on counting the cost $3.00 decades off the collapse of the soviet union russia is gauging with africa to raise its political clout and we look at the economics behind so he's decision to buy the s. 400 and f. $35.00 stealth bomber counting the cost on a just. it's 50 years since the world watched as u.s. astronauts lost set off on a mission many adults impossible. then modeled as they made the 1st uncertain steps. to join us as we look at the ingenuity and those who made the journey of a 111 possible. 50 years on and the al-jazeera news special. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera reminder of our top stories today the latest diplomatic efforts to bring iran and the u.s. back to the negotiating table appears to have ended without any major breakthrough at a meeting in brussels e.u. foreign ministers downplayed iran's decision to enrich uranium above the limits of the 2050 nuclear deal but they failed to reach a solution to the growing us iran tensions. american president has once again lashed out at a group of 4 high profile congress women donald trump is demanding an apology for w

because this week south africa is late companies need a bailout before they cripple the economy we'll take a look at taylor swift with big business over who owns her music plus we find out why radio kurds are looking for work at both of. the cost 00. it's good to have you with us on al-jazeera these are our top stories saddam's opposition has called for more protests over the killing of activists in north kordofan state doctors and 8 people including 4 students were shot dead by security forces during a demonstration they were protesting against the findings of an investigation into last month's crackdown by the military judge. china's government has reiterated its support for hong kong leader carry land following weeks of mass protests the hong kong policy office in beijing says the demonstrations are a challenge to the rule of law and britain's prime minister isn't backing down from his that ultimatum to that during his visit to scotland that is despite fierce opposition and talk of another independence referendum in scotland boss johnston's told is that you know only discuss breaks

johnson is publisher of africa briefing magazine i'm pleased to say so with me in the studio now. this deal holds great holds a lot of potential doesn't it you're talking about $1300000000.00 leave you alone and in a trading area where $3.00 trillion dollars is not only that the figures are impressive what are your hopes for this for this agreement well i don't very hopeful know who will cook yet it will be of course political good as sheep who will have to. someone that will that they had the 1st place to set up this trip body and implemented just over one and about 2 days to try and eradicate those pretty suspicions amount of cells because no one country who'd be an ally that we need to treat together ok if say ghana is the biggest gun on equity were i the biggest produces. globally right so you you you leverage your comparative advantage in the production of a certain good rate and then the other party too will do to save so it to be like you know a nation's hutaree free exchange here and there so you to boost it to bush straight from a one africa street. countries 70 percent i

on counting the cost this week south africa's debt laden companies need a bailout before they cripple the economy take a look at taylor swift with big business. using the find out why arabian. cost. welcome back our minds at the top stories on al-jazeera an increasing number of children are being killed as syrian and russian warplanes bombed it led to $33.00 children have died in the rebel held province this month alone that is more than 2080. libya's coast guard says it's recovered the bodies of dozens of refugees and migrants who died in what the u.n. has described as the worst mediterranean tragedy this year around $120.00 others including women and children are missing feared at. the u.s. and guatemala have signed an agreement to restrict asylum applications from central america it comes just days after president donald trump threatened to impose tariffs on the central american country if it didn't agree to the deal of. the hot air that smashed temperature records in europe this week appears to be moving towards greenland where it could cause record levels of melting greenland's i

power of beijing just in 2017 trade with africa amounted to 170000000000 dollars the u.s. is of course worried its trade with subsaharan africa was $39000000000.00 in 2017 and this is what russia is doing in africa it has oil and gas deals with algeria egypt ghana nigeria and mozambique it has nuclear deals in place with rwanda zambia and south africa although that is in limbo while it is a big supplier of arms to egypt algeria sudan and angola moscow is increasing support across the continent that's not a comprehensive list by any means but let's get more on russia's interest in africa now joining me from london is charles robinson chief global economist and head of macro strachey at russian investment bank renee songs capitol thanks very much for being with us so let me ask you 1st of all then how is russia's relationship with africa changing under putin and what's the most important aspect of it is a political economic or military influence. well i think there's a little bit of all 3 but you take the 1st 510 years and of putin's rule in russia very little focus on afric

the camp has become a temporary home to more than 300 asylum seekers most of them are from west africa haiti and cuba. but not of those from angola he's been at the camp for more than a month he plays music most days to pass the time. we are expecting to wait here 23 or 4 months because there are many people ahead of us on the asylum list. many of the people we spoke to at the camp like that america say they plan to wait as long as it takes to cross into the u.s. legally. but illegal crossings at the rio grande a. increase in recent months and so have drownings we're at a municipal cemetery that us need us mexico where the bodies of migrants who died trying to cross into the united states are often brought in have these wooden crosses placed over their graves and this one here simply reads mail not identified pulled out of the rio approximately 300 meters from the black bridge in the neighborhood. there are several other graves of unknown migrants here behind the groundskeeper told us he buried 8 drowning victims just last week. back at the river looking just across the water in the u.

the island of lampedusa is closer to north africa than italy but migrants aren't welcome. last month italy's interior minister and deputy prime minister met there said vinie is used to create imposing heavy fines a migrant boats which trespass into italian waters. and you know yeah i am not reopening a tally imports especially if you ask me to there is a german ship and then you take care of it or we put them all on a bus in front of the german embassy that's enough and this applies to the french the dutch and to anyone who thinks anything can be done in italy. but just over a week ago after rescuing dozens of migrants the captain of a german rescue ship was arrested when she defied italian orders and docked in lampedusa and italian judges since ordered. roller rocketed to be freed from house arrest saying she'd been acting to save. the human rights group says 681 people have died while attempting to cross the mediterranean just this year but many continue to attempt the dangerous the crossing in search of a better life and rescue crews say they'll continue to put the live

you with us peter so south african airways trans net many of south africa's state owned firms facing huge financial and management troubles just how much of a threat to they and others pose to south africa's economy and massive build up of financial stress of the state owned. enterprises and you can always tell when their back is about to stop when people stop paying wages and that's when finally things start happening all in terms of bailouts in terms of hopefully some semblance of reform but each month now we have a number of an s.o.s. who are basically trying and then sometimes failing to pay wages in full and hence now we have money coming forward from the budget which is going to be bailing out a number of the us always most notably has come they've given an extra $26000000000.00 rand this year and they've been around next year about $4900000000.00 in order to keep the show on the road and insure their house going concern there in the old it is the sign of the accounts which will come out next week so a lot of these are so he's really right on the edge of requiring significant a

appears to be elusive leader mullah al jazeera pretoria south africa. joining us now from gauteng province is caleb olga point he has a political science professor at the university of south africa thank you very much for speaking to us on the news out there were hearing anthony does report that corruption is appears to be the biggest challenge facing the a.n.c. right now how serious are these allegations against president. these allegations are very serious in my view miriam because as you heard in that leigh obviously corruption has been one of the major issues in there recently you know how the elections in may to indian indian and it was one of those issues that at present sitaram of course was competing was based on in other words he was running allies here on an anti corruption ticket given what's all of your experience in the past 9 yes so this years these allegations are very serious and they're quite. 6 of in nature that can upset a cut in terms of both the party that is leading the african national congress and of course in terms of his popula

nigeria is the driving force of west africa. a single currency would allow us to overcome all of her children just today. it's a sizzling debate with each its own opinion while there may be uncertainty over the single currency regional leaders believe that in the end. africans will come out as winners nicolas hawke al-jazeera. police in somalia are reporting a large explosion from a car gunfire at a hotel it sets have happened that hotel in the port city of kiss my 0 local lawmakers were meeting at the time casualties are still unknown and the group al-shabaab said it carried out the suicide attack. demonstrations are taking place in northern algeria for the 21st successive friday opposition figures are calling for elections a civilian led government and an end to what they call the ruling elites pro-democracy protests began in february which led to the resignation of longtime president to flee 2 months later. police and have arrested 2 more officers from an iranian oil tanker seize last week bringing the total number to 4 and t

host egypt the africa cup of nations details in the sports news in about 20 minutes. hello we've got some big summer storms bursting over central parts of europe at the moment you see the thunderheads stropping there are around the alpine regions a little further north and the reason is because a bit of everything going on actually we hang on to that hot sunshine down towards the south further north it has been freshening up and behind this cold front here if seeing some cooler digging in fresher conditions temperatures actually struggling to get to around 90 or 20 celsius more than that other guy we were getting easily into the mid thirty's so the storms range from around southern parts of france around the swiss alps pushing a little further a switch towards ukraine they will tend to just drift a little further south which as we go through the next couple of days northern italy coming into the mix here other side of the adriatic into the balkans pushing over towards the black sea so the be some wet weather also sliding across rumania staying fresh further north stay

south africa is a continent of most industrialized economy and one of africa's worst polluters its economy relies heavily on coal a dirty fossil fuel to produce electricity environment groups say the towering coal fired power stations release dangerous carbon emissions every day into the atmosphere the government introduced a carbon tax law earlier this month requiring big polluting companies to pay tax each time they emit greenhouse gases those in favor of the tax hope it will be enough of a deterrent and they must remember that the more they pollute there's a concoction of pollutants in the atmosphere you can do business in a did climate a message that we're getting there they should do things possibly. to that because emissions are marked $8.00 times per person every year the world bank says that's among the highest in the developing world it's ranked among the dirtiest energy producers in the world number 16 on the global emissions list. the paris agreement on climate change and committed to an emission reduction of 34 percent by 2020 and 42 percent by 2025 but industry experts warn in

borders often isn't easy it's here at the port of mombasa that goods manufactured outside of africa are imported to the region. most african countries trade more with countries in europe and asia and with each other economists say that free trade agreement alone won't solve that and that they'll be resistance from a powerful few who make fast profits from the status quo the politicians have become beholden to these types of folks and i think you're breaking up much more than might appear at 1st glance you're breaking a system that's been there since independence the products from the food factory a truck to around the region that this kind of manufacturing and export happens less in africa than any other continent economist say free trade within the continent would change that and create more jobs and income for people like betty but many feel it's still a long way off malcolm webb al-jazeera the kenya former u.s. vice president joe biden has apologized for his remarks about working with segregationist senators during his early days in congress rival democratic party white house hop

africa's political leadership who will have to. someone that will that they had the 1st place to set up this trick body and implements it that's number one and about 2. that you're trying to eradicate those pretty suspicions among themselves because no one country could be an island we need to trade together so you you you leverage your comparative advantage in the production of a certain good right and then the other party too will do to save so it would be like you know an essence otara free exchange here and there so you to boost it to boost straight from a one africa straight. countries 70 percent in. 27000 . troops and i percents and you open your plane on 6 i present so if we're able to push straight at all which is forecast to increase by about 15 to 25 percent in the media of tear it will be good for a country it will spread expertise. as a continent. let's look at hong kong with there's been more violence as protesters confronted riot police about controversial extradition bail the standoff followed a mass rally outside a

franc it was created by france in 1945 and is used by 14 african nations in 2 zones one in west africa including senegal ivory coast and the jets and 6 others in central africa including up on and chat the currency is pegged to the euro and has the financial backing of the french treasury and return france holds 50 percent of the foreign exchange reserves of member countries supporters say it provides economic stability but critics see it as a relic of french colonialism that restricts growth. i did press reports after the . capital. it's definite now leaders somewhat difficult nations using the c.f.a. front the 8 countries in the region under the west african monitoring union have decided to go ahead with the rollout of the proposed west africa single courtesy the aecl they said they are there for decided to go ahead with the process and any other country but wants to join or who are not decided to join can join later so in the next few months we will see the roll out of this currency in west africa that is going to be. legal tender in this region a question was for to president ouatt

are a free exchange here and there so you took it from a one africa. countries so it's in this sense. percent. 6 percent or so straight which is forecast to increase by about 15 to 25 percent. of the country it will spread to experts. hello again welcome back well here across the united states we are seeing a lot of scattered showers across much of the central and eastern seaboard now it's going to be happening over the next few days is still the heat is going to be on across much of the area and with that the afternoons the thunderstorms are really going to be popping up across much of washington down towards atlanta as well and here across the central plains of adela's we could be seeing the showers and the temperature there $35.00 degrees here on monday maybe going up to about $36.00 degrees by the time we get towards tuesday but notice up here towards the north it is going to be quite rainy a lot of active showers we could even see some accumulations anywhere across the dakotas as well as into southern canada well across much of the caribbean it ha

al-jazeera in south africa. in northeast nigeria at least 2 people have been killed in an attack by boko haram fighters it was on one of the region's biggest camps for internally displaced people the army says the raid near my degree was repelled our correspondent went interest has more from the beach. there taekwondo laurie cam. continuing efforts by regional militaries from charge in nigeria and cameroon as they stepped up their operations against boko haram especially the book on approach an affiliated with ice one or the islamic state in west africa province where seen such daring attacks becoming so rare over the past 6 months or so across the northeast of nigeria however boko haram has never completely disappeared they have continued their operations of sins but abductions also have been the tool of trade of book around for a very long time long before the triple goals were taken from the school in 2014 goals were taken from several schools in borno state and in towns and cities across the state as well as

to the top stories on al-jazeera the world health organization has declared the latest outbreak in africa a public health emergency of international concern that is the highest possible emergency response turkey's deputy consul general has been shot dead in the northern iraqi city of erbil at least one of the person was reportedly killed in the attack which happened in a restaurant with a diplomat was dining. political deal has been signed in sudan between the military council. to months to vision demonstrations. where hundreds of people are gathering for the u.s. president's campaign rally in greenville north carolina donald trump has been tweeting ahead of the event saying he has lots of things to talk about he's also continued his twitter for democratic congresswoman let's take you live to our white house correspondent kelly how could he was also in greenville i want to people there saying about. the control. yeah well the lines were pretty long for many hours in advance to get into this 8000 seat stadium we know there were about 50000 tickets handed out so that there were many people

have decided to escalate our security approach in dealing with these attacks and violence so that's africa union will come in and take charge . this way the cell region will be safer and all the flashpoints can be contained and a solved by africans themselves. leaders from at least $53.00 of the continent $65.00 countries i do here to ratify the deal that could be implemented as early as next year. the african continent of free trade agreement is expected to create the walls the largest single market in the continent is home to one and a quarter 1000000000 africans leaders hope that the free trade agreement will help create jobs as breaking a growth but it's not clear whether investors will hold one of the internal strife in many african countries and bring in the much needed capital to boost production of goods and services. african entrepreneurs say they agreement could be the answer to the continent's many problems the truth is we do have china africa but they're nowhere else to get the kind of returns on investment to get conflict so you're confident the investors will come and come to

frankly linda is professor of environmental studies at northwestern university in south africa getting to me. linda is also an expert on mining illusion the government the world health organization writes with his help has developed a scientific her took a test kit for different wood to pollutants yes so i'm at the bottom of the mine turnings there's some water all around i was wondering which parent those fish do you think i should analyze 1st in the water mining. trucks trying to. elevate. ok. i. thought it would seem recently gone by. so. many don't but in point of missouri. if it comes up in the us you're going to get arsenic which is a metal. cream you can. see. if you put it like that. so i think. just so you know it was. says although. the maximum they were going to continue to pose for them. it's impossible to analyze everything there and then so must takes another sample to check for more pollutants later. but the tests have already thrown out some serious questions. after some convincing one of the country's top 3 gold produces agrees to a meeting. with. gold fields 8750 kilo

something else that's on thing no sense in someone i don't want to africa and. other and one set off one i love about lost and gentle as an island doesn't all. of us ago i did he did they know here's your cup of the here.

when it began in 1939 european powers had colonized most of africa person quickly put as many african colonies on a war footing much as it had done in won't one some years before. yes at 1st officials would doubtful about the row so cool native african so which is might play in the conflicts somewhat even opposed to giving them mixing them with white soldiers reflecting the white spread prejudice of the time racism was pervasive in the 1930 s. and forty's it was perfectly acceptable to be a racist and polite western society. still look upon the words of rudyard kipling when you call people. devil and child timothy parsons is a historian and one of the roads leading authorities on the east african army he champions the rights of these cologne you're a soldier is and has dedicated his life to chronicling their lost history the imperial system was riddled with racism there were people who are unapologetic racists at all levels of civil society at all levels of the military institutions might feel obliged to keep them in political and economical barrier no one volunteers to live under an

is the driving force of west africa. a single currency would allow us to overcome all of our chilling just today. it's a sizzling debate with each its own opinion while there may be uncertainty over the single currency regional leaders believe that in the end. africans will come out as winners nicholas hawk al-jazeera. director of the african foundation for development joins me now from london good to have you with us on al-jazeera the economist will always be happy about perhaps a single currency but it's really up to the bureaucrats and the politicians to agree and certainly in west africa they don't always seem to sing from the same hymn sheet. well you have a huge. craving west africa and you know between. here and then. and now. you have to focus. there and currencies are going to be huge political. calculations around where the. current iraq. dreams are valid and of course there are various levels of growth amongst the c.i.s. countries if for example if you just look at cote d'ivoire it's expected growth it's somet

when we go are we preached we tell the water conservation africa is your group come this want to come i said top flight with an africa please there we're going to do so want to create jobs unemployment by people who want to improve the economic growth but it will be with a crisis on the continent a war start of internal strife do you think they're coming why do how was i developed an acolyte is is because of foresight in college of listlessly because why young was once what were they when they basically recounts is this is a problem because the truth is what you see the glass half full or stacked you here or there was a sample being a been expected now that's a kind of have to look moscow have to study i think there is a lot more to talk about when it comes to investing in africa now back to daryn all right there is thank you very much for that. in hong kong it appears there is no end in sight to the political crisis thousands of mothers have rallied to show their support for the city's young protesters they accuse the police of using excessive force when a small group of them stormed

west africa country is rich in resources i recall general and mineral but the production is very very slow there will continue to import most of the products that are needed outside what the export actually is raw materials to the rest of the world for processing. zimbabwe is going to raise public sector pay for the 2nd time in 3 months after labor groups threatened mass protests inflation there is running highest 100 percent and the country is struggling with shortages of bread fuel and baths and our image has a has more from the capital harare. it's. traditional charles blunder and his wife glenda both take home $280.00 zimbabwean dollars a month after deductions that's roughly 30 u.s. dollars each combining both they salaries they agree to spend no more than $40.00 on groceries but when they get to the till they realize they've gone over budget things are just too expensive to make things worse some products they really need aren't available because of shortages things that takes. just taking issue as it comes. to this beautiful. truths the government is offering civil servants inc

the former president of south africa jacob zuma today told an inquiry into government corruption that he is the target of a conspiracy the commission's investigating corruption and allegations of mass looting of state funds during his time in office most of the charges are linked to mr zuma is relationship with the wealthy family they're accused of influencing government policy to win lucrative business contracts just as rumor denies any wrongdoing. i've been a subject of. talk in this country for. more than a dick. i've been vilified. and there is too. keen of. corrupt people. more now from joburg. a lot of time was spent talking about the gupta family jacob zuma was accused of using his influence back when he was president to help them set up a news paper it's alleged that he made a phone call to a government official a transcript of their phone calls without during the commission and jacob zuma told this government official my brother they are these gupta guys we need to meet with you and need your help please help the zuma was in us to respond and he said i don't remember making t

during the british empire recruited hundreds of thousands of african soldiers to function africa asia and the middle east. the survivalist face discrimination and the connect many being abandoned to poverty in the shaming acts of disregard now we've been to investigate the plight of britain's african veterans the forgotten heroes of its empire. your 2nd zambia november 28th and the royal visit is underway red herring right off my each and every day you want. to try to write. prescribe campaign to take a. minute right just one. hour now 94 years or. all of this for all of this in by our. own warped tour. we suffered your heart. just in close was one of several 100000 africans who fought for the british during world war 2 and one of the many who later felt abandoned to a life of poverty and neglect. you know what if my house looked. little. prince harry has come to zambia to pay his country's respects to its african veterans justin hopes his meeting with the prince will also raise awareness of his plight so you can try and fool who poured into who you call mark turns out you are on this

south africa's president says he will ask for a judicial review of a report by the country's corruption watchdog on friday serum apostle was accused of deliberately misleading parliament about a campaign contribution the public protector said the president failed to tell the truth to parliament when he denied knowledge of a $35000.00 donation from him to miller has the latest from pretoria. president has responded to the report by the public protector's saying that it's fundamentally flawed and not based on fact and this is after he responded to some of our questions earlier this year and according to his statements he's released he says that it's unfortunate that she's decided to to issue the strip or to given that he had concerns around it he has said that he is now seeking an urgent judicial review and it will be up to the courts to decide if this report stands it's also worth remembering that the public protector has had a record of having some of the reports overturned by the courts given that there were issues around the legality and perhaps some of the foundations that these repo

countries in west africa countries like nigeria countries like ghana. and several others 7 other countries they are also required to join the single currency while these countries also agree to join in. they want to model the eco after the european currency the euro but while the big you can always like nigeria and ghana fall into line and still join the single currency that's a question a lot of people will want to see answered by the leaders here and probably by representatives of those countries that are still out of the c.f.a. zone so i'll see what they have to say later at the moment and that's that's joining us from of asia. on such a. rich management he joins me now from nairobi good to have you with us i mean what's the benefit for these nations to you might say have a new currency an unknown currency while discussing removing what's already well established. frankly speaking absolutely 0 in my view i think it's part of a sort of move post-colonial type move and it's being dressed up as that that this is a high time that these countries a scaped

i want to africa's biggest polluters is helping to clean up its act. in support the south korean gulf are making a big move toward tough nature to. head over the weekend promises to bring some much cooler weather tical central and western areas of europe but also. eastern sections it's out across the west the cloud has been heading in and bringing with it the rain but of course also bringing that much cold as hotel which is a lot lower in fact they london and in paris a little bit below the average for this time of yet meanwhile a warm day in zurich despite the rain 26 degrees in iceland driv 28 but i know that is that she 10 degrees below what we have seen for the last several days and this heading to sunday what you will notice is temperatures across these eastern areas actually beginning to warm up so walsall for example your high there of 34 degrees as about 9 degrees above the average for this time of year 30 celsius in kiev and that rain pushing at us is steadily further tools the east and in fact a slight improvement on those temperatures on sun

boxer had downed in a rainy and drone in the strait of hormuz south africa's corruption watchdog has found president. deliberately misled parliament the allegations center around a campaign donation by the company. to ram opposes 2017 presidential campaign the president has denied knowledge of the $35000.00 donation when he was asked about it in parliament last year. the former president jacob zuma has agreed to continue giving evidence at a corruption inquiry he refused to do so saying he was being treated unfairly the commission is looking into allegations of corruption in government and stated companies. turkey has launched airstrikes on the kurdish region of northern iraq in response to the killing of one of its cypriots airstrikes. stronghold where the killer is thought to have fled to his deputy consul general was shot dead on wednesday a top course in the netherlands is up held an earlier ruling that the country is partly liable for the deaths of 350 bosnian muslim men killed or travelling through in 1905 the supreme court at the hague said dutch peacekeeping forces could have

before this there was no such rot in south africa and there was no civil accountability on the part of employers towards workmen who suffered from occupational diseases so that was the big break $32011.00 but the last 78 years have been spent litigating against the mining companies and the last several years in parallel with that it's a geisha in process. of negotiations that culminated in the settlement that was approved today we've had a migrant labor system for many many decades the majority of them a living in deep religious in south africa and in neighboring countries like mozambique pursued to in swaziland where they really don't have access to medical facilities to screen and examined him so we don't know the status of the vast majority of formal mind work is up there and step one is rolling out. a program to get medical facilities to them for chicks it just extras learn french and tastes and generally physical exams and to a 6 whether or not they are suffering from lung disease and qualified to be compensated now the rising cost of prescription drugs is forcing many americans i

us in more scans and as you can see that we've got 27 then we head across into southern africa and that's how much is here taking a bit of a dive certainly into durban 16 degrees that on sunday is about 7 degrees below the average 14 degrees in johannesburg it's dry average temperatures look at this it was back up on monday so once again you see the average temperature of 23 celsius. information in the case that you have or associated to a game doesn't occur we start has the potential to be biased in a number of different ways there are too many opportunities for the computer to get wrong who's checking those offices who commit those data entry is wrong to be saying that your son there tonight is wrong to my it's a kill of becoming a suspect before the actual crime and then depth examination into preventative policing pre-crime on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera it means the whole robin a reminder of our top stories that you can follow the secretary jeremy hunt is warning of dangers to international shipping after a british like tanker was seized in the strait of hormu

and investigation south africa toxic city on al jazeera. hello again you're watching al-jazeera minder of our top stories this hour the un's human rights chief has can damage what she calls international indifference to the rising death toll in syria's rebel held it live profits show but still a says those targeting civilians should be charged with war crimes in the past 10 days 104 civilians have been killed. the u.s. president is celebrating what he calls a big victory for its southern border war on the nation's highest court the supreme court ruled donald trump can divert $2500000000.00 from the defense department to fund the project. the hot air that smashed temperatures in europe this week is moving towards greenland where it could cause record levels of melting climate change has been linked to the increase in ice loss which could cause sea levels to rise even further. let's go back now to one of our top stories al-jazeera has obtained a copy of a u.n. report on child casualties in conflicts saudi arabia has been highlighted for its r

appears to be elusive for leader mullah al-jazeera pretoria south africa. much more still ahead on this program from london looking at why kosovo's prime minister has resigned for a 2nd time. and then a bit later 14 stories 55000 square meters and $1500.00 cans of paint no less we need a man painting the world's largest 7 year old. hell of a day of bitter war wouldn't go amiss with it and that should be the promise for adelaide sas which we've had cold to dry but actually fairly stormy weather in this part of a sort of ticky tells me in bits of victoria well there's the picture for saturday 90 degrees in the breeze of the interior it will feel quite nice in melbourne maybe not quite so good in hobart having had overnight rain per 16 well it looks promising and in the sunshine will be ok but that's as bit of a chill breeze coming in from the west 18 per on sunday with cloud around the coast drop in temperature by a good 5 degrees for adelaide unfortunate the wind direction is so critical now in new zealand the rather slowly revolving storm system isn't very

whether your in power in a particular area or not and that's what south africa's expect. that's that's a good a good word i think it was the review we're going to get the list in good right now doesn't have to go we believe and that leads us to what the approach will be a look at this summit in discussing the fact that every government the book that it really took over from social development economic development to agriculture to of education to all of a local government in the way we do about a little resigned all i'll departments will will do good not going to work together well we were going to we will be you do goes you just described as i did where we have to because in this group we will go in we will assist all of those who will really come out in 0000 says it is to give young people the ability plenty more ahead on the al-jazeera news hour including u.s. politicians take action to stop arms sales to saudi arabia and stop the killing in yemen. has a bottle of leaders has the us is reaching out to them even as it imposes sanctions on hezbollah politicians and histo

south africa as a corruption watchdog has found president cyril ramaphosa dilip. parliament over. unfortunate. former south african president drawn from a corruption. but has now decided to take. on the kurdish region of northern iraq. in the killing of a diplomat. deputy consul general was shot dead on wednesday by a. member of the armed group. let's get more on our breaking news iran's claim that it's the british or all tanker in the strait of hormuz. joining us on the telephone from to her on what more are we hearing from the iranians. there really they just released a statement a short while ago saying she is the british oil tanker in the strait of hormuz on friday and they haven't specified anything else at this stage is just said by late at the international law in the strait of hormuz they haven't specified exactly what that means they said they will release more information but of course this comes at the right. kind when pensions are very very high in the strait of hormuz and again you have had a very serious diplomatic dispute with the british government over the seizure

appears to be elusive leader mullah al-jazeera pretoria south africa. libya's high council of states richard visors the u.n. recognize government says warlord khalifa haftar is planning more attacks on tripoli the ahead now explains what this means for the battle for the libyan capital. the high council estate in libya says it's received intelligence information indicating that the united arab emirates egypt and france are planning to support of the world have to do without vance's weapons including sophisticated weapons and fighter jets and personnel to launch a new offensive to seize the capital tripoli that's after a 100 days of the fighting to take control of the capital tripoli. sources with the government of national called say that french fighter jets namely c. $135.00 and also a boeing $202.00 french fighter jets were noticed over at tripoli during the past 24 hours and high council estate is issuing this statement probably for 2 reasons the 1st is to uncover the 3 countries which issued a statement on the july 18th saying that all calling on th

appears to be elusive leader mullah al-jazeera pretoria south africa. protesters in malawi are demanding the chair of the electoral commission step down over a disputed vote in may 2 parties are challenging the results which saw president beat them with a take of reelected for a 2nd term demonstrating they're accusing the election commission of mismanaging the ballot the u.s. has called for all sides to resolve the dispute peacefully. now thousands of people are rallying in puerto rico for another day demanding the governor's resignation these are live pictures from san juan where protesters that are in a standoff with riot police governor ricardo overzealous accused of corruption sexism and homophobia after messages between him and his aides were leaked the messages show the mocking women the fabled and victims of hurricane maria well it has been. it has been nearly 2 years since the storm destroyed much of the island many in rural areas a still rebuilding their lives there frustrated by the political storm unfolding in the capital gabriel elizondo rep

well police figures show the city house south africa's highest murder rate almost 1800 people have been killed in cape town and its province western cape in just the past 6 months turf wars between rival gangs are being blamed for fueling the bloodshed western cape provincial leader albert for it says it's become so bad that people are effectively living in war zones well earlier i spoke to albert fritz and asked him if deploying the military means the government has failed to keep the promises made after apartheid. government resources for policing unfortunately in this specific problems is a really really was lacking and so we had a shortage of. at that point we have about 1500 policemen and sure. we also think that what we need the army to go and do is just to assist with those resource problem you know human decency and to stabilize the situation so that the police can also go into the t.v. gunships and billy to go in and break the wrist and to do probably missed so that they because the cases get stand up in court because real out of you know a lot of society we are a constitutiona

is a national problem last year over $20000.00 people were murdered in south africa 57 day the police minister has likened it to a war and made a member has more now from cape town where people are calling for more to be done. it may be a small group of people who are demonstrating their anger as. oh i am and i learned some of this community but i think i have a strong message to her to say no to drugs and knows to gangs they're straight out they hold these type of marchers almost every weekend hoping it will raise awareness allowance to the level of violence more than 2000 people have been killed in the western cape province is the beginning of the year and almost half of those murders have taken place and it is just like thanks for ruining our way of poverty is a reality for many people and many of those reforms have been told and the government has decided to move the florey army to 10 areas across the state flats they say stabilize the higher levels of crime is a true friend has reached crisis point 3 police are not a group to do their jobs they're now looking to the army to creat

appears to be elusive for leader mullah al-jazeera pretoria south africa. lebanon's sunni political establishment is concerned that constitutional powers given to the prime minister are being undermined by politicians allied to iran the prime minister's post is reserved for their community as part of a sectarian power sharing agreement the type of accords which was signed in 1909 established a political system under which the president must be a maronite christian the prime minister is cinema slim and the speaker of parliament a shia muslim but that delicate power balance is now under strain prime minister saad hariri is in a weak position since his party lost seats in last year's general election. lebannon sunni politicians accuse the leader of the largest christian party gibran by sil and his ally hezbollah of undermining the powers given to the sunni prime minister and regional rivalry between saudi arabia and iran has also changed the balance of power in lebanon so you know how to reports. to ground the c.e.o. is at the center of lebanon's latest politi

in europe and africa in particular in the arctic and there are u.s. interests there are israeli chinese ship building companies and south african contractors all trying to find solutions specific to the problems in the gulf of guinea but according to the navy chief in the gerrard the problem is in the appreciation of pirates but it's the prosecution of all 100 other collective vessels. that were complicit. in the go to this in the amount of time given and in terms of percentage of conviction on the saw prosecutions with a can of less than 20 percent pirates here in the gulf of guinea are often young men coming from communities with fine unemployment they see off their shores big container ship and they feel excluded from this global economy every year piracy costs more than $24000000000.00 in order to tackle this issue governments in the region need to tackle the issue of poverty. it inequality. now he while the crowds on bastille day now the french inventor known as the flying soldier will attempt to cross the mighty english channel on his jet powere