you know a complicated operation revealed that iran dispatched a special unit of to syria to kill israelis on the golan heights with explosive drones i'd like to emphasize this was an initiative of iran and we prevented serious attacks that we will expose any attempt by iran to attack us and any iranian effort to hide behind excuses we will not tolerate a aggressions against israel from any country in the region any country that allows its territory to be used for aggression against israel will face the consequences and i repeat the country will face the consequences. iraq share of paramilitary forces say 2 of its fighters have been killed by air strikes the iranian backed group says it was targeted in unbar province near the border with syria it follows multiple reports last week blaming israel for an airstrike targeting an alleged iranian weapons that. activists say there's been an air strike on a village in the northwest of syria regime fighter jets of attacks a market in

a province the area is mostly used by those recently displaced after the government claims several towns one person was killed during the strike and dozens of others were injured prisoners inside a jail in bahrain on hunger strike saying they're being mistreated about 600 inmates began a strike 10 days ago over conditions inside prison in the east they've complained they denied religious and visitor rights and are being kept in solitary confinement for medium behind say an inverse official investigator found the prisons managers haven't broken any regulations. still ahead on al-jazeera on kong's police deployed water cannon for the 1st time since that the government protests began.

hello again it's good to have you back on the last few days we had seen a lot of storms and thunderstorms across the northern coast and northeastern coast of turkey those storms are pushing over here towards the caspian causing a few a lightning strikes as well as some gust as well down towards the south of baghdad we do expect to see a high on monday of 48 degrees maybe making its way to 49 as we go towards tuesday kuwait city though it is going to be a humid day particularly on the coast with a temperature of $42.00 degrees david it is also continuing here across much of the gulf when you notice the temperatures here in doha below 40 that means humidity is quite high across the region we don't expect to see much of a change as we go from monday as well as into tuesday we're also experiencing the very heavy humid as well over here towards the dhabi with attempted there of about 40 degrees and maybe some clouds across the lala with attempt a few of $27.00 and then across the southern part of africa we are going to be seeing mostly clear conditions for many locations maybe some fog in the morning

there but for durban temperatures are coming down for you where you were seeing into the low thirty's earlier down to about 22 degrees here johannesburg at $24.00 and as we go towards tuesday we're going to start to pick up some clouds across cape town at 14 degrees there and durban temperatures about level for you with temperatures at 21. after years of war and famine a dramatic transformation is emerging. al-jazeera goes on a journey with 4 diverse ethiopians to tell inspirational stories and immerse us intimately into them lives i was forced to leave it's a position to persist through i was sometimes the friends of my ethiopian coming soon on al-jazeera.

there watching out is there a time to recap our headlines now as leaders meet for the g. 7 summit in periods france surrounds foreign minister made an unexpected visit but there are no plans for a meeting with the u.s. delegation. g 7 leaders have agreed to help the countries affected by fires in the amazon as fast as possible tens of thousands of brazilian soldiers have begun heading into the rainforest to help fight the blazes but the president says things are returning to normal. hezbollah leader has not warning israel any drones entering lebanese airspace will be shot down this comes after lebanon's army confirmed 2 drones entered it said space one crashed the other exploded in the

capital beirut. let's get more now on our top story the g 7 leaders have been have been urged to do more to achieve gender equality in the report presented by the head of the un women and 2 noble peace prize winners the g 7 gender equality advisory council urged members to adopt and promote feminist laws the report says legislative reforms are the best way for g 7 leaders to make a difference it says more than 2 and a half 1000000000 girls and women around the world suffer through discriminatory laws and their lack of legal process protections one in 3 women will be the target of physical or sexual violence in their lives 2 thirds of people who cannot read or write are female and girls are 15 times more likely than boys to be excluded from primary school. globally the gender wage gap is still on average

20 percent 94 percent of men work for us a 64 percent of women are appalled by a consultancy firm mckinsey found closing the gender wage gap could add up to $28.00 trillion dollars in annual g.d.p. by 2025 in terms of political representation 5 percent of the world's heads of government and 24 percent of parliamentarian's are women khatib assen is president of the advocacy organization women deliver and it's also on the g 7 gender equality advisory council she says leaders need to start by getting rid of unequal the just lation. the gender discriminatory laws they already have on the books because everybody has them on the books and then push progress and laws invest in the implementation because it's not just about getting laws on the pook's it's also about getting them implemented and finance women organization that are the ones on

the forefront of this and then of course can keep their promises vote themselves accountable as we'll also look to them to do that so we have proposed an accountability framework that will then follow the promises made but also in in last year 7 where we also had a gender equality council and then we'll callup we'll look at it we'll measure it and because the president mccraw next year is open his you know country and arms to the big plus $25.00 the 25th anniversary of the conference with a big push called generation equality that will be a good moment to take stock and there was also what the leaders discussed today what are they going to go home and do and how will they look at it next year and hold each other accountable that it's done. thousands of rangar refugees are marking what they call genocide remembrance day.

it's 2 years since more than 700000 people were forced to flee their homes in may and marta live in densely crowded camps in bangladesh thousands of people were killed u.n. investigators say me and leaders should be prosecuted on charges of genocide war crimes and crimes against humanity 70 deca has more from camp in the southeast of the country. today's quiet calm betrays the scenes of panic 2 years ago when hundreds of thousands of ranger crossed the river now in a desperate attempt to seek safety they are safe now but nothing has been resolved nor has 6 children who was part of the exodus in august of 2017 already rather. they are asked if you want to go back to burma i said no you asked me why i told them of the houses were burnt our family members were raped and killed this is why we suffered so much and came here how can we go back without knowing that we will

be safe there's been a renewed effort to get some of the refugees to go back to me and mar but with no guarantee of what will happen when they get there no one has so far agreed to return the scale of this camp is like nothing you've ever seen it is the biggest refugee camp in the world around a 1000000 rangar living in these camps across southeastern bangladesh but what does that number really mean well it's more or less the population of islamabad or oslo it is a city of refugees without the infrastructure needed to cope. many aid agencies work here in that sense it is a global effort but it's bangladesh that's hosting the rangar and it's made it very clear this is a temporary solution and it's a population that keeps expanding this is a really dynamic population. the border 102. that makes them come to $3000.00 police report and people being murdered him to you

so it keeps growing the young won't remember much about what happened but the older ones know that the killings the rate the burning of homes in august of 2017 was only the latest chapter in what's been decades of persecution against their people is here hussein is a camp leader this is his 3rd time as a refugee in bangladesh have brought our grandmother mobile alabama my gratitude i'm 65 years old i came here as a refugee in 1978 then again in 1902 then i went back now i'm a refugee again in 2017 i've spent 30 years of my life as a refugee i want to go home if the burmese accept our demands will go back right away what they want is to be officially recognize israel as citizens of me and mar with rights freedom of movement and security what they want is to go back home but the reality is they are not wanted there most of their homes no longer exist

bangladesh's categoric it can't has them forever it's not clear what or where their future will be stephanie decker al-jazeera could have a long camp cox's bizarre southeast bangladesh. is the un special rapporteur for me and ma she says the conditions in the country are not fit for the rangar to return. they do not feel safe to go back and by saying they do not feel safe to go back is those perpetrators who are responsible of the torture the rape and the killings and the burnings air and those who are responsible of course for forcibly deporting people out of the m r they're still there and if you have those security forces police and military still there how would you feel safe 2nd they'd will not have any freedom of movement that is not any condition anybody

would want to return to that is not a dignified return and there is. no citizenship or rights that they can enjoy that other people in myanmar enjoy and we have to remember that many of the people in cox's had in the past enjoyed scissors and ship but it was all taken away from them. u.s. president don trump will be facing a 2nd challenger in the republican primaries for the 2020 white house nomination joe walsh is a former u.s. congressman turned talk show host he's challenging the american president after calling him a liar and a bully walsh also said trump is unfit for office. the u.s. is marking the arrival of the 1st and slaved africans to the english colony of virginia 400 years ago the transatlantic slave trade database says nearly 4 100000

people were sent to north america over 2 centuries around 10000000 ended up in south america and the caribbean. in hong kong police have used live ammunition and water cannon for the 1st time against demonstrators to 3 month long protests the latest clashes happened after another large more peaceful march took place in another part of the city adrian brown reports. sunday afternoon in hong kong. police and protesters now well versed in each other's tactics this time the focus on a large residential area in calhoun 17 kilometers from the central business district confusing and frightening for people trying to get home. this woman was wrestled to the ground after

a violent confrontation with police. the protest is principal demand is for the government to formally withdraw a contentious extradition bill that has now morphed into a wider campaign for political reform a campaign that has so far failed. the one thing yeah it's cheap it's got the officer in the hong kong to respond us. you know but do you really believe that you can win at the end of the day because so far you haven't we should have a hope. yeah every hong kong people was we were at cheap disco tear gas was again used and police threw fire arms and fired warning shots. and in a new 1st for hong kong water cannon was used as the night wore on the protest to split into smaller groups eventually dispersing but the violence later spread to other areas there were

a number of arrests 3 months after this protest movement began the protesters don't seem to be flagging and neither does the police's determination to suppress the movement and if anything the police tactics now hardening. a tropical downpour didn't deter a protest by families of the police they say the protests are taking their toll at a peaceful gathering though some were also critical of the force urging restraint over the use of tear gas and rubber bullets that restraint is now being tested adrian brown al jazeera hong kong. is not just humans who are suffering in the dispute over kashmir border fencing and forest wildlife in the himalayan region sound 1 binge of a reports on the part of the line of control administered by pakistan. in a backyard scared and pushed out of its natural habitat this panting leopard represents the plight of wildlife in one of the world's most militarized zone. as

humans fight over the disputed territory the fences the erected divided the habitat for animals as well the fence stretches for about 550 of the 700 kilometer long line of control between india and pakistan. life would freely move between india occupied kashmir and. now that natural migration has been severed the life cycle and biological requirements have been limited. i use dense forests are home and a source of food for many species of wild cats beer deer goats monkeys and birds only a few of these creatures can be spotted these days despite conservation efforts in my life preserve them both sides of this deer species is called the great it is one of the worst affected after the fencing between pakistan and india and that's right these friends are being bred in captivity. and after 15 years just 5 great girls

exist in this 12 heck there is a pencil agnes's at the fence many species in kashmir are stranded on either side their numbers have dwindled and the gene pool has shrunk small population breeding means they go through genetic changes high a population and or a to cross breeding what makes them stronger in addition to cross border fire which results in fires also has an impact on the law of life mountain pheasants are also vulnerable the ones being bred in captivity have to be regularly checked because in a very they don't develop the natural immunity which birds acquire in the wild the speed of population growth is another threat as forests shrink wildlife is affected people use trees for firewood and construction hunting and poaching also plays a role in dwindling numbers of conservationists morns that without cross border collaboration many species are at risk. such as this baby leopard which caught her

trying to cross the electrified fence. her last breaths are in mind or to humans the fight for territory and control is destroying the very land they're fighting for asylum in java downs are there at the line of control pakistan administered kashmir. let's take you through some of the headlines here al-jazeera now iran's foreign minister mohamad devide zarif has made an unexpected visit to the g. 7 summit in france he's held talks with his french counterpart to try and save the iran nuclear deal but a meeting with the u.s. delegation is not on the agenda more now from our diplomatic editor james is. coming from the foreign ministry spokesman in tehran statement put out on their twitter feed in farsi a rough translation here at the invitation of the french foreign minister luthria

our foreign minister dr mohamad job arrived in the ritz where the group of 7 summit is being held to continue discussions on relations initiatives between the presidents of iran and france but he adds this is significant there'll be no meetings or negotiations with the u.s. delegation on this trip g 7 leaders agreed to help the countries affected by fires in the amazon as fast as possible tens of thousands of brazilian soldiers have begun heading into the rain forest to join the fight against the fires but their president says things are returning to normal the military is being sent to 6 states and unprecedented response the number of fires is about 85 percent higher than last year many blame the policies of president was on r o. leader has not condemning israel for sending drones over beirut he described it as a dangerous escalation lebanon's army says 2 drones entered its airspace one

crashed and another exploded in the air hours earlier the israeli military said it hits iranian backed targets in syria. activists say 2 members of hezbollah were killed. iraq's ship our military forces say 2 of its fighters have been killed by air strikes the iranian banks group says it was targeted in number province near the border with syria it follows multiple reports last week blaming israel for an airstrike targeting an alleged iranian weapons depo in iraq thousands of rigging the refugees are marking what they call genocide remembrance day it's 2 years since more than 700000 people were forced to leave their homes in me and mar un investigators say the announcement 3 leaders should be prosecuted on charges of genocide war crimes and crimes against humanity its inside story

stay with us here in al-jazeera. it's a summit meant to face global challenges but the g 7 gathering in france has been overshadowed by trade threats by its own members and worries of another economic recession so with all the infighting the posturing and the one on one deal that's what purpose does this g 7 this is inside story. hello i'm come on santa maria welcome to another edition of inside story if you

gathered the leaders of the world's 7 biggest economies in one room and put the future of the global economy trade wars and maybe even a looming recession on the table do you think they'd be able to find some solutions while they are trying we have the leaders of canada france germany italy japan the united kingdom and the united states meeting in france the group known as the g. 7 this is the 45th time it has met in one form or another the tradition is to hold roundtable discussions led by the host in this case that is france's president emmanuel micron and for some sort of declaration or communique to be released at the end but perhaps in a sign of the times mccrone made a declaration before the summit that they would be no declaration at admission of sorts but trying to find global consensus in 2019 is difficult business and so the focus shifts to the sideline meetings the one on one discussions where leaders try to do their own deals u.s. president donald trump and u.k.

prime minister barak's johnson were one example on sunday though they didn't always seem to be on the same page especially when it came to this u.s. trade war with china and the fears of it becoming a global problem have a listen. know. i think the respect a trait has that china has. i can only speak for the united states i can see what they're doing to the u.k. places but from the standpoint of the united states we're going to have leverage that presidents in the ministrations allow them to get away with taking hundreds of billions of dollars out of every year putting it into a chance to sit here sure to. tell me that nobody tells all of you on the trade we treat peaceful. avery well we think all the whole world the u.k.

controlled. massively in 2 or. 3 and half so. well if you'd like. we don't like tariffs on the whole so as you say allies or not there are a lot of differences on the table at the g. 7 before we get to our discussion let's get the thoughts about diplomatic editor james bass i was covering the summit for al-jazeera and pierrots friends. a year ago the g 7 meeting in canada ended in acrimony particularly over climate change with the u.s. not prepared to sign up to the wording of the communique on that particular issue in many ways one year on there are even more disagreements between the 7 nations that make up this grouping that are here now in barrett there are disagreements on global trade and that is worrying all the leaders here because of the problems of the global economy because of the falling stock market worries

about that trade war between the us and china worries about other trade wars for example even between the host nation here france and the u.s. with the french digital services tax which targets big u.s. tech companies and president trump's threats to retaliate and possibly tax very highly french wine imports into the u.s. there are other issues the issue of climate change yet again and that's high up the agenda because of those fires in the amazon and some of the other security issues in the world in particular the crisis in iran and the very different approach that you have to iran from the united states takes a very muscular tough approach with iran and this pulled out of the iran nuclear deal and the european nations that are still trying to keep that iran nuclear deal alive what's different this time around though is that the french chairing this meeting have decided not to have a final communique not to try and get all of the leaders here to sign up to one

agreement so i think you can pretty well likely have a situation where 7 leaders with differences arrive here don't even try to reach an agreement and continue at the end of the meeting to go away with their different positions this is going to be a meeting with plenty of discussion but i don't think any action or decisions. and with that let's introduce the panel for today we're starting in washington d.c. with doug bando who is the senior fellow at the cato institute and a one time special assistant to former u.s. president ronald reagan on skype from normandy in france or is the founder and director of the center for russia europe asia studies and rounding out the panel in beijing is einat tang in the china political and economic analyst who advises the chinese government on development issues thank you for making the time for us today to talk g 7 to all of you look we have this. time to do some numbers 1st g.

7 meeting however emanuel mccrone decided he want to invite some other leaders so it goes up to sort of g. 10 or 11 or so it's not quite a g 20 inviting more people but it's going to be no communique because everyone knows they can't agree on anything doug let's start with you it is it just seems unnecessary unnecessarily complicated well it has gotten complicated there is a lot for them to talk about it certainly would be good if they could work through some of the trade issues the question of the approach to china the president has unsettled not only u.s. markets but his allies with his recent declarations about trade there i mean the issues of climate change the question obviously of the u.k. leaving in the european union all of these are issues that could use some serious discussion the problem is any gathering with donald trump you know many of these

issues become problematic and that certainly reflected in the french president's you know comment that you know we we're not going to have a declaration because frankly we're not going to get one no one wants a repeat of last year of that kind of infamous photo and president trouble leaving early refusing to sign the declaration yet what do you remind us quickly for those of us with a shorter memories what happened at the g. 7 in canada. well he had you know the president disagreed very sharply over the climate change didn't want to discuss that issue left early refused to sign the declaration and there is this extraordinary photo of the president sitting with his arms crossed essentially facing the rest of the leaders of the g. 7 all of these of course are really allies of the united states longstanding partners of the united states and they kind of symbolically represented what's happened internationally with this relationship after president trump took office and that is something no one wants to repeat trying to bring countries together not

push them further apart trees are found on let's bring you in from normandy it's actually starting to feel a bit more like devils i wonder i've been to have us a few times i suspect some of you have as well and that it's kind of a talk show and people meet and greet and do deals on the sidelines and actually the guts of the thing doesn't really matter quite so much. well i think president hope learned some important lessons from what happened last at the last g 7 and it happened once don't talk on the plane he was so angry with how the communique turned out so it was and we as the biggest figure mentioned polo but it's also a reflection of how bad the situation is now in the transatlantic alliance for example i've never seen it in such a bad situation so we can't even get this idea of democracies are working together and solving these international problems there is no agreement not even have a communique at the end which is a barometer of how bad the relations are right now between the u.s.

and the rest and you get this impression that the crown just wanted to make sure everything went smoothly everyone's kind of walking on eggshells and everyone's fearful of somehow being miss understood by donald trump were some are crossing him the wrong way so they're just holding their breath hoping they can get through this there are some side of bent stick in place and if you actually look at them sitting in the white house it's a very different narrative than the reality of what's happening i mean donald trump described the relationship of the u.k. with britain with leaving the e.u. as. losing an anchor and so the u.s. has traditionally been an ally or a supporter of the european union but with this type of rhetoric it's clear that he's not really friendly towards europe and he's also called your proposal he has a multi-pronged approach and it's it's he's kind of having this chair proposed not just against china but also against traditional allies many historians might look

back on this period and wonder why when he was given such a good hand played it so quickly because throughout europe and the u.s. japan everyone kind of felt their eyes had opened up to china's unfair trade practices there in germany for example the p.d.i. . the german federation of industry had published a report so all germany all these major countries were on the same page as you. yes returned to china he imagined far more effective the u.s. could have used all these allies and worked together to try to put pressure on china instead he. alienated even the closest traditional u.s. allies so that hasn't worked out well for us you know it hasn't had time to let's bring you in because tourism has started to talk about the trade war with with china and this has rightly or wrongly overshadowed everything not just of the g. 7 i think the whole news agenda or across the world has been taken over by this. i wonder the chinese deciding to put more tariffs on the u.s.

and then the retaliation also is a maybe all been timed for the g 7 doesn't seem like the foot had been taken off the terrace for a little while g. 7 comes along and suddenly it's all we're talking about again. well yes i think it was clearly a planned boof obviously china had to signal that it was going to retaliate against trump saying despite the fact that he said that he was going to give a christmas reprieve. and they i think they anticipated that he would react badly now he was going into a meeting of the g. 7 which he was not happy about he openly gripes about it he did his usual insulting oh most all of the leaders prior to showing up at the g. 7 and then proceeded to kind of dominate things by claiming after he's isolated himself that somehow he's being isolated by everybody else a so it's a it's a very difficult situation china anticipated that i think they deliberately

released their tariff news just before things i think in the past donald trump thought that he could push the buttons of china and i think he's finding that china is pushing back now what's new about this is that you know he after all of this kind of turmoil everybody in essence in unison turning against him. he said oh well i have 2nd thoughts i always have 2nd thought people thought that perhaps he was signaling that he had gone the wrong direction but at this point he's reversed that again and he said oh i should have put them up higher so this is classic donald trump he can't say sorry he has to figure out some way of doubling down the thing is it i'll stay with you just for now and what is happening between china the united states affects the whole world it will have a knock on effect and you would think at something like the g. 7 meeting that the 7 biggest economies in the world would be able to start working

together i think when we need to mitigate these effects that there are concerns of a recession even if the us president says it's not going to happen surely that is something where they can be some consensus and cooperation. absolutely but it would take donald trump to admit that the u.s. economy is in trouble that the rest of the world is under threat and he's not willing to do that and what one hand he's saying that he's demanding that the fed lower the or lower rates in order to increase the economic activity he's threatened to lower the dollar and then he stands up and said nothing to worry about everything's going great economy is strongest as ever under donald trump so he has this duality he's painted himself an essence into a corner where he cannot admit that this much vaunted economy that he gave the sugar high to with these tax cuts is actually a paper tiger that is fast fading away i'm going to go on

a slight tangent have him do this with particular thing as you're in the united states the talk of recession if there is a recession in the u.s. it will affect the rest of the world we know that but internally at the moment it seems to be this argument with the chairman of the federal reserve in the united states jay powell in fact if i remember rightly donald trump even tweeted who's the bigger enemy is that is it jay powell or is that chairmanship jinping. well among other things trump of course is a real estate developer so he's always wanted low interest rates so this really goes back to his business i mean if you're a real estate developer you want them as low as possible obviously as he has been said he doesn't accept blame for anything you know economists figure in the next year or 2 the u.s. is likely to hit into a recession the president certainly doesn't want that before november of next year when he's up for reelection and the fed i mean the talk about

a sugar high monetary policy can give that the problem is the fed has to think longer term you know it's had lower interest rates coming out of the financial crisis it can't keep those forever it has to take this longer view trump doesn't like that at all and from his standpoint and his supporters he always wants an enemy he wants to play off of somebody and the fed will do it's an institution that it's easy to demonize and he's going to use it so if there's a recession in america he doesn't want to be his policies that are blamed is going to go after somebody else the fed is a convenient target ok let's try not to talk about donald trump for a moment because i think inevitably he comes into every company session but there is a fellow let me come to you i think being from the center for russia europe and asia studies you're well placed to talk about this emanuel mccrone he wanted to change the structure of this g 7 he said let's invite some of the leaders that's bring in india let's bring in a straight a let's bring in african leaders what is the purpose of vast. and

unfortunately again are they going to get left behind because everyone's talking about all these other issues we've discussed. well i think that was mccann's way of kind of giving a positive spin to the fact that there will be no communique at the end and this idea come almost a year ago this idea of the alliance of democracies we haven't seen much of that happen we also have the largest city to picture interviews of what's happening with . donald trump and micron have talked about bringing russia back but there's been a great deal of resistance to that because nothing has really changed where we are to sanction russia and then it happened back to the polls not you know they're still in crime you know so and i don't think that's that's kind of a nonstarter over his words and. so then the next g. 7 you've got happening actually in the united states that will be interesting again isn't it because if mccrone is the host of this one is set the agenda. it would be . donald trump who would set this next jennifer c.e.o.

of a amend the whole issue of russia comes back into it again yes it'll be. election year for donald trump if you want to see which are used. at the genesis of the bill for more at home and not worried about gotcha questions which. i think. you lose europe on this there really is a study on sanctions that we held on to them once the idea of bringing russia back without any sort of you know we've finally these rules and norms and thence we want them by bringing them back into the g. 8 since really the insoles meant so there are other areas where they can work with russia but not at the g 7 that's how i think many european leaders and i want to escape was very clear in his opening remarks the day before the summit to place. i know let's bring you back and i mean this is going more broad brush than just china

here but well china is a an ally of russia sent in places like the security council doesn't it just show us again that no matter where the summit happens or how it happens it's about all these one on one alliance as i hate using this whip bilateral stuff which actually decides it absolutely i mean things have descended i mean this is what donald trump wanted he does not like multilateral institutions where he has to deal with a consensus and overcome that he likes bilateral where the u.s. can use its military economic and political my to get the best deal but i want to react to something that raises she said you know if russia has violated all of these conventions and rules and things like this but i mean if by that standard the u.s. would be in a real pickle because i think donald trump i think everyone would agree as violated pretty much all of the rules and conventions going forward and the united us has in

the past especially with a number of these wars and actions withdrawing from you know the international. human rights council you know the access i mean denying the jurisdiction of the i.c.c. etc shown that it is in fact an outlier so it'd be a little bit odd. hypocritical to be calling other countries that now i'm not defending what russia has done i think if it needs to be censured but you have those who are doing it need to be in the clear about their own actions to reason do you want to answer to that before i go back to doug sure i donald trump it seems to have broken every taboo before the election and after the election he is breaking many other international norms and rule. she just being at a standing ovation a double is because everyone was fearful of what donald trump actions would take

protectionism that's terrible all his other issues so i agree but still the situation of the international. market following rules this idea of what about is well what about this what about that i think that we have a situation now that sovereignty issues even our people's republic of china did not recognize what. russia did and they are considered kind of frenemies and friends with benefits right now so sovereignty issues are very cheap to the international. so if we just looking other way when other countries take bits and pieces of other countries i think this sends a very dangerous message krugman tire international system is like pulling a thread. piece of fabric the whole thing will start to unravel and i don't think that is helping right now i think. it's very much constant stress and injury but i don't think that is a reason to not rush she's ok folks we're starting to run down the clock so i just

want to get a final thought you're going to go back to the numbers that i started with. in fact if you go back to 2008 remember the g. 20 meeting in the middle of the global financial crisis and it was sort of decided then right g. 20 is going to be the premier world body for decision making on cooperation and economic recessions and all these sorts of things and yet here we are still discussing a g 7 with a few extras the so-called elite countries are the ones who are here supposedly making all the decisions doug shouldn't we really be worried more about what the g 20 has to say something that is actually more representative or actually does that just splinter even more and you get even less chance of an agreement. well i think that's the challenge is the more countries you involve the harder it is to get agreement i think there's a good argument for getting together democratic allies industrialized countries that generally share values that generally share our military security interests that have a long history together and that's what these countries do and getting together and

talking about issues me what is the proper response to china i mean this is clearly an issue that matters to the europeans as well as america the president's trade or is not in my view going well what would be a better response i think teresa was right you want to use the europeans work with them japan as opposed to push them away so the g. 7 has an opportunity you know what is the u.s. relationship with europe and the u.k. these these are important issues that america should be supportive of both so i think that this the g. 7 could be very useful in this regard more useful than the g. 20 simply because you get a certain intimacy of decision making the g. 20 is useful as well i think it's a different function to research a 7 g. 20 g. one plus ones what's the best way it's true the more cooks the difficult make brought up the idea of the g. 7 i think to work with allies even if you look at the us at the white house statement it sounds like donald trump wants who are those elements and commodity

that's great the current economic issues if this is a trend print that would be absolutely amazing is this right or more hyperbole remains to be seen but i think that europe feels under attack we see right today japan and korea 2 very important alanson it's a fixed appends member of the g 7 they're having a falling out so the alliance structures are really calm and i think if the g 7 can't even come up with that statement it's a really parameter of the international system right now i don't believe the final word to you not just on which party is the right thing but also you know just thoughts on the next 6 to 12 months with china in the u.s. . the next 6 to 12 months will probably not bring about a deal simply because donald trump is an unpredictable and unreliable i noticed my my 2 fellow colleagues didn't mention the obvious statement that there can be no consensus where donald trump is involved he is not

a consensus person he has not reached a consensus with anybody on anything since he started his presidency so let us not gloss it over this is just simply somebody who is isolated himself and that is why quite frankly there will be probably no trade deal prior to it because it doesn't make sense to make a deal with somebody who you do not think will carry it through and this is something that both mexico and canada are experiencing as we speak. well thank you to all of you 3 shall i say doug to reason fallon and i met tang and thank you and may as well that's for thank you for watching there is always more few online inside stories in the show's section at al-jazeera dot com if you want to see this episode dora any of our others again we're also at facebook dot com slash a.j. inside story for more discussion we're on twitter at a.j. inside story and i'm at come on a.j.

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to normal as fires continue to burn in the rain forest. a warning to israel from hezbollah leader after israeli drones caused damage in beirut. and the u.s. marks the 400th anniversary of slavery will be live in the states of virginia. we begin with the g. 7 summit in france where it wrongs top diplomats has made an unexpected but brief visit to the town hosting the gathering to have a job and zarif met the french president emmanuel michel for the 2nd time in 3 days france has been trying to revive the 2050 nuclear deal that the u.s. for out of last year. sent this report from beirut. donald trump in a somber mood as iraq for talks of the g. 7 the u.s.

president facing hostility from some leaders over differences on several international issues but as the meetings began it seemed common ground on iran has achieved the french president too so sting the summit said g 7 leaders agreed that he should talk to iran on their behalf and hearing discussion we had a discussion of the wrong with 2 common lines 1st no member of the g 7 wants iran to obtain a nuclear weapon 2nd every member of the g. 7 is profoundly attached to stability and peace in the region so we don't want to take any action which could harm this ship listed. and didn't unexpected twist iran's foreign minister mohammad javad zarif arrived from tehran for talks 2 days after meeting in paris emmanuel markov has been trying to mediate in the iran crisis since the u.s. pulled out of the 2015 iran nuclear deal last year and we impose sanctions it

wasn't long before the apparent g 7 unity on iran was broken mr cavendish. to iran a message to iran that president mccracken says he's going to deliver on behalf of our g 7 countries no i just asked. why the presence of the iranian foreign minister at this summit certainly adds a new dynamic but it's so clear how much notice of any u.s. president was given about his arrival but when he was almost about it by reporters donald trump simply said that he had no comment to make trump was also it all with some g 7 leaders over trade with concerns the u.s. tariffs war with china is responsible for the slowing world economy positions were clear in trump's 1st meeting with the british prime minister trump threw his support behind briggs it and boris johnson and promised an attractive trade deal if the u.k. leaves the e.u. you need to know. he's the right. michael will undoubtedly who the unshared jeweled

invitation to iran's foreign minister could be a step to deescalating tensions in the region even though for now zarif says he has no plans to meet the u.s. delegation or trump natasha butler just 0 pierrots and our diplomatic editor james phase joins us now live from. james do you have any more idea exactly what job did while he was there in beer it's that very short space of time. it was a very short space of time and it was a very big surprise 1st to the reporters gathered in this press room we 1st worked out that the iranian foreign minister plane was here from flight tracking apps i have to say it's emerging that other g 7 delegations and leaders probably also were surprised and got little or no advanced notice of his visit here remember he was in paris on friday met then president. perhaps the genesis of the idea of him

potentially coming to bear it's he we're told by iranians was finally invited late on saturday evening that leading to the speculation that perhaps it was discussed when the leaders met for an informal dinner at the ritz light house because certainly they talked about iran at that meeting but it seems that at that dinner even though he was either about to invite him already had invited him president did not at that stage disclose it to the other leaders quite a bold move one would think and then the foreign minister did eventually arrive here he was here for 3 and a half hours we're told among that time much of it was spent with the french foreign minister 30 minutes a bit with with president himself we understand he also met representatives from the u.k. and germany but not we don't think either the prime minister or the chancellor of

those countries and now in the last half hour has headed off from here a brief visit a very bold diplomatic move by president mark will it change things will have to watch very closely and expecting any sort of response from the trumpet ministration to this. absolutely where we are looking because clearly the french talking to the iranians is nothing new the british and the germans talking to the iranians is nothing new they have been pursuing diplomacy they're still signed up to the 2015 iran nuclear deal the one that pulled out of course is the trumpet ministration the country that is not pursuing diplomacy that is expert pursuing what they call maximum pressure is the trumpet ministration so what do they make of this particularly as we hear from white house officials that they didn't get any significant notice that this was taking place is this something

that's going to annoy president trump or is it something that actually he'll quite respect remember go back to the end of june in the g 20 summit and him then tweeting to kim jong un that he would come over to the d.m.z. and they could meet and it actually happened then president trump actually stepped into north korea so perhaps that's what the french are hoping that they are going to replicate the sort of bold diplomacy of the trumpet ministration and when the president trump over here but it is certainly your own or dayshift move fascinating time space live in berets thank you or best nominee is a professor of political science specializing in the middle east at the university of waterloo in canada and he joins us live now via skype thanks for being with us on this news hour fascinating development there in beer it's why is it france that is trying to lead the way in these diplomatic efforts with iran. well quite

simply france has a lot of business ties to the iranians certainly i think it wants to resume trade with iran and obviously the suspension of the nuclear deal by the trumpet ministration era go 5 really hampered a lot of. a lot of french businesses and so i think there's a bet that economic interest certainly i think you know mccrum feels as though he is one of the soul champions of the liberal international order france was a very important signatory to the original iran nuclear deal i would even argue that perhaps even might feel that he could sort of get some mileage out of the so-called bromance that he once had with donald trump so i think there's a lot of the vested interest for france to do this but it's not an easy type of negotiation certainly i guess one of the key questions right now is whether or not . prepared to put some proposal forward to the other g 7 leaders who are

in berets right now. i suspect they will or they have already there had been some rumors that perhaps one of the ideas would be to lift temporarily at least lift the sanctions against iran for selling its oil in exchange to bring iran back to the negotiation table and that would give a chance to get this so-called better deal so that may be floating i think certainly mccraw would love to have something on paper at least some sort of gentlemen's agreement so to speak remember there's no communicate with the g. 7 this is very odd orthodox to say the least because it's been so difficult to get the 7 countries particularly trumpet ministration to sign on to these kind of lucky that are up pledges and of course one of the chaos specs of this is how the trumpet ministration is going to respond to these efforts by mccollum he's previously said the mixed messages when making diplomacy with iran more difficult and he didn't really appreciate what was doing. you know we've really gotten some funny kind of

messaging here on the one hand it seems as though we've heard reports that trump had called on the or at least asked to sort of bring in the radiance for a dialogue and harmony and perhaps if the supreme leader had objected to that now we hear that this was completely caught it quite catching the trumpet restoration our guard they didn't appreciate macross intervention reading sorry for those few brief hours so it's really hard to tell sort of where the truth lies and i bet they're sort of double speak here one for a domestic audience or perhaps that media and then more pointedly what's really happening behind closed doors or at best mahoney joining us there for more fully appreciate your time thank you all right that's it for me and the team here in london let's take you now to something into hot thanks for listing all g 7 leaders have agreed to help countries affected by fires in the amazon as fast as possible

tens of thousands of brazilian soldiers have begun spreading into the rainforest to help fight the fires but the president says things are returning to normal the military's being sent to 6 states in an unprecedented response the number of fires is about 85 percent higher than last year many blame the policies of president john paul sinatra hundreds of new fires have been reported adding to the several 1000 across the region official dots are compiled by national geographic shows the scale and intensity of the fires 6 brazilian states are asking for federal help now and 77000 wildfires have been reported since january alone brazil's president expressed confidence though the situation is under control as i just gave rich burns are down over the last few years and are going back to normal. through isabeau as more from nova bandy around tash in the states of matter grosso. put here right in front

of the usual way now river in my pocket also this is one of the states that has mostly affected by the fires affecting the amazonia region and we know that the government has just announced that they're deploying to hurry cuties military planes to the state of them don't you however several states are requesting the presence of the armed forces in order to be able to control the fires on our way here where we're able to see several fires right next to the road from cleared land mostly farmers are clearing the land in order to be able to have tackle or grow crops among other things but this fire can get out of control and that's part of the problem presidentially evoke and i was trying to show some type of action after being heavily criticised worldwide for what is happening here with the european union threatening to call off such a free trade agreement between america through trade blow.