president when he came to power for the school he was he tried at them to the queen . and he was in prison so. security in the region trust him maybe in his in his loyalty there was an assassination attempt against the prime minister himself exactly a year ago 2 months after he came to power a grenade was thrown into a crowd to a large rally for abbey more than 100 people were hurt ethiopians had braced for a government crackdown which had been the norm during previous governments but it never came i think the government in the. issue. it was an assassination attempt against the prime minister. and you know significant cut down. in against the beat year africa's youngest head of state has brought in sweeping reforms during his 1st year in power he ended

a 20 year border dispute with neighboring eritrea released thousands of political prisoners opened up the media and gave half of his cabinet posts to women in recent weeks he's been mediating the crisis in neighboring sudan but some have argued he may be moving too fast they certainly is an attempt to hold back that it. may be back some of the old guard the government has shut down internet all across the country in the wake of the attack no facebook no twitter people are mainly relying on state television for information here in the city and there's an obvious increase in military presence and some roads in and around the city are closed and the government and the people are trying to make sense of what happened we are hard in al-jazeera added. now u.s. secretary of state my poem bio is heading to saudi arabia and the u.a.e. for talks on iran following a rise in tensions in the region president from called off

a military strike off to iran shot down an unmanned u.s. drug had washington was prepared to negotiate with to iran without preconditions. i'm heading up today are for stopping to be in the kingdom of saudi arabia the united arab emirates to great allies in the challenge that iran presents and will be talking with them but out to make sure that we are all the key to realign and how we can go about a global coalition coalition not only to rob the gulf states but it is a share of europe that understands this challenge is to be prepared to push back against the world's largest state sponsor of terror we're prepared to negotiate with no preconditions they know precisely how to find us. or iran says it won't back down from its decision to scale back some of its commitments under the 2015 u.k. deal the u.s. withdrew from the landmark deal last year and reinstated sanctions against iran european leaders pledged to do whatever they could to save the agreement earlier iran's deputy foreign minister abbas iraq she said the european signatories lack

the will to save the deal and that iran's decision to decrease its commitment is a national decision that is irreversible until its demands are met well for more on this we can speak now to francois nico he is the former french ambassador to iran and joins us live from paris via skype thank you for taking the time to speak to us on the news hour and as you saying it was in may 2018 when u.s. president donald trump announced that he would pull out of the nuclear deal and it was a move which we knew was coming what has europe done in that time to alleviate the impact of of these u.s. sanctions. well lou ruvo the one who does best you know but the best is very little indeed because our governments don't. don't command their companies and the international companies will or sizeable companies in europe of

the interest in the united states you know and when they have to choose between iran and they're not to fit them in the choices they made and they had to have to to abide by the by the u.s. rules of the u.s. were gracious and so this is the were the point were all to do sure but then they were also talking about that being a special purpose vehicle a way for transactions to take place why hasn't there been more progress on making that operational look real daum i think that will come fairly soon or it will lose the delicate things to think to to to to put to bertha it took time and the ridden horses ridden so to do their own fault you know. they also took time to put the order to produce devised to give the knowledge believe the have to be if you reach the system really work but it will have very modest results you know it's

not true do so instrument iran will be able to say it's so hard for instance it would be for humanitarian. business serves extends as. medical you know medical devices food and so on but not much. and as you say this obviously the sanctions it's not just an impact on iran's oil and and the trade in the economy but it's having a humanitarian impact as well on patients and hospitals and medicines and things like that. given the level of domestic pressure then that iran is facing is it realistic of the europeans to expect continued compliance with the nuclear deal. well you've heard the rain and some in the don't even turn to to to

to go back into the bucket from foot to have to worry about from the position they intend to do to pool all progress really all. of the juicy period of the nuclear deal it will be very progressive but in fact this is the only call they haven't heard who to resist the american pressure to resist the. growing sanctions. this is the only non-lethal way to reciprocate the need leave food. will cross the red line this we know very well so they have to find other were the only way they have the only call the only way they have really it's to do to reduce restively their commitments within the just to be aware of the nuclear agreement. thank you

very much for that french ambassador to iran. meanwhile to han is in talks with a number of countries on using currencies other than the u.s. dollar for trade live is being seen as a way for iran to bypass u.s. sanctions and lessen washington square pond global energy and commercial markets to such a power he has more now from taiwan. according to the arabian foreign minister they are in discussion with a number of countries including china russia turkey and india to try and bypass the u.s. sanctions by setting up a monetary system where they can trade without having the u.s. sanctions affect them this is something that the iranians have been talking about and we know that the russians are behind this idea they said that the russian foreign minister has said that the u.s. sanctions against iran is unfair and the russian government will do everything it can to try and help the iranians bypass them the foreign minister has said that they've already reached some agreements with certain countries and they are still

in this caution with others so it's still in the process but in the foreseeable future this could be something that could help iran bypass those crippling u.s. sanctions in other developments the u.s. national security adviser john bolton is one to iran not to take washington's prudence for weakness bolton made these comments in israel with prime minister benjamin netanyahu from that role matheson sent this report. to the u.s. national security advisor has come to israel with a clear message for iran neither iran nor any other hostile actor should mistake u.s. prudence and discretion for weakness no one has granted them a hunting license in the middle east iran can never have nuclear weapons. not against the usa and not against the world through words welcomed by israel's prime minister standing close by benjamin netanyahu is determined that iran's

military presence in israel's neighbors syria is a threat which cannot be tolerated what's new is that now thanks to crippling american sanctions iran is facing unprecedented economic pressure as a result of its aggression so i was pleased to hear president trump make clear yesterday that pressure will continue and that pressure will increase netanyahu has brought together the u.s. and russia for 3 way meetings to discuss the growing crisis with iran on thursday iran shot down a u.s. military drone it's a who's who's flying through its airspace the u.s. denies that hours later the u.s. launched what it called cyber attacks against iran's weapons systems shortly after president donald trump said he made a last minute decision to call off a missile strike inside iran the u.s. has now imposed more sanctions these meetings are crucial for the prime minister

because he's fighting for his political life if fail to create a government to earlier this year and he's facing elections in september benjamin netanyahu wants these meetings to demonstrate that israel is at the center of global politics because of him russia will also come under pressure at these meetings to persuade iran one of its main allies in the middle east to rein in its strong rhetoric whether russia will be willing or able to do that is still unclear despite the determination of the united states and israel rob matheson. west jerusalem. israel's prime minister says that he will give us president on trump's middle east peace plan for consideration but the proposal has been criticized by the palestinian leader mahmoud abbas who says it's bound to fail it has more from the occupied west bank the palestinian president mahmoud abbas has reiterated his rejection to the workshop that is expected to be held in

a few days he says that while economy is important foreign aid is important the political issue demeans to be the main story here he says that as part of the economy that was released by the u.s. as a part of the whole whole deal of the century the u.s. plans to collect around 50000000000 dollars of aid to the palestinians and said that he doesn't need the u.s. to do so because they want to gather the money from the other countries and he would be doing so himself he said that he's already asking the arabs to help with it's worth noting that the palestinians are now facing a financial crisis as well as that the palestinians have stopped engaging with the u.s. administration ever since the u.s. has decided to move its embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem announcing drusilla as the israeli capital and other stories we're following the military in the democratic republic of congo is saying 16 fighters have been killed in an offensive

against on groups in juba fighting in the region has killed at least 300 people and forced hundreds of thousands to leave their homes catherine soy is following developments from uganda. a show of might a soldiers from the democratic republic of congo begin their offensive. against tribal militia groups that have killed more than 100 people in the past 2 weeks alone and displaced hundreds of thousands in the eastern province of the tory. the group's essayed to be hiding in a forest in the jungle area. this is what the congolese government wants to stop the carnage in many villages this footage was filmed on saturday when armed people banned homes. most of those fleeing are going to cause for displaced people in other parts of the region some are heading across lake albert to uganda. this group arrived as a transit center and is now heading to a reception area father inland. we met appendages on saturday who told us that he

was separated from his mother and the last time she soha she was running from a man with a machete he still has no what about what happened to me i do not hiding anything about my mom one person to remember that he got me that my grandmother is now on my life the only thing we already see on the lot that i do not see on the run more than 4000 congolese have made it to uganda in the past few weeks. while i was to get them. on the board goes to get. there right safely in the reception area just in time for lunch beans and amazed pop commonly known as golly she was met and says she's just glad that she managed to get some of her children out and then we had gunshots and then saw the men

shooting those they caught they slaughtered we escaped into the forest i took 2 children and my husband the other 2 they still have motorized eventually they will be settled in an area with about 100000 other refugees most of them congolese who have over many years fled from the same conflict catherine saw al-jazeera uganda. well to sudan where the military council on the opposition of backing rival plans to end the country's political crisis a military spokesman says the council agreed to the african union's proposal while the opposition says it supports a plan put forward by ethiopia make up of sudan's transitional government has been at the center of tensions between the army and pro-democracy protesters for more than 10 weeks now but if european the air you have been trying to mediate talks. saudi state media says a syrian resident has died after a suspected drone attack on

a course in the south of the country yemen's who the rebels claimed responsibility for the assault on sunday which injured several of as this footage shows damage from a who see drone attack last week the spokesperson says 30 operations have been carried out over the past 48 hours. more from santa. houthi military spokesperson has syria confirmed today in a press statement that the have carried out drone operations against booth. and boats. they have targeted the never geishas system also injuries and they have targeted the hunger of drones along with the drawings themselves according to reports that mentioned the flights to 2 birds. being counseled on postpones that were coming from judge riyadh so the. council ations confirm that the both airports according to the statements of the

healthy military spokesperson confirmed that the the operations have successfully achieved their goals he were and that in the coming days more painful attacks will be carried out here at the news hour live from london still ahead we'll tell you why iraq's economy might be sailing into trouble waters it's all smiles and handshakes in bangkok can the southeast asian leaders shake off a wave of regional tensions. and then its fall as hamilton continues to set the pace in the formula one season and he's here with that story. l. are going to welcome back to your international weather forecast what we do have a he way that is in the making 1st started here in the western part of europe where

temperatures by the middle into the end of the week we're going to be seeing $10.00 to $16.00 degrees above average so let's take a look at your monday map 1st of all we're going to sing paris one of the highest temperatures on the map here on monday at 33 degrees zurich at 30 berlin at 20. ate but the way really expands as we go towards tuesday high pressure is dominating keeping a lot of sun across much of the area time to wise we're going to see those time to start to go up for berlin at $32.00 degrees there at $33.00 as well and madrid at about $36.00 degrees and this is going to continue as we go towards thursday probably peaking on thursday starting to come down on friday and then better conditions as we go towards saturday here across the northern part of africa not too bad right now but that same he way is going to be a player as we go towards thursday as well so we're going to be watching this very carefully turnus is going to be about $35.00 degrees as we go towards monday's high and triply at about $33.00 degrees there but as we go towards tuesday conditions

really start to heat up here particularly over towards parts of egypt where we do expect to see a top to the a 40 degrees and then towards also on a sunny day for you with the tundra of $45.00 degrees as well. they wanted 43000000000 pounds with the weaponry that was 6000000000 pounds in commission. there's no end in war because there's always a small album called for really really good business. in essence we in the united states have privatized the ultimate public function more shadow on al-jazeera. it's my privilege to name al-jazeera english the broadcaster to hear the country as i find each other that we've been told that we chronicle here these are still largest demonstrations it's been held by one and they're refugees since

over $700000.00 by the year some of the nicest rules of the planet earth here only think that they could be put to him al-jazeera english crown percipient of the middle kristen's gold coast of the year award. welcome back quick look at the headlines now tuckey's opposition c.h.p. policy has one istanbul's may oral race it's the 1st time in 25 years that president party has lost power of techies economic capital. as

tensions between iran and the united states continue to iran is accused european powers of lacking the will to save the 2015 nuclear deal equipment has been unraveling since the u.s. pulled out last year and iran has announced that it would scale back on some of its commitments as well. ethiopia's military chief has been shot dead by his bodyguards after a renegade general attempted a coup in the state of i'm harra i'm horace leader was also killed in the military says it has now restored full control of the area. for more on this we can speak to attics finds he's head of the africa program at the think tank chatham house joins me in the studio now and alex this is not the 1st challenge that prime minister met his face but how serious a threat with today's events to his rule this is much more serious than the previous attempt i mean there was a grenade for him but this was a serious challenge to his authority he's now some 15 months into

a transition process and my fear is this was a transition process towards more democracy dismantling a thorough tear in system and this may will now divert his attention from the reform agenda. and of course as you say since taking office he has undertaken some important reforms in ethiopia you see this could 10 now as possibly slowing down those reforms that's my big fear this will be a warning to him and he's going to have to focus very much more on some of the domestic politics and that's going to really i think divert his attention from some of the very good things that he's been trying to achieve in terms of encouraging more political pluralism improving relations with the neighbors i mean he has recognized every trafford example as a very good example of eritrea and ethiopia having

a reproach mont so this will divert some of that intention and ethiopia is a super strategic country for the horn of africa and even farther neighbors i mean we've had this evening on your show about sudan for example and the mediation efforts that you see i'm taking a step back from that off the wall i do think it will be much more a domestic agenda now and so some of those international efforts ethiopia has very progressive been involved and may now be cut back when you say focusing on domestic politics tell us give us some more context on the political system in ethiopia and some of the recent changes within harsh state that in the run up to this attempted well i'm horace state is the 2nd largest ethnic group in theo p.-a it has had significant protests against the ruling e.p.i. r.d.f. and this one of the things that i think was happening was that the president of m

horace state was looking at the growth of local militias which were causing problems and we think that that was probably the reason he was taken out and the that was passed in our state. yesterday how difficult then is it going to be for prime minister abby a to consolidate his will well i mean this is indicative of one you start to liberalize a authoritarian system i mean we've seen this elsewhere in the world other things start popping up and this i think is exactly what's happening in ethiopia my hope is that he will be up to still continue this reformist agenda and gradually deliver and then the tensions that we're seeing in ethiopia which were very visible over the last 48 hours will reduce thank you very much appreciate your analysis alex finds from chatham house as tension between the u.s. and iran builds in the gulf region iraq is watching from the sidelines with growing

alarm of a threat to its oil exports and how its own economy could suffer charles strafford reports. these tankers are being loaded with iraqi crude oil it's being pumped from iraq's biggest of shore platform in waters close to the maritime borders of kuwait and iran oil experts are increasingly concerned about how a rising tension between the u.s. and iran could affect the country's economy it's already struggling to recover after decades of war and political instability. iraq must avoid getting involved in any conflict in the region or we don't want to be embroiled in other countries of payors we are focused on trying to secure our country's economy. the us into war ships including an aircraft carrier and b. $52.00 bombers to the gulf region may. it's also sent around $2500.00 additional soldiers a patriot missile system and surveillance planes iraq exports around $3500000.00

barrels of oil a day much of it from platforms like this one but with recent us iran tension and attacks on all tankers here on the arabian gulf there are rising security fears because around a 5th of the world's oil policy is along these waters and through the strait of hormuz the u.s. has accused iran of attacking 6 or all tankers in the region in recent weeks iranian leaders have repeatedly denied responsibility describing the allegations as dangerous security fears for tankers like these increased further on thursday. when iran shot down a u.s. drone because it it into to rain and space the u.s. says it was flying in international airspace unlist say iran is trying to use regional and global security fears about maritime safety to its advantage. that it departs one of iran's biggest means of defense limiting oil exports through the

strait of hormuz would affect the iraqi economy hugely given that about 95 percent of its oil goes through the strait the situation is critical president trump says the u.s. military was cocked and loaded to retaliate against iran following the attack on the u.s. drone but he said he changed his mind in stop to 10 minutes before missiles were sent to launch. those iran and the u.s. say they don't want war but iranian leaders have previously said that if they can't export their oil on the u.s. sanctions then nor can anybody else and that's a concern for the operators of ships like these as they transport millions of barrels of oil to markets around the world every day. off the coast of southern iraq. at least 4 civilians have been killed in syrian government as strikes on the opposition held region of rescue workers say 2 children are among the dead or than 60 civilians have reportedly been killed in government aberrate since wednesday it

was supposed to be protected by officers and dale but since april has been heavily bombarded by the government and russia. a joint west african military force says it's killed at least $42.00 i still fighters they died in fighting on an island in lake chad on friday according to the multinational joint task force that's made up of soldiers from nigeria chad and cameroon address has more from. regional forces save the $42.00 were killed in an operation i don't that looked at area especially in brooklyn ny ira and cross co as well as by that these are areas that were previously attacked several times bible quote i mean even occupied before you were there were chased owed by military forces from the region now that he's not got a person that was held or that was carried out simultaneously when the commitment in bordeaux a number of books on fighters have been killed on the nigerian side to boko haram as well as i still i feel a good book or am have taken some hit but they also on their part have launched

military attacks on military targets as well as civilian targets in the region recently we've seen how boko haram especially the shekel faction has renewed its suicide mission in the northeast of nigeria so this is a continual procession that has been going on for a very long time and we've seen over the last few years how despite the losses but quite a nice i still i feel elated groups have been able to adopt restricted areas and launch attacks not only on civilian targets but also all military forces in the region. protesters in hong kong refusing to back down from their demands a proposal that would allow suspects to be extradited to trial to mainland china sparked a wave of public anger that brought millions to the streets on kong's lead to carry law was forced to suspend the bill but protesters now want it scrapped altogether they also want to step down and for thora g.'s to stop referring to the demonstrations as a riot bearing it could lead to heavy jail terms protest is

a demanding an independent inquiry into police brutality off the officers used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the crowds dozens of demonstrators were arrested during the unrest and protest leaders want and freed and fully exonerated andrew thomas has moved from hong kong. this event is now open discussion about how best to fight back legally already tense what people here consider to have been a heavy handed policing of the protests over the last couple of weeks until a great 1000 people have turned up to take part but move forward with the discussion among protestors like these days about tactics how to keep the momentum going while keeping public opinion on sawing but huge success couple of 1000000 people behind last weekend marching and the indefinite suspension of those controversial extradition laws but people here want to move the cancellation of any proposals like break tradition the resignation of the chief executive harry lam had a full investigation into place conflicts how to achieve that while keeping the

support of ordinary people in the city forming their side many feel that the events of friday just gone by protesters in the place hate going to see homegrown stalking even routine responses to emergencies in their city all that went to law and risk alienating the broader population so many here particularly on line it's talking about some of the scale disruption to non essential government services a limb solid on going peaceful marches has one jew this coming wednesday and not on the 1st of july they think those 2 tactics being random could yet achieve their pool and picture signs. hong kong's religious leaders join protesters in criticizing the city's controversial plan to x. right criminal suspects in mainland china well they just need to say the government must mend its damaged relationship now with the use sarah clarke reports also from hong kong. in a city that same violent clashes and weeks of mass protest this church service

office responds to those seeking peace. from like it i am a christian we feel we should pray for our city i would like to pray for them but for them to have peace in their mind on the front line religious leaders have been standing side by side with the protesters with fears that a proposed extradition law would lead to unfair trials on the mainland they've been crying continuously outside government headquarters they're also here to promote peace and try to prevent the crisis from escalating we feel that we have an obligation to protect the hong kong christian churches and the people at large. members of the chinese communist party upper hit it from having any religious faith and party members who break the rules can be expelled and christians and other religious minorities say they persecuted on the mainland unlike here in hong kong which enjoys a high degree of religious freedom in mainland china many. christian churches.

object to. not even religious criminal on call is home to more than 850000 christians a mole the 1500 churches christian missionaries were based here during british rule but religious leaders fear that diversity and all religions are at risk if this extradition all gets the go ahead buddhist and muslim groups haven't publicly voiced their position barry lamb has apologized twice for the why the government had liberal they say religious leaders also want her to repair the government's relations with the city's young people the whole issue so no respect to the human dignity so this is the religious group expresso to the personality saying no to this and all the extradition law has been suspended for now protesters are hoping kerry will heed their prayers and dump it for good sarah clock out 0 hong kong. the president of the philippines has won the america's trade war with china could spiral out of control rajan go to tatay was speaking at

a summit of southeast asian nations known as a stand in thailand economic concerns and territorial conflicts dominated the meetings as scott hyder explains from bangkok. a collective handshake of the 10 nation's leaders at their summit in vanka but there is no clear voice from the collective on any of the key topics with the trade war intensifying between its 2 main trading partners the united states and china they need to navigate a path to keep their economies growing though also want to strengthen their partnership an immediate product of that they will jointly tackle marine pollution . the meeting has adopted bangkok decorations against marines ways in the region with chillis our determination to sustainably solve the rain pollution problems. even with a population of more than 600000000 people some feel that geo political position.