i really believe that iran can be a great nation but they can have nuclear weapons. hopes for a breakthrough in tensions between the united states and iran as the g. 7 summit comes to an end. hello and welcome i'm watching al-jazeera live from the headquarters here in doha also coming up brazil rejects an offer of 20000000 dollars to help tackle the fires raging in the amazon. held accountable a judge orders the u.s. pharmaceutical company johnson and johnson to pay $527000000.00. opioid epidemic. hong kong's leader refuses to step down after weeks of antigovernment

protests but says she is open to dialogue. story if there is hope of a breakthrough in months of tensions between the united states and iran the french president emmanuel macro has offered to broker a conversation between the u.s. president and the iranian leader hassan rouhani trying to salvage something from the 2050 nuclear deal the u.s. leader did appear optimistic about the idea of moving the relationship forward. wraps up what's been going on on the final day of the g. 7 summit. the prospect of a meeting between us who were a new presidents was not am likely outcome of the g 7 in berates but as the summit came to an end its host the french president suggested talks between donald trump and hassan rouhani were possible. at some point there has to be

a meeting between the iranian president and the us president i hope that in the next few weeks this meeting will take place france plays a role along with the other partners who signed the iran deal trump who pulled the u.s. out of the 2015 iran nuclear deal last year and imposed sanctions said he was open to diplomacy we're looking for nuclear weapons globalist missiles and a longer period of time very simple we can have it done in a very short period of time. and i really believe that iran can be a great nation i'd like to see that happen the development came one day after the unexpected arrival of the iranian foreign minister in berates jeffard sorry for his invited by the french president who'd been asked by some g 7 leaders to mediate in the crisis. trust conciliatory tone was also extended to trade he said beijing and washington could begin talks to resolve the tariffs dispute going into this summit

a man or mackerel said he wanted to use it to make progress on the escalating tensions over iran and trade help tackle the amazon rain forest fires and kill divisions using multilateral cooperation at the end of the 3 day meeting it seems the french president has succeeded on several fronts there were unresolved issues though the u.k.'s prime minister boris johnson received only a vague promise of a future trade accord with the u.s. and was no nearer to a deal on breaks it with the european union i think it's the job of everybody in parliament to get this thing done making it what the people want i also think by the way it's what our friends and partners on the other side of the channel want they want they want this thing done they want they want it over last year trump refused to sign the final g 7 statement this year has scrapped it replacing it with a one page summary of the meeting so with no commitments in writing the challenge

will be to. compel leaders to act on the furball promises they have made such a partner al-jazeera spirits. brazil has rejected an offer of $20000000.00 from g 7 leaders to help tackle the fires burning in the amazon and the president told local media the money would be better spent in europe earlier mr paulson r.-o. said the idea of creating an international audience to save the rainforest would be treating brazil like a colony series of reports now from the state of mato grosso one of the hardest affected areas. this place may now look like a golf course but it was once a muscle in jungle. located in the state of mind a little sore in the center of brazil decades of deforestation have this a profitable area for agribusiness and that's why the recent fires affecting the amazones are not surprising to people like blue another sun dos. every year there are fires but the situation is worse now because of climate change and the

president he basically tells people to go and cut down trees and nothing will happen to them the data we have here shows the heat and it can be verified whether it's a fire he compares the maps of 2018 with what is happening this year millions of trees gone with the help of sea source and fire. the map shows us where the fires are we travel for 4 hours and arrive at one of the places that highlighted in parts of the amazon the burned areas have increased by 83 percent in just the past year the fires are natural at this time of the year because of the dry weather the heat and the wind but environmentalists say that the sharp increase seen this year is due to farmers setting the forests allied to clear the land for pastures the problem is that in many cases those fires get out of control the brazilian law says that landowners can only cut down 20. scent of the trees in their property but

that's rarely enforced cattles not his real name is a small farmer in the area he's afraid to show his face president who has repeatedly said he wants to open up the amazon for business cattle says that has encouraged people to burn more trees for the fiscal is us there are no controls nobody is watching what people are doing both or not or says he wants to relevant and this is what development may bring there is no limits to ambition it is everyone wants more. deeper in the forest it's not difficult to find cut down trees hidden in the woods hiding from the satellites it's the 1st step to conquer new territories and extend the agricultural frontier for cattle and crops the government insists the situation is no worse than previous years but satellite imagery shows something different and that's why countries like germany and norway

have halted all payments to the amazon fund accusing the government of failing to protect the environment but enough of i.d.s. has lived in this area his whole life he has been struggling to find a middle ground between preservation and development. the simplistic speech of the president that he is attacking n.g.o.s he is attacking families from here they want to take resources from n.g.o.s because we publish the truth he says we are attacking the country we can all work together for preservation and development somebody needs to explain to the government we are not the enemy government control is the only way to prevent the destruction of what is left of amazonia but what worries many here is that they claim the central government is purposely looking away there is a war. that madoff saw. as brazil struggles to control tens of thousands of fires people in the a pretty much region in peru took brooms shovels and branches to fight back the

flames there the country's civil defense body says more than 140 hecht is a forest opinion and. a judge in the u.s. state of oklahoma has found the pharmaceutical giant johnson and johnson helped fuel the opioid epidemic the company has been ordered to pay $572000000.00 in damages over its aggressive marketing of addictive painkillers and gallacher reports now from norman oklahoma. oklahoma set out to take on a pharmaceutical giant and after 7 weeks of evidence judge found bachmann's ruling was blunt and found that johnson and johnson is culpable in fueling an opioid crisis that's claimed more than 6000 lives in this state the crisis has ravaged the state of oklahoma in the sphere made it made it immediately for this reason i am entering into a plan that consists of cost. $572102020.00 to a media living really a nuisance the case is being seen as

a landmark ruling in dealing with a health crisis that's claimed tens of thousands of lives across the u.s. the centers for disease control and prevention say that in 2017 alone close 250000 people died from opioid overdoses lawyer reggie whitten was part of his legal team and lost his firstborn son to addiction i feel like i'm always looking their. protest no but i think my sanity lost and they're celebrating the day we got to get help. he says his lawyers for johnson and johnson say they'll appeal the decision calling it legally floored the state's lawyers were asking for $17000000000.00 from the company but only got a fraction of that is the amount of money that johnson and johnson has been ordered to pay may not be what the state of oklahoma wanted but the message it sends is clear the judge in this case was unequivocal in blaming big pharmaceutical

companies in their role in an opioid crisis has blighted the lives of so many and with foundations of other cases across the country this may set an important precedent to what the pharmaceutical companies put do in t.v. or settle before this trial got under way with monday's ruling oklahoma now has close to a $1000000000.00 for treatment and this is being seen as a huge victory by those that work on the front lines fighting the epidemic were very very happy this is a good day for the sake of oklahoma we took on a giant major pharmaceutical company and a judge in norman oklahoma said you killed people it's time to pay the case was being closely watched across the u.s. in ohio alone there are 2000 pending cases but after monday's ruling pharmaceutical companies may now be forced to pay out billions and they go across this era norman oklahoma. hong kong's leader kerry has warned that the escalation of violence in antigovernment protests is becoming more serious useful protests turned violent

over the weekend as the city entered its 12th week of demonstrations protesters are calling for a controversial extradition bill to be scrapped not just suspended and for to resign but she is refusing to go and denies that her government's lost control of the territory. the question of resignation is also being on sit i think a responsible chief executive at this point in time should continue to hold the fort and do her utmost to restore law and order in hong kong some people have said that since there are continued violence we should stop communicating i said in my introductory. remarks that that that was also another to extreme view that we should prepare for reconciliation in society by communicating with different people so i'm saying that yes we have to say no to violence we want to put end to a chaotic situation in hong kong through law enforcement and so on at the same time we will not give up on building

a platform for dialogue. correspondent when he joins us live from hong kong so wayne how do you think those comments from carry on with the demonstrators. well i think it's something that they've heard time and time again really peter this was a regular weekly briefing given by the chief executive kerry lamb with the 1st time that we've heard from oh since the weekend when i think it's fair to say we saw an escalation in the violence on both days on saturday and sunday and in that media briefing there was absolutely no sign yet again that she is going to bow to the demands of the protesters despite what we saw over the weekend she remained steadfast steadfast as you heard that she will not resign and she believes that they can handle this crisis within kong that doesn't need any external assistance and that they believe they are on the right path she said that you are open to

dialogue with the artist as she has started a process of dialogue with influential people in hong kong with the ultimate aim of bringing this situation to a peaceful resolution but importantly peter no protesters have been involved in that 1st round of talks which took place on saturday so i don't think the protesters will be taking too much notice quite frankly of what she said they certainly won't be surprised by what they heard or what they didn't hear when thank you. an australian right so detained in china since january has now been formally charged with espionage young hang june was a chinese diplomat before becoming a naturalized australian citizen in 2002 he's been held for the last 7 months in courts harsh conditions in beijing that's according to australia's foreign minister mari spain's government has serious concerns about his welfare. we have heard those reports and we are deeply concerned. and disappointed to learn that

that is the case he was he was formally arrested in china. last few days still to come here on al-jazeera. why afghans are painting official common traits about 100 years of independence from british rule. and the u.n. expert condemns destroying can government's response to the east to bomb attacks. and oh there it is holes and dry across much of the middle east want to base a piece of cloud across the northern sections maybe even just a stray shot pushing across into georgia but it really is about the heat particularly in baghdad how much has been high for the last few days and staying that way so 48 celsius on she's a baby degree on wednesday and even in august that is actually well above the

average me want a very nice 30 celsius in beirut and we should see 29 on wednesday in time as high further to the south as you'd expect but here it is levels are also pretty hot the moment say 40 celsius in doha feeling a lot hotter than that and similarly across that have. to feel warmer than that value as well me was the sob who got to this a coastal cloud just pushing into a yemen and across into amman and sun to linger as we go through the next couple of days that are warm dense a lot of with a high of 28 talking of warm days while johannesburg there's a couple of those coming your way 26 ounces on tuesday also a once in those temperatures are about 7 degrees above the average meanwhile in cape town we've got this cat in the chance of you showers and that's keeping things a little bit cooler than average and then durban not about down choose day 23 degrees but cooling off wednesday on both days you might just pick up a stray shower. whether sponsored by cattle.

this is a dialogue that you decide to have children and it's what the stake is really human survival everyone has a voice that has started to their community because of course this is a debate and it's a he did this is a relation literally being put into a ph i believe is joining the global conversation with people i think if you only knew what is happening to we were muslims they will be away and they will be outraged on how to 0. recapping our top stories for you so far this hour the u.s. president donald trump says he's willing to consider meeting his iranian

counterpart housen rouhani if the circumstances are right he made statements to the g. 7 summit wrapped up in be ritson fronts brazil rejecting the offer of 20000000 dollars of emergency aid from the g 7 countries to help tackle the fires in the amazon president. an international alliance to save the rainforest would be a form of colonization a judge in the u.s. state of oklahoma has found pharmaceutical giant johnson and johnson help she will be opioid epidemic which has killed thousands of people the company's been ordered to pay $572000000.00 in damages it says it will appeal. lebanon's president has called the israeli drone strikes against his country an act of war the lebanese group hezbollah is promising to retaliate against israel iran says it will support hezbollah as actions as more from beirut. hezbollah is burying its dead in its stronghold in southern beirut 2 of its

fighters were killed in israeli airstrikes in neighboring syria on sunday night the lebanese armed group is promising retaliation it has told israel to be ready for a response its leader has in a stronger also threatened to shoot down any drone that violates lebanon's airspace after what he said was an attack by israeli drones in hezbollah's area of control in the lebanese capital hours earlier. if we remain silent on this breach it will create a very dangerous road for lebanon on repeating what is going on in iraq now. in iraq the iranian backed popular mobilization forces are blaming israel for a series of unexplained attacks on their bases and positions in recent weeks the latest was on sunday night close to iraq's border with syria which killed a number of fighters u.s. officials and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu have hinted at possible israeli involvement in those strikes israel it seems has opened

a new front. and as long. as a saying they're ready to open war on 3 fronts beirut damascus and back that we can't ignore the political side however which is the upcoming israeli elections the israeli army says its air strikes in syria stopped an attack by iran's revolutionary guards it released surveillance footage of what it said were members of the guards preparing a drone strike against israel israel has repeatedly hit what it says were iranian targets in syria over the years it wants to prevent iran from gaining a foothold and influence across the region but in the past few days it is believed to have operated in 3 neighboring countries lebanon syria and iraq nothing apple did say he gave the security forces a free hand to act in many a rino as against. and the state has been lost says the drone attack which damaged its media office violated the 2006 cease fire and changed the rules of engagement

but at the same time the group is believed to have given israel a chance not to escalate tensions say that the hezbollah's message is to the terror war telling the israelis any war will be costly and we are not alone i think twice iran promised to support any action has been to take seconds israel which doesn't seem to be backing down it is believed to be behind strikes on a position belonging to a palestinian faction allied to iran along lebanon supported with syria early on monday there is a real danger of further attacks by either side could escalate to war. beirut and investigation by the reuters news agency says the u.s. central intelligence agency does not spy on the government of the united arab emirates something critics say is a dangerous blind spot in washington's global monitoring the report quotes former cia agents with one calling the agency's failure to adapt to the us political and

military ambitions a dereliction of duty it also says the lack of monitoring puts the emirates on a very small list of countries where the cia conducts a hands off approach the u.a.e. has played a role in numerous regional and international issues including the blockade of qatar as well as the conflicts in libya and yemen a former cia officer glenn call says he'd be surprised if the united states is no longer paying attention to the u.a.e. . the us is one of the the cia is one of the few intelligence services with global capability and interests no one can debate whether that should be the case or not but that's the truth and since the u.a.e. is a critical player in the middle east and beyond i would be surprised i wouldn't really believe that the us is ignoring the u.a.e. the cia and the us government will very consciously weigh what are the potential

costs and the potential benefits from any operation and human ones and. especially and may decide well anything we could get will could not could not be good enough to counterbalance or outweigh the risks of if something goes wrong now that doesn't mean we're norrington the u.a.e. or anything else but the decision could quite conscious be made that the costs of trying to develop human sources weigh the benefits when for example there are nations ship is close already and above board or the relationship is tense or the priorities are low or priorities are so high that adding a problem would probably not worth the risk although those are factors that go into this kind of the. u.s. prosecutors say a man charged with killing 11 people in

a pittsburgh synagogue should face the death penalty if convicted they argue that robert bowers showed no reason most of the attack and wanted to instill fear in the jewish community the 46 year old is accused of firing on worship as in october of last year just to be not guilty to a 63 count and. the un special rapporteur on religious freedoms has accused one because leaders of not doing enough to deal with religious tensions in the wake of the easter sunday bombings men elfin and this explains more from colombo. it mara shafi is struggling to cope she says her world turned upside down after her husband was arrested earlier this year it happened at a time of heightened tension shortly after muslim fighters launched attacks in and around her lanka's capital colombo on easter sunday the family says he's a rest as part of an orchestrated campaign i didn't have my job i i don't have a place to stay and so less my children are and i'm going to school i had to face

all these problems and. i have to play interventions for them for those problems has been less than. i've been looking after the legal aspect of my husband she doesn't want to show her face because she says the family has received threats her husband who's a doctor has been accused of master a lazy action of seeing him these women. he was arrested in a case that police admit had no basis he has since been released on bail. the scandal followed weeks of and it was dim sentiment after the easter attacks which targeted churches and killing more than $250.00 people it also led to a spate of and it was in violence targeting homes and businesses these events were on the agenda of the un special rapporteur on religious freedom during his levon day visit here knockoffs preemptive response is something everyone not norms and then there are many cases in which either because of mismatch of the of the police

and the mobs in question that some of these mobs were able to rampage on addressing the media on monday shahid said he had heard complaints of double standards by law enforcement authorities and about the failure of the state to protect people against hate crimes groups like the buddhist power force or bubalo sina have been accused of carrying out organized violence against the muslim community a. it's c.e.o. . because if we have never spoken against the muslims in an organized manner to put about us you know on every occasion spoke against muslim terrorism that has no connection to the ordinary muslim community. referring to the recent violence the un special rapporteur says sri lanka's government must do more to protect minorities in order to challenge extremism and create inclusion. you know rule of law well protected well rule of law is not protected then then the vehicle

communities are vulnerable to attacks and the majority feels that they can exploit that space to the to their advantage shahid says reforming the education system to teach respect for all religions is important showing it says she lankans should work towards creating a common identity beyond religion and race given the country's violent past moshe lankans are likely to agree if politicians will let them win their finance 0. thousands of people are fleeing cameron's english speaking areas after separate sparked fears of an escalation in violence the call for protests and businesses to shut down in a bid to paralyze the region is after separatist leader was handed a life sentence by a military court some english speakers are pushing for independence accusing the francophone majority of discrimination plans to reopen schools this week have been suspended. this month afghanistan is marking 100 years since it gained independence

from british empire and a shell of us reports now from kabul afghan documenting what that independence means today. was a picture of afghanistan 100 years after independence from britain the anglo afghan treaty was signed this month the $919.00 by king. graphic artist converted his image into stick it's a couple motorists we have jobs one mission in afghanistan he's going to show. other canvases a blast was falsified concrete slabs placed information down most cities 3 they made to block explosions from suicide bombings they also offer a visual commentary on kabul the size and today where there are celebrations or more political statements about corruption or the killing of civilians. afghanistan's art scene has flourished since the fall of the taliban in 2001 with

literacy rates among adults around 30 percent it's a language all afghans understand the real painting true lives today and every single to that is one of the victims of wars oh much refin his team have painted 10000 sort their goal is 34000 to represent the number of civilians killed since 2002 sharifi founded the award winning awards a group of social activist. he is celebrating independence but not necessarily afghanistan's as a nation i think i have my independence i have this art this gives me the voice and this gives voice to millions of. sarkari me has a more traditional campus film she's making a short historical movie for the anniversary. this short film is just

a short leash to the history of afghanistan through there had to be passed to continent to say and i just give them like kind of clue that what we did wrong and what we did dry ice cream is the 1st female director of the afghan film institute and has been vocal in advancing women's rights in afghanistan we exist as a as a country as a nation so from some point of view we are independent and what we decide to be more independent. does being a turbulent sentry for afghans with independence defined is vastly is the canvasses it is recorded on. a couple. unmanned russian spacecraft successfully docked at the international space station on its 2nd attempt in as many days these were the final moments as the soyuz m s 14 approach the space station a glitch in its automatic docking system prevented it from docking on saturday

spacecraft is carrying a robot the size of an adult human which will carry out 2 weeks of tests on board the i s s. recapping our top stories for you so far here on al-jazeera the u.s. president donald trump says he is willing to consider a meeting his iranian counterpart has an rouhani if the circumstances are right he made the statement as the g. 7 summit wrapped up in berates in front. i don't know the gentleman i think that i think i know i'm a little bit just by watching over the last number of years what's happened tell you one thing is a great negotiator but he i think he's going to want to meet i think iran wants to get this situation straightened out their economy is tanked entirely the sanctions are absolutely hurting them horribly i don't want to see that i don't want to see that they're great people i don't want to see that we can't let them have

a nuclear weapon can't let it happen so i think that there's a really good chance that we would meet. brazil has rejected the offer of $20000000.00 of emergency aid from g 7 countries to help tackle the fires in the amazon the president says an international alliance to save the rain forest would be a form of colonization a judge in the u.s. state of oklahoma has found pharmaceutical giant johnson and johnson helped fuel an opioid epidemic which has killed thousands of people the company's been ordered to pay $572000000.00 in damages over its aggressive marketing of addictive painkillers it says it will appeal. the hong kong need to carry on the escalation of violence in anti-government protests is becoming more serious protesters are calling for a controversial extradition bill to be scrapped not just suspended. to resign but she is refusing to go and denies her government's lost control of hong kong. and australian rights are detained in china since january has been formally arrested on

charges of espionage young hang june has been held for the last 7 months in harsh conditions in beijing according to australia's foreign minister yang was a former chinese diplomat before becoming a naturalized australian citizen in 2002 the penalties for spying range from 3 years in jail to the death penalty. israel appears to be massing troops on its borders with lebanon and syria israel has carried out air strikes against iranian backed groups in lebanon iraq and syria in the past few days a lebanese president described it as a declaration of war those are your headlines the news continues on al-jazeera after the stream i will see you about. the nature of news as it breaks. creases in the. rows. with details coverage i was once known as the cold. and that's why people are not

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