driven underground but thanks to woman tones of thousands of paintings were saved from destruction some of those works that are on display at a museum. but stop bus reports from the future of this collection is now in doubt. despite being in a town in the car a car packed desert tourists travel to new cars to see the world's 2nd largest collection of soviet unfun garde art the founder of the museum eagle soffits collected around 100000 paintings many were hidden when the soviet union banned almost all art which didn't conform to socialist principles so he secretly smuggled the paintings to a place so remote that nobody would find them and sometimes gave them a new name like this one by some world originally called the bulldozer exhibition the exhibition that was arranged by dissident artists of nonconformist artists at the outskirts of most school and they were smashed off by k.g.b.

who came with a bulldozer to ensure the painting safety selfie to be renamed the work feast of spring in the park before he died in 1994 he handed the collection over to baba nasser of who turned the museum into an international attraction and she was suddenly removed from her position 4 years ago an international group of art lovers called friends of new clothes has recently stopped financial support because of her dismissal and what they call mismanagement of the museum as an art consultant money . is now guiding to worse in a different museum forbid an art created at a time when our own guard was considered treason and it's painters anime's of the state this enormous collection has been described by critics worldwide as unique and invaluable but there are concerns about its future the works of alexander volkoff were among the 1st started to collect his son who is also well known

painter fears for the future of 90 of his father's paintings owned by the museum more with bulla. knew that maybe the idea. to bring people there who were not that loyal to this museum and were protected when stand in the way of selling paintings . the ministry of culture in fashion and didn't respond to our request for an interview but the museum's management says the collection is in good hands. i can confidently say that every item brought here by severe is carefully secured none of the paintings can be taken out of the museum just like that you'll need to pass the museums former director is not convinced it risks the collection itself or the popularity of the museum their reputation only. but the selection of a new movie in director who will start his work in september is reason for optimism she believes he is handed

a huge responsibility to protect the future of one of the world's extraordinary collections step fast and al-jazeera new clues. let's return to our breaking news story coming out of the mediterranean and that's the fact that there are more arrests of the oil tanker that was impounded in gibraltar bringing the total to 4 let's join worry chalons now joins me now from london what more do we know about these 2 further arrests. well they are both indian nationals and they are the 2nd mates are on board the grace one this iranian oil tanker a super tanker there was detained by gibraltar authorities in the british royal marines a week ago and as we understand none of the 4 men that have been detained so far so we have the 2 2nd mates we have the chief chief officer and

we have the captain of the ship none of them have been charged yet the gibraltar authorities insist that they are be given the proper consular assistance that they are being interviewed under caution and the investigation goes on of course this is putting more pressure on iran at a time when tensions in the gulf region are increasing significantly to bruce north already have taken the time to day the chief minister of gibraltar has addressed parliament a statement of parliament basically saying that the actions that were taken by gibraltar were done independently i.e. they were not the lens on by foreign government there is has been suspicion that perhaps the americans had said to gibraltar that they should detain this ship gibraltar is saying absolutely not we did this independently we had information

that it was the ship was breaking e.u. sanctions and that was why we took the decision to detain it well for a moment or leave it there are a challenge in london thank you. well the news find out why. whole reason to celebrate even though they went out of the cup of nations.

of the u.s. president. of his cabinet with the labor secretary. stepping

down let's get more. news in washington d.c. on another one bites the dust. exactly this on the labor secretary alexander a cost and this is the background of this he has been under fire for weeks because it came out that when he was in his previous job as the u.s. attorney in florida that he made a pretty sweetheart deal with a man named jeffrey epstein he's incredibly wealthy epstein is and he was charged he was facing more than 50 count indictment for having a child sex ring while a custom made a plea deal with epstein that basically allowed him to plead guilty to soliciting underage prostitutes he was able to serve time in jail with his own private security and he was allowed to leave to go to work 12 hours a day that was exposed by the miami herald and ever since then pressure has been growing on a cost to it was ramped up when epstein was then arrested by the new york u.s. attorney facing charges of running a child sex ring so accosted him out how the press conference tried to save his job

say hey listen i'm the only reason that epstein went to prison the state wasn't going to do anything the state came out and said he's lying to you so it was really going to stay in the headlines so what we've seen now in a surprise move he walked out to marine one with us president donald trump trump said that it was a cost and that he said that it was time for him to step down that it was he knew that this scandal was a going to go away because of students charles going to be in the headlines for weeks if not months so another acting secretary is going to be appointed this will bring the number to either 4 or 5 acting secretaries and that's something president trump said he likes he said it gives him more flexibility so again labor secretary alex cost a stepping down in another scandal from the trump of ministration over the country which puts the what's going on there washington d.c. . times former is to any breaking news in tennis there might be seen actually a feral defending wimbledon champion rich is fighting for his place in this year's final the top seed took the 1st set against reversibility so good on center court

but the spaniard hit back to grab the 2nd 64 as you can see joke which is leading to one in the 3rd now following that match roger federer and rafael nadal resumed their epic rivalry in the other semifinal it's been 11 years since they last played each other at wimbledon federer is aiming for his 21st grand slam title on the dollar is looking to close the gap as he sits on 18 it will be just their 4th meeting at the all england club overall adel leads their head to head results 24 to 15 well the rivalry began in 2004 when the pair met in the miami masters final a 17 year old nadal winning it in straight sets fast forward to the 2008 wimbledon final what was arguably their greatest ever match to dell winning it $97.00 in the 5th and deciding set 2009 saw another 5 set epic this time in the australian open federal left in tears after and beaten to win his 6th grand slam title but in 2017

federal recorded his 1st win over new adel in a grand slam final other than wimbledon the swiss picking up grand slam title number 18 it'll be serina williams against simona halep for the women's title on saturday the 7 time champion took less than an hour to be brought aboard us that some of us 6162 serena is chasing her 24th grand slam title which would equal the record held by the australian great margaret court and she says that playing with her mixed doubles partner andy murray has made her a better competitor. england's cricket captain owen morgan says his team have a huge opportunity to return to the top of the game after setting up a cricket world cup final against new zealand at lord's on sunday the hosts thrashed australia in the semi alex kerry was just one of the casualties losing his helmet and spitting his chin open off a job for archer delivery australia finishing up on 223 all out in reply england's

jason roy led with 85 runs. captain owen morgan and joe root saw england home with 8 which and 18 overs to spare. one of the biggest football transfers of the off season has been completed and when greaseman joining barcelona they've signed the french forward from spanish rivals atletico madrid after paying his $135000000.00 release fake reason turned down a move to barcelona last summer he'd been with that let it go for 5 years. in the africa cup of nations algeria has set up a semi final clash with nigeria after getting past the ivory coast on penalties soften for girly handed the algerians the laid before johnson could cheer equalized for the ivorians algeria also missed a penalty as well as it ended $11.00 after extra time when they went on to win $43.00 in the shootouts to nazir ended madagascar's true reffing debut run of the

tournament the former champions won the quarterfinal inquiry 3120 will now face senegal in the semifinals but in madagascar fun still celebrated happy that the team had made it so far catherine sawyer reports. it was a tense 90 minutes as fans of bad air but aghast as national football team watched their quarterfinal tie in the africa cup of nations and despite their defeat by to in the capital antananarivo there was no shortage of pride and joy that they'd caught so far in the competition which was an honest i am not disappointed because as a fast that participates and we are happy because we can reach their own of 16 get on so far i'm still proud of them no matter what they do i came here to support them the motherboard game they played i'm still proud and i am very happy there's nothing to be sad about because the middle lot of efforts and you always have to

move forward. by area the teams nickname which is also a species of cattle were not expected to get to the last state of the competition football is extremely popular in madagascar but there's not much in the world the infrastructure for the sport and facilities are not the best this was a fast time they'd ever qualified for the comp but when they got to egypt they were feel less than their performances exceeded expectations including a win against nigeria to proved too strong. we are on more than 2 years on we can say that united game was predictable because these players are from montreal and have experience but we won't let ourselves get discouraged. it's taken madagascar many years to produce a football team capable of holding its own on the pitch. the passage they wanted to make their country proud and they did so i retired home to a humorous reception with malagasy is treating them like champions katherine saw

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al-jazeera. where every. u.s. labor secretary alex acosta has just stepped down after being criticized for his handling of the jeffrey epstein case. the whole robin you're watching al-jazeera long headquarters here and also coming up gibraltar police arrested another 2 crew members from the iranian super tanker that was seized last week. and turkey gets its 1st delivery of

a russian made missile system despite concerns from its allies plus. a. small than 120 people are such have been killed in 48 hours a series of the desire light step up their fight for the last rebel stronghold. welcome to the program we begin with breaking news coming out of the us where president donald trump has lost another member of his cabinet labor secretary alex acosta will resign he's faced fierce criticism over a secret plea deal you negotiated a decade ago with jeffrey epstein the financier accused of sexually abusing young girls will for the very latest let's cross over to patty culhane in washington d.c. and i think we're losing track of how many labor secretaries there have been patty . well not as labor secretary this is a president unlike any in the past that just seems to churn through cabinet

secretaries with a cost of living within the week we will now have an acting homeland security secretary acting defense secretary acting labor secretary let's not forget that the white house chief of staff is acting and there are a whole host of under-secretaries that do important work that are either unfilled or they're in the acting capacity so just the bottom line on this alex alex acosta came out to the cameras with the president as he was walking out to marine one and he said that he had made the decision to step down basically saying the economy is great and that's what the focus needs to be on the bigger thing is here is this was not going to go away he tried to make this story go away he held a press conference with a lot of people came out and said that doesn't make any sense you're lying the background on this is you mentioned has to do with jeffrey epstein he isn't rich man who about a decade ago was caught up with state prosecutors and federal prosecutors basically running a child sex ring having sex with under age girls in his palm beach mansion well a custom was then the u.s. secretary u.s.

attorney in florida he made what is being seen as a sweetheart deal with epstein basically spent 13 months in a county jail where to have his own private wing and he was allowed to leave most days for about 12 hours a day so he could go to work because he pled guilty to 2 counts of prostitution with an under age with an underage prostitute now this has all come to the fore because of some really impressive and investigative journalism that brought it to the attention of the new u.s. attorney in new york who then arrested epstein and more charges because they allege he was doing the exact same thing in his $77000000.00 new york mansion so it cost or was facing a lot of criticism calls from democrats for him to step down he came out how to press conference said hey i just wanted to make sure he served time in jail it wasn't my fault he blamed other prosecutors those prosecutors came out and said he was lying so this is a story he was clearly knew that was not going to go away abstains going to be put . on trial just later next week he's going to be there's going to hear and whether he gets bell so every day this was going to be brought up his name connected to the

epstein case so now he's decided that appears on his own not this time usually the president tweets it but this time the president says hey he it was his decision acoss it said it was my decision he said he'll be gone within a week how does this play into the president's you know campaign to stay in the white house as election 2020 looms and this is going to munition for the democrats to pound on and. you know this is something that he got off to say he was going to drain the swamp but now if you look at who he has put in these positions of power there's a coal lobbyist running the environmental protection agency there's a lobbyist running all sorts of different cabinet agencies and their conduct has been called into question the other factor for the president is the democrats are going to be able to bring this up is so many of his cabinet secretaries have been forced out because of allegations of corruption so this will become an issue in the

campaign but again this is a president who during the campaign so that he could shoot someone on 5th avenue and not lose any support and that seems to be true when it comes to his base they think it's fake news they're not necessarily pain attention they're focused on the economy and giving him credit for it so if the democrats will try to make a of it will it stick to him well nothing really has so we'll see the day to leave it there for now particularly in there washington d.c. and it's not the only breaking news story that we're following we're going to gibraltar now as well because police there arrested 2 more officers from the rain oil tankers seized last week bringing the total to 4 though the ship was detained on suspicion of take your to syria in breach of e.u. sanctions none of the arrested men have been charged with the very latest let's cross over to london and rory chalons who's following events for us i mean what more do we know about these arrests rory. when all 4 men that are currently in the custody of gibraltar police are indian nationals but they were senior

officers on board this iranian super tanker the grace one that was basically impounded by gibraltar authorities british royal marines about a week ago so the offices that are currently in general to detention are kept in the chief officer and 2 2nd mates is the 2 2nd mates who were arrested today on friday the other 2 were arrested yesterday on thursday none of them as you say have been charged but the gibraltar gibraltar police say that they are assisting them with the inquiries that they have been given the full legal and consular assistance the they have the right to and that this investigation is ongoing of course this is unlikely to please the iranians of been very outspoken about the detention of this vessel and essentially say that it's. totally within the rights of

iran to do what it has been doing of that this was a violation of international law to stop it the iranians or the de gibraltar authorizes a been quite outspoken today in saying that the actions that they have taken detaining this vessel were taken independent that they weren't under orders from any foreign government the chief minister in a statement of parliament said there has been no political requested any time from any government that the gibraltar government should act or not act on one basis or another the actions they took were independent based on breaches of existing law and not it's all based on extraneous political considerations or for the moment rory we'll leave it there thanks very much rory challenger in london. russian cargo planes have been delivering a controversial missile system to turkey but its allies aren't happy about it the

1st shipment of the s. 400 defense system has been flown into a military airfield in ankara turkey is expecting delivery of more parts over the next few days the launch vehicles can each carry 4 long range missiles the u.s. has warned it would cancel an f. $35.00 fighter jet deal if turkey took delivery of those missiles or soon considers been following events through the day for us from istanbul a real concern for the u.s. and nato allies that the f. 400 system or certain parts of it has now arrived on turkish soil but what do we know about its deployment. well so while the 1st batch of the 1st special for this $400.00 parts arrived today according to what we have learned from the russian diplomats and the turkish side is that. it is the rule be completed by the end of august it will be delivered in 3 batches the last batch will be will be delivered via c wessels because it is going to include the missiles itself and

turkish defense industry director the previous is stated that this 400 mi sauces so will be read they will be operational by october so so far the this is valid for the 1st set of the s 400 defense systems but turkey purchased 2 as $400.00 systems which cost cost it 2500000000 dollars and the 2nd set is going to be received in 2020 this is what we have learned from the official sources of course where where this 400 defense system is going to be deployed is stationed is an important question for now the the parts of this 400 are brought to move that air base in the northwest of the turkish capital ankara and this is the air base if they miss a race and turkey the command center is going to be in the air base but of course since the system is more vile what we have been hearing from the military experts

and security analysts is that this 400. defense system is going to be divided in several parts of turkey depending on the potential of the risk and the threat it receives mainly from the eastern mediterranean and by the turkish syrian border wolf of that will leave events the states and consider that istanbul. but it's been described as the clip of fences but syrian government forces leading the campaign against rebels in the northwestern are on the defensive war the $120.00 soldiers and fighters of died in heavy fighting over the last 48 hours in hama province listening to reports from neighboring lebanon president bashar al assad's forces are finding it hard to make substantial gains. syrian government forces and their allies are struggling to take ground from the opposition their offensive in northwest syria has been costly and difficult instead of advancing they have been defending their territory and the face of a coordinated and fierce counter offensive launched by rebel factions but both

sides have suffered heavy casualties in the battle for one town village in northern hama more than 100 soldiers and rebels are believed to have been killed according to the syrian observatory for human rights it says that in more than 2 months of fighting nearly $900.00 soldiers have died on the government's side while nearly $1000.00 were killed on the rebel side and yet the russian backed campaign has yielded little for president bashar assad's side. but it has brought a lot of destruction rebel controlled towns in and around it live province are being targeted in russian and syrian air strikes more than 500 civilians have been killed more than 100 of them children. health facilities ambulances civil defense headquarters all destroyed. just in the last few days ago clinics or schools that have received. civilian targets that is

really unacceptable we have been told to look we're just going to go straight to the white house spoke to the press about the resignation of his labor secretary let's listen in. labor. as alex was me this morning and he wanted to see me and i had said well we have the 1st right out here so for us. you just want to say it isn't brad about i just want to i just know this with him not because i'm with them he was a he's a tremendous talent he's a hispanic man he went to harvard a great student adds so many ways i just hate what he's saying now because we're going to miss him but please. thank you mr praed.