terminals hell if i have forces have been battling for control of a. rival fine who is led by even him just around had stormed the oil ports last week well there has been a three fold increase in the number of north african migrants and refugees entering europe via spain this year compared to italy spain is seen almost twice as many arrivals in june koeppen how joins me live now from a marea in spain's south east so more ships with refugees have been arriving is it linked to the italian policy being tougher or what else might be going on there com. well barbara just in the last twenty minutes in fact and perhaps i can get our camera man just to pan off and show you the rescue vessel one of these characteristic orange rescue vessels now that just put into the port of almeria twenty minutes ago bringing one hundred three more refugees and migrants on board they had been pulled from two rickety fishing vessels they know

here as potatoes about one hundred kilometers off the southern coast of spain in the course of the day and now what has happened is that after as late as the ship docked and they offload then the migrants refugees have gone into these modules over there that is where they're being met by the red cross for primly for limerick health checks and also to ask what their humanitarian needs may be and that's also where they'll have the first contact with the police who will start to register them and find out what their countries of origin are but as to say that orange rescue boat that you just saw there literally was just docked here for twenty minutes it's off again it's refueling because they have a lot of work right now at any moment they could receive yet another call to go pick up refugees and migrants out there in the mediterranean about an hour's drive south here an hour ago another boat with another hundred doctors there and also

last night around midnight boats were still coming in with migrants aboard let's take a look at the scenes less than twenty four hours ago. down the gangplank. first cautious steps to your room. on the warm blankets their eyes soaking first impressions of the land they hope to bring a better life. help for some to hobble to a waiting ambulance. that young man is blind. tonight rescuers saved thirty three lives and. five women and a child. it's now just after midnight and those refugees the migrants have just reached dry land had clearly been many hours at sea they will now be taken away to a holding area where police will register them and they will receive attention from the red cross. in a fenced corner of the port red cross workers start health checks police begin the

paperwork and checks to confirm where in africa they're from for now there's no access the media. morning back at dockside we meet captain frank bures of the marine rescue service who commanded the previous day's mission. they were in a rubber dinghy about six metres long and a fifty horsepower engine there were thirty three of them they were frightened because they didn't know they were going to make it but this time they were lucky it was. one of his crew recorded tense moments of the rescue on a helmet mounted camera. this was one hundred kilometers off the coast of southern spain where the. firm commands for the refugees to stay still so they don't camp songs they're scared the first group is shuttled to the main rescue boat some a sobbing but a hand. to hand shake oh thank you and the welcome.

one of the rescuers calls out the one of the incoming passengers is behind. it but the. reason i do this job is for the satisfaction of saving human lives once they were on board the field totally see them begin to shout cheer. this weekend european union leaders will wrangle over immigration policy and border controls but here there is no politics the only aim is saving those in peril of the sea. now authorities seem to be overwhelmed by the number of new arrivals in fact would be just before these hundred three new migrants and refugees arrived around fifty young men who'd been in these modules for several days were allowed to leave continue their journey onward into europe somewhere there was really little time to

be able to talk to them but one young twenty one year old when i asked him what are your dreams he said i'd love to come to europe i'd love to find a job playing football well let's hope that that is the common language that he can find here in europe football instead of all this political wrangling barbara cappello live for us in america karl thank you and you are with al jazeera live from london still to come on the program the fight for yemen so they the airport both sides the who the rebels and the south the emirati coalition claim that they are in firm control. and koko the gorilla who mastered american sign language and captured the hearts of millions has died at the age of forty six.

out of the recent big showers in southern coke assists and mills in iran have been well quite active but the disappearing now you can see a few one tops and that's about it cost wise i think we're going to concentrate more towards georgia north and turkey the ones who showers possibly showing up in cyprus and the coasts of syria otherwise it's just sunshine high twenty's for example in beirut just below the forty mark in baghdad and in teheran was quite a breeze blowing which tends to make c.m. more suited to get the concentration of high temperatures not breezy quite a stiff one not particularly dusty in council rather more dusty in riyadh to see where it comes from temp she's staying in the low forty's appears to be in there and so a lot of just to be around about thirty mark drizzle inland and almost constantly cloudy this is a seasonal thing which you would expect to happen virtually all of southern africa at the moment is without significant cloud therefore without significant rain of any sort weather wise that's correct climatologically that is correct you might

have it out again see a few showers on the coast of tons and if for example otherwise it's sunshine by day we don't particularly want to tune the soka sixteen in cape town we see more of a rain in the western cape next.

welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera donald trump says he's ordered u.s. government agencies to reunite migrant children who are separated from their relatives of the southern border the president. public outrage on wednesday and ended the policy of splitting up families who were detained for illegal immigration the wife of israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been charged with fraud sovereign nation now is accused of misusing state funds. and forces loyal to eastern libyan warlord tara say that they've recaptured the two oil terminals seized last week. more on this now from the way he too is in tripoli for us says so the forces for have been fighting over these two oil terminals with

another set of fighters there just tell us a little bit about what the latest is now. will the latest we're getting from the oil christian area is that forces loyal to warlords really for have to have finally recaptured the two oil terminals of vile sidra and ras lanuf from forces loyal to the full model chief of the petroleum facilities guards brahim and just run that is no definite reason for that was withdrawal of the children's forces we have spoken to just runs forces they have confirmed that they have withdrawn from the two major oil terminals of unrest and all of that they they they took control of a week ago last thursday now they have retreated to the desert as you know barbara

this is the oil crescent area that extends along the coast of the mediterranean and on the other side is just desert so just runs forces are now heading back to the south to the desert where they have to his forces have taken control of the refinery in ras lanuf terminal also of the of the airport in the north and the other oil installations in. a city or oil poort now according to a derby a hospital that's the other end of the oil christened which is around one hundred fifty kilometers to the south was west of. the hospital the hospital staff there say that they have received fifteen dead. fighters and the other twenty five one did they belong to. the lord. have to we understand that this this battle for the oil christened area was announced by have this today and he

called it a sacred battle and he he just called it the sacred incursion of the oil christian we understand that two major storage tanks were set on fire in the last. days and they were completely destroyed most of us are like the chief of the human of the oil the national oil corporation that around eight hundred hundred million dollars losses because of the burning oil crude in the area barbara very complicated story in the struggle for control in libya continues but when the bill where he from tripoli thank you so much for that update now who the rebels in yemen are continuing to deny claims that the saudi erotic coalition has taken full control of who they the airport they say this video shows their fighters inside the airport compound it contradicts recent statements by the coalition that the who these have

been driven out a coalition says it's also attacking pockets of rebel resistance in the surrounding area or the coalition is attempting to cut off rebel supply lines to as mohammed the reports now from across the red sea in djibouti. despite claims by the soda led coalition that they're in control of the port both fighters maintain but it's not the case they say they're still resisting this is something confirmed also by reliable sources who say the still pockets of resistance within the compound. and as the fighting gets closer to residential areas there are fears of a humanitarian crisis residents of the city say that aker has been targeting positions on the roads near the airport as well as the highway that links the data to the capital sanaa on their strongholds. and. the coalition forces say that they are trying their best to minimize civilian casualties but the queues the. o.t.

fighters off leaving tons of what in the middle of residential areas the main cause of the humanitarian community up the money from that it by street fighting that could see a rise in the civilian casualties seen so far is a discipline to the services of vital importance but a lifeline for millions of yemenis who have to depend on. iraq's supreme court has ruled that a manual recount of all votes cast a during the general election last month should take place and certain categories of votes originally deemed invalid must be included the president and several political blocs had opposed the recount which is expected to take up to two weeks ten thousand members of the electoral commission are now expected to sort through the full return. go to south sudan now where the rebel group says any deal to end the country's five year civil war cannot be imposed on them and more time is needed

to secure a lasting peace the comments followed a meeting between their leader react mashad our and south sudan's president salva kiir in. it's the first time to to have actually met face to face in nearly two years. indonesian police have questioned the captain of a ferry which sank leaving at least one hundred ninety two people missing relatives have been gathering along the shore of lake told by in sumatra where the ferry sank in bad weather on monday it's understood the ferry had more than three times the number of passengers that it was built to carry at least four people have been confirmed dead. and malaysian police are reopening a murder investigation with possible links to embattled former prime minister najib razak among all the other model. who was killed by two expertise officers in two thousand and six the officers allegedly worked as bodyguards for najib but he denied knowing the woman that is already under investigation for the theft of

billions of dollars from the state fund police in thailand have been raiding factories in an effort to stamp out illegal imports of electronic waste or waste since china banned the imports recycling companies in thailand have been taking in more ways than they're allowed to scott hide reports. 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 go again 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. kompany

canyon but now we found out a fire in. not. victory but to. victory 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 resolves the ban from china in that country so. ten.

countries. too. and thailand my view one of those countries environmental group greenpeace also thinks the chinese ban has led to an increase 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 waste management or picking the cow dumping up a little bit we have from other countries. we don't happen to be we don't have. the and we don't have 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 guard it's got harder al-jazeera bangkok. a western lowland gorilla who mastered american sign language has died at the age of forty

six coco died in her sleep at the gorilla foundation preserve in california on tuesday she was told sign language as part of a stanford university project in one thousand nine hundred seventy four the foundation says her capacity for language helped open the minds and hearts of millions around the world coco was among a handful of primates who could communicate using sign language. and now a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera donald trump says he's ordered u.s. government agencies to reunite migrant children who are separated from their relatives at the southern border the president bounded to public outrage on wednesday and signed an executive order ending the policy of splitting up families who were detained for illegal immigration congress is also preparing to vote on two immigration bills the could halt future separations. directing a.g.h.

s d h s d.o.j. to work together to keep illegal immigrant families together during the immigration process and to reunite the previously separated groups but the only real solution is for congress to close the catch and release loopholes that a view on the child smuggling industry. meanwhile the first lady millennia trampas paid a surprise visit to the us mexico border as the white house battles the fallout over the separations she storing a social services center for migrant children as well as a border patrol processing base the first lady had earlier said the separations at the border paint her even as the president stuck by his zero tolerance policy. the wife of israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been charged with fraud israel's justice ministry says solidness and now is accused of misusing state funds

she's alleged to have spent around one hundred thousand dollars of government money on lavish meals at the prime minister's residence in jerusalem and to minister now has called the allegations against his wife absurd and unfounded security sources in libya say a powerful warlord has captured the two major oil terminals a half stars forces have been battling for control of al see there and ruslan ouf rival fighters led by even him just as ron had stormed the oil ports last week in yemen who the rebels are continuing to deny claims that the saudi m. erotic coalition has taken full control of what they the airport they say this video shows their fighters inside the airport compound the coalition says it's also attacking pockets of rebel resistance in the surrounding area those are the headlines i'm going to have more news for you in the al-jazeera news hour that's coming up in less than half an hour coming up next though it's inside story thanks for watching.

torture and rampant sexual abuse in secret prisons in yemen former detainees say they're being run by the u.a.e. the emirates a key player in the yemeni denies the claims so what will or can the international community do this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program today with me piece it all being seven former detainees say that the united arab emirates is running secret prisons in yemen and

that sexual torture in those prisons is rampant and systematic the u.a.e. denies the accusations were made to reporters from the associated press news agency however the charges highlight both the depth of saudi and emira involvement in yemen civil war and the brutality that's become a whole block of this conflict will begin with this report from diana cutting 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 detainees 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 documented in the past that the u.a.e. is responsible for the disappearances all over an arbitrary detention in europe. for months many residents demanded to know where their missing relatives are u.a.e. military commanders in yemen have repeatedly denied running secret prisons their reporting they had the government. with the u.a.e. has continued to flatly deny any rule and use again but abuses continue and all their 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 carom al-jazeera. well before bring in our guest let's take a closer look now at the conflict in yemen in march twenty fifteen who the rebels advanced on the capital some are refusing to accept a new constitution proposed by president months or hardy who was forced to leave the city later that month saudi arabia assembled a coalition of allies including the u.a.e. to support hardy's government in what became a civil war against the who sees a morality troops of forty extensively particularly in the south around the port city of aden in june of twenty seventeen the associated press news agency revealed

the u.a.e. was running secret prisons in yemen an accusation the u.a.e. noise. ok let's get going introducing our panel to you today joining us from santa in yemen we have hussein katie a pro who see journalist from toronto in canada. the director of the center for middle east studies at the university of denver and also in santa must marry political analyst and the editor in chief and the publisher of the yemen post welcome to you all hussein. first how many people are we talking about here i think they could be in the one hundred because from the beginning of the water we have heard many. and money claim made by some people in the south especially for a woman who are claiming that the husband of sons. has been in but isn't seems to be that the united arab emirates is using what they call the fight on al

qaida so they can embed as in anyone they want no one can ask them or no one can there in the south or to say anything to them and this is to be honest is the same what the united states has been using they can detain anyone around the world and they can say we are fighting al qaida and i've seen on social media even before this report that many brought us there from women and children and families of this has been held for two months now some of them has exceeded the two to three years they brought us to aden in other city in the south but there was kind of a blackout of the outside media in the united arab emirates of course will not let any media outlet in the south to cover this. crime that is done against but isn't as clearly hussein social media is not a reliable source and i take on board what you're saying of course but we maybe

have to issue a little bit of a housekeeping notice here wrapping up our entire discussion with one big allegedly . let's go to her chemo must be also in sana'a one identifying factor here is the accents of the people who are doing the torturing the accents apparently come from the u.a.e. are you convinced that that is factually correct that's the details that the information that we received a couple of months ago that these private prisons are secret prisons are being run by a coalition forces led by the u.a.e. but also with the with the knowledge of the u.s. government has well but the torture has been taking place by the u.a.e. forces and its allies. but again this is information that we received a couple of months ago from reliable sources or military sources sources who are close to the u.a.e. forces in aden. these are still claims and allegations the international

recognized government of president hadi needs to investigate these cases sadly their government is weak in aden and don't have any or much authority there are these claims are serious they need to be taken seriously and independent investigators must be allowed to visit these prisoners in order to see if these claims are true or not sometimes even if the government does investigate the truth is sometimes hidden so international n.g.o.s human rights watch amnesty access etc these n.g.o.s must be given the chance to visit the prisoners in these prisons and talk to them and see what their comments are because right now everything is still a grave. very serious accusations but these prisoners must be visited and be treated legally because sometimes stupid claims or under terror and in the end it's not terrorism it's just his link to the muslim brotherhood party or the

human rights of islam or others so. and not only investigation but also the families must be aware where this prison is ours him and rights organizations must visit these prisoners and listen from them and talk to them see what their comments are to ensure that everything that's taking place is legal and under the international law not to hush me into wrong so this is clearly a war crime but the idea of layering in on top of that sexual abuse that gives it a whole new sinister dimension right and it's nothing i think that should shock anyone who studies and follows human rights practices in the middle east the united arab emirates has quite a sordid and horrific track record in terms of the use of internal repression and torture within its own territory so now that it's actually engaging in torture outside of its territory in a location where it is actively involved in a war comes as no surprise this is in many ways part and parcel of

a consistent policy of repression that we've seen from the united arab emirates both within its own territories and other parts of the arab world who are as deeply invested. also insana your sources and your reporting what are you getting the sense of in terms of how far up the command chain this is being paid how far up the command chain is somebody saying yes this is the way to go because presumably some weird level the justifying this themselves by saying this is torture it's an evolution of torture and we're doing it to what extract information from people. i mean of course they would say that the information from the people but if you have not the right to detain someone for many many months without any. like without putting him into into justice on i think all this is to blame on. the government and i want to just to mention

that the minister of. interior minister of the government that riad say two months ago that all prisons in the south is under the control of united arab emirates they are in control of the security forces of the port authority this prove that their claim of they not united arab emirate mission in geneva when they said about this report that there is no prison run by united arab emirates in yemen and all prisons are run by yemeni government and this show that the yemeni government actually cannot do anything to stop to stop this but all this blame on the united arab emirates that it will actually is bring in those that take those prisons into yemen it might remind us with the guantanamo bay the mind us with abu ghraib and united states used to take but it's not as and so called it tension events and

flights to bring them to other countries now the united arab emirates is doing it exactly in yemen and i would just add one thing about when i said about the social media so tell me. and this time is the only blot forum for the ordinary people the only put out black vote for poor people and we've seen the effects of social media do it in the out of best bank but what i said about the social media because all this report that has been said now in the associate breast and other agency is we have been hearing this in yemen for forty edits but because united out of him out of actually doesn't allow some time anyone to cover this and do it in watching all the other t.v. channel about this latest report i haven't seen anyone for example from the south who can talk about it because if someone would be if he would mention anything against united out of him out of he would be sacked we remember one minister of how the government who has criticized united out of him out for not not letting heidi

go back on set and then his name is solid so yeah he was he was forced to resign and of the deputy prime minister of been back at it as well when he criticizes united arab emirates he was forced to resign and his name is your body this show you the percent will you and. what you're saying about social media but unite the reality of social media anyone can set up a fake account we can never sort of you know nail down the provenance of individual people as they are operating inside the echo chamber of social media a key moment mari what was your reaction this time last year almost to the u.s. reaction when it said well we haven't seen any evidence of torture we haven't seen any evidence of secret prisons. i was surprised that they were so frank and the reason why there's no evidence is because they're hiding the evidence yes they do a good job in hiding the evidence but that does not mean that it's not there. but

this is expected in a country where it's lawless right now a police governments are running the country whether in the in the north on the south whether in aden and thais or also in sana'a when you have a police government that's very rare do you see people condemn or go against the rule of those in charge so violations do happen whether in the north and the south but the what what you want right now is that this is very serious a big difference between normal torture and rape. it's unbelievable that this is happening in yemen. and while the international community is basically staying quiet because this coalition has the umbrella of the u.n. so these allegations must be taken seriously over the last couple of months it's been witness that the u.a.e. has been trying to polish its image and in yemen especially in the south of yemen

after the previous claims but this comes as a big blow and again these are just allegations right now and claims. we need to create a investigative committee to investigate this is of the plan right now yes how this government is weak and because of the weakness it cannot do that it needs international pressure on the u.a.e. . and pollution leadership to get to the bottom of this to find out if this is real or not and to make sure that those who are involved in such matters should be. take an. honest fourth because these families have hundreds and hundreds of innocent civilians with very simple claims whether in the north also in the south the simple claims and sometimes you're in prison for months and months without anyone following up for you and why you're there and if it could happen to you and this is the result of a non-government or. a real government not being in control of the entire country

committees must be formed immediately will come on to the idea of pressure and whether people be held accountable or not in a couple of moments but not a hashimi in toronto first and foremost as well there are eighteen prisoners at the moment who are members very specifically members of al qaida and held because yemen the yemeni war is one of the most complex conflicts across the world wherever you go yemen is the high watermark of complexity i guess always saying ok when we extrapolate what we're saying to define that this element of torture the sexual abuse of inmates is going on in a more widespread manner wise you you know correctly stated peter we don't know for sure because social media is not an accurate source for. judging these questions but given past practice that the u.a.e.

is known to have engaged in in terms of its own repression internally within the united arab emirates and given the policy of systematic war crimes that saudi arabia and the u.a.e. have been charged with in terms of how they're prosecuting the war in yemen i'm not surprised at all that these reports have surfaced i suspect that when all is said and done and when you have independent human rights investigators looking at what's happening in these prisons the actual depth and breadth of the torture will probably be much more widespread than has been reported and that's because exactly what you allude. to a moment ago from a previous guest in sanaa that the constraints that previously existed on the united arab emirates in terms of the united states his policy toward the region and toward the u.a.e. in specific specifically have been lifted the trumpet ministration you know openly backs the war in yemen donald trump during the campaign for president openly claim

that he supported torture and some now the u.a.e. feels it's in the driver's seat you can do whatever it wants there will be no constraints placed on it and if you just carry on in this reckless way regardless of the consequences. proving allegations is one thing. bordering on near impossible mr hardy this time last year and the off to most of the original a.p. revelations and claims mr hardy had promised an inquiry do you think that will go. i'm going to have fun experience with. the evil when he was in sanaa. like two years before the war we have seen many. many crimes like that the attack on a hospital in sanaa that killed and injured over one hundred. doctors and patients said we will investigate that they held some of the people who were responsible of that on since then we haven't heard anything of that this is all what's been

happening in yemen they always make they say a committee to investigate but this committee will never see the light and if there was a committee formed the only on the media then they unite out of him out of this idea that coalition will not let the results of this committee to come to light because this was done and i didn't think that the united arab emirates would let anyone which is under the support of someone who they are back and they will never let him damage that it would hasten as i mentioned to all of the ministers all could it is i then they were forced to resign and this will be. anyone and if had he did actually to condemn that equally they united out of him out of then i think he cannot stay in power they can just replace him by any way. they did with those ministers on the floor of the photo model but i mean is that is that in the or in yemen never has an interim to coming to you again there is this base the base apparently reportedly allegedly u.s.

personnel were sent there part of the murkiness of the surely is that depending upon which website you look at depending upon which bits of social media you catch up with they are either there in a semi official role or they are mercenaries and nobody is telling anybody else whether they are or they're not. you're right we don't have the full picture here but i suspect the united states is deeply aware that torture is taking place at these prison sites and that you bomb and that the trumpet ministration is actually you know looking the other way in other words indorsing these types of practices because it effectively has the truck administration that is has the exact same regional view and the exact same interpretation of the call hold in yemen as the united arab emirates does and as the kingdom of saudi arabia does so the united states i think is deeply complicit we don't know the extent and the depth of the complicity but that can only be determined after an independent investigation. the

u.s. defense secretary should report back but think it's august the twelfth thirteenth fourteenth because in the middle of may of this year he was given the job of actually come up coming up with a definitive take on what is going all in the yemen given that it's so key given that there is black operations going on in the country and they're so complex what are the chances that he actually has enough time to put together an accurate interpretation it's not a matter of time it's a matter of will. do they have the will to take this seriously right now the problem in yemen is that very very limited media outlets and the national media outlets are allowed to into yemen whether in the north or the south so the lack of international presence whether human rights organizations or international media this gives. these sides who are in control a green light to react freely because there's no pressure or you know if we want to go forward with this the the first step is not to the president hadi with any

inquiry commission the u.n. must take a stance announce that to open an investigation on this and allow. human rights organizations to visit these prisons and investigate that's if you want this matter to be taken seriously so it's not a matter of time there's a lot of time but is there will. government knows of many of the practices that are happening in the south are going in there that are illegal but the times are as your guest said trump is with that president trump is with it and does not. reject it and the same time this will also hurt the u.s. reputation so they have to stand aside the u.n. must assist a strong stance and the from there the u.n. three is an independent committee to investigate and visit these prisons because you cannot count on president hadi and his government as we all know they are weak in the south and have no authority as of now who's in albuquerque what are the chances here that the u.n.

does something this time yesterday on this program we were discussing the way that the united states has pulled out of the u.n. human rights council so arguably the council never had enough teeth anyway and the u.n. is kind of fighting lots of different fronts here. and human rights council is actually cannot do anything because if they try to form any investigation team to be sent in yemen like they tried in geneva i had a go it was blocked by the united states. of our other country and united states has appointed the saudi to head the human rights panel in geneva during the war in yemen so i don't think the united nation can do anything because if they if they couldn't do anything to investigate all crimes done in yemen either by jose or by the saudi that coalition which is a much bigger than what's happening now in the in this in this prison i don't think

that anything will have been in the future and i want to just do one more important thing we have seen do this blast take a plate with this business in the united arab emirates prison have drone how they are subject to sexual. sexual harassment. that they maybe have smuggled that then inside they have no paper and they took a risk to smuggle this outside the prison and just imagine if nothing has been will not be done to those people in those prison this me that the united arab emirates will what will fit a bill. that that sexual torture to this people because they will try to find out who has drawn this was brought them out and i'm calling the united nation to do something because if they don't do anything then this mean that this report will be just will backfire and it will result in more torture for all those stable who are in prison in south yemen. what are the chances that anybody is held accountable

for this one i think the likelihood is quite minimal but i think it's directly proportional to this story gaining greater global visibility and published. and i think one way forward of really trying to mitigate these types of gross human rights abuses is to really try and get the e.u. ninety eight states senate to get involved for those people following the conflict in yemen the united states particularly in the senate has been very outspoken critical of the u.s. role in supporting the emmer ati's and the saudi war effort in yemen earlier this year the senate came very close to passing a resolution blocking american insistence to the saudi and ever watch the war effort in yemen so there's several senators led by senator chris murphy of connecticut and bernie sanders of vermont who are very principled on the question of yemen if they were to i think take this issue on they have the opportunity and

the possibility of holding congressional hearings inviting people from the state department from the white house from the pentagon and asking them pointed questions to what extent is the united states involved in these types of tortures that could shine a global spotlight on these abuses that might lead to their mitigation gentlemen we're out of time thank you to all i guess the day to say in albuquerque not a show me and hakeem must maria thank you to you too for watching the program you can see the show it again any time to the website called in for more discussion check out our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. the inside story can also join the conversation on twitter at a.j. inside story or tweet me at peta don't be one for me peta they'll be on the entire team here in doha thanks for watching we'll see is a bubble. it

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families directly and. d.o.j. to work together to keep illegal immigrant families together during the immigration process and to reunite the previously separated groups but the only real solution is for congress to close the catch and release loopholes that of the child smuggling industry. let's bring in our white house correspondent kimberly how kate i mean confusion does rain it's been about twenty four hours people have had time to digest what the executive order said so from what you can understand what does it look like the situation is now for these migrant families. well the agencies say they're awaiting guidance from the white house in terms of how to implement the president's policy but i can tell you based on the roughly ten thousand children that have been sent across the border without parents perhaps by their parents via human smugglers according to the homeland security secretary was

speaking in washington a little bit earlier she said typically what happens is fifty percent are eventually once the process is worked out reunited with their family another forty percent go to a relative but ten percent get absorbed into the u.s. foster care system so based on those numbers well it is a lengthy process that appears to be how the u.s. will proceed in this case the goal being according to the parents or rather to the present goal being according to the president to reunite the children with their parents but given the age of some of these children the fact that there were some even as young as infants that were separated from their parents that could be difficult given the fact as well many of them are sent to detention centers as far as way as new york state this is going to be a challenge so the president has invited members of these opposition to essentially democrats from capitol hill to come to the white house to help him solve this problem it doesn't appear that any have answered that call when he spoke earlier

from the cabinet room of the white house so now all eyes really on the u.s. congress later when there are a couple of votes taking place in the house of representatives on some immigration reform packages but i can tell you it doesn't look like any of them will pass through the senate so in terms of resolving this conflict the prospects still looking pretty bleak and just remind us what are the stumbling blocks it against republicans and democrats actually coming together and and putting together some kind of long lasting and you know i guess fair and equitable whichever way you want to look at it immigration policy. the problem while the u.s. president is blaming democrats the problem. both parties if you've been covering this issue for any length of time as i have almost twenty years or more essentially what happens is that both parties tend to use this as a political point scoring tactic because the images of children the images of immigrant families who often don't speak english is very powerful with the american

voter so each tries to portray the other is victimizing the individuals trying to cross into the united states for a better life and this seems to be something that's continuing currently it is the republicans who are in charge of both houses that's why you hear donald trump pointing his fingers at the democrats saying they're obstructionist they're the ones holding up his legislation but really it's both parties that are obstructionist and when it comes to this president what seems to be the issue for democrats is the donald trump solutions always include funding for his board border wall along the southern border with mexico something that the democrats say they will not support can really help with the latest from the white house when that vote kimberly thank you meanwhile the first lady melania trump has made a surprise visit to the us mexico border as the white house goes into damage control over the separations she visited a social services center for my children as well as a border patrol processing base for the first lady had earlier said that

separations at the border paying there even as the president stuck by his zero zero tolerance policy a delegation of bipartisan mayors from cities across the u.s. also travel to texas the man being immigration reform killed in a poker chip people and we demand that washington fix the mess it has created we know in america's cities a place that people pay you know the stories. and while we want things like secure borders and we want to have clear laws it is time for us to find our heart again and we call on this administration to do that and to do it now. the president retreated today has not solved the problem we're all saying that zero tolerance still exists that's breaking an american tradition of respecting people fleeing oppression the families are not really unified we don't know when they'll be we're going to fight for that but the hope is. that people are demanding

change and it cannot be ignored and it won't happen in washington we will make it happen well let's go live to gabrielle in his own though who is in macallan texas at the children's shelter that melania trump has just visited them again really was a few days ago in milan yeah a trumpet tweeted something effectively saying that she didn't like the separations almost seeming to go against her husband talking about a government with heart so there she is now a bit of a damage limitation visit what did she do and how much of a surprise was the visit itself. you have over this was a surprise no one was told about this in advance that she was going to be visiting here in macallan and we didn't find out about it till after she took off in a plane was already on the way here she did just a visit to this children's shelter that i'm standing in front of right now she left in her motorcade about half an hour ago according to the poor report of journalists

that accompanied her inside that she spoke to some of the migrant children that are inside there i asked them where they are from how old they are what they were learning from the teachers that were inside there as well and spoke to some health officials inside as well that's essentially what we've heard about money trumps a visit here she spent a little over one hour inside talking to the to the children there about sixty children inside this shelter for migrants about six of them were children that have been separated from their parents in this new zero tolerance policy initiated by a malani from husband donald trump now the quick question is what is going to happen to these children and how are they going to be read reunited with their parents these are the key questions washington doesn't seem to have an answer to their hoping to ask the first lady if she could shed any light on this and give us any more information on this but she left here without taking any questions we're

told that she was planning to go visit a border patrol processing center however there's a torrential rain that's been hitting this part of texas and there's serious flooding here so we're unsure if she was able to visit the border patrol station and gabrielle so obviously a very controlled sort of you know bit of a p.r. exercise malani trumps visit there but have you been able to speak to any families as they are now that it's about twenty four hours since the executive order was signed then apparently things should be getting better for migrant families that have been separated. yeah things are really better things haven't changed much here on the ground to be quite honest i did speak to a family a woman named jennifer she's twenty seven years old and she came with her husband and her three young kids last week across the border illegally wanted asylum in the u.s. was immediately arrested her husband was taken away she's not seen her husband in over a week the good news for her is while she was detained she was able to stay with

her children however this is the key point she was released by a judge with their children but she has to wear an ankle bracelet that was put on by the by the judge because essentially she's still being prosecuted as a criminal so they need to monitor her whereabouts of all time again she's one of the lucky ones she's with her children but still she's a very sad very scared and it doesn't answer for the over two thousand three hundred other children that have not been reunited with their parents that's the key question how are they going to be reunited and no one seems to give us the answer to this when i asked jennifer why she was able to stay with her children she said she simply wasn't sure why she could have just been one of the lucky ones but she said she came over with another relative of hers and with some kids and her other relative is still in custody and was separated from her children has no information at all on where they are around terrible situation for the parents and

children of course involved. in these on the speaking to us texas there thank you. well karen greenberg is the director of the center on national security at fordham university school of law and she joins us live now from new york madame thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera i hope you could hear our correspondent speaking to us there about some of the families he's been able to speak to and of course the challenges now over three uniting families with children it seems that at least perhaps at a governmental level there is now the will but i guess the real challenge is finding the way to do it. well first of all let's talk a little bit about the the executive order that president trump issued it did several things the first thing it did was to put on pause the situation at the border so that they can begin to devise policies because much of this was done like the muslim ban in a way that was decreed without any of the work being done that would create process

seize and would put the right people in place to manage whatever crisis or whatever situation evolved so that's one thing the executive order did the second thing it did was to say children and their families will be able to stay together whether or not the children are being held in administrative detention of the parents are being held in ministry of detention or are being criminally prosecuted which is what the big change that happened that caused all this chaos was there's a further problem down the line about how this will all play out after the legally authorized twenty day detention period but we'll get to that in the future the problem right now and it is a critical problem is how are these twenty three hundred children going to be reunited with their parents and the present the box of this are not necessary letelier legal these children when they come in are supposed to be given a number let.