it comes to how they deal with indigenous communities and their rights to live in the areas that they live in. katherine sawyer thanks for that. in the southern philippines thousands remain in evacuation comes told months after a battle between the army and fires is inspired by i saw the people of merari flooded as their city was destroyed along with their lives german alan dog and reports from in the now. says there were times when she just wanted to end her life for over her children have been missing for years mom nuts not a dream of them every night a dream that their bodies are odd thing i wake up i scream i cry a fear that my daughters were raped but i know that we just borrowed our children from. fatima is among the thousands who fled when the war broke out. many became separated from their families and they now live in evacuation camps. an armed group

inspired by ice so called the mouth to to control of marly city last year the fighting that followed lasted five months at least a thousand people were killed and hundreds of thousands more displaced many families say they fear they could be arrested i think maybe court their missing relatives were part of the mountain. in this mass grave hundreds of unidentified bodies are buried around seventy people are reported missing based on government records but the rights groups say that number is too low it is estimated that hundreds of civilians remain missing to this day but they are unreported because many families are afraid to come forward the process of retrieving and identifying the dead is taking many months many of these bodies are already in an advanced state of decomposition. for those like fatima looking for loved ones hope is all

they can hold on to now. is angry she has lost her home and her livelihood and her children are unable to go to school she says she never imagined joining protests before but now she feels it's the only way they have to be heard i'm the president the police we appeal to you let us go back tomorrow we let us go even if you don't give us aid for as long as we can go home we will be ok the government tries to reassure them they will be able to return home this year but it is not easy the destruction in the city of morality is the most devastating in the philippines since world war two but there are losses that are even harder to quantify. there are prayers to

honor the dead some families remain separated despite the end of the war it's a place of both hope and despair chameleon dog an al-jazeera city southern philippines seven activists from cameron's english speaking region of being jailed for between ten to fifteen years facts of terrorism include activists and journalists mantra big spirit for his alleged role in organizing demonstrations calling for more rights in the french majority country at least seventeen people of died in the northwest and southwest regions where a separatist movement is gathering strength the angle of phone minority has long complained of discrimination at the hands of the french speaking government. police in the united states have made a record breaking seizure of an illegal drug with enough doses to kill millions of people fentanyl worth twenty million dollars was found hidden in a truck during

a routine traffic stop in nebraska john hendren four pts. it is one of the biggest seizures of an opioid drug in u.s. history in the hidden compartment of a truck nebraska state police found fifty three and a half kilograms of fentanyl worth twenty million dollars on american streets according to the u.s. drug enforcement agency that is potentially enough to kill twenty six million people you take that much fat all off the street you are saving lives and that's what our nebraska state troopers are doing driver felipe gin iommi naya and passenger nelson union were arrested for drug possession with intent to distribute when you're made of the opioid epidemic in the u.s. has left police and medical services struggling to cope with the sheer number of overdoses and deaths it's a time bomb it's a prescription for disaster it totally has the potential to kill them if they're not expecting that the u.s. centers for disease control found that most of the drug overdoses in the u.s. are due to fenton a drug thirty to fifty times as powerful as heroin i have never seen anything like

that in my almost forty years of working and i believe the overdose rate will increase i think once a drugs like this are in our marketplace if we don't find a way to interrupt that cycle more and more people will use it opioids kill one hundred fifteen americans every day this police video shows a man near death in skokie illinois revived by the drug nor can which many police in the country now carry a few songs signs grains of fencing all are enough to kill most people when they do overdose the lucky ones end up at places like stroger hospital in chicago but many don't make it at all in terms of the sheer volume it's really the biggest we've had that the rate of rise of fatalities in cook county has just stepped up up on the twenty fifteen we had about six hundred sixty five fatalities the next year we had

eleven hundred and for the past year we're collecting the statistics on. it looks like it'll be at least at that level maybe it will but hire us police say the strength of their recovering from black market drug dealers is more powerful than ever meaning its victims could in time be counted in the millions john hendren al-jazeera chicago. spain's prime minister is vowing to stay in power until his term ends in twenty twenty despite the opposition filing a motion of no confidence in him mariano rajoy is under increasing pressure after a court ruled his people's party profited from an illegal kickbacks for contract scandal twenty nine people have been sentenced including the conservative policies former treasurer. but this motion goes against the very much needed stability in spain as debility that has been safeguarded with the recent approval of the state budget there's no confidence vote damages the economic recovery it is bad for spain for the spanish people it reduces uncertainty and goes against the

interest of all citizens. colombia will become nato's first latin american so-called global partner next week the corporation includes links to organized crime terrorism and cyber security present a. partnership with the merger will improve colombia's image on the world stage the partnership follows the signing of a peace accord with fog rebels gender fifty years of conflict. on sunday colombians will elect a new president along with keeping the peace a groom with fogge the new leader will have to do with emerging rebel groups our latin america editor reports. a year ago more than five hundred disarmed fark rebels came to this camp to begin a transition into civilian life as part of a peace deal that was supposed to include government and extensive land reforms now more than half of them have left many to join a dissident. giovani castro is still here but like many since the government

deceived them. one year after signing we see that those who refused to disarm right my respects they were proven right while we live here humiliated in a room made of materials that produce cancer. many tell us they feel frustrated and betrayed by their own leaders the problem with the peace process goes beyond land distribution and economic aid just as importantly the government vow to guarantee the safety of the demobilized rebels instead they are now sitting ducks with no protection. this area was once undisputed far territory controlled by the rebels six front is. its former commander. says that in the last few months at least seven of his men have been murdered. we wanted to abandon war but there are many sectors that want to push us

back we can see. because the territory that was under our control is now in the hands of many different groups and. one of them is a new rearmed version of the e.p.l. the people's liberation army which recently put out this video showing off its new weapons and falling to hunt down fark members. the leader of the coding to indigenous community tells us that the e.p.l. is trying to take over their land and recruit members in this lucrative drug trafficking region just like the find one state i think. in this territory there is now the presence of the e.p.o. p.e.o. and the dissident group and also other illegal paramilitary groups. and they are spreading throughout colombia quickly feeling a power vacuum. dashing the dreams of rural communities and former rebels who believed however briefly that the on conflict here was. seen in an hour just see

that colombia. welcome to our headlines now on al-jazeera vote counting has begun an island off of friday's referendum on relaxing abortion laws exit polls suggest around seventy percent of people are in favor of repealing what's called the eighth amendment official results are expected saturday afternoon. need parker is at a counseling center in dublin. but he would assume that this would be a very very closely for a summit even protect predicted that they may be a recount in some parts of the country when it larry might be very very close indeed but even if there is a huge margin of error this looks very much like a landslide for those that are after thirty four years of waiting for this law to

be overturned have got what they wanted. u.s. president dodd trump says he's had very productive talks with north korea aimed at getting a summit back on track on thursday he canceled the meeting with kim jong un but is latest tweet donald trump so the talks could still take place on june the twelfth and single for cyclon makulu is made landfall in oman bringing strong winds and torrential rains seven people have died across a man in yemen forty people are missing vows and have been evacuated from coastal areas. the u.s. house of representatives has approved a measure requiring the pentagon to investigate whether american troops tortured detainees in yemen hundreds of men have reportedly gone missing after a search for al qaeda fighters u.s. defense leaders say their forces did question detainees in yemen but deny any knowledge of human rights abuses indigenous people forced to leave their forest

home in kenya are still waiting to return this fight winning a court case against their eviction a year ago the before won the right to remain in the mao forest but the government has not helped them to return or paid them the court ordered two million dollars in compensation seven activists from cameron's english speaking region of being jailed for ten to fifteen years for terrorism some had organized demonstrations calling for more rights in the french majority country. billion light. demonstrably. with the human. alarm hasn't seeker this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your weekly look at the

world of business and economics i believe that this is a tremendous setback for north korea and indeed a setback for the world let's call the whole thing off how investors are reacting to the collapse of the trump kim summit in singapore. out of love with europe why italy is the latest country to push back against brussels. costs edging we look at the pressures on black gold. it would have been the first time a sitting u.s. president met a north korean leader but it wasn't meant to be at least for now donald trump has pulled out of the landmark summit which had been set for june twelfth a move the pyongyang has called extremely regrettable the trumps announcement in the form of a breakup letter came just after north korea said it had blown up its only nuclear test site in a goodwill gesture to reduce regional tensions the decision sent world stock

markets tumbling with china posting no worse trading week in more than a month but in the longer term what does this diplomatic on certainty mean for investors and economically for the region with joining us now from singapore is deborah elms executive director of the singapore based asia trade center good to have you with us so. is this an opportunity lost then for the region the summit itself. i don't think so i think it was always questionable whether the summit will take place here in singapore it's still possible that the summit a summit will take place at some point in the future but i don't think that people really had counted on it actually taking place as planned on the twelfth but in the longer term scenario what was there perhaps an opportunity here to to get bring north korea back into the international arena so to speak and open up

all kinds of trade possibilities further down from there i mean there may have been and certainly there's always that possibility of a future at some point you would like to think that north korea would be brought into the out of the pariah status and back into the global community when that will take place it's a little unclear sooner would be better certainly on behalf of the north korean people that would be fantastic but there are some real challenges to getting that done and the more the u.s. side of particular talked about the libya example the harder it is to get north korean elites to go along with the strategy because in their minds the libya example is either death or prison and neither one of those outcomes sounds particularly attractive so if you were a north korean elite the last thing you want is the libya example repeat it again i guess the word korea yeah i think you're referring there to what the national security national security advisor john bolton had said in which he used. that

example if you think that that is perhaps what what what killed it for food for the north koreans and what led to their tougher rhetoric on this. well i think if you look back over the history you know this is not a regime that's been easy to deal with no matter who's in charge but i do think that the use of the term libya and the repeated discussions about unilateral disarmament are very difficult kind of language to use before you even have the opportunity to sit down and meet for the first time and when you set that up as the original the initial goal i think it's even harder to get the north koreans to come to the table and i think what you saw i was increasing north korean anger meeting the u.s. to cancel the summit and so i think i mean i don't think that's especially surprise .