group where they are in group love their group and that they dislike that out group and he's trying to create a case where he sees that there is a balancing of america america's becoming more brown black and brown people and he's trying to create us versus them and that's t. the fact he's trying to create it us versus them if he can try and you know create contagion where you move these moderate whites into a us against them then the republicans win and this is clearly its efforts to win the white house thank you no manners deandre are a great to speak to and get your insights thank you but you've been having me well in another development in washington the u.s. president has his top spy chief stepping down than coats will resign as the director of national intelligence next month his departure follows weeks of speculation after a public disagreement with donald trump on foreign policy i caught a house this report why this was the moment that it would appear most and good

president trump flanked by soprano intelligence chiefs dan coats presents the annual worldwide threat assessment to the senate intelligence committee or mine and essentially says that the basis for the president's enthusiastic endorsement up north korea and good intentions is not just flawed but wrong we currently assess that north korea will seek to retain its wm d. capabilities and is unlikely to completely give up its nuclear weapons and production capabilities because its leaders ultimately view nuclear weapons as critical to regime survival. in response the president angrily tweeted that intelligence should go back to school today. no i disagree with certain things that they said i think on the way but time will prove that time will prove me right probably then an oval office meeting with the intelligence chiefs followed

by this version of events and they said that they were totally misquoted and they were totally it was taken out of context so what i do is i'd suggest that you call them they said it was faked is so which frankly isn't surprised that this was not the 1st time they'd been disagreement the director of national intelligence repeatedly did mining the president's view that there was doubt about the level of russian involvement in u.s. politics and on at least one occasion visibly surprised that news coming from the white house we have some breaking news the white house has announced on twitter that lattimer putin is coming to the white house in the far him again i don't coats was the last national security figure left from the very 1st time cabinet and even though he had no intelligence background he'd earned bipartisan respect in congress with many messages of support in recent weeks d.n.i.

dent coats is a good friend to former senate colleague and leader of integrity who's always served our country well said senator susan collins i served on the joint economic committee with dan coats as representative done by a he was widely respected and trusted by everyone on both sides is a man of integrity but trump doesn't want integrity he wants people who tell him what he wants to hear and intil leaders who will agree that 2 plus 2 equals 5 and i beautiful spring it's unlikely that dan coats will read to children with his wife at another white house easter egg roll. it was a boy. if it was a girl and enjoy a disagreement with no consequence to like the story my kind of al-jazeera washington. and for more on this we can go live now to patty cocaine in washington d.c. so patty as we heard there in my cannas reports it's been a litany of events where. dan coats has been at odds with president trump and his

policies so why step down now. well it remains to be seen whether he stepped down or he was forced out by the president the president taking to twitter to announce that he was leaving notably we didn't hear it 1st from the director of national intelligence coats now all eyes are going to turn to the person that donald trump wants to replace him with that is representative john ratcliffe so what do we know about john radcliffe well he doesn't have any experience in intelligence if you look at the statue creating the d.n.i. the executive order it is said that it should go to somebody who has some intelligence experience that would be the preferred candidate he's a congressman a couple term congressman former u.s. attorney former mayor of a very small city in texas so he's going to have to face confirmation now again the republicans control the senate and they have been able to pretty much give the president exactly what he wants when it comes to his nominees but the intelligence

community in which he is 1st to have to face their national questions form because if you look at his history representative radcliffe really rose to prominence by just this past week going after robert muller the former special counsel he definitely made it clear that he views intelligence matters to a partisan lines that's going to concern democrats for sure in the senate but it remains to be seen if you can convince republicans that he's going to be able to do this very important job which is to coordinate the 16 different intelligence agencies inside the united states and give the information to the president that he needs not the information that he wants but right so as he said that congress has to ratify is nomination are his appointments how much concern is there about the independence of the inside of intelligence community and about presidents trump weighing in on the decisions of the intelligence community. there's been a huge amount of concern about this exact topic because this is a president who simply dismisses any intelligence that doesn't fit in with his

world view he believes he can make a deal with north korea and when they test missiles or when the intelligence community says they could still be developing nuclear weapons the president simply dismisses it he likes to go back and say look how wrong they were about iraq i was right even though he was actually for the war and so he just basically dismisses the intelligence community he's a hugely critical of these career government workers who work in this in this agency and all the different intelligence agencies there is a concern about what this will do to morale there's concern about what this will do to the president's inner circle there were a lot of establishment republicans when president 1st came into office and said look the end they perhaps not so nicely called them the grown ups in the room but they were they were confident because of who the president surrounded himself with secretary jim met a secretary tellers and dan coats they all had some experience either in the international affairs or within government or within the military so there is

growing concern among people who follow national security that this just continues a trend the other issue here is the president as missing a lot of cabinet members and he has said he likes when they're acting because they're more pliable and that is going to be a concern here because the question is as the president seems to go their cabinet member so quickly is this representative going to have what it takes to stand up to the president say no this is important this is national security and this is what is real so that's going to be the big question as he faces confirmation ok thank you very much patrick ohayon with the latest on the u.s. top spy chief stepping down. we have plenty more still ahead this news hour including. the opposition leader jailed for calling protests in moscow as washed a hospital we'll have those details. how livestock farming is contributing to what environmentalists and byron mentalists call the climate emergency. and sports

colombia has its 1st tour de france champion peter will be here with that story and more. airstrikes are intensifying in syria province despite your un warnings that war crimes are being committed on saturday at least 13 civilians including several children were killed in the raids the syrian government has been on a 3 month offensive to capture the last magic rate major rebel stronghold other reports. another lifeless body pulled from the rubble another syrian child a victim of the airstrikes by russian and syrian warplanes the town of a rehab has been repeatedly hit in recent days and yet again residential buildings have been targeted however how do you know you don't really know what's around know rebel places or fighters here this is a residential neighborhood look children live here what is their crime the syrian

people are being bombed by planes and the un remained silent. opposition controlled towns across the southern countryside of it live and northern hama are under fire people there say they are being bombed into submission but that surrendering is not an option since they have nowhere else to go this is the last rebel held territory in syria people going to. do all this year of people need to die so that she can stay in power is everyone a terrorist except we moved closer to the border with turkey but how do we. no the greatest want to get us here. the recent escalation in violence is worsening the displacement crisis according to the united nations many people are living in the open air because there is overcrowding in camps and reception centers more than 440000 syrians have been made homeless in the last 3 months how long then the.

building was bones and all our belongings are under the rubble we came out and didn't know where to go we have nothing there's no water no bathrooms no tents for the children there under the sun. many people have been displaced more than once and many towns and villages are now empty. in our house and car for zito was hit so we left a hoss and again we were targeted we survived but our neighbor was killed it was too dangerous to stay so we came here we hope this place will be safe. that will depend on russia and turkey russia which backs the syrian government and turkey which supports the opposition co-sponsored a cease fire and last year the deal collapsed when russia supported a syrian government offensive in april blaming turkey for not fulfilling its commitments to an agreed demilitarized zone around the province turkey repeatedly said it needed more time because forcing somewhere will groups from this zone would

have put civilian lives at risk there is nothing that indicates the ceasefire will be revived soon. 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 son 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. istanbul. who the rebels in yemen say they've launched a drone attack on a civilian airport in southern saudi arabia the airport has come under repeated attack in recent weeks there's been no confirmation from saudi authorities who say it will soon response to the latest air strikes by the saudi u.a.e. led coalition they've been fighting for more than 4 years. crowds in bahrain have taken to the streets once again to protest the execution of 2 men they

were killed by firing squad on saturday after being convicted on terrorism charges a mock funeral has been held for shia activist ali our rob and. there has been widespread international condemnation following the executions rights group amnesty international says the men were beaten and tortured in custody to obtain confessions and protesters in sudan's capital have returned to the streets to voice their anger over the investigation into last month's brutal crackdown on a sit in demonstration sudan's military council is blaming a few rogue officers for the violence which the opposition says killed at least $100.00 people there's been another night of clashes in hong kong with police firing several rounds of tear gas at protesters the rally began as a peaceful march with tens of thousands of people voicing their anger at police in mob violence as well as china's interference but it ended in violent confrontations

with the city under siege sorry clark has the latest from hong kong. since your home com was in chaos his place moved into k. tens of thousands of people rallying in the district. the demonstration began paced early the situation quickly unraveled. despite numerous calls for police to disperse the protesters resisted instead they moved to the west and districts on hong kong island surrounding a major police station as well as the chinese government's representative office blockades was set up and place lines cordoned off the area protest is blocked some access points and targeted police try paint bombs glass and bricks any loose objects they could get the hands on special place and the tactical response units moved in firing several rounds of tear gas and a bit to push the groups back. this is the 2nd not in

a row where we've seen violent clashes between police and protesters place of blood several rounds of t.v.'s and rubber bullets on the demonstrators but a lot does demonstrate is refusing to let. the tense stand off went on for several hours but after midnight protesters were eventually face to retreat this rally began with tens of thousands marching in opposition to a proposed extradition bill that's now been shelves after months of rallies it's become a broader movement calling for greater democracy in hong kong some fear the situation will only escalate we won't give up until the last war we won't give up until the child was trying to attack us it is a massive discontent it is a massive arrest as a result of or government i don't think is going to happen unfortunately is heading towards. escalation of violence and looking at possible

tasso to use or even if it can. on monday china's top policy adviser is expected to respond to the political crisis that's gripped the feel of a british territory for months the hong kong government and protesters refusing to budge this really is unlikely to be the last. al-jazeera hong kong. well the hong kong government has accused protesters of violence arson and putting public safety at risk in a statement it said we strongly condemn the radical protesters who disregarded the law and order and violently breach the public peace we will continue to give full support to the police to strictly enforce the law to stop all violent behaviors with a view to resuming public order as soon as possible. chilled russian opposition leader alexina valmy has been taken to hospital with severe facial swelling and rashes after suffering what's believed to be an acute allergic

reaction the ali was arrested on wednesday after calling for an authorised anti government demonstrations he was sentenced to 30 days in prison his spokeswoman says he's in a stable condition but he's never suffered a similar reaction before and the cost is unknown and ron khan has more from moscow . not 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 suit 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 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 police say about 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 moscow city council 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 them. and still ahead an al-jazeera will tell you if a delegation from me and maher has convinced during their refugees to leave bangladesh plus. i'm not all big of

a big barbara and i'll tell you what we've done to upgrade iraq for improper care certain rely more on it want production rather than important jobs. and in sports a wet and wild german grand prix for the world champion and his team will tell you more in our sport product. in the central valley of california there's a warning out for extreme heat and there you can see the satellite picture what you can see is the storms that been running around the far south of california more especially yes or canyon counties canyon country and general high grounds for the across the northern plains and this i think will develop into a line of thunderstorms the head of the circulation somewhere in eastern canada not unusual for summer of course some of them could be quite deep they might sports

tonight or more likely just a bit of hail and some heavy rain ahead of it is warm quite human 34 or thereabouts in washington san francisco of course is always couldn't central rally 17 or 18 in the sunshine that's a picture come tuesday where the showers have moved a bit of it further east now sizable this significant rain daily shows usually when this case quite big ones of running through the lesser antilles right up to the greater antilles and they are still there in the forecast on monday and probably tuesday this is going to be a wet spell for the caribbean further west castell big showers in cuba jamaica i think the coast of guatemala and down towards costa rica not as heavy as it was temperature wise back up to normal but as there is a little bit shy right should be there's still some rain in southern brazil. it could be the biggest land grab in history. as powerful nations lay claim to

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hello again you're watching let me take you through our top stories this hour as many as 65 people have been killed in suspected boko haram attacks in northeast nigeria the raid happened during a funeral in borno state. president donald trump is once again being accused of racism following his online attack against a prominent african-american politician and the district he represents. tirade after a baltimore congressman elijah cummings criticized his mexican border policies. and protests in hong kong have ended violently with tear gas fire to demonstrators for a 2nd day tens of thousands protested perceived violence as well as interference

from beijing. britain has sent a 2nd a warship to the gulf to protect u.k. flag vessels crossing the strait of hormuz the h.m.s. duncan has joined a british frigate already stationed there the warships will be escorting vessels sailing through the streets the deployment follows iran seizure for u.k. flagged oil tanker more than a week ago. so iran's nuclear negotiator says an emergency meeting in vienna over the fate of the iran nuclear deal has been constructive but she says tehran will continue to reduce its nuclear commitments if europe fails to salvage the pact the vienna meeting between the remaining sing the trees of the deal was called the tensions so war between iran and the west european parties have been trying to keep the deal alive after the u.s. withdrawal from it last year in the past one month. several developments.

regarding the implementation of the g.c. if your way some of that was regarding the. you know the doctrine of. commitments which reported by the boy or you and also we have some complaints about. you know proper implementation of the means by the other side i mean the europeans in particular well after the meeting iran accused britain of breaching the nuclear deal by seizing one of its oil tankers often brought her earlier this month so iran says under the greenman it isn't subtle to export oil without any impediment of britain says they run in tanker was in breach of the e.u. sanctions against syria a british flag tanker was impounded by iran in the strait of hormuz more than a week ago in an apparent retaliatory move. years of war and instability have damaged iraq's gas and oil infrastructure leaving it dependent on energy imports that's despite having huge reserves so now it wants to attract

overseas investment to help the church turn that around osama bin job it has this report from zubair. 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. 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. took out most of iraq's oil and gas infrastructure in the sanctions that followed saddam hussein's invasion of kuwait stalled any development. now iraq's economy is weak the u.s. is an important ally and both saudi arabia and iran and its neighbors iranian gas is a burden on baghdad stretched budget and a loaded issue for domestic and regional politics prime minister ideal of the man

he wants to make iraq energy independent his own oil minister has already signed multibillion dollar deals with international companies such as honeywell eggs on and shell unfortunately because although they were delayed and that's why really the guys and us he was lagging behind now. we are concentrating on this and the boss who used to bear more than 50 per cent 3 years 2 or 3 years ago we are now at it i think about $55.00. $45.00 i want to be realistic port the 5 years that will be our debt to say there will become goals not those flows that is you know ok and this of course will lead to many advantages one of course awaiting gods for power generation that will definitely make. energy independent who don't need to import and of course and instead of burdening will make you know revenue out of it. 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 it out to provide petroleum gas or l.p.g. comes from this gas 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 the conical them instruments are being replaced. to do these upgrades requires meter investment rox government says despite obstacles like corruption red tape and an unstable region investors are coming to back that one. 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 has there was an urgent need for investment and to

upgrade production as tensions escalate between us and iran iraq wants to diffuse so it can attract more companies to help achieve baghdad becoming energy independent osama bin jawad out of the area holders of air bus or. medical workers have been killed and at least 7 more injured in an airstrike by libyan a war for half terrorist forces medical sources say the strike hits a field hospital in southern tripoli the british embassy in libya strongly condemned the killings saying hospitals are not to target their head centers this update from the scene of the attack. since the beginning of the military campaign launched by warlords 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 those forces since the beginning of the fighting medical workers here tell us that. there are still remains body parts of the victims on the rubble and as you can see here 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 the there is also a lot of the victims here beds are destroyed. in the. this field hospital has been fully evacuated and we know that since the beginning of the fighting through the force several field hospitals were told to by have to for you to the 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 on hold a powerful explosion in the afghan capital has killed 2 people and injured at least

$25.00 including the president's running mates in the upcoming election the afghan interior ministry says the attackers were targeting a moral solace office in a busy part of kabul it came on the 1st day of official campaigning for the presidential vote as a former head of afghanistan's main intelligence agency and is regarded as one of the taliban's fiercest opponents well president ashraf ghani kicked off his bed for another term by announcing that peace is coming and promising to start 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 the talks with the afghan government would only be possible after a deal is finalized with the u.s. over the withdrawal of its troops who are dark habeeb or dark is a lecturer government and politics at cardon university and he says it is important for the afghan government to be seen as focusing on more than just the upcoming

election. 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 and indeed this statement that came out from the taliban was basically saying that all of those people who were. who will be from the government and the europe. dialogue will be there in their personal capacity as it looks like the taliban have livery 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 some some level of priority as well as just not

the elections. are refugees are refusing to return to me and my despite 2 days of talks with diplomats from 6 southeast asian countries hundreds of thousands of running go remain in camps in bangladesh after fleeing violence from inmarsat military 2 years ago they want citizenship and guarantees of safety. he has this report from cox's bazaar in bangladesh. they came to the camps in bangladesh to convince the hundreds of thousands of rohingya to return to me on march that country's government sent a 14 member high level delegation for the job but many refugees here say they're not willing to go back without full citizenship and security guarantees definitely will not be considered. issue for us because we'll be granting them as an nationality of myanmar and then eventually we will be providing them with the id

cards where there will no longer be the issue of race or the issue of the their citizenship but for the few him the refugees there seems to be a window of hope i was. very grateful to the bangladesh government if the letter was we'd like to return to the delegates told us they'll give us back our land and property however the best majority of their own don't seems to know what was discussed in the meeting they came here looking for safety after me and mars army launched a crackdown that the u.n. has called an ethnic cleansing from which you know i understand that a delegation is here to solve the crisis and i feel good about it but i don't really know what they will say and discuss though several community leaders say me on mars delegation was unwilling to give citizenship to their anger even at the meeting me and my as government has never recognized the rowing as a community often treating them.