as president of the republic head of state and head of government to take seriously your suggestions your recommendations and your proposals so that in venezuela human rights system even deeper prevails. hundreds of venezuelans are protested to demand respect for human rights the country remains crippled by an economic crisis with widespread short in food and medicine more than 4000000 venezuelans have left the country since 2015 affair gunson is with the international crisis group and a senior analyst for the andes region he says people hope but chalets visit will lead to a more lasting u.n. presence one of the main hopes is regarded as regards what will come out of this has to do with the ongoing presence of the high commission of in venezuela after she leaves she's done to leave 2 people behind to monitor the situation the idea is to set up a permanent office or at least a semi permanent office in venezuela to monitor. hopefully to curb some of the

worst of the human rights violations she did in the meetings that she held both the 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 her think that the high commissioner can do will really make a significant difference she actually said in 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. still ahead on al-jazeera demonstrative justice out finally on safety in spain as the new tourist was actually sentenced for right. to repeat election for the man of a stand for and why to he's president is hoping for a different outcome. the

west and sponsored by cattle and. logan it's good to have you back the levant as looking quite dry right now across much of the region where we are seeing some clouds as out here across the mediterranean particularly over here towards turkey where thunderstorms have a bubbling up in the heating of the day so on saturday a few more showers anywhere from the black sea down here towards the mediterranean on sunday though things are looking a little bit better a little bit dry across much of that area temp wise though we are talking the high twenty's but we are going to be seeing more in terms of clear skies and partly cloudy conditions down here towards aleppo it is going to be 34 degrees and a dry day here in the cross the gulf the good news is the winds are dying down to here in doha where they had been 3 very gusty days but here on saturday we're

looking at calmer winds tempter $42.00 degrees over here towards of dobby it is going to be $38.00 and by the time we get to sunday pretty much the same situation as we go towards the end of the weekend riyadh a sunny day for you with a temperature of 42 as well and then very quickly across parts of southern africa we are talking about windy as well as cloudy conditions across much of the southern cape cape town at 16 degrees with rain in your forecast durban at $23.00 but by the time we get to sunday that system makes its way towards the east and durban is going to be $22.00 as well. the weather sponsored by cattle and ways for 8 years after the fall of gadhafi more is still raging in libya but it's not just a domestic showdown outside powers are involved 2 spoke about the axis of evil. this over these and. talks to al-jazeera. i really feel liberated as

a journalist was. going to the truth doesn't lie with that's what this job. hello again you're watching i just the a reminder of our top stories this hour donald trump has repeated he does not want war with iran the u.s. president confirmed he called off an attack against iran saying he wanted to avoid mass casualties the strike would have been in response to its downing of a u.s. drone. russia has suspended flights to georgia after the visit of a russian politician sparked protests in the capital tbilisi on friday the opposition has accused the government of being too friendly with moscow.

venezuela's president says he will take recommendations made by the un human rights chief seriously nicolas maduro made a pledge after meeting michel but he was wrapping up a 3 day visit. at least 3 people have died and dozens more feared buried under rubble after a building after a building under construction collapsed in cambodia local media say it happened in the coastal town of sea and not feel excavators be used to try and free construction workers from the debris of the 7 story block. police in hong kong have removed some of the barriers placed in front of their headquarters by protesters rallying against an extradition know the demonstrators won the police to apologize for using tear gas and rubber bullets on some of them during a protest last week a bill that would allow the extradition of criminal suspects to mainland china was temporarily shelled by the local government but many wanted scrapped entirely early on friday one of the busiest roads in hong kong was once again blocked off by

protesters roma pride has more. 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 was yet the demonstrators accuse them of using excessive force in breaking up their largely peaceful protests a claim the police to know was i don't think i thought oh ok a little fashion now and they are armed and they have here and we'd have nothing we just didn't realize it's gone by the arkansas 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 was and a van is trapped by the protest the officers inside not able to make the last few meters to the gate the whole row emotion was against the place oh they. exercise for tolerating on june 12th the people are very angry about that was other officers come to help their colleagues and this chaos oh i 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 was for when the other girls are gone i'm sure it was a friday said could once again be using pepper spray. going out of the room it seems the police fearful that use of force will make the situation worse careful to

show restraint was but it also shows the anger on the streets of hong kong isn't going away my god and many thousands of hong kong has already to keep up the struggle with their government was the bride al-jazeera hong kong hundreds of civilians in mali have been killed in a series of attacks in the last 3 months the battle for land is pitting farmers against her has now come where met survivors of a recent attack in a multi region. know. that the whatever he wanted it al you ceases to young to understand that his parents have been killed. his neck was caught in the same attack on his village. he put him bonds 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 bunk us a patient was killed in the 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 pots cooking utensils whatever is essential for survival containers for water. now they're living in tents here with the village life continues when a grinding millet for their meal 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. u.n. peacekeeping. yes we know that the situation is not easy in this country we feel terribly sorry specially for the losses of this last is an response. we can only support it's the money and responsibility because 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. at least 7 people are dead and more than 20 are being

treated in hospital after a bomb blast at a shia mosque in the iraqi capital police say the bomber may have used a suicide belt in the attack which happened in the east of baghdad many of the injured are in a serious condition. and a toy is a criminal case in spain has ended with the jailing of 5 men known as the wolf pack their sentences have been increased to 15 years each following a public outcry has. spain's highest court in madrid has delivered its verdict 5 men previously convicted of the sexual assault of a 19 year old woman were now guilty of the more serious charge of rape the man called themselves the wolf pack and. all the acts took place in an atmosphere of tara of absolute subjection the only thing the victim declared to the court was a close my eyes and waited for everything to end as soon as possible. on the head

of the decision some of the man arrived at the courthouse in seville where they must check in 3 times a week. the supreme court ruling overturned 2 previous court rulings in a case this brought thousands of people onto the streets in protest was. it tacked happened here in pump lonna in the city was holding the sound for main bull running festival the woman was dragged into a residential home way in the early hours of the morning the court heard how the man shared jokes and videos of the rape in a whatsapp group footage was used as evidence in the trial the defendant's lawyer said the sex was consensual a rape charge in spain requires evidence of violence or intimidation the woman's lawyer says she didn't fight back because she was afraid and in shock both the 5 men and the victim appealed to the early a verdict to the supreme court joining the appeal process the men were freed from jail because under spanish law or no one could be held for more than 2 years

without a definitive sentence. i their release and rage protesters. 4 of the men of had their sentences increased from 9 to 15 years one of them was given an extra 2 years for stealing the victim's phone. it's thought that me and if that gets i think they're worth pacquet says let us to consider changing the law i hope parliament takes a. legal reform seriously society demands it. is one of the most controversial cases in modern spain the case the compiler's hope to change the way the country judges rate future eve barkha al-jazeera. a chechen human rights activists has been freed on parole after a russian court granted his early release all you've tittie ever was sentenced to 4 years for possessing drugs in march and supporters say the accusations were

exaggerated to have had reported on disappearances and torture in the region before his arrest he says he won't go back to work in chechnya as the risks are too high. a protesters in algeria are keeping up their calls for a political overhaul after more leading figures were drawn into a corruption investigation demonstrators have rallied for an 18th straight week on thursday a court ordered former prime minister ahmed we are here and to form a government ministers to be investigated i profiled businessmen and the head of the state bank were later arrested voters in turkey's biggest city head to the polls on sunday for a rerun of the mayoral election the opposition candidate was declared the winner in is stan ball in march but a legal challenge from the ruling party of president richard type and when an old the result it's governed the city for the last 25 years seen in casale reports. if you remember one was declared the winner of that stumbles may or elections 3 months

ago. he spun turkey's main opposition party c.h.p. brought him almost mandated lasted only teen days. the governing party said there were irregularities and corruption in the vote and appealed to the supreme council which can see the results of this is that if you look at the comedy the estimable lection has been an old 4 vote cast in one and you know only one of them which counts for istanbul mayorship people will respond to this on june 23rd the council said a number of polling station officials were not civil servants as is. that forced him home or the office and ordered a room only fully stumbled. turkey has a very secure election system but in the march 31st elections the opposition was much more poll savvy than the ruling party that's why they couldn't present any solid evidence for what they claimed was corruption on the other hand the supreme

election board needed to address the irregularities only that would have eased the public conscious. the party's been a former prime minister. to his rival by 14000 votes it was a shock defeat and of the parties and that's pretty sad when a 5 year control of the city were turkey's present treasure. and once served as a. reality he's met on the ballot box the bell yelled and voted out has only one vote for him indeed for him at least it's obvious that's why we say they stole the votes. president adams loyalists believed their victory was stolen but other wings of the party accepted their loss. the opposition alliance and supporters protested against election watch the station calling it. turkey's western allies urged the government and the election board to respect

people's choice and democracy. turkey's electoral council has launched an investigation into some heads on istanbul because of they were responsible for closing polling station offices but the council recently said line of existing laws and regulations in place in those selfish rules is not possible for the mayoral rerun in istanbul on june 23 that's promoted their position to say the consul's decision was politically motivated. al-jazeera the stumble. all right let's get on top stories on al-jazeera donald trump has repeated he's not looking for war with iran the u.s. president confirmed he called off an attack against iran saying he wanted to avoid casualties the strike would have been in response to its downing of a u.s. drone about ready to go i said i wanted

a better games in the playoffs and we're about ready to go no but they would have been pretty soon and things would have happened to a point where you wouldn't turn back you couldn't turn back so they came in they said sure we're ready to go we'd like a decision i said i want to know something before you go how many people will be killed approximately $150.00 and i thought about it for a 2nd i said you know what they shot down an urn man and a drone plane whatever you want to call it and here we are busy sitting with $150.00 dead people that would have taken place probably within a half an hour after i said go ahead and i didn't like it or russia has suspended flights to georgia following protests in the capital tbilisi on thursday they were sparked by the visit of a russian politician the opposition has accused the government of being too friendly with moscow. when is when us president says he'll take recommendations

from the u.n. human rights chief seriously nicolas maduro made the pledge after meeting michel but she says she'll leave 2 members of her team behind to monitor the country's worsening humanitarian crisis at least 3 people have died and dozens more are feared buried under rubble after a building under construction collapsed in cambodia excavators are being used to try to free workers from the debris of the 7 storey block in the coastal town of c. a knoxville hong kong police said remove some of the barriers blocking their headquarters they were put there by protesters angry about the use of rubber bullets and tear gas to break up demonstrations against an extradition bill police said the barriers are illegal in spain supreme court has found a 5 man guilty of raping an 18 year old woman in $26.00 the judges overturned a lesser conviction of sexual abuse and increased the officers sentences after a public outcry. those are the headlines talk to al-jazeera is next.

al jazeera. and you. see. here at the u.n. they had a peace plan for libya it was though disrupted by one general holy father he is not all gassed going to just instead this week we speak to someone who knows him well before foreign minister and libyan m.p. . who they were next all together in the u.s.

and he also knew gadhafi during his school days he says that it's now resembling the full would it take to. form a foreign minister of libya libyan m.p. thank you for joining us here on talk to each is 0 your country is in population terms a relatively small 16 or 7000000 people living on the side of the mediterranean most of them living in one part of the country with huge oil wealth. and yet we've seen only since the revolution in libya conflict and chaos do you think there will be a prosperous libya coming forward for sure libya lived for 42 years under the theory and get definite. after 42 years of the aerial ship i think the country

needs some time to regain its helped unfortunately many of the warlords and people who are are you know trained and that they get definitely jeem told that this isn't a bush unity for them to a mess world and that created a vacuum in the country because that evolution in 1000 in 2011 had no leadership it was a bubble or revolution so many of the b. but even who were on it were good deaf ear people i suspect some of the problems in the revolution go back to the time of gadhafi and for most of your life he was in control of libya he came to power in 1969 what was life like on the gadhafi. well. what is life under any dictatorial regime lack of freedom leftover rule of law left of decency lack of development and human

development and country development libya and 42 years after the end of the good def he is she the country was worse than when it was in 69 by the way he is. we were the same age 42 but both of us were born in 42 and i knew him in grade school and they knew him after that even he tried to you know entice me to be with him in $72.00 to be one of his ministers i said i rather be teaching at the university and he then imprisoned you. and tortured you because how i was there because i was a nobody critic he didn't like or been critical of people who will criticize him i was one of them how did you cast house of libya and what was life in excel like in 76 when i was you know outside of the universities you know most of the people

who do libya at the time where my generation so i was able to get out of libya and came to the states because i knew the states very well i started my master's and maybe the and i said this is a place i would like to stay i raise my family here and continue to study also islamic studies in michigan. for a master beach the and. started in 1980 when he started his campaign to kill the opposition the there's outside grilling me he would say said some people to you know assess and eat meat we started the national front for the submission of libya against him and since then i worked it out against him in aspects of what the voter availability unities just. it was a long struggle what were your thoughts finally in the beginning of 2011 when the revolution started well it was

a dream coming through i mean we were not dreaming that they did the bin people will really revolt but the arab spring in tunisia and in egypt gave a new life what went wrong because everyone fought gadhafi and gadhafi fell but then it seems everyone 40 chapa i think when you and the allies the situation in libya the uprising has nobody the ship so most of the leadership that came and turned the country were mostly people from the old regime or some expatriates who came and joined them like yourself i didn't threaten dear i i was doing the work of training be able to be citizens so i did stablished the citizenship form and for 2 years i have been you know trained libyans from tobruk to day or to got thousands a b.

would i trained but the question is that because they could lease of ness of the society were broken or was broken because of the rule dictatorial rules don't give you an opportunity to build the relationship to build. solidarity is to build civil societies student unions were banned or were controlled trade unions were banned or controlled all of the what you can call if you look at tunisia which has a very vibrant civil society in libya that is not. you've mentioned the role in 2011 of the international community in particular nato with its bombing was key in the military overthrow of gadhafi but did the international community do enough particularly in the keep period after gadhafi was toppled i think there is a bush unity mists by the international community because getting rid of get their feet was step number one building to be here to really restructure itself

was step number 2 and the community or the world community at large left libya alone and that i think was a great mistake i was in libya in august 27th when gadhafi fled from tripoli and his government basically fell i was back of just a few months later in october when gadhafi. was killed and it was interesting in that short space of time although on each occasion there was a great deal of euphoria it was clear things that come bad in the 1st few months militia already in control in tripoli oh yes i think there were among them was really the decision to give people who are fighting or who claim to be fighting the definite forces. mental stability and so instead of 30000 forces the number.

20300000 evolution of forces most of them were not the fighters and people have discovered that this is a very good opportunity to m.s. money so we would have started to create their own militias and in every city almost we would have stablished new militias it is now such a complicated situation you have various different militias in different parts of the country you have rival governments rival parliaments well. under the surface yes and the l a t there is only one it couldn't eyes of government which has been the by braddock's of aspirants political agreement it's called the now the government of national. accord in ga and with it there

should be 2 more major political organizations the state council and the house of representatives the house of representatives was hey jacket in tobruk with under the control of the libyan national army the militia of couldn't have after and until have to attack it to billy the house of representatives did not come to tripoli but after they attacked tripoli members of the house of representatives from the western areas realized that this is the time to break away from to broke the political agreement. cold for the creation of a new parliament from people who were elected in 2014 and from the boycotters like me. and we did it on a brutal 1st week of april after he affectively we really gathered in tripoli and

more than 50 members of the house are risen the started a new parliament and said this is the bulb moment according to the political agreement they were in the mountain top but it is completely out and because they made the statements aborting the attack of have to on. you bring up the subject of general khalifa haftar not many people have known him as long or as well as you have so let's just examine who this man is he was there at the time of the coup in 1969 with khadafi he was a close associate of khadafi yes yes he was one of the people who. did the coup against the king. and that's were the a no the agony of libya started in september 1989. again he was the commander of

the libyan army who at that could chat and did have a chat and he was defeated in chad and was imprisoned in chad get death even this isn't difficult nice that he had an army in chad or he has to have that in chad so he disowns general have to be sold them he used think looking back now that episode might have been quite important in the psychology of general have to and how he's acting now i think so because in some of the conversations i had with after he said he was so mad about get deaf is denial of them being imprisoned in chad because in those days if the chad is have killed all of them nobody would say and you weren't and he made the consideration would get deaf in the last 7 years or with that his life. death he. made approaches

with many people according to him he gave him money he gave him a palace for his children in cairo he even bade wishing for his children to study in cairo so there was a good relationship between him and get their feet in the final years of get there . let me just go back to chad he and his troops were imprisoned in chad eventually was the u.s. brokered his freedom i believe to what was then known as zaire now the democratic republic of congo then on to kenya and then to the u.s. to live in virginia the same place the cia are based begs me to ask the question do you believe general hafta was working for the cia i think the narration of the situation goes back to where the national front for the salvation of libya has a program to attack libya and to liberate libya from get their feet from jet and

they did the deal with the americans and with the chad is that if they let the libyan prisoners of war in chad at least they can be starting the libyan national army but as part of the an f s l the national front for there's a division libya when this to be. was successful in his coup against her sent heavily these are these are the charlie and leaders will have to leave the area he thought him down with the help of the french the whole project failed and the americans help but the prisoners of war who were in chad and transported them to the united states so general have to is living in the us as an exile from libya you are living there to get you know each other before we did not but we knew each other when he came to virginia and we lived. for many years together as

acquaintances friends in the northern virginia city of fairfax. as far as they know he was with all the libyans who came from chad. who want to help and who want to rebuild their lives there. after many years with the national front of the vision of libya he decided to break away from it and he stabbed it would some other be another movement. another a position movement away from the national front and since then he became by himself working on his own projects from the conversations we had together he is a man who believes that he is worthy of you know. controlling libya and he always speaks about libya needs a strong force to point towards you said you were a friend at the time to you consider that he could be

a ruthless military leader then i never had that idea in my mind. i thought that. since he was you know suffered the from the ruthless regime of get there feel that he should not be the same rootless that mentality or attitude and when he decided after the revolution started in 2011 to go to libya you were there was his side take him to the airport i believe yes and it was you know really. in an effort to help the a revolution and when he went back to libya he started to build his own you know and to raja here on special forces his aunt's ego status i realized that this is not a person that i will continue to have a relationship with because he went to pain garci besieged part of benghazi went to

another city in the east of besieged he's been accused and some of his those working within his forces of war crimes could you for seen any of these things never never and by the way these are there is also of later on at the beginning he was supposedly working with the revolutionary forces and to get that he was troubled but then he started working on his own. and in 2014 he made. you know acquitted. on the t.v. . but still i think he was able to amass some support for himself in the eastern barred to believe and started in the do and debris text of fighting terrorism and been. fighting against the revolutionary forces there. he said it will take 2 weeks it took 4 years to fight against powerful 40500 forces there after the the

submitted benghazi he did the same thing to there are the 2 centers of civilization in the eastern part of libya and then he went on through the south of libya he had quite a bit of international support we think we'll come to that in a moment but i just want to complete the story which is in april when he launched online and announcement the time has come on april the 4th an assault on the capital tripoli and he did it remarkably at the time when the u.n. secretary general was in tripoli the u.n. had a plan for a national conference some good dharmas and then eventually elections to make that announcement at that time with the top world organization leader in the capital fairy or dangerous just in that very day shifts and it's very shocking because. he showed can be distributed to do 90 nations to the secretary general and

today represents a diverse and said emma whom he was with a week or 2. before in abu dhabi making. between him and said he basically had said he would sign up to the un plan but he was here everyone he did but because the man doesn't want to share power of the anybody he realized that if you went to the damask conference he would only have part of the power. and he decided to probably. blitzkrieg the conference and activity and control the power himself has it worked you know how of his forces surrounding tripoli like to pincers do you think he can move further and take the capital i don't think so because his attack on

tivoli would the rallying point of defense brewery a revolutionary forces that came from the from the mountains from theirs in 10 from those from leeds in homs many forces have come together to really rallying for support through belief and the militia and thirdly also defended their city and now most of these forces which are supported by the or supporting the government of sabotage is really. they stopped. the forces of have terror and now they are getting them back so you've given us the situation as you see it the military situation inside libya. but the one thing we haven't looked at is the support the general have to has outside libya and that may be his secret because the support of egypt the support of saudi arabia the support of the

united arab emirates we know when he was operating in the garci there were spent french special forces there that seemed to be on his side he's got very strong backers handsomely well the former busier than tunisia spoke about the axis of evil the abu dhabi this so it is and easy options ad today the french this axis of evil have a mandate to work against the success of the arab spring. they were able to do it in egypt. and sisi now is governing egypt it with his. as if a new dictator there they tried in tunisia they could not they were not able. to found to have terror as somebody who can work with them you know it's amazing that somebody like up there when he said that if these make a decision which is against my interest in libya i will take it. which means

against even national you know aspirations not only this lately he said even the egyptian send me 10000000 people to live in libya i will accept it something that made all the libyans so angry i mean who are you to give these this you know card that they can invade the country this situation i think the international community have to realize they have supported have tried with weapons against the united nations security council resolutions and nobody spoke about it as an arms embargo no and there is a lot is about of all weapons and everybody knows even in india briefings of the united nations envoy that there are arms coming from those 3 countries or at least double the b. and egypt to. mr have that he may well though have another even more important supporter general have to have

a phone call with president trump we know there are some around president trump who may be persuading president trump that what libya needs is another strongman and that is general have. i think that it was against the policy of the american administration. you know those who know washington very well they know that their lobbying groups could make such moves and i think the lobbying groups which are paid by the government and by the way i always speak about abu dhabi government the emirates because they are the spearheading of our own of these efforts the rest of the emirates are not part of it they are also supported by the egyptians and the saudis how do you see this particular moment where we are in libya is this a moment that is done that is dangerous or is this

a moment of opportunity and hope potentially there is an old saying that in every crisis there is an opportunity this crisis has created an a but unity for all the forces of february 17th to rally together. and even in the east there are tribes now who have come oh believe against have to and spoke that what he did on tbilisi is not acceptable and days are calling for reconsideration with the rest of the country so we are in coming now to a realization that have her base of support in the east is not as it used to be there are lot of complaints. life in britain because he and in there now is unbearable it's worse than the days of good that he. there is no freedom of speech there is no freedom of load there is there are a lot of killings extrajudicial killings and the i.c.c.

the international community court has already indicted some of the assistance of have to himself he himself should be under investigation and tank stude the. you know foreign relations committee of the house of representative in the congress which sent a letter to the attorney general to start investigating the crimes of have there because he is also an american citizen. they also asked the f.b.i. director to open the files for have to so there are now forces in washington and in the high and the hate to really follow up the war crimes which have been committed in libya and i when i am very clear that the war crimes committed by have terror others should be investigated the libyans deserve to have

some of those you know criminals be brought to just say. thank you for talking to al-jazeera thank you very much for having. monitored truck quantify i'm value missing data a new car for. your data your identity is

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a band hospital for all their medical needs they would has destroyed almost the infrastructures which are especially in the upper layer almost all away including my local hospital was obstructed living there in the process or who you know visions of the mother to walk into the capacity that they're supposed to. donald trump repeats he doesn't want war with iran saying he called off strikes to avoid casualties. clime has i'm saying this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up.

russia suspends flights to georgia where protesters are demanding the resignation of the interior minister all while in clashes. but as well as president vows to take proposals from the un human rights chief seriously as she calls for dialogue to end the humanitarian crisis. we need to survivors of ethnic violence in mali that's left children orphaned and forced thousands from their homes. by u.s. president donald trump has repeated he does not want war with iran but he warned if a conflict does happen it would lead to what he called obliteration he said he called off retaliatory strikes on iran to avoid casualties attacks were ordered after an american surveillance drone was shot down over the strait of hormuz on thursday island fission reports from washington this was the reason the u.s.

was prepared to launch an attack the doning of an unmanned military drawn by iran. these pictures are said to be the missile launch which are really in television says was filmed by the islamic republic's revolutionary guards the u.s. said the drone was over international waters a claim disputed by to run donald trump says while 3 sites had been identified for the strikes he canceled the operation they came in they said so we're ready to go we'd like a decision i said i want to know something before you go how many people will be killed. in this case it rains i said how many people are going to be killed. so i'd like to get back to you on that great people these generals they said they came back said sir approximately 150 and i thought about it for a 2nd i said you know what they shot down an on demand. drone plane whatever you want to call it and here we are busy sitting with $150.00 dead people and that

would have taken place probably within a half an hour after i said go ahead and i didn't like it i didn't think it was i didn't think it was proportionate in toronto the revolutionary guard put on a display of what it said was wreckage from the u.s. drone recovered in a really intended trick the head of its space division claims a manned u.s. spy plane near detroit was not targeted that i will not see at the same moment when the aircraft was being tracked another spy aircraft called p. 8 was flying close to this drone that aircraft is man and has around 35 crew members where we could have targeted that plane it was our right to do so and yes it was american but we didn't do it we hit the unmanned aircraft. well secretary of state my pompey who is heading to the region to talk to allies saudi arabia and the united arab emirates the u.s. special representative in iran has been brian who promised the u.s.

would continue to exert maximum economic and diplomatic pressure on iran our diplomacy does not give iran the right to respond with military force in iran needs to meet diplomacy with diplomacy and not military force iran's foreign ministry responded saying it needs diplomacy with diplomacy respect with respect and war with zealous defense the rise in tension in the region has led a number of international airlines to cancel or divert flights away from the area america's federal aviation administration says in a statement because of heightened military activity it is banning all u.s. carriers from operating in the gulf region a situation it says it's keeping under review alan fischer al-jazeera washington other reuters news agency is reporting hundreds of u.s. contractors will be evacuated from an iraqi military base over potential security

threats it says evacuation from the balad base will take place in 2 stages u.s. companies lockheed martin and sally port global have operations there the base was hit by a mortar attack last week but no one was injured let's speak now to new channel is a car he's an assistant professor of gulf politics at qatar university and joins us now via skype from brussels thanks very much for being with us so if we just take a step back from all of this for a moment is there is there. a kind of is there a part of a negotiated solution to all of this what is what is the end game what is the u.s. endgame in all of this. well actually it's very difficult to know what is the. objective of the you know we know that the maxim brisker has been accepted and they said that they don't want to reach our problems that don't want to have a war that we're producing castro is in in your own recently that

this is the room for diplomacy how were is this difficult to understand what kind of diplomacy can be implemented with iran when the unit is. showing a military mark or in the region there will be there are iranians also interested in not going in a gust will be on the american side but i can say that or i think both our interests feel in having some kind of negotiation and prevent. any bigger problem by going on the other side one of donald trump's main campaign promises back in 2016 was to bring troops home to keep the u.s. out of what he saw as these these costly and needless foreign wars but is there a contradiction in his policy as as president where on the one hand he wants to appear tough an uncompromising but at same time he doesn't want to get to get

sucked into a foreign conflict or are we seeing that play out in this standoff with iran. well i mean yes it can sound contradictory but the way in which he told yesterday this issue by refraining from reducing the. 150. show promise not interested at all in gauging in the arab world that there's something troops for the middle east increasing the amount of the military troops in the military. in the middle is just a block to show that they are ready to do anything necessary to make america great again to reaffirm that the american morning. it's really true but he's not really got the war started over the. reelection campaign he doesn't want to. i mean not to comply with what he promised in the previews. and some contradictory

but i think that he's more or less by the what he promised that he doesn't want united states meaning gays and other in you or. you know this. years ago and you're speaking to us of course from brussels what a european leaders making of all this particularly given the fact that 3 european countries were leading european countries were among the signature is to that iran nuclear deal that the united states said of course pulled out of and they are trying to preserve. well i mean the european are very cautious they don't want to rush to take any measure of course there is on the 28th of june there is a meeting of the disappeared signatories in vienna and they don't want to make any conclusions. before there is a. report from the atomic energy agency showing that iran is abiding or not

with the last sign in the us if you are i mean we know that the. promise that they will all have with the next step in producing or stockpiling enriched uranium by they will do it from the 7th of july so they are very cautious in trying to prevent any escalation a blitz on the diplomatic side a gallon than a parish. yet that they we knew that the. aid. organization gave iran 3 more months to comply with the legislation that this requires to adopt to the revelations about finance interests and so on that side there is still room for negotiation. for iran to show that they want to be a normal state. to remain within the international community but i think that they are. to not to. know

that the problem is if on the other side we have a military base jumper military incident and create more fuel to the fire. we are going to do the right not to leave a deadly challenge the car thanks so much for being with us thank you. the u.s. president has nominated the army secretary marc esper to be the next secretary of defense earlier in the week acting defense secretary pat shanahan withdrew his nomination for the job after facing questions over his personal life as for will take over from shanahan on sunday if confirmed he will be the 3rd man to lead the pentagon in 6 months. a russia has suspended flights to georgia violent protests broke out in the capital tbilisi demonstrators are angry about the visit of a russian politician many georgians are now demanding an early election the 2 countries

have had a troubled relationship since fighting a war over the breakaway region of south lebanon years ago robin forest near walker has more now 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 demonstrations use 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 of setia in 2008. later clashes between protesters and police were the worst in 7 years since his governing party came to power with more than 200 people injured

and around 300 people detained. 3 months. to use interior ministry. of the colleagues were among. each. identifiable even there were. these guys that they were fighting chasing. after those. so far the government has responded by removing the speaker of parliament was that opposition politicians say. here 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 our the way it is now and the power is shared proportionately unfairly because base right is may have strengthened the result of people oppose.