at the moment the u.k. seems to be reticent to participate in that but there are quite a lot of pressure not least because a we've now seen glaringly. the u.k. has so few assets in the navy anymore it is incapable of protecting its own tankers apart from that the other problem that they've got is that there's going to be a new government in 2 days time and series amazed the prime minister won't be there anymore jeremy hunt the foreign secretary might not easily might not be there and very many of the other politicians or took part in that cobra meeting this morning might have been out of position in about a post rather. and the question of course is that if there's a new cabinet under say boris johnson as the prime minister will the position shift and so in that sense whatever jeremy hunt is the foreign secretary until at least until wednesday says the noon might not be the position by the end of the week or father thank you lawrence leader our correspondent in london let's cross over to tehran and also to baris also following events there was also an earlier news conference held regarding the tanker issue what was said.

well somehow the spokesperson for the government held a news briefing where he was asked about the specifics of this seizure on friday by the revolutionary guards he said that there is certainly a double standard when it comes to these kinds of incidents he referred to the seizure by the british navy of the grace one tanker in the strait of gibraltar on july 4th which was carrying 2000000 barrels of radium crude oil the british government said they seized this vessel because it was heading to syria which is under sentients now the iranians have said that that vessel was not actually going to syria so they've demanded the release of that ship but then the seizure of the ship on friday is a very different story for the iranians their government spokesperson said that this has nothing to do with the other incidents in the strait of gibraltar and the 2 are very very different let's hear what else he had to say. it is interesting that when a british ship commits an offense and iran confronts the ship for the security of

the region some countries announce their request to release the timecode well we also countries 1st also the u.k. to release the iranian tango if british tank contrary to maritime regulations 1st turned off its transponder instead of moving to the entrance of the strait of hormuz and did not pay attention to different warnings. this sense here is that this double standard doesn't just apply in this case the iranians say that the british government is under pressure from the americans to put more pressure on the iranian government and its economy this kind of pressure is because the united states withdrew from the 2015 nuclear agreements and has been pressuring the remaining so european signatories to this agreement to withdraw from it forcing iran to renegotiate this deal which is something the arrangements of said they will never do now this diplomatic dispute that is ongoing between the

iranians and the british government over these 2 vessels continues to grow and the omani foreign minister is due to make a visit to tehran on saturday now amman's government has in the past mediated between disputes dealing with the iranian government and the united states so there is some indication that they're willing to play a role in trying to resolve this dispute and this government spokesperson we just heard from he also said that there is some hope that diplomacy will resolve this issue so there is still some hope that in the coming days and weeks these 2 vessels we released by both sides will have to wait and see indeed for the moment thanks for the update. well still ahead here on the al-jazeera news are. they may not be. thousands demonstrate against the policies of the philippines president speaks of getting even tougher on drugs. and gangs of men attacked protesters at a home called train station after another mass pro-democracy march and violence.

at a football manager suffered a heart attack on the sidelines we're told you that story in support. of the syrian government launched airstrikes that have killed and wounded dozens of civilians and province several people are still believed to be trapped under the rubble after a busy market came under attack the syrian government backed by russia really launched their offensive to capture 11 april killing 700 civilians so far senator has been following the story from beirut in neighboring lebanon. those airstrikes have been targeting opposition controlled towns in the southern edges of the rebel controlled province of dozens of civilians killed we believe according to opposition activists on the ground and more monitors at least 30 civilians killed in the past 4 hours among them women and children this morning the air strike

targets in the town of modern man hit a crowded marketplace and that is why so many people were killed the 1st time they have targeted residential areas it's not the 1st time they've targeted civilian infrastructure and it's really not the 1st time that civilians have been killed in this ongoing offensive which is now in its 3rd month it is a military tactic that the syrian government has used over previous years to really put pressure on the civilians who in turn pressure rebels to surrender because what is happening on the ground is that the syrian government has not been able to make any significant advances on the ground the rebels are holding their territory they're defending their territory and fact that the syrian government and its allies are believed to have lost up to 1000 men so this is a very costly battle for the government there was supposed to be a cease fire an adlib a cease fire that was guaranteed by both the russians and the turks these 2 countries who should be working together in syria instead their local allies are

engaged in a proxy battle on the ground and live has become a bargaining ground really for these 2 countries and in northeastern syria turkey is pushing for so-called safe so distressing to a threat to a military offensive if it doesn't happen soon. to keep the kurdish one p.g. forces it considers terrorists away from its borders but it wants the u.s. to come on board which backs the kurdish group the issue will be top of the agenda at a meeting between the u.s. special envoy for syria jeffrey chain's who's in corrupt from istanbul. a proposal for a safe zone by turkey is not the 1st some turkey 1st raised its concern its will for a safe zone in northern syria back in 2013 it has repeated this idea since late 2018 and early $2900.00 turkish an american sides have come together to discuss the details of that according to the turkish will 32 kilometers from its southern

border to inside syria there should be a safe zone that is cleared from any fighter groups like the white p.g. eisel or any other organizations target has a concern here turkey believes that the y.p. g. and the p y d is the syria branch of the outpolled kurdistan workers' party that is recognized as a terrorist organization by turkey e.u. countries and the us however the us rhetorical in syria is based on that a y p g of the kurdish fighters group by p.g. it is the boots on the ground of the american army because they are fighting they have been fighting against iceland turkey totally rejects the idea and cooking doesn't want in any independent kurdish ated entity in northern syria and that's why turkey also is saying is if if a safe zone is not established it will have to come back to monitor oppression in the eastern side of the if you freighters river in order to stop this possibility

but what we have learned from turkish foreign ministry during his live interview of today that the u.s. has come with a different plan for the eastern side of the euphrates river and we will learn more in a couple of hours after both the turkish and american delegations meet the fockers those prime ministers in washington to meet donald trump for the 1st time in rome called seeking your proved relations for the u.s. president cut off military aid troops accused pakistan of not doing enough to confront the taliban and other groups michaela has more. this is a crucible in which the relationship was forged pakistan a vital ally in the u.s. campaign against the soviet invaders in afghanistan. a partner in a war that eventually led to the collapse of the soviet union. decades later though a defining moment president barack obama ordered a special forces operation in which bin laden was killed an action that took place without the knowledge of the pakistan government so help me god but in the eyes of

obama's successor donald trump it was another example of pakistan's inability or reluctance to crack down on terror groups in 2018 in his 1st tweet of the new year the president went after islamabad the united states has brutally given pakistan more than $33000000000.00 in aid over the last 15 years they have given us nothing but lies and deceit into them for the same year another attack we no longer pay pakistan the billions because they would take our money and do nothing for us president trump tweeted but lard and being a prime example afghanistan being another. trumps condemnation provoked pakistan's newly elected prime minister iran kong to respond with similar venom in a series of tweets he said his country had lost $75000.00 people and more than $123000000000.00 fighting what he called the u.s. war on terror can mr trump name another ally that gave such sacrifices he asked him

and seeking to reduce its involvement in afghanistan the u.s. had no option but to once again seek pakistan's assistance last year pakistani diplomats agreed to set up direct talks between the taliban and the u.s. a move gratefully acknowledged by one of president trump's most valuable foreign policy advisers and i'm going to urge him to meet with the prime minister as soon as practical i think they will hit it off. similar personalities in recent days pakistan authorities have finally arrested one of the us is most wanted men of his saeed was accused of masterminding the 2008 terrorist attacks in mumbai since then living openly in pakistan despite a u.s. bomb on his head theorist intended to set a cordial term for the contra meeting and it was when he welcomed by the president imran khan's meeting with the president does not come without political risk his party has the narrowest of majorities in pakistan's parliament and does not control

the senate a resumption of u.s. assistance would help shore up his government but to come away empty handed would have the opposite effect mike hanna al-jazeera washington philippine president to go to turkey has called for the death penalty to be reinstated for drug related crimes deter devoted devoted much of his state of the nation address to the continuation of the so-called war on drugs despite international condemnation also focused on corruption meanwhile protesters have gathered across the philippines calling for his resignation in manila outside the house of representatives an effigy of to turkey was burnt the illegal problem going to see is going up in yours and in marched securely. needless was dane. all very neat at the.

reinstate the death penalty but he was crimes related. as well. bill and going is at a protest signs in manila and sent this report. his call basically for a stronger measures. before congress for the imposition of the death penalty for illegal drugs and plunder is through his government's priority he also admitted in his speech that his government is corruption driven rigid and that's over the past few months he has actually been even up officials in the palace and shove money in his mouth there is essentially nothing different from the speech of president bush that the others except that this he has and how we're over an hour late season which would be by the time he appeared in congress but here outside the halls of congress just a few blocks away tens of thousands are brutal protesters are marching in visiting and many of them suggesting that instead of talking president through the test with

should listen to that they told us basically that the proceed in action is good that they're in the south china sea is the bits relation to china including the so-called war on drugs all of these issues they say his rhetoric against gay people against the minority is called for death penalty and plunder they say it's proof that the president is unfit to the burn and they want him to resign. richard had a professor of political science. university in manila he says the protesters are a vocal minority. ironically in fact the president started this speech play saying that i asked for a cease approval ratings are concerned there are only 3 percent of filipinos who oppose him in fact he's the most popular filipina president ever and his approval ratings actually jumped up in recent months and in the last me term elections he's alex completely dominated the race and the opposition is extremely isolated so you

have a number of filipinos who are vehemently opposed to president but the vast majority of the philippine us at least this is what the service suggests are still satisfied with him and have a lot of trust in him that is why do speech i think has been so far his most disciplined and focused speech and in this speech he has been emphasizing that in the remaining years of his office he's going to cement his legacy seems the president's approval ratings are almost results neutral meaning what people appreciate here he says he is feeling as to deal with the issue i think is what the philosopher us would call a call to action and the cult of action is still very much holding sway among was jerked a filipina so surveys are very clear that you know a lot of people have issues with these methods have problems with extrajudicial killings want to drug suspects kept alive and yet these drug war demeans very popular among majority of the filipinos so i think that is what people are looking at the police action and willingness. in ukraine the new political party formed by

the president is on course to win a majority in parliament and push through promised reforms president vladimir's alinsky called sunday snap election after his landslide victory in april it appears his gamble is paid off reports that he was not getting this election so president will admit his alinsky is fast major political test the vote was initially set for october but zaleski the committee in time politician dismissed parliament it is integration speech in may and called for small. sinking us from monday for his 7th of the people patti to pursue what he said would be an ambitious program of reforms the little 1st time voters in the capital kiev could barely hide the eggs and but spitting in the elections this. procedure was clear for me even though i never voted before but nevertheless it's funny to take part in the elections when you have the vote and you know that your vote will matter taking into account what is

happening in the country it's also very cool to each of us here we are grateful to the people of ukraine for their support thank you let's applaud the people of ukraine for their great trust in our party here in the servant of the people i am allowed to say servant of the people you see there's no more campaigning i'm now campaigning only for ukraine's. zelinsky how sadie's most likely candidate for coalition partner in parliament is that recently formed the holes or voice of ukrainian rockstar c.v.s. to mark a tree i vote for the future. i voted for only in march because i think that although next. already showed the results one year we are all of france at this point so we need to change but it's not about to change anything all you present here we need to change right in order to make real change the up aren't. willingness to place ukraine in the harms of moby's

politicians analysts say is symptomatic of the public's discontent with establishments ukrainians in the event majority they do not trust in old politicians and those new are coming to power with the presidency landscape and with the rest of political parties they are on experience and it will be is serious test definitely it will not be in easy work for presidency lenski and for his majority or for his call leeson not all of the country was able to take part in this not elections because we are still remain under russian control and influence . at all but one of the 1st issues selenski will have to resolve now that his party has a formidable presence in parliament mohamed el al jazeera. firefighters in portugal have almost all of the wildfires and to control more than a 1000 have been battling the last remaining blaze in castello bongo about 200

kilometers north of lisbon it's about 90 percent of the control of the fires are put out on sunday police are investigating what caused the fires with one man arrested on suspicion of arson 31 have been injured so far. yes but it's like you only one firefighter was here he just stopped and then went to me my father was trying to hold the fire while my mother and i wait to deal with there if it was not for me and my mother all of this would have been burnt by now. it's a calamity at my brother's house i'm more afraid for his house than mine because his is made entirely of wood and he's not here he's in france. for the weather and his journey in portugal's. sheet problem is not just problems europe's as well of the absolute right that he is spreading in from the southwest and yes that's very much the story of the weather across in europe does have a look at 1st for the satellite picture because there is that east west divide again and across eastern as europe and that is where the temperatures are a lot lower that is also where we're seeing a lot of this cloud and also quite

a bit of rain so let's have a look at these temperatures because they really are really very very high certainly for these particular areas forget the time of year but certainly for this time of year it's normally warm of course in july but look at this we've got 35 in paris on tuesday we've got 32000 and syria now these temperatures are 9 and higher above average and in fact on wednesday and thursday but by wednesday they go again same powers who got a high of 39 degrees celsius that is 15 degrees above the average now it's not just there because also you can notice on these maps the darker the shading the deeper those colors that's where of course the time which is the highest so we could locally have some time which is even higher than this so it's sunny concerning because the dry conditions these hot conditions certainly makes that fire danger very very real this is what we've got going on we've got this large dome of high pressure you can see it on the map of course but this is an air mass that is keeping all these weather systems at bay meanwhile across those eastern areas this

is where the rain is it'll continue to work its way eastwards over the next couple of days want to scupper thundershowers across the sections in the northwest but for the most part it will stay dry and it'll certainly stay so very hot indeed. thanks jenny well still ahead here on the news are a cause of so much sickness the problem is trying to get clean drinking water in the iraqi city of basra also think he's a bit untrustworthy. bothered by boris britain's likely new prime minister it's causing a split in scotland. and we're in the mountains of northern pakistan to see how a polo festival is reviving the tourist industry stay with us here and i'll just. i'll be looking at your instagram account and reading takes into the atmosphere behind the scenes this is a dialogue when donald trump announce his candidacy for president everyone laughed

at them everyone has a point the best chance the democrats have to beat donald trump is to nominate an exciting inspirational callous mother normally join the global conversation in your thoughts get twitter and you to find out is iraq. a conflict that is now considered to be the world's worst humanitarian crisis how many do not all have to die like this or stop these hearts is really for sale and investigation into how billions of euros are made from supplying arms to saudi arabia a leader of the coalition fighting a war in the south the case is interesting to watch because the amount of money involved yemen war profiteer coming soon.

you're watching the al-jazeera news with me it's a whole robin a reminder of our top stories here iraq to chose become the 1st sitting kenyan minister to be arrested for corruption the finance minister denies any wrongdoing over a scandal involving the construction of a dam. also britain's prime minister treason mayer's held an emergency meeting on iran seizure of a u.k. flagged oil tanker the u.k. is reportedly considering a range of options including limited sanctions as part of a response and dozens of civilians have been killed and wounded in the syrian government strikes hitting it in a province several people are still believed to be trapped under the rubble after a busy market came under attack. strongly condemned by islands following a mass rally against

a government police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse crowds outside the office of china's representatives to the city i'm criticized people who threw eggs at the building and vandalized the national emblem i think through the night dozens of must manage people returning home from the rally that is on social media show a group of men dressed in white and armed with batons storming into a metro station in a district on the outskirts of hong kong opposition politicians blame the attack on suspected gang members and say they'll investigate we absolutely do not condone that sort of violent acts and i let me made this clear again violence is not a solution to any problem or violence will only breed more violence and that the end of the day the whole of hong kong and the people will suffer as a result of the loss of law and order in hong kong so

a clock has the latest. hong kong's chief executive kerri lamb and the police commissioner have both spoken about sunday night's violent confrontations we saw in the area called union long which is in the new territories this is where we saw a mob of people attack a group of anti-government protesters who were returning from the march a peaceful march on sunday here in hong kong she's now announce that they'll be an investigation into those confrontations and she said the rest of those people involved she said that they broke the rule of law in hong kong and she wants to restore the rule of law as well as peace and order on the streets here she's also here calling for hong kong to protect the rule of law the police commissioner has also backed what carrie lamb has said now there's been a lot of or mixed reaction to the violence that we saw on sunday night in new along where we have 46 people injured and one is still in a critical condition the pro-democracy law makers have accused that more of being colluding and cooperating with police police took some time to get to those attacks

and to help those people who were being assaulted and that that accusation is now that the police were colluding and cooperating of course the probe aging lawmakers have declined any involvement but there's no end in sight here in hong kong for these demonstrations with more rallies planned this weekend. protests just begun in puerto rico is comparable despite governor ricardo rosello announcing he won't seek reelection next. leader of his party but is refusing to give into causes immediate resignation days of demonstrations in the u.s. territory started after messages were leaked of him insulting women the disabled and victims of hurricane maria. joins us now live from the consul leno's side of the governor leaving all face how are people reacting to the. in a word furious they were hoping that the governor would step down on sunday evening when he put out that facebook message but he did not he was defiant said that all

he would do was not put himself up for reelection november of next year people here it is just added fuel to the fire if you will everybody we have spoken to since sunday evening have said you just hear that lady behind me saying resign resign she just said in spanish everybody here has said this is almost insult to injury the fact that he will not step down the local paper the biggest newspaper in all of puerto rico had on their front page today the words governor it's time to hear the words of the people step down that from the biggest newspaper here in puerto rico and that really sums up the opinions of everybody here that we have spoken to it's a consensus that this governor is no longer fit to lead other silent if that's the case a gay brylin want to demonstrate to saying about how long they will continue to march on the streets demonstrate against the governor and continue to do so.

they say they'll go as long as it's needed they're not satisfied with him being in office or finishing out his term till the end of next year they say they will protest as long and as hard as they need to this protester you might be seeing some pictures of now this is a protests happening just a few blocks from where we're at it is so big there are so many hundreds of thousands of people there we had to get a few blocks away in order so we could get this signal to bring you this report but right now at this very moment on the streets not too far from or are at there are hundreds of thousands of puerto ricans on the street marching in what looks to appear early as the biggest protest in the last 20 years here certainly the biggest it appears since this crisis broke out here over 10 days ago so the puerto rican people are speaking very loud and clear that this message from the governor that he will not step down is not enough there they want him to they are demanding that he does and they say they will be on the streets as long as it takes indeed we'll be

following that demonstration of through the day here we're going to settle for the moment gabriel thank you. we'll stay in the region mexico says the u.s. has recognized it has made significant progress holmes stemming the flow of migrants into the united states u.s. secretary of state pay was in mexico city earlier and as part of his tour of latin american countries relations between the 2 nations have been strained president continues the efforts to stop migrants and sonam seekers arriving at the southern border. israeli forces have demolished homes in the occupied west bank despite warnings from the un and the e.u. the destruction of the homes in what they are homeless is the 1st of its kind because it's under the control of the palestinian authority residents of nearly go back into overturn a military eviction order with israel's high court dismiss the case rob matheson is that the science of those demolitions in the occupied west bank and sent this report. just let me show you these piles of rubble that you can probably just see

behind me one on this side of the fence the other one on the other side of the fence these used to be houses these these used to be homes that one was on occupied but this one was occupied by a family that had 6 children and it just around the corner from us from where we are now there was another building that's been razed to the ground there were 2 families in that that had to be evacuated by the security forces before that building was flattened in the early hours of the morning israeli security forces made their way into vacs property and brought people out we were here when that happened we heard people screaming and shouting and yelling and the people were taken off further up the road and then we saw teams of workmen who came in and were removing the large pieces of furniture from the house where we didn't see any small personal items that were coming out the only thing that we're waiting for now is this building here this 4th building is currently being filled with explosives by israeli military engineers the intention is to bring that building as well always

and for doing this is a military ruling that was brought in about 8 years ago which said that in at least as far as this neighborhood is concerned that no buildings could be could be constructed within about 250 meters of this separation fence in the separation fence as you can see is running up the center of the street there you can get in a sense of just how close these buildings have been now the largest city in southern iraq is rich in oil but government need isn't are accused of being poor in providing clean drinking water 120000 citizens that needed hospital treatment in the past year after drinking water polluted with sewage and toxic waste many fear repeat unless the problem is fixed in some a binge of its reports. to fish are just about breathing but it looks like they'll be taking their last gasp soon shipping next to a treatment plant one of many providing water from salty tributary than canards to

the more than 4000000 people of buster. the aging network is unable to cope with rising demand. the quantity as well as quality of the water is a major concern. was among $120000.00 iraqis who needed hospital treatment after drinking polluted water last year his family struggles to afford the $15.00 needed every day dubai clean water from privately owned tanker companies. i have recently developed a skin disease from filthy water in our taps and it took me 6 months to get traces a majority of the affected children. costs about $0.50 not everyone can afford bottles like this one what many people are able to afford is water taps like these which come directly from the river and its tributaries and it is this polluted water which has been the cause of sending more than 120000 people to hospital in the city which is home to more than 4 and a half 1000000 people since last year's outbreak of disease the problems have been

identified but solutions require serious efforts and funds a supply of clean water is among the many basic services lacking in this oil rich city or to. the real cause of water pollution come from the main water sources high level of salinity and bacterial contamination to the corrosion of water pipelines and there are infrastructure issues contributing to bus rose water problems. human rights watch says untreated sewage as well as industrial and agricultural waste is pumped into waterways the fear is that this situation is only going to get worse because authorities haven't done what they need to in order to protect the people of basra and ensure that there is adequate water quality and quantity iraq's health minister says the government understands the severity and urgency of the crisis. we have a comprehensive review of the environmental. challenges and in the relation to the

drinking water we are now for the 1st time in over the last 5 to 6 months we are producing regular bulletin on the standards of water it will take more than monitoring to solve the crises in addition to government mismanagement and neglect climate change and dams in neighboring turkey and iran are also taking a toll on water resources and there's a constant fear that another outbreak of disease might happen at any time which i'm a job with out of the euro buster pretty secretary of silence for the palin says he'll resign if forrest johnson becomes prime minister on wednesday johnson's rival for the job jeremy hunt says a new deal breaks it should not be ruled out but he says he's willing to delay britain's departure from the european union if necessary to get a new withdrawal deal johnson says if he becomes the next leader hill prove he is prepared to crash out of the e.u. without a deal if the agreement is reached photo but the 31st assuming the.