engaging military action against iran and it's a bit of a consolation prize in many ways for domestic political consumption much more so than the actual effect and that's the danger here is that both sides continue to be playing to their bases not talking to each other in a constructive way and so the underlying conditions that lead us into this moment have not changed and are those the type of conditions which could lead to escalation that in one sense when you talk about countries doing to their bases it sounds like they could actually keep a lid on things but equally i wonder if it could work the other way well right now here in washington the base for trump is mixed in terms of not really wanting to see war politically but the courts seem around him is very much in favor of military action all of his top advisers the vice president secretary of state defense national security advisor they all supported bombing iran on thursday night and the same goes for the ira g.c. which came out with

a statement that it's willing to shoot down aircraft again so both sides have not pulled back anyway in any way that really should give comfort to people that thursday night was nothing more than a blip of calm in what could potentially be another military engagement ok then. so we're not out of the woods yet basically out there also because there were really not yeah there are a lot of other actors involved you know russia are involved itself today saying hey we'll help out you know we'll count of these sanctions and then and then it ends up becoming i don't like using the phrase proxy war but you know support is as much at war as the actual primary play is. yeah the timing is coincidental but the statement that secretary pompei you created or had today with the saudis and them or are these feeds to this idea that you're describing which is that different sides are starting to align themselves and one could also read between the lines that the new sanctions today are a bit of

a dare to the europeans and the russians potentially in the chinese to not engage iran and it looks like they may be china may be engaged in some purchases europe is clearly trying to find a channel because on thursday this week iran has said that it would begin to increase its nuclear its uranium enrichment nuclear uranium enrichment and so we're looking at more high stakes threats and bears and frankly this situation the same is today feed right into that narrative that sides are beginning to coalesce one against the other which of course only leads to the potential for confrontation here what more you mention the europeans what more could the europeans to the ones who have stayed in the way with the united states pulling out the iranians changing i mean they seem to be the only ones committed to it and yet they would need to take some actual concrete action to save it. right so for those of us who advocated for the way i was in the obama administration at the time part

of the argument was that it's a multilateral agreement and the intense was that it would create so many layers of structure to that it would be very hard to break but the top administration is decision to engage in sanctions on iran and on countries who do business with iran have really put that that to the test if the europeans decide they're going to engage in economic transactions with iran they're putting themselves in the same sions gun sights of the united states and they don't want to be there so there their capacity to fix this so to speak or have iran get some breathing room is very limited they do however need to talk to the president about where he's taking this policy because the iranians if they've shown anything in the last week and a half they're not going to just knuckle under and capitulate in fact they're going to get more aggressive and that could lead us to where president trump himself said on thursday night he didn't want to go that's the real risk here ok joe ruben great

talking to you thank you for your time today meanwhile the escalating crisis with iran and the situation with syria are on the agenda for a 3 way summit between the u.s. russia and israel being held in jerusalem on tuesday israel's prime minister thank russia's security council secretary for supporting his country despite the very different positions both nations hold on regional issues the newbies up on us and we are paying special attention to preserving to security of israel and in order to resolve this issue want to practical level we have to bring back peace in the area and in syria to an update now from west jerusalem within and smith. this was a long meeting between israel and russia to discuss syria primarily iranian involvement in syria israel of course determined to stop iran building any sort of military base establishing in his or her permanent foothold in syria israel's military has previously destroyed attempts fire around to build bases in syria.

i would like to say in the clearest way that israeli russian cooperation on the security level this cooperation has already contributed plenty to the security and stability in our region it significantly changed the situation in the area on choose day the us national security adviser john bolton joins in the discussions again primarily to talk about iran when this meeting was shed jule the americans said that this was an unprecedented diplomatic opportunity for discussions on syria and iran's involvement in the region in the wider region although russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov has previously said that trying to curb iran's influence in syria and the middle east is unrealistic here's what's coming up for you on this news hour after fleeing violence a new crisis now faces tens of thousands of displaced people in central mali. you

can actually. create very realistic videos of someone saying things that that person never said we'll take you inside the world of deep fakes where you're never quite sure what's real and what's not. and in sport a stroller in england get ready to resume one of sports oldest rivalries at the cricket world cup. people have been gathering across palestine to speak out against washington so-called deal of the century in a series of protests and gods are on the up. west bank will coincide with this week's summit in bahrain where the senior white house advisor jack cushion is expected to reveal details of his plan for palestine israel's prime minister says he'll give it back and said aeration palestinian leaders are boycotting the meeting . i don't think it will be any results from the manana workshop because it was

built on wrong foundations what is built on falsehood is false the manana workshop came to solve the problem but what problem the economic problem but there is a political problem it cannot make problem with who for example when they say they want to give the palestinians an amount of money for the palestinians they should have been into tina statehood so you need to 1st recognize the state after that you can save this state needs this and that. his neighbor hymnal correspondent who's been to one of the protests in the occupied west bank this is a report. that's been eons have always their junction to them and i'm a summit that this expected to be held tomorrow they say that the road to solving the palestinian israeli conflict is not through economic means and they said that palestine is not for sale. in a recent poll 80 percent of palestinians say that they don't believe the u.s. plan will lead them to statehood or that the u.s. is serious about its efforts to listen in president mahmoud abbas said that while economy is important and foreign aid is important the most important story here is

political the palestinian authority has stopped engaging with the u.s. ever since the us administration has moved its embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem announcing jerusalem as israel's capital and gaza hamas has also rejected the deal and palestinians there have organized a marathon against it saying that the man i'm at work shall be a success. this is one of many protests and p.l.o. factions have pulled over in the west bank that are expected to last them when they were just the fact that one of the more. now the russian backed syrian government offensive against the opposition in syria's north west is now into its 9th week and a 500 civilians many of them women and children have been killed and there's no sign that russia and turkey are getting any closer to reviving a deal to stop the violence so the reports from beirut. it will be a long recovery but khaled family is thankful he survived the 3 year old was

injured in an airstrike last week at mazar say they will never forget how they almost lost their younger brother who was desperately trying to pull from the rubble before rescuers arrived was. a missile believed to be dropped by syrian government planes destroyed their house in. an opposition controlled town and centered at lip. the 1st missile hit while he was playing outside with the cat and the 2nd missile hit next to our house our house was destroyed and we couldn't see anything in front of us we removed some blocks and found he's had that is when the ambulance arrived . that was telling. us. the russian backed syrian government offensive in the north west is entering its 9th week nearly 500 civilians have been killed in air and ground bombardment that has been targeting rebel controlled towns in

northern hama and southern over $300000.00 syrians have fled the area and moved closer to the turkish border. as this country one town in south and people fled to due to intense bombardment by assad's terrorist regime and that terrorists russian occupiers 120000 people used to live here excluding the displaced syrians. the world food program says it is helping 200000 displaced syrians but its operations have been interrupted in some areas because of the violence it is home to 3000000 people half of them already refugees from other parts of syria that if he is racing against the clock to support all the ready to eat food that doesn't have to be cooked. in the camps and wherever they are while we continue our regular operation and scaling it up to some $800000.00 people every month the demands on aid are expected to grow thousands of acres of farmland have

been destroyed in recent weeks many blame the syrian government for deliberately targeting the fields as they have done in past offensives to punish those who live in rebel areas and force a surrender. the opposition has not surrendered rebels are holding ground hundreds of fighters on both sides have been killed along the front lines 8 weeks of intense bombardment and the pro-government side has taken little territory. the united nations is warning the offensive is creating a humanitarian disaster it has been calling on turkey and russia guarantors of a cease fire to help revive the agreement but for now their proxies engage in battle to gain political leverage. beirut. thousands of people displaced by the fighting in central mali are struggling to feed themselves the conflict between herders and farmers belonging to rival ethnic groups so the deaths of hundreds of people. but this report now from the region i

1st called malaria then became constipated her mother mary says they only have rice left to eat in their village. and so are these weight plummeted. i wonder how we all mean i went to a pharmacy but the medicine didn't work so i try traditional medicine but we still thin so i came to the hospital and we're still here there are always some severely malnourished children in hospital wards like this one in central mali worsening drought and extreme poverty play their part but the un says escalating violence in the region has made it worse. nearly 50000 people have fled their villages after a series of attacks by militia connected to the don't go on and few lonny ethnic groups the landscapes dry at the best of times now many go on who are mostly farmers far from their crops and many forlornly herders animals have been stolen or

killed banditry has made road transport too dangerous. for centuries the river in asia played a crucial role in transporting food and other goods around this region these boats bring produce from farming areas and it's traded here at the port in the town of martinis sacks of ground up rice husks will be sold and fed to cattle and the interdependence between the herders and the farmers as lasted for centuries as well the herders buy food from the farmers and in the dry season the farmers pay the herders to take their livestock out onto the plains for grazing but that interdependence is now strained. hundreds of been killed in the last 3 months as militia connected to both groups have burned homes and massacred villages. many of those who fled to the safety of nearby towns are hungry. instead of handing out

food un's world food program is keeping credit on cards to people to buy from local traders they have the right to trolls on their free for this is the forgotten 13 year from their village this is for their dignity of choosing what they want to. second it to boost. their trade does and that's what it was. like most here try to matter jacket had to leave everything behind when her village was attacked. and new years and yet what we really need is peace the crisis needs to be handled and brought to me again only would any campaigning. for 2 matter would be raising her children alone in a camp she says her husband was killed in front of her. the attacks keep happening every week the peace she longs for seems a long way off. malcolm webb al-jazeera multi region mali

here's some of the stories coming up for you after a historical election election electoral victory and it's time home we will take a look at the challenges ahead for the city's newly elected mayor also a constructive new approach to battling plastics pollution in the philippines and in sport bangladesh still in with a chance of reaching the semifinals at the cricket world cup. however have recently been damaging in fact deadly thunderstorms in touch stan and they're still hovering around the high ground this side of your screens or in the east here and there in the forecast too but and if anywhere to the west and it's clear skies now is just hot and that's true for turkey as well on christmas 32 aleppo's up at 40 in the plains of iraq of course in the high forty's that's all

the way down towards kuwait and every nag and hops around the 50 mark but too much of a breeze for that that breeze off and bring the hot air right the way down through bahrain to qatar and beyond 4630 c. 46 you know it's got to be dry air but more recently we've seen 50 increase humidity bite intention forecast drops to near the 40 mark you must think of the hint of it being rather more humid which is typical for july and august at least and we nearly there dance allow the clouds increase and got away again and we've not settled in yet with this southwesterly drizzly stuff all of southern africa should be at the moment sunny and dry for the most part and you can see from the lack of cloud over land that is the case forecasts wise some rain if you have the east coast of south africa but otherwise inland the sun is largely out for of course it gets cold at night.

they wanted for to stream billions of columns with a weapon that was 6000000000 pounds intermission. there's no hope of and him off because there's always a small cobbles people for really really good business. in essence we in the united states have privatized the ultimate public function more shadow on al-jazeera. when the news breaks these protesters and the stealing of billions. when people mean to be have to be edited it must be a slogan but if you don't have legs move on and the story needs to be told. how does eli has teens on the ground to remove the old window images and light names on air and online.

this is the news from al-jazeera these are the top stories donald trump has signed an executive order issuing new economic sanctions against iran this time around he is targeting iran's supreme leader and his associates the u.s. secretary meanwhile continues his middle east tour as the state department released a joint statement with saudi arabia the u.k. and the u.a.e. blaming iran for destabilizing the region pompei he met the saudi leadership he's now in the u.a.e. . and people have been gathering across palestine to speak out against washington so-called deal of the century

a series of protests and counter in the occupied west bank will coincide but this week's summit in bahrain where details of trump's middle east peace plan will be unveiled that's on tuesday. now the front runner to become the next u.k. prime minister is under growing pressure to face public scrutiny more from a london new center with barbara starr. come on thank you yes forrest johnson is avoiding another leadership debate and he's yet to comment on alleged altercation with his girlfriend last week if johnson becomes fry minister or some conservative party members a warning even those confidence felt aaronson has more now from bridge. over to guns and lies heathrow airport local people have to live with all this noise and pollution and most of furious at a new gigantic expansion plan which would lead to villages like this one simply being quiet about. boris johnson's own constituency would be directly affected he

vowed years ago to stand with the protesters or even lie down with them if i didn't join you early like dealing with you would not do those losers and stopped me and struck me recently though it's been suggested he might have changed his mind the protesters are wondering if he will keep his word to talking thousands of people just in the local area with the direct impacts with the new flight paths which are published in this consultation we're talking millions of people across london who don't yet know that they can't be impacted the heathrow story matters because it demonstrates a big question about boris johnson and his relationship with the truth many people in johnson's own constituency seem to be asking the same questions as the newspapers why won't he take part in t.v. debates to explain exactly how he plans bricks it's what exactly is going on in his troubled private life the blazing rag with his girlfriend last week which led to their neighbors calling the police but i've seen these candidates is one of these

guys that i believe. in need to go to number 10 he doesn't have an agenda for us as a politician it's a choice about things it's what's in their interest it's a career it doesn't seem to be a vocation of doing good for people the question is now being raised whether a johnson that government in this country. we could even the holes or whether it wouldn't be a major league defeat seeds in a confidence vote which would in turn trigger a general election where the other question is very personal for boris johnson could he even hang on to his own constituency given the doubts about whether he can tell the truth about things in the u.k. prime ministers have a seat in parliament just like other m.p.'s a prime minister has never lost since the opposition labor party says it has polling putting them in the lead against boris johnson it's very much tree for his operatives are marginal for. so we stand so we're not prosperous of history but we

could be the 1st campaign to unsee a sitting prime minister british democracy history johnson is often described by his supporters as a lovable rogue that might convince them but it is a genuine the open question whether people trust him to keep his word or anything from bricks it's to heathrow airport blowback against him nationally and locally is entirely possible lawrence leigh al-jazeera oxbridge. a pilot has been killed after 2 year of fight a war planes crashed during a training mission over northeastern germany films of smoke were seen rising from the ground shortly after the midair collision both pilots were able to eject from the aircraft but only one parachuted to safety the fighter jets belong to the german armed forces no details were immediately available on the circumstances of the crash. protesters in georgia say they'll keep pressure on us or he's after the government bowed to the manse for a fairer electoral system the move was hailed as

a victory by anti-government demonstrators but they've said that they will continue protests until more demands are met hundreds of rallied in the capital tbilisi and other cities for the part past 4 days. straight. make. a greek cypriot army officer has been handed 7 life sentences for the murder of 5 women and 2 of their children 35 year old nicole smith accessed pled guilty to 12 charges relating to abduction and murder over 3 years the 3 judge panel said metaxas appear to have mounted a campaign of murder in choosing foreign women most of whom came to cyprus looking for work. but the number of people seeking political asylum in the european union

is rising again and driven by latin american refugees in the 1st 5 months of the year members of the european free trade area that's the plus 4 of the countries received the 290000 asylum applications an increase of 11 percent on 2018 the rise was partly caused by a surge in venezuelans and of the other latin american asylum seekers who are fleeing political and economic crises and their countries but israel and lodged 18400 applications in january to may that's twice as many as 2018 and making them the nationality with the 2nd highest number of applications in europe after syrians well earlier i spoke to matthew saltmarsh a spokesperson for the u.n. refugee agency i started by asking him why many venezuelan migrants are choosing to come to europe. well as you know the situation in venezuela is extremely serious in

recent years 4000000 people have fled the country now the majority of those are in neighboring countries next to venezuela and many of them are able to go there on visas or temporary arrangement so they haven't actually claimed asylum although significant number have something like 340000 last year but of course there could be reasons why venezuelans would want to go to europe particularly spanish speaking countries spain in particular has had an increase 20000 we mated last year applied for asylum in spain so of course people flee for safety wherever they can ok so clear to see why a lot of asylum applications have come from venezuela where else in latin america has have we seen a spike up occasions from where the other major situation in that region is what's known as the northern triangle countries like honduras guatemala and el salvador we estimate that 600000 people have fled those countries in recent years again they're

primarily thing in the region some of them have tried to go to the u.s. has been well documented and the reason they're fleeing is primarily because of gang related violence people are fearing for their safety those human rights abuses are rife that holmes about the reason why they are leaving those countries don't have one is one that in about 20 minutes now though let's go back to come out of the thank you for that barbara we're looking at ethiopia now where the un her region has declared 3 days of mourning after the killing of 5 senior officials in an attempted rebellion flags been lowered to half staff at all government buildings and a full military funeral will be held on wednesday for the him her original governor and his advisor who were among those killed lee harvey has this update from at a suburb. the man responsible for the coup attempt in northern ethiopia over the weekend. is dead we just spoke to the prime minister's press secretary she said that the government was trying to capture him and in that process he was shot and

killed on monday the coup attempt happened on saturday she said that the prime minister is very much still in control of the government she said that there is a unity both within the government and within the military we know that the division between ethnic lines was a concern and something that the intelligence chief of the military said was the purpose of this coup but the press secretary has confirmed that that is not the case that the government and the military are united we asked her also about prime minister of meds interests and ongoing negotiations with trying to find a solution in neighboring sudan she said despite the domestic turbulence of the week and that the international negotiations to find a solution for sudan's government are ongoing and we also asked her about the internet when it would come back on it's been shut down since saturday the government shut it down in the wake of the weakens attacks she said that it's

a part of the investigation and that the internet needs to stay down until the investigation is complete because it's very much an active situation still so she did not give a timeline as to when that would be restored but did acknowledge that the government had shut it down for security reasons she really wanted to drive home the point of unity that the prime minister is in control of the government and that safety and security forces are united even though ethiopia went through a very divisive weekend. in turkey the election. has boosted the opposition party in a big old set back to the governing act party after 9 years of dominance. reports the new mayor also has many challenges to overcome. for the 1st time in 25 years an opposition candidate is in charge of istanbul this is the new mayor.

from the secular c.s.p. party. said in his victory speech on sunday that he's willing to work with everyone to improve living conditions in turkey's most populous city describing his triumph as a new era many here in istanbul say they are excited about the future the people's hearts there's a feeling that he would make an excellent president but he's not president yet we have to while remaining cheerful we shouldn't forget the basic facts about our government runs but one of the opposition and its supporters are euphoric about their win the governing party is grappling with the defeat loyalists are pressing for reforms within the party of president. but officials are brushing aside suggestions they are losing public support after 17 years in power these are opportunities for us to improve ourselves better and i think just because is this

is the reason why it is still the largest party of turkey and we have actually worn mormon stabilities rest of the parties combined after the municipal results were announced the turkish lira made gains against the dollar this vote was a rerun of an election held in march that was an old after the uk party said there were irregularities the economy has been in decline since last year facing a currency crisis and soaring in play. now the government hopefully will hope for a 4 and 4 years of elections where they can focus back on the economy and 4 years is a good time. on their take austerity measures and then see the recovery as well. as opponents say he lacks political experience and he's a newcomer but others argue so was 25 years ago when he became mayor of istanbul

and. then eventually president of turkey is the board's new mayor will have to deliver on the promises he's made including fighting corruption and the boxes and ship and improving people's lives but the memo to want to be able to achieve these goals unless he has the backing of president adeline however the 2 leaders come from rival parties that have been on the opposing sides of turkey's political landscape for many years and have different views about the future of the country. is the board. in mexico thousands of women are being imprisoned for minor drugs related crimes the country's tough drugs laws of been designed to target powerful drug cartels but as a reports the poorest still being disproportionately punished. more than $3000.00 women are in prison or being processed in mexico for low level drug offenses. gabby was arrested for selling in transporting marijuana and is now serving a 10 year sentence she says she had no other way of making

a living and wasn't expecting such a harsh punishment but i did it out of necessity because of poverty where i'm from there's no other income where i'm from selling marijuana is like selling bride while mexico's anti-drug laws are aimed at dismantling the country's cartels human rights advocates say they're also having a disproportionate impact on poor women. the lot at a combat zone that's when we talk about the drug war many people think of el chapo they don't realize that normally those who are punished are at the bottom of the pyramid women who have been discriminated against or have been victims of violence . in mexico city to another former inmate is getting used to her new life out of prison she served a 5 year prison sentence for selling narcotics on the street a crime she says she had no choice but to commit and therefore none because armed men came to my house and pointed a gun at my 3 year old granddaughter they said my husband owed them

a lot of money more than i could ever afford in my life that's when i agreed to sell their drugs i did it to save my children's lives. betty says many of her fellow prison inmates were there for similar reasons victims of circumstances mexican president and this one where lopez over the white house promise that policies that punish drug users and street dealers will be rewritten but that policy change has yet to happen in fact the trend to. women ending up behind bars for low level drug charges is actually on the rise between 20162080 mexico's female prison population increased by a 103 percent one former inmate told the system doesn't punish criminals it punishes them for madrid upolu. mexico city. the philippines is struggling to control the use of single use plastic bags it is estimated more than 160000000 of them washed up on river banks and coastlines.