this is deja news live from then president trump tries to calm a political storm he now says russia did meddle in the us elections and sees no reason why it wouldn't want to. send shit i don't see any reason why it wouldn't be russia. sort of that all negative trumps u. turn comes after he previously appeared to accept the russian president's denial of

meddling also on the program. south africa marks the centenary of former president nelson mandela as book but all is not well in the rainbow nation we find out why many young people have lost faith in their country's founding myth. and refocus on reconciliation efforts in mosul where year after the so-called islamic state was driven out of the second city in iraq in an exclusive report you follow a district mayor trying to get everyone to live together in peace amid the ruins but he fears that task might take one hundred years because. hello and welcome my name is christopher spring eight thanks for joining us u.s. president donald trump has made a spectacular u. turn on remarks he made after monday's health thinking. summit with his russian

counterpart vladimir putin the remarks provoked a political storm in the united states now in a bid to limit that damage trump says he made a mistake when he appeared to accept putin's denial russian meddling in the twenty sixteen elections. it was an appearance arranged hastily in washington facing heavy criticism u.s. president donald trump made a rant admission of error and offered a lesson in english grammar. and a key sentence in my remarks i said the word world instead of what it. should have i don't see any reason why i went for why he did what the russian said . i don't see any reason why it wouldn't be russia. sort of a double negative as you turn on a statement trump had made at a summit with russian leader vladimir putin trump then appearing to cast doubt on american intelligence agency's findings of

a alleged russian meddling in the presidential election people came to me did. some others they said they think it's russia i have president putin he just said it's not russian i will say this i don't see any reason why it would be in washington the alleged case of misspeak is being translated as double speak trance republican party members of britain rank and distancing themselves from the remarks while some democrats condemned behavior in helsinki what we saw a press conference standing just several feet away from the. leader of russia. was the president's decision to turn his back on the organs and agencies of the united states government president trump however insists his allegiance is with his country and shouldn't be called into question. south africans to celebrating what would have been the one hundredth birthday of the late

president nelson mandela who died in twenty thirteen and the other was the first black president to post apartheid south africa a freedom fighter who spent twenty seven years in jail but still tried to build peace with those who could have prevented him until it's president in the one nine hundred ninety s. focused on reconciliation and unity country including five to five racial. so little doubt about nelson mandela's contribution to south africa's recent past the nation today though has many troubles including a high number of people out of work with few prospects for the future the freedom and fought for has little to offer them and that's especially true of the young generation. so wet south africa a township to decease way cosy still calls home he's part of the first generation of children born in the hopeful years after apartheid but the rainbow nation nelson

mandela dreamt of is far from reality he says different from a nation is availability of drugs. yeah definitely a lot of crime. that's airing the nation as well. so many young south africans say they've had enough of the myth of mandela. they may have the freedom he fought for but what use is that they are sick without a job or prospects. and everybody says. i think it's true. so yeah people have lost their lives in the wonderland. their lenders deal with the people who took it and stuff for all i don't know let me fixed in some way to fix that.

not everyone has lost their optimism kaley cliff it is a student of political science in johannesburg i think that. nominee is still. something of a symbol of peace in the conciliation i think he was an excellent statesman more than that he represented what it was to simply just be a good person and i think that's the reason it's with the youth kaley cliff it has a mixed heritage background she personifies the reconciliation mandela fought for. a member of south africa's young well educated elite she's able to take advantage of the opportunities in this country but cliff it is aware that not everyone has benefited from mandela's legacy i don't know whether it did enough to interest sort of the group sort of racism at the heart of society and i think that's probably why

we find ourselves in a situation like today where you use the still very angry east a lot of resentment and sort of tension pumping beneath the surface. and issues of race lost all very sensitive. and so wetter some people have stopped engaging with politics entirely. to decease way cosey and his friends say politicians are only interested in winning votes. so they take in the task of change making into the own hands on a street corner they've built a small youth club with a skate track and vegetable garden where people felt i was being invited to join our only vibrant we place we kind of hold it up to me just what it was to let go of you the everybody makes mistakes on the road where there was you just do everything i know that we can do our own thing. to to see his way and his friends may have lost faith in politics and the legacy mandela left behind and yet they've demonstrated here that individuals of whatever background can together still bring

change. because it's look now at some of the other stories making news around the world the twelve boys and soccer coach were rescued from a flooded cave in thailand all trying to speak to the media today about their ordeal they've been in hospital following the high risk operation to free them from that cave in the province of chiang rai group karen trapped in a cave maybe a month ago. latin america's leftist leaders have wrapped up a three day conference and a final q. the venezuelan president nicolas maduro lashed out at the united states accusing washington of fermenting unrest in his country but other concerts are support for daniel ortega has left the government an ethnic regular which is facing only going on grass. relatives of those killed when a malaysia airlines flight m h seventeen was down the ukraine have been disastrous

fourth anniversary during sermon in the netherlands each rather to read out the names and ages but then to singe family members race. two hundred ninety eight people were killed when the plane was shot down by a russian made missile how international investigators have. russian rebels. well it's a year since iraq's armed forces liberated the country's second largest city mosul from so-called islamic state i have ruled the city for three years with the support of some of its citizens as mosul struggles to rebuild reconciliation between those who supported by us and those who didn't is an almost impossible task so for the time being those in charge of concentrating on keeping those two sides apart this exclusive report now from the w.'s big issue. good there's good none zero zero zero zero. zero zero zero zero achmet mohammad ramadan is

a busy man he's a marketer and elected man his district can be found among the ruins of western mosul from his workshop he organizes clearance of rubble and booby traps and is also in charge of food and water distribution the recent past is ever present even in these mundane tasks. the minister. my when there's an assessment for food and somebody says this is the son of an i.a.s. family as i go out there won't be anything for that family. then this guy blames another family who wasn't what i had and so they don't get any food either. you. have to run man says about half the people in his district supported the i asked some from fear some from conviction. the evidence of what that led to is everywhere in mass graves like this one. here they all go away how do you know my

son just wanted to cross the street they shot him in the back he was my only son. so he had six children. after rocket man asks for details tries to comfort her but there's nothing he can do. accusations eat through the community to try to find out what's real and what's not after a man is registering everyone he sends the data to the police military and secret services to be checked against lists of known i asked perpetrators. those who didn't do anything can stay those who cause problems have to be. some of those thought to have worked with i asked are still in the neighborhood. but they're not coming out talk. opposite their house is

clear i asked we want your blood it says. the problem is that people are thinking about what happened all the time they don't have anything to do we need to give them word jobs which could reformat their minds i think the mind is like a memory stick if you don't raise it properly the grief will return all the time the. reconstruction of the city is slow at the raf man would like more support from the government in pakistan jobs schools infrastructure. reconstruction a society is even slower the phone rings it's not weirdo with an i asked. she says she wants to return home. even if the family's in the neighborhood accept you i could let you come back but i'm sorry to tell you that the people don't want you here. reconciliation he

says will take a hundred years he retreats into his work mending things takes his mind off the huge problems he cannot fix. at a. after jaish break on the tour de france the riders were back on their bikes for stage ten yesterday it saw them into the mountains for the first time frenchmen. winning the one hundred fifty eight kilometer ride from lake and see it included by the way for major climbs. to make fun of him out in the yellow jersey start of the first alpine stage on the attack and that's despite the mountains not being his terrain this is more as you do your other feelings discipline as he showed a list way to picking up maximum points in all five categorised kline's. the penultimate climb about thirty kilometers from the finish i left early went on

a decisive attack breaking away from the pack. but after much tried to keep up having briefly held a five minute leave open ever shrinking group of tall favorites. after the climbs are left to lead won the race to the finish and look at all the world all the first frenchmen to win it this year's tour. of them are crossed the line for extending his lead in the overall standings to two minutes and twenty two seconds julio i left early for celebrated his first ever told stage win and receive the polka dot king of the mountains jersey. in football the transfer market is heating up the premier league side liverpool have been looking for a new goalkeeper ever since lawrence carrier says mistakes in the champions league final back in may the english side has now made an offer to sign romas brazilian international alley song for a reported seventy million euros that would be a world record for a goalkeeper twenty five year old has been

a roma for two years now liverpool's bid if accepted would overtake the current record for goalkeeper which stands at fifty three million euros that sum by event has to remain for john rechy phone back in two thousand and one. or keep you up to date. with that transfer news you're watching. me so much kind of taking over this desk top of the hour thanks what should. we make up oh but we want tells of the undead that we all resemble some office and . they want to show you the continent's future it's the heart of it enjoying some stores as they share their stories their dreams and their challenges the seventy seven percent plus for africa.