From the conflict zones and sometimes from gold mining areas are the main reason of troubles. Theres been some unrest between herders and farmers in other african states including mali and nigeria. Drought and population growth aggravate the conflict while the influx of weapons and a rise in armed groups across the region have made the cycle of violence more deadly. Chared soldiers are part of a Regional Force thats fighting back on her arm and i select groups but some analysts suggest that strange the military and the unable to counter the recent violence. Shows one of the hottest says hes on the planet with most days over 30 degrees and with Climate Change expected to turn more of this region to desert battles over resources are likely far from over elixir brian al jazeera. To venezuela now the country has the Worlds Largest oil reserves and for decades the government used its oil revenues to Fund Social Programs but poor funding corruption and u. S. Sanctions have crippled the countrys Energy Sector and many a food and let down by the government and the promises that they once made cherrys about has more than the town of us. Meena has always lived beside the lake of money in the northwestern state. Hes a fisherman but he says pollution from the oil industry is destroying his way of life. This is abandon completely abandoned in the past the oil and gas installations were taken care of but not anymore now are lake is filled with oil and contamination our boats are dirty our nets are dirty my family depends on this and its killing us were close to the town where oil was 1st discovered in venezuelan 1922 it turned this country from Michael Cohen coffee producing nation into an oil giant but things have not been going well in the past 2 years the bottom of it was filled with thousands of kilometers of Gas Pipelines some of them are broken if you can see right there thats a leak i guess week this is just an example of the enormous infrastructure problems that venezuela Energy Sectors has today were told tankers i rarely see here Venezuelas Oil production has dropped by more than 70 percent in the past 20 years and the u. S. Oil embargo is further complicating the export market. Has worked for venezuela. For over 30 years at one time they were producing 80000 barrels a day now not a single one. I have fought with management how is painting a pipeline red when inside its rod and. Weepin a pump and then it catches fire then things blow up thats the maintenance they want us to do with what we have and we have lots of accidents. Fransisco says hes paid around 8. 00 a month. Im a revolutionary but this is not the left i dreamt of i want to work but we have no tools no boats total deterioration in the past there were food halls not anymore we have said that until we are fed we cannot go out to work we cannot even buy food with our salaries so we are demanding a meal at least former president or chavis promised to improve peoples lives when he took office 2 decades ago and the state oil company played a crucial role in his plan but experts say a lack of investment corruption and inexperience among chavez loyalist devastated the company now the government of little with money from russia and china is trying to provide the only industry with a much needed boost so with change in geopolitics to china for example is more costly because of the cargo shipments will have to see were ends venezuela has lots of debt with china and we will have to see whether they really invest in the country and if it generates cash and how the money is going to enter the country if we are sanctioning its a vicious cycle that generates lots of questions and problems many of these fisherman supported what is called the believer in revolution and believed in the benefits it would bring now they feel abandoned by a government they say has forgotten about the promises that were once made. Venezuela. Still ahead on the. New world. Thank you so much 23 time grand slam tennis champion Serena Williams will face former world number one Maria Sharapova and a 1st round glamour tie at the u. S. Open the years final major starts on monday in new york williams is a 6 time champion at flushing meadows one the title in 06 serena is chasing a record qualifying 24th slam title although she has lost in her last 3 major finals and has withdrawn from her last 2 tournaments with a back problem as for the russian she has had her playing time limited by a lingering shoulder injury this year meanwhile defending champion and world number one they only osaka will face russias and not blink over 1st step. I mean im not really sure yet because this is the 1st time of course so looking forward to the experience for me everyone knows that i love it here so over on the mens side world number one Novak Djokovic will be up against spains robert ocar bias by anna in the 1st round joke of it has won the u. S. Open 3 times previously and is also the defending champion. Well you know you have that additional pressure of you seem expect patients and i guess over the time you get used to the more you do more you get used to that i guess. A former Major League Baseball world Series Winner linked to a dominican Drug Trafficking and Money Laundering ring insists hes innocent octavio to tell played for 12 different teams in his 15 year career was in court on thursday after being arrested in one of 40 raids carried out across the Dominican Republic 3 time all star Luis Castillo is among 16 others implicated by authorities although he has not currently been detained. No mcclean person and i have my money in a clean way and all of you know that that is what the press and that is in my biography i am innocent and my money cleanly england are on top after a rain affected 1st day of the 3rd ashes cricket test against australia in leeds england won the toss and sent the ozzies in to bat minus top scored with 74 while david warner hit 61 but it was fast bowler for archer who was the top man on the day he helped himself to 6 wickets as ozzies collapsed from 136422179 all out thought. The ball was a team. You keep you look at make it look easy enough. Happened today. I was always going to sit there cricket just as i was but we wanted to show long enough to. Force a 1st in is was a group i was going to come out tomorrow and hit the right laws and links. Now i think the weathers quite hot so do a good draw that we can get out a lot. Of food as well so weve got a law on and lynxes a try and shut the school down but for us its about this one you know they had to drop fight it was the day that the conditions in favor but they put the ball in the wrong sport all the time so thats the challenge. Rain also played a large role in colombo on the 1st day of the 2nd test between sri lanka and new Zealand William somerville and call and a grand all made breakthroughs for the kiwis but sri lankan captain did most color in iraq was on 49 not out when play was stopped for the day the home team were 85 for 2 and just 36. 3 overs were bowled sri lanka lead the series one nil barcelona superstar captain messi is in a race against time to be fit for his clubs legal home game against real betis messi has adopted some slightly more unusual training methods this week as he tries to recover from the calf strain he suffered earlier in the month mr barr says Opening League match a one nil at last to athletic bilbao but he is back in training now hoping to be fit for the teams 1st match the season at their home ground the no camp. And elect player coach Vincent Kompany is to focus purely on captaining the club on match days from now on the belgian has lost all 4 of his matches so far in the Belgian League but starting with the next match against companies assistant will be responsible for tactical changes and substitutions on match day while companies simply captains a team. Brazils a famous Corinthians Football Club has set a new world record of 28 consecutive wins by its womens team the side were up against south josie in the brazilian womens championship quarterfinals they won one nil to win 51 on aggregate and reached the semifinals welsh team the new saints held the previous record will play federer the area on saturday as they look to further extend this record. Championship leader ought to next set the pace at the world rallies latest stop in germany the estonian whats quick history in thursdays shakedown 6 time a reigning champion sebastian was just half a 2nd off tomic space but norwegian driver was lucky to get away without damaging his car after ending up in a field at the badminton World Championships top seed kanto moto is through to the quarter finals and Basel Switzerland the japanese defeated indias per noyon straight games on thursday hes also the world number one and defending champion moto will meet malaysias easy. And just a few days after knocking out the top seed singapores mens excellent form at the World Championships is continuing the 20 year old booked her place in the quarterfinals she beat. Vietnam 2 games 21. Well thats all you sports for now well have more if you later thank you very much mia and that does it for this news hour but do stay with us we are back in just a couple of minutes with a not a news bulletin. Carcinogen. The leaders of the 7 most powerful economies in the world meeting barretts this august the climate of course is high on the agenda. But trade with brics it on the tension with iran will be vying for their attention how much progress a mine might follow the g. 7 summit on aljazeera. Is resistance. In akra people are grabbing social and political issues by the horns. And time to sing creativity parody and protest to challenge and change ideas. Gano controversial a witness documentary on aljazeera. Aljazeera. Where ever you are. Brazils prosecutors open an investigation of the wildfires sweeping the amazon the u. N. And from the school for its protection. And welcome to aljazeera live from our headquarters and dog man as a product also ahead there are top diplomats as they could work with new french proposals to save the nuclear dictator. Britains Prime Minister off the e. U. For flexibility on man youre back rolls out any major changes. Demonstrators that approach has been an indian administered kashmir trying to keep our Security Forces plus. That a gas leak. Why many fear let down by the dilapidated state of Venezuelas Oil and gas industry. Pressure is growing on brazils far right president to tackle a wave of wildfires threatening the amazon rain forest french president emanuel has called it an International Crisis he wants leaders from the g 7 countries to hold an urgent meeting on the issue during their summit this weekend but as accusing countries that donate money for the preservation of the amazon of interfering with brazils sovereignty admits that his government lacks the resources to fight the flames he says there are suspicions that farmers could be involved after initially blaming n. G. O. S for the fires. Now the amazon is bigger than europe how can you fight fires in such an area it is clearly criminal how can you do it you need to catch them in the act otherwise theres nothing you can do now nongovernmental organizations are losing money money that came from germany and norway they are unemployed now so they are trying to overthrow me. Now prosecutors in brazil have started an investigation into the wildfires and deforestation activists of blaming the government for its policies encouraging logging and clearing land for farming. In their half hour. Its the 1st time i speak publicly about this since the world began watching to the for a station and fires that are out of control in the rain forest its a situation i consider a crime against the state and a crime against humanity in brazil history weve seen this you go situations but for the 1st time we have this kind of situation that was created almost with official encouragement from the government now its not just brazil struggling to deal with wildfires across the border in bolivia more than 450000 hectares a forest have been destroyed well in the coming days and Many Brazilians are expected to march against the government governments policies that they say cause the wildfires from sao paulo to enshrine explains. The sheer scale of the forest fires right across brazil is really what many days after they started this whats forcing the people both here in brazil and in the wider International Community to finally take notice and start to lax federal prosecutors here in brazil have launched an integrated investigation into the fire as the environment minister here in brazil was booed and was criticized attending an International Conference in the country for having done nothing to try to put an end to the fires but his job also narrow the president who has borne the brunt of the accusations he is being accused of creating the conditions for farmers for developers around in the more remote areas of brazil especially up in the amazon to de forest to start the fire as we did puberty he has often criticized the n. G. O. S the indigenous communities as an impediment to progress in brazil and has said that he would do nothing to stop that progress and he would encourage it so he is being increasingly blamed by people here in brazil demonstrations are planned in several cities around the country in the next few days but in the meantime the fires continue to rage Something Like 80 percent more than the raging at this time last year the same period last year some of them it has to be said are not true some of them are started illegally but the vast majority especially those up in the amazon started illegally where conditions where restrictions on starting fires are very strict to protect that environment and to protect the indigenous communities and the wildlife that lives there. Lets move on to other news now an Iranian Foreign minister job. Is willing to work on french proposals to salvage the 2050 Nuclear Deal Washington resume sanctions on iraq after withdrawing from the pact last year french president says hell either try to soften the impact of the sanctions or come up with a way to compensate the iranian people and return back home says iran should keep complying with the deal but irans president Hassan Rouhani maintains that future talks with the u. S. Would be useless as the day has moved from the port city of bond there are. A day of National Pride for iran the unveiling of its own long range surface to air Missile Defense system above our 373 after years of sanctions that stopped iran from importing many weapons its had to develop its own domestic arms industry and now facing a military buildup in the region president has sent rouhani is defiant. Now though in a means do not accept logic we cannot respond with logic when the enemy launches a missile against us we cannot give a speech and say mr rocket please do not hit our country and no innocent people we cannot say mr Rocket Launcher please hit a button and selfdestruct the missiles are near. The far 373 can identify up to 100 targets at the same time irans Ballistic Missile program was not part of the 2015 nuclear deal a reason cited by the United States for pulling out of the agreement last year and imposing sanctions on iran. The recent seizing of oil tankers an iranian vessel detained in the british overseas territory of gibraltar and the u. K. Flagged tanker detained by iran in the gulf has raised tensions further now the u. S. Has put together a Naval Coalition it says is to protect the freedom of navigation through the gulf strategic strait of hormuz were 20 percent of the worlds oil passes through a narrow stretch of water. That iran and oman share territorial rights too. Bad oh yeah without iran they would not be any security in the region iran is a superpower ready to provide security for the region persian gulf and strait of hormuz stop pressuring us and stop encouraging your friends to be hostile towards us we are ready for friendship and defense as we are ready to fight back any invasion you know the iranian tanker grace one i renamed. Was released on the orders of the Gibraltars Supreme Court and is now heading to greece iran however is Still Holding the british tanker in the strait of hormuz the british flexed and impaired was seized by the revolutionary guard last month for what they say were violations of International Maritime regulations they say the vessel had changed directions in the shipping lanes it collided with a fishing boat but also a trained officer tracking systems to avoid Iranian Forces now iran says the seizure and release of this vessel has nothing to do with the iranian vessel that was seized by British Royal marines off the coast of gibraltar although a Foreign Ministry spokesman said a few days ago that he hoped that the issue would be in front of the court and that the ship would be released very soon. A straight britain and buttering have joined the u. S. Coalition but on the seas here its iran that still feels it holds this to teach