what's overlapping and what's not overlapping in these conflicts the yemen war and the yemen saudi conflict have their own dynamics yemen had grab some territory in saudi arabia of course these drone attacks are escalating and increasingly targeting civilians and successfully so and increasingly we're seeing with the failure of the un led negotiation process that both sides are are feeling less constrained let's say by international pressures and escalating towards you know whatever this is going to lead towards and i don't think that the iranians are controlling entirely what the who these are doing what they're targeting i think of course there are aiding in terms of technology and other aspects but seeing what's going on in the straits of hormuz and what's going on with hoofy drone attacks seem to as the same thing as it can be a bit misleading and a bit confusing ok when it comes to that aspect of it being confusing and

misleading i don't know if you heard mr lawrence previous contributes that's the news here on al-jazeera but he was basically saying the iranians a well capable in his mind of conducting asymmetric conflicts or at least starting them it may not have total control over the proxy players involved in different layer cake aspects of what's going on in the region right now different disparate conflicts in your mind however is tehran capable of doing that and if it is if it's a big if i know which bits of the security apparatus in tehran would be doing this . well it's definitely the revolutionary guards that seem to have been involved in the straits of hormuz attack and they have been accused by saudi arabia and probably are helping along with his fellow with the yemen drone attacks so i'm not saying that these things are entirely disconnected either but what i am saying is

that the saudi yemen conflict has its own dynamics its own tit for tat its own you target my civilians all target your civilians and then the latest attacks in saudi arabia today were on the areas where the saudis believe the yemenis are constructing their drones it's also i think it's important to look at what what's not being hit i think the drone capacity is the v.m. an arm of the who these is more than what they're doing and certainly the saudi arabians as well and that's what's most dangerous here because as in many other conflicts the increasing targeting of civilians in a sort of all or nothing sort of approach to war is very very dangerous and it's very hard to walk conflicts back to what they were before when these escalations happen and again i think that has its own dynamics independent of what's going on in the streets it seems to be almost counter intuitive in a way because the line from my pump a 067 hours ago the line from the state department in the last 60 minutes seems to

be we will react to any negative conflict situation in this immediate region but at the same time we are prepared to go back to the quotes negotiating table if that's the difficult to pin the direction of travel for mr pompei oh and the state department which is the direction of travel seen as being in tehran. well 1st of all let me say that i agree with mr neubauer that the state department strategy seems to be flawed it's really hard to get people to the negotiating table while you're forcing the economy to shrink and you're causing great pain to their civilians which will cause the civilians to support the government even more and that emboldens the government not to negotiate so it's almost the reverse of the proper strategy to get someone to the negotiating table i think from terrans point of view that you know their

positions however often sit they seem to united states and other regional players and they are offensive in syria and elsewhere they see it as a defense they see themselves as fighting in iraq in syria and yemen and elsewhere sort of creating an umbrella to defend their interests from a war which could happen and that's one of the reasons why they've been making all these false flag aki accusations too because they believe there's a coming war they believe there's a brewing conflict that's going to work against themselves and of course the historical framework is the $80.00 to $88.00 war where many countries did gang up against iran from their perspective and that's important in all the analysis but in the end each of these conflicts is going to have to be solved on its own merits whether syria whether yemen you know whether what's going on in iraq and certainly in the straits of hormuz and if you lump them all together there's no grand goshi a shin that's going to lead us out of the wilderness

a complex situation indeed william lawrence from george washington university in washington d.c. thank you. plenty more still to come for you here on the news hour including controversial u.k. publication boris johnson wins the 1st round vote to lead the conservative party will look at the road ahead for him and the country also ahead fears that it is spreading across central africa after the virus kills a 2nd person in uganda. banned in the sports news a key player in real madrid's rebuilding plans officially kicks off his career at the club. another big story for you here on the news sudan's ruling military council has admitted it did ordered the dispersal of the sit in protest outside the army headquarters new pictures of the violence in khartoum on june the 3rd had just been released an internet blackout is in place the operation to clear the protesters

resulted in dozens of deaths hundreds of people were wounded sudan's military has again blamed protest groups for the breakdown in talks on a transition to civilian rule. you know what is delaying the negotiations is the false understanding for a civilian led government and this is something that even you in the media have been wrong in identifying we are not classified as civilians because we were military close there are screaming civilian civilian in my view civilian is the thirty's is the ruling is the task which we agreed on after we agreed that government ministers and the legislative council would be civilian led they are still screaming civilian civilian they said the military will only work in the sovereign council the declaration for freedom and change said they agreed to 95 percent and there was a disagreement over 5 percent or 5 percent all those blessed souls were lost that 5 percent was how many civilians and how many military would be in the sovereign council and who would lead we believe the majority should be military and the

leadership should be military and they believed otherwise if we insist that the military is the sole guarantor for peace and stability in the transitional phase ok where things stand in sudan as of today well there has been a stop to the violence after the protest groups called off their civil disobedience movement which led to more clashes earlier this week the return to relative calm is largely because of mediation efforts by the ethiopian prime minister and days after a visit a top u.s. diplomat for africa met the head of the t.m.c. the transitional military council that happened on thursday t.-bo nagging has called on the military to withdraw from khartoum and to stop attacking civilians is also called for an independent investigation into the crackdown on the sit in near the army headquarters stacy is former u.s. state department official he says diplomacy becomes more difficult as more players become involved. for henley the general to actually blame the protesters

is just an extraordinary thing and it makes it even harder for the leaders of the opposition to agree to terms and to come back to the table if they're being blamed directly after they suffered this massacre so we need not just investigations we need heavy heavy pressure from the u.n. security council from the secretary general a visit would be quite necessary in timely we need heavy heavy pressure put on the t.m.c. now because behind the scenes they've just gotten a giant payoff from their friends around the region over in the gulf and that is really what broke this and that makes it all busy the more difficult for these envoys to have any success at all including with this u.s. state department diplomat there who knows president trump made tomorrow call the t.m.c. and declare them his friends as they didn't libya so that that could already have happened in fact and we don't even know so it makes it much more difficult to do

diplomacy given what's happened right there in khartoum and what's happening in capitals around the world. is a member of the u.s. house of representatives she told al jazeera child that washington has shown its double standards by failing to engage with saddam this administration. handling our foreign policy that i think is where you notice these extreme hypocrisy that that have existed and made of existed but now very clear that they're not gray anymore it's very black and white and so in the case of you could see that black and white between our reaction to see than and then i reaction to that as well. a man accused of murdering 51 people in a new zealand mosque attack has appeared in court on video link and denied all the charges he's brenton tyrant he's facing 51 counts of murder and 40 of attempted

murder on march the 15th back to back shootings took place at 2 mosques in christchurch and are thomas has the latest from new zealand. brinson tyrant was not here in courting christchurch he's being held in oakland and appeared via video link with the world more than a 100 family members of victims in court to see him and to hear formally the charges against him family members and indeed people who were shot themselves on the 15th of march they watched as bronson tyrant stood there soylent throughout but at times he smoked at one point he winked at the camera his lawyer on his behalf here entered a plea of not guilty to all $51.00 charges of murder all 40 charges of attempted murder and one charge under new zealand's anti terrorism laws given the complexity of this case the judge said that they had hoped to bring this to trial within a year and terence arrest that's not going to be possible and the trial won't begin

until probably next may and it's a trial that will go on they believe for at least 6 weeks possibly as much as 3 months the plans to reinforce mexico's southern border with national guard troops has been delayed until the end of the month an official overseeing the force told al jazeera an increased military presence is still weeks away as one of the conditions of a deal with the u.s. to curb the flow of migrants trying to cross over from central america the deal was struck to stop threatening tariffs on all mexican goods. well a little known turn is being used very migrants across the border between guatemala and mexico low security and regular people smuggling operations of lead to the area becoming a crossing point for thousands al-jazeera as john holeman joined the perilous journey. you have heard of the caravans thousands of people from central america crossing into and through mexico in food they've attracted international attention and the anger of president trump. but there are other caravans

to these ones a secret but over the last year they've almost certainly carried far more migrants than the ones in the news. here they are convoys of trucks which head out from the little guard aboard a point between guatemala. local say they carry hundreds of people and go most nights they controlled by people smugglers each of the charges has paid them thousands of dollars to get to the u.s. border. this one's been cool but it's the exception. is the same from another state police open a truck see the migrants packed inside and wave it on. and this is where it all begins impoverished communities in honduras el salvador and here he's shouting what the model where people like daniel desperate to get to the u.s. . you can come good on the dream that you have

a house or a plot of land an education for your children i struggle to my family but i can't give them that future here. 3 months ago he agreed to pay smugglers $3500.00 for himself and his son to take the journey they made their way to the guatemalan border town of. this uncommon shown on the mexican side of the curve points where people smugglers squeeze 50 to 70 people into trucks. you can't sit down because you're squashed together my son started crying because people fell on top of him they covered it up it was tough. they said off. towards mexico crossing this wide open border on the way in 3 days of going to and fro we were never asked for documents different smuggling groups take over the route as it goes into the territory moving the migrants from safe house to safe

house it's lucrative but it's getting harder after pressure from president trump mexico's government's tightened security along the border with what the mother. i want to warn you now there's not a lot of movement they still go but it's gone down 50 percent it's more discreet. but it is still happening we staked out the caravan in a roadside field a local contact told us he'd seen the lorries loading up shortly after we saw them heading through followed by several s.u.v.s the caravans of going coast that go in front of christie is clear so we've been hit it just wait for a chance to see it we got the tip off and we just saw a long line of trucks good post migrants told us the smugglers usually let them out just before the us border they can then cross and ask for asylum daniel never made it that far the convoy he was traveling in showed up early on his uncle was killed

but with nothing at home and for now away nor he's already saving to go again john home and. grass is how the us. the former british foreign secretary boris johnson has topped the 1st round of the u.k. conservatives leadership race by an overwhelming margin he's seeking to replace prime minister tourism a who resigned last week after failing to unite parliament around her bracks it deal lawrence lee has the story. jeremy hunt 43. sajid javid 23. or it's johnson $114.00. so it's already seems to be boris johnson's race to lose he received nearly 3 times as many votes as his nearest rival in this 1st round and momentum is now very much with. his team is studiously avoided letting johnson do any of this

sort of thing for the obvious reason that it hardly looks like a prime minister in waiting. but for all of his ducking of difficult questions about his private life and personality it remains a fact that polling has him as popular with his party but unpopular with very many voters they unlikely m.p.'s seem to want to know how exactly he will renegotiate a deal with the european union when there is effectively no time left to do it i think the onus is on the candidates to show how they will achieve bricks it because it's all very well saying we'll go for no deal but that may not get through parliament. so you really go. where the moment gets through the year so at the moment the kind of not being adequately precise to convince even their own colleagues let alone the membership of the public at large thompson's appeal is partly based on the terror many conservative m.p.'s have that nigel farage is the

bracks of policy is so undermining them that if it isn't delivered as soon as possible then the tory party faces destruction. but does johnson do his rivals jeremy hunt the current foreign secretary or michael gove the eloquence environment secretary actually know how to deliver bracks it's any better than to reason made it they've been wrong for 3 years about what the. right all of a sudden now so they don't stand up to scrutiny i think it's not necessarily intended to stand up to scrutiny i think it's maybe intended to influence the candidates in the leadership debate. direction and competing with each other to be more. yes that consideration seems less important to rank and file conservatives than their belief that only johnson can stop their party from being wiped out boris johnson may not be a details man but he's certainly not short of rhetorical flourish courage seems to

be his by word of course the u.k. can do this one way or the other well if he really thinks he is the man to take the u.k. out of the european union without any sort of trade deal he may find himself hostage to his own fortune apart from anything else the growing likelihood of johnson as prime minister who put enormous pressure on the labor party leader jeremy corbyn to do something to stop the u.k. being walked out of the european union without any trade deal and time is not on his side either. al-jazeera london. still to come here on the news hour the president of albania under fire m.p.'s overwhelmingly just passed a no confidence vote. colombia's government closing ranks standing by a minister accused of altering human rights abuses. and the sport brazilian strike him out breaks another record at the women's football world cup.

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or 3 days so that will give us further flooding and could cause quite a few problems here if we head out towards the west of course we've been watching all cyclamen that's now gradually working its way towards the northwest looks like the i should stay away from. under that cloud already under that right so we've got days more heavy downpours is still to come to the north of that is dragging the air in from the interior so the temperatures will be rising over parts of pakistan and behind it plenty more showers for the western parts of india. the weather sponsored . always global food production is wasteful and this training plan. pioneers are adapting with new food sources jellyfish is delicious with a very light seafood taste and the texture and some that are aged. and innovative production techniques. i've seen or heard so far before i would never in a restaurant have to see this is great earthrise feeding the billions on

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stories so far the u.s. military has released a video it says shows members of the iranian revolutionary guard removing an unexploded mine from one of the tankers hit by explosions in the gulf of oman the u.s. secretary of state's mike pompei oh has accused iran of being behind the attacks iran's dismissed the allegations of sabotage diplomacy. humans who the rebels say they've carried out another attack on our power airports in the southwest of saudi arabia it's the 2nd this week saudi arabia sessa said defenses have intercepted 5 drones targeting the airport near the town of hummus in shape. sudan's ruling military council admits it ordered the dispersal of a sit in protest outside army headquarters new pictures of the violence in khartoum on june the 3rd i've just been released after an internet blackout. ok let's get more on our top story the tanker explosions in the gulf of oman and now any incident in the region impacts the straits of hormuz shipping channel that can have

knock on effects on the supply and the price of oil globally around $1.00 3rd of all traded by sea passes through the strait that's 20 percent of the total traded worldwide the sea route is used by major producers such as saudi arabia the u.a.e. . and kuwait exporting mainly to the asian markets is also used by cattle the world's biggest liquefied natural gas producer use of thursday's attacks on the price of oil jumped by around 4 percent let's talk now to robert scott he joins us from north potomac in maryland he's a senior international communist at the economic policy institute robert good to talk to you again so correct me if i'm wrong here this means a short term positive atmosphere with the potential for big negative economic consequences further down the line and that's right we've seen oil prices jump and that has in turn been good for oil producers of shale oil producers have seen their share prices rise and the overall stock market the united states jumped by about

one half one percent it was not a huge shift but it was a positive movement and so this is this is good in the short term if it pushes up the price course long term if it results in a major conflict that could push the world economy into a deep downturn and that would be bad early seventy's i think the same $2.00 in 73980 as well it takes a long time for the global economy to come back from this the. certainly those were very deep recessions in those early years of the 1st 2 oil crises and particularly the 1973 shock was devastating and it was led to a very short period of high unemployment us and around the world there is a slightly different mosaic to the negative atmosphere that is surrounding the current situation though will any of the people involved in this at a diplomatic slash political level be factoring in to their thinking as of today

the economic consequences as of tomorrow. this is very difficult to tell especially in the united states but this administration which has its streamlined unpredictable i think there are pressures within this is ministration from the neo conservative wing that. eventually security advisor bolton and a secretary of state pump aoe and their allies in the israeli government they would like to really get tough on iran to try and force them to make concessions on the nuclear agreement that was reached by the obama administration so this seems to be their foreign policy goal and it's unclear how much pain they're willing to put up with in order to achieve that and result what happens if this current situation escalates and where then having to face a scenario where the strait is perhaps closed with ships in effect to blockade on the wrong side of that closer to saudi arabia as well as being such

a big producer also has more reserves than anyone else that's correct saudi arabia is in fact. the escape valve if you will there's one country that has massive amounts of surplus capacity if they can't get it out through the straits of hormuz then the world one market will indeed be locked up and as you said earlier in your introduction this represents 20 to 30 percent of world oil supplies and it could sharply push up prices seen suggestions that could reach as high as going up from say $50.00 a barrel today to $80.00 a barrel or higher which would have very sharp repercussions especially for countries like japan that are almost 100 percent and on oil imports the united states not so much today we don't as more important much oil as we we did back in the 1970 s. and 1980 s. robert skulk live for us in maryland thank you very much thank you. seeing the sara sanders leaving her position as white house press secretary she will return to her

home state of arkansas to spend more time with her family she is the 2nd white house press secretary to serve under donald trump after sean spicer resigned early on in his tenure molly is observing 3 days of national mourning for the victims of sunday's attack on a village dozens of people from the doggone ethnic group were killed in violence between nomadic for lonnie herders and doggone farmers has killed hundreds of people in recent months malcolm webb has more from the capital bamako. nearly 100 people were burned alive shot all had their throats slit here on sunday survivors say nobody came to help days later mollies president visits the village. where it happened. neighbor younger daughter what happened in the village is not only for mali but for the whole world many leaders have called me to offer their condolences it is the latest in a series of attacks and counterattacks against those going farmers and fulani

herders tension between the 2 ethnic groups over pastures and farmland has been fuelled by a prolonged dry season. this fall on the village was attacked last month. the u.n. says more than 100000 people have fled the violence in central mali weapons from the conflict in the north and the lack of presence of the government from the south haven't helped these villages sheltering in a camp others from both ethnic groups have fled here to the capital bamako the members of an association of people from the doe going to think group of men in this building to talk about the rapidly escalating violence. both groups blame the others militia for the massacres nobody takes responsibility we met. one of the survivors of sunday's attack when armed men surrounded the village and opened fire

in iran. everybody tried to save their own lives those who could ran away many read to their houses but their houses were set on fire and they were completely burned you can't even recognize their bodies people from both groups feel the government un peacekeepers and the other foreign militaries in mali failing to protect them. the mistrust is growing with the massacres. more villages both gone full army were attacked on wednesday as survivors pick up the pieces they're wondering where this will and malcolm webb al-jazeera bamako mali. public gatherings have been district where 2 people have died. across the border from the democratic republic of congo. and in fact.

reports now from. where a hospital in which is where the 5 year old boy in his grandmother died. recently attended a funeral in neighboring democratic republic of congo with the boy's grandfather. to the virus. after the burial. agreement was made between the 2 governments to. the district surrounding the hospital. and public gatherings. as the minister of health. and. ugandan doctors take 2 other patients. in the latest outbreak. from the east and. the outbreak has killed 1400 congolese and infected 2000 just over 500 have been treated to contain the spread has been hampered by militia attacks. and hostility towards

medical teams in the. capital. following. previous outbreaks in uganda doctors and nurses are experienced in dealing with patients they've also help contain. and other countries in west africa and emergency vaccination campaign is being set up in united health workers on the

frontline in number of people over 700 frontline health as another one we have vaccinated in the sixty's and so on friday we shall be here. again along the front line health. ring vaccination. the alert is spreading to the world health organization and emergency committee is planned on friday to determine whether be a gander she become an international public health emergency. aid groups are warning of a growing humanitarian crisis in bosnia-herzegovina as it struggles to cope with an influx of refugees the bosnian red cross says thousands of migrants are sleeping rough in several more than cities there stranded after being turned back at the croatian border. parliament has passed a motion criticizing the president's attempts to cancel this month's local

elections as unconstitutional john psaropoulos now from. the defiant prime minister on the 1st day. of parliament which he controls against the authority of the presidency which he says has turned against him parliament passed a resolution saying that in calling off local elections due later this month president has effectively chosen to back the opposition and abandon the neutrality of his office insists on holding elections on june 30th not doing so he says will hurt albanians chances of being invited to start talks to join the european union in 6 years the president made his decision was unforgivable and.