it will be for the presidential election but there is the legacy of the president in as much as he tried to weave together both the secular and religious elements of politics and he did that successfully wall that still be maintained after his death will the unemployment problems here the unemployment rate is now risen to 15 percent since much you and i are in that amongst the youth there is a huge amount of protests swirling about the fact that the moxy might have come and stayed in tunisia but the economy is not responding and there is a great deal of pressure on the government to do something about that so they're hoping for a smooth transition but we'll have to hold our breath and wait and see if they get it. algeria's interim leader of the taliban has set up a 6 member panel to oversee a national dialogue it's aimed at all the nies in the country's presidential

election a follows months of demonstrations that led to president underlies ease beautifully his resignation ending his 20 year rule protesters say they want to complete overhaul with the ruling elite held to account for corruption. plenty more ahead on this news hour he waves breaking records as it moves across parts of europe. and between the rock and a hard place the actor throwing his weight behind an indigenous cause in hawaii. plus later in sport we meet the amateurs riding the roads of the tour de france in a bid for equality. color to come 1st the celebrations are continuing in puerto rico after the resignation of the island's governor because the rosello announced he will leave on . office on wednesday the scandal began over leaked text messages and again he

reports from san juan. dancing in the streets of san juan celebrating what's being called a people's revolution demonstrators have for days demanded gov ricardo rajjo step down after text messages revealed a leader who spoke poorly of his own people and used sexist and homophobic language the young puerto ricans who spearheaded the marches its of them and to speak truth i mean i bet you were here when you saw a 1000000 people on the street and that's amazing that that's. almost a zen muscle. beautiful man but it's no worse for that i have 22 sons one is 10 and the other is 8 so i do this for them and for my future maybe grandsons you know and for the people of puerto rico they didn't want him there we just simply the no one there because they were facts that he was in a good governor so we just had to do something the demonstrations began almost 2

weeks ago these were some of the biggest marches in the island's history from a population tired of accusations of corruption and mismanagement later on wednesday night governor ricardo rajjo announced he would step down on august the 2nd i. think the streets of san juan erupted in celebrations that continued for hours puerto rico secretary of justice one device because it's likely to replace ross aoe but she's in a popular choice among those who took to the streets organizers say they will watch closely what happens next with their demands for the future of puerto rico a simple so we just want good leaders true leaders people that are just looking for the you know well being of the people that's all we need really is not it's not really that difficult protesters say they will continue to demonstrate if this u.s. territory fails to pick a governor they like in the next few days or a c.e.o. successor will be announced but this political crisis may be. far from over for

many people here this feels like a brand new day the one that's pinched with hope and concern remember the next governor will inherit 74000000000 dollars worth of debt and an island still recovering from 2 major hurricanes come up in anything else the future leadership of this country will have to wind its people's trust and that may be the biggest challenge and a guy like roger sera san juan puerto rico. a u.s. senator has a back legislation that would block some sales to saudi arabia the foreign relations committee voted 13 to 9 with 3 republicans joining democrats to back the measure many voiced concern the weapons could be used in the war in yemen legislation is expected to be opposed by president trump and also impose sanctions on the saudi royal family she has returned she has more now from washington. there's a split in the senate foreign relations committee between those who say look we've tried to pass legislation to sanction saudi arabia it doesn't work trump will just

veto it that just passed something perhaps vaguely symbolic to show congress is involved in the process and those who say no if congress is going to be involved it should show congress his displeasure with the war in yemen the carnage in yemen and the murder of jamal khashoggi that 2nd group one out in committee in the senate foreign relations committee on thursday however the chair of the committee who advocates a softly softly approach made it clear he had no intention of then pushing this bill for a full vote in the senate it still may get to the senate floor but if the trip has anything to do with it it probably weren't there are still other other initiatives underway though to try and sanction to sanction the saudis including perhaps attaching amendments to the defense spending bill that's coming up which will have to it which will make trump choose between funding his military and and sanctioning saudi arabia is going to veto the defense bill if it has sanctions on saudi arabia connected to it that's what they're going to try and do we'll see how that goes but this is actually becoming bigger than saudi arabia now and its relation with the

u.s. this is about how angry some republicans are getting in the senate and how they feel that the white house is undermining congressional authority on foreign policy if they get more angry than those more trance but they will be robust action against saudi arabia of britain's new prime minister barak's johnson has told m.p.'s his leadership is beginning what he calls a new golden age he says the government will throw itself into bragg's in negotiations and leave the e.u. by the end of october but the european union want a prime minister that the best and only deal is the existing one charlie angela has more now from london. inside 10 downing street a rousing welcome from a loyal team prime minister johnson's new cabinet dominated by bricks it hard liners at the 1st pep talk and we have. to ask the people in our country's history we are. leaving.

because you don't know if they're not told you i apologize for interrupting the premise of this far too much noise in this strain but in parliament a very different johnson had promised to unite the conservative party but his ruthless decision to sack or sidelined 17 senior ministers may have done the opposite. his 1st statement was one of optimism channeling his hero winston churchill promising a golden era for britain and then a message to the european union asking them to rethink the current deal in their country that values its independence and indeed it so for suspect could agree to a treaty which signed away our economic independence and self-government as this back story does a time limit is not enough if an agreement is to be reached it must be clearly understood that the way to the deal goes by way of the abolition of the backstop

a request politely rejected by brussels with the e.u. chief negotiator saying that eliminating the backstop is unacceptable and not within the mandate of the european council a message reiterated by the outgoing european commission president in a phone call with boris johnson with saying that the position on the withdrawal agreement is the best and only way possible this is the last day parliament will sit before breaking for the summer but the challenges facing the new prime minister and negotiate a new breaks it deal in just 98. it's a deal the e.u. says cannot be renegotiated and fix a multitude of problems facing britain and health care education and security all with a parliamentary majority of just 3 many say the country could be heading for a general election i think that boris johnson if he sees that he's going to lose a vote of no confidence in the house of commons i think he would rather call the

election than wait for his government to fall and the election to follow he would rather stay on the front foot so i think the whole of britain ought to be on the alert for an early snap general election called perhaps right at the beginning of september that might happen. that this has to do this is a prime minister with a deadline like no other facing unprecedented opposition hoping his optimism is infectious charlie angela al-jazeera london a world leaders will want to see what the u.k. foreign policy will look like under a boris johnson government our diplomats are going to james brains reports now from the united nations on the potential changes and challenges ahead. geographically the u.k. may be a small island in northern europe but it retains a seat at the world's top table because of its economy and its history boris

johnson is now taking over leadership of a country with that permanent seat on the u.n. security council as well as membership of the g. 7 of nato and for now the european union pm boris johnson couldn't have a more different style from his predecessor to reason may be what he's allowed an unpredictable will certainly be a change of tone could there be a change of policy to the 1st test will be iran the u.s. has been trying to apply maximum pressure on to iran could the u.k. with one of its tankers seized by iran more fully join in that effort now you may see a bit of a transition here now as you have oil tankers being seized and who have drones being shot down that all may may change quite a bit here in the in the coming months i do find it was interesting that the iranians reached out very early and made a public statement congratulating boris johnson on his on his election certainly

there was an effort there to try to draw him away from the u.s. and others europe and the u.s. don't share the same approach to iran president trump pulled out of the iran nuclear deal or the european nations with china and russia a trying to keep it alive if the u.k. changes its position the deal will almost certainly die on other issues for example venice weyler on the peace process between israelis and palestinians europe and the u.s. have very different perspectives could the new u.k. prime minister who has warm relations with president trump and whose keen to sign a post breaks its trade deal with the u.s. realign his country. there are real concerns in brussels and here at the u.n. about all of this and about the fact there's now another leader on the world stage known for his unpredictability jamesburg al-jazeera of the united nations. a heat

wave has sent temperatures soaring across europe breaking records in france britain belgium and the netherlands and forcing german authorities to shut down a nuclear reactor the eiffel towers fountains became a refuge for parisians with france issuing its top he waited a while he waved a lurch warning the public of potentially deadly temperatures french capital's previous record was beaten when temperatures reached 42.6 degrees celsius across the channel of the united kingdom had its hot its day in july to date reaching 38 point one degrees in cambridge that's the 2nd hottest in the u.k. since records began belgium reached a new high setting a benchmark not seen in nearly 200 years topping 40 degrees on thursday scientists say these temperatures may be the new normal routine barbara reports from london. enjoying the heat in paris the water fountains by the eiffel tower are

a popular place for those trying to stay cool. as a red alert was issued for northern france in the capital reached an all time national record of 41.6. well french media reports suggest 5 deaths might to be linked to the current heat wave. and they did it again thursday 40 degrees celsius. making the most of it it's led to a so-called code red being issued for the. trees . in london staged a small protest outside base building housing media outlets demanding. images of fun in the sun and more in explaining the extreme weather. we can talk about

a short stay on record with headlines like what scorcher without looking into why is it the hottest thing and what does that mean for she manatee what's that mean in the next 102030 years. there to eat for food for particularly for people in developing countries who this is affecting right now but al-jazeera had no difficulty finding people who are concerned about what's driving the increasingly common heat waves people start realizing that things are changing and quite quickly in the climate and so is is the moment to just to change something. before it's too late this is something that makes our planet less. comfortable to live on so we have to think about how to stop it so that also our children can still survive on this planet most people here in britain welcome a bit of sunshine but for when the humidity and on a day like this the priority for lots of people is actually staying in the shade

more broadly more and more starting to draw the line between europe sick stream summers and the climate crisis the u.k. government's advisory committee on climate change has warned the country is not prepared for the extremes that global warming is expected to bring here the current heat which prompted health warnings and brought trains to a standstill in some parts. and in southern europe this was greece on wednesday a series of wildfires are a reminder of conditions that many are calling the new normal of all those conditions how their upsides they bring their own dangers. al-jazeera london. all right still ahead on al-jazeera we'll have reaction from human rights campaign in the u.s. government brings back the death penalty for federal crimes. and i'm nicholas hawk on the u.s. navy ship carson city harbored and gonna join me next as the crew prepares to sail off in the gulf of guinea the world's most pirate infested waters. for manchester

united continue their winning run in preseason games and he's here with that. hello welcome to the look of the international forecast we've got the usual showers longer spells afraid to the southwest of china still some pretty wet weather coming through hitting some of that shade of cloud the seasonal rains they push up to the east coast and there will be some showers as we go on through the next couple days but they're not as widespread as they have been a recently thankfully because we still have some flooding issues particularly towards the southwest of the country $33.00 celsius there in hong kong draw a fair bit of cloud it's going to humid be some showers just brushing that east

coast as we go on through the next day some of those showers stretch their way across the south china sea the philippines northern and central parts of the philippines in particular the heat of the day showers still plenty of sunshine in between as well as usual they stretch their way over towards the southern parts of vietnam seeing some of those showers well the possibility of seeing some of those showers not too bad across indonesia johnson wanted to showers here but it does look largely dry and settle not to settle across western parts of india the memory loss of cloud showing up here the the monsoon rains have really picked up. once again big downpours all the way into the southern parts of the peninsula. whether sponsored by cats out anyways.

the palestine national locust was 1st founded in the 1930 s. but has had to be revived in 20 time always very important thing in palestine now musicians from all over the world come together to perform in the occupied territories. it's like every palestinian living in the aspirant felt it was the 1st time to perform using their identity al-jazeera world hears music as a force for unity in the diaspora orchestra.

again you're watching i do see a reminder of our top stories this hour libya's navy says at least $115.00 people are missing and feared dead after 2 margaret boats capsized off the coast of libya but the u.n. refugee agency says the number could be as high as 150. the head of 10 is yours parliament muhammad has been sworn in as interim president after the death of 92 year old. and us will lead the country to a presidential elections are held on september 15th. north korea's confirmed its missile tests on thursday were a new technology and meant as a warning to south korea but the u.s. secretary of state says the door remains open for diplomacy with pyongyang. and

more now on the death of tunisian president. he'll be remembered for leading to new year's transformation from a dictatorship to a fragile democracy after the arab spring after former presidents in ben ali fled the country in january 20th leveland power was handed out. to the prime minister mohammad the new chief but that didn't stop the protests over nucci resigned the next month. the said he was named as his replacement elections were held later that year for a constituent assembly tasked with rewriting the constitution and appointing a new government that election was won by another an islamist party that was banned under the previous regime has said see then step down after the assembly chose. as president the next year as founded tunis which would quickly become the most powerful political party later in 24 tina said she defeated marzuki in the 1st free presidential election becoming the world's oldest head of state at the age of

$88.00 i want to come marx is a research fellow at the weatherhead center for international affairs at harvard university she joins us via skype now from montreal thanks very much for being with us so what in your view should be the legacy of a 70 well i think he has a profoundly mixed legacy he did a lot of work to both shepherd our new community is transition from an authoritarian state but he also at times acted to stop democratic reforms in tunisia so his legacy is very nuanced it's very complex. he was like he was i think both far less effective than his the many of his supporters predicted he would be but also far less authoritarian than some of his critics had feared he might be at the end of the day. he led our fragile

period where 2 new years transition didn't really sink or swim but sort of sputtered and choked along. but it remains afloat and we have a subsidy to thank in part for that. but today he is facing some tough times at the moment with its economic problems and how much of a test is that going to be going forward there are elections that they've already announced that coming up but they're also security challenges as well aren't there . that's right it's too nice you know. to need to know a lot more freedom of expression than they had before the 2011 revolution but most tunisians haven't tasted the real fruits of democracy is the economics of it and. purchasing power has absolutely plummeted and while the security sector is ringback a lot more effective at handling terrorism than it used to be and the regional situation has regarded terrorism is calm down from what i saw still challenges on

that front too so you know to use transition remains fragile and largely on consolidated. one of the big challenges facing the country is that it's also have a constitutional court it lacks the supreme court and that was something that i think a sub he could have done a lot more to address as president instead he often channeled his efforts into promoting legislation that was designed to obstruct transitional justice and prevent certain us birth aimed at accountability and transparency like the economic reconciliation act of 2017 which amnestied some old regime officials instead of prioritizing some of these really done traill institutional issues of the transition such out the formation of the constitutional court or even acting to prevent the collapse of need to know which was the party that the himself had founded which would be enough to the so-called islamist party in 2014 which

absolutely collapsed very soon after he became president and not a lot to do with the fact that the subsidy for almost shakespearean reasons seemed unable or unwilling to provide his son hot bed from domineering and i'm job the party i'm provoking it's designed to gratian needed to this still exists but it's riven into a lot of fractious little pieces it's a shadow of its former self and you need a transition need strong. parties to consolidate and not they need competition moving forward and it doesn't look like that's going to come from us it seems like a subsidy on some of these big issues was at times the help of us president appreciate your analysis marks thanks very much thank you. the largest gathering of maritime officials in africa has ended with

a promise to boost joint efforts to tackle piracy in the gulf of guinea delegates have been meeting in ghana's capital aqua representatives of 10 west african states took part in the conference long with representatives from the us china france and portugal the seas are around west africa remain the world's most dangerous for piracy more than 90 percent of kidnappings between january and june took place in the gulf of guinea and nicolas ports now from across. a force of deterrence and the most dangerous waters in the world the crew of the u.s. navy ship carson city are preparing to head to the shores of nigeria on a tour of duty in the gulf of guinea but of the mines here more ships are attacked by pirates than anywhere else in the world with our radar system and our lookouts we have to try to see any threats that are that are approaching us and you know miles out so so before any piracy issue would take place we will have notification

while in advance. while the trump administration says it's pulling back u.s. troops in africa in march the u.s. navy organized the largest naval games on the continent involving $33.00 countries and $3000.00 personnel that would probably make says securing the gulf of guinea is of strategic importance we talk about the poor economy because the maritime is so important 90 percent of our commerce worldwide goes by sea so africa spiritually for. every major power in the world china organized its own naval exercise with west african countries and russia is increasing military cooperation in the region . this american navy ship the u.s. carlton city normally sails the mediterranean it's used to transport cargo or troops that will be deployed in theaters of war here its mission so far has been mostly to help the navies in the region to maintain their aging fleet so that they

can tackle piracy. the west african shores are used by latin american drug smugglers as a passageway to europe deep sea trawlers a fish without permit stealing precious resources because of the plummeting price of oil pirates of the niger delta have stopped stealing the oil on a cargo ship instead they're taking crews hostage for around him because it's a more lucrative business piracy globally is estimated to cost $24000000000.00 a year for defense contractors they see here an opportunity. we are currently working with him to transition production into those countries but in nigeria has to take a village teaching manufacture specialized ropes in the rest of the region she has supported nigerian buying missiles from i and that way the region is the ability to establish a maritime eco structure that will feel for the sole purpose of one system.

already some of the navy chief to be eating in our press signed a memorandum of understanding. while level powers currently in the region are trying to set the tone for a new partnership for the us this tour of duty serves as a reminder to african nations that even in the gulf of guinea will step in. and stand by them because hawke al-jazeera ghana. landslide in morocco's atlas mountains has killed at least 24 people a van was buried following heavy rains it happened in a remote area south of the city of miraculous rescue teams are searching for survivors members of sudan's opposition of call for marches across the capital hard to a parish air india was signed by members of the ruling military council and the civilian coalition on wednesday the genter said it had foretold a coup attempt the military's chief of staff is among a number of high ranking officials detained. thousands of people have again taken

to the streets across malawi protesting the result of the general election the military fired tear gas and blocked demonstrators from marching to the president's state house they're trying to present a petition challenging the may election which they say was rigged protests to be going on since peter baker was announced as president. a senior somali officials have been buried after a suicide bombing in the capital claimed the attack in mogadishu saying it was an assassination attempt on the u.n. special envoy american diplomat james swan the bombing killed 9 officials from the local government headquarters mogadishu mare. was injured and is in critical condition protests have been taking place in occupied east jerusalem against the demolition of palestinian buildings israeli demonstrators joined those rallying just meters away from the prime minister's home on thursday rob matheson has more

now from west jerusalem. since the demolition of the houses and what he follows on monday there has been an international phone donation of the houses and the buildings being torn down countries like the united arab emirates saudi arabia but also the united kingdom germany and spain have all said that this was something that should not have happened but these protesters tonight i've been in the center of jerusalem were just a couple of blocks away from the prime minister's house and these protesters are jewish israelis and palestinians need to leave their together we are the people of this land both of us and we need to fight for equality for justice for see bill and national rights for both people that's the only way the people can live together if we keep this occupation most people from both sides will die well people will go to the army we're going to jail will last and this all centers on israeli military really that was made about 80 years ago which said that buildings that were close

to the separation wall that runs through jerusalem had to be knocked down because they were guarded as a security risk but the palestinian authority administers the area of wadi home. fries those buildings to be constructed but an israeli court said no that was wrong and the buildings had to come down now the palestinians are protesting because they are concerned that this is going to set a precedent that will allow the israeli authorities to almost arbitrarily knock down buildings that either side of the separation fence and that view is also held by these israeli protesters tonight. the u.s. government will resume executing prisoners after 16 years poor all executions since 2003 have been carried out of the state level that with 25 last year attorney general william barr has now made the decision to reinstate the death penalty at the federal level president has long called for more executions 5 inmates will be

executed from december nicole austen hillary is the executive director of the u.s. program of human rights watch she says the government should not be expanding the use of capital punishment there are many individuals who are who are on death row who have been found innocent we know research has shown that we know that our death penalty has a disparate impact on black and brown people in this country that has a disparate impact on poor communities and so because of those various issues it doesn't make sense for this nation as a democracy to reinstitute this mechanism applying to act as a form of punishment when it is simply fraught with so many inconsistences and frankly out of the united states 21 states have made the decision to stop using the death penalty all and each of us they preferred to using life in prison without any

possibility of parole well as an alternative we believe that that is a type of punishment that states should be considering rather they are looking at the death penalty which again we believe is simply inhumane and should be taken off the table altogether. an american rapper whose cases been taken up by president donald trump has been charged with assault in sweden asap rocky whose real name is rocky meyers will remain in a jail pending trial he was detained this month after a fight the 2 men maya's lawyer says he acted in self defense last week the swedish prime minister to free my eyes and said he would personally vouch for his bail. from washington us press.