this is al jazeera. alarm so robin you're watching the al-jazeera news our life my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes. the battle for data the who feeds a rally their supporters as the u.s. refuses an artery request for reconnaissance details. also the growing dissent behind the smiles home of france and italy a falling out over a migrant rescue ship forced to head to spain. meanwhile oxfam raises the alarm over the alleged mistreatment of unaccompanied child migrants in northern italy.

and the tariff tit for tat president donald trump is ready to impose billions of dollars of taxes china says it will retaliate. and i'm tatiana sanchez with all of her days as world cup hosts russia kick off the toyman in style by hammering saudi arabia more world cup news coming up later. welcome to the news our forces backed by a saudi and morality coalition fighting with the rebels in yemen poised to enter who data port military planes have attacked coastal areas to the south east of the city who feel leaders have rallied supporters and promised to find back in what is being seen as the biggest battle of the three year war now the un security council which discussed again on thursday says who date or port must remain open for critical aid deliveries and the report has. that earlier this week the u.s.

rejected a request from the united arab emirates to provide intelligence common reconnaissance aircraft and navy minesweepers and amorality official says there's growing opposition to the military action in the u.s. congress while laura manley has more. yemen's port city of her date was bustling with people buying food on thursday but this is also a city bracing for a heavy bombardment a lot of. people here have barely living unemployment you know data there are no jobs a person your works to earn his daily living there will be a big crisis if the fight and moved into the city and now with poverty and hunger and the war residents will be victims people are dying from hunger the country will be destroyed. the coalition has captured a town south of the data as fierce fighting and as strikes pound the area the u.n.

security council has had to closed door meetings this week both concluding that the only solution to the crisis is a political and not a military one the u.s. ambassador says there are ships on standby to supply her data once the military operation and even i want ships just see with ink so we have a fright we have a very we're very well organized and we are ready to send every assistance for a good. the council will meet for further discussions on monday but many analysts agree that a basket of her data would not draw yemen's three year war closer to an end. but supposing that there will be a successful sort of military takeover there are many questions remain what will happen to other parts of the country you know what will happen to who will run her data what will happen to you know the deep divides among among yemenis i think that

you know it's important to recognize that who sees as as a political actor as they were back in two thousand and thirteen fourteen. as the saudi led coalition forces a military victory over the strategic port the formerly exiled president abu dragoman so hardy has arrived in the southern city of aden for the first time since february two thousand and seventeen to oversee the operations but the u.n. wants the attack on how data could kill up to a quarter of a million people and shut down the main route for food and humanitarian aid to the rest of the country this would have a devastating impact on survival of a population already teetering on the brink of famine. in mali algis there are. hundreds creek is an assistant professor of defense studies at king's college london joins me now from the british capital good to have you with us i mean is this the final battle and the final push for

a solution. absolutely not i mean for the last three years i've always said there is no military solution to this conflict the who these are one part of the conflict and they are a political actor that need to be reconciled with needs to be integrated into any peace plan the u.n. has said so equally so there is no real military solution the data is strategically important port it is very strategically important for the people living in the northwest of the country of yemen it is probably just a strategically vital as writer there might be for europe or for that part of europe but it is data is not going to bring about the turning point in this war as the u.a.e. in the saudis make try to make us believe the who these can survive without having who data and the road to data to actually capturing the port city is going to be a very very long one and in the cause of that we were going to cause a lot more destruction than we actually create a solution to this conflict so how do you analyze the fact that the president has

arrived in aden after sort of. coordinating efforts from saudi arabia is he going to make a difference. no i mean heidi has been for a very long time a puppet the fact that he has not been in the country for years quite telling he has absolutely no leverage not over the country but not even over the southern part of the country where of aden where he was officially been way was hailed as being the president the u.a.e. have very much cut all ties between how the proxies and those on the ground those people who run yemen in the south are actually u.a.e. surrogates who have absolutely nothing to do with how the you know actually fighting actively against the so you know this is just part of a much wider communication strategy by the saudi led coalition to make the international community believe that they're that they're actually fostering a u.n. plan to actually implement a central government after day down after

a seizing so now which is you know of at this time being a very much something that lies so far in the future that we don't really know when this is going to happen so this is really just part of it is about shaping perception rather than having any impact on the military operation all the political process of finding a solution in one of these sort of impartial negotiators david miliband the former british foreign secretary is saying that there will be no chance on the surface for a sort of a negotiated peace if the military action continues he would like to see mediation but it seems that even his calls are being ignored. yes but we have to be quite clear so the international community in general the west has said that they don't want this operation to go forward yet the united states of giving a somewhat of a yellow light to the coalition to go ahead with it and the british government has put a they have sent a very senior diplomat to the u.n. to be the new u.n. advisor on yemen he has worked very thorny over the last couple of months bringing

all these parties together or trying to bring these parties together nonetheless the u.k. government hasn't really made a strong hasn't taken a strong position here against the saudis and in calling them back the french on the other hand have even gone further in supporting the u.a.e. with minesweepers across of the port of data so it seems that the international community doesn't want this to go ahead but at the same time they're doing everything to help the coalition moving forward on who data and i think despite the fact that the u.s. government is that they will not share intelligence with the coalition it is hard to imagine that considering that there are special forces on the ground in yemen u.s. special forces that the u.s. will not be sharing intelligence so in the end of the day there is what they do strategically on the open and this is where an operationally they're actually helping the coalition so there is no real effort to bring the parties together and at the same time obviously the iranians are not doing much to put leverage on the who these so in the end of the day there is this the u.n.

is somewhat a theater of where we are trying to come to a conclusion while operationally militarily both sides are still investing into war so this is not going to happen obviously or see what happens or certainly in the coming days for the moment andreas creek there in london thanks for joining us. it's always new prime minister is due to meet the french president in paris after the two sides engaged in a war of words over rome's refusal to accept a migrant rescue ship paris has accused room of not being committed to accepting nine thousand migrants a day two thousand and fifteen e.u. redistribution scheme italian prime minister just every concert has. decides francis position saying its approach to the migrant crisis is hypocritical meanwhile the aquarius the ship carrying six hundred twenty nine migrants that cause the initial dispute is expected to arrive in spain on sunday morning it's headed to valencia after italy and malta refused to let it dock at that ports not aid workers on board say the long journey is proving

a big challenge for the exhausted passengers who were picked up in the waters off the libyan coast the u.s. navy vessel involved in the rescuing of dozens of migrants off libya's coast is waiting to hear where they can be taken to the trenton rescue to forty survivors after their boat capsized on choose day a private rescue boat offered to take the refugees but so far italy has not assigned it to a safe harbor. let's get the very latest on this from the team bob our correspondent who joins me now from paris i mean a lot really today i jest for those politicians of course gathering in paris a chance to hear a different italian voice from a new government with a very different perspective mr macro will have to be very patient. that's right this meeting at the elysee palace was. long in the planning but of course now comes in the wake of the so-called aquaria scandal no one should be

surprised that the new italian government is trying to sound tough on immigration the league party that you are referring to has made its main campaigning point and in fact the interior minister has talked about expelling hundreds of thousands of migrants from italy in the short term let's not forget that italy is not turning away all boats what it's saying is that boat run by charities n.g.o.s cannot enter its ports right now but it still has taken almost a thousand migrants and refugees just this week off an italian coast guard ship also since last summer italy has been making it tougher for those n.g.o.s that's the context but of course the optics are there it's really wants to to show that it's going to carry out what it promised during the election campaign what the italian government probably didn't expect was this war of words where france said it's really was acting irresponsibly that it was showing cynicism the interior

minister of italy said that this wouldn't happen today's meeting wouldn't happen without an apology will president did phone just epic on say the italian premier on wednesday evening and said that he hadn't meant to insult it's really all the italian people so that's where we are right now the meetings on but there's plenty of things to talk about indeed we'll come back to you when we get more news from the meeting thanks and. the issue of how to deal with refugees and migrants is particularly acute in northern italy people from saddam eritrea out of palestine have been regularly arriving near the border with friends for more than four years to the frustration of residents as the touch of butter reports now from ventimiglia . the colorful northern italian town of ventimiglia faces the mediterranean sea in recent years it's become a stopping point for migrants trying to cross into france just a few kilometers away many in the city say they're frustrated with the situation

most say france should share the burden instead of tightening its border and turning its back on its neighbor the miracle i think france should take some of the migrants because we have too many here invent a million italy takes them all but france doesn't want that it's not fair europe and france have to do their part. these women say the romes recent decision to block a charity migrant risky boat sends a message to the european union that italians like them have had enough going to say thanks to solving any of the leg he's helping to reduce insecurity we don't know where to put all these people in the city center left mayor is cautious when talking about italy's new anti immigration government but he says there's no doubt that people are frustrated with europe more than. i can't complain about the way people have approached us and helped the migrants argument but it's a big weight to bear and people feel abandoned by our neighboring countries and europe is rich enough. as patience runs out so does

goodwill this church was once a refuge for migrants but it was forced to shut. two years ago the colombian praise that was serving in this parish decided to open up the church doors to the migrants and at any time now after a thousand five hundred people sleeping here behind the church and inside the building but local residents became fed up and after bearing to pressure city officials decided to close it down. the new government has decided it is italians first those of us helping got a ready feeling more pressure and i see less migrants coming. the people who come here are mainly refugees from sudan and eritrea this young man didn't wish to be identified but he described his terrifying crossing from libya is what it was very very new syria has been there as you know many people lost their lives what i did as a way of you know because they're struggling or how i make it you know. people invented

me i may not be united in their approach to the crisis but nearly all agree on one thing their migration should be a european issue not just an italian one and you strategies are urgently needed to help those on the front line and protect those who are vulnerable it's actually butler al-jazeera then timea italy. fiji's are being abused detained and illegally sent back to italy by french border guards and that's according to a new report oxfam says sixteen and a half thousand refugees and migrants a quarter of them unaccompanied children passed through the media a small town about seven kilometers from the french border between august twenty seventh teen and april children have complained about being physically and verbally abused and detained overnight in cells without food water or blankets oxfam says the practices are illegal and contrary to french e.u. law a tribunal in nice has already knowledge the illegality of border already conduct in twenty cases involving children quite arbitrary is

a spokesman for oxfam joins me now from london and while the authorities say they have evidence how did you gather your evidence to make the accusations you do in your report. we've got the lots of accounts from migrants including children studying in ventimiglia where your report was just from and they've told us of their experiences trying to cross the border into italy and being pushed back many times and i should point out that our allegations were backed up by a report that came out earlier this month from the independent watchdog for french prisons which paid a visit at the end of last year to the border crossing with italy and found many of our concerns to be taking place as well and this includes cases of child migrants being turned back without any opportunity to claim asylum being held overnight in

cells without water without food even without blankets and disturbingly in some cases being physically and verbally abused as the law stands right now and the domestic laws of both italy and france what rights do these other company children how should they arrive only the french or italian soil. children have different rights to adults under the law no child migrant he wants to claim asylum in front should ever be pushed back to italy there is a procedure for sending children back to italy if they do not wish to claim asylum but that involves certain protections like a twenty four hour grace period or like having a guardian appointed and these procedures are simply not being followed instead from the accounts we hear repeatedly children are being sent back. almost automatically to to italy and as and as i say being being kept in cells

abused then and also in some cases increasingly having their paperwork altered by french border police to make it appear that they're older so what's a solution to the problem if you want to try and pressurise your thora t.'s either in italy or inference. well of course we think it's important the french government in any jitney puts an end to these practices at the french border which are illegal and immoral but we also think it's really important that european governments come up with a better solution than the one we've gone to sharing responsibility for refugees and migrants and when e.u. leaders meet in brussels on the twenty eighth of june it's really important that this is top of their agenda to to agree a better way forward but we'll see what does happen certainly in the days ahead for the moment to talk to check but so much for joining us from london thank you. now

the treatment of unaccompanied minors seeking asylum is also an issue in the united states where the trumpet ministration has been separating families who arrive at something border they've been rallies across the u.s. in support of children who've been forcibly removed from their parents and placed in detention facilities rob reynolds reports from los angeles. i. outraged by the trumpet ministrations policy of taking migrant children away from their parents protesters rally in los angeles. writes it was one of dozens of similar demonstrations in cities around the country this policy is reprehensible we feel like it's it's it's forcing its manufacturing a crisis on top of the crisis that already existed the trumpet ministration says it is seizing children and separating families as a deterrent scaring other would be migrant parents away it's part of a so-called zero tolerance policy meanwhile news came of nearly one thousand five

hundred migrant boys between the ages of ten and seventeen being detained in a sprawling former wal-mart store in texas reporters were given a monitored tour of the building which is run by a private company under contract with the. u.s. government but were not permitted to speak with the boys or film the site these pictures were distributed by the government the government says it has contracts with one hundred holding facilities in seventeen states chaining immigrant minors those facilities now holding more than eleven thousand children congress plans to vote on immigration proposals next week including one that deals with family separation lawmakers from the opposition democratic party called the trumpet ministrations harsh policies a disgrace babies as young as eighteen months being ripped from the arms of their

mothers that is psychological torture leaders of major u.s. religious denominations have condemned the family separation policy but attorney general jeff sessions offered justification for it in the bible i would cite. it to the apostle paul and his clear and wise command in romans thirteen two phases of the government one protester said sessions is wrong i really dislike that he's taking my bible in and. doing something and typical of many of the parents and children seeking refuge in the u.s. are fleeing extreme gang violence in central america protesters and immigrants rights advocates say sending them back to their homeland could amount to a death sentence robbery most al-jazeera lausanne. well message the issue of immigration is causing a major split in germany between anglo michael's christian democrats and have

a very in a system polity the christian social union the c.s.u. wants to refuse entry to people who have already made asylum claims elsewhere in europe something chance and i'm glad michael rejects that she wants time to push for an e.u. wide solution not a summit as mentioned at the end of the month. i personally believe that illegal migration is one of the great challenges that the european union is facing and that we should not act unilaterally that we should not act inconsistently and that we should not heck to at the expense of third parties or correspondent ali cain joins me now from berlin less than twenty four hours ago dominic you and i were talking about this subject wondering what would happen to angle of merkel and the pressure that she's facing the pressure has not gone away when it comes to immigration. no it certainly hasn't so this morning she has been giving an address on the seventieth anniversary of the social market

economy here in germany and did not make any mention whatsoever about this present little local difficulty you might. catch this as the point to make here is the argument between the federal interior minister mr z a whole for all of the christian social union from bavaria and angle americans deserve or have or wants to return to the situation before twenty fifteen angle americal does not and if you look at today's newspapers you see evidence of this clash between the two very clearly this paper the site and says battle for power between zero for merkel the newspaper divert very clearly refers to as the deal between the two and finally the frankfurt own chart says perhaps a warning for angela merkel it says chancellor on probation well that's clearly the way that some people in the c.s.u. feel they feel very strongly about this their group in the parliament yes their spokesman said well look this is one of the most important issues in germany right

now we need a solution angela merkel says she has the solution at a european level the c.s.u. does not think that's the right way to go i want to make here is that i'm going to be giving a news conference on unrelated matters with the general secretary exactly general of nato again shorten bag in a couple of hours time and choose shorter faced questions from the media about precisely this issue then and we'll be following those developments as you can imagine for the moment i will leave it but of course follow vents with you dominic thank you. little respond quickly if the u.s. that ours is a new round of tariffs according to u.s. media reports the new duties could target about fifteen billion dollars worth of chinese imports the official announcement is expected to expected on friday or day after secretary of state like pompei about chinese president xi jinping in beijing has been trying to fulfill a campaign pledge to clamp down on what he calls trading practices from has more from beijing. the u.s.

government hasn't officially announced these tariffs but we've known about them for weeks the government has said it will publish a list of affected items on the fifteenth of june but the tariffs are expected to come into effect shortly after alternately the u.s. wants to reduce its trade deficit with china and it wants to give american companies greater access to the chinese market the two countries have been holding talks to avoid a possible trade war and after three rounds of talks the chinese have agreed to increase their purchases of farm and energy products from us by as much as seventy billion dollars but if these tariffs go ahead that deal will be void and china has threatened further action. if the united states takes unilateral protectionist measures harming china's interests we will quickly react and take necessary steps to resolutely protect our fair legitimate rights. if the terror of posed they could complicate the relationship between china and the u.s. at a time when the u.s.

needs china's help in enforcing u.n. sanctions on north korea the trumpet ministration believes if these tougher sanctions that played a part in forcing north korea to the negotiation table but some analysts also say because the talks between north korea and the u.s. were a success then trump now has a little bit more leeway to be tougher on china with regards to trade because china is not going to want to derail the process for denuclearization on the korean peninsula because that is consistent with china's own security interests the european union member countries have unanimously both deployment to impose tariffs on u.s. products the move will target goods worth three point three billion dollars it's in response to the latest round of u.s. judi's of steel it imports from the e.u. turner and mexico the measures are expected to come into saying in the next few weeks the e.u. has also lodged a complaint the world trade organization. well as satyr the world cup in russia

while the spotlight is very much on the field the tournament also a chance for campaigners to raise the issue of human rights in russia the country has faced criticism on many issues from gay rights to political prisoners to workers' rights challenges has more from. the world cup is the best football party the planet has to offer but in russia not everyone is celebrating this is british gay rights campaigner peter tatchell to taint in moscow while protesting against russia's treatment of people and he's far from the only person who's decided the world cup has a use but it's not for fun ukrainian filmmaker alex sense of is starving himself in a siberian prison times to cause russian or thirty's maximum world cup discomforts . they jailed him for twenty years on terror charges though he says it was for opposing russia's annexation of crimea sense of is supported by international

organizations like human rights watch and russians to oscar nominated russian director andres yeah i can see it is one of them. was to feel used in the the man acted as a true patriot for his country to turn him by force into a citizen of the russian federation and to judge him by russian law as a terrorist simply by being someone who sits and dogs on fire is an absolutely disproportionate response it's outrageous for recent presidential candidate and t.v. personality to send you a sub jack says she's given a bloody me a person a list of political prisoners to be released including sense of and i'd like to talk to him on the eighteenth day of. his starvation period and. i hope that he will be released because it's not fair and i support the movement. for freedom for like since all perhaps is because of well cup attention baps it's for other reasons but in the past week president putin of russia and president

poroshenko of ukraine talked about a prisoner swap ukraine wants sixty four people returned sense of among them whereas russia wants to have back captured soldiers and journalists like carol russian ski the local editor of a russian news agency in ukraine amnesty international is campaigning on the well cut to it wants to draw attention to human rights workers in russia's eleven host cities. we would like that people know that there is not only. work and leave in russia but. people do their. daily bases are fighting for justice and dignity in the country i posted the world cup means russia is in the international spotlight for the next month rights campaigners i think some of the lights can also shine on. chalons al-jazeera.

well if you will have the weather with fox but still ahead here all the al-jazeera news celebrating. palestinians in the festival. will have the best of the action from a challenging first round i think u.s. open. on. the weather sponsored by. we have a mixed bag of weather for the world cup today but sir for western parts of europe it's looking fine and try some warm sunshine coming through we've got some some blustery showers just making their way once again to wards the british isles across the northwestern corner of here but it's still a little unsettled as we go on through the next few days you see this trailing weather system just making its way out scandinavia down across france towards spain

and portugal as a cold front cooler will tuck into the northwest of europe over the next couple days to take a look at madrid thirty celsius is fine and dry for spain and portugal for the spine of portugal game saatchi could see a few showers just around the black sea as you'll see further north up towards petersburg looking fine and dry here live on the gray side but it should be settled the showers they are further south some big showers there just pushing their way down across ukraine into rumania all the way down towards greece actually could see some lively downpours where so weather will just not just way further northwards and a switch as we go on through the next day or two so that's saturday's picture twenty two celsius there in moscow and then as we go on into the second half of the weekend the showers continue to make their way a little further eastwards but still fine and dry for madrid. the weather sponsored by catarrh airways. the diagnosis he has been

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but the mike you're watching the al-jazeera news hour i'm still run the reminder of our top stories the leaders of yemen's who the rebels are calling on their supporters to fight back against saudi a number r.-t. backed government forces closing in on the vital port city of the data the coalition has captured a town south of the city and says it should remain open for humanitarian supplies italy's new prime minister is due to meet the french president in paris after a war of words over rome's refusal to accept a migrant rescue ship with more than six hundred people on board a model by cross has called the move irresponsible and cynical and china says it will respond quickly when the u.s.

confirms reports of a new round of tariffs on its goods if issue announcement is to be expected later in the day after secretary of state mike pompei and chinese president xi jinping in beijing the new duties could target about fifty billion dollars worth of chinese imports. muslims around the world are celebrating either to mark the end of the holy month of ramadan. all. in indonesia many gathered in mosques across the country for eads prayers every year muslims observe ramadan by fasting from dawn to dusk in egypt he'd coincides with the country's first appearance at football's world cup since one nine hundred ninety three atmosphere the capital's main square is festive with many holding balloons and the national flag. for palestinians in gaza either is also a reminder have been under siege this holiday marks the beginning of the twelfth year of israel's blockade in one car but families who are struggling to celebrate

under difficult conditions. emerge a bed that gets his children ready for the religious festival of lead that follows a month of thought they headed to pray and to listen to speeches by representatives of hamas the defacto power here in gaza. imad lives near the border with israel but has never left. since march thirtieth he has taken part in and he's ready protests along the border and seen many of his friends and neighbors injured by israeli snipers and tear gas this eat coincides with the start of the twelfth year he's really laid siege. to god willing we hope that by the end of the protest we achieve our goal of lifting the siege and we wish the israelis will accept our demand to lift the siege and give palestinian people our rights. a must representative. is the deputy to smell funny of the political bureau chief

of the mouse he delivers an impassioned speech criticizing israel for his actions and accusing it of targeting civilians journalists or medics during the protests. imad and an average ten dollars a week when he can get work he doesn't think politicians will change very much along the land. by god the speech doesn't change the reality things on the ground change reality and we're changing things by protesting we want to change we want to achieve our goals. prepares to celebrate traditionally a time for family and friends but he worries about his children's future. falsely what we have seen over the last few years we see war then cease fire then they announce there might be a solution we become optimistic but then things get worse then there's a new war hope these protests will give hope to our children. imad plans to rejoin the protests and continue to demand the lifting of the siege and to fight the

palestine in the hopes that his and other's lives will improve about family is typical of many gazan residents according to the palestinian bureau of statistics some fifty three percent of people live in poverty that's over a million people despite all the challenges he faces is determined to give his children the best aid possible iran can al-jazeera. the u.s. says it'll take a wee quote an appropriate measures against the syrian government but violations of a deescalation zone in the south west president bashar al assad's forces have recovered much of the country's territory but one of the areas still controlled by rebels is the land bordering jordan and israeli occupied golan heights but the escalation a deal brokered by russia u.s. and jordan last year has contained the fighting but the assad government has vowed to reclaim every inch of syrian territory. at least seven people have died in

renewed fighting between protesters and security forces in nicaragua on thursday activists burned barricades to block streets in the capital during a twenty four hour strike they're demanding the resignation of the president daniel ortega the people because two months ago sparked by changes to social security policies stephanie decker has what. a nationwide strike on thursday didn't stop the violence several regions of nicaragua fighting between activists and pro-government forces including here in t.p. tapa there were fatalities with locals accusing pro-government forces. we were not armed there were four hooded men some skinny in a black shirt and they were the ones with the machine gun the shotgun i do not know only they know what weapon they had a sniper was on top of a pole police officers were in uniform and we barricaded ourselves here. president daniel ortega is efforts to introduce welfare cuts in april prompted the bloodiest confrontation since the civil war ended in one nine hundred ninety the plan has

been dropped but the protests haven't stopped there demanding that president to take a leave office many accuses government of using lethal force in trying to contain the unrest at least one hundred sixty people have been killed and hundreds injured in almost two months of violence activists have set up roadblocks on more than two thirds of the country's roads in an effort to push back against ortega backed forces but those road blocks are hurting the. conny and affecting regional trade beyond nicaragua's borders but even with the look in this country we want to keep going because we're caught up in a crisis that has nothing to do with us there are many central american squatter melons hondurans coast to reconsider even many panamanians here we want to go back to our countries because they've been here far too long now a new round of talks between the government and civil society representatives are expected on friday millions of nicaraguans will be waiting to see if it will end the crisis stephanie decker al-jazeera traffic was above ways election commission has cleared twenty three candidates for july's presidential polls i think luda

president of the. opposition leader nelson will commute its about ways first election since robert mugabe was forced out by the military last year after thirty seven years in power we have received eliminations in effect on the following candidates. no son of m.d.c. our lands we have joys still without a rope. from peoples rainbow coalition party we have non-god by your muscle. from zanu p.f. party. or sign i don't know do more you know of alliance of for the people's agenda. we have to take you but i am totally independent. this is the object that we have we have presence of more forms. because that hungry person since foreman to twenty five years in prison for human trafficking the group

was found responsible for the deaths of seventy one refugees who suffocated in a truck in twenty fifteen of reports. the ringleaders were brought into court for sentencing flanked by armed police wearing masks at the heights of europe's twenty fifteen refugee crisis the gang smuggled more than a thousand refugees into austria in just six months using fifteen different trucks and lorries migrants are being charged as much as seven hundred dollars a person but the oldest smuggling run was in a refrigerator truck a vehicle designed to be tight on the seventy one men women and children from syria iraq and afghanistan trapped inside quickly ran out of oxygen i started to send me a canister that the people who saw it was seen suffering and as time passed we realized that i may supplicate to death so they banged on the doors screamed and shouted trying to signal to the driver was running out of people inside realized that they would suffocate and die inside. the gangs driver abandon the lorry beside

the a four highway and when austrian police opened the doors they found the corpses piled on top of each other investigations showed they'd been dead for two days the gang leader was an afghan national named sam salon who charged with aggravated murder the gang said they weren't aware that the refugees were dying the police telephone intercepts showed that when the driver had raised concerns who had ordered him not to open the doors let them die instead that's an order he was recorded as saying. the deaths became a tipping point in the twenty fifteen refugee crisis it's believed to have led directly to angola medicals announcement that germany would welcome migrants eventually allowing in more than a million mainly syrian refugees. the prosecutor accused la who of endless greed and frightening indifference to the suffering of the seventy one who died the man's defense lawyers say they'll appeal the prosecutor is also appealing to try to have

the twenty five year jail term increased. paul brennan al-jazeera. the united nations is warning that an important target on climate change set in the paris agreement will not be met unless rapid and far reaching changes are made in the world's economy a report by a leading environmental agency says human induced global warming could increase by more than one point five degrees celsius by twenty forty two across and is the director of plan the u.k. charity supporting the use of legal action to tackle climate change and he says governments must take the lead. we won point five degrees mine just sound like a number to a lot of people the call in paris when governments agreed to limit temperature to that level was one point five to stay alive and that is the call that really sums this out this is an existential threat it is an extension threat to all of us to our societies to our economies to international security if that isn't enough to

wake people up it's very difficult to know what is is too much for individuals to handle on their own there's a complete fantasy that this is going to be solved by people changing their habits of consumption this needs to happen at scale our infrastructure needs to change is has to happen with support from government it happens by people all over the world demanding that we do whatever it takes because we face an existential crisis we face an emergency donald trump is obviously a huge disappointment in terms of what the world is trying to do but there are many many americans that he doesn't speak for we've got the mare of new york at the moment suing fossil fuel companies for the costs of putting a wall around wall street to keep the floodwaters a day we just got to find a coalition of the willing. a thanksgiving service is being held at london's westminster abbey shortly for a wall of the world's greatest scientists stephen hawking who died in march his

ashes will be in turtles live cellars scientific giants like isaac newton and charles darwin hawking's work or time space and the nature of the universe will have worldwide play the serbia recording of his voice that two of the original piece of music will be beamed into space towards the nearest black hole. still ahead here. we'll have a story. getting ready for that opening. to stay with us here on.

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cape town's water running out of city hall for a g.c. people should use no more than fifty liters of top water per person per day. about a third of the city's residents live in informal settlements like this one then you

can see in about four percent of the water with the generations they've already been collecting it and communal times also as you say the city will reach day zero on the ninth of july that's when they'll turn off the water in the hopes to have it be the communal council stay on. the city's times of fed by reservoirs this is one of the largest. because els gallop well four years ago they would have been on the twenty five meters of water since then the province has suffered the worst drought on record. to saving measures who would be postponed a zero bice three months everyone here is hoping the winter will soon bring enough rainfall to make sure they never come. out as it was very assertive we just tell the reality as it is i thought they would work contract they call it modern slavery we call for indonesia every day not only one day as a breaking news story and uneasy as a very fascinating country but very difficult to understand from the outside and

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one of the biggest problems facing our oceans and the loss of seagrass meadows one check rule for roughly fifteen percent of the ocean's total carbon storage and perhaps they hoped why for so much carbon dioxide as rain forests and they're also question marine habitats for many endangered oceans these things. but here on elkhorn slew in central california the tide could be turning for sea grass thanks

to some unexpected allies. trying to meet their. this nine hundred hectare as sherry is where rivers throughout this region meet the pacific ocean this is the agricultural powerhouse of the united states and fertilizer and pesticide runoff threaten the balance of this delicate ecosystem so having farmers so close to the ocean on what what impact does that have on the water quality well i mean were you coastal environments close to urban centers coastal environments close. you get problems like this. grows with the raw. starts decomposing over half of the world sea grass meadows are in decline but here in al corn slew they're making a surprising comeback. oh wow.

at one time there were thousands of sea otters in california but in the eighteen hundreds they were hunted to near extinction for their soft fur pelts. there are now more than one hundred in this as consuming a staggering one hundred thousand crabs per year. this federation's appetite has helped restore the balance of this ecosystem by triggering a chain reaction known as a trophic cascade. sea otters the crabs lower crop numbers allows smaller invertebrates like sea slugs to thrive and these creatures are crucial for the health of sea grass by eating buildup on the leaves they allow sunlight to reach the plants. because the otters are so crucial to the

ecosystem scientists are carefully monitoring their slow and steady come back. they capture them and tag them with radio devices. firing their work really well. because probably very close. what's the purpose of tracking we go out seven days a week is to go out and find individuals see where they are what they're doing. other part of it is just so we can understand the distribution of orders in this area what are they eating and how are they doing health wise there is one right there that's three four nine six so that beeping is an arm that peeping is from the radio transmitter that's surgically implanted with her help system ok. why don't you take a look yet you're out in there. along

the west coast of north america researchers have noticed that the return of top level predators is having an impact on restoring all kinds of underwater life and the entire ocean system. what the sea otters do it's kind of turns the tables against. groupings of packs of single living crowd essentially the same grass an advantage again so if we introduce top predators like sea otters to ecosystems around the world will it have a knock on effect potentially in the prediction is yes so if you re store food webs which means a lot of times bringing back a top predator to a system that we wiped out we have a great potential for restoring the health of that system.

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al jazeera. where ever your. for twenty three years mohsin has collected objects he finds along the coast. enough to fill his museum enough to break a guinness world record armed with a story for every object he's become an environmental activist an inspired artist and a voice for the plight of countless migrants. my chin is in such a al-jazeera. the

french and italian leaders are expected in paris after days of disagreement over migrant. treatment of unaccompanied child migrants in the listening. also coming up in this program the battle for the data. to rally their supporters as the u.s. refuses request for reconnaissance details. for tat president trump is ready to impose billions of dollars of. china says it will return.