from the zone would have put civilian lives at risk there is nothing that indicates the ceasefire will be revived still. i just want to be able to play i just want to go home i just want to go to school that is no longer an option for many children 7 year old. has become another statistic in the escalating violence and despite criticism by the un over the international indifference nothing has been done to stop the bombing campaign. has stumbled much more still ahead on this news hour from london a powerful blast injures the afghan president's running mate on the 1st day of election campaigning ultimo it's back after president trump brands it disgusting and rat infested. out in sports are watching while german qualm prefer the world champion and his team detail how those details to.

jail the russian opposition leader alexina valmy has been moved to hospital with severe facial swelling and rashes is said to have suffered an acute allergic reaction was arrested on wednesday off to calling for saturday's on authorized anti-government demonstrations and sentenced to 30 days in prison a spokeswoman says he's now in a satisfactory condition but he's never suffered from allergies before and the cause of this reaction is not known. or almost 1400 people were arrested in the protests the valley called for according to an independent monitoring group russian police violently dispersed demonstrators in the capital on saturday as they marched against the barring of some opposition candidates from september city elections police chiefs justified their response saying the rallies were illegal the monitoring group says most of those detained have now been released but around 150 people are still in custody and non-con is following events for us in moscow. never only his lawyer was given access to her client but only after an argument ensued

with the hospital and then they weren't allowed to meet in private this all comes as he was taken to hospital with an allergic face reaction around 9 30 am is condition is said to be stable but anything that happens this man really concerns the opposition activists who view this man through a different prism perhaps a lot of people internationally do he is seen as a very key figure within the opposition movement but this all comes as his you tube channel was raided as well and now there are some discrepancies over the amount of people protesting out on the streets in moscow the police say there are about 3500 people protesting and on the streets the opposition activists say it's much closer to 10000 we don't know what the exact figures are also the figures for the arrests have been disputed as well they say about 1000 the police say about a 1000 people were arrested the protesters say is much closer more closer to 1400

people being arrested now many of those according to the police have been released they were detained not arrested so they've been through the administrative process processing but why are they protesting what they're protesting because they're very worried about upcoming mosque o.c.c. penalty elections and they're very worried that some opposition leaders may not be able to get on the ballot and the kremlin will try and stuff these elections full of people loyal to the. u.s. president donald trump is once again being called racists after launching a blistering twitter attack on an african-american democratic congressman and ultimately a district he represents also in jordan reports now. the president of the united states donald trump is the president of the entire united states but residents of baltimore maryland are angry trump has called their city quote a disgusting rat and rodent infested mess he's a horrible president. and says he's racist and he's fragile and.

he's an embarrassment to what our country thinks that we stand for having been overseas and you know it makes me you know a bit embarrassed for the country trump slammed baltimore and economically and socially diverse city near washington as part of an attack on its longtime congressman elijah cummings cummings leads the committee investigating the president's political and financial toddies he's also criticized the president's immigration policy trump called cumming's corrupt and quote a brutal bully there is nothing racist and stating plainly what most people already know that a lot of cummings has done a terrible job for the people of his district and of baltimore itself he also attacked the house speaker nancy pelosi the daughter of baltimore's former mayor on sunday the baltimore sun called the president quote the most dishonest man to ever

occupy the oval office and said it's quote better to have a few rats than to be one the mayor also weighed in. we're not going to ignore anyone degrading. no one even the houses only black republican condemned trump's attack lies are cummings and chairman cummings is someone who i have worked with closely on all kinds of legislation he is someone that cares passionately about his community and has been working tirelessly his entire adult life on behalf of his country and his community and he is someone. who can defend himself a senior white house official defended the president's attack on cummings i understand why but that doesn't mean that it's racist the president is pushing back against what he sees as wrong it's how he's done in the past and he'll continue to do in the future but in baltimore the public's not having it because the downgrade everybody knows. the fix but the problem is is that

a downgrade. a message to the man who was supposed to be promoting unity as part of his job rosalynn jordan al-jazeera washington. when all the developments the u.s. director of national intelligence dan coats is stepping down after a long standing series of foreign policy clashes with the president donald trump announced on twitter saying he will nominate republican congressman john rachleff to replace him since being appointed by trump in 2017 coats is directly contradicted the president on u.s. policy towards russia north korea's nuclear threat and the iran deal patty colleen is live for us in washington so clearly this was a relationship with a fair bit of friction does his resignation come as a surprise that. it comes as a surprise to absolutely nobody they had been on the outs the president made it clear they have been on the outs and the president and think the timing is also important if he doesn't like the way the media narrative is shaping up perhaps

around his racial his racist tweets that he tends to try and change the subject i don't know if dan coats is dismissal is going to be. anywhere big enough news to actually get that off the headlines it's what most people in the states are talking about still dan coats is a highly respected he was a member of congress a former ambassador he was trusted by the intelligence community as you mentioned he often when they get his boss publicly saying iran is living up to in the nuclear deal north korea will not give up their nuclear weapons and he was seen to have a barest the president who is speaking live at a forum and the news broke that the trip administration was going to invite a lot of more putin to the white house and he sort of joked about he said well that'll be interesting that would be something in the crowd laughed at the idea of that and his reaction and we know one thing about donald trump is he does not like to be laughed at so dan coats leaving in the middle of august the president tweeting out the news that had been rumored for months it was on president trump

and dan coats didn't always see eye to eye what can we expect from his replacement . the question is is he going to get confirmed no yes to get through the republican controlled senate but the intelligence committee tends to be a little bit more bipartisan than all the other committees that he would have to get through 1st he is not in teligent he's a former u.s. attorney the president was very pleased with him because he seemed to be going after robert muller the former special counsel during both of his hearings he sits on both of the committees that testified that miller testified to and he really went after them after him and the report and the intelligence and that's going to be the big concern here in washington dan coats really if you think about it is one of the last remaining people that the pundits here in america called the adults in the room there was secretary madison richard tillerson dan coats they were seen as being able to hem in some of the president's more. unnerving perhaps you should say

impulses and you saw dan coats do that he publicly checked the president the president would say i know what the intelligence is dan coats would say no you don't and then when they disagreed the present would tweet as intelligence community you need to go back to school and then when they decide when they said basically he's wrong the president later said he they were misquoted but they were on camera it was congressional testimony so the question is is this congressman we're at cliff if confirmed is he going to be able to stand up to the president say you're wrong mr president this is an incredibly important position it basically all the 16 intelligence agencies funnel up to the d.n.i. and he funnels that information to the president of the united states so ratliff is going to be a congressman or a clip is going to be asked the question will you do what is in best interest to the country and not just try to keep favor with the president should be a pretty contentious confirmation hearing thank you very much patty calling with the latest on that from washington and patty was just mentioning that the u.s. president's recent comments on alijah cummings and his baltimore district but

trump's racist rhetoric is seen as positive his election strategy for 2020. he reaches out to his base and alienates all the parts of the population democratic leader nancy pelosi has accused him of planning to make america white again so let's then look more closely at the demographics involved here well as of 2018 white americans make up 76.5 percent of the population the white estates being maine vermont and west virginia black or african-americans make up 13.4 percent with the highest black population the population in the district of columbia mississippi and louisiana maryland where baltimore is located is 65.9 percent of the population are asian the state with by far the highest percentage of asians is hawaii followed by california and new jersey in addition 18.3 percent of the population also identifies hispanic or latino with the highest numbers in new mexico california and texas well douglas sloan is

a democratic strategist and senior principal consultant at the national capital strategist group joins us live now from washington so president trump has repeatedly used racist and racial language to tap into what's been described as white identity politics do we now have a clear understanding about whether trump's identity politics played a role in him winning the 2016 presidential election. i believe we do keep in mind that the 26000 presidential election was a perfect storm of different events that helped to get trump elected there was obviously the russian interference in the election there was bill komi coming in with 3 weeks to go taking another look at hillary's e-mails which turned out to be a nothing burger there was some of that some of those races dog whistles that trump

use playing up to the election saying that many of the mexicans coming over the border were rapists and gang members some of those dog whistles that he used to perhaps pull some of the racist people out to the polls so it may have played a small part in it seems that he may be trying to really double down and make that a principal part of his election strategy going into 2020 although i'll tell you right now it will be a failed strategy if that is the linchpin of his campaign i mean the confusing part is that president president won in 2016 but his party lost in 2018 as we know both these elections or for not just on race and identity but also on the issues like the economy and health care so do we know if these racist

incendiary remarks are likely to help him in 2020. i don't think they will just read a study believe aunt just read a study on twitter that showed that white women in particular are a demographic that is becoming increasingly turned off by his racist rhetoric and that demographic of white women helped him greatly in the 2016 election he can ill afford to lose any of his support groups going into 2020 so to double down on this type of rhetoric hoping that it will help to get him elected when we are a country that just elected our 1st black president the not just one but 2 terms you know and i suppose one thing one thing that michael will say that i didn't trump's favor is the fact that the democrats appear to be split on what to do about

all of this there is friction in the policy about whether they embrace diversity and just go for the vote or whether actually they try to get white swing voters on board with someone like joe biden i mean do the democrats have this figured out. well i believe that the democrats are unified in our stand against trump's racist rhetoric there's no doubt about that when trump attacked the squad for congresswoman. alexandra castro. congressman omar. nancy pelosi came out and defended him we are united as democrats and other democrats are united against racism what the democrats need to determine is what will be the unifying singular strategy going into 2022 thrown trump are we going with the economy are we going with you know we need to improve infrastructure health care you know what will be the unifying message

what is something that the democrats will be using as are talking points going into 2020 not just for the presidential election but for the congressional elections as well democrats need to get their talking points together and make sure that everyone is on the same page so they could come out victorious in next year's election thank you very much douglas in washington. still ahead. on it all the garbage in basra and all of what's being done to upgrade iraq improve her care of her can provide morning long production rather than import. also detained and out of contact with their families pays for young palestinians in prison to be allowed to make phone calls home. and we had to colombia as the country celebrates its 1st tour de france champion is coming out in support.

helo temperatures in eastern europe on as high as they will also run about the 30 mosques point humid i mean poland there's still a warning out for effectively heatwave but digging into the hot weather this culture on this blue line which it brought in atlanta came out usually has to pick up some more from 2 suns to homes it did that in barcelona did that in parts of northern italy in the last day or so misses significant thunderstorms the temps drop isn't great but this is the disturbance to watch that's physic the position as it sits on sunday so here's the hot stuff that 30 plus not extreme is still quite warm or a less humid further west but learned that war from it goes out through the middle of the british isles but coming up close is a very unusual looking feature a summer storm a big circulation. these are the more usual ones thunderstorms and it's going to be

any way through the balkans to remain here and then out to germany where you see those there's a cool breeze blowing down through moscow 14 degrees that will eventually penetrate into ukraine money even drop temptress significantly but not by tuesday however look at that circulation over england cloud wind and rain in 21 degrees 25 in paris we did expect to see that in the middle the summer. a conflict that is now considered to be the world's worst humanitarian crisis no man would not have to die like this or stop his harness is really for sale an investigation into how billions of euros are made from supplying arms to saudi arabia a leader of the coalition fighting a war in the south the case is interesting to watch the amounts of money involved

yemen war profiteers on al-jazeera we know the culture we know the problems that affect this part of the world very very well and that is something that we're trying to take to the rest of the world we have gone to places and reported on a story that it might take an international network for months to be able to do it united nations peacekeepers have to go in anti-riot. we are challenging the forces we're challenging companies who are going to places where nobody else is going. welcome back a quick look at the top stories now as many as 65 people have been killed in

a suspected booka rama tac in northeast nigeria the raid happened during a funeral in borno state. police have cleared the streets of hong kong after a 2nd night of protests and violence dozens of arrests were made as groups battle for control of the streets in the russian opposition leader alexina valmy has been moved from prison to hospital with an acute allergic reaction he was jailed for 30 days on wednesday off to calling for saturday's anti-government demonstrations where almost 400 people arrested joining us now via skype from southern france is the eva she is a member of the russia and eurasia security research group at king's college london so in terms of the protests that we have seen over the past few days it's been quite a turnout how would you say this compares to the demonstrations we have seen in recent years in russia. proved as how be in the very very minimal because our

generous estimate that there were 6000 people coming in the streets of moscow was as a city of 10000000 residents of us we would say this is absolutely minuscule what is important overreaction all day was the city authorities wished employed almost the same number of police and muscle god and all other security agencies to police these are really tiny demonstration so how do you explain that strong security response if the purpose that the presence of the protestors didn't justify it as you say yes i well it is a little existence threat yet they're not the most racially profiled just on the ground from happening all the time over all sorts of easier so there have been absolutely huge the most stations are taught well the welfare state has been seriously challenged but this is

a lot of the case now but this is yes or it is all basically have examples of are you crazy examples of that paris of france in mind protests which start with something very peaceful. wild and then suddenly grow to the proportional where you cannot control them that's why they did they every will be right left uncertain tough people have been detained who had nothing to do will probably does who were entranced by famine is people walking and around not even then there is in protest being organized so that's quite dangerous because by doing that the authorities us can create a problem where there is in fact none what about the hospitalization of alexina valmy how important is that. i will think that it just was probably coincidence big also not widely known has been very good tool although in that it our. clinic is

a lot in the area saw it that it confinement. not one has been arrested all of this is that that this is a threat the prison i don't think built if years old but having some horrible cease. if you start really was kind of. mentally handicapped or some really ugly venial disease that we would think good thoughts exist because it's most likely being the incidence all right thank you joining us there from king's college london thank you. right now want to move on to another story i've been following closely a powerful explosion the afghan capital has killed 2 people and injured at least $25.00 including the president's running mate in the upcoming election the afghan interior ministry says the attackers were targeting umbrella silos office in a busy part of kabul came on the 1st day of official campaigning for the

presidential vote so is a former member of afghanistan's main intelligence agency and is regarded as one of the taliban's fiercest opponents meanwhile president bush afghani has kicked off his bid for another term as you're saying by announcing that peace is coming and promising to start peace talks with the taliban but the group has already rejected his peace minister's claim that direct talks would be held in the next 2 weeks a spokesman said talks with the afghan government government would only come after a deal is finalized with the u.s. over withdrawal of the troops. well hubby bardach is a politics lecturer at cardon university. so this is not the 1st time the government has announced that they will go into direct talks with the taliban and perhaps this is not the last time and every time they have talked about going into direct talks with the taliban the taliban have flatly rejected it and did the statement that came out from the taliban was basically saying dad all of those people who wear the who will be from the government and the. dialogue will be

that in their personal capacity as it looks like the taliban have live coverage as far as this whole peace process is concerned they are talking to the americans directly and the african government feels left out on the other side you have president danny who is focusing on the elections this priority is elections to ensure that he comes to power for another 5 years i don't know if demand to be due to show that they are involved but i think president gandhi wanted to show dad peace has some some level of priority as well as just not the elections. 5 medical workers have been killed at least 8 injured in an airstrike launched by libyan warlord khalifa after us forces medical sources say the strike hit a field hospital in southern tripoli not up to why it sent us this update from the scene of the attack. since the beginning of the military campaign launched by warlord plea for help that on april the force to take control of the capital

tripoli medical facilities including field hospitals ambulances and medical workers have been so vulnerable this field hospital is only about 5 kilometers away from the front line in the vicinity of the all the active international airport in southern tripoli was hit by an airstrike on saturday 5 medical workers including 4 doctors and one rescuer were killed 7 others were wounded in medical workers here tell us that these are the remains of the guy who did the rocket that hit the field hospital and they say that this. was most probably launch should by. a drone we understand that immorality drones have been supporting have this forces the beginning of the fighting medical workers here tell us that.

there are still remains body parts of the victims under the rubble there is blood on the wall blood of the victims. of the explosion was huge that it is just destroyed everything here and as you can see here inside the glass is shut off and that there is also a lot of the victims here beds are destroyed and. this field hospital has been fully evacuated and we know that since the beginning of the fighting on april the 4th. several field hospitals were told to but have to fighter jets many medical workers and the rescuers were killed or wounded some who lost their limbs and the world health organization along with rights rights organizations have been calling on both rival factions of the

conflict to go until the safety of the medical workers but so far it seems that all those calls have gone unheard iran's nuclear negotiator says an emergency meeting in vienna over the fate of the iran nuclear deal has been constructive a plus iraq she says to her on will continue to reduce its nuclear commitments if the europeans fail to salvage the banks a vienna meeting between all the signatories of the deal minus the us has called us tensions sore between iran and the west european parties have been trying to keep the deal alive after president trump withdrew from it last year in the past one month. for several developments. regarding the implementation of the juice if you're a. doctor was regarding. you know the doctrine of. commitments which reported by the way. and also we have some complaints about. you know proper implementation of the requests by the other side i mean the europeans

in particular well after the meeting iran accused person of breaching the nuclear deal by seizing one of its oil tankers off gibraltar earlier this month to iran says under the agreement it's entitled to export oil without any impediment but person says the iranian tanker was in breach of international sanctions last week a british flag tanker was impounded by iran in the strait of hormuz in an apparent retaliatory move. well years of war and instability have damaged iraq's gas and oil infrastructure up the country has become dependent on energy imports especially from iran despite having huge reserves of its own but as a solid binge of aid reports or is a bear iraq is trying to change that with help from some big overseas investment. claims like this one help keep the lights on across iraq electricity is in high demand specially during the summer and power plants rely on gas most of it comes from fields like the basra gas field in the south and because it's associated gas

with oil a single bill provides both oil and gas but iraq doesn't produce enough gas for its power stations a 3rd of what it needs is imported from iran. in the 1980 s. raining jets took out most of iraq's oil and gas infrastructure and the sanctions that followed saddam hussein's invasion of kuwait stalled any redevelopment. now iraq's economy is weak the u.s. is an important ally and bought saudi arabia and iran on its neighbors iranian gas is a burden on baghdad stretched budget and a loaded issue for domestic and regional politics prime minister made he wants to make iraq energy independent his oil minister has already signed multibillion dollar deals with international companies such as honeywell eggs on and shell unfortunately because although it would be late and that's why really the guys and he was lagging behind. we are concentrating on this and the boss who used to bet

on one dollar 50 per cent 2 years 2 or 3 years ago when we did i think about $55.00 . $45.00 i want to be realistic or the 5 years that it will be i would dare to say there were big bills not flows that use you know ok and this of course will lead to many advantages one of course a whiting got for power generation that will definitely make. energy independent who don't need to import and of course and instead overburdening will make you know what i mean you know that. maintaining a gas field under $46.00 degrees is anything but easy but these iraqis are making sure that they continue to pump the gas which helps run their country besides the gas needed for electricity these gas fields also produce other types for domestic use and export 75 percent of the provide petroleum l.p.g.

come from disgust but it is a facility which is more than 25 years old that's why this section of the plant is being renovated it's electrical mechanical the instruments more are being replaced . to do these upgrades requires major investment iraq's government says despite obstacles like corruption and an unstable region investors are coming to baghdad. among the crowd you know gas is the primary resource in the southern region especially to generate electricity most of the old power plants were motor 5 from liquid fuel operations to cast power plants as there was an urgent need for investment and to upgrade production as tensions escalate between the u.s. and iran iraq wants to diffuse so it can attract more companies to help achieve baghdad becoming energy independent which i'm a majority down to 0 holders of bear buster human rights groups in israel are pushing for young palestinians to be allowed to make telephone calls while and

attention 210 palestinians under the age of 18 a being held in israeli jails with many not allowed to contact their families or a lawyer and to everyone has more from in the occupied west bank. i thought of it as he missed his little sister doreen the most israeli authorities held the 15 year old under arrest for 3 months last year charging him with throwing stones at israeli soldiers he says he was questioned without any good counsel or member of his family being present and he only saw his mother once from a distance while he was detained. my friend was a recent with me the israeli interrogator told him that i confessed against him that he threw stones they wanted him to confess against me as well he came back to the prison room angry and shouting thinking that i did that to him he almost hit me via palestinian prisoners associations say that teenagers like target and even younger children are often arrested late at night or during confrontations with the

israeli army in the occupied west bank they are tried in military court and around half a storage is of hurling stones that carry a prison sentence of around 6 months now the israeli human rights organization how good is but titian in the courts to allow minors to have access to phones the phone contact with the pick families is doubly important i mean of course it's a basic right but also when you look at everything these kids are going through it's very important for them to have some sort of support from their families. you know i meant to try to fill that void he spent 2 years in jail until his release a few weeks ago and looked after young that he needs while he was there he says some inmates whereas youngest 12 and found him the only consolation so all year but some of them start crying they tell me i want my parents i want my mom but i know there's little i can do so i'm forced a lot of them i say you'll be able to talk to mom soon and should visit in 10 days just so they can calm down and start to die.