you know. where every. it is. bridget unite the country and defeat. boris johnson lays out his plan as britain's next prime minister. and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up iran warns that any attempt to form an international coalition to protect shipping in the gulf will only bring insecurities to the region. russia and china carry out a joint effort troll south korea says they violated its airspace. and

a trade dispute between japan and south korea tens besta. boris johnson is set to form the u.k.'s next government the conservative leader has won his party's leadership contest and well officially become prime minister later on wednesday he's vowed to take the u.k. out of the e.u. by the end of october do or die but he also needs to unite a divided policy and an even more polarized nation we've baka 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 has now repair a party and a nation torn apart by bricks it deliver bricks it unite the country and defeat

jeremy corbett. a new front somewhere who is already pointed out that deliver unite and defeat was not the perfect acronym for an election campaign since all 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 it 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 to lead 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. he doesn't have the qualities to make any kind of prime minister having no standards whatsoever of trades and the best city and take me today i think it's very easy to see the similarities between from forrest the both. of us told. and

they both seem to 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 were 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. to resume a failed we're actually just the same just the same political paralysis as we thought before and unless through some sort of political alchemy able to look. given he's raised expectations pretty. the recriminations could be venomous one 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 spinola political margins criticising the government and often courting controversy now at the center of british politics everything appears to have changed but when it comes to bracks it many question whether anything will change at all. al-jazeera under. the newly appointed e.u. commission chief has warned of challenging times ahead as she congratulated johnson on the land says both sides have a duty to deliver a good deal on the exit from the block and talked about as all the european reaction from paris. well the main concern for many european leaders really is what

world 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 bragg's 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 and 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 a man or might call who congratulated boris johnson on his appointment as britain's new prime minister he said he looked forward to working with not just on breaks it but on other issues in which france has collaborated with britain very 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. mean i think is the far right interior minister of italy also italy's 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 from the toes of the need a very likable character indeed now u.s. president on a tramp has praised parts johnson's election saying he's popular because he's seen as britain's trump. we have a really good man is going to be the prime minister of the u.k. no worse than the a. tough smart. this is britain truck they call him bring trouble

and speak were saying that's a good thing that they like me over there that's what they wanted. what they need you'll get it done for us is good he's going to do a good job but when he takes office johnson will immediately find himself in the middle of a diplomatic standoff with iran italy denmark the netherlands and france are backing britain's proposal for a european led naval mission to ensure safe shipping through the straits of hormuz that's where iran seized a u.k. flagged oil tanker on friday but iran's deputy foreign minister says it will secure the straits and not allow any disturbance to shipping correspondent also jabari has more from the iranian capital tehran. iran's foreign minister mohammad javad zarif for 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 oh wait 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 bachelor that heating foreign minister. with a letter for french president and 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. now south korea is claiming that russia has expressed regret for flying into south korean air space during its 1st joint patrol with china seoul had fired warning shots and scrambled fighter jets when the planes violated its space japan's government also raised

complaints south korea laces 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. china's defense ministry is announcing its key priorities and is accusing the united states of undermining global stability it's releasing a white paper highlighting the issue of taiwan the ministry condemned planned u.s. sales to the territory and a spokesman refused to rule out the use of force against what he called independence that persists now our correspondent wayne hay joins us now live from beijing when talk us through what we're hearing from beijing what's the purpose of all of this. see this is all about reflecting for

a start on the last few years since the last white paper on defense was released in 2015 and in that time we've seen a continued focus on reforming china's military of downsizing and of modernizing and it's also about charting the way forward what it sees as its priorities its strategies and there are messages in here of course for the domestic chinese audience but i think also importantly for the international audience as well and that's where we've seen specific mentions as you said about issues like taiwan there's an attempt here i think in this the overriding theme of this white paper to take the moral high ground the chinese defense ministry saying that it does not seek expansion it does not seek germany that its priorities are to defend chinese interests overseas and to defend its sovereignty but it's that very sovereignty of course that is questioned by others you mentioned the arms sale the latest arms sell from the united states to taiwan china views taiwan of course as

a breakaway province that it will one day retake by force if necessary so it's clearly painting in this white paper that the united states is the one that is attempting here to break up stability to a fixed ability in the region so again it's about a sense the chinese trying to take the moral high ground on issues of sovereignty particularly when it comes to taiwan and why and this all of course comes at a time of increased tension is there any reference to choose day of incidents involving this joint at the trial with russia. yes there was specifically in the media conference after the details of the white paper were released speeches made by the key or thirty's there were some questions by the media both domestic and international one of the questions was relating to that joint air patrol conducted between the chinese and the russian air forces the

1st time that this had taken place so this was the 1st time that the chinese government had commented on the accusations by south korea that the russian and chinese militaries their planes violated this air space claimed by the south koreans in this media conference the chinese saying that they strictly observed international law the exercises do not target any 3rd party and that these joint patrols conducted by the chinese and the russians will continue but you mentioned time of increased tension of course the south china sea comes into that as well the chinese involved in territorial disputes in the south china sea with several other countries including the vietnamese and at the moment there is a standoff in those waters between the chinese and the vietnamese with the vietnamese government claiming that the chinese are violated their territorial claims by exploring for oil in that area so certainly

a lot of tension in the region and the accusation of course by many in the international community is that the chinese are indeed trying to expand and to exert their influence beyond what they claim their sovereign rights lionhead fs in beijing thank you for that update. well weather is next bob still ahead on al-jazeera a day that much of washington has been waiting for a preview wednesday of congressional testimony by former special counsel robert mala. and the sensational corruption case in kenya that seen unprecedented action against the find out minister. how the east coast heatwave from the us is being brushed out of the way and it says frontal system is doing you see the progress going towards the atlantic as it does

so it knocks tempers back about 10 degrees in sunder storms so new york turned out on wednesday to be 26 degrees in clearer skies blue above you wet pavement admittedly but fine weather once again it's still going to court sticky as a good southern georgia florida not green could produce some pretty heavy rain fresh for the it seems quite likely that the rest of us is remarkably quiet we've got to fog coming across the bridge into san francisco bay but that's not unusual this time the a 90 degrees at best and we got to it 29 but not humid in washington on thursday move over to new york but again it is unsure florida's a place to watch probably and the bahamas i suspect we've got some pretty well it's come in the bahamas next 2 days south of this breeze brings on frequent light showers the lesser antilles rather more in the way of concentrated rain on the coast of honduras a big showers building in mexico there's

a line of rain that runs more or less from bolivia down towards southern parts of brazil the temps are disappointingly lou. the diagnosis has been sick for around 6 months now the challenge ahead one of these 96 could be a new cure or a basis of a new cure for colors on your. disability al-jazeera examines pioneering treatments so this is the. yes it's basically a wearable robot look you know revisited now does iraq.

hello again i'm just. a reminder of our top stories this hour doris johnson has won the race to lead the u.k.'s governing conservative party and will become prime minister on wednesday johnson has also vowed to take the u.k. out of the e.u. by the end of october. denmark the netherlands and france have backed britain's proposal for a european led naval mission 24 safe shipping through the straits of hormuz that's where iran seized a u.k. flagged oil tanker on friday. and china's defense ministry has announced its key priorities in a white paper it's accusing the u.s. of undermining global stability by trying to sell arms to taiwan. now south korea has warned japan against its plan to take it off the list of trusted trading partners japan plans to remove south korea from its white list of trusted importers

claiming that thought has inadequate export control measures in a press conference on wednesday south korea's industry minister songen lawyer said the move would undermine the country's economic and security partnership while our correspondent robert bride is in solon now joins me live rob talk us through what we've been hearing today from south korea and what kind of concrete impact this ongoing spat might have. like this does here this is been a typically strongly worded response we were expecting this from the south koreans saying that it undermines the security and economic cooperation between these 2 neighbors between japan and south korea also saying that potentially it could impact the stability of the north east asia region this was a so-called white list this is a list of countries that receive preferential treatment from japan when it comes to the exports of often highly sensitive strategic components and equipment that japan

doesn't want to fall into the hands of its potential adversaries it's important therefore to be on this list for high tech manufacturing and is something of a slight if you're not on this list it's basically japan saying we don't trust you and this is further deepens a trade dispute that began earlier this month when japan made it harder for some producers of highly specialized plastics and chemicals to export of those chemicals to manufacturers of semiconductors here in south korea now why is that important well a lot of the semiconductors the microchips that are made here are then react sported to places like china to go into devices there so all of this deepening trade dispute does have a knock on effect in the region and rob with all this apparent escalation remind us of why we're seeing these tensions in the 1st place. that's right i mean japan is enraged at the moment by the reoccurrence of

a longstanding decades old animosity over alleged wartime abuses from the 2nd world war and in the past century the courts here in south korea have sided with victims of forced labor in penalizing specific japanese companies one of them is mitsubishi heavy industry ordering those companies to pay compensation to people from south korea who were used as forced labor now japan says this is an overtly political act to this whole issue was sorted out way back in the 1960 s. so it is it's seemingly taking these actions and is presumably will go through by taking south korea off of this white list and although this does have a knock on effect with with the alliances in this part of the world you have south korea and japan are meant to be collaborating when it comes to the sharing of sensitive intelligence information you had of course on tuesday the for the incursion by long range russian and chinese aircraft into the sea separating them

so there are regional tensions here that they should be collaborating on and then of course you have the u.s. security advisor john bolton his here in the region meant to be getting japan and south korea to cooperating on protecting shipping in the gulf and then of course north korea its nuclear arsenal making sure south korea and japan are on the same page presenting a united front dealing with pyongyang and this animosity goes on evolving into this trade dispute that obviously undermines that effort. rather pride there for us and tell thank you rob. well former u.s. special counsel robert muller will go before congress on wednesday over his investigation into russian interference in the 2016 presidential election democrats are likely to push my luck on whether the president obstructed justice jury in that investigation she had the time he has more from washington for almost 2 years some opponents of president trump reached a frenzy as they speculated about what special counsel robert muller might uncover

as he investigated allegations of khujand between the trump campaign and russia during the 2016 election in the end they were disappointed there was insufficient evidence to charge a broader conspiracy nonetheless it's expected the democrats will concentrate on the repeated contacts between russian nationals and members of the trump campaign in the 2nd of wednesday's hearings before the house intelligence committee as well as allegations of russian interference in the election democrats are expected to focus on whether donald trump obstructed the investigation itself in the 1st hearing before the house judiciary committee specifically with a don't trust would have been indicted how do you not been president mother has cited department of justice guidelines in explaining why the president wasn't charged with obstruction under longstanding department policy a president president cannot be charged with a federal crime while he is in office. that is unconstitutional but mother was also careful to say that if he had confidence that the president clearly did not commit

a crime he would have said for some democrats there is there is an opportunity to attempt to mobilize public opinion to support at the very least the opening of an impeachment investigation currently the polls don't suggest fervent support among the public and no appetite among the house democratic leadership trying to make the report come to life many people didn't take the time to read a 450 page dr prosecute tutorial report and this is something that you know will illustrate what is actually in it and we know that last when he was when he gave a statement a public statement you know public opinion started to shift a little bit the key question is in the report of the constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to accuse a president of wrongdoing so does he mean congressional impeachment republicans are likely to focus on what they allege is the bias that led to

a one sided investigation in the 1st place they will also tend to present mother's testimony as the definitive conclusion of the whole episode but frankly miller has made clear that if he can help it he will not give either side what they are looking for and the report is my testimony i would not provide information beyond that which is already public in any appearance before congress she ever hence the al-jazeera washington well now the u.s. middle east envoy jason greengrass has been involved in a heated exchange at the united nations he defended israel's decision to demolish palestinian homes and the occupied west bank 16 residential blocks and waddy out hamas close to the separation wall have now been destroyed. has more from the united nations. well we've seen an angry splat spat between the u.s. special representative who's working with jared cushion are on the trumpet ministrations peace plan and european envoys at the security council all of the

e.u. members came out and read out a statement condemning the demolition of those palestinian homes but the strongest criticism came from the german ambassador and that is after jason greenlighted said that the international consensus was out of date on the issue and that international law busy was something that was interpreted in different ways by different people he was referring in particular to the last resolution that was passed by the obama administration under the obama administration 2234 on settlements that was passed by the security council the obama administration decided to abstain and not to use their veto angering the trumpet ministration it was about to come into office so that was the backdrop for this angry exchange we will not get to the bottom of who's interpretation of international law is correct on this conflict there is no judge jury or court in the world that the parties

involved have agreed to give jurisdiction in order to decide whose interpretations are correct. international law with respect to this conflict is a tricky subject that could be discussed and argued for years without ever reaching a conclusion for us international law is not menu a la carte there are other instances where u.s. representatives here insist on international law insist on the implementation of u.n. security council resolutions for instance on north korea and where we follow we absolutely support this and as the head of the sanctions committee worked very hard to implement word by word to u.n. security council resolutions so for us $2334.00 days to name the latest of u.n. security council really loosen its binding law and this is international consensus it is the u.s. that has left the international consensus on 2334 so very different positions there the german representative making it clear their position the u.s.

special representative saying that there is no judge jury or court that decides international law but every single other person around that table believed they were sitting in that final court of international law on issues of peace and security and everyone else including the u.s. until now it seems had believed that under the u.n. charter the u.n. security council's rulings will be binding and became international law now venezuela's opposition controlled national assembly has voted to rejoin a regional defense treaty adding more pressure on the government of president nicolas maduro assembly members led by opposition leader one glider were forced to hold the session outside because of ongoing nationwide blackouts the government is blaming its rivals for sabotaging the power grid but the opposition says the cuts have been caused by the government's own mismanagement. kenya's finance minister

has been granted bail after appearing in court over a corruption scandal and rewrote pleaded not guilty to abuse of power involving contracts for 2 hydroelectric dams which have yet to be built catherine 3 reports from northern kenya. henry ratu 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 our plans for the construction of 2 dams that was supposed to be built here in our game are quite western 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 above what was forecast of the $28.00 people are implicated

including employees of the thailand 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 the assets seized and stolen money returned to the public opinion of the many people being arrested. it will be understood everything but what could be and what is that he thought how many have been convicted something should be done to good options with that as a country move for it's also a scandal that has been politicized some politicians as saying fasten communities are being targeted and some individuals being used as scapegoats but 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. al-jazeera somebody. china's former premier league paying has died aged $91.00 he'll be remembered for announcing martial law during pro-democracy protests in chatham and square and 1989 rights activists referred to him as the butcher of beijing. color i'm a star with the headlines boris johnson has won the race to lead the u.k.'s governing conservative party and will become prime minister on wednesday johnson is also vowed to take the u.k. out of the e.u. by the end of october we're going to get bricks dug on october 31st will take advantage of all the opportunities that it will bring in a new spirit of can do and we are once again going to believe in ourselves and what

we can achieve unlike some slumbering joint we're going to rise with if the guy ropes so start the negativity with that education infrastructure move police fantastic food for the bread bandspread tuned in every household we are going to unite. this amazing country and we're going to take it forward i thank you very much paul johnson will immediately find himself in the middle of a diplomatic standoff with iran when he takes office italy denmark the netherlands and france have backed persons proposal for a european led naval mission to ensure safe shipping through the straits of hormuz that's where iran seized a u.k. flagged oil tanker on friday and russia and china are defending themselves from criticism after they conducted their 1st joint effort troll south korea says it fired warning shots and scrambled its jets saying the planes violated its airspace japan's government also raised complains but russia insists the planes flew over neutral waters china's defense ministry is also maintaining that the aircraft did

not enter the territorial airspace of any other country it made the announcement during the unveiling of its strategic priorities the ministry went on to highlight the issue of taiwan and blame to the u.s. japan and australia for increasing tension in the region and south korea has warned to japan against its plan to take it off the list of trusted trading partners japan is accusing seoul of having inadequate export control measures venezuela's opposition controlled national assembly has voted to rejoin a regional defense treaty adding more pressure on president nicolas maduro assembly members led by opposition leader one by joe were forced to hold the session outside because of ongoing nationwide blackouts well those are the headlines join me for more news here after the cure revisited stay with us.

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