Resolutions and could and should possibly have consequences. As cohen is the japan and korea editor with the East Asia Forum is also a Research Fellow at straining international universitys Crawford School of Public Policy joins us on skype from canberra thanks so much for being with us for 1st of all talk about the north Korean Missile test is this is this payback for the joint military drills between the u. S. And south korea. Yeah that could be not great could be sending out a number of different messages. And you know the u. S. Was hoping that after donald trump and kim junger met in that the north rose this had been a kick start needed to revitalize the negotiations. And one possible message from north korea could be we dont you know if we want to many go share it with us you should be cutting back on the military drills and other possible message from north korea there is also could be towards john bolton who dont the National Security adviser to President Trump who was in south korea to talk with south Korean Defense officials. Arent you there. And john bolton is a no one hard liner on north korea its well known the North Koreans dont like him from their own reporting and propaganda and they may want to squeeze him out of the negotiating process as well so how is the u. S. Likely to react to this and how might it impact the prospects of those talks yeah so as we saw before when our north korea tested short range missiles back in may. That President Donald Trump sort of didnt seem too fussed about this that he seems more concerned with longer range missiles that would violate the singapore agreement. And also you know to threaten directly the United Continental United States. But the short and Medium Range Missiles are a concern for u. S. Allies for south korea for japan. And so we could be seeing you know not career sort of trying to test the line or drive a wedge between the United States and its allies and say you know test the limits of where Donald Trumps patients would lie with such missile tests and talk about tensions between allies we thought tensions were easing in the region but since then weve had south korea shooting towards russian jets japan south korea themselves our eyes falling out over trade issues and now these north Korean Missiles that is the region unraveling. Well certainly its a tense moment for the rage and. There is the potential for these tensions to wasnt that will be critical to deal with ollie events in a calm way the the South Koreans. Firing warning shots at russian ad crossed on tuesday. And this is beyond a normal scramble situation between a you know. Respective. Forces not quite concerning and answered well as an extra layer of complication to the situation is that when warning shots were fired across a disputed island which by south korea and japan plane which the South Koreans that was docked just the japanese takeshita and so in this case if it you know it is a coincidence or did they take the barrier on purpose to say how japan and south korea would manage you know in this situation where you have a are necessary coming into the disputed islands there because no the South Koreans well id be wanting shot the defense saying hey separation be doing it because our territory and. Maintain effective control of the islands right. All right well its good to get your folks not so much. Thank you plenty more still ahead on the news hour including how volcano the brought tragedy to indonesia almost a decade ago now led to an eruption in juries a. Look at how britains Foreign Policy will change under Boris Johnson. And its more the new n. B. A. Thats hoping to make history with the l. A. Clippers back story coming up in sports. Now britains new Prime Minister is about to address m. P. s for the very 1st time earlier he presided over his 1st Cabinet Meeting hes appointed mostly supporters of brags that as his top ministers insists britain will leave the European Union by the october busy 31st deadline johnsons promise to renegotiate a new deal with the e. U. Without the socalled backstop to keep the irish border open has been rejected by islands leader layer of radko told the Irish National broadcaster r. T. E. Brussels isnt prepared for any more debate listen to what he said today i got the impression that he wasnt just talking about at least in the back stuff he was talking about a whole new deal better deal for britain thats not going to happen at European Council doesnt meet until the 12th of october weve no plans to meet any earlier than ash and even if we were to change the negotiation guidelines we would be changing to them cross over now to jonah how hes live for us at westminster we understand bars johnson expected to address parliament what we think his message will be jonah. Yes in about 20 minutes or so hell make a statement in Parliament Boris johnson a statement. Allows a response by the head of the leader of the opposition Jeremy Colvin and questions afterwards i think expect Boris Johnson to set out broadly speaking how to the extent that hes able to explain it now how he intends to deliver bracks and how he plans to govern the country and look for clues as well on how he intends to fight an election because he knows that the arithmetic in parliament hes against him the only way to change that is an election an election that may well be forced upon him sooner rather than later let me bring in my guest now Tobias Elwood the conservative party m. P. Or minister of defense under trees may still minister of defense as this reshuffle goes on to buy a ticket to see. Joe swinson the leader of the liberal liberal democrats new leader has just put down and early day motion of no confidence that doesnt necessarily lead to anything but a sign of trouble of things to come do you think by i think its the duty of the opposition to stare and cause problems but what you see today and you touched on it is the opportunity for Boris Johnson to continue his message that he began on the downing street yesterday one of enthusiasm one of determination this new sort of boris factor of coming in to say we can do this were about to break indeed for the summer so to state that hell make will be given a clarity of direction not just in the big question about the next 100 days and drags it but also important aspects of the domestic agenda are more policing more money for education Climate Change were experiencing the hottest day ever in britain at the moment these other aspects as well very very important indeed back in june you said that you believe there were perhaps a dozen conservative party m. P. s who would be prepared to vote against their own government if they were to pursue if he was to pursue a no deal breaker do you think that still applies and are you one of them im certainly not one of them in fact i think its a juicy with a new Prime Minister who needs to get this across the line to support that prime. Mr in saying thats all of the referendum that we took place 3 years ago now lets get it across the line do you p. D. Our coalition colleagues are looking for an opportunity to support us we have labor m. P. s as well they come from seats they want to actually resolve this matter too so there is. You know quietly confident and confident that we can get this across the line the numbers are there to be had its no deal inevitable now it looks like it wont get the deal he wants from brussels well this is why we break the executive doesnt hell be going to brussels were going to paris hell be going to burning to say look lets see we can resolve this the new commissioner we saw from the European Commission vandeman has said absolutely im here to help its in everybodys interests to secure this if we dont the conservative party could be in opposition for a decade or so the help that they flat out said no to what hes asked well lets see what happens is a lot of grand statements that are made in fact there are a lot of grand statements were made on the campaign trail go back to the American Election you know build the wall the mexicans will pay for it stuff get said in modern context to good people like yourselves the reality comes in when you walk into number 10 to say how do we govern how do we actually make this work. Were live at the thank you very much 20 minutes now well hear from Boris Johnson in parliament and well learn that a little more of these plants look forward to it thanks so much john hall now World Leaders will be good to see you all the u. K. Foreign policy might look like under a Boris Johnson led government i think at the james bays reports from the un and the potential changes and challenges ahead. Geographically the u. K. May be a small island in Northern Europe but it retains a seat at the worlds top table because of its economy and its history Boris Johnson is now taking over leadership of a country with that permanent seat on the u. N. Security council as well as membership of the g. 7 of nato and for now the European Union pm Boris Johnson couldnt have a more different style from his predecessor to reason may be what hes allowed an unpredictable will certainly be a change of tone could there be a change of policy to the 1st test will be iran the u. S. Has been trying to apply maximum pressure on to iran could the u. K. With one of its tankers seized by iran more fully join in that effort now you may see a bit of a transition here now as you have oil tankers being seized and who have drones being shot down that all may may change quite a bit here in the in the coming months i do find it was interesting that the iranians reached out very early and made a Public Statement congratulating Boris Johnson on his on his election certainly there was an effort there to try to draw him away from the u. S. And others europe and the u. S. Dont share the same approach to iran President Trump pulled out of the Iran Nuclear Deal while european nations with china and russia a trying to keep it alive if the u. K. Changes its position the deal will almost certainly die on other issues for example Venice Whaler on the Peace Process between israelis and palestinians europe and the u. S. Have very different perspectives could the new u. K. Prime minister who has warm relations with President Trump and whose keen to sign a post breaks its trade deal with the u. S. Realign his country. There are real concerns in brussels and here at the u. N. About all of this and about the fact theres now another leader on the world stage known for his unpredictability james aljazeera at the united nations. Now lets bring you some breaking news just coming into us now weve got 2 news years 92 year old president. Has died he was taken to a Military Hospital on wednesday hed been in power since being elected in 20141 can take a look back at his life. Came to power in december 2014 after winning the 1st free president ial election his career began 40 years earlier and took him through various posts in Defense Security and Foreign Affairs he briefly served as interim Prime Minister in 2011. 0 was the 1st to experience a wave of protests that became known as the arab spring into. The following year they led to the ousting of longtime president Zain Aberdeen Ben Ali thanks and in the 1st preelection is 3 years later at the head of a newly created party won a runoff the polarized voters he was often accused of giving in to many of the demands of the islamist opposition led by the in order party his opponents also accused him of trying to instill a return to ben ali style strongman politics. And april said she announced that he did not want to run in elections scheduled for later this year despite strong support for another president ial term from within his own nader tunis party. The north african state has been held as an arab springs only democratic success because the protests that toppled didnt trigger the violent of people seen in egypt and libya but since 2011 successive governments have failed to resolve to newsies economic problems which include high inflation and unemployment on thursday as he was taken to a Military Hospital in the couple cheeriness his 2nd hospital visit in less than a week iran can. Now belgium and the neverlands recorded their highest ever temperatures on wednesday mercurys expected to rise even further parts of france could also see temperatures exceeding 40 degrees celsius on thursday along with germany luxembourg and switzerland europe is sweltering in its 2nd heatwave over the summer. Well in a few moments well have all the weather with Jenny Harrison but still ahead here on aljazeera. As preseason football action moving through being one of the worlds this is youll ever see thats coming up on sports far. As you just heard this time it is such a rise again across more western portions of europe now this is a satellite in the hours and what you can see is a mass of green you can see hardly anything of course it is this dry sunny weather now in actual fact there is some rain in the full cost but not for another day so this thursday could again be a record breaking day and look at these High Temperatures expected highs today 42. 00 celsius in paris that is 18 degrees above the average for this month and also up into london 38. 00 and that is 15 degrees above so it gives you an idea of just how excessive this heat has actually been it is set to change im sure for many that is actually some pretty good news say this thursday in london we could actually see the thunderstorms that relation the day 38 as you know is expected high over this fine friday the rain comes in the cloud comes in the High Pressure really breaking down allowing these systems coming from the west on the north 25 is the High Temperature and by saturday actually back to the average of 23 not the overnight temperatures also getting low but still not to what they should be for this time of year nothing part of the problem the overnight lows just havent been dipping down to their normal levels and then look at paris 42 celsius and those sunny skies 18 degrees above average the rain pushes in on friday and by saturday time it is actually below 20 degrees with those showers and some clouds. Sponsored town. Victim. Being his past as an instrument of pinochets brutal dictatorship a father tries to forget. But his sons quest for answers reveals there are often 2 sides to even the darkest of stories witness the color of the chameleon amount is there. For 23 years mohsin has collected objects he finds along the coast. Enough to fill his museum enough to break a Guinness World record. With a story for every object hes become an environmental activist and inspired artist and a voice for the plight of countless migrants. Might you need such an aljazeera. Come back youre watching out 0 time to recap the headlines now turn a syrian president the subsidy has just passed away and on to 2 year old was the countrys 1st democratically elected president in recent times he was taken to a Military Hospital wednesday after forming ill. But story goes governor rick out there are so you know is announced his resignation after days of mass street protests has been at the center of a text message scandal that also led to 2 top officials resigning. Boris johnson has just entered parliament as he prepares for his 1st. Address as Prime Minister were looking at live pictures coming in from the British Legislature there. Insists that britain will leave the European Union by the october 31st deadline. Now former u. S. Special counsel Robert Mullers insisted once again that he did not exonerate donald trump of obstruction of justice malo was testifying at 2 different hearings in congress about his investigation into russian interference in the 2016 president ial election its the 1st time hes answered questions publicly since his report which sharply divides democrats and republicans alike our ports. It was in President Trumps eyes a victory lap appearing on the white house lawn to repeat his assertion that hed been vindicated in dismissing the investigation one that he claimed had placed a phony cloud over his presidency i think everybody understands that i think everybody understands whats going on there was no defense for this ridiculous hold this which. Has been going on for. A long time. Earlier the special counsel was careful to show no bias to one side of the other disappointing those who wanted him to enlarge on his findings that there were 10 different acts that could be seen as the president obstructing justice what they largely got was this i refer to the report on the next picture that along with a response thats trending on twitter as a new way of saying politely go away i take your question but he did confirm the president has not been telling the truth about the investigation so the report did not include he did not commit obstruction of justice. Thank you for that is correct and what about total exoneration if you actually totally exonerate the present you know now in fact your reports expressly states that it does not exonerate the person it does republicans previously defended the president he said donald trump is not above the law hes not but he didnt im sure shouldnt be below the law which is where volume 2 of this report puts him the former special counsel did seem to indicate the president could still face trouble from his report could you charge the president with a triumph after he left office yes you believe that he committed you could charge the president on stage with obstruction of justice after he left office yes in an evening News Conference House Democrats continue to reject the view of the president and his republican supporters and were insistent that millers questioning was a crucial part of a congregational investigative process that could end in impeachment why id like it to be a strong case is because i dont its based on the facts the facts in the law that what matters not politics not partisanship just patriotism after a day that highlighted the Political Division in congress one thing is clear the investigation into President Trump will not end with Robert Miller mike hanna aljazeera washington. Lets return to our top story now in the death of tunisia as president sami hyundai is editor in chief of International Interest he joins us by skype from london good to have you with us we know that the president of course was suffering from Health Problems he went into hospital last month youve just come back from tunis it didnt look like they were prepared for this kind of eventuality. The rumors were flying everybody knew he was in ill Health Everybody knew the implication this had been the politics there was a large debate going on in tunisia as to the role of a Constitutional Court what happens in the event that he dies there was a facebook discussions going on as to what would happen if you die what are the exact process is of course we know that if the president dies in the speaker of the Parliament Takes over as president if hes sick as in how it must that he say he is sick at the moment and the deputy advocate that moral would become president and hes obliged 3 months to have elections people have been saying because there are elections already due to take place in october but its not as detrimental to the political scene as perhaps it would have been had he done it during his particular town but this does not necessarily come as a surprise everybody knew who was weak when he came out on the picture having met his defense minister after there was people saying where is the president where is the president with his defense minister but even the picture did not ease the fears he looked very weak in the picture he looked very ill in the picture and indeed there were accusations that perhaps since he was not being allowed to retire was not being allowed to receive the treatment that he needed because his son was so desperate to shore up his own political power so there is a lot of blame now going on with regards to see if these entourage as to how they allowed their political machinations to leave such an old man to leave president 60 in that state and that perhaps he should have stepped down sooner and receive that treatment in the last month people have been saying that since he has not been in control of his own power has not been in control of his own actions and now there will be fierce debate going on within tunisia regarding to treatment of the president but moreover what happens next. Where does this leave the post arab spring political process in the country i think tunisia is still fairing far better off than event libya and syria and the like in the sense that it has avoided war however this does not deny that uneasy is going through a very bad economic crisis this still incredible class devised this that incredible poverty particularly in the regions but you can see it was eating a city and engulfs centaurs a need in all of these other particular cities this economic crisis has led to many use deciding to abandon an act or protest process to say that there is no hope with regards to tunisia Political Parties are now engaged in trying to instill a whole within the youthful population however we have seen the return of lobby groups who have seen the return of business interests weve seen the return of of foreign intervention nevertheless there is still a believe that 2019 or hope is not lost that there is still some sort of democratic process we see that there are some groups who are engaged in corrupt practices but at least it is to get the people to be involved in the process in other words if the people had no power there would be no need for these practices to take place so there is an admission that the people still have power with regard to the tunisians there is this band nobody can deny that there is this sense of hopelessness nobody can deny that however in comparison to other countries there is still hope that we can fix the part and go towards a more prosperous tennessee or what happens next now the president says dives we take so when do we get elections. The problem with with with this is that the constitution states or busy as its well known it today if the president dies and the speaker of the parliament becomes president and go through a transitional period and guides the country towards elections if the speaker of the parliament is unable to do so then the Deputy Speaker of the parliament does so the problem into his ear at this moment in time is that mohammed the mastermind who is the current speaker of the parliament is ill and the Deputy Speaker of the parliament after that there are more from the other party is also ill this is where now there is a question mark if mohammed and thats a cant do it and if that moral cant do it then who should be able to do it in the last instance when people thought better quite as if he died mohammed or not that appeared in front of the t. V. And gave this impression that he was ready to take over the reins the rules are clear however it may be that the tunisian situation will mean that people need to come up with a different device if it does turn out to be that mom of the most an advocate that model are unable to take the reins or assam one day thanks so much for analysis on this now africa naval chiefs are calling for more funding to find rising cases of piracy off the coast of west africa theyre meeting in acro for a Maritime Defense conference leaders from 25 countries are also debating of the challenges facing the gulf of guinea the region is a hotspot for drug and Human Trafficking and Illegal Fishing which hinders regional development. All right Nicholas Hogg joins us now live from on bold the u. S. Collison city in tampa hall but in akra good to have you with us 1st of all lets get into the high piracy rates whats driving them high up. Well inequality just just to break it down very simply off nigerias coast in the new shared delta are large reserves of oil and gas but the communities that are living down there are not getting any of that wealth and and so you have guessed that calls themself like the vikings or the icelandic going out at sea attacking tankers recently capturing. The crew members from around them theres 10 turkish men that are currently being held by these gangs so at the root of it is is this this notion that that the People Living on the shoreline are seeing all these big tankers going by their shores but theyre not they feel excluded from the Global Economy and feel that theyre not getting part of it and thats why theres a large increase of piracy specifically in nigeria off the coast of nigeria where how off of the incidents that have happened so of course so far in the world have happened off the coast of nigeria now this post the u. S. Navy ship carson city is on its way to the shores of nigeria and joining me live is commander tyron bruce who is in charge of the ship what are the precautions that youre going to take to go to nigeria so part of that precaution we havent embark security and so with that team consists of the inherent right. Of defensive security if we were to run into any issues and we will be able to check this we will navigate freely we. Navigate and properly. And so if you saw it. Tanker cargo ship in distress would you would you activate the men on board the ship so far as part of a lot of sea we would have it and her right to to assist a vessel in distress but one would have to look at their distress signals you know for example if they sound certain sound signals or at the ship itself by what the ship is sinking but outside of that we have to get direction from a higher headquarters if there is a issue or it wont force. The distress while the white house has said a few years ago that its pulling out its troops from africa weve seen the biggest naval exercise involving the United States in the african countries of the games whats this tour of judy about so just this tour of duty for the gulf again its about working with our african partners im sharing experiences and sharing best practices so we have 5 teams that are engaging with the host nation for example we have a Boat Maintenance team and so what we do at the main thing we link up with a whole nation boat team and we do assessments and we look at how their both are operating and we tell them how we do maintenance on our particular so and then we show them our supply process as well for a process we dont do it yamit. Maintenance issue. Bruce commander of the u. S. Carson thank you very much now this boat will be headed to nigeria and then cape verde and then well go back to the mediterraneans make no mistake 80 percent of the worlds global trade takes place on the waters and so its of importance not just to these african countries but to global economies to protect the seas from piracy that keeps being on the rise back to you sammy thanks so much nicholas hawks that. And recapping our breaking news now to news in president by jihad the subsidy has died the 92 year old as the countrys 1st democratically elected president in recent times he was taken to a Military Hospital on wednesday off the fulling ill joining us on the phone from tunis is uses shanice a blissful analyst and Deputy Director Columbia Global Centers good to have you with us so. Its a bit unclear at this point right about who takes over what do you see is happening next exactly because the constitution states that because this is a court that should decide who would take over how whether in the last few weeks because as you know the president was unwell for almost a month now and so for the last few weeks there were a lot of discussions inside the different corridors of the present your problem and the Prime Ministers office to find a way. Out without having a Constitutional Court therefore although its a bit unclear for the moment but. For many observers solution was found and so what would happen is. What lets say what the constitutional experts. State and that is that the head of the Parliament Speaker will be the president the interim president for i think 2 months and. Either elections will happen after 2 months which is anyway the elections are scheduled to take place between october and december. The elections or these elections which. Has the old guard been able to make a comeback on the subsidies for oil so i didnt understand the question. Has the old gods been able to make a comeback on that said cs rule figure yes yes yes no i mean in the in the last 2015. Youre greece not the president and then the former ministers and former officials from the. Penalty or the book. Came back to read or ministerial rules or to positions of power. And you know we are now is that they will listen so the baby old guard came back but then. Theres a number of gods people
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