world of business and economics this week 3 decades after the collapse of the soviet union putin's russia is in gauging with africa to increase more than its political clout . missile systems that could still open turkey's economy we look at the economics behind the s. 400 and the f. 35 stealth bomber. and as google prepares to launch its challenger in the games industry we find out if it could be game over for the likes of sony and microsoft. so as the soviet union imploded it turned its back on the african continent in the 1990 s. but now under president putin russia is making a push to engage the reason is simple western sanctions the pivot to china hasn't been a huge success and hopes of billions of dollars in investment from the middle east haven't arrived in the quantities expected plus african votes count in the united nations. russia's trade with africa rose 26 percent to $17400000000.00 in 2017 moscow doesn't have the financial 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 $39000

all these things where was russia and russian secret services. busy russia's reaction after the members of georgia to the store georgia's independence and to to prevent this country from getting closer or with with europe and with the worse and that was the choice of the georgian population again there what's happened last week is you're only one more months one. of these many years of position between russia and georgia i don't want to hear you say that putin then gave his own version of history but one of the things that he did do was push back on the duma when they wanted to impose sanctions against georgia so problem must go can you explain that to me what's the rationale for for going against parliament and saying no no let's not impose sanctions on mineral water and wine and remittances and let's rather continue pursuing and better relations with georgia after you've been insulted in that way. well putin said this journalist doesn't matter that he is just kind of a journalist but him say what he wishes and in general is trying to put a good

are all these things where was russia and russian secret services. russia's reaction after the members of georgia to the store georgia's independence and to to prevent this country from getting closer or with with europe and with the worse and that was the choice of the georgian population again there what's happened last week is your only one more months one. of these many years of position between russia and georgia don't want to hear you say that putin then gave his own version of history but one of the things that he did do was push back on the duma when they wanted to impose sanctions against georgia so problem must go can you explain that to me what's the rationale for for going against parliament and saying no no let's not impose sanctions on mineral water and wine and remittances and let's rather continue pursuing and better relations with georgia after you've been insulted in that way. well putin said this journalist doesn't matter that he is just kind of a journalist and we had him say we're out here wishers and in general is trying to put

this is for russia. that may be the case but georgia's leaders were reluctant to openly attack russia at this event that parliament's head of european integration was sent out to face questions denying claims by protesters that georgia's government had become too lenient towards russia. pro russian what do you say to. that. that it doesn't actually require any further with russia or is really concerned about your presence in. this. georgia very western. we would like to find ourselves eventually within the european jews in one of the debates parliamentary leader spoke of russia as an occupying force for junior russian. i don't know you. 20 percent of our territories it means permanent threat. territories later came the signing of financial agreements between georgia and e.u. states but as the ink dried on deals worth $53000000.00 there was no disguising the anxiety about russia's actions against this country if conference delegates were to take a short stroll down to the beach front here they get a reali

georgians see as the occupation long after the war with russia in 2008. hello again well tropical storm barry has made landfall here in louisiana and it's going to be bring still some very heavy rain across much of the region we're going to be seeing louisiana mississippi arkansas into parts of tennessee as well under flood risk over the next few days now the satellite you can see it when the system made landfall but take a look at the rain here across the region i just mentioned so the flood warnings are going to be affecting millions in this area and if you remember much of this area is still saturated and the flooding is going to come very easily across many regions so for sunday rain here across much of the southeast as we go towards monday the storm actually begins to dissipate but the rain with it will continue across much of this area and slowly make its way towards the north out here towards the northeast so looking quite nice for boston in new york with the temps there about 29 degrees where heavy rain is going to be a big problem here across par

and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up south korea says russia has expressed regret for violating its airspace during a joint patrol with china. iran warns that any attempt to form an international coalition to protect shipping in the gulf only bringing in security to the region. and today much of washington has been waiting for a preview the congressional testimony by former special counsel robert muller jew in the coming hours. boris johnson is set to become the new british prime minister in the coming hours johnson won the conservative party's leadership contest on tuesday and he's pledged to take the u.k. out of the e.u. by the end of october in his words do or die but he also needs to unite a divided policy and an even more polarized nation needs baka reports. it was a 2 horse race but there's only ever being one front runner boris johnson demolished his rival foreign secretary jeremy hunt with double the number of votes to become leader of the conservatives and on wednesday the country has now repair a party and a nation torn apart by bricks it deliver bricks it un

russia. the u.s. says it's concerned that a planned tax on tech giants and farms will unfairly target american companies any digital company with a revenue of more than $844000000.00 of which at least 20 $8000000.00 is made in france would be subject to the tax the french government argues that companies shouldn't be exempt from paying their headquarters the based elsewhere a french parliament is expected to approve the new tax on thursday now the battle of the what the boycott divestment and sanctions movement against israel is intensifying there israeli government has reportedly enlisted its intelligence agency to counteract the palestinian led campaign against israeli oppression now some academics who backed the movement said they're being targeted in the so-called what charmed by right wing nationalists how a force that reports from occupied east jerusalem. in january this video of a university professor arguing with a student over her decision to her army uniform to class turned into a major cont

but this production deal would not have been possible without russia i mean russia really does appear to have the upper hand and has effectively been handed control of the oil cartel as it well let's face it the biggest burden is carried by saudi arabia saudi arabia one still have a broad coalition because they feel otherwise it's really only down to them and so they're working very hard to bring a lot of different players to the table and having russia being part of it is for them instrumental because it gives the impression there is a wider group of players that are ready to cut and so everyone lifting a little bit helps but saudi arabia really needs high oil prices to balance its budget russia doesn't so so why would russia or agree to this yeah that this is interesting i mean we have seen over time the different ideas about what the price would be we know that president putin has a different point in time stated that he would be happy with $60.00. and out of this statement we know that he has been relatively unhappy with prices going higher especially his oil companies are telling

to russia now or at least 6 people have been injured after a fire broke out at a thermal power station northeast of moscow huge flames could be seen in gulf in the facility within $100.00. when 50 firefighters were deployed to put out the blaze. now france has passed a controversial tax bill against large tech firms which the u.s. says unfairly targets american companies the tax is the 1st from a major economy to be imposed on companies like google apple facebook and amazon the 3 percent levy will apply to any digital company with worldwide revenue of at least $844000000.00 u.s. president donald trump has ordered an investigation into its impact natasha butler has more from paris with a friend finance minister bruno lemaire had some very strong words in the senate he said effectively that france doesn't take very kindly to threats from the united states now speaking in the senate that have passed this new digital tax law it's imposes 3 percent tax on huge tech firms that are making more than $800000000.00 worldwide but they have revenues of more than $30000000.00 in france and i said t

all these things where was russia and russian secret services. russia's reaction after the members of georgia to the store georgia's independence and to to prevent this country from getting closer or with with europe and with the worse and that was the choice of the georgian population again there what's happened last week is your only one more months one. of these many years of position between russia and georgia don't want to hear you say that putin then gave his own version of history but one of the things that he did do was push back on the duma when they wanted to impose sanctions against georgia so problem can you explain that to me what's the rationale for for going against parliament and saying no no let's not impose sanctions on mineral water and wine and remittances and let's rather continue pursuing and better relations with georgia after you've been insulted in that way. well putin said this journalist doesn't matter that he is just kind of a journalist and we had him say work here wishes and in general is trying to put a good policem

but now under president putin russia is making a push to engage the reason a simple western sanctions the pivot to china hasn't been a huge success and hopes of billions of dollars in investment from the middle east haven't arrived in the quantities expected plus african votes count in the united nations. russia's trade with africa rose 26 percent to $17400000000.00 in 2017 moscow doesn't have the financial 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

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

city to move on the part of president putin's russia and what what does what does russia get out of this obviously they've got a foothold a foothold within nato territory but what else is russia that's house at this arrangement. yes well we should say it again is a broader context i'm in in the night is i rather have been very involved looking and retreated from what a lot of it is it's international commitment level and it was from allies who were left left hanging out to dry yeah so i've lost a lot of his absence abroad allies felt let down by them so now after 25 years the tables have reversed america retreated into all of their own internal agenda and has been retreating fruit quite a lot of active and gauge console it is a gauge was given to controversial are very much like sanctions and criticizing allies which was a must start space to act and it started right then in plate away and started to get traction right so every little helps if you can play a role in middle east infrastructure and then have something to contribute politically economically socially at weapons wife but some

russia is always irritated by such familiar images. once led the kremlin to ban all direct flights to georgia all the unfamiliar images of anti russian protests every day for more than 3 weeks in the capital tbilisi georgia is president didn't want to talk about russia at the conference but the e.u. council president did russia recently this is the money flight to judge your unjustified. this is professionalism that may be the case but georgia's leaders were reluctant to openly attack russia at this event that parliament's head of european integration was sent out to face questions denying claims by protesters the georgia's government had become too lenient towards russia at the plaza saying nothing to prove the russian want to say it's a. total loss that's why i say. that it doesn't actually require any farther with russia or is really concerned about your presence here with this conference and you have georgia very far western or the truth we would like to find ourselves eventually we think the europeans are in one of the debates par

on tech arms rules imposed conflict syria and it seems russia and turkey do not agree on how to split northern syria civilians are paying the price for their. beirut. some news from somalia now where at least 10 people have been killed in an attack on a hotel in the port city of his mayor the victims include 2 journalists but he's of when the death toll rises fighting is continuing inside the s.s. a hotel between gunmen and security forces and officers said most of the victims were patrons of the hotel which is often frequented by lawmakers and local officials al-shabaab rubbles of time responsibility for the attack. members of the u.s. house of representatives of called the trumpet ministrations treatment of migrants a policy of dehumanization is part of the testimony given at a congressional hearing looking into the state of migrants of federal detention centers they describe deplorable conditions after visiting the facilities of president donald trump has said the reports of mistreatment phony and exaggerated well u.s. president trump has also declared a state of emergency in louis

russia right. that's because more than half of georgia's population works in tory's and agriculture. fewer russian rubles forced georgia to find new markets but until then the country could be in for a rough ride robyn 1st year walker well just 0 good. take you through some of the headlines here in al-jazeera now the international criminal court has convicted a former colleagues wall all of war crimes and crimes against humanity bosco and the gander was found guilty of all 18 counts connected to the killings of thousands of civilians in the literary region between 20022003 he will be sentenced at a later date malcolm webb has more there is still some people who support to gander their political party to his militia was connected to the p.c. some of their members told us that they believe that these charges are the evidence rather was fabricated and that the i.c.c. quite simply have the wrong people but many others who've been affected by the prophecies of connected to the rebel groups that need to

russia's defense minister says a naval submarine that caught fire on thursday was nuclear powered that despite the earlier insistence from the kremlin that the details of the vessel would remain classified people have been paying tribute to the 14 sailors who were killed in the 5 that started inside a battery compartment defense officials say the submarine had been studying the arctic sea floor north korea has accused the us serve being hell bent on hostility towards it and of being obsessed with sanctions responding to accusations that breached a cap on petroleum imports north korea's mission to the u.n. issued this statement be united states is frankly more and more hell bent on hostile acts against the d.p. r. k. it is quite ridiculous for the us to continue its pressure campaign considering sanctions as a pen a show for all problems. it's a marked change of tone from these scenes just days ago and became the 1st sitting u.s. president to cross into north korea he met kim jong il the demilitarized zone between north and south korea agreed to resume denuclearization talks heidi jocas

give us i know overview if you will what do you think russia's intentions are towards georgia. well russia has proceeded with this policy of workers' sation which essentially means moving the occupation lie in both south that saudia and up. into georgian territory and this at the same time as its government tries to normalize official diplomatic relations between tbilisi and moscow out so there's a bit of a 2 step a parallel process going on here in reality then with jurors are being cut off from their livelihoods as you just reported on in the setup piece but at the same time the government is trying to normalize relations and pretend as if things are moving in the right direction unfortunately georgian society doesn't see it that way and so over the past 2 weeks we've had unprecedented street protests in tbilisi against russian occupation and precisely against this notion that somehow normalization and proceed as if russian were not occupying the country when clearly it is and it is not misstating people's lives especially in those border regions near south city and a possibl

city to move on the part of president putin's russia and what what does what does russia get out of this obviously they've got a foothold a foothold within nato territory but what else is russia that house at this range at the. yes well we should say it again is a broader context i'm in in the night is i rather have been very involved looking and retreated from what a lot of it is it's international commitment level and it was from allies well the left to hang out to dry yeah so i've lost a lot of his absence abroad lies felt let down by them so now after 25 years the tables have reversed america retreated into all of their own internal agenda and has been retreating fruit quite a lot of african gauge console it is a gauge was given to controversial are very much like sanctions on criticizing the allies which was a must start space to act and it started right then in plate away and started to get traction right so every little helps if you can play a role in middle east infrastructure and then have something to contribute politically economically or socially or weapons wife but something

city to move on the part of president putin's russia and what what does what does russia get out of this obviously they've got a foothold a foothold within nato territory but what else is russia that house at this arrangement. yes well we should say it again is a broader context in up in the night is iran has been very involved looking and retreated from what a lot of it is it's international commitment level and it was from lies. left to hang out to dry yeah so. it lost a lot of its absence abroad lies felt let down by them so now after 25 years the tables have reversed america retreated into all of their own internal agenda and has been retreating prove what a lot of active and gauge console it is a gauge was given to controversial are very much like sanctions on criticizing the allies which was a must start space to act and it started right then in plate away and started to get traction right so every little helps if you can play a role in middle east infrastructure and then have something to contribute politically economically or socially or weapons wife but something which is not le

russia carries out its 1st joint patrol with china and the asia pacific joining a race for influence in the region kenya's finance minister plea guilty to corruption charges. the man who led the push for braggs it will become the u.k.'s next prime minister barak's johnson has won the conservative party leadership ranks wooing party members with this promise of a do or die brags that he says the u.k. will leave the e.u. by the 1st the 1st of october johnson now needs to unite to divide it. even more polarized nation needs to reports from london. it was a 2 horse race but there's only have a been one front runner boris johnson demolished his rival foreign secretary jeremy hunt with double the number of votes to become leader of the conservatives and on wednesday the country is now repair a party and a nation torn apart by bricks and deliver bricks it unite the country and defeat jeremy corbett. i know i know from somewhere it was already pointed out that deliver you night and defeat was not the perfect acronym for an election campaign since you are pushing its bills dud but they forgot

but this production deal would not have been possible without russia i mean russia really does appear to have the upper hand and has effectively been handed control of the oil cartel as it well let's face it the biggest burden is carried by saudi arabia saudi arabia one still have a broad coalition because they feel otherwise it's really only down to them and so they're working very hard to bring a lot of different players to the table and having russia being part of it is for them instrumental because it gives the impression there is a wider group of players that are ready to cut and so everyone lifting a little bit helps a saudi arabia that really needs high oil prices to balance its budget russia doesn't so so why would russia or agree to this yeah that this is interesting i mean we have seen over time the different ideas about what the price would be we know that president putin has a different point in time stated that he would be happy with $60.00. and out of this statement we know that he has been relatively unhappy with prices going higher especially his oil companies are tell

georgians see as the occupation line for the war with russia in 2008. india's tower of trash total soon be taller than the taj mahal and. peter has sports news including some red faces at the british grand prix. had i would have been hot recently and dry there's no surprises mid-summer but we've seen some clouds form over iran in areas we may not expected down here for example the bride's top stuff ways but the showers around the caucasus have maybe missed these one or 2 decent showers around the coast of the caspian so 2 millimeters this time of the year in one of those showers is not to be sniffed at i'm sure it's very welcome but the temp has been more of the story with turns forecast of 41 it doesn't look or does it on this general spread but it's near record high levels come quite reached a record well above average in contrast to baghdad where we're probably right about the average or even a bit below we have seen near 49 further south the last couple days in iraq i think we'll see much the same possibly in kuwait as well but it's nothing to extre

russia is always irritated by such familiar images. once led the kremlin to ban all direct flights to georgia all the unfamiliar images of anti russian protests every day for more than 3 weeks in the capital tbilisi georgia is president didn't want to talk about russia at the conference but the council president did russia recent this is the month flight to judge your unjustified. this is for groceries that may be the case but georgia's leaders were reluctant to openly attack russia at this event that parliament's head of european integration was sent out to face questions denying claims by protesters the georgian government had become too lenient towards russia is that the pastor saying nothing to prove the russian want to say it's a. total of 6 that's why i say. that it doesn't actually require any farther with russia or is really concerned about your presence in. this conference and this. georgia is very western or we would like to find ourselves an answer within the european jews in one of the debates parliamentary leader spoke of

plan to have this coalition in iran but it's not likely to go down very well here because russia has been urging european nations to stick to the nuclear deal and this of course is a concern that some european nations could join this u.s. coalition on tuesday alexander left for empty of the special envoy for syria here in russia have seen that with some kind in iran the head of the national security council there to discuss and to confirm russia's position being the strong ally of iran it has asked that if the interest of iran are ignored then there can be a new regional stability and also this maximum pressure being pushed by the united states on iran is not beneficial for anyone so basically russia has gone from this strong deja ally but the other hand there are some reports about some cracks between the 2 countries especially on their cooperation in syria in recent weeks of course the interests of the of russia and iran of very different in syria for russia for goods and it's more putting pressure and influence on the middle east and increasing its role there for iran it's a very

this is from russia. that may be the case but georgia's leaders were reluctant to openly attack russia at this event that parliament's head of european integration was sent out to face questions denying claims by protesters the georgian government had become too lenient towards russia. nothing from russian what do you say to that. since that's what i said. that it doesn't actually require any further with russia or is really concerned about your presence here. this conference and this you have georgia is very western or we would like to find ourselves an answer within the european jews in one of the debates parliamentary leader spoke of russia as an occupying force for joining a russian me i don't know you would have to find 20 percent of our territories it means permanent threaten the more security it means sit here violation of human rights of people who are living in occupied territories later came the signing of financial agreements between georgia and e.u. states but as the ink dried on deals with $5

russia is always irritated by such familiar images. once led the kremlin to ban all direct flights to georgia all the unfamiliar images of anti russian protests every day for more than 3 weeks in the capital tbilisi georgia is president didn't want to talk about russia at the conference but the council president did russia recently this is the money flight to judge your unjustified. this is a russian. that may be the case but georgia's leaders were reluctant to openly attack russia at this event that parliament's head of european integration was sent out to face questions denying claims by protesters that georgia's government had become too lenient towards russia is that the us is saying nothing to prove the russians want to say to that so. that's why i say. that it doesn't actually require any further but russia is really concerned about your presence here with this conference and you have georgia very western or we would like to find ourselves in answer with the europeans you in one of the debates parliamentary leader spoke of russia

france is part of the current member of security council i think other of the parties as well like russia for example we know about the american made weapons so there's security council how it will find it very very difficult to implicate some of its members at this point however i think because of the consistent. policy has been a disaster like the french policy in the bia. partly the u.a.e. in egypt. has been haven't achieved the so-called stability warlord 35 that in his tribe or collision did not work that way so i think what will happen is an officer of the you may see some steps back from assisting this and realisation that perhaps the initial un peace plan was a better idea than continuing to support that so-called delany tribal collusion that by a warlord was proved to be extremely incompetent militarily on one end but also consistently violating the laws of war international laws of war and spoiling a political settlement that was about to take place in libya omar sure thank you very much indeed talking to us live from london that talks are to resume between sudan's opposition an

it's correct i mean julian russia and russia will top war in 2000 if you recall and as at the end of the. russia essentially a mixed want of a better word to cause i am broken to bits of georgia as we are setting up. our james won't sort of break away from georgia but in reality it looks like as we've seen in eastern ukraine there were russian pressure if you like in those that gave it only an hour and force them out of georgia and he went about now a situation where they are under neither in nor out and the who is creating the refugee problem you mentioned right so it seems very much from from andrew's report it seems very much as though as an occupying power if you like what russia is flouting are its obligations under international humanitarian law and under. various obligations which an occupying power is supposed to perform. yes i mean that's quite grown i think anyone believes the fiction that these 2 independent state looks are actually independent and everyone understands that they exist at russia's behest of the russia is essential in supporting them politically and to a cer

different relations with the neighbors there so although russia is confirming this strong stance and helping iran it's not carved in stone. for us in moscow step thank you so jonah hall now has more from vienna where the international atomic energy agency is due to hold a meeting on iran later on wednesday. in issuing this communique the european signatories to the j c p o a the iran nuclear deal france germany and the united kingdom the ether e collectively they're known as along with the e.u. of course here issuing their response to iran's latest uranium enrichment moves the communique expressing deep concern over iran's pursuit of activity is not in line with its commitment calling for iran if it wants to stay in the deal as it professes to want to do to come back in line immediately without delay and calling on all the parties in terms of a joint commission to act responsibly to deescalate tensions now broadly speaking 2 points to make about this the 1st is that this is not and this is important i think the 3 triggering the formal dispute resolution mechanisms contained in the j

russian officials have privately expressed regret for flying into south korean air space on tuesday russia and china carried out their 1st joint patrol south korea says the planes crossed into its territory and the military fired warning shots in response japan's government also raised complaints while china's defense ministry maintains that the aircraft did not enter the territorial airspace of any other country it made the announcement during the unveiling of its strategic priorities while south korea later summoned a senior russian diplomat over the incident. the reason why we summoned the russian deputy chief of mission without prior notice is to lodge a stern protest on russian aircraft entering the korean air defense identification zone and violation of our airspace and strongly urge them to prevent a reoccurrence while we have reaction from across the region in a moment we'll speak to wayne hay in beijing but 1st robert bride in seoul rob what assurances has south korea gotten from russia over this incident. that's right the stars or the south koreans the presidential office has rel

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this is from russia's that may be the case but georgia's leaders were reluctant to openly attack russia at this event that parliament's head of european integration was sent out to face questions denying claims by protesters the georgia's government had become too lenient towards russia at the plaza saying nothing to prove russians want to say to. us that's what i said. that it doesn't actually require any farther with russia or is really concerned about your presence here with this conference and this. georgia is very western or we would like to find ourselves an answer within the european jews in one of the debates parliamentary leader spoke of russia as an occupying force for joining a russian me i don't know yet with occupying 20 percent of our territories it means permanent threaten the more security it means sit here violation of human rights of people who are living in occupied territories later came the signing of financial agreements between georgia and e.u. states but as the ink dried on deals with $53000000.00 there was no disguising the anxiety about russia's actions against

believes russia may use the s 400 system to collect sensitive data about the f. 35 s. but turkey's president roger tie a better one than may have had good reason to think the deal would have been ok with the us the president was not allowed to buy the video. so when he got the other one the 200 to 424 that. he wanted to do this but he was allowed only about it because they see the buy a. little over 3000000 to buy a little missiles. is a little of a solicitor when you know about yourself you know to go to this is the. it's a book my. right let's introduce our guests now in istanbul we have osman sat research director at the ankara institute and former advisor to the turkish prime minister ahmet devah tolu in too long in france via skype we have and that matter via for a visiting senior research fellow at king's college london and in tallinn via skype we have marco mickelson who's a member of the a stony and parliament and says as the deputy chair of the foreign affairs committee a stoner of course is a member of nato welcome to you all but also man let me come to you 1

russia he says this is. unjust. this is russia that's your country the 1st of the 1st for the us so if. the venue for this conference is a major resort in the black sea and if democrats were to walk out of here down the road to the problem all over they'd be quite shocked to find that there are hardly any russian tourists around al-jazeera has been told by the tourist board here that occupancy rates for hotels is down by up to 80 percent mainly in the mid-market there is a colossal effect of the flights to georgia from russia and there is no sign that it's going to be lifted more from london nation version now back to darien into mine thank you earth least 8 people have been killed in a car bombing in northwestern syria another $35.00 including children were injured me explosion happened near the city of a city in the wall it's been a year since rebels in the southern syrian province of that surrender and since then un human rights groups have documented cases of arbitrary detentions and arrests and now security is

russia and china carry out their 1st joint patrols in the asia pacific south korea fires warning shots for violating it says space. also ahead kenya's finance minister pleads not guilty to corruption charges . the man who led the push for bret's it will become the u.k.'s next prime minister or as johnson has won the conservative party leadership race wooing party members with his promise of a do or die bricks it he says the u.k. will leave the european union by october the 31st mr johnson and needs to unite a divided party and an even more polarized country needs barca picks up our coverage from london. it was a 2 horse race but there's only have a been one front runner boris johnson demolished his rival foreign secretary jeremy hunt with double the number of votes to become leader of the conservatives and on wednesday the country it's now repair a party and a nation torn apart by bricks it deliver bricks it unite the country and defeat jeremy corbett. i know i know from somewhere goes already pointed out that deliver you night and defeat was not the perfect acronym for an election cam

we have a pool georgia where protesters are standing against russia in order. to support new zealand talking to the cricket world cup final days. to the very latest for us right. well we got some good old fashioned sun the storm was rumbling away across many parts of europe particular down towards the southeast where we're seeing similar lively and fun to read down holes and pushing their way through but i will now make their way from west to a set things a good deal more little area of high pressure just around the house but not a significant one not enough to block things off and bring us back to those particularly high temperatures that we still not too long ago so we are going to say some wetter weather just around the balkans peninsula pushing across towards the black sea through bug area remain live the showers here still some heat to the south $27.00 celsius there for athens in the thirty's for right that he $839.00 for madrid is fresh a further north of where these 2 meet that's where we are seeing those lively storms as we go on through the next 24 hou

do not target any 3rd party and these joint patrols between china and russia in the area will continue remembering this was the 1st time that this had taken place between the chinese and russian air forces the fact that they mention that they do not target any 3rd party very much in line with the theme all of this white paper that has been on volved it's about reflecting on the past few years of the chinese military since the last white paper was released in 2015 since then we've seen a period of downsizing of reform of modernization of the military that continues now and it's about charting the way forward in the theme really was about peace that the chinese are saying look they do not seek expansion or head jimminy but they are about protecting their own national interests overseas and solvency and we would talk about sovereignty it was of course inevitable that in this white paper this latest document that they would talk about taiwan of course china views taiwan as a breakaway province that one day it will retake will.

goes ahead with the cuts of sanctions against russia. and if we look at the domestic political situation in turkey right now president. party recently lost the election the merrow election there what's the potential impact of that going to be on the 2 n's approach to to running the economy in turkey. well i mean short term little in the sense that this was a dental they are local elections so it does not really impact at the overall national distribution of power in ankara and on continues to be the executive president of the country and therefore he will continue to dictate turkish policy but of course. being a stumble is a major setback and a lot of that is certainly due to the economy slowed down that we have witnessed in the past couple of course or in turkey so the direct impact of this will be for the government to refocus on the economy and try to create a reform agenda for a faster recovery very and but that will also be very much dependent on the it will not turkey's set of foreign policy goals and they're an escalation with the

we are not speaking about now the opposition and the reason we're speaking about russia and usa with. you weeks ago that some of the military factions in the city are saying that he says we cannot give you an see across with him because that's really a direct war with russia turkey the freight the fear the same with the u.s. may. these super powers are controlling syria now at that. i called the doc you know of nigeria ok. is there any level of dialogue currently going on involving you or even other elements of the syrian people i get back to to to this but particular point but let me just put it to it what you need what needs to be done or what can be done actually the russians have taken the security council hostage all this time during the syrian tragedy they used the v to over 12 times in order to protect this brutal regime. there is an article in the un charter article number 27 and it talks about a certain member of the security council of the 5 who is a partner to a certain conflict who is. influential party to a certain conflict that should be denied the voting when this parti

a south korean war plane that far to hundreds of warning shots at a russian reconnaissance aircraft russia wants an investigation into tuesday's incident during its 1st joint patrol there with china now south korea's news agency says russian diplomats have expressed deep regret for violating airspace the russians say they haven't apologized and japan is protesting it says the military action happened in japanese territory near disputed islands. and meanwhile china's defense ministry says its aircraft didn't invade anyone else's air space the ministry also blamed increasing tension in the region on the united states japan and australia rob mcbride has more details from seoul south korea says that russia's apology for this incursion came during a closed door meeting here on tuesday in seoul between a senior official from russia's defense ministry and his south korean counterpart when he expressed deep regret for the incident saying that it was due to some sort of mechanical error and that a full investigation would now take place it comes as a separate route seems to have developed between s

russia is always irritated by such familiar images of. what's led the kremlin to direct flights to georgia the unfamiliar images of the russian protests every day for more than 3 weeks in the couple.

this is out jazeera live from london also coming up russia's president orders an urgent inquiry after 14 sailors die in a fire on a navy submarine. and day turns to night in chile one of the best places in the world to witness a total solar eclipse. to one failed summit and another 3 days of talks european leaders have agreed on who should take the top jobs of the main of the e.u.'s main is to to sions for the next 5 years they picked german defense minister orsola from the line to replace. as european commission president belgian prime minister shalmi show would be european council president taking over from donald tusk spain's for mr jones at doral has been nominated to be the top diplomat he would replace fitted ecomog illini as high representative for foreign affairs and i.m.f. chief christine lagarde has been proposed for president of the european central bank taking over from mario draghi 1st though they all need to be endorsed by the european parliament the day in baba reports from brussels. after days of wrangling it's a close ally of german chancellor angela merkel who's got

the european union monitoring mission patrols the georgian side russia hasn't observed all parts of a peace deal and it's been engaged in what's called border eyes ation with fences amnesty international issued a report this month saying hundreds of people face arbitrary detention each year trying to cross the line it says there's been widespread loss of land loss of access to water and livelihoods most of the land vanished viddy used to farm is the wrong side of the water he asks us if i die here who will find me andrew simmons al-jazeera whole village in georgia well i've been speaking to an amended his executive director at the henry jackson society he says an illegal border is being created in the region with russia's support. i don't think anyone believes the fiction that these 2 independent state looks are actually independent and everyone understands that they exist at russia's behest in the russia is essential to supporting them politically and to a certain extent propping up their radical that sort of domestic regimes as well so yes the reality is that russia's most allowing

president vladimir putin and russia order grant spoke on friday and plan to hold a summit in august that will also involve iran apart from that there is no sign they are close to a deal that would deescalate tensions it has become a bargaining card even between the countries that are supposed to be working together in syria. instead their local allies are engaged in a proxy war but rebels backed by turkey are resisting because of the dance this has given their political leverage rescue workers find themselves digging through the rubble of flattened buildings every day if not every few hours. the muslim of. the campaign is being described as the most destructive against province since the opposition to control in 2015 war monitors have recorded 46000 airstrikes and ground assaults. parents are burying their children some of them more than one like this father who lost his 2nd son in the bombardment and many here say this is all happening as the international community looks away. beirut from this day international is calling philippine president has cracked down on drugs a systematic camp

that will depend on russia and turkey russia which backs the syrian government and turkey which supports the opposition co-sponsored a cease fire and last year the deal collapsed when russia supported a syrian government offensive in april blaming turkey for not fulfilling its commitments to an agreed demilitarized zone around the province turkey repeatedly said it needed more time because forcing some will groups from the zone would have put civilian lives at risk there is nothing that indicates the ceasefire will be revived soon. i just want to be able to play i just want to go home i just want to go to school that is no longer an option for many children 7 year old son has become another statistic in the escalating violence and despite criticism by the un over the international indifference nothing has been done to stop the bombing campaign. istanbul. jail rock russian opposition leader alexina valmy has been moved to hospital with severe facial swelling and rashes is said to have suffered an acute allergic reaction was arrested on wednesday after calling for saturday's on authorized

plan to have this coalition in iran but it's not likely to go down very well here because russia has been urging european nations to stick to the nuclear deal and this of course is a concern that some european nations could join this u.s. coalition on tuesday alexander the last 20 of the special envoy for syria here in russia have seen that with some kind in iran the head of the national security council there to discuss and to confirm russia's position being a strong ally of iran it has asked that if the interest of iran are ignored then there can be a new regional stability and also this maximum pressure being pushed by the united states on iran is not beneficial for anyone so basically russia has gone from this strong ally but the other hand there are some reports about some cracks between the 2 countries especially on their cooperation in syria in recent weeks of course the interests of russia and iran a very different in syria for russia for woods and it's more putting pressure and influence on the middle east and increasing its role there for iran it's a very different politica