new prime minister. is if the o.p.'s now at a turning point it remains a priority for us to be actively engaged for this reason we will send a delegation to add his abacha and come up with a plan for future action eritreans fought and won independence from ethiopia in one thousand nine hundred three but the two sides went to war again in one thousand ninety eight over the demarcation line between the two neighbors more than eighty thousand people were killed. but on the losses incurred in time wasted have been huge but as the damage accumulated in things became increasingly in bearable it spurred the wrath and rebellion in the people of ethiopia who said enough is enough the un brokered a peace deal the two countries signed in algiers in two thousand but neither side has observe the truce. strict military conscription laws have prompted thousands of young men to flee from eritrea as red sea coast line for europe israel and other african countries ethiopia's new prime minister over to start talks with their trio

two weeks ago. yeah yeah since we all the largest and oldest country in the african continent people must understand that ethiopia should take the responsibility of taking the first step towards peace with asmara and that we are also responsible for the stability in the region it's the trains and the buses stalks between the two nations and let us restore the ties between rich and ethiopian people. as a war veteran and fought and bob made one of the disputed towns now abi says he is ready to acknowledge that all disputed areas belong to. diplomats are welcoming what they say is a new chapter of peace and reconciliation between eritrea and ethiopia and people some in the ethiopian ruling coalition however believe the move is flawed but for now leaders of the two countries appear to be ready to find a path toward peace. time for a short break here not just iraq when we come back find out why helping refugees and asylum seekers in hungary could land people in jail plus. we have different

heritage's and football great bonding. tool for back of the country as australia's national team gets ready for its first big match of the world cup we look at how the sport is helping integrate young immigrants more in that state. i. mean the weather sponsored by cattle. welcome back as we look at weather conditions across the levant and western parts of asia you see we've still got some showers across some of the stans maybe picking up in the day highs of twenty five still the risk of your chair on the southern side of the caspian sea boating for tehran the poor we draw in pretty woman thirty five hot conditions for baghdad moving through into friday we're still seeing some showers affecting the caucuses and a really big downpours here in recent days georgia and armenia and further showers

are likely on the southern side of the black sea coast otherwise fine across the eastern side of the mediterranean region with temperatures there twenty seven degrees in beirut now moving down into arabian peninsula temperatures still the mid forty's there for medina here on the eastern side the potential of got a fairly brisk at the moment forty two degrees and bit of dust too by the and is ahead on through into our weekend than that forty two seems to be the order of the day now as we head across into southern portions of africa it's looking fine and dry plenty of sunshine here and nothing really to reports maybe a little cloud at times around the eastern cape during the twenty three degrees but across central parts of africa some big storm systems going away through from the ethiopian highlands so sit down towards the gulf of guinea where lacy wanted to heavy showers affecting lagos in nigeria the weather. package for us what were you hearing what were you seeing where on line horrendous

things humans understand there's absolutely no doubt about that or if you join us on the sanct of the major countries in the commonwealth have far bigger fish to fry and ships to eat bass is a dialogue. about this except perhaps everyone has a voice what happens when the robots themselves are making the decision to join the conversation. welcome back time for a quick check of the headlines here at al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump has signed an executive order to end his policy of separating migrant families of the mexican border children will now be held with other parents for

a maximum of twenty days but trump wants that tension to be longer than that. seven former detainees of prisoners run by the united arab emirates in yemen have described what they call systematic sexual torture that told the associated press they were raped and abused by yemeni guards working on the u.a.e. officers. under a trance president says he's ready to put a decades old dispute with neighboring ethiopia to rest comes after ethiopia's prime minister announce his country is ready to accept the terms of a deal from eighteen years ago more than seventy thousand people were killed in a two year border war that began in nineteen ninety eight. now the un e.u. and into american commission on human rights say they've received invitations to investigate violent protests in nicaragua at least one hundred seventy people have died in anti-government demonstrations since april security forces have been accused of using excessive force and i reports. in the capital managua. now you are going to have. these desperate mothers crying out to prison guards for

the release of their children. has been camped outside these gates for more than a week her son wielded was arrested after attending an anti-government demonstration at one point she change her self to the fence begging for her son's release me one look even then he took me one my thumb is innocent his only crime was holding up the flag of my country i believe this is why they are keeping him where we does wife hazel has also stayed by the prison gates she goes home several times a day to take care of the family business a cybercafe in a residential neighborhood of nick i was capital managua hazel says she has a court order for her husband's release adding that he has been held illegally and without charge for more than a week at the this document is for the release of my husband but he hasn't been i trust in god that i have a maximum. like many others who have gone missing we'll that was taken to the

a famous torture center from the days of the samosa rule more than forty years ago today it houses young men and women who have protested against president daniel ortega. a human rights attorney says that arrests of peaceful demonstrators is just one of dozens of human rights violations being committed by the government and a lot of them we have recorded two hundred cases nationwide of illegal detention in force disappearances and also kidnappings. the political conflict in the guy one has killed at least one hundred eighty six people and injured more than a thousand activists say they have recorded at least sixty disappearances over the actual number is difficult to know human rights observers continue to call on president ortega to end the violent crackdown on anti-government demonstrators and are asking for the release of an unknown number of individuals who have been detained without charge since the start of the political crisis every day hazel prepares meals for we did and head back to that you put it to hand food over to

prison guards together with we did smother the repeat this exhausting ritual three times a day each time hoping we did it will finally be released when i get up and. when i was hungry has defied e.u. laws and passed a bill criminalizing assistance to undocumented immigrants under the so-called stop aid workers could face up to a year in jail if they help people seek asylum prime minister viktor orban blames on guerin american businessman george soros for encouraging mass migration to europe soros denies this. today's world refugee day and the government instead of providing protection have decided to actually not provide protection deny protection and that's the side with the persecutors it starts to persecute you pick even individuals human rights defenders and others who assist asylum seekers i think this is a new low point for hungary today where even lawyers could face criminal

prosecution something that has not been heard of since the one nine hundred fifty certainly it's very alarming many aspects of this are i think i read just leaders from ten e.u. nations will meet in brussels on sunday to try to sort out divisions on immigration comes ahead of an e.u. summit on thursday to discuss of a hole in the blocks asylum system issues threatening to split german chancellor angela merkel's government she's under growing pressure to reach a deal that would allow germany to turn back asylum seekers who voted in another e.u. country. monsoon season is now adding to the problems for a million range at the world's largest refugee camp living in the course of a long camp in bangladesh scaping a military crackdown in neighboring me and so it has a story of one son. monsoon rains for you and sahara beggar reflects on a hard year. to hara her husband muhammad and the six children have lived in cooper long camp since they fled me n.

ma in december. we have lots of sorrow in our heart so much pain i can't explain in words how i do not have peace of mind myanmar is our home this is not our place but what can we do we cannot go back there now they will kill us there. but here they are vulnerable the foundations of a new life has literally collapsed beneath mohammed's feet the monsoon season has started they live in bamboo hot sun muddy hills. alongside a million other wrencher refute g.'s three thousand three hundred shelters have collapsed so far now the family shares two rooms with twenty others. nearly seven hundred thousand three hundred have fled from e.m.r. to bangladesh since the military crackdown intensified last year those who escaped told the stories of those who didn't mess burial pits children right villages riced

a lot and i was away many of my relatives were killed in my mar and i can bring one of my daughters and my mother i had to leave them behind in some of my other relatives that it had about that are in. myanmar in the un have agreed on steps for the revenger to return but many say it's not enough. we will not go back even if there is an agreement until and unless they recognize us as rwanda's and give us citizenship. and so are the rancher prepare for the long hope they fix their hearts and build bridges roads and water wells. more than half the population this is their introduction to the world fifty five percent of critical longs residents a children. and education hair is learning the acronyms of age groups or counting the minutes one must stand in the rain waiting for rice. to harris children

are too young to help but they savor the sustenance. the sound of prayer is heard across the camp during one of the few happy times of the day. even though we are facing a lot of hardship we still manage to eat something it's difficult to cook though because we rarely find firewood and other essential plus we don't have any money. this is what survival looks like and what is now the world's largest refugee camp shelob ellis al-jazeera thailand's deputy prime minister has coeff and then to imports and a waste since china banned those imports recycling companies in thailand have been importing more waste and there are loud and processing it at illegal factories scott todd reports from bangkok right now even police officers gather at a factory gate just outside bangkok they send up a drone to take a peek inside before scaling the wall and going in this is the latest in

a series of raids on electronic waste factories for the past month the authorities have been cracking down on illegal operations and investigating imported the waste some companies are bringing in more than they're authorized to import and using illegal factories like this one. it's the largest raid of its kind yet police estimate that there are six thousand tons of illegal waste in the sprawling compound all these seven company can you buy now. not that. factory but to another in the gun factory five importers have now had their license is suspended for a year intelligence gained on previous raids led police here to this plastic facility it's not even registered to do this kind of work now this is a stack of old router fronts now there are thousands of stacks like this on this

facility and it's clear that this particular one came from overseas on the back of them there's a sticker with an american customer service number on it customs officials say that the import of plastic material for recycling including waste totals two hundred thousand tons for just the first five months of this year that's double the amount for all of last year i believe it. is wrong the ban from china in that in part country so. tend to fly other countries. and thailand. those countries. environmental group greenpeace also thinks the chinese ban has led to an increase they're concerned with the contamination electronic waste causes heavy metal in water and soil and airborne toxins but the more immediate concern there's no specific law that deals directly with the waste management. dumping up

there can we have from a country that we don't have a copy of it be we don't have. the and we don't have the infrastructure to do it at he says there's a nuff domestic ways to keep the current business is open so there's no economic reason for thailand to take in other countries. it's got harder al-jazeera bangkok so since now on russians are reveling in football world cup success after becoming one of the first two teams to qualify for the knockout stages fans are basking in the host countries unexpectedly strong start at the lowest ranked team has reached the last sixteen for the first time since one thousand nine hundred eighty six so this is our group b. looks portugal and spain level on points at the top there but iran still have a chance to qualify the iranians face portugal in their final group game while spain play the now eliminated morocco and australia with denmark later on thursday the team known as the socceroos need to win to stay in the tournament football

isn't a big popular sport in australia but it's helping migrant children better integrate into society al-jazeera as andrew thomas explains. in western sydney this is an innovative program to get refugee and migrant children involved in sports football united has been running for more than a decade helping newly arrived children to integrate into their local community. these kids would play twenty four seven i mean we can't keep and have programs going to satisfy them i think i've heard thousand times i want to be a soccer when i grow up but love for the national team the socceroos isn't universal on television football competes with two types of rugby rugby union and rugby league cricket and australian rules football which is hugely popular in the cities of melbourne and adelaide. the round ball game is sometimes to ride it

as a migrant sport. but in participation terms football is number one and this diversity is reflected in the australian national team players who fled wars in the balkans have been at the heart of previous world cup campaigns this world cup in russia a representatives with lebanese samoan iranian and croatian heritage more than half the scored have non english speaking backgrounds reflecting more than australia were australians but we have different heritage is and football's been a great bonding tool for that for the country but despite more people playing the game australia's top domestic league has seen poor attendance figures this past season putting the sport's governing body under pressure challenge to turn those grassroots participants people who play the game love the guy and turn them into fans of the professional future is very broad but at the moment it's still in

a very much a converted the barman tim cahill who was with everton in english premier league for many years is now it is fourth world cup for australia he began. the samoan as a teenager and is an inspiration to others wanting to be rude if i think taking a big step towards. made him a bit. more and i can be one and be just like him in such a competitive environment in australia football's diversity of appeal is its greatest assets andrew thomas al-jazeera sydney. tough a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump assigned an executive order to end his policy of separating migrant families at the southern border children will now be detained with their parents for the maximum of twenty days but trump wants that extended so we're

keeping families together and this will solve that problem at the same time we are keeping a very powerful border and it continues to be a series of tolerance we have zero tolerance for people that enter our country illegally seven former detainees of prisons run by the united arab emirates in yemen have described what they call systematic sexual torture they told the associated press they were raped and abused by yemeni guards working under u.a.e. officers south sudan's rival leaders are holding talks in ethiopia to end the five year old civil war president salva kiir and rebel leader wrecked much i haven't met face to face since the peace deal fell apart in twenty sixteen leading mashad to go into exile ethiopia is helping to mediate the talks tens of thousands of people have died in the fighting and millions have been displaced both sides are accused of human rights violations. eritrea's president says he's ready to put

a decades old dispute with neighboring ethiopia to rest follows ethiopia's prime minister announcing his country is ready to accept the terms of a deal from eighteen years ago more than seventy thousand people were killed during the two year border war that began in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight the un e.u. in the into merican commission on human rights says they've received invitations to investigate violent protests in nicaragua since april at least one hundred seventy people have died in anti-government demonstrations anger over plans to reform the welfare system triggered the violence security forces have been accused of using excessive force thousands of protesters have been arrested hungry has defied e.u. will to build criminalizing assistance to undocumented migrants some of the so-called stops or a slow aid workers could face up to a year in jail if they help people seek asylum the prime minister viktor orban blames on guerin american businessman george soros for encouraging mass migration

to europe so this denies this but those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the street station that's watching right now. al jazeera is a very important source of information for many people around the world and all the cameras have gone i'm still here go into areas that nobody else is going to talk to people that nobody else is talking to and bringing that story to the forefront. i really could be here in the stream for thousands of immigrants to the united states the american dream has turned into a nightmare more than two thousand children have been separated from their parents as the government of president donald trump enforces a zero tolerance policy undocumented immigrants and i'm not going to have a dean today we'll hear stories from the detention centers and ask immigration

experts to weigh in and of course we want to hear from all of you join us in our you tube top. democrats force that. nation. just. pictures of children and miners in cages and heart wrenching stories of damocles torn apart continue to emerge and provoked outrage protests are growing louder and crossing party lines but despite the outcry and recent polls show that the policy

is supported by many in trump's core republican base the president has signed an executive order to stop separation of families but how are the lives of immigrants from. soko guatemala honduras and el salvador being affected we spoke to some people on the streets of washington d.c. to get their thoughts i just think our politicians should get together and stop this administration from separating families and doing things are completely against the values of the united states and i definitely also hope that this conversation surrounding this particular policy expects so most often it's gotten a lot of people's attention and well i'm continue to hold people's attention and the larger public so that they can start thinking about like other pieces of immigration policy rather than kind of how do they get attention span that's dedicated to this very emotional issue that involves children like gets the conversation going about policy that i personally feel like i was in a position of leadership pertaining to immigration i would never less than i just

happen you know families i love them is the dogs big is really important and if i think they're being separated is terrible now i'm from texas and so i can only imagine how hard it would be. just just the natural conditions of what it would be like spain and places like that so that is no i'm not very well versed about but i can only imagine the conditions are terrible and so whatever's being done these separation areas where the place of the kids are staying i hope they're having access to water to cool temperatures and things without man. but joining us to talk about this holly cooper co-director of the immigration law clinic at the university of california davis eric opinio is policy and litigation director at. and bridget cambria is an immigration attorney in oakland california people's justice the people's justice center and i want to start with a clip and welcome to you all i want to give our viewers

a glimpse of what the trumpet ministrations zero tolerance policy has meant for one family in particular meet one year old. separated from his father who was legally seeking asylum in the u.s. it took three months before the boy was allowed to reignite with his mother shown here in a video captured by filmmaker but doubt have a look. from the one you see turned himself in at the border to ask for asylum he presented his identification and a son's birth certificate. immigration officials claimed he was not the father and kept him in detention. but to us in fifteen hundred miles away to the office of refugees resettlement.

you know when. they came. in here that you know i can be anywhere yet if i have you and. me that. i did that they added made up my mind. now do. you know what it is marginal here come on tell me how do you know if i. can let me. let you do a little bit.

you know. a heart breaking video there think the saddest part is seeing the look in his mother's eyes and also her younger son when he realizes that his little brother doesn't recognize him how are my tale and his family doing today. well phil having a lot of emotional and behavioral issues resulting from the separation of his family and i actually when he was returned to his mother he was infested with lice and filthy is mother tells me about it looked like he hadn't been be used with soap in months and so now he's just now starting to trust his mother again unfortunately his father is still detained at the time it's

a detention facility in san diego we've tried to arrange for a visit twice and both times the children were not let into the touch of facilities the first time we tried was actually andrea's birthday he was so excited to see his father and then had to open his birthday presents in the parking lot of the facility the second time they told us the children had not been cleared i'm not really sure what kind of clearance process i need for a two year old and i are old but the fact is they have not been allowed to see their father since they were separated from him in november of twenty seventeen you know and hearing you describe you know the condition of the family the shock but also the physical condition and the torture essentially or you know the effect on the boy i should say drawn the most well done and like many people on twitter saying from the articles i've read on the issue all of the reports coming in from medical professionals agree that this experience is incredibly traumatic and could potentially cause lifelong harm on the child of course i meant trauma not torture earlier but we have a clinical psychologist who's weighing in sent us

a video comment really outlining her concerns and what she's doing about it i'd love to get your thoughts bridget let's take a listen i wrote a letter which has now been signed by over ninety thousand mental health professionals asking their present mr nation to remember what do you feel like to be a child and to not only talk about the separation policy ask policy but to actually think about the children who are being ripped apart from their parents where we are deeply concerned about the fact that the separation has on the standards. on their general wellbeing and on the entire trajectory of their lives in regards. to see stocks immediately madrid of course the executive order was signed by the hearing of the psychologist there what comes to mind. well what comes to mind to me is that i'm a practitioner in family detention i was brought into family separation because we heard of vulnerable cases and started to take them. we know that family detention

even together causes severe trauma. to minors. it causes thoughts of suicide it causes thoughts helplessness so we see that in family detention and that's when we have a family together so imagine i mean it's hard to even imagine what the psychological effects would be with a child torn from a parent and the instantaneous psychological damage that's done by that i don't think that psychologists are going to know until we see what happens to these two to three thousand children taken what the exact effects are but i'm sure that it's going to be startling and i'm sure that it's going to be lifelong brigid i'm want to share with you to have learned so with our audience of course because i know you're already familiar with this one from the new york times inside the former wal-mart that is now a shelter for almost fifteen hundred migrant children and this is in brownsville

texas here's another headline this from the a.p. in this just came out recently overnight late last night on tuesday night at least three shelters set up for child migrants and there what's being called age shelters can you explain to us what you know about these shelters what kind of provisions are there for children what's happening inside and what do they look like. well to be honest these new pop up detention centers for children i don't believe that there have been cameras inside of them yet i think that the idea of something called a tender age shelter which is really a tender age baby jail is is absolutely horrific and probably against any kind of values that we hold as human beings or us americans. i don't understand how any facility could possibly be licensed that contains minors as young as an infant. i

would pretty much guarantee that they probably are not licensed for that purpose additionally if you have a tent city for minors i have absolutely no idea how any state could possibly license the syllabi like that and that is a requirement if you're going to detain children and something that i'm very terrified about today with an executive order from the trumpet ministration is are they going to remove those very simple protections for minors protections that include avoiding prolonged attention and avoiding being placed into facilities that are not made to care for children at all ali you know a lot of people talking about how this amounts to child abuse maybe that's why i used the word torture earlier just trying to imagine what that would be like really tough to know because so few people have been been inside but people are trying to make sense of why this happened bringing politics into this on twitter families belong together saying trump and sessions are using immigration as an issue to agitate their base for midterm elections while the same time trying to wash their

hands of this as they lied to the american people but maybe you know the the main question that remains that is being discussed on twitter right here by it's the floor as is what happens to the families who are separated under the previous policy now that the order has been signed what can you tell us about that holly. well i've been inside i've been suspected at least twenty different children's detention facilities and they range all the way from shelter care to juvenile jails or the office of refugee resettlement is the entity that detains minors and uses juvenile jails where the conditions can include pepper spray can include putting children into psychiatric treatment facilities we're seeing a huge amount of trauma even before this executive order because there's trauma not only a family some but there's the trauma that detention brings upon a child some children are locked in cells for the majority of the day without the

right to educate without any meaningful education so what we're seeing is when trump is saying i'm going to sign an executive order that in family separation what he's really saying is i'm going to hold children with their mothers in facilities that don't meet minimum humanitarian requirements so all three of our guests have mentioned this executive order and that's because it happened just moments before our live air time take a look at my computer here this is just a screen shot that i grabbed as as he was about to sign this executive order this is trump u.s. immigration signing this order and he said we are keeping families to gather and of course this to many people critics and those who are just observant watchers would say this is. a flip flop from earlier policy and earlier announcements from people in the trumpet ministration and i want to share with our viewers exactly what that looks like have a look. yes i am considering in order to deter. the longest

terribly dangerous network i am considering exactly that they will be well cared for as we deal with their parents have you been directed to separate parents from children as a method of deterrence of undocumented immigration i have not been directed to do that for purposes of deterrence now i'm sure that people are going to be less likely to bring their kids to america if they get separated than if they live together and get released into the country i would cite. each of the apostle paul in his clear and wise command in romans thirteen two. of the government because god is a. god for his purposes so why doesn't the president pick up and change the policy he said he said i think the president is trying to do is find a long term fix so why don't we have congress change the law to change or you. did this in r.l. we want to solve family separation i don't want children taken away from parents.

and i will have to people. we are going. to be one hundred sixteen years sixteen years nobody's taking care of it nobody has. the political courage to take it the bill we're going to take care of we're going to go i was holding. all these has no one has had the political courage to take care of it indicating that he has even though this policy was enacted underneath his the him to straighten holly please clarify this for our american audience and our international audience who must be scratching their heads . yes but it's really about deflecting the issue and mischaracterizing what's going on so that he appears to be the hero in the equation when he's really the villain

and what's happening is that the four as settlements that he's in this executive order seeking to modify has set forth very basic protections for detain children to be reunited with their family members expeditiously and to have detained detained in facilities that have minimum state licensing requirements and now what he's saying is that he wants to you know modify the floor a settlement agreement it's not clear how but one can speculate that he'll want to detain families and children together to create sort of modern day internment camps where children and mothers will be detained together throughout the fruition of their proceedings which is going to. have this own psychological toll on the children for being detained is is. also a harm in addition to being separated from their parents and we've had we've already seen that they've built these tent cities to detain children and so the

logical next step would be to house families in those facilities and i also want to say just now working on the border here i don't believe that they're actually going to stop family separation the case of jose that much when they had the family that was featured in the video you showed earlier caught the attention of numerous congress people who held hearings with the department of homeland security who denied that they were separating families when we had proof that they were in those cases the department of homeland security claimed that the fact that parents didn't have proof of the parental relationship when i fact they were handing over original birth certificate them passports to the department of homeland security so i don't believe they're going to stop family separation it might be less than they're doing right now but i don't believe that they're going to stop it they're just going to use these post-hoc excuses to try to justify what they're doing in terms of trying . justify what they're doing you know a lot of the comments make i have to be honest with our audience with everyone here it's really still shock and disbelief even after this announcement this flip flop

whatever you want to call that this announcement by president trump is because it is richard saying separating families and causing such distress to children and their parents is simply the most shocking thing this us administration has done since its inception as a parent my stomach keeps turning can there possibly be a low or low than this how can any parent sanction this and you know these might seem like kind of rhetorical questions almost but we do have kind of a question specifically about just jeff sessions and the policy moving forward on this you know someone saying jeff sessions has a clear agenda of this is represents the clear agenda for the justice department including ramping up new ways of criminalizing and incarcerating people were rolling back criminal justice and policing reforms based on what you just said erica i mean do you think that that's true that this is an agenda by this administration and that's the fight that's going to continue from here on out absolutely and this is just one policy of many that is sought to stem the flow of asylum seekers especially from central america you know the ministration as

demonized central americans as m.s. thirteen gang members when in fact a lot of these people are fleeing gang violence jeff sessions recently changed the law to try to exclude victims of domestic violence and victims of gang violence from asylum protections and let's just you know setback for a second and also recognize that seeking asylum is illegal immigration so a lot of the rhetoric going on right now calling these people illegal immigrants is just absolutely wrong they have the right to seek asylum under u.s. law and under international law whether or not they enter the united states at a designated port of entry i'm glad you clarified that because i want to bring this up here some may see this as a p.r. disaster for the united states and for the administration others not so much this is the box and they are citing several polls trumps family separation policy is very unpopular except. among some republicans one study finds sixty six percent of americans oppose did and twenty seven percent in favor there are people who say

this will be a deterrent and people in the insertion also have said that the idea is this will cause the numbers to decrease even though we've seen a recent spike in the last few months bridget i wonder what you think of the idea of deterrence of the people in the u.s. population who say our borders are there for a reason while i have to agree that i absolutely believe that the policies of the administration are family separation family. tension the whole purpose of what they're doing is deterrence their idea is if they punish the people who they have custody then they'll they'll stop other people from coming unfortunately we've found that's not the case it's never the case people will not stay in a burning building if they're if they're in a burning building in their their lives in danger their children's lives are in danger they're going to flee and the administration has clearly enacted clearly enacted the family separation policy family detention policy and other other

policies in order to deter people from seeking asylum in the united states but it's not going to work. and addition to it not working it's illegal the government cannot use deterrent policies against people in their custody to prevent actions from people and this and of course i was because they would have to prove that that is the policy right that it was you know our deter and we saw those questions to the homeland security had and she denied them. she denied them but other members of the administration did not deny them and actually expressly stated them that they are for deterrent purposes and i think that there's plenty on the record to show that it's just one person you know walking back those comments because they know legally it's not a good position so where do we go from here because shawn on twitter is asking you know what happens to the families that have been separated the u.s. government he says is still culpable because they have not put in place a mechanism of reuniting the families after supper is more deportation in the sense

of if if that is is beginning to happen or will have to happen or will happen at all well. let me just tell you one one thing in the case of some of the families that we've represented we are suing for the immediate reunification of children with their parents and the case we filed for two boys who've been separated from their fathers. not given any communication the fathers in fact had no idea where they were the fathers had no idea you know what the identification number that immigration used for them was we had to find that as attorneys and to be honest most families are separated don't have attorneys so how are they going to find their children. this is a huge problem for the administration because right now we have about three thousand children without parents and what mechanisms are they going to put to bring these families together i think should be their number one priority and what they should be doing is within the next twenty four hours forty eight hours week be

immediately reunifying all of these children who are separated from their parents with their parents holly i know you want to jump in there. no i mean we're also i mean we have a big concern because we represent a class the nation class of children who are detained and a lot of the children are too young to even identify to the families phone numbers they said biographical information so we have a big concern also from the children's perspective is to how are they going to find their parents when they want to reach out because the children's and such tender age that they can't meaningfully articulate if that identifying information and or are doctors a refugee resettlement refuses to give us that information as advocates as lawyers for the children i want to share with our audience is this we have just about a minute in the show left that this is reunite an immigrant parent with their child and if you've been on facebook in the last few days you have seen this fundraiser for rice says they've raised twelve million dollars to go towards legal fees and

for reunification what would you tell people watching who want to do something erica. definitely donating to the organizations working on the ground or he says is an excellent organization and there are several other organizations including religious organization my on the kino border initiative etc there's there's lists out there are things like put out a list donating to these organizations will allow us to hire attorneys to help these people because as bridget and holly mentioned we have thousands of children who've been separated from their parents who have really no other way to be reunified today i have a lot of moland father has been deported without his five year old child if i weren't helping him and trust me it's difficult still to get them reunited if i weren't helping him he'd really have no way to figure out how to get his daughter back so those of us working on the ground are really going to put these resources to good use and you hearing from eric opinionator you heard from ali ali cooper and bridget cambrian of course to our community we have to leave the conversation there

with thank you for being part of this show today we'll continue to follow the story as it develops we'll see you next time. al jazeera where ever you are. there are seven billion lights in this school. each one.

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hello i'm down in jordan this is live from doha also coming up accusations of rape electrocution and beatings at prisons run by the united arab emirates in yemen. they are now a plea for answers in nicaragua as peaceful protesters languish behind bars. on. the run from russia with love the happiest football fans of the first two teams qualified for the world cup knockout stage. u.s. president donald trump has bowed to pressure and signed an executive order to end his policy of separating migrant families at the southern border children will now be detained with their parents for the maximum of twenty days but once that extended. so we're keeping families together and this will solve that problem at the same time we are keeping a very powerful border and it continues to be

a zero tolerance we have zero tolerance for people that enter our country illegally well for migrant families president trumps change of heart provides little clarity only more confusion they want to know when they'll be reunited and what will happen when the twenty day detention limit tech spy is zero as gabriel is on the went looking for answers in brownsville texas near the border with mexico. after washington announced an end to family separation of asylum seekers at the border there was no celebrating in brownsville texas instead only confusion the law states families seeking asylum that are arrested in the u.s. can only be kept together in detention for twenty days trump's legal team says they'll go to court try to extend that and the so-called zero tolerance policy it remains in place so there is no change in policy on arresting asylum seekers and charging them with the crime. the thing that concerns us the most is that

ultimately what this will result in as far as we can tell is indefinite detainment of families sounds like you don't think this is a solution absolutely not a lot of confusion still in the days ahead yet there's a lot of opacity still around this and ultimately until we see an end to zero tolerance we don't think that this. we don't think that you can address these issues without ending zero tolerance with not enough shelters or detention facilities to how's everyone tent city detention centers for children like this one in a remote desert area near el paso texas will remain for now conditions are difficult temperatures can reach forty two degrees celsius and in brownsville outside this shelter detention center housing hundreds of kids no sign of being reunited with their parents this shelter behind me is one that already has children in it that have been separated from their families the big question now is how to get them

reunited problem is there does not seem to be any system in place to make that happen so it could be days weeks or even months until families are finally reunited activists here remain baffled by what's going on saying that hellish situation is just giving way to another it's a creates a crime in my minds a crime quite simply is the separation of a of the innocent baby from the mother. and it's completely out of proportion to what's going on in washington relief perhaps after trump's move to curtail the growing storm clouds his separation policy has brought over his presidency but here just another night of kids going to bed without knowing what's happened to their parents gabriel's. brownsville texas. seven former detainees of prisons run by the united arab emirates in yemen describe what they call systematic sexual torture they told the associated press they were right and

abused by yemeni guards working under u.n. offices but the u.a.e. denies managing or running prisons in the country korea reports a window into what's being described as a world of rampant sexual torture and impunity these drawings were smuggled out of iraq to run prisons in yemen made on plastic plates with ink detainees held without charge or trial described humiliation to the associated press news agency one caption in arabic says it's real terrorism and another drawing prisoners being transported in a pickup truck are naked blindfolded and handcuffed seven former detainee spoke to reporters about what they've witnessed they say rape electrocution and beatings took place at five detention centers including at the iraqi forces headquarters in the country the u.a.e. mission in geneva tweeted that it has never managed or run prisons or secret

detention centers in yemen but the accusations don't come as a surprise in march human rights groups accuse the united arab emirates of making arbitrary arrests in southern yemen. we have. asked that the u.a.e. is responsible for. over an arbitrary detention. for months many residents demanded to know where their missing relatives are you a military commanders in yemen have repeatedly denied running secret prisons there. they had a government set up. with the u.a.e. and. using it but abuses continue and all the. prisoners have. rights to. the three year war in yemen has caused a complete breakdown of law and order especially in the south where militias operate beyond the control of the courts and the internationally recognized

government in addition to the disappearances in torture there have been reports of executions and assassinations diana kerim al-jazeera. a saudi coalition in yemen says it's taken full control of the airport in her data it's a key step in its offensive to push with the rebels from the city but the people of her data accord between the fighting and dwindling supplies are reports. the classrooms at this her data school were once places of learning now they shelter whole families whose homes are being destroyed. since two thousand and fifteen the warplanes have been firing missiles at our place because the rebel camps were close when the attacks increased and the bullets fell into our houses and many of them were destroyed we left we have come to the school to stay here they have. i have my twins we left and we didn't take anything not even a pillow or a mattress and we can't even go back to our houses. a few kilometers away fighters

loyal to president hadi celebrate as they seize control of data airport the balance tipped by intensified air strikes from saudi arabia and u.a.e. fighter planes. who the rebels say they still control the city and the seaport and it's the port that the coalition really wants. supplies coming in to yemen including food and medicine as well as its oil exports all go through hard data whoever controls the port and the city could have a tight grip on goods in and out of yemen. but the coalition also says weapons supplied by iran are smuggled to rebels through the port and that's why her data's a target to run and the who feeds deny allegations of weapons smuggling speaking in a pro hooty t.v. network the rebels leader remains defiant. most of the coastal area of the hama and her data still free enter a large area of the coast is under control of our people and. even if they bring

the world's armies we will not submit our collapse. meanwhile airstrikes creep closer to the center of the city the coalition says who the fighters are using civilians as human shields they say who think tanks are hidden in populated areas. aid agencies say if supplies of food water and medicine start coming it will make the severe humanitarian crisis even worse for the people of the data the chances of survival are dwindling rob matheson al jazeera. south sudan's rival leaders are holding talks in ethiopia to end a five year old civil war president salva care and revel in a wreck mashad haven't met face to face since the peace deal fell apart in twenty sixteen leaving the shard to go into exile tens of thousands of people have died in the fighting and millions of been displaced catherine soy has more from nairobi in neighboring kenya. this is

a hugely significant considering how the two leaders badly fell out back in two thousand and sixteen during that violence in the capital juba react much are fled the country has been under house arrest in the south and south africa both sides of accused each other of starting that fight and so there's a lot of bad blood between the two leaders and a lot of mistrust as well to the fact that they have actually come to the south of by an ethiopian are actually neat thing and talking that alone brings a sense of renewed hope in south sudan so what would they be talking about going forward we are told that they will be discussing mainly among other things apart sharing do we expect any deal to be signed a lot of south sudanese are waiting and it's going to be interesting to see how all this plays out going forward. very low. optimism levels in south sudan right now because these leaders have met before they have signed peace agreements before but those peace agreements and peace deals have been broken so

it's going to be interesting to see what happens in the war in south sudan is also complicated father because now we have malta people fighting groups for various. interests but a lot of people i've talked to are saying that the fact that react much are in president salva kiir have actually come to the negotiating table actually wheeling to talk that alone may move forward the peace process and give hope to south sudanese who have suffered for such a long time. eritreans president says he's ready to put a decades old dispute with neighboring ethiopia to rest that follows ethiopia's prime minister announcing his country is ready to accept the terms of an agreement from eighteen years ago aspersion reports the peace deal signed in two thousand between the two african neighbors has never been upheld. at the motor's de memorial eritrea's president on are those killed during its war of independence from

ethiopia and welcomed an olive branch extended to his country from ethiopia as new prime minister. blair is now at a turning point it remains a priority for us to be actively engaged for this reason we will send a delegation to. and come up with a plan for future action eritreans fought and won independence from ethiopia in one thousand nine hundred three but the two sides went to war in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight over the demarcation line between the two neighbors more than eighty thousand people were killed. the losses incurred and time wasted have been huge but as the damage accumulated in things became increasingly in bearable it spurred the wrath and rebellion in the people of ethiopia who said enough is enough the un brokered a peace deal the two countries signed in algiers in two thousand but neither side has observed a truce. strict military conscription laws have prompted thousands of young men to flee from eritrea is red sea coast line for europe israel and other african

countries ethiopia's new prime minister offer to start talks with their tria two weeks ago.