let me bring in david let me bring in david about seeing a head is this then a combination of racism towards african countries and frustration with african governments. it's it's difficult it's difficult to tell you know whether you know we're talking about the problem of racism but let us consider a few other factors here there's been a merit if of africa rising. and in that in that narrative they the story of africa that is rich in mineral resources africa is that is attracting international direct investment and in the case of mozambique we clearly see that story being played out every day god with their god is rich in minerals resources this is lots of multinational corporations investing a lot of money in that area and yet the end result isn't people local people who actually own the resources benefiting from this so there's been a big narrative all over the world of africa now being able to. ensure that you know it can develop itself economically and socially by using its natural resources i personally think you know that could be factored into. you know the donor fatigue the o

david thanks for that david chaytor in brussels. our senior white house advisor jared cushion ase in morocco to drum up support for a plan on the future of palestine in israel and a team of u.s. envoys will also visit jordan and israel later in the week the u.s. is presenting the economic part of the plan of the conference in behind next month the palestinians have rejected that plan and urged arab nations to avoid the conference a good starting point on mike hanna is line. in washington so mike what more are we hearing about this. well it's understood that this is in connection with that economic conference planned for a muslim up bahrain in the next month. some question obviously seeking support for the economic aspects of his plan from morocco it would appear importantly from jordan where king abdullah has not confirmed that he will be attending that conference in bahrain and then of course such arab question of goes to west jerusalem which is in political chaos at the moment to an extent with the possibility of another election

chase a reporting live from brussels david many thanks. the u.n. security council has held a meeting on the worst thing humanitarian situation in syria it says that more than 200000 people have been displaced by violence targeting health facilities and schools syrian government forces and their allies have been bombarding the last rebel held areas of it lead and hama over the last month our diplomatic editor james bays reports now from the u.n. . again we've had a security council meeting it seems to become a very regular process over the last month every week it seems we have a meeting where the security council or at least many members of the security council condemned the bombardment of adlib and yet that bombardment goes all the un security council this meeting hearing from the deputy emergency relief coordinator coordinator of the united nations who made this appeal contour this council take any concrete action when attacks on schools and hospitals have become a war tactic that no longer sparks outrage is there nothing to be said or d

refugees here in our studio we have david vine he's a professor at american university author of island ashamed of the secret history of the u.s. military base in diego garcia and what rosen is a retired u.s. navy captain and senior vice president at c.m. that's a nonprofit research and analysis organization denton it's good to have you here let's start with austin's in black and white photographs wrapping thank you for sending them to us and to go back 50 years to see what life was like before diego garcia was the agassi and it was a little archipelago where people actually lived who were involved in the military this picture here talk us through well then why did you send us these pages. i think it shows. a totally normal life which they had their. military base game in you will you will know that. this was an early night in the sixty's when one of the states wanted an island in the indian ocean for foreign military base and the u.k. said well be be our guest good look for your island. so so the american navy why don't look for an island for their base to found out about bride and 1st

came david. thank you very much indeed. one of sudan's main opposition parties has rejected calls from other protest leaders to organize a general strike on choose stay and wait and see the division between opposition groups comes after weeks of political that look they're trying to force the military to hand over power to civilian rule imran khan is live for us in cartagena errantly exactly is calling to boycotts this general strike and why they don't want participates. well ordinarily things on the ground would have been very different if this was in say before december where the party the party that said we don't want to take part in this general strike people would have listened to it and they would have said ok we won't take part in this general strike but since december since these protests began the political landscape here in sudan has changed completely now the party are very powerful not so much here in the capital khartoum but certainly and on their man province which was then main base however they've been super

chase is there so david the search is on to fill the e.u.'s top jobs. yes the job we're talking about of course is the president of the european commission presently held by john quoting now there are several names that have been mentioned and the one that the the chance of germany angela merkel is backing is of course a 46 year old the varian who's the leader of the european people spot is the the bloc that got the biggest number of votes although they lost some compared to 2014 in the latest parliamentary elections now a mantra to vera has never held any elected office a tool before he's a complete product of the bureaucracy of the european parliament and he is that she of being opposed by the french president emmanuel macron he said that he wasn't going to discuss when he arrived here in brussels he was going to discuss name a name or any other names but he wanted to which whoever was chosen this is kind of to be. adaptable to the widest range of issues within the european union so there seems to be a split a clear split between the 2 main

chaytor life in brussels thank you david. a new report by war child u.k. says the conflict in yemen has had a catastrophic effect on children the charity says 2000000 children are out of school and sense of child marriage is on the rise increasing 3 fold between 20172018 air strikes have severely damaged many of yemen schools and some schools are being used as military bases. has more. how is still in shock after she lost her sister in a bombardment near the risk all her father's a to convince her to go back to school have proved successful. back. to school from horror and later on it's covered the death of my sister now i'm afraid if i go back i could face the same fate. father. as the marsh has left students scared. the deaths of 18 children. after the saudi u.s. strike we found out about the death of my daughter along with other students we wondered why they targeted schools in civilian areas as brutal war should stop a mama shrug and some of her classmates were killed in a saudi strikes while they were on their way to. be

for a 5 year term with results expected on monday they've achieved and i join us live from brussels david this is a big day across much of europe what's happening at the moment. as you said 7 of the $28.00 members of the european union have already cost said ballots another $21.00 countries going to the polling booths today will not be allowed to because of reporting restrictions tell you exactly what the exit polls are until the last polling booths close in italy actually but it's pretty clear before this whole election started that this was going to be a crucial test of both the euro skeptics and the extreme right in europe and what was widely predicted to be a rich reach by the liberal parties but as i say we'll have to wait and see exactly what happens now that turnout is going to be crucial to the 1st direct election started for this politics in 1989 you've seen a gradual drop in the actual turnout especially in the eastern european states so perhaps because of bragg's it baps because of the determination by the far right to make make a mark this time around that turnout will actuall

the office of the al-jazeera media network in khartoum to be shut down giving any reason at all well david shinn is a former deputy chief of mission at the us embassy in sudan he joins me now from washington via skype what do you make of these developments that we're seeing in syria and the fact the process camp which has been there for many weeks now has no been described as a danger. well the 1st time in the post you're the eldest there office i'm a cartoon that is a setback for freedom of the press i think that is reflective of gulf state politics and the fact that sadam has been the beneficiary about $3000000000.00 financial aid from saudi arabia the united arab emirates as far as the ongoing demonstrations and khartoum are concerned this is only one of a long series of incidents that have occurred sense the demonstration broke out on april 6th i would indicate i would suggest that it is a setback but probably not a serious one both the transitional military council on the one hand and the protest group led by the sudanese professionals association on the other have gone through a numb

as president of the european commission david schaper reports from brussels. who's next for the top job in brussels the german chancellor angela merkel arrived with the name of only one man on her lips to replace him. as president of the european commission that to me is this one not to be in a great coalition i support men for their vote but not all coalition partners do the same with the 46 year old but varian has never held a government elected office in his life but as the leader of the european people's party recent tradition at least say the job should be here is we know that we cannot celebrate a big victory be lost seats but we are still 2nd as a 1st party and that's why we are ready to talk now is everyone to sit together to find a common understanding prosecutor the french president emanuel macron though was clearly against his job and part most choice and he's gaining support among other leaders supposedly confound you don't want today to speak about a name and to turn to names i think we must take into account what came out of the polls what europe

let me just take it from johannesburg david you've been listening to both all guests that a number of years ago i was speaking to somebody from the department for international development the british organization that helps foreign countries and there was an enormous amount of frustration that a lot of the money that they were giving seemingly was disappearing and there was a number of cases of corruption being brought against many places in africa has had an impact on donors giving aid is there a frustration that actually the aid might not be getting to the people that need it most that it might just be disappearing into the coffers of the very rich. and italy the behavior of the muslim become government has not necessarily inspired confidence in the international community among daughters in particular it also has not inspired confidence in mozambique among its own citizens. we can recall recently the former minister of finance in mozambique. was arrested in south africa with the merest wire and by the united states in the wake of the two point two billion scandal of secret debts i

of his iconic works last supper and mona lisa are among the most influential paintings of all time david schaper reports and weiss and friends leonardo da vinci arrived in france carrying his most famous work the mona lisa on a donkey is back. this royal chateau de was on the banks of the law is where he spent the final chapter of his extraordinary life. young french king francis the first was enthralled by his genius he called leonardo his father never will tell you what's false it to the french kings through the west to show you were seeking an intellectual refinement the tea had previously discovered in italy and wanted to transpose to the french court you wanted to show you the french court was the most elegant in europe five hundred years after his death his hope the legacy of leonardo the maestro of the nascence can help repair relationships between italy and france which once again have hit turbulent times. president emanuel mackerel and his a talian counterparts. hope to soothe the tensions between rome and paris over the hardline immigration policy of italy's populist government

saying earlier on you do have to ask yourself i mean given that when theresa may go as well as her david cameron the last conservative prime minister john major who lost his job as prime minister over the over roads of the maastricht treaty inside his own party and margaret thatcher as long ago as a 980 s. that's the last 4 conservative prime ministers who have to resign over their difficulties with the european union and across parliament they don't know what to do and i just think they're oh you know a number of european countries who just think what's the point of having a country like the u.k. inside the e.u. when it just can't make its mind up about whether it wants to be a happy man or whether it's going to sit there complaining all the time they made it all right lawrence thanks very much david tyree lawrence lee reporting there from london. plenty more still ahead on the news hour including we believe that the president of the united states is engaged in a cover up what has the u.s. president said he walked out of a planned meeting with democratic leaders. and we'll tell you why

and so was her authority she was not a personality politician in the same way and jenny called even david cameron was she doesn't believe in personality politics and that becomes harder and harder than the age of social media and old timidly the country never fell in love with theresa may it tolerated her and the party tolerated her and the challenge now is to find someone who can lead the country but also bring some fades and dynamism it's been lacking in recent years restless colleagues sensed opportunity then foreign minister boris johnson amount of power. undermined her repeatedly with less than coded criticism of what he saw as her too cautious approach to brecht's it. then came the policy speech where almost everything went wrong the interrupting prankster the coughing the letters showing off the sound behind her none of it her fault but it created a fatal impression that not only was her resume incompetents she was also unlucky the windrush scandal the violations of the rights of people from the west indies who had come to britain decades ago only to find themselves at risk of depo

trying to live for us there in brussels thanks david. or greece looks headed for snap elections after the ruling party there suffered some big losses in the european parliament vote prime minister alexis tsipras saying he will now request the early dissolution of parliament after the regional elections on june the 2nd his left wing cities a party which has been in power for 4 years now lost to the conservative new democracy party he's asked voters for a new mandate to leave let's get more on this now from john some uplift who is in the greek capital force so. how do we explain these results jane in greece why did this happen. where largely because of overtaxation during the last 4 years of the austerity period which started in 2010 when greece started pouring emergency loans from its euro zone partners because it couldn't afford to borrow from markets around the world and that was the period of political readjustment but half of that has been spent under serious which had promised to endorse and stop these harsh policies of taxing greek

our david thanks very much indeed for that. now the u.s. state of pump air has discussed a range of issues with the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov both emphasized the relations between the 2 countries are improving but there were key differences on their own. we spoke a bit about the activities that are taking place in the middle east today with particular focus on the actions that iran is taking i made clear that the united states will continue to apply pressure to the regime in tehran until its leadership is prepared to return to the ranks of responsible nations that do not threaten their neighbors or spread instability or terror alerts another state doesn't live for. us more about this meeting between the 2. yes it was definitely a rare meeting and it happened after a long year of increased tensions between the 2 nations especially because of the pending miller investigation into russian meddling into the us elections well after this report has been published this sort of has cleared this guy for this meeting to happen today but

diners everywhere the extremes are rising he said and what are they striving on on fear and on lies david chaytor al-jazeera brussels. still to come on al-jazeera saudi arabia is once again accused of targeting a critic based abroad using is really technology. and u.s. drug companies under pressure as a court case seeks to hold them to account for their role in the crisis. or whether sponsored by cattle and. the showers are still with us over the southeastern parts of china they've been with us for a good while now and some places have been reporting nearly 500 millimeters of rain just in the last 3 days you can see the huge area of cloud we've still got with this and there's plenty more rain still to come so this region again on wednesday is working very very wet not only the southeastern parts of china either that's also stretching through parts of vietnam too so particularly the northern parts of looking very wet at the moment the showers are also with us a bit further south to plenty of them over parts of the philippines and across many parts of thailand as well as all stretching furt

mediation between the nicer so it's hard actually to push and that actually really gets to many thanks david lane with us once again. this is the news hour from our series still to come on the program the bombs keep falling and civilian casualties keep rising we'll have the latest on the battle for syria's last rebel held off plus our tourist crews in hungary and capital turn to tragedy. later in sport and their scare for the world number one at the french open. delegations from the taliban and afghan politicians have concluded a 2 day conference in moscow a joint statement was released emphasizing the need for foreign troops to withdraw now afghan government figures will present the taliban is refusing to negotiate directly only this month the 6th round of talks between the u.s. on the taliban and did in doha. we discussed the ceasefire and. discussion so we discussed all important. progress. progress issues if we're counting on our next meeting. yesterday we negotiated for hours and we did come to some agreement but our expectations were a bit more we had at least 9 hours of negotiations o

the minimum wage but there was no sign of wavering by the protesters on the streets of the capital david chaytor al jazeera paris and may day protests have also taken place in russia where police and guardsman arrested more than one hundred people and government activists and members of human rights groups were among those detained most fear rest happened in st petersburg where several hundred people took to the streets calling for fair elections president vladimir putin's approval rating has fallen to around sixty percent recently on the back of a tax hike and increases in retired to each. or that's it for me on the team in london let's go back to doha controversial thank you both sam baker is urging people in the northeast to find higher ground as war flooding is expected after last week's cycle in canada it's the second storm in six weeks to lash the southern african coast and has already killed at least forty one people arent haase reports in the city of pemba. this church in the coastal town of came by has opened its doors to almost one thousand displaced men women and children. the

late april a syrian government offensive in the area has forced a 180000 people from their homes but david swanson's the un regional spokesman on the syrian crisis he says the government offensive in the north has put severe strain on hospitals and schools that are providing critical aid and shelter. we've had since april 28th more than 180000 people becoming newly displaced and on top of that we've had since april 28th we've had 18 hospitals that have come under attack and that are remain out of service so the situation on the ground is particularly dire so providing assistance in the context of that is going to prove credibly difficult challenge for all of us in the humanitarian community while cross border operations from turkey will continue which is credibly important for the people in the area sadly 16 n.g.o.s have suspended their operations in the area which will of course have a knock on effect impacting tens of thousands of people in the area well i think it's pretty interesting i mean included cell we currently have a population of about 3000000 people this is against a pre-war p

series recently added a climate change series fronted by david attenborough. it was best known for making picture rich wildlife documentaries by britain's b.b.c. 6 months ago he was criticised in the guardian for missing the bigger picture as one of the british papers columnist put it. and his team were telling a false story creating a fairy tale world that persuades us all is well in the midst of an existential crisis and that i think a lot of having been publicly called out in the media event and i think in that. it's this incredibly powerful serious got our planet to face very significantly from his previous wife for the 1st time in human history the stupidity of nature. placing the wonders of nature the numbers are so. i think that combination is obscene if i could. were discussing other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our producers joanna whose job the former u.s. army intelligence analyst and wiki leaks whistleblower chelsea manning is back in jail just 7 days after being released what are the details here well richard manning w

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all expectations are that we will have immediately president precisely because david the previous the president was deeply implicated in corruption so the question is who this president is going to be there is a view that the president should perhaps be someone from the zuma faction which is the faction opposing causa. to bring you know some. but. prevailing view the majority view is that you know he should really root out everyone who was implicated in corruption and the collapse of prosecutions is absolutely so it seems very much as though his main task is to strike a line under what many people describe as the last decade the zuma decade of corruption and lack of development and he has a huge task ahead of him doesn't he and how will we measure success and how much time world the electorate of south africa give him. well i think they will give him some time because he hasn't been in office who got along at the same time people are running out of patience and this call for change we've heard it for some time but there is really some agency to prosecutions now i think that he has a l

sides both sides will suffer on this struggle i think it has been some media platforms that imposed david not curfews in some areas following violence in the aftermath of last month's easter sunday bombings mosques and muslim shops were attacked in the western town of channel just north of the capital colombo. filipinos have begun voting in a midterm election more than $18000.00 posts are up for grabs including half of the senate wins for candidates allied to the president roderigo to say would make it easier for the president to push through his controversial policies among them a crackdown on illegal drugs his critics say he's using violence and intimidation to influence voters. the commander of iran's revolutionary guard says the united states does not have the ability to wage war against his country he described the deployment of extra u.s. warships in the middle east as psychological warfare skin says it's in response to radio aggression iran's president hassan rouhani unity in the face of pressure that he calls president. more than a dozen u.n. linked aid groups have suspended their

put a strain on the whole process of dialogue and reconciliation the world food program's director david beasley has been in seoul trying to organize a food shipment for north korea but finding problems with moon j.n. south korea's president coming under domestic political pressure not to give such a gesture to the north after north korea's apparent provocations of last week north korea's food problems meanwhile seem to be getting worse it was confirmed recently that last year's harvest was the worst for 10 years and choose days edition of wrong symon the official party news paper confirming that things are no better this year with the whole of the country suffering in the 1st part of this year very badly from drought. sri lankans are under a nationwide curfew for a 2nd successive night as security forces tackle a wave of violence against muslims so far one person has died in the rioting and the united nations is worried that the unrest could spiral in elfin and fernandez reports now from colombia i hear injury lanka's northwestern province there's a police kill few in place for a 2nd ni

diners everywhere the extremes are rising he said and what are they striving on on fear and on lies david chaytor al-jazeera russian. activists in argentina are launching a renewed effort to legalize abortion after narrowly falling short last year lawmakers are introducing a bill to legalize terminations of pregnancy up to 14 weeks a similar measure had passed last year in the law lower house of congress but was the featured in the senate under heavy opposition by religious organizations has more now from one side its. work here in front of argentina's congress were pro-choice activists are once again presenting the possibility i don't want to present a bill to legalize abortion industry and decriminalize it let's not forget that abortion is illegal argentino with exception of in cases of rape or when i went life is at risk this is happening after what happened last year when we made it to congress it was debated it passed the lower house but it was rejected in the senate and that's why hundreds of women are gathered here today once again to demand the legalization of abortion let's talk

rolled business when given she drew his last breath but his spirits and his genius still haunt this land david j. to al-jazeera on france. in one of the top stories around his era venezuelan president nicolas maduro has urged the armed forces to fight any traitors plotting against him a show of support for the military men who are took to the streets of the capital caracas surrounded by thousands of soldiers his actions for a failed attempt on tuesday to unseat him by rebel forces loyal to opposition leader. failed military uprising sparked large scale protests against the government which left four people dead and hundreds injured i don't know if it's out of. this that they want to show an armed force of thieves of tricksters is that the armed forces we want that is why i say we have to keep up the pace with treason with coup plotters stay active the order has been given to the traces to stop them to the coup plotters to reject them the armed forces must be united in cohesive. well than a million people in india have been ordered to leave areas along the east coast ahead of a severe storm cyc

the minimum wage but there was no sign of wavering by the protest is on the streets of the capital david al-jazeera paris. and russia more than one hundred people were arrested during may day protests around the country government activists and members of human rights books were among those detained also the arrests happened in st petersburg where several hundred people marched calling for faye election is the full rating for the russian president vladimir putin has fallen to around sixty percent recently on the back of a tax hike and increases in the retirement age. that the united states has been fighting an opioid at the demick that has killed thousands many of those drugs originate in china u.s. has been pressuring beijing to ban drugs containing the painkiller fenton ill and that has now come into effect al-jazeera is how these are castro looks at the battle against opioid addiction in the city of baltimore. baltimore maryland a new frontline in the war against opioids in the u.s. a war that at times feels overwhelming more than a dozen people die in the city from overdoses each wee

her main value was her sensibility which is necessary to overcome the difficult times are facing now david walker he was born in the seventh of may one thousand nine hundred nineteen in the argentine countryside a wealthy father abandoned the family to poverty aged fifteen she sought and found fame and fortune as an actress in one osiris there she met the rising politician then labor minister. at a function to raise money for earthquake victims the rest as they say is history instead of being a woman fighting for social justice for equality she was taken into the hearts of the argentine people and aspired to the universal story and today everyone here in argentina remembers her the couple married in one thousand nine hundred five and the following year he became president of argentina a plane skinny girl with prominent teeth transformed herself into a glamour icon both revered and despised she was something of an enigma while she was alive a champion of the poor wearing fur was a fighter for women's rights in a man's world a showpiece superstar ahead of a time sixty seven years after her d

david chaytor al jazeera brussels. still ahead on al-jazeera. now we won't have any negotiation with the united states . iran's foreign ministry says they'll be no talks until the nuclear deal is put back on the table. plus a national the pressure on sudan's military rulers. hello there we've had some more severe weather over parts of the u.s. and we take a look at the satellite picture we can see this area of cloud here that stretching its way towards the east and it's across this where we've had most of our tornadoes in the last 24 hours or so there's likely to be some more severe weather too as we head through the next couple of days again stretching along this line here towards the south there's also the risk of seeing some thunderstorms here as well that could give us some very large hail and maybe some tornadoes as well and this dangling leg is still with us as we head through the day on thursday to the southeast it's pretty hot atlanta right up at $33.00 degrees further west it's cooler force in l.a. with a maximum of $24.00 even further

taken firm control of a fractured governing party he appears to be some uncertainty as deputy president david marr palooza has postponed being sworn into parliament a boozer is one of 22 people the agency's ethics committee has singled out for bringing the party into disrepute i'm a pause as promised to trim an inflated cabinet which in recent years has cost taxpayers millions of dollars the president's under pressure to rid the cabinet of underperforming ministers many of us political appointments they're poor none of the cabinet will be a major indication of. whether to be bold or not but certainly you can maintain the status quo south africa's. juggling with a poorly performing economy and a 27 percent its highest unemployment rate ever as south africa tackles unfavorable economic conditions the government's been criticized for spending millions of dollars on a pause as inauguration many south africans say it's unnecessary but the appears to be some compromise the sermon he won't take place at the traditional venue the union bold ings in pretoria but instead here at the loftus festival sta

ambassador david friedman all have 0 experience as diplomats what greenblatt has a little but questioner and and friedman of course have 0 experience as diplomats but they all have significant experience as funders individually and with their families and their institutions major funders of the settlement project in occupied palestinian territory and israeli settlements so the notion that they are the ones who have the best sense of how to deal with this long running crisis of course is nonsensical that was never really the goal the goal here was to provide israel with a kind of pacification and again i think the goal here in the in the meeting in bufferin is to find enough money that will be invested or granted to the palestinians to at least replace the millions of dollars that the u.s. used to fund. the u.n. agency for supporting palestinian refugees and which they have not been funding any longer and to say that other countries now particularly the wealthy gulf states should take over that role and pay the palestinians to give up any claims to land and he claims to freedom and he cla

over a wide ranging laws including health and safety regulations farming and environmental protections david chase has more from brussels political analysts have been widely debated whether liberal values are on retreat in the european union and whether the $28.00 countries taking part in these parliamentary elections will show a rise in populism well we'll have to wait and see when the polling booths close on sunday evening what the 1st exit polls will tell us about those trends. immigration policy the economy and terrorism have been issues at the heart of this debates in europe the 1st direct elections to the european parliament began in 1989 but the 5 year early polls have seen a steady drop in voter turnout ever since 57 percent abstained in 2014 there are $751.00 seats here in the chamber of the european parliament up for grabs now each country is a wood or portion of them according to their population size or germany has 96 their top followed by france with 74 and then britain on 73. once elected the m.e. peas are organized into transnational blocs the largest group up to now has been

in the french capital paris dozens of people were injured as demonstrations descended into violence david schaper reports. clouds of tear gas and burning barricades marked the progress of the may day marches it filled the streets of the french capital as predicted fighting between demonstrators and riot police searched along its whole length practicing their policy of zero tolerance charge after charge was made that she.

and french riot police were busy during may day protests in paris dozens of people were injured as david schaper reports. clouds of tear gas and burning barricades marked the progress of the may day marches that filled the streets of the french capital as predicted fighting between demonstrators and riot police surged along its whole length practicing their policy of zero tolerance charge after charge was made with shield and baton against crowds throwing rocks and stones. menu first that's your own for today was another day of oppression as usual we have been surrounded you can't go to sway you can't write that way getting gassed is the only option people just start losing. twenty three people have lost their five have lost a hand to join our demonstration so far for their sick we must continue but micron made his speech he didn't show sympathy to the wounded what this government who shows no compassion for its people. days gone on the clashes with the police and the riot forces stationed along the length of march i've got much more serious of my c.d.'s was torched sending billows of sm

john major it finished of david cameron it's now finished off to reason may as well who's to say europe will not claim another british prime minister because the situation that the new comer will face is no different from the situation that to raise a mate has faced not being able to make any headway with it's a bitterly divided country it's a bit of a divided party parliament is about to go on a summer recess and that will last until i think the beginning sometime in september which means that when the bracks a deadline comes around the end of october there weren't have been very much time for whoever is the next prime minister to get the job done you also have labor breathing down their necks of the government saying that if you cannot get this done if you're going to go ahead with a no deal bracks it's as boris johnson has said that he might do then we will try to bring him down and we will try to force a general election all right allan thank you. governments around the world are increasingly interested in using biometric technology is so what exactly does it involve well it's often

a crusade a new period be in properties and the only way to do it would be to distort the economic david and put it on. from j.c. pure that is the purpose of the new year. meanwhile the commander of iran's revolutionary guard is warning of imminent confrontation with the united states major general has seen salami says the u.s. escalation in the region represents what he calls a decisive moment for the islamic revolution. well as in buzzer obvious live for us in tehran zain it seems that things are clearly heating up should we be concerned about the various statements we've been hearing. the rhetoric is definitely ratcheting up it has been for the last several weeks and months but the message essentially is the same iranian lawmakers civilian leaders elected officials as well as the military are all staying on point on a couple of specific things major general hussein salome the relatively new leader of the islamic revolutionary guard corps certainly saying making very strong statements that were broadcast on state media earlier today he said that iran and the united states on the verge

going to unfold or promote obviously progress through five years ago it's way which is low to rise david yeah there's a lot of sprawl is the zero illiteracy times are sometimes days no more time while millions of people want their lives team proved it made up result in them abandoning the a n c and that's what the party may be relying on loyalty and belief from its supporters at the a in c. will do better for me tamala al-jazeera cape town south africa still ahead on the news hour and life and next time we look at the plight of palestinian refugees living in lebanon and sports the king of clay shows why he still reigns on the tennis court peter perhaps right. as we see a lot of rain over the southern parts of china recently this is what it looked like in high now and you can see how much rain we've had it's caused a few problems on the roads and i looks like there's plenty more. what weather still to come is a satellite picture showing the bright white areas of cloud that we've seen there i've a part of it now but also over the southeastern parts of china and the stretching up to is taiw

put a strain on the whole process of dialogue and reconciliation the world food program's director david lee has been in seoul trying to organize a food shipment for north korea but finding problems with moon j.n. south korea's president coming under domestic political pressure not to give such a gesture to the north after north korea's apparent provocations of last week north korea's food problems meanwhile seem to be getting worse it was confirmed recently that last year's harvest was the worst for 10 years and choose days edition of wrong symon the official party news paper confirming that things are no better this year with the whole of the country suffering in the 1st part of this year very badly from drought. venezuela's supreme court has called on for more opposition m.p.'s to be stripped of the military so they can be tried for treason police have also locked down the opposition controlled national assembly in the capital caracas just minutes before opposition leader one guy though was set to lead a session officers cordoned off the building and several surrounding blocks after r

put a strain on the whole process of dialogue and reconciliation the world food program's director david lee has been in seoul trying to organize a food shipment for north korea but finding problems with moon j.n. south korea's president coming under domestic political pressure not to give such a gesture to the north after north korea's apparent provocations of last week north korea's food problems meanwhile seem to be getting worse it was confirmed recently that last year's harvest was the worst for 10 years and tuesday's edition of raw dung symon the official party news paper confirming that things are no better this year with the whole of the country suffering in the 1st part of this. very badly from drought. mcbride reporting there still to come for you here on al-jazeera we meet a lake chad community struggling to survive about the increased boko haram attacks in egypt. and those at the bottom of india's social hierarchy turn to politics to demand change. hello again it will come back to you in a national weather forecast or still that he had some very very messy weather here across

mrs made it's failed to deliver what david cameron 100 over and then it falls on the shorter of the new prime minister to decide whether to deliver bragg's it or to go for a new deal which of these is the most likely scenario in the near future. he quite rightly says thing which has become much less likely now is the compromise when this is made came prime minister some observers including myself thought that this did present the best opportunity of bridging the divisions in british society now in fact what mrs may did was to edge towards a part of bracks in people expected and that really caused all the trouble from that time on when she established a so-called red lines then the whole the whole debate as they became more and more all good towards the extremes. and so as things stand at the moment it is much more likely that a successor will be much more effective in brussels here than she ever was however the parliament isn't going to accept heartbroke sit and so it seems to me that this is got to be a result by some kind of consultation beyond parliament some kind of consultation wit

jimmy carter in camp david in the seventy's or none george w. bush sold the iraq war the american public it took a really long time and it took a lot of presidential effort and commitment and bureaucratic coalition building and stuff like that and that just hasn't done any of that for the reversal of the relationship with an orwellian tyranny right i mean if tom is going to change the relationship we have in north korea to sort of turn it upside down he's got to build a coalition for he's got to make an argument for it to the bureaucracy to the defense department congress the analysts the public and he just hasn't done that and that's one of the reasons why this thing seems so so flimsy because trump just hasn't put in the effort quite honestly i know i will question to you if we've got a third guest to bring in just a moment but i just want to ask you going back to what you were saying a few moments ago about president.

president giani infantino said that expansion could begin in 2022 but those plans have now been scrapped or david cohen is a sports writer for the guardian he's also author of the fall of the house of fever and he joins me live via skype from heritage thanks for being with us on the program why was the fee for president so keen to see katter 2022 expanded to 48 teams well i interviewed him in november and he was talking about the expansion of the world cup from qatar to help some of the neighboring countries which had been in hostilities or still are in hostilities with qatar that it would it would help to heal the divide and it would be football team to bring peace to the region but i think you also have to realize that the self interest for the state of president because having 16 more nations competing in the world are going to be very grateful and more broadly the states of nations are going to be pleased that more of them have got your choose play in the world cup and the obviously very grateful to the seat of president and it's good for the for president who is going to be reelected and how