trump to come to this summit according to white house sources and also has inserted into the discussions a discussion on global trade that wasn't there before at the u.s. request so they are bending over backwards to accommodate the u.s. president that doesn't mean of course that president trump won't either say or tweet something that doesn't help the atmosphere the leaders of other non g 7 nations have been invited by president mccraw to this summit what are they doing there. well it's become quite normal i think for some of these summits for example the g. 20 a few months ago you had something similar our other guest nations invited to bring their view on global problems because yes the g. 7 are this very powerful very rich group of nations book clearly they're trying to deal with the world's problems and so they need cooperation from other countries and it goes back i think to the agenda that france is trying to set for this g 7

and i think the number of different problems we have facing the world means it will probably go a little off track but the original agenda is about inequality in the world and that's why you've got lots of different countries including representatives of african nations coming here to discuss our all of this one other. thing that is under discussion of course is whether you keep the g. 7 in its current form of 7 nations because just go back a few years ago before the annex of crimea by russia and of course it was the g 8 notably the u.s. are floating the idea of bringing russia back into the fold i can tell you when the president of the european council spoke earlier on he was asked about that and he said well not yet and he actually came up with a with a solution that i'm sure be controversial to the russians he said the next g 7 they should actually invite ukraine and ukraine's new president as a guest and. take stock of ukraine's view about whether the g 7 should become

a g 8 again with russia involved diplomats going to james bays reporting live from beirut james many thanks hundreds of protesters gathered just outside berates ahead of the summit on syria's natasha but reports there are hundreds of protesters gathering here in the port of umm di it is just on spanish border more these protesters are intending to do this more from here on the french side over the spanish border among them there are actually capitalists kept unless there are far left groups representatives major charities and lots of climate campaign as well climates of course very much on people's minds with those fires in the amazon rain forest which are ongoing now they are all you know it is one issue that is that they are here to speak out against the g. 7 summit which is happening just north of faire in the coastal resort of pierrots g 7 leaders are arriving as we speak and what the protesters say is that those global

leaders from those wealthy nations are responsible for many of the world's problems including the growing gap between the rich and the poor including climate change one thing that's quite interesting as well this year as we're seeing many protesters now universe stem straightens have been taking place across from over the past months many protesters angry against the french presence in mind all my call saying that he favors the rich over the poor so so many of say they are quite upset or angry about the fact that a model mark was putting tackling global inequality high on the agenda is the theme of this g. 7 summit because they say that he has failed to tackle inequality in france only i spoke to jacques rogge long a senior fellow as a senior fellow at the global policy is to choose he says the g. 7 is outdated. g. 7 meetings not lead to anything for a long time he's just a talking shop and with their leaders probably doing let's hope they weeded out of

some dialogue and deal with the many issues that concern. there were global challenges and my home is trying to be done is broke. every film we seen with that you are talking to iran to into putin last week last week so i know you got expect much but but there is. a chance that the dialogue my head up. leader has to come up with some solution the biggest issues. that he wanted to bring was a shoe of iniquities may be changing that is m g 7 is a bit of a remnant of to past due west not digimon any of it and there's a big elephant is china isn't there so she 7. is not going to produce anything and many does arrive in the west is in disarray many

it's like a dysfunctional family with everyone many many leaders and if you're going to position and it's difficult to see whether they're going to be able to come up with a solution to the global challenges which they face you know what prison drama has come to this meeting to not maybe to talk to the other leaders but to talk to his electorate let's not forget that president trouble started their election campaign so it wouldn't be. claiming that you friends american interests let's just hope that on some issue there might be some progress the trade war that. that trungpa started is very damaging to every want to do global economies under verge of recession the situation is. really critical. and this. may be acting everyone is going to defend their interests it's necessary do it

forward this is the news hour from our series still to come on the program another missile test by north korea the 7th in a month for president trump isn't worried we'll tell you why. the syrian government ramps up its offensive retaking towns lost to rebels early in the war. and the. los angeles action from major league baseball coming up later in sports. leaders at the g. 7 summit are also expected to address the fires raging in the world's largest forest france's president emanuel mccraw has appealed to world powers to help brazil contain the blaze president jaya balls and auto ordered the military to help put out the fires he's been criticized for his handling of what some leaders call

an international crisis also blames unusually warm temperatures for the unprecedented blaze reports from the state of iran donia one of the worst affected regions. forest fires happen every year in brazil but it was the sheer scale. of the world the so-called long drawn fire strong criticism firstly from within brazil and the rest of the world president. to respond. forest fires happen all over the world so this is no reason to impose international sanctions brazil will continue to be as it is now a country that is friendly with everyone and is responsible in protecting its amazon forest. but he's been accused by many of creating the very conditions he is now trying to control. but there is a defiance from the president and resentment from his supporters of other countries telling was ill what to do. or don't agree that other countries should come here to

brazil we don't go to other countries to upset them you don't see brazilians they're causing problems on the working to scene money home to invest here this is pioneering country distant from brazil's main population centers or so naro had a message that resonated here said i'm 63 years old and i'm never seen a president as honest as this one who confronts the problems and says what has to be seed is defending brazil these are people who came to tame the forest to cut and burn to carve a future from what they consider to be a wilderness this particular blaze may not be huge but is one of tens of thousands burning across brazil some control some not some illegal some legal what's clear is that few will be investigated but the consequences will eventually be felt around the world. the fires are being put out but what's left is this back and devastation which will take many years to recover. 70 percent of the

state of the unborn year has already been developed the forested for lucrative timber then burned to create land for cattle rearing and sawyer production the rest is up for grabs and no one it seems is stopping them at the moment the forest backed up by a president and then you do exactly as you want to do because you know nothing will happen and that's a problem and we have seen statistically when there's law enforcement fires and deforestation goes down when we don't have it it goes up. the fires are still burning but we'll both bend on the heat of international pressure to the ambition from the supporters. on your state northwestern brazil and speaking ahead of the g. 7 summit president american money will mccraw of france called for swift action to tackle the fire in the amazon. the arizona is our common good we are all

consumed so in the amazon we will launch a mobilization between all g 7 countries together with amazonian countries 1st we need to help brazil and other countries put out these fires and then we need to invest in reforestation and allow locals to develop devotees that will preserve this for thousands of people have protested across latin america against the fires in the amazon protesters gathered in rio de janeiro calling for greater action others rallied in colombia peru chile ecuador and mexico 77000 fires across brazil have been reported this year that's an 85 percent increase compared to last year and it's not just brazil that's struggling with to cope with wildfires more than 7000 square kilometers have been destroyed by flames in neighboring bolivia the government is using a boeing 747 to help carry 150000 liters of water and flame retardant the fires have been burning in the eastern province of santa cruz for the past month

officials in chile say the capital and its outskirts of suffering that worst drought in decades the government has declared an agricultural emergency and a half of its districts chile is among the country's most affected by global warming in december it will host a global conference on climate change. sudan's for president obama al bashir has appeared in court for the 2nd time to face criminal charges supporters chanted slogans as he entered the courtroom schiff ace's charges of corruption and money laundering during his 3 decades in power investigators say they found $130000000.00 in this house after the military deposed him in april is court appearance comes a day after members of the new government's transitional council was sworn in. protesters in hong kong have been trying to disrupt the city's transport systems rallies against the government and to the 12th week police have fired tear gas on crowds blocking roads with barricades and comune some protesters destroyed

surveillance equipment a sit in at the city's airports earlier this month led to hundreds of flight cancellations rallies 1st began in june over an extradition bill show they've widened to include demands for political reform wayne hay reports now from hong kong. after a week when the police in hong kong appeared to adopt a different tactic seemingly standing back allowing the protest to happen without intervention on saturday it seemed that they were in no mood to muck around the riot police very quickly moving into this area of cow loon to clear the protesters away using tear gas the day it started peacefully there was a march through this part of cow loom the protesters had asked police for permission for their march to take place the permission was granted by the police but as we have seen before a large group of the protesters then broke away approached a police station near the roots of the march erecting barricades that the that we

have seen them do so many times before and it seems that when the police lost patience and formed up and that's when the confrontations began which lasted perhaps one to 2 hours this came on a day when kerry lamb the chief executive of hong kong someone whom the protesters want to resign held who 1st round of dialogue with representatives from different sections of society in hong kong around 28 representatives of different sections of hong kong society met with her to start the process of dialogue the ultimate aim to end this crisis but crisis but significantly there were no protests leaders who were involved in those talks in the protests where they show no sign of dying down an employer employee of the british consulate in hong kong has been released by mainland china after being. detained for more than 2 weeks simon chang disappeared on the 8th of august during a business trip to the city of shenzhen near the border with hong kong chinese police said the chang was punished for violating public safety laws is detention

came as relations between beijing and london solid over the ongoing protests in the former british territory well the u.k. foreign office released a statement saying we welcome the release of simon chang and are delighted that he can be reunited with his family we will continue to provide support to them. indian opposition leaders have been prevented from entering the disputed kashmir region congress party leader rahul gandhi led a group from several political parties but was turned back on arrival at srinagar air force there were protests in the city on friday afternoon now it's a serious offense jamail reports now from the capital of indian administered kashmir. the protesters in srinagar throwing stones the response from indian security forces tear gas and pellet guns. the protests began at one mosque where friday prayers have taken a defiant tone this month since the region's autonomy was revoked by new delhi it's one of the few ways locals have to vent their frustrations. the restrictions have

been imposed on the use of the internet and mobile phones and they're finding it difficult to move around the city and beyond he is subsidy is levi's the. this is a bad thing for almost 300 restrictions and we're not happy about it. autonomy and put us on the call no one is going out of the neighborhood. unlike in previous weeks security was tightened on fridays to curtail potential unrest. whether restrictions are eased or reimpose for friday prayers protests have followed and this time is no exception and it's not just restrictions that's angering locals it's a long term consequences of the region losing its autonomy one consequence of that is that people from outside indeed administered kashmir can now buy property whereas before you had to be a permanent resident. many here worry that will change the makeup of the region

a little christmas a head full of people who would not solenn to outside i don't think but if you see how the government i think it has put us under control they might try to make colonies of outsiders here that would change the demographic that's what they want . some analysts say that's in line with the government's hindu nationalist ideology falsely erroneous notion we do have been selling to the people that is the buck off. and they have to reclaim. what david forcibly. model folsom believe they will make settlements and be a. good indian government officials say the removal of fish mir's autonomy will bring development to the region but that's not how many of the people here see the situation and the protests are likely to continue as jimmy al-jazeera indeed

administered kashmir let's get some weather take a look at this hardly a cloud in the sky over europe except for the big blob in the middle no i don't mean mature i was just. mean the cloud. that's right well we do have severe weather today it's going to be a big weather system that's pushing through in terms of where the northern part in the southern part of the storms are going to be we're talking here apart from slovakia all the way down across the central med and even in to the northern part of. so we talk a lot of thunderstorms today and it's all dealing with one area of low pressure that's just spinning across much of that area doesn't really have anything to push it out we could be seeing a lot of heavy rain across this region some winds as well as the potential for localized flooding so when watching that very carefully across much of this region but the other story is take a look out here towards the west paris today 31 degrees so the temperature coming up we're actually going to begin our 3rd he wave across much of this area as we go through the weekend and into next week as well so paris 31 temperature wise not so

here towards western france those temperatures are really building across that area not too bad for london a nice day 28 but tomorrow 30 degrees on sunday as we go towards monday there we're talking $31.00 degrees across much of the region the northern part of europe as well we're talking berlin at $33.00 but that's not the end of it take a look at our extended forecast for paris by the time we get to tuesday 34 degrees expected high it's really not till next thursday that we start coming back down average temperature for this time of year 24 so even on thursday we're still not hitting average back to. kevin many thanks just ahead here on the indonesia's coffee growers are in trouble it's been a bumper crop but not a bump a paycheck the last chance to save a lot of white wine from being lost forever. and one player particularly excited about serena williams opening game of flushing meadows sound i will be here to tell you who that is a little later in school. on

counting the cost this week we check the pulse of the global economy that age of populist governments is the independence of central banks comes under threat and the unintended consequences of trump's trade plus the i.m.f. warns of the missteps of brigs its trade with. counting the cost on al-jazeera. and new perspectives can change a wild. so one chin is in what began as a hobby has grown into a passion a way of life. teaching the next generation to strive for a higher level. and in so instilling in his country a sense of freedom and strength. heights my chin is yeah

on al-jazeera. again it's good to have you with us adrian for the good here in doha with the news from out 0 the headlines the u.s. president is stepping up his country's trade war with china announcing 2 new tariff increases donald trump also told american companies to pull out of its in response to china's latest move in which more tariffs will be imposed on $75000000000.00 worth of u.s. goods and that trade war between the world's 2 biggest economies is likely to dominate the g 7 summits the french city of beer it's the iran nuclear deal and

fires in the amazon are also likely to be discussed. just as in hong kong have been trying to disrupt the transport system riot police of. crowds who blocked roads ultra large or the rawest launch in ca loon rallies 1st began in june of an extradition bill. russia's defense ministry says it successfully tested ballistic missiles that were launched from a submarine president vladimir putin ordered the action in response. for the u.s. testing of a missile on sunday both launches would have been banned under a now scrapped cold war era treaty the u.s. pulled out of the agreement in august claiming that russia had violated the terms japan says that north korea has fired what appears to be 2 short range missiles into the sea if it's east coast according to south korea's military they were fired from some dog in south how myung province japan says they cause no damage is the 7th such test in a month where u.s.

president donald trump says he's not concerned by the latest missile tests no i don't think so i think that we have a very good relationship we'll see what happens that could always change but we'll see what happens kim jong un has been. pretty straight with me i think. we're going to see what's going on we're going to see what's happening to the likes of testing missiles but we never restricted short range missiles we'll see what happens many nations that. we tested a very big one the other day as you probably know based on ritchie is a professor of international relations and cook university of foreign studies in south korea he says the missile tests serve a number of purposes. we should always remember that when north korea carries out. they're always overdetermined they have more than one cause so we'll hear certainly there's messaging involved with the possible coming restart negotiations with the us there is asian i would also argue that there simply testing the deployment in

the fielding of no operational capabilities we're not sure what it is yet could be the case in 23 could be less systems could be something else we don't know yet we'll find that out later but there's also close internal messaging as well this is a way for kim jong un to send a message to his military that even though diplomacy may be ongoing that also still values his military and their capabilities the u.s. state department is calling for more action by myanmar's governments to address the issue of the hinge or it's been the 2 years since violence in rakhine the state led to more than 740000 injured to flee the country in a statement the department said the lack of accountability and civilian oversight of the military means that military abuses continue today in rakhine state as well as in kitchen and sherman states and elsewhere in myanmar it goes on to say we encourage me on my own to create the conditions that will allow for the voluntary

safe dignified and sustainable return of refugees to their places of origin or other places of the choosing that's the life out of washington the get more on this for most of us will enjoy most what are we to make of this is the state department issued any kind of statement on the range of refugees before now. well they have and in fact a month or so ago the u.s. government imposed sanctions on the top military leadership in burma or me and mar as the country prefers to be called been in large part because of the treatment of the right hand this is basically an economic ban a travel ban to the us for the generals and their immediate families but the u.s. state department is in essence trying to walk a tight rope it doesn't want to say that what the military leadership has been doing has been engaging in an act of genocide because that would essentially limit

the u.s. his ability to engage with the government and young gone and to try to persuade it to change its behavior to allow for a full citizenship of the world at least a 1000000 of whom are now. taking refuge in neighboring bangladesh and this is also a situation where the u.s. also doesn't want to put the civilian leader aung san suu kyi and any kind of political or physical peril even though she has come under intense criticism for not doing more to uphold the rights and the and to respect the rights of the ethnic minority in iraq again state so this isn't the 1st time but coming on the anniversary this the 2nd year anniversary of the military crackdown on the one in which led to that mass exodus to neighboring bangladesh the u.s. is trying to indicate to the international community that it has not forgotten what

is happening in iraq and state what is happening to the were and to people to the suffering of the range of people and it is trying to essentially mobilize the international community to do more to try to make certain that the rohinton are being treated appropriately and that ultimately they gain full legal representation and citizenship inside me and mar. many thanks i was is ruslan jordan there reporting live from washington the syrian army has seized the last pocket of rebel control in hama province reclaiming towns that were lost in the war the most recent government offensive in the north west intensified in late april hundreds of people have been killed now parts of province a rule that remain of rebel held territory after more than 8 he is of will smith reports now from antakya near the syria turkey bordeaux. no soon her family thought they'd found somewhere to stay the landowner moved them all this is how

it's been for hundreds of thousands of syrians throughout the 7 years civil war travelling further and further north to escape the fighting while this displacement is never ending i never expected to be in this situation no one knows what will happen next the fighters don't seem to know if they should advance or that idiom with advance on them the traffic is mostly one way as people head away from the advancing government forces towards the last rebel stronghold of italy a province the syrian regime now controls all of the countryside in hama province south of adlib after taking over with the russian help the last villages and towns that had been in rebel hands it's all happened under the noses of turkish soldiers they're behind this wall in one of a dozen observation posts a stop wish to monitor what is supposed to be deescalation zone which is a more than you're doing not the lowest mark of the hour observation posts are not

besieged the end nobody can besiege out troops or observation posts i want to clarify it yes there are attacks in the region of adlib the regime is active around our observation posts we are discussing this issue with russia and iran turkey is also worried that regime advances will push more than a half a 1000000 syrians to its border. taking everything that they are giving us a kicking yesterday 6 helicopters over our heads forced us to lean on my dad was bombing us checking on that our legs. turkey's president has told his russian counterpart that syrian military attacks in northwestern syria are causing a humanitarian crisis type one told bloody mir putin that what's happening there threatens turkish national security it's one of the reasons turkey is so keen to get a safe zone up and running on the syrian side of the border but so far there's still

no indication that turkey has agreed with the u.s. military on who will patrol this zone and how deep into syria it will go burnitz with al-jazeera and taqiyya. one of tunisia's most prominent presidential candidates has been arrested on corruption charges no bill carulli was detained just outside the capital tunis on friday members of crew is pass he said it's an attempt to exclude him from next month's election candidates has been leading in recent polls the government has denied the charges are politically motivated ukraine is celebrating the 28th anniversary of its independence from the soviet union. however the festivities won't be quite as grand as on previous independence stays that's because the president wants to spend some of the $11000000.00 earmarked to pay for the big day to use as bonuses for members of the armed forces. kidnappings have become common

in parts of nigeria thousands of people have fallen victim to a rise in abductions and find that they're having to pay ransoms totaling millions of dollars out of syria's mohamed atta reports now from could do now in an area known as a kidnapping hotspot. taking the fight to the kidnappers these offices of nigeria special into robbery squad are responding to a tip off that the kidnappers have decided at this point on the can do no highway. the thick forest nearby serves as a cover for the guns this highway has been a popular sport for the kidnappers to attack but digital victims the police say they're making gains against the kidnappers were over 200 reporters there. yes. we're showing to do a whole lot in last 2 weeks we parted up our summer intern and kidnap suspects. traffic on the highway tells a different story. this was once one of the busiest highways in the country the

border could not highway links the more some states of the country to the other parts of nigeria now feel motorists are brave enough to travel and. many are choosing not to drive when instead use the train yet even on the trains a squat is a must as the kidnapping guns get bolder and more sophisticated few places appear say. abdul malik muhammad the siniora government official was abducted from his home in the city of could do. then they begin to say ok i should give the money as i don't have money they keep on asking are you have it because we saw cars in your ass country sell those cars we need money you have to give over if you don't you are going to kill you after 7 days in captivity of the money was released after paying a ransom but not before being told to deliver a message to the world for 2 years there wasn't they give you all that i should be able to tell the government that most of them only port they are graduate they need

employment if they're not employed or people kidnapping people. but it's not just frustrated you threw a ton into kidnapping it's now a free for all with both pity and 100 criminals joining in. robert and. was kidnapped and held in a forest by a group armed with machetes he says they tortured him until his family paid a ransom of $200.00 we were drinking he said i want to give you a life force for all through a good hearted church. so i think we can i was. given to go backward from iraq i don't. want to give me a slap on the right and it was well up. until now kidnappers in the g.d. had to get the public officials that a litigant work is often in the oil industry what is worrying most nigerians about the current wave of kidnappings in the country is that no one there feel safe and.

how about the world is eager. to know highly 6 e.u. nations have agreed to take in refugees migrants soup and stranded at sea for nearly 2 weeks more than 350 people were on board the ocean viking when it docked in malta they'd been rescued from the mediterranean sea off the coast of libya malta and italy had initially denied requests for the ship to dock at a spanish warship as arrived in the at the italian island of lampedusa to collect 15 migrants from the charity vessel open arms being taken in by spain under an agreement with france germany portugal and luxembourg but 1st the vessel wasn't allowed to dock in italy as part of the government's closed ports policy but in the tally and prosecutor over rule that decision. a wildfire in california has forced people to leave their homes to leave 4000 people were ordered out after the fire began in shasta county on thursday officials say that strong winds helped to spread

the wildfire but it's now been partially contained wildfires in the same region last year destroyed more than a 1000 homes and claimed 8 lives. coffee farmers in indonesia are expecting a bumper crop this year but with prices of the low some growers are warning that they'll go bankrupt if things don't improve soon florence louis reports from jakarta. her. harvest time at this coffee plantation in sumatra and it's plenty for promise right now. really celebrate but not this year they are the world's 3rd largest grow as of the rip us to a variety of coffee beans but the market price staffordshire is at an 8 year low but obama appears if the price of coffee stays like always we can't continue we might not attend our plantations anymore because we can't afford fertilizer we don't have enough money to pay our work is in my case i still have to pay for my son's high school. robusto is used mainly in instant coffee and demand has been increasing but

prices have dropped this year because of the success of the 2 largest produces brazil and.