is there for the potential crest the nation is always there however we do not expect that the situation room escalates significantly definitely not to the levels of 999 and what have been the situation in the region and within europe it's very different today president bush kitchen serbia did indeed precede to put the army on combat alert however we see that as more of a symbolic gesture intended mostly for domestic comes up into the domestic audience to indicate the hearts and serbia being serious about protecting the interests of serbs but not necessarily intending to use military force in kosovo by jury as president obama did behati has been sworn in for a 2nd term the 75 year old for more on the general want to closely for selection in separate he campaigned on promises to revive the economy to end corruption and defeat boko haram in the northeast body's main political opponent has challenge the

election results al jazeera has reports now from. president obama did what he now faces the reality on the ground and locked up must once have come up since 2015 when he was sworn in for the 1st time now there are additional problems that he has to deal with what i'm still remains a potent force and then like the farmer cattle herders. in nigeria have also come up. as well as in the course of niger and other parts of nigeria as well a lot of people will be waiting to see how we quickly address this make a comment on security issues in nigeria and one of the best indicators as to which direction the country is headed is when he appoints his economic team and i looked at nigeria's but it would take longer than it did in 2015 that speaks spent peyton has an independent strategic consultant and political analyst specializing in sub-saharan africa he joins us live from london good to have you with us ben is it

just me or to the list of challenges facing. the 2nd read exactly the same as he faced when he began his 1st term. with his 1st. well his 1st could hardly be considered a success in reality the economy was doing very poorly throughout almost his his entire although he did achieve some progress against boko haram in the northeast of nigeria it's certainly still the case that the country suffering from chronic insecurity 3 through various different security challenges and above all in his 1st thing that really define bihari was that he was so rigid in his approach he was he was very ideological in how he approached nigeria's problems and really showed a lack of flexibility in how to tackle the economic and security threats that he's facing and in addition to that of course health problems. his his 4 years in power

so far defeating corruption was a signature pledge of his why is corruption so difficult a challenge to work to tackle in nigeria. well corruption is has been around for decades and decades it's deeply embedded and bihari has made tackling corruption it's political signature he campaigned on not very very strongly and in 2015 when he was elected and he certainly has prosecuted a number of officials but of course officials which are primarily linked to the former government and it's as much more difficult to start tackling corruption when it's in your own administration so although hari will continue to talk the talk on corruption is very questionable whether he'll be able to achieve concrete results and fundamentally attacking the problem he's not a fit or young man and what are the chances of him being able to tackle nigeria's problems particularly. in the north of the country.

well book around is less of a threat today than it was 4 years ago it's lost the territory that it once held in the northeast but although bihari has claims repeatedly that it's technically defeated the reality on the ground is very different bombings going on. in the book i'm certain he still is is very much alive and really it's a question of whether a political solution can be found it's very difficult to completely eliminate a relatively large group like this through military means alone so i think without it without a different approach book of her on is going to remain one of the several different security challenges that nigeria is facing been really good strategy really 60 for being with us penned in london. the latest wave of barrel bomb attacks and ass trikes killed at least 10 civilians in northwestern syria syria and russia says the

attacks on western state it's been a month since the syrian government escalated an offensive on a rebel held province syria's civil defense fallen tears down as the white helmets try to rescue people from the rubble but the constant bombing in the effort sounds as heroes to report style from beirut. this is how the government's won back territory from the armed opposition in recent years targeting civilians to pressure rebels to surrender now the tactic is being used in northwest syria. there have been hundreds of these air strikes in the past month but the last few days have seen major escalation busy streets crowded areas are coming under fire. they like to punish the civilians they always do we found 10 burned bodies here they target the civilians the people when near a pharmacy when they were killed. it's an all too familiar scene the casualties

particularly among children are increasing from northern. provinces to the southern edges of it live and further west of the aleppo countryside nowhere is safe out. there. people are living in fear children were playing in the street when they were martyred there is no rebel position or headquarters here. you can see the civil defense workers are trying to move to a woman under the rubble. hospitals are being destroyed and humanitarian services have been suspended the united nations has denounced world powers for doing nothing to stop the attacks it is warning of a catastrophe i don't. want. no life. i want. every. place.

it is under the control of her. which many in the international community believe is still linked to al qaida the syrian government and its allies say they are fighting terrorists but the province is home to more than 3000000 syrians hundreds of thousands have been forced to leave their homes and this rebel held belt of territory on the southern edge is a blip but if this becomes a full scale battle for the entire opposition held region in a divorce west that crisis will get a lot worse senator beirut. chinese tech giant way has stepped up its legal fight against u.s. sanctions the company has filed a motion in court to have bans on its business deemed unconstitutional u.s. federal agencies and contractors a prohibited from using our way equipment for national security reasons our china correspondent adrian brown reports. few companies could withstand the assault but

while ways now and part of its response has been to open its doors to the international media in corporate china but these are unusual and uncertain times for the country's biggest technology company now effectively locked out of the us market we believe this sets a dangerous precedent. that they it's can it come and our way tomorrow it could be your industry your company your consumers on wednesday the company announced it's pressing ahead with legal moves to try to scrap a recently passed law that prevents u.s. federal employees from using weiwei technology the trumpet ministration says it could be used for spying because of accusations the firms in the pocket of china's government the u.s. government has provided no evidence to assure that highway

is currently threat there's no gun no smoke only speculation u.s. politicians he said were using the entire strength of the u.s. against one company while we had anticipated being placed on the u.s. trade blacklist which effectively prevents said buying components on which its technology is dependent it has been stockpiling parts but those parts will soon run out and what's not clear is what happens if the ban remains permanent. when president xi jinping talks about defending china's core interests he means companies like while away whose headquarters he deserted 4 years ago another important core interest what's called rare earths special metals used in everything from magnets to missile systems a week ago president xi highlighted their importance when he toured the part of the

country with the industry is based a prelude perhaps to a warning that appeared on the front page of a popular newspaper on wednesday quoting an unnamed government official who suggests china might use its rare earths as leverage in the trade dispute with the united states china is currently the world's largest rare earth exporter this and the battle over while way further signs of the collapse in trust between the world's 2 largest economies adrian brown al-jazeera sions and. deborah is executive director of the asian trade center in singapore she says that the u.s. is motivated not just by security but also by technology and trade can science. the u.s. has been planning to do something about huawei apparent for some time and put the old pending the resolution of the trade and tariff discussion in the united states appear to have decided that those trade have discussions are not going to be

resolved as quickly as pated sin they might as well to see forward with while a chance in so now the 2 things because of the timing because of the trade talks fell apart and while a grand was announced almost immediately those 2 things have definitely become complacent both sides think they have the upper hand so you're you're in a an unusual situation where both parties genuinely believe that they have the upper hand both parties sophistic important facts on the ground they think support that bolsters their claim when you start talking a particular about digital and technology that backs everyone that is so nations that is the future of where we expect to see in countries large and small in developing countries world technology i mean this is what we all actually have a great in how this is resolved and the unfortunate thing for everyone outside of the united states and china is that there's nothing you can do except stand back

and watch a big party. have this debate between each other and hope that they come to some resolution in the near term because it affects everyone boris johnson one of the from run us in the race to become britain's next prime minister has been summoned to court johnson is facing accusations of misconduct in public office of the statements made in the run up to the briggs it referendum 3 years ago the case alleges that he knowingly lied to people about the amount of money being sent to the new each week al jazeera as paul brennan reports from london. this is not the legal authorities who are bringing boris johnson to court it's a private prosecution that's been launched by an individual who spent the last 3 years raising around 230000 pounds to crowd fund a private prosecution against the former. of london now conservative m.p. and now also prime ministerial candidate forrest johnson one of the they're

alleging or what he's alleging this man marcus ball is that 3 counts of misconduct in public office and that is relating to the bracks it campaign ahead of the 2016 referendum and they say that he says that boris johnson essentially willfully misled the public over the primarily over the claims that 350000000 pounds a week was being sent to the european union and if we went through with bracks it and left the european union that money would come back and be spent on the n.h.s. now the arithmetic of that 350000000 pounds a week has been picked over in the past 3 years since the referendum and found to be jus b.s. put it that way i will give you the nuts and bolts but it's closer to around 160000000 certainly nothing like 350000000 a week now it's not often that we hone in on paraguayan on the weather forecast but flooding there at the moment is pretty relentless i have to say here to tell us

more is meteorologist rob you're right you could navigate the river part of growing march and you can't see where the edges are in fact the video here bindi's it's more like the venice of panic or no this is a sincere or just the worst of a sincere and true to form their own names in the can but with the correct action the focus now are making light of it but frankly they've got used to her in some places rivers nice 7 meters above flood level it's not the biggest has ever been admittedly but it's pretty widespread now and 70000 people have been displaced by top. months ago about $11000.00 so it's got worse now the rate has been with the last 2 months but as you can see from the streaming satellite picture it sort of died out now and the hindus that maybe ok the worst is over but the course is a long river and it starts up in brazil there are no showers in brazil in this part either so it's quite possible almost reached the maximum flood stage and things will improve but let's not be too hasty about it there's still

a green area running from rio back to was a sense you're on the still the possibility of this sort of rainfall and but i think one of the reasons it's becoming lighter is because the coals introduction in the atmosphere rather than going north all that is coming south i mean you look at the chilean coast now this is where the chilean and these get proper winter and when a series picks up some of the cold from that and mia 13 degrees coming up. right many thanks indeed still to come here on the. activists in argentina renewed that battles that eased the country's abortion law. particularly struggle survive in pakistan's deserts which is facing a severe drought. in sport some disappointing news for heavyweight boxing champion anthony joshua.

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it is good to have you with us hello adrian from going to here but the news from i was there the headlines an exchange of fire between members of saddam's security forces led to the death of a pregnant woman and several others have been injured it happened on the 2nd day of a nationwide strike against military. u.s. national security advisor john bolton has accused iran of being behind an attack on an oil tankers earlier this month iran's foreign ministry has dismissed the claim as quote laughable. i think cost of a vow to resist further police raids in the semi autonomous region protesters in north. plotted against the arrest of dozens of people on tuesday. saudi

arabia is being accused of targeting a prominent critic in britain using israeli spy ware got to the saudi is a popular satirist who regularly criticizes the saudi royal family palace reports i have. my eyes jobless our outspoken and into tightening to saudi broadcasts assess i own you tube is videos have been viewed hundreds of millions of times it's. the saudi satirist often targets his country's royal family but his comedy has pushed him and it's cross he is. i am he's lived in the u.k. for 16 use in self-imposed exile he's been under police protection since the murder of journalist jim. now his lawyers have told the saudi embassy in london they're bringing legal action for hacking his phone and this is not an isolated case i think and recent weeks we have heard some new similar

attempts at hacking telephones and spying on other dissidents across the united states canada in europe particularly most recently in norway and it seems to be a pattern. the spyware was developed by israeli side any so group whose products have been linked to the targeting of activists and journalists around the world i missed the international filed a lawsuit earlier this month asking israel's ministry of defense to ban the export of any sos pegasus software which can convert lead take control of a mobile phone copy its darter turn on its microphone for surveillance amnesty says one of its staff was spied on that way it knows of $24.00 other human rights activists including the shock g. who also targeted what sepp says it was hacked by the spy ware in may any sort of

started in 2010 in israel and is supported by european private equity firm no filipino capital has revenues of $250000000.00 and he says website says supports the national security priorities of israel the united states and europe adding we probably take a pioneering approach that sets an industry standard for ethical business. that is denied that it spyware has been used against civilians out of saudi suv he's not deterred will continue his public battle for freedom of speech shelob ellis al-jazeera. the israeli government has reduced gaza's fishing zone 3 days after allowing palestinian boats to venture further out to sea the israeli military says that it's responding to incendiary balloons flown towards israel by palestinians the fishing area was extended as part of an egyptian at kasserine brokered cease fire between palestinian factions and israel following the recent cross border

bombardment. a british financial watchdog says the u.k. is the world's greatest of corporate tax avoidance needs barker reports from london's financial district. taxes have been described as the price that we pay for civilization we may not like them but they're responsible for keeping our economies and our societies afloat paying for roads health care education defense social security the list goes on all companies pay corporation tax on their annual profits but according to a new report an estimated $500000000000.00 worth of taxes maybe being deliberately avoided by some of the world's largest multinational companies that's roughly the same as the economic output of sweden or 20 times the un's humanitarian aid budget now for the 1st time an index of worst offenders has been published the top ten's dominated by a british controlled network of jurisdictions the british virgin islands but muta

the cayman islands and the island of jersey also in the top 10 is the netherlands switzerland luxemburg singapore the bahamas and hong kong according to the index these 10 places are alone responsible for hough of the world's corporate tax avoidance big companies are free riding on the global economy and in many cases causing enormous damage to their pre-writing facilities to harming market quality they might well also be harming the countries where they're operating by not enabling those countries to invest properly in educating their workers training their workers providing health services for their workers so this is harmful activity. tax haven such as the cayman islands a british overseas territory in the caribbean provide offshore banking services to wealthy foreign companies and individuals allowing them to avoid paying tax in their countries of residence and it's all largely legal 100000 companies are

registered here include. british petroleum and even manchester united for the past few years the corporation tax rate here has been 0 but it's not for everyone it requires wealth money to invest and to pay for expensive advises the authors of the corporate tax haven index say this isn't a question of legality but it is a question of fairness over a system where only the rich can afford to get even richer. in italy the anti migration league posse is proposing tougher controls on people being smuggled across the mediterranean and boats following its victory in the european elections the party is also targeting italians who work for refugee organizations that help new arrivals. had reports from rome. it's hard to imagine the human connection to a dilapidated building but for raphael and her mum this migrant perception center

was their only source of income and now both of them are without jobs. this center was among dozens it was down after it leaves government decided to change its refugee laws. we are 120 people who were laid off like me and my daughter there are others who have no salary sat it's difficult and so vain he has no idea what he's doing to our. charities a warning that more than 4000 workers are already jobless and if the government continue to shut down migrant centers the number could rise 215005 the end of the year in addition to costing millions of euros essential integration services such as psychological assistance and language courses will also be lost. many people have been relocated to other centers some have decided to stay because their paperwork was already being processed no one agreed to speak and camera because they're afraid of what the government might do to their cases if they talk to us.

and they have nowhere but the street to call home. at the crack of dawn they pack up their belongings and leave. it's not the live the imagined when they took risks to come to europe. in addition to closing down migrant centers the italian government plans to penalize. every migrant to rescue italian m.p.'s have been defending this decision saying that out of the hundreds of thousands of people who came to their shores only a small percentage were actually to. if you tease the wrist what economic. opposition politicians accuse the government of then a phobia and racism. there is a contradiction because the numbers are unreliable the interior minister 1st bokeh 500 or 600000 but now he says illegal immigrants to italy are 90000 with no explanation the. 44 year old deborah has also been laid off from a migrant reception center she was pregnant when the government decided to close

down the center in the suburbs of rome since then she has lost the baby and her job . i've looked for a job after the miscarriage but he wants me at my age with a child who gets sick once a month my biggest fear is not being able to feed my son i only hope i have is of leaving italy i see no future at the moment but. the right wing government says it wants to put it holland's 1st its promise jobs and getting rid of migrants but the tough conditions are impacting the locals as well deborah was born to parents and now she wants to move out of her old country in search of a better like some of the. soldiers in myanmar implicated in atrocities against range of muslims 2 years ago and now being accused of committing more war crimes amnesty international says the rebel groups in rakhine state are under attack by the army's western command soldiers from the same units were

suspected of genocide as 3 quarters of a 1000000 mainly a minority ranger fled to bangladesh in 2017 fighting has forced a further 30000 people to leave this year. green handkerchiefs have been waved in towns and cities all over argentina as women campaign to have abortions legalized green is the symbol for demanding change to the law in the country so the reports from one of us. legal abortions in a public hospital that's what these women are demanding. thousands of them marched to congress to present a new abortion bill last year the no one house of parliament voted for the 1st time in history to decriminalize and legalize abortion in this largely catholic country . however the no was rejected in the senate in a very tight halt but people like say they will continue trying.

the chamber's the same and it's going to be difficult the same dinosaurs as last year but they need to understand the abortions are already happening in the country women die many of them are poor they have nowhere to go and end up in warble places where their lives are at risk. these green handkerchief has become the symbol of their demand to legalize abortion gay marriage and tina for women here it's a matter of public health because already hundreds of thousands of illegal abortions are already happening in the country thousands of women end up being hospitalized because of complications during the procedure. there we saw the risk of prison if a woman is found guilty of having had an abortion argentina only allows abortion in case of rape or a risk to woman's health. the powerful catholic church continues to be a major obstacle to legalized abortion in this country but friend says who is

argentinean has repeatedly said that abortion cannot be condoned. says the pulpits correct when i presume that they come with their green handkerchiefs and think they are right. right there no justifying killing an innocent life on the white pass because it's the same chamber as last year. the presidential elections will take place in october this year and most lawmakers acknowledge that debating abortion won't be easy it's a highly contentious issue that has polarized argentinean society. and mackie said he would sign the bill if passed. health secretary. says argentina needs to address the controversial matter. needs to be an issue of public health of women dying of the hospitalizations that end up in mutilations that occur when complications arise aside from believes values and

attitudes there is a problem that happens abortion already exists we cannot stop it poor women who do not have access to the pharmaceuticals or procedures to interrupt a pregnancy go to unsafe places and end up in a hospital or dead. even though it's a nightly past this year women say they will continue to pressure. they say legalizing abortion is crucial to save women's lives. boeing's 737 may not return to service until august the international air transport association says the final decision will be made by regulators 737 max was grounded in march after 2 crashes that were sort of involved the plane's software. the 1st trial in the us against drug makers blamed for contributing to the opioid crisis is on the way in the state of oklahoma it's a test case to see if individual states can hold pharmaceutical companies

responsible for widespread addiction. gallacher was at the hearing in oklahoma. in a small courthouse in norman oklahoma a trial that aims to take on a pharmaceutical giant is underway if you focus while people will lawyers for the state say johnson and johnson downplayed the addictive nature of powerful painkillers and flooded the market with their products and ultimately played a role in fueling a crisis that swept the u.s. according to the center for disease control nearly 48000 people died in 2017 in opioid related overdoses more than a 3rd of those were using drugs prescribed by doctors this trial is so important emily walden son died from an overdose in 2012 he was 21 years old she says companies like johnson and johnson need to be punished and it's time to be held accountable you've killed thousands of people across this country maybe not some of

them directly but many indirectly and you lied about your drugs you marketed them and appropriately and it's time to pack rather than go to court to drug companies and settled out of court giving the state more than $300000000.00 but health experts say the cost of long term addiction treatment programs will be almost $90000000000.00 it's not anywhere compared to the damage that the epidemic has done to oklahoma and it's not going to be enough to abate the problem and to get us back to where we were before they started releasing these medications irresponsibly over the next few weeks state lawyers will present the evidence to the judge attorney general my concept told the court that johnson and johnson only care about profits at the end of the day your honor i was sure one word answer. greed this good you have drug addiction has plagued the us but proving that johnson and johnson played a role will be difficult big pharmaceutical companies on breaking the law by

selling painkillers but lawyers here aim to prove they acted irresponsibly if they win here the knock on effect to around 2000. pending court cases will be significant johnson and johnson denies any wrongdoing and says they marketed their drugs responsibly if oklahoma wins this case though it could end up costing the pharmaceutical industry billions and gallacher al-jazeera norman oklahoma a 4 year drought is driving villages from the desert region of pakistan. to report from the deserts capital of dying as they have not enough grass to graze. these people have come to. pray for rains. around 500 families live very good rom but way of life are threatened by drought. here.