really since she jinping came into power and found a kindred spirit in vladimir putin building on economic complementarities military cooperation prospects but also very much by the two challenges that both countries are having with the united states and this week at these two meetings here and military cooperation are a very strong signal to the united states that if it continues to put this kind of pressure on either of them it's going to push them even closer together well michael i'm supposing that while these war games are happening at

generals military experts and looking at watching very closely what's happening this k and what kind of equipment is on display but what are they looking for exactly. i think the probably the most important indicator that military analysts are looking for is the degree to which real capabilities demonstrated in the sense that combine military operations and a capability to conduct combined military operations is something that the russian and chinese would have to demonstrate i think you know a quick liquid would tell you that the signaling is as michael and i want to strive more on a strategic political level to demonstrate resolve if you will and a willingness to cooperate that's a far cry from an alliance which is what the u.s. is. participation in the north atlantic treaty organization nato over so many years and at the moment is is a big contentious but nonetheless still a strong level of cooperation intel and alliance of significant more than that what

we're seeing in the in this exercise vostok twenty eighteen well michael coverage it is i mean china is the first time that it meant say goes and trains outside of its borders relations with russia have never not not always been so friendly is this more of a marriage of convenience as they sit and watch things unfolding in washington. i think it you could argue that it started out that way several years ago china russia relations certainly on the economic side for a long time were relatively modest certainly much much less than the huge bilateral trade relationship between china and the united states or even china and europe but ever since the russian onyx ation of crimea and worsening relations between russia and europe and russia and the united states and sanctions on russia that's really pushed russians in particular to look further east something they've done

reluctantly gradually over time and the chinese have welcomed that but again there's also been a lot of mutual suspicion from the chinese side as well so what we're really seeing is jus a political circumstances driving these two political leaders to move their countries closer together and a lot of that has started with top level political rhetoric and language lots of leader level meetings but step by step it is being underpinned by initiatives the two have agreed for example after a lot of debate and concern that there are two eurasian economic union and the silk road economic belt initiatives in central asia they would try to make them cooperate and work together we've seen increasing cooperation and investment into through central asia and particularly building on the energy relationship and then from china's perspective the military cooperation is very important not only in this kind of exercise in training but also in chinese interest at least in the

short term in russian military technology specifically cutting edge a surface to air missile batteries and sukkot a fourth generation fighter jets which china still doesn't have a domestic capacity to build and that starts to affect the strategic balance then between china and the united states and other powers in the pacific ocean as well. pavel apart from to the message that china and russia are getting closer together i think also today now may cause a big change between these two. countries ring in the sense that russia union used to be the big there and now is china the big bear because of the of its economic strength but beyond that i so you quoted as saying that this is about sending a message that soon there will be a large scale conflict. well the russian military the russian general staff since officially at least thirteen hide laugh not only put forward

but this has been approved by the kremlin so that assessment that the predicts. next seller rating possibility of a big war happening somewhere in the twenty's. series or several. large scale regional wars that may actually in the escalate into a global conflict and that russian mendis is that's the official politic whole perspective that's what the russian military and russian state have been preparing and these exercises is a demonstration and the test of the russian capability to mobilize and field a large numbers of heavily armed troops for a regional map massive regional war that could happen in the east in asia or in the west in europe and that could keep ability to move these forces long distance to

the store west because of the russian a present military is much smaller than the subject of which are so it relies on mobility to sustain such forces in the field have a good logistics operation and see where the. weak spots are these exercises should expose them so this is yes this is testing and preparing for a possible big regional war that could happen in the future or may not happen and also to use this as a signal and as a deterrent to demonstrate to the potential opponents which are basically seen as sitting in washington that russia is ready to fight for and defend its. borders on the has a strong ally in china at least that russia is not without allies and the this is

may be viewing with russia is not the goodnight idea that united states should think twice before taking on russia well talking about the united states let's go to michael purcell i mean when asked about this the u.s. secretary of defense jim mattie said i think that nations i act out of the interest i see little in the long term that aligns with russia and china to gether now do you think that is a good read from the pentagon i mean we have seen a china that has been modernizing and reforming its military with quite intensity it would a past few years shouldn't they be a little bit more worried. and i think it is a good read from secretary madison is consistent with what he's portrayed as his world view the u.s. national security documents the national defense strategies both identify china and russia as strategic competitors and that's not just the military but of course in the political and economic realm as well i would i would say the secretary mabus is

probably careful not to over militarize the entire relationship between russia and china i think we should be careful and i know he would say this is to use the word allies a form alliance implies an obligation for mutual defense in the article five of the nato treaty. it talks about attack on one is an attack on all in think it's important we identify be careful that we're that this is not an alliance this is a strategic partnership between russia and china in the things secretary mabus also knows that the values gap if you will between the u.s. perspective on the relationship and with russia and china and their relationship is one such that both russia and china at the moment have authoritarian. characteristics of their ruling governments and the u.s. is clear to point that out as being inconsistent with what it sees as sort of the international order and that's that's bound to be conflicts i think he. probably

has in the rep respective context but michael coverage since chairman she came to power certainly that china concentrated on a lot on modernizing its military i think is a special focus on the navy if i'm not wrong that has somehow tilted the balance of power in the pacific area no. that's correct yes president xi has strongly prioritize reforming the people's liberation army and turning it from what was frankly a large economic enterprise and heavily be dominated by a land army and shifted a lot of the investment and the training and the technological improvement to the navy and the air force really wanting to turn it with the it with the objective of turning it by two thousand and thirty five into a modern competent fighting force and by two thousand and fifty into a really world world class military and that's involved an enormous program of

building ships and of course then reclaiming and paving on and militarizing islands in the south china sea establishing an air defense identification zone in the east china sea and essentially what we're seeing from china and in its own way from russia are attempts for both of these countries to establish spheres of influence in their periphery as china wants to push the u.s. navy and the u.s. military influence and rule in east asia further away from its shores to establish within the western pacific and certainly within the first island chain that's denmark headed by japan for example and other islands out there a zone in which china is the dominant power it's not looking for a fight it's nowhere near ready for an actual conflict with the united states it doesn't want that but what it does want to do is enlarge it space for maneuver for example condition other countries in the region to be more deferential to chinese preferences protect its sea lines of communication and reestablish itself as

a dominant regional power and in that sense with its relations with russia it's found a willing partner if a reluctant one in some ways but increasingly u.s. policies that have put pressure on both countries have led them to find a kind of axis of convenience and mutual benefits for example now trade tariffs applied by the u.s. on china similarly to sanctions on russia incentivize them to look for stronger economic ties stronger defense ties. and stronger political ties that's not an inevitable process but as long as that pressure is there from the u.s. they're going to keep looking for to each other for support whether political or otherwise i'm just going to bring back michael person so just in view of what you just heard and this the chinese military is giving modernize stronger abroad there was a time when it was considered like a second string kind of military is that still the case in washington and certainly

with having more capabilities with these missiles that the vela ping musts challenge do yes supremacy in parts of the pacific. i think the short answer my question is yes it is use the word worry to secretary matters worry about in particular the u.s. rather the russia china relationship i think concern is what you know a military officer like general mattis now secretary would say would use the u.s. concern because the capabilities that china's demonstrated over the proceeding several years are significant in their change the nature of their their ability to project power outside of the borders of china and the u.s. as both militarily and i think perceives equally adjusted itself to a future that must accommodate chinese military power in the first ranks if you will and pavel now this is all happening on the backdrop of the ukraine crisis the

war in syria allegations that russia is interfering in western elections and politics so i'm sure that is a message to president putin is trying to convey here by holding the largest military exercises in its history or is in modern history. of course these processes are happening in the west and in the southwest and the exercises are in the far east there is of course a kind of tense situation still somewhat in the korean peninsula but there has been that downscaling of tensions there just recently but the actual planning of this exercise happened some time before it's a big strategic exercise and it's also a war game actually and there's a difference between exercise and war game and this so this is there's technicalities there involved because in the being part of russia there as the

vienna document of those see that women the possibility of the arts kiddo like that mobilizations and they have in the far east there's only very limited regulations there's an agreement with china on the kind of limited limiting forces in the media of border area but most of these exercises are happening outside of that so that's a free zone at the same time russia has an violent russian motor haven't invited journalists and observers from accredited military attaches here in moscow to go what they're going to go to that su goal that's just one piece of the action where it is going to be a showcase for president putin and other dignitaries so of course they won't see much of the real nitty gritty of how russia is the going with the boiling such watch numbers of troops the russian general staff as announced at the right now we

have one hundred twenty six battle ready media but already tactical but talian groups in our military in the army in the marines and the airborne corps where as nato say deployed they get to contain russia for battalion tactical groups in the balt. it's and in poland so the differences of course and russian on the russian side though there is of course that there's no logical still gap between the russian military and the western militaries. though of course the russian backed already and this has increased everyone recognizes that and they you should also take into account that the russian military want to have a good kind if they want to have some kind of their reach attention with you because you're reaching the end but i just want to ask the last question briefly michael purcell in view of what we just heard yes that is to i think the logical gap but i think in washington people will probably keep on watching closely at how

quickly that gap is bridged right i think that's accurate it's not hard to look back in the just a few years ago when russian military capability wasn't taken nearly as seriously at the strategic level and what pablo described the nuts and bolts of this exercise . was very well done and it's it as an opportunity to examine weaknesses and make fixes but also to demonstrate at that level that they have the capability to to again occupy the first ranks and it's certainly a point well taken in washington i think well so far we haven't tested really the combat capability of the chinese but we have reached the end of this program i'm sure we'll be talking about it in the future thanks to all our guests pavel felgenhauer michael coverage and michael percent and thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward

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demolition israeli troops clear account for activists trying to stop the destruction of a palestinian village. and the fires in california the state leads the way on tackling climate change the white house won't. the russian and chinese military is undertaking joint war games close to the two countries border of us stuck twenty eight hundred training exercises russia's largest military drill since the fall of the soviet union is the first time russia has invited china to participate in such a large scale operation and the war games coincided with both china's president xi jinping and russian president vladimir putin pushing to strengthen bilateral ties to counting u.s. sanctions and trade tariffs roy talent's has more from vladivostok. well there are

two notable things about these drills the first is the sheer size of them they are large the biggest we are being told since one thousand nine hundred eighty one and involving three hundred thousand military personnel from the russian armed forces we are seeing over a thousand aircraft involved helicopters are manned aerial vehicles that's drones basically up to thirty six thousand tanks and other armored personnel carriers and vehicles and eighty ships and supply of vessels now there might be some exaggeration going on here previous military exercises that russia has conducted have not been quite as big in the final tally as we were told they were going to be beforehand but still they're large and there is also this chinese components now the chinese imports is minimal compared to the russian the chinese have put in three thousand two hundred troops and thirty aircraft helicopters and planes plus

a few tanks and other armored vehicles but it's a gesture that's important it's russia inviting china to show them essentially that russia does not view china as a threat or an adversary but it's also a sign to the west to nato led to the united states that russia and china are getting closer together and might have push came to shove at. we fight alongside each other now and has been watching over these exercises and he says they've gone pretty well so far he went on also to say that russia is a peace loving state we don't do not and cannot have aggressive plans now. that is of course trying to reassure international observers these are. defensive drills rather than aggressive his statements i think might raise eyebrows in western capitals which have been watching russian behavior in ukraine over recent years its behavior in syria at the moment and also going back to say two

thousand and eight the invasion of georgia but that is vladimir putin's view on things today. myanmar's leader aung sun suu kyi says in hindsight her government could have handled the rangar crisis better seven hundred thousand range of muslims for a military crackdown iraqi state a year ago and investigators said there were mass killings and gang rapes but suit chains speaking as an international meeting in vietnam defended security forces from charges of civilian atrocities when hey has more from their. own sons to g.'s appearance at the world economic forum on southeast asia in hanoi was the first international speaking engagement since a united nations report was released last month that called for genocide charges to be laid against me and military leaders for attacks on rigging your communities in rakhine state that report was also very critical of aung san suu kyi and government for their failure to condemn the violence something she also refused to do here in

hanoi there are of cause. we simply to this home site might think that the situation could have been handled better but we believe that for the sake of long term stability and security we have to be fair to all sides the drool of law must apply to everybody we cannot choose and pick who. should be protected by the rule of law and i have to keep repeating because people are very few are interested in that aspect of the situation that in the rakhine there are many many small groups ethnic groups and religious groups and they don't just the muslims and the cons and seem to be at the section of much of the world for example we are very small ethnic groups which are fast disappearing but nobody seems to be interested in them and yet they are the ones who could disappear altogether because someone down to four figures she was also asked about the case of the two reuters journalists who last week were jailed for seven years true or so

and while lone were arrested last year while investigating a massacre in rakhine state and there was growing international pressure on the son sujit and two governments to grant them pardons it's not a matter of lou they were not jailed because of adjournment they went to deal with jail because the court as well sentence has been awesome then because the court has decided that they had broken the official secrets act so if we believe in the rule of law they have every right to appeal the judgment and to point out why the gesture in this room if they consider it wrong me and my is expected to come under even more scrutiny at the united nations general assembly next week but on sun sujit will now not be attending. israeli forces in the occupied west bank have cleared a camp for activists beside a bedouin village which is due to be demolished israel's top court approved the destruction of the village of qana last week it's expected the man who has

a use for illegal settler homes by force that has more from qana now. the people of china since the early hours of wednesday morning have known that at any time israeli forces could move in here and start to demolish the village one hundred eighty villages who live in this barren village new york west bank where at five am this morning israeli forces did move in but they didn't come here and start invading this village they stayed on the outskirts of the village an area where there are a few temporary structures that have been put up by activists in solidarity they declared that a military zone they prevented any access to anyone else as they demolished those structures and took them away and we spoke to the head of the commission for the wall and settlements senior palestinian official he says that that is good news that so far at least. survives we hope that it will be a good sign it will be satisfy them that they have succeeded to destroy the five

houses but it was not our battle to fire defending their their houses. to defend their houses. and to after the army at the back of the area surrounded it and at that we out of the school doors around the houses. and that was our go and found the house and the houses and nothing happened here we are now we thank god. and all that we've been. so for one more day at least the children here at the tire school in qana have arrived for classes life goes on the reason that there's been so much pressure against this move by the israelis of course is about the villages themselves and their rights but it's also about fears of wider israeli plans for greater illegal settlement expansion we're here east of jerusalem where here in the middle of the occupied west bank there are fears that jerusalem is going to be ringed in the future that there could be

a real attack on the territorial contiguity of a future palestinian state slicing that state into that is why the e.u. and others have talked about this in such terms as it being a real threat to the possibility of a two state solution in the future. to syria now and any three million civilians in preparing for what is expected to be an all out military offensive against the province more than thirty thousand people have fled the last rebel held and and played since the syrian government and russian as strikes intensified last week many of the skate to the nearby town of ceuta an area controlled by turkish backed rebels those who remain in taking any measures they can to protect themselves and carry making their own gas masks and this matter you that. we hear a lot of threats from the regime in russia saying they'll bomb us with chemical weapons that's why we had to make gas masks to protect our wives and children and a little. bit of new to wiki i learned how to make the masks on you tube the mask

is made with cardboard cups cotton natural coal and plastic bags to protect the face and eyes and you can breathe through it. at all foreign minister is calling for a joint effort to eliminate armed fighters and they're there to avoid heavy civilian casualties. we are watching the situation over there very cautiously live was the last of the deescalation that we had a knowledge that they had all extremist organizations who are operating from there on the way to eliminate them is that really in cooperation with. with with turkey and with the with other allies over there in order to make sure that the protection of the civilians we want to avoid another catastrophe to take place. and we see that the same the same thing has been repeated elsewhere unfortunately of the crimes which have been committed by the regime in the past years against their

own people. and a head to head on al jazeera south sudan's political rival signed a new peace agreement to yes after the previous deal fell apart plus. i'm just a bad man in london i'm going to show you buildings by one of the world's greatest architects. from brisk nose and few it's. to the woman trying to this of southeast asian. fellow the weather's looking pretty good across many central and eastern parts so if you have lots of five weather well as the clear skies a few showers towards greece add to the having said that along the trailing clouds making its way right up from northern parts pushing right across northern areas of germany and easing all the way back over into northern parts of france behind that

we have relatively fresh air spilling in the cross the british isles that also in scandinavia nineteen celsius in london is not too bad what's to feed on these winds that will cloud there in scotland and northern ireland pushing over into norway cold enough and live every fifteen decrease the up to twenty there in moscow as a weather system just bring in some right towards that western side of russia there you go with the showers down towards the southeast quite a lively rash of showers into central policy if you have once again but hot and dry for spain and portugal getting up into the thirty's over the next complet days by the time we come to friday eighteen celsius in london a fair amount of town spilling into some outbreaks of right then we got this area of right still affecting the alpine regions northern areas of italy easy across austria and on into poland also some rain soon to the northwest of africa we want to see showers for northern out geria. there with sponsored by the time.