and as much as they want. you multinational colonialism this is a i'm not and over the democratic process these companies they just want the money europe's forbidden colony episode one on al-jazeera. the u.s. says it is working to form a military coalition to protect shipping waters off the coast of iran and yemen. elephant oh how everyone i'm come on santa maria and this is the world news from al-jazeera the diplomatic row between the u.k. and the u.s. continues president drum calls the u.k. prime minister foolish and the ambassador stupid. china demands the u.s. immediately cancel a $2200000000.00 sale to taiwan and how france's environmental ambitions will see

travelers paying more to fly out of the country. so the u.s. says it is attempting to form a military coalition to protect shipping off the coast of iran and yemen they trumpet ministration has blamed teheran and its proxies for several attacks on tankers in the gulf in the past few months remember a 5th of the world's oil is traded through the area. i know they're a commander in iran's revolutionary guard issued a new threat against u.s. bases and aircraft carriers in the region saying they would be destroyed if they made a mistake iraq's prime minister of those says any disruption to shipping in the strait of hormuz homo's could hurt the country's economy the strait provides the only see passage from the gulf to the rest of the world and oil exports make up 95 percent

of iraq's total explodes most of which are shipped through the gulf baghdad has been investigating alternative routes for exports in case tensions between the u.s. and iran lead to disruptions more or less with 100 years in washington i don't know what is the plan for this military force to protect the strait. welcome oh this plan is so early on it's not even in its infancy it is pre embryonic it's really just an idea at this stage general joseph dunford is the highest ranking u.s. military official is the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and he says the u.s. is engaging with a number of countries to see if it can formulate this coalition and over the next couple of week it's going it plans to identify which countries have the quote political will to go through with it and then after that is specific countries would offer different military capabilities perhaps through nato and they would have to weave together some kind of multinational unit in order to police the

strait of hormuz now they say all they want to do is to protect the shipping lanes president trump said he didn't want to pay for this unilaterally so that may be why this is happening with multiple countries but this does present an opportunity for conflict remember that president trump says he was 10 minutes away from ordering an air strike on iran says he actually had had that plan moved forward and had to call it off and then of course there was the multiple attacks on ships which the u.s. blames on iran so this force presents an opportunity. her conflict with iran that just intensifies the pressure in that region john bryan hook who is the u.s. special representative for iran policy given an interview to al-jazeera an address the issue of iran what did he have to say. he said a number of things he told us that president trump would like a new nuclear deal as we know we've spoken up but he says he wants this one to be

approved by the u.s. senate it is the administration's point of view that president obama negotiated that deal from a point of weakness that he didn't have the support in the u.s. senate and so we went to the u.n. security council instead where he did have the support and hope also said the united states isn't backing off it is going to tighten sanctions further on iran because if he feels that is more effective this is a little of what he had to say we have taken iran to new lows in revenue and they're feeling it and they're hurting and their proxies are hurting and we want to deny this regime the revenue that it needs to export revolution to run an expansionist foreign policy that drives a lot of the sectarian violence we see in the middle east. so you can tell by what hooke has to say that the u.n. position the united states' position has not softened at all ron meanwhile has

announced it's violating the uranium enrichment levels that were allowed under the multilateral a group lateral agreement the u.s. has pulled out of so this entire conflict continues to intensify the u.s. position remains our john hendren in washington thank you for all that. also we've got the french president emanuel micron his top diplomatic advisor is in teheran trying to deescalate tensions with iran over the nuclear deal a you countries that signed the 2015 agreement of called for a meeting after decision to join was saying breach the uranium enrichment limits allow them to the deal france germany britain and the e.u. are concerned iran's breaching commitments set out under the deal and they have called on terror on to fully comply with the agreements trying to haul with more from vienna where the international atomic energy agency is you to hold its own meeting on iran on wednesday. in issuing this communique the european signatories to the j c p o a the iran nuclear deal france germany and the united kingdom the

east 3 collectively they're known as along with the e.u. of course here issuing their response to iran's latest uranium enrichment moves the communique expressing deep concern over iran's pursuit of activity is not in line with its commitment calling for iran if it wants to stay in the deal as it professes to want to do to come back in line immediately without delay and calling on all the parties in terms of a joint commission to act responsibly to deescalate tensions now broadly speaking 2 points to make about this the 1st is that this is not and this is important i think the 3 triggering the formal dispute resolution mechanisms contained in the j c p o s a it's apparently thought that these breaches are not sufficient to warrant a move like that a move that could in itself escalate tensions and have the effect of shutting down what small room for maneuver there remains the 3 of course remember trying to keep

the nuclear deal alive delicately here playing the middle ground on the one hand they've got to express some concern on the other hand of course they retain some faint optimism that iran can be talked around that some bridge can be found between washington and tehran faint hope indeed perhaps but that leads to the 2nd point which is that france effectively now taking the lead in the east 3 manual macron the president sending an envoy to teheran for meetings on wednesday with the intention to urge the iranians to take a backward step but i think ambition very limited according to the french government official they're hoping at the very least for gestures simple gestures that iran is serious about its intention of remaining within the j c p o l. now the us president has ramped up his twitter attacks on the british ambassador as well as outgoing prime minister theresa may on tuesday trump called may's handling of brakes foolish and said the british envoy kim to rock is a very stupid guy but the politician in charge of the u.k.

foreign office has hit back calling trump's comments disrespectful all of this of course triggered by a leaked memo from britain's top diplomat in the u.s. referring to the trumpet ministration as inept or from alan fischer. president friends it was a high profile jennifer qatar's amir she brought together political and business leaders as well as washington's top diplomats press missing the uki ambassador disinvited by the white house after the publication of leaked memos sharply critical of president donald trump a career diplomat has been the u.k.'s man in washington says 2016 part of his job is to file reports back to london it's been revealed he described the trump white house as uniquely dysfunctional clumsy and inept he described u.s. policy on iran as incoherent chaotic and his summary we don't really believe this administration is going to become substantially more normal less dysfunctional less

unpredictable i work for the state department for many years and we were always encouraged to be direct and frank with what our superiors here in washington about our interactions with government officials with whom leaked out so technically he did not do anything wrong but politically it probably would have been wise to be extremely cautious donald trump has said he will no longer deal with the ambassador and in a series of tweets on tuesday said the wacky ambassador that the u.k. forced it upon the united states is not someone we are thrilled with a very stupid guy i don't know the ambassador but have been told he is a pompous fool came down and could have expected to move on from his position in the near future and it's unlikely he's the only foreign diplomat sending back stock assessments of the u.s. administration but if a new u.k. prime minister was to decide he had to go because of donald trump's anger there's a what that would create a dangerous precedent of foreign leaders being able to veto countries ambassadors

there's a lot of history here there's a lot of shared interests and values. this this is a relationship that can withstand you know an awkward period of time. over these cables. was just last month donald trump enjoyed a state visit to the u.k. and talked of the historic and deep planks between the 2 countries this diplomatic spat has undoubtedly damaged those links alan fischer al-jazeera washington. well trans comments about the u.k. ambassador in washington and the outgoing british prime minster both came up in the final t.v. debate between the 2 men hoping to replace theresa may or johnson and jeremy hunt i also question over what else brags that watching the debate for us lawrence leigh. given the seriousness of the situation it is genuinely extraordinary that this is the very 1st time these 2 faced questions from the public they haven't seen in advance as to what the next prime minister should do to get through the maze of

bricks in it and yet again the same false promises boris johnson arguing that the u.k. would leave with no deal in october and then implement a trade deal with the european union even though one wouldn't exist so the problems of the irish border where they properly belong in the context of the free trade agreement that we will do after we come out on october 31st jeremy hunt try to attack johnson on this kind of thing he presented himself as a details man despite that not by his opponents being prime minister is about telling people what they need to hear not just what they want to hear and the difference between you and me is you are peddling optimism and i'm saying we can make a tremendous optimistic why do you think we are to many of the. diplomatic war that's broken out between the u.s. and u.k. came up of course once again demonstrating a gap huntin sisted he would stand up to trump and support his ambassador in

washington sometimes things that you have to say to your friends that you rather not say like i said to president trump today because i think its comments about treason may well acceptable and i don't think you should have made them. while johnson refused to promise to defend the ambassador and refused to say that he would keep him posts well i'm not going to be so presumptuous as to thank you i'm going to get the programme was called britain's next prime minister much of it was excruciating to watch yes or yes i will i will give you. yes you know it's the question allow him to respond boris you haven't answered any. question about what it was you don't know both asked to raise their hand if they believe the u.k. will leave the european union at the end of october well that's the spirit jeremy i of course the one thing that both johnson and hunt both have in common is an insistence that through sheer force of will they can balance the european union into coming up with a new brics it deal before the end of october and when those people in brussels

understand that they mean business they will surely capitulates of course those people in brussels watch the television too and know perfectly well that that is the threat they now face and nothing has changed and both the kind of the snow as well even though they won't admit it that there is no time whatsoever to come up with a new deal before the end of the. hunts come across as the more serious candidates but johnson remains favorites the old find out soon enough if he's telling the truth about his intention to say goodbye to the european union without spending don't sleep well. in the news ahead on al-jazeera it's been really a great honor to work with my friend boosting ties between the u.s. and qatar deals assigned at a time of heightened tensions in the gulf and italy's hardline interior minister officially closes what was once europe's biggest migration receptions and.

you know don't see the results of the steady seasonal rain green flash floods to many places in china and you can see from the masterplan satellite picture the likelihood of its recurrence well i haven't seen thing reporting grandaunt but i bet it's there and for the next day or so we're concentrating really from ground 0 not true for jan and possibly a bit further north so hong kong is in the mix not all that so much the yanks it's still dry but this will be further flooding in court flash flooding if you live is going to be long lasting because it could be repeat for particularly in fujian where the dark green returns by thursday strong a little bit further west but it's not the end by any means for obvious reasons dropping south and that's where all the action is just to the north the top of your

screen so the showers are rather few are further south but we've still got them in the central southern philippines and they'll be repeating the forecast in certain ways they might come back again borne is mostly a dry pictures you can see by the time we get to thursday showers still possible in singapore but the sumatra is not a major thing and sulawesi bit unfortunate or very looks fairly wet here the monsoon has quite a long way forwards but the filling in behind still taking its time big showers though are showing. the weather sponsored by count our employees. refugee problem is something which is a geopolitical issue that's for governments international institutions to manage under $1000.00 refugees don't have the right to more freely on the other hand goods can move freely as far and as much as they want it's you multinational colonialism this is a another moment over the democratic process these companies they just want. europe's forbidden colony episode one on al-jazeera.

top stories for you here on al-jazeera the u.s. says it is trying to form a military coalition to protect shipping off the coast of iran and yemen and earlier a commander in iran's revolutionary guard issued new threats against u.s. military assets in the region french president a man you're micron's top diplomatic adviser is in teheran trying to deescalate tensions with iran over the nuclear deal countries that signed the 2015 agreement have called for their own meeting and u.s. president on trampas used twitter to attack the u.k.'s ambassador to washington and

the british prime minister just days after diplomatic cables were leaked critical of the trumpet ministration. the un special rapporteur who conducted an independent probe into the murder of saudi journalist john markoff shogi is urging the u.s. to act on her findings agnes kalama made the comments at a conference in london last month she released her report that found credible evidence linking the saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman to the murder and an attempted to cover up more from the barker in london. head of a major conference here in london on press freedom jamal khashoggi is name has featured very highly indeed attending this discussion with those who knew him very closely indeed including his fiance and these former editor of the washington post not to mention the un special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions agnes kalama she presented her findings in june and concluded that his murder was

a state act and that there was credible evidence linking senior figures within the saudi leadership including the crown prince himself well earlier agnes cullum are told me that because it was an international killing it should be dealt with in an international way and the more pressure should be put on all members of the un to the security council including the saudi kingdom's closest western ally the united states to find out exactly what happened to jamal khashoggi i am alarmed by the fact that the 5 observers from each of those security council countries are added loud themselves to to be silent and therefore in my view what twee our weakness seen here is saudi arabia possibly very as strategy key and very. smartly trying to make the security council complicit in

a possible miscarriage of justice will saudi arabia continues to refute the claims saying that the murder happened as a result of rogue agents who panic during a botched interrogation we know that a number of individuals are on trial behind closed doors in saudi some of them facing the death penalty but i guess kalamata is worried that whatever is happening there for significantly short of international judicial standards she has recommended that the international community puts more pressure. on the saudi leadership she's also suggested that the un creates its own investigation that would lead to individual liability for his killing but that requires momentum the moment she believes is somewhat lacking carter has signed several economic deals with the united states and the countries that to strengthen their relationship is agreements were announced at the white house where the emir of qatar i mean been

hammered out there any president donald trump the visit does mark a turning around and ties diplomatic editor james bays reports from washington raytheon what a difference 2 years makes in front of the emyr of catarrh and president trump trade and defense agreements between the 2 countries was signed said to total billions of dollars but these long term allies didn't look so friendly and 2017 just weeks after president trump made his 1st foreign trip to saudi arabia that country the united arab emirates egypt and bahrain launched a land and sea blockade of cattle the suspicion was that some around president trump had given this the green light the president himself was talking tough stop funding stop teaching hate and stop the killing for guitar we want you back among. the unity of responsible nations today it's all very different like it's

a great honor to be with the emir of qatar a highly respected man a real leader in a large part of the world in a very important part of the world as you mentioned we enjoy a very great relationship between qatar and the benefit of america we're doing a lot together so what's changed the energy aviation and defense they all signed here at the white house a part of it president trump sees every relationship between the u.s. and other countries in transactional terms what is the profit and loss on the balance sheet but it's also about the missteps that have been made by the countries that continue to blockade cata. saudi in the u.a.e. a bogged down in a war in yemen and the military operations there continue to cause the death of civilians the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi is believed by many human rights experts including a un special rapporteur to have been a planned execution conducted by the saudi state and the reputation of egypt's

president sisi continues to be tarnished by his country's repression and human rights abuses the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o is well aware as tensions rise with iran that cattle has a pivotal role hosting the biggest u.s. airbase in the region doha is also the venue where american diplomats and the taliban are talking no breakthrough yet but it is the diplomatic initiative that's made the most progress towards ending the longest war in u.s. history james pays out 0 washington. meanwhile china is demanding the united states immediately cancel a potential $2200000000.00 arms sales to taiwan of course china still considers taiwan to be a breakaway province when he reports from beijing. taiwan's military is built on equipment from the united states its main supply of arms announcements from

washington of sales are always met by an angry response from china and this was no difference is a crude interference in china's internal affairs and a harms china's servant and a security interest china is strongly east dissensions wired and thoroughly opposed to this and has already made a stern representations to the u.s. side and. china regards taiwan as a breakaway province that it will one day retake that threat is why taipei feels the need to regularly upgrade its weaponry this deal may be viewed by beijing as particularly provocative if it's approved by the united states congress at $2200000000.00 it would be the largest since donald trump took over as president taiwan in the u.s. continue to consolidate our security partnership together will guard the democracy and freedom of the taiwan strait and stability in the indo-pacific region the type of equipment included in the deal is likely to further anger china in

a bid to modernize its defenses taiwan will buy craft missiles and battle tanks the timing of this deal is also likely to be viewed as provocative by beijing it comes amid a truce in a trade war between china and the united states with negotiations possibly restarting next week the u.s. and china have imposed tariffs on each other's goods over the past year but the 2 presidents agreed to pause hostilities when they met at the g 20 summit in japan last month you they also reiterated their close personal friendship which may be put to the test again if this latest arms deal goes through. beijing. few stories in brief now a funeral has taken place for the youngest victim of the philippine so-called war on drugs 3 year old michael pinto was killed in a police operation last week officers say she was used by her father an alleged drug dealer as a human shields during a shoot out east of manila the girl's mother though denies this 6000 people have

been killed since president rodrigo to turkey introduced the cracked up in 2016 internet connections are being restored in sudan following a court ruling sudan's military council cut the internet more than a month ago saying the blackout was needed to protect the transition deal reached with the opposition but opposition figures say the military was just trying to hide evidence of its violent breakup of a city an outside military headquarters that killed more than 100 people. nigeria's national assembly went into lockdown early on tuesday after shots were fired during fighting between police and a group of shia muslim protesters demonstrators say 2 people were shot by police trying to enter the assembly building islamic movement of nigeria has protested regularly outside the parliament calling for the release of their leader has been into tensions 2015 italy's hardline interior minister has shut down a large migrant center in sicily but air so they need to at the center prior to its closing and underlined the drop in migrant arrivals in the country was once the

biggest reception center in europe and had been due to close for a number of years after prosecutors uncovered what they said were illegal activities. it's not for us or of the whole show is yeah this was a promise i made not only to the sicilians but the italians the biggest migrant sense in europe a business of dozens and dozens of millions of euro's and it had become as proven by the prosecutor's office a center base for the nigerian maffia for drug dealing prostitution theft and stolen goods aggression violence rape and homicide in public on yet i was considered to be crazy when as a minister i promised i would shut it down because it was a center housing more than 4000 people in the past we kept reducing those numbers and today it's 0. well the french government wants to introduce an eco tax for all flights taking off from the country's airports money raised will be invested in public transport within france and has our report from paris flying out of france

will become more expensive for air passengers from next year the new eco tax is part of the french government's environment policy ended fighting climate change. france is committed to what europe is putting forward on taxing air travel there is increasing awareness and things are beginning to move but this is urgent like other countries we have decided to put in place an acre tax on air transport on all flights departing from france the tax will only apply to outgoing flights not to those flying into france or transiting fares will increase by $2.00 for an economy class ticket within the european union business class flights outside the you could cost an extra $20.00 the paris is all the airport the response to the tax was mixed with possible depreciation is good in principle i suppose but how can we be sure where the money will go a what it's really thought went on to take for granted to you that specific

goodness of biofuel it's always the ordinary people that pay and companies should take more responsibility for the state of the promise climate campaigners say that the aviation industry is responsible for nearly 5 percent of global carbon emissions the french government says of the new eco tax always grow $200000000.00 a year money they say that they will spend on less polluting modes of transport such as rail the eco tax has already proved unpopular with some investors shares in air france fell after the announcement last year for it to present a man or mark or scrapped plans for similar eco tax on diesel fuel that sparked months of yellow vest protests but some activists welcomed the move by frauds governments historically have seen aviation as a bit of a no go area intensive. taxation away or other measures that could help tackle emissions let's hope that at the moment there's that there's a bit more consumer readiness to accept that if we're going to tackle the climate

emergency we're going to have to make changes in our lives air passenger numbers are expected to double in the next 2 decades the french government says the situation is urgent and that other even ations should do more to crack down on an industry which is one of the world's biggest polluters natasha butler al-jazeera paris russian president vladimir putin says he does not support imposing sanctions on georgia he made that statement in a television address after russia's parliament recommended the sanctions that is in response to weeks of mass protests in georgia against russian influence in its government. of national unity as for sanctions i would rather not do it as respect the georgian people for the sake of restoring full ties between russia and georgia i would not impose anything on the complicate our relations. and finally us billionaire and 2 time presidential candidate ross perot has died he was

89 years old perot made his fortune in computer services and once funded a private commando raid to rescue 2 of his employees imprisoned in iran in the 1900 became the most successful 3rd party candidate since theodore roosevelt in $112.00 died after a 5 month battle with leukemia. and 2nd to the headlines now on al-jazeera the u.s. says it is trying to form a military coalition to protect shipping off the coast of iran in yemen earlier a commander in iran's revolutionary guard issued new threats against u.s. military assets in the region. meanwhile the top diplomatic advisor to the french president among your micron is in teheran trying to deescalate tensions with iran over the nuclear deal you countries that signed the 2015 agreement have called for

a meeting of their own u.s. president don't trump has used twitter to attack the u.k.'s ambassador to washington and the british prime minister it comes days after diplomatic cables were leaked critical of the trumpet ministration and the favorite to become the next british prime minister johnson has refused to rule out suspending parliament to force a no deal brags that tuesday was the final t.v. debate between the 2 candidates vying to replace theresa may as the conservative leader of course boris johnson and the foreign secretary jeremy hunt the winner will be picked by party members on july 22nd and take office later in the month cutter is signed a deal with the u.s. to buy a craft from the american plane make a boeing the agreement was announced at the white house with the emir of qatar tommy been hammered out tiny met with the president on the trump. we're doing a lot of work now investing very heavily in our country creating a lot of tremendous amounts of military equipment including planes and they're

buying commercial planes as you know very large numbers of commercial planes from boeing and we very much appreciate it we're going to be signing a document in very large transaction you're going to be invited to the signing it's a transaction that will be purchasing a lot of boeing jets a lot of money spent in our country and that means a lot of jobs. and internet connections are being restored in sudan following a court ruling the military council cut the internet more than a month ago saying the blackout was needed to protect a transition deal reached with the opposition however those opposition figures say the military was just trying to hide evidence of its violent break up of a sit in outside military headquarters but killed more than 100 people and with that you are up to date with the headlines here on al-jazeera inside story starts right now.

it was declared illegal 15 years ago but israel's separation wall still stands and continues to affect the lives of palestinians in the occupied west bank israel argues it's protecting its security but at what cost to peace this is insight story . flow and welcome to the program i'm how. 15 years ago the international court of justice ruled against israel's separation.