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 response the answer of their regime of the military regime during the transitional. Moment in algeria is trying to push on the demonstrators to stop and resign and they are calling for a transitional dialogue we have demonstrated but ive been told like a couple of minutes ago for example by 2 reliable sources 1st of all within the Police Officers and also by many colleagues in media as that 100. 00 minimum of 200. 00 people have been arrested not at the start of the demonstration but couple of minutes before. It looks like the general theme is a kind of lost and do not do not know how to deal with the problem of those demonstrators in you just said and you mentioned it that its been now more than 4 months of peaceful and quiet to demonstrations and they dont know how to deal with that problem for the region how would you assess the mood in the country right now because there are many key people of the of the old guard who are still in power. Yeah there are still busy there are still 2 important figures of the past regime there is 1st of all the transition the interim president of the. And also mr bradley their Prime Minister of transition we are talking about transitional issues at the moment both of them are still in power in touch with the Political Affairs of other area and most of the demonstrators want them to to just step down and they do not want even the regime demoted to regime is asking for the demonstrators to try to understand that no political issue is possible a political solution is possible without those 2 peoples and thats the problem that demonstrators refusing to refuse that both of them mr gregory and mr been solid to conduct the new. Era of the future they are figure of the past and they were both of them close close very close a political figures of the last president what if we can step down 2 months ago and where does the algerian military stand in all of this they and they seen as the key to all of this. Yeah theyre probably seen as the key but. As we have been reporting in during the last weeks in algeria weve seen that the more intense get this this demonstration even if its peaceful as i said the more problem is the more it is a problem for the army the army is supposed to be outs outside these political issues but they are not actually we understand that for the moment its the lieutenant chief of staff mr ahmed gets a lot who is at that moment conducting the Political Affairs of every day even if he said a couple of days ago that he has no personal political ambition the demonstrators most of them figures of the Civil Society but also anyone anybody in the street they dont want the army to be against them but accompanying them to try to build up the future is a good to speak with photographic thanks very much. Out of rise of armed groups in west africa will be high on the agenda as leaders begin a regional summit in nigerias capital this weekend mali has seen a surge in violence this year more than 160000 people displaced by ethnic fighting and thats putting pressure on the u. N. Mission there as nicolas hark explains now from bomb a car and a warning his report begins with some distressing images. Disturbing and graphic mobile phone footage of mutilated and burnt bodies found in the aftermath of the massacre either shot or had to death 160. 00 people on the villagers died in a matter of hours. The International Criminal courts are investigating what possibly constitutes crimes against humanity. It is a massacre the survivors believe could have been prevented. We knew that it had to be doggone hunters no one else but them and they are the only people who could attack us when. Done. Is a doggone militia they have declared war against the full on the people they queues for monies of supporting the armed groups like the strategy someone was lee mean and the Group Islamic state in the greater sahara active in the region where these for lonis live. But in baghdad there was shooting everywhere in the village 3 minutes into the attack i called the Brigade Commander telling him that the town was being attacked and i asked him to deploy soldiers he said that soldiers were on their way 10 minutes later i called again the soldiers hadnt left then i called the captain his name is diarra i told him again that our village was being attacked he told me the soldiers were leaving soon some moments later i called him again asking him if the troops had left but they were still in their barracks and while their barracks were a short 20 minute drive it took them 6 hours to get to go they arrived to after the attackers left. Not able to call for these reports. Of is that our Missile Defense will send over sports to coordinate forces action. In the villages and between villages. To appease the situation to get stability in the villages for lonnies accuse the mali an army of backing the doggone militias 1000000 forces with dogan militias have conducted joint military operations in the past in so as barry was hiding while his village was torched and his family killed he called the un peacekeepers known as mean use my for help. I called minute i talked to the people of the United NationsHuman Rights Office mr baca your call he told me that under control he was trying his best to solve the situation and said that bush or there would be a solution and then i switched my phone off these villagers say the un came but a day later the Un Peacekeeping force me news my says it sent battalions and helicopters on the day of the attack this is. The head of the mission have you failed your mission to protect the civilian population there. Are under siege we do have a mandate to protect civilians but if you see the agreement if you see the mandate of the minutia it is 1st intended for the north the south came after and it is now being contaminated by what is happening in the north. Violence is spreading faster than it can be contained and caught in this spiral of destruction for the people of mali nicholas hark al jazeera bamako. Human rights watch is urging the west to take control of syrias reconstruction its warning that president Bashar Al Assads government could misuse money meant to help rebuild the country asset has all but one the 8 year war his forces are now leading an offensive in the last rebel held province of italy Human Rights Watch says assets government has rigged the aid system to undermine human rights by benefiting government loyalists and punishing opponents its report warns foreign governments and Charity Groups to assert more control over their work and budgets are sarah kay ali is a Syria Research on Human Rights Watch she says organizations must Work Together to make sure humanitarian aid gets to those who need it. What the report this country has found is that the Syrian Government has actually implemented a series of policies and legal frameworks that we had seen coming since 2011 essentially to coopt the aid thats being thats being fed into government to help syria but now as the Syrian Government is retaking the territory all these policies have sort of gained in importance and there are structures that theyre applying on humanitarians have gained in importance so that what Human Rights Watch are saying essentially with the Supreme Court is that this is the time now to take a stance before its too late the Syrian Government has essentially adopted what you would call a divide and conquer approach against humanitarians where it negotiates which with each one of them unilaterally and sets up the system so that it can win at the cost of the rights of the population what Human Rights Watch is calling for with this report is the creation of a unified front of donors and organizations and investors where they take a collective approach to the bargaining the report does not see stop funding or reconstruction efforts in syria we have 13000000 people in need in syria who need the smarmy what were saying is that donors and organizations can really do much better to making sure that these investments reach the people. And for interested donors or stakeholders who do want to provide this kind of money its on them as well to raise these issues with the organizations and with the Syrian Government and be honest about the challenges that are being faced within this humanitarian response. Iraq has stepped up security outside the trainee embassy in bank debt off to demonstrate to storm the compound on thursday night the crowd was angry of hosting a u. S. Sponsored conference on the Israeli Palestinian conflict recalled its ambassador to iraq in protest white house advisor. Unveiled his economic plan in the bahamian capital this week im a gem jhoom has more from the rocky kept. Hundreds of angry demonstrators were outside the Bahamian Embassy in baghdad they were there to protest the u. S. Sponsored manami conference in bahrain it was reported also that demonstrators breached the Embassy Compound that they were able to get up on the roof to take down the beheading the flag and also it was reported that they burned israeli flags and u. S. Flags while they were holding that demonstration and it was reported as well that the security guards on the scene guarding the embassy retreated when they saw that wall of angry protesters appear this is all happening at a time when many around the partys Political Parties and politicians have been highly critical of that mamma conference when many politicians here have said that this conference is something that is gone beyond saying that its not going to help the palestinians these are off the politicians is that this is actually going to be a hindrance to palestinians being able to establish a palestinian state Going Forward so not really a surprise that this would happen at a time of such heated rhetoric the big question now will there be more protests in the days to come. The honduran Opposition Leader a man wells elias says the countrys facing its biggest crisis since the coup the deposed him 10 years ago this week military police opened fire students demanding the government step down the president Juan Hernandez is refusing to go why not upload reports. On june 28th 2009 the military coup detat on tourists sent shock waves across latin america. In the Early Morning 100 soldiers stormed the president ial palace and they were and captured president moments. He was put on an airplane and sent to neighboring effectively relieving him of his command as head of state. And his ego was there when saliva supporters took to the streets to denounce the coup and Security Forces were deployed to shut down nationwide protests that lasted for weeks. 10 years later we returned to the hunter in capital to take on that one job were something a taxi driver of 20 years says the lives of many hundreds are marred by the