Them generally tends to be. Very sort of you know filled with nice remarks about the other leader and i think in person hes much more solicitous of these leaders at the same time though his trade agenda is still focused on. Securing better terms of trade for the u. S. Visa view other countries and that i think wont change regardless of what happens in the g. 20 and how concerning is it for somebody like yourself sitting in washington and you hear the u. S. President seeming to to mock this question that he was aust when he was sat down with the russian president about a possible election meddling in the 2020 elections what was your view on that. Yeah its not the 1st time and i think its likely to cause another political firestorm here in the u. S. Today. The reality is that trump does not take the election interference from russia or really anyone else particularly seriously and in that sense hes apart from certainly democrats but most republicans as well he sees it as undermining the legitimacy of his victory in 2016 and clearly believes that this is just something that his opponents use against him. Its i think going to be sort of a replay of what happened in helsinki last year in which he stood beside putin and sided with putin over his own intelligence agencies so its not a particularly new theme but it is ready concerning for almost the entire congress and as you mentioned the russian president has been meeting with chinese president xi jinping what do you think of the main issues going on there yeah that meeting i suspect covered a lot of ground to have a lot of trade particularly Natural Resources a huge deal few years ago for not for natural gas and oil theres also the north korea issue with which both of them are involved in very closely she was just in pyongyang earlier this month and that i would suspect a very mount of strategizing on their mutual approaches to trump and. You know perhaps the chinese trying to learn some lessons from the russian experience in dealing with trump could just be could you jeffrey right to understand from washington. Plenty more ahead on the news hour including that one we thought there was a great. The politics of race taking center stage in the democratic president ial debate in the u. S. Anger in iraq as hundreds marched on the behind the embassy over the u. S. Sponsored conference on the middle east. And later in sport drama at the copa america as host brazil take on powerglide. So all is still ahead but 1st Rex Tillerson has revealed his struggles working with the trumpet ministration and what he calls all quote encounters with the president s son in law during his time as u. S. Secretary of state he made the remark about jarrett cushion while testifying before congress about his rocky 13 months in the job john hendren reports from washington. The United States former secretary of state says he often had to practice diplomacy in the dark Rex Tillerson told congress that president Donald Trumps son in law jared cushion or directed his own Foreign Policy without tillerson is knowledge President Trump did not know him and President Trump had no idea about how the process was supposed to work he probably thought oh well this is the way ive run my business in a newly released transcript from closed door testimony to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs tillerson says he was surprised to walk into a washington restaurant to find jared cushion or meeting with mexicos foreign secretary i could see the color go out of the face of the foreign secretary of mexico as i very i smiled big and i said welcome to washington and i said i dont want to interrupt what you all are doing i said give me a call next time youre coming to town tillers and says he was taken aback when he was told cushion or in president ial adviser steve bannon knew of the blockade of qatar before it happened question on or about may 20th 2017 there was apparently a private dinner that was hosted between Steve Bannon Jared cushion or in the rulers of saudi arabia and u. A. E. Respectively were you aware of that dinner answer no question that wasnt something you would heard previously answer no question and to clarify sir not prior to when i just said it answer correct question whats your reaction to a meeting of that sort having taken place without your knowledge and sir it makes me angry here in washington the revelation of dueling Foreign Policy is want to seen as a diplomatic debacle Foreign Policy run as a Family Business with the agency in charge of diplomacy often sidelined it since that suggests that its totally chaotic why for example would you appoint a secretary of state because thats a trouble point not a holdover from obama where you hear so distrustful of your own appointee that you shield him out of the. Feinted decisions trump until ors in had a tempestuous relationship tillerson reportedly called trump a moron by all accounts trump has a much closer relationship with taylors ins replacement former cia director mike pompei o trump tweeted that pompei i was doing a great job while tillerson was dumb as a rock and lazy as hell john hendren aljazeera washington. Jobar joe biden the u. S. Democratic front runner in the race for the white house has come under fire in the 2nd televised debate california senator kaamelott harris question is recalled on race and called his remarks about working with segregationist senators hurtful and again i got reports from miami. Outside the debate hall crowds gathered to back their candidate of choice. Many support the 2 best known former Vice President joe biden and vermont senator Bernie Sanders but everyone here wants change 1st of all we have are now so mad bake america think hard right now but i think i. Can do it better the 1st great. Because by doing so with unite. The people i get there and that hes going to make it better and then from i will release children from cages on a stage candidates keen to make the voices heard made this the robust debate many expected at times it was hard to hear what was being said in an area where we have not heard senator kemal how is it who with an emotional attack on the former Vice President on the issue of race it was hurtful. To hear you talk about the reputations of 2 United States senators who built their reputations and career on the segregation of race in this country and it was not only that but you also worked with them to oppose bussing and we have got neither Bernie Sanders nor joe biden attacked one another perhaps a wise move for 2 of the leading candidates when he came to President Trump though the vermont senator didnt hold back while President Trump youre not standing up for working families when youre trying to throw 32000000 people off their health care that they have and that 83 percent of your tax benefits go to the top one percent and thats how we be trouble. Something to look forward to you. Would smile but you know biden this may be seen as a bruising debate but as one of the most experienced politicians on stage he managed to hold his own lastly weve got to unite the United States of america as much as very good he says we can if we do theres not a single thing the American People can do this is the United States of america we can do anything if were together both debates are over and all 20 candidates have had their moment in the spotlight but with such a crowded field its been a hectic couple of days ultimately voters across the country will decide who the winners and losers were but with almost 18 months to go before the general election anything could and probably will happen and you gallacher aljazeera miami florida. Will call condit is a political analyst at the university of Virginia Center for politics he joins us live now from washington to talk more about this thanks very much for being with us. Now when you when you have a debate stage with 10 people its always a limited amount of time for each of them to to make their mark here but it would seem that Carmilla Harris certainly made the most of her time in this debate. Yeah in some ways if sort of the postdebate reaction is that someone won then basically they won it because a lot of what the debates are about is making a good impression and then getting positive coverage afterward i certainly think Camila Harris is getting that but i also think on the merits it was smart of her to go after joe biden you got to look at the democratic president ial field as certain groupings in a lot of those groupings is led by biden in that biden is getting a tremendous amount of support from africanamerican voters which is a who make up a very significant part of the electorate harris says an africanamerican candidate is hoping to steal some of that support away and therefore its incumbent upon her to go after biden so that biden falls apart and that she could sort of take over a lot of his support and so from that standpoint i give her a lot of credit for. Not messing around and just just going after biden on things that she thinks hes vulnerable on how much importance is placed on debates like this obviously this is this is the 1st of many but we are still what 16 months away from the u. S. President ial election. Yet imagine that a lot of International Viewers cant fathom how long our campaigns here are in the United States and many other countries are much shorter but its a real marathon in these president ial primaries and were going to have many more debates the voting doesnt even start until february that said there are important things to be done at this point in the campaign stablish ing polling support which could help lead to raising more money which will sustain a candidate throughout the long slog of the 1st half of next year so theres a lot of positioning going on and look we have 20 candidates over 2 nights there are not going to be 20 candidates on the ballot when iowa holds its 1st in the nation caucus in february theyre going to lot of people who fall by the wayside here and and you know were going to start sorting that out and these debates are part of how that happens and how quickly does that need to happen because when you talk to a lot of democrats they say yes theres just too many of them at the moment and they need to be whittled down quickly i mean how how important is it to to get down to a sort of core of say hoffa doesnt know so that people can democrats can choose from. I dont think theres any huge rush but there is something notable about the way that the democrats award delegates the National Convention of course she had a majority of the delegates on the 1st out at the Convention Next summer in order to win the nomination and the democrats do a proportional allocation system in which you need if you get 15 percent or more of the support in a given state you get your intitled to some share of the delegates the problem for democrats potentially is that if there are several candidates who are sort of one candidate getting 40 percent here and 30 percent there and no one potentially ends the cycle with the requisite number of delegates thats where it could really be difficult at the convention and so from that standpoint i think it is important for democrats that this whittled down to eventually 3 or even 2 significant candidates and then that would allow one of them to potentially win all the delegates needed to actually get the nomination on the 1st ballot get to get your perspective condit joining us there from washington thank you thank you our wonderful cost to say this year is on track to be among the hottest ever un meteorologists are warning if it continues the world would have seen the warmest 5 year period on record and it says heat waves are expected to become more intense and much longer france has just recorded its hottest of a temperature of 44. 3 degrees peoples and 4000 french schools are getting a day off as the much. And in northeast spain firefighters fear the blistering heat will make dead job of putting out wildfires even hotter when we challenge before. These old ready among the worst fires in spain is counselor in your region for 20 years and the heat wave has only just begun firefighters awarding the burning in area could get 5 times as big it doing what they can to douse the flames. But for these animals it was too late they died trapped inside their body its clearly upsetting for the farmer. Distance provide safety but its an anxious wait to find out of houses have gone up in flames. In the afternoon when we came back we saw black smoke here and when we wanted to go back home the road was cut off so we couldnt our ranch is right there and there was a lot of smoke so we came here next to fish castle to see where the fire was going and if our ranch was going to burn. Away from the flames the heat is more nuisance than danger in madrid a little cooler 39 celsius people try to stay hydrated stay protected just took it easy for some tourists for more northerly climbs its what they came for. Drinking lots of water its very harsh its very hard. Trying to get some time. For Vulnerable People the heat can still be dangerous in france the Health Ministry has issued a heat wave plan for elderly care homes they dont want a repeat of 2003 as hot weather when 15000 mostly old people died. I put a small wet cloth around my neck and there isnt much more i can do i dont mean around but its our way we dont move too much we just have to wait for it to be over there is no other solution. But forecasters suggest it wont get cooler till early next week. Well reach alans aljazeera. I will get more on that heat wave thats passing through your values can with the weather thats rape so 44. 3 today they had to hit 44 point one to actually break the record and they did just a couple hours ago not only that but for june they also broke a record yesterday 43. 5 this was the highest june temperature they had seen in prior to that it was about 41. 5 so theyre breaking records all across france not only france spain parts of germany as well what were going to be seeing today and into tomorrow as more of that heat building and what were going to see is down here towards the south west the west and as you can see in france we talk about 30 degrees london 30 on saturday whats going to happen though it is going to begin to shift a little bit more towards the north berlin you had a little bit of a break but now the heat is coming back to you from our say were going to be watching the temperatures today because those temperatures are going to hit 38. 00 degrees coming down slowly but 23. 00 is the normal average for this time of year so even when they come down the stair way above average in the United States were dealing with a he way of as well today temperatures are going to be well above 30 not only for the south but all the way up here towards parts of canada winnipeg at 30 degrees there were talk about canada that doesnt normally happen this time of year thats going to continue the heat is going to also shift a little bit more towards the east were talking washington at 35. 00 degrees so millions and millions of people are going to be and be under excessive heat watches as well as warnings as back to you. Thanks kevin now still ahead on aljazeera flynt 4 years on another blow for the poorest people who couldnt escape the poisoned water ski. Honduras struggles with the violent legacy of the coup 10 years ago this day. And in sports egypt star mohamad facing criticism by fans after showing support for a teammate accused of Sexual Harassment details coming up with a whole. We are going to announce the biggest ever in the money. Decades activists in seats of government we didnt want to be part of this institution and all we really didnt want technologically challenging politics and implementing direct democracy open source code to use the free for everyone to look we are innovators we are activists we are. Talking madrid just. Horrible. But again youre watching a reminder of all top stories this hour talks are underway in austria to try to salvage the 2015 a Nuclear Deal Iran has threatened to boost your aim enrichment in violation of the agreement its also in response to the latest round of u. S. Sanctions aimed at putting maximum pressure on the country. Russian leader Vladimir Putin and u. S. President donald trump of sat down for talks for more than an hour at the g. 20 the white house says the pair discussed arms control iran syria venezuela and ukraine there was no mention of election interference. Former u. S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson has described being kept in the dark about Foreign Policy too in testimony before a committee in washington last month tillerson accused white house advisor Jared Kushner of operating independently of the state department. And tens of thousands of algerians have taken to the streets in the capital algiers for the 19th straight week protests of grip the country since february forcing president abdulaziz beautifully to abandon plans to seek a 5th term demonstrators are calling for all politicians linked to the former administration to resign but the opposition can claim some progress members of the elite including former Prime Minister ahmed and yet here are being investigated for corruption. Is a journalist joining us now from paris so thanks very much for being with us so this is the 19th straight week of protests taking place in algeria and it seems theres no. Theres no effort to let this up but are they i mean how much progress are they making at this point. Hier has them well many progress even if the moment the