Becomes Prime Minister hell be faced with the Foreign Office furious at his perceived role in bringing down one of their own. Johnson himself assuming he becomes Prime Minister will pick the next ambassador to washington the question is will it be a neutral diplomat or a political appointment brecks it is taking yet more victims this time at the heart of government Lawrence Leigh aljazeera in london Alexander Vershbow is a former Us Ambassador to nato and russia and he was the deputy section general of nato from 2012 to 2016 he joins me now via skype from philadelphia thanks very much for being with us do you think in the end it was how much of an was it the issue of being frozen out by the Chinese Administration and how much was it that separate issue of not getting the support of johnson one of the potential future Prime Ministers. Well it looks to me that it was mainly the blackballing by President Trump and the administration which made it almost impossible for a bastard barracked do its job. Perhaps the extra push came from Boris Johnsons failure to stand up for the you cant pass there which was kind of unfortunate to put it diplomatically. But i fear that he did make the right choice the u. K. Needs to be represented by somebody with access to Decision Makers and clearly he lost that access you know heres the what do you have to put it diplomatically just that and that was far from the kind of language used by president what were you surprised by the kind of language he used in his tweets about that but i would have been surprised by any other president of a not by this one using that sort of language the president haste to be criticized or ridiculed and these leaked telegrams pretty sharp language is not particularly unusual this is the Standard Assessment of many critics of President Trump but he usually lashes out and tries to demean people who criticize in this way and he lived up to his reputation now that promise im a did actually stand up for die but he also said Good Government depends on Public Servants being able to give full and frank advice i want all our Public Servants to have the confidence to have do that does this episode with a leak and the reaction to it mean that that will no longer be the case. Well it certainly makes it more likely that many diplomats particularly senior ones will. Censor themselves will put fewer things into writing when they report to their governments and that will ultimately diminish the integrity of the Decision Making process that also makes it harder for historians down the road to reconstruct what happened when they theres no written records of key decisions we had this problem in the u. S. With the wiki leaks release of thousands of state Department Telegrams 9 years ago it did lead to the resignation of one of our ambassadors in mexico and it compromise the safety of many Confidential Sources who spoke to us diplomats in places like afghanistan or iraq with the expectation that they would be protected and i dont know if they were killed but they were tremendous risk yeah i mean you mention wiki leaks and this was a while ago and now this episode i mean do you think that any diplomat can be confident that the communications with the mothership sense because secure well its already become a challenge when the hacking and the Cyber Attacks are becoming more sophisticated and its harder to be sure that your best in christian systems protect you in a technical way but when people maliciously released documents to the press. As appears to be the case with the best of derricks telegrams it does have a kind of Chilling Effect on the ability to do it youre supposed to do which is to give your unvarnished assessments and analysis to your government and my number in terms of the relationship between the u. K. And the u. S. Do you think this will be will be damaging. Well i think the damage will be temporary but it is i think unfortunate that the president could succeed in forcing out such an experienced and talented amat who we actually did get along with despite that no pretending that it never even knew it. But i think the relationship has so many important issues where we have to Work Together on so many. Decades or centuries of cooperation and partnership and i think well look at past this Alexander Vershbow thank you very much and evening the time talked as im sure theyre thanking. Former british Prime Minister john major says he would take legal action to prevent the countrys next leader from suspending parliament to push through a no deal brecks it is comments were in response to Boris Johnson a favorite to win the conservative leadership election hes refused to rule out suspending parliament to ensure britain leaves the e. U. On october 31st with or without a deal if that were to happen i think there would be a queue of people who would seek to dish to review the queens decision cannot be challenged in law but the Prime Ministers advice to the queen can i believe be challenged in law and i for one would be prepared to go and seek judicial review to prevent parliament be bypassed us President Donald Trump has warned that he will increase sanctions substantially on iran soon and accused tehran of secret enriching uranium for a long time but iran insists its actions are peaceful and says it has nothing to hide and this ravi has more from tehran. As the 2050 nuclear deal continues to fall apart the task of trying to save it now falls to france in meetings in tehran the french president s top diplomatic adviser walk the line between American Economic pressure on iran and iranian diplomatic pressure on europe to ignore u. S. Sanctions if they want to keep the Nuclear Deal Alive but if emanuel baan had hoped he could convince iran not to continue reducing cooperation with the joint comprehensive plan of action he likely left disappointed iran says the rollback will stop when sanctions do recall ya i guess it is really funny that the americans who broke the deal completely asking for an emergency meeting of the i. A. E. A. To complain about iran which using its commitments the us says iran has bad intentions well if enrichment is bad why do they enrich themselves the only country that has used Nuclear Weapons against innocent people is the United States the 2015 deal is essentially transactional iran curbs Nuclear Activity so it can sell oil and generate revenue that process stopped working when the us restarted sanctions and now its playing out on the open seas earlier this week the British Royal marines seized an Iranian Oil Tanker off the coast of japan after the horizon is called it an act of piracy that undercuts londons commitment to the nuclear deal and a breach of the j. C. And on wednesday u. S. Officials once again put out a call for countries willing to form a military coalition to patrol shipping lanes off the coast of iran and yemen a move that could make things even worse the potential for things going on without. Getting an agreement. Is very difficult as well every nation. Regardless. Agreement went direct french president emanuel necron has said it is time again for dialogue american sanctions didnt bring iran back to the. Go shooting table as u. S. President donald trump might have liked in fact iran now says it will not stop producing cooperation with the j. C. B. Away for anything short of a lifting of banking and sanctions but the british this week seized an Iranian Oil Tanker in International Waters because america asked them to and the United States is now calling on other militaries to help patrol middle eastern waters to protect shipping lanes from what they say is an iranian threat all Things Considered any hope france might have head of a negotiated solution to any of this might be overly optimistic same old 00. Iran continued to pour scorn on the u. S. At the emergency meeting of the International AtomicEnergy Agency it cold in vienna china how has more. I think the most important thing to come out of this meeting at the i. A. E. A. In vienna is that iran is not at this moment anyway planning to take any further steps away from the new clear deal although envoy for some arab body did affirm that after another 60 days now if indeed the parties have still not come back into full compliance with their commitments to iran under the deal particularly the europeans of course and their commitment to protect irans economy under the deal will then it will be prepared to launch a 3rd phase of actions in response but pointing out that no Firm Response has yet been decided upon by iran misra by the told the ambassadors in the room that once again. The enrichment that iran is undertaking is its right under the nonproliferation treaty is required for purely peaceful purposes and that iran has never tried to create or acquire weapons of mass destruction he made the point that simply repeating the baseless accusations against iran pointed of course of the United States does not magically authenticate them he said and he painted the u. S. As the ultimate aggressor both in the region and in the current state of the nuclear deal you know that the issue of and which meant is not put it under their number the version 2000 this is the right of every member to the nonproliferation treaty and this is irans right and so lots we are doing is in a very transparent manner is under the surveillance of the y. A the inspectors and every single activities under monitoring we have nothing to hide it is questionable therefore what the United States will feel that its achieved out of this meeting a meeting that he had called of course of all the board of governors of the i. A. E. A. Looking presumably for some sort of International Unity of purpose towards iran and finding instead in the room only division and no formal conclusion reached by this meeting the board simply saying that all the parties must come back into compliance the division very clear among the signatories themselves to the deal. Coming up on the news hour from london a crackdown the world can now witness pictures are shared of the sudanese militarys break up of a peaceful protest as an internet blackout is lifted last. Trad declares a National Emergency is it scrambles to contain a measles outbreak. And has fought its game over for wimbledons green mixed doubles pairing he is here with that news of the mens quarterfinals. Frances military has admitted that antitank missiles found during a raid in libya belong to the french army the us made javelin missiles were recovered from libyan Warde Hollister have to base on the outskirts of tripoli frances military says the missiles were originally intended to protect french antiterrorism forces in libya and did not violate an olive embargoed bottler has more from powers. A of p. And voices News Agencies say that they have received a statement from the French Defense ministry and in a statement the French DefenseMinistry Says these missiles are indeed french they are u. S. Made javelin missiles or the french gave to their forces operating in libya now thats interesting in itself because france has always been very vague about its presence in libya now the French DefenseMinistry Statement also says that these missiles were in fact defective they were supposed to be destroyed what the statement doesnt say there is how myrth these missiles ended up in the hands of forces who are loyal to Khalifa Haftar i mean thats the big question and potentially a very embarrassing one for the french government because the french governments have always said that they are not supplying any weapons or to libya that would be in breach of a u. N. Arms embargo and over the years. His campaign is and critics have accused frogs of supporting. In the sense that france perhaps feels after is someone that they can partner with in the fight against fighters in the region but france has always denied that they have denied that support and said that they backed publicly the un Peace Process the u. S. House of Representatives Oversight Committee is looking into the deteriorating conditions in Detention Centers at the southern border with mexico House Democrats have toured some of the facilities and so the state of the migrants is demoralizing if we touched or even if we could be of a big role to. Rethink Everything Else this is like you cannot you keep a little it was do or alive the humanizing them all it is a mere show we love them your show we dont want to hear no rock coming down here. We are reaching the generation of children that will never forget what we did to them this type of trauma kid got away with in the new book for this kind of trauma not only one critic infantrys in our country and no amount of how you can hear me we always want to call it and i know all the talk you can every couple of weeks to a whole generation your children are going to be 161718 years old never remember exactly what you need to be the bearer of good for them or dont hendren is live in washington d. C. John what is the committee been hearing. Its been an emotional hearing as you could hear right there and its still ongoing democrats express the kind of outrage you just heard right there about families being detained at the border and children being separated and held in detention facilities that title of the hearing was kids in cages Inhumane Treatment at the border that gives you a little idea what the democrats who run the house of representatives feel about what is going on down there some republicans on the other hand defended it there was a congressman from texas who said he objected to the term kids in cages. The former immigrations and customs and enforcement official said that actually this program was expanded under president obama he was brought in by the republicans and he said that resulted in fewer border crossings which is part of what the trumpet ministration has been touting here he said it was unfair to fault the department of Homeland Security which oversees those facilities saying a massive influx of Central Americans who are fleeing poverty and violence in their own country has simply overwhelmed the u. S. But perhaps most poignantly they heard from a guatemalan mother whose 18 year 18 month old daughter died after being held in one of those detention facilities she says inside the facility her daughter contracted what was later discovered to be a viral long infection that she asked doctors in the facility for help and gone very little of that and after they reached the 20 day maximum for staying in those facilities she brought her daughter to outside doctors but by the time they decided they discovered what had really happened it was just too late and she says her daughter died on what was mothers day in guatemala heres just a little bit of what that mother yasmin juarez of guatemala had to say its like they tore out a piece of my heart like they tore out my soul i wanted to have a better life for her and a better. Future and work hard so she could keep growing like she was but now we cant do that because shes gone that prompted even one republican on the panel to say im sorry we failed you it was an emotional hearing and it continues right now and joe in the meantime where does the debate over the detention of immigrants stand. Well everyone seems to agree there is a crisis at the border but how you define that depends on who you are republicans say the crisis is this surge of Central Americans over the border democrats of course say the crisis is the detentions itself several people several children have died in those detention facilities and some of them come over with preexisting conditions after what is an arduous crossing into the United States so congress recently passed a 4 point 6000000000. 00 bill in order to improve the conditions at those facilities in june border arrests actually went down meanwhile President Trump is pressuring mexico to keep more of those migrants on it side of the border as they await their asylum claims meanwhile the Trump Administration is planning more raids it says sometime very soon in places like los angeles and texas so the standoff really continues at these facilities and it may not ultimately decided except with the 2020 election dont 100 thank you very much indeed. Diplomats say 22 countries have signed a letter calling on china to hold its mass detention of ethnic week is in the region is the 1st joint move on the issue at the u. N. Human Rights Council human experts say at least 1000000 regas and other muslims are howden Detention Centers in the remote Western Region china describes them as Training Centers to stamp out extremism australia canada and japan are among the 22 signatories going on with britain france and germany. Papua new guineas Prime Minister has vowed to hunt down the gunman who killed at least 20 people most of them women and children in a remote village that the killings took place in carried her inhaler province northwest of the capital port moresby to the victims were pregnant women Officials Say the violence is part of a long running tribal feud. An outbreak of measles has prompted chad to declare a National Emergency other african countries are also struggling to contain the preventable disease the World Health Organization says cases on the continent have surged by 700 percent this year because hike reports. It is so much it hurts. The fever wont go down. And this babys lungs are filled with. These are children on the brink of death because they were not facts and they did against measles we didnt know what it was we thought it was malaria its only here that they told us she has measles you dont understand we are so scared of losing her they keep giving her injections but she isnt doing any better this preventable disease has become an epidemic spreading faster than it can be contained. Doctors without borders have set up one Crisis Center after the other vaccinating children to stop them contracting measles. So were very worried because measles combined with malnutrition is a dangerous mix and there arent enough International Actors helping child the ministry of health to tackle this growing outbreak an outbreak that isnt just affecting chad take a look at these numbers according to the u. N. There has been a global increase of cases of measles by 300 percent in the last year how many of you here are worried about autism at the heart of the crisis is both fear and belief that the measles vaccine is dangerous by an increasing number of people in the west and the lack of access to vaccines in other parts of the world. You know jeremy more than 90 percent of children have not been vaccinated because they dont have access to Health Centers and so most children under 5 are infected with the measles virus. It is highly contagious for both children and adults and so despite u. S. Troops to fight this age old virus measles is thriving in day during the lives of thousands here in chad and around the world. Because hawke aljazeera. Internet access to mobile phones has been restored in sudan following a court order the Telecoms Companies to end a weeks long blackout services were cut last month after more than 100 people were killed by Government Forces during a peaceful sit in resumption of service means civilians are now able to find out more about what happened after 8 of us were they on reports. For the 1st time in more than a month these type of images are be shared through mobile phone. They show the aftermath of sudans military crackdown on protesters during a peaceful sit in in khartoum more than 100 people were killed by sudans military joint on june 3rd. Much of the violence was recorded on cell phone videos Internet Services were cut shortly after on the orders of sudans transitional military council. Lawyer adela seem hazan filed a lawsuit requesting the internet be restored the court agreed services were brought back 1st to fix landlines on tuesday the ruling was extended to mobile phones he along with several human Rights Groups believe the shutdown was an attempt to hide evidence of crimes committed against civilians what can you the argument was that interrupting Internet Services would protect the general public but in fact it was the opposite it was for the protection of private into taste and pull people that have committed crimes. Social media platforms like facebook and twitter were widely used to organize protests that ultimately toppled longtime leader Omar Al Bashir in april once the military took control for weeks protesters took to the streets demanding the formation of a civilian led government. Since the military crackdown trust between the military and civilians has been damaged but that last week progress was made generals and protesters agree to form a joint civilian military ruling body together they plan to install a new government for a transitional period of 3 years oh despite recent violence many civilians say they will keep pushing for change but these pictures that can now be shared on mobile phones prove the path forward could be challenging katia little began aljazeera. As more still to come this hour 2 years after i saw was driven from the city much of mosul still lies in ruins for the reconstruction efforts hampered by growing regional tensions. Why the momentum behind months of prodemocracy protests in hong kong shows no signs of slowing. And is fought crickets to all his rivals for back to square off once again for the place in the World Cup Final at stake. How the last of the big thunderstorms rattled through italy and the balkan states in the last 24 hours or so in prompted by very high daytime typically in greece and the variability of moisture and hence the adriatic now this is all moving eastwards through the balkan states and towards turkey thats the picture then for 30 now in athens down to 26 as roughly speaking a 10 degree drop the wind coming down from the north and the next massive by the cooler is also coming down from the north so that cloud will gather and push south through france towards the alps during friday to the west its pretty hard to madrids up to 40 underneath the cloud were talking about twentys once more and rain coming down from the north and its all direction for july suns come out again the balkan states where 28 in athens and then weve got some significant potential for thunderstorms through turkey the black sea and the ukraine moscows of 40 disappointingly now it has been very hot around the shores particularly tunisia recently theyve an onshore breeze were back under 33 not the 40 mark i think going to stay around that sort of very next day or so little bit cooler further research but its sunshine really from egypt back to morocco still hovering around 24. To his supporters hungarys Prime Minister is a guardian of europes borders manning the ramparts against migrant hordes. To others viktor orban is an authoritarian demagogue whose far right agenda poses a significant threat to democratic values. People in power investigates the leader taking his car. 2 extremes hungary europes bad boy on a 0. Most memorable moments with al jazeera was when i was on air as Hosni Mubarak fell with the crowds in Tahrir Square talking. To. Us if something happens anywhere in the world aljazeera is in place were able to cover music like no other news organizations. Were able to do it properly. And that is our strength. Were going to run of the top stories here now to syria british Prime Minister to resign may says the resignation of the u. K. Ambassador to washington is a matter of deep regret came dark said it was impossible for him to continue after the u. S. President cut all contact with him over the leaking of diplomatic cables which described trance administration as inept. Iranian president Hassan Rouhani says his countrys uranium enrichment is for peaceful purposes and does not violate the 2050 nuclear deal or as a warning from donald trump that he will substantially increase sanctions on tehran soon. And france is denying that its breached a u. N. Arms embargo after 4 of its antitank missiles were found during a raid on libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar is based on the outskirts of tripoli. At least 13 people have been killed in ass strikes in syrias it live province this footage shows the aftermath of an attack on a hospital that killed 6 people thats according to the Syrian Civil Defense libyas the last major rebel stronghold in Syria Government troops backed by russia have been bombarding the area for months or 2 years since the iraqi army drove eisel fighters from mosul the capital of the self declared caliphate but progress to rebuild the region city is slow and reconstruction efforts are being hampered by the dispute between iraqs allies iran and the us some a binge of aid reports from baghdad. This is the old city of mosul but due years after i salute defeat iraqs victory has not still meant the restoration of life as it was before the war much of the city remains in ruins one in 300000 people are still displaced a mix of sectarian division unemployment and security concerns linger on. The main threat and danger remains the neglect of reconstruction in mosul the displaced are still living in limbo all these issues have not been given serious enough attention by the Iraqi Government. The Iraqi Government says its doing all it can and asking International Partners to help rebuild the city you an agencys estimate it could take tens of millions of dollars in 10 years just to remove mines and explosives. The capital of isis self declared caliphate in iraq and its leader. Only public appearance from the city. It was a tough fight in an urban terrain and posed a challenge to the iraqi army which had earlier treatment from mosul but iraqs Security Forces had 2 important allies a u. S. Led coalition and iran backed shia militias and back then the United States acknowledged their efforts right now there they had a great role in liberating iraq what is their next role i dont know what that will bring thats a decision for the government of iraq it was an uneasy convergence with so on enemies fighting on the same side against a common target when we should can more and it is obvious that iran and the us are enemies by iraq managed to bring them closer in the fight against eisold there was a marriage of convenience between iran and the us back then given the fact there was no direct contact between the 2 sides in the battle of mosul and the current escalation between the 2 countries i think it is quite difficult for both sides to cooperate or have their entrusts crossed paths. Since then the us and iran have designated each others militarys as terrorists escalating tensions has come. The region on edge including iraq which has offered to find Common Ground between washington and tehran the government in baghdad and the people of mosul need help to rebuild what was destroyed in the war and many here see that cannot happen unless all parties who had a role in inflicting the damage take responsibility for the reconstruction most people in mosul are living one day at a time with a lack of basic services and jobs a bleak future prospects analysts believe that winning the war against isis was probably the easy part the real challenge is maintaining the peace in the long run solidary the other 0 baghdad prodemocracy activists in hong kong have held a Memorial Service for a protester who killed herself shed been involved in the recent widespread rallies which forced the government to scrap a controversial extradition bill but demonstrators say thats not enough and have promised more protests from abroad reports from hong kong. Months of protests of left their scars on hong kong. The Legislative Council building has been ransacked and the government in the divided city appears besieged Christine Loh is a former member of the government who used to be a Legislative Council and she believes only a determined effort to talk can start to bridge the divide we can actually get through this without being with each other without talking about how communal our Community Problems then youre not going to get anywhere people know this deep in their heart the Getting Started is where we need to work hard the bell instead when chief executive kerry lamb announced on tuesday that the proposed extradition law which has caused so much controversy would not be debated further she also announced measures to try to open dialogue especially with the young but for many protestors this movement has gone beyond the extradition bill itself it is more about hong kongs fundamental role within china the same issue that 5 years ago drove the socalled down bro movement pushing for greater autonomy and that remains unresolved today the problem seems to be one of inherent dysfunction freedom of expression where you can and your grievances combined with a political system that ensures a pro beijing government seems to guarantee a high degree of unhappiness especially among young people a situation that the prodemocracy groups say can only be resolved by beijing the ultimate solution would be for china to seriously open up and look at hong kong as a positive a window case a positive example for chinese democratic defat me the probe aging camp says the more hope