it's colleague and leader of integrity who's always served our country will 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 day it's unlikely that dan coats will read to children with his wife at another white house easter egg roll. it was a boy here was a girl and enjoyed disagreement with no consequence to like the story my kind of al-jazeera washington in guatemala hundreds have protested against a controversial migration deal between their government and the us demonstrators rallied in front of the presidential palace in guatemala city against the agreement

president giving morale assigned with washington on friday they want him to resign over the deal which was agreed after president trump threatened to impose tariffs and guatemala it means migrants passing through the central american country must seek asylum there rather than continuing on to the us. 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 and mob violence as well as beijing's interference but it ended in violent confrontations with the city center under siege sara clark has the latest from hong kong. cinching hong kong was in chaos this place moved in to create tens of thousands of people rallying in the district . the demonstration began pistillate 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 police lines cordoned off the area protesters blocked some access points and targeted police trying paint bombs glass and bricks any loose objects they could get their hands on special place and the tactical response units who did firing several rounds of tear gas in a bid to push the groups but. this is the 2nd night in a row where we've seen violent clashes between police and protesters place a flood several rounds of t.v.'s and rubber bullets on the demonstrators but a lot does demonstrate is refusing to let. the tense standoff 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 government trying to attack us it is. massive just in time it is a massive achievement as a result of poor government i don't think it's going to happen unfortunately is heading towards. escalation of violence and looking possible tasso to use the fatalities. on monday china's top policy adviser is expected to respond to the political process that's gripped a few of the british territory for months the hong kong government and protest is refusing to budge this really is unlikely to be the last. al-jazeera hong kong.

while the hong kong government has accused some of the protestors of violence arson and putting the public safety at risk in a statement 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 and stop all violent behaviors with a view to receiving public order as soon as possible. well we have plenty more of this news hour including. we will tell you if a delegation from me and maher has convinced rangar refugees to leave bangladesh plus. i'm sure all of it in basra and i'll tell you what we've done a great iraq in preference to rely more on its own production rather than import. and then sports colombia has its 1st ever tour de france champion peter we'll have that story and all the sports.

that britain has sent a 2nd warship to the gulf to protect u.k. flag vessels crossing the street of hamas the h.m.s. duncan has joined a british frigate already stationed there the warships will be escorting vessels sailing through the strait the deployment follows iran seizure for u.k. flag the oil tanker more than a week ago well iran's nuclear negotiator says an emergency meeting in vienna over the fate of the iran nuclear deal has been constructive but as iraq he says tehran will continue to reduce its nuclear commitments if europe fails to salvage the pact the vienna meeting between the remaining signatories of the deal was called tensions are soaring between iran and the west the european parties have been trying to keep the deal alive after the u.s. withdrew from it last year in the past one month. several developments. regarding the implementation of. some of that was regarding. you know the doctrine

of. commitments which reported by the. i.a.e.a. and also we have some complaints about. you know proper implementation of the means by the other side i mean the europeans in particular. but after the meeting iran accused britain a breaching the nuclear deal by seizing one of its oil tankers of gibraltar earlier this month there on says under the agreement it's entitle to export oil without any impediment but britain says they run in tanker was in breach of the sanctions against syria a british flag tanker was impounded by iran in the streets of or most 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 it having huge reserves so now it wants to attract overseas investments to help that 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 a single barrel 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 development now iraq's economy is weak the us is an important ally and both saudi arabia and iran are its neighbors 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 if he were to delay it and that's why really. and he was lagging behind now. we are concentrating on this and the possible use to burn more in both of those 2 years 2 or 3 years ago when. 55. $45.00 i want to be realistic or the 5 years that it will be i would dare to say there are because those of us who know. this of course will lead to many advantages one of course a white in gaza for power generation that will definitely make. energy independent who don't need to import and of course and instead. 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 this 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 and mechanical the instruments for. to do these upgrades requires major investment iraq's government says despite obstacles like corruption and an unstable region investors are coming to back that. the. gas is the primary resource in the southern region especially to generate electricity most of the old power plants were motive from liquid fuel operations to cast power plants as 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. holders of air bus or in the next in our series on iraq's energy sector will be looking at how the country plans to expand to oil production that will be from 7 g.m.t. . 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 has been no confirmation from saudi authorities and the movies say it was a response to the latest airstrikes by the saudi u.a.e. led coalition they have 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 activists and ahmed al malaki there's 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 of 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 people. jail's russian opposition leader alexina vonnie has been taken to hospital with severe facial swelling and rashes after suffering what's been believed to be an acute allergic reaction the volley was arrested on wednesday after calling for an authorised to anti-government demonstrations he was sentenced to 30 days in prison his folks women says he's in a stable condition but he's never suffered a similar reaction before and the cause is unknown almost

a 1400 people were arrested in those protests that volley called for that's according to an independent monitoring group russian police violently arrested demonstrators in moscow on saturday as they marched against the barring of some opposition candidates from september's city election police chiefs justified their response saying the rallies were illegal independent monitors say around 150 people remain in custody imran khan has more details from moscow. nellie's 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 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 out 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 a 1000 people were arrested the process is much closer 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 remain as president has

promised to punish those responsible for the slow police response to a teenager who was raped and murdered in a case that shocked the country officers took 19 hours to respond to recalls to emergency services thousands have protested in the capital bucharest a 65 year old man has confessed to the murder as well as killing of another teenage girl who went missing in april romania's police chief has been fired over the case . refugees are refusing to return to me in marja spite 2 days of talks with diplomats from 6 southeast asian countries hundreds of thousands of reindeer remain in camps in bangladesh after fleeing violence from me and maurice military 2 years ago they want citizenship and guarantees of safety sandwich other he has this report from the refugee camps in cox is bizarre. 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 an 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 vest 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 headed 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 on mars delegation was unwilling to give citizenship to their own even at the meeting me and my us government has never recognised the rowing as a community often treating them as immigrants from bangladesh in response to a question asked by al-jazeera in regard to the citizenship issue this is what the representative maurice ministry of foreign affairs have to say of course according to the law that may not be entitled for the full fledged citizenship but they are entitled to naturalized citizenship and eventually their sons and daughters and grandsons and daughters will be entitled the city. into full fledged citizenship nearly 2 years into the crisis there has not yet been any remarkable progress regarding the repatriation of nearly

a 1000000 rohingya refugees living in what is now the world's largest refugee camp the latest talk between a me and my delegation and community leaders for owning a refuges here in cox's bazar have ended without any major breakthrough both sides agreed that dialogue should continue in an attempt to resolve critical issues still causing concern tanvir chaudhry al jazeera could appollo cox is bizarre. and still ahead in august there are air strikes in syria last rebel stronghold of intensified despite u.n. warnings of war crimes being committed. holy sites are rubbish dump the pilgrims polluting enshrined in indian administered kashmir. and in sports a wet n wild german grand prix for the world champion and his team of bats and more in our sports roundup.

however you may wonder where the seasonal rains the plum rains have gone in china they disappear the last few days and there's not much evidence of them here other claim the cloud is building any. growing darker but actually i think it's this line of here that stretches of the sichuan to the will be on the top of your screen which is the active frontal system has been somewhat dispersed and circulation developing in the south china sea just the west of luzon is going to further complicate things heavy rain seems like even for the northern philippines and stronger showers into hong kong but not much in southern charm exception and back towards the hard ground you know and across to north eastern india and the western side of me involved look particularly wet the moment south of all the action well you know it's having the philippines but the new precious few shows beyond that

mostly indonesia's in the dry season no surprise there although many showers but those that do appear can be quite big and again singapore in k.l. could well see want to they're not particularly heavy usually wanted a light one monsoon rains but a bit disappointing up to this point but for a lot of rain in maharashtra particularly in mumbai and i think in the next day or so we'll see quite a large area start to turn properly wet in india. sponsored by cats. on culture because this week south africa is debt laden companies need a bailout before they cripple the economy we'll take a look at taylor swift with big business over who owns her music plus we find out why radio because i'm looking for work in boulder who will. charge you the cost of al-jazeera. new yorkers are very receptive. because it is such an international city they are very interested in that global perspective that al-jazeera provides

take the worst possible material you radio grinded into dust comparable to flour and make up. and put it into place where people live think is a colossal event. as well and so many people are thinking this is the silent heat. but does it make you feel like you feel like a movie we have created an enormous momentum disaster. and investigation south africa toxic city on al-jazeera. again you know watching odds is there a let me take you through our main stories this hour. because.

there's been a shooting at a food festival in california at least 11 people have been reported injured and at least 2 seriously it happened at an event and gilroy south of san francisco. in nigeria as many as $65.00 people have been killed in suspected boko haram tax in the north east their way to pay. a funeral in borno state. and back in the u.s. 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. the twitter tirade after baltimore congressman elijah cummings criticized his mexican border policy. airstrikes are intensifying and serious adlib province despite u.n. warnings that war crimes are being committed now on saturday 13 civilians including

several children were killed in the raids the syrian government has been on a 3 month offensive to catch the last major rebel stronghold so in other parts. 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 you don't really know what the no rebel patients will 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 u.n. remains 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 at their wrist except we moved closer to the border with turkey but how do we know the players want to hit 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 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 repeated lee said it needed more time because forcing somewhere whole 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. mark cuts the united nations deputy regional humanitarian coordinator for the syria crisis and he says it is one of the most dangerous places in the world well it's an absolutely distraught situation for civilians. there day and night we've seen and escalating situation throughout the last 3 months this bombing has been going on now for more than 3 months and. there are. more than 3000000 civilians who are living in this area. more than $1000000.00 of them are children we're talking about attacks that are landing in crowded residential areas and they'd be hitting marketplaces and schools and hospitals and bakeries and other civilian objects and we now have

a completely terrorized traumatized population it's really one of the most dangerous places if not the most dangerous place in the world to be if you're a civilian today. turkey hosts more than 3 and a half 1000000 syrians have been arriving since the war began 80 years ago but refugees in istanbul now have an august 20 deadline to return to the turkish province where they were registered those who weren't registered will be sent to camps near the border sent him cos he explains why. 24 year old but still mohamed arrived in turkey illegally 8 years ago he managed to get a turkish id but when you brought his wife to the hospital to deliver a baby a few years ago he was told the documents were fake. i don't have the idea i'm scared when i'm going to work and going home my wife and son don't have turkish i.d.'s either when i go to immigration they tell me to go and register in

a different city but there aren't many jobs there. according to the latest operational data there are at least 3600000 syrians in turkey off that 103000 live in camps while over health a 1000000 more live here in a stumble but officials believe the numbers are much higher syrians in turkey were given a temporary protection status under the assumption the war would have ended by now and that they will be able to return home. under this policy they are allowed to stay in specific cities or provinces in which they are registered and have access to health care and education but officials have stopped registering syrian refugees in big cities like a stumble on car or on salah. after syrians and actors in the field understood this crisis will not easily be over syrians began to seek permanent solutions to their needs that let them to move to cities where they can find more jobs and work the interior ministry says it wants to keep the number of unregistered refugees under

control and is sending some of them to camps it also insists turkey will not become a center for illegal migration he stumbles governor's office has set a deadline of august 21st syrians to return to the cities where they are. registered following that decision rights groups gathered in istanbul for a news conference and sat it was unfair to force syrians to go back to the cities where they are registered in and that they should have been informed earlier to make plans families now risk being split their victims are single or state is trying to preserve public order you can't really party them to syria but you can send them to a 3rd country for the foreign protection of low hours you too turkey is facing pressure on many fronts from a declining economy to political and regional prices the government says it does not want any potential risk from unregistered syrians or those with a criminal record but what's groups and others urge to do authorities to look into

reports of syrians being forced to leave and accusations of police mistreatment. a few nationalists disrupted saturday's news conference they say they want all syrians to leave turkey see now console al-jazeera stumble. 5 medical workers have been killed and at least 7 more injured in an airstrike by libyan warlord khalifa haftar us forces medical sources say the strike hit a field hospital in southern tripoli. had sent us this update from the scene of the attack. since the beginning of the military campaign wanted by warlords had 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 this were killed 7 others were wounded 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 it 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 of blood of the victims. the explosion was huge that it is just destroyed everything here and as you can see here inside the

glass is shattered and the 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 4th several field hospitals were told to by 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 right 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 heard pope francis is calling on the international community to act after the latest tragedy tragedy involving migrants and refugees

trying to cross the mediterranean 55 bodies have so far been recovered after a boat carrying up to 300 migrants capsized off the coast of libya on thursday it is feared that up to 150 people may have died. who are praise to. their brothers and sisters it is with pain i learn the news about the shipwreck that happened in recent days in the waters of the mediterranean sea where dozens of people including women and children lost their lives or renew our heartfelt appeal for the international community to promptly and decisively to avoid a repetition of similar tragedies and to guarantee the safety and dignity of all. a powerful explosion in the afghan capital has killed 2 people and injured at least $25.00 including the president's running mate in the upcoming elections the afghan interior ministry says the attackers were targeting i'm off this which is in

a busy part of kabul it came on the 1st day of official campaigning for the presidential vote is a former head of afghanistan's main intelligence agency and is regarded as one of the taliban's fiercest opponents and president ashraf ghani kicked off his bid 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 to be held in the next 2 weeks. hobbit wide arc is a lecture of 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 it indeed this statement that came out from the top.