the government failed to protect against hate crimes and allowed mistreatment by law enforcement i spoke to mr shahid after delivering his assessment in colombo sri lanka has made moves in the right direction but discrimination is still common. i think the situation requires a long term strategy and some immediate steps as well the immediate steps required include again enforcing the law on everybody equally ensuring that perpetrate doesn't buy that as a whole to hold to account but the long term they do with a discourse on that issue of inclusion rather than focusing on and at the north national identity they were the inclusive identities and then sure enough and ensure that all communities feel the equally part of the part of sri lanka the same time also addressing intra community tensions which we seem to also play a part in some of these issues including there's extremism in some communities and the failure for the state again to protect everybody in these communities as well so all of all the larger picture is political leaders being able to hold people to account when they're out there while the laws have policies that are inclusive and

engage with other communities and make sure they build a future that is inclusive for everybody rather than focusing on one ethno religious divide lines of division. still ahead on al-jazeera sued by the state taking on a pharmaceutical giant accused of creating the u.s. opioid crisis plus. i'm now in fisher in hampton virginia where the people here are commemorating 400 years since the 1st africans were brought to the english speaking colonies of forced to work that's only. hello i think the flood risk is going to return to q shoe hong sure maybe south korea doesn't look much the moment with the blue clad it will turn into something being caught up with this developing system appear we're talking about

a vast difference and we're hundreds of kilometers away but this is what the consultation will show you from shanghai to osaka that is a potential of several 100 millimeters of rain falling in 24 or 48 hours of acute shoes then over most of honshu the potential for flooding returns once more i'm pretty sure will be realised tickly in southern japan the big circulation brings what i suspect is welcome rain to the north east of china and siberia but keeps beijing probably in the driest resident 33 not particularly humid degrees further cyrus although at the moment it's raining in grand bargain particulate rain is tend to fade away as remains of the tropical storm that went through taiwan so the picture no hope is developing right further west and you're not up to sichuan and to the north of shanghai which leads this southeastern corner now dry for calculations hong kong at $35.00 degrees now a rather less humid one because all the energy of course is developing obviously

just west of luzon. over 100 years ago britain and france made a secret deal to divide the middle east between them now we can draw them in the 2nd episode we explore the last new phase of this agreement that there is a regional city to sikes because it's at those borders were drawn with consulting the people who have to live with the. sykes people in the sun. jesse.

are watching al-jazeera let's recap the top stories right now president trump has once again insisted he's not seeking regime change in iran and says it's too soon to meet iran's foreign minister made the comments after job fits of rage made a surprise visit to the g. 7 summit. basile says chinese officials called the american trade negotiator on sunday and want to resume talks to resolve their trade dispute there's been no word from chinese officials in that regard and while stock markets across asia have closed in the red yet nancy the rebels say they have attacked a military target in the saudi capital riyadh with drones a saudi led coalition has not commented. new visa rules barring going as wayland's from freely entering ecuador are now in effect ecuador is the latest south american nation to tighten immigration regulations at least 4000000 people have left venezuela and the last few years to escape political and economic crisis are latin america see

a new member report some talk on the ecuador border. well the deadline has elapsed and there are still hundreds of venezuelans at the very least on the colombian side of the border about 200 meters in front of me who are not going to be able to come here to ecuador throughout the day or than 10000 venezuelans did make it through before they were required to have to get into this country some of them have been taken by bus by the authorities here to the border with a route where many of them want to go with the problem is that they won't be able to get in there either without a visa there are thousands of young children. pregnant women elderly people very young people one girl was just sent back a short while ago because she's only 17 not of legal age she had to go back across into the to the colombian side everybody has a dramatic story to tell they say they can't live in anymore but they don't have jobs they have no money most of these people no food it's freezing cold here in

ecuador it's 3000 meters above sea level at this moment and people are just camped out here wrapped in little blankets or anything they can find towels to try to make it through the night before they take off to try to see what is going to become of their lives place in indian administered kashmir say protesters have killed the driver thought was a military truck. in the 4th weekend made it difficult for people to make a living. on the district. this should be a happy time his family's apple crop is looking good this season and will be ready for harvesting september but the region's lockdown has made it hard to get supplies and laborers from outside told to stay out there but. are you going to. the government told them to go home but we can't get because the markets a shot right there we can't even get

a sense because. everything is shut. that's affecting people with small businesses especially in farming who are worried the restrictions on communication and movement means their hard work will be thrown away. it's a situation that's common throughout the kashmir valley most businesses think shut in srinagar carpet sellers have already stocked up for both the tourist and wedding season this month but few have had any sales in weeks. what hair. brained them when we. houseboat hotels and famous doll lake sit empty. and with only local people riding a few of the gondolas many boat men are fishing to pass the time and catch a meal just before the restrictions earlier this month the government order tourists to leave the area taking with them one vital piece of the region's economy

but it's not the 1st time kashmiris have suffered from work and businesses being shut down has it do. we know by the. abo and take on. what they know their. season everything is at stake but they know that the existence. i would stay. but doesn't know if he'll be allowed to transport his crop to market or find enough trucks to do so but he'll continue tending his fields because for many here culture and pride are more important than business and money. and districts indeed administered kashmir. it's the ethnic iraq and people like the right hand to have been fighting for recognition and rights and me and maurice rakhine state and 2009 i founded an armed group called the iraq army and as donna karan reports there's

been a rise in violence over the past several months. at the end of 2018 fighting between ethnic our current army and the medium army in rakhine state escalated and it's continued this year the latest outbreak earlier this year when it was reported more than 20 people were killed from both sides the ethnic are kaante people are fighting for greater autonomy for me amar central government the region was called our calm before it was renamed rakhine state this in the same state that saw a violent meum army crackdown against the muslim minority 2 years ago prompting a mass exodus across the border into bangladesh they are a kind army is based in trains in neighboring catchin state. the go to fight is we want equality and self-determination this is a starting point policy from our organization we want to be able to our all

american state future. thousands have fled the violence into neighboring chin state living in camps for the internally displaced over the last 3 years more females have started to join the our kind army ranks after losing family members and land in fighting comedy i've never seen a situation like this before i feel very sad and i want to help as much as i can for the displaced people the our current army. commander feels the struggle of his people is overlooked because of the plight of the rich he refers to them as been gali a term used by the medium our government and army the remainder consider this derogatory as they've lived in may mar for generations. with their program was by golly iraq a state the world played attentional sympathy for them we want a better world please look at what happened to our people feel 1st too we're also in the same situation like the plague ali the peace process to achieve a cease fire with all armed ethnic groups led by the head of mi a mars government

on san suu kyi has stalled she faces increased political pressure for progress as the peace talks were a campaign promise when she was elected in 2015 with the recent violence peace appears to still be well out of reach and that could have consequences for the general election early next year. diana carom al-jazeera. said anson prime minister has appealed for international support as the country begins its next steps towards democracy of the honda access's government wants and then to sanctions and what he calls sudan's pariah status economy collapse under former president omar al bashir is 30 years in office and april when the military deposed him after months of mass protests. for years we were isolated. within easy does a promise that. we want to tell the world. we are moving away from sanctions.

issues of punishment and on to a sudan that is coming back to the form of more militias contributing to the security you know what is the number one and for that approach. we wanted to be seen as a country that the paulding human rights good governance peace security at susie's self and peace and its neighbors. meanwhile sudan's sovereign council declared a state of emergency in the city of port sudan after fighting between 2 rival communities killed 17 people the council sacked the provincial governor after 3 days of violence or the 100 others had been injured in the dispute between the beni and there and new tribes about morgan has been following events from khartoum sudan sovereign council which was sworn in just last week and which has pledged to prioritize peace in its 1st 6 months of the transition period has declared a state of emergency in the city of port sudan now this follows days of ethnic

clashes between members of the beni army and the new but tribes and we understand from people in port sudan that it started as a verbal quarrel between members of the opposing tribes which eventually turned violent the authorities say at least 17 people have been killed and dozens others have been wounded and are now hospitalized and activists are telling us that the tensions are so high that people from opposing tribes cannot be hospitalized in the same hospitals due to concerns of outbreak of more violence sudan suffering council also dismissed the acting state governor who was appointed by the transitional military council following the ousting of longtime president i'm going to be here in april they've also dismissed the head of security the sovereign council had sent a delegation to try to mediate between the 2 tribes but so far that has been unsuccessful which lead to depletion of a state of emergency and activists are saying that they are worried that this tribal conflict this ethnic tension which has been going on for a few months now will escalate in the coming weeks if no solution is provided by

the sovereign council. 7 people including 2 children have been killed in a midair collision between a helicopter and an ultralight plane in spain this crash happened there and in the north of the popular tourist island in majorca off the coast of spain 5 passengers were on board the helicopter the other 2 were on that small plane because it's not yet known. a judge of the u.s. state of oklahoma is expected to rule in a trial of a major pharmaceutical company over the opioid crisis a multinational johnson and johnson is being sued by the state over its role in the distribution of the drugs and gallagher has more from the city of norman over the last 2 decades officials in this state say that more than 6000 people have died of opioid overdoses those statistics nationally make for even more startling reading in 2017 alone the centers for disease control say that that figure was almost 50000 which race was when happening in this courthouse over the last few months extremely important oklahoma's attorney general is accusing johnson and johnson one of the

biggest pharmaceutical companies in the world are flooding the market with powerful painkillers are not warning people about their addictive nature but their pot johnson and johnson say no laws were broken and they were simply bringing relief to people with chronic pain if the judge sides with the state of oklahoma that could mean that johnson and johnson is forced to pay out billions of dollars in fines money that will be used in treatment centers over the next few decades but a decision like that will also set a precedent not unlike the one in the late ninety's where big tobacco paid out almost all the states and it's also important to remember there are still 2000 pending court cases across the united states many pharmaceutical companies settling before the cases even come to court so all eyes will be on the decision made by the judge here in norman oklahoma on monday. the s. is marking their arrival of the 1st enslaved africans to the english colony of virginia 400 years ago a commemoration comes at

a time when the president is accused of creating a culture war right nationalism and racism come for a show alan fischer reports from hampton and virginia. it's the bells rang for 4 minutes. one for every century since the arrival of the 1st african sleeves in the english speaking colonies that would become america taken from what his knowing they were sold for food to the struggling coal and it's the fust of hundreds of thousands that would follow creating history changing history don't let other people of the 5 who we are and who we were who our ancestors were because when you read the bible history books it's in their version of history they do not tell you about the good things that we do they tell you about our ancestry was all about slavery and our africans were not slaves we were enslaved and were here today to pick up those broken pieces and try to heal from the wounds of slavery everyone was

infected slavery was an international trade and everyone profited many people profited from the slave trade and many people were broken by it this is 4 years ago where my ancestors came across an old boat had. called pedro service and i wanted my wife to know a little bit about the history of my people. even after the abolition of slavery african-americans faced open hostility brutality murder efforts to block integration attempts to stop them voting is telling all of us to feel the loser pain in recent years they've seen the rise of white nationalism an overt racism there are those who believe that the legacy of what happened 400 years ago has never been fully addressed that there's still inequality still discrimination and until those are fixed in america will never truly be you know. state america still has a legal muscle memory towards racialism towards inequality and so after 400

years historians are now telling that truer story that more accurate story about the true origins of our nation about this original sin that people talk about . their weaves delivered the 28 or sleeves as they were described they would never leave the sures again and would never have imagined 400 years on their lives their legacy would be remembered by so many people who felt connected. alan fischer hampton virginia. richelle carey with your headlines on al-jazeera president has once again insisted he is not seeking regime change in iran and says it's too soon to meet iran's foreign minister he made the comments a day after job and zarif made a surprise visit to the g. 7 summit they will talk to them i believe that in order to secure our country's

national interests any instrument should be used if i know that going to a meeting and visiting a person will help the country get developed and solve the people's problems i will not miss it the principle is the national interests of our nation are on says it's deployed its most sophisticated warship to provide security for its ships in the gulf of aden that's one of the busiest shipping ports in the world iran has also announced it has sold the oil that was on board that tanker that was detained by british forces enter prawle terror attack iran did not say who bought the crude comments if the rebels say they've attacked a military target in the saudi capital riyadh with the drones a saudi led coalition fighting in yemen has not commented gets. durance investigator on religious freedom has just released his assessment of sectarian tension in sri lanka relations between muslims and buddhists have been strained since the easter bombing attacks by muslim fighters all muslim ministers have since been forced out of sri lanka's government un special rapporteur tour shahid says

the government failed to protect against hate crimes and allowed mistreatment by law enforcement. sudan's new prime minister has appealed for international support as the country begins its next steps toward democracy and says his government wants an end to sanctions and what he calls sudan's pariah status economy collapse under former president omar al bashir has 30 years in office and in april when the military deposed him after months of mass protests meanwhile sudan's sovereign council has declared a state of emergency in the city of port sudan after fighting between 2 rival communities killed 17 people the council sacked the prevention governor after 3 days of violence more than 100 others have been injured in this dispute between the binney amr and newburgh tribes and new visa rules barring venezuelans from entering ecuador are now in effect ecuador is just the latest south american nation to tighten immigration regulations at least 4000000 people who left venezuela in the

last few years because of the political and economic crisis those are the headlines keep it on al-jazeera more to come inside story is that next. 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 to what purpose does this g 7 this is inside story.

hello i'm come out 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 and fronts 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 feel 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. it works now. i think they respect the trade as. china's. economic speech saying they were doing. ok places but from the standpoint of the united states were to have leverage that president clinton ministrations allowed them to get away with taking the country 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

trade peaceful. a very nice. thing with all the whole of the u.k. control. massively. reduced. quality of life. 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 berates from. 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 analysts 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. under the 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 he's allies with his recent declarations about trade there i mean issues of climate change the question obviously of the u.k.

leaving 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 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 the 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 the president 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 oh no 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 the same time 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 year before so he has

a multi-pronged approach and it's it's he's kind of having to step across 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 b.t.i. . the german federation of industry had published a report seoul germany all these major countries were on the same page as you. was returned to china it might have been far more effective if the us 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 move 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 thoughts 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 stay with you just for now and what is happening between china in 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 at the same.