she actually has plenty of opportunities to communicate with the general public in the whole june but she did not and then she suddenly $5002.00 student union and communication and but showed no sincerity and so that we thing that she has. is just a public show so we don't see why we should immediately. assess the invitation from a bride has allowed us from hong kong. it says a lot about the see the level of anger here in hong kong that this offer of talks was rejected out of hand by the students they have revealed that this was an often made in private to the students of just 2 of the universities here for talks that again would be held in private now it all seems to be part of the lead to carry

a lamb's promise of being more of a listening chief executive but the complaint against has always been that she is incapable or a ubel to make any changes that she won't back down and of course the suspicion being that behind beijing is also forcing her not to give way not to lose face what the students are demanding is that they have this dialogue with government not only themselves but also many other sectors of society what's more they want that to be held in public all parts of that campaign of building on the impetus of these mass demonstrations to keep this issue very much in the public domain the concern for the government is that they want to try to defuse this situation by having a public debate that may to an end to a a rowdy shouting match between student groups and government officials they simply make matters worse when i'm ahead of the news hour and cleaning an international

dispute over the british seizure that is an iranian oil tanker around $10000.00 legal in less than the. plus an act of patriotism or a political stunt i'll transcend attended a speech in military display divide americans and the l.a. galaxy couldn't even spell their own player's name correctly into the mistake to its head leo has more in sport. for our top story now the political agreement between protest leaders and the ruling military council and sudan limited. down on president amsterdam policy forum joins us here so it would appear is if this is some sort of breakthrough do you consider it so this is a classic example of. politics you know the forces of freedom and

tighten the rope at the time when they should have lose and didn't lose and at the time when they should have tightened the reach for all there was nobody's known for them to have said sacrifice the souls of those $114.00 civilians if they were to reach for an agreement that is. poorer or equal to the agreement that was that was reach beefier are saying that this could have been done a long time ago without so much horrible violence and people so why wasn't it i think they will. experience some they didn't have consensus among among them because you do have about 5 groups within the forces of freedom and change and each group constituents of different factions so i think they had some difficulty reaching for some consensus but now the challenge is i mean previously. the they were capable of putting pressure on the transition and

military council no the pressure is on the forces of freedom and keen to deliver and deliver to put together a prime minister's office one that is a representative of the sudanese people and more importantly an effective body a more efficient body the they used a preemptive approach of releasing some lists of names informally speaking but in those days you can see that there is a total absence of proper procedures followed to find the best candidate it is more or less. you know candidates. highly politicized if you look at this over in councell it's not presented here for the whole sudanese nation it's mainly to present if you for some. individuals from the. sudan ok so there's still a large challenge is what you're saying for the civilian side what's going to keep

the military side in check. if if they put the forces of freedom and king put. a body that is convincing to the sudanese people they. very much depend on the masses they don't have any leverage apart from the independent them depending on the masses if they lose the masses they lose the trust of the masses they are going to be in a very weak situation which is the military is going to take over completely there is going to be another. if if this if if the situation goes like this and the transition and military council shows some seriousness in wanting to submit power to the civilians. my state of mind is that all guards the islamists are going to take over. how significant do you think there is to be needs to be an investigation and some accountability and what we were just talking about so many people lost

their lives there was sexual violence as well where is the pressure going to come from to make sure there is some accountability for what happened it has to be. regional and international pressure because remember remember we are not only investigating the massacre of 114 individuals there are 300000 people civilians many civilians killed in that for. some of the members of the transitional military council are already enlisted in the i.c.c. so it's a it's a it's a long road and it has to be walked in the in the chilean manner the member of the . chicago school boys when they came to power the they didn't confront pinochet immediately but gradually they brought him to justice but the difference between the school chicago school boys and and the forces of freedom and jane is the chicago school boys had very well started out plan the forces of freedom and don't

have to don't don't seem to have that plan we'll have to see if that plan comes together thank you so much eliminated waiter appreciate it. iran is condemning what it describes as the illegal interception of an oil tanker by british marines are the spanish coast united states is applying the impounding their ship suspected of carrying iranian oil to syria and breach of a use sanctions paul brennan reports. the tanker in the shadow of the rock police boats in attendance the oil tanker grace want to see may be calm but the ship is at the center now of an international diplomatic storm spain has revealed that the united states had been monitoring the ships journey past that intelligence to the gibraltar government this action the rose from information giving the gibraltar government reasonable grounds to believe that the vessel the grace one was acting in breach of european union sanctions against syria in fact we have reason to

believe that the grace one was carrying its shipments of crude oil to the ban yes refinery in syria. that refinery is the property of an entity that is subject to european union sanctions against syria the grace one is believed to have loaded with iranian oil off the coast of the gulf the ship made it this far as gibraltar a british overseas territory at the entrance of the mediterranean its final destination is claimed to be the bally ass refinery in syria but under cover of darkness a contingent of 30 royal marines under the direction of the role gibraltar police boarded the ship using a wildcat helicopter and rigid inflatables to run into it a lot more. naturally we were aware of the operation police patrols bodies were guarding the area but we're studying the circumstances in which it happened yet he was the man by the united states to be not a kingdom that we're looking into how it affects our sovereignty because it happened in what we understand a spanish waters the u.s. is applying what it calls maximum pressure on iran to try to force

a renegotiation of the 2050 nuclear to european union those trying hard to support iran's economy against that u.s. pressure however this oil shipment was heading to syria which the e.u. definitely does have sanctions against iran being under pressure and the united states believe it's trying to use the arm of of iraq of course the onion to try to find a way that means to bypass it and export their oil and the fact that they did not go through so as cairo and went around from africa around the good hope south of africa coming back it may be just guessing it way to avoid being tracked iran has reacted angrily to the seizure summoning the british ambassador to the foreign ministry in tehran and stuck in the middle of all of this is the grace want paul brennan al-jazeera or sort of ari joins us now from tehran source what is the

word from officials in tehran about this. well we've heard from various different levels of government here they're reacting to this news saying that it is absolutely legal and the british government must return this vessel to the iranian authorities the cargo the crude oil that is on board this super tanker belongs to the islamic republic and the iranians are adamant they will pursue all venues political and legal to trying to get this. ship back they say that this is the work of the u.s. government they've pressured the british government to act out in this case and that the british have really not. stood up to the americans this is just another example for the iranians of how the united states is bullying the international community the foreign ministry spokesperson said that the british ambassador in tehran had been summoned and that they had a meeting on thursday between officials at the foreign ministry and the iranians expressed their position they provided documentation about how this ship was

carrying out legal activities its cargo was legal and that it was in international waters and the reaction has been one that the iranians must get this vessel back and they will not accept this act by the british government so what does this mean for the relationship between britain and iran in the context of any future for the nuclear deal. well we're so we've got 48 hours left before the deadline of 60 days that was set by iranian president hassan rouhani after the iranians felt that the european signatories to the nuclear deal were not upholding their end of the bargain after the u.s. withdrew and imposed a series of sanctions the europeans were hesitant to invest in iran's economy because of u.s. pressure the iranians say that this is not acceptable for us we're not going to stay in a one way agreement this incident will certainly heighten the tensions and they

divide the iranians have with the british government they say that the they can't trust the british that this is another example of how the americans are manipulating the european countries into knots working with the iranians and the putting more pressure on iran's economy and the iranian president and the various different levels of government have said that this nuclear agreement is paramount for the security of this region so this incident will certainly create more tensions all right or satori live for us in tehran or said thank you now iraq is in the middle of the escalating tension between the united states and iran speaking to al jazeera iraq's national security adviser said a war would be disastrous for every country in the region. did though really it is a crisis that threatens international peace it threatens regional peace and stability in the middle east if it escalates militarily it will be a catastrophe for this region i think if the whole region thinks deeply and wisely it will find that solving this crisis is in the interest of all

a peaceful diplomatic solution hundreds of syrian government troops are understood to have died in a 3 month battle against rebels in the northwest of the country the absence of iranian backed forces and challenges on other fronts as drawing out the conflict they heard a report from beirut. there is a stalemate on the front lines in northwest syria syrian government forces backed by the russian military have not been able to break the opposition's defensive positions after weeks of fighting it has been a costly battle war monitoring group say more than 700 government troops have been killed since late april but. we tell the a sad gangs on the russian occupiers whoever comes to the hama or latakia fronts will fail hundreds of bodies of regime mercenaries are rotting. the rebels to last hundreds of men defending their territory but they stop the advance their ally turkey did play

a role by providing sophisticated weapons capabilities it doesn't want to lose its leverage in the province of idlib another means stakeholder iran however has been absent from the battlefield. iran's participation would provoke negative reactions from the western countries especially the united states in terms of kind of military action against syria or something like that and another reason is that your own those laws wants to prolong the sensitivities because they are working with each other in terms of venting do you reconcile actions against iraq. others say iran is sending a message to its russian allies who have not stopped israeli strikes against iranian targets in syria whatever the reason the syrian government is struggling and iran is proving its value in the war effort it live is not the only active front line eisel remains a threat in central syria the major problem facing eastern front such as

such. and even so we. talk about this all the sort of basically every day that it is. going to cause that and. i think among. syrian president bashar assad has restored control over more than 60 percent of the country but his army is exhausted overstretched and it seems too weak to recapture remaining rebel held areas without the help of iranian backed militias many of the fighters on the frontline fighting on behalf of the regime have been recruited forcefully from cound across syria they do not actually want to sort of many of them do not like the assad regime some of the movement fought against rebel ranks and therefore their morale their terminations to continue fighting is very low also repeatedly says he will recall current lib but the battle for the opposition's last stronghold is proving to be

difficult to hold or al-jazeera beirut. and a few moments we'll have the weather with rob also still ahead on al-jazeera a march to malawi's parliament protests get louder over the election results. killing without fear of punishment as well as government is accused of approval crackdown on its opponents. and the coaching team choices now back up at one which one will down or pausing a stall or stir pardon me they will have the details of. the wedding sponsored by cattle and ways. hello temps around the mediterranean looking pretty normal moment but that wasn't quite the case yes they specifically for greece where temperatures were still on the high side we've got over 40 in fact not

far side athens doesn't seem a lot when you see in the figures of the last week but it was enough in for example the acropolis for the authorities think you know maybe it's not safe and people will close it down for a few hours let him sit down in the shade or in air conditioning so they did just that the temps didn't fat register 42 outside acropolis which surprisingly is near the record in fact is not much change 34 is the average for athens the next 3 days will see the bit below that typically it starts to rise again but the record is any 43 in fact the heat wave we were talking about only last week in europe has gone that these are the temperatures for today and they're more or less where they should be in fact in some places they're heading down this doesn't look very much like july weather may be right to think it was a low driving it all is up there in the baltic is actually a wind warning out for latvia today and the only heat warning is temporarily than in austria well the wind and rain will continue for this northern countries of

europe for the next couple days but he won't be that caught. the weather. refugee problem is something which is a geopolitical issue that's for governments international institutions to manage refugees don't have the right to freely on the other hand can move freely as far and as much as they want it's a national colonialism this is of the over the democratic process these companies they just want the europe's forbidden colony episode one on al-jazeera. the pages of this exercise book unspeakable memory compiled testimonies of victims of congolese musson. as this intimate evidence finds its way to international courts the central african republic is plunged into further. and intricate tan the

people and a nation crippled by recent history. 2 of a 2 part series on al-jazeera. watching al-jazeera let's recap the top stories right now sudan's really military coalition of opposition and protest groups have reached a deal to share power during a transition period leading up to elections a mediator from the african union says a new rotating council will be set. back the government says it's lost contact with one of its fighter jets south of the capital tripoli and a social media post ward cleaver forces show the wreckage of what they say is

approaching a fighter jet they shot down there in a city southwest of tripoli. in hongkong say they won't meet with the government unless it's in public the city's largest student unions have rejected offers to talk in private protestors want chief executive kerry lamb to scrap a controversial extradition bill. there is no light at them allow in the 6 week fight by opposition protesters against the re-election of the president thousands marched in parliament and the capital a long way president peter with a rake a denies allegations that the results of the election in may or dr i mean miller has more from neighboring south africa. the latest protests led by opposition parties and a coalition for human rights who are demanding that president peter move to rica step down they're also angry with the electoral commission which they say is responsible for what they are calling a fraudulent election which took place in may and in that election which i recall

was reelected by a very narrow margin for a 2nd term of thousands of people gathered in the capital long where the worst skirmishes between opposition supporters and supporters of a recurs ruling party about 3000 people marched to parliament and camped the overnight they're expected to continue these demonstrations throughout the day today and some shops were looted and property was damaged during the protests that have already taken place the opposition's blame supporters of the governing democratic democratic progressive party for that destruction and also for attacking opposition protesters and the demonstrators say they will continue their protests as long as it takes to get top electoral offices to step down now we haven't heard much from president mubarak of besides calling for opposition parties one of

them led to by the former vice president solace to lima to accept the election results but these opposition parties have in fact gone to court to have it a null the election results as well as they also want fresh elections to be held now these protests have continued since the election results were announced more than a month ago and these opposition parties say they'll continue them as long as is necessary them barbarians are enduring their worst power shortages in years business owners trying to get around it by operating at night when they're more likely to get a fair. reports from harare it's just another problem. it's just after 10 o'clock at night for people like martin it's time to get some work done if he's lucky to have about 7 hours of electricity before it switched off again for another 10 hours or sometimes longer rolling power cuts. have forced

businesses to adjust in some areas people never know when that sometimes means not going home. because i have to be. enough time to. zimbabwe is experiencing its worst pockets in 3 years some neighborhoods haven't had a steady supply of electricity for weeks if the middle of the day and. a lot more people will be busy working making furniture but there is no electricity those who can afford it are using generators the rest sit and wait until. the country is struggling to generate enough electricity to meet demand its mining sector gets more than 2 thirds of its export earnings is one of the worst affected

. excited by a market where you know. so little factors. in what it means. inflation for negative g.d.p. growth in the. energy officials blame a drought that has reduced water levels at the largest hydro power plant in the country. can she was who don't pay bills and decades of corruption in the energy sector those that may have played. it. really should know that we're not going to take it. everybody responsible for whatever they have done. but fixing what's going wrong in the energy sector is that ever happens will take time. it doesn't have to buy it.

and so apologies. this will likely be an everyday reality for zimbabweans who have no choice but to understate own power company for the. on the un human rights chief has accused venezuelan government of gross violations against dissenters the report from. the country last month says nearly $7000.00 people were killed in operations mainly by venezuela's police special forces the report accuses the special forces of carrying out extrajudicial executions and planting drugs and guns on the victims to justify their actions a government rejects this and says the people killed in the operations were resisting arrest. essential institutions from the rule of law in venezuela have been eroded the exercise of freedom of opinion expression association assembly and the right to participate in public life in turn also risk of reprisals and repression. are reported not attacks against actual or perceived political opponent

and defenders ranging from threat and smear campaigns to arbitrary detention torture and ill treatment sexual violence killings and false disappearance has more from various artists and neighboring argentina. well the united nations says that the report is based on over 500 interviews that took place not only in venezuela but also outside and there were carried out by united nations human rights representative in the country and also by its representative former chilean president michelle bachelet talks not only about extra judicial killings in the country carried out by security forces mostly in poor neighborhoods this report says that those operations where anti-crime operations but many of them also there are saying that this acuity forces use that force in order to curtail this and it also talks about the rule of law in venezuela saying that the opposition has been

neutralized and criminalized and also saying that institutional checks and balances have been dismantled in venezuela to davis report comes out just as it's being discussed the death of a navy captain in court he passed out apparently he was beaten and tortured this is what his lawyers are saying and this is something that has shocked not only the opposition and human rights groups but also the world and for human rights groups there saying that this shows that torture in the country is systemic and that this united nations report shows in a way that everything that they have been denouncing for a very long time that's been happening in this country is actually going on and that's why the opposition is asking people to take to the streets this friday july 5th it's venezuela's independence day the opposition is saskin for people to take to the streets to denounce torture at the same time the government is doing is asking its followers to do the same voters in greece will head to the polls on sunday for the 1st time since the height of the country's financial crisis opinion

polls suggest the conservative new democracy party is on course to when following the left wing series of parties electoral defeat and the european union elections reports from athens. comes from one of greece's 3 big political dynasties. these is an outsider to the conservative new democracy party his election to its leadership by the party base in 2016 was unexpected and many in the party disagree with his promises to streamline state bureaucracy and to partially privatize social security health and education but these promises helped me to thank yous when a 10 point lead over the governing left wing cities in european parliament elections 6 weeks ago. i have kept my promise to reach an honest deal that will bring growth. i traveled every corner of the country twice listening to everyone farmers students the unemployed but i also heard their hope

that a new day dawned on our country. the question is whether me to take these can tighten the nuts and bolts of an economy that still uncompetitive over the last decade it shrank by a quarter and is forecast to grow by just 2 percent a year it's a thank you is promising to double that growth rate that's good news for this car repair shop owner who says he lost 40 percent of his business during the recession you don't have to go to. hurt the leaders need to muck crissy says he's going to bring in your investments but also help existing businesses by lowering corporate tax sales tax and social security contributions but these measures have to be permanent meets a thank you is promising to lower business tax by 3rd and social security contributions by a quarter that would drastically lower the cost of doing business increase but to deliver he has to persuade creditors to decrease the amount of tax revenue greece

spends repaying them each year if mr thank yous in his 1st months proves that he is . doing better than expected in terms of the reforms that he's managing to attract investment and so on then i think there will be flexibility. to reduce the target i think if that reduction does not happen. it's hard to see how he can do all these tax cuts you democracy bears much of the responsibility for bankrupting greece by over borrowing when there was a cheap supply of money when financial markets collapsed in 2008 it was the great taxpayer who had to make promises to be met taxes. living within their means seems to have matured the greens politically. increased social spending greeks seem to charity. jobs are almost all just.

people in algeria are once again on the strength to demand a new democratic government and to celebrate their countries and dependence on france on thursday and around president of their been solid call for a national dialogue over how to hold presidential elections but did not set a date for the vote protests began in february and into the resignation of longtime president abdelaziz bouteflika in april trial it into leave with an algerian journalist joining us live from london we appreciate your time very much so this time anniversary today do you think that this will energize the protesters. mr philip can you hear me. mr tilley mr sorry i don't you know very well no no problem i'll repeat the question i asked do you think that the anniversary today will or reenergize the protesters. so many

do they want but. it's you know where it's true christians is the seas due to. the right of the. group just to. win. their independence. and. my. mom got the chance. do you. organize. the most you. do you do anything. you did you. did you find julian's mother and judeans most of the us. oh we do things to shock you floods their time you force sort of the future of their country. in the mistress' labor but i'll leave it there because the some of the communication issues that we

will certainly be a major point very clearly and we'll keep an eye on the protests as well and celebrations thank you. warplanes flying over washington and. the military might of the united states and appends day had a new look at the share a president called it his salute to america opponents of. his re-election campaign reports from the capitol. 4th of july parade down the mall. that something was different this year decision to speak at a rally at the lincoln memorial flanked by vehicles has outraged many the president has hijacked a national holiday instead of being a holiday for the people of the people by the people it's now a holiday for donald trump. to members of the military with the area to be filled with the republican party. but the.