both sides of this war are innocent civilians maybe children you mention either the possibility retaliation that they're promising urgent and tommy measures in response so that and i suppose as you suggest that this could end up with more people being caught in the crossfire as it escalates absolutely the same they're going to attack more. targets within saudi arabia they're saying wait for a surprise and the saudis are saying they're going to respond and it's just going to escalate what has been going on it's not going to change it is no could improve the situation it's going to make it worse thank you very much indeed. for joining us thank you still to come on the news are reports of attacks targeting filani villages in mali just days after nearly a 100 people from a rival ethnic group were gunned down last. defeat means. the again and we kick the bucket. burris is back but does he have what it takes to

become a leader of the conservatives and prime minister paul broks it continues to engulf british politics. was fined for spying on fans peta has details of a punishment the spanish football league. hong kong police have forced thousands of protesters away from the region's legislature they've used tear gas and pepper spray to clear the area debate on a controversial proposed extradition or had been delayed as activists were blocking politicians from entering the building scott hardly has more from hong kong. major intersections in central hong kong transformed into front lines as violent confrontations between riot police and pro-democracy protesters escalated throughout the day. the fighting was near the legislative council headquarters

where the proposed extradition lot was due to be debated but the government session was postponed because legislators couldn't avoid the protesters to get into the building or anywhere close. late in the afternoon riot police fired tear gas and pepper spray at the protesters then rubber bullets right now what you're seeing is this is one of the main areas where this confrontation between police and the protesters and the going on what's amazing is the communication between the protesters now that this has happened here this tear gas is here they're going to roll back in the we're going to tell everyone well behind that this is happened so everybody will push back but look how quickly this is cleared out. from early in the morning protesters blocked roads leading to the central district the heart of hong kong where we had to say phone call i have to say that will fall and then we have to make sure that that one country 2 systems come in and then being like bringing on and to continue and not to lose hong kong i'm sad and frustrated and angry and everything we have here and then we'll stay on see you this evil is going

away the so-called one country 2 systems where freedoms guaranteed in the treaty when colonial rulers britain handed over hong kong to china in 19071 of the organizers of sunday's 1000000 people march demanded the government scrap the extradition laws. china's leaders say the law is necessary to close a legal loophole which allows suspected criminals to escape prosecution as protesters built barricades and government leaders issued a warning to political hay for the hong kong government is calling on protesters who are blocking roads to return to the pedestrian sidewalks as soon as possible so traffic can resume i'm also urging protesters to stay calm disperse peacefully and not test the law but the protesters are testing the law and it's looking like they're digging in preparing to stay images reminiscent of the umbrella pro-democracy movement 5 years ago when protesters blocked up the central business district for 11 weeks it's got to either al-jazeera own car. well mcbride is in

hong kong and joins us from there now what's the situation like now. the last few hours have remained relatively calm but there is a certain level of tension here and a heavy police presence on the street still gradually early hours of thursday morning busy 3 roads had being opened we were within about an hour or so of daybreak here and there's been a large clean up operation we've seen police moving around it was from this area and other areas nearby around the government headquarters or just a kilometer over in that direction that the thousands of demonstrators were cleared away they have left a real mess behind broken barricades and so on. as they were moved from this area into the central business district a number of protesters tried to make an attempt to set up further barricades but the police seemed to be determined not to allow them to do that there were further

clashes now both sides felicity have been blaming each other for the levels of violence the police say they were trapped inside the legislative complex when they were attacked by demonstrators with iron bars and bricks they had no choice they say but to use what they were said was a restrained level of violence but according to the demonstrators they then continued to use their rubber bullet type weapons and also c.s. gas to clear away all the thousands of other demonstrators who were simply occupying the streets and were peacefully demonstrating so there are claims and counterclaims on either side but at the moment no signs of the demonstrators for the city and health officials expect to build again as the day unfolds. that is the question there as scott mentioned in his report these protesters are very adept at organizing almost organically these flash mob demonstrations

demonstrating. that will gather very quickly using social media without their seemingly being any kind of leaders so we are waiting to see what the a hours of daylight will bring here in hong kong the groups themselves have said that as long as the council here is considering this controversial extradition legislation they will keep up their protests continue their protests for the government side carry land the chief executive of hong kong has vowed despite the opposition despite a demonstration by a 1000000 people last sunday that hong kong has to have this legislation they seem determined possibly with beijing in the background pushing them to stand firm seem determined to push this legislation through brian thank you very much indeed. tax a big report in mali where ethnic tensions are currently very high a series of reprisal attacks between dawn farmers and nomadic herders has claimed

hundreds of lives in recent months mani's prime minister boosie say as described seeing the bodies of children shot in the back as he visited a doggone village where almost a 100 people were killed gunmen also burned houses to the ground in the attack in the early hours of monday morning. to tragedy what happened here is a tragedy it's a tragedy for mali and a tragedy for humanity it was important for us to come in the name of the president to present our condolences and to show compassion to those who lost their loved ones it is important that no one forgets this it is a horror that we have witnessed here. welcome webb has more from the capital bamako . there have been 4 attacks throughout the day that included at least one attack on a village populated by people from the don't going to ethnic group it was a village populated by dawn people that was attacked on sunday night in the massacre in which nearly $100.00 people were killed there's also been among those

attacks an attack on a village populated by people from the lonny ethnic groups the president has announced that the governor of the mopti province has been fired he's being blamed for not doing enough to stem this escalating violence but a lot of people here will be putting the same very question to the central government is a lack of state presence throughout the central province lack of security operators policing people feel that the military hasn't done anything it's even been accused of atrocities itself in the past that combined with the conflict in northern mali which is part of prevalence of weapons as well as banditry general instability lead age old minor conflicts low level conflicts between the farming people and herding forlornly people to escalate in recent years and months to the level where we're seeing this brutal communal violence that's going on right now the head of the

united nations mission in mali has briefed the security council on the latest situation i can or has more from the u.n. in new york. briefing by the head of the u.n. mission to mali was dominated by reaction to the ongoing ethnic conflict in the center of the country conflict which is threatening to undermine the final implementation of the peace agreement that was signed 4 years ago the french ambassador summed up the majority opinion in the council. the escalation of violence that we are seeing in the center of mali today requires a real wake up call there is an urgent need to act in particular to prevent new massacres from taking place mali and authorities are in the 1st place to do this and we encourage them to immediately take all the necessary measures to prosecute the perpetrators of these crimes to make militias lay down their arms and engage in true inter-community dialogue a number of the sun 14000 un troops deployed in mali have been sent to the center

of the country along with elements of the newly integrated national military the mandate for the un mission in mali expires at the end of this month and the council will meet again before then to decide whether to renew the mandate and on what. police have arrested at least $200.00 protesters including opposition politician alexei navalny at an illegal rally in moscow demonstrators have been demanding punishment for the police involved in the wrongful arrest of investigative journalist. so fast and reports. one by one they were arrested randomly taken from the crowd thousands of people took part in the protest in the center of moscow despite government warning still rally illegal. police are detaining protesters one by one. and

they bring them to the police truck bands of protesters have been arrested so far the protest has been called illegal. demonstrators didn't get approval in time takes 10 days at least here in russia to get the permission for a demonstration so the police from the beginning ordered everyone to leave they said this isn't an authorized protest but the protesters are defiant. girl mass arrests last week. outcry even in russia's tightly controlled state media this uprising released on tuesday didn't stop people from taken to the street. around the run up despite the fact that ivan was released they haven't changed the legislation haven't reforms the police what is the difference even if one particular case something went well overall it doesn't change anything. because the issue hasn't been solved it's still here and tomorrow they can plan drugs the same way to my children relatives or colleagues. opposition leader alexei enough allen

who was released from his latest detention only last october was arrested as well. who has been investigating and we feel in corruption cases inside the moscow government was released on tuesday night because of a lack of evidence an unprecedented u. turn by authorities in a country with a nearly 100 percent conviction rate and the history of framing opponents in cases by these protesters fear that his release has not changed anything they say today's police crackdown shows just that and not all rally is expected at the end of the week stop fast and al-jazeera moscow. the 4 month trial of 12 catalan separatists over their independence from spain has ended but if it is not expected for months they're accused of rebellion or disobedience of a referendum in 2017 the central government had banned the vote but the region's vice president says organizing it wasn't a crime gena whole report. the end of

a politically explosive for months trial in spain supreme court the 12 defendants some of the key figures in catalonia as drive for independence among the charges rebellion and the misuse of public funds they're seen as violent seditionists by the government in madrid as political prisoners back home in barcelona. the court has focused on the role of these once respectable politicians in organizing an illegal referendum on independence for the spanish region and a declaration of independence shortly afterwards in the catalan parliament. one of the accused former deputy president in the regional government all real john carroll said in february that he was being prosecuted for his ideas not for his actions it is a case that has highlighted bitter divisions and still risks and flaming independence feeling in catalonia the was the most controversial elements of the

trial is the charge of rebellion faced by 9 of the 12 defendants it implies a violent uprising but the only violence seen by witnesses at the time was carried out by the police. it's a political trial what's being judged today is an ideology political decision hadn't been any crimes if there was no rebellion sedition misuse of funds. defense lawyers have accused the prosecution of the fire and exaggeration of the verdict is expected in the. still to come on out of their news hour african leaders gather in nigeria to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the minute she ending over power to an elected civilian government thus. britain becomes a fast g 7 nation a nation that says it will legislate to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions by 2050

move is vital to protect the planet's future. and sport with peta back from all the lions announce their coach for the tour of south africa. hello here to welcome back to your international weather forecast we're here across europe over the last week we have seen plenty of stormy weather here across much of central europe we're talking about thunderstorms with hail as well as damaging winds across much of the area now the good news is as we go towards the rest of the week things are going to be looking much better and much calmer across much of this area a lot of the weather has now pushed up to the north but we are still dealing with an area of low pressure here across much of the u.k. and that will still bring some very wet and windy weather across much of that area

as we go from thursday and into friday that system starts to make its way towards the north sea things get a little bit better across the area but watch the temperatures there on the rebound here across much of central europe berlin you're coming back to 30 degrees and plenty of sun in the forecast there here across much of northern africa it is going to be clear across much of the area temperatures into the low thirty's in many areas over towards kyra though we do expect to see a few of $35.00 degrees there as we go towards friday more clouds are going to be developing here across parts of tunisia maybe into tripoli as well as those clouds push through attempts there of about 29 degrees but over here towards morocco a little bit cool a few along the coast we do expect to see sun in your forecast with a temperature of 21 degrees in algiers at 25. we're making no use per month off for nothing taxes i was looking for. more than

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and there in your model top stories here. japan's prime minister has called on iran to continue to abide by the 2015 nuclear deal struck with world powers. is on a 2 day visit to the islamic republic where he added that tehran should play a constructive role in securing peace and stability in the middle east. the saudi emirate he led coalition fighting in yemen is vowing to retaliate after a missile attack by hoofy rebels on a saudi airport at least 26 people of various nationalities were injured when the projectile described as a cruise missile hit at port. thousands of protesters in hong kong i've been forced away from the territories legislature by police using tear gas and pepper spray debating

a controversial proposed extradition or had been delayed as activists were blocking politicians from entering the building. trying to top story and efforts to mediate between iran and the u.s. by the japanese prime minister well earlier i spoke to the u.s. special representative for iran brian hook he says washington has been coordinating with tokyo about his visit and will continue its campaign of maximum pressure on terror on. prime minister obey did land in iran today we've been highly coordinated with the prime minister he and the president spoke in a few times and so he's there to try to do his part he did today call on iran to play a constructive role in the region which is not a role that is played to date. so we are going to continue our campaign of maximum economic pressure because we want to iran to make better decisions and we have seen i think very positive effects from our pressure campaign there have been a number of press articles over the last 4 or 5 months documenting about how iran's

proxies in the region whether it's hamas or hezbollah or of shia militias militias in syria or iraq don't have the money they used to because iran doesn't have the money that it used to so our sanctions we think are having a very positive effect they they what you call economic pressure the foreign ministry spokesman estimates heavy described today as economic terrorism and they said that they would consider negotiating with the u.s. if you can only terrorism against the iranian people stops is that a potential for sanctions actually to increase the tension with iran rather than ratchet it down. well lauren i think the person you're quoting the iranian official is engaging in some wordplay we are putting in place sanctions to deny the regime revenue to conduct terrorism and so when you look at how much money iran has spent $16000000000.00 since 2013 in syria iraq and yemen alone and so we know

they give hundreds of millions of dollars to the who these they give $700000000.00 a year to hamas they give $100000000.00 a year to hezbollah so that they can then conduct operations which destabilize the middle east we're just simply making it harder on iran to to run an expansionist foreign policy so we're going to keep at that iran can call it whatever it wishes but we have kept our pressure squarely in diplomatic channels our diplomacy does not entitle iran to respond with military force how concerned are you that your allies key allies like germany france and the u.k. are actually still trying to keep the iran nuclear deal alive and they're even coming up with a european payment system which is designed to 2nd event u.s. sanctions well 2 things on that one we've been out of the deal for over a year it's an open secret that we disagree with those you know our european allies about the nuclear deal but we still have the same goal that iran can never be

allowed to acquire a nuclear weapon so we disagree about the means but we share the same goal when you look outside of the iran nuclear deal we share the same threat assessment no one in europe is defending iran's expansionist revolutionary and violent foreign policy and so we've seen that time and again we're going to continue to work very closely with our european allies i would also just point out if you look at the comments that have been made in public none of the europeans are saying that the special purpose vehicle is designed to circumvent american sanctions that will only be used for humanitarian purposes. bipartisan efforts are being made in the u.s. house of representatives and the senate store now as a vote to block arms sales to saudi arabia last month the government declared a national security emergency citing growing threats from iran to justify an $8000000000.00 arms sale alan fisher has more from washington. well normally congress is given 30 days notice of any foreign arms sales but this time around the

trumpet ministration the state department essentially said we're not going to do that because this is an emergency and we need to show support for allies in the region and combat the increasing threat coming from iran therefore we are pushing these through side stepping the normal protocols and declaring this an emergency we're talking about it $1000000000.00 worth of arms sales now the house foreign affairs committee decides to have a hearing on this the assistant secretary of state was there he very much toward the line saying this was important to show support for saudi arabia and also the emirates and they really had to go ahead with this bypassing congress no republican members of the committee they said they were very unhappy about the way things were done but the understood what the administration was trying to do democrats on the other hand were saying there isn't an emergency here 1st of all they believe that the threat from iran is diminishing they say that some of the weapons that are going to be delivered will be sent in a month some up to even

a year and they said that doesn't constitute an emergency in their eyes and also they're concerned that some of these weapons are offensive weapons and so it won't be used to defend saudi arabia of the united arab emirates but instead american bombs and missiles will be used by saudi planes to fight the war in yemen and is they've said in the past that has led to numerous civilian casualties so they're very worried about that there is real contention between the congress and donald trump's white house over the situation what it comes to saudi arabia 1st of all there's a jamal khashoggi case and then we had the senate and the house with support from both parties passing a motion saying that they want to see the u.s. reduce its support for certain arabia in yemen that was eventually vetoed by donald trump and there are a number of motions going before the house and the senate with cross party support again that is going to call on the state department to block these american c.

sales to saudi arabia the united arab emirates and jordan saying this is simply not something that the united states should be involved in. nigeria's president. says he will repeat the successes of his 1st term over the next 4 years well harry was speaking at democracy day celebrations he changed the date this year from may 29th to june 12th to mark the anniversary of nigeria's 1st elections in 1903 which followed a military coup. was a ceremony in the capital abuja. nigeria had always celebrated democracy day on may 29th when the president presidents in this country were being sworn in however the president said the choice of june 12th this year was deliberate it is to honor a man who struggled to establish democracy a man in 1903 the military our knowledge is election as president of nigeria and that set the stage for a lot of crisis in the political history of this country it was finally resolved in 1991 the 1st president since 1983 was sworn into office to take the mantle of

leadership now in his address at this ceremony president obama talked about challenges still present this country issues of security issues of economy although he's a big economy still growing as well as unemployment and that he promised to take over in approach in a way that the government is trying to. fashion out in terms of investing in agriculture investing infrastructure investing in the economy generally and of course empowering people in nigeria how soon that will take effect in this country that is just really looking for such relief from insecurity a bad economy and a lot of other problems is yet to be announced by the president but nigeria's would prefer to see whatever action by government takes is taken as quickly as possible so as to relieve the citizens from a lot of pressure they're handling at the moment. a group of ring of muslims from in morrow have been found on

a boat off the coast of thailand officials are trying to find out if the group has been trafficked retired navy intercepted the vessel close to tara tower island marine park in southern thailand it's likely to have traveled almost 2000 kilometers the navy says there were $65.00 people on board including 5 children hundreds of thousands of rango have fled miramar since the military crackdown in late 2017. the man widely expected to become the u.k.'s next prime minister has launched his campaign for the conservative party leadership boris johnson has vowed to take britain out of the e.u. with or without a deal by the end of october but he faced a string of questions about his suitability for the job barnsley as more from central london. the front runner in this race had been all but invisible to this point leading to accusations that he was dodging the media and all the difficult questions about his past but he couldn't do it forever and to try to get off on the front foot by promising to deliver its that would be good for everyone so that no

time no community. no person feels left behind and that is the way we will remain the bones of this amazing country and in everything we do we will seek to strengthen the union of our 4 nations that invincible quartet the awesome foursome that makes up the u.k. the world's soft power superpower but as is customary he had to field questions maybe someone should have given him a crash helmet as foreign secretary you offended people at home and abroad you have a reputation for being cavalier with vital detail and already in this campaign you're telling some supporters you'll do everything to avoid leaving the e.u. without a deal and others that you gladly would do that is a simple question if you want to be prime minister can the country trust you you brought shame on your party when you describe veiled muslim women as letter box is

bankrupt those people who have worked closely with you do not think you will fit to be prime minister you told g.q. some years ago now when asked would he take cocaine yes i tried it at university and i remember vividly and asked whether the drug actually got up your nose you said yes it must have done but it didn't do much for me were you telling the truth then and do you regret the fact that you took a class a drug of course he prepared for all this and other diverted a course occasionally some plaster comes off the ceiling as a result of a phrase i may have used to justify his conduct by claiming he's the sort of straight talk of the public wants but if johnson got away with the questions about himself there was a much greater one on which he offered very little detail namely how to renegotiate a different and better bracks it trade deal in the very short amount of time available before the end of october on that point he was almost entirely vague

suggesting that in his opinion the european union would have what he called a symmetrical enthusiasm. about reopening the talks something the e.u. has said it will not do. whatever platitudes johnson or the other contenders come out with about renegotiating the cold stretch time and there is such concern in parliaments are the prospects of a no deal breck's it's that the opposition parties launched the 1st of what could be several procedures which they hope will allow employees to block any attempts to see it through. johnson may be a far better communicator than sarees and may but the task facing him is no different lawrence li al jazeera london. want to take a closer look at the current front runner to be the next british prime minister i'm joined by sonia penhallow a journalist and biographer and author of just boris a tale of blonde ambition thanks for coming to talk to so in the past front runners in the tour leadership contest haven't necessarily made it to be the leader do you

think he can defy that sort of. president and become a leader well i agree with that's normally been the case john major for example is not expect to be prime minister not even margaret thatcher on this occasion is that she quite difficult to see anyone else coming in the others aren't very well known they really made a big impact and although we have so much to say against johnson his character his record all those things that were brought up at the press conference nothing ever seems to really land a punch on him as if he's kind of tesla uncoated is quite extraordinary and isn't is is that what it is that in the end what they need is a kind of charismatic leader and that's kind of all that matters or seems to be all that matters to some people whether it is all the masses the country is another matter i think we have a situation here where we've got tory m.p.'s who are very very scared about losing their seats and they have bought into this idea peddle seriously by a person he's very good at presenting himself and breaking himself up that he can

somehow wave a magic wand and get rid of all these appalling problems the sort of conundrum the the the fact that you know the tory vote was 9 percent in the european elections that they somehow believe his shtick that he can solve this so i mean what he's suggesting that he can yes they have to leave by the 31st of october and whether it's with a deal or not and the current chancellor has already said that that he set himself up for a fall he's kind of drawing britain to a bricks it cliff cliff edge at speed one how likely is it that the e.u. will actually want to reopen this agreement particularly for him for of abortions well do they know they do know and they turn like him i mean there are several european leaders who will not be in the same room as him they find him so arrogant say to places that they literally don't want to be anywhere near him they are not going to open this deal for anyone they are particularly not going to really from the full boris johnson he does the very reverse or did the very reverse of what

a foreign secretary should do is make alliance. as make friends around the world he ruptured alliances he made enemies around the world and now britain is in a much worse state than that was before judy i mean there's been some international gaffes that have been quite significant it would those be something that count against him and on an international stage oh i think i think he's seen as that of a figure not of fun but as a dangerous figure a figure that can emulate people that can break up important alliances that can just offend people and what's the point of putting your trust in boris johnson when he seems to change his mind every day and doesn't stick to his promises i mean i suppose some people who are his supporters much argue that actually he's someone who can be on both sides of the fence and kind of perhaps be a unifying force that certainly what he was claiming his news conference was going to unifying and i mean what you would have dealt with him sort of personally in in washington book presumably spent a lot of people who worked with him what is it about him that that is the kind of secret to that sort of the fact he's got as far.