this is one of europe's most popular tourist destinations 20000000 people visit every year but the number of large cruise ships traveling through this u.n. world heritage site has alarmed many here fearing the impact on this delicate city and the lagoon surrounding it. you know. it's a shameful situation but despite what happened we have been lucky given the circumstances it could have been a lot worse. it is a problem but half of the city earned thanks to these cruise ships before they said they will send more why slowly now this is happening they will do it immediately. was as people left the embassy or they were greeted by protesters was the crew ship's owner says it was about to dog when it encountered a mechanical problem it's reported to tow boats tried to prevent it from bombing

into the river boat. an investigation is underway to find out what happened and why he would al-jazeera. mexico as one of the highest murder rates in the world and it's rising fast nearly 8 and a half 1000 people were killed in the 1st 3 months of this year alone almost 10 percent higher than the same period last year president andres manuel lopez obrador made tackling violence a key campaign promise in the latest part of our series on the president's 1st 6 months in office john heilemann looks at what he plans to do. record murder levels in mexico it's clear the president and his mother will not preserve the daughter needed a plan to bring the killings down this is it or a big part of it the national guard branded as a new security force it's actually made up of the same soldiers marines and federal police that have been deployed to mexico's hotspots for years now $50000.00 of them

will be stuck together in the new force and given extra permanent policing powers its 1st deployment the minute it lands in the southeastern state of veracruz the force was sent here up to 13 people including a baby were recently killed at a party. many residents are relieved including local doctor and community leader laurel petty's. the gangstas had gone past the limits there was no want to control them right now they're being stopped and it's tangible they're still kidnappings and robberies but they've gone down. the relief some are worried about a militarize force permanently on the streets armed forces temporarily deployed across the years have committed human rights abuses eliciting that and then says marines were involved in the disappearance of a son hackle as it's happening to other forced disappearances haven't stopped and if the national guard comes with carte blanche to do what it wants they'll go on

that's what we don't want more disappearances more human rights violations there is another issue now and the new force has been promised is the government really going to come through president lopez obrador announced almost a month ago that it was already operational here a minute to plan but in 2 days in the city we haven't seen a single member of the national guard and that's only going to lead to questions is this for real or just to show. we were unable to put those questions to the new national guard commander or interview request went unanswered. critics have other questions the main one why is the government starting this new fools why not work on the badly paid and equipped local police which ready in place in the long term you're basically just increasing the reliance of of local governments in federal security institutions instead of strengthening their own capabilities so

you're not really feeling gob the situational vacuum that we have at the local level in various places of mexico where security forces and police forces are basically useless and very incompetent because of a myriad of issues mainly corruption and infiltration. president lopez obrador beach results and quickly he's calculated that the national guard will deliver the it's impact to the long term it's open to question john homan i just did a minute. and on monday we'll look at the social programs designed to be into terence against crime in the next part of our series on president of brazil's 1st 6 months. you are the news hour from london still ahead. we go on the road with indonesia's vigilante bikers who are saving lives by deliberately breaking the law. and record breaking bangladesh leave south africa

in big trouble in the cricket world cup. kidnappings and murders in crimea says russia's forced an extension of the black sea financial. i don't understand why. schools of crimea into tang's have been arrested tortured and killed. most believe by russian security forces. crimea russia's dark secret on al-jazeera. al-jazeera is different from other channels because we're not just there when something happens we are there before a confluence where there while it happens and we say we do have a permanent closeness and a lot of places are so much. close to the battleground being in lebanon on it is

very important it's about syria it's about lebanon it's about the power struggle between iran and saudi arabia it's all there and that's the challenge. of volunteer motorcycle gang is providing a lifesaving service in indonesia cities they are risking arrest by breaking traffic laws to help i'm events is get through the nation's notorious traffic jams florence louis reports now from jakarta in the latest and now series on 1st responders. this is a common scene in jakarta and other major cities in indonesia gridlocked traffic

which only gets worse during rush hour motorists don't always give great. even for emergency services. that has prompted a group of bikers to battle to get the chip provide motorcycle convoys that escorts ambulances through traffic they call themselves indonesia escorting ambulance the service has proved so popular that it spread from because a city in west java to other cities around indonesia a little bit of a somebody but i'm going to. sometimes we get stopped while doing this we don't have the right to do this i know that but we are helping people as well as the police if they think we're wrong. fine we are breaking the law but look at it from a humanitarian point of view if we don't help who will most indonesians are still not sensitive toward ambulances like the others here and he has a full time job and volunteers on his days off they don't get paid and instead have

to dip into the own pockets to pay for petrol on what about when they're on duty they have to be ready to spring into action at any time a patient from this hospital is going to be transferred to another one now these guys are going to ride ahead to clear traffic and several others are going to be bringing up the rear this patient who's had a stroke is being moved to another hospital to get a c.t. scan if she misses this appointment she'll have to wait several days to get another . ambulance has to travel from south to a district outside jakarta to south jakarta the 14 kilometer journey would have taken at least one and a half hours what not for the bikers. i'm happy that my mom could get here quickly and safely traffic here was so bad some hospitals now work closely with the bikers sharing information of where and when ambulances are headed by me. every 2nd matters the faster the patient gets the sooner they can be treated that makes their

chances of survival and recovery higher. the services these bikers provide may not be strictly legal but it's one they say it's needed and valued. florence al-jazeera to count them. hi mariyam thank you liverpool have been welcomed home by hundreds of thousands of people in the english city after winning the champions league the red showed off the trophy on an open top bus on sunday following their 2 nil victory over tottenham the night before in madrid it's the 6th time liverpool have been european champions but this is the club's 1st trophy since 2012 and the 1st since manager your can coopt took charge it's also a great way to end the season after narrowly missing out on the premier league title to manchester city despite only losing one game. is a lot to the people i can see it in their day guys in their reaction it's every so

much and is beautiful for us because we get so much on the pitch and then whenever you come back and you get a welcome back this is always good i cried as well of the bird because it's so overwhelming vote of people are good you have a direct eye contact with you see how much you need so that that's all that's touching. brazilian football star neymar is denied raping a woman in paris last month the woman filed a police report in sao paulo on friday alleging that she met neymar on instagram and that he had flown her to the french capital where the alleged assault took place that striker who's training with brazil for the copa america says he's been set up he also posted a link the video on social media that included messages he'd exchange with his accuser before and after the alleged incident. that they still with sadness and pain i recalled this video explaining everything it's

a very upsetting situation not just for me but for my family i want to apologize to my family for putting them through this because i didn't want to it was something that happened it was a set up and i was caught out but it has to be a lesson learned from now on. the former club of spanish footballer jose antonio de s. hosted his wake after the player was killed when his car spun off a motorway on saturday family members of various were joined by supporters at sylvia where he began his career and later won 3 europa league titles as his coffin was brought into the club for mourners to pay their respects he was $35.00 freya's was driving and his cousin was also killed in the crash. raises former spanish teammate santiago this has been criticized for being insensitive after comments posted about the crash on twitter has suggested that reyes had been speeding and said in the accident there were other victims doesn't deserve a tribute like

a hero he added that it didn't mean there is his death wasn't a big loss police so are still investigating the cause of the crash. bangladesh have confirmed their status as one of the emerging powers in cricket with victory over south africa at the world cup mushfiqur rahim top scored with $78.00 as they posted a total of $338.00 for 6 that's their highest one day score ever south africa's decision to bowl 1st not working out too well for them much to the delight of a big bangladeshi crowd in london and in no reply their protests fell 21 run short as bangladesh got their campaign off to a great start south africa opening the world cup with 2 defeats after losing to host england earlier in the week. and tennis defending champion rafa on the dollar has reached the quarter finals of the french open nidal wasn't given too many problems by argentina's world number 781 of the not. the spaniard cruising to

a straight sets win and staying on course for a record extending 12th french open trophy. former grand slam champ stan wawrinka reached his 1st major quarter final in 2 years with victory over greek youngsters the final 6 of us he might need some recovery time though this one coming after a 5 hour battle on the pairs play. wawrinka will play fellow swiss roger federer next after federer cruise into the quarterfinals the number 3 seed soft mare of argentina in straight sets. emotions were high at the italian moto g.p. on sunday as de niro but they got his 1st win after $125.00 races he held off world champion mark marquez to win his 1st ever grand prix at this level and it was on his home circuit as well marquez has extended his lead in the standings to 12 points and cycling richard a couple said just became the 1st ecuadorian to win the judo to talia after the

final stage the 26 year old folded over his handlebars with emotion has worn leaders jersey since may 25th. but that's all your support for now he's back to merriam. thanks very much larry she wraps up the news hour but there will be more news in just a moment a scene of a. challenge of the brazilian dictatorship with a democratically run football team. the collisions change the course of the nation . at the center was

a revolutionary football known to locals as the doctor. football rebels concludes with a celebration of the life and legacy of socrates in the corinthians democracy movement on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. every new york. after decades of being programmed with instructions data hungry computers can now on their own identifying patterns and predicting human behavior. artificial

intelligence can monitor our movement. and decide on our future the big picture decodes the world according to ai and exposes the. bias inside the machine part one on al-jazeera. well prepared to engage in a conversation with no preconditions the united states tones down its rhetoric on iran but says it will keep its maximum pressure campaign is kept out criticizes the hardline statements on iran made at last week's summit in saudi arabia.

and watching al-jazeera live from london i'm mariam also coming up on the program. israeli settlers accompanied by the security forces stream into jerusalem's most sensitive holy sites sparking clashes with muslim worshippers. and person braces for the arrival of president donald trump for a 3 day state visit expected to be full of home and protests. against the program our top story the u.s. secretary of state might pull bio says his country is ready to sit down with iran to discuss its nuclear program with no preconditions and a softening of the rhetoric after weeks of escalating tensions and threats from payers that the u.s. is ready to talk but he insisted it won't back down over what he called iranian aggression it comes

a day off to iran's president again suggested he's open to talks. we're prepared we're prepared to engage in a conversation with no preconditions we're ready to sit down with them but the american effort to fundamentally. reverse the moment i'm activity of this islamic republic this revolutionary force is going to continue. al-jazeera is frozen and jordan brings us more on the story now from washington. the more conciliatory language from the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei all comes after several weeks of daily sometimes hourly reminders that the trumpet ministration was putting political and economic pressure on iran to change its foreign policy as well as abandon its nuclear weapons ambitions this is a situation where the u.s. has basically put all of their countries on notice that they will face sanctions if

they try to buy iranian oil this comes after the trumpet ministration has put the islamic revolutionary guard corps part of iran's elite military off apparatus on its foreign terrorist organizations list saying that the i.r.g.c. is responsible to produce stabilizing governments in places such as lebanon and it's been supporting the syrian government during that country's civil war and that it has been providing material and perhaps logistical support to hooty fighters in the some in the civil war in yemen this is also a situation where the u.s. has not lifted any of the economic sanctions it has imposed on iran because of its opposition to iran's nuclear program this is a situation however where there is a growing international chorus very concerned about the potential for another u.s. led war in the middle east and it may be in part as

a response to those concerns that the u.s. wants to try to reassure the international community that it's not looking to start a new war but rather that it wants to see a real change in the way that terror on operates on the global stage. let's get the view from tad ron now same bus ravi has reaction from the iranian capital to the latest from ox. ever since the united states pulled out of the 25th 2 nuclear deal it has widened what was already a sizable trust gap between tehran and washington so the latest comments from u.s. secretary of state mike pompei oh of talking to iran with no preconditions though a positive sign of a softer tone from washington was received here into heroin by iranian leaders with a great deal of suspicion in a statement from iran's foreign ministry the spokesman abbas mousavi said for the islamist republic of iran wordplay and expressing a hidden agenda with new words is not the foundation for practical actions for iran

the basis is the united states altering its approach and practical behavior towards the nation of iran but mr pompei was emphasis on the continuation of maximum pressure on iran shows it is the same long running old approach that needs to be revised so the message there is that for america talk is cheap but for iran economic sanctions have been costly and continued economic pressure from those sanctions on the iranian people is unlikely to set the stage or the mood for any kind of conversation somebody like me because talking is the continuation of the process of pressure he's imposing pressure this may work in the real estate market it does not work in dealing with the last experience which was not ready optimistic and does not provide an optimistic. perspective for a future agreement if we are to take

a positive view of things then both the united states and iran have softened their rhetoric in recent weeks both sides have seemed to walk back from the brink of war but iran's leaders have said over and over again they will not negotiate a new nuclear. deal with the white house and u.s. president donald trump they will not compromise on their defensive capabilities they don't want to talk about things like the ballistic missiles program so what iran's leaders will be asking themselves with regards to this latest offer from us secretary of state might compel you is if they're not going to talk about those things and the united states is unwilling to move on its position of a maximum pressure campaign going to what is there left to discuss meanwhile cattles fog ministers told al-jazeera they have reservations about the statements on iran that came out of summits held in mecca last week the country prime minister attended the events despite the ongoing in this country by several of its gulf neighbors this was the highest level contact between the 2 sides since the crisis began 2 years ago but the foreign minister has now criticized the hardline

statements the summits produced. we had reservations about many parts of the statement this eliminates include 1st off only condemning iran and its collation against an. absence of any moderate policy to engage in their local iran or to solve the challenges which could exist in the relationship between the gulf states and iran or betweens arab states and iran. on another side we have that option of the american policy toward iran we respect policy toward iran but it is different from our policy. this statement also mentioned and of the united gulf where as a united gulf when we have 3 gulf states locating other gulf states where is the united gulf are we deceiving our people with such statements.

algeria's constitutional council has canceled next month's presidential election saying the only 2 candidates who wanted to run were both invalid it's a move protesters have been demanding for weeks after move of president. his government into monohan. many algerians have long suspected what was finally confirmed by the constitutional council the presidential election scheduled for july 4th is called off nearly all the candidates who put themselves forward for the top job couldn't register because of pressure from protesters who've been demanding more reforms and the move all politicians linked to former president abdul aziz beautifully because government. analysts say interim president abdul qadeer been solid and prime minister nuri diem been doing now need to listen to the 10s of thousands of protesters was they've turned out across algeria for 15

consecutive weeks demanding the resignation of anyone linked to the former government that's been cited has to listen to it but at this it's you know they have to get that out of that eminence of the president did that but isn't the government and did they have to have a new column started to organize these elections some protesters want army chief of staff. to step in and remove the political elite but he's warned against what he says are attempts to create a power vacuum despite such warnings anti-government protesters seem determined to keep up the pressure until algeria's political stop the front has gone. into monohan al jazeera israeli forces have arrested a number of muslim worshippers at the compound in occupied east jerusalem they used pepper spray and rubber bullets against palestinians who were inside attending pres

a large group of israeli settlers entered the compound alongside the israeli military as part of choice and day celebrations are a force that reports. protests inside the mosque compound in the last days of ramadan the word had gone round that israeli security forces were about to allow access to hundreds of nationalist israelis gathered outside usually the compound looted uses the temple mount is off limits to the muslims in the last 10 days of ramadan but not this time but please know how to go out of the city israel wants this to be a religious war and this will bring about destruction and israel is responsible for the results of this aggression it is unprecedented aggression against the worshippers and against muslims al aqsa mosque hundreds of settlers are allowed in a muslims are not allowed to walk in from the gates of the old city. the jewish activists are marking what's known in israel as jerusalem day the anniversary according to the jewish calendar of the day israel seized east jerusalem in 1967

last month it was understood israeli authorities had decided to bar access to jews on jerusalem day because it coincided with the end of ramadan but on the day itself they decided differently last week sunday monday and tuesday the temple mount was open and the regular visits wednesday thursday there are indications that this statement says that we had to close it this morning the situation was relatively calm and our units responded allowing on the jerusalem celebration days regular visits on the temple mount inside the old city preparations were under way ahead of the next potential flash point of the day well there's a heightened israeli security forces presence here inside the narrow streets of the old city well you can see that shopkeepers are starting to close up their shops it's ahead of what we're expecting in the next 3 minutes large scale marches of ultranationalist and religious nationalist israeli jews carrying flags celebrating what they call jerusalem day it's a yearly tradition for the shopkeepers here but concerns this year were particularly acute after the morning's incident such

a few meters away outside damascus gate the marchers were arriving many of them settlers many of them teenagers all of them here to make their presence felt for the participants this is a commemoration of a great victory a reclaiming of religious and national capital for the palestinians who live here under occupation it's an expression of power and of ownership that many find deliberately provocative ari forces out his era occupied east jerusalem. in other developments israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has sacked 2 cabinet minister ministers ahead of general elections this september but the education minister enough tally bennett in justice minister islet shock at a libel to netanyahu on the right of israel politics no reasons have been given for the sackings but the vacancies could give the prime minister leverage when you go shaping the future coalition government has now you got parliament to dissolve itself and call israel 2nd election this year.