americans are allies like in europe or it's nemesis like china and russia see that the iran you could hear is a much better thing than the alternative which is the escalation we see and because of this it is organization the shanghai cooperation organization could yet bring iran under its wing couldn't. absolutely i mean i haven't seen yet science to date that it will mean that it will become a full member 2 years ago it did apply to do so and if you remember just a few years before. india and pakistan became members now you have this group that's a quarter of the world g.d.p. half of the world population and it's a very very major bloc if you will of countries and if you think the background of this tension between china and the united states on trade and between russia and the united states on american deployment in poland in elsewhere in eastern europe

as well as of course on iran and syria all in all you are going to see this more resistance if you will to america's policies now in the absence of a real strategy by the united states in the face of this ongoing a skirmish in the gulf it's clear that the shanghai group it's clear that the american russian chinese position it has far more weight far more clarity if you will than the u.s. position that is not clear whether it's going to war that's going to diplomacy because the economic pressure why it is working certainly the way i see it whether there is proof or not it makes all the sense in the world for iran to be pursuing a low intensity warfare a submit their cold war fare if you will against the united states that is blockading it economically trying to cripple it while pursuing a gunboat diplomacy if you will sending aircraft carriers the gulf so what we have now is gunboat diplomacy versus bomb boats the plum

a sea by perhaps iran and given the dangers of where this could all lead it's a pretty. delicate balance situation is that it's a thin line to tread isn't it. want to quote the american president we will see. but yes i mean those who until yesterday were saying that all of this is just propaganda war economic warfare media warfare public relations warfare and so on so forth as of yesterday they've been reconsidering their position saying well wait a minute this ongoing discrimination might actually lead to unintended consequence is it likely to further escalation you could expect that the united states will not stand by and that iran is the way it sees it destabilize the shipping and the go of so this is has a high price already in 24 hours you have the oil prices jumping 2 percent you're

going to have insurance jump you're going to have difficulty in shipping in the gulf and so on so forth so i think the united states is going to have to act but what could it do 1st on trump said he doesn't want more wars and certainly he criticized his predecessors for such wars and if they could amik block it is not working out something's got to give we don't know what and as far as the other u.s. allies are concerned where do they stand on all this. well clearly you know the saudi arabia the united arab emirates and israel would like to see america fight iran until the last american soldier that's you know at all possible. so they the they would like to see america put more pressure but as i said earlier because within washington itself there isn't a consensus about what work to go next certainly there is no consensus on war while the lieutenant's in the national security council and perhaps even at state you

know are for military escalation but many others including the president are not enthusiastic to go to war certainly not in the end in an election year and so you're going to see saudi arabia and israel try to push for more pressure on iran but as i said earlier with china russia coming to the rescue and with iran playing a very clever very low intensity type escalation in the gulf this is going to put the entire american plan at thrift at this point in time and that could lead to unintended consequences. for nothings very much indeed more bashar. but i'm all the lead on the news including will he be extradited to the united states will have to wait find. a pleading not guilty to 51

of the latest from new zealand on the mosque shooting. sport coming up to history is made is the toronto raptors become the 1st canadian team to win the n.b.a. championship. now a military spokesman for yemen the rebel group is warning civilians to stay away from airports in saudi arabia and the u.a.e. mohammed says radar systems have been targeted at saudi arabia's port near the border with the evan he added that he feel peroration zone airports and military sites will continue as long as the war in yemen goes on hussein is a pro who feed journalists and he believes attacks on saudi arabia's airports are a way to get attention from the international community. i believe this step was taken after 4 years of. war on yemen and i believe now it's time

for airlines those w.'s in saudi port as they stop using sonar airport after the saudis started the war against them and i think it is time because if there is any civilian civilian casualty in the coming days or coming weeks this means that airlines take the responsibility saudi arabia take that as well as ability because actually it is not saudi arabia cannot just bomb yemen airport while the airport still open and this is exactly what the yemeni government on forces here in sanaa are saying that an airport and i for an eye and if they close our airports we will close all that airports. next february is the date set according to britain to decide whether julian assange should be extradited to the united states or not the wiki leaks founder is serving a 50 week sentence for skipping after spending 7 years in hiding in ecuador's embassy in london he's wanted in the united states for conspiring to have government computers and leaking fountains of secret documents john holmes has more

now from london. well behind me at the westminster magistrates court supporters of julian assange and the media are hearing from his legal team following this extradition hearing that the magistrate presiding has decided that julian our sons will face a full 5 day extradition hearing in february of next year and remember that even the result of that hearing can be appealed by either side which indicates of course that it is many months now if at all before mr assad will actually have to answer any of the charges put to him by the department of justice in a u.s. court he was not in court to listen to those charges being read he did join via video link because of ill health we're told from belmarsh prison in southeast london where he's serving a 15 week for bail violations now what the charges that he was listening to were part of an 18 pounds indictment issued by the department of justice including

charges under the espionage act among them soliciting and publishing classified information and conspiring to hack into a government computer those charges of course pacifically relating to the publication back in 2010 of hundreds of thousands of classified u.s. military documents related to the wars in iraq and afghanistan published by wiki leaks the organization the mistress and founded and heads he he's team wiki leaks and he's lawyers all contend that he is a journalist a publisher who did what other publishers in his position would have done and indeed he says did do by publishing this leaked material in the public interest while the u.s. department of justice sees things differently a quote from the indictment itself says the charges relate to mr assad just alleged role in one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of the united states. to hong kong where the government may be wavering in its support for a new law to allow extraditions to mainland china another mass demonstration on sunday

is planned to try and stop the bill becoming law one of the advisor to government says legislators should stop discussing the bill because of the level of position robert reich has more now from home call. the comments have come from bernard chan the senior member of hong kong government and a senior advisor to kerry lam the chief executive in a radio program friday morning where he said that in the lights of the violent scenes around the legislative council it's impossible for hong kong's maybe parliament to discuss further this controversial extradition bill that maybe there should be a delay to allow for further consultation he says officially the line from the hong kong government is that this bill has to be passed it is necessary and that while there has been a temporary delay since wednesday when proceedings were brought to such a violent end the government has said that it's not going to backtrack but this may

be a hint of a more conciliatory tone from the government as far as the protesters are concerned though they will keep up their opposition promising to bring out as many people as came out last sunday in opposition to this bill possibly as many as a 1000000 people again on the streets of hong kong the moment cues to the most shootings in new zealand has pleaded not guilty to the murder of 51 worshippers prosecutors say that brinton turned to appear in court for a video link from prison shot and killed 51 people and tried to kill 40 others under thomas reports from christchurch. a a $51.00 people were killed 2 mosques on march the 15th on friday the man accused of the shootings pleaded not guilty to murder brenton tarrant's lawyer said his client also pleaded not guilty to 40 charges of attempted murder and one of engaging in

a terrorist act tyrant seen here when he was 1st in school the day after the attacks appeared via video link from where he's being held in oakland he stayed silent but often grinned at one point he. winked his camera more than a 100 family members of victims and people who were shot but survived wearing cool to see him for them it was difficult everyone. when you see the smiling face of a joyride say. his lawyers say he's not a guilty that make me the after more upset and you shall not going times yeah in the al normal yeah and there you were seeing the man accused of doing that so yeah i'm strong what in new zealand they say stay strong and we are stronger than him yeah he's down to the weakest link he is going to be a loser in we will win in march yama not be invited al-jazeera to his father's

funeral on friday he came to see the man accused of killing him can get angry you did have. a day did it come you know i work in the day after leaving the father loved one when i have family look any day now but others are angry we lost our beloved part of our. clearly very very upset thing it's very upsetting. and. i really need to have this penalty this is the only way that won't happen new zealand abolished the death penalty a nice 99 and hasn't executed anyone for more than 50 years but tarrant does face life in prison if convicted. trials in new zealand normally start within a year of an arrest but the judge said that would not be possible with this one

given the complexity of this case and the amount of evidence it won't be until next may that brunson town to strides and that trial could last as long as 3 months under thomas al-jazeera. time for the weather right now and flooding in china yes it's the annual event it's coincides with a movie of the monsoon typically that and some of you know sometimes it's always fun we will see this sometimes or you get a lucky shot don't have to be careful what to say but just watch this the result of very heavy rain in the province a landslide that comes across the road takes cars with it. because these floods do to take lives so far at least 60 in the last week because of flooding and landslides anywhere from one to cross 2 fujian province have been the worst affected just recently but as you watch the satellite picture that last band of rain has gone in size the current situation is hong kong which of you watching

yesterday was raining heavily is now dries the rains come back but he usually comes up in pulses so we've got then the formation of the higher ground of western china as far as you know and sichuan this is where it starts to to breed again so whilst the forecasts for saturday is a fine 131 degrees in hong kong so it is free in shanghai with humidity dropped to some degree the rains causing already and quite often falls pretty heavily. surprise fun show so the movement then be from west to east get to sunday that rain has probably showed itself to be heaviest up in the yangtze where it's wanted nic. thanks very much thank you know. crisis at the u.s. border with detention centers overwhelmed many latin american migrants are now being forced to live out in the open. world health organization calls. an emergency meeting about an ebola outbreak in uganda as another person dies this week. in

sport the world number 4 justin rose rises to the top but the only one of us like it would be the wings so i will have more than a little bit. as governments fail to cut emissions scientists are proposing drastic measures to save the planet. people in power ways technological endeavors to counter humanity's pollutants against the risks of further meddling with the environment to ever feel like this is playing god it's actually quite unsettling uncracked frankly makes me quite anxious. klein attackers on al-jazeera. stories generate thousands of headlines with different angles from different

perspectives on the sun just a long standoff with international teams finally separate the speed of the facts the misinformation from the journalism protesters complain about the under reporting of police violence the sensationalizing of the demonstrations with the listening post on al-jazeera. going to what yards are a reminder of our top stories and accusations of flying in from the united states and iran over what was behind explosions on 2 oil tankers in the gulf of oman the u.s. has released grainy video saying it's evidence of iranian involvement iran is describing

all that as sabotage to play music. iran's president hassan rouhani says the u.s. is pushing an aggressive stance that cannot be tolerated rouhani made the comments to asian leaders on the 2nd day of talks at the shanghai cooperation organization in kurdistan. amid a spokesman for yemen suit the rebel group is warning civilians to stay away from airports in saudi arabia and the u.a.e. mohammed says the operations and sorry huge hooty says the airports and military sites will continue as long as more death goes on. now that the international court of justice has rejected a request by the united arab emirates to grant an injunction over a discrimination case taken by qatar the state of qatar has made a number of claims to the court in the netherlands after the. and several other gulf countries imposed a land sea and have blockade the hearing is part of why the legal battle being

heard by judges in the hague in the netherlands and barca is live for us now at the hague in the tell us more. well 1st and foremost i think the qatari delegation are going to be pretty pleased with the results here the i.c.j. the courts the un's highest court has rejected the application for this emergency injunction known as provisional measures on all 4 counts that the u.s. was trying to put forward here the i.c.j. . the just put it all into context this case was empowered to the main case that has been going on now for some time qatar's accuse the u.a.e. of violating a key convention the international convention on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination of which the u.a.e. is the only one of the 4 countries behind the blockade to be a signatory off that case is pending it could be many months if not years before we get a result there but last summer the i.c.j. ruled that the u.a.e.

had indeed been guilty of racial discrimination during the course of the blockade and ordered the u.a.e. to allow families to be reunited to allow students to continue their education to allow categories that needed access to courts or tribunals to do so and that was a compulsory order what the u.a.e. it done in return then is hit back and say well look we've been trying to follow that order but qatar's making it hard for us particularly by blocking access to an all important web site the u.a.e. said was necessary for catteries to use to be able to apply for visas to get back into the u.a.e. but now of course the i.c.j. is rejected this application and now what happens next is that we essentially go back to the main case the case of whether or not the u.a.e. has violated this key convention all right a believe that the moment the buck reporting from the hague. let's get back to the top story tonight. from the united states and iran over water who is behind

explosions on 2 oil tankers in the gulf of oman say we can speak to georgia cough yetto who is c.e.o. of gulf state analytics which is a geopolitical risk consulting firm focusing on the arabian peninsula joins us now from washington d.c. mr kefir yeah it's an incredibly complicated tricky situation this from the outside looking in any way what's your assessment of what's going on well it's an extremely dangerous environment in the gulf region you know over the past several weeks several months there has been ratcheting up of the tension a lot of saber rattling going on and this really increases the room for misunderstanding that being said i think it's pretty clear that the united states administration is really rushing to judgment there is quite a bit of cynicism out there on people who are trying to read the messages from home

peo a lot of people think this is possibly a little too convenient given that there are some in washington some in certain countries in the region that want to see the tensions between the u.s. and iran remain really high and that given that this episode took place during the japanese prime minister's visit has left many quite suspicious and i think reasonably so ok given everything that you've said in the end of the fact that it's increasing room for a miscalculation an extremely dangerous situation in a very strategic area it leads to one question and ultimately whose interests is this in for this to happen. you know there are different figures different groups in multiple countries that have an interest in tensions remaining really high clearly there are some in the trumpet ministration

who are working to mobilize international support for the so called the maximum pressure campaign if iran were to be believed to be behind these attacks there would be more sympathy globally for the trumpet ministrations anti iran agenda i think there are some in certain gulf arab states that also see it in their geo political interest for the us to keep the pressure on iran very intensely at the same time within the iranian regime there are definitely figures who have much to gain from a continuation of this very intense pressure so you know we don't i don't know and no one really seems to know who is behind this well obviously the people behind it do but the general public is still unaware of who the guilty party is let me just. do what you just talking about you know the iranians and if iran is culpable who

within the iranian regime would gain to benefit and why you know i'm not going to name names of any specific people but let's just say that the iranian leadership has said that if iran is unable to export its oil they would ensure that other countries could not do so saudi arabia and the u.a.e. where these 2 tankers are coming from have supported tribes maximum pressure campaign and some could see how it makes sense for iran to gain from situations like this whereby the pro trump countries in the gulf face new problems as blowback for supporting the white house right now. if. iran are culpable and the tension continues to ratchet up something's gotta give somewhere down the line is not a how how is that how is resolution going to be found.

this dangerous situation could move in many different ways i think what we could be hopeful for is that one of the handful of countries that is attempted to be sort of a diplomatic bridge between washington and tehran could take some steps that lead to the tension beginning to cool down that is what and we could optimistically hope for at the same time if that does not happen in there is still no direct channel of communication between the white house and the iranian leadership i think we're moving in a very dangerous direction where there is less there is less room for you know finding in off ramp to get off of this dangerous path it certainly makes everything much more risky and can result in events such as the attack yesterday and also the

sabotage of made 12 be more dangerous in the stakes will be much higher indeed if you had i would relieve the pressure you know perspective thanks very much or let's go to the hague now where the international court of justice has rejected a request by the united arab emirates to grant an injunction over a discriminate discrimination case taken by concert we can speak now to mohamad abilities. who is an agent of cuts or in the international court of justice joins us now from the hague tell us more about what's happened what your reaction is. this. yes actually we witness today. a very important judgment from the courts the international court of justice. favor of. for rejecting the provisional measure this request submitted by the united arab emirates and marse 2019 that requests that specifically the courts consider it unjustified and

did not feel. fill in the requirements of article 41 of the court statutes that deem to be important for the court to grant a provision in measures we are quite happy about this victorious. tradition judgment received in this court and now the case should proceed should continue for the court to discuss jurisdiction and then following that their merits hopefully the court will be able to reach a level where they can view and examine and make a judgment on the witness submitted by the state of up are in terms of the victims the true victims of this racial discrimination case on paul's on the 5th of june 2017 from the united arab emirates and this case is running in parallel to the main case to tell us more about and what happens next. correct this is a provisional measures request which is more of an urgent request demands from the

court to take a quick judgment over a matter where the united arab emirates claimed that about has aggravated the dispute between qatar and the u.a.e. before having a final decision on this and this and this in this case specifically so the court had to deal with this matter as an urgent matter and review of the u.a.e. case in conclusion the court decided that the request does not fulfill the requirements of that is needed for the provision of measures to be granted in favor of the u.a.e. rejected by a vote of 15 judges out of one judge only was the judge ad hoc appointed by the u.a.e. we believe that the court recognizes that this case is actually about human rights violations and that the true victim of this case out of the people who've been victimized by the discriminatory measures imposed on the 5th of june not the government of the u.a.e. now the case will proceed and will continue as

a mission before jurisdiction amorous ok so. case will proceed but it's proceeding immediately when does it actually go back to court. it's a proceeding immediately suspended to look at the provision and not just request with the court's order today it will proceed to go to destruction after confirming the jurisdiction the court will examine as i mentioned all the evidence submitted by the state of qatar explaining actually the horrific situation that people. faced during the. you know the period to 5th of july 2017 till today which is in violation of the international convention of the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination muhammad and i feel we appreciate that thanks very much indeed. another person to die from the burner outbreak in uganda has been buried near the border with the democratic republic of congo family members of the

grandmother who died on tuesday gathered in the town of burial timor protective suits to lay the coffin it is the 2nd deadliest outbreak in history which is spread this week from the d.l.c. to uganda well the world health organization is holding an emergency meeting in geneva to discuss whether to declare the latest outbreak of the virus a global health emergency on home good looks and why the world body and so far been unable to stop its spread. the 1st cases in this current outbreak of ebola were reported last august that was in the democratic republic of congo since then the world health organization has confirmed more than 2000 victims and of those at least 1400 people have died that's a 67 percent fatality rate doctors have usually managed to keep it at around 50 percent and stopped it spreading but this is the 1st time a bola has struck in a conflict zone the virus causes internal bleeding and while it's yet to be proven

it's thought fruit that so the carrier of the virus scientists are trying to work out how it jumps to humans but what is known as how to contain a bola by quickly and safely burying victims quarantine anyone who's been near those infected and vaccinating people. in the early days of the south break the w.h.o. was confident it could contain the virus and resisted calls to to clear a global health emergency the w.h.o. trained hundreds of health workers equipped them with a containment strategy and a new albeit experimental vaccine called v 9 to 0 the vaccine needed 10 days to kick in and doses were limited but there was enough to go around if the virus was contained but it never has been in the d.f.c. and a climate of ethnic tension regional conflict misinformation spread that the a ball emergency had been manufactured that the virus didn't even exist in some

areas people believed the virus was being used by 18th knit group to wipe out another and others resented the mess of resources put into containing a bowler when their basic needs were being neglected nearly 200 a bowler clinics have been attacked this year alone at least 85 health workers were injured or killed with every act of violence the a bowler. has been interrupted and the virus has spread. the arrival of the bowler and uganda realized the worst fears of those did it casted to wiping it out but what is different in uganda is that the government's been preparing itself some months vaccinating more than 4 and a half 1000 health workers sitting up a bowl a treatment same tis and as the 1st ugandan victims died banning mess gatherings and sending in a rep it response to being the lessons from dia says struggle may enable uganda to

stop a bullet taking hold but the challenge remains finding a way to stop it sprayed anywhere else. renewed fighting between the militia and the democratic republic of congo has killed at least 70 people more than 100000 have been forced from their homes in the eastern province of eternity over the past week united nations has deployed troops to 3 temporary military bases in the area 100 as more. fighting in the east of the democratic republic of congo has forced hundreds of thousands from their homes in recent years that total is increasing many walked to this camp from the displaced in bunia there seeking safety from fighting between the lendu and hemet tribes and associated militia. victims from the ham ethnic group say they were attacked with machetes. we saw linda what tack in our village for no reason killing people and burning houses many of our families relatives were killed this is why there is no way for us to stay here we asked

authorities to help stabilize the situation. we were surprised by the attack on our village then 2 fighters chased us from our land with machetes and guns i saw them killing my neighbors this is why i decided to go in the bush for safety of. hundreds of children are alone in the camp not knowing whether their parents are alive or not conscious people are left fending for themselves living in houses made of plastic sheets. deborah entire family were killed including her 6 children but i want to how can i go home when they're killing everybody bear i will stay here because i have no one left even my house is no longer there i might die here because there's no food to eat. the fighting escalated this week but the cause is unclear the fight for control of the mineral wealth in the east and d. r. c. is fueling the militia violence and instability and there's a longstanding dispute over land ownership between the hammock cattle herders and

lendu famous tens of thousands of congolese have been killed in a cycle of attacks throughout it to a province the congolese army as well.