mexican society issues close to home for the producers and actors alike as they struggle to portray the fiction the murky face of reality. looks mexican every day matthew. brit should unite the country and defeat generally good and that if we're going to do. an optimistic boris johnson sets out his priorities off to winning the race to be britain's next prime minister. oh i maryanne demasi in london you're with al jazeera coming up on the program several european countries back person's proposal for a naval mission to protect ships in the straits of hormuz as kenya's finance

minister pleads not guilty to corruption charges as he and 15 other officials appear in court. and is it safe to eat flip flopping by nepal's government over testing for dangerous pesticides leaves many confused and angry. a bombastic politician who led the campaign for brakes it now has to deliver it boris johnson has won the race to lead the u.k.'s ruling party and will become prime minister on wednesday he's vowed to take the u.k. out of the e.u. by the end of october come what may but he also needs to unite and divided party and an even more divided nation as reports. it was a 2 horse race but there's only have a been one front runner boris johnson demolished his rival foreign secretary jeremy hunt with double the number of votes to become leader of the conservatives and on wednesday the country is now repair a party and

a nation torn apart by bricks and deliver bricks it unite the country and defeat jeremy corbett thank you notes from somewhere goes already pointed out that deliver you night and defeat was not the perfect acronym for an election campaign since you are pushing its bills dud but they forgot the final easy my friends the energize and i say i say to all the doctors dude we are going to energize the country we're going to get bricks it done on october 3rd he was going to take advantage of all the opportunities that it will bring in a new spirit of can do boris johnson has a clear mandate among conservatives saluting the party but his do or die promise to leave the e.u. on october 31st even without a deal has polarized and panicked many of his opponents thank you doesn't have the qualities to make any kind of prime minister having no standards whatsoever of

trace and the message and then take me today i think it's very easy to see the similarities between from morris the both. of us told. and by both. fly by the seat. and make up the policy as they go along there is a wave of worry about what boris johnson's leadership might look like also a huge amount of anger directed at grassroots members of the conservative party i'm conservative m.p.'s for making war the most divisive figure is in modern british politics the next leader of the country earlier in the day cabinet ministers a rifle teresa mayes last meeting as prime minister many of these ministers will be asking how johnson can succeed. where to reason my failed we're actually in just the same point just the same political paralysis as we thought before in a less is through some sort of political alchemy able to unlock that. given he's

raised expectations pretty hard the recriminations could be venomous warm big expectation raised by johnson is of a new brakes a deal with brussels the use repeatedly said it won't reopen negotiations but as the blocks chief breaks it negotiated tweeted the use ready for dialogue moments after johnson's win was declared bookmakers were taking bets on his demise $5.00 to $1.00 to be the shortest serving prime minister ever he could face a no confidence vote if he fails to deliver on his promises for many months johnson spin on the political margins criticizing the government and often courting controversy now at the center of british politics everything appears to have changed when it comes to breaks it many question whether anything will change at all. al-jazeera under a newly appointed the e.u. commission chief as one of challenging times ahead as she congratulated our chance and as. both sides have the jersey to deliver

a good deal on the u.k.'s exit from the block as well has the european reaction now from paris. well the main concern for many european leaders really is what will boris johnson's appointment mean for the briggs's process boris johnson has made it very clear that he doesn't wish to shy away from a deal brigs it but a no deal breaks it is something that most european leaders have been saying all along for months and for years it's something they would like to avoid they say that it doesn't serve the interests of any member state in the european union and that it doesn't serve the interests of britain that they've worked very hard to push away a no deal scenario so they'll be very worried about boris johnson's next move now we've heard from some key european figures the french president about omaha who congratulated boris johnson on his appointment as britain's new prime minister he said he looked forward to working with not just on prated but on other issues in

which france has collaborated with britain great closely such as iran we also heard from the main breaks it negotiator michel barnier who said that he looks forward to now completing the brakes a process if you like to an orderly breaks it also heard from another european leader who took perhaps a different angle on boris johnson's appointment. is the a far right interior minister of italy also italy deputy prime minister and he said in a tweet that because boris johnson was seen by the left wing as a dangerous more dangerous than motto sylviane is far right party that so made boris johnson for meto so binnie a very likeable character indeed u.s. president donald trump has praised boris johnson's election saying he's popular because he's seen as bush and strung many hope the chemistry between the 2 leaders will reboot the special relationship between the u.s. and the u.k.

andrew symonds has more on this now from westminster wednesday will see the transfer of power from trees. in may to boris johnson she goes to buckingham palace to resign in front of the queen and the queen will then receive boris johnson and he will become prime minister aside from the ceremony there's a lot of backroom meetings and discussions about who will stay and who will go many ministers are expected to resign before they're fired and that could be some senior figures staying on a sign of peace perhaps were from boris johnson but the finance minister philip hammond is intent on going he will be resigning formally he's already said he will do so and he will definitely be leading resistance to any move for a brick sit with out a deal which at the new prime minister is intent on going through with it he can't get any change of heart from the european union as far as jeremy corbin the leader

of the labor opposition is concerned he's holding a rally on thursday he's called for people to protest he wants an election and his deputy is describing the boris johnson speech as a poor attempt at a speech the sort of thing you'd hear at a local golf club and even the president of the united states had some reaction to boris johnson this is what he said to have a really good man is going to be the prime minister of the u.k. for thank. this a britain they call up and people are saying that's a good thing that they like me that's what they want it was. many people in this country weren't see the funny side to that remark the zahedi times in the u.k. for politics and how history will judge boris busy johnson well it remains to be seen he could become the shortest serving prime minister in the u.k.

as history. coming to tensions with iran is one of the 1st major challenges that awaits britain's new prime minister the u.k. along with other signatories of the 2050 nuclear accord a set to meet iran in vienna on sunday to discuss how to save the deal meanwhile italy denmark the netherlands and france. by expressions a proposal for a european led naval mission to ensure safe passage for ships through the strait of hormuz. that's why iran seized a u.k. flagged oil tank on friday iran's deputy foreign minister says to haunt will secure the strait and not allow disturbance to shipping. will iran's foreign minister was one of the 1st people to congratulate boris johnson al jazeera still secure bari has more on this now from the iranian capital tehran. iran's foreign minister

mohammad javad zarif is the 1st official to comment on the latest developments out of london the foreign minister tweeted that the may government seizure of iranian oil at behest of the us is piracy pure and simple i congratulate my former counterpart boris johnson becoming u.k.'s prime minister iran does not seek confrontation we have 1500 miles of persian gulf coast line these are our waters and we will protect them his sentiments are shared by other high ranking officials in iran we've heard from the 1st vice president who also said that the suggestion of a coalition force to patrol the waters of the strait of hormuz and guarded the ships that pass through it is absolutely not necessary and that iran is capable of providing security to the ships in the strait of hormuz and it is up to iran and the regional countries to ensure the safety of their waters meanwhile we've

understood that there has been the extraordinary meeting called in vienna for sunday july 28th between the remaining signatories of the j c p o 8 that's a 2015 nuclear agreement the iranians will want to discuss the lack of commitment to the nuclear agreement by the remaining signatories mainly the european ones that's britain france and germany on tuesday the iranian president has this patch that heating foreign minister. with a letter for french president among the micron. will deliver this letter to the president in paris we understand that this is really the last ditch effort to try and salvage what is left of this 2015 nuclear deal because iran is insisting that it will continue to scale back its commitments every 60 days until it sees some tangible results on what the europeans have been promising under this deal. kenya's

finance minister has been released on bail and corruption case that made him the 1st minister to be charged while in office and rewrote it has been accused of defrauding the government out of hundreds of millions of dollars but he insists he's done nothing wrong catherine sawyer reports now from samburu in kenya. henry rock to each is in unfamiliar territory in a courtroom. he has been charged along with other government officials with several counts of corruption using office and the 40 in the government of more than $240000000.00 this is unprecedented he's the highest ranking government official to be arrested and charged at the center of the scandal are plans for the construction of 2 dimes that was supposed to be built here in el galle marquardt west in kenya the prosecution says construction has not begun for years after it was commissioned yet some of the money has already been paid out and the cost inflated by $170000000.00 about what was forecast the $28.00 people are implicated

including employees of the company which was awarded the contract as it was filing for bankruptcy prosecutors won the director of the company. to be extradited from italy to face trial here some kenyans are saying this is a big step in the fight against corruption is a senior minister close to both the president and his deputy people now want a quick trial and those found guilty shields to us it seized and stolen money returned to the public in libya people being other still. people be others to be. don't want this ready it's all over your beacon theater. it's also a scandal that has been politicized. as saying facit communities that are being targeted and some individuals being used as scapegoats for now many kenyans are

closely watching this case and those we talked to say they want public servants who've been implicated to resign from office. kenya. at least 20 people have died in 2 rebel attacks in northeastern democratic republic of congo local reports say lendu rebels killed 9 civilians in a teary on monday while i.d.f. fighters are believed to have killed 12 civilians in both provinces have been affected by months of fighting while battling an outbreak of the virus. i have for you on the program. holds a national assembly session in the street as venezuela recovers from yet another massive blackout and russia carries out its 1st joint patrol with china in the asia pacific triggering hundreds of warning shots in south korea.

hello the windy weather the last couple of days particularly trust victorious in new south wales is on its way through things will quieten down the last the cold fronts is just coming up on the satellite picture so it'll be gone for daylight hours now we are drawing a massive grain is we have the way this is warmer weather over cold water so it will be see for golo plot of the coast it'll hit percival probably hit adelaide come thursday i had it in juicing a bit of a warmer bracy should get 15 degrees so it'll feel i think a little close to not expect 15 and sunshine in melbourne little different daddy hobart where you see more of the proper weather tried to drizzle rain there in new zealand you'd expect windy weather but actually i think you go to day off wednesday looks like the south and in particular will be particularly windy 14 in sunshine clouding up in all clint the rain actually closing in from the west comes thursday

for the north island and the breeze picking up as well. rain has been the subject of some concern in japan throughout july but again i think you have a day off to the eastern side of honshu in the north at least the tokyo has looks quite wet on wednesday maybe less on thursday but the concentration of rain in northeastern china and this part of russia has been quite intense. for 23 years has collected objects he finds along the coast. enough to fill his museum enough to break a guinness world record. with a story for every object he's become an environmental activist and inspired artists on the voice for the part to countless markets. march music. al-jazeera.

welcome back just a quick look at the headlines this hour boris johnson has won the race to lead the u.k.'s ruling party and will become prime minister on wednesday is vowed to take the u.k. out of the e.u. at the end of october with or without a break sit deal. after iran seized a u.k. flagged oil tanker it's in denmark the netherlands and france of all backs bush's proposal for a european led naval mission to ensure a safe shipping through the strait of hormuz and it kenya's finance minister has been released on bail in a corruption case that's made him the 1st minister to be charged while in office.

if you know p.s. as federal forces of being deployed to parts of the south after violence left at least 18 people dead over the weekend protest outside last week when activists tried to declare their own state for the dhamma ethnic group. i had submitted a request for samuel ptolemy last july at least 250 people have been arrested in connection with the violence and has more from the capital addis ababa activists from the 7 nations and nationalities regional state describe the situation in their area as tense especially after the decision from the future and federal government to deploy troops to the region there saying that they're worried this would prompt more arrests now this comes on the backdrop of the to dhamma ethnic group which is the 5th largest ethnic group in a few demanding its own federal state the fuel is governed on a federal system with each and every state having its own regional president under saddam or ethnic group believe that they have the right to become the 10th federal

state in the country the prime minister's office have all has already weren't against the saddam ethnic group declaring their own independence and becoming a federal state and they say that's constitutional reforms and electron reforms are currently taking place and they've proposed that the euro for rendon which was supposed to be held last thursday be pushed back by 5 months now that's something that the regional government and some opposition parties have agreed to but activists since they have been protesting and opposition figures from the national liberation front say that at least 50 people have been killed and they're worried that with the deployment of troops there will be more death. has been a 2nd day of confrontations between police and protesters in nigeria's capital. group has been rallying against the continued detention of its leader despite a court ruling that he be released at least 3 people were killed when security forces cracked down on the shia protesters on monday my interest brings us more now from. despite monday's violence members of the islamic movement of nigeria the

amber alert organization of shias in nigeria attempted together for another round of protest in the nation's capital over the police did not allow their numbers to go to an uncontrollable level like on monday so they disclosed the crowd and made some arrests now on monday lawyers for. he the leader of the shia movement in nigeria going to court for another round of bail application for the detained leader of the shia movement and his spouse as well as members of the. movement in nigeria or been in detention ever since in 2015 the army or security forces cracked down on the movement leading to a number of deaths hundreds of deaths with the shia saying that the numbers killed . more than 1000 however the authorities say the number is far less than that in the northern northwestern part of nigeria we hear of another protest there or get this organized a counter protest organized by the residents of the state asking the nigerian

government not to leave the leader of the shia movement well now to puerto rico where a judge has issued warrants for the cell phones of its embattled governor and his advisors after leaked private messages sparked a political crisis in the u.s. territory hundreds of protesters continue to rally in the capital some one demanding governor avocadoes a sale resign his chief of staff has just stepped down protests began after the release of messages in which a c.e.o. insulted women disabled and. react. to venezuela where the opposition to one has led a national assembly assembly session in a square in central caracas he's trying to put pressure on the government of president nicolas maduro who has defied u.s. led efforts to oust him during the session the assembly voted to reinstate the rio treaty and made her life agreement between 17 countries of the americas including the united states but why doe's sought to dampen supporters hopes that could lead to any foreign intervention to alice munro it comes off to

a massive blackout left more than hoffa nations 23 states in the dark i mean a home that has more. for another night in the dark as a nationwide power cut leaves millions without electricity. lights were out in more than half of venezuela's $23.00 states including the capital caracas canceled metro stations and disable traffic lights caused huge traffic jams forcing people to find other ways to commute. as a citizen are filled by terrible abandon because there is no contingency plan look we're all walking there are people who do not know how they're going to get home. the country's main airport was also in the dark leaving hundreds of travelers stranded the government blames the blackout on some of its opponents who it says sabotage a power station. we're really going to. be the 1st indications received from the investigation point to the existence of an electromagnetic attack that's socked

with fact yarder electric generation system of the main provider of the service in the country while the opposition leader tweeted the outage was a result of government corruption and incapacity the last major power cut was in march and that triggered opposition protests demanding president nicolas maduro step down as the 2 sides fight for political control venezuela has plunged into economic turmoil and the u.s. imposed sanctions. millions of people are struggling to. living as they face medicine and food shortages and hyper inflation. how does it affect me in every way i live on the 11th floor i don't have electricity i don't have water because without electricity you can't be pumped i can't buy anything with a debit card i don't have any cash. i'm hungry and i want to eat but there's nowhere to swipe my card because none of the machines work with the financial crisis i can't even buy

a hot dog with cash. while authorities work to restore the power grid venezuelan struggle to survive day to day and say they urgently want to solution to the instability the heel of a hobbit al jazeera. spain's caretaker prime minister has lost a confidence vote failing in his 1st attempt to get parliament's backing to form a government. has now has 2 days to strike a deal with the far left the demo party before another vote is held sanchez a socialist got the most seats in april's election but fell short of a majority it could be forced to hold new elections of recall when the backing of enough m.p.'s elsewhere more than a 1000 firefighters have contained a major wildfire in central portugal it took around 70 hours to bring the last of 3 blazes under control officials now monitoring the weather conditions to stop the flames from knighting at least 41 people have been injured in the wildfires this season. former prime minister of course of

a has left for the hague to be question of alleged war crimes committed 20 years ago. i who resigned last week is under investigation for crimes against ethnic serbs during and after kosovo is in 1988 to $99.00 war kosovo was a serbian province at that time and hardy and i was a commander in the kosovo liberation army former leader has been acquitted on war crimes charges twice before and denies any wrongdoing. russia has carried out what it said was its 1st long range epa trial with china in the asia pacific region triggering hundreds of warning shots from south korea also said the exercise was aimed at increasing cooperation in the region and not directed at any 3rd country but south korea said the aircraft violated its airspace well so late a summoned a senior russian diplomat over the incident. the reason why we summoned the russian deputy chief of mission without prior notice is to lodge

a stern protest on russian aircraft entering the korean air defense identification zone and violation of our airspace and strongly urge them to prevent a reoccurrence a former chinese premier who is known as the butcher of beijing has died at the age of 90 paying is most remembered for announcing martial law during the 1989 pro-democracy protests in town and square hundreds if not thousands of people were killed in the crackdown state media says he died on monday of an unspecific illness tarantula rainfall has triggered severe flooding in several parts of china and jungi province raging floodwaters swept away a temporary steel bridge and damaged several roads and the agency workers have launched a rescue operations to help people trapped by floods more than 800 people were evacuated from affected areas in the county. and then also in eastern india down there as bus causing severe flooding villages in bihar state say their homes were flooded in in the minutes and they had to leave everything behind days of heavy

monsoon rains have caused many lives to bust that banks killing at least 100. now to nepal where people shopping for fruit and vegetables in the country say they're not sure whether it's safe to eat most of the fresh produce is imported from india where pesticides are still used and recent flip flopping by nepal's government on whether to test imports for toxic chemicals people feeling confused and upset so we mistrust in katmandu explains. i there's anger in the central vegetable market these traders say sales have gone down drastically in june the past government decided to make pesticide residue test mandatory for imported fresh vegetables and fruits around 44 percent of fruits and vegetables consumed in the park comes from india but not every food and some has pesticides if pesticides are problematic why produce them last year india banned 66 pesticides that are

outlawed in other countries but 38 including carcinogenic insecticides like monaco the 1st are still in use. these pesticides are like a slow poison causing conditions from cancer to infertility the health sector is going to be impacted badly is the responsibility of the state to ensure quality but instead of testing the food items the nepalese government kuechly reversed his decision saying it doesn't have the facilities or capacity to do so many here suspect pressure from the indian government led to the backtracking. the supreme court has since weighed in on during the government to continue testing food imports doesn't have an independent facility to test pesticide residues and there is only one functioning government facility in order at the borders but here in london this means trucks full of civil service troops are still stuck on the borders besides food items also imports pesticides from india it brought in more than $600.00 tons of pesticides last year most of it to be used in vegetable

farming but the government insists it does not import top. agents. of the vegetables produced in need we have not found oxic levels of prestige so for now will not be conducting test we resume testing the way to tables from india once we get an international standard testing facility. while all testing is suspended it is little wonder consumers are confused and angry many here say they now want all domestic and imported fruits and vegetables tested to be distressed as the era of. a van packed with $140000000.00 worth of methamphetamines has crashed into a parked police car in australia the driver of the van sped off after crushing the empty cars on it but was caught by police an hour later search of the vehicle uncovered $270.00 kilos of the drug neatly packed in cardboard boxes the driver has been charged with drug supply and negligent driving it's an exceptional

circumstances the bruises here and. this fellow this person has brought this 26 year old brother man has certainly had a very very bad day crushing the police vehicles that i'm in a drugs on board is someone on heard of and it is exceptional circumstances. just a quick look at the top stories before we go boris johnson has won the race to the u.k.'s rolling party and will become prime minister on wednesday johnson has vowed to take the u.k. out of the e.u. by the end of october whether or not a deal is agreed best despite british politicians vying to bring down any government that tries to leave them without a divorce agreement a person's prime minister does it has promised to get breaks it down. i know from someone who is already pointed out that deliver you night and defeat was not the perfect acronym for an election campaign so it's not who she leads bills don't but

they forgot the final easy my friends either enter joining us and i say i say to all the doubters dude we are going to energize the country we're going to get bricks it done on october 3rd it was going to take advantage of all the opportunities that it will bring in a new spirit of can do. well calming tensions with iran is one of the 1st major challenges facing britain's new prime minister the u.k. along with other signatories of the 2015 nuclear accord a set to meet iran in vienna on sunday to discuss how to save the deal meanwhile italy denmark the netherlands and france have backed bush's proposal for a european led naval mission to ensure safe shipping through the strait of hormuz that's where iran sees oil tanker on friday. kenya's finance minister has been released on bail in a corruption case that made him the 1st minister to be charged while in office and rewrote it has been accused of defrauding the government out of hundreds of

millions of dollars the charges relate to a major dam project where no construct where no construction is actually started despite millions of dollars having been spent denies the allegations and russia has carried out what it said was its 1st long range patrol with china in the asia pacific triggering hundreds of warning shots from south korea moscow said the exercise was aimed at increasing cooperation and not directed at any 3rd country but south korea said the aircraft had violated its airspace both russia and china have dismissed that allegation coming up next on al-jazeera the tunisian man who makes art out of garbage and his mission to protect refugees that story is coming up in my tunisia but there will be more news after that from doha in about half an hour's time to stay with us much more still to come. in south korea around 2000000 dogs are eaten every year but now animal rights groups want

the engine tradition taken off the menu when no one east investigates korean dog friends or food or knowledge is iraq. to. see. a back door to see. stories here at the ramadan as mbia. told us he had behaved the other owners. to. live and move a little.