south africa's environment minister declines to be interviewed. and his office says that the subject is not his area of expertise. the ministry of health on the other hand is very interested. in leave a bill. is director of the national institute for occupational health $1000.00. fundamentally this is of great importance to demonstrate that the levels are so much higher and that there would be negative health effects on the children and really one of the real tragedies that the study said and why the money has not been prioritized we need to make sure that mines and other workplaces don't continue to contaminate the living environment for communities and so on. you know what would you like a copy or we would absolutely love to have a copy because you see we don't have this b. b. b. b. b. don't have it in and then we can go in with our medical teams and perhaps have a sample of those who have got high levels of these different heavy metals and uranium and go in more physical examination do blood tests do unit tests and monitor their. the south afri

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 strategy at russian investment bank rene sands capital 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 africa

on counting the cost this week south africa's debt laden companies need a bailout before they cripple the economy we'll take a look at taylor swift's spat with big business over music plus we find out why a radiant could some booking for a walk in boulder. county would cost on al-jazeera. this is al jazeera could remind all of the top stories for you know the un human rights chief has condemned what she calls international indifference to the rising death toll in syria's rebel held province in the past 10 days 104 people have been killed 27 of them children bahrain has gone ahead with the execution of 2 men convicted over terrorism charges despite its international concern about the fairness of the child un special rapporteur on edge judicial killings ideas kalama has called on by trained not to carry out the death sentences. and thousands of people in hong kong are defying a police baton by marching in the same area where protesters were attacked by alleged gang members last week large numbers of police and for riot gear have been deployed for fears of more violence breaking out it's

and the narrative in south africa south africans concerned to the extent of corruption not only is a film of president being questioned around his possible role but now a sitting president has also been implicated with regard to money that was donated to his presidential campaign for the african national congress let's speak to richard callan he's an associate professor at the university of cape town's public law department who's joining us from cape town thanks very much for speaking to us on the al-jazeera news hour or so as we've been reporting the president is rejecting charges that he deliberately misled parliament how do you think this is all going to play out. well it's been a day of high drama here in south africa former president zuma walking out of the commission of inquiry into state capture reform minded successor so are i'm opposed to put on the for the pressure by a rogue public protector i say road protect advisedly very because context of course is everything and this latest report from the public tectum must see as must be seen as part of a pattern of conduct on wher

border and there was heartbreak from a host egypt the africa cup of nations details in sport. protesters have returned to the streets of hong kong in their fight to have a controversial extradition bill scrapped this time a rally is being held in loon we're looking at live pictures coming in from hong kong tens of thousands marching towards the new train station it links the territory to the chinese mainland organizers say they want to educate because it's from china about their struggle. as you can see in these live pictures police are taking their positions perhaps to try and prevent a repeat of what happened last week with protesters storming the legislature building angry at government plans all what had been government plans to introduce legislation allowing extradition to the mainland times which was shelved. but not completely cancelled from a grind as the latest from hong kong. literally thousands of people swamping the streets of calhoun district at home calling on this demonstration it several hours after the start of this march and the march is still going on the en

al-jazeera in my little amy south africa now staying in south africa and thousands of miners there who've suffered from potentially deadly diseases have reached a historic legal settlement where $350000000.00 in a class action lawyers for the mine workers sued 10 major companies for compensation now 6 of the companies had already accepted a deal which has now been approved by a court in johannesburg up 210-0000 miners or their dependents could benefit many miners were affected by lung disease or other illnesses as a result of their work richard s'pore is a human rights lawyer who's been working on the case for many years and he says the court's decision is a landmark in the history of miners rights in south africa. before then 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 bright $32011.00 but the last 78 years of the in spain litigating against the mining companies and the last several years in parallel with at the suggestion proces. set of negotiations that c

but in many other parts of the continent from north to south east to west and in the hurt of africa 2 governments are struggling to contain communal clashes and violent extremism. african leaders hope the new free trade deal is the answer to help reduce the poverty that helps you hold the fighting. experts say an african common market will come with additional risks that as national organized crime criminals could take advantage of this free movement you know to flow from one country to another and it is killed just these or to perpetrate their nefarious activities so definitely do looking for the for the chink in the armor you looking for the weak link if the countries do not have you know security architecture that at some countries risk becoming safe heaven for you know terrorist or criminal organized criminals governments say they're working to stop that from happening. we 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

south africa. a u.s. congressional hearing on the rising cost of prescription drugs has begun there discussing among other things the increased expenses that a sending diabetics and others across the border and to canada to buy medication the so-called insulin caravans are designed to draw attention to their financial burden correspondent on a lack followed one of those groups into canada. the n.c.a.a.'s. activist quinn nystrom shares the good news with fellow u.s. diabetics a drug that they need to survive is available at the local wal-mart store for less than a 10th of what they pay in the united states their caravan crossed 3 u.s. states to make a purchase i decided to bring this today because this kind of shows what my everyday life that diabetes looks sight on this is kind of basically one or 2 months of like survival for me also along for the ride nicole smith told who doesn't have the disease but she's here for a very special and personal reason i am part of the scare and memory of my son alex smit

you can still see 3000 people here who are in a kind of limbaugh people from syria afghanistan africa iraq and all those countries from war zones on the other hand everything is being done to preserve the flea floating off. to your eternal connects britain to europe and covers over $100000000000.00 of trade a year. junkie is the director of public affairs. so the more the channel tunnel carries a loss high value the perishable the just in time components for manufacturing the express deliveries the internet retail so companies can actually manage their stock in a constantly moving process that saves them from having warehousing saves them enormous costs and it means that they can have these integrated businesses that operate across the whole of europe. the pole area after the 5 kilometers is like this. previously we had to the boundary fence sort of thing you see around any factory or any industrial site then. people started to try and break down the fences so the answer was increased the caller says these are the standard high security fences a very difficult part a very different cr

exploited to on the battlefield to call the new regime placed in different value in africa where you can and your peers then abandoned for a lifetime we should be ashamed but for for all country on this big over 3 people in power investigates the plight of imperial britons african troops begin the night the forgotten heroes of empire zira. profits take a look at the top stories here it is here iran says all its trains returned safely to base denying that any have been destroyed by the u.s. on the say president trump said the warship the u.s.s. boxer had brought down an iranian drone in the strait of hormuz amid to heighten tensions between the 2 countries turkey has launched air strikes on the kurdish region of northern iraq in response to the killing of one of its diplomats strides targeted a p.k. k. stronghold where the killer is thought to have fled to turkey his deputy consul general was shot dead on wednesday. one of 4 u.s. congresswoman targeted by donald trump's racist comments has hit back saying she won't be intimidated by the president. comments came a day after president s

well thank you for having me this of course would be quite good news because as you know africa in a large sense of way under this start this is do sure that much of what is traded within africa is actually africa's value hard and saw this coming into force actually spell a very good fortune for the one functioning sector within africa because that's where most of our value add comes is treated secondly the traditional trade barriers and one trade barriers of you know very many customs foresee does a lot of checkpoints and you know police checks and so forth would get sort of reduced and there would be some conformity in terms of the regional or continent wide trade policy which would. be beauty and stability for our economic environment mr nigeria has now said that it's going to participate which is of course a boost for the block and as. it was mentioning many in eritrea are resisting but do the benefits for africa outweigh the risks to any one nation. certainly as you know a lot of times when you have you know change and you and you have such landmark. frameworks coming into force

is one of west africa's major caresses it's a legal tender in 8 of the 15 countries in the region and if regional leaders have their way it will be replaced by a new currency for the whole of west africa negotiations for the single currency modelled after the euro has been underway for 30 years the implementation of the act called west africa was a single currency was delayed several times but a recent agreement of an african free trade area is seen by some as an incentive enough for regional leaders to finally launch it after 3 failed attempts. while businesses say a common currency will ease regional trade but everyone is hopeful that all 15 members nations of the economic bloc of course have the political will to see it through next year. al jazeera. still ahead on the al-jazeera news our oysters die and the shrimp are moving out we have wildlife mammals you know dolphins of pat you know dying. extreme weather in the u.s. chris is the mississippi river to record levels taking a heavy toll on wildlife and the german champions at a world cup later to their ranks for who will have the

when we began in 1939 european powers had colonized most of africa brisson 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 conflict somewhat even opposed to giving them a 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 past and this is a historian and one of the roads leading authorities on britain is 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 and all levels of the military institutions might feel obliged to keep them in political and economic and there we are no one volunt

franks controls a massive area from africa to asia and leads the war in afghanistan but rumsfeld has something else in mind iraq. he orders general franks to prepare a plan of attack. since its invasion of kuwait in the gulf war in 1991 large parts of iraq had been under an international no fly zone. despite iraq's defeat and the terrible sanctions the were decimating his people saddam remained in power. in 1998 he drove u.n. inspectors sent to disarm him saddam was a dangerous man dangerous 1st to his own citizens and dangerous to the rest of the world. joe wilson knows iraq well in 1991 in baghdad he was the last american diplomat to meet with saddam hussein saddam was hemmed in he was not a threat he had been turned from a major regional power into a 3rd rate dictator. just over $100.00 days after the attacks of $911.00 still fighting in afghanistan america looks for another war richard powell publishes what is essentially a declaration of war. the same day franks visits bush at his ranch in texas in front of journalists the 2 men speak of the successes against the taliban in afgh

by the heads of states and africa. a maritime strategy. as well as the region are one solid game put in place i think them that there is one to help on the side in their base why they are doing their best allah so constrained by i think we see and demo saw. still be able to continue to turn into how what are you trying to achieve through this conference what can this bring to your navy certainly. not when they're still on the docks of the region. that i was in the recent past we. are in touch from up back not bring last together to disseminate the challenges we have individually by moving away from. them from europe on america and taking its to be . countries want to believe that. the leadership of this done chris will understand the problems that we couldn't leave this and be able to do something about it remember it's said that no one nation can do it similarly the criminals themselves have done and syndicate and doubtless strategizing listening to what we're doing and so the only way we can achieve. our objectives is to ensure that when

half the fun of africa and of. thought and we are convinced that it is a good solution in areas where drivers park their cars for longer periods of time we see from statistics that cars are charged where people park for longer and that's usually at home or at work and so we want to have a way for people to charge surprise close to home. back in the e.q. see our 3 hours behind the wheel almost it's time to head back to base the car says it can go another 200 kilometers or so manufacturers say electric power is the future of the german car industry and that is our show for this week remember you can get in touch with us by tweeting me x. as in secret and use the hash tag a j c t c when you do or drop us an e-mail counting the cost of al-jazeera dot net is our address as always there's more for you online at c.n.n. dot com slash c.t.c. that will take you straight to our page which has individual reports links and entire episodes for you to catch up on that's it for this edition of counting the cost and has a secret fr

south africa government has sought to reassure people living in cape town over the deployment of the army in the city saying it's only a temporary measure the move which is expected to last 3 months is aimed at tackling the rising violence in the city's poorest neighborhoods from either miller reports. all too familiar scenes on the cape flats in cape town we communities are terrorized by gang violence and the. mobile phone footage shows opposing gangs in manenberg open fire at point blank range in a field just across from high rise flats in another video a man who we are told is a gang member shoots across a parking lot and yet another taken in hanover park shots are fired in defiance of police as they arrive at the scene people in these communities say they live in fear and the police have lost control and many welcome the government's decision to send soldiers to 10 areas they say of being held hostage by gangs and violence. one of them is dawn peters who has lived in manenberg for 17 years her son trevor was shot dead a month ago as he walked to the shop to buy snacks for a footb

the research associate in the africa program at chatham house in london chris welcome back to news how much credibility does he have. so i think that this is being seen really as zuma coming out and defending himself as we heard claiming that this is a political agenda that has been put against him that as we've just heard is over 20 years old and dates back to his. time but then so there is there is this push from him of this is a political thing but there's also within what he's saying there will of course be . credible. evidence and that this is a man who was at the center of state capture and this is the man around which this holds on the commission has been set up to look into what went on on in south africa under his presidency so of course he knows a lot about what was going on we've heard that he's denying a lot of what was going on a lot of the allegations against him but he's also going to use this as a political means to try and shift the attention away from him personally and to try and bring down the a.n.c. or to bring down a wider group of people so that to avoid being sc

one in west africa including senegal ivory coast mali and 13 a fossil and 6 others in central africa including japan and chad the currency is pegged to the euro and has the financial backing of the french treasury and return funds home 50 percent of the foreign exchange reserves of member countries are supporters of the same system say it provides economic stability but critics say it's a relic of french colonialism and that it restricts growth well let's get more on this leisure and buy a correspondent with address he is live in abidjan so how are people there feeling about this hour with especially given the challenges of launching a new currency by next year. well for many of the west african leaders there is enthusiasm but a lot of businesses are adopting a wait and see approach basically a lot of them are wondering about whether or not big economies like nigeria ivory coast and ghana will simply join without much hassle and of course they're also worried about what influence the french will try to continue to exert on a single currency are they going to push more west african le

africa and some from the u.s. and europe promising greater cooperation and tackling piracy in the gulf of guinea reports now from across. a force of deterrence and the most dangerous waters in the world the crew of the u.s. navy ship carson city are preparing to head to the shores of nigeria on a tour of duty in the gulf of guinea but of the mines here more ships are attacked by pirates than anywhere else in the world with our radar system and our lookouts we have to try to see any threats that are that are approaching us and you know miles out so so before any piracy issue would take place we will have notification what in advance. while the trumpet ministration says it's pulling back u.s. troops in africa in march the u.s. navy organized the largest naval games on the continent involving $33.00 countries and $3000.00 personnel that would probably make admiral fogo says securing the gulf of guinea is of strategic importance and we talked about the poor economy because the maritime is so important 90 percent of ou

separately the outbreak in west africa between 20142016 claimed the lives of more than 11000 people back in 2007 more than 180 people were killed 12 years earlier at least 250 died in a major outbreak. let's bring in our guest joining us in geneva she is the international medical secretary and doctors without borders in lancaster derek gatherer a very early just an elector at lancaster university and in beni the democratic republic of congo just plain he was a community organizer and member of a struggle for change and civil society organization welcome to the program to you all i'd like to begin with derrick gather in lancaster the w.h.o. the world health organization have called this a emergency that is of international concern it's a rare move by them but this is now been going on since 1976 and a lot of people have asked me and i'd like to ask you this question perhaps is a little naive but how come we haven't vaccinated this disease a way we've known about it for decades. a vaccine was developed in the 1990 s. it was a lot of concern at that time about the potential use of of a poor

so as i and i hear you night you're outside of south africa right now i just got to jump in and asked a man because he's in monaco one of the precincts actually you've got the army right there in on what difference does it make it might help. yeah i just i just wanted to mention that we understand what the viewers are saying that the army is not brain full of these types of policing but what do you do as a community you know at the should this but asian people as being hoping that perhaps the military might might bring a solution but it was a push in addition we need solutions like i mentioned early on that this war on the conflicts so low intensity of war that's been spiking then it comes down in spikes again so this only out there should this been asian that communities s. come together and come to this region most of the parliament because it seems like government has been taking defeat and for so many years it's not the you know it's not 2 years ago people have been calling for the army up to see this but asian we understand the fact that the army is not going to do this but we we

campaign as the president of the african national congress and the head of elections here in south africa he says he needs to deal with the business at hand rather than being distracted by these allegations put forward by the public protector in pretoria thank you very much for that. still ahead on. attacks on a police station and a hospital in pakistan killing at least 8 people i mean just several of us a digital land is how kenya's loans are pushing many into debt. how the heat continues to build across the middle east's no great surprises lost a clear skies always a chance of want to. again up around the caucuses georgia minya to see wanted to shout a sliding out of the black sea world temperatures around 30 celsius there for beirut and also for jerusalem it is the heat as you can see 4647 a possibility around baghdad kuwait city over the next day or 2 no quite as hot as that into afghanistan in karate but plenty hot enough that he said in celsius 99 in found high he has abated slightly. 39 celsius if we go on through monday hopefully the winds just easing off a little bit but the wind

ring cynical as the country gears up for the africa cup of nations final against algeria. hello iranian state television has released a video which it says shows a u.s. warship filmed by a drone the iranians say that proves the drone was not shot down by the american military the iranian revolutionary guard says this is tangible proof the. unmanned aircraft returned to its base on thursday president donald trump said the worship the u.s.s. boxer downs an iranian drone in the strait of hormuz trump called a defensive action because it came within 900 metres of the vessel and ignored multiple calls to stand down. has more from to her on. iran's revolutionary guards aerospace the vision has released the footage that shows the surveillance drone over the strait of hormuz and over at the u.s.s. boxer vessel apparently the revolutionary guards say it is standard procedure for them to send out these surveillance drones once any vessels enters the strait of hormuz and that is exactly what happened on thursday morning the revolutionary guard drone it went out on a reconnaissance mi

south africa's president. is rejecting accusations that he deliberately misled parliament the allegations center on a donation from a company to run opposes 27000 presidential campaign and to corruption watchdog says drum oppose a failed to report the 35000 dollars donation and denied any knowledge of the funds when asked about it in parliament last year. protesters have rallied outside the puerto rican governor's home for the 2nd day running demonstrators are demanding his resignation carter a zellers accused of corruption sexism and homophobia after messages between heaven has a. well those are the headlines on al-jazeera do stay with us talk to al-jazeera is coming up next thank you for watching. we understand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how you take it al-jazeera will bring in the news and current affairs that matter to al-jazeera. the. hash tag trump is racist and past racist in chief just some of what's been trending on social media platforms after the

absolutely so i don't know that's that's the any more 3 african leaders or countries in africa $55.00 of them so far like you said nigeria the biggest economy on the continent is saying that yes it's going to sign up to this agreement yet but we also have 2 other countries i literally had been in been in has indicated its intention to join what according to officials here have not heard from they have not heard from is actually a reclear so basically the aim of the whole process is to set up a continent wide free trade agreement just like europe and the others this one will have 1200000000 people on them but the question people are asking especially kind of is another concern africans the manufacturers is that. the production base in africa is sort of strong as people think and they may not easily compete with. european competition and asian competition so there is not fear that africa eventually will be turned into a big dumping ground more like a warehouse for courting trade in africa that's the concern very easily but yesterday when i spoke to the commission of a trade in the afric

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still to come on the al-jazeera news hour south africa's former president jacob zuma says he received death threats hours after giving evidence at a public inquiry into corruption. after years of work restoring fish stocks in the region fisherman facing a new threat to their catches. and sport a 1st setback in china for one of the world's most successful football managers. the european parliament has confirmed the nomination of. president of the european commission the german defense minister will replace when he steps down at the end of october becoming the 1st woman to hold the post trying to hoe has more from the european parliament in strasburg. approval from the european parliament tight vote . becomes the 1st woman to hold the e.u.'s top job as commission president she'll set the policy agenda for the next 5 years i feel so on notes and i'm overwhelmed and i see things you for the trust you placed in me you have the trust you placed in me is confidence you placed in your office your confidence in the united and a strong europe from east to west from south to north as a german a

and east africa u.s. forces have joined an african union operation against al shabaab fighters continue their campaign to impose islamic law despite losing strongholds in somalia malcolm webb has the latest from the kenyan capital. the president of kenya who kenyatta and the secretary general of the united nations and tainio guitar is meeting here in nairobi with government and security officials from a number of african countries as well as from the african union european union and the united nations talks about countering terror and preventing violence extremism in africa significance in kenya in this discussion its role in the conflict with al shabaab the somali arms group kenya's military entered somalia in 2011 along with militaries from other african union member states along with the us in fighting al shabaab an image on al-shabaab carried out a number of bloody attacks against civilian targets here in kenya many kenyans civilians have been killed the conference is a follow up to what was just over

but for much of the region southern africa is looking lassie dry temperatures in cape town at around 15 celsius or 22 the minimal cloud tonight is just pushing up towards the coastal fringes of mozambique but it should stay dry for the showers continue across central africa the heaviest of which around the gulf of guinea. jordan's native tribes constitute roughly half the population in a country with more refugees per capita than any other nation. with an ailing economy and concerns over the trumpet administration's anticipated plans for the region tensions are running high. people in power investigates increasing calls for reform as the state endeavors to control political dissent within the hashemite kingdom jordan and retry on and just 0. tolerance to take over the top stories here at al-jazeera the u.n. secretary general antonio guterres has called for an independent investigation into the attack on a migrant detention center in libya which killed at least 44 people on the un security council is due to hold an urgent meeting only be able in the coming hours the un recognized gove

south africa's expect that's that's a good a good point i think it was the review it would give the list a good little something to go come on we believe and then that would be just what the approach will be a look at this summit in the sense of the fact that it really government the bulk of it really looks over from social the good of the benefits. to of education to all of the local government in the way we do environmental design. departments who will do good not only well what we were going with we will be you do goes you just described as i did when we had to because we didn't just grow up with it we will go you know we will assist all of us will really you know. it is to give young people the. protesters are rallying in sudan's capital to mark 40 days since a crackdown by security forces they want an independent investigation into the killing of more than $100.00 protesters on june the 3rd and they're also demanding a civilian led government a political transition agreement between sudan's military gente and a pro-democracy coalition is there to be signed later on saturday the deal

africa. particularly made up artist doesn't. want importing context or picturesque lunde. to balance out the geological differences that emerged over hundreds of millions of years the nations of the world abandoned the geological definition of a continental shelf in favor of a legal definition that applies to all coastal states uniformly the godless of its undersea geology every country has granted a continental shelf extending 200 nautical miles around to see its exclusive economic zone. so these did idea of these 200 as a magic number became acceptable to many states at the conference but the broad margin states did not accept this because of course they were as far as they're concerned they would come out as a loser and it's not just the us and it also other states such as canada russia is also one of those states so they were not willing to give this up. ultimately states with a wide continental shelf prevailed cool's with momentous consequences was quietly appended to the law of the sea convention the clause in question is article $76.00 it says that the state can lay

in europe and africa in particular in the arctic and there are u.s. interests there are israeli chinese ship building companies 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 comdex 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. and inequality now about 1600000 people are facing food insecurity in mozambique of the 2 cyclons struck early this year like on either side and it just 6 weeks apart flattening cit

that we could see the repeat of the west africa a bone epidemic i mean something like all than 11000 people died but. i do. know our. i think is what we should plus it is a regional emergency because we have seen across the border and uganda as well now but i think if we work hard with this declaration to get lots of funding everybody works hard with the communities we should be able to contain it within the region had a cow joining us live there via skype from game i really appreciate your time thank you so much thank you and there's been more still come on this news including saddam could finally be on the path to a new form of government a long awaited political deal is signed. closer because governor says he's staying put despite via protests calling for his resignation. one of the heroes of england's world cup winning campaign is set for a major reward will have details in sport. but 1st turkey's deputy consul general has been shot dead in the northern iraqi city of irbil at least one other person was reportedly killed in the attack which happened in a restaurant where the diplo

it and export their oil and the fact that they did not go through so as cairo and went around from africa around the good hope south of africa and coming back it may be just guessing it way to avoid being tracked iran has reacted angrily to the seizure summoning the british ambassador to the foreign ministry in tehran and stuck in the middle of all of this is the gray swan paul brennan al-jazeera also bar is our correspondent in tehran joins me now and also it seems the foreign ministry now reacting to this what are they saying. well so while they're saying that this is an act of piracy they are demanding the immediate release of this vessel and its contents they have foreign ministry spokesperson met with the british ambassador late last night and they are they provided documentation to the ambassador for him to take back to london the document documentation apparently pro proves that the iranians were acting illegally according to them and that the shipment was not illegal now the iranian position is that because these are sentient on syria they are they have not been indorsed by the un

australia into the final of the netball world cup of the just ageing south africa 5553 australians go shoes are catered for weights helping seal the win as she made all 30 other attempts on goal australia the defending champions and go into the final as hot favorites having already won the title 11 times they will play arch rivals new zealand in the final of the baby host england 4745 imagine waiting 11 years to receive your elim pick middle that's what happened to british javelin thrower goldie sayers on saturday she finally got her bronze medal from the 2008 olympics in a special ceremony at the anniversary games in london says finished 4th in beijing but was upgraded after russian athlete maria to come over was disqualified for doping american surfer corrosive has moved to the top of the world surf league standings after winning the latest round in geoffrey's bay in south africa it was the 3 time world champions 1st to a victory this season also making waves was defending world champion gabriel. who had his 1st win in south africa after taking the men's title beat fellow brazilian

south africa's government watchdog says the president deliberately. misled parliament over a campaign donation. the dutch supreme court rules the netherlands is partly liable for the killings of hundreds of bosnian muslims and $995.00 struggling it's a genocide and yet again the latest from the 2nd round of open championship plus. when we can finagle as the country gears up for an africa cup of nations final against algeria. a cotton gibraltar has allowed an extension to detain captured iranian oil tanker grace one for 30 days the authorities there with the help of britain's role marine said seize the vessel after suspecting it of carrying oil to syria syria is under international sanctions that ran rejects the accusations that those who joins us now live from toronto any reaction there from iranian officials to the extension. not yet sami but it's not likely to go down very well this has been a very very sore subject in these i'm a public all levels of government have called on the british government to release this tanker assume it's possible the ir

but for much of the region southern africa is looking lossy dry temperatures in cape town at around 15 celsius to $22.00 the little more cloud tonight is just pushing up towards the coastal fringes of mozambique but it should stay dry some of those showers continue across central africa the heaviest of which around the gulf giddy. they watch us. they gather evidence but so can we. and the american cyber activist develops and used in brazil moments police. we have more cameras than they do because we're the people a bigger brother. revel beaks. on a just 0. 0 where ever you are. in malaysia plans to abolish the death penalty a dividing the community with more than $1200.00 prisoners on death row one of money invested. on al-jazeera. alright it's time for us to take a look at the top stories here on the al-jazeera news out of the u.n. security council jews old an urgent meeting on libya following at least 44 people having been killed more than 130 others having been injured in an attack on a migrant detention center in tripoli the u.n. human rights commission says the bombing may amou

all of west africa. the challenge. and most declare across much of the middle east which of course continuing maine in there is a high numbers as we go through the next couple of days now what you can see is and as it's been pushing into northern western areas of turkey sudden friday we can see more of the way of showers but really it is carrying away from ankara really pushing across into georgia as you can see meanwhile in the eastern med a high of 30 in beirut and feeling quite nice for that on shore breeze and then a saturday similar sort of picture but probably more in the way of rain across georgia and spreading further east was towards the caspian sea $41.00 in tehran and we will $38.00 degrees celsius in kabul and then we had a calls the arabian peninsula no rain here but we have a little bit of cloud around we've got a warm days that you know friday in doha 45 degrees celsius 38 in abu dhabi and then at 5 on sunday should be a little bit cooler i say cool 42 is not cool but perhaps i should say feeling at a bi

can see up to 23 degrees and i'm afraid it will be there with a high of 30 degrees celsius northern africa it is dry no sign of any rain here and if the time which is again typical for this time of year but it's certainly a warm day suffering car with a high of $3631.00 in tripoli some on shore breezes in robot with a high of 23 as you head on into sunday got a great deal of change 24 there and 34 in tunis. the plundering of armenia's natural riches has uprooted residents and desecrated the habitat of some of europe's most endangered species. but a remarkable campaign by local residents is challenging the miked of the country's investors and pinning high hopes on its newly elected prime minister people in power investigates armenia mining out the left. on a jersey or. you're watching al-jazeera a quick reminder of the top stories this hour the un's human rights chief is condemning what she calls international indifference to the rising death toll in syria's rebel held province michel bashfully says those targets and civilians should be charged with war crimes in the past 10 days 104 people

important waterway in the south west of the arabian peninsula between yemen saudi arabia and north africa and it's very interesting that he makes mention of this perhaps suggesting that iran's influence is not just around its own space but also extends to international waters and iran is an important country focused on protecting these international waters and not perhaps being the pirate like state that the united kingdom referred to iran as when it's seized of course the stand and on july 18th now he also said for the 1st time that's iran remains committed to international law and european countries who may be suggesting some sort of international body to patrol these international waters perhaps in a suggestion to them he seemed to say that those countries should remain committed to international regulations as well and he said that if those countries are reversed they're wrong. wrong actions for instance what they did in gibraltar he said the seizing of an iranian vessel an oil tanker on july 4th he said if if they only do that action and they should expect a proportionate response fr

my agency has only been declared 4 times including the outbreak of ebola in west africa way 11000 people died but lizabeth health workers we've been talking to say that they need this declared a health emergency they're dealing with a disease that is going out of control they are talking about not just dealing with this disease but also a complex web of issues including insecurity people do not trust health workers as sama saying that this disease has been brought by. for political reasons others don't even believe the disease is there in the 1st place then we have rebel groups as well that are talking health health workers attacking treatment centers as well so health workers we're talking to say that this declaration is important because really they're going to get more resources to expand their response catherine thank you for that is catherine so as we wait for that press conference from the world health organization catherine soy in nairobi thank you still ahead on the bulletin a new era for saddam the military and a civilian coalition sign a power sharing deal. and the u.s. slap sa

let's take a look at the top stories here about his era south africa's government what struggles found the president ram opposes a deliberately misled parliament of a campaign donations meanwhile a lawyer for the fullness south african president jacob zuma the soul of corruption inquiry that he will not take part in the inquiry anymore because he felt he was being questioned unfairly iran says all its trains have returned safely to base denying any of being destroyed by the us president trump has said that the warship u.s.s. boxer brought down an iranian drone in the strait of hormuz amid heightened tensions between the 2 countries the president's calling it a defensive action because the drone came close to the vessel and ignored multiple calls the sandown i want to apprise every one of an incident in the strait of hormuz today involving u.s.s. boxer and navy amphibious assault ship the boxer took defensive action against an iranian drone which had close in to a very very near distance approximately 1000 yards. ignoring multiple calls to stand down and was threatening the safety of th

how the defect of the matinees migration is unstoppable in the west africa sub region chiefly because of the accords protocol per protocol on the movement of goods and people in the sub region there are at least 15 countries in their course regional block so movement from one nation to the other everybody is free to move but you cannot stop somebody from crossing nigeria's border in tunisia and it depends on whether or not the authorities in asia are able to stop the person crossing from nisha into libya a large area of things like that however we were in libya you know was it was in libya and of course in egypt this year we met some of these refugees in i get is in the city of i get is know the city of august we met several of them some of them while forced back home what were you part treated from libya because of the situation there some of them what also came back on their own volition people not from the people from mali and and others but i met several other nigerians from retreat from ethiopia from africans from various countries there who are really really waiting to cross ove

this is one of the real sources of frustration particularly in parts of africa that the i.c.c. is supposed to be a global institution it's supposed to be able to go off to the most responsible perpetrators of mass crimes were without serial siva but what we've seen time and again is the court on the able and often unwilling to go after the most powerful actors around the world the the most embarrassing example of this recently was the i.c.c. judges that investigations could not go ahead in crimes allegedly committed in afghanistan because the u.s. has basically walked the i.c.c. work in afghanistan that was an admission on the part of the courts that whenever it tries to go off to the big powers internationally those powers will block the i.c.c. is investigations and in essence the court cannot go off to those kind of acts instead we're seeing the court only go after relatively small fish in less powerful pots of the world and i think that really hounds the legitimacy of the i.c.c. is that a truly international act or could it boost that legitimacy if if we go back for the next

an african dyna as an alternative currency to the franc in francophone africa so this was a threat to french colonial worst. desires within the francophone countries. this reveals precisely how the refugees are linked to europe's economic crisis part from being some kind of a natural disaster as for or a flood it is europe's colonial behavior abroad that forces them to make that dangerous journey. and carry a philosopher agnes heller has lived through a lot of european history including losing her father in auschwitz. she says the refugees challenge europe's core idea of itself in the 18th century already and of 1st constitution of france to our right to rights became lex lots of hurt in the constitution the right of man don and the right of the citizen drug to sit so i am the program yes now does that add in a conflict situation in europe to do other men. and right would the basic goal of blank us to think or done a future yes because they are indeed the men like us they are like us the are born with reason and conscience and right to liberty and to fear and to all kind of freedoms a