all right so let's go and bring in our panel joining us in washington d.c. hillary mann leverett former white house. house and state department official with responsibility for iran in tehran. a professor of world studies at the university of tehran and in geneva john mark rickly the head of global risk at the geneva center for security policy welcome to you all hillary i want to start with you so here is yet another shift in tone from donald trump earlier this month he threatens iran now he's saying that he's willing to meet with iranian president hassan rouhani with no conditions is there some kind of strategy here or is this a spontaneous statement. well it's hard to say for sure with president trump and in particular the wild swings in rhetoric make it more difficult but i think a sober analysis of it trumps moves and what he's done on the world stage and who he actually speaks to and from what we understand listens to in washington i think there is a strategy it is been vastly under reported and under estimated the key foreign policy person that trump h

the snuffing you coming out of washington at the end of the day. i think that's an interesting point because i think we have seen previous administrations try to get very tough on iran we certainly have seen that for example with the george w. bush administration when they even considered regime change we saw it with the obama administration when in fact you know they took a fairly tough line to lead up to the two thousand and fifteen agreement but the huge difference here is is that. there was cooperation between those administrations and between partners such as the europeans and indeed between russia and china who were other parties to the agreement because you knew the rules you knew you could work with the state department you knew you could work with the national security council there was an element of trust here what has happened is that a combination of certain officials in washington such as the national security advisor john bolton who is committed to regime change and just the volatile nature of donald trump who has very little knowledg

all right so let's go and bring in our panel joining us in washington d.c. hillary mann leverett former white house and state department official with responsibility for iran in tehran. a professor of world studies at the university of tehran and in geneva john mark rickly the head of global risk at the geneva center for security policy welcome to you all hillary i want to start with you so here is yet another shift in tone from donald trump earlier this month he threatens iran now he's saying that he's willing to meet with iranian president hassan rouhani with no conditions is there some kind of strategy here or is this a spontaneous statement. well it's hard to say for sure with president trump and in particular the wild swings in rhetoric to make it more difficult but i think a sober analysis of it trumps moves and what he's done on the world stage and who he actually speaks to and from what we understand listens to in washington i think there is a strategy it has been vastly under reported and under estimated the key foreign policy person that trump has

several very tricky days lie ahead for the canadian trade negotiators in washington d.c. the foreign minister chrystia freeland has gone there to lead the team and the people that have been working with her on this file throughout her also there and they'll be scheduling sessions with the u.s. and mexico in the coming days and friday's the deadline let's not forget there's a fairly tight deadline here assuming the canadians stick to and the prime minister justin trudeau has been speaking about this and he said that their eyes are on the prize of a new deal we will engage in a positive constructive way as we always have been and look forward to ultimately signing a deal as long as it is good for canada and good for middle class kids but reaching that elusive agreement that suits all parties isn't going to be easy for the negotiators there are a number of sticking points that the canadians have mostly with the u.s. that weren't addressed by the u.s. and mexican arrangements announced on monday one of them is dispute resolution canada wants independent trade arbiters and the

al-jazeera washington. let's go live now talk osp on it alan fischer he's joining us from the counter demonstration in washington d.c. and most if not all of the action actually happening way you've been out. exactly and if you look at the park behind me with the white house just over pennsylvania avenue you can see the most people have no actually gone home the heavy rain that we've seen over the last couple of hours played a part in the there was a thunderstorm but also what played a part was the fact that there were thousands and thousands of anti right wing protesters here gathered in the square to make sure that their voices were heard that the drone doat right the white supremacists would go a permit to protest up till eight o'clock but left after probably no more than a noble joining me know life here is an eye on who is one of the organizers with b. y. p. one hundred and i would you consider this a victory for you the fact that there were so few white supremacists who turned up probably no more than

a year ago to the day liberal might that the old right now police in washington d.c. want to keep history from repeating itself. on the anniversary of the deadly white supremacist rally in charlottesville virginia that left a counter demonstrator dead when a car drove into a crowd as many as four hundred white supremacist marchers prepared to converge on lafayette square in front of the white house so do more than a thousand left wing marchers who call themselves anti fat or anti fascist jason kesler who organized that unite the right march is leading this one day that you hear around you that is a and to my right i'm leaving many here fearing another round of violent confrontation and i think something serious could happen i think something terrible would happen let me just say i. charlottesville kessler's charlottesville out richard spencer is not expected in washington so his ideas are. yes i mean america story please undoubtedly a white country we're headed in a very different direction what we're saying rings true what we're saying cuts right to the heart of the

iraq's government is planning to send a delegation to washington d.c. it's looking for exemptions from recently imposed u.s. sanctions on iran prime minister hietala body says baghdad does not support economic sanctions against any country iran is one of the rocks biggest trading partners the u.s. sanctions were imposed in may after the trumpet ministration withdrew the twenty fifteen nuclear deal a greek ferry carrying more than a thousand people has made an emergency return to port after a fire broke out on board the blaze began on the ship's vehicle deck passengers put on life jackets as the ship bound for crete returned to athens no injuries were reported. now a new study has found that nearly three thousand people died in puerto rico in the six months after hurricane maria it destroyed much of the island last october the figure is double the government's previous estimate of fourteen hundred deaths it's also in sharp contrast to the sixty four announced immediately after the storm puerto rico's governor says lessons need to be learnt from the disas

cooked up in washington d.c. could further hit russia's oil and gas sector banks and look into the assets of president vladimir putin all of this shows i think really that whatever donald trump says to resume putin there is a large and powerful establishment in washington d.c. that does not like what trump is doing with regard to russia and obviously does not trust vladimir putin and is trying to protect itself from the activities of these two men which it feels may not be in the united states best interests. attacks are continuing on both sides of the gaza israel from tear with at least seven people injured on thursday. and here hamas called for a deescalation of the confrontation after an eye test trikes by israel left three palestinians dead one of those killed were a pregnant woman and her child the strikes were in response to hamas rocket fire into southern israel. the message is very clear that israel should disturb its aggression and military attacks against gaza and gaza is not open area for open playgrou

from the iran nuclear deal france president accused washington of waging psychological warfare saudi arabia state airline is suspending flights to and from toronto amid an intensifying diplomatic grab with canada on sunday rearmed froze new trade and investment and expelled the canadian ambassador it was in retaliation to canada urging saudi arabia to freeze human rights activists rescue workers in indonesia have pulled a survivor from a mosque that collapsed in sunday's earthquake on long island has been using heavy machinery to clear the rubble of the magnitude six point nine quake killed at least ninety eight people. as a return to our top story now the u.s. sanctions on iran many european companies have been forced to rethink their investment plans but some small businesses are choosing to deal with the reigning ins rather than americans david chaytor went to chateau in france where one company is doing big business with iran. the town of chateau ruin novell the law dates back to the middle ages at first glance its streets in architecture market as a classic of the region but del

alan fischer washington. is time to recap the headlines now the first wave of u.s. sanctions on iran have just come into force it's now ninety days since president donald trump withdrew from the u.s. iran nuclear deal iran's president is accusing washington of waging psychological warfare in the european union's foreign policy chief has called on companies to do even more business with iran to counteract u.s. sanctions. we are encouraging small and medium enterprises and particular to increase business with iran. as part of something that for us is a security priority i want to make this very clear because we're talking about trade and economic relations with iran because this is part integral part of the nuclear deal. rescue workers in indonesia have pulled a survivor from a mosque that collapsed in sunday's earthquake on long island been using heavy machinery to clear the rubble the magnitude six point nine quake killed at least ninety eight people rescuers still haven't reached some of the hardest hit areas ivory coast frozen and thought i was issued an amnesty f

several very tricky days lie ahead for the canadian trade negotiators in washington d.c. the foreign minister chrystia freeland has gone there to lead the team and the people that have been working with her on this file throughout her also there and they'll be shared drooling sessions with the u.s. and mexico in the coming days and friday's the deadline let's not forget there's a fairly tight deadline here assuming the canadians stick to and the prime minister justin trudeau has been speaking about this and he said that their eyes are on the prize of a new deal we will engage in a positive constructive way as we always have been and look forward to ultimately signing a deal as long as it is good for canada and good for middle class kids but reaching that elusive agreement that suits all parties isn't going to be easy for the negotiators there are a number of sticking points that the canadians have mostly with the u.s. that weren't addressed by the u.s. and mexican arrangements announced on monday one of them is dispute resolution canada one independent create arbiters and

cooked up in washington d.c. could further hit russia's oil and gas sector banks and look into the assets of president vladimir putin all of this shows i think really that whatever donald trump says to write him a putin there is a large and powerful establishment in washington d.c. that does not like what trump is doing with regard to russia and obviously does not trust vladimir putin and is trying to protect itself from the activities of these two men which it feels may not be in the united states best interests. one of them bob was leading opposition figures appeared in court after being deported from zambia where he was attempting to seek asylum tendai biti of the movement for democratic change is accused of inciting post-election violence in which us or is in harare does more but the details of the charges against him when he appeared in court well he's in charge of breaking the electoral law he gave a press conference where he did nothing to me of the main opposition leader had won the election under the law

and unite the right to age their own contour rally in washington. hello and welcome to take a polony watching out is there live from london also coming up the final hours of voting in the presidential election in mali and alexion workers killed in an attack in the north. after twenty two years of negotiations an agreement to sign which could finally settle the territorial disputes over the caspian sea. and the dancers going on the road in mexico to spread the word about ballet. it has been one year since a white supremacist rally turned violent in the u.s. city of charlottesville leaving one person dead and since then racial tensions have been on the rise with hundreds of far right protesters converging on washington d.c. on sunday for a unite their rights rally counter protests are happening there s. in the u.s. city of charlottesville where dozens of activists and residents gathered to mourn the victims of last year's violence and to gallacher has her port from charlottesville. a year after the eyes of the world who could still in charlottesville

cooked up in washington d.c. could further hit russia's oil and gas sector banks and look into the assets of president vladimir putin all of this shows i think really that whatever donald trump says to resume putin there is a large and powerful establishment in washington d.c. that does not like what trump is doing with regret. it's a russia and obviously there's not trust vladimir putin and is trying to protect itself from the activities of these two men which it feels may not be in the united states best interests. now the u.s. plans to have what it calls a space force in two years' time it will be its first new branch of the military since one thousand forty seven that's partly purpose will be to defend u.s. satellites and spacecraft from attack helen fisher reports. trump has been pushing for the creation of a new branch of the military for months he talks about it often that israelis we may even have a space force know his vice president says donald trump's vision will become a reality while too often. previ

more from washington. we're at the newseum in washington d.c. a museum dedicated to reporting and news gathering each day here on pennsylvania avenue they display the front pages of the nation's newspapers it's interesting to note that some of those taking part in what the boston globe cools a fight back against donald trump's dirty war against the press did actually endorse still trump at the last election but here's the philadelphia inquirer it sums up the message stop the war on the free press a war on the press is a war on democracy it was not enough to label american journalists as enemies of the people now he has called the entire profession quote dangerous and sick he being told including if the press is not free from reprisal punishment or suspicion for unpopular views or information neither is the country neither are its people ok for more on this let's go to our white house correspondent kimberly joins us from washington that kimberly this is not the first time a head of state has been condemned

washington. trump has been pushing for the creation of a new branch of the military for months he talks about it often that israelis we may even have a space force now his vice president says donald trump's vision will become a reality while too often. previous administrations all but neglected the growing security threats emerging in space president trump stated clearly and forcefully that space is in his words a war fighting domain just like land and air and sea a new force will be used to protect u.s. satellites in space which provide vital services like communication it can also protect spy satellites which direct military operations and there is the growing commercial space market too it's not a new idea in one thousand nine hundred three president ronald reagan called for a space based missile defense system just a year after congress demanded the establishment of a new space force the defense system dubbed star wars by critics never got beyond the research phase the u.s. already has a spac

what next for not canada's foreign minister is in washington for talks one day off to mexico agree to a revised deal. we know pollution is bad for your health but can it make you less intelligent well and he studies says yes. britain's prime minister begins a three day visit to africa where the big focus is drumming up business ahead of bragg's at. the united nations is accusing all sides involved in the war in yemen of committing possible war crimes a report by u.n. rights experts say the yemeni government forces are saudi led backers and rebel who the fighters have done little to minimize civilian casualties of the warring parties are also accused of recruiting children forced disappearances and arbitrary detentions our correspondent alan fisher has more from neighboring djibouti. none have clean hands a un panel three experts investigating and a damning conclusion individuals in the government of yemen and the coalition including saudi arabia and the united arab emirates may have conducted attacks in violation of the principles of distinction proportionality and all precautions whi

i do joe castro al-jazeera washington one final note out of the u.s. senator john mccain is stopping his treatment for brain cancer his family says he has quote supposed expectations for survival a prominent republican senator and a two thousand and eight presidential candidate announced he had the disease last year his medical team is no longer trying to fight the cancer but instead to make him as comfortable as possible mccain a distinguished military veteran who spent years as a prisoner of war in vietnam. was president is calling for unity after the country's top court confirmed his disputed election when his main rival nelson chamisa challenge the results saying the july thirty election was rigged in favor of the court there rejected that how to metasearch with more from her. supporters from zimbabwe's rulings on a pay party celebrate fight is constitutional court ruling nine judges unanimously said the main opposition leader nelson chamisa has no case the court finds that the applicant is to place before. direct. fusion. and credible if it is the

several very tricky days lie ahead for the canadian trade negotiators in washington d.c. the foreign minister chrystia freeland has gone there to lead the team and the people that have been working with her on this file throughout her also there and they'll be shared tooling sessions with the u.s. and mexico in the coming days and fridays the deadline let's not forget there's a fairly tight deadline here assuming the canadians stick to it the prime minister justin trudeau has been speaking about this and he said that their eyes are on the prize of a new deal we will engage in a positive constructive way as we always have been and look forward to ultimately signing a deal as long as it is good for canada and good for middle class kids but reaching that elusive agreement that suits all parties isn't going to be easy for the negotiators there are a number of sticking points that the canadians have mostly with the u.s. that weren't addressed by the u.s. and mexican arrangements announced on monday one of them is dispute resolution canada wants independent create arbiters and

washington. let's get more on this knowledge on by brian leslie has a military historian and he's joining us via skype from colorado springs and the u.s. very good to have you with us on alex is there i so how credible and serious as the threat that vice president pence mentioned when he talked about you know growing security threats. you know there are many valid reasons it could be put forth for an independent space force protection of assets protection of satellites . and i think that what we're seeing here is we might be getting just a little bit ahead. right now as it mentioned there the united states air force base and already does a lot of these things the united states strategic command does a lot of these things and so the question is if you create a new space force what is that going to do that is different than what air force base is doing already well this document that the pentagon and that mike pence have released talks about and elite. personnel and elite squad that will be trained

on to the metro the subway system here in the washington d.c. area and they are on their way for a short ride downtown to washington d.c. where they will begin their march in an area called foggy bottom they will work their way toward lafayette square in front of the white house and that is where they are expected to converge to meet with the left wing demonstrators and just to give you an idea of what and lopsided clash this is the right wing demonstrators filed a petition asking for up to four hundred people to demonstrate there are twenty five hundred people in the left wing organizations who are protesting not just here in the event of a downtown in washington d.c. as well at so these right wing protesters are expected to be dramatically out manned by the counter demonstrators and john a year on from the violence in charlottesville at how is that event being viewed. well everybody is being a lot more careful president on a trump among them he tweeted out that his opposition to any kind of violence a little different than his response at the

has more from washington. we're at the newseum in washington d.c. a museum dedicated to reporting and news gathering each day here on pennsylvania avenue they display the front pages of the nation's newspapers it's interesting to note that some of those taking part in what the boston globe cools a fight back against donald trump's dirty war against the press did actually endorse still trump at the last election but here's the philadelphia inquirer it sums up the message stop the war on the free press a war on the press is a war on democracy it was not enough to label american journalists as enemies of the people now he has called the entire profession quote dangerous and sick he being told concluding if the press is not free from reprisal punishment or suspicion for unpopular views or information neither is the country neither are its people and let's say in washington we can go to our white house correspondent kimberly halkett so kimberly this was the first time a head of state to add has been in contention w

headquarters in doha fully back to also coming up what next for nafta canada's foreign minister is in washington for talks one day after the u.s. and mexico agreed to a revised deal iranian m.p.'s reject president hassan rouhani is explanation about a high inflation and a failing economy and a manmade botanical garden in africa draws crowds as the continent's rain forests face the threat of extinction. a united nations final has blamed almost sighs involved in yemen's war of committing a possible war crimes a report by the u.n. experts say is there is reason to believe that the many government it's on by saudi arabia and u.a.e. are responsible for human rights violation it also says that hoofy rebels may have tortured prisoners alan fischer is following developments from neighboring djibouti and has a strict none of clean hands. a u.n. panel three experts investigating and a damning conclusion individuals in the government of yemen and the coalition including saudi arabia and the united arab emirates may have conducted attacks in violation of the principles of distinction proportionality and all

washington. has been pushing for the creation of a new branch of the military for months he talks about it often that israelis we may even have a space force know his vice president says donald trump's vision will become a reality while too often. previous administrations all but neglected the growing security threats emerging in space president trump stated clearly and forcefully that space is in his words a war fighting domain just like land and air and sea a new force will be used to protect u.s. satellites in space which provide vital services like communication it can also protect spy satellites which direct military operations and there is the growing commercial space market too it's not a new idea in one thousand eight hundred three president ronald reagan called for a space based missile defense system just a year after congress demanded the establishment of a new space force the defense system dubbed star wars by critics never got beyond the research phase the u.s. already has a space co

cooked up in washington d.c. could further hit russia's oil and gas sector banks and look into the assets of president vladimir putin all of this shows i think really that whatever donald trump says to resume putin there is a large and powerful establishment in washington d.c. that does not like what trump is doing with regard to russia and obviously does not trust vladimir putin and is trying to protect itself from the activities of these two men which it feels may not be in the united states' best interests. the american cargo ship carrying soybeans has become a symbol of a trade war between the u.s. and china the vessel has been stranded off the chinese coast for more than a month it arrived on july the sixth just after beijing imposed a twenty five percent tariff on soybeans from the u.s. age and brown has more from beijing. well this vessel the peak pegasus has now been at sea for two months it left the united states in early june with the aim of trying to beat the deadline for the start of the trade war bet

al-jazeera washington. to allen fresh at the right. in the end it lasted probably no more than an hour with very very limited numbers indeed but they certainly would have been drowned out by the thousands who turned out on the other side to make sure that their voices were heard to tell the old right the white supremacists they were not welcome here in washington d.c. now there's a broad coalition of groups who came together for this protest one of them was the new black panther movement you remember the black panthers from the one nine hundred sixty s. created to protest about police brutality against black men and women well there is a new movement and we spoke to the chief of staff who said that he was pleased with the turnout but we've been pleased if something else had happened here it would have pleased me to have them turned down the permits and it would have pleased us not to go and see racist get accommodation a full of fleet of policeman of taxpayers' dollars for someone who's a cold blooded races does a poor isn't cool that

several very tricky days lie ahead for the canadian trade negotiators in washington d.c. the foreign minister chrystia freeland has gone there to lead the team and the people that have been working with her on this file throughout are also there and they'll be scheduling sessions with the u.s. and mexico in the coming days and fridays the deadline let's not forget there's a fairly tight deadline here assuming the canadians stick to it the prime minister justin trudeau has been speaking about this and he said that their eyes are on the prize of a new deal we will engage in a positive and constructive way as we always have been and look forward to ultimately signing a deal as long as it is good for canada and good for middle class. but reaching that elusive agreement that suits all parties isn't going to be easy for the negotiators there are a number of sticking points that the canadians have mostly with the u.s. that weren't addressed by the u.s. and mexican arrangements announced on monday one of them is dispute resolution canada one independent trade arbiters and the ame

rob reynolds now joins us live from washington d.c. so rob mccain was one of the few republican lawmakers who was critical of president donald trump how does his passing change that political dynamic in washington. well i think in two ways first as you say mccain was a voice on the in the republican party that was frequently critical of president trump the two men did not get along from mocked the fact that mccain had been taken prisoner in the vietnam war something that shocked many republicans and i think that. his his voice now being still there will be many people on the in the republican party who are not true trump believers who will miss that kind of. outspoken. honesty and criticism secondly mccain was a powerful politician he headed up the senate committee that oversaw military affairs so until he became gravely ill he acted on a as a brake on some of. president trump's ideas in the military sphere with which he disagreed there are other senators from the republican party who are departing including. senator corker who is the

alan fischer obviously or washington. and time to have a look at the headlines here now to syria now the first wave of u.s. sanctions on iran will come into force in less than an hour it's now ninety days since president on trying to formally withdrew the u.s. from the iran nuclear deal iran's president is accusing washington of waging psychological warfare saudi arabia state airline is suspending flights to and from toronto in an intensifying diplomatic route with calendar on sunday riyadh froze new trade and investment and expelled the canadian ambassador it was in retaliation for canada urging saudi arabia to free human rights activists. rescue workers in indonesia have pulled a survivor from a mosque that collapsed in sunday's earthquake. and they've been using heavy machinery to clear the rubble the magnitude six point nine quake killed at least ninety eight people still haven't reached some of the. more from outside the hospital and. patients are being treated outdoors as we've seen around nobody to. many serious da

is at stake as relations between washington and deteriorates. at least three palestinians are killed and hundreds wounded as they continue to demand their right of return. land grab the hundreds of families and south africa's western cape living on private property. and chemicals giant monsanto is hit with two hundred eighty nine million dollars in damages for failing to warn about the health risks of its weed killer. turkeys president has written an opinion piece in the new york times warning that the u.s. must respect turkey's sovereignty or their partnership could be in jeopardy perceptor said his country will seek new friends and allies if the united states continues to pressure its a colony u.s. president donald trump announced this week that he would double steel and aluminum tyrus on. but iran is to sell their dollars and buy lira instead to prop up the currency which is fall into a record low since the start of the year the turkish lira has lost thirty five percent of its value against the dollar much of that the client has happened sinc

let's get more on this now from rob reynolds who joins us live from washington d.c. robot robot at the now it made it quite clear that the u.s. was no longer willing to shoulder the very disproportionate share of the burden of on risk costs is there more to it than that though. well first of all ages in the share is somewhat disproportionate the u.s. contribution is about thirty percent of the budget but it seems that what is going on here is an effort to create a new dynamic in so far as the arab as the as the israeli palestinian conflict goes and especially with regard to the right of return of the right of return is something that is held really as a primary tenet of the palestinian position i.e. that those people who were forced to leave their land in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight when the state of israel was established and their descendants should have a right to return israel has long opposed this in an email. that was published earlier this year jared pushed or president trump son in law on his point man as it were on the middle east said that a sinc

between washington and ankara is really going from bad to worse mike. indeed yes yet another trade war it would appear embroiling both countries in the addition to the u.s. fighting trade wars on some other fronts interesting there to hear sarah saunders the white house press secretary stressing national security issues being the reason for the original trump inspired sanctions and provide against terror of supply against turkey not thinking it directly to the matter of that pastor you referred to and true brunson she said as well in that news conference that the release of brunson by turkey may not to leave to an immediate end to the tariffs obviously trying to separate out the issue of brunson from what ever national security issue she is referring to as the main reason for the sanctions that trump tariffs against turkey is there concern there in washington about how much further this could escalate here says a great deal of concern as i said this is not the only front on which the trumpet ministration is fighting some kind of trade war congress obvio

well in washington a huge security operation is underway as far right groups and counter protesters are expected to hold separate rallies outside the white house hundreds are expected to gather for what's being dubbed a white civil rights rally organized by the unite the right group alan fischer has the latest from washington allan what's happening there now. well this is lafayette park is right in front of the white house you can see perhaps the world's most famous building right there across the park and the crowd has grown in the last hour there's a few hundred people here these are people who intend to confront the so-called all right the white supremacists have been given permission to host the rally here and it would be unusual for a first amendment freedom of speech rally to be refused permission here in washington d.c. and that's why this unite the right rally to go to its approvals you can see that the police are taking all sorts of precautions on many of the law if not all of them there is a reminder that no one is allowed to be carrying a firearm here in washington d.c. these

and john hendren has more now from the valley by white supremacists and washington d.c. . the leader of the white nationalist movement was drowned out not just by the rain but by the sheer numbers of the left jason casler came escorted by police on a virginia subway and he ended up here in washington d.c. escorted all the way with perhaps dozens of people with police surrounding him kept away the entire time from the left wing demonstrators who would arrive here in the thousands now kessler said the reason there were so many fewer people on his side is that he had invited fewer people he said being a free speech absolutist that he had invited a number of groups to the charlottesville incident the disastrous incident one year ago that he did not invite this time he apologized and he said he wanted to offer a more reasonable message his concern was that the country was becoming that whites in this country would becoming a minority and he said he was concerned about that but that was the message that was completely drowned out by sheer numbers and by the volume of the other c

also jordan has more from washington d.c. . for nearly a year after hurricane maria plowed through puerto rico the official death toll there has been set at sixty four that's on an island of several million people well now a research report conducted by the george washington university and the university of puerto rico has determined that the number of people who were killed in the aftermath of hurricane maria actually was two thousand nine hundred seventy five and that's because this calculation includes an important definition how many people's health was impacted negatively by the hurricane or some other natural disaster after the immediate passage of the storm people who were older and presumably in poor health people who lived in poor communities and who did not have electricity or clean water or access to regular medicine were much more vulnerable and thus experience higher death rates in those parts of puerto rico the report is calling for improved generating physicians when they're looking at diagnosing the cause of dea

now just news coming in a stolen plane has crashed in washington state in the us officials the seattle tacoma international airport are saying this is an airline employee took the aircraft without permission and it's thought that there were no passengers on board this plane it was a horizon q four hundred so that these are the latest pictures that we're showing you of the plane having crashed and the coast guards were alerted to large smoke plumes. following shortly after that take off as i say that was in seattle so that's a rather curious incident whereby a plane that apparently was empty was taken by an employee of an airline or an airport employee taken off and then crashed shortly after but we understand the plane itself was a team going to keep me right up to date with that as we get any more detail about as i say that curious incident we'll bring it to you now a jury in the usa to california has found a weed killer sold by chemical giant monsanto cools the cancer of the school grounds and is being seen as a landmark decision which could pave the way for thousands of other cases

half the year ago to the day liberal might met the old right now police in washington d.c. want to keep history from repeating itself. on the anniversary of the deadly white supremacist rally in charlottesville virginia that left a counter demonstrator dead when a car drove into a crowd as many as four hundred white supremacist marchers prepare to converge on lafayette square in front of the white house so do more than a thousand left wing marchers who call themselves anti folk or anti fascist jason kesler who organized that unite the right march is leading this one day that you hear around you that is a anti-white. leaving many here fearing another round of violent confrontation i think soft and serious could happen i think something terrible would happen let me just say i. should shot israel kessler's charlottesville ally richard spencer is not expected in washington though his ideas are. yes i mean america story please undoubtedly a white country were headed in a very different direction what we're saying rings true what we're saying cuts right to the heart of the matter

alan fischer al jazeera washington. all the news of course on our website there it is on the screen the address al-jazeera dot com. a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera the first wave of u.s. sanctions on iran will come into force in a few hours it's now ninety days since president donald trump formally was through the u.s. from the iran nuclear deal iran's president is accused washington of waging psychological warfare that's cassy chasm of our kind of heart it showed him that the person who was abandoned because the asians his trump and his government and he is doing something which is against the iranian people against the interests of iran if there was honesty iran would come to negotiation what. the u.s. sanction is contradict any intention to negotiate on a minute how can he be honest about wanting to negotiate if you but. action was against children and sick people in. saudi arabia state airline is suspending flights to and from toronto in an intensifying diplomatic row with canada on sunday riyadh f

avs there live from london also coming up what next for nafta counted those foreign minister is in washington for talks one day after mexico agreed to a revised deal. sending a message to crown of france's and environment minister quit his job during a live radio interview. the plan that is as endangered as the rhino conservationists warned that africa's rain forests are on the brink of extinction. the united nations is accusing all sides involved in the war in yemen of committing possible war crimes a report by un rights experts says the yemeni government forces there saudi led backers and rebel who the fighters have done little to minimize civilian casualties the warring parties are also accused of recruiting children forced disappearances and arbitrary detentions alan fischer has more from neighboring djibouti none of clean. a u.n. panel three experts investigating and a damning conclusion individuals in the government of yemen and the coalition including saudi arabia and the united arab emirates may have conducted attacks in violation of the principles of distinction proportionality and a

associate deputy attorney general joining us from washington d.c. regular contributor on al-jazeera nice to see you can you answer that question is this directly now implicating donald trump. it certainly does now the only defense would be mr trump you know didn't intend it in some way obviously intent is something that only is within mr trump's head it's not something that mr cohen would know about for certain but it may well be that in the discussions cohen had with mr trump mr trump said i can't let this information out about my affairs it will damage my campaign and if he testifies to that that is direct evidence of intent and this is not a novel i remember john edwards who was a presidential candidate two thousand and eight he also was charged and prosecuted is ultimately acquitted for money to his mistress to silence information about having a baby so this is not stretching the law here and i do think it places mr trump in great jeopardy and it also it discredits his idea that all of this is a witch hunt or whatever you want to parse with rega

so i've worn this when joined from washington by as his vice president of the council of the americas thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us well now there is a great deal of information we don't have about this an incident and not that we convair a fight but what do you think happened. well you're right we can't know precisely at this moment there are a lot of plausible scenarios a group of disaffected military personnel have actually taken credit now for this attack but it's also possible as the u.s. national security advisor suggested that this might be something that the madeira government did on its own the a.p. reported yesterday that there was a gas explosion completely unrelated to these activities in an apartment complex a couple blocks away that might have been what everybody was reacting to so the bottom line is it's murky we don't know for sure but that's part of the problem in venezuela today nothing really appears as it really is but nonetheless the mood there or government as well practiced it taking any excuse for repression and crackdown so no matter w

more on all of this would she have a chance he's in washington d.c. just a few days ago doldrum been pretty upbeat about negotiations with north korea telling reuters that pyongyang had taken steps towards denuclearization the missile testing had stopped and he was looking forward to another summit with north korea however house to be said mike compares last trip to north korea was a bit of a disaster by many accounts kim dragoon even snubbing compare there was a great deal of pressure for something tangible to come out of this one from the more hawkish people around him john bolton his national security adviser for example but it is striking in these tweets though but it's still very diplomatic very respectful towards chairman kim and he says he still does want a summit to take place at some point in the future with chris gussy a with us now c.e.o. of they can financial and former deputy director with the u.s. department of commerce under president trump joining us from washington so it's china's fault apparently or at least that's part of it any val

not let me join him good old jews europe washington. to peru now where hundreds of protesters have been rallying in the capital lima demanding gender parity and of reform in the judiciary the demonstrators say the judicial system ignores a high level of violence against women seven out of ten women in peru have suffered some sort of physical or psychological abuse as of twenty sixteen rights groups want politicians to discuss these issues in congress. it's been six hundred days since al jazeera journalist more hussein was arrested in egypt without charge hussein's accused of broadcasting false news and receiving foreign farms to defame state institutions he and al-jazeera strongly deny the allegations and the network is demanding his release or burden manley reports. locked up in solitary confinement al jazeera journalist mahmud hussein is yet to have any formal charges brought against him the egyptian national was stopped questioned and detained in december two thousand and sixteen after traveling from doha where he was based to visit

and russia washington is imposing sanctions on moscow for an attack on cigarettes triple and his daughter in britain the state department accuses rusher of using the nerve agent novacek to poison them in the city of seoul sprit russia has called the allegations far fetch more challenges following events for us in moscow they're saying a lot more at the kremlin are they not rory. yeah you get the impression the kremlin is pretty mad about this the spokesperson dmitri peskov has said this is categorically unacceptable that it's illegal under international law or the kremlin has again stress that it had nothing to do with the script poisoning and says that these sanctions the new ones are inconsistent with the constructive atmosphere that the kremlin felt that it got from donald trump but the helsinki summit some weeks ago now though they're saying that washington is an unpredictable actor on the international stage but that it's too soon for the moment's talk about russian council measures counter sanctions because they need to find out more about what these actual u.s. sanctions involve bu

sanctions on rouhani says washington cannot be trusted. hello i'm barbara sara you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up on the program. rescuers scramble to find survivors after sunday's deadly earthquake in indonesia ninety eight people are confirmed dead canada stands by its human rights comments this pride saudi arabia freezing all new trade and ordering the country's ambassador out and we reported on an initiative to turn the tide on london's plastic problem by bringing back water fountains. iran's president has described washington's call for new nuclear negotiations while reimposing crippling sanctions as psychological warfare has said rouhani was speaking in a televised interview just hours before u.s. sanctions are due to come back into effect the sanctions were triggered by donald trump's decision to pull out of the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal which the white house as described this horrible we'll have reaction from tehran in a moment first though this report from kimberly hockett. the united states say

cooked up in washington d.c. could further hit russia's oil and gas sector banks and look into the assets of president vladimir putin all of this shows i think really that whatever donald trump says to resume putin there is a large and powerful establishment in washington d.c. that does not like what trump is doing with regard to russia and obviously does not trust vladimir putin and is trying to protect itself from the activities of these two men which it feels may not be in the united states' best interest. now it's typhoon season and rob is head to tell us what is coming. yes shamshad the one that just glanced through japan but a quiet there is one more tropical storm i'm sure we'll see more of sean shannon today yes was focusing on heading straight to tokyo and surprised me from several hundred kilometers away just diverted a little bit to the right so there was that having turkey itself was wet and windy weather windy enough to do some minor damage i mean knocking of a box probably took some scaffolding down

well toned down tensions that we have seen to italy since it was integrated between pyongyang and washington but ultimately from what we've seen of that behavior they are not going to give anything away without some movement from the u.s. particularly on sanctions. that's right they have a list of requests that they want from the united states they want security assurances sanctions relief would certainly be on that agenda item there are indications that they are interested in a declaration to end the korean war these are things that the united states will have to sequence very carefully and my concern is that the u.s. administration has been so focused on the nuclear question they are leaving aside north korea's wide range of destabilizing nuclear actions and not thinking very seriously about precisely how to implement it incentivizes limits on the nuclear program thank you very much appreciate your thoughts and analysis on this ad amount that joining us from washington thank you. gun control supporters in the u.s. have marched on the headquarters of the powerful lobby group the national ri

let's speak to mike hanna who's in washington now can we then expect the reaction from the u.s. to these. tariffs. well that's a very strong possibility given the mood of the trumpet ministration but we heard the press secretary there separating are two separate issues one the tariffs that were introduced by the trumpet ministration last week on steel and element in but then the question of sanctions introduced specifically against to turkish government ministers this is in direct response to the ongoing imprisonment and trial of the american pastor andrew brunson and now the press secretary making very clear there that these are two separate issues she insists that the terrorists were imposed for unspecified national security reasons and would not be lifted a should the issue of the american past to be resolved the sanctions she says are a direct response to the ongoing trial of the past or they could be reconsidered if the trial is ended against that particular individual so separating out the actions of the trump administration with regard to turkey in recent days and it's no

second round june november will only increase that pressure so on meanwhile has dismissed any talks with washington to resolve the crisis from tehran's in. the day after the united states reimposed nuclear sanctions against iran the foreign minister of another sanctioned country sat down with leaders into iran. north korea's foreign minister really young ho met iranian leaders in an effort to improve ties the timing of this visit is likely no coincidence iran wants america to know it has friends everywhere in a televised interview on monday night iran's president admonished america praised his european allies and asked his people for a little more time to fix the country's economy and that of the state of the unit to have him stand and we need more solidarity we should be more united i'm telling my dear people god willing with your help we will get through this problem he mentioned china and russia several times a signal that iran intends to continue its pivot toward strategic economic partners to cope with yet more american economic pressure. and with the latest comments by the european foreign po