paul brennan al-jazeera. well the issue of immigration is causing a major split in germany between angela merkel's christian democrats and its barbarian sister party of the christian socialist union interior minister horst c. hoffa wants to turn people away at the border if they've already made asylum claims elsewhere in europe something chancellor angela merkel rejects dominic kane reports now from berlin the row over what to do with people who come to germany claiming refugee status who had already done so initially in the first e.u. country in which they made landfall has really blown up in the course of thursday the issue has been one that has dogged the the formation of a grand coalition government and now the bavarian allies of angela merkel the christian social union is putting its foot down its leader it's the minister federal interior minister says the horse is in a hole for who is effectively the leader of the party on a national level federally anyway has said he wants to go back to the conditions

opposed to friday's ministerial meeting is like basically one of the toughest in recent memory paul brennan reports from vienna will they or won't they that's the question vexing energy analysts ahead of friday's opec ministers meeting with the ministers agree a compromise or is opec heading for a splits it could be a shortfall by the end of the year something like one point six to one point eight million barrels a day it will take time for anything to filter through say whatever they decide to do in the next few days it will be installed but it will have an impact on the market but they also want to ensure against is that the stock over how that we've seen in recent years doesn't come back again the reason why there are no talks or increase in production is to dump on that volatility i give the market the consumers everybody enough certainty and sense of security of supply to keep markets in x. healthy situation in june twenty fourth teen opec oil was trading at one hundred ten dollars a barrel by january two thousand and sixteen it had dropped to just twenty five dollars a barrel now than

comprised of aboriginal players now the new generation of aborigines are carrying on that legacy paul brennan reports from statics. an australian cricket team lines up to face an english side just as they did exactly one hundred fifty years ago and on the shirts of these australian players the names of those first aboriginal pioneers i must admit back home it's not a story that's widely known but you know we're hoping that through these two. and more publicly of the story that we can get the message you know it's an important part of us trying history and here's a photograph of that now long deceased eight hundred sixty eight team a team that was greeted with skepticism and curiosity in england not all of it kind one newspaper of the time described the tourists as a travesty upon cricketing much commentors made about their skin color and physical appearance but out of forty seven games that eight hundred sixty eight team won fourteen lost fourteen and drew nineteen just like the australian teams of today they can play the star of the team there was an aboriginal all rounder known as johnny mo

comprised of aboriginal players now the new generation of aborigines are carrying on that legacy paul brennan reports from sussex. an australian cricket team lines up to face an english side just as they did exactly one hundred fifty years ago and on the shirts of these australian players the names of those first aboriginal pioneers i must admit back home it's not a story that's widely known but you know we're hoping that through these two. and more publicly of the story that we can get the message out you know it's an important part of us trying history and here's a photograph of that now long deceased eight hundred sixty eight team a team that was greeted with skepticism and curiosity in england not all of it kind one newspaper of the time described the tourists as a travesty upon cricketing much commentors made about their skin color and physical appearance but out of forty seven games that eight hundred sixty eight team won fourteen lost fourteen and drew nineteen just like the australian teams of today they can play star of the team there was an aboriginal all rounder known as jonny mora

russia one opec to relax a tight controls but iran and some other members are opposed to that paul brennan reports from reality. will they or won't they that's the question vexing energy analysts ahead of friday's opec ministers meeting with ministers agree a compromise or is opec heading for a splits it could be a short fall by the end of the summer like one point six to one point eight million barrels a day it will take time for anything to filter through say whatever they decide to do in the next few days it will be instant but it will have an impact on the market but they also want to insure against is that the stock over high that we've seen in recent yaz doesn't come back again the reason why there are no talks or increase in production is to jump on that volatility i gave the market the consumers everybody enough certainty and sense of security of supply to keep markets in a healthy situation in june twenty fourth teen opec oil was trading at one hundred ten dollars a barrel by january two thousand and sixteen it had dropped to just twenty five dollars a barrel now thanks to opec li

the group has kept output from more than a dozen countries including saudi arabia iran and qatar paul brennan explains why. the ministers arrived at opec h.q. with the threat of an iranian veto hanging in the air and the very real prospect of a deep rift forming saudi arabia and russia wanted an extra one point five to one point eight million barrels a day to address a predicted shortfall in supply iran and its allies were keen to keep the oil price up by sticking to the production limits agreed in twenty sixteen the main gathering was delayed by an hour as a last ditch diplomacy trying to bridge the gap by the time the ministers sat down around the table a compromise was taking shape. as of one point one point one one which was the proposal from russia coming into this week as well as doing a lot of numbers were eliminated yesterday so really in the one million. nominal figure to be distributed. amongst the country poor countries the final communique when it came four hours later deliberately avoided specific quotas for the number of barrels and focused instead on saying that the extra outpu

but an appeals court ruled that it has fifteen months to prove its problems are over for good paul brennan reports from london. as a business is a global disruptor turning the traditional taxi profession upside down and provoking protests bans and restrictions as it does it the company is now valued at more than seventy billion dollars and after starting with just three hundred u.k. drivers in two thousand and twelve now has sixty thousand u.k. drivers forty five thousand of them in london but it's had a confrontational relationship with the london regulator t.f. out the company boss told elbridge admitted that previous correspondence for example with the regulator had been inaccurate incomplete and in adequate they accepted that the reporting of crime for example was not what it should be that said the judge despite acknowledging a gung ho approach by the company in the past was willing to give it the benefit of the doubt and granted a fifteen month probationary license under the strict supervision of t f l who but insisted that since last year there have been wholesale change in the way

for a ride paul brennan al-jazeera westminster magistrates'. before we go there's just time for a quick look at our top stories again u.s. president donald trump has hailed a supreme court ruling upholding his travel ban on people from five muslim majority countries there were protests outside the court as it voted five to four to accept the trumps executive order was legal a ban prohibits most people from iran libya somalia syria and yemen from entering the united states. this is a great critically for our constitution we have to be tough and we have to be safe and we have to be secure at a minimum we have to make sure that we vet people coming into the country we know who's coming in we know where they're coming from we just have to know who's coming here the united nations says it's confirmed over eight hundred cases of children being used in the fighting in yemen some as young as eleven years old a new report accuses both huth the rebels and saudi and backed forces of recruiting child soldiers it says as many as seventy six child soldiers w

methods but rendition and detentions are still going on and the oversight of them remains murky paul brennan al-jazeera london let's get a view on this from washington lawrence korb is a former u.s. assistant secretary of defense he's with us style life could tell you with us again something that wasn't mentioned in our report there was the fact that the u.s. government was allowed to redact parts of this u.s. this u.k. government report what do you make of that. well i think the united states did not want to have more things come out about us because we did the investigations with our congressional committees and when president obama came in he basically said we're going to put this behind us we didn't prosecute many people this would have brought out something like five hundred auctions at the u.s. may that i think what has shown there were you know people involved in in doing doing these things and would have led to a demand to take action against them as we heard in the report the intelligence and security committee of the produced it was denied access to military and security agency stu

accusations of arming kashmiri separatists but the government collapse the warning signs a clear paul brennanl jazeera north korea's leader is in china again just a week after his historic meeting with u.s. president donald trump kim met chinese president xi jinping in beijing on his third trip there since march according to china's state television kim briefed president xi on his meeting with donald trump and the pair agreed to push for peace on the korean peninsula china is north korea's largest and closest ally the central african republic has rejected tennis star boris becker claims of diplomatic immunity and says the official passport that he has is a fake becker says he was appointed a sports attash a for the central african republic in april of this year with diplomatic travel documents he says that gives him immunity against bankruptcy proceedings in london but cia as foreign minister has denied his claim and says the passport is from a batch that was stolen four years ago a british court has agreed to the backers bankruptcy case pending a decision on his claim of immunity. apple spen

paul brennan al-jazeera. a ship with hundreds of refugees rescued off libya over the weekend is expected to arrive in spain on sunday morning after italy and malta refused to let the ship with six hundred twenty nine refugees on board docked at its ports the aquarius headed towards spain however bad weather forced it to take a detour aid workers on board say the long journey is proving a big challenge for the exhausted passengers and the u.s. navy vessel involved with rescuing dozens of migrants off libya's coast is waiting to hear for they can be taken to the trenton rescued forty survivors after their four boat subside on tuesday a private rescue boat offered to take the refugees but so far italy has not assigned it a safe harbor italy's new government is demanding other countries take rescued migrants. plenty more ahead on the news hour including a triumphant homecoming for north korea's leader but there are still differing views on his summit with donald trump. the u.n. calls for an inquiry into alleged h

failures to report serious criminal offenses and conduct thorough background checks on drivers paul brennan cited site westminster magistrates' court so paul this was the decision of or were hoping. well indeed i mean certainly it were a piece with it but the license to come drive us with a blank copies of london are certainly not this is a two day hearing going into an appeal by you but against the decision by the man out of london said he can't to withdraw who grows up or it's a license in london but had grown from three hundred drivers in twenty twelve to some forty eight thousand drivers by this year and the use of those drivers by being questioned by the regulator things like as you mentioned the fact that that the background check sure it was sketchy in the extreme there were also issues about the health checks of those of those drivers and perhaps most worryingly was the fact that serious criminal allegations which were made by passengers were simply not being reported directly to the police it's seen were failing to pass those on the c.f.l. which is the licensing body decided to tak

methods but rendition and detentions are still going on and the oversight of them remains murky paul brennan al-jazeera london lawrence korb is a former u.s. assistant secretary of defense he says it's surprising that the u.k. lost its moral compass after nine eleven. i know that we had worked with the british but i did not know the extent to which they knew what was happening and still went ahead and did it i thought maybe they had said no we won't get involved given you know what the united states is doing whether in a rock album grave or in guantanamo i did not realize that the the british you know were going along with this particularly since we were the ones who were taxed so after that the united states sort of lost its moral compass i am somewhat surprised that the united kingdom did as well a deal was in afghanistan i know that in iraq in addition to the british we have for example the polish government was there we had some countries from central and south america so it'll be interesting to see to what extent they were involved now the u.k. was our major ally particularly in iraq so

holding out restrictions on oil production have nearly tripled the price of oil since twenty sixteen paul brennan has more from vienna. opec is having to deal with pressures on both the supply and the demand side as far as the demand goes the predictions are that oil demand will continue to rise through twenty eighteen and into twenty nine thousand but on the supply side there are problems venezuela's oil industry is in serious trouble and iran has the impending us sanctions coming in the estimate is that some one point eight million dollars a million barrels of oil a day could be lost to the market so how to preserve the current price and keep the market stable that's what the opec ministers are discussing here today the problem is they have very different views about how to keep the market stable so.

it capable of managing whoever is on probation will it now play fair or take t f l for a ride paul brennan al-jazeera westminster magistrates'. stay with us more to come in the last quarter of this news hour illegal logging on a massive scale allegations the d r c's rainforest is. business of. going places together. business. going places together. environmental activists say demand for wood in europe is causing a massive african rainforest to shrink at an alarming rate campaigners say the largest timber company in the democratic republic of congo is illegally cutting down millions of trees coal ripples. in the heart of africa the congo basin is home to the world's second largest rain forest but a new investigation accuses timber companies of endangering its existence second in size to the amazon the congolese re forced to some two million square kilometers it covers six countries including the democratic republic of congo where it's shrinking the fastest the nonprofit global witness says the d.r. she's biggest timber company north to timber is illegally harvesting trees at nearly ninety p

needs just seventy dollars to breakeven and it now has the green light to increase production paul brennan joining us covering this story for us out of vienna so was this decision expected paul. well it was hoped for but coming into this meeting at opec which q. there was a threat of an iranian veto in the air the very real prospect of a deep rift forming between members of the opec bloc what they've managed to do though is find a rather elegant solution to answer both sides of it i mean saudi arabia and russia wanted an increase in oil production of as much as one point eight million barrels a day iran was out of and the opposed to that insisting that the existing cap on production the limits should stay in place until the end of the year as originally agreed what they've been able to do is square that circle and reconcile those two items the reason why is because of the uncertainty in the volatility in the oil markets venezuela for example has seen its oil production hit very hard indeed iran has the prospect of u.s. sanctions coming into force very soon on the estimates of the last of t

company's failures to report serious criminal offenses and conduct background checks on drivers paul brennan reports. it's. a good day here at westminster magistrates court they've got the license back but only for fifteen months it's not the full five years that they would have told ordinarily have gone it's a probationary period and they're going to really have to prove that the ways have changed from the past five years which has been beset by scandal some of the issues which it was accused of for example of not putting proper background checks in place for the dr s. and most worryingly of all that some serious sexual and criminal conduct was going on reported to the police now going by has said that it's totally revamped its management structure that it's changed its ways it put some of the problems down to silly mistakes and the judge said the gung ho attitude direct approach of the judge that had apparently now passed so she was willing to give it a chance it will be very very closely monitored by the london licensing authority that's t f l and if it doesn't meet t.f. else but close sc

the group had kept output from more than a dozen countries including saudi arabia iran and qatar paul brennan explains what . the ministers arrived at opec h.q. with the threat of an iranian veto hanging in the air and the very real prospect of a deep rift forming saudi arabia and russia wanted an extra one point five to one point eight million barrels a day to address a predicted shortfall in supply iran and its allies were keen to keep the oil price up by sticking to the production limits agreed in twenty sixteen the main gathering was delayed by an hour as a last ditch diplomacy trying to bridge the gap by the time the ministers sat down around the table a compromise was taking shape. as a one point one point one to one which was the proposal from russia coming into this week as well as doing a lot of numbers were eliminated yesterday so we're in the one million. nominal figure to be distributed. amongst the country poor countries the final communique when it came four hours later deliberately avoided specific quotas for the number of barrels and focused instead on saying that the extra ou

free for all and that's something that opec will be keen to try to avoid thank you for that paul paul brennan lie for a scene vienna. still ahead on al-jazeera accused seven instigating surabaya attackers an indonesian cleric with ties to eisele is sentenced to death while live in jakarta. ally the weather squatting down nicely now across western parts of here laws to clear skies but the sunshine also woman sunshine of that says well no it is this area clouds i just up into northern parts of germany into scandinavia this way because some of the wet and windy weather some chilly weather as well just pushing its way through st bands of rain there stockholm sixteen celsius as that range is pushing over towards the baltic states and once enough in moscow as well with the top temperature here this formerly twenty nine degrees celsius for the south thirty two celsius a book rest these are going to be lively shallow seas that could well be somehow certainly some fun the mixed in as well as a hate downs was a southeastern corner further west still getting up to twenty in london pass with that norther

australian cricketing legend but before all of them came the aboriginal eleven of eighteen sixty eight paul brennan al-jazeera sussex and that's all the sport mick peter thanks very much indeed and that is it for this news i'll be back in a couple minutes with more of the day's news. june nineteenth sixty seven sixty's they redrew the map of the middle east this made record of victory of the israeli army and it was one of the greatest tragedy in the history of islam. or expose the events leading to the war and its consequences which is still felt today we tried everything went to the united nations and try to make you contact through different countries and it was clear that all this was just north of the war in june on al jazeera getting to the heart of the matter if not stuff i can gee the turkish cypriot leader calls you today and says let's have told us would you accept facing realities what do you think reunification of look like there are two people think the peace for unification is the only option for prosperity of south korea hear their story on talk to al-jazeera. al-jazeera. where ever y

paul brennan has more from london. in some ways this is a natural progression from january's restructuring announcements in which the chief executive warren east said he was changing rolls royce from five distinct business units down to three and the job losses that he is expecting to make over the next two years reflect the cutting of middle management he says it's necessary to provide a more streamlined and more efficient rolls royce and to remove the kind of duplication the other thing is a potential casualty could be the building behind me which is rolls royces corporate headquarters in central london warren east wants to do is devolve a lot of the decision making powers out to those three new business units and potentially the move from this forces to a smaller more cost effective headquarters somewhere in north london as far as the reaction goes with the city reaction has been quite positive rolls royce shares bounced ninety three percent up on the news of the restructuring the unions though they're concerned the

saturday the expanded opec plus group of nations meets here and all eyes will be on russian reaction paul brennan al-jazeera opec in vienna. the united states has indefinitely suspended some military training exercises with south korea the announcement comes after u.s. president donald trump and north korean leader kim jong un met at a summit in singapore trump promised to tone down military training in south korea and turn for the north taking steps towards denuclearize ation. well north and south korea have agreed to hold reunions for family members separated by the war the last time that happened was in twenty fifteen when relatives were reunited after more than sixty years apart these reunion show jewels for all just a part of the steps agreed to by leaders kim jong un and moon. there have been celebrations in the united kingdom to mark seventy years since hundreds of migrants arrived in the u.k. from the caribbean they became known as the windrush generation after the ship they sailed on and paved the way for many thousands of others ever hayward has their story from london. was neat that is

australian cricketing legend but before all of them came the aboriginal eleven of eighteen sixty eight paul brennan al-jazeera sussex and that's all the sport for now we'll have another update for you again later indeed you will thanks peter i'm back with more news on the other side of the break thanks for watching the news out. the nativist news as it breaks this is one of the areas where protestants had blocked the road for the final higher than anything they could find with detailed coverage out this extremely hard to stop the. striving of the state from around the world this museum aims to be a way of pasta tory over region's history and its perfected war that has divided the tribes here for generations. it was just ten years old when a devastating earthquake struck mexico city in one thousand nine hundred five the quake damaged her family's apartment and the government moved them to distant shack around seventy families who lost their homes in that earthquake still live in this camp see that the the government raised our hopes and then abandoned us politicians have promised that they won't all

there are signs here in vienna that that might be agreeable to all but it's not a done deal yet paul brennan al-jazeera vienna for a second straight night people in the u.s. city of pittsburgh have been protesting against the death of a teenager seventeen year old antwan rose was shot by a police officer on tuesday police say rose ran away when they stopped the car he was in video posted online claims to show the officer firing three shots seconds after rose and another passenger man from their car. people in nicaragua flooding apos for offices looking to escape the country's worsening political crisis at the government demonstrators have been clashing with paramilitary groups for weeks now church officials are putting themselves in the line of fire to prevent further bloodshed manwell reports from. a line of more than five hundred people way down sign a passport control office in the nicaraguan capital desperate for a chance to flee violence in the country many of these people have spent several nights sleeping outside these stores some got american young the youth of this country at cannon

clarity is needed to make sure ministers did not authorize actions which could lead to torture paul brennan joins us live now from london what more you hearing about this paul. well it's a quite glaring spotlight on the behavior of british intelligence agents in two periods first of all the period from two thousand and one to two thousand and ten and then a second report which looks at what the situation is from twenty ten onward to the current day and if you look at the situation immediately after nine eleven it's a pretty pretty damning picture i mean it we're looking at more than two hundred cases where u.k. personnel continued to supply questions to intelligence officers of a third party country despite knowing that there was most likely physical mistreatment of those detainees going on there were twenty eight cases the u.k. agreed to rendition being performed by other countries most particularly the united states and the report author said it is difficult to comprehend how those at the top of office did not recognize a pattern of mistreatment in our view the u.k. tolerated actions that

pregnancies and their opinion is not legally binding so the focus is now politicians and then next step paul brennan reports from the supreme court in london. northern ireland remains the only part of the u.k. where it's illegal for female victims of rape and incest to have the resulting pregnancies terminated even in cases where the fetus has an unsurvivable normality abortion is still pretty bitter and in twenty thirteen serry us first pregnancy turned from joy to despair at nineteen weeks her skull had formed and her brain had formed there is no way she was going to live independently i could be three for nine months trying to get it i knew i was home five years after making the journey from belfast to london to a port pregnancy sarah return to london to the supreme court hoping to hear the judges strike down part of northern ireland strict abortion laws on human rights grounds the current law is incompatible with article eight in cases of rape incest and fatal serious fetal abnormality but instead of deciding the issue once and for all for jurisdiction reasons the judge's statements in this case

appeal the prosecutor is also appealing to try to have the twenty five year jail term increased paul brennan al-jazeera. a ship pushed rescued six hundred twenty nine refugees off libya at the weekend but was turned away by italy is now expected to arrive in spain on sunday that's after bad weather and rough seas forced it to take a detour aquarius skirted on the eastern coast of sardinia to seek shelter from the storm aid workers on board say the long journey is treating a big challenge for the exhausted passengers. last night we had another down to the really hard moments when where we were starting to become really bad with a lot of wind and and big waves. of people who were seasick vomiting a lot where they were scared because of the know the wind in the motion of the ship so we decided to bring everybody inside. see agenesis has been shot dead in srinagar the capital of indian administered kashmir reports suggest should jet blue curry was repeatedly shot at close range by unknown attackers outside his office two of his security guards were also critically injured cari was the editor of

emergency services expected to take at least a week to extinguish the fire for certain paul brennan arches zero saddleworth. your leaders will gather in brussels on thursday for a summit on the migration crisis the main issue is how to handle new arrivals some a you countries are particularly the emergence of a new route through the balkans including montenegro lawrence live reports from the capital podhoretz there where politicians and aid workers fear an explosion and numbers. all these people are about to find out that the chance of getting to the rich countries of western europe is vanishing over the horizon never mind if you're from baghdad or bill and have taken your children over land for months compassion is in short supply at this center in montenegro they can come and go as they please not much choice then but to keep moving. we go and put a bus. to the you're going to try to go to those here. it's really difficult. the border between albania and montenegro is fearsome and it's a crucial part of the new balkan routes smugglers guide refugees and migrants through these high hills

that that organization doesn't have the right to do so we'll go live to our correspondent now paul brennan who is there outside the supreme court in central london sort of a fairly complex a nuance ruling coming from the supreme court. indeed and i think a little bit unexpected certainly from the media point of view if you know the the best case scenario are suppose for those who are expecting a change in the law would have been for the judges to declare a declaration on compatibility for the law in the northern ireland in relation to human rights legislation what the judges in fact said was that the human rights commission in northern ireland didn't have jurisdiction to bring this case in the first place because they were acting so they were arguing in abstract arguments as opposed to specific victims with. victims in mind nevertheless the judges then went on to say that we felt the need to consider the issues behind this in considerable detail and we've come to the conclusion that northern ireland's laws are not compatible particularly well in relation to abortion on not compatible with

interrogation of prisoners they knew or suspected was subjected to cruel inhumane and degrading treatment paul brennan reports. the brutal methods of western intelligence agencies after nine eleven included waterboarding starvation sleep deprivation stress positions verbal threats and physical assaults on the u.k.'s intelligence and security committee set out to uncover the extent of british involvement after fifty hours of testimony and forty thousand documents the conclusion was clear in the view the united kingdom tolerated actions and took others that we regard as inexcusable the committee declared itself astonished that despite rendition being illegal in britain there is still no clear policy on the u.k.'s involvement in the practice by other countries via the u.k. and while there was no smoking gun showing british agents had physically abused detainees there were hundreds of cases where agents had been involved in interrogations despite knowing or suspecting mistreatment but crucially the committee was prevented from talking to the agents involved we want to talk to the people who were in those

five thousand jobs were previously slashed after a series of profit warnings in twenty fourteen paul brennan has more from the rolls royce office in london. in some ways this is a natural progression from january's restructuring announcement in which the chief executive warren east said he was changing rolls royce from five distinct business units down to three and the job losses that he is expecting to make over the next two years reflect the cutting of middle management he says it's necessary to provide a more streamlined and more efficient rolls royce and to remove the kind of duplication the other thing is a potential casualty could be the building behind me which is rolls royces corporate headquarters in central london warren east wants to do is devolve a lot of the decision making powers out to those three new business units and potentially move from this headquarters to a smaller more cost effective headquarters somewhere in north london as far as the reaction goes with the city reaction has been quite positive rolls royce shares bounced ninety three percent up on the news of the rest

methods but rendition and detentions are still going on in the oversight of them remains murky paul brennan al-jazeera london at least fifteen people have died in a fire in the kenyan capital's largest open air market up to seventy others have been taken to hospital with serious burns and suffocation including many children algis there is catherine so i has the latest from nairobi this is watch remains of a section of one of nairobi's largest markets more than two hundred traders shared this space mostly selling t. funny and clothes the fire started early morning when the market was close to the people living nearby were asleep many including children were overcome by smoke and fumes and suffocated others were rushed to hospital someone who was at home when he had the market of fire he had a business here and he lost most of his stock because we are mortal so i was called at around two am and told there's a fire i rushed here a still of my pajamas on when i got here all my timber was on fire it was worth about ten thousand dollars. but afternoon investigators was still collecting evidence t

there are signs here in vienna that that might be agreeable to all but it's not a done deal yet paul brennan al-jazeera vienna. now the u.k. is promising to streamline artist a stratus fresh and system for e.u. citizens to apply to stay off the drugs and the government says it wants to make the process of staying as easy as possible and many europeans in britain are deeply worried about the future as need parker reports. that has left italian composer dimitris colorado in a limbo is among three and a half million citizens living working and paying taxes in the u.k. who will now have to pass government checks in order to be able to remain in britain after it leaves the e.u. . will have to undergo criminal checks. undergo. continuously resident here. it will be fine for the majority mother will be lots of cases where we've got lots of. american fans and i can witness. a lot of anxiety a lot of fear. the british government's promise to allow mostly you citizens to stay in the u.k. providing they've been in the country long enough haven't broken any laws and pay a registration fee the home secre

holding out restrictions on oil production have nearly tripled the price of oil since twenty sixteen paul brennan has more from vienna. opec is having to deal with pressures on both the supply and the demand side as far as the demand goes the predictions are that oil demand will continue to rise through twenty eighteen and into twenty nine hundred but on the supply side there are problems venezuela's oil industry is in serious trouble and iran has the impending us sanctions coming in the estimate is that some one point eight million dollars of million barrels of oil a day could be lost to the market so how to preserve the current price and keep the market stable that's what the opec ministers are discussing here today the problem is they have very different views about how to keep the market stable saudi arabia and russia want to see a gradual easing of the current restrictions on oil production by as much as a million barrels a day but iran is not happy in fact that possibly angry about it they see the not so hidden hand of the american president donald trump in all of this he's been tweeting th

brought the case to the court calling for the laws to change and doesn't have the right to do so paul brennan has been following that case at the supreme court in london as and as this update. most observers expected the judges to come down one way or the other in relation to the compatibility of northern ireland's abortion laws with human rights legislation but in fact what the judges decided was that the human rights commission in northern ireland didn't actually have the jurisdiction to bring the case in the first place but that said it was very interesting to see that the supreme court judges felt the issues so compelling and so important that they decided to look up anyway despite the fact that the commission didn't have jurisdiction on the majority of those judges decided even though it's not legally binding they decided that the human rights law is not compatible with abortion as particularly in relation to fatal fetal syndrome unborn children have a syndrome it's simply not possible for them to survive. but those people who are campaigning for women's rights so that they will now laun

saturday the expanded opec plus group of nations meets here and all eyes will be on russian reaction paul brennan al-jazeera opec in vienna. a general presidential candidate in turkey has used his twitter account to hold what's been called an eerily an online gathering from his prison cell the leader of the kurdish people's democratic party faces terrorism charges there why the challenges for other kurdish kind of it's in sunday's election it's impossible to know reports. this is how supporters of the pro kurdish people's democratic party or h.t.t.p. are motivating themselves ahead of turkey's election on june twenty fourth up to him that she is hoping to get a seat in parliament but his faith his party is the most disadvantaged in the country they cheapies presidential candidates a lot and demi trash has been in jail for more than eighteen months on security charges. we don't have any channel of propaganda the ruling party controls the press or politicians are in jail president has everything in hand to campaign freely is not fair an armed struggle between the state and the separatist kurdistan

saturday the expanded opec plus group of nations meets here and all eyes will be on russian reaction paul brennan al-jazeera opec in vienna. the united states has indefinitely suspended some military training exercises with south korea the announcement comes after u.s. president donald trump and north korean leader kim jong il and the summit in singapore trump promised to tone down military training in south korea turn for the north taking steps towards denuclearize ation well north and south korea have agreed to hold reunions for family members separated by the war the last time that happened was in twenty fifteen when relatives were reunited after more than sixty years apart these reunion shuttles for august are part of the steps agreed to by the.

intelligence obtained from detainees who they knew or should have suspected had been mistreated paul brennan has more. these two reports by the intelligence committee of the house of parliament paints a highly critical picture of the behavior of british intelligence services both in the period from two thousand and wants twenty ten and even afterwards what they found was small support times where british intelligence services had for example supplied questions to interrogators despite the fact that they knew that the detainees being interrogated were subject to or likely to be subject of mistreatment and at other times the british were prepared to even offer to fund rendition by third party countries what the author of the report said was it is difficult to comprehend how those at the top of office did not recognise a pattern of mistreatment by the united states and the view that the u.k. tolerated actions and took other actions that we regard as inexcusable and the picture after twenty ten does not look much better what the members of parliament on the committee found was that there still r

saudi arabia and russia want opec to relax tight controls but iran and venezuela remain opposed paul brennanjoins us now live from the in a way that opec meeting is taking place political tensions loom over this critical meeting paul. indeed it's probably going to be one of the toughest opec meetings in recent memory through perfectly honest with you there are regional rivalries or economic rivalries and there doesn't seem to be a huge amount of agreement there was a meeting of ministers last night and it seems that the reigning in oil minister stormed out walked out of that and told reporters gathered outside that he doesn't think there's going to be a deal here today essentially at stake is whether or not opec decides to finish early a deal which was done last november to keep a cap on oil production through to the end of this year saudi arabia and russia want a deal to finish early want to be able to pump more oil because they see problems on the supply side most notably with iran sanctions and venezuela the economy but the iranians don't want that to happen because they fear losing marke

petrol prices and russia want opec to relax tight controls about iran and venezuela are holding out paul brennan has the latest from vienna. this has the potential to be one of the most difficult potentially most bad tempered opec meetings in recent years i mean there have been splits before but perhaps not as direct is this essentially the problem is iran they telegraphed the intension a week ago to veto any increase in oil production is a deal which is next in place existing for oil production to stay static all the way through to the end of this year and iran does not want that change but saudi arabia and russia both want to see oil production increase they see that there are problems on the supply side venezuela and iran probably not going to be able to put as much oil into the system as expected during the course of this year and saudi and russia saudi and russia want to actually compensate for that by opening the spigots opening the taps a little bit but iran is vehemently opposed to that because of course around would lose market share and not being able to sell as much oil because of u.s

now the ride shown company lost its operating license last september because of safety concerns paul brennan has. as a business is a global disruptor turning the traditional taxi profession upside down and provoking protests bans and restrictions as it does it the company is now valued at more than seventy billion dollars and after starting with just three hundred u.k. drivers in two thousand and twelve now has sixty thousand u.k. drivers forty five thousand of them in london but it's had a confrontational relationship with the london regulator t.f. out the company boss told elbridge admitted that previous correspondence for example the regulator had been inaccurate incomplete and an adequate and they accepted that the reporting of crime for example was not what it should be that said the judge despite acknowledging a gung ho approach by the company in the past was willing to give it the benefit of the doubt and granted a fifteen month probationary license under the strict supervision of t f l who but insisted that since last year there have been wholesale change in the way it now conducts i

methods but rendition and detentions are still going on and the oversight of them remains murky paul brennan al-jazeera london. and meg is a former guantanamo bay detainee joins us live from birmingham here in the u.k. thanks for being with us so what's your initial reaction to the these reports. of course they're not telling us telling me anything that i i don't know i've been working on cases after my return from guantanamo with my organization cage for the past twelve years highlighting documenting those people who abuse those people who were tortured and rendition and so i know so many people that this happened to and so recurrent and concurrent for it to have been concocted of course in the in the beginning people like jack straw the united states government said that we're all lying we've all read the al qaeda manual to accuse to say that we we are we were subjects of torture this is the way we tackle our detention the truth now has come out but what we need to see released prosecutions essentially of those people who were involved in the torture and those people who knew ordered or we

accusations of arming kashmiri separatists with a government collapse the warning signs are clear paul brennan al-jazeera on australian court has fined apple six and a half million dollars accusing the tech giant of disabling i phones and i pads repaired by third party companies apple says it compensated customers when it was first alerted to the problem but has not commented on the latest court ruling andrew thomas has the details from says sydney. this was an issue that affected five thousand people in australia in twenty fifteen or twenty sixty they have. pirates they downloaded the lights of software only to find that that immediately generated an era fifty three message which stopped their device from. one of those people took their products into an apple shop like this one they were told that they'd go on the air at fifty three minutes because it revealed that they had taken that device at some point so an unauthorized repair of an apple said that as a result of that they had no obligation to repair it all replace it will strike. a said you know just because somebody. on the list there w

clarity is needed to make sure ministers do not authorize actions which could lead to torture paul brennanhas more. these two reports by the intelligence committee of the house of parliament paints a highly critical picture of the behavior of british intelligence services both in the period from two thousand and wants twenty ten and even afterwards what they found was multiple times where british intelligence services had for example supplied questions to interrogators despite the fact that they knew that the detainees being interrogated were subject to or likely to be subject of mistreatment and at other times the british were prepared to even offer to fund rendition by third party countries what the author of the report said was it is difficult to comprehend how those at the top of office did not recognise a pattern of mistreatment by the united states and the view that the u.k. tolerated actions and took other actions that we regard as inexcusable and the picture after twenty ten does not look much better what the members of parliament on the committee found was that there still remains

state where at least one hundred thirty people have been killed in protests and attacks this year paul brennan reports. indian security forces fought hundreds of muslim protesters at the weekend one demonstrator was killed and at least twelve more injured in just the latest episode in years of anti india anger it's the deteriorating security situation in kashmir which is being blamed for the collapse of this coalition government the hindu nationalist be j.p. has withdrawn its support for the p.d.p. coalition partner is edging government leaders in new delhi to impose direct rule to be thought of got a card with those in charge of the state were not completely successful in dealing with the situation we don't question their result but in reality the state government was unable to fulfill its obligations in terms of improving the situation in kashmir valley and ministers faced a lot of difficulties from the p.d.p. the b j p p.d.p. coalition was often seen as an unlikely alliance in india's only muslim majority state p j p's perceived hardline stance against kashmiri rebels is opposed by the p.d.

paul brennan al-jazeera. the united nations is warning that an important target on climate change set in the paris agreement will not be met unless rapid and far reaching changes are made in the world's economy a report by a leading environmental agency says human induced global warming could increase by more than one point five degrees celsius by twenty forty two across and is the director of plan the u.k. charity supporting the use of legal action to tackle climate change and he says governments must take the lead. we won point five degrees mine just sound like a number to a lot of people the call in paris when governments agreed to limit temperature to that level was one point five to stay alive and that is the call that really sums this out this is an existential threat it is an extension threat to all of us to our societies to our economies to international security if that isn't enough to wake people up it's very difficult to know what is is too much for individuals to handle on their own there's a comp

there are signs here in vienna that that might be agreeable to all but it's not a done deal yet paul brennan al jazeera vienna. now bishops in the karada have marched to the city of messiah after residents claimed security services threatened to massacre that the city has seen weeks of intense fighting between security forces and protesters just a few days ago people in messiah declared that they no longer recognize the authority of president daniel ortega his pass reform the welfare system spot the protests by how dropping though has more from the caracas capital. messiah in the crowd was been the site of some of the most extreme and brutal violence that the country has been going through since the start of this crisis earlier this week on tuesday a government offensive left at least six people dead as police forces were trying to regain control of the city from a resistance movement that that formed there it appears that yesterday after president ortega had formally invited members of the international community a delegation from the united nations to come in observe the crisis that the be