god so the policies being pursued by the saudi crown prince are rajam our thanks that you manage here in osaka force. senior political analyst modern wanna be shot and joins us live now from london some are on as we mentioned there are a lot of areas of contention as as these leaders meet in a soccer and much of it not surprisingly perhaps revolving around the u.s. president absolutely who. you know the united states is the or has been anywhere in the world superpower a cliff since the end of the cold war and the question is has the united states changed from a liberal country to an end liberal country under. president tom and is this a real dramatic change or just a setback in the united states that will correct itself in a year or 2 of course that through need to be there managed to be seen but when the

united states throws its world out on the world when it imposes status when it violates the world trade organizations rules and it does not abide by its settlement system when it goes after our allies and enemies alike when it comes to trade on other issues on the present from you would expect that this will create chaos instability around the world and that would affect global growth it would affect the behavior of certain countries and certainly there would behave stability in various regions in the world are you mentioned there trumps attitude to liberalism but this is something that the russian president has also spoken about he gave an interview with the financial times before this summit in which he said that liberalism. is obsolete and it's outlived its purpose what he what do you make of that what head of yours. this is my reading for this morning of

course this is very important because when it comes to. the liberal order that has been more or less dominant for the last several decades certainly since the end of the cold war things have changed at least since $911.00 you would say since the gulf war and of course since putin strengthen his power and president xi came to the scene so we've moved basically has been trodden by a lot of bipolar world in the cold war to multi-polar world and then perhaps now we are in a cry paulo world where russia the united states and china are trying to dominate or divide the wall in some sort of our areas of influence but i think the most important bit of it now that trump has moved to a more liberal stance and become closer to president putin whether it's on the question of saudi arabia or iran or other issues in terms of liberalism i think the

main axis or the meaning. of hostility a few of the main point of contention in today's world and i think for years to come would be between china and the united states where there is a conflict over trade over finance over economy over areas of influence as well as over strategy and idiology so i think china and the united states united states are dominant world power china rising water power many economists expect that china in 1015 years would surpass the united states as them as the as the biggest world economy and studying history the history of world powers you would know has them that the most unstable world system is when there's a dominant power in our rising global power we live in those times today china rising america trying to. it's dominance through trade wars and other means and

that will continue to create friction and that's why the g 20 or whether there are deals a lot more deals it will only be a phase in a more peron period of instability facing the world today all right for the moment marwan thank you but stay with us because we're going to talk again a little bit more about the previous u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson and his relationship with donald trump these new developments that have emerged in the u.s. we can talk about that now rex tillerson has revealed his struggles working with the trumpet ministration and what he calls all quote encounters with the president's son in law during his time as u.s. secretary of state he made the remark about jared cushion a while testifying before congress about his rocky 13 months in the job his john hendren now from washington. the united states' former secretary of state says he often had to practice diplomacy in the dark rex tillerson told congress that president donald trump's son in law jared cushion or directed his own foreign

policy without tillerson is knowledge president trump did not know him and president trump had no idea about how the process was supposed to work he probably thought oh well this is the way i've run my business in a newly released transcript from closed door testimony to the house committee on foreign affairs tillerson says he was surprised to walk into a washington restaurant to find jared cushion or meeting with mexico's foreign secretary i could see the color go out of the face of the foreign secretary of mexico as i very i smiled big and i said welcome to washington and i said i don't want to interrupt what you all are doing i said give me a call next time you're coming to town tillers and says he was taken aback when he was told cushion or in presidential adviser steve bannon knew of the blockade of qatar before it happened question on or about may 20th 2017 there was apparently a private dinner that was hosted between steve bannon jared cushion or in the rulers of saudi arabia and u.a.e. respectively were you aware of that dinner answer no question that wasn't something

you would heard previously answer no question and to clarify sir not prior to when i just said it answer correct question what's your reaction to a meeting of that sort having taken place without your knowledge and sir it makes me angry here in washington the revelation of dueling foreign policy is want to seen as a diplomatic debacle foreign policy run as a family business with the agency in charge of diplomacy often sidelined it since they suggest that it's totally chaotic why for example would you appoint a secretary of state because that's a trouble point not a holdover from obama where you hear so distrustful of your own appointee that you shield him out of the. major decisions trump until is in had a tempestuous relationship tillerson reportedly called trump a moron by all accounts trump has a much closer relationship with delusions replacement former cia director mike

pompei o trump tweeted that pump a a was doing a great job while tillerson was dumb as a rock and lazy as hello john hendren 0 washington. 0 senior political analyst joining me again from london some model and i don't think it's a complete revelation that. had a big say when it came to u.s. foreign policy but i think what's interesting about this is you know what's come out of these out of the testimony is the detail of this and how much rex tillerson was was made to feel like he didn't really have any purpose in this absolutely look as a student of of american political history i tell you this is astounding and this is not just simply because i have influence over foreign policy it's because he runs. foreign policy to that of the said department and in so many times

. trumps the foreign policy of the state department that we certainly have seen that in the middle east the idea that the united states is run as an ivy stock or c. is something that the founding fathers and everyone sense and have a board have detested have stayed away from so president from a setting a new trend that is unknown to washington certainly in recent times the idea that not only you will have members of your family. get. a big it was security clearances do their own personal business as part of their diplomatic duties and basically run foreign policy to that of the state department . without the state department knowing much about it that is certainly new and that's certainly disturbing to the foreign policy establishment the united states so basically what you have now and as we've seen in recent days you have these 2

crown prince's you have the crown prince of saudi arabia someone arche and then you have the crown prince over of president tom which is just a question of both of them trying to run foreign policies as if they have or where elected by people senior political analyst a modern one at the sharp thanks very much. well to the other stuff top stories now rights groups are urging the west to take control of syria's reconstruction warning that president bashar last says government could misuse money meant to help rebuild the country as said all but one of the 8 year war his forces are now leading an offensive in the last rebel held province of human rights watch says assets government has rigged the aid system to undermine human rights by benefiting government loyalists and punishing those seen

as opponents the report warns foreign governments and charity groups to have more control over their work and budgets or sarah kay ali is a syria research and human rights watch she joins us now from geneva so this this doesn't make for this makes some pretty depressing reading this this report about how the aid was used and it wasn't getting to the people who needed most but i guess my question is. should people have seen this coming should something have been done earlier on to prevent this. yes i mean what the what the report essentially has found is that the syrian government has actually implemented this series of policies in the eagle frameworks that we had seen coming since 2011 essentially to co-opt the aid that's being that's being fed into government to help syria but now as the syrian government is

retaking territory all these policies have sort of gained in importance and there are strictures that they're applying on humanitarians have gained in importance so that what human rights watch is saying this and should do with this are poor it is that this is the time now to take a stance before it's too late so what needs to be done then specifically what what sort of checks and balances can be can be put in place to make sure. that the money gets gets to the most vulnerable people. the syrian government has essentially adopted what you would call a divide and conquer approach against humanitarians where it's negotiates which each with each one of them unilaterally and sets up the system so that it can win at the cost of the rights of the population what human rights watch is calling for with this report is the creation of a unified front of donors and organizations and investors where they take a collective approach to the bargaining create a clearinghouse mechanism or

a consortium fund them that would actually that would actually enable them to negotiate with the syrian government and how much damage does this do. in the public sphere i mean if people want to give money to to people in syria who have suffered so much under this civil war will when where should they go then i mean what is it what sort of message does it send to them. to be clear i mean the report does not stay stop funding aid or reconstruction efforts in syria we have 13000000 people in need in syria who need the money what we're saying is that donors and organizations can really do much better at making sure that these investments reach the people that need them and for interested donors or stakeholders who do want to provide this kind of money it's on them as well to raise these issues with the organizations and with the syrian government and be

honest about the challenges that are being faced with in this humanitarian response could speak with you saw a journalist there from geneva thank you iran is warning that a meeting on friday will be the last chance to save the 2015 nuclear deal diplomats from the 5 remaining signatories are meeting iranian leaders in austria's capital iran is threatening to boost you rein him in richmond after the u.s. imposed further sanctions to strangle its oil dependent economy the threat of war has increased since donald trump withdrew from the nuclear agreement last year they are using the economy quote imposing sanctions as a kind of weapons now if you're facing a very new concept the pen is a shell of dollars. this is what you're facing the use dollars of a pen to impose this they are vicious their policies on other countries and that should be stopped. destroyed he has more on this now from

tehran. we heard there from of course the deputy foreign minister of iran mr abbas in vienna ahead of a meeting expected later today when he'll sit down with a joint commission of the remaining signatories to the joint comprehensive plan of action his words there leave little doubt as to the message that iran will be giving to the remaining signatories to this 2015 nuclear deal it's all about the economy as far as iran is concerned that's the problem this year the unilateral pullout from the by the united states the reimposition of what they call direct kone and sanctions akin to economic warfare iran will be pushing this message now what remains to be seen the real big elephant in the room the question that everyone is waiting to have answered is what will europe russia and china be able to say to iran that might convince it to stop its rolling back of cooperation its reduction of cooperation in terms of its commitments to the nuclear deal in may

president hassan rouhani of iran said that since other countries that signed the nuclear deal are either unwilling or unable to maintain their commitments to the deal iran can't be the only one expected to maintain the integrity of the way and as such iran will be reducing some of those commitments now european leaders in a few in the last few days have reportedly said that they will inject some cash into a banking bypass system known as instax essentially designed as a kind of all the oil for goods program that would allow iran to continue to trade with europe but the fact is it hasn't proven itself to be successful enough in the question is if it will have any sort of scale to be able to make up for all of the problems that iran is faced economically from u.s. sanctions now before the united states reimposed oil sanctions iran was selling 2800000 barrels of oil a day or oil is its primary source of revenue and if iran feels that what the

europeans are offering what allies like russia and china will be able to do if it's enough. to help to turn the tide of the economic devastation caused by american sanctions that could be the source of some sort of forward progress but the fact is so far iran has said that it is the only person it is the only actor in this deal that is maintaining its commitments to the nuclear deal and it will no longer do so alone. stay when a service in france has issued its 1st ever a heat wave red alert the temperatures soaring to 45 degrees celsius pupils in 4000 french schools are getting a day off and the northeast spain firefighters fear the heat wave will make their job of putting out wildfires even harder for a challenger for. these are already among the worst fires in spain's catalonia region for 20 years and the heat wave has only just begun firefighters are warning the burning area could get 5 times as big it doing what they can to douse the

flames. but for these animals it was too late they died trapped inside the bar and it's clearly upsetting for the farmer. distance provide safety but it's an anxious wait to find out of houses have gone up in flames. in the afternoon when we came back we saw black smoke here and when we wanted to go back home the road was cut off so we couldn't is right there and there was a lot of smoke so we came here next to see where the fire was going and if our ranch was going to burn. away from the flames the heat is more nuisance than danger in madrid a little cooler 39 celsius people try to stay hydrated stay protected just took it easy for some tourists for more nor that he climbs that's what they came for.

drinking lots of water. is very. trying time. for vulnerable people the heat can still be dangerous in france the health ministry has issued a heat wave plan for elderly care homes they don't want a repeat of 2003 whether when 15000 mostly old people died. i put a small which cloth around my neck and there isn't much more i can do i don't mean around but it's our way we don't move too much we just have to wait for it to be over there is no other solution. but forecasters suggest it won't get cooler till early next week. or does it. get more on how that wave is passing through europe with kevin and with the weather in amman but still ahead on al-jazeera.

we hear. the politics of race taking center stage in the democratic presidential debate in the u.s. . and how india ended the. hopes of the west indies at the cricket world cup oh as for. the weather sponsored by the time. the ongoing he wave here in europe is definite taking its toll and we are seeing some records being broken across the area i want to take you over here towards france where yesterday we actually hit a record of the hottest june temperature that france has ever seen 43.5 degrees now the old record was 41.5 so is a big jump there now today if the temperature goes to 44 point one i see above

$44.00 it will break an all time record for france so we're going to watch it very carefully i want to take you over towards spain this is a video that has come up they saw the video of the wildfires earlier people are really dealing with in the best way they can taking it easy doing the heating of the day staying hydrated checking on the elderly and keeping their activities low of course we're going to continue to see the heat well over 40 and most of spain through the weekend i want to show you what our forecast maps to look like all high pressure is dominance that means we're going to be seeing a lot of sun a lot of air coming in from parts of africa as well temperatures across this region will stay quite warm we're talking about spain france as well as italy now tomorrow we're going to be seeing that starting croce a little bit more towards the north so for germany you'll also be seeing the heat as well mark say we're going to be watching very carefully today temperatures could reach $38.00 degrees the average is about $23.00 so it could be well above average . the west. bank at

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al-jazeera. well again you're watching al-jazeera reminder of our top stories this hour u.s. president donald trump has made a light hearted reference about russian interference in his election of the g 20 summit in japan when asked by reporters about the should trump twice told putin not to interfere in the 2025. former u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson as described being kept in the dark about foreign policy during testimony before a committee in washington last month and accused white house advisor joe questioner of operating independently of the state department. iran has warned that

a meeting underway in vienna with the remaining signatories to the 2050 nuclear deal will be the last chance to save the pack in america special envoy in iran brian hooks says iran has rejected diplomacy too many times. about how rain has recalled its ambassador to iraq after demonstrators broke into its embassy in baghdad 100 stormed into the diplomatic combat compound in protest at manama hosting the u.s. sponsored conference on is the israeli palestinian conflict police use live rounds to break up the hour long standoff though no one was injured a 50000000000 dollar economic plan for palestinians was unveiled by white house advisor questioner in bahrain this week mohammed just jhoom has more from the iraqi capital. hundreds of angry demonstrators were outside the bahamian embassy in baghdad they were there to protest the u.s. sponsored manami conference in bahrain it was reported also that demonstrators

breached the embassy compound that they were able to get up on the roof to take down the beheading the flag and also it was reported that they burned israeli flags and u.s. flags while they were holding that demonstration and it was reported as well that iraqi security guards on the scene guarding the embassy retreated when they saw that wall of angry protesters appear this is all happening at a time when many around the party's political parties and politicians have been highly critical of that mama conference when many politicians here have said that this conference is something that is gone beyond saying that it's not going to help the palestinians these are off the politicians that this is actually going to be a hindrance to palestinians being able to establish a palestinian state going forward so not really a surprise that this would happen at a time of such heated rhetoric the big question now will there be more protests in

the days to come a city in libya is back under the control of the u.n. recognize government be used as a base to launch attacks on the capital tripoli soldiers recaptured his id and on wednesday after weeks of fighting with forces allied to the wall of khalifa haftar they have banded military equipment as they retreated to nearby towns and cities for is a setback and his 3 month campaign to seize tripoli no doubt the west has more now from saudi n. . this is the central command of forces loyal to the warlords. have stayed in the city of the un as the city of the un has completely fall into the hand is of the forces doing through the. government of national accord it's a measure that set back to the forces loyal to the world a lot of have to just because it was the fittest city to be taken control

of by have to his forces in the west of libya when helped launch his military campaign to take control of the capital tripoli in march now from this central command military sources here say that have generals. run the battle for tripoli from hit from this central command from here they were running the battles in southern tripoli they were sending troops and also weapons and ammunition to their forces on the southern outskirts of the libyan capital military forces where the government here say that heavy fighting took place around this it's called sort of. fighters from all the same cities took part in the battle for . all the world to the army led by you and recognize province to fight you sell serai we will not allow have to us forces here again and now as the government

forces are in full control of the city some of have the forces retreated. to the nearby town of us about others to the city of the horn at the city of the which is controlled by helped us forces we understand that in march when we have those forces focused into the city of. some of the fighters from the city allied with the health of forces locals here are wanted that help those were planes good targets government forces locations and along this area ethiopian state media says around 250 people have been arrested in connection with the failed rebellion in the northern state of i'm hala thank you at least 39 members of an ethnic on what a political party dozens of people were killed in saturday's attack and the fighting the fall of the central government accuses on how those former security chief of organizing of the rebellion harding has more from at this as. well since

saturday there's definitely been and increased military presence several roads were closed earlier in the week since saturday several of those roads have opened we actually don't have any reports at least on thursday that roads were still closed so we do think the road systems have gone back to normal but the biggest difference would be the internet and there is a mood shift there people been really frustrated that not been able to get on line it's been difficult for our team i know but on the 2 day thursday in addus it was a the internet was partially restored just in parts of the city earlier in the morning we're in the southern part of ethiopia there was still no internet there so we don't know how when that will be restored to the rest of the country but for now it is just centralized in different parts of the capital. in the u.s. joe biden the democratic front runner for the race for the white house and former

vice president has come under fire in the 2nd televised debate california senator comma harris questioned his record on race and called his remarks about working with segregationist senators 4 and a gallagher reports from miami. outside the debate hall crowds gathered to back their candidate of choice. many support the 2 best known former vice president joe biden and vermont senator bernie sanders but everyone here wants change 1st of all we have are now so mad take america think hard right now but i think i can think of that 1st grade. because by doing so with unite. people together there and that he's going to make it better and then from i will release children from cages on a stage candidates keen to make the voices heard made this the robust debate many expected at times it was hard to hear what was being said in an area where we have

not heard senator kemal harris who with an emotional attack on the former vice president on the issue of race it was hurtful. to hear you talk about the reputations of 2 united states senators who built their reputations and career on the segregation of race in this country and it was not only that but you also worked with them to oppose bussing and we got neither bernie sanders nor joe biden attacked one another perhaps a wise move for 2 of the leading candidates when he came to president trump though the vermont senator didn't hold back while president trump you're not standing up for working families when you're trying to throw 32000000 people off their health care that they have and that 83 percent of your tax benefits go to the top one percent. that's how we try. to look for it i do you. would smile but joe

biden this may be seen as a bruising debate but as one of the most experienced politicians on stage he managed to hold his own lashley we've got to unite the united states of america as much as anybody says we can if we do there's not a single thing the american people can't do this is the united states of america we can do anything if we're together both debates are over and all 20 candidates have had their moment in the spotlight but with such a crowded field it's been a hectic couple of days ultimately voters across the country will decide who the winners and losers were but with almost 18 months to go before the general election anything could and probably will happen and gallacher al-jazeera miami florida. the white house has had a setback in a political battle over the u.s. census the supreme court has put a government plan on hold to add a citizenship question to next year's population counts patty cohen has the story from washington. outside the u.s.

supreme court a small but passionate protest for what would seem a monday a bureaucratic issue the u.s. census taken every 10 years this time for 2020 the u.s. administration wanted to add a question are you a u.s. citizen by the government's own estimates as many as 6000000 people mostly hispanic would be counted if the question was added for fear they would be deported and that would have a real world impacts they're just going to vanish from our nation's population count just to put that in perspective it would be at like if our 18th largest state just went poof it will so severely damaged the accuracy of the census but 6 states are at risk of losing a seat in the house of representatives and the census determines more than just how many congressmen the state house it determines how much federal money it gets but we're talking about crucial things like a person's ability to access health care services a person's ability to access services to put food on the table. ability for our

schools to be adequately funded so we're talking about you know life and death issues but trump officials have defended the proposal this is a question that's been included in every census since 1965 with the exception of 2010 when it was removed that was untrue on several levels there was no census in 1965 then it hasn't been a question since 1950 almost 70 years ago the supreme court found she wasn't the only one lying finding the commerce secretary lied when he said he added the question because he was concerned about voter fraud. the court ruled that the citizenship question could be asked if there was a valid reason u.s. president donald trump tweeted out his displeasure saying he was going to ask his lawyers to delay the census they can't it is literally in the constitution making it seem likely that the question won't be a.