in the longer term so we're not looking at the last three years there's there's a longer geo political dynamic to what's happening here at the moment. so i think european union countries carry quite a lot of responsibility not only for the situation in the middle east but also for the particular people who had found positions of rescue there but because of european involvement and now again in search for protection but of course the message we have here from italy is that this new populist government in rome is not prepared to deal with refugees arriving on its shores is there a danger that we will see more countries in europe following in their footsteps there might well be but how many more migrants are we willing to see die in the mediterranean especially given that we're putting so much emphasis on humanitarian

and human rights values so. i think i think the rhetoric is not sustainable especially since you know european countries are culpable because of their weapons exports or other violent practices and other regions of the world so of course we don't hear populists or or right wing governments or political parties looking at it from that perspective they will never speak about any sort of political moral ethical responsibility in the middle east or elsewhere if anything a move like this is seen as a vote went well. for a particular constituency but you know i would challenge base you know the broader public and the discourse and also the media and how the media portrays the discourse in terms of how much for us we really want to give to what ifs hopefully still actually a minority let me repeat right so most europeans do well come refugees work

with migrants understand that our society and our economy massively benefit from migration from international movement so i'm hesitant to give too much credence to the claims that are unsupported by research in any case that populists make well thank you very much really appreciate your time today christina from loss for university thank you. when our politicians in the united states are set to debate a new immigration policy in the coming days as a trump administration faces increasing criticism over its actions at its border with mexico or in two thousand children have been separated from their families their parents have been detained and charged with illegally entering the country mike hanna reports from washington. protests on the mexico u.s. border the target what the trumpet ministration calls

a zero tolerance policy hundreds of children being held in detention centers separated from parents who are facing charges of illegal immigration law enforcement officials struggle to keep up with the exact numbers six hundred six hundred are under the zero tolerance initiative out of those six hundred zero tolerance prosecutions one thousand one hundred seventy four children have been temporarily separated as your dog goes through the judicial process. democrats like senator jeff merkley attempt to reveal the reality behind the statistics he's been refused access to several detention centers and on the spot this day is leading a delegation of fellow democrats in another bid to investigate conditions a number of republicans to have raised concerns what the administration has decided to do is to separate children from their parents to try to send

a message that if you cross the border with children your children are going to be ripped away from you that's traumatizing to the children who are in a sense their towns and it is contrary to our values but trump supporters like steve bannon remain unapologetic to zero tolerance it's a crime to come across illegally in showing get separated i mean i hate to say it that's that's the law and he's enforcing the law and other trump advisors have also confirmed the separation of children from parents is part of a conscious strategy an increasing number of republicans are deeply disturbed about what many perceive as a cold blooded and inhumane policy decision one that could have a major impact on the choice of voters in midterm elections later this year. a tough line on immigration may be welcomed by many supporters the question is how

many would draw the line at the forcible separation of children from parents as part of a political strategy mike hanna washington well heidi joe castro is live for us now in washington and heidi members of congress have been visiting unlike when sent to tell us about that. that's right mary and this is a delegation of democrats from congress and they gain access to a detention center in south texas today this is one of the places that's housing the some two thousand children who were taken from their parents just during the first six weeks of the trumpet ministrations zero tolerance policy for unauthorized border crossings and the democrats said that inside these shelters they saw that they were clean and what they were shown was orderly but they said that was beside the point they said the point is the children inside of them are away from their parents forcibly and are thus traumatized we have heard

of children being physically pulled from the arms of their parents nursing babies being separated from their mothers will do this abilities being taken from their parents and most recently a distraught father choosing figures on life rather than live apart from his children it's farther them. and you have the right to talk to your children and you don't even know where your children are that's odd acceptable there you go with the bible when you try this try to say go wrong really read your own job mr sessions that's what you're doing well so any indication that the trump administration might back down on this. well what you heard in those passionate sound bites miriam where is the voices of these democrats who have been very opposed to this trouble ministrations policy of separating kids from their parents however as we know republicans control congress they alone have written

these two immigration bills that are will be up for a vote in this coming week they would require some democrats to sign on in order to pass however along with some of these immigration reforms these republican versions of the bill would drastically decrease the number of legal immigrants by as much as fifty percent over the next ten years democrats call that draconian nor do they want to support funding for the border wall that trump is also demanding so it will be a showdown in congress once again but the key here though is as long as this keeps happening the resources along the border are being strained that is why we're seeing those images of tents housing children underneath the desert heat in south texas as well as these facilities built to the wal-mart stores that are now homes to children and not to mention the judicial system that also has to process these

thousands of parents who are now coming through and being criminally prosecuted under this zero tolerance policy mary thanks very much with all the latest on this story from washington. in the news hour live from london much more still ahead for you the final weekend of campaigning in turkey ahead of next sunday's parliamentary and presidential elections eve celebrations turned to tragedy in afghanistan eighteen people are killed in a suicide attack the second in as many days. in brazil open the world cup account but did they manage a win against the swiss channel has much more. the un's yemen envoy in sr who the rebels of so far failed to reach an agreement to end the fighting and for data. a saudi led coalition has launched an offensive including as strikes to take the port city prompting fears of

a humanitarian catastrophe nearly five thousand families have now been forced to leave their homes in two to escalating violence martin griffiths arrived in yemen on saturday to broker the talks he now hopes to meet the who's the leader. of more on this let's speak to adam baron he's a visiting fellow european council on foreign relations and joins me from beirut thanks very much for taking the time to speak to us these talks that are now being led by the u.n. yemen and voice martin griffiths is it likely that they will prevent or of the destruction in the data i'd say if anyone's going to get this done it would be martin group the guy has a great group experience he's already despite being quite new in the job built a degree of trust report the hutus and their allies and the opposing side. but let's be honest you've got to be clear this is an uphill battle the trust between.

the opposing side the yemeni government and its allies has never been. been lower. that being said there is a possibility of particularly considering the potential international support that that some sort of deal with death there is still a possibility that this this may end up be operating although obviously it's going to be quite a difficult task what is the best outcome we can hope for i mean the best outcome would be a deal in which the who it is withdrawal from or data which is structured in such a way to pave the way for for upcoming upcoming talks which griffiths has been quite keen. on holding which has been working to sort of kick off for the past few months but at the same time it appears that if the group is don't come to some sort of deal that the gulf states that the saudi the coalition and the arabs is and the yemeni government don't all feel that they can accept you are looking at

a position where things will move forward in a military way and that could really be to a true true conflagration in her data her data as we all know is a vital lifeline for people in the country they depend on the a that comes through this port it has strategic significance to the country what then is the incentive for either side to back down or to make concessions on this. i mean i think that's part of the issue. that being said well who data is certainly a key prize for both sides whether you know who it is who view it as a key source of their income as their sole or this primary outlet is a c. or the coalition who would like to rest it from the earth is for those very reasons among others. the one thing i think that is kind of pushing both sides the deal is

that a battle for data an all out battle for data will not just spawn significant after effects for you know civilians and so on and cause significant damage to emmons infrastructure it's also something that will end up causing a lot of bloodshed on the sides of anyone fighting within it this is not at least judging from our current indications this is not going to be something that will be . you know in any easy battle so i think to some extent even if data is you can say eki prize in the yemen or. there is some incentive for for either side to. prevent you know this this port city this crucial port city from being engulfed in and conflict that being said even if it's an ideal situation for both sides i i think you're looking at a situation where it's quite difficult to imagine if it's pulling off

a deal that satisfies everyone the fact is at least for now the who does want it and the coalition is is quite keen to push on and it's always good to get your perspective thank you very much adam baron near paine council on foreign relations joining us there from beirut and i'm moving to some other stories at least thirty one people have died in twin suicide blasts in northeast nigeria bombs went off in the town of dumbo in borno state local officials suspect on group boko haram carried out the attack but no group has claimed responsibility. police in skopje have fired tear gas at protesters attempting to reach parliament as anger builds over an agreement to rename macedonia thousands of people gathered in the capital carrying flags and throwing torches and stones at police the agreement reached on sunday will see the country we named to the republic of north macedonia to set the movement the beginning of closer ties between greece and its northern neighbor. that agreement was supposed to end

a decades long dispute but the deal still has to be ratified by both countries parliaments and faces a referendum vote in macedonia itself sana gager reports now from late brest 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 sign the agreement now the 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. so i had. six members of one family a killed after the house is fire bombed the latest victims of the on western violence in nicaragua. the bangladesh factory west cigarettes alone by children by experts want action but family say they need the money. 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 that if their opening game. had i was fifty each of the weather in southeastern europe the last few days to

have slow moving but pretty heavy thunderstorms there's still that pretty obvious they quote there are quite a few around the black sea the moon but tops near athens and in messina which is in sicily down here have produced some pretty sharp downpours and a flash flooding we'll see more of the same sort of thing anywhere from ukraine through austrian down towards greece i think during tomorrow however to the west things are slowly drying up the weather's coming in from the atlantic the temperature drops and the up to ten degrees in the last few days but take a while to recover as well but they're all my way of studies the sun becomes more dominant thing in the sky ferreira breeze across the north of europe in the thames is down to twenty in stockholm but you'll notice the leaders for on the rise again and the rain is banned here which is a frontal system hasn't changed the temperatures very much we've lost the thirty nine in greece but it's a these are two well roads up to thirty three once more now if you see what's happening across the water not much but the case no big showers to possibly

multiple sicily is an onshore breeze for libya so down to twenty five in tripoli thirty six ceiling karo and that's warming up and then as i've been say for the last couple days has warmed him rocker. 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. with a story for every object he's become an environmental activist and inspired artist and a voice for the plight of countless markets. might you need such an al-jazeera. one of the really special things that working for al-jazeera is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much empathy and contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else working for us as it is

very challenging they believe but the good because you have a lot of people that if i did on political issues we are the people we live to tell the real stories are just mended is to deliver in-depth journalism we don't feel in favor good audience across the globe. welcome back to you with the news hour a look at the headlines this hour colombians are voting in their first presidential runoff since the two thousand and sixteen peace deal with rebels choosing between

conservative candidate iran decay and his left wing rival petro. more than six hundred refugees and migrants have arrived in the spanish port of valencia a week off to italy and mull to them away. in the un's yemen envoy and rebel who have so far failed to reach an agreement to end the fighting and data saudi led coalition has launched an offensive to take the port city prompting fears of a worsening humanitarian crisis. so more on the presidential run off in colombia i'm joined by a man sanchez she's the director of the andes the washington office of latin america research an advocacy organization specializing in human rights in the americas thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us and so we've been hearing the conservative candidate even decay is widely expected to win but is he going to be able to overcome this deep polarization in the country.

yes this is a watershed election because it's the first election when folks are voting in a post conflict environment and while you have this deep polarization of folks that want to go back to the policies and others who want to advance into more alternative policies colombia is very different to kay if he is elected is going to have to deal with the corruption issue there's a referendum coming up on august twenty sixth the venezuela crisis which is overflowing into the colombia border reconciling his own country which has been shown to be deeply polarized and also figuring out a way to make colombia's more liberal autonomy its recent sentient into east see the nato all of the multiple trade agreements something that is actually bringing up a whole portion of the country which is not benefiting from right now he's also going

to have to deal with the sustainability of the peace process and he has already stated that while he's not going to do away with the agreement that he wants to make significant reforms one of them having to do with justice which would mean basically eliminating a transitional justice mechanism which would be totally essential to having the troops necessary and the history necessary in order to reconcile these two columbia so he will he's referring to these changes as reforms but what is this going to mean it doesn't mean the end of the peace agreement necessarily with the font but it certainly weakens it. yes to severely weakens the peace agreement because it would be remaking on two of the major points on the part of the state within the peace agreement one which is transitional justice mechanism that includes a special jurisdiction for peace that would allow for both sides of the conflict to have benefits for talking about crimes that they committed and would reveal

a lot of the truth of what happened during the past twenty five years in colombia and then secondly he says that he wants to unify the judiciary which would mean also bringing in this special jurisdiction into one system and it would also mean doing away with colombia's constitutional court which is in the pendent and has long been the voice of many voiceless people in colombia the common citizens who feel that their constitutional rights have been violated so. much and surely you know you've touched on a number of points in a great many challenges from the crisis on with venezuela to drugs production facing whoever wins this election but we know that the former hard line president alvaro uribe is due kase ally and mental how influential is he likely to be if decay wins well i think it's going to be very influential because he's basically been the one who has made duke a the politician he is today he says that this is

his basic person and that he would bring back to the country more in his direction although he's the former president says he won't meddle everybody knows that betraying that trust like santos did during his administration is basically political suicide so the expectation is that he will follow through on already they like policies well thank you very much we appreciate your analysis from washington human son chaz senior associate at the washington office on latin america. now rights groups are urging for action to tackle modern day child slavery there are two hundred million trapped in child labor wild wife that's just over ten percent of the global child population at least one hundred twenty million are engaged in hazardous work that directly homes their health safety or development seventy three million under the age of ten and the majority of child laborers work

on farms that produce consumer products like cocoa coffee cotton and other crops while twenty million child are in factories that make things like clothes carpet and roll cigarettes charles stratford reports now from bangladesh where children who a barely of school age of being paid a dollar a day to make cigarettes while the government has been to end the practice many of the children's families rely on the earnings 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 old 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 look

barely ten years old. but the money they earn helps their families survive many children work at home making the paper cheap switches 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 was some of the sheets of culture works with her younger brothers and sisters making babies four days a week. but unlike many others in the industry she also goes to school you guys go to a bar 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 the minimum legal age for employment is fourteen united nations children's agency unicef says in force mood is difficult because of where most of the children

work in small factories workshops from home. people this should be a different choice 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 workers then we ourselves have been willing to shut down this sector. on the dishes 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. stratford al-jazeera. final weekend of campaigning in turkey out of next on these parliamentary and presidential elections it's a. lot of the opposition they have been holding separate rallies and istanbul. who

has this update from. first attack of the state saying that the stuff was love has every right to show how important the city is for disposable career also for the action that is going to take place on the way to for an easy transition for jackson cultural projects was most of us but projects for that are specially prepared for the stumble such as. no sound just the way it is very important for the elections because what it's right to the full plate should tip the lid to the stuff that is like the heart of turkish politics because it is not all that it is about for it is also the culture also the find out that the political parties do still has to gain support house or service support stuff that's going to look at

last year's a failed to hold to eight point six per cent of people. yes for his presidential campaign which means the skeptic challenge for our job was at least two percent plus one large to win the majority as a presidential candidate. 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 sent to bracing for the eve holiday in the city of jalalabad officials say forty nine others were wounded in the incident no one has claimed responsibility for the attack. eight people have been killed in a shootout and house fire nicaragua's capital shattered a short trees between president daniel ortega and protest among those killed. six members of one family. 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 a 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. has had nothing to do with this they were christian people in the policeman if the porch they want to put in the house and they managed to put 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. human rights groups say at least one hundred seventy mostly young people have been killed since mid april in 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 vile. it's flared hours after truce and been signed between the government and civic groups right now there's no external institution no internal. real leadership that can bring about a change here who just wanted name 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 tourism investments and grinding the country's economy to a halt. on al-jazeera. still ahead for you on the program of our takes a bishan in washington where visitors are being asked to write a letter to the women of the future. and roger federer celebrates winning his ninety eighth career title joe have the details of. a history of guerrilla warfare. a place on the stage. the piano gaining strength the revolutionary zeal knew no bounds. by

spider splinter groups down the palestinian cause or insurance or. chronicling the turbulence to the struggle for a palestinian. p.l.o. history of a revolution on al-jazeera. when the news breaks. on the mailman city and the story builds to be forced to leave it would just be on when people need to be heard women and girls are being bought and given away in refugee camps al-jazeera has teams on the ground to bring you the winning documentaries and live news on al-jazeera i got to commend you on hearing is good journalism on air and on line. up. that you know. some of the elect.