the war in october on al-jazeera. fierce fighting in and around her data airport despite the saudi emirates the coalition's saying it's taken it from yemen's hoofy rebels. i'm maryam namazie in london you're with al-jazeera also coming up. i am. as children cry for that parents an outrage grows president trump digs in over his policy of separating immigrant families. on an merkel need to discuss how to stop discord over immigration tearing the e.u. apart. and is russia takes on

egypt at the world cup why these fans would be wise to watch what they say about the prussian national t.v. . fierce fighting is raging in and around the airport of the yemeni city of her data as fighters backed by the saudi and iraqi coalition try to take it from the who sees the airport is a key resupply base for the hoofy rebels capturing it would be a major step towards taking the whole of the strategic port city which the rebels have held for the past three years battles have also been raging on the coastal road leading from the airport to the densely populated city center or than two hundred people have been killed and thousands more displaced since the coalition began its military offensive for the city last wednesday mohamad ago is on the other side of the red sea in djibouti from where much of the aid bound for yemen is

routed. heavy fighting is still going on inside. despite claims by the soda good pollution that they have taken control of the albert presidents of the city say the coalition troops off so far take him the main. fighting for control of the posse tumbles as well as the flight control tower for the fighter still holed up in the to be putting up stiff resistance that almost. started with past like some positions before the coalition troops and militias allied to them calmed the port from a list three different fronts now there was panic in the bill hoops abounding the airport once the but i do a missile started hitting the airport making many people live there holmes in such a shelter from the falling missiles it was the same case on monday when a talk helped hope to special targeted. snipers who sees my post parched on the

roofs of mosques schools as well as a residential buildings around. all in all the developments the u.n. special envoy to yemen has left son after a failed diplomatic visit martyn griffiths travelled to the capital on saturday seeking to avoid an all out assault in her data through mediation he expressed his deep concern about the escalation reiterating warnings that the conflict will further deteriorate yemen's existing humanitarian crisis. the us president donald trump is digging in and made mounting criticism over his administration's policy of separating migrant children from their parents at the u.s. border. we want to solve this problem we want to solve family separation i don't

want children taken away from parents and when you prosecute the parents for coming in illegally which should happen you have to take the children away now we don't have to prosecute them but then when they are prosecuting him for coming in illegally that's not good we want to end the border crisis by finally giving us the legal authorities and the resources to detain and remove illegal immigrant families altogether and bring them back to their country we have well probably investigative journalism organization has recorded and released disturbing audio of distressed children inside these detention centers. there are some. people who are.

trying to cover them up. but they can't. yet i think that nicole. will probably also recorded a border patrol agent locking the children. whether women will battle. and. has been following events for us in brownsville texas where a form a wal-mart store is now being used to house migrants. brownsville texas really is the front line of the immigration debate in this controversy that's sweeping the

u.s. of kids being taken away from their parents this building behind me is a former wal-mart supercenter now it holds about one thousand five hundred young boys between the ages about eight to one thousand years old that have been here detained essentially by the u.s. government we're told that about one hundred ten of the children that are in this building behind me are kids that were separated from their parents crossing the border just within the last couple weeks or so the government has showing no signs of backing down from its zero tolerance policy they're looking at opening other shelters or detainment centers just like this here and other cities on the border in terms of people we've spoken here to here in brownsville most of them say they're heartbroken by what they're seeing taken place but some others say that laws need to be enforced everybody agrees that this is a crisis and something needs to be done meanwhile mexico's foreign minister has

added his voice now to those condemning the u.s. policy you know. i would like to express in the name of the people and government of mexico our most cats ago and energetic condemnation of what is a cruel and inhuman policy mexico fully recognizes the united states sovereignty and its capacity to decide its own way of dealing with immigration the mexican government does not in any way promote illegal immigration or however we cannot be indifferent to what clearly represents a violation of human rights and what can put children including disabled children in situations of danger and vulnerability. as top talent house correspondent kimberly helka noun can lead to condemnation appears to be showing no signs of abating. no in fact the chorus of condemnation seems to be

growing some that donald trump is taking head on for instance the comments by the mexican foreign minister that we heard just moments ago donald trump addressing in a speech earlier today to the national federation of independent business accusing mexico being part of the problem with the immigration influx along the southern border of the united states saying that mexico could stop it they have very strong laws but they do nothing for us but still will donald trump tries to counter some of his critics the amount of sort of the sheer number of criticisms coming from so many different groups seems to be growing by the hour not just the u.s. chamber of commerce but even civil rights groups and also top and prominent members of the democratic party on capitol hill in fact the top democratic congresswoman nancy pelosi and also coming to harris a senator a democratic senator on capitol hill calling for the resignation of the department of homeland security secretary saying that not only are the policy she's of forcing

a violation of international human rights law but also letting down the rest of the lack of transparency in doing so and in in a minute in the middle of all of this president is now and you should go to capitol hill very shortly to discuss an immigration bill which will make. right a couple in fact u.s. president expected to head up to capitol hill about two hours time roughly there are two proposals immigration proposals that are being considered but neither has broad bipartisan support but in the last hour we've heard from the top republican in the u.s. senate mitch mcconnell that in fact republican senators who do control both houses right now of congress that the senators in fact are considering a very narrow bill to end the policy of child separation and now you have to remember that congress the wheels of congress move very very slowly but in this

case perhaps given the outrage that's occurring from the american public and even members of the republican party the president's own party they believe that they can take up this legislation very quickly in fact they may even do it by the end of the week and it could go to the house of representatives even become law the question would be whether or not the president would sign it that is a key part of the process and certainly the president pushing back on a lot of these criticisms so certainly this is something that will be discussed with the president as he heads up to capitol hill in a couple hours time i will be watching those developments very closely but for now thank you very much can really help it with all the latest from washington. when our leaders of france and germany of called for a joint european approach to migration i'm going to mco is under intense pressure over the issue of coalition partners have given a two weeks to achieve an e.u. wide deal or it will take action to open door policy on refugees domenic cain has more from berlin. of all the other e.u.

leaders emanuel is the one i'm going to america will have heard shares her views on how to deal with the continent's migration crisis the issue has dominated the debate this past week in berlin on choose the french president made clear his determination to act. that meant that i mean. it is with this same determination that we believe very strongly in the european response to the migration challenge we have not just discovered this challenge we did not discover it last week but we have very clearly determined to get to act and the european and coordinated why such friendly sentiments from the french president are exactly what angle america would have been wanting to hear from this meeting because in the past few days she's had to concede on immigration policy to her to mystic c.s.u. allies promising a european solution the price for not seeing her coalition toppled in this document which purports to be a draft of what e.u. leaders will deliberate over in brussels next week much of the policies the c.s.u.

have been speaking about are discussed so what are the prospects for an e.u. wide solution this is the school is the team on overdrafts and the topic which currently concerns us all is the topic of migration we understand to as a common challenge we first have to make sure that the cause for migration is eliminated that's we support the plans of the commission and the austrian presidency to strengthen the protection of outer borders which means nothing else but a significant increase in past now on tax but despite her apparent confidence some analysts are less convinced a wide agreement is possible i don't see twenty eight solution coming so i will definitely be a bilateral or multilateral coalition from those all within those countries actually in the e.u. which are most affected. it will be a coalition of the willing in berlin this. weak part of merkel's coalition has

appeared to be willing to put her in an impossible position the question now is how willing other e.u. member states to help her i'm sifts dominant came. in the german capital. still ahead for you on the program reports of gunfire in nicaragua as government forces try to retake control of the city of messiah from opposition supporters and all tribes plans for a new space project the military drill criticism from former astronauts. hello and welcome to international weather forecast now we're seeing changes in the weather across europe at the moment still pretty warm across many central areas temperatures pushing thirty degrees cooler conditions across eastern areas without weather front to commute some quite big storms at times but we're seeing changes

taking place further towards the west still find your wednesday still warm particular across the iberian peninsula as we head through thursday the wind changes direction coming in from the north so certainly tuning cooler across many western eventually central parts of europe as we head towards the latter part of the week on the other side of the mediterranean weather conditions are looking largely fine tuners there community thirty degrees and should be pretty warm across more eastern areas with carlos in the maestro thirty eight really not much change expected as we head on through into thursday so let's head into central parts of africa where we have some big musical convective systems coming through from east to west we still got showers across the ethiopian highlands so saddam is looking pretty wet at times and then towards the gulf of guinea heavy downpours are likely continue we've had some serious flooding issues in one cheerio in recent days are still way to be a problem as we head on through wednesday into thursday further towards the west will be some showers in accra in ghana.

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comeback just a quick look at the headlines this hour fierce fighting is raging outside the airport of the yemeni city of data where thousands of pro-government forces of battling hussein rebels the release of a recording of illegal migrant children crying after being separated from their parents as the ramped up the pressure on president trump of a zero tolerance immigration policy. on the german chancellor angela merkel has called for a joint e.u. approach to immigration during talks with the french president in manual. well in all the stories we're following closely one of two on. fire during clashes in the libyan port of ras lanuf has collapsed it's feared the damage could impact the country's struggling economy which relies on oil production for revenue twenty five cent reinforcements to help his troops battling a rival armed group for control of the tanks fighters with abraham judd drawn sees the to all parts from puffed up on the day. well now to nicaragua there are reports

of gunfire in messiah as government forces try to retake control of the city from opposition supporters that rebelling against who say they're rebelling against president daniel ortega omani or apollos joins us live now from the capital managua money what can you tell us of these clashes. well the nicaraguan human rights association has confirmed at least three people have been killed in these clashes that are taking place today more than thirty six others have been wounded and these are clashes that are taking place in the city of messiah it's a city that's about forty five minutes away from the now which is where we are right now we've been speaking to a volunteer doctor who's been treating the wounded in the sign up for several weeks now to tell us who he's been telling us that these attacks by paramilitary groups began sometime around seven am this morning when these armed groups entered the town and he tells us that people are hiding in their homes mostly women or children or just are just in their homes while the men are outside. hiding behind barricades

and trying to keep these paramilitary groups at a distance by firing homemade mortars and rocks and and really anything that they can get their hands on most of these are non-lethal weapons but what we what i can tell you about messiah this is a tourist town this is mostly a residential area it's a very quiet town just outside of my now but for the last few weeks has been has seen these clashes with paramilitary forces and other armed groups that are loyal to the government so the city is practically at a standstill with volunteer medical professionals have been telling us is that messiah is is running out of food they're running out of water this really is a humanitarian crisis that's facing this city at these people at this point with these daily attacks by paramilitary forces and the expectation is that the situation today will only worsen laz i mentioned before the reconfirm dead over thirty six others wounded the situation could still worsen once the sun sets so

what does this mean then for peace talks between the government and the opposition at this point i think it's almost impossible to know whether or not the peace talks and the national dialogue will resume we spoke with an auditor who is a has been overseeing this national dialogue who tells us that they want the peace talks to continue but he simply. no if they will we know that the clergy of the catholic church make that i work which has been hosting the national dialogue they seem to be keen on suspending the national dialogue given that one of the conditions for the dialogue was that the government halts all of this all the hostilities against anti-government demonstrators this is something that simply hasn't happened in the time that we've been here and since the beginning of this crisis on april eighteenth these attacks against demonstrators attacks against the civilian population have continued so from our observation again there just simply doesn't seem to be an end to the crisis thank you very much with the latest on those clashes taking place and nicaraguan money. and the aqua

indonesian rescue because a searching for survivors after a ferry sank with as many as eighty people on board the wooden boat went down late to a popular tourist destination in northern sumatra on monday eighteen people have been rescued so far so the ferry was carrying more than the maximum number of people allowed when it sank set vasant has more from jakarta. so after departing samo sea island. wooden passenger boat started to sway badly not long after that it capsized completely throwing all its passengers into the lake to say the accident happened amidst bad weather huge waves. island lies in lake talk about which is the largest full chemical leak in the world and also one of the deepest it's one of indonesia's main tourist attractions most of the passengers were returning from the eve holidays. this dramatic food that seems to have been captured by

one of the passengers can be verified it's not clear how many passengers were on the boat exactly because it's a common practice in indonesia for these kinds of boats to not have any passengers many friends nor any official ticket sales it also seems there were no life else available rescue workers are now searching the leg to look for more so five. stock markets in asia and europe have taken a hit as fears escalate over a trade war between the u.s. and china on monday night the u.s. president threatened beijing with tariffs on an additional two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese goods donald trump says it's retaliation for china slapping tariffs on fifty billion dollars worth of imports from the u.s. beijing responded by saying it would strike back hard meanwhile north korean leader kim jong un is in china just a week after his historic meeting with u.s. president donald trump to met with the chinese president xi jinping in beijing

during his third trip since march according to chinese state t.v. kim briefed president xi on his meeting with donald trump and the agree to push for peace on the korean peninsula china is north korea's largest and closest ally. now there's been a mixed reaction to the u.s. president's announcement that he's setting up a new space force to defend his country's interests donald trump says it's needed to protect the u.s. from foreign threats but not everyone is welcoming his plan to create a sixth branch of the military as roslyn george reports. last year donald trump said he wanted to send humans back to the moon now the u.s. president wants the pentagon to create a space force to protect u.s. military and economic interests away from the earth we must have american dominance in space so important very importantly i'm here by directing the department of defense and pentagon. to immediately begin the process necessary to

establish a space force as the sixth branch of the armed forces it's a big state and the chinese government criticize trump's decision as a violation of the one nine hundred sixty seven outer space treaty that year the u.s. and the soviet union promised to use space for peaceful reasons not for war the. united states air force has owned this high ground space for decades other nations other air forces only dream of making such a claim but the current air force space command does consider china and russia as potential security threats namely when it comes to protecting the u.s. from russian or chinese intercontinental ballistic missiles. the pentagon has been monitoring russia's testing of its hypersonic missile systems in recent months the idea of creating

a space force isn't new last year defense secretary jim mattis rejected a proposal from two senators because he said it was too expensive and would expand the bureaucracy now mattis is on board and he promises congress will have plenty of input in the project the former astronaut and senator bill nelson is opposed saying on twitter now is not the time to rip the air force apart another former astronaut agree yes i guess i don't share the excitement. i wish to apply or special missions were bella terry mission and i found that this is what we had our. organizing and executing military spaced space flights were. very very well done during those periods batteries really. will compete and will win

a valid point but the president may yet get his way. al-jazeera washington russian opposition politician alexina valmy is called for national protests and says he's not hosting world cup matches over the government's plans to raise the retirement age of ali was released from prison on thursday the day the world cup kicked off it was also the day the prime minister announced the retirement age would go up from sixty to sixty five for men and from fifty five to sixty three for women it's the first time it's been raised in nearly ninety is. meanwhile a russian politician is going to extraordinary lengths to get the country behind the national football team in the wild card nation is currently playing egypt they kicked off the top of it with a five nil win over saudi arabia and the team's previously poor performances a made them the subject of satirical songs and ridicule italian men and all who is behind russia's controversial gay propaganda law has dropped a bill that would find anyone who criticizes the play is ten thousand rubles that's

around one hundred sixty dollars million of says the law protects the owner of the country. these guys representatives hope that they should the representatives of the country and that's why there's a big difference between humor between the critics and disgusting jokes the dirty jokes about about those who are going to fight for the all over the country and it should be it's a fair that we have to protect our old representatives from the local. abuse from the local ideological oppression i should say so i will guys should feel the support should feel they hear the two whether they should. or rory chalons is in a fan zone in moscow and joins us now or you've been watching the match with the fans there in moscow is the russian team giving them any pause for criticism. what

i have to say given the performance the russians are putting on the moment there is absolutely no need for bills like that whatsoever because the moment russia is three nil up against egypt this is an incredible turnaround for the russian team their side that have barely been able to put a pos together for the previous few years they came into this world cup as the lowest ranked team in the tournament they then slashed saudi arabia five nil and they are now thrashing egypt three nil it's been a wonderful atmosphere down here at the fans and so we had to move away from right in the heart of things over my shoulder to get a connection to be able to talk to you but it's been a real multinational festival feeling in there with russians painting russian flags on the cheeks of brazilians and gyptian hugging senegalese and that sort of thing in the capital there is a seemingly great performance being put on by the russian side and

a thrilling the crowd here rules of applause as the gold goes have been thumping in as all sorts of things going on but how important is it for russia to go through to the knockout stage. well i mean of course it's important for any team playing in the world cup to do as well as they possibly can they have all of them dreams of going through to the knockout stage some have dreams of of winning that's odorants itself for russia though they are the host nation they've had a pretty poor spell of performances in previous well cups they haven't gone through to the knockout stage as a russian national team you have to go back to the soviet times to find a performance from the from the home team really with the u.s. as a team that actually put them through to the knockout stages russia haven't managed to do that in the in the post soviet period but they've beaten saudi arabia and now looks like they're going to be egypt too and that surely will put them through to

the knockout stages is the little gold dust the sprinkling of gold dust i think that comes from hosting the world cup it's certainly working for russia the moments and they look to be going through that's right it looks like a no go through with a decent victory so perhaps not much cause for criticism or jokes thanks very much for challenging moscow one out norway is tested a two seater electric plane with a view to saucing passenger flights by twenty twenty five transport minister cattle solving olson and the head of the state run airline of an r to the debut fly around all's i want to say noise government hopes to make all the mystic flights electric by twenty four c. it's already the world's top by of electric cars and ninety eight percent of the country's electricity comes from clean hydro power. it's kind of the first example that we are moving fast forward we do have to make sure that it's safe people will not fly if they don't trust it but twenty years from now it is twenty years

it's both really short term it one way but it also gives us twenty year of development for trying it out and i think when we come to twenty forty this is going to be a reality. just a quick reminder of the headlines now famous fighting is continuing outside the airport of the yemeni city of data thousands of pro-government fighters backed by a saudi led coalition a battling against hoofy rebels the airport is considered a key resupply base by the saudi an m r r t coalition which is trying to capture the strategic port city held by the rebels for the past three years. mexico has labeled the u.s. policy of separating migrant children from their parents at a border as cruel and inhumane the release of a recording of children crying has ramped up pressure on the u.s.

president zero tolerance policy donald trump is digging in we want to solve this problem we want to solve family separation i don't want children taken away from parents and when you prosecute the parents for coming in illegally which should happen you have to take the children away now we don't have to prosecute them but then when they are prosecuting them for coming in illegally that's not good. we want to and the border crisis by finally giving us the legal authorities and the resources to detain and remove illegal immigrant families altogether and bring them back to their country meanwhile france and germany have called for a joint european approach to immigration german chancellor angela merkel has held talks with the french president emanuel ahead of a crucial e.u. summit next week has been given a two week deadline by a coalition partners the c.s.u. to achieve an ideal one of two oil terminal set on

fire during clashes in the libyan port of ras lanuf has collapsed it's fear the damage could impact the country's struggling economy which relies on oil production for revenue and the north korean leader kim jong un is in china just a week after his historic meeting with the u.s. president donald trump to met with the chinese president xi jinping in beijing his third trip there since march kim briefed president xi on his meeting with trump do stay with us coming up next on al-jazeera it's the strain.

hello and welcome to news stream live on al-jazeera and you tube the o.p.'s new prime minister has worked at a rapid pace since being sworn in eleven weeks ago now at the met is aiming to mend relations with wartime foe eritrea i really could be and i'm not much of a dean today we'll discuss just how strong prospects are for lasting peace between the two countries and consider how you can lead without alienating his critics. we are fully committed to reconcile with our eritrean brothers and sisters those are the words if you'll forgive the prime minister ahmed in his inaugural address to parliament in april now i'd be on the ruling.