♪ hundreds more migrants like these are crammed on a boat and being escorted by myanmar's navy into bangladesh waters. ♪ hello, welcome to al jazeera live from doha i'm rochelle carry and also ahead a chinese cruise ship with 458 people sinks in the jiang river. the prime minister about to meet his international allies in paris plus the new cancer

treatment scientists are saying it's a once in a generation discovery. ♪ myanmar's navy is escorting a boat crammed with 727 migrants to neighboring bangladesh. the migrants were found inside a converted fishing boat drifting in the sea four days ago and we will go to yangtze and this is disturbing and where do things stand now? >> saying the myanmar navy is going to escort this boat back to bangladesh waters after giving the people food water and medicine and saying that because they have been told these people say they want to return to bangladesh and we also have news agencies saying these

people will be returned to wherever they departed from but we spoke to the presidential spokesman just over an hour ago and the myanmar navy will be taking this boat and the people on board to yet an undisclosed location and refused to clarify whether this would be still at sea or on land but he said that from there they would then be transferred to bangladesh. now, this fits into the myanmar government narrative that these people, tens of thousands of people getting on boat in resent moves trying to escape wherever they are from are actually all from bangladesh and the government refuses to accept many of these people are rohingya and meijerty from myanmar and face persecution and on getting desperate boat journeys just to leave the country. this whole thing and one thing that is consistent is this lack of transparency that actually surrounds this whole issue. now the government hasn't yet said who else was able to

confirm and verify the identities of these people on board the boat. the process as i understand it through the government spokesman is that an official will also be invited to confirm the identities and the origins of these people. now, if this boat has only been in myanmar waters and territory for the last four days it's unlikely any one from bangladesh would be able to confirm identities of the people but myanmar people say this is where they have come from and reporters have not been able to approach this boat. there were reporters that tried over the weekend and turned back by navy boats and not able to approach and some were questioned for several hours and had to delete what they had on their memory card and pictures, videos were all deleted. the myanmar government is saying these people are from bangladesh and we have no confirmation that is where they are from but myanmar government is saying that is where they want to

return them to. >> reporting live for us and florence thank you so much. a cruise ship with 458 people capsized in china, at least five people are confirmed dead and rescuers say they heard people cringly for help from inside the ship. most passengers are elderly tourists and chinese state media says the captain and chief engineer managed to get out and detained for questioning and the eastern star sank in the yangtze river in the province in china's south and rob mcbride has an update from hong kong. >> reporter: this accident will raise concerns about marine safety on chew that rivers there was an earlier accident on the river in january when a tug that was under going trials capsized with the loss of 22 lives. but the yangtze is the most powerful body of water running right through the heart of china is no stranger to accidents.

what is unusual in this case is the expected death toll and that is due mostly because of a set of unfortunate circumstances. it was late at night when this boat sank and it took just two minutes for it to sink and we know that most of the passengers on board were retirees and people age 50-80 who were below decks and most of whom are asleep and very little chance of getting out of the vessel. we expect that quite a few of the people on board the vessel would have been taking their first ever vacations and that is a concern for the authorities but we are going to see a huge growth as people more people in china take vacations during the summer more people go on cruise ships like this. the authorities will want to ensure that cruising is done safely. all right we are taking you live to cairo where we were expecting to hear word on the death sentence of mohamed morsi

former president from the jail break of 2011 and we will see if the sentence will be upheld and what we are hearing so far is the entire proceeding apparently has been adjourned until the 16th of this month and we are working to get you a translation on what is happening in the courtroom now. let's do that. >> translator: the court received this morning the opinion of the grand mofti and that is why the court has postponed their verdict and the ruling to the 16th of june 2015 in order to complete the consultations and the prisoners were still in jail. that is the end of it. >> reporter: and as you can see that was pretty brief and to the point.

the court saying it will be at least the 16th of this month before we get a final ruling on the potential death sentence of mohamed morsi for his 2011 jail break. basically what happens is the court has already ruled on the death sentence but the grand mofti weighs in and the court will regroup and decide whether or not that death sentence will actually be carried out. it will be the first death sentence for an elected president since hussein was executed in 2006 and the 16th of the month before we know more on potential death sentence of mohamed morsi former president of egypt and we will continue to follow that for you on al jazeera. in the meantime iraqi prime minister blasted the u.s. led international coalition for not providing enough intelligence to stop i.s.i.l. advance and foreign ministers from 24 countries and diplomates from around the world are in paris to find tune their strategy against i.s.i.l. but that meeting has been marred by mutual suspicion

and the blame game and we will talk to mohamed who joins us live from paris and mohamed what are you hearing about any progress or non-progress that is being made at this meeting in paris? paris? >> rochelle there have not been announcements made yet and not expecting there to be any press conferences until about three hours from now and not sure which attendees will be at that press conference. what has been interesting here at a time where there has been so much e criticism of effort by coalition of i.s.i.l. because it has been advancing so much after the fall of ramadi in iraq what you are hearing here is not that much. in fact, the fanfare around this meeting the past several days has quieted down and we know there are 24 attendees and foreign ministers including delegations from the u.s. and qatar and uk we are not getting

a sense of what is going on inside. we heard some frustration expressed earlier in the day and remarks from prime minister abadi who told the press core this morning this was a failure on the part of the international community that i.s.i.l. has been able to advance and fight as much as it has the past few months and he is urging the international community and coalition in the fight against i.s.i.l. to really step up to share more intelligence when it comes to air strikes to help with ground support in the fight against i.s.i.l. but as to what exactly is going to happen here today we will just have to see in the hours ahead, rochelle. >> live for us in paris, mohamed, thank you. and nine people including five aid workers have been killed in afghanistan's northern province and ngo compound attacked by gunmen on monday night, a woman is among the victims and nicole johnston has more now from kabul. >> reporter: this attack in the

north of afghanistan targeted a check non-government organization called people in need and works on projects and reconstruction of villages building bridges and roads. the attack happened overnight, nine people were killed, all of them afghans, two drivers, two guards and five aid workers including a social worker. there has been no claim of responsibility so far. it certainly is not the first time these kind of softer targets have been hit in may in kabul there was a hotel attacked and 14 people were killed including nine foreigners and also a guest house has been attacked but there has been a great deal of instability in the north of the country and it seems that the taliban has opened up a new front for fighting in areas like the provinces and others and government sent reenforcement from afghan forces to the north

to try and secure the area but still there is isolated fighting going on and that instability and insecure is being felt in the north of afghanistan. south sudan government expelled a top u.n. official from the country and toby was the coordinator and deputy envoy and appointed in 2012 and nearing the end of his term and no reason given for expulsion and condemned it and the secretary-general ban ki-moon said this he has been instrumental in addressing the increasing humanitarian needs of conflict affected communities in the country and secretary-general says to reverse the decision immediately and cooperate fully with all u.n. entities present in south sudan and we have editor james from the u.n. headquarters in new york. >> it's understood that the south sudan government decided to expel him because it claimed

he had made a series of untruthful statements on social media. the u.n. have responded to that saying he should be reinstated immediately and i think this is going to create a big difficulty for the relations between the u.n. and the government of south sudan which already were not good. remember the u.n. has 14,000 peace keepers in south sudan. it has many people actually living in the u.n.'s own camps because they are fearful of the violence that has been going on now for 17 months. you have 130,000 people living in those camps. you have a situation that the u.n. fears in humanitarian terms is going to get much worse, 2.1 million people have been forced to flee from their homes in total and it is predicted that by the end of july there will be 4.6 million people in south sudan who are severely food

insecure, so very difficult humanitarian situation and now the government of south sudan have expelled the u.n. official in charge of dealing with the humanitarian crisis. much more ahead on al jazeera and keep it here as we continue to update the court proceedings and the death penalty trial of the former president of egypt mohamed morsi and analyzing and dissecting court today and we will have much more on the other side of the break.

♪ welcome back and you are watching al jazeera and reminder of your headlines right now myanmar navy is escort agree boat crammed with 727 migrants to neighboring bangladesh and

found in a converted fishing boat drifting in the sea four days ago. a cruise ship with 458 people has capsized in southern china and at least five people are confirmed dead and rescuers heard people crying for help inside the ship and most passengers are elderly tourists. egyptian court has adjourned a verdict in the trial of deposed president mohamed morsi to the 16th of june. the court has received an opinion and the grand mufti the highest authority in egypt sentenced mohamed morsi to death and collaborated with hamas in 2011 during the revolution with the topple of mubark and this is one of several morsi is defending against. russian troop build up by the

border and denies they are helping fighters in eastern ukraine and charles stratford reports. >> reporter: a train close to the ukrainian border and al jazeera has no way of verifying where these vehicles are being moved to or from. the equipment includes armored personnel carriers medical supply vehicles and tanks. the russian military insignia and plates have been removed or seemingly painted over. we drove out of town to an area where we had heard there was a makeshift military camp across the fields we noticed clouds of dust in an area of what looked like a farm. large military vehicles were moving in convow along the mud tracks. around ten kilometers behind me is the border of eastern ukraine and russian military say the reason why there are so many troops and military equipment in this area is because they are conducting military exercises and categorically denies the troops have been fighting

alongside separatist fighters across the border. russian military bases in the area for many years, the government described a question on whether it was preparing for an attack as completely inappropriate. a photo journalist with the news agency reuters shot these pictures in the same area last week. russia has recently included the death of military personnel on what it describes as special operations in peace time as a state secret and the law has nothing to do with the conflict in ukraine. recently released report details what it says is proof the russian military is operating in eastern ukraine. one of the authors of that report opposition leader borris was shot dead in moscow before it was published. a close associate is in hospital fighting for his life. it is suspected he may have been poisonedon

poison. they have reported violations committed by both sides and russia has the right to conduct military maneuvers wherever it wants in its territory despite the sensitivity of the time and place. charles stratford, al jazeera the russian, ukrainian border. retired columbia again on trial for alleged role in assassination of a presidential candidate in 1989. and he was head of the intelligence agency when he was gunned down campaigning and accused of taking payments from a drug cartel to help plan that attack and we have more from bogata. >> reporter: prosecutors are accusing general for conspiring with drug cartels to kill then presidential candidate louis and more specifically accused of reducing the candidate security and replacing the head of the security detail with somebody with less experience and

collaborating directly with the drug cartel in its leader pablo-escabar and security detail and facilitating the assassination. the general rejects all the accusations. he has been in prison since 2009 but this trial is only starting now here in columbia. he is saying that the accusations are ridiculous among other things he was also the target of different attacks from drug cartels at this time. louis' assassination rocked the country here he was a frontrunner of the 1990 election, one of three candidates that were killed in the run up to those elections. he was running on an anticorruption platform and he made very dangerous enemies, especially supporting the extradition of columbia nationals to the u.s. which is

what drug traffickers at the time feared the most. for many colombians here this is a story of the past and many hope finally the truth will come to the surface. egyptian court again has adjourned just a few minutes ago a verdict in the trial of deposed president mohamed morsi to the 16th of june and received an opinion from the highest authority in egypt and earlier sentenced mohamed morsi to death and he was convicted of collaborating with hamas and others to breakout of prison and during the revolution regarding mubark and he is defending against and we are joined live and thank you so much for your time and while there is nothing usual about this type of trial, the proceedings that happened this morning, this was fairly routine? >> no it was not fairly

routine. it was actually expected that the death sentence will be upheld by the mufti whose opinion is just for consultation but there was an international outcry against the death sentences of 106 plus the former president and what you're seeing is maybe a reaction to these international outcries especially general abdel-fattah el-sissi has an up coming visit to germany and at the same time you had condemnation from various local and international actors for the death sentences. >> so you are saying i assume that the adjournment was to just take in all the information and the death sentence might still happen but you are saying it appears to you that this is egypt taking in what the international condemnation has been so what do you think will happen on the 16th of june?

>> no i'm not saying the death sentence will be stopped or seized at any time but i think it will be adjourned until this reaction mellows down or stops for a moment and until some of the international visits are being done and maybe more explanations and negotiations and maybe buy some time but i think the crack down is very clear, it will be continued until now most of the leadership in the military insecurity establishments are underer ratification on the spectrum as opposed to the conservation end and if you crack down hard their belief, you can end this problem once and for all and therefore you won't see another uprising like the january 2011. >> if the death sentence is upheld on june 16th do you think it will ever be carried out? >> it could be. so far there is a probability

that they already carried some of the death sentences out and it's not high profile cases. it's mostly young suspects but at the same time you may end up with a situation where they believe that to send a strong message they will need to carry some of the death sentences and more or less be head the leadership and you end up with a decentralized movement without leadership, without symbols to rally around some of the members of the muslim brothers until now believe mohamed morsi could come back, if he was killed then there is no hope for that and what you will end up with is a more or less either mobilization the street that they will deal with by bullets mainly or violent reactions which many have been calling for arms if you wish and also the military has equipment to deal with this.

>> thank you for your time. my apologies for having to interrupt there but thank you for your time joining us live in doha thank you. u.n. climate change conference in germany is entering the second day and working towards a global deal to be signed in paris at the end of the year rising sea levels are threatening coastal communities including one of the oldest cities in the united states and we have more from st. augastine. >> reporter: he has been tending his ocean garden a pastime allowed him to observe the environmental changes here and like many along florida's east coast he has witnessed the effects of storms and rising waters. >> the argument earlier i think was way back when is it's not really global warming, it's just a natural chain of events but been here a long time and i've been around a long time and you know my wife and i are convinced that it's global warming. >> reporter: just down the road in historical st. augastine have

seen change and the streets filled with saltwater as much as ten times a year and something a new seawall cannot hold back and rubin says they get little help from the state and without it the future could be bleak. >> i know i wouldn't feel very good knowing that my property one day is not going to be worth much in the place i call home is going to be a memory instead of a place to live and work. >> reporter: the problem is one of skepticism over climate change science and florida governor doesn't believe climate change isn't caused by human activity and they say it's time to move past that. >> i think it's a bad policy because it makes government look foolish denying what is obvious and failing to use the leadership that they have to address what is going to be a

major issue in our state. >> reporter: what do you think this kind of severe beach erosion and the beach down to manmade climate change or not is relevant to people in the community and florida is on the front of rising sea levels and many just want to see some kind of plan of action. andy with al jazeera, st. augastine, florida. south korea say two people died of middle east respiratory syndrome known as mers and the first fatalities from the disease and government held an emergency meeting to discuss how to prevent this disease from spreading. a new skin cancer treatment is described once in a generation advance and scientists in uk are trialing a new combination of drugs found to shrink tumors and charlie has more. >> reporter: when pam smith was diagnosed with skin cancer she was terrified she would not see her grandchildren grow up and given a choice of treatments she

chose new drugs being trialed and hasn't looked back. >> the drugs have shrunk it from 9 millimeters to 4 millimeters and afterwards they found some lesions on my lungs but they shrunk to tiny as a pinprick. >> reporter: used a combination of drugs to allow the body immune system to attack cancer cells and the drugs were blind tested internationally on 945 patients with advanced melanoma and what doctors discovered was that 58% of those patients saw that tumor shrink or stabilize for almost a year. like any cancer treatment the drugs don't work equally on everyone and side effects include rashes fatigue and diarrhea. dr. harris has been treating his cancer treatment with individual drugs and looking forward to using them in combination. >> this is a game-changing set of results for advanced skin

cancer without a doubt. i think where the excitement is really coming though is in the broader perspective because these are drugs that are not specific for skin cancer because you are enhancing the body's own immune system and there is no reason why this approach should not be effective against other cancer. >> reporter: this shows how it works on cancer cells and one boosts the body's immune system the other reveals the cancer cells allowing them to be attacked but for the doctor who led the trial there is more work to do. >> there will be for the combination of drugs something like 40% of patients do not have significant shrinkage and we have to understand why and develop new approaches so hopefully we can get the number of people benefitting from this treatment or these treatments to be higher still so we can help more of our patients. >> reporter: so while a new treatment is not a universal you're and cancers previously been treated with chemokey chemotherapy

or radial therapy this is a new fight in the disease. up to date on all the stories we have been reporting on our website at al jazeera.com, keep it here. [ ♪ ] american parents are moving away from shame, scorn and cutting ties with children who consider themselves different from their birth gender. that doesn't mean all the challenges that go along with changing from the gender on a birth certificate disappear. a lot of adjustment is required to see gender identity less as a