couple that. was head of communications under boris johnson when he was mayor of london boris johnson's time at city hall showed that he's more than capable of doing detail he doesn't drown it he doesn't allow officials to come up with excuses for not doing things which is why he delivered almost everything he promised as mare and if he was to be the bulldozer if you like refusing to take no for an answer in number 10 then he could be he could be a successful prime minister as mayor for 8 years johnson was a flamboyant salesman for the city with a self-effacing charm that indeed him to many but the challenge of downing street will far outweigh the city on both sides people are not all together convinced of that he is as sincere about this as he has been in other things. but we're about to find out and frankly the way he's now been selected within the conservative party he's got very little room for maneuver so what however this journey started he is

now the leader of the press a party in all but name and that's what he has to deliver or it'll all be over very very quickly boris johnson famously prepared to news paper columns favoring both leave and remain before opting to support the leave campaign ahead of the 2016 referendum some wonder now whether he'll be persuaded to opt for a softer briggs's compromise one of the realities facing his heart breaks it promises become clear i think if faces a huge challenge i mean any any party takes faces huge constraints in terms of both what the e.u. will agree to and what parliament will agree to and he might say that he's going to leave the e.u. on the 31st of october to deal with delhi or fundamentally that is not an issue entirely in his gift and it wouldn't surprise me at all if behind the scenes his team are preparing for a possible general election in the autumn because it might well go wrong supporters compared johnson to winston churchill a crisis leader. the e.u.

won't called he's bluff they suggest because no one knows what he might do next oh no 7. but the resistance is strong yes absolutely no chance of getting his bricks through on october 31st yes he did say do so on november the 1st if we fall in on his sort johnson has reached the pinnacle of power in british politics wielding it might be easy jonah al-jazeera london. now 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 malo on whether the president obstructed justice during the investigation chabris hansie 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 koodoo jand 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 a trunk 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 mother investigation itself in the 1st hearing before the house judiciary committee specifically with a bold trump would have been indicted how do you not been president 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 sorry 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 pose do you suggest fervent support among the public and no appetite among the house democratic leadership they're trying to make the report come to life many people didn't take the time to read a 450 page dr prosecute q tauriel report and this is something that you know will illustrate what is actually in it and we know that last time 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 attempt 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. haring is scheduled to begin at 1230 g.m.t. stay with al-jazeera we will broadcast it live from capitol hill in washington d.c. . later in this news hour we'll have more on the political developments in the u.k. we go on patrol with a neighboring ghana where pirates sound the only danger to look out for. their brush are expressed regret for entering south korean airspace during a joint exercise with china on tuesday that it's called tokyo shows their readiness is the one year countdown to the olympic games thank you.

to sudan now and we're getting reports a senior general who was recently appointed as chief of staff by the military jointer has been arrested let's go over straight ahead of morgan joins us live from . the transitional military council just appointed as chief of staff in april what happened. well so i mean he's not the only one who's the rest of them and if there was a point to as you said as to. president obama and bashir in the 11th of april he was appointed by the military council and what the reports we're getting from several minutes resources is that there was a coup attempt this morning against the military council along he was also arrested along with the head of the armored division and the head of the popular defense force that's a defense farms a force that was established by a former president almost

a shoot to disband the former ruling party formerly for its official as well have been arrested the military council is yet to come out with an official statement explaining why these people were arrested what is happening but what we do understand from judicial sources and military sources is that they are currently being investigated for trying to organize a coup attempt and let's not forget that this is not going to be the 1st time the military council since taking power has said that there has been at least 17 who attempt against them the council the latest being are 2 weeks ago when 16 at least 16 army officials were arrested again a former statement is the top of the military council but we what we do understand among its resources and our sources is that the head of the chief of staff general of the metallic and several other officials are being investigated for trying to stage a coup attempt against the military council how this impact the agreement of deal for a transition to civilian rule. well right here it met right now and i decided the

opposition coalition is meeting to try to finalize the details of that deal before they presented to the military council and we've spoken to some of them here and they're saying that they're worried this is an attempt by the military council to try to consolidate its powers to purge those who are not loyal to the military council let's not forget that when the protests started and when the system started in front of the army headquarters sober alarming officials most of them junior officials that there were some senior planners as well who sided with the protesters so what opposition figures here are saying is that they're concerned that the military council is finally just trying to consolidate its power to make sure that those who remain in the military are those who are loyal to the military council and follow their orders and not siding with the protesters or the opposition so it's not clear if this will impede the talks between the military council and the opposition but they all can sense from opposition leaders here that this would mean a tighter security own hard working environment and make it very complicated to try to reach him with the military council if they have more allies in the military than people what reports esther's all right we'll leave it there for now thanks so

much morgan. iran's president says he's ready for dialogue but not if negotiations means renda tensions spike between iran and the u.k. off to tehran seized the british flag oil tanker on friday has an iranian called the move powerful precise and professional stand pair o. and its 23 crew members are still being held in the port of bundaberg boss soon southern iran. that's cross-overs his own boss ravi who's live for us in tehran and we understand syrian officials seem to be indicating this could be resolved if grace one is released brings out speed on the. yes semi that's exactly right it did come up during the weekly cabinet meeting that president hassan rouhani was presiding over this morning there were

a couple of very important firsts here into her and during that meeting it was the 1st time that he seemed to link the seizure of a ship by iran's islamic revolutionary guard corps less than a week ago to the seizing injure brawl to her of the grace one an iranian oil tanker and president hassan rouhani said that he believes in international law he believes in dialogue as long as it's fair and it's legal and he said that european nations should do the same and if the u.k. was to stop its wrong actions in gibraltar it should expect a receiving a proportionate response from iran now does this perhaps suggest that releasing their vessel will prompt iran to release the british flag vessel well iran continues to say that its seizure of the vessel was illegal that it wandered into iran's territorial waters so perhaps not but it certainly is a tip of the hat in that direction so to speak the other 1st point that he made was

with regards to waterways in and around it's part of the middle east iran has always said that it is the sole protector or one of the main protectors i should say of the strait of hormuz and the vessels passing through it but during his cabinet meeting president hassan rouhani also mentions a waterway in the southwest tip of the arabian peninsula the bubble munda now this is a waterway between saudi arabia yemen and north africa and he said that iran is also involved in protecting the international waterways in and around its sphere of influence in this part of the world here's some of what he said during the meeting . the strait of hormuz is a very important location it's not there a place for joking nor a place for. country to violate maritime rules the responsibility of providing security for the gulf and the sea of oman is mostly on iran's shoulders and on

neighboring countries it's not related to foreigners it's been the gulf throughout a long history and iranians have been it's protected so the revolutionary guards bravely seize this pilot and british tanka as he refused to take orders and fully regulations in my opinion and appropriate action was taken and the whole world should be thankful to the revolutionary guards for the security of the strait of hormuz which we reiterate that we won't let anyone create disorder in this region what has been done so far has been proportionate and professional. now the main thrust of the comments by president hassan rouhani during this meeting seemed to be something that iranian leaders have said time and again that they remain open to negotiation now iran feel short changed by the international community for years of sanctions for signing the 2050 nuclear deal but having to implement a lot of the tenets of that deal on their own to present hasan rouhani said that while his kind through remains open to talking for open to dialogue to resolve any

disagreements those have to be fair those have to be legal they have to be based on the principles of international law and he made a very interesting point he said that as long as i am in charge of the executive of the country as long as i am president that will remain the case perhaps a suggestion a reminder to world leaders that this is his last term he is a relative liberal in iranian politics and a lot of the damage he suffered politically with the falling apart the fraying of the 2050 nuclear deal has brought hardliners on to the forefront of iranian politics of the parliamentary elections coming up president hassan rouhani will not have a chance at another term so the hardliners are on the way perhaps a signal to the international community that if they want to talk now is the time all right thanks so much. now there is more fallout over a south korean war plane that fired hundreds of warning shots at a russian reconnaissance aircraft russia wants an investigation into tuesday's

incident during its 1st joint air patrol with china south korea's news agency says russian diplomats have expressed deep regret for violating air space the russians say they haven't apologized japan is protesting it says the military action happened in japanese territory near destry to dial and. china's defense ministry says its aircraft didn't invade anyone else's air space ministry also blamed increasing tension in the region of the united states japan and australia where mcbride has more from seoul. south korea says that russia's apology for this incursion came during a closed door meeting here on tuesday in seoul between a senior official from russia's defense ministry and his south korean counterpart when he expressed deep regret for the incident saying that it was due to some sort of mechanical error and that a full investigation would now take place it comes as

a separate route seems to have developed between south korea and japan over this whole incident because it took place in disputed air space between the 2 neighbors above the doctorow islands as they are known here in south korea attackers shima islands if you're in japan but they are islands that are claimed by both japan and south korea so japan is none too happy about a russian aircraft chased by south korean interceptors wandering into what it sees as its airspace especially as shots were fired several 100 warning rounds of machine gun fire from those korean aircraft the japanese have lodged their own complaint and now the south korean defense ministry has hit back saying that any protests from japan are not even worth noticing because of course the doctorow islands are very much south korean away and he has this you from beijing. on

wednesday morning the chinese government finally responded to the incident that took place on choose day the response coming at an event to release the latest white paper into the chinese military the ministry of defense spokesman saying that they strictly observed international law referring to tuesday's incident and the exercises do not target any 3rd party and these joint patrols between russia and china will continue outfitting that they talked about 3rd parties that was very much one of the themes of the release of the white paper saying that the chinese defense forces are about promoting peace they do not seek expansion or germany they are really focusing on protecting china's interests overseas and protecting china's sovereignty it was inevitable therefore that the issue of taiwan would come up particularly in response to the latest arms sale by the united states to taiwan

totaling more than $2000000000.00 worth of weapons and other hardware from the united states to taiwan the chinese government condemned that deal when it was announced and in releasing the latest white paper the ministry of defense said that the united states is undermining global strategic stability and there was also a warning to the united states and their allies that china is ready for war if there's a move towards independence for taiwan ern china rescue operations are underway after 2 landslides in the southwestern province of goo zhu at least 11 people died in short changed country and one person was killed in his giant country according to the chinese state broadcaster the landslides in shoot bury 21 houses.

but in a few moments we'll have all the weather with rob here but still ahead on al-jazeera for tornadoes governor clings to power as his political crisis deepens. find out which major league baseball team of call themselves back into the playoffs. how they lost the really heavy rain in china was about 2 days ago and in the last 24 hours of there are some big showers every now and again there's a great lack of cloud in these of the 24 hours worth of of rainfall totals i found and nothing's very great to see 75 is a big yes and that's probably good news i mean also we've had the flooding and. landslides the repeat performance doesn't seem to be on the cards in fact for

a good part of china no more than 150 millimeters is likely in the next 2 or 3 days the yellow behind my head so it draws your eyes in your direction indeed it is because of trouble burst in the monsoon that we're getting most of the energy dumped have the skies over india not necessarily the last 24 hours the figures of heat of the last great but the fact some things appeared in or to protest ease very telling because so far the monsoon has been deficient about 20 percent below where it should be for the whole of india or not every region more or less is below i was well so we want some infill in the next i think one of 2 days we'll see this is a green area lot of rain spread right up towards delhi where it has not been for quite a while so the yellow represents the heaviest rain it's delhi but it is showing up at least in a pradesh. the weather sponsored by cattle railways. part

of. the palestine national locust was 1st founded in the 1930 s. but has had to be revived in 2010 all was very important thing in palestine known musicians from all over the world come together to perform in the occupied territories good for nothing it's like never promised me a living in the us poor and felt it was the 1st time they perform using their identity al-jazeera world hears music as a force for unity the diaspora orchestra. welcome

back you're watching out there is here a time to recap our headlines boris johnson is about to become britain's new prime minister to resign may's replacement is voting to deliver bragg's it and leave the e.u. as planned by the end of october. we're getting reports from sudan of the arrest of the general recently promoted to army chief of staff by the military joint or several other high ranking army officers of also courtly been detained. iran's president says he's ready for dialogue but not if negotiations mean surrender tensions have spiked between iran and the u.k. following the seizure of

a british flagged oil tanker i saw rouhani describe the military operation as powerful precise and professional. now pirates are a danger all along the coast of west africa as the number of attacks on ships continues to rise maritime security experts are in garland to work out ways to combat the problem other major problems are also need solving such as people trafficking hostage taking drug smuggling and illegal fishing al-jazeera has been on patrol with the navy and garner to see the extent of the problems. as the story . tucky chicago ship parks story one is more than a week late intended destination. he or she is resting in the calm waters of tema off the coast of god. everything looks alright from the outside but on board evidence of why the vessel didn't make it to ivory coast in time the ship was

attacked by pirates in nigeria and waters and 10 of its crew taken away as hostages . the others to stay but was frightened. they told us. if you're. coming to here we are urgent ship and. all my friends are sort of the. similar incidents have been reported 70 times in the 1st 6 months of this in the international maritime bureau says the vast majority of the sailors kidnapped for ransom or taken off the cost of been. guinea nigeria and tokyo while attacks by pirates have substantially decreased in some regions of the world they seem to be on the increase in west africa making the gulf of guinea there was to bury in the world impacted by piracy fishing boats are sometimes targeted but most of the attacks so i carried out an oil and gas tankers

experts say that the regional neighbors and coast guards need to coordinate better if they want to control the situation. we set out on patrol with a gun to me in the gulf of guinea is the most dangerous streets of maritime territory in the world for attacks at sea but garner has seen a decrease in piracy incidents in its waters and that's been put down to sustained operations by its navy and not. ships. be fair to we in the what tests of our countries and then when they are called upon today are better than this nation's. heroes ships that taps by paris when the are released. different food that can and what does the syphilis and. macrobid affairs there

you know point of. the generous air war is one of several gunships garner has on patrol every hour of the day and sometimes there is support from the air force. the navy believes it could do even more with increased funding. and not enough resources. you know pumped into into into the navy but gradually are when this is being built in society and the policy makers in any in any government and there we gradually been there resourced. what more needs to be done in a region where piracy kidnappings and theft of oral are growing problem in 2016 jury alone estimated its losses more than a $1000000000.00. experts say the economies of the region rich in oil and fishing

cannot sustain such a drain on resources. comedy agrees al-jazeera off the atlantic coast encounter. the latest on the today security conference an icon the close hawk is that in gunness capital so as your as the report that i had a dream mentioned piracy is going up what is the conference for posing to do about it nicholas. well one of the major challenges for the navy is across the 20 countries in the gulf of guinea where the most cases of incidents of piracy are occurring is there ageing ships the some of the ships are just not up to the task and it's a vast area of land 6000 kilometers of shoreline so here we've got different companies like airbus like tying a ship building companies from israel to china trying to get contracts with the various navies in this country and there's one navy in particular that faces the

most challenge it's the nigerian navy because out of all the cases of incidents of piracy since the beginning of the year tough worldwide took place off the coast of nigeria joining us now live it is vice admiral it buck it's a it boss the navy chief of staff of nigeria thank you for talking to al-jazeera tell us why is there so many incidences or attacks off the coast of nigeria. and i wish to say when you said so many incidences. you might be right. but then again it all depends on who is reporting that and i think we do have credible sources. and ducks. guinea and then we have all enough of them putting media we also have often the most intimate of what to send to us and so yes the incidences of it.

coming out. on patrol. not that i will top this i just telling us we have various groups operating out of the chair as niger delta some of them calling themselves vikings or icelandic so with this currently. ship instrument there are help hostages what is it that you can do in order to prevent these hostage taking and round since they're taking place. thank you very much for the i think i'm the one doing the particularly annoyed on they have this in the subway done again quite a lot i'm saw during the opening set on their eulogy to hear the minister of the band itself. said that the needs of be picked up from 16 to 10. and fought on their views i think they're building capacity and out of guts and so

the strategy is the thought of them lives. so good to prim walks. that one day. by the heads of states and africa. a maritime strategy. as well as the region are one solid game put in place i think them that there is one to help on the side in their base why they are doing their best allah so constrained by i think we see and demo saw. still be able to continue to turn into how what are you trying to achieve through this conference what can this bring to your navy certainly. not when they're still on the docks of the region. that i was in the recent past we. are in touch from up back not bring last together to disseminate the challenges we have

individually by moving away from. them from europe on america and taking its to be . countries want to believe that. the leadership of this done chris will understand the problems that we couldn't leave this and be able to do something about it remember it's said that no one nation can do it similarly the criminals themselves have done and syndicate and doubtless strategizing listening to what we're doing and so the only way we can achieve. our objectives is to ensure that when we say something when the leadership says something when the police got it i should seize on that to do it thank you very much sir vice admiral you book it to us from the nigerian they be 80 percent of the world's trade how things do maritime and ocean routes it's not a sieve challenge for the armies of or the navies of the west african countries not

just in west africa but throughout the world and so the challenge for these navies and people here is to find a ways to stem the piracy the increase of piracy and hijacking in ransom taking that's occurring right here off the coast of guinea now live thanks so much nicholas hawks that. america's armed forces have a new boss mark expos being sworn in as u.s. defense secretary after a 7 month wait for a replacement he takes over from james mattis mattis quit in december over policy disagreements with president don't trump for mommy 2nd tree is seen as consolidating trumps authority of the pentagon. mr president it is a privilege for me and for my family to be here with you today thank you for your leadership and for your commitment to a strong national defense and to all of our service members our military has made tremendous gains in recent years thanks to your leadership and we stand ready today

to take on any challenge. u.s. middle east envoy jason grain blath has been involved in a heated exchange at the united nations he defended israel's decision to demolish some palestinian homes in the occupied west bank 16 residential blocks and why the homeless close to the separation wall of been destroyed james bays has more from the u.n. well we've seen an angry splat spat between the u.s. special representative who's working with jared cushion or 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 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 $2234.00 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 men you are correct 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 the un security council resolutions so for us $2334.00 just to name the latest of un security council rutan is binding law and this is international consensus it is the us 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. it until now it seems had believed that under the u.n. charter the u.n. security council's rulings were binding and became international law syrian state media has reported in attack in the mountainous region of total harder that's in the province and says several israeli missiles were fired the area is known to be a base for hezbollah fighters linked to iran now casualties have been reported.