offensive to recaptured the two terminals of the north and as he has been encouraging his forces and he calls this this battle the sacred incursion of the oil christians we understand that to oil is storage tanks have been set on fire by have to the forces according to did the rounds forces for the last few days and one of them completely collapse of the us today according to the national oil corporation we understand that the area in ras lanuf includes includes the town of ruslan all of which is a civilian area there are families civilian houses there and also the airport of us and of and the refinery of ruslan off which is a strategic strategic honest lation and the port and according to have their forces they have taken control they have recaptured the rest of including the airport the

town and the refinery but like you said on the other hand when we speak to her children's forces they deny that and they say that they have they have have taken control of both of those terminals of sidra and ruslan off ratio ok there were headlines for us in tripoli thank you still ahead on al-jazeera. trade war fears the european union gears up to retaliate against us. a murder investigation reopened or questions from malaysia's former prime minister over the death of mongolian model. it was still raining in the far side of the main audience of japan but that rain is

still in and out and possibly the worst is gone through now the trend being to take it a little bit further out in the west pacific but these are two quite surprisingly large figures in the last twenty four hours or was say for the size of the sheba an island just to the south of the main audience now there's the line of rain the green stuff it's really offshore about trying to get to friday so it's warming up again it's bright weather in tokyo and osaka similar weather in the korean peninsula but when you talk about the humidity back up towards beijing twenty six degrees it could well be in the area of thundery shows it warms up as things dry out come saturday at four thirty five you'll notice and the cloud is still thick enough to be to bring the rain close to be honest to tokyo rather cloudy picture for sure rain proper is back in in china now anywhere from the yangtze valley size winds you could get significant right that does of course include hong kong this is how it's supposed to look in the middle of summer in china but we had a we could serve rather different weather science of all that action there's

a good scattering ish to the philippines malaysia and indonesia but they are scattered but they're not that rare anymore. refugees heading for a better life in australia intercepted and sent to remote islands indefinite detention in conditions of good conscience. understand golden goose two smuggled out footage and eyewitness accounts is the main thing you're doing for pay for even asking them not tons of block to kill themselves witness chasing asylum. on al-jazeera. the big.

you're watching al-jazeera let's recap the top stories for you now after mounting pressure from both republicans and democrats u.s. president donald trump has signed an executive order to end his controversial policy of splitting up migrant families at the southern border children will now be able to stay with their parents for up to twenty days. seven former detainees in prisons run by the united arab emirates and yemen have described what they call a system of sexual torture they say they were raped and abused by guards under u.s. control. denies managing more running prisons in that country. a force led by libyan warlord khalifa hop star says it has recaptured two oil export terminals there's been an escalation in fighting recently for control of the country's oil production facilities a state department has condemned the violence. the wife of israeli prime minister

benjamin netanyahu has been charged with fraud the justice ministry says this indictment relates to the alleged misuse of state funds sarah netanyahu just now being charged today after a lengthy investigation let's go to harry fawcett now who joins us live from west truth from harry what else can you add. well yes this is an investigation is being on for more than two years and it relates in probably to the catering arrangements within the prime minister's residence sarah netanyahu is charged along with the former deputy deputy director general of the prime minister's office as a side off with having conspired to try to conceal these payments by concealing the fact that there was a cook already employed allegedly concealing the fact that it was a cook already employed at the prime minister's office therefore giving her a reason to get outside catering in the full cost of such meals is estimated

ninety nine thousand dollars worth during this period between twenty ten and twenty thirteen the netanyahu use tried to kind of slough this off by talking about take away trays in a meals consumed out of ten for all but it turned out that these are actually expensive gourmet meals delivered from some of jerusalem's best restaurants and that given the fact that they were for the netanyahu themselves and they already had a state employed cook they should never have been charged to the public purse as well as that there are fifteen occasions on which this is not nos alleged to have conspired to try to create false invoices for outside chefs to make the the bills look smaller presumably than they were actually in effect and so this is the culmination of what has been a long process we already have the recommendation that she be charged now she has

been charged and there could be a trial taking place within a month or two all right harry potter with that breaking and i stress on thank you . the european union says it's ready to engage with the u.s. to resolve a trade dispute a day before the beginning of the year retaliatory tariffs against washington starting on friday the e.u. will impose a twenty five percent duty tax on three point two billion dollars worth of u.s. goods the loss ranges from agricultural products such as rice and orange juice to jeans whiskey motorbikes and various steel products they counterterrorists were triggered by donald trump's decision to impose a ten to twenty five percent tariff on steel and aluminum imports the e.u. says that is illegal it could is not yet but it could escalate. to a full trade war which would be bad for the whole world because we are so you zealanders and you union we are so interlinked in the global economy also in the chinese and in the u.s.

with the global value chains so it will affect us as well it would affect our companies it would affect our consumers and we are also worried that countries are acting outside the rules that we have created jointly in the w. barker has more from london. the e.u. trade commissioner cecilia mount strong has offered something of an eleventh hour solution to the escalating trade route she's called for talks between the e.u. the us and china while at the same time criticizing the united states for what she described as the illegal introduction of tariffs on steel by the us president donald trump last month she's also called on the world trade organization to address china's policy of economic dumping of the exporting of its goods a very low price is abroad undercutting domestic producers in importing nations to see a maelstrom said that she felt that the european union was doing this somewhat reluctantly

but within the rules of the world trade organization the e.u. earmarked earlier on in the year three point two billion dollars worth of u.s. goods to impose tariffs on those towers of course begin on friday were toiletry measures expected to send very much in the eyes of the european union a symbolic message to the white house china has warned it will defend its interests over washington's new trade tariffs beijing is accusing the u.s. of using what it calls bullying tactics and blackmail and imposing tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars on chinese goods. a government spokesman says u.s. actions are damaging the global economy by swinging a big stick of trade protectionism china and the u.s. are two of the world's biggest economies. place and france are being accused of abusing the rights of migrants and refugees as they wait to cross the border from

italy international charities and activists say detention is retaining asylum procedures are properly explained and the rights of refugee children are being ignored as reports police commanders a few three allegations saying they're just trying to stop illegal immigration. french border police search a train in the first stop from the border with italy migrants try to cross into france on this line every day but few make it the government's crackdown on illegal immigration and police checks. pressure on police to turn back migrants says this n.e.p. is leading to rights abuses isn't selling the police said there was no one inside here but when we asked to go in we saw a young people lying on the floor there was no interpreter no lawyer given no possibility to file an asylum request last year french officers on this border stop fifty thousand migrants many walked from italy taking dangerous mountain routes like this man who didn't wish to be identified but described being detained by

french officers and we don't have a blanket we don't have growth as we don't have shoes. some boy is dead to be due to do or because he's what he called me and he's hungry. enough to die it's old money to police my knees. it's dead to. the boys. there were only a few hundred meters between the french and italian border posts which face the mediterranean sea all along this road we have spoken to migrants who say that they were detained overnight by the french border police in a police station down there they all say the same thing they were locked inside with no food no access to information and activists in this region say that is extremely common what's more they say the french police are falsifying documents in order to turn away. a migrant farm under eighteen. under french law child refugees

a guaranteed state protection but charity workers here say french police often ignore the rules it's unfortunately it's so common so we have that day where you see the yesterdays written for the original state and the police change because in that way they don't have the there was somebody taking charge of the metal yet again and good police if you think i repeat these accusations because every day my colleagues face migrants who pretend to be minus. on all sides the lack of trust is clear there's also frustration that the european union isn't doing more to deal with the migration crisis leaving individual countries to cope and leaving the most vulnerable people lost in uncertainty natasha butler al jazeera. thousands of protesters have rallied in romania capital against laws they say will worsen a high level of corruption the measures include a one that on criminal investigations to one year unless charges are laid before

then remain your house one of the worst records for corruption in the e.u. critics say the new laws will make the country a paradise for criminals. a steamroller has been plowing over thousands of firearms as part of an ongoing security operation in rio de janeiro two thousand guns were crushed on wednesday another six thousand to be destroyed in the coming days some of the weapons had been seized from gangsters and some of the handed in voluntarily others were obsolete police munitions. place in malaysia are reopening a murder investigation that could have links to embattled former prime minister knowledge of rasik mongolian model was killed by two former police officers in two thousand and six the officers allegedly worked as bodyguards for knowledge of but he denies knowing the woman and is also being investigated over claims he stole billions of dollars during his nine years in office he's accused of taking power from a state fund he set up the new prime minister mahathir mohamad reopen the corruption

investigation after winning last month's election. i was north didn't have any knowledge whatsoever of money is coming in i would not have couldn't do it and you going subsequently i believe that the monies from several sources. and additions to beatable but this was a concern and i'm not privy to bring bring records you know unless you have special treatment for the bank then you would know what a source of funding or they knew or accepted at face value would it do so is coming from. you know obama and his being you know instruction and indonesia authorities say the number of people feared drowned after a tourist ferry sank could be up to one hundred ninety three raising fears that it can now be the country's worst maritime disaster as the search operation continues family and friends of those missing are waiting for news on their loved ones the

captain of the boat was detained by police for questioning on thursday he's one of eighteen people rescued after the wooden boat sank and so much island's lake toba on monday. so i mean that by side in the us i ask for these kinds of disasters to never happen again ordering the minister of transportation to evaluate all safety procedures and standards of transportation vehicles for all owners of such boat do a b. the regulations prioritize passenger safety and whole instructions from the meteorological agency for any forecast of potential bad weather place in thailand are carrying out raids on factories in an attempt to stamp out the illegal imports of electronic waste a waste since china banned imports recycling companies in thailand have been taking in more waste than they are allowed scott high level ports from bangkok but now you have 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 yes 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 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 for all these seven kompany they can you know but now we found out at fye office even. not the. factory but to another in the gun factory 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 we're going to 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 that it resolves the ban from china in the impartation today country so. tend to fly other countries into and thailand might be one of those countries. environmental group greenpeace also thinks the chinese ban has led to it in please their concern 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. being up there and we have for all of the country. we don't have the we don't have. the we don't have

the infrastructure to do that he says there's another 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 hardly al-jazeera bangkok. prime minister just sent our darn has become the second only ever elected leader to give birth while an office she announced a rival of a baby girl by posting a photo on instagram that thirty seven year old will be maternity leave for the next six weeks with her deputy when stampeders running the country a first world leader to give birth while on the top job pakistan's been a servant to almost thirty years ago. take a look at the headlines now on al-jazeera the saudi murat a coalition in yemen says it has taken full control of the airport and her data but who the rebels are denying that the rebels have posted this video online in recent

hours which appears to show that their fighters still have access to the airport compound for two days the coalition has said it is in control of that area seven a former detainees and prisons run by the united arab emirates and yemen have described what they call a system of sexual torture they say they were raped and abused by guards under u.s. control. denies managing or running prisons in that country. for mounting pressure by both republicans and democrats us president onil trump has signed an executive order to end his controversial policy of splitting up migrant families at the southern border children will now be able to stay with their parents for up to twenty days but donald trump claims that he wants them to be able to stay even longer the european union trade commissioner says the e.u. is ready to engage with the u.s. to resolve a trade dispute triggered by washington's decision to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. impose

a twenty five percent duty on three billion dollars worth of us including bourbon and motorbikes it will start on friday the trade commissioner. says the u.s. tariffs are illegal it could yet but it could escalate. to. a trade war which would be bad for the whole world because we are so you zealanders and you've been union we are so interlinked in the global economy also in the chinese and in the u.s. with a global value change so it would affect us as well it would affect our companies it would affect our consumers and we are also worried that countries are acting outside the rules that we have created jointly in the w. and indonesia already say the number of people fear drowned after a tourist ferry sank could be up to one hundred ninety three raising fears that it is now the country's worst maritime disaster as the search operation continues families and friends of those missing are waiting for news on their loved ones the captain of the boat was detained by police for questioning on thursday those are

your headlines here now to sarah keep it here more news throughout the day and side story is next. the united states pulls out of the u.n. human rights council calling it a cesspool of political violence so what will this mean for the global fight to protect human rights and isolate the u.s. on the world stage this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program i'm peter the u.s. has walked out of the u.n. human rights council calling it hypocritical self-serving and a cesspool of political bias the move follows months of threats from president obama will trump to pull out of the un council the united states has long had a conflicted relationship with the u.n. h. ossie and says it has to be reformed the announcement came at a time when president faces widespread and vociferously condemnation for his zero tolerance immigration policy that separating children from their families on the us mexico border well guess what guests in a moment but first the inside story as this report. special a year ago the u.s. ambassador to the united nations criticize the u.n. human rights council for what she called its hypocritical behavior and nikki haley said the u.s. would quit the council if it didn't change its ways it's hard to accept that this

council has never considered a resolution on venezuela and yet adopted five biased resolutions in march against a single country israel it is essential that this council address its chronic anti israel bias if it is to have any credibility it is correct to criticize the state of israel for its actions as said by rabbi luck you can you can challenge the israeli government's policies without being a mighty comet such as this a permanent agenda item investigating israel's treatment of palestinians and the us is recent failure to prevent the un general assembly from condemning israel's use of force in gaza finally made the trumpet ministration say enough on tuesday but when organizations undermine our national interests and our allies we will not be complicit when they seek to infringe on our national sovereignty we will not be silent we take this step because our commitment does not allow us to remain

a part of a hypocritical and self-serving organization that makes a mockery of human rights we could have withdrawn immediately we did not do that instead we made a good faith effort to resolve the problems the u.s. has had a troubled relationship with the council when it was set up in two thousand and six president george bush refused to join because he feared countries with poor human rights records would be able to sit on a panel intended to punish human rights violators bush's decision making the us ambassador to the u.n. at the time john bolton he's now president trumps national security advisor i think president we're all. obama then joined the council in two thousand and nine are you to leave us would have more influence and give israel more protection from negative resolutions in the process now the u.s. is leaving the council again and that has human rights groups around the world very

concerned they fear that without the american presence on the council it will be much less able to hold countries such as russia syria or north korea accountable for the mistreatment of their citizens it's also not clear how long washington plans to stay away from the human rights council rosalyn jordan al-jazeera the state department. well the council is based in geneva and its mission is to promote and to protect human rights around the world it was established back in two thousand and six to replace the un commission on human rights that had been strongly criticized for allowing countries with poor human rights records to be members of the un h r c has forty seven member countries who serve for three year terms it meets three times a year and investigates human rights records of all u.n. member states in a special process it covers issues including freedom of expression freedom of belief women's rights l g b t rights and the rights of racial and ethnic minorities

the un general assembly can suspend the rights of any council member that's violating human rights in a gross and systematic way this requires a two thirds majority vote. let's get going let's bring in our guests joining us from geneva young shar on he's the director of independent diplomat in london we have rosa friedman professor of law and global development of the university of reading and joining us from washington is mohammed a cop professor of conflict resolution at the george mason university welcome to you all coming to you first what does this decision do to the organization well the decision is not really one that comes as a prize in geneva everyone that's been following the human rights council in geneva has been expecting it ever since nikki haley came to geneva in june of last year and said that in essence she wanted the council to reform around three pillars the

first one is its membership the second one is its perceived bias towards israel and the third one is its efficiency i think that here. the shock is really the surprise is really that it comes so suddenly in a way even though we had seen it coming most would have expected that there'd be a trigger say for instance the u.n. publishing a report condemning israel or something of the kind but in any case i think most people expected it and. then the biggest concern nowadays is what you know how this is going to unfold a year and a half away from the reform of the human rights council the human rights council itself is due to be reformed in twenty twenty and you know this withdrawal poses a lot of questions on the rosa what does it also say about where the organization stands today and why didn't it react to those demands from nikki haley to reform i

think that there are many countries many n.g.o.s that agree with us about the need for reform it was the way that the u.s. was going about trying to reform the body that i think caused this trigger this this reaction and this walking out in quite an immediate manner. essentially the u.s. wanted to sponsor resolutions on reform where is it these these things have to be crossed regional they have to have co-sponsors and be championed by many countries and the way that the u.s. was pushing for reform was by floating resolutions without first garnering support and then reacting very badly when those floated resolutions were being pushed off the table and mohammed what does it also tell us about the current direction of travel for the trumpet ministration while it is a verb today in the u.s. history it contradicts all the morals and institutions that have been established since the put it in times in colonial america or according to the will so many in our doctrine that gave us the league of nations and then contributed to the

establishment of the u.n. nation systems unfortunately the year from administration now is exist in this global human right part of the time for the sake of me in isolating those related and also for showing some uncalled for sympathy to the israelis so i think the problem here is that the united states is going to lose its main reference of more of politics human rights and all the humanity that it has championed over centuries rose when mohammed talks about uncalled for sympathy for the israelis part of this as far as nikki haley is concerned is this article seven which means that they always have to their constituted in such a way they always have to talk about israel at every meeting and that's why we've seen the reaction that we've seen today from benjamin netanyahu. but ever since the council was created there has been biased there has been excessive disproportionate

scrutiny of israel we've seen that the un human rights council spent more time and resources talking about israel than it has about north korea yemen south sudan sudan and darfur and sri lanka combined but that has that bias it's not a perception that a bias against israel isn't not a reason to leave the human rights council it is a reason to reform and work with the council and in fact when item seven was perth placed on the agenda the reason that it wasn't blocked by european union states was it was hoped that the discussion of israel and palestine would be contained to those two days that the session since it is not contained to those two days in israel is raised in all sorts of other agenda items many countries have sent can stop to engaging with item seven so there are ways around it and the us knows that there are ways around it but this is almost a good excuse and a good national populist excuse for the us walking out of the room you know what you think the chances are that the united states might go back in again they left before under george w. bush when he was

a republican president but they chose under obama to join up and sign up to the statues one more time. i mean it's going to be difficult to predict but to be honest i don't forsee them coming back before the twenty twenty so i.e. before the reforms are discussed and then there is a new. that there is a new body or that the reforms are in place i think that the message is pretty clear in fact i think the big question is whether these reforms or whether this would allow for the u.s. to return at all and and i agree with rose and how many have just said in many ways it creates a void i mean when you're trying to negotiate for reform and you're not there in the room negotiating it creates a void and so in countries other countries are more than happy to fill that void and so far as i'm can see in my my biggest concern is civil society the human rights council has been one of the few un avenues for engagement for civil society

actors i agree that i mean i hear rose's points with regards to the israel bias and or or the discussion to the way that's given them on on the record human rights record of israel but at the same time i must say that it's one of the very few conduits where we've had discussions on accountability atoll at the u.n. i'm taking in with the engagement of civil society i'm thinking you know it's had twenty eight commissions of inquiry not just on gaza but also on the myanmar. and look at for instance syria is one of the very few places where we've had so much you know there's been an independent investigative body looking into the violations committed by the syrian government there and so on so so this has provided for a room for civil society engagement like nowhere else i mean there's over probably a hundred probably thousand of n.g.o.s active in there and the big fear is that this u.s. withdrawal creating that void would allow certain other countries to fill it and

these other countries which are coming to the fray thinking for instance. china with its win win resolution which they tabled recently is it remains unknown as to how much space they would want to give to the ngos i mean when i say unknown this is a diplomatic term i mean many countries the u.s. was part of the group of states that was favorable and supportive of the engagement of civil society actors so that that is probably one of the biggest question marks on that mohammed in washington if there is now a void and there clearly is on the ranks of the within the ranks of the council those other countries that look to the united states to be the high water mark of not just international law and how it's applied but also the nexus of morality international reality if you will and the law who do they look to now well before another issue of course a little couple of issues here i think we should not over credit the support for is

that in explaining or the construct in this decision i think we should mention also that.