another message he said that hong kong's freedoms would continue to be protected by china well hong kong's official standing is unique let's just run through how things work legally and politically since its handover from british rule to china in 1997 officially it's a semi autonomous region in china it's led by a chief executive who functions like a prime minister but is chosen by a 1200 member committee made up of mainly pro beijing politicians and business leaders china describes it as a one country 2 systems principle hong kong executive legislative and independent judicial power under what's called the basic law but communist party leaders in beijing have the power to interpret and he pulls their own way and the laugh is the former chairwoman of the democratic party she's calling on the international community to continue exerting pressure on hong kong's leaders. the city is split asunder there are those who are on the side of willingly or

unwillingly but there are many who are terrified of you know the chinese legal system coming into hong kong and as you can see more than a 1000000 people march yesterday very peacefully. very rich and very poor very old and very young and they were all united by their fear of the chinese communist party and the chinese legal system coming into hong kong it will be like a truck driving through making a big hole in one country 2 systems then we will be crashed label have one country one system human rights national boundaries anybody anywhere have a right to speak out when they see human rights problems existing so i don't i don't care. but we have to continue to speak out and i want britain i want britain and the international community to keep an eye on hong kong

we are a lovely. free city and nobody wants to see crashed by evil forces so i hope the international community will continue to keep. control of the top story now germany's foreign minister is in iran looking for ways to preserve the nuclear deal. a european financial system designed to avoid u.s. sanctions should be up and running soon the e.u. along with the rest of the trees to the 2015 agreement are standing by it to the u.s. withdrew. germany's foreign minister european powers are doing to keep the dialogue . fish. there's a serious situation in the region as collation of tension is becoming uncontrollable a military action wouldn't be in line with the interests of any party i have spoken with all the parties in my regional visit and no one has called for an escalation

of tensions that's a message i'm conveying from the region that we had intensive talk today on the nuclear deal germany france and britain call for supporting the deal and we are fulfilling our commitments we can't do any miracle in this regard but we are doing our utmost efforts to prevent the failure of the deal whether all those foreign minister says his country has never broken the promises it made under the nuclear deal. the united states has declared economic war against iran this war is very dangerous for the region and the international order the measures taken by the u.s. after its weeks roll from the deal for us mean targeting the reigning nation iran has proven that it hears to international commitments 15 reports prove this reality but iran is also obligated to defend the rights of the iranian nation a correspondent also. the reigning foreign minister held a 2 hour meeting with his german counterpart in what is known as the hall of

mirrors in the foreign ministry in the capital on monday the 2 discussed various issues but at the core of it was the future of the nuclear agreement between iran and the international community now the german foreign minister said that this country is very concerned about escalation in this region between iran and the united states and also the future of this agreement is something the iranians want to see the european union up hole that iranian foreign minister says that they have to make good on their promises and that the future of any other dialogue in discussions about iran's various programs such as the ballistic missile program depend on how this nuclear agreement goes forward well meanwhile the u.n. has just confirmed that iran's production of enriched uranium is increasing. it would do this progress wasn't made on lifting sanctions but of the u.n. nuclear agency says it's not clear whether the enrichment had reached levels that

violate the agreement i prefer not to mention the specific korea. due to situation but i can say. peace and production increased. accordance with the latest measurement well too and we know via skype from bombing germany years about a bike he's the chief executive of the center for applied research in partnership with the oriental advises european policymakers business is on iran good to have you with us on al-jazeera i mean the rons foreign ministry gave the impression on monday that it was sort of make or break in terms of the european stepping up their support for the payment system needed to sort of circumvent u.s. sanctions how do you read today's meeting between the german and rainy and foreign ministers. from what we have seen i think it has been a relatively good meeting took quite a long it was according to people i spoke to it was a lengthy frank discussion i think it was also mentioned in your report in your

report at the same time i think the most important point that foreign minister from germany that your cannot do any miracle and i think this is the key issue here what is viewed as a miracle from the european side is an expectation from the iranian side and that is that this transaction channel inspects. becomes operational meaningfully and that is the most difficult point for the europeans right now and a condition for iran to remain committed to the nuclear of course in stacks is that issue that is where they are having frank and serious talks and that's all very well but what should we expect to see perhaps in the short or long term. in the light of sort of the u.n. . the. sort of statement we've just heard now that iran is actually producing and rich uranium. yet iran had announced early may that it will gradually scale down some of its commitments as the other side the p 5 plus one are not delivering what

they were what they had promised and i think. a report now shows that iran is invalid seriously walking to the towards that path of slowly scaling down its commitment and i think a lot of that today in his report was to really warm international community that everything has to be done to make sure that the basic he laid does not fall apart even if all sides are interested in keeping this nuclear nonproliferation treaty intact of course while europe's keeps an eye on what iran is doing right now of course a europe is also trying to counter washington's next move so as d.c. wakes up what do you expect the u.s. to do in terms of turning the screw even more so on to her and. it is at this point quite quite difficult to imagine what else can be done apart from military action but i have to say that recent weeks and months there's

a recent leaks we have heard a softer tone from washington we did not see any change in policies such as imposing sanctions but we have heard statements by president trump and for as secretary of state michael video that hinted at the fact that the u.s. is currently holding its maximum pressure in a way that it's not further escalating it and maybe waiting to see what comes out of the talks between high. and his iranian counterpart and on the iranian side of think there is interest of the raising the stakes for everyone for that action has undertaken and we have to hope that all sides manage to find solutions but this for the moment about the body joining us from bald thanks so much for your time. at least 100 people have been killed during an attack in central mali the man from the area says the gunman raided and ethnic dogan village in the a mob region biting between the dog and hunters and the filani herders has killed

many people in recent months on the cliffs hack is live for us in dakar in neighboring senegal and nic just try and sort of fill in the gaps force what do we think has happened and and what's the reaction we still getting from officials there. well there details are still coming in what exactly happened early this morning in the village of somebody who in the region of bunk us next to the city of moti in the center of mali what we hear is that men armed with machetes and guns stormed a village. by the coup. on the motorbikes early in the morning while villagers were still asleep killing at least 95 people now the military came on the ground were deployed there at the village as we speak right

now trying to secure the area in to ensure that there are no more attacks happening in the villages nearby and trying to figure out who is behind this attack the region of a t. so as you know has been affected by intercommunal violence between the dog on the hunters and the full lonny ethnic full on these that live in the region the phalanges or semi nomadic group that come in the region where the dog runs live to try to feed their cattle and there has been clashes in the past between the dog on and the full on march 23rd 160 full on the herders in villagers were killed in what we believe was attacked that was coordinated by doggone hunters and so in this tit for tat we're seeing an increase in attacks of this nature of intercommunal violence in a country that is already rocked by armed groups that are trying to overthrow the government of this since 2013 where armed groups took over the north of the country

to try to take over mali so it's a really the situation is going from bad to worse in mali and in the region of hell as a whole so it will leave it but they can of course it will clarification from the authorities so it's very much. now an international monitoring group which examines sunday's election in kazakhstan says it was tarnished by clear violations of fundamental freedoms the election commission says. with around 70 percent of the ballots he's the chosen successor of the longtime president nursultan nazarbayev about $500.00 protest of were arrested on election day during a rare incident of public unrest but enforced the warka reports from the capital of seoul tongue was this was no wants the electoral turnout the old thirty's wanted disorder in kazakstan capital.

and 2nd city almaty was the only course the vote protesters cried because they do not believe this election office them a real choice. some said they supported the democratic choice of as extern political party. was for i'm not afraid because i've had enough i've been living without a home in temporary accommodation for 13 years i'm fed up others said they wanted freedom to demonstrate because unsanctioned protests are illegal and hasn't started only just here nixon is in fear it's all been decided already it's not choices as they are all. its own like circus was the right police now working their way down the central street the protesters are in front of me they are trying to say ahead of

the police. in the future drugs are being seized was it's really getting it's a good if the situation. was good there was. no was this was the image the authorities wanted to project an orderly participation by the electorate. in a peaceful transition of power. north as a boy of the man who ran kazakstan for nearly 30 years has stepped into retirement although he retains significant powers as chairman for the life of the country's security council is chosen successor. to talk i have his own course to take over what is your specific message to those individuals who are campaigning for more democracy and rights in this country those individuals who've been detained are advised all the law enforcement agencies to be tolerant.

society restraint but any serious violations of our laws of course will not be tolerated but at the same time i urge all the young people. on the same level. to exercise restraint to be tolerant to the power through the government a rare acknowledgement that because it's deserved more political freedom although that didn't stop the tensions kazakstan has never seen an election day quite like this before. or live to rubble forestay walk in nursultan an election peppered with controversy robin. indeed and so that turned out of in excess of 70 percent and that talking to folks

cost for. your much of 70.8 percent that is an overwhelming figure really most western democracies would be extremely satisfied with that on those fronts here that's considerably less underwhelming perhaps when you compare that to the way the previous president used to score in excess of 98 percent i think was in the last the last election as opposed to party which of course that's led to quite a good big deal of skepticism today the international observer mission from the o. s. c.e. gave quite a damning report about the way which this election played out and with me to talk about that and some other issues is roman vassili and co he is the deputy foreign minister of kazakstan i'm very grateful to you mr versity and for coming on and talking to us about these issues which are concerned what's your take home from the

o.s.c. report well the o.c. was one of the organisation that observed the election there were 9 in total some of them issued better reports or more positive reports and now we see there was he of course has. a long experience in doing this our take is that we will continue to engage with the o.e.c.d. we will continue to listen to recommendations we are part of the o.e.c.d. family we will constructively in gauge when these organizations and these reforms that are called for in. the report will be taken into account and the new government under the newly elected president will look at them and going forward some of them will be implemented according to our own laws and constitution well they are you because it's done cause he's a member of the o.s.c. . and just a quick mention of those other observer missions of the comprised of former soviet states that don't have as pretty in a democracy record nevertheless the take home from the sea is clear now what is mr

talk of promising the people because we have had seen huge numbers of detentions and that's a big concern i think for human rights observers that people are not being allowed the right to peacefully protest or oprah or just give their alternative opinions here well even as a candidate and now today as president elect have announced that there will be a great push for a more constructive engagement with the civil society and a more constructive engagement. with the youth he read to rated his call to establish a committee for public trust which will oversee the issues that need to be addressed in the public domain in kazakhstan in the social domain and in political domain one of those young people though we've been hearing reports of individuals being picked up off the streets after the vote after all of that unrest yesterday i've spoken to some of these young activists and unfortunately we wanted to have them on the show

with us at some point over the last couple of days but they ended up being detained in being taken to a prison 60 kilometers outside of the city what's being you know this isn't this doesn't look good for kazakstan does it well there were people who were trying to provoke police for actions i'm not sure which ones are you talking about certainly the police tried to use the restraint force and there was no use of excessive force but they were trying to disperse the assembly which was called for. illegally however again going forward the government will look into both regulating of the assemblies and generally into the matters of freedom of speech and freedom of expression and i believe that in the foreseeable future. people will see change in kazakhstan ok roman thank you very much for talking to us on out is iraq yes there are a lot of political and economic social grievances in kazakhstan but the cause i call

30 say they are now serious about change well there's a new president of has it up as kazakstan it seems and so we'll be looking and keeping an eye on the health things developing this country going forward thanks very much back to you. robin frosty walker. it's time for the weather has covered look it's a great savior no we have a big severe weather outbreak probably tonight and into tomorrow morning let me explain what's going to happening with that particular storm we have a lot of clouds are here across central europe you can see the the association as they move towards the north but what's happening is we have a cold front right now across that area a lot of cold air behind it a lot of hot arraf in front of it and what we are looking at is very large hail gusty winds and the possibility of tornadoes in this area right here through the overnight hours now this is going to continue tomorrow the severe weather threat actually does go down as we go to the rest of day but it's going to be tonight and into tomorrow that's going to be the big problem for the rest of the week though it's going to be quite stormy out here towards the west particulars of the

temperatures out here towards the east we're talking about widespread thirty's in many locations all the way from the south and into parts of the northeast so this is going to be a significant event we could be talking he waved as we go from wednesday as well as into thursday the other big story is what is happening here across united states in dallas we had a major thumb thunderstorm push through the area here it is right here i want to show you what the winds from that storm did across dallas it brought down a crane across this region let me show the video very quickly as it comes up this crane right here fell into an apartment complex winds of 113 kilometers per hour winds there we had one person dead as well as 5 critically injured the severe weather threat has actually increased decreased in that area back to you so. we're watching the al-jazeera news out with me to help the recount of all top stories pakistan's former president asif ali zardari has been arrested on

corruption charges local media so his detention is part of a money laundering investigation the diary denies the allegations at least 95 people have been killed during an overnight attack in central mali and. of the area says the target was ethnic joke and village in the region. china says a family supports hong kong as leaders plans to push ahead with the proposed extradition law and those who lead huge weekend protests are urging people to go back home to the streets. of course in india has found 6 men guilty over the gang rape and murder of an 8 year old girl the case sparked national outrage last year and led to protests across the country victoria will be has the latest security was tight outside court as the queues arrive to face

justice that their role in the kidnap gang great and murder of an 8 year old soviet satellite i guess you got to side across of the 7 minister trial 6 are found guilty 3 of a policeman have destroyed evidence and a plea main accuser found guilty of kidnap rape and murder. the victim was held prisoner in this temple for 4 days in january last year before she was strangled and beaten to death. the court heard that it was part of a plan to force her muslim name magic community to leave cata a district in the indian administered kashmir area of jamey the victim's family faced death threats after their daughter's death as a result the supreme court moved the trial to the neighboring state of punjab. we are worried for our other kids after the killing of our girl we don't even let them go to school people try to pressure us off to register the case but the police many people try to shield the culprits by mounting pressure on the investigation.

of the men who attacked the girl where hindi the case sparked national outrage which intensified when some state ministers of the governing hindu nationalist b j p party initially defended the accused indian law allows for the death penalty for rapists of girls under the age of 12 but in this case the judge sentenced the 3 men convicted of rape and murder to life in prison subsidy. we congratulate the indian courts we've been fighting for this from ordinary year to day is not a day for celebration but a day of solidarity with a young innocent girl india has struggled to stop violent crime against women and girls more than 40000 rapes were recorded in 2016 with many more going on reported especially in rural areas many say what happened to this family is a reminder of just how much more needs to be done to protect women and girls

victoria gates and be al-jazeera. secretary of the all india progressive women's association and joins me now via skype from new delhi good to have you with us on the program let's just begin with this specific case has justice been so be it a drug great deal of scrutiny and anguish for those looking for justice. well i think that the conviction that the court of the sessions court has given is a remarkable achievement for the family for the activists of the lawyers who fought for justice in this case i know that the family members whole thing for a more severe sentence and all of that i think as a women's rights activist i think that this isn't the remarkable achievement given the find of pressure that was put on the investigation and the prosecution you had members of the ruling party the ruling b.g.p. including ministers and elected representatives of parliament leading get

institutions in support of the perpetrators indeed we will get to maybe that as well is this interview because the issue of sexual violence if you just focus on this but for the moment against women and the fact that some legal changes since the 2012 gang rape of a go on a bus which caused national nationwide outrage sort of hasn't really changed the actions all of the moral code of some indian or some men in india and that's been also a highlighted problem. and that to be that is the problem of sexual violence in general but about this case i'd like to underline that there's also a bit of. time again because a lot of the magic community. is the one among the bait and switch but inflicted on this to try and make them somebody which is why. last time it was that

i can remember. a fluke. that. such a fine like such a big i mean that that distinguishes the some ongoing sense. that a daily violence against women and violence against india many many cases. was over and i think that that is something they're all got me with and trying to predict and find to ensure justice but in this case you had a follow up sending again just trying to calm a wall between justice and the family members. that. are problematic is this not a politician. trying to bargain for votes trying to gain votes whether it be in local elections national elections and these sorts of issues which are an issue of what is right and morally wrong and society is being defined. a

defense is being found from politicians at all levels that is a real sort of problem within india about trying to go. to the defense of an issue because of your public schools. well it's not just because of politics let's be they let's policies be dispy that is in him will make sure that you're in politics which is just one of the parliamentary elections of the 2nd time and has won for the 2nd term of 5 years so mr morsi and his government that are members of his cabinet are who have in fact gone and get people who have lynched to death muslims on some pretext or the other so you want this kind of thing holding that these bottles it's not you know basically defining our someone as big not in if they have inflicted by them on muslims this is something which is politics that is inspired by the budget getting as it is doing i want to distinguish those in the

legend this is not to do with the religions it's not what we think in the community the sense. is political in our human but i don't get it far right on a fascist which is trying to profit from this kind of instance and 5 to make a lot of other public lewdness of such bad well it indeed will be interesting to see what the fallout of this is politically as the weeks and months continue ahead for the moment. thanks so much for joining us from new delhi. a sudanese state television is reporting that 3 opposition leaders arrested over the weekend have been released to them were taken into custody after meeting the ethiopian prime minister and the army on friday as he tried to mediate between the militants into and opposition stands military has ordered more troops on to the streets as a general strike and as a 2nd day opposition activists have called for an indefinite campaign of civil disobedience until the joined hands power to a civilian government. has spoken to

a representative of the military junta is that the crackdown on protesters last week that left dozens dead is being investigated. we had a plan to disperse the columbia area and this was the will of the people and this was even agreed on by the declaration of freedom and change the plan was to disperse the area and clean it up without getting close to the main sit in area but mistakes were made when the plan was carried out and that's what led to the situation let's just take into consideration that our forces never got deep into the sitting area after that mistakes were made the military council formed a committee to investigate the violations some of russia's leading newspapers of come out in support of an investigative journalist who's been put under house arrest accused of dealing drugs even a good little business for his worth exposing corruption his supporters say they know contacts were planted on him and he's been beaten up while in police custody stepped vasant has. it's an unusual display of solidarity by 3 leading business

newspapers here in russia i am we are even got enough that's what it's us spread it all over their front pages today the rest of the investigative journalist has cost an outrage not only among his colleagues and closest friends but in widespread circles around the country even up to the government level in state media some and press come out to his defense and ask questions about his arrest he was arrested on thursday and police say they found drugs on his body and his apartment but it's widely believed that these drugs were planted and that he is arrested for his work uncovering corruption practices here in moscow reach. for the past 3 days nearly nonstop people have been coming here to the police station to protest against god you know for the rest since they need a permit to officially demonstrate they're doing it in the big you really one by one at the national borders national problems is our freedom and our right that's why i think one way or another everyone should come here physically or supports and

social media but everyone should be here because otherwise you might end up where iran is now because anyone could be the next watch it is not the 1st time in russia that drop its cases are used against journalists and human rights activists the most recent and most famous case is against human rights defender in chechnya the t. of who was recently sentenced to 4 years and panel colony but this is the 1st time that people have come out massively to protest and this newspaper is already selling out very rapidly and it's already sold online for more than $200.00 u.s. dollars. the u.n. refugee agency says the risk of people dying while trying to get to europe is higher than ever the agency says that while fewer people are attempting the journey those who are taking greater risks the libyan coast guard has rescued more than 500 refugees and migrants trying to reach europe since the start of june most were bought ashore off the coast of the libyan capital tripoli and taken to government

shelters. is present doldrums his fishing back against media reports that his latest agreement with mexico does not actually contain anything you white house announced the deal on friday trump threatened to impose tariffs on all imports from mexico unless it did more to stop asylum seekers from crossing into the u.s. a report that the deal mostly involves agreements that were reached months ago from washington d.c. alan fischer explains what's different in the current. while there are some new elements to this 1st of all the idea that the national guard in mexico would be deployed to the southern border to stop people coming up through the country are partly in agreement was reached in december between the u.s. and mexico what we have now is a number around 5000 national guard troops will do that job and also a time scale mexico say they are moving on and they are moving on it quickly mexico is also going to make it easier for people to stay in mexico while the asylum claims are held in the united states know that whole thing is being challenged in

the courts here in the u.s. so that might not become such a key issue donald trump has also said in a tweet on sunday that there is one big thing that wasn't unknowns when the news release about this went out on friday and that will become clear at the appropriate time no idea what that could possibly be and also he is saying that mexico has agreed to buy a great deal of agricultural produce from the united states but that has left both people here in the u.s. and in mexico are scratching their heads saying there is no such agreement mexico has entered into nor agreement about agricultural products what supporters of donald trump are saying is that the threat of terror undoubtedly made mexico come to the.