fence articles very seriously we are aware of these reports and we are seeking additional information we expect all recipients of u.s. origin defense equipment to abide by the end user obligations and what that means is that end user obligation simply means that when the united states sells a weapons system to another country that country agrees not to resell or re send that weapon to another country a 3rd country a regime under u.n. sanctions or in this case apparently a warlord also under u.n. sanctions so it's unclear what the united states would do if it were proven definitively that the u.a.e. had done this and violated the end user agreement but we do know that president trump considers the u.a.e. of very important ally of the united states and that also the president has valued u.s. arms sales very highly especially to the region's. well jonathan winer is

a former u.s. special envoy for libya and joins us live now from washington and the have long been there's long been a steady stream of reports about weapons transfers going to libya and we know that that u.n. arms embargo has been consistently violated bought has that been a recent shift in terms of these types of advanced weapons being supplied to groups in the country over if we don't know that it's been continuously violated we know it's been violated at various times and those are different things but there was a curious of the world before in 2014 which president obama intervened in met with the goal states at camp david and their leaders and said cut it out stop supplying weapons. using different libyans as clients in terms of providing weapons the united states did not want anyone violating the arms embargo to libya because we saw that as a potential recipe for promoting civil war which is exactly what's happening in the

country yes so the 1st thing that has to happen is the origin of these weapons has to be definitively traced i read the reports that say they were oman or u.a.e. weapons united states needs to look at the weapons and assess exactly what batch they belong to who they were sent to and whether any country that they sent up to then violated their legal obligations the united states not to transfer those weapons to another country now right now general have to are is alleging that turkey is systematically supplying weapons the coverage of the national accord the g.n.a.t. forces are stating that general after it's been acquiring weapons from the the emirates and elsewhere all that needs to be best to get tracked down we determine exactly what's going on and people need to cut it out this country needs a political settlement and compromise and not war there that's killing libya's young. but where we know way. near to that happening when the you know the irony

of u.s. weapons if these reports of believe it to be believed obviously that has to be an investigation but we know that there are foreign act is involved in fueling and intensifying the war that is currently unfolding in libya now the state and defense departments are investigating and going to investigate how these weapons ended up in the country but i mean do you see any action being taken off to that particularly given the the sorts of political alliances that this current administration has struck in the region when i was in the middle east bureau of the department of state near bonn the administration we went to the middle east doctors who had improperly transferred weapons were. armed armored vehicles with things that were prepared by burgos and told them very forcefully to cut it out that's become sequential that they continued and we saw a cessation of the movement of arms to libya for an extended period of time i'm

going to a number of countries and have discussions with them on exactly this and one of the results was the negotiation of a government of national accord and some of it towards potential unification of security forces country that's the direction the country was who hears the direction the country still needs to move in and every outside actor should be trying to contribute to a court case rather than civil war in that country and that should be us policy it was u.s. policy will continue to be us false well thank you very much former u.s. special envoy to libya joining us there jonathan winer thank you you're welcome. now the son of former egyptian presidential candidate am a google for 2 says that he has great fears for his father's life after he suffered 2 heart attacks in the last 24 hours before muslim brotherhood leader was arrested and 2018 is being detained in the same prison as former president mohamed morsy was

before his sudden death human rights watch raised health concerns for the 2 off to more cities death his son says he has diabetes hypertension heart and respect for ration problems but he has not been receiving adequate care. at the news hour live from london there is much more still ahead is it he's interior minister accuses the captain of a migrant rescue ship of an act of war or ramming a police boat while docking in lampedusa. desperate for rain years of drought dry families from their homes in the desert region of pakistan and it's but we'll tell you about the player who's fired a warning shot ahead of wimbledon details on that coming up later. now sudan's military council has warned that no damage or destruction will be tolerated mass rallies planned for sunday protest leaders are calling for

a 1000000 man march to keep up the demand for civilian rule rights groups want officials to guarantee the safety of the protesters but the sudanese professionals association which has led the protests says the security forces raided its headquarters earlier and stopped it holding a news conference and the deputy head of the military council was woman infiltrators may impersonate security forces. the soonest possible a government that is accepted by all children as people who want to see to those who have called for more of the most versions that we are not against the people in remote biggest beef but we have to understand that they. are there and are willing to upload their hidden agendas we don't need troubles and don't need. will the raise tension comes despite a breakthrough with the ruling generals who've excepted an ethiopian and african union plan to work towards a civilian majority government involves setting up a council that oversees the transition made up of 7 civilians and 7 members of the

military with one additional seat reserved for an independent member a legislative assembly would be nominated by the people and would exclude the former ruling party and its allies the executive body would be made up of ministers . and a prime minister nominated by the opposition forces for freedom and change the defense and interior ministers would be nominated by the military well hammie the as dude is from the sudanese professional association joins me on the phone now live from hard to 1st of all can you tell us about these plans for a protest march tomorrow. will be freedom forces soldiers in france called for a demonstration before to starting from a clean kill the love of southern people who started going into the streets let's exercise for the moderates are doing straight. before you go through

a lot to see that the transition matric confidence has been productive has adopting the discourse of thinking that. threatening language smarts across. the peaceful parties i think it would be better for them to resort to the language of reason in russia living with them for the betterment of of their country tomorrow there will be a demonstration parcher and many people are going to join this demonstration. it seems that i believe we have they have accused us of vandalism or. some sort of kind of vandalism but like to see the peaceful revolution and the doctrine that the bleeding since the beginning of the uprising and i already learned to imagine that you mentioned there some of the language that we've been hearing from the military quite all minnes that they're saying that any sort of unrest won't be

won't be tolerated how worried are you about that being arrests and detentions or perhaps something worse. well they have been stopped and they have started a. series of arrests since many people have been of reckless and they fear that tomorrow they fear of tomorrow's demonstration. and they go back to be the issue of london that has as has been has been raised by by become a military council out there is not any vandals among the among the protesters if any vandalism happens these are the supporters of the past regime schumi these are the sort of the past within i would expect more violence this time compared with the violence that have already taken place because. from the language we have we have come to conclusion that they are ready they are ready for their snipers are

ready and they are ready for for most shootings are more killings given that communication and the internet has been blocked inside the country how difficult is it to organize a protest like this you're hoping for a 1000000 man march but is it likely to reach those numbers while. the demonstrators. have distributed some pieces of papers among them and sometimes through the the x.m.l. and i think the message has really most of the people in sudan now and they are ready for the. ok well thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us on the news. from the sudanese professionals association joining us from the capital hearten. of fighting between ethnic groups in the democratic republic of congo has

forced more people from their homes that's in addition to almost half a 1000000 congolese already displaced and at least 400 people killed during fighting in a teary province this month the congolese army says a military offensive this week killed at least $100.00 militia members present phoenix this your kid is expected to travel to the province to assess the humanitarian crisis there but he has more now. thousands of congolese patiently waiting in drug for answers from the government near the border between the democratic republic of congo and uganda they skate fighting between lendu and hammer groups in the eastern province of eatery many have been left stranded with barely enough to get by seeking safety and shelter in this catholic school families who managed to escape say lendu fighters with machetes attacked their village if you do one lender militias came to my village killing people including my 2 children i don't know why this is why we run away to hide

with all these other people without food or basic necessities but we are happy to see the arrival of the 1st humanitarian aid humanitarian aid has been slow getting in militia any turi blocked roads which the army has reopened more than 400000 people have fled the province since the fighting started 3 weeks ago many trying to make it across the border there is growing pressure on the government to restore stability to the region. what happened in this region is a real disaster and is presenting a real challenge we need to deal with this is quickly as possible in order to bring back peace so that these people who go home and live a normal life. the motive for the latest attacks is unclear some congolese say they are fighting over farmland fishing rights and mineral wealth the conflict goes as far back as 20 years when tens of thousands were killed in similar tribal conflicts . the congolese army commanders say an offensive launched

a week ago has killed or captured dozens of rebel fighters weapons were seized and civilian hostages also freed the military continue to patrol the forests and mountains in wa go. we've lost many of our family members and friends and all our belongings to the attacks we thank our soldiers for chasing the ship from the area. where. we are happy that the army is here and we call on our authorities to maintain a military presence so that we can finally live in peace. the u.n. is calling for an investigation into the attacks by the government and the army tries to regain control peace and stability can't come soon enough for many here for healing mohammed al jazeera. a captain of a charity rescue ship has been arrested in italy off to defying italian government orders by docking on the island of lampedusa kyra he has been accused of deliberately ramming

a police boat that was trying to stop her entering the port as these foreign terry minister called it an act of war 40 people were on board the ship after being rescued from the sea more than 2 weeks ago anderson alhazmi all. judging by the welcome that she received on the italian island of lampedusa corona rickets 8 was seen as both a hero and a criminal. the captain of the sea watch 3 was arrested after defying the italian government and bringing the german charity rescue ship into harbor she could face up to 10 years in prison for defying military orders. 40 migrants were finally allowed to disembark 16 days after their rescue off the libyan coast 13 others had earlier been allowed to leave the ship for medical reasons the rest were left marooned in the mediterranean during a fierce heat wave there's a lot of chairs sleeping on them a tough floor and though it came up every morning we're lazy you are still in the middle of the overseas. stories italy's far right interior minister condemn the

ship's crew as outlaws accusing them of people trafficking place the shuttle dating . back a woman these are criminal is because a ship of hundreds of tons has round and damage to the investigations is now underway to find a big loss patrol boat with placement on board so more force to get down to escape to save their lives this is a criminal act an act of war the captain was arrested she's under house arrest for 48 hours for italian justice to do so whether she'll remain in prison or not. italy's government had told the ship's captain to take the rescued migrants to mull to tunisia or anywhere else instead the german charity that operates the watch 3 says the captain declared an emergency but was ignored by the italians captain recap they said she had no other choice because of the worsening conditions on board i'm sure that the courts well recognize that.

it's much more important right the people to their safety and their lives. and that's more important than the right especially territorial waters the migrants are expected to leave lampedusa soon other european countries including france germany luxembourg and portugal have agreed to allow them in. the sea watch 3 is the latest symbol of the refugee crisis on europe's southern front here but the challenge is much greater than one ship and its defiant captain hundreds of other migrants landed on italy's coast over the last 2 weeks despite sell beanies warnings to stay away after schapelle al-jazeera. and with the news out live from london what. i could go vote with my family for the 1st and then anything that leaves a lot to me. first they had their right to vote were stored now thousands of former prisoners in florida facing new restrictions at the ballot box. albania prepares

for elections on sunday but will they spell embarrassment for the government. and ferrari set the pace ahead of the austrian train details coming up with fire ants on. hello again welcome back to international weather forecast well we are going to be seeing the heat that we have seen across europe start to migrate but 1st of all we have been seeing records being broken across parts of spain as well as france in the last couple of days notice on the satellite image we have a lot of sunny conditions across much of the area law in the heat to really settle across much of the region so here's where we're going to be focusing on as we go towards sunday still down towards. up towards parts of germany as well even over here towards poland where we do expect to see about $33.00 degrees as a forecast high now we do have

a frontal boundary just to the north really over parts of denmark right now and that's going to start to settle down towards the south and really bring some relief across parts of northern europe and you can see we are going to be seeing some rain showers with it as well so for berlin temperatures dropping down to about $25.00 degrees that's a nice change for you there as well as over here towards warsaw at $26.00 but anything down here across much of the south is still going to be dealing with heat here on monday we do think we're going to see a break as we go towards tuesday from a locations across another part of africa though things are looking fine and dry we are looking at algiers here on sunday at about 30 degrees over towards tunis at about $33.00 now would be too bad for benghazi with winds from the north at 30 maybe getting a little bit cooler by monday but over here to the right at 23. my name is. i'm always thought of yoga as part of my heritage. and you stand it to be about transformation. seems to be transforming the mentality of

a lot about this and that's very different from the students just like you have no place in which yoga should belong to everyone but i'm afraid that simple truth is getting lost in a world that's so commercialized to decide who owns yoga on al-jazeera. on counting the cost trumps deal of the century $50000000000.00 to kickstart a more abundance ready palestinian peace process but not a single dollar pledged plus the chinese electric car maker about to take on the lights of the job but also industry counting the cost on al-jazeera.

welcome back just a look at top stories now donald trump has proposed an impromptu meeting with kim jong un on sunday when he visits the demilitarized zone between north and south korea u.s. president is currently in seoul for talks with south korean leader lungi and. will the u.s. and china have agreed to restart trade talks after meeting paying at the g 20 president trump said he would not impose further tariffs on chinese imports. and sudan's military council has warned that no damage or destruction will be tolerated at mass rallies which are planned for sunday. yemen's hoofy rebels say they've launched more drone attacks on 2 airports in saudi arabia who television says they targeted military positions and aircraft in the southern city of jism as

well as that port a saudi led coalition says it intercepted a drone launched at just one are now taliban fighters have killed at least 26 members of a pro-government militia in northern afghanistan armed men stormed security posts in babylon province early on saturday the taliban says 12 other people were injured the tack took place hours before talks resume between taliban and u.s. to go she has in cattle. at least 15 people have died after part of a wall collapsed in the western indian city of pruning the wall fell on to 10 huts trapping people under the rubble 4 children were among the dead building collapses are common in india during the monsoon season aggravated by the use of poor construction materials. a desert region in southern pakistan is suffering a major water crisis families who've lived there for generations of being forced to leave as

a summer binge of aid reports now from parka it's hurting livelihoods businesses and even biodiversity. the wild be caught has a special place in portland folklore southern part of the bird is considered sacred and killing it a sin but in the last few years peacocks have died in their hundreds is more humanistic over their habitat their numbers continue to do an. environmentalist believe in addition to human intervention climate change is also to blame. the desert ecosystem is sustained by replenishing the underground water table but its depletion has accelerated with no rain and rapid extraction. of them time to get it dried up water sources are hurting the biodiversity here there's a lack of rain and very strong winds through the dry season and of course the decline in peacocks india is harming the beauty of. it in addition to drought and persistently high temperatures a lot of damage has been done by humans to this fragile ecosystem well start the

local population and mega projects such as pakistan's largest open pit coal mine also use high volumes of water the mining company says it's doing all it can to minimize the environmental impact it's not just the parkers wildlife which is at stake this is what is happening to a major source of livelihood for the people here nomadic cattle herders who graze these lands for centuries are having to move because of extreme weather changes the main source of income is agriculture and livestock in the sudden parker region. an estimated 6000000 cattle are a source of meat for all of pakistan. but with a persistent dry spell not enough fodder is available. and what's available is too expensive for many herders many are selling their cattle at a fraction of the market price. though. there were no rains from the last few years drought no fodder and no water have made my cows weaker and that's

why we're leaving this area. the government says it will have to declare a drought emergency in the region if there are no rains by august. you know we're going to topple cars economy is based on agriculture and livestock both need to be modernized with drip irrigation kitchen gardening a modern cattle farming in order to save lives arid areas are at the highest risk from manmade and natural changes in the environment. and those whose ancestors have called this region home say they're struggling to survive. some of a job a delta 0 in the 3rd parker desert 8 people have been confirmed dead as a direct result of the heat wave that hit western europe for the past 6 days that includes a farm worker a roofer and has been killed in spain firefighters are still battling wildfires in catalonia and close to the capital in the trade although temperatures are now

believed to have peaked and will start to fall on sunday france the recorded a record national high of 45.9 degrees celsius and special cooling measures have been put in place in the capital paris. thousands of people braved the heat in spain's capitol to protest at a suspension of rules banning high emission cars from the city center environmentalist are angry that the ban imposed in november was lifted by the new conservative council pollution in central madrid has been in violation of limits set by the european union for the past 9 years. joining us now via skype is tom matthews who's a leading climatologist and lecturer in climate science at la for university here in the u.k. and extraordinary the sort of temperatures we've been seeing 45.9 degrees celsius we were just saying there for france of course it's difficult to make a definitive link with climate change but it's certainly consistent with what we've been hearing about rising temperatures yeah absolutely any one of them and it's

difficult to sort of say climate change causes but we can say with a lot of confidence is that climate change makes the occurrence of these deadly conditions more frequent and we also go ahead oh no sorry i didn't mean to interrupt you but i was just going to say i suppose i mean it's not just the record high temperatures it's the fact that it's occurring in june which is very early in the summer season it is in this fall northwest europe because we're very close to the only should we typically get a warm mr bridges later in the summer so july august the famous 2003 he waves. many people across northwest europe there was late july this when u.k. was so you said it's right. a western country is going to have to adapt to this by investing in things like all things that we don't really have at the moment like air conditioning which ironically contributes to greenhouse gas emissions doesn't it. it does when you say western countries do you mean north western europe or in

west as in the developed world. sort of it one guy because he wants the same what do we what do we need to do well already since 2003 governments across europe and invested in these he tells that up haitian plans the sorts of things are being done in france at the moment closing schools making a book water available so he out advice to the un will be less adaptation and measures have been brought in since the law that he weighed in in 2003 that helps but ultimately that there can be conditions that unless you have somewhere to a treaty in to be in trouble a matter how much you're just a beta so long term i mean this is not just in europe but across large parts of the guy dangerous heat is already carrying and will become more frequent yes a conditioning does offer a solution be right it doesn't create a challenge it creates an enormous amount of additional electrical demand that we expect and of course that has its and it's problems for ready arms a greenhouse gas emissions and can they reach

a point that is unbearable for the human body so that no matter actually no matter what measures you take on how much water you drink it can still cause death absolutely there is there there is an absolute sort of hard upper limit beyond which the body can dissipate heat to its environment all that remains is not how much wind is blowing how fast the wind is blowing but how i drape that you are the body is still accumulating heat is getting warm and warm but it's accumulating heat eventually cross that critical threshold saw a safe body temperature around that the 7 degrades and when you get it temperature and humidity combinations the warm and humid it is important we normally lose heat by sweating we have. enough water in the atmosphere the atmosphere is warm enough there is a point and that's best communicated by some in the web old temperature when that crosses 35 degrees means we can't get heat from inside our bodies to the atmosphere be calm cool down now those temperatures when she needed to combinations on yet reached on planet earth but it looks like they may be reached towards the middle

and end of the century of the large areas of the year if we continue to make greenhouse gases and continue to warm as it is of course that isn't what was said made no one about how fit how who you are considering i belong to exposure so those conditions outside thank you for helping us to understand it tom matthews joining us there from left brain of us. activists in the u.s. state of florida say rights are being eroded by a new amendment imposing restrictions on people with criminal records more than a 1000000 convicted felons had their voting rights restored at the beginning of the year but now thousands are struggling to get to the ballot box and gallacher reports from miami. registering to vote is not normally an emotional affair but the desmond made this was a moment he fought hard for like over a 1000000 florida residents desmond has a criminal record something that prevented him from voting for decades last november all that changed when residents overwhelmingly approved

a groundbreaking ballot measure with storing the voting rights of people with convictions to take. a lie could go vote with my family for the 1st time in the case that means a lot to me that means not only that i can vote but this is a step this this is an opportunity that we have now to stimulate a conversation about how important voting is since in the state's republican controlled legislature to change the language of the amendment ruling that x. felons must pay outstanding fees and fines before the eligible to vote the vast majority of defendants are poor when they're arrested and even more financially challenged after they released from prison to add their legal fees and fines to where they may fit a case pretty much almost the same disenfranchisement though it was to begin with and that the voters that a vote for i just received this. for those without legal fees or who've managed to clear them the news is good on us and his campaign to restore voting rights so she was released from prison and says while the controversial ruling will affect

hundreds of thousands of people she's excited at the chance to finally cast her ballot her it makes you feel. close to that. invisible like you don't matter like you don't count like you're not good enough now but also by law of course yes yes florida has the highest number of people campaigners say have been disenfranchised because of the criminal records last year's vote change that but the fight to restore voting rights continues critics say what the republican legislature did here essentially goes against the spirit of how floridians voted last november it's thought many with criminal backgrounds ofan thousands of dollars in legal fees in. this is socially prices them away from the ballot box civil rights campaigners say they'll continue to fight and say last november's victory is something that will eventually come to fruition and we go across miami florida. now to north macedonia has held its 1st ever gay pride parade

thousands of human rights activists and gay rights activists marched through the center of the capitol sculpey an event also attended by state officials and foreign diplomats it's a test of the conservative country's record on respecting minority rights as it seeks access into the european union meanwhile albania is preparing to hold local elections on sunday in a test of democracy that could affect its own bid to join the e.u. and vote with aleck's mayors and local councils in albania $61.00 districts but most of the results will be near total walkovers as the opposition is refusing to put up any candidates and as john psaropoulos reports from the suburbs of the capital tehran to arafat is it could descend into embarrassment for the government . government workers assessing up a voting center at abraham rugova high school incomes are this is a safe seat for the opposition but it isn't fielding a candidate because it's causing local elections nationwide the democratic party

accuses the government of corruption and wants a general election instead it's demanding the resignation of socialist prime minister. this is the culmination of months of opposition protests against alleged government corruption that have also seen the main opposition parties walk out of parliament president has canceled sunday's elections saying they will damage albanians image as it prepares to begin membership talks with the european union president canceled the polls but the government is proceeding regardless many of the unions regard that as unconstitutional and legal challenges are expected so are the only thing that can remove me from your field is people's bold decision of the political part of them after all we are not in north korea that we are no longer under communism i shall not recognize an election.