talks are useless in this case when the enemy uses fighter jets warships drawings and long range missiles against us then we should go after it believing in our military power and this is where we need the missile system and the fate of a british fly into oil tanker seized by iran a month ago remains unclear still it was stopped after an iranian flag tanker had been detained by the british territory of gibraltar since being released. said begg has more from the strait of hormuz. the british empire was seized by the revolutionary guard last month for what they say were violations of international maritime regulations they say the vessel had changed directions in the shipping lanes it collided with a fishing boat but also turned off the tracking systems to avoid iranian forces and iran says the seizure and release of this vessel has nothing to do with the iranian vessel that was seized by british royal marines off the coast of gibraltar although a foreign ministry spokesman said a few days ago that he hoped that the issue would be in front of the court and that

the ship would be released very soon now we're told that the crew are in good health and they are still on the boat but there is a concern about the military buildup in the region the u.s. the united states is putting together a naval coalition to what they say is to protect the freedom of navigation in the strait of hormuz iran says that any foreign forces are a destabilizing factor in the region and the countries in this area of free capable of providing security and stability for all shipping 20 percent of the world's oil passes through the strait of hormuz and there is a concern that with the increased tension there is an increased likelihood of a conflict. still to come here and our. new baby to send a range of refugees back to me a mountain looks to have failed. hello

again to welcome back we're here cross parts of japan and it has been rainy over the last few days and that is going to continue here as we go into friday as well plenty of clouds across much of the area and for tokyo on friday 28 degrees with plenty of rain there by the time we get to saturday though things begin to improve a lot of the rain makes its way towards the east we're going to stay mostly cloudy across much of the area but for tokyo expect to see your temperature going up to about 29 degrees where here across the western pacific we are watching a tropical storm right now making its way towards the northwest towards taiwan and the storm system is probably going to be making a landfall as we go into the weekend so expect to see the winds start to increase here on friday and by the time we get to saturday more clouds more rain as well as some storm surge across the southeastern coast of taiwan that's landfall could be taking place anywhere from saturday night into sunday morning but we'll be watching this very very closely for parts of the philippines though and we're going to be

seeing some rain associate with that tropical storm over the next few days but the state rain could lead to some localized flooding because some of those areas of showers with the feeder bands could be quite heavy for manila seeing attempt to here of 30 on friday and by the time we get towards saturday still heavy rain in the forecast and temperatures continuing at 30. what is resistance. to. crack people are grabbing social and political issues by the. time a scene creativity parody and protest to challenge and change ideas. gun a controversial witness documentary on al-jazeera.

to take a look at the top stories here it out as a torrent of water released from an indian worsened monsoon flooding in pakistan has left towns and villages underwater flood water has now covered hundreds of hectares in punjab province and their levels of rivers continue to rise. high school students have been rallying in hong kong showing best support for political reform in the city's government students want demonstrations to continue when the school year begins next month turkey and the u.s. are working out plans for a safe zone in northern syria after months of dispute over just how big it should be and who controls it the plan would eventually see joint patrols by turkish in us

soldiers. as we've just seen. in the british prime minister is. standing next to him of course the french president emanuel macro and what are they talking about no prize it's bricks that mr johnson is trying to convince the president and indeed the. yes of the e.u. to renegotiate the whole of the u.k. withdraw deal particularly what he wants is for the provisions around the irish border to be removed let's go live to our correspondent the trash about the she is there she's listening to all of this now boris johnson has just arrived in paris having had meetings with angela merkel who gave him i don't know if it's a conciliatory gesture or not but she said to him challenge him back and said you've got 30 days to come up with an alternative to the backstop which of course is the nub of the problem what sort of message is he getting from the french

president. when on that point he's actually just answering a question about that but i can't i can't hear him so i won't go directly to that but what i will tell you is that boris johnson came here to paris hoping that he was going to convince the french president and therefore other e.u. leaders to try and change their minds on the brig's negotiations to to change their position reopen the withdrawal agreement and scrap the backstop but what is very clear from him and all my calls response here at the least say is that well he's not going to change his mind the withdrawal agreement he says is not for renegotiation the backstop won't be scrapped he said the backstop was extremely important it's this insurance policy if you like that will in a way stall a return to a hard border between the republic of vine and part of the european union and northern ireland which is part of the u.k. and said it's very important of the backstop is there because it will ensure peace

in the future and that was very important he's also very adamant that the republic of ireland should be protected as a small member state within the european union so what we're seeing is 22 leaders really on 2 very different sides both sides that they are already on before this meeting and they continue to be on now the question is will there be any changes at all and it seems very unlikely on this particular point particularly. because boris johnson hasn't really come up with any alternatives as you mention he did say that perhaps he might come up with some ideas in the next 30 days or at least that was the german chancellor's proposal but so far there's nothing new here right and this meeting is taking place in just a couple of days before the g. 7 meets also in france in beer its president has hosted just quite recently vladimir putin some suggestions coming that it's time for russia these suggestions it got to be said coming from president it's time for russia to be

readmitted to the g. 7 what kind of position does deserve president and the other members of the g 7 taken that. well the in terms of the g 7 and russia are i mean you know it's very clear that putin is no longer part of the g 7 john or trying can say what he wants her to the other g 7 leaders don't necessary agree on that but back to the issue here or greg's it and i think that this meeting between boris johnson and emanuel marco was actually quite relevant in terms of timing before that summit that you've mentioned which will take place from saturday in the south of france in paris hosted by man or macro and in a way today gives him a chance really to reaffirm publicly his commitment of course to the european union something he feels very passionately about very strongly about he is a fierce supporter of the european union he also knows there in a few days he'll be seeing donald trump donald trump a critic of the european union somebody who's for voiced his support for brakes it

and ford johnson will actually meet johnson on the sidelines of that summit at the weekend and this is really an opportunity for him i know mark want to send out the message that the european union won't just a u. turn or back down on a whim. that trash about their lives at the palace thank you very much. that brazil's president has accused groups of lighting fires in the amazon rain forest simply to make him look bad the number of fires now burning is at a record level it's up 84 percent on the same time last year and many blame the policies of jiah balsa not a parallel is on the reports of the fires engulfing large swaths of the amazon rain forest the smoke is traveling far and wide it darkened the skies over sao paulo which is more than 2000 kilometers south of the burn area the scope of the fires is massive these satellite images from nasa show how the smoke has covered most of the

northern half of brazil which is larger than the whole of europe. the amazon produces 20 percent of the world's oxygen and is home to more than 3000000 species of plants and animals fires in the amazon are a natural occurrence often started by lightning strikes but that doesn't explain the sudden increase in fires this year which environmentalist say has been exacerbated by cattle ranchers and sorie farmers clearing forest at an increased pace enforcement of amazon burning has been scaled back under president bush the not of a long time skeptic of environmental concerns. slashed government funding to environmental agencies and on tuesday suggested the fires were being staged by n.g.o.s to embarrass his government i am under the impression that it could have been set by the n.g.o.s because they had asked for money what was their intention to bring about problems for brazil when fires burn in the amazon the area is so large

there's nothing firefighters can do to put them out when these fires finally do go away environmentalists say that damage will have been done here it is really much of a man and he wasted an innocent. ages to recruit forest and he can never be repaid in the original way the amazon rain forest often called the lungs of planet earth now filled with smoke and fire and choking one of the world's most diverse ecosystems gabriel isn't 0 how does either. more into the xeon soldiers have been sent to west papua to try to contain protests and riots that began there on monday demonstrators accuse the indonesian government of mistreating ethnic papuans students so high rat reports. police reinforcements have been sent to the west papuan to control protests that

have turned violent government buildings police cars and parts of an airport have been destroyed the police have been accused of racism after 43 when students were arrested for disrespecting the indonesians flag on independence day. there were reports one flag was settle lines outside a dormitory after being held for hours the students were released without charge. the government regrets the burning of the indonesian flag the incident is under investigation the incident was followed by negative statements which triggered violence and several areas over and west pop up provinces it is disrupting the nation's unity of. the protests came after videos were shared on social media showing a school being tear gassed 6 was and the students called monkeys a derogatory term used against ethnic pop ones was. 3 years and an e.c. has blamed indigenous pop and separatists for unrest in the west papuan region but

they accuse the government of human rights abuses. during protests on tuesday 258 inmates escaped from prison in the city of sarongs after it was set on fire the city's mayor called for calm. the bubble going to. come on let's join hand in hand together united in our hearts we were differences and maintain togetherness unity and solidarity between top one or non pop ones was denice in president joke order says he's committed to the welfare of all popcorns but it's not clear if his words will be enough to calm protesters they're now calling for a referendum on independence. and. so as sara just mentioned people there in west papua are demanding a vote on independence but it was a controversial referendum that made west papua part of indonesia in the 1st plates

the region which sits on the western side of the island of new guinea was once a dutch colony they started with during the 1950 s. west papuans then wanted to have their own country but instead indonesia began to assert its claim over the province then in 1962 indonesia was appointed temporary administrator under a un backed treaty well that agreement stated that a free and fair referendum be held on independence by the year 1969 so when that vote happened only a hired full of the local population were allowed to cast their ballots and some say they were actually coerced into voting to become part of indonesia and ever since security forces have been accused of committing human rights abuses against the locals indonesia's government denies this in says it's building infrastructure to improve west papuans lives one protester says they have suffered racism for decades with the word monkey is always used to insult us the pup and students this

is been going on for too long we don't have freedom to live here it's as though we're not indonesian citizens we're here to study we need to create problems but people have always treated us as if we're animals so there's been a new bid to repatriate thousands of refugees and it looks like it's failed almost $300.00 range of families interviewed by the un and the bangladeshi government all say they don't want to go back to me amar unless their safety and their citizenship are guaranteed bangladesh's repatriation will only go ahead if the families are willing stephanie decker has more. the 2nd time that authorities have tried to repatriate to send back some of the remainder refugees the 1st time was in november of last year no one wanted to go back then and it seems for now at least that remains the case. when you interview 295 listed families none of them expressed

their willingness to go back to their country at the moment this process will continue and anyone who says they want to go back we will facilitate their return to me and more now one of the core issues is trust part of that press conference was a member of china's embassy here also a member of me and more as diplomatic representatives i also them why they weren't allowing journalists particularly the united nations access to the areas where these people would be returning to because that of course is crucial even the united nations cannot give the guarantees to people here of what they will be facing on the other side. now to conservation where politicians a voted to dissolve parliament and that paves the way for new elections after the prime minister. resigned last month just take this through the details of this political crisis from the capital prishtina. in a very short session members of course will spot them and decide to disband the parliament and country will go to

a new general elections. president of the country touchy to set a date for the elections elections must be held 30 to 45 days since today's president said he will now have a very short consultations with the leaders of the major political parties in the country and he will set the date very fast all this is happening because the current prime minister i was resigned about a month ago when he was called by the special court in a hague in another land to be questioned about the role. you know war or the end of the ninety's and especially about potential crimes against ethnic serbs during and after the war he said that he was resigning because he doesn't want to hurt the image of the country to country to have a prime minister who is potentially accused of war crimes after that after that questioning he said he want to continue he's there all as the prime minister but

the major political parties said it is not possible and country must go to a new election so we can expect a new elections major topics new elections will be unemployment which is very high in kosovo will be kaname and the fight against corruption so called into current polls no major party can count on a majority of the upcoming elections south korea is ending an intelligence sharing deal with japan and yet another escalation in tensions between the 2 countries south korea's national security council says japan's recent tightening on export controls led to this change disputes have a trade and wartime history of west and in recent. to take a look at the top stories here it is era

a torrent of water released from an indian dam has left towns and villages in northeastern pakistan submerged floodwaters now cover hundreds of hectares in punjab province and the levels of rivers continue to rise the pakistani army has turned a military base into a relief camp for people who've been forced out of their homes but some are refusing to leave flooded areas because it would mean abandoning crops and livestock some a binge of aid has more from the jhelum river which flows from northern india into eastern pakistan pakistan has been complaining that india should have informed earlier before releasing hundreds of thousands a few sticks of water into pakistani river systems as it usually does but as you know that the 2 countries are at the at the lowest point of their relationship in years because of the distance in here but that is something which did not happen and water is one of those issues that seems to have been weaponized yet again. high school students are rallying in hong kong and threatening to boycott classes when

the new year begins in 2 weeks they've joined demands for political reform in the territories government and students are calling for ongoing action turkey and the us are trying to work out plans for a safe zone in northern syria after months of dispute over just how big it should be and who controls it the plan would eventually see joint patrols of turkish and u.s. soldiers in the region because he ations on the scope and the implementation are ongoing representatives of both countries are due to meet in ankara to discuss the next stage is hot air strikes have killed several civilians in opposition controlled towns around an important highway in northwestern syria the army backed by russia has continued its offensive in the province of italy along the m 5 highway it connects syria's northern city of aleppo to the capital damascus government troops are already in control of part of the m 5 after the rebel

withdrawal from the town of cards on monday. right here of today those are the latest headlines from us here at al-jazeera coming up next it's inside story. italy's political crisis deepens the prime minister resigns saying the interior minister brought down the government to further his own interests what's behind but to yourself in his power play and will the gamble pale this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program. august is normally a quiet month for italians a chance to enjoy the summer holidays but politicians have been forced back to work to contain a crisis prime minister has resigned accusing the interior minister mateus of any of sinking of the coalition government for personal and political gain salvini and his farm popularity is on the rise for being tough on immigration he wants to force a snap election but it's not straightforward as that sun you go you go explains from rome. as leader of the government had overseen one of the most challenging coalitions in recent times battling one political crisis after another contests aimed at being a stabilizing force between 2 vastly different political parties the far right league and the anti establishment 5 star movement it proved to be an impossible

task and contest said he would be offering his resignation but there was no question over who he thought was responsible. that interior minister has shown that he is following his own interests and those of his party. in a blistering attack against any country accused him of unleashing further turmoil and in doing so endangering italy's already started to qana me but the league party leader was unrepentant. i would do again everything i did everything with the great strength of being a free man therefore it means i'm not afraid of the treatment of the italians overshadowing this impasse has been my tale own political agenda vocally anti migrant he's also waged war on the engineers that attempted to rescue asylum seekers crossing the mediterranean and it's a tactic that has had success support for his views have increased across the

country turning his party into a force that cannot be ignored. in the middle of this political drama the spanish rescue vessel hovering off the coast of lampedusa with dozens of vulnerable people on board for more than 2 weeks they have not been given permission to disembark the open arms vessels repeatedly requested permission to dock despite continued rejection someone board became so frantic they risked their own lives by jumping into the sea attempting to swim to land they were rescued by nearby italian coast guard vessels. on tuesday a local prosecutor visited the vessel and issued an emergency measure allowing it to dock in lump it was but this is one incident among many others despite tough new laws preventing such landings they still arrive desperate for safety in europe no matter the cost of reaching their. al-jazeera rome.

let's bring in all from rome. is an italian journalist and a 1000000 or de blasio is a professor of political science. buteux university welcome to the program. that's prime minister. has resigned opening the counter to multitude of options what do you think is the more likely scenario for the country. well everything is in the hands of brazing of the italian republic said john martorano was a very wise man the question everybody is not if we will go to elections but how and when we will go to elections so the prospect was not the election seems to be facing away and probably will go to elections in a few months with somehow direction by the presence of the republic

a 1000000 or are we headed towards a political impasse in italy or do you still still see the possibility for example of a caretaker government yes we are political impasse there is a possibility for a government in defense obviously from the many stream since side b.d.d. the democratic party but also from the volunteer on the 5 so movements because oxalate seems that we have a couple of possibility right there on the path the 1st one is ok we can have a national coalition and composed by the fire some moments and i'm grabbing on to it while the 2nd one could be government lead by 5 star movement and supported by democratic party and the extreme left it's all these are the sort of the very center of this whole saga now is ill capital as his supporters call him

. salvini alberto why do you think much value is moving towards this direction. well they kept them as you recall is a very strong figure is the typical strong man that the right movement would like to see in power there are some reasons why 1st but we have to take into account that in the real country the real masses of italians which are now following salinity want him to be forming in your government we have had some of the rounds of local elections in italy where the leg which is party climbed up to some 40 percent 38 to 40 percent of political consensus while the 5 star movement who used to be sold been his partner in the government went down dramatically from 32 to 17 percent so the reason why somebody wants to go for snap elections is because

he wants to cash in he wants to capitalize somehow from these extreme strong waves of political consensus has got in the country. a 1000000 i mean if you remember when the whole coalition came together it was a myth a feeling that the league along with the 5 star movement would bring about genuine radical change of the country suddenly you have the captain salvina. ditching his partner is this something which could widely be seen in the political establishment as an act of political betrayal. it's the 1st time ever to top in a crisis like that by the way even if we did know from the very beginning that to call ition was very challenging because the 2 souls of the coalition 5 star movement and the league the former north league levy by the me are extremely

different i mean the north league the former north league the actual negro is sovereign is movement more lean to the. industry in the north while the faster movement was. on in was a movement beginning from the people land started from there very often. so you have very 2 different political parties that started and disqualification and also facing the european union intention they add a completely different thing tension ok so we end the sentiment that actually was a very strange and challenging collision that obviously i was back to stated before the personality on my tail selenium rise up even if i want to out something just to quote yes he wants to optimize political consensus consensus among peter lee and it's this passion the after of the european election but also he wants to escape

from the financial stable low. because we do know that italia needs 23 billions and according to the european union and the man's and so now italy done that doesn't add up 23000000000 and you don't want to i mean to to record or to any measure we will talk about that particular. is it's fair to say that 5 star movement is the biggest loser in this political move by salvini. well to to to say if there will be the losers will have to wait and see what will happen the next 2 weeks because it's been losing consensus in the country as i was mentioning the last from 32 down to a miserable 17 and in some cases 12 percent in local elections but at the moment they still have a strong majority in the national parliament so if surge of matter allows the press

in a town republic decides not to go for elections in the immediately in the nation they will strain still preserve damage already in the parliament and they will be able to form a new coalition gone with the democratic the sole they're not exactly losers but they know that they have to do something in order not to be pushed out of the parliament in order to get back to the parliament which is a much smaller much smaller portion of the italian consensus in 1000000 spoke earlier about one of the possibilities which is. along with matteo renzi who is the. leader of the center left democratic party coming together is this alliance an option what do they have in common. i mean it is an option by the way even if we have to precised that the secretary of the democratic

party no i days is not there and month. by the majority of the party of the democratic party are needed by my. so i think that an alliance is possible because the 2 parties don't want to go to the political exile us back that was for i mean they're losing consensus around the county so they don't want to run to the election nowadays be newt alberto do you see this possibility the 2 big egos demaio and matteo renzi coming together despite the fact they're just. few days ago the possibility for them coming together was almost impossible well you know ease at its roots a catholic country so maybe to could get together if they were able to forgive each other you know the sense of forgiving is at the center of italian culture but in

terms of possibility that they come together many political observers said that if you put my tail rancy which was prime minister true governments ago together with. legion emanuel it could be like putting water together with oil so it's quite uncommon to see them together but it's the whole of the democratic party which any young was mentioning is not only meant to rancy but many many other barons many other colonists as a call them so there is a possibility of a new coalition democratic party plus fast as movement was definitely looks impossible at the moment is that they get back to the table the lega any. i think that there is a fracture and there is the disappear ation is definite it and it's important that they get back to the table a 1000000 a why would be such an 80 within the political establishment in italy with all political commentators have been saying this year that the only thing in

common between the 5 star movement and the league is themselves being anti establishment but apart from that they have nothing in the car in common.