and no navigation system migrants and i received care on board the rescue vessel it's the has already warned the ship against trying to don't get one of its ports. and what position leaders in sudan are holding a series of public meetings to explain why they signed a para sharing deal with the military under the agreement a council will be set up with the leadership changing from the military to civilians after 21 months while some protesters have welcomed the deal as a victory others say it's a surrender to get reports. the deals been done now opposition leaders in the capital khartoum are trying to convince everyone to support it if. the agreement doesn't deal with all the issues but it deals with the levels of transitional power the final text is now being legally revised and will be published to the whole sudanese people. the coalition of opposition groups are

limited and have been at loggerheads for months the only return to the negotiating table this week after intensive mediation by your peer and the african union. that over the 2 sides agreed to establish a sovereign council to be shared between the military and civilians for 3 years or a little more they also agreed to create a civilian government that is nationalist competent and independent under the leadership of a prime minister that has the same qualities. the talks broke down in may over who would lead a transitional government. and the crisis deepened days later when security forces stormed a protest camp killing more than 100 people forces led by mohamed. known as timidity were accused of orchestrating the attacks on protesters. we would like to reassure all the political forces and military movements as well as all the youth the men and women involved in this transition that this is

a comprehensive agreement that doesn't exclude anyone and reflects the aspirations of the entire series people. some say there will be no accountability. why he make these involved there are always late he's way our relation. is not in the right it's not. it's not power sharing it's not that. he's and this is how this is where you know. it's going to be really hard. any sort of government anti-government demonstrations began last year with protesters calling for a long time leader or morrow the she to go the military took over in a coup but protest as argue the ruling genter is a continuation of the she's demanding a transition to civilian government. 2 2 c opposition the to say they hope this deal will be the beginning of a human era for saddam. there. 5 all rallies have been held in

venezuela as the country celebrates independence day opposition leader one goh i do is calling for an end so what's he calls the president's dictatorship but's nicholas material remains defiant despite growing criticism over his government's tactics against his opponents so he's a bow reports. on the streets once again opposition leader why they will ask people to join him in a march towards the military counter-intelligence directorate in got back us a state security body accused of torturing a navy captain said was plotting against nicola mother would the opposition says he was tortured to death. by the same of a dictatorship is what we have it's a dictatorship that we are fighting and when they ask how long why haven't you been able to succeed it's because it's a dictatorship it's not an excuse i'm not excusing myself it's you my

responsibility of the actions we have taken and of the actions we will take and what we try to accomplish accompanying our people. the united nations human rights body this week released a report denouncing the serious abuses committed by muddled us government and lawful deaths in so-called anti-crime operations persecution and torture of the opposition and the roshan of democracy in this oil rich nation excessive a little force has repeatedly been used against protesters my office has also documented excessive use of force in the context of security operations by special action forces with multiple killings made of young men many could constitute extra judicial killings and should be fully investigated with accountability of perpetrators and guarantees of non recurrence and the traditional independence day celebrations mother will preside over

a parade of tanks and jets surrounded by those in the military still loyal to him then obviously nobody should ever be mistaken the empires of the world should know venezuela is and will irrevocably remain independent and sovereign now and always by should know this and those who don't should be aware. the u.n. report despite being described as one sided and biased may have struck a chord with some venezuelan officials since 22 prisoners were released on friday among them a judge and a journalist human rights groups say there are over 700 political prisoners in venezuela whose rights have been violated over and over again and we've documented that abuses by innocent and security forces are systematic and are part of a systematic pattern of abuse this report does not clearly state so and what is necessary is to determine clearly the government's responsibility for the humanitarian crisis this is not the consequence of an actor disaster and the mode

of government has to be held accountable for the venezuelans are struggling with a crisis that has forced a millions to leave the country and u.s. sanctions have added more pain leaving many of those who have stayed to believe that only a change at the very top will help them improve their lives. and just cedar. point still to come on the news hour including the battle for the syrian opposition is last remaining stronghold continues as government forces backed by russia failed to make a breakthrough. and in sports the fairy tale continues for all 15 year old cory gold this is that action from wimbledon one of.

the records in gibraltar has extended the detention of an iranian oil tanker boy 14 days u.k. armed forces stopped the iranian ship on thursday were suspicion that it was delivering all to syria in breach of e.u. sanctions officials in there are examining the cargo and questioning the crew iran says the action against the tanker is illegal in a moments we'll hear from dorsetshire bar in tehran but 1st paul brennan reports from london. there are 2 main strands to this now 1st of all there's the procedural and that is the investigation into the exact nature of the cargo on this ship grace one its origin and most particularly its ultimate destination and where exactly was it going and the 28 crew members who are still on board that ship are now being interviewed as witnesses by the roll gibraltar police and the time that that's likely to take means that the attorney general of gibraltar on friday applied for an extension of the detention of that ship it would have been 72 hours and that

would have run out in the early hours of sunday and it was clearly felt that that wasn't enough time to get to the bottom of it and so they've successfully applied for a 14 day extension so that ship is going nowhere and i spoke on friday to a specialist in the sanctions law who said that the actual process could take very much longer than that i predict a very long long. investigation and if any criminal proceedings follow those are likely it takes some time because. still expect iranian authorities to bring a legal challenge a real war of words frankly is developing over the fate of this ship grace one we know that the iranians are extremely critical and are demanding the return of that cargo the gibraltar also rather bristling at the suggestion from spain

that they were acting simply at the behest of the united states but other countries are also weighing in the russian foreign ministry and ally of iran don't forget has accused the u.k. and the u.s. of bad faith on all of this a statement on friday saying this was a long planned project aimed at aggravate the situation around syria and iran and exuberant comments according to the ministry of russia from ministry by high ranking you can u.s. officials prove that this action was planned in advance. the structure of an illegal that's how the ukrainian foreign ministry is describing the incident that took place on thursday morning the iranians say that the seizure of this vessel is in the illegal act and that they want it back as soon as possible the british ambassador in tehran had a meeting at the foreign ministry thursday evening where fishel is provided documentation about the cargo on board this vessel and the destination and the

journey that it was taking and they say that it is absolutely they say that the sanctions imposed on the syrian government have not been endorsed by united nations therefore they are not binding the reins don't recognize them and that is why they are asking that this vessel be returned to the iranian officials now they all this comes at a time where iran is waiting for a response from the european signatories of the 2015 clear deal that that line is sunday july 7th and the president has said that this is a last chance for the europeans to respond to the iranian concern that they are not cooperating their lack of commitment to this nuclear agreement so this will certainly be seen as a move that will increase the tensions between iran and the unite the british government as well as the united states the iranians have said that this act was at the request of the u.s. government and that they are building the british government into siding with them

and trying to put more pressure on iran and that is something that will certainly see heightened tension in this region yet again. the un's nuclear watchdog will hold a special meeting next week on iran's nuclear program the session was called by the u.s. president don't trump warned his reign in counterpart to be careful with his threats he was referring to hassan rouhani is vowing to exceed your rhenium enrichment levels for loads in the 2015 clear deal or white house correspondent kimberly alisa's. well on friday speaking to. reporters in the south lawn of the white house u.s. president donald trump issued another warning to iran saying we'll see what happens but iran must be very very careful now following this there is news that the united states has requested an emergency meeting of the u.n. nuclear agency to discuss what it says is a runs breach of uranium stockpile limits under the j c p a way of 2015 of course

that is an agreement that the united states has withdrawn from it's interesting that the united states is now turning to an international body to try and deescalate the tensions that have been ratcheting up for weeks between the united states and iran most recently the seizure of a tanker by british authorities allegedly this tanker carrying oil from iran destined for syria it is reported that the british authorities acting on u.s. instructions or intelligence and of course that near miss strike that also happened recently the united states choosing not to launch a missile strike following the downing of a u.s. drone it says as a result of iran the concern that these tensions now escalating so greatly given the fact that donald trump has always had an america 1st almost isolationist approach to foreign policy it is notable that the united states now turning to the

u.n. agency to try and resolve these tensions in fact the state department issuing a statement on friday saying we welcome international partners resolve in holding out a force in sanctions that is of course in reaction to the british detainment of that tanker so it seems that the united states fully aware of just how close as glaciers have come to potential conflict now turning to the international partners to try and deescalate. presidents as cold presidential and legislate so. elections for later this year there's ek the sepsis signing the decree says he made his 1st public appearance since being discharged from hospital there had been concerns that the 92 year old leader wouldn't be well enough to authorize elections on time subsea also take actions he extends genesee is only going states of emergency the syrian government has lost hundreds of troops in

a 3 month battle in the northwest of the country the rebels are putting up a fight send the absence of iranian backed forces as weakens the government site sent a how to reports from beirut's 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 adlib another main 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 iran those last ones to for world war 2 sensitivities because they are working with each other in terms of circumventing 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 is not the only active product line i still remains a threat in central syria major problem. even

so we. talk about that. basically every day if there is a. 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 count across syria they do not actually want to serve many of them do not like the assad regime some of them live in fought against rebel ranks and therefore their morale their terminations to continue fighting is very low. assad repeatedly says he will recall crit lib but the battle for the opposition's last stronghold is proving to be difficult to. beirut. still to come

on al-jazeera and you challenger rises is greece posed for a change in leadership to 4 and a half years of leftist rule and. birthday one more time we'll tell you how rowboats are being used to improve the bedside manner of trainee nurses in the united states and in sports pakistan blew away bangladesh but they're still not sights of the cricket world cup pro who will have all the action. hello again across united states it is going to be quite wet across the eastern seaboard over the next few days and the showers are going to be accompanied by temperatures into the thirty's as well heavy showers have been

a big problem here across the central plains as well so here's your forecast on saturday even into the canadian maritimes parts of quebec will be seeing some rain as well therefore auto up it's going to be 30 degrees heavy rain is going to be a big problem anywhere from boston new york washington and that also means on saturday we could be seeing some airport delays across much of the area down towards miami the rain continues for you with a tempter there of about $31.00 degrees but as we go towards sunday there is some improving conditions up here towards the northeast the rain though continues across much of the southeast so for lana and hartsfield airport continue to see those expected delays there as we go into sunday evening well cross much of the caribbean not too bad across much of the region we are seeing some rain showers here across much of the bahamas but over the next few days watch what happens as we go towards sunday into the yucatan heavy rain here for cause melt as well as into king koon where the temperature of 31 degrees and also speaking of temperatures as has been quite cool across much of southern brazil as well as into argentina temperatures

into the teens so for rio de janeiro 19 degrees their innocence in at 13. venezuela colombia boccia has become a stamping ground trespasses. as desperate people transgress an illegal passage. to feed in a managing field trafficking markets. we follow that perilous journey unguarded through the line of fire. risking it all. and israel in colombia. on al-jazeera. the pages of this exercise book cold unspeakable memory compiled testimonies of victims of congolese mercenaries as this intimate evidence finds its way to international courts the central african republic is plunged into further. and intricate tale of

a people and a nation crippled by recent history. afrikaans part 2 of a 2 part series on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera quarter one of the top stories for you this hour the u.n. security council has called on libya's warring parties to commit to a cease fire is around comes as new for to jim marrs showing the moment an airstrike hit a migrant detention center near the capital tripoli on sheers day. opposition leaders in sudan are holding a series of public meetings to explain why they signed

a power sharing deal with the military on thursday the process groups and in the future to be to go taitz leadership until elections are held. and bible rallies have been pals and venezuela as a country celebrates independence day opposition leader one why do is calling for an end to what he calls the president's dictatorship bonce nicolas maduro remains defiant despite growing criticism over his government's tactics against opponents. while the u.s. states over the last guy is known for its pristine forests and wildlife but a record breaking heat. wave is causing several massive wildfires dense smoke is covering large parts of the states and people in some communities have been moved to safety while others are being warned see prepare for the worst and the gallagher reports. on the can i pin incident the swan lake fire has

been raging for a month officials say in recent years these kinds of fires have become more frequent and persistent but alaska is also in the midst of an unprecedented heat wave that shows no signs of abating local firefighters and emergency staff are being reinforced by so-called hot shot crews from across the u.s. conditions are monitored by the hour in order to tackle what is now a massive blaze this is a case of prioritizing where people and infrastructure is basically exactly also what's good for the environment and what's safe for firefighters that's always going to be our number one priority. on the ground staff are stretched thin and have been on the front lines of this blaze for weeks videos posted by crews fighting to control these wildfires showed just how difficult and dangerous the work is we came across the book valley firefighters a crew made up of native alaskans from remote communities who are vital and highly

trained part of this operation we're all here as one. we're all here to do our job to help help alaska and. help save people's homes there was a fire in 2015 in the lotto and there was a lot of firefighters there to save our community and when i get back we're just meters away from the main road into sterling but just look at this scene here behind me some of these areas over here are too dangerous for firefighters to go on foot so i look up to the scooping up the water to try and tackle the flames in aswan like virus so far consumed almost 350 square kilometers and it's want. of more than 80 fires across the state hotspots of blaring up there all the time and experts say these fires may not be extinguished until the seasons change and that could be weeks away. equality across the southern part of alaska is now a big concern with plumes of smoke covering the mountains close to the state's

largest city anchorage. forecasters say alaska's heat wave a factor in making the fires worse may continue for weeks for the foreseeable future that is going to hold in place that week window that we work out in time for events like this that i'm capable of forecasting for it looks like it's going to hold for now so yeah pretty hot hot and dry to be continued for sure the role the climate change plays is something at the back of many people's minds here they call it just say alaska summers appear to be getting longer and hotter if that trend continues shared resources could be stretched to breaking point and i think i heard joins us now live from the city of seoul dot until we're seeing farce like this across the globe what does that mean for places like the u.s. . well traditionally the fire seasons in the continental united states a staggered because the way the seasons were but all the indications are is that

summers here in places like alaska are coming sooner they're lasting longer and as we can see here also much hotter that means these hot shot crews who are normally mobile and will go to other states to help out won't be able to do that in the future climate change isn't something here officials really want to openly talk about but it's definitely something at the back of their minds because they know these teams have to travel to these of the states and other teams from other states have to travel here that may change in the future if the current trend keeps going which means they may not have enough resources as these fires and we're even hearing about predictions of super fires in the future continue to go along as they are here in alaska and also as we saw last year in california and andy is there an end in sight for those fires in alaska. not of the moment this one like fire which is just down the road from us is changing hour by hour the staff are monitoring that old times but really what they're doing is

trying to contain the fire in the areas where it might endanger local communities or local infrastructures in many cases that these fires burn out into the wilderness that in many ways is an ecologically good thing to happen it's a natural process this fire started by a lightning strike but they simply don't have the resources to tackle a fire that is this big and this is just one fire of more than 80 that's going on across the state right now i think one of the other big concerns is the air quality in places like anchorage we came from there to here is about a 2 hour drive and there's a pall of smoke hanging over that entire city that's causing problems for young and old people like you already have things like asthma so there is no end in sight at the moment it's about rotating those crews through from different states and just tackling and containing it as best they can meanwhile this heat wave here in alaska is continuing ok and to go here there live from alaska thanks very much indeed. well hundreds of firefighters are tackling wildfires on the greek islands of 4

villages have already been evacuated their wildlife fund says rising global temperatures in the fires of the future will be more powerful and even harder to tackle one of 1400 wildfires have been reported in europe so far this year yes voters in greece will head to the polls on sunday for the 1st time since the heights of the financial crisis 4 years ago prime minister alexis tsipras has been holding his final rally in athens is left wing series a party led the country through years of a sarah see butts opinion polls suggest the conservative new democracy party is on course for a comeback after defeating syriza in the european parliament elections john psaropoulos reports now from athens. comes from one of greece's 3 big political dynasties but to give yeah cause me to use 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 partially privatizing social security health and education but these promises helped me to thank yous when a 10 point lead over the governing left wing syriza in the european parliament elections 6 weeks ago. i have kept my promise to reach an honest deal that will bring growth but when i travel every corner of the country twice listening to everyone farmers students the unemployed but i also heard 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. 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 i don't know he was as good as. i've heard the leaders need to crissy says he's going to bring in a new investments but also help existing businesses by lowering corporate tax sales tax and social security contributions but these measures have to be permanent me to thank you promising to lower business tax by 30 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 greek taxpayer who had to make promises to be met taxes. living within their means seems to have matured the. increased social spending greeks seem to charity. jobs are almost all just. now you know ask the un's cultural and scientific agency has unveiled the 1st batch of sites that will be added to its world heritage list this year it's all thing is meeting in azerbaijan and talking the list is the ancient city of babylon which

comes after 3 decades of lobbying efforts by iraq it was the center of the babylonian empire 4000 years ago for us a as if a grand senior the brazilian city or rio de janeiro have also been chosen they're being recognized for both fair natural and their cultural significance iceland's via the joe cool national park has been picked for it's something that will be easy as geothermal activity know the area covers 14 percent of the country and includes volcanoes melting glaziers and explosive craters and china has also gained a listing for its microsurgery bird sanctuaries in the eastern province of jones to the intertie the wetlands contains 3 ecological systems and is home to some 33 endangered species well let's get more on this now from.

easy professor of history and anthropology at shawnee state university and is kind of to join us by skype from athens in the u.s. state of ohio thanks so much for talking to us here on al-jazeera the 1st of all iraq has been law being for babel won't be recognized for decades why has it taken so long and why does it need lobbying in the 1st place. i think there are a number of reasons to put on this one in terms of the criteria that you ask oh busy past years in order to have put aside all the. slate is sent over so there's a guy that the historical importance of bought along but i think also as a site of the typically in the seventy's and eighty's a lot of reconstruction had been done to the side as part of you know trying to reenact it or recreate its original shape so a lot of what we see in babel all busy that today's no actual original

archaeological compound but you know we constructed parts but there's another aspect here in that you know that iraq in general and cultural heritage sites like problem have suffered terribly in the last few years as a result of the ongoing conflicts in the region and then the rise of isis and solves a fool and so adding a site like babylon is it is a good signal is a positive message that to add to the world lead to the region that you know the u.s. could does care while the student drew attention to these to the sites of the region and the damage and that they have been suffering from so i think that the time you know that the timing is right and that's probably why finally iraq and bought well made and we're very pleased that that this is good news that will right at the half this world.