any kind of rain any kind of flooding any kind of storm surge is going to put the infrastructure to tap they've learned and now we're going to see if it actually works. to have released 4 crewmembers of an iranian oil tanker which was seized last week the ship was detained by british forces taking oil to syria and breach of e.u. sanctions the men have been released on bail and without charge but police are still investigating still ahead on the bulletins turning the tide concerns to the high seas libya's next front line and so don the military leaders and opposition groups are expected to sign a power sharing deal announced last week. the rains running through in pulses once more in japan is the seasonal rain as you well

know and although we've got this deep white cloud over q sure it's likely to be near tokyo where for example on sunday the rain is falling heaviest is just off shore which means the greatest risk from further rain there for landslides is the sudden nature of the song at the moment that risk returns on monday but it's not great enough to issue warnings by which time the rain is only in the south take us back in the dry the stormy weather is right happening ocean and by or lives wrap around cloud some rain take away the heat from north korea even south korea the temperatures in the high twenty's not the thirty's but beijing's back up to such the 7 stifling degrees in sunshine now the chinese end of this waving frontal system is cause some flooding in the lower reaches of the yangtze and it is going to be raining there on sunday stretching up towards shanghai that hong kong you're right on the edge of the rain risk if you like but i wouldn't want to take you out of it humid against $32.00 degrees thunderstorms seem quite likely they are going

to be more concentrated a little bit further inland now this is seasonal rain it will pulse north and south but it's constantly at the moment as you can see in. every armed attack in europe creates fear and division amongst its citizens. stories of loss no one tone. is sweeping association of islam with the violence. facing the stock reality of being ostracized by the very communities in which they live love and moon the tragic loss of life. twice a victim on al-jazeera.

good to have you with us on al-jazeera these are our top stories the fighting has broken alex between police and protesters the hong kong border with mainland china they're angry about traders who come over the border and buy products cheaply to sell back in the mainland it follows weeks of rallies against china's influence on how the city is run al-shabaab fighters in somalia say they attacked a hotel in the city of kiss my ok ling at least 26 people and injuring dozens among the dead to people from kenya tanzania the u.s. and canada and in the u.s. tropical storm barry is bearing down on the state of louisiana tornado warnings have been issued and tens of thousands of homes are without power people have been ordered to move from out lying coastal areas. now south african soldiers are being

deployed in one of the country's top tourist destinations after a surge in murders and gang violence the balls to cape town striking police force. for 3 months and poor neighborhoods identified as criminal hotspots police figures show the city has south africa's highest murder rate almost 900 people have been killed in cape town and it's province western cape in just the past 6 months turf wars between rival gangs are being blamed for fueling the bloodshed western cape provincial later albert fred says it's become so bad that people are effectively living in warsaw and farming the miller is in cape town this isn't a new problem and if you speak to people here on the cape flats they say this has been going on for years and now it's out of control and this is why we're seeing government taking action by they say deploying soldiers to areas on the cape flats and just to give you an idea if you look at the number of these 10 areas within the boundaries of the city of cape town contributes to almost heart of the number of

people killed and most of it related to gang violence the government has said it's preparing to deploy these troops to try and stabilize the high level of crimea there are concerns around just that being a temporary measure one of the greatest concerns is the police and how they're under resourced and they've also been accused of corruption of protecting in some cases gang bosses and also just being under resourced not being it not having the capability to deal with the extent of the problem here in cape town. a political transition agreement between sudan's military junta and a pro-democracy coalition is due to be signed on saturday this is a reminder of the significant events so far after weeks of protests against his rule the military removed president omar al bashir in a crew on april 11th the generals then set up a transitional council while the mass sit in continued outside the army

headquarters protest leaders held talks with the hunter and they agreed on a 3 year transitional period to democracy but talks broke down over who would lead the joint transitional government the military wanted a soldier to be in charge protesters demanded it be led by civilians on june 3rd security forces raided the protest camp outside the headquarters killing more than 100 people and injuring many more all contact between the 2 sides were shut down talks finally resumed on june 3rd and within days they agreed to set up a council that will govern for about 3 years while elections are organized leadership of this council will switch between the military and civilians let's go now to our correspondent hiper morgan she is monitoring developments from over the border in ethiopia's capital addus ababa for us as we've been saying this deal was supposed to be signed on saturday does that look like it will happen.

well at the moment elizabeth it doesn't look like the deal will be signed on saturday for 2 main reasons the coalition of our force of freedom and change are here in august to meet with the armed groups within the coalition themselves now the armed groups have expressed that they have reservations regarding the deal that is to be signed they want to make sure that there are specific implemented implementation more deleterious to make sure that this deal is stable and will bring stability to sudan this is also the issue of the declaration there are the constitutional declaration which the ethiopian mediation and the e.u. mediation will be presenting the 2 sides the coalition and the transitional military council now that constitutional declaration will be the guiding of new print or the guiding the document during that transitional period because if you remember when president bashir was ousted on the 11th of april the military council announced that it is suspending the constitution so at the moment there is no constitution to meet the transition period so what the mediation and the e.u. mediation will be doing later is that they will be presenting this constitutional

document to the 2 sides to make sure that they agree on the wordings and what is inside that document before they sign a deal and begin the transitional period thank you for that morgan monitoring developments from. now libya's coast guard is on alert as the battle for control of trouble it threatens to expand to the sea forces loyal to war largely for half they have been fighting for months on the capital's outskirts now they're threatening to launch an offensive as a u.n. recognized government is taking measures to prevent it as a mark that they were had reports from the coastal city of homs. because the garden alerts in western libya. there are more used to combating people a smuggling and illegal fishing now their daily patrols are keeping a lookout for naval forces loyal to holly for have to call though we've been commanded by the navy commander of the volcano of wrath operation to secure the

coast extending from search city to tripoli through conducting patrols and surveillance to spot and prevent any intruder ships. the cause to girls get the from central command in tripoli but libya's naval forces are divided. here in western libya navy unit. and recognized a government. in eastern libya have those warships patrolled the cost they were recently sent to the port over a north east of syria city to support his troops deployed in the nearby sidra oil terminal. this is a homeless poor it's about 120 kilometers east of tripoli it is one of the biggest and most important ports in western libya after his forces have threatened to block ships coming into and leaving this facility and other ports in tripoli and misrata

but the naval officers here say those threats are unrealistic libya has been under arms embargo for the past 8 years despite that weapons are from forums. has continued to be delivered. he says as the un recognized a government is entitle to import weapons will be. half dollars forces have admitted they received arms through sea land and air so we will demand u.n. monitoring of the eastern ports if they target our vessels or shores they will be indicted by both local and international laws. as have those ground forces have paid to interest tripoli over the past 3 months and with no international intervention to in the fighting his naval forces could turn in these sure's into a new battlefield to try and turn the tide of the war. what happened when.

a homeless. u.s. president dollar trump says raids aimed at deporting undocumented migrants will begin and 10 cities this weekend he is coming on to venue to tackle the has immigration policies but some democrats accusing him of cruelty because of conditions and detention centers on the border mike hanna reports from washington d.c. the trumpet ministration is trying to change the narrative of 2 weeks of negative attention vice president mike pence toured a migrant detention facility along the us mexico border different from what we hear from many of the critics. i couldn't be more impressed with the compassionate work that our cause and the border protection to doing here at this facility on capitol hill the house oversight committee heard a different version of conditions inside the centers and what was worst about this mr chairman was the fact that there were american flags hanging all over these

facilities that seals are being separated from their parents in front of an american flag that women were being called these names under an american flag. we cannot allow for this as we have seen this current strategy unfold intentional and cruelly created by the top administration duds and sending a hate filled message that those seeking refuge are not welcome in america in our america president trump has dismissed the claims of mistreatment of their forty's or says that even afterwards they write whatever they want but the scrimmage he made clear considered the details of maltreatment are fully substantiated a report considered by the committee was based on data provided by president tram's own administration officials under subpoena among the facts that they confirmed

is the fact that as many as 18 children under the age of 2 infants and toddlers were separated from their parents for periods ranging from 20 days to 6 months the house efforts to investigate claims of abuse do not end here the judiciary committee this week approved a number of other subpoenas to be served on those dealing with migrants the intention to establish whether the implementation of the administration's 0 tolerance policy contravened federal law mike hanna al-jazeera washington you saw the vice president visiting a detention center in that report while he's also toward another facility crammed with almost $400.00 men and sweltering heat some said they'd been there about 40 days and complained of being hungry penn said it was quote tough stuff and that he expected it to be overcrowded but he also said that the facilities are something that all americans can be proud of. now women in countries

all over latin america say men a literally getting away with murder cases of what's known as femicide a rising in many countries with men not being prosecuted for reasons from police inaction legal loopholes and sexual discrimination new government figures in bolivia show the rage is at a 6 year high priyanka got the reports. on the way to the funeral home in bolivia maryville last family screams for justice the 26 year old was allegedly hit in the head with a hammer several times till she died the police have detained her partner all the lobby a. local we say. she was all beaten her head was swollen her face was swollen it's such a shame that my daughter was killed by these murders man he killed my daughter i ask for justice that this man goes to jail. her death adds to the rising

number of femicide cases a believe year 73 women have a ready been murdered this year it's the high street in 6 years. some survivors say they are free to seek justice and court others hide their identity. i'm afraid of being murdered i fear for my life and for that of my baby i only ask for justice. and peace in bolivia passed a law 6 years ago making femicide a crime attackers can be sentenced to up to 30 years in jail but bolivia remains one of the most dangerous countries in south america for women activists estimate only 15 percent of all cases get a conviction for the last one of the factors i think is that in all cases of femicide very simple unity that is very serious because the signal that you give to the aggressor is that nothing happens here government ministers and bolivia say there are deeper issues. we have regulations in place that are recognize. by

pioneering international organization but it's clear that the law is not enough therefore our strategy includes work in everyday life because it's what happens on a daily basis that needs to change many believe in women have taken their fight to the streets and on stage to with a common goal of spreading awareness and demanding justice for the crimes committed by men. on dizzier now an experimental hiv vaccine is about to be tested it will be the world's 1st immunization against the virus if successful the drug maker johnson and johnson is planning a large scale study of the vaccine in the u.s. and europe this year hiv causes aids and a 1000000 people die from aids related illnesses worldwide every year. the purpose of this vaccination is to create a method of preventing people from becoming infected with hiv we're testing it in

the americas to test it specifically in game and transgender women importantly there's a parallel study that is already fully enrolled with this vaccine that is in sub-saharan africa being tested in women so we're testing this vaccine simultaneously in the highest risk most important populations that need a vaccine the fundamental obstacles have always been does the vaccine induce a strong enough immune response and then does the vaccine response stick around long enough to protect in the studies that we've been following with this vaccine it looks like we're in pretty good shape on. now in testimony from u.s. special counsel robert muller has been delayed by a week mon a published report on russian meddling in the 2016 u.s. presidential campaign has been due to speak to 2 separate house committees on

wednesday that's now been pushed back to july 24th the delay was that mullins request u.s. regulators have approved a 5000000000 dollars settlement with facebook of its handling of use a doctor that's according to the wall street journal the federal trade commission has been investigating allegations that the social media giant shared the information of 87000000 users with the bush political consulting firm cambridge analytical assessment would be the largest civil penalty ever paid to the commission. and again on it is a problem in doha but the headlines on al-jazeera fighting has broken out between police protestors near hong kong the border with mainland china the protesters angry trade just who come all over the border and. by products cheaply and back in the mainland it follows weeks of rallies against china's influence on how the city

is run to reno and though don has the latest from hong kong. tension basically erupted when some of the protesters accused a few police officers of spraying pepper spray on them and that's when the situation basically escalated the police who were manning at that particular area were quickly outnumbered they were pushed back to the police station they sent back riot police who then also struggled to basically hold their positions and contain it we've seen bottles of water thrown at police and protesters we've seen. but at this point really the situation has calmed down the bit. fighters in somalia say they attacked a hotel in the city of my oaken at least 26 people and injuring dozens among the dead people from kenya tanzania the u.s. version of canada and the u.s. tropical storm barry is bearing down on the state of louisiana tornado warnings

have been issued and tens of thousands of homes are without power. in a park at least 20 people have died and many more are missing after heavy monsoon rains triggered floods and landslides the river overflowed its banks destroying roads and flooding towns on have been evacuated in the capital cut monday and move rain is forecast a political transition agreement between sudan's where the 3 hunter and a pro-democracy coalition is due to be signed on saturday but is likely to be delayed further meanwhile nationwide rallies are being held marking 40 days since a crackdown on protesters left more than $100.00 dead the u.s. house of representatives has voted for a 12 month freeze on weapon sales to sell the arabia and the united arab emirates but the amendment still needs the approval of both the senate and president trump well those are the headlines on al-jazeera inside stories coming up next thank you for watching.

iran accuses britain of being a servant of the united states as it demands a return of a seized on oil tanker and the u.k. is considering boosting its military presence after a close encounter in the gulf with tensions rising by the day what's the likelihood of open conflict this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm martin dennis now the united states the u.k.

and iran they all agree on one thing they don't want war but the situation is becoming dangerous as the u.s. turns the screw further on iran's already faltering economy and britain finds itself in an awkward position on the one hand it's working with europe to try to save the 2015 iran nuclear deal which the u.s. has abandoned on the other britain needs to maintain close ties with washington as it seeks to leave the european union it's been suggested that the seizure of the rainy and oil tanker off gibraltar last week was done at the behest of the united states and that's infuriated iran with the foreign minister demanding britain return the ship or face what he called consequences. european union sanctions are meant to stop europe from buying syria's oil not about another country selling oil to syria so this is a very childish with dickless excuse why the british they should officially say

west servants of america and act on behalf of america america has to turn to paper by insulting their ambassador and the prime minister but gibraltar's chief minister says there was no foreign interference. it's all rather decisions in respect of this matter what taken as a direct result of the government of trouble to have a reasonable grounds to believe that the vessel was acting in breach of established sanctions against syria there has been no political requested any time from any government but the travolta government should act on not act on one basis or another so we have to remember of course a gibraltar is a british territory and there's been incremental ratcheting up of tension within the past week in the gulf british royal marines seize that iranian oil tanker off the coast of gibraltar as we've mentioned because of the suspicion of it violating sanctions against syria a former commander of iran's revolutionary guard suggested

a british vessel should be taken in retaliation on tuesday the u.k. raise the threat to british shipping in the gulf to its highest level and the following day a u.k. warship says it stopped iranian military boats from impeding a british or tanker in the strait of hormuz iran though denies this incident ever happened it's. time to introduce our guest now on skype in london we have a nice a best siri to breezy who is research fellow at russi that's the role united services institute in tehran we have mohammad marandi head of american studies department at the university of tehran also in london we have phil dyer cone who is managing director of dryad global that's a maritime security risk management company welcome to you warm phil can i start with you and just ask you to give us a very general. assessment of what the maritime security situation in the gulf

currently is with we understand a british the british sending another warship to the region and ratcheting up its security alert level. so the the increase in the security level that was a. yes the 4 british interest vessels is is as you say the highest level security that can be applied to a vessel what affectively means is that you are stripping the movement of personal on the vessel and on and off the vessel also along with the industry best management practice that's the b.m.p. 5 along with that it with which might imply physical security measures what you're doing is your providing the the biggest barriers to boarding allowing people to interfere with your vessel but in essence that's as far as it goes so in terms of the security raised in the area and the british ability to influence that or we had to go on on tuesday was effectively what the iranians have been doing for quite some time now and we have to put this into context our clients have been reporting

this of activity for many years now where the iranian guard operating their vessels will try and steer vessels away from their course and 20 courage and into areas where they have more direct influence i reign in total waters where they can perhaps take steps further and pursue their own agenda what would that be i mean what's your understanding from what you're hearing from your clients your customers in the region what is the objective what are the these arabians seeking to achieve so that her recent activity that we talked with that we've seen here and this the allegedly to place 2 days ago with the british vessel now remember the british vessel the thing to know that is that it might be under a red n sign which comes under the sort of british flags of convenience but actually that vessel has many interested parties in it so it there were e.u. interests there were chinese interests there were dutch interests of the chinese interests so most vessels that pass through those areas have interests from many

nations unlike the grace one which was a single currency or cargo which was a rainy and cargo and it was headed towards syria as interfering is as their end would say with that vessel is doesn't have the same impact all right let's go to. and i'll see what he thinks is the scenario in the gulf right now is it a case of of this u.s. campaign of maximum pressure not allowing iran to export one drop of its oil and therefore iran saying well that it's going to it's going to obstruct the whole industry for the rest of the world as well no i don't think that this particular incident really happened and while there are cases where the iranian navy. may take action against particular ships or behave in a particular manner it's usually in a risk in response to what the saudis or their moralities or the americans do to

iranian ships so this is something that's been happening for a long time but in this particular case if the iranians had decided to take an oil tanker they would have taken it and then the british cannot stop the iranians this is after all the persian gulf the iranians so many images on it it doesn't mean they are islands so is it just a matter of nuisance value then the iranian navy wanting to cause a bit of a headache and to create a bit of a problem for people then in the gulf. no i was they said this is something that the different sides do but on this particular occasion i think probably nothing happened then what really happened was that the americans immediately after they want to they could they called for this stablish meant of a naval task force that would be obviously hostile towards iran and work alongside the iranian coast this so-called incident happened and we had different.

war it was reported in different ways by the americans the americans initially said there were 5 boats the british sense that there were 3 boat and americans who said there were 5 points they were there were military officials so even the story itself it was inconsistent the iranians said nothing happened as i said if the iranians wanted to take both there's nothing that the british could have done the iranians have a very strong presence in the persian gulf and so i think that it's basically the british appeasing the americans and even the oil tanker not not that the iranians may not take a ship later on but when they do seek a ship they will take it in that will probably be in retaliation to the fact that the british hijacked an iranian ship and the iranian ship was taken at the behest of the americans although the product and government says otherwise but apparently the spanish foreign minister didn't receive the memo he said specifically that the

americans asked for this shi'a taken over right now coming to you any say in london i suppose a starting point needs to be the seizure of this iranian oil tanker in the strait of gibraltar obviously gibraltar being a british territory and the sequence of events starting from that point to where we are now do you think that it was a calculated. action taken by british authorities to seize this ship even though it was apparently in contravention of sanctions against syria but was it a calculated action taken by the british government which you think. i think obviously at the moment the stakes are really high for book side to saw what we are seeing it is still was describing some additional for instance is that where already berea taken plays an incident where already taken place i thought that our place in

a very different context in which the stakes are higher and did 2 sides are taking a much stronger position we are seeing especially in order to foster nuns and translation from a stronger rhetoric or to stronger actions in practice both from iran's side and european side so i don't know if specific are these instance and whether it was in retaliation for an rainy and for instance reprising or their nuclear activities or whether it was a decision from the u.k. to try to basically take a stance which is closer today you asked but we are seeing and growing tendency by both sides to or toughening up their rhetoric but also to take harsher measures which were not taken before and staying with you and he said because the u.k. is finding itself isn't it as mohamed has pointed out finding itself in a very awkward position it's about to leave the european union we expect of

therefore is vulnerable as he put it all in even more greater need if you like of of u.s. patronage and certainly in the form of a of a big fat trade deal so they're prepared to do what it takes to keep that relationship going would you agree with that. just to or some extent i think the expectation was the same would regard to the nuclear deal when for instance that their us president and decided 1st to decertify the us and then to withdraw to us from didn't care if there was the expectation that the u.k. might break ranks with the rest of the e.u. and the position itself closer to the us but that did not happen we have seen actually a closing out of the rancid between the u.k. and under the tree france and germany in particular so it really depends on the front which we are talking about i think on their nuclear issue as correctly or pointed to be guinea the u.k. has been still 19 in its position. of defending the new

ground by funding up until recently i answered of iran with its nuclear obligation and doing everything it could really to look. for debian to survive right in the region our front however a story coming out in the u.k. has taken us closer push it was 57 today us of some of these is what we are seeing at the moment right phil coming back to the situation on the ground all i should say on the war so really so the situation is very tense indeed we've got the highest level of alert when it comes to british maritime forces have you ever seen a situation as tense as this before in your experience and obviously many people will.