aerated from them well michelle brown is the director of migrant rights and justice at the women's refugee commission she spoke to us about the experiences of families and children at the border. the focus here in the united states by this administration has been to separate families and to separate as many families as they can and what i observed at the border on thursday and friday were families being processed they're separated immediately upon entering the border patrol station and then children are sent off to shelters but in the meantime they're held in a processing center which is entirely inappropriate for children they're literally being held in cages in a giant warehouse separate from their parents and in many cases their parents are shipped off to court while the children remain there with no care really i mean there's no supervision there is no toys there's no recreation they're just sitting alone crying or are talking to each other in a fenced in areas with in

a warehouse it's trick pony there's no explanation given to parents or children about what is happening i was actually witnessed one separation while i was interviewing a father and his nine year old daughter as we were completing the interview they knocked on the door and came and said that they had to take the girl and literally gave them no explanation for why or where she was going i managed to give them to get them a few moments together before the separation but then the guard came took the girl and she just walked away and that was it they were separated as i talked to the official doing the separation and asked him if he could explain to them why they were being separated he said to me i'm not separating them ma'am i'm just taking her to a shelter so there's really this attitude of denial by individual officers they're just doing their job is the position they take and in the facility where the children are being held separately i mean i suppose very young children i spoke to

children who were five years old. several of them all grouped together in one of these caged in areas and we even identified a child who the. authorities had listed as a two year old who was being cared for literally by other teenage girls who are being held in the same peached an area they were being asked by this little child to have help changing her diaper getting her bottles no officials were caring for her and once we inquired into the situation we discovered that they actually had her name wrong and that she was actually four years old and was just not speaking from the trauma. much more to come on the news hour stay with us including celebrations turned to tragedy in afghanistan eighteen people killed in a suicide attack the second bombing in as many days. the man lived as factory where cigarettes are rolled by children rights groups want action but families say they

need the money plus. i'm the richardson of the world cup in the russian city of volgograd what england supporters are enjoying local hospitality rather than facing hostility ahead of their opening game. the un's yemen and boy senior who say rebels have so far failed to reach an agreement to end fighting in the data. the saudi led coalition has launched an offensive including ass trying to take the port city prompting fears of a humanitarian catastrophe and five thousand families have been forced to leave their homes due to escalating violence griffiths arrived in yemen on saturday to broker the talks and he now hopes to meet the who three leader. at least eighteen people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack in eastern afghanistan the blast targeted crowds of taliban

fighters security forces and civilians all celebrating the ied holiday in the city of jalalabad health officials say forty nine others were wounded in the incident no one has claimed responsibility but it follows saturday's bomb blast in one province which has been claimed by i still fighters the taliban says its fighters will begin leaving government controlled areas on sunday rejecting a decision by the government to extend a ceasefire beyond the end of ied security forces and taliban fighters have been celebrating the three day muslim festival together in cities across the country but questions remain about what will happen when the cease fire ends at midnight local time critics say president ashraf ghani had committed a grave mistake by allowing taliban fighters to enter areas under government control kate plock is the director of the afghanistan analysts network she spoke to us earlier about the significance of the temporary ceasefire. it was unprecedented

it was remarkable and i think it was better than anyone it hoped for though there was some worry that the ceasefire wouldn't hold it was a mutual cease fire for three days by both afghan and taliban and actually american forces for three days it held but i think this it these scenes of of afghans both taliban and government soldiers and civilians embracing each other celebrating prayers to get enough playing cricket eating ice cream as you say that the pictures of tell about giving government soldiers roses this was unprecedented and i think only wholly unexpected except that i think for many of us think we've that there there is a deep yearning for peace among afghans but civilians and foot soldiers and if this could be harnessed you could see the beginning of

a peace process night hopefully this is this is what we are seeing at the moment. polling stations of opened in colombia for sunday's deeply divisive presidential runoff it's the first major vote since the government signed a peace deal with far rebels in twenty sixteen ending decades of civil war voters are choosing between conservative candidate evander and his left wing rival. petro petro has vowed to tackle inequality but some fear the gorilla turned politician could turn colombia into another venezuela and he got to go reports from bogota. petro was captured 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 eager for change it's sort of all got to get 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 end nineteen rebel group four years ago he became the mayor of one of the most powerful political positions in the country his tenure was marred by controversy critics say petros autocratic style was abrasive a supporter of the historic peace accords with the fog rebels this intellect of the left has emerged as a real contender whatever happens. as a 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 well 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. community he's concerned that petros policies are anti business. i don't know what he hears against the productive class he wants to the clan from to be gone and give a small plots of land to farmers that's not how you run the country to generate employment doxies and consumption. 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 affiliates and this social media. so all the time say if you vote for. people like this. and a lot of hate. for decades colombia's fought against leftist guerrillas now one is a leading presidential candidate with a chance of shaping this country's future. well let's go to and they're going to

covering this high stakes election for us and it must be half way through the voting day now. you know we have about three hours of for the polls close in it's clear that the electorate here are very divided but let's bring in ali and take now who is an expert in colombian politics we know the electorate are very divided to extreme choices what's really at stake here for columbia. i think the main capital that they get the future of the peace process we have one candidate you can do gay on the far right who is essentially promise to renegotiate those most contentious aspects of the peace accords and we have with help it there on the left who has obviously. campaign based on the need to defend and support and move forward with the peace process so this is a serious issue that's at stake right now so in many ways a second referendum on the peace accords but what does colombia look like on the both of these leaders briefly what is it like on the duquesne of the petro. i

believe that under duke a we're going to see a shift further to the right than we've seen during the center's government on issues such as economics and on social issues is very much opposed for instance to homosexual rights to the legalization of consumption of illicit drugs to a more socially oriented policy towards illicit crops in the country whereas petro is much more progressive on these issues and would most likely support more active social policies are more leftist leaning economic policy and a more stronger position towards countries such as the united states that would help to impose some of their will on the country with regards issues such as drugs and the peace process but you lived in colombia for about thirty years do you feel optimistic either way whichever of these people becomes the next president you know i am optimistic if petro has a strong showing in elections i think it's unlikely that he will win however if he

wins more than forty percent of the vote he will be a very strong candidate in the senate where he will automatically gain a seat and i think he will lead the opposition from the left to do k. i'm concerned about the peace process in terms of educate presidency because the process is already flailing to many to many degrees and i'm concerned that this will progress even further humans all in thank you very much so as you get a sense that this is a nation that. future you got a band do care fairly new face in colombian politics he wants to enforce. the economy and then we have gustavo plateaux the most successful leftist candidate this country has ever seen at the moment the latest opinion polls we've seen and they closed a few days ago pretty bland u.k. in the lead and as i said the polls are close in about two and a half hours or get the result shortly thereafter and colombians will have a. clearer picture of what their future holds and we'll hear from you then i'm sure

and to go your own thanks very much. rights groups are urging action to tackle modern day styled slavery there are two hundred million trapped in child labor worldwide that's just over ten percent of the global child population at least one hundred twenty million are engaged in hazardous work that directly harms their health safety or development seventy three million are under the age of ten the majority of child labor is work on farms that produce consumer products like cocoa coffee coffee and other crops while twenty million workers work in factories that make things like clothes carpets and hand rooms cigarettes stratford reports from bangladesh where children who are barely of school age are being paid a dollar a day to make cigarettes while the government is being urged to end the practice many of the children's families are reliant on those earnings. this is

a cigarette manufacturing factory in bangladesh but there are a few if any machines working. al-jazeera secretly filmed these pictures the reason the factory owner refused to spur a 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 non-locally as babies look barely ten years old. but the money they earn helps their families survive many children work at home making the paper choose which is sent to the factory to be filled with tobacco they get around forty cents for every three thousand chooks the average wage is around a dollar a day fifteen year old mo some of the sheets a cartoon works with the younger brothers and sisters making babies four days a week. but unlike many others in the industry she also goes to school

a guy's got aids are we work to help our family this is how we survive my parents taught me this line of work at a very young age i don't like doing it you have to sit in the same position and work long hours we don't even make that much money. according to the bangladesh label or the minimum legal age for employment is fourteen united nations children's agency unicef says in force mode is difficult because of where most of the children work in small factories workshops from home. will act. this should be a different face of jobs for these people other than the tobacco industry they are at least two million people working nationwide in this sector this should be alternative employment opportunities provided by government for all these work as then we ourselves have been willing to shut down the sector. funded issues finance minister has repeatedly called for the beauty factories about one hundred twenty of

them to be closed down. a recent study by the human rights organization praga focused on million factories it found around fifteen thousand of the twenty one thousand workers with children some as young as four years old. al-jazeera. stay with us on the news hour there's more ahead six members of one family are killed after their house is the latest victims of the arm rested on young violence in nicaragua. the pop up are to exhibit in washington where visitors are being asked to write a letter to the women of the future. and roger federer celebrates winning his ninety eight career title joe we'll have that and much more in the school.

welcome back look at weather conditions run the events in western parts of asia you see across some eastern areas we've got a few showers across kansas stan as becky stan but jenny weather conditions aren't looking too bad fine around the southern side of the caspian sea thirty five degrees celsius in tehran we have got some showers though right in the black sea coast and also down rather mediterranean coastline of turkey in particular elsewhere looking pretty warm still for bike that that thirty nine degrees right into forty one for the following twenty four hours heading down into the arabian peninsula weather conditions here are pretty static at the moment temperatures generally low to mid forty's meca forty five here in tow how we look at high of forty two degree celsius winds words if you like that most likely to freshen in the coming days so this head down into southern portions of africa where it's looking largely fine but we have got this cloud pushing across parts of south africa given the risk of some rain for cape town but otherwise most places looking dry and fine

johannesburg not particular warm struggling to nineteen degrees celsius as celsius as my summer for the north it should be fine across in back way and sandia with highs of twenty four degrees in harare the mice are twenty six and the soka should be another fine day cross much in a maybe. a new series of rewind a cabaret or people back to life i'm sorry and brand new updates on the best of al-jazeera documentaries the struggle continues from bob good to. use distance rewind continues with baltimore anatomy of an american city close friends who were lost to the streets i can literally see the future of baltimore to the as of mosquitoes and it does not look good rewind on al-jazeera. in a world where a journalism as an industry is changing we have al-jazeera are fortunate to be able

to continue to expand to continue to have that pass and that drive and present the stories in a way that is important to our viewers. everyone has a story worth hearing. and cover those that are often ignored we don't weigh our coverage towards one particular region or continent that's why i joined al-jazeera . welcome back here's a quick look at our top stories again more than six hundred refugees and migrants of arrived in the spanish port of valencia a week after italy and malta turned them away. colombians are voting in their first

presidential runoff since the twenty sixteenth peace deal with fark rebels voters are choosing between conservative candidate. and his left wing rival gustava. the un's yemen and rebel who see rebels have so far failed to reach an agreement to end fighting the fighting in. the lead coalition has launched an offensive to take the port city prompting fears of a humanitarian catastrophe. greece and macedonia have signed a deal to rename macedonia north macedonia the agreement is supposed to end a decades long dispute but it still needs to be ratified by both countries' parliaments and faces a referendum in macedonia so go reports from lake press for where the signing ceremony took place. an embrace twenty seven years in the making the prime

ministers of greece and macedonia resolving their country's differences not just a name also in deed then on the morning when we are not gathered here today to mourn the defeats of the past we are taking a historic step so that from now on it will only be winners. it was an unprecedented show optimism but both leaders acknowledged the difficulty of their achievement we're going to let me also see the us there is a need for trust courage and hope signing the final agreement for the name is of strategic importance for the two countries and you can move mountains they signed the agreement delegations are over to the other side of the border for a working lunch this is just really the fairy first step of a process that's likely to take months and months. for nationalists the deal is nothing more than a betrayal on the greek side of the border four thousand protesters angered at the

agreement fought with police it seems know about a reassurance about cooperation and unity will change their minds. both prime ministers hope the deal will be the beginning of closer relations among balkan countries and will eventually allow macedonia to join the european union and nato. vision that people in northern macedonia have is to one day have a passport and to feel like european citizens it is very important to them. to the floor that happens both parliaments have to ratify the deal and macedonians are due to hold a referendum in september to officially change their country's name to the republic of north macedonia that and other challenges still to be faced before this long dispute is finally over. our jazeera side are this northern greece. well what's in a name let's find out from angles chris ogle us is an academic academy senior

fellow on the europe program at chatham house joins me here in the studio in london thanks very much i mean it's a question that probably needs a book to answer but can you kind of render it down for people so that they understand what's going on here it's basically about identity and that's unlike money identity is not you can of basically split it. half way so. some people feel donya but they're also greek and there's also two million roughly two million of a population of slavic origin who also call themselves must dony and some of the question is which of those two people can actually use use the name this agreement tries to basically find a compromise between between those two rival claims that ended there must donia it's a big deal isn't it i mean well over a decade that this is now being sort of fought over it's hampered normal neighborly neighborly relations at present is two loaves and put commas commerce what do these

countries now have to offer each other in terms of mutually beneficial rewards from a deal like this well it has been going on for twenty eight twenty seven years it's very emotional in what is still the former yugoslav republic of macedonia it is about their sense of nationality their sense of identity in especially north and greece which is also called mustard on the people there also would like to still feel must don't incent use the name must donia right now based on this agreement the idea is that it opens the way for the country still formally called former yugoslav republic must don't assume to be called republic of north must donya to enter nato and prospectively the e.u. and presumably that's going to be very good for the overall security architecture of the balkans and also for deepening nomic relations between the two countries and yet nationalist. on both sides are not interested can they be won over do you think

i think it's very difficult for them to be worn over i'm not going to lie to you or even me personally would find it quite difficult to use the term northwest dony or as the agreement stipulates very nationality and citizenship is going to be mustered only i think many greeks will find it difficult to get their tongues selection but how much how much of that is sort of ingrained habit as you say nearly three decades now that this this issue has cement how much of that on your part and people use just the way that it has been for so long and how much of that is really something that people just fundamentally can't get i think history plays a role in it historical memories play a role in it the different visions of nationalism different visions of history play a role in it i think both leaders of both sides really hope that once this thing is actually working then people on both sides will actually get to understand and get to use names words as it were that make them part of their lives in

a different way than what they wear until now but i think speaking for the greek part i think it's going to take a long long time for people to get used to it. we're going to have to leave the course of last thank you so much for your insights. eight people have been killed in a shootout and house fire in nicaragua was capital it's shattered a short lived truce between president daniel ortega and the protesters who want him gone among those killed in managua were six members of a single family who reports. 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 pin it police say they will investigate the cause of the fire the. 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 for now the taters 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 no internal. real leadership that can bring up. a change here would ask 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 tourism investments and grinding the country's economy to a halt polter durgin on al-jazeera. at least thirty one people have died in twin

suicide blasts in northeast nigeria the bombs went off in the town of dumbo in borno state local officials suspect armed group boko haram of carrying out the attack on saturday evening no group has claimed responsibility for the blasts israel has introduced a bill that would make it an offense punishable by up to ten years in prison to film its soldiers rights groups say it's an attempt to curb their work in exposing abuses it includes videos like this one filmed by bits in twenty sixteen which shows an israeli soldier shooting dead and injured palestinian the incident the international condemnation. of the israeli military says its warplanes struck a vehicle in gaza which belong to someone who was sending burning kites into israel palestinians have been sending kites carrying burning rags across the border as part of weekly protests against israel the kite's set ablaze more than

a dozen locations on saturday no one was injured in the airstrike but it marks a dramatic escalation in israel's response to the kite attacks. well it's the final weekend of campaigning in turkey ahead of next sunday's parliamentary and presidential elections turkey's president. and the opposition h.t.t.p. have been holding separate rallies in istanbul sin and cos the older as this update from the arms rally. president tadic of the state saying that the stuff was love i have every right to show how important the city's finest political career so far i feel like that is going to take place went to war using tradition for jack's cultural projects was spends less projects that are specially prepared for stumbles such as. knows that this number was very for

the elections because what it's meant to be a population to feel good stuff is like the heart of just politics because it is not only is it more or it is also the culture and also the find that the political parties have gained support for service support stuff but when you look at last year's enough around the. six person people that yes for his presidential campaign which means the scampi child john at least two percent plus one. with the majority as a response to. a former cumbered in prime minister has been seriously injured in a road crash that killed his wife and injured at least seven other people princeton norodom runner india was travelling in a convoy along with senior figures of his party when a taxi slammed into his assuming cambodia will hold

a general election next month in which both run the redundancies wife were standing as candidates the seventy four year old was cambodia's co prime minister for four years in an uneasy power sharing arrangement with current prime minister who had set. and still to come on the news hour. it's coming up tough time between brazil and switzerland we'll be live to russia to get the latest from the world cup that's in just about three hours. on october the sixth one thousand nine hundred seventy three when muslims were observing ramadan and jews were celebrating young people. egypt and syria known to surprise war against israel counters world promoters so to get into this situation our disaster now in the first of the three part series al-jazeera explores what

really happened during the first week of the war in october on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. where ever you are. a history of guerrilla warfare. a place on the stage. gaining strength there revolutionaries you know no bounds. but spread the splinter groups down which the palestinian cause for insurance survival chronicling the turbulent story of the struggle for a palestinian. p.l.o.

history of a revolution on al-jazeera. and hundred forty eight world on the. u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already. his source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for the dry riverbed like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the lure.