there are other nationalities too like this woman seen in the background of a photo taken on a north korean beach family members believe it's a no chip pan joy a thai woman who disappeared from macau in one nine hundred seventy eight's. i have a lot of hope that south korea japan and the u.s. will push the north korean abduction issue and i will be able to meet soon at this stage the new diplomatic face of north korea is largely viewed as positive but for many it will mean nothing if the people they've been waiting decades to see until out to come home wayne hay al jazeera solve the taliban in afghanistan has announced a three day ceasefire to mark the end of ramadan it is the first such true since the group was toppled by the us led invasion in two thousand and one taliban fighters say they will stop all offensive operations during the muslim. holiday later this month except against foreign forces it follows a similar announcement by the afghan government. the government of afghanistan. has

taken root take all the steps to make sure that. there is no more bloodshed in afghanistan and even if these steps are smaller steps we will come those we will come down on by the taliban and we hope that the will be. committed to implement their announcement on the ceasefire well just hours before the truce announcement taliban fighters killed at least seventeen police officers in an early morning raid one hundred fifty fighters stormed a military checkpoint in herat province eight of them were killed by afghan soldiers and a second attack by the taliban also killed twenty four police officers in the northern province gunmen targeted several road checkpoints in the morning hours ahead of the cease fire agreements. or right still to come here at al-jazeera we meet the survivors who bought somalis for a go volcano who say they're lucky to be alive.

on gold and the ramadan tradition that suddenly at risk in jerusalem's old city. how our recent tropical storm has brought some huge amounts of rainfall into the southeast of china past three days in hong kong it's been pretty miserable two hundred millimeters of rain this around half the june average in just those three days and for the south to see some rather heavy rain also stretching its way across into the philippines manila in particular has seen some very heavy bursts of brain another tropical system here i stand next tropical storm pulling out and that has brought copious amounts of rainfall into lose on the showers remain in place here

as we go on through sunday and the data on into monday meanwhile hong kong will improve it will dry up it'll brighten up it will be sticky temperatures get up to around thirty four celsius also showers and to the southwest of china still pushing efforts was more than pass vietnam see some very heavy rain here and also some big downpours there for a good part of me in ma pushing up into the funnel theist of india and also into bangladesh that's all parts of the south westerly monsoon driving those rains into much of southern india now into the other side of the gold as well up into was that northeastern corner of the by a single western gas we've got flood warnings in place here for the next few days lots of heavy downpours right across the reason. struggling with the effects of climate change sierra leone's dry season is on forgiving but compounded by corruption season months lights that are claiming my

story i don't remember even the wall when if i think one thousand one hundred people died in two minutes people in power investigates the effects of deforestation and illegal building and asks what the future holds if there is an all current he failed to act the mountain will fall on al jazeera. and i get a reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera and u.s. president donald trump has left the g. seven summit with a call for the free world he said talks with fellow leaders have been extremely productive but that the united states must be treated fairly. to singapore for

tuesday's highly anticipated meeting with king john it will be the first time a serving us president and the north korean leader ever come face to face. and the afghan taliban has announced a three day ceasefire to mark the end of ramadan the first such truth since the group was toppled by the u.s. led invasion in two thousand and. three years of war in yemen has displaced hundreds of thousands of people who now live under harsh conditions in remote areas aid agencies say most of yemen is twenty nine million population is in need of humanitarian assistance. as more. some of the millions of victims of the war in yemen refugees living in makeshift camps in her data the province is under houthi control and so is her data poort the main entry point for food and aid shipments but government troops and their allies are on the offensive to capture the area forces led by saudi arabia and the

united arab emirates are within twenty kilometers of the red sea poor and most of these families fled their homes and villages during the last three years of fighting they say they aren't able to return and can't live in such poor conditions any longer. we have nothing no blankets no food no flowers no cooking oil officials come and take our names but never show up again the strategically positioned coastal province is crucial for yemen's feuding factions as the conflicts continue yemenis are losing hope of returning home. from time to time kind people from the area activists food but aid agencies and charities have forgotten us. the health of the yemenis has drastically

deteriorated child malnutrition color and other indices are why in her data i guess we are all sick here i have a kidney problem one of my brothers is diabetic and the other has to park a loss'. as well as disease and hunger strikes have killed many civilians coalition commanders dismissed allegations civilians are being targeted and insist they're aiming for who feel rebels hideouts. more guatemalans have been ordered to leave their homes to escape an eruption on mt the volcano has been spewing a toxic cloud of ash and lava for the past five days at least one hundred nine people have died in two hundred missing with little hope that they will be found alive david meserve has been speaking to survivors. as painful as his burns might be gar knows how lucky he is to be alive he his wife and father in law

were at home the moment brought a mollusc volcano erupted that even his wife managed to escape but the memories of that day will haunt them forever. was forming inside our house when we went running out my father in law was swept away the ash was boiling mud mixed with people were running and the hardish came down on top of them killing them people were trapped inside their houses and couldn't escape they were cooked inside. six children with severe burns were airlifted to the united states where pediatric burn center offer state of the art treatment not available in guatemala. and now one of all is national disaster agency is coming under fire for possible negligence public prosecutors have ordered an investigation into whether evacuation procedures were properly followed is a little bit of the official say they warned the public after sensors picked up an

increase in volcanic activity hours before the eruption everybody i mean to the mayor all of the communities received warnings and obviously we don't have the authority to order an evacuation we make recommendations and it's the residents who decide whether to evacuate or not. but residents who escaped the gases and volcanic mud said that only those close to the highway heard the warning going on the wheel will result be if we would have received a warning we would have left our house earlier and many people's lives would have been saved i don't know about the others but they didn't warn us we didn't know about the eruption until the lava was coming down. volcano erupted again on friday expelling large quantities of pirate classic material an ash nearby homes were evacuated authorities hoping to avoid another disaster. david mercer

al-jazeera the squint le what amala. refugees in one of the world's largest camps have been beamed around the world in a rare web streaming event to tell their stories the could camp in kenya houses about one hundred eighty five thousand people from south sudan somalia ethiopia and other countries the today so guys asian arranges lectures around the world to try and change perceptions of how the germ jim was in cooma for the event. it's been an extraordinary day here at the cooma refugee camp here in north western kenya this is a refugee camp that houses around one hundred eighty five thousand refugees in this ted x. cacouna camp talk today this is something that's really been inspiring for a lot of the residents here the organizers are hoping with this event to showcase the positive impact that refugees that have had made not just in this camp not just in this country but all around the world now earlier i spoke with melissa fleming she's the chief u.n.h.c.r. spokesperson also one of the co-hosts of this event and i asked her how an event

like this was going to help try to reshape the narrative around refugees and how refugees are perceived around the world most europeans or americans are astray and think that all the refugees are coming their way frankly most of them are in countries like kenya eighty five percent and yet they're invisible and we were hoping with this event today can't we could really illuminate the camp but not only that the extraordinary refugees and the talents and the ideas they have by putting them on as powerful a stage as the ted stage many of the speakers here today are refugees among them actors singers musicians poets it was one young woman in particular a twenty two year old refugee from south sudan her name is mary mark here and she spoke with me and told me that she came back to this camp after she had left so that she could teach children here and why that was so important to her. i look at the population in the. especially that population of the most of them. a whole

class and seeing me as their teacher who is almost their peer will opt. to move on to push on to see that life is not about the company life is something i had and that's what i want them to believe it and every time i'm in my class teaching them biology our business. i'm not just teaching business. i'm teaching business the set of statistics that will help everybody i've spoken with here today has told me they believe an event like this is extremely important not just because it counteracts negative stereotypes about refugees but also because it will inspire so many refugees around the world. and engines muslim practice during the holy month of ramadan is under threat in jerusalem the practice involves men banging drums on the streets in the night reminding muslims to eat

before the fast but now jewish settlers have complained they make too much noise and police are threatening to find those who take part in a smith reports from occupied east jerusalem. it's a wake up alarm the dates back centuries. just before during ramadan across the middle east known as most. people to pray and eat before the fasting begins. but here in the muslim quarter of jerusalem's old city for the first time police have been detaining and finding the most a hierarchy for disturbing the sleep of the jewish settlers living here. the police are always harassing us i've been detained four times accused of making noises that disturbs the settlers the settlers get annoyed by everything we do even the decorations we make for ramadan annoys them. the old city is split into the

muslim jewish christian on damini importance but for the past fifty years jewish settlers have also been moving into the muslim quarter now appear is where while a settler families live and the guys stop the music as they go past the house but that's not been enough to stop the settlers complaining to the police. oh to die. on the settlers complained again tonight there are jewish homes here this woman says this is going to go on all month jerusalem police told i'll just hear in a statement that they are constantly trying to maintain the delicate balance between allowing in ensuring the freedom of religion and worship and maintaining public order and quality of life for local residents the police see offenses of noise and disturbing the peace is one of the most serious offenses that cause harm to the public and the quality of life for our local residents the police presence is provided for settlers who choose to live in the heart of the muslim quarter.

with fines running into the hundreds of dollars mohammed's wish to continue this ramadan tradition has suddenly become very expensive. burnitz made out his era in occupied east jerusalem philippines football is experiencing a high on these national stage after the national team qualified for the asian cup domestically the game is still struggling to establish legitimacy for a local league as well and they're going to travel to the rural south of the country where many young people have aspirations to go professional. following his football dream ralf says he has loved the sport for as long as he can remember his aspirations are no different to those of many boys to be a professional football player but it comes from them and in the region of the philippines long held back by poverty and conflict and dreams like his are often

have to remain just that a dream rob studies during weekdays in the other city but on weekends he travels for hours to this town of keep the power on to teach football to young kids so you know i feel bad when i see children here not reach their full potential in football they cannot afford coaches so i share with them what i learn and what they can barely afford sports clothes to play young and have to make do with whatever space they're given. to the most i put rob says the recent historic win of the philippine national football team vs goals against the jackets on is inspiring it is the first time the national team has qualified for the asian cup the ask goes also rose in world rankings soaring nine places to one hundred and thirteen it may not seem much but it's the highest ranking the team has

ever achieved thank god thank you thank god the philippine asco say they hope their qualification to the asian cup will inspire more filipinos to take up football specially in rural areas like this one because they say all they really need is an open field and the ball but that's easier said than done. in a country where basketball is seen as a national sport football ranks much slower in terms of government for your team as we progress and as we continue to reap success we hope that this translates into interest in the national team and interest in the sport football has this reputation and image that it's a sport for the elite you know that the army the only country of ever had that is in the philippines you know you look at south countries in south america in africa

in a football is the sport for the working class is the sport for the masses. in remote provinces classes are often disrupted by gunfire and fighting. and a pair of football boots is the last thing on the boy's mind but they won't give up the gmo of one day playing professionally on the proper grass pitch. for now they are happy long as they have a ball to be. similar. to the power. of. the top stories here on al-jazeera and u.s. president donald trump has ended the g. seven summit in kind of a with a call for a turf free world he says that talks with fellow leaders of the major industrialized nations had been extremely productive but he was determined the

united states was treated in his words. trump has now left the summit and is over to singapore food tuesday's highly anticipated meeting with him it will be the first time a serving us president and the north korean leader have ever come face to face the president said he felt positive about the because you mentioned. it's a one time shot and i think it's going to work. very well that's why i feel positive because it makes so much. and we will watch over it will protect and will do a lot of things i can say that south korea japan china many countries want to see it happen and they'll help the world so there's a great there's really this is a great time this is not happened in all of the years that they've been separated by a very artificial bantry it's a great opportunity for peace and lasting peace and prosperity for

the taliban in afghanistan has announced a three day ceasefire to mark the end of ramadan it is the first such true since the group was toppled by the u.s. led invasion in two thousand and one taliban fighters say they will stop all offensive operations during the muslim holiday later this month except against foreign forces it follows a similar announcement by the afghan government refugees in one of the world's largest comes have been beamed around the world in a rare web streaming event to tell their stories you could coom a camp in kenya houses about one hundred ninety five thousand people from south sudan somalia ethiopia and other countries the tax organization arranges lectures around the world to try and change perceptions mohammed jam june was in kakuma for the events will hit that story a little bit later more guatemalans have been ordered to leave their homes to escape an eruption of mt forego the volcano has been spewing a toxic cloud of ash and lava for the past five days right up to date with the

headlines we're back with more news in right about how i feel. in august twenty seventh seen a devastating landslide in sierra leone and killed over a thousand people a terrible blow to a country that still bears the scars of the civil war and be a potent force initially three cranes groups on by climate change with full speed the calls but then other stories emerged of corruption greed and environment

degradation weeping to wasp-y. stock warnings of catastrophe or ignore. the. the past decade has seen a rise in the number of catastrophic weather events around the world. be it freak storms or drives or unprecedented rainfall extreme weather is becoming the new normal a no where are the effects felt more keenly than in developing nations. from bangladesh to peru and sierra leone to the dior sea record breaking rains have

triggered devastating floods and lethal landslides. among them the landslide that struck sierra leone in august two thousand and seventeen it was one of the deadliest with over a thousand people killed or missing. but was this disaster all it seems one more portent of the havoc that climate change will be sending our way. or was it compounded by other more prosaic human failings. we've been to investigate the root causes of the serio landslide. to ask what can be learned and what the future holds for this and other countries if those in power fail to act.

on a. good girl simple actions good story sky. sports icon which. was more. on the morning. of aug fourteenth two thousand and seventeen after days of heavy rain the side of the sugarloaf mountain in region to sierra leone collapsed the avalanche of mud water and rock that followed destroyed three hundred homes and killed over a thousand. more delhi divestiture. is the maids. i don't remember even the war when for a single day one thousand one hundred people died in two minutes there was a big phone. like

a plane coming down you know that goes on with you wasn't easy to get where i live in the the ground by fritz. then if i'm in it if i do get me someone get me but if no one's. six weeks later the rains have come to an end and people are resuming their lives. but not everyone thinks heavy rainfall alone calls the disaster. not far from the site of the landslide in the hills around regent stunts the taku gamma chimpanzee sanctuary. for over twenty years tucker gamma has been a haven for chimps orphaned by habitat destruction and the illegal to trade. but for the past decade the centuries finder. has been fighting a different one that has implications for people as well as wildlife.

looking good. for them they come here and we have. them back mentally and physically and uniformed them into a felony and. so they are given a second chance at life and their slaves. on the border of the western area national park it's a seventy square mile stretch of mountainous rainforest adjoining the capital founded more than a century ago the park is home to ninety percent of sierra leone's biodiversity including while chimpanzees and numerous endangered species.

it is this forest and its wildlife that bow and his team of forest rangers have been fighting to protect fleetest line here there was a caterpillar that was trying to come in all the way and we stopped it at one point or people but then it's like going to miss fire fighting. we move then after one two month the attempt again this is how they his looked historically and that is how they should be preserved for many reasons and we. help this forest is going to come down one day and that's what happened that we have been warning about this landslide all potential for something like big discussed like that for the last say ten fifteen years. for the collapse of the sugarloaf was triggered by rampant deforestation and illegal building. for over a decade he warned the government of the damage being done to the hills around free time he took his message to local radio and television and even planted trees in

the area. in the last three times a documentary produced a decade ago appeared alongside local architects and urban planners calling on the government to control unplanned building and environmental damage around the city. with the war situation we had everything stopped for many many years so i think this suddenly there is this just everyone wants to bill deeply want to come back to say that you and those who left. that is a huge. demand for land in the building called as little to me ignore the beleaguered nobody as regards to the some of the wrongs we we obviously slide down the mountain got my beloved sleeves it's an environmental disaster. we'll in a few years we will see over the course of us. the

warnings were dire. but no one listened. patrolling the bindery of the national park today takes power and his team to the site of the landslide where one of their guard posts once stood. a year before the disaster it was burnt down by angry locals determined to build houses in the area. mistaken the lawyer but make you feel say that when in a period you come here look you look at it what i see is not the top i'm imagining what is under so many people perished we actually standing on top of it was a basically because it was literally is only beauty it's like a lot of the of the people the problem was not cost here the problem was caused by the ground that you can see this landscape a lot of rock when you have this rock you have a little soil in there and it's the trees that's where the roots are spreading into these areas around the rocks and that is holding everything together and once you

cut the tree basically little to stem dice that means there is nothing holding these rocks again soil is already lose it's becoming like dust and once you have the heavy downpours and it's all based basically taking it away then the rocks are being exposed. we're playing games with people slice if you ask me really it's going to hurt again it will hurt the. architects million scarboro and quinn journey alan return to freetown at the end of syrian civil war and find a city where the rule book could be in front at the window. like they warned of the dangers the city faced. truly remarkable what is happening. just post more post-war. a. small area that opened up totally unplanned. three hundred home. were destroyed in the region planned slight.

but the collapse of the hillside didn't just destroy the houses beneath us. he created a mudslide an avalanche of water earth and stone that swept downhill towards the sea. the houses that stood in its way were built in floodplains were close to water courses areas normally classed as high risk when i got to know it would i want to be with. you. now maybe you did if you work around it or well being get away. with the family or die a. little tin shack there has been built into the side of the hill and the earth is left exposed will rain come in will cause that slope to fail if you have houses like this it would all of them would just be going collaterally despite the

disaster when in manila find the area around the landslide a hive of building activity. with laborers rushing to meet the demand for new houses this is the trade notice selling these broken aggregates to whosoever will. only police them. so that to give the story from the riverbed here you can see that bridge is being eroded and this obviously they are taking stones from out there that is going to collapse eventually through ignorance we were wrecking the landscape. look the height. none of these houses should got been built in this vicinity a cult is a mishmash of houses placed on the hill it will be interesting to find out if any of this. houses here sharks have. a building

permits but those we spoke to around the landslide site did have paperwork including conveyances site surveys and building permits all stamped and signed by the ministry of lands it's very painful it brings heaviness in my heart to see that we do have people in so who know what to do who would advise governments on how to proceed but if if if that is ignored then what's. the reason a silver bullet that would have prevented the region's landslide. not everyone thinks loss of forest cover or damage to the landscape played such a critical role the landslide might have happened anyway but if the law had been upheld it would have been far less deadly the area around pretty towns sixty percent of the power.