asked that question and she insisted that the vote would go ahead the week after the coming recess in the 1st week of june michael gove the environment minister was asked that question earlier he's a very senior minister he's gunning for her job as are so many others he was rather more circumspect he said it was time to reflect and consider the options that sort of language rather suggests a delay of some sort and they've been suggestions that perhaps this is all best left to the next prime minister one way or another things looking extremely bad for to resume at the moment all right for the moment on a whole life for us there in london. and the industrial giant british steel has collapsed that is the latest sign of the growing weakness of the u.k.'s manufacturing center and confusion over briggs it honestly has that. exactly a year ago british steel produced this corporate film glamorizing what goes on inside its plants in sky. high quality tailored manufacturing the sort of thing

the u.k. used to be feigned for all over the world. one year on the accountants of moved in british steel has collapsed putting some $25000.00 jobs in direct jeopardy the government it seems was unwilling to provide just $30000000.00 pounds or $40000000.00 to keep it afloat the opposition cannot believe it but also mr speaker i want to express on behalf of the labor party my outrage that the government has again failed our steel industry putting 5000 jobs at risk in british steel 20000 more in the supply chain this government has failed those people we will be working with the company and others and the official receiver in the days and weeks ahead to ensure that we can pursue every step to secure the future of the operations on the thoughts going in growth and on teesside the irony isn't lost on anyone that the news of the demise of british steel comes one day before european elections in

which the conservative party is expected to receive a thrashing and the story of british steel plays into a much wider debate about brics it and the future of british manufacturing. has been blamed in parts for the demise of british steel just like honda decision to close its car factory in the west of england it's widely thought the so-called hard bricks it would lead to the closure of nisanit in northeastern england as well to many voters the point of the exercise was to get politicians to pay more attention to their communities it's not happening the reality is and it's an uncomfortable truth is. we wouldn't be having these difficulties in the way in which they're presenting themselves this week if it wasn't for the decision to leave the european union and perhaps the most startling statistic around british steel is that over the last 2 years alone china produced more steel than the u.k. has done since the industrial revolution in the 19th century maybe politicians think it isn't worth trying anymore but they don't have any other alternatives for

people in scum fulp it's illegal to exploit a situation where the government can find $5000000000.00 to renovate the parliament building and another $5000000000.00 to protect the country against the worst over no deal breaks it and yet cannot find the money to protect the u.k.'s steel industry had the been expanding its voters is anybody's guess lawrence lee al jazeera in london oh we've got plenty more ahead on this news hour why turkey's main opposition candidate for a stamp mayor is back on the campaign trail after winning the election in march. and we'll meet the venezuelans are looking for a miracle to help them through desperate times. later in sport the team is heading to hockey's playoff series for the 1st time in 5 decades. all that's still ahead but the acting u.s.

defense secretary is downplaying the possibility of war with iran patrick shanahan says sending more forces to the gulf will limit iran's ability to attack. after briefing congress mike hanna reports. congress has been demanding more information for weeks and finally it was provided by the members of the trumpet ministration secretary of state mike pump aoe in the acting secretary of defense patrick shanahan held separate reaping sessions from both the house and the senate. patrick shanahan arguing that the recent deployment of a carry a strike force to the region has played a role in controlling the crisis we have deterred attacks based on our repository of assets to turn attacks against american forces. our biggest focus at this point is to prevent iranian miscalculation. we do not want the situation to escalate. this is about deterrence not about war.

or not about going to war we're ready to respond if we have to the best thing to happen is for everybody to calm down and iran to back off and i'm hoping that this show of force will result in deescalating not escalating nobody is talking about a military solution to the current friction with the iranians i haven't heard anybody discuss that pretty thank you all very much but the briefing still did not convince skeptical democrats make no mistake this president and his administration are itching for a confrontation with iran i believe that a war with iran. would be. an absolute disaster for wars then the war with iraq and i hope the american people told this administration but we will not go to war in iraq underlying this crisis a decision by president donald trump to unilaterally pull out of the 2050 nuclear

deal with iran and as the briefings were taking place iran was announcing it had quadrupled its production of enriched uranium this argue many democrats a consequence of a president rejecting a negotiated deal with no thought as to what should replace it mike hanna al-jazeera washington. a rebel forward is a professor at yale university and a former united states ambassador to syria he joins us by skype now from maine thanks very much for being with us my pleasure so you heard the different views there from politicians in the u.s. we've seen this kind of. tamping down of the rhetoric from from the administration and from republicans in congress as well the democrats some democrats are not convinced are they say that the u.s. is is is itching for a war with iran what's your view on this i think the president himself president

trump doesn't want a war with iran he knows that it is not a popular idea politically here in the united states the president has already thinking about the 2828 presidential election and he's made clear he doesn't want a war with iran was was president trump right to withdraw from the iran nuclear deal. well that's a big argument here in the united states and could well be an issue in the 2020 campaign and my own personal opinion it was a mistake to withdraw them and certainly a mistake to have drawn with no strategy on how to get iran back to a negotiating table what do you say though to those who say that one of the main problems with this deal with the iran deal was the sunset clause. that sat after 10 years they could they were free to essentially go back to to what they were doing before in an enriched uranium that there was no meccas in mechanism for

addressing that. the republicans who were against the deal some of them raised exactly that issue about the generation of the limitations on iran some democrat said it would be possible to reopen that in a new set of negotiations the cause of the current. tension between the united states and iran is not about the duration cause it's about iran's regional activities and in particular what it's doing in places like yemen and syria that is that and in iraq that's what's behind the big increase in tension over the last 2 weeks but that's there are those again who will say that that's something that iran has been doing for several years now what's what's changed this time around what's changed is you have people like mike pompei o and john bolton in positions

of authority in washington and who have long wanted for many years especially during the obama administration have wanted to see the united states confront iran about its regional policies and that's what they're doing is that is that the right approach long term. well i think in the and the united states and iran and other countries in the region are going to have to work out where one country's influence begins and another country's influence and i'm not talking about dividing the region up but there has to be some way to find out how saudi arabia turkey iran and other countries in the region can get along without constantly interfering in each other's political affairs the united states can help that process but it can't by itself dictate the

outcome syria being a perfect example the americans cannot control what is going to happen in syria they can influence it but they can't control the rubble for good to speak with. my pleasure a saudi arabia and the united arab emirates tending a conference in bahrain next month as part of u.s. president donald trump's investment plan for palestine but the p.l.o. and hamas have called for an arab boycotts of the meeting all denies by trump senior adviser jared kushner. a turkey's main opposition candidate for the mayor of istanbul is launching his election campaign. won the vote in march between the act party candidate but he was stripped of that victory the election body canceled the result after accusations of irregularities by president ones governing party the new vote will be held in june simca solo as the latest from istanbul. the

countdown has begun for stumble mayoral rerun which is going to take place on june 20th free the opposition candidate mr economic model who won the 1st round which took place in march launched his election campaign today he says this campaign is based on the rights freedom and the economy and he says what is good to do is just listen to the nice self he stumbles citizens he won the 1st one after the 1st election in march with a slight difference compared to the ruling party's candidate mr benoliel there who's also the former prime minister that's why the opposition is trying to preserve the fort sumpter joint one to 3 you know due to the many if you like there have the right cards that have a very of a survival amount of the survival of the answer in national security in the

election you. think. that it is going to be a fierce battle between the 2 because istanbul is very important for everybody it is economic capital one can follow the stumble mainly from force a prisoner and the father of the country the critics of president are done under the ruling or to suggest that you know that from the moment of the dozen in one week you have the potential to be the mets kristen's off the furthest profit. allies of philip. president when we get a chance they have won a landslide victory in last week's midterm election that's despite the criticism of his policies that he's pursued in the 1st 3 years in office jimmy duggan reports from manila. after a bitterly contested campaign lasting 3 months it is official the philippines has elected enough candidates from rodrigo to 3rd his administration to put the senate

on their almost full control of the president that's a devastating defeat for the opposition liberal party run by former president being ignored keno its influence has severely weakened over the last few years and the campaign was no match for a well organized administration to solidify the 3rd disc and show all for the remaining 3 years of this presidency but many see the electoral process wasn't free and fair there are reports of widespread vote buying across the country and a 7 hour delay in the release of early electoral results has led many to question their credibility. ranging from number one wasn't really what we were not doing the little holding which. was. which never happened before or. we're wrong america will have we will have.

will have. but a growing. problem are. we're programmed to move from the core and the one who are ok. opponents say he is growing relationship with china is a threat to the country's sovereignty and his so-called war in drugs has left more than 5000 filipinos dead. i mean marcus the daughter of former dictator president for didn't marcuse won a seat in the chain. well. it returning senator and former actor won another seat despite being charged with corruption when he was in office those in the opposition see this is possibly one of the least inspiring line ups in recent elections but widespread criticism over how the elections were conducted and threats of cases to

be filed against the commission on elections were not enough to stop the proclamation today and to a greater extent the church is growing political influence dogon al-jazeera manila . the weather now here steph thanks very much as looking at europe it's still incredibly story this is the must be with us for a good few days now and it's still showing up very clearly on the satellite picture the huge swell actually comes up from africa than all the way around through turkey and back down through parts of austria and into switzerland and we've had some very heavy rain out of this this is what it looks like in germany recently clearly some of those homes have been flooded and some of the roads are impassable as well thanks to the amount of rain we've had the rain it's been forwarding on ground that's already saturated and there's a lot of melting snow around at the moment as well and that hasn't helped things a tall so quite bad conditions in germany and now a system has been working its way eastward you can see it there over parts of poland and that's where we've seen some tornadoes in fact poland has seen 6

tornadoes in the last 24 hours or so and this is just some of the damage that one of those tornadoes has cool clearly incredibly strong winds have blown through there so now that still system is working its way eastwards but it will become more and more confined to the eastern part as we head through the next few days so still a 5th some of us in the southern parts of germany there and further east we will see some more severe weather as we head through the day on thursday and on friday that system is still swirling around the west it's completely different we've got mary of high pressure in charge here so it's fine unsettled that does begin to break down for friday there. thanks steph now still ahead on al-jazeera does any you want to feel or think that our women and that's got to watch these signs of all our might be taken away from us but tell you about the hot button issue that's pushed thousands of people onto the streets across the u.s. . and why these children who are born and brought up in bangladesh are now being denied a formal education and. later in school we'll hear from india's cricket teams they

step up their preparations ahead of the world cup. the u.s. is a tipping point scientists are telling us right now that we have just 12 years as the world's leaders to agree upon a solution people are taking matters into their own. event. which by its actions to get people to understand that it kills people and that it kills people now it's ridiculous both rosewood to the people's books on al-jazeera. as yugoslavia disintegrated war descended on its inhabitants. amidst the death and destruction one man created a peaceful microcosm for boys whose fathers faced each other in battle episode 3 of football rebels enters the world of footballing legend push each. who went from

coaching boys football to teaching young men like frederick push each of the siege of sarajevo on al-jazeera. and again. watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour demonstrations continue in indonesia's capital where protesters are angry at the results of last month's presidential election 6 people were killed during riots in jakarta on tuesday night. britain's 2nd largest steel maker has gone out of business citing concerns over grades of british steel employs 5000 workers directly with another 20000 jobs involved in its

supply chain. the acting u.s. defense secretary is playing down the possibility of a u.s. war with iran patrick shanahan says it's sending more forces to the gulf is meant to deter iran from launching an attack. but french president emanuel mccraw is meeting the libyan war old star in paris after his fighters have been battling forces allied to the un recognized government for control of libya's capital tripoli in recent weeks the u.n. says the fighting could split the country. is live in paris for some of the tasha after meeting the french president there what more do we know about that. was not the 1st time of the french president's a man or my car has met or have to the renegade live in command but it is the 1st time that the 2 men are actually having talks one on one and it comes nearly 7

weeks after half the launched an offensive to try and capture tripoli where the un backed an internationally recognized government is based now the libyan backed prime minister fires are surats was also in paris a couple of weeks ago he also met the french president emanuel my core and what's my point is trying to do with these 2 meetings talking to both sides really to try and urge both sides to agree to a cease fire and return to the u.n. peace process particularly as the situation in libya is degenerating we've heard from the u.n. special envoy for libya cason salami who said that libya at this stage is facing what could be a very long and bloody war. the trash about the life for us in paris. the u.n. general assembly is expected to vote in favor of the united kingdom giving up control of a chain of islands in the indian ocean the silence known as the british indian ocean

territory are also the site of a u.s. military break base in diego garcia island britain took possession of the islands in $814.00 and held on to them after the independence in 1983 years before that the u.k. had secretly least one of the islands diego garcia to the united states to use as a military base the international court of justice issued an opinion earlier this year urging the u.k. to hand over territory to which claims sovereignty over the island are diplomatic editor james bass is at the united nations for us so james how significant is this decision by the general assembly. this has been a very long fight and this could be a very significant moment for the shade course islanders if you're listening to this and you probably haven't followed this case closely maybe never heard of

a change your silence and that's because the check your silence have no permanent population but as if you explain that's why it's important they used to have a permanent population they used to be over 1500 people living there when it was a u.k. colony just before the u.k. gave its independence it splits off the chain your silence and removed forcibly that population and did a secret deal with the united states to make the main island of the che goss diego garcia a military base a base for u.s. bombers it's also where some of those rendition flights during the so-called global war on terror tearaway at they flew from so a secret and controversial base and it seems that now in the un general assembly a vote is going to go very firmly against the u.k. the international court of justice looked at this came up with a decision $13.00 to $1.00 that said this was totally illegal the fact of what the

u.k. did in the 1960 s. and its ongoing position with regard to the change or silence the u.k. says that was just an advisory opinion and it's not going to take notice so what's happened now is moorish with the support of the rest of the african group has decided to bring this to the u.n. general assembly and there i think we're going to almost certainly and i think the u.k. is already resigned to it going to see the u.k. with a humiliating defeat will they even manage to get in double figures on their side when the vote is cast that's a question people are asking here and we're very difficult question for the u.k. and also the us which is still using the space and what are the legal implications of this vote james where where did where would the case go from here. well the question of the moral issue and the legal issue the u.k. is saying that this was just an advisory opinion and saying that they're treaty

with the u.s. is binding and it's a tweet treaty to 2036 and apparently on a recent visit to the u.k. the secretary of state states. said he was committed to keeping that base in diego garcia and committed to supporting the u.k. in its ownership of the change or silence that in the news the name anymore they call it the british indian ocean territory but i think morally they'll be a great deal of pressure after a g.a.a. ruling. vote on this the u.k. under fresh pressure on this particular issue james thanks for that jane space at the united nations. now the kenyan or 3rd binyavanga why nine-a has died he was the head of kwame a kenyan literary journal and won several awards for his writing including the caine prize for african writing his satirical essay how to write about africa challenge popular stereotypes about reporting on the continent and when several

anti-gay laws were passed in countries across africa in 2014 when i publicly spoke out announcing that he was gay he died of a stroke in nairobi and was 48 well mordecai odaka is the director of conservation solutions africa he joins us by skype now from now yuki kenya thanks very much for being with us so what would you say is is the legacy of wainaina. thank you i think the legacy of the never go on a is about us taking all of our own narrative as you said i'm from the conservation world and this is one of the areas where the sort paternalistic western narrative about africa is most powerful in conservation his se helped write about africa i think it is most powerful because even though most people see

it as a work of saturn there is so much in there that is simply not subtle because it's a reality on the ground for those of us enough so i think. what he did differently from other 8 as is he didn't try to create his own different stream that people can follow in order to report or write about africa he created our own narrative and demanded a place for it the mainstream basically buke in the existing narratives so i think that is that's a very it was a very courageous thing of the to do and designs inspired many of us in many different fields to sort of bring up the african perspective and to call the one narrative in media in conservation in education legal practice media practice and reporting etc talk to us a little bit more about this seminal essay how to write about africa what what was

what are some of the examples in there about where you talk about about the satire and the pointing out of the stereotypes about the treatment of africa. the treatment of of africans is a is especially in the in the western funded end your world which is very powerful in conservation is that those who are on plant with the narratives existing wrong narratives about africa are often richly rewarded and highly praised by the system that they serve and he refers to certain off offhand terms lake somebody being switched on and a good chap and that that have a very strong racial undertone a lot of people were not africans don't don't realize it because when you refer to are switched on it's a term in kenya that's never used to refer to weigh people it's only black people were switched on and the implication is that you were

a relatively bright member of a large leaned on then. society or population and and a lot of the a lot of the casual reference to. busy the difficulties and terms like going native land these kind of things it's taken very california may think that is the saddest thing about it that when these narratives are bandied about so casually people don't realize just how harmful they are to the society within which they're being used so i think i think when he when he brings up the sort of gives the backhanded rebuke to the people use these terms so often and in many high offices including aid agencies conservation agencies even international organizations based and working in africa when he says that it is it wakes up a lot of people to the problems that this narrative creates and

a lot of them come from good places but they've come in and found this insidious system already in place and a lot of people don't realize just how wrong these things are and he wasn't just the north or he was an activist as well as being. in the h.b.o. where all the good and again i'm speaking from the never under all sorts cancel a very self-righteous society. what did in terms of gay activists and is incredibly bridge because we're a society that. very self-righteous and not. not. confortable in it. which was incredibly brave he never went. he never went into hiding and spoke his mind wherever he

wants or he were very grateful. not for them marginalize or. problem. good to speak with us appreciate talking to us there about the legacy of the kenyan or binyavanga one young man who died at the age of 48 thanks for being with us people who support abortion rights have marched in cities across the u.s. in a show of force against conservative efforts to restrict the procedure and castro has more. way back i was. c on the 100th anniversary of the house giving women the vote in the united states women and abortion rights activists in cities across the country took to the streets to say their battle is not finished does anyone here think there are women in this country or was the silent of all our rights are being taken away from us.

they march to protest abortion restrictions recently passed in conservative states 256 nays one alabama's new law is the most extreme it bans abortions except for when a woman's health is at risk making no exceptions for rape or incest this was a setting that we were a lot read on a fact we. write in america and it says it's very important to mel's that which other great work by. more than a dozen other states are trying to make abortion illegal after a fetal heartbeat is detected as early as 6 weeks democratic leaders say such laws are unconstitutional from them and very fact that the. republican party played truth are waking up there are going rabid are women's rights come in all right the state laws are not yet enforced they face court challenges that will

likely escalate to the u.s. supreme court. conservative activists have decided now is the time to challenge roe versus wade the landmark case that gave women the right to an abortion in 1973 you believe you are. and i think. the supreme court has skewed to the right due to president trump's recent appointment of 2 conservative justices but there's no guarantee the court will intervene meanwhile the president has distanced himself from the. most restrictive abortion ban tweeting he's pro-life with 3 exceptions including rape and incest. but these protesters say that's not enough they fear women's rights are eroding in america and are telling the supreme court now to protect their right to an abortion heidi joe castro al-jazeera washington almost

a 1000000 refugees are living in camps in bangladesh for years government run schools have allowed refugee students but recently many have been expelled via charly reports. i'm on a novel where both born in bangladesh their parents fled me and mar in 1901 their home now a sprawling refugee camp in cox's bazaar we have not identified them at their request but both were recently expelled from school our teachers when our classrooms and told us that you will not be able to study here at a time the government is not able to study anymore here for years bangladeshi schools have allowed some rohingya refugees from cox's bazar to attend classes a man is now worried about his future and that of other refugees so even the government can give us everything so why does.