e.u. military cooperation she stands for a deeper cooperation of europeans in all fields of politics humid to point out that she leaves her job with her reputation in tatters because of her failure to maintain germany's armed forces at an active service level but can you know that you glossed over that this move back no but i mean that was not a question the question was about europe and not about germany in germany it's since she's managed good citizenship she arrives as damaged goods i wouldn't say she's a lodger in the marvelous she did the marvelous job and she was presenting herself and we hope that she will lead the european commission in the next 5 years in a very very good way we have no doubt about it it was an innocent she did a lousy job was being defense minister of germany fellas minister of germany is a very difficult challenge all the time in the last life heart left harvick 2nd change in good measure up to it she's still under investigation every 7 years of a child's and it's true there isn't $150000000.00 euros for which only $2000000.00 euros are actually put out there is

e.u. countries after its military forces destroyed palestinian homes in east jerusalem in a joint statement cosigned by france britain and spain germany says it is deeply concerned about those demolitions israeli authorities say the buildings were high security risk. in east jerusalem today is the day after and all that is left are piles of rubble eateries here is stunned. this is politics it's not about security i just want to say out of here quotes. on monday israeli soldiers demolished 4 palestinian houses and more are said to follow this follows a ruling by israeli's highest court which took years to decide the court ruled the building stood too close to israel's security fence. minister gilad aired on tweeted that the house is endangered israel security terrorists could use them as a base from which to attack. palestinians are protesting the ruling they say international law allows them to build here and the palestinian authority illegally approved the construction. the e.u. has also condemned the demolitions calling them largely illegal. we expect the easterly authorities to minutely

e.u. envoy and the transition military council say that that is something that they will wrap up on friday and that the final deal was signed on friday afternoon but until a bad deal is signed this deal is a landmark there still remains a lot to be talked about a lot of issues to be discussed between the 2 sides for sudan's transition to be complete. well let's take a look at how we've got here after months of protests against has ruled the military removed president omar al bashir in a coup on april 11th the generals then set up a transitional council while a mass certain continued outside the army headquarters to protest leaders held talks with the hunter they agreed on a 3 year transition period to democracy but talks own broke down over who would lead the joint government the military wanted a soldier to be in charge protesters demanded it be led by civilians on june 3rd security forces raided the protest camp outside army headquarters killing more than 100 people all contact between the 2 science shut down talks resume on july 3rd after the african union and ethiopia stepped in to med

aware that there were civilian areas detention facilities within military compound so so that's the 1st question the you mention the e.u. policy that's certainly something which is near the subject of a filing that has been made with the international criminal court in relation to crimes against humanity falling on the responsibility of the e.u. member states of course there is also the responsibility of the un sanctioned un supported government in tripoli in terms of the conditions that it is detaining migrants in and around tripoli. so here opinion leaders say they will not see you disciplinary measures against iran after the u.n. nuclear watchdog confirmed that it had breached the stockpile limit which had been agreed under the 2050 nuclear deal but they're edging terror on not to go forward with a plan to reduce its compliance under that agreement al-jazeera zain besser avi has more from tehran. with just days to go before iran is expected to take another step in its plan to reduce cooperation with a 2050 nuclear deal president hassan rouhani had an angry rebuke for the united states. over the past one year it is t

military rule. deadlock in brussels as e.u. leaders work through the night but failed to find agreement on who is to fill the top jobs. let's begin in hong kong where hundreds of thousands of protesters are taking over the streets and they could number to a 1000000 this is the scene right now as demonstrators again show their anger over a controversial extradition bill protesters of also being trying to smash their way into the main government building so happening on the anniversary of britain's handover to china 22 years ago. andrew thomas is among the crowd of protesters looks to be swelling right now take us through what's going on. well there are 2 protests essential a the one going on behind me and i towards the legislative council building essentially the parliament in the center of hong kong is the smaller one but the most vocal one on the move violent one i'm by my estimate there are about 10000 people taking part and over the course of monday they've been using various objects to smash the windows about parliamentary

e.u. mediation will be presenting the 2 sides the coalition and the transitional military council now that constitutional declaration will be the guiding of new print or the guiding the document during that transitional period because if you remember when president bashir was ousted on the 11th of april the military council announced that it is suspending the constitution so at the moment there is no constitution to meet the transition period so what the mediation and the e.u. mediation will be doing later is that they will be presenting this constitutional document to the 2 sides to make sure that they agree on the wordings and what is inside that document before they sign a deal and begin the transitional period thank you for that morgan monitoring developments from. now libya's coast guard is on alert as the battle for control of trouble it threatens to expand to the sea forces loyal to war largely for half they have been fighting for months on the capital's outskirts now they're threatening to launch an offensive as a u.n. recognized government is taking measures to prevent it as a mar

e.u. at the end of october. thanks. china is demanding that the united states immediately cancel a potential $2200000000.00 arms sales to taiwan it would be washington's 1st big ticket military sale to the island in decades the move could worsen american ties with china which considers taiwan to be a breakaway province when hate reports now from beijing. taiwan's military is built on equipment from the united states its main supply of arms announcements from washington of sales are always met by an angry response from china and this was no difference it's a crude interference in china's internal affairs and a harms china's servant and a security interest china is strongly as does such as wired and thoroughly opposed to this and has already made a stern representations to the u.s. side and. china regards taiwan as a breakaway province that it will one day retake that threat is why taipei feels the need to regularly upgrade its weaponry this deal may be viewed by beijing as particularly provocative if it's approved by the united states congress at $2200000000.00 it would be the largest since donald trump took over as president taiwan in the u.s. continue to consolidate our sec

e.u. and we know that yesterday a deadline set by the possum this was a deadline for the military transitional council to appoint a civilian that government. what are the implications off missing that deadline we know that as it stands saddam has been suspended from the body because of what happened on the change that but what is this what is this missing the date i mean essentially i mean the aid has not come out and said an official sort of. opinion as to what the consequences are but we can assume that the suspension then still stands and that sudan's membership will still continue to be suspended however it doesn't seem like sudan is a silly bothered by this the military council does have regional support from other countries egypt saudi arabia the u.a.e. and it seems that at the moment the country is really caught up with this this is now basically just a crisis and how to get out of this sort of like it's a brick wall yeah it's heating that pickle it's complex you have because you have you've got the military that the often so talk about you also have what they call the the rapid support

military. as the standoff in the gulf becomes more tense the remaining signatories of the nuclear accord meet with iran and vienna e.u. partners are still hoping to save the deal with the goal of denuclearization. but if tensions continue to mount at sea a solution could drift out of reach. our political correspondent emmanuel shows has been following the story and joins us now in the studio good to see you in money well so the u.k. wants to confront iran with a european military mission to the gulf how why clee is it that germany would join such a mission. receiving mixed signals from the german government at the moment foreign minister say that. hasn't excluded participation off germany and that he would welcome a mission to secure the time it's now which kind of mission are we talking about we don't know yet would it be an observation mission would it be providing information to friends and grab britain for example or would it be about escorting ships to weigh a great britain is currently doing so he said will be only decide when we will have clarity on the design oh such a mission he also say that he would come t

year's festival day parade the focus on european military cooperation on the fresh day comes at a time of growing tensions with the united states key e.u. leaders including german chancellor angela merkel joined mccrone to watch the annual parade down the shells of these a which commemorates the start of the french revolution one of the most eye catching pieces of hardware on display this year was this fly board which will be tested by the french military. our correspondent lisa lewis was in paris at the parade and sent us this the theme of today's busy day parade with european friends corporation president in myanmar call had invited the 19 and the other. the member states of his so called european intervention initiative launched about one year ago he wanted to depict himself as the european leader germany's angela merkel one of the guests of honor here today said that this was a great step towards european defense corp today's parade was also a further attempt to say that europe can very much stand on its own feet when it comes to defense and that it doesn't depend that much anymore on the u.s. but a common european defense strategy

e.u. residents of what they are homeowners lost their 7 year legal battle to overturn a military addiction order when israel's high court dismissed that case philippines president rodriguez eternity is calling on congress to reinstate death penalties for drug related crimes to tell he delivered his state of the nation address where he pushed for constitutional amendments protesters have gathered across the philippines calling for his resignation. the illegal problem is caught up in your post and in much to your late the garbage you need to sustain are. all very neat at the. worst congress to reinstate the death penalty. what he most crimes related. as well. lunde. hong kong's leader has strongly condemn violence following a mass rally against her government police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse crowds outside the office of china's representatives to the city criticised people who threw eggs out of the building in vandalized the national and . of the later in the night dozens of masked men attacked people returning home from the rally videos on social media show a group of me

best steel day parade the focus on european military cooperation on the french national day comes at a time of growing tensions with the united states key e.u. leaders including german chancellor angela merkel joined by kong to watch the annual parade down the day which marks the anniversary of the start of the french revolution speaking after the parades americal called it a great a gesture for a european defense policy. correspondent lisa lewis has been following both field day parade and she joins us now from paris so lisa what were some of the highlights at this year's parade. well at this year's parade the theme was european defense corporation and that meant that you could see spanish german portuguese soldiers walking along french soldiers you could also see the spanish and portuguese plane flying planes flying overhead because in markov president in my call wants to underline that europe will in the future work closely more closely together when it comes to defense he founded this new initiative the so-called european intervention initiative about each year ago and he had invited the 9 other member states of this initiative he wante

the country's 3 leaders signed military and business deals and the e.u. calls for an urgent sit down with all involved urging iran to return to full compliance with the nuclear deal. so the us president has ramped up his twitter attacks on the british ambassador as well as outgoing prime minister theresa may on tuesday trump called may's handling of brags that foolish and said the british envoy kim the rock is quote very stupid guy u.k.'s top diplomat has hit back calling trump's comments disrespectful all of this of course triggered by that leaked memo from britain's top diplomat in the u.s. referring to the trumpet ministration as inept the supporters from alan fischer. president friends it was a high profile jennifer qatar's amir she brought together political and business leaders as well as washington's top diplomats press missing the uki. disinvited by the white house after the publication of leaked memos sharply critical of president donald trump a career diplomat has been the u.k.'s man in washington says 2016 part of his job is to file reports bac

e.u. residents of what homeless lost their 7 year legal battle to overturn a military victory in order when israel's high court dismissed their case all right up to date those the very latest headlines from us here at al-jazeera coming up next it's inside stories just to stay with us. our flags of convenience and inconvenient truth for the shipping industry the register's the arabian oil tankers seized by britain's armed forces and dozens of other ships to why are they sailing under a foreign flag and should the practice be stopped this is inside story. thanks. hello and welcome to the program i'm to. the threat of military action between iran and the u.k. oversees the oil tankers is provoking a debate about a common practice in the shipping industry many vessels are owned by companies in one country but registered in another an example is the iranian tanker detained by britain's royal marines a couple of weeks ago the british government said the grace one was stopped near gibraltar for carrying oil to syria in violation of e.u. sanctions like around 7000 ships worldwide the tanker was sail

aware that there were civilian areas detention facilities within military compound so so that's the 1st question the you mention the e.ulicy that's certainly something which is no the subject of a filing that has been made with the international criminal court in relation to crimes against humanity falling on the responsibility of the e.u. and a member states of course there is also the responsibility of the un sanctioned un supported government in tripoli in terms of the conditions that it is detaining migrants in and around tripoli. right to other news and the u.n. special investigator examining the murder of the journalist jamal khashoggi wants world powers to reconsider holding the next g. 20 summit in saudi arabia andrew symonds reports. it is putting more pressure on saudi arabia to make it accountable for the killing of jamal khashoggi as lead investigator for the united nations inquiry into his death she's expressing frustration with what she says is a lack of international action a report released last month didn't determine who authorized the killing but it did find credible evidence she said pointing to saud

e.u. are people there in a way the and hamas and lost their 70 year legal battle to overturn a military intervention order when israel's high court dismissed the case those are the headlines we're back in half an hour right now it's counting the cost. thank. you. hello i'm hasnt sleeker this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week the trillion dollar moon bounty as india prepares to become the 4th nation to land on the moon we find out why there's a new scramble to get there the number of people going hungry has risen for the 3rd year running off the years of improvements we find out what's gone wrong and the multi-billion dollar muslim fashion industry why are big brands buying into the trend. of 50 years ago this week neil armstrong became the 1st man to step on to the moon man's flirtation with it was brief with a dozen men walking on at the last in 1972 but now there's renewed interest china plans to build a lunar base by 2030 and nasa hopes to have men and women on the moon by 2024 over the next 5 years the space agency is expected to

e.u. law does he have a point. i think a few rescued 44000 people the military and. the humanitarian imperative is always so strong you say you have to rescue these people on the other hand already described what i would call the dilemma the more the you rescue the more people feel they will be rescued i think there is a potential there is even my sense of there is i mean there clearly they are all and collecting themself they all of them their mobiles and talking about how to come to you or because that's what they want and i don't blame them that they want to come but it's just how the system works i mean i would love to have a common european refugee policy i would love to have the mark of the german chancellor try to have it for 4 years every week every month every day through saying we need we need a fair quota system and so on and so on and she couldn't get it because europe is not united in refugee policy so this is yes you're right we need one but we don't have all the discussion about incentives and disincentives has played a very big role in the u.s. debate

e.u.'s top job becoming the 1st female president of the european commission. the u.s. imposes sanctions on some of myanmar as top military officers over abuses against writing to muslims. and the u.k. government is accused of discriminating against visa applicants from africa. the u.s. house of representatives has voted to condemn court's racist comments that president donald trump made but for congresswoman on thursday trump tweets it's telling the politicians to go back to where they came from and he's refused to let up despite growing criticism both at home and abroad mike hanna reports from washington d.c. . without objection the motion to reconsider is laid on the table the vote went largely along party lines only for republicans joining house democrats in their rebuke of president. it was a rare occasion on which all in the house were forced to go on the record in response to intemperate comments made by the president these comments from the white house are disgraceful and disgusting and that comment are racist the vote was delayed by republicans who attempted to have the accusation of racism made by the house spea

were aware that there were civilian areas detention facilities within military compounds so that's the 1st question the you mention the e.u. policy that's certainly something which is now the subject of a filing that has been made with the international criminal court in relation to crimes against humanity falling on the responsibility of the e.u. and a member states of course there is also the responsibility of the un sanctioned un supported government in tripoli in terms of the conditions that it is detaining migrants in and around tripoli so yes there is a number of issues that need to be looked at but it is again part of the lack of accountability lack of justice for repeated attacks throughout different parts a libya which is again very disturbing absolutely i was going to say to you i mean given the the frequency of civilian casualties in this war in libya is it is it realistic to expect that those responsible for war crimes will ever be held accountable. what it is it is obviously a very difficult question to answer. the 1st point the intercommunal court has jurisdiction over the situation in libya following the un

e.u. homeowners have lost the 7 year long legal battle to overturn an israeli military eviction order rob matheson joins us live from where the hamas in occupied east jerusalem how the process shaping up now rob. and so far sam we haven't seen any sign of protests we have seen about 200 people here who have been gathering for friday prayers here in what a homeless as a gesture of solidarity with the families and the palestinians who lost their homes when the israeli military engineers destroyed them demolished them back on monday i'm going to comment just to come across to a left hand side you'll be able to see this pile of rubble used to be a 2 story house this used to be home to 2 families it to rest and 2 hours to reduce it to what you see and if i can ask for my just to move slightly further to the right you can see the israeli security fence which is leading up the center of the road or not the side of the road there through the most you can see also how close these buildings are further up the hill you can see another of the buildings that has been destroyed you can see how close th

military judge. burton the prime minister is not backing down from his brakes that ultimatum to the e.u. has this had to scotland that's despite fierce opposition and talk of another independence referendum in scotland boss johnston's told e.u. leaders he'll discuss except only when they are ready to change their position and china's government has reiterated its support for hong kong's leader carry lab following weeks of mass protests the hong kong policy office in beijing says the demonstrations are a challenge to the rule of law. and strikes are intensifying in some areas of the province despite u.n. warnings that war crimes are being committed 8 civilians have been killed in the latest round of fighting and the bombings have left few hospitals to treat the injured say in a hall that has more from montauk in turkey near the syrian border. the intensive care unit is full of the war wounded this remote filled russian backed syrian government offensive in northwest syria has left at least 2000 men women and children with injuries many of them severe and there aren't many hospitals still

military. britain's prime minister isn't backing down from his backside ultimatum to the e.u. on his visit to scotland that is despite fierce opposition and talk of another independence referendum in scotland boss johnson has told discuss that only when they are ready to shift their position. and china's government has reiterated its support for hong kong flu to carry on and weeks of mass protests the hong kong policy office in beijing says the demonstrations are a challenge to the rule of law. donald trump spy chief is leaving director of national intelligence dan coats has clashed with the ad contradicted the president over russia iran and north korea mike hanna has more from washington this was the moment that it would appear most good president trump flanked by his fellow intelligence chiefs presents the annual worldwide threat assessment to the senate intelligence committee. and essentially says that the basis for the president's enthusiastic endorsement of north korean good intentions is not just flawed but wrong we currently assess that north korea will seek to retain i

military assets in the region. the french president emanuel macross top diplomatic advisor is in tehran trying to deescalate tensions with iran over the nuclear deal e.u. countries that signed the 2015 agreement of course for a meeting. the favorite to become the next u.k. prime minister boris johnson has refused to rule out suspending parliament to force a no deal brigs it tuesday was the final t.v. debate between the 2 candidates vying to replace to resume a as conservative party leader johnson on foreign secretary jeremy hunt the winner will be picked by party members on july 22nd and take office later this month. u.s. president donald trump has once again used twitter to attack the u.k. ambassador in washington and the british prime minister it comes days out the diplomatic cables were leaked critical of trump's administration qatar has signed a deal with the u.s. to buy aircraft from the plane make a boeing agreement was announced at the white house where the emir of qatar shipped the main bin hamad out there any minute president from the u.s. is urging turkey to hold drilling operations off the coast of cyprus the warning comes after ankara sent

e.u. by october 31st. claims of a full crew sudan's military arrests 18 generals including the recently appointed army chief of staff. and we go on patrol with the navy and guard where pirates are the only danger of the lookout for. in supporting the cricketers get a rude awakening on their return to the far the very welcome bowl down for 85 on day one of their 1st test against our island details from lord's coming up. robert is facing more questions about his russia election meddling reporter the 2nd hearing just on the way on capitol hill the former u.s. special counsel is testifying in washington for the 1st time publicly at the 1st hearing early out in front of the house judiciary committee said that u.s. president donald trump could be charged with crimes often leaving office he also said at the time the report did not exonerate trump as the president's but claimed let's go live now to al-jazeera profit pedicle haim is following events for us on capitol hill but he what we learned so far in this 2nd hearing of the day which is by the way wolf just over an hour ago. it's pretty much following the patter

military assets in the region. french president emanuel top diplomatic advisor is in tehran trying to deescalate tensions with iran over the nuclear deal e.u. countries that signed the 2015 agreement accord for a meeting yes president donald trump has once again used twitter to attack the u.k.'s ambassador in washington and the british prime minister it comes days out the diplomatic cables were leaked critical from administration. internet access is being restored in sudan falling across ruling the military council cut the internet more than a month ago saying the blackout was needed to protect the transition the deal reached with the opposition protest leaders say the military is trying to hide evidence of a violent crackdown that killed more than 100 people. the russian president vladimir putin says he does not support imposing sanctions on georgia he made the statement in a television address to russia's parliament recommended the sanctions it's in response to weeks of mass protests in georgia against russian influence and its government. machine as for sanctions i would rather not do it as it respect the georgian people for the sake of

e.u. sanctions. as to what we have adopted in this series judicial process in regards with the all takers seized by the british military forces and we think courts in gibraltar are influenced by the policies of britain we're chasing up our legal measures fortunately the court itself hasn't found a strong evidence and they have released the sailors considering the situations in their comments i predict that soon britain will change its mind. tens of thousands of protesters have demonstrated across the don to mark 40 days since a crackdown by security forces meanwhile a political transition deal between the military junta and the pro-democracy coalition has been agreed in principle but it's yet to be signed the united arab emirates has recruited at least $500.00 troops affiliated to a secessionist organization in yemen itself to be trained in abu dhabi the move follows the announcement of the u.a.e. partial withdrawal from yemen senior iraqi officials are describing it as a redeployment and surfaced that they remain committed to the cell the u.a.e. coalition which has been fighting hookey rebels since 2015. at least 50 p

e.u. domestically her record as defense minister has been raked over quite extensively with many people pointing out the state of germany's military at the moment is well at its lowest ever that it's been for a long time the bundeswehr quite often being the the butt of many jokes about planes that don't fly guns that don't fire boats that don't sail in submarines that can't submerge the european level though it's been a big criticism of the way in which she was nominated for the position a lot of talks about well echoing what we heard from john clode young saying it was far from well transparent. because it doesn't have the right to ignore all the candidates that have been voted for by european citizens the future of europe can no longer be decided behind closed doors the speech uncandid process is not about one person or one name the citizens of europe want to elect the person who is governing europe this is not revolutionary this is democracy bonder laim is our weakest minister that's apparently enough to become commission president it is an unparalleled act of political trickery vanderlei and should 1st be nominated by germany

e.u. domestically her record as defense minister has been raked over quite extensively with many people pointing out the state of germany's military at the moment is well at its lowest ebb that it's been for a long time the bull does bear quite often being the butt of many jokes about planes that don't fly that don't fire boats that don't sail in submarines that can't soak merge all the european level though it's been a big criticism of the way in which she was nominated for the position because who doesn't have the right to ignore all the candidates that have been voted for by european citizens the future of europe can no longer be decided behind closed doors bonder lane is our weakest minister that's apparently enough to become commission president it is an unparalleled act of political trickery vanderlei and should 1st be nominated by germany before other e.u. states can induce the nomination and should also leave office 1st otherwise it turns it all into a theater and the elections into one big fast well they're also that all supporting . the line they're praising the fact that a woman has been nominated for the 1st time for t

e.u. the residents of what misfortune 7 year legal battle to overturn what is a military eviction order but israel's high court dismissed their case allowing for the demolitions and that's despite the land being under the administration of the palestinian authority making it a 1st such demolition of its kind can go live that are worthy the whole mr rubb matheson is our correspondent there and this whole. procedure started in the early hours of the morning rob. that's right martin but let me just show you very quickly these 2 piles of rubble of what's left of 2 of the houses that were demolished by the israeli military engineers this morning the engineers and are working to try to place explosives and drilling holes in explosives into the walls of this building here there's another building just to our right hand side which started to be demolished at about 715 this morning the using a large to go with it which essentially was clawing away at the roof the father of one of the families that was living in that house the families had been removed sat in the street just below us and watched as h

e.u. as planned by the end of october. we're getting reports from sudan of the rest of the general recently promoted to army chief of staff by the military gentle and several other high ranking army officers have also been detained. formerly a special counsel robert muller will go before congress on wednesday over his investigation into the russian interference and the 2016 presidential elections democrats are likely to push mower on whether the president obstructed justice joining the investigation sheraton's he explains from washington for almost 2 years some opponents of president trump reached a frenzy as they speculated about what special counsel robert muller might uncover as investigated allegations of crucial between the trump campaign russia during the 26th election in the end they were disappointed there was insufficient evidence to charge a broader conspiracy. nonetheless it's expected the democrats will concentrate on the repeated contacts between russian nationals and members of the trump campaign in the 2nd of wednesday's hearings before the house intelligence committee as well as allegations of russian interference in the

e.u. is a second vote were called. the iranian military vowing to retaliate. said the tanker was in international waters and not headed to syria and described the u.k. action as -- retaliation threat highlights the growing threat to shipping in the gulf. bp is keeping a carrier close to the saudi coast rather than risk having is used by iran -- seized by iran. global news, 24 hours a day, on air and @tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i am ritika gupta. this is bloomberg. shery: jay powell is likely to face questions on everything from stubbornly low inflation to trump'constant attacks. s he testified to congress on wednesday and thursday. will he indicate a rate cut at the end of the month? kathleen hays is here with a preview. so the markets ready for a cut. is mr. powell? kathleen: that is the question. we hope that will be answered when he prepares his testimony. the monetary policy report put out twice a year by the federal reserve to present to the house financial services committee on wednes