f.a.a. has issued runnings to u.s. carriers not fly airplanes over that area and if we did see a military military activity it would impact shipping which would impact the flow of oil now immediately the areas that would be most impacted by this would be asia because asia is getting at is where most of this oil is actually going russia has suspended flights to georgia after violent protests broke out in the georgian capital tbilisi over a visiting russian politician many georgians are now demanding an early election the 2 countries have had a rocky relationship ever since they fought a war over the breakaway region of south ossetia 11 years ago robin forrester walker has more from tbilisi. protesters in georgia have to keep grievances against their government its handling of russia's occupation of 20 percent of georgian territory and its heavy handed response to the demonstration whose a show here of solidarity for those blinded by rubber bullets in thursday's police

crackdown. the violence began after opposition m.p.'s heckled russian deputies invited into georgia's parliament georgia has had no diplomatic ties with moscow since its war with russia over south the setia in 2008. later clashes between protesters and police were the worst in 7 years since judges governing party came to power with more than 200 people injured and around 300 people detained. colleagues were among. each. identifiable even though they were. the police guys that were continued chasing them. suck up to those. so far the government has responded by removing to speaker of parliament

was that opposition politicians say that's nothing new there has to be somebody responsible for what happened yesterday and that's the minister of interior but even biggest and fundamental change it is in the interest of this country east to change the electoral system to make sure that nobody grips power the way it is now and the power sharing proportionately and candy because they say right it's may have strengthened the result of people opposed to this government but it may have wider consequences with russia now threatening to capitalize on this georgian political drama. more than a 1000000 russians who wrists visit georgia every year live in the putin has announced a ban on flights to georgia from july to ensue russian citizens safety from what moscow calls and he russian hysteria but russians who are as i spoke to were

optimistic i enjoy my life here my stay here and i hope this is going to be a light of what i don't worry about my. tonight. on the joy of headed personnel it doesn't matter which country they come from understands very well that there are governments and there are just normal people and the 2 the same thing. banning russian visit is may hurt today's economy in the short run. but the move may only convince the protestors that their feelings about russian aggression and the competency of their own government are correct robin for stealing al-jazeera to b.c. . and tomorrow head on the al-jazeera news hour including the us government releases its report on religious freedom around the world find out which countries do not make the cut its. demands for justice are finally answered in spain as they are not for us war packets sentenced for rape. and sport

a shock result of the cricket world cup and get their campaign back on track. but 1st police in hong kong have removed some of the barriers placed in front of their headquarters by protesters so angry over an extradition bill at least called friday's demonstration illegal and irrational the protesters want an apology from the police after it used tear gas and rubber bullets on some of them during a massive protest on the 12th of june a bill that will allow the extradition of criminal suspects to mainland china was temporarily shelved by the local government but many wanted to be scrapped entirely earlier on friday one of the busiest roads of hong kong was once again blocked off by protesters right has more on that. protesters back on the streets

gathering friday morning around the government's main offices the word spreads on social media to get moving. again one of the city's main roads is brought to a standstill by the crowds. their destination the police headquarters and an angry standoff. of was yes the demonstrators accuse them of using excessive force and breaking got the largely peaceful protests a claim the police to know was i don't think i thought oh ok we'll fashion all and they are armed and they have here and we'd have nothing we just because he didn't really gone by the walking to the police is still refusing to hold an independent investigation into the way they dealt with the demonstrations at the back of the building some protesters try to block the security cameras filming that it was under venice trapped by the protest the offices inside not able to make the last

few meters to the cable the whole of emotion was against the place was they. exercise or technology on june 12th the people are very hot angry about that the other officers come to help their colleagues and this chaos was seeing a chance to get inside the demonstrators search for it was absolute chaos at this gate now with protesters jamming themselves inside the gateway not allowing the police to close the gate was a process to set up the old girl and the other girls are gone my theory was no other recent proved once again abusing practice was. going out of the room it seems the police faithful the use of force will make the situation worse a calf will to show restraint was but it also shows the anger on the streets

of hong kong isn't going away my yacht and many thousands of hong kong has already to keep up the struggle with that government was the bride al-jazeera hong kong. southeast asian leaders are gathering for a summit in thailand with the u.s. china trade war expected to be on the agenda foreign ministers are holding talks now ahead of the main asked meeting on sunday disputes over territory in the south china sea and controversial waste imports are also expected to be up for discussion . united nations representatives are in venezuela to observe the deepening humanitarian crisis un rights chief michele bachelet lee has met with president nicolas maduro and the opposition leader. to un monitors will stay in the country when she completes for a 3 day visit but there is government is expected to face criticism for food shortages and medicine at an upcoming meeting of the un human rights council

that's beautiful dancer and he's with the international crisis group he's a senior analyst for the and these region he's joining us from caracas via skype but thanks for speaking to us again on al-jazeera how is michele. being viewed in venezuela. i suppose it depends on which side of the political divide you're on the president maduro gave the films of political leader of this evening out time when he said he thought it a very positive visit a very good visit and he looked forward to much better relations with the u.n. high commissioner for refugees than under her predecessor who was a very very tough on them as well and. the opposition has divided the opposition in some of them believe that it was a waste of time for bachelor to come even that it was a bad idea because she's supposedly recognizing the government of president maduro that they don't recognize i think the the proof or the putting be

a meeting i mean whether this is going to make any difference actually to the human rights situation on the ground as we go forward yeah well that was in fact my next question do you think that well and how seriously do you think maduro and the government there will take their recommendations. he says very seriously he says that they're going to listen very carefully to all the recommendations and try to collaborate. i suppose one of the many hopes is regarded as regards what will come out of this has to do with the ongoing presence of the high commissioner for refugees or her stuff in venezuela after she leaves don't believe 2 people behind to monitor the situation the idea is to set up a permanent office or at least a semi permanent office in that as well to monitor and. hopefully to curb some of the worst of the human rights violations she did in the meetings that she held both

with government and opposition but also with victims of human rights abuses. she came across as caring she came across as someone who was very anxious to make a difference but it is an uphill struggle this is a very deeply rooted crisis and it's not clear that a thing that the high commissioner can do will really make a significant difference she actually said one of the meetings that she held the without a political settlement it was going to be difficult if not impossible to produce a lasting improvement in the human rights situation so still take all the information that she's managed to gather over the past 3 days and presented to the un human rights council where she's expected to submit a report in the next month. what do you expect to happen there. well the reports that we've seen so far have been just as tough as they were under michelle batchelor's pre-disaster they certainly haven't been pulling any punches

and in her last speech back in march to the council members were and she spoke about extrajudicial killing and she spoke about torture excessive use of force in repressing demonstrations i think that line will continue but the initial reactions to her closing statement as she was leaving the country this evening just just before we went on air in fact the initial reaction from the opposition has not been very good she was very conciliatory towards the government she spoke about victims on both sides and she went out of her way to praise mottos. efforts to improve the situation so the opposition is probably not going to look too kindly on her in the immediate aftermath of this was an ok full dance and we thank you very much for joining us from caracas. the u.s. government report has criticized several countries including saudi arabia and china for their record on religious tolerance cross party commission on international religious freedom monitors violations around the world me and maher was criticized

for its persecution of the row hinge a muslim minority more than 900000 have fled to neighboring bangladesh government run military deny widespread killings and other atrocities china has also condemned what the report called an authorised religious teachings almost 2000000 weaker muslims are being held in so-called reeducation camps they commission called out saudi arabia for discrimination against the shia minority non muslims women and what is described as prisoners of conscience the report also highlighted attacks on places of worship in the central african republic where fighting for resources and territory has deepened religious and ethnic divides. for all those that run roughshod over religious freedom i'll say this the united states is watching you will be held to account in iran the regimes crackdown on the bahais christians

and others continues to shock the conscience in russia jehovah's witnesses were absurdly importantly branded as terrorists as authorities confiscated their property and then threatened their families in burma burma rohingya muslims continue to face violence at the hands of the military hundreds of thousands of fled or been forced to live in overcrowded refugee camps. and in china the government's intense persecution of many face phone gong practitioners christian and tibetan buddhists among them is the norm the chinese communist party's exhibit extreme i still adore religious faiths since its founding the party demands that it alone be called god daniel fell apart as a professor of political science at the university of not and author of the book religious freedom in islam he says the report reflects a wider us strategy on the issue if religious freedom we have a u.s. ambassador for international religious freedom who. you know travels widely and

brings attention to religious freedom violations and many countries and also brings attention. brings out the information so that activists and voices of many kinds can shine the spotlight on countries so even if the united states is not likely to put military or economic sanctions are some kind of hard power there is the kind of soft power of bringing attention and exposure to terrible violations that's a negative all that you know concerns for religious freedom and other human rights are going to come into conflict with strategic interests stand interest in fighting the war on terrorism an economic interest and that just can't be avoided but nevertheless we can give more attention to this violation than we have we can bring it up in diplomatic meetings with other governments and a wide variety of activists can shine the spotlight i might also point out that there are many some 16 or so european countries and the united states and used to

be canada who have now adopted religious freedom into their foreign policies as well as the european union so it is increasingly a multi lateral and international cause. still ahead on the news hour as fighting terror is a part of villages in mali we meet the children who are left behind. by this chechen human rights activist released early from a russian jail won't be returning home. in sport the ferrari team gets some bad news ahead of the french crown prince. the west and sunsets by cateye always. logon to welcome back to international weather forecasts well heavy rain is going to continue to be the big problem here across central and eastern parts of china and you can see those clouds right there

we've had very heavy rain alaska all days and flooding has been the big problem particular up here towards who and where they had seen over $170.00 millimeters just in 24 hours the good news is will be drying out so we'll shanghai but the rain is going to shift a little bit more down here towards the south this is going to be a big trouble spot on sunday heavy rain anywhere between 152250 millimeters of rain could be seen anywhere between $2.00 to $3.00 day period down towards the south though hong kong is going to be a humid one for the time to their $32.00 degrees and then very quickly over here towards the philippines things are not looking bad right now but by the time we get towards the weekend more rain is going to be pushing in and by the time we get towards sunday heavy rain across parts of manila with the tempter there of about $32.00 degrees across parts wards india it is going to still be quite warm across much of the north the monsoon is delayed across much of that area temper wise we're talking about the low forty's for many locations down towards itself we are looking

at better weather in terms of rain across the region temperatures into the mid twenty's for bengaluru and should i attempt a few of 35 degrees. the weather sponsored by qatar airways. in a war torn city in iraq a magic documents the stories of the survivors recording bare hopes and dreams for a peaceful future after american troops withdrawal. but the conflict is far from over. he turns the camera on himself when i see take control and his family forced to flee no where to hide a witness documentary on al-jazeera. examining the headline scientists are telling us that we have just 12 years to make an oppressed that any changes unflinching journalism i am told to leave to leave. absolutely sharing personal stories with

a global audience we see people making sacrifices this is what i want to see explore in abundance of world class programming the world is watching on al-jazeera . lower down the top stories on the al-jazeera news hour donald trump has repeated that he is not looking for war with iran u.s. president confirmed he called off an attack against toronto board mass casualties the retaliatory strike would have been in response to the downing of a u.s. . russia has suspended flights to georgia after a violent protest in the capital they were sparked by

a russian politician parliamentary speaker has resigned and some protesters are calling for an early election. removed some of the barriers obstructing their headquarters they were placed there by protesters angry over the rubber bullets and tear gas used to break up the mass protests over an extradition bill. is illegal and irrational. back to our top story in the tension between iran and the us former white house official hillary mann leverages served as a director for iran and the persian gulf at the national security council she says by canceling the attack president trump is trying to send a message to iran. i think the president's 1st choice is to have a dialogue that would lead to a bigger better deal and i think that the launching of an attack or ordering the launching of an attack and then ordering it to stop is a message to the iranians i'm not sure that they will get it it may not be all that coherent but i think it is

a message to the iranians that look the president united states can attack but has stepped back has actually stepped back and is now waiting for iran to come to a negotiation or to a dialogue of course iran is not going to want to negotiate or talk on these terms but the problem for iran is that president trump has these 2 goals either to get iran into a bigger better geo which could potentially be good for iran or to to take even stronger i think military action against iran both of those goals can perspective from the white house's perspective serve his purpose either he has a great deal to advertise as he's going into a reelection campaign which he just launched this week or he's got you know he's got himself looking tough against iran on the world stage when he calculates and he may be wrong but i think this is the calculation that the europeans and even the chinese and the russians are not going to come to iran aid and so either he will

benefit because he's the triumphant person who can bring about a bigger better deal or he can watch iran be fundamentally weekend with no one coming to its aid either way trump thinks that he you know he will have a win in central mali hundreds of civilians have been killed in a series of massacres in the last 3 months it's part of an escalating conflict over land and water. muslim are met survivors of a recent attack in the multi region. ceases to young to understand that his parents have been killed. his neck was cast in the same attack on his village bring him bars 2 months old his mother was also killed. medical workers here say they've never seen anything this bad and then one what else in the world doesn't come to help us we don't know

when this will end even here we don't feel safe before and burn because a patient was killed in this hospital no one's protecting us were afraid will become the target of an attack. in this ward all the children's parents are either missing or dead we've changed their names and hidden their faces for their safety relatives have come here to take care of them their village in central mali was attacked last week. the rest of the survivors now sleeping on the roadside in a nearby town they belong to the full army ethnic group what the village chief told us was tragically familiar. it was about 10 pm and it was raining and we started hearing people shooting at the village so we ran the next morning we collected everybody and came here the same people later burned all the houses and took all the animals militia connected to the full lonny and gone groups have been

attacking each other's communities every week in a steadily escalating conflict hundreds of being killed in the last 3 months and nearly $50000.00 have fled their homes many of them now staying in camps when people run they carry whatever they can. for sleeping on here are some hot cooking utensils whatever's essential for survival containers for water. now they're living in tents here let's with the village life continues we're going to grinding millet to wait for their mail this evening but life here having left everything else behind is very difficult. 15000 u.n. peacekeepers haven't been able to stop the violence nearly 200 of them have been killed making it the un's most dangerous mission ever. repeat growing protests calling for the u.n.

and other foreign forces to leave almost since they arrived 6 years ago this camera phone video shows one in 70 last week the. un peacekeeping chief visited the town yes we know that the situation is not easy in this country we feel terribly sorry specially for the losses of these lost there isn't really so. far we can only support it's the money and responsibility after all. the attacks haven't stopped. a mother was killed he was shot in the leg. everybody here says the violence is getting worse nobody knows how it will and malcolm webb al-jazeera the region mali. an estimated 4000 refugees have fled democratic republic of congo for neighboring

uganda and there are hundreds of thousands of people forced from their homes by inter-communal fighting hermit also reports from china while they were many have sought refuge. it's been 2 days since i've know your family and right the child while the refugee settlement 2 of her 5 children aged 4 and 7 didn't survive the journey from the north east of the d.r.v. to western uganda. india when the fighting started we ran to the boat in the panic one child fell into the water and drowned another child died because we had no food or medicine that's when i said if i stay in congo the whole family will die . conditions in uganda are basic but the refugees are grateful. forces have been deployed to fight militias in the area around the town of juba it's in need to be the province at the center of the current into ethnic conflict one challenge the congolese army is facing is that some militiamen are armed not

just with machetes but with more sophisticated weapons to army commanders appealing for help to restore calm. do you can survive without the presence of soldiers this is why we've been deployed here we call on all communities to support this army so that we can restore peace and security. in the conflict but you know him and linda groups is about access to farmland as well as gold oil and gas resources. the problem today is that number of people who've been displaced is between 300-002-4000 extension 00 areas around because of attacks currently the army is heavily deployed as now trying to secure those areas. back in uganda some of the 4000 congolese who fled fighting this month alone trying to settle into a new country piece by piece a temporary home takes about a day to build this shelter is basic and meant to be temporary they get the canvas

from the united nations but everything else is sourced locally in some cases and entire family sleeps in here. the shelters near the road are meant for older people so they have easy access. thousands survived the long journey across the border to get here where at least for now they are how to. refugee settlement uganda. people are dead and more than 20 are being treated in hospital after a. mosque in the iraqi capital police in suicide belts may have been used in the attack which happened in the east of baghdad many be injured or in a serious condition there's been no immediate claim of responsibility. the opposition in syria is accusing the government of using so-called see starve tactics to force war refugees from a camp in the desert about 14000 people have left camp in the past 3 months but as in a 100 reports it's unclear how many of the remaining 27000 are ready to return to government

controlled territory roca bandcamp was home 240000 syrians for more than 4 years and the past 3 months it started to empty more than 14000 have left this remote desert region along a corridor opened by syrian government forces it's the only way out. but. it's because of the tight siege by russian and syrian government forces the people in your choice because they were hungry they decided to leave to areas under regime control but at least 60 percent of the camps population remain and many prefer to stay instead of being killed by the regime security men for months now syrian government forces have besieged the camp closing smuggling routes that used to be lifelines some goods still reach work ban but the trade is controlled by businessmen who seem to be profiting from the situation. bank of 8 loaves of

bread cost $500.00 syrian liras or $1.01 q will a fries cost $1.00 and a half is this possible people don't have money if you shop owners here are controlling the prices in the do not fear god we have no one to help us but. the evacuations are organized by the syrian government which is giving the refugees one choice return to government rule or stay in what aid agencies have described as extremely challenging conditions. people are leaving because of poverty but then the regime sends them to the front lines to fight they don't come back they're either killed by the opposition or the assad regime and iranian militias we hope they open a road to the north to rebel areas or to any other country we don't want to go back to living under the regime. the city and government is refusing to open an internationally guaranteed safe passage to opposition controlled territories it has also been preventing the united nations from delivering much needed aid to look bad

for the past 4 months the united nations says these people are in need of food medicine and water but it can't do anything without consent from government leaders and damascus. the u.n. and the syrian arab red crescent working on a plan off for the contras from the us will humanitarian assistance. what's being discussed at the moment i hope hans need to agree on this post deliver assistance. to all. the opposition accuses the government of using a tactic employed throughout the years of war siege and starve people into submission and rock band it appears to be succeeding and yet again the international community is failing to act. beirut. fighting in libya is forcing migrants there are to escape into neighboring tunisia hoping to venture we cross the mediterranean and reach europe. the reports in the tunisian be true. many have

drowned in their attempts while survivors are stuck in a refugee center. it was supposed to be a passage to a new life but it turned out to be one of the deadliest shipwrecks in the mediterranean this year in may 60 people drowned when a boat carrying them from libya capsized off the choosing coast in the city of sparks only 16 survived after they were rescued by a chinese in fishing trawler these are the men that made it out alive navigating their lives as asylum seekers in tunisia their home for now is this refugee center. they are free to take up casual work when it is available but without proper documentation it amounts to the bare minimum iran who's from bangladesh manages to stay in contact with his wife but he has no idea when he will

see her or their baby son again moreland was there one of them. before the shipwreck he says he spent months in libya where he was kidnapped and tortured for ransom. listable gets me this man holds a. broaching me. rules of money. my family collect money money a broken being i would say it. was one of the fisherman who helped save the man that night he and others have witnessed the increasing death toll from such shipwrecks as the northern mediterranean countries such as italy continue to prevent boats from libya landing on their shores by criminalizing such rescues shamsuddin insists it won't stop him from saving lives. i don't care about politics or the politicians we are all part of humanity and we

have to help people we as fishermen are not going to stop saving people even if the tunisian politicians are getting pressure from europe despite the incredible danger they will be many who will take a boat from libya just to get to the other side of the mediterranean sea in the hope of finding a better life in europe there's absolutely no guarantee that they will even survive the journey and those who don't make it will invariably wind up washed up in this part of the 2 missing coast. this is the makeshift cemetery where the bodies of the dead are laid to rest the graves of the children who drowned at sea identifiable by the small mounds with his own resources shops a dean also tends to the graves and make sure that the victims have a proper burial a final acknowledgement for those who died nameless on a foreign shore with nothing more than hope.