A continuation of the shias regime demanding a transition to civilian government. 2 2 c c opposition groups say they hope this deal will be the beginning of a new era for saddam. Alexy obrian al jazeera. And dependence Day Celebrations in algeria are being accompanied by the 20 of successive friday protests to demand a new democratic government its 57 years since and dependent on a france prodemocracy protests began in february which led to the resignation of longtime president Abdelaziz Bouteflika and april interim president saleh has called for a National Dialogue about arranging a president ial election but did not set a date for when that might be george to face a Research Associate at the school of oriental and African Studies at london middle east and to 2 he joins us from london we appreciate your time so much so when an interim president calls for a National Dialogue what does he actually mean. Well the problem is that there is a procedure laid down in the constitution and thats what the army and also mr benson are trying to follow they havent been successful the election should have been held yesterday but they werent because of the new suitable candidates and that means that the army guaranteeing the constitution and the protesters standard daggers drawn they both disagree about the way forward and they cant find a Common Ground so that means weve now got an impending crisis who could turn out to be very serious indeed ok you said a lot there so lets go back to one thing you said that there are no suitable candidates why is that how how can that be resolved in a timely manner is that not something that can be solved in a timely manner. Well thats the problem it doesnt seem as if you can be to stand in the president ial elections analogy area you have to have a certain number of supporters people writing in to support your kind of candidacy and you also have to have support from elected officials and the fact is that the 2 candidates who did stand went to acceptable they were unable to fulfill those agreements and therefore the election couldnt take place and thats really very serious because its meant to date place within 90 days of the previous president stepping down and that condition is now being breached that means the demonstrators will have even greater weight behind their demands that in fact a new system should be developed instead there should be a transitional agreement and a Transitional Assembly to determine what the new constitution should be amended actually i mean i realize the situations are different but that is what the protesters in sudan kept pushing for with the Transitional Council to get to the next step right so is is are there the type of people in place that can actually really push for a Transitional Council of sorts. No i think actually one nice to see this in rather different terms this is really a continuation of a much older argument inside algeria going back to 980 about the way in which the country should be governed and in effect theres not been as there was in sit down an army that took charge and was then prepared to negotiate in the case of algeria the army sees itself as the guarantor of the state and isnt prepared to negotiate about the way in which a new constitution should be formed and thats really whats produced the problem and one of the reasons for that is that the army is always dominating the political process now geria and its believed that the chief of staff of the army guy and son are actually has president ial ambitions himself the demonstrators on the other hand are determined that the whole structure of government should be removed they regard it as corrupt and acceptable and thats really a colossal difference between the 2 cases he had thats a thats a huge gap that youve described so what next indeed. Well thats a very good question no one knows the problem is if they cant find Common Ground if there isnt a interlocutor on the behalf of the demonstrators then we face the possibility of a more violent struggle beginning instead they say happened before it happened in the 1990 s. And it was extremely violent everyone lives in fear of that but unless the demonstrators can find a means of communicating with the army unless the army is prepared to listen to the demonstrators i fear in iraq to me thats the sort of situation where were going to end up message if a we appreciate your expertise on this very much. Im sorry i missed that and no problems there we think please that thank you very much. But a more head of the news hour including the latest on the international wrangle over britain seizing on a rainy an oil tanker. Heavy losses for Syrian Forces fighting drags on and the countrys northwest. And why the white house isnt on the agenda for the World Cup Final as we will have all that for. Others are now battling the government and the latest demonstration in the heart of hong kong they are demanding leaders listen to their children and address their demands its the 2nd time they protested in a month against a controversial extradition bill and student protesters in hong kong say they will not hold talks with the government and less fair and public leaders of the citys largest Student Unions were responding to chief executive kerry lambs offer to meet in private a small number of demonstrators ransacked and vandalized the Legislative Council building on monday hundreds of thousands of largely Peaceful Protesters have been calling for land to scrap a controversial bill that would allow extradition to Mainland China she actually has plenty of opportunities to communicate with the general public in the whole june but she did not and then she suddenly found to a Student Union to have communication and but showed a new suit and so that we think that she. Is just a public show so we dont see why we should immediately be. A separate invitation. Brian has the latest from hong kong. It says a lot about the see the level of anger here in hong kong that this offer of talks was rejected out of hand by the students they have revealed that this was a law firm made in private to the students of just 2 of the universities here for talks that again would be held in private now it all seems to be part of the leader kerry lands promise of being more of a listening chief executive but the complaint against has always been that she is incapable or under you paul to make any changes that she wont back down and of course the suspicion being that behind her beijing is also forcing her not to give way not to lose face what the students are demanding is that they have this dialogue with government not only themselves but also many other sectors of Society Whats more they want that to be held in public all part of their campaign of building on the impetus of these mass demonstrations to keep this issue very much in the Public Domain the concern for the government is that they want to try to defuse this situation by having a public debate that may turn into a rowdy shouting match between student groups and government officials they simply make matters worse iran is condemned what i described as the illegal seizure of an oil tanker by britain are the spanish coast u. K. Suspects the iranian ship was trying to deliver or oil to syria and sanctions officials interpol to are examining the cargo and questioning the crew operate and reports. Tanker in the shadow of the rock with police boats in attendance the Oil Tanker Grace want to see may be calm but the ship is at the center now of an International Diplomatic storm spain has revealed that the United States had been monitoring the ships journey past that intelligence to gibraltar government this action the rose from information giving the gibraltar government reasonable grounds to believe that the vessel the grace one was acting in breach of European Union sanctions against syria in fact we have reason to believe that the grace one was carrying its shipments of crude oil to the ban yes refinery in syria. That refinery is the property of an entity that is subject to European Union sanctions against syria the grace one is believed to have loaded with iranian oil off the coast of the gulf the ship made it this far as gibraltar a british overseas territory at the entrance of the mediterranean its final destination is claimed to be the bally ass refinery in syria but under cover of darkness a contingent of 30 Royal Marines under the direction of the role Gibraltar Police boarded the ship using a wildcat helicopter and rigid inflatables to run into it a lot more. Naturally we were aware of the Operation Police patrols bodies were guarding the area but were studying the circumstances in which it happened he was the man by the United States to be not a kingdom that were looking into how it affects our sovereignty because it happened in what we understand a spanish waters the u. S. Is applying what it calls maximum pressure on iran to try to force a renegotiation of the 2050 nuclear to European Union those trying hard to support irans economy against that u. S. Pressure however this oil shipment was heading to syria which the e. U. Definitely does have sanctions against iran being under pressure and the United States believes its trying to twist that the arm of of iraq of course the army and try to find a ways and means to bypass it and export their oil and the fact that they did not go through so as cairo and went around from africa around the good hope south of africa coming back it may be im just guessing it way to avoid being tracked iran has reacted angrily to the seizure summoning the British Ambassador to the Foreign Ministry in tehran and stuck in the middle of all of this is the grace want auburn and has more on this story now so what is happening now with the ship and with the cargo. Well as 2 parallel strands ongoing friday and 1st of all theres the procedural and that is that the 28. 00 crew members on board that ship are still on board the ship which is anchored just off to your grata they are being interviewed not question but interviewed by around 50 roll Gibraltar Police officers and i use the word interviewed because those crew members are being treated as witnesses not as potential suspects what the Foreign Office here in the u. K. And london is saying is that this investigative side of the process could take several weeks as the Gibraltar Police try to a certain exactly what the cargo consists of and where it came from and where it was headed to looks like its going to be an elongated process but as well as that procedural element there is of course the diplomatic elements and iran remains extremely angry that this ship has been stopped and detained by the gibraltarians and weve had a call from a former member former leader of the iranian Republican Guard saying that suggesting that now iran should start stopping british shipping in the made it in the gulf if at all possible in retaliation. There is denying that it acted under pressure from the United States what more do we know about that. Yeah the government has rather bristled at the clear suggestion that came from Joseph Burrell the spanish acting foreign minister that you sort of my reporter who said basically the information that led to the Gibraltarian Police acting in this way mounting this operation came from the United States. Clearly stating that well the gibraltarians are saying well hold on a 2nd we dont act on the behest of anybody yes i mean we had in my report information became available to them they havent said from where but they said that the priority was simply up hold European Union sanctions against syria notably against syria so they said that the breaches of existing law were what they were investigating and it was not at all based on extraneous Political Considerations paul brennan joining us from london thank you. Further north in alaska a record breaking heat wave is fueling wildfires that smoke is covering a large parts of the state people in some communities have been moved to say others are being warned to prepare for the worst and a gallagher report some startling. On the can i pin incident the swan lake fire has been raging for a month Officials Say in recent years these kinds of fires have become more frequent and persistent but alaska is also in the midst of an unprecedented heat wave that shows no signs of abating local firefighters and emergency staff of being reinforced by socalled hot shot crews from across the u. S. Conditions are monitored by the hour in order to tackle what is now a massive blaze this is a case of prioritizing where people and infrastructure is basically exactly also whats good for the environment and whats safe for firefighters thats always going to be our number one priority. On the ground staff are stretched thin and have been on the front lines of this blaze for weeks videos posted by crews fighting to control these wildfires showed just how difficult and dangerous the work is we came across the brook valley firefighters a crew made up of native alaskans from remote communities who are vital and highly trained part of this operation were all here as one. Were all here to do our job to help help alaska and. Help save peoples homes there was a fire in 2015 in the lotto and there was a lot of firefighters there to save our community and when i get back were just make is away from the main road into sterling but just look at this scene here behind me some of these areas over here are too dangerous for firefighters to go on foot so i look up to the scooping up the water to try and tackle the flames in this one like fire a so far consumed almost 350 square kilometers and its one of more than 80 fires across the state. Hot spots of blaring up all the time and experts say these fires may not be extinguished until the Seasons Change and that could be weeks away. Equality across the southern part of alaska is now a big concern with plumes of smoke covering the mountains close to the states largest city anchorage. Forecasters say alaskas heat wave a factor in making the fires worse may continue for weeks for the foreseeable future this is going to hold in place that week window that we work out in time for events like this that im capable of forecasting for it looks like its going to hold for now so yeah pretty hot hot and dry to be continued for sure the role the Climate Change plays is something at the back of many peoples minds here they call it just say alaska summers appear to be getting longer and hotter if that trend continues shared resources could be stretched to breaking point and gallacher aljazeera stilling alaska. What products keep the focus on alaska its really important right now yes i mean they had the warmest june on record says just progressing from that it most likely is a Climate Change story this is because it stands at the moment and you just saw the fires well the happy a bit is all those 86 fahrenheit yes they do like for say took about 30 celsius in anchorage and its usually a nice warm summer is just a bit warmer than normal so you know normal leisure activities go on as long as you know in the year the fires because the fires have to damp down with water and the same argument is expressed here water the grass keep it green yes less of a worry there now the records that were broken possibly will be in the next few days one in anchorage july the 4th so its 2. 00 celsius that be the old record by about 2 degrees as a huge leap up again and the figures go back here to 953 you probably heard in the package just the forecast want is likely to go on for at least the next 34. 00 days thats the forecast for anchorage well probably wont be the record here but possibly in fairbanks we get pretty close as is further inland 2930. 00 reason overnight about 16 degrees the reasoning for all this well is changing climate the base conditions a warmer but weve got a stuck pattern once more the jet stream means this high sitting of will persist with normal sunshine just to help russia. Head on aljazeera a march to parliament protests to get louder over the Election Results. Killing without fear of punishment venezuelas government is accused of a brutal crackdown on its opponents. And its partly the best reaction so far from the 3rd round of wimbledon. Is a dialogue about it for one of the. On International Media and on t. V. Why should we stop this comes with skepticism because theres a lot of it on my and everyone has a voice being taken advantage of just because you know small community. I mean thats well just teach health join the global conversation on out to 0 all they want to do is start the debate the same kind of debate we have here in the street. With every. Plans to abolish the Death Penalty a dividing the community with more than 1200 prisoners on death row one on one in this to. Watching out to syria lets recap the top stories right now the World Health Organization says and its haq on a Migration Detention Center in libya has taken the death toll from the battle for tripoli to almost a 1000 in the past few hours the u. N. Backed government says one of its fighter jets is missing or lawyer claims to have to say they shot went down a car bomb explosion has killed at least 3 people in Southern Turkey the blast was in the town to close to the Syrian Border turkeys president raja type says the explosion is likely terror related sudans ruling military join to end a coalition of opposition and protest groups have breached a deal to share power during a transition period leading up to the. Election mediator from the African Union says a new rotating council will be set up. Syrias government is understood to have lost hundreds of troops in a 3 month battle and the northwest rebels are putting up a fight but the absence of iranian backed troops and challenges faced on other fronts played a role in drawing out the conflict they heard reports from beirut in neighboring lebanon there is a stalemate on the front lines in northwest syria Syrian Government forces backed by the Russian Military have not been able to break the oppositions defensive positions after weeks of fighting it has been a costly battle war monitoring groups say more than 700 Government Troops have been killed since late april but. We tell the a sad gangs on the russian occupiers whoever comes to the hama or latakia fronts will fail hundreds of bodies of regime mercenaries are rotting. The rebels to last hundreds of men defending their territory but they stop the advance their ally turkey did play a role by providing sophisticated weapons capabilities it doesnt want to lose its leverage in the province of idlib another main stakeholder iran however has been absent from the battlefield. You know his participation would provoke negative reactions from the western countries especially the United States in terms of a kind of military action against syria or Something Like that and another reason is that you know on those last ones for a watch or 2 sensitivities because they are working with each other in terms of wincing do you and sanctions against iran. Others say iran is sending a message to its russian allies who have not stopped israeli strikes against iranian targets in syria whatever the reason the Syrian Government is struggling and iran is proving its value in the war effort it is not the only after front line i still remains a threat in central syria the major problem facing. From such and such. And even so we. Talk about that. Basically every day. I just. Think that. Like a. Syrian president bashar assad has restored control over more than 60 percent of the country but his army is exhausted overstretched and it seems too weak to recapture remaining rebel held areas without the help of iranian backed militias many of the fighters on the frontline fighting on behalf of the regime have been recruited forcefully from cound across syria they do not actually want to serve many of them do not like the assad regime some of the movement fought against rebel ranks and therefore their morale their terminations to continue fighting is very low also repeatedly says he will recall current lip but the battle for the oppositions last stronghold is proving to be difficult. Beirut pregnant women and children are among more than 50 microns rescued off the coast of libya in a rubber dinghy at their destination now is far from clear there aboard a boat operated by a taliban humanitarian charity which is banned from talking internet telling in port mediterranean and saving humans says the. Minutes serial degree is illegitimate to korea that is. Human rebels in the rebels rather in yemen say they are carried out more try to tax on jews and other airports in saudi arabia stopping all air traffic a saudi a moronic Coalition Spokesperson says its forces intercepted and shot down a drone atchison airport theres a lot of them allowing the 6 week fight my opposition protesters against the reelection of their president thousands marched on parliament in the capital a long way president Peter Muth Reka denies allegations that the results of the election in may were dr i mean a miller has won from neighboring south africa. The latest protests led by opposition parties and a coalition for human rights who are demanding that president peter muhtar rica step down theyre also angry with the Electoral Commission which they say is responsible for what they are calling a fraudulent election which took place in may and in that election which i recall was reelected by a very narrow margin for a 2nd term of thousands of people gathered in the capital long where the worst scum mischas between opposition supporters and supporters of ruling party about 3000 people marched to parliament and camp today overnight they are expected to continue these demonstrations throughout the day today and some shops looted and property was damaged during the protests that have already taken place the oppositions blame supporters of the governing Democratic Democratic Progressive Party for that destruction and also for attacking opposition protesters and the demonstrators say they will continue their protests as long as it takes to get top electoral offices to step down now we havent heard much from president mubarak of besides calling for opposition parties one of them led by the former Vice President solace to lima to accept the Election Results but these opposition parties have in fact gone to court to have it a null the Election Results as well as they also want fresh elections to be held now these protests have continued since the Election Results were announced more than a month ago and these opposition parties say theyll continue them as long as is necessary. During their worst power shortages in years Business Owners try to get around it by operating at night and ive got more likely to get a steady supply of electricity reports from harare. Its just after 10 oclock at night for people like martin its time to get some work done if hes lucky to have about 7 hours of electricity before it switched off again for another 10 hours or sometimes longer rolling power cuts. Have forced businesses to adjust in some areas people never know when that sometimes means not going home. Because i have to be. Enough time to. Zimbabwe is experiencing its worst pockets in 3 years some neighborhoods havent had a steady supply of electricity for weeks if the middle of the day and usually at this time a lot more people will be busy working making furniture but there is no electricity those who can afford it are using generators the rest of the way until. The country is struggling to generate enough electricity to meet demand its Mining Sector which gets more than 2 thirds of its export earnings is one of the worst affected. Excited by a market where you know. So little factors. In what it means. Inflation. Of g. D. P. Growth in the. Weeks what Energy Officials blame a drought that has reduced water levels at the largest Hydro Power Plant in the country ageing coal fired generators can she was who dont pay bills and decades of corruption in the Energy Sector those that may have played. In making us get to this situation. They really should know that were not going to take it lying down everybody is that responsible whatever they have done and suffered it. But fixing whats gone wrong in the Energy Sector if that ever happens will take time. It doesnt have enough to buy electricity from its neighbors and so apology narration improves this will likely be an everyday reality for zimbabweans who have no choice but to lie on the state own Power Company for the energy needs. A report by the un human rights chief accuses venezuela Security Forces of committing gross violations michelle bashfully blames president Nicolas Maduro special forces for what she calls politically motivated killings the report contains chilling details of the techniques allegedly being used by been as well as Intelligence Services to intimidate members of the opposition. Essential institutions from the rule of law in venice will have been eroded the exercise of freedom of opinion a question Association Family and the right to participate in public life in turn also risk of reprisal and repression. A report not attacks against actual or perceived political opponent and human will defend those ranging from threat and campaigns to arbitrated attention cultural and treatments Sexual Violence killing and all disappearance research on his life from going to service in argentina so to tell us more about this report. Well many say that the report was demolishing because it not only talks about this extra judicial killings that happen mostly in poor neighborhoods and in well known anticrime operations most of those who were killed around 70000. 00 in the past year and a half the human rights representative said and thats why one of the main focus of these of human rights abuses by the venezuelan government it also talks about torture about criminalizing opposition and also the dismantling of the institutional checks and balances in the country and also how democracy has been eroded in this past few years of course the government is saying that this report is imbalanced that it is via they issued a statement referring to 70 points where they say that Michelle Bachelet is wrong in her report and thats why we are contesting it but human Rights Groups are saying that the report shows exactly what they have been denouncing for a very long time and today is Independence Day in venezuela story so so house is going to play out there what do you expect to happen. Well thats correct its a big day in venezuela and it began with a ceremony by the government in a pantheon thats where venezuela is independent. Heroes are buried later on there was a meeting at the constituent to sing assembly this is the legislative parallel body that was created by the government and thats where theyre denouncing that venezuela is under attack by the United States and other countries and thats why theyre calling on to the government supporters to take to the streets on this day theres going to be a military parade a massive military parade it is a tactic but its not the only demonstration thats going to be taking place the opposition on the other hand is also calling for a big demonstration theyre saying that theyre going to march towards the military counterintelligence you wanted to this is a mini Security Services unit that has been blamed in the past days but because of the death of a navy captain maybe captain raphael of course that was in trial he was accused of plotting to kill president when he passed out his lawyers are saying that he died because of tortures and thats why the opposition is planning to put protests towards the headquarters of that Security Services unit on this day. For us and when i started to thank you and he is experiencing record breaking heat waves and drought like conditions that have contributed to the deaths of hundreds of people the Western State of has experienced lowest rainfall and decades leaving many farmers in a dire situation one tells a story. My name is been an issue. By tommy 25 years old from. The water pond in our villages dried up. Only come once every 5 or 6 days. There is no fodder to feed the animals i was forced to leave my cattle