and when the israelis launched a massive counter attack the first division started to retreat before the israeli army. when it did it had almost two hundred fifty tanks and the infantry brigades behind it they started to retreat to this resulted in the advance of the israeli army i remember that day the president issued an order dismissing the commander of that division and appointing another in his place. stories emerged that assad's punishment for his commanders went beyond mere dismissal. and as. i remember yes more than one officer was arrested and it said that some of them were executed. there was one senior commander that president assad summoned and asked him to account for himself with the commander then shot himself in front of the president. assad's rage was borne of the anger he felt towards his allies in cairo.

the egyptians had successfully stormed across the canal on the first day of war. they had quickly established a defensive bridge had ten kilometers deep and repulsed all the israeli armored attacks. but since then they had moved not an inch further east into sinai. a kind of ace said the president said kept calling president sadat telling him mr president advance the whole israeli armed forces are in front of us and we are taking aerial strikes by the entire israeli air force there is nothing stopping you from advancing deep into sinai as we agreed but there was no answer to. what is your. eight months earlier and to meeting in egypt set out on our side had forged a plan with a common purpose they had agreed to launch

a war against israel on two fronts. but now it seemed the two presidents had entirely different concepts of the war they had planned together. as a totally that from the moment of the seizure of power is ambition his dream was to avenge the siege of ninety six to seven when syria had lost. the two israel with us themselves have been defense of the stuff so i. thank you felt as with personal responsibility for the recovery of the damned. us and saw the war she was planning as the war of liberation. sadat on the other hand had been planning for a limited war to focus the minds of the world superpowers and jumpstart the stalled peace process. would you say that when president said that came to power he met with us in march nineteenth seventy one he told us just need

to get things back on track just give me ten centimeters of land in the east and that will be enough to show what a hell of. a week into the war it's possible target had already been surpassed it seemed a swift victory might be in sight. in the early hours of october the thirteenth he was woken for an urgent meeting. the british ambassador had come with an offer to broker a united nations cease fire resolution the israelis he told sadat were ready to accept the cease fire based on the current positions. sabra cock a shade side not some israeli army had been hit hard the israeli army was ready to accept a cease fire it was defeat at that moment a terrible defeat and we were ready to accept that which shows that we've given up hope of winning the war. seduced by success sadat now refused the british

offer. he would only accept a cease fire he said if israel withdrew from the whole of sinai. things are going very well as a force of that he didn't want to stop the war something dramatic had to be done to persuade him to to agree to a cease fire or maybe even to get him to request a cease fire and. the only thing that could work was crossing of the canal that might scare them enough. but the egyptians alive to the possibility of how to arm the divisions with over two hundred tanks each and a second line of defense west of the canal. it was a problem of which israeli chief of staff general divied delhi as it was well aware . before crossing the

canal he wanted to draw those two arm of the business to the israeli side for two reasons one not to have to cross while those two divisions are waiting for him on the back of the canal when you're very vulnerable number two to have them on the israeli side where he can meet them on israel's terms. generally as it was sure that a second phase of the egyptian attack would begin on october the night with those two armored divisions crossing the canal to advance in sinai strategic passes some forty kilometers to the east. but the egyptian plan was to stay put. yet forty eight hours later president sadat gave a new and surprising order to his woman ista general smiled. they were to go ahead with just the second phase the advance that that had been waiting for

you. on october eleventh. came to me and said we want to advance to the past as i told him it was not possible for many reasons and one can actually get it to. get moshe he came again on the twelfth and said we want to go ahead with the advance to take the pressure off syria i told him we can take the pressure off syria the enemy air force is capable of holding any front west then he said with a get. well again on the wealthy for the third time he said no this is a political decision and it has to be implemented c.s.e. why with their fees. after a long debate for the shadley general smile issued orders to the commanders of egypt second and third field to begin the advance east. yeah there was almost immediately both of them called me and said we can carry out orders the

minister sent us that's what i was told by saddam our moon and i've been when i was alone and sad i won't even said he's ready to hand in his resignation. that night the two commanders was summoned to send to ten the egyptian armed forces command center in cairo. heads up march right to midnight what is made was just like a broken record this is a political decision and it has to be implemented if you don't it's tantamount to mutiny so all we could manage to do was to postpone the start of the attack until the fourteenth we delayed for twenty four hours. ironically at almost exactly the same time egyptian commanders were arguing over an attack from west to east the israelis were locked in their own debate about an attempt at crossing and the other direction. attending the stormy meeting in

goldeneye years. office was seasoned near the head of the israeli intelligence must sat. reading was go and tell a bit with the. inner cabinet and the general staff. in the middle of the discussions someone entered and whispered into to some years here and he excused himself went out. as a man returned with astonishing information from an impeccable source a spy operating at the heart of affairs and kyra. the egyptians were on the point to moving their armored divisions across the canal. next day thirteenth of october confirmation arrived in israel. an american spy plane as saw seventy one black but at photograph the suez canal front with high resolution cameras. recognizance pictures showed the west bank was suddenly empty

of egyptian tanks. the egyptians were committing their biggest mistake of the wall. the israelis would do nothing to stop them. over here a lot of the commander of the twenty first armored division told me i was surprised because while we were crossing from west to east i expected to be hit by the israeli air force but nothing happened not a single tank was hit and the crossing from west to east they just let us in. with a little bit of trouble. the egyptian plan was to make for some thrusts towards the sinai strategic passes and crossroads. three of the assaults would be made by ahmed brigades. the central push would be by

a full division the twenty first ahmed. at six thirty in the morning of the fourteenth of october the egyptian army moved east. of the one we're going to where there are spoke to. a book in the negative quarters of it for about a week suddenly out of a rupture of our egyptian tires. the israelis were waiting for the tank assault in pre-prepared positions on the ridges east of the egyptian bridgeheads. all the tanks came up and boom boom boom boom. in the first few minutes of the battle the gypsum twenty first armored division suffered significant casualties. in this session. of the city or at the border one of the armored brigade commanders was martyred corno a say you toffy up which eddie also his chief of staff was injured and the

commander of their total brigade was martyred. there was a lot of confusion at the front. that's a word you. would be afloat it's awful lot saw us all we definitely succeeded in stopping dozens if not hundreds of egyptian tanks and blowing them up with not many casualties on our side during the action. of course a lot. by midday on the food thousandth of october two hundred fifty tanks had been lost. the egyptian general command ordered all advancing forces to retreat westwards to the bridgeheads. here it was an attempt to relieve the pressure on the syrian front but it didn't do that how could we do that the distance between us and them is five hundred kilometers how could we relieve the pressure. in fact by the time the egyptians launched their attack

the syrian front had already been stabilized. israelis had been forced to halt their advance by the arrival of iraqi troops. begin you know. they arrived and surprised our forces when they attacked. we had put out an alert that the iraqi forces are moving towards the golan but we couldn't tell them the precise location so that came as a surprise. they tried to place part of the blame on us but what could be done. was over. the iraqi third armored division had moved swiftly from its bases around baghdad towards the goal line a distance of over a thousand kilometers. levels when. we arrived that night and the outskirts of damascus it was guarded by syrian civilians the things they said to

was that night the eleventh of october shocked us are you iraqis yes we are iraqis for god's sake save our own. we thought it was a total victory that was a huge shock we started to realize that the situation had completely changed. into sot heavy or sadr also. despite their fatigue the iraqi forces were rushed to the front to reinforce syrian troops retreating before the advancing israelis. shorter so i we had penetrated deep into syrian territory i climbed a couple of observation tells i saw the air was full of dust and i assumed it was one of our forces on the move the division commander called me and told me that a very large force was moving towards us and that it was very close something like

a thousand meters away in a fit. of you heard them open. and that situation that was a strategic victory on the syrian front the timing was perfect if it happened come just twenty four hours later it would have been much tougher and the israeli forces would have reached the gates from damascus for a swap of. five squadrons of the iraqi air force some sixty at craft were flown to syria to make up for losses sustained by the syrian air force so wolf if you can see some maturity in the iraqi prison sort of fresh the syrian pilots up tied for the bottom even the most his didn't know how compilers from iraq are up for the fight why the syrians are reluctant to leave babies so it turned into a competition to carry out their missions and he did watch what he said.

with the arrival and the participation of iraqi forces in the war the jordanian army was now straining at the leash. there that have. that feel it was very embarrassing for us i mean it embarrass the late king the same a lot because there were two arab countries who had territory occupied in one nine hundred sixty seven and jordan was a third arab country whose territory ha been occupied in not. six to seven of those two other countries are fighting to regain what they lost while you're not what i remember i turned to one of the meeting saying how old were the military and i saw how much pressure they put on him to go to the war. but. the jordanian forces. were all just a bit. but the iraqis and jordanians were not the first to arrive.

five months before the outbreak of the war on the second of morocco had sent a brigade to support the syrian front the moroccan brigade was given the name. they didn't want us over with a very expression to lead them means home or campaign that. the americans were given the task of guarding the eastern foothills of mount hermon. more expeditionary forces would soon arrive from other arab countries. but. on the syrian front we first faced a moroccan brigade later the iraqis came and we fought then to. then later the jordanians came along after that the saudis so we found four armies that

we had to fight. the israelis had suffered heavy losses but they had also achieved significant gains in the last four days. they had advanced to within thirty five kilometers of damascus and occupied new territories to bring to the bargaining table after the war. now their initial goals in the north achieved the israelis were about to turn their attention south to the egyptians. the plan to cross the suez canal had been finalized and given the name stout hearted men. on june twenty fourth turkish citizens both vote in one of their most significant elections in recent years the winner will take on news sweeping presidential powers

approved in a referendum last year we'll have full coverage of the vote and its impact follow the turkey elections on al-jazeera. hello there i'm getting my it's all here in london with the top stories on al-jazeera the u.s. customs and border agency says adults caught crossing the border from mexico will still be sent for prosecution after a day of confusion about how president double chump's executive order will be implemented a spokesman said families will now be kept together in the hands of u.s. immigration and customs enforcement but it's not clear when and have families already split up will be reunited of directing h h s t h s and

d.o.j. to work together to keep illegal immigrant families together during the immigration process and to reunite these previously separated groups but the only real solution is for congress to close the catch and release loopholes that have you told the child smuggling industry. the wife of israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been charged with fraud israel's justice ministry says sarah netanyahu 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 binyamin netanyahu is called the allegations against his wife absurd and unfounded security sources in libya say a powerful warlord has captured two major oil terminals at me for half the us forces have been battling for control of al sadr and ruslan ouf rival faces led by a briton just stormed the oil ports last week. the u.n.

special envoy to yemen martin griffith says he's working with all parties in yemen's war so avoid a further military escalation in the city of poll data that he rebels continue to deny claims from the saudi m. razzi coalition the stake in full control of her data airport they say this video shows their fight is inside the airport compound and an asian piece of question the captain of a ferry which sank leaving at least one hundred ninety two people missing relatives have been gathering alone the along the shore of lake told in sumatra where the ferry sank on bad weather on monday at least four people are still far confirmed dead there are reports of more fighting in the nicaraguan city of messiah funerals have been held for three people killed there on choose state tests as they've been fighting for peace and paramilitary since the city declared that it no longer recognizes the authority of the president stay with us they want to go continues we'll see you later.

during the war in october nine hundred seventy three ariel sharon was the general in command of the hundred forty third reserve army division one of three facing the egyptians in the suez front. a controversial personality sharon had already developed a plan to deal with any egyptian attack during his three and a half years as commander of the southern front an assignment that had ended just three months earlier. so then i asked him what will happen only if. any though were this war is going to end. wherever else there on the other side of the come out of. that's the only place where it can be terminated. this is the first time i hear it's we are going to cause the source

that. was around seven thirty of top of the six you know the pool. in his kitchen in the ship. on the night of october the ninth the fourth day of the war sharon sent his reconnaissance battalion west towards the canal. surprisingly no egyptian forces intercepted them and they quickly reached the shores of the bitter lake where the waterway is up to five kilometers wide. turning north the israelis and had to abandon foods of the bar-lev line block a can and maps meant. the battalion had stumbled on the forty kilometer wide undefended gap between the gyptian second and third armies. sharon was electrified and radioed headquarters for permission to implement his strategy.

when sharon tells them. we have to cross the come up we have to arrive in their rear. they telling we cannot afford to do what you are suggesting because you are the only division which we got in that. you are the only one. between the enemy and tel aviv. what's more on october the ninth there was still two egyptian army divisions on the western side of the canal ready to counter any israeli crossing. sharon's plan was placed on hold until five days later when those two divisions suddenly crossed the canal and began their abortive advance deep into sinai. now the israeli plan could be activated the time had come to stout hearted man.

but to pull it off the israelis would need to transport a curious mix of equipment to the waterline. they picked up in europe. second to her khartoum bridge the year before a war surplus and it also picked up floating wraps mechanize raf's which carry a tank but third and most important was an actual bridge specially built in israel this was how the main forces would cross the canal the idea of the bridge. roller bridge they call it it was. a bridge that was built in tire it was two hundred meters long metal bridge with metal rollers are growers but the rulers were thrilled with the substance that floated. you

pull it to the canal with turks where you reach the edge of the target in the back of course you're going to go or are never really made. but getting the four hundred ton bridge to the water's edge a twenty five kilometer journey has to prove harder than expected. and before the war the israelis had cut a dirt track specially designed for moving the bridge to a pre-prepared crossing point but now that truck was an egyptian hands. a strong defensive position the southern flank of the second egyptian army stood in the way of any israeli advance. the battle to open the road to the canal would be called the battle of chinese farm. like farms on the eastern bank of the canal today the area was an egyptian agricultural

development on which work had begun in the early one nine hundred sixty s. with the help of japanese experts. occupied during the six day war the israelis had mistaken the japanese writing on irrigation equipment for chinese. the farm had now been recaptured by the egyptians the sixteenth division dug into dry ditches now serving as trenches. had to engage the second army. so that the bridges could reach the canal and the tanks could cross all the bridges. at dusk on the fifteenth of october. the israeli tanks started their assault on the chinese form. but the egyptians would counter the attack using their new highly effective weapon anti tank guided missiles. the use

of the sea kashif. our member the conversation between opera gate commander. and division commander ariel sharon and he called to view raviv two because it was the second of his three brigades and he said to this is forty forty is the division commander the attack is looking good. until your raviv who had a d. crimean invoiced said forty two here it's our tanks that are over. wash our owns division was taking heavy casualties and the chinese form a seven hundred fifty strong israeli paratroops force was advancing towards the canal across the genes. by midnight they had reached the crossing point.

her troop. reached with camilla after x. . and carrying with them after rocks or rubber boots. and they crossed uncertain of what they would find on the other side and the first man. climbed everest another back. yo clear and they didn't go in there they stablished a bridge here so there's now an israeli presence on the western bank. but despite the desperate efforts of the israelis the road to the canal remains closed find entire egyptian infantry brigade. but there was one ray of light for the israelis and mechanized rovs could move independently across open terrain. and by six thirty on the morning of the sixteenth of october fifteen rafts had reached the

canal and began ferrying tanks to the west. just when we arrived there and it's quiet. and we have there we have there on the come out sharon sense between twelve to twenty thanks across the cannot and what happens is exactly what he said and it's in these the way they're gypsies don't know what happens to them for twenty four hours that arrival in their rear of the enemy was exactly what sharon was aiming at and the decisive phase of the war is closing. the israeli canal crossing went almost unnoticed by the egyptians. and later that same morning in cairo it seemed the head of state was totally

unaware of what was going on at the front. and his first public appearance since the start of the war sadat led a victory parade through the streets towards parliament. he was accompanied by a woman mr general mattis my. commute . and arrows and speech sadat set out his conditions for ceasefire a total israeli withdrawal from sinai.

later that day in jerusalem golda my made her own speech she decided to share the good news with the israeli knesset. four fifteen this afternoon the israeli population were told for the first time that their troops were on the west bank of the suez canal. what to mrs murray is said came as a surprise not just to the israeli people but also to the egyptian military. israeli paratroopers and tanks had formed a limited bridge had on the western side of the canal in an area called. me but egyptian report. it's about these really crossing a confusing and underestimated the scale of the problem. there was a problem with the reconnaissance and most or all of the reconnaissance units were

on the eastern side of the kind i was there was no reconnaissance in the west to provide information and that's why when i asked for information about the west no one knew anything much. it was only when the israeli forces in the west went on the offensive that the egyptians fast crossed the extent of the problem. that the enemy was already in their backyards. one of them at least the first cross received a. radio call for headquarters saying someone wants to talk to you. the voice as that of the air force commander general. you have a map. you see the flowers on the those are. better. please destroy them out. located on the western side of the canal the

egyptian surface to air missiles and cause the israeli afros heavy losses in the first days of the war. now reachable by israeli tanks it was payback time for the egyptian and defense. but despite the israeli success in destroying the somme batteries other aspects of stout hearted man were not going so well. of a loss i shall give the ariel sharon received an order not to activate his forces in the west of the canal because the concern was that if they were unable to establish a real bridge a pontoon or roller it would be impossible to establish a logistics route to evacuate casualties send supplies send forces. and then they would even consider canceling the whole operation of it so. the israelis still hadn't gained control of the road to the crossing point foot soldiers would have to

be used to flush out the egyptian infantry and tank hunters from the ditches of the chinese farm. we were walking in the sand. a beautiful. by in the silence everything was quiet and suddenly. heavy heavy fire. really heavy for. supper and fuel injection numbers and tanks and. with light arms. during that long night the egyptians inflicted heavy losses on the paratroopers forty one killed and over one hundred wounded but the action kept egyptian forces occupied and both the israelis the opportunity to tow their pontoons forward to the crossing point. by the night of the sixteenth of

october having finally realised the scale of the israeli operation the egyptians reacted. the plan was simple the twenty fifth armored brigade would move northwards to meet up with the twenty first division which would advance southwards . in a pencil move the two armored units would close the gap and crush the israeli forces . the plan seemed straightforward but to general it was flawed. he wanted the brigade to cross to the west and make its assault on that side of the canal which was under gyptian control. general ismail ordered that new forces that had already crossed to the east should cross back to the west. this he said was a political decision taken by president sadat himself. neither.

would back down until finally president sadat was asked to come to the egyptian main command center known as center ten to arbitrate on this dispute between the top two commanders of his armed forces. at the latest i told him mr president i disagree with general. as soon as i said so he blew up in my face blew up in my face and shouted at me and kept saying don't ever mention withdrawal mr president this is not that was droll it's it's maneuvering with force is no maneuvering with forces and north through with one soldier. i will have you court martialed if the word with no one is ever mentioned again to see things. such as decision was clear the next day seventeenth of october at zero seven hundred hours the twenty fifth brigade moved northwards to carry out his mission. the chesley was about to be proved right. of the muslim commissioner for.

the twenty fifth brigade came from the area of the bitter lakes and to tank brigades caught in a sort of ambush. about two tank brigades. one brigade on that side. and the other again on the other side the battle was over very quickly. gyptian suffered heavy losses. with sixty five tanks to straw only ten were able to retreat. southwards. had looked as if a new home solution and the rocket. and get the losses for the twenty fifth brigade were shocking maybe ninety percent of our tanks were lost and that was so sad because these were the best tanks in the egyptian army. sixty two. what was even more damaging was what happened to the fighting units around us that they regarded the twenty fifth armored brigade as their shield the pride of the

gyptian army. so what happened to the twenty fifth armored brigade was a blow to the morale of the soldiers at the front during that battle and the lot of them the whole lot. meanwhile in the northern sector of the suez front things were no better for the egyptians after two days of heavy fighting of a chinese form the right flank of the second army had been decimated. the remnants of the brigade that had blocked the road to the canal had retreated. but only off to making the israelis pay a heavy price. yes painful. very painful mainly because of the dead. and their wounded. and one night of the crossing with we lost some four hundred people. tanks were fighting. some of them when we saw in broad daylight later

one bell against another like to salt competence in the media. a theater with tanks both of them destroyed maybe most of the people in both of them that they are very of death next day along the come out was terrible. but we were on the other side of the come out. general and john's on the division had successfully crossed the canal using the pontoon bridge. the. next day eighteenth of october early morning advanced tanks are unleashed on the egyptian red. soon they have destroyed more sam batteries clearing the skies for the israeli air force. is not up to the

air force started to appear previously we hadn't seen it at all but after the seventeenth we started to see the air force a lot no one to stop them with our defenses the anti-aircraft missiles were non-existent for the air force had a free hand well as the national. on the eighteenth of october these really high command decided to capitalize on the successful crossing building their presence on the western bank of the canal to three on the divisions. sharon's division would move north to surround the egyptian second army and capture the city of a smiley. a duns division and another commanded by general monk and would move south to encircle the egyptian army and capture the city of suez. this would be their final goal israel would come to the bargaining table holding

a trump card. israel had two bridges were going to merge earlier ridge. they were now ready for an army across to the server. for two days and with the bulk of the egyptian army on the east of the canal scattered forces in the west foot bravely trying to hold their ground against three israeli army divisions but they were outnumbered and overwhelmed. general shadley could see that his plan was on the verge of failure. and this again i was a different i went back and said the situation was becoming very dangerous so on the twentieth i said tonight i have to bring back any armored brigade i can afford from the east i had for army brigades in the east with no job i said i have to

bring them back tonight as this. that night one small general smiled had to request sadat to come to the command center the president was unmovable he simply reiterated what he had said food days earlier and caught up. this as a with well it appears decision was to withdraw not a single rifle or tank from east to west everyone to stay where he is and fight that was nonsense this is not a war in the world that works like that you have forces under pressure and you do nothing to assist them while others have nothing to do and you don't want to bring them into the battlefield. that doesn't give a lot of. it but if he shows they have you know are in the whole. the father rather be at it for a long time. the special forces the pericope. i mean the kind of forces that do high risk. and i think he was really professional. but the.

sometimes he would do a board thing and maybe on certain occasions it would be to truck bomb all right marianna. the fia in obama to add the eleven commission. sadat's position was clear any movement of forces from east to west could undermine morale and lead to the collapse of the whole front. he's lost bargaining chip would be lost. on us as the high end as he of middle men actually are a lot of people who are dead at the time they said if we had seen just one soldier to cheating the whole army would have done the same. shortly after midnight sadat laughed sent a tan and returned to his residency. he summoned the soviet ambassador and told him that egypt is ready to accept a cease fire. this time though it was the israelis who had no

interest in a cease fire. but we can say that israel had a greater interest in the cease fire getting it right at that moment but i still have work to do so terror it was recovered. but in the third week of the war international attempts to broker a cease fire in the middle east would bring the whole world to the verge of a nuclear confrontation. the nature of music as it breaks although thousands of women have reported rape and other sexual atrocities in south sudan's were threats are going to visions fade this figure is likely much higher with detailed coverage nearly fifty schools took part in the drive each one responsible for the whole acting

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can see cold enough in alice temperatures here in the high that around seventeen says it but again it is going to be a try little bit of cloud that is pushing into queensland flipping old pos of new south wales but look last he said he much just can't want to see shadows dislodging outs of south australia pushing down towards port fairy thames in melbourne around twelve degrees celsius the clout than to tasmanian on the other side of the tasman clouds sliding its way towards new zealand hayward thousand look lousy dry having said that little more clout than at present across north island to me of the fair weather for us in oakland just to graze and crossed the on the cold side not a great change as we go on into sas they might get up to forty in all to middle east it is lousy try lousy dry two across northern pos all of japan and we have got cloud and rain pushing into the fosse out for the weekend.

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regain control of key oil ports in the country's east also ahead accused of spending public money on lavish meals the wife of israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu is charged with fraud. and sport will have all the latest from the world cup and russia has two time world cup champions argentina are on the brink of elimination after three male defeat to croatia. a very warm welcome to the program it's more than twenty four hours since donald trump said he would no longer children from their parents who cross into the u.s. illegally but there are still few details about what happens to the children particularly those already separated from their parents donald trump has been addressing the immigration issue again and he says he's telling agencies so reunite families directly in a change has to be a chose a d.o.j.

to work together to keep illegal immigrant families together during the immigration process and to reunite these previously separated groups but the only real solution is for congress to close the catch and release loopholes that have fueled the child smuggling and the street. he won first lady madonna champus made a surprise visit to the us mexico border as the white house goes into damage control over those separations where she visited a social services center for migrant children as well as a border patrol post sestak base our state he had earlier said the separations at the border paved her even as the president stuck by his evil tolerance policy delegation of bipartisan mayors from cities across the u.s. also traveled to texas demanding immigration reform children are not poker chips they are people and we demand that washington fix the mess that it has created we

know in america's cities the price 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 reunify 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 rob reynolds joins us live from washington hi there rob so how is following is damage control visit being seen from where you are.

well julie is the first lady's fashion choices may have caused a little more damage then than the damage control mission controlled because she was wearing as we saw in the pictures a sort of. olive green military style blouse which someone with a great deal more knowledge of the fashion industry than than myself has told me it costs thirty nine dollars and is from the zahra but across the back of the first lady's coat was the style inscription that said i don't really care do you so we know that the money a trump who was formerly a fashion model cares about her clothes and doesn't. is unlikely to be unaware of everything about the clothing that she chose to wear so the message is some what's odd and perplexing is naturally caused

a huge storm of twitter commentary the first lady's spokesperson said everyone should stop talking about her clothes and instead focus on her humanitarian mission to the children and families that her husband is orders separated down near the border at well politically in terms of what's happening on this just describe to us that the seven latest updates. well it's a story of the total legislative dysfunction unfortunately julie the republican party controls both houses of congress and today two competing bills dealing with various aspects of immigration were debated in the house of representatives. one from a more hardline a conservative faction in the house was defeated another from a slightly more moderate group in the house republicans is going to be debated

tomorrow democratic party the opposition party opposes unanimously both bills which would fund the president bush's cherished border wall with mexico as well as make some fixes and tighten up legal migration procedures so the republicans despite being in control of virtually everything in washington simply can't accomplish anything at least when it comes to immigration a friend also joining me live from washington d.c. well thank you well katherina so is a senior policy adviser at the women's refugee commission and she joins us live from washington d.c. at katherina there one welcome to the program thank you very much for joining us catherine i think the big question that everybody has of course is for those children and families that have already been separated how on earth are they going to be brought back together. thank you so much for having me that

is one of the questions that everyone is asking we don't know we know that as the trumpet ministrations zero tolerance policy has been implemented over the last several weeks a policy that by the way has not ended as a result of yesterday's executive order we have seen parents and children torn apart with no meaningful mechanisms no meaningful information as to how they can even contact each other or find each other let alone be reunited yesterday's executive order does nothing to change that chaos and the trauma at katherina understand that when families is separated they're given a sort of i don't want to call it tracking number bill that's effectively what it is can you just describe to us a little bit more of the practicalities why is it so difficult to put families back together is it that they're effectively being held in kind of different lots of different systems. that's right when families are separated they're sent effectively under two separate trajectories children are rendered unaccompanied

even though they were together with their parents until the government separated them and their son then to what is the office of refugee resettlement which is which is part of the department of health and human services which runs shelters for unaccompanied children and sometimes they place them into foster care if needed the parents on the other hand will first if they're apprehended under the zero tolerance policy they will be criminally prosecuted for having and heard or be entered without authorization and that's regardless of whether they are seeking asylum in the united states which is their legal right to do after that they are sent to immigration detention which is under the jurisdiction of the department of homeland security what that means practically is that parents and children are sent to facilities that can be thousands of miles apart calling each other from these facilities and again even just the basics of finding one another finding out where

your child has been taking taken you know where are they located how can i call that child. is is really challenging katherina if this order seeks to detain. illegal immigrant families just coal's them together where were these families going to be housed i mean there was no obviously no system before as you say the two systems will speak to one another so what's the plan now is it that we said we don't have any clarity on that how this is that she going to happen. we are still asking those questions that the administration does have some facilities where families are detained together already and our major concern over the implications of this executive order is that it basically exchanges one form of trauma for another family separation is is traumatizing and undermines access to legal protection but so is detaining families

together family detention facilities are not appropriate for children they are in remote locations where it's difficult to find a lawyer who can help you with your immigration case as is the case with most immigration detention facilities our fear is that the administration is very much looking at expanding that system of detention for families together. which will have huge implications for the well being and the ability to access asylum for these families. joining me there from washington d.c. catherine thanks very much for joining us. watch of the focus right now is on u.s. policy towards immigrants but it's also a huge issue here in europe the un's refugee agency says two hundred twenty my gran's have drowned in just the last few days while trying to cross the mediterranean from libya many are attempting to enter via spain which has recorded a three fold increase in the rivals this year coppin all reports from the spanish

port city of amiriyah. down the gangplank. first cautious steps to europe. and the war blankets their eyes soak in first impressions of the land they hope will bring a back to life. help for some to hobble to a waiting ambulance. that young man is blind. tonight rescue a safe thirty three lives including 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 for the media. morning back at dockside we meet captain frank perez of the marine rescue service who commanded the previous day's mission. they were in a rubber dinghy about six meters 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 driving. them 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 assault but i have. a hand shake oh thank you.