he refused to say he had a direct hit back was the u.k.'s man in washington so i will keep him until his due to retire and i think we'd like to know if you get well i'm not going to be so presumptuous as to thank you i got a good position actually but it seems derek decided that johnson was prepared to throw him under the bus in favor of his support for trump and the favorable trade deal with the usa as part of brecht's it the logic of this is there's none better than a country with which the u.k. might want to do a trade deal china say or brazil will have to think twice about expressing their opinions openly even in secret diplomatic cables for fear that they might get leads and that in itself undermines government but apart from that if boris johnson becomes prime minister he'll be faced with the foreign office furious at his perceived role in bringing down one of their own. johnson himself assuming he becomes prime minister will pick the next ambassador to washington the question is will it be a neutral diplomat or

a political appointment breck's it is taking yet more victims this time at the heart of government lawrence li al jazeera in london and he's under. former u.s. ambassador to nato and russia and he was also deputy secretary general of nato he says it was impossible for derek to continue doing his job and trance response to the leaked memos was not surprising. well it looks to me that it was mainly the blackballing by president trump and the administration which made it almost impossible for a bastard eric to do his job. perhaps the extra push came from boris johnson's failure to stand up for the you can't pass there which was kind of unfortunate to put it diplomatically. but i fear that he did make the right choice the u.k. needs to be represented by somebody with access to decision makers and clearly he likes that access the president hates to be criticized or ridiculed and these

leaked telegrams have pretty sharp language is not particularly unusual this is the standard assessment of many critics of president trump but he usually lashes out and tries to demean people who criticize in this way and he lived up to his reputation. as president on companies warned that he would increase sanctions substantially on a round soon and accused terror on a secretly enriching uranium prolong time iran insists his actions are peaceful and says it has nothing to hide so much trouble has moved from tehran. as the 2050 nuclear deal continues to fall apart the task of trying to save it now falls to france in meetings in tehran the french president's top diplomatic adviser walk the line between american economic pressure on iran and iranian diplomatic pressure on

europe to ignore u.s. sanctions if they want to keep the nuclear deal alive but if emanuel baan had hoped he could convince iran not to continue reducing cooperation with the joint comprehensive plan of action he likely left disappointed iran says the rollback will stop when sanctions do recall ya i guess it is really funny that the americans who broke the deal completely and now asking for an emergency meeting of the i.a.e.a. to complain about iran reducing its commitments the us says iran has bad intentions well if enrichment is bad why do they enrich themselves the only country that has used nuclear weapons against innocent people is the united states the 2015 deal is essentially transactional iran curbs nuclear activity so it can sell oil and generate revenue that process stopped working when the us restarted sanctions and now it's playing out on the open seas earlier this week the british royal marines

seized an iranian oil tanker off the coast of japan after the horizon is called it an act of piracy that undercuts london's commitment to the nuclear deal and a breach of the j.c. . and on wednesday u.s. officials once again put out a call for countries willing to form a military coalition to patrol shipping lanes off the coast of iran and yemen a move that could make things even worse the potential for things going on without . getting agreement on those is very difficult as well every nation. regardless. agreement direction french president emanuel necron has said it is time again for dialogue american sanctions didn't bring iran back to the negotiating table as. u.s. president donald trump might have liked in fact iran now says it will not stop producing cooperation with the j.c.b. away for anything short of a lifting of banking and sanctions but the british this week seized an iranian oil

tanker in international waters because america asked them to and the united states is now calling on other militaries to help patrol middle eastern waters to protect shipping lanes from what they say is an iranian threat all things considered any hope france might have head of a negotiated solution to any of this might be overly optimistic. on iran continued to pour scorn on the u.s. at the imagines the meeting of the international atomic energy agency washington cold in vienna china has more. i think the most important thing to come out of this meeting at the i.a.e.a. in vienna is that iran is not at this moment anyway planning to take any further steps away from the new clear deal although each envoy for some body did affirm that after another 60 days now if indeed the parties have still not come back into full compliance with their commitments to iran under the deal particularly the europeans of course and their commitment to protect iran's economy

under the deal then it will be prepared to launch a 3rd phase of actions in response but pointing out that no firm response has yet been decided upon by iran was struck by the told the ambassadors in the room that once again. the enrichment that iran is undertaking is its right under the nonproliferation treaty is required for purely peaceful purposes and that iran has never tried to create or acquire weapons of mass destruction he made the point that simply repeating the baseless accusations against iran pointed of course of the united states does not magically authenticate them he said areas and he painted the u.s. as the ultimate aggressor both in the region and in the current state of the nuclear deal you know that the issue of and which meant is not put it under the number of version 2000 this is the right of every member to the nonproliferation treaty and

this is iran's right and so large we are doing is in a very transparent manner is under the surveillance of the y. a the inspectors are there really is singular activities and they're monitoring they have nothing to hide it is questionable therefore what the united states will feel that it's achieved out of this meeting a meeting that he had called of course of all the board of governors of the i.a.e.a. looking presumably for some sort of international unity of purpose towards iran and finding instead in the room only division and no formal conclusion reached by this meeting the board simply saying that all the parties must come back into compliance the division very clear among the signatories themselves to the deal. france's military has admitted that anti-tank missiles found during a raid in libya belonged to the french army the us made javelin missiles were recovered from libyan warlord holly for have to base on the outskirts of tripoli

france's military says the missiles were originally intended to protect french french antiterrorism forces in libya and did not violate an arms embargo. has more from paris. a of p. and where it is news agencies say that they have received a statement from the french defense ministry and in a statement the french defense ministry says these missiles are indeed french they are u.s. made javelin missiles that the french gave to their forces operating in libya now that's interesting in itself because france has always been very vague about its presence in libya now the french defense ministry statement also says that these missiles were in fact defective they were supposed to be destroyed what the statement doesn't say those how on earth these missiles ended up in the hands of forces who are loyal to khalifa haftar i mean that's the big question and potentially a very embarrassing one for the french government because the french government

have always said that they are not supplying any weapons or to libya that would be in breach of a u.n. arms embargo and over the years campaign is and critics have accused france of supporting. in the sense that france perhaps feels after is someone that they can partner with in the fight against fighters in the region but france has always denied that they've denied that support and said that they backed publicly the u.n. peace process. still ahead on al-jazeera. your clothes a ticker tape r.t. as the u.s. women's football team returned home as world cup champions again.

had another wintry weather is coming in again through victoria new south wales the latest front system the one that follows it could be even worse for this is cold enough from the point of view of dumping some snow in the victorian alps not the immediate future i think we'll see on thursday 15 degrees in the sunshine in melbourne with a rather cloudy or wetter and wetter than tasmania and i was in the bite so it's warmer quietest sun here from roughly sit near a city northwards and yes it's still quite good in perth it's 70 degrees on thursday about 90 on friday but the next storm is gathering the winds coming in from the sas official feels a chill in the air in adelaide and in melbourne but it's still largely a sunny picture so we take the weekend with a good enough weather unless you're in tasmania and then across the tasman sea the last curl is to showing itself that's potentially fairly stormy at least in the south south island so the picture for 30 probably a wet one but look at the temperatures given that they breezes in the north says relatively warm so just part the large overcast skies all cleans up to about 16

degrees. by friday the sun is out 13 to 14 degrees and as usual got just time to leap north and show yes yet more rain coming into q shoe and then honshu. to his supporters hungary's prime minister is a guardian of europe's borders manning the ramparts against migrant told. to others viktor orban is an authoritarian demagogue whose far right agenda poses a significant threat to democratic values people in power investigates the leader taking his country to extremes hungary europe's bad boy on a. they're

going to remind of the top stories here now because their british prime minister to resign may says the resignation of the u.k. ambassador to washington is a matter of deep regret kim dark said it was impossible for him to continue after the u.s. president cut all contact with him over the leaking of diplomatic cables which described trump's administration as inept. radian president hassan rouhani says his country's uranium enrichment is for peaceful purposes and does not violate the 2050 nuclear deal or is a warning from donald trump that he will substantially increase sanctions on tehran soon. and france is denying that it's breached a u.n. arms embargo after 4 of its anti-tank missiles were found during a raid on libyan award holly for how to base on the outskirts of tripoli. a

us house representatives oversight committee hearing is looking into the deteriorating conditions in detention centers at the southern border with mexico house democrats have toured some of the facilities and say the state of the migrants is demoralizing. we touch 300 cities we need to be on a big old because this is the only thing government felt this is like you can actually people it was do or a line of dehumanizing them only just the mere show we love in your show we don't want to hear that brought the problem down. we are reaching the generation of children that will never forget what we did to them this type of trauma kids go away in the new proposal this kind of trauma not only the centuries in our country and no amount of the fault here i mean we always want to call it a no no mother told you to make up for what we did to

a whole generation these are children who are going to be 607080 years old girl remember exactly what you know you see the orchid. person at washington d.c. john emotions running high during that hearing. it was not at all your typical hearing on capitol hill it was very emotional you heard some of it right there from the congresswoman who expressed the outrage of democrats at this policy of family separation of the detention of children separately at the u.s. border in facilities that simply weren't designed to do that you did have some pushback from republicans there was a republican congressman from texas who said he objected to the title of the hearing which is kids in cages inhumane treatment at the border but you also had an immigrations and customs enforcement official invited by the republicans who said those facilities simply weren't designed to hold that many people for as long as they have been held and he blames a surge from central america of immigrants who are fleeing poverty and violence in

their own countries and says there needs to be a solution but that these facilities simply can't be blamed in the in the administration can't be blamed for this surge of people over the border but perhaps most poignantly what we heard was a young mother talking about the death of her young 19 month old daughter after being held in one of those facilities where she says her daughter caught a viral lung infection and died shortly thereafter this is just a little bit of what she had to say think the next day you know what i mean. it's like they tore out a piece of my heart like they tore out my soul i wanted to have a better life for her and a better future and work hard so she could keep growing like she was but now we can't do that because she's gone i'm here today because i want to put an end to this and make sure we do not allow any more children to suffer and die in this way . so here in washington that leaves us with

a standoff over this policy one that everyone agrees is a crisis but what the crisis is depends on who you are the republicans say the crisis is this surge of immigrants across the border and democrats say the crisis is the detention in those facilities themselves and president trump says he plans on more raids in places like los angeles and texas fairly soon so this could ultimately be decided perhaps only by the 2020 alexion john hendren thank you very much indeed diplomats say 22 countries have signed a letter calling on china to hold its mass detention of ethnic leaders in the asian jang region is the 1st joint move on the issue at the un human rights council un experts say at least 1000000 weak is and other muslims are held in detention centers in the remote western region china describes them as training centers to stand back to extremism australia canada and japan are among the 22 signatories

along with britain france and germany pro-democracy activists in hong kong and held a memorial service for a protester who killed herself a week ago the demonstrator had been part of widespread rallies against the government's controversial extradition bill which led to the territories biggest political crisis in decades she is reported to have left a collection of protest paraphernalia asking others to keep up the fight after new guinea's prime minister has vowed to hunt down the gunmen who killed at least 20 people most of them women and children in a remote village the killings took place and carried her in helo province northwest of the capital port moresby 2 of the victims were pregnant women officials say the violence is part of a long running tribal feud. and it's 13 people have been killed in ass trucks in syria is it live province this footage shows the aftermath of an attack on a hospital that killed 6 people that's according to the syrian civil defense it live

is the last major rebel stronghold in syria government troops backed by russia have been bombarding the area for months demonstrators in georgia continued to rally outside the parliament building calling for an end to what they call pro russian policies hundreds of people have been injured in clashes with riot police since protests started 21 days ago andrew symonds has more from the georgian capital tbilisi. the numbers of people turning out every evening to rally in front of parliament becoming smaller yet the messaging remains persistently strong. hundreds were injured by police in demonstrations after a russian m.p. addressed the georgian parliament an event which protesters say shows how the government is becoming too russian it's this violence that gave momentum to the protests some police officers were suspended for their actions this protest is an

historian who ended up detained for 3 days along with more than 300 others he says he was one of many who did nothing wrong along with the polish man just kept my browser and wanted to he came at the head with a stick and i managed to block hank saying to beat him and suddenly and as a polish man jess hit me in the face and i just during some seconds lost my mind it's in the foreseeable tension with russia became worse when the presenter for the opposition t.v. channel attacked the russian president vladimir putin with offensive remarks and obscenity is directed at his late mother and father but since then president putin has ordered the parliament not to pursue further sanctions against georgia even though the ban on direct flights from russia remains that's having a big impact on tourism and it's the backbone of georgia's economy. could what's happening here be a storm in the thick of

a minority of people trying to take on the government accusing it of being too lenient on russia or is it the start of something much bigger a movement that will take on the state machinery accusing it of being influenced or even more than controlled manipulated by russia what's known as soft power. a former georgian ambassador to the united states believes putin intends to take control or do i think is on the crossroads whether dorothea will be yet another corrupt kleptocratic or oligarchic you pick which name you want to attach to it country or european over and they won't cross the largely depends on what is happening now. choice is western into gratian european erotic integration and up to 80 percent of the supports the demonstrators are using this gesture as a mark of respect to 3 demonstrators blinded by police rubber coated bullets they

say the protests will continue until the interior minister is sacked or any pro russian policies are reversed and do simmons al-jazeera tbilisi. the us labor secretary alex acosta has dismissed calls for his resignation over his role in striking a plea deal more than 10 years ago with the financier jeffrey epstein abstain had pleaded guilty to prostitution charges and has now been charged with trafficking underage girls for sex acosta who is a florida prosecutor at the time has been the talk of criticism but his office approved a lenient deal allowing it seemed to avoid full responsibility acosta disputes that and says if his office had not stepped in at 16 would have faced any one charge from state prosecutors that's what the prosecutor is applying office to they insist that he go to jail. and put the world on notice that he was and is

a sexual predator it is deputy prime minister has denied receiving funding from russian investors following the release of a secret recording buzz feed news obtained what it says is a tape of covert talks in moscow between close aides to sell really and 5 other men says the recording shows russia trying to funnel millions of dollars to the italian lega party led by salvini he says he plans to sue every allegations hailstones the size of oranges of ham of the east coast of italy while an incoming storm caused some bathers to flee to beach 18 people have been injured and the city of peschardt was flooded heavy rain falling as reeks of sweltering heat across the country. german chancellor angela merkel has downplayed concerns over her health saying she's fine despite a 3rd batter shaking in public in a month 64 year old says she's working through the issue of the latest episode at

a military ceremony for the finnish prime minister in berlin america has no history of serious health issues. ukraine and its european partners have inaugurated a new metal dome in casing the destroyed reactor at the infamous general plant wrapping up a 2 decade effort and it is the world's largest movable metal structure seals the remains of the 4th reactor the nuclear plant that was the site of the massive chernobyl disaster in 1906 is gigantic 108 metre high dome could cover the natural don cathedral in paris and weighs 36000 tons. as the end of the road for the folks found beetle. after 8 decades the last edition of the iconic car rolled off the production line at the factory in mexico with a confetti shot and that you know knock it back and the factory will switch to

building a new s.u.v. for the north american market of a huge celebrations in new york city to honor the women's well well cup football victory captain megan rapinoe led a ticker tape parade and serve any alongside new york man though the blows it gave the team the keys to the city were bred else was that. tens of thousands of fans lined up early to join in the grand traditional celebration that new york city offers its heroes a raucous confetti strewn procession up broadway the crowds rouer and chanted as the team triumphantly paraded through the canyon of heroes at a ceremony outside city hall team members danced joyfully before each one was presented with the key to the city by mayor bill de blasio star player megan rypien no praised her teammate this girl. is so resilient is so tough.

has such a sense of humor this is so bad many parents brought their children both girls and boys to cheer the team football or soccer as it is more commonly known here is one of the most popular youth sports in the us it's such a good scene and the fact that there is like the boys seem of the men's world cup is like it's it's like the moment they're so much better several of the best known players on the team including rapinoe are gay that was a special point of pride parade spectator colleen doyle who is a lesbian i think it means a lot of shows that when they can't be open and proud to be men they are especially in this or another issue highlighted by the victorious women was the disparity in pay between male and female athletes. at a time when the u.s.

is divided politically and in many other ways many people here were happy to come out and show simple pride and patriotism honoring a group of true american champions actually feels like a relief to just celebrate something that. is just good for our country and make certain kids feel good about our country amid the confetti and the cheers americans at least most of them seem at last to have found something to agree on rob reynolds al-jazeera new york and one of you can catch up with all the stories where reporting on by checking out our website address for that is com and many of you do already but if you haven't try it and you can watch us live on that by clicking on me our engine live icon our tough call.

but one of the top stories around is there a british prime minister to resign may says the resignation of the u.k. ambassador to washington is a matter of deep regret kim dark said it was impossible for him to continue after the u.s. president cut all contact with him over the leaking of diplomatic cables which describe trance administration as inept in a televised debate on tuesday night the favorite to become an expert as prime minister boris johnson refused to support barack iranian president hassan rouhani says his country's you're a new man richmond is for peaceful purposes and does not violate the 2050 nuclear deal and follows a warning from donald trump that he will soon substantially increase sanctions on the islamic republic trump has accused iran of secret enriching uranium for a long time tehran says washington is the one violating the agreement. it's a little bit of a sense that. he's divorced believe it or national leader out of the deal it is the

most believe now you're seeing a lot of not only been intentional seizing implementation of some also he wasn't a geisha and he did if it is a deal if it is a big deal and if you are interested. we have been trying to find you are pushing the hardest to follow suit france is denying that it's breached a u.n. arms embargo after 4 of its anti-tank missiles were found during a raid on libyan warde hollister have to his base on the outskirts of tripoli france's military has admitted that the u.s. made javelin and attack missiles belonged to the french army. diplomats say 22 countries have signed a letter calling on china to halt its mass detention of ethnic week is in the shing jang region u.n. experts say at least 1000000 readers and other muslims held in detention centers in a remote western region china describes them as training centers to stamp out extremism it's nice deputy prime minister has denied receiving funding from russian

investors or anybody else of a secret recording news obtained what it says is a tape of covert talks in moscow between close aides to salvini and 5 other men says the recording shows russia trying to funnel millions of dollars to the italian leg a party led by salvini he says he plans to suit every allegations. up next people in power hungry europe's bad boy is next in australia a battle rages over the country spam with activists inviting fox stealing livestock and intimidation from its one i want to ask has these tacked on too fast on al-jazeera. in his you can carry in prime minister viktor was hailed as a champion of free to part of the generation that stood up to say. these days he's

reaching be vilified as not solitary and nationalist resenting my profession agenda poses a significant threat to western news we've been to find out why. hungary is unquestionably one of europe's most beautiful countries. the seat of power due to past much is any capital for share occupants. it's fairy tale paul and is perhaps the prettiest in europe. but for the last decade according to critics it

has passed some of the ugliest moves on the continent. 6000 been has given hungary for 13 years georgia which time he has taken steps which mirror those taken by the crimes centralizing detailing press freedom and attacking and g.m. . he likes this kind of new types of authoritarian leaders are also the ones who are coming moving the political system that he pushes under way. too lazy motives all for her bonnet is freshly and is on one hand the concentration of political power and on the other on the actual ational personal where else his refugee policy is the whole rush to get. what is happening in hungary is quite unique this type of treatment of depriving asylum seekers of food. winning bless them hoff of

buds his policy for desh in concert with its smallest satellite allies the christian democratic people's paltry nevertheless commands over 2 thirds of the fallen tree sakes alive can to change the country's constitution at 12 this is the hybrid regime said new in liberal states a bit in the heart of europe it's not the kind of political system that we have seen before it's a new phenomenon. last month victor all been launched. pain for the european parliamentary elections with an extraordinary outburst. on a model visit to south africa. a political. party oxfam only. make.

what. caribbean. asked and she got a casting she got an emphatic. thank. you and this sentiment. they showed unflattering photographs of the european commission president john ford young and. billionaire george soros i think government accuses of sending this to you or. text red you have the rights to may what brussels is planning. this is. the 1st and rage younker if you like the war belongs to the largest political group think the european people's party pledged to the suspension of the test his membership of the great. ironies of the regime.