opposition to contend with in either country both countries there is they're facing particularly from hardliners quite a lot of criticism that either side had had backed down had betrayed the cause but they address these issues certainly in their speeches for example of prime minister . stated that he would be opening up new border posts between macedonia and greece as well quite an important issue there as well and he spoke of winners and losers in the region as well how important it was actually for there to be cooperation here in order for there to be more perspire a city in the region those words also echoed by the macedonian prime minister ziad as well he also directly addressed opposes of the deal saying example like you are absolutely entitled to have your opinion he said but this really is important to

engage and to move away from the past and to not look back at it but really there was a very much a strong call for there to be more unity with the european union with europe in general itself having to deal with its own schisms between eastern and western countries in the direction in which it's going but certainly it made a gesture of open arms to towards the european union and how that could potentially be a solution for trying to resolve some of the problems in this region martin indeed so the prime minister then pointing out what could be the benefits from this name compromise if you like but there are senior figures within macedonia are they like the president who is normally a ceremonial figure but who are absolutely opposed to this deal and so there's still quite a long way to go before this will be ratified in macedonia. absolutely and it's not just the ratification process that has to take place in parliament but

also often that macedonia will also have to hold a referendum on this in september to see whether they will actually be able to pass this through and in the meantime they will be continuing to face that because they also have a lot of of cultural. what on the greek side of the border would say would be cultural appropriation to roll back from that for example the sort of joint use of greek sort of legendary figure or you know historical figure alexander the great on this side of the border in greece they feel that the macedonians have been misappropriating that and claiming them as part of their own these are cultural issues that have to be wrangled out but it's going to take more than just words from politicians from that it's going to have to be a whole region education process and that obviously the brunt of that will be borne by macedonia macedonia but it will also take time here on this side of the border as well all right sonia thank you very much so sonia lake press there where the signing actually took place let's go now to the greek capital athens and speak to

john psaropoulos our correspondent there and john as we speak we can look at pictures of hundreds perhaps thousands of protesters in northern greece in the town called vig lawyer who are out protesting against the signing of this agreement i mean is this just a matter of greeks worried about cultural appropriation about the issue of alexander the great's and others maybe trying to take some of the cute. look the greeks have always invoked international law and international treaties as the main lines of defense in all their relationships with neighbors and countries further afield. of the greek foreign policy abides by international treaties in turn. it is very much in greek interests to do so so treaties are taken very seriously what people hear is that through this treaty greece is going to not only

compromise on the name of the of northern macedonia. that many people it's true but what really. raises objections is that through this treaty greece recognizes the masts nationality if you read article two it says the nationality of the second party shall be macedonian slash citizen of the republic of north macedonia well that leaves a weakness in the treaty as far as the greeks are concerned because they've spent the last twenty seven years saying it's a fake identity it's there is no such thing as a masterly nationality now they're recognizing it the second problem for the greek side is in the promise to ratify. excuse me the promise to invite northern macedonia to to join nato

conditionally upon the completion of its internal legal procedures which means the referendum or other form of ratification of this treaty and the constitutional amendments and following the completion of those legal procedures greece would ratify along with every other member of nato the full accession of northern macedonia into nato the problem with that clause legal experts international experts say is that yes this is a legal safety valve for the greeks in case the treaty isn't fully rast fide on the other side but it is a politically expensive one if every other member of nato ratify northern master next session into nato except for greece greece's effectively isolated and surrounded and it will be politically very difficult for greece to hold that line of defense so there is some truth. to the conservative opposition's claim in parliament that once we've gone ahead on the eleventh of july initiate this

invitation despite the conditionality we've if it's a done deal with effectively giving away our leverage and we've given it on the treaty that is less than ideal all right thank you very much john for a live in athens. on this al-jazeera news hour including why a deal to end the political violence four was a pause only hours after it's announced he's getting support from young voters but will that be enough focused on the petro to become colombia's first left wing president. and in sport peter will be here with the latest on goal second major of the year the usa. the five days of fighting the yemens main course has cut off an important aid delivery route government forces and the coalition of countries led by saudi arabia

and the united arab emirates are trying to capture his data from his he rebels priyanka gupta reports. the international airport clearly damaged but the who these insist still very much in their hands dot despite claims by the saudi. military coalition their dead now and could kill him how come about this is the whole day the international airport today is the second day of. and the claims that they took control of the airport a baseless they are just spreading lies and rumors. but if the saudi and polish it is did control of the airport its forces far away and. now the u.n. special envoy to yemen marty griffiths has spilled into the yemeni capital sanaa to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe. the port city is a lifeline not only to the who these but to the entire yemeni population we're just

a war any fighting in the city of her data we want for peace to be employment it across a nation. we the residents of a data city want to live in peace and security we don't want war we don't want fighting of any kind enough is enough the saudi a democratic led coalition wants to these two had to work control of the port either to a un supervised committee or yemen's government. the accused rebels of importing weapons from iran saudi arabia says it can seize the city quickly enough to avoid interrupting flows of aid to cut them or not be moved parties proposed a new humanitarian aid plans aiming to make sure the external humanitarian assistance can access human through her data. the saudi led proposal is a nonstarter and a suspicious of any attempts by the un envoy to broker peace. the war in yemen has

already cost the world's worst humanitarian crisis and there are fears of worse to come we are very fearful that any kind of blockage. of the free flow of humanitarian food also commercial stocks particularly food and fuel could have a major impact on people who are already highly vulnerable as some of the middle east's richest countries fight the region's poorest the u.n. special envoy is reinforcing the international appeals to stop the destruction. al-jazeera. the oscar winning actress and u.n. special envoy angelina jolie has visited the iraqi city of mosul to meet families left destitute after the defeat of eisel the armed group was pushed out almost a year ago it occupied most of the three years turning it into

a stronghold of their so-called calif it. this is the worst devastation i've seen in all my years that the units are these people have lost everything and the trauma and the loss that they have suffered is unparalleled they're here on their own with very little support next to nothing and they're rebuilding themselves with their bare hands they're moving the rubble with their bare hands and their bodies in this rubble that stay here and you can smell the bodies and some of them have family members that are here and they're unable to move them colombians next president in a runoff election on sunday the choice is between conservative candidates eva and ok and his left wing rival gustavo petro petter is valid to tackle inequality but some fear the guerrilla turned politician could turn colombia into another venezuela and they gather their reports from the capital will get. this double

petro has come to the imagination of colombia's young voters his stance on tackling inequality reducing reliance on carbon fuels and ending the status quo of right wing politics appeals to a new generation either. it's sort of all got yet it's time to end two hundred years of the same families governing us this is the chance for free citizenship and equality for all your biggest i think the only candidate that has a long term vision for our country when it comes to fighting climate change and creating a modern liberal democracy no stranger to politics gustavo petro is a former member of the rebel group four years ago he became the mayor of bugger talk one of the most powerful political positions in the country his tenure was marred by controversy critics say autocratic style was abrasive a supporter of the historic peace accords with the far rebels this intellect of the left is a bird is a real contender. whatever happens gustavo petro has the distinction of being the

most successful leftist candidate in this country's history he does however face some stiff opposition particularly from those in the business community say a petro presidency could lead to economic ruin. oh when we meet mario hernandez at his factory in bogota he's enthusiastically handing out caps emblazoned with the name of petros opponent. and mendez is one of the biggest manufacturers in colombia like many in the business community he's concerned that petros policies are antibusiness. i don't know what he hears against the productive class he was the klan found to be gone and give a small plot of land to farmers that's not how you run the country you have to generate employment doxies and consumption. to winnow through needs the support of undecided voters like artist gabrielle or sanchez she's leaning towards the fifty eight year old and tells us she's feeling pressure to decide i've seen it and this

social media. so people all the time said if you vote for. people like this. and a lot of hate. for decades colombia's forty against leftist guerrillas now one is a leading presidential candidate with a chance of shaping this country's future and again look at al-jazeera bogota colombia. a house fire in nicaragua as capital of killed at least eight people shattering the short lived truth between president. and the protest says he want him gone among those killed in managua with six members of one family including two young children who are. police in managua say a group of hooded men threw a fire bomb into this house. a family of six killed in the fire including two children medics failed to resuscitate. my two cousins survived one

was burned and the other was hit she fell onto the balcony she was thrown and glass toward my body my hands my head as we got out of here he got out by for his. neighbors assisted firefighters and dousing the blaze while helping survivors escape from the balcony they say police surrounded the house and burned it after the owner refused to let them place a sniper on the roof to guard a nearby checkpoint. younus had nothing to do with this they were christian people in the policeman if the porch they wanted to burn the house and they managed to burn it police say they will investigate the cause of the fire. protests began two months ago after decision by president daniel ortega to cut pensions. ortega's critics say the former revolutionary leader is running a corrupt government protesters want him to step down and the government to implement democratic reforms the opposition really won't be happy with anything

less than a premature departure from the presidency of ortega human rights groups say at least one hundred seventy mostly young people have been killed since mid april and confrontations between heavily armed soldiers and demonstrators armed with rocks and slingshots. protesters are calling on ortega's government to end the violence which the president blames on foreign agitators and drug cartels the latest violence flared hours after troops have been signed between the government and civic groups right now there's no external institution and no internal. real leadership that can bring about a change here who doubts one nickname in the president has yet to respond to demands by the catholic church for early elections ortigas third term as head of one of the poorest countries in the americas is set to end in two thousand and twenty one the violence meanwhile has splintered the country between loyalists and

protesters slowing down tours i'm investments and grinding the country's economy to a halt culture durgin on al-jazeera. coming up in just a little while we'll have the weather and also coming up on this al-jazeera news we'll look a bit closer at that macedonia deal we'll find out how the name game became the blame game. grows as the u.s. continues to separate migrant children from their parents. something at the world cup for the first time in twenty years peter will tell you what it is in school. you. know whether.

i thought we'd take a look at the south asian monsoon i was going to say the erratic south asian monsoon but when is it ever not erratic as the very nature of the beast we've still got severe flooding across some of the eastern states of india the shots come from romantic poor and you see the extent of the flooding which is taking place from not steady rain but from showers really intense sharon's which mean falling here well most for weeks on and meanwhile in more western areas good you're out in this case we've got the sound blowing out of the far desert to the west and that is certainly causing some real problems at the moment and it's late into new tickle some problems particular place twenty four to forty eight hours late and plenty more shots light but so as we look at the satellite imagery see those showers and also see a lot of cloud down through the west and got some significant rainfall totals being reported in mumbai sixty five millimeters of rain and that's what sixty five millimeters of rain looks like we have a drive through it pouring rain in mumbai if alice not as heavy as you get at this

time the it can be a lot worse than that but the monsoon remains erratic particular across more easterners was should be quite a bit of rain falling but as things stand the rain is largely confined to the western ghats and those eastern states many central areas continue to stay dry you will see some showers developing eventually. the weather sponsored by cattle and ways. for twenty three years most of them has collected objects the kinds along the coast. enough to pull his museum enough to break a guinness world record. with a story for every object has become an environmental activist and inspired artist and a voice for the plight of countless migrants. might use in such a. the big breaking news story can be chaotic and frantic behind the scenes. people shouting instructions and in

a you're trying to provide the best most accurate up to date information as quickly as you can. it's when you come off air on being seen pinned to realize you witnessed history in the making. all right let's have a look at the top stories here on the news hour the my good ship aquarius has docked at the spanish port of the landsea a week after is really a move to turn this away and this is the second of three boats carrying hundreds of

people who are seeking asylum the third and final ship is set to arrive within the next hour also. a preliminary named changing agreement has been signed on the border between greece and macedonia it's will become the republic of north macedonia if both parliaments approve the deal which is fiercely opposed by nationalists. more airstrikes are being reported in the battle for control of the data airport in yemen both with the rebels and government forces backed by a saudi and u.a.e. coalition say they control the airport five days of fighting near yemen's main seaport is cut off an important aid delivery. pilots return to this agreement now to rename macedonia as the republic of macedonia it's been an issue for almost thirty years but it's at its root is a. figure out who lived more than two thousand years ago macedonia was part of yugoslavia but it declared independence in one nine hundred ninety one and it

became known as the former yugoslav republic of macedonia but that angered greeks because there's another macedonia it's a province in northern greece and the capital of that province is the salon a key the greeks were concerned about preserving the legacy of the famous macedonian command alexander the great the dispute escalated aftermath of dania name does airport in the capital scope way and a major highway after alexander and he was actually born in macedonia and a whole generation of macedonian children had been taught that he was their hero and greases responded by vetoing macedonia's attempts to join nato and the e.u. but in an attempt to resolve this problem greece has now offered to name its neighbor northern all slavic macedonia macedonia has chosen a more neutral names for the airport and the highway right let's speak to money on

a cattle call up he now he's a journalist she's joining us on skype from thessaloniki america on the thank you for talking to us you're talking to us from the from the center of opposition in greece to this whole renaming saga with macedonia your northern neighbor can you tell us in very brief terms why the people of macedonia fear this renaming of the macedonia to the north well the reasons are various mainly they fear the not muslim he's going to the great history. and the only fear of fertile territory claims because nationalists in macedonia have as an idea that there's a lot of good will be the capital of mr dinosaur these are the two main reasons and also there's a fierce in my personal opinion beginning from the nationalist parties and the opposition in graves which see that the agreement was probably the worst thing that has happened in greece for the past twenty five years help us understand this

a little better because of course greece has got a long history hasn't it of of defending militarily it's territorial and it's the integrity of its identity is it is this something that is being used by the nationalists in order to whip up public passions. absolutely the nationalist basically what they are saying is that alexander the great greek was quick most of dung it is great and no one else has the right to claim this name because it belongs to braise and everybody else will still the great history and by stealing great history that will be able to claim to salome just well they will be able to move towards grace and take over the northern part and i suppose this is something that is very little to the population absolutely said the old not that these are very well and greece currently in a. couple but i'll give the coming out of. this great austerity

period which is which is really impoverished so many people in the country presumably this appeals to many people who feel that greece is being treated badly by its neighbors perhaps a matter of national pride. absolutely for greece if we speak in political terms and before and will use terms it's probably the best foreign policy agreement that has ever done in this recent history and it was i think it was the best thing that the greek government could have done of about this agreement but it's also been here was another to claim we have this we have we have one thing is that we're taking you know out of that memorandum and some are so are. we have been successful as a government and so do you think that chile i mean many on the do you think it will actually get through parliament on the greek side do you think it will feel it will actually get the approval that it needs in order to achieve ratification.

of the bands i think that it needs to be ratified by the majority which is the government. has said that they will not approve the agreement even though they voted for. in favor of the government yesterday so now it. seems that would have to depend on the opposition the new democracy by it is not going to vote for it. maybe the socialist party. one of the it but all the others will come out the communist party will not support it and call them down will not support this so it's a we'll have to wait and see but i don't think it out it only depends on greece it also depends on macedonia and macedonia because they will have to all they will have a referendum on that indeed have to see what it must have done and then we'll see what happened in greece all right thank you very much indeed got a call lucky talking to us through thessalonica in macedonia in northern greece.

now the driver of a taxi was plowed into world cup football fans in moscow says he fell asleep after spending twenty hours behind the will in a video released by police a twenty eight year old from kid a stun apologize he says his foot accidentally hit the accelerator at least eight people were injured near moscow's red square where we challenge has more from moscow. while there are certainly some peculiarities to saturday's incident in moscow is the immediate aftermath of the news first breaking that a taxi and driven into protests ruins walking in central moscow course the assumption the last people jump to was that this was a deliberate attack the kind we've seen in cities across the world in the last couple of years but your florence's came out quite quickly and said no the initial information suggests that the driver kyrgyz had lost control of the vehicle he had

been arrested various charges have already been brought against him. but then the footage was released which actually such shows something a little bit different it seems to show the driver. pulling purposefully off the road he was standing in stationary traffic mounting the car and then driving quite fast into the pedestrians making it look like a much more deliberate thing of course there are ways in which you could explain that away more innocently but it does raise questions and the russian authorities do have previous history do have form in taking a very long time to attribute things to deliberate actions i'm talking about the bombing of a plane over the sinai peninsula in egypt a few years ago which the russians didn't want to say was related to any kind of terrorist act as they eventually ended up calling it. the russians have

a very high profile events going on at the moment the world cup they're under the international spotlight they want it to go off without a hitch and so i suspect that they might try to say that anything like this that happens is not a deliberate attack until the all the evidence shows and i think otherwise. the celebrations of a temporary peace between the afghan government and the taliban have been cut short by a car bombing at least twenty six people died at a gathering of taliban and afghan security officials in the eastern province of. eisel has claimed responsibility jennifer glass reports from kabul. a joyful site the taliban the afghan military together celebrating ied and the conflicts perced ceasefire these taliban fighters came to the capital from wardak province afghan soldiers search them at the gates to the city. there is a real sense of brotherhood the fighting set aside for now

a time to revel in peace because a little joke about it just a little bit i woke up this morning and learned the taliban could go to the city without home why how it is bursting with happiness because of this ceasefire. but they must watch out for solace in what we are so happy because today is a celebration we gathered here happily with our brothers who have been unhappy for so long. as were the gathering spreads the crowds grew afghanistan think this might be a turning point a moment in history. that we hope for a peaceful and stable afghanistan with must be proud of this peaceful vibrant we hope it will last forever. the scene to repeat it in many provinces around afghanistan opponents coming together in a show of afghan solidarity raising hopes this is something that could last there were delayed but. he walked in the that because of the significant signs of peace

in afghanistan and seeing the strong desire of afghans for peace i am announcing the extension of the ceasefire by afghan security and defense forces. the peace was shattered by an iso suicide bomber in eastern afghanistan killing and wounding those who had come to reconcile a reminder it's more than just the taliban fighting here taliban fighters say there can be no peace in afghanistan until foreign forces leave the country the afghan president continues to try to bring the taliban to the negotiating table announcing the release of dozens of taliban prisoners and saying the government is willing to talk to the taliban any time anywhere jennifer glass al jazeera. the u.s. president is uses weekly address to blame rival democratic party politicians for not closing loopholes that allow gang members into the country donald trump says the democrats are protecting immigrant criminals connected to violent groups like m.s. thirteen his administration has adopted

a zero tolerance policy for immigrants crossing the border illegally and is facing particular criticism that separating children from parents is that detained custer has more from washington. facing mounting criticism over his new policy of separating children from their parents who are caught crossing the border illegally president donald trump sought to offer another justification for his so-called zero tolerance policy saturday the president says this policy which aims to criminally prosecute every adult caught crossing the border without authorization is a deterrence for keeping central american gay members out of the united states just weeks ago and a legal mess thirteen gang member was arrested for allegedly murdering a man and burning his body the gang member reportedly entered our country through glaring loopholes for unaccompanied minors. the

democrats allow those loopholes to be there they could change him so easily but they don't want to do that for strictly political reasons democrats say the immigration system needs to be fixed but taking children away from their parents is not part of the answer the trouble ministration separated nearly two thousand children from their parents in the first six weeks of the zero tolerance policy the kids are being held in privately run detention centers like this one in california this is video shot and released by the government reporters were allowed to briefly tour the facility but were banned from taking pictures or speaking with the children oh just there has seen how tovan in bangladesh some barely school age of being paid a dollar a day to make cigarettes human rights groups are urging the government to enforce

child labor laws more but that's difficult because the children's farm is a staple they rely on the earnings to survive tells traffic reports this is a cigarette manufacturing factory in bangladesh but there are a few if any machines working. here is secretly filmed these pictures the reason the factory owner refused to spray mission to film is because of the children working here the bangladesh government says it's doing all it can to crack down on child labor but there is little evidence of that in this factory. some of the children making these cheap cigarettes no locally is beauty's luke barely ten years old. but the money they earn helps their families survive many children work at home making the paper which is sent to the factory to be filled with tobacco they get around forty cents for every three thousand.