Tend to spark. To himself because. It so happens that the guy who is accused of looting the cool. Well being that he was in prison when i became to por. For an Island School he was he tried at them to the 2009 and he was in prison so. Security in the region trust him maybe hes in his loyalty there was an assassination attempt against the Prime Minister himself exactly a year ago 2 months after he came to power a grenade was thrown into a crowd of 10 in a large rally for abi more than 100 people were hurt ethiopians had braced for a government crackdown which had been the norm during previous governments but it never came i think the government in. Remarkable limbless. It was an assassination attempt against the Prime Minister. And you know significant scott down. Against to be here africas youngest head of state has brought in sweeping reforms during his 1st year in power he ended a 20 year border dispute with neighboring eritrea released thousands of Political Prisoners opened up the media and gave half of his cabinet posts to women in recent weeks hes been mediating the crisis in neighboring sudan but some have argued he may be moving too fast they certainly is an attempt to hold back the. Burning may be back some of the old guard the government has shut down internet all across the country in the wake of the attack no facebook no twitter people are mainly relying on state television for information here in the city and theres an obvious increase in military presence and some roads in and around the city are closed as the government and the people try to make sense of what has happened we are hardy and al jazeera added. Alex vines is head of the Africa Program at londons Chatham House he says a situation in a more a state could slow the pace of reforms in the country. This will be a warning to him and hes going to have to focus very much more on some of the domestic politics and thats going to really i think divert his attention from some of the very good things that hes been trying to achieve in terms of encouraging more political pluralism improving relations with the neighbors i mean he has recognized eritrea for example is a very good example of eritrea and ethiopia having a repression want so this will divert some of that intention and ethiopia is a super strategic country for horn of africa and even farther neighbors power states is the 2nd largest definite group in any theo pia it has had significant protests against the rule of the p. R. And this one of the things that i think was happening was that the president of yemen horace state was looking at the growth of local militias which are causing problems and we think that that was probably the reason that he was taken out and that was the posture in state this is indicative of when you start to liberalize a authoritarian system i mean weve seen this elsewhere in the world other things stop popping up and this i think is exactly whats happening in ethiopia my hope is that he will be up to still continue this reformist agenda and gradually deliver and then the tensions that were seeing in ethiopia which were very visible over the last 48 hours will reduce claymore head of the news hour including ill tell you why the Czech Republic saw its biggest demonstrations since the end of communism 30 years ago plus. As Brazilian Police get tough on crime the poor in the n. S. A. Get caught in the crossfire. And then for it argentina and qatar is run at south americas Biggest International football tournaments. There i mean the democratic republic of congo says it has killed 16 militia members and its offensive against armed groups and ju in the eastern atory province also captured 7 fighters including a former soldier who had become a militia commander hiding in the region has killed at least 300 people one forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee into neighboring uganda reports. Of might as soldiers from the democratic republic of congo begin their offensive. Against tribal militia groups that have killed more than 100 people in the past 2 weeks alone and displaced hundreds of thousands in the Eastern Province of the story. The groups say to be hiding in a forest in the jungle area. This is what the congolese government wants to stop carnage in many of the beaches this fruitage was filmed on saturday when armed people banned homes. Most of those fleeing are going to cause for displaced people in other parts of the region some are heading across to uganda. This group arrived as a Transit Center and is now heading to a reception area father in lunde. We met a pen on saturday who told us that he was separated from his mother and the last time she soha she was running from a man with a machete he still has no word about what happened i do not hiding anything about my mom one doesnt turn them in. Does that mean that my grandmother has known my life only already so yeah every month i do not see and learn. More than 4000 congolese have made it to uganda in the past few weeks. Yet. Those yes. They are there right safely in the reception area just in time for lunch beans and amazed pop commonly known as. She was met and says shes just glad that she managed to get some of her children out. We had gunshots and then saw the men shooting those they caught they slaughtered we escaped into the forest i took 2 children and my husband the other 2 they still have not arrived he eventually theyll be settled in an area with about 100000 other refugees most of them congolese who have over many years fled from the same conflict catherine sorry all jazeera uganda. As Tensions Mount between the u. S. And iran President Donald Trump has deployed 2 of his top officials to the middle east so to state my palm peo is headed to saudi arabia and the u. A. E. He says he is coordinating with allies and preparing against iranian aggression National Security advisor john bolton is in israel where he met Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu bolton said iran should not mistake washingtons prudence thats his word for weakness it was referring to trumps decision to call off planned strikes against iran at the very last minute more on that and a moment 1st here is how President Trump described bolton in an interview over the weekend i have 2 groups of people i have dubs and i have hawks you have some serious hawks john bolton is absolutely a hawk is up to him hed take on the whole world at one time ok but that doesnt matter because i want both sides and iran says its decision to return to Nuclear Activities is irreversible tehrans also accusing european powers of lacking the will to save the 2015 deal. Just before leaving pompei a reiterated washingtons willingness for unconditional talks with the ron for more on those comments john hendren joins us now from washington d. C. So tell us more about this john. Well rachele might bump a 0 as we know is a bit of a hawk on iran and this shows that he is following through with the plan to continue that Pressure Campaign against iran he stopping at the United Arab Emirates and saudi arabia in order to work up a campaign against iran pompei is said a few things on his way out including that iran was engaging in pure and blatant dissin from ation by arguing that the u. S. Drone the global hawk surveillance drone that was shot down was shot down over iranian territory the u. S. Contends that that happened in International Waters and therefore it was an illegal act by iran to do so he also accused irans foreign milk minister of false information saying that a map that the foreign minister tweeted out showing where the drone allegedly was was childlike heres a little bit more of what pompei 0 had to say today. Im heading out today our 1st stop will be in the kingdom of saudi arabia the United Arab Emirates to great allies in the challenge that iran presents and will be talking with them but out to make sure that we are all strategically aligned and how we can go about it Global Coalition coalition not only through optical states but in asia and europe that understands this challenge is it prepared to push back against the Worlds Largest expansion. Were prepared to negotiate with no preconditions they know precisely how to find us. So this means a few things 1st of all it means that the u. S. Is forging ahead with that Pressure Campaign against iran and it is enlisting allies the United Arab Emirates and saudi arabia and that also suggests that saudi arabia is somewhat out of the penalty box the u. S. Had been criticized heavily for not distancing itself President Trump in particular was criticized for not distancing himself from saudi arabia and the crown prince and he was asked about that in an interview this weekend by n. B. C. News here in the u. S. And his response was. I only say they spend 400. 00 to 450000000000. 00 over a period of time all money all jobs buying equipment and he went on to say im not a fool that says we dont want to do business with them he said if the United States doesnt do business with them they could go to russia or china so the president is pretty much shrug that off and that means apparently business as usual between the u. S. And saudi arabia as this Pressure Campaign goes on richelle and of course experts have said that those numbers by the president that he continues to repeat are actually significantly inflated as well john hendren live for us in washington d. C. Thank you as i mentioned trumps National Security adviser is in israel where he once again warns iran rob matheson has more on that. The u. S. National security adviser has come to israel with a clear message for iran neither iran nor any other hostile actor should mistake u. S. Prudence and discretion for weakness no one has granted them a hunting license in the middle east iran can never have Nuclear Weapons not against the usa and not against the world. Words welcomed by israels Prime Minister standing close by Benjamin Netanyahu is determined that irans military presence in israels neighbors syria is a threat which cannot be tolerated whats new is that now thanks to crippling american sanctions iran is facing unprecedented economic pressure as a result of its aggression so i was pleased to hear President Trump make clear yesterday that pressure will continue and that pressure will increase netanyahu has brought together the u. S. And russia for 3 way meetings to discuss the growing crisis with iran on thursday iran shot down a u. S. Military drone its a whos whos flying through its airspace the u. S. Denies that hours later the u. S. Launched what it called Cyber Attacks against irans Weapons Systems shortly after President Donald Trump said he made a last minute decision to call a missile strike inside iran the u. S. Has now imposed more sanctions these meetings are crucial for the Prime Minister because hes fighting for his political life he failed to create a government to earlier this year and hes facing elections in september Benjamin Netanyahu wants these meetings to demonstrate that israel is at the center of Global Politics because of him. Russia will also come under pressure at these meetings to persuade iran one of its main allies in the middle east to rein in its strong rhetoric whether russia will be willing or able to do that is still unclear despite the determination of the United States and israel rob matheson. West jerusalem. Irans foreign minister mohammad. Tehran is in talks with a number of countries on using currencies other than the u. S. Dollar for trade will be seen as a way to bypass u. S. Sanctions more from tehran. According to the arabian foreign minister they are in discussion with a number of countries including china russia turkey and india to try and bypass the u. S. Sanctions by setting up a Monetary System where they can trade without having the u. S. Sanctions affect them this is something that the iranians have been talking about and we know that the russians are behind this idea they said that the Russian Foreign minister has said that the u. S. Sanctions against iran is unfair and the russian government will do everything it can to try and help the rainy and bypass them the foreign minister has said that the already reached some agreements with certain countries and they are still in discussion with others so its still in the process but in the foreseeable future this could be something that could help iran bypass those crippling u. S. Sanctions saudi state media say an attack on a airport in the countrys south has killed one person emmons who the rebels say they have targeted the facility using a drone its the 2nd attack on that or border in less than 2 weeks at least 4 civilians have been killed in Syrian Government airstrikes on the opposition help province of idlib rescue workers say 2 children are among the dead more than 60 civilians have reportedly been killed in Government Air rage since wednesday it is supposed to be protected by a buffer zone deal but since april there ias been heavily bombarded by the government and its ally russia. Still ahead on aljazeera a look at iraqs struggling economy may be headed into troubled waters. Are protesters angry with an extradition bill and hong kong discussed ways to prevent their campaign from losing momentum. And its pointless hamilton continues to set the pace and the formula one season and they will have that. Hello again well across parts of north america were seeing some very stormy conditions here across the Central Regions of the u. S. Notice those thunderstorms are really building up and it is in this area the Central Plains that the threat is going to be the highest in the next coming days and also the flooding is expected to remain the same across much of the River Valleys so from chicago all the way down towards dallas also to washington we could see some very active weather here on monday now as we go towards tuesday a lot of the rain remains in the same locations really keeping dallas quite wet up towards chicago youre going to dry out but over here towards washington that is where that cold front is pushing through and that is where we do expect to see some Severe Weather as well well across the caribbean really quite quiet for this time of year we are in the Hurricane Season and we are coming towards the end of june which is the 1st month of the Hurricane Season dry conditions across many areas here but for Central America it is quite wet particular over here towards nicaragua and guatemala down towards panama its a little bit dry a few of the time for there of about 31. 00 degrees but we are going to see those rain showers return as well towards parts of mexico for ken kuhn not looking too bad for you but over towards mexico city it is going to be quite wet up here towards the bahamas though it is going to be quite nice for nessa and freeport with sunny to dishes and temperatures into the low thirtys. Exposing in just. This is not an accident it was a crime this is minute this is propaganda easy disinclination that is trying to push that agenda closing the perpetrators to account these days name to. The supreme peacekeeping force to launch the full complete with undercover investigations and indepth reports of people in power reveals the use and abuse of power around the world on aljazeera. The latest news as it breaks communities may be in disagreement accusing the other 4 of these attacks and the chilling with details coverage thousands of protesters have been streaming away from here to go house but rouse ball stay gone from around the world soccer by. Up to. The front of those soccer by this is what this is all about. Watching aljazeera lets recap the top stories now turkeys Opposition Party has one istanbuls may or a waste it is the 1st time in 25 years the president. Party has lost power. And turkeys economic capital city has military gentle has dismissed anything o. P. M. Plan for a transition to civilian rule the opposition has backed the proposal but the military says it doesnt match up with another blueprint offered by the African Union and donald trump ascent to top officials in the middle east as Tensions Mount what the ron National Security advisor john bolton is an israel. Peo is on his way to. Saudi arabia and the u. A. E. Before leaving pompei are said washington is ready to sit down for talks with iran with no preconditions get more on those tensions now between washington and tehran joining us now to parsi is a professor at Georgetown University and author of the book losing in enemy obama iran in the triumph of diplomacy. And Fairfax Virginia we appreciate your time so much so. Sending out the troops well troops actually wanted to officials thats a better word in a situation like this sending out officials to various allies what does it seem to you that its up or ministration actually whats well i mean this is the problem that the trumpet mr ation has he wants Different Things the president want Different Things from what his secretary of state his Vice President and his National Security advisors want all of them have signed on to this maximum pressure strategy but theyre only in the agreement when he comes to the tactics tonight an agreement when it comes to the objectives trump i think generally wants diplomacy but the others seem to be supporting this strategy precisely because they believe it would lead to a military confrontation and they all advised him to take military confrontation a couple days ago and he chose not to do so at the last minute ok so if donald trump in fact doesnt want any type of confrontation and actually does want diplomacy isnt it incumbent upon him as the president to actually make that happen. Absolutely and thats why if you truly want sets he needs to set aside his maximum strategy maximum pressure strategy most likely firebolt and m. P. O. And put together a team that actually support his desires for diplomacy how is he going to succeed with diplomacy when the people around him have never supported or engaged in any real diplomacy with the iranians in the last 25 years if he wants to have the clumsy for really needs to actually get the expertise that can make sure it happens all hes done so far is to surround himself with people who have the expertise when it comes to starting wars so what motivation and do the iranians have to actually come to the table i mean theyve put out fair my pompei of with no preconditions but what reason do the iranians have to actually vote folks through with that well i very much doubt that they will come to the table as long as pompey or and bolton are still around trump because the experience that the north korean has had and which they have communicated to the iranians is a trump actually wants to deal he actually makes consider gives concessions. Requires them from the other side as well but hes actually a deal maker but none of the things he comes to agree to actually occurred later on because some people and bolts and make sure that they actually never get implemented from the iranian perspective there is no political person in iran right now they can afford it the risk of arguing in favor of diplomacy with the United States and then yet again see that the United States is not living up to its end of the bargain which is exactly what happened with j. C. Pure way in which the iranians did implement their end of the bargain but the United States pulled out and here we all are all right trita parsi thank you so much for chang university. Thank you for having me. Israels Prime Minister says hell give the u. S. Peace plan for the middle east a fair consideration but the proposal has been criticized by the Palestinian LeaderMahmoud Abbas as says it is bound to fail yes all present the plan of the conference in bahrains capital and this week. I dont think it will be any results from the manana workshop because it was built on wrong foundations what is built on falsehood is false the minimal workshop came to solve the problem but what problem you cannot make problem but there is a political problem it cannot make problem with who for example when they say they want to give the palestinians an amount of money for the palestinians they should have been into tina statehood so you need to 1st recognize the state after that you can save this state needs this and that and every mass more from ramallah and the occupied west bank. The palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has reiterated his rejection to the workshop that is expected to be held in a few days he says that while economy is important foreign aid is important the political issue demeans to be the main story here he says that as part of the economy that was released by the u. S. As a part of the whole deal of the century the u. S. Plans to collect around 50000000000. 00 of aid to the palestinians and that he doesnt need the u. S. To do so because they want to gather the money from the other countries and he would be doing so himself he said that hes already asking the arabs to help with its worth noting that the palestinians are now facing a financial crisis as well as that the palestinians have stopped engaging with the u. S. Administration ever since the u. S. Has decided to move its embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem announcing the. Israeli capital thousands of people in georgias capital tbilisi have continued their protest outside parliament for a 4th straight day demonstrations began after a russian politician sergei speech in parliament in russia and that sparked a mass rally and hundreds of people were arrested and injured relations between the 2 countries have been strained since the 2008 war over south of here. And as the thousands of protesters have rallied in the Czech Republic calling on the Prime Minister to step down thats a latest demonstration a top player who faces a criminal investigation over alleged fraud some are saying its the biggest protest there since the fall of communism in 1989 or a challenge more. Organized as say 250000 people coming to this demonstration whether or not thats accurate the demonstration was certainly you know and it shows anger at the Prime Minister in some sections of Czech Society isnt dissipating. Because of. Prime minister because of how the president. Just. Agree with. Yassin. Publish a billionaire businessman turned politician is facing a criminal prosecution for allegedly using e. U. Subsidy money to build real estate a decade ago the e. U. Suspects there are conflicts of interest with his businesses he denies any wrongdoing but appointing a new Justice Minister shortly after police recommended a prosecution is what triggered the protests for now hes refusing to step down the problem. In parliament. Really isnt any majority. So its really kind of moot point whether these demonstrations can be can be successful some comments it does not even saying that actually the demonstration increase the support for. This is just that or plans no confidence vote in Parliament Next Week is likely to fail but the street protests against him which began as a small Student Movement are getting bigger and bigger. Hundreds of protesters are rallying in russias capital calling for the release of all Political Prisoners and those held on trumped up charges earlier this month more than 500. 00 people were arrested in unauthorized demonstration in moscow including opposition politician alexina vall me the protesters were demanding accountability for the arrest of an investigative journalist italys deputy Prime Minister mikhail slovenia says he holds the netherlands and the e. U. Responsible for the fate of a group of migrants that rome has blocked from italian ports the dutch flag rescue boat has been stuck in the mediterranean since rescuing 53 migrants drifting in an inflatable raft off the coast of libya last week 11 of those on board were allowed to disembark including 2 pregnant women but the vessel was denying permission to dock in italy and has refused to return those rescued back to libya or change his ruling party has declared victory in president ial elections partys candidate mohammed ole has received more than 50 percent of the votes according to the Election Commission but the opposition has warned it will challenge the result is on he says he has maintained the economic progress made under the current president a joint west African Military force as its killed at least 42 eisel fighters died in fighting on the island in lake chad according to the Multinational Joint task force thats made up of soldiers from nigeria and cameroon. Has more from nigerias capital of boucher. Regional forces say 42 were killed in an operation i dont believe chad area especially in bill good night or. As well as by got these are areas that were previously attacked several times by bill quite i mean even occupied before you were there were chased out by military forces from the region now that hes not going to approach him that was held or there was a small tenuously on the chameleon bodo a number of books on fighters have been killed on the nigerian side too. As well as i still i feel it did before i have taken some hit but they also on their part have launched military attacks on military targets as well as civilian targets in the region recently weve seen how. Especially the shekel function has renewed its Suicide Mission in the northeast of nigeria so this is a continual procession that has been going on for a very long time and weve seen over the last few years how despite the losses but quite on my knees i still i feel here to groups have been able to adopt restricted areas and launch attacks not only on civilian targets but also all military forces in the region brazils president our boss and our a slut to power earlier this year on a promise hed be tough on crime is in trying to demonstrate that ignis home state are pRio De Janeiro policing mayor has a checkered reputation in the battle against drug gangs with innocent people sometimes and caught in the crossfire and has more from rio. And the power that has been fighting for justice for more than 5 years since 1000 year old son jonathan was killed in a police raid. We all had that was the worst day of my life i would never imagine even in my worst nightmares losing a son i didnt believe it was happening i thought i was dying with him. Too much it was just one of the thousands of mostly poor young black men killed by we had peace in recent years 1500 in 2018 thank you. The number of killings has increased since president bush took office this year. The reason given is always that the victims fired 1st jonathan was not armed this is what i demand it doesnt matter if i am black poor or if i live in a poor neighborhood i am a citizen i pay my taxes like anyone else so i demand the state gives me an answer for this murder and the answer is justice i will accept nothing else and the power alone knows the name of her sons killer he was found to have killed 3 times previously hes been assigned administrative duties still in possession of his piece gun and badge although the statistics are shocking they only hint at the full scale of the suffering the daily violence that engender is grief and fear hidden away out of sight in for violence or shanty towns such as this one. Campaigners say sending the police into the furbelows with guns blazing has been proven to only increase crime shows of force by the president an exmilitary man or part of the ideology that got him elected that a few poor neighborhoods register around 80 homicides per 100000 residents rates from work countries it seems like in the same city we have 2 Different Countries one Rich Development the other one in constant war. Also has an ally in the rio state governor wilson with who has suggested using missiles to blow up criminals. A task force set up to investigate questionable Police Killings is underfunded and understaffed no rio Police Officer has yet been convicted and jailed. And the power has been awarded for her work with the mothers of other the teams of Police Operation in this. Sukumar least i have spent the last 5 years fighting for my sons memory. Still club 5 years asking god for health so i can stay strong and keep going because so we keep hoping that justice for john with his death will bring some relief and thousands of all the brewerys brazilian mothers. And theyre all just 0 Rio De Janeiro hong kong demonstrators and opposition politicians have been discussing ways to keep their protest movement going while keeping Public Opinion on their side over the past few weeks millions have taken to the streets calling for the complete withdrawal of an extradition bill that would allow for criminal suspects to be sent to china to face prosecution enter thomas has more. This event is now open discussion about how best to fight back legally then told people here considered to have been heavy handed policing of the protests over the last couple of weeks until a break 1000 people have turned up to take part but more broadly