this was. civil yes i live in fear i try to beat it every day i turn up the whatsapp in the night i'm frightened of the messages that arrive after eleven pm. dirty into party politics play some part in the violence but experts say it's mainly due to mexico's multiplying criminal gangs they're increasingly pushing politicians to turn a blind eye or join in with their illegal activities the local municipal part ministrations i'm much more prone to corruption and infiltration and organized criminal groups identify this as an opportunity and once they have infiltrated into a local municipal administration which allows them to carry out their activities with relative impunity they are not willing to let that go. politicians who refuse the criminals off or who are aligned with a rival group risk this one of the now almost daily funerals medal candidate one hundred chavis was mourned on the same day we spent with elizabeth. it's

a bleak picture with a non-presidential number of candidates up for election in less than two weeks this seems playing out across the country as candidates make their last pitch in what are the biggest elections in mexico's history but rather than a celebration of democracy in many places they're showing how intertwined politics and organized crime are. of course it's not just politicians being killed the country's general murder levels exploded to the highest on record elizabeth says what's keeping her in the race is the chance to change that there was that then we can't stop because if we're living with this violence the question is how far will it go where will it end we can't leave this as our children's inheritance soon a new crop of leaders will have the chance to show if they can protect the mexicans including them so john homan. still to come on the news hour.

with a major there. are not. the world cup details . business updates.

business updates. opec ministers i gathering in vienna with a big decision on global oil production expected saudi arabia and russia rushing opec to increase oil production again after eighteen months of tight control but iran and other members from maine fiercely opposed to friday's ministerial meeting

is like basically one of the toughest in recent memory paul brennan reports from vienna will they or won't they that's the question vexing energy analysts ahead of friday's opec ministers meeting with the ministers agree a compromise or is opec heading for a splits it could be a shortfall by the end of the year something like one point six to one point eight million barrels a day it will take time for anything to filter through say whatever they decide to do in the next few days it will be installed but it will have an impact on the market but they also want to ensure against is that the stock over how that we've seen in recent years doesn't come back again the reason why there are no talks or increase in production is to dump on that volatility i give the market the consumers everybody enough certainty and sense of security of supply to keep markets in x. healthy situation in june twenty fourth teen opec oil was trading at one hundred

ten dollars a barrel by january two thousand and sixteen it had dropped to just twenty five dollars a barrel now thanks to opec limiting supply it's recovered to around seventy three dollars a barrel but there is dispute over what the ideal price should be. the saudi crown prince was warmly welcomed in moscow last week the two countries firmly agreed on the need for high oil production however coming into this week's meeting opec member iran supported by venezuela and iraq was threatening to veto any easing of the production cap and the divisions here at opec are as much of a geo political tensions as they are about the price of oil outside of opec saudi arabia and iran are bitter regional rivals as the impact of u.s. sanctions against iran and the prospect of chinese tariffs on u.s. oil and of course russia intensely dislike saying america benefits from high oil prices balancing those competing interests looks difficult and opec has seen spits

before most recently in twenty eleven this time analysts believe an output increase will avert potential chaos if you depart friday and saturday very with no outward hike on the cards then there is an inherent danger that the discipline might be lost that the saudis might go it alone even if four hundred fifty thousand about it and then that you give the pretext to the russians and the can no no bad guys who've been holding their dispute say well you know what let's let's pump up our production is well the compromise might involve just a few hundred thousand extra barrels a day and there are signs here in vienna that that might be agreeable to all but it's not a done deal yet paul brennan al-jazeera vienna. let's get the sport one time for all the latest world cup action over to foreign.

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of the biggest problems facing our oceans and the loss of seagrass that i was watching real for roughly fifteen percent of the ocean's total carbon storage perhaps or they hoped wifeless much carbon dioxide as rain forest and they're also question marine habitats for many endangered ocean species. but here on al corn slew in central california the tide could be turning for sea grass thanks to some unexpected allies. trying to meet you know. this nine hundred hectare as she wary is where rivers throughout this region meet the pacific ocean this is the agricultural power. house of the united states and fertilizer and pesticide runoff threaten the balance of this delicate ecosystem so having farmers so close to the ocean on what what impact does that have on the water quality well i mean we're coastal environments close to urban centers called

forwards close cultural centers. like us. grows with the rocks there mentioned start composing over half of the world sea grass meadows are in decline but here in al corn slew they're making a surprising comeback. oh wow. at one time there were thousands of sea otters in california but in the eighteen hundreds they were hunted to near extinction for their soft fur pelts. there are now more than one hundred in this as consuming a staggering one hundred thousand crabs per year. this federation is appetite has helped restore the balance of this ecosystem by triggering

a chain reaction known as a trophic cascade. sea otters the crabs lower crop numbers allows smaller invertebrates like sea slugs to thrive and these creatures are crucial for the health of seagrass eating build up on the leaves they allow sunlight to reach the plants. because the otters are so crucial to the ecosystem scientists are carefully monitoring their slow and steady come back. they capture them and tag them with radio devices. firing their work really well. it's a crime was probably very close. what's the purpose of talk to me audience we go out seven days a week is to go out and find individuals see where they are what they're doing. the other part of it is just so we can understand the distribution of authors in this

area what are they eating and how are they doing health wise there's one right there that's three four nine six so that beeping is an otter and that beeping is from the radio transmitter that's we surgically implanted in her so that helps us move kater why don't you take a look right in there. along the west coast of north america researchers have noticed that the return of top level predators is having an impact on restoring all kinds of underwater life and the entire ocean system. what the sea otters do it's kind of the tables against them that threw things affects the sea otters living crabs essentially the same grass an advantage again so if we introduce top predators like sea otters to ecosystems around the world will it have

a knock on effect potentially in the prediction is yes so if you re store food webs which means a lot of times bringing back a top predator to a system that was wiped out they have a great potential for restoring the health of that system. the i.m.f. said riyadh's breakeven oil price twenty eighteen is likely to be around eighty eight dollars a barrel why is argentina again turning to the i.m.f.

for help now we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost on al-jazeera. life in the islands fringing the antarctic peninsula is abundant the place of seemingly endless ferrante the whole region is. chely biodiverse a living example of how things are pretty much free from the it through its of. getting to see the astonishing wildlife here is by no means straightforward the weather makes everything a challenge the environment where wildlife is living is incredibly fragile incredibly delicate little all sorts of threats that they're up against from climate change to cruel fishing and then of course there's this tourism the number of tourists coming down here it's a beginning of the two thousand and two somewhere around four five thousand a year we're now over thirty thousand people a year. is still in pretty good shape but it's apparent this unique landscape needs

to be very carefully managed as multiple threats begin to loom on the horizon. over seven million lives and this long each one is still a demonstrably tool. documentary to hold. on. so confusion reigns over when and how migrant families in the u.s. will be reunited as melania trump pays a damage control visit to a board its attention facility in texas.

and i'm chilling with all of this is a live from london coming up forces loyal to libyan warlord khalifa haftar are regain control of key oil ports in the country's east. also ahead accused of spending public money on lavish meals of the wife of israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu is charged with fraud in france of their labor the process that could allow the european citizens to remain in the u.k. after bricks in. one welcome to the program it's now more than twenty four hours since donald trump said he will no longer spit children from their parents who cross into the u.s. illegally but there are still few details about what happens to those children particularly those already separated from their parents told the trumpets been addressing the immigration issue again he says he's telling agencies to we unite families of directv h h s t h s 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 smuggle it into the street. well meanwhile first save the money a chum pads made a surprise visit to the us mexico border as the white house goes into damage control over the separations she visited a social service center for my grandchildren as well as a border patrol processing base first lady hit our neighbor said the separations of the border painter even as the president stopped by his zero tolerance policy a delegation of bipartisan mayors from cities across the u.s. also traveled to texas to mending 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 we 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 if it won't happen in washington we will make it happen rob reynolds joins us live from washington and so my lobbyist visit how has it played out stateside. not well julie you know than the law.

is a former fashion model she is a person who cares very much about what she wears and is very aware of her attire at all times so today when she went to the border people were puzzled to see her wearing a thirty nine dollar. sort of olive green military style jacket with words stenciled and graffiti style across the back saying i don't really care do you seem to kind of completely undercut the message of the first lady visiting these refugees. excuse me these migrant facilities and these border patrol. workers and officials so naturally twitter blew up and the first lady spokesman is saying that everybody should just calm down stop

thinking about the fashion choices and concentrate on the humanitarian aspect of her trip to the border well politically speaking what have been the developments around this. well there are the developments have been here on capitol hill and really it's kind of a legislative shambles julie there are two bills one of them proposed by a hard line group of republicans remember republicans control congress that bill would have. solved the issue of family separation but also would have considerably and drastically tightened up their legal immigration rules as well as giving a lot of money twenty five billion dollars worth of words president trumps the border wall project which has not yet been funded that failed and a rival group of somewhat more moderate republicans have their own version

of the immigration legislation that was going to be voted on tonight but now the leadership says they'll wait till tomorrow so lots of signs of of legislative dysfunction here despite the fact that the republican party controls the house the senate and the white house they don't seem to be able to get anything useful done about immigration reform well joining me live from washington d.c. well thank you. well much of the focus right now is on u.s. policy towards immigrants but it's also a huge issue here in europe u.s. refugee agency says two hundred twenty migrants have drowned in the last few days trying to cross the mediterranean from libya many are attempting to enter via spain which has recorded a three fold increase in this year karl penhall reports from the spanish port city of omega. down the gangplank. first cautious

steps to europe. on the warm blankets their eyes soak in first impressions of the land they hope will bring a better life. help for some to hobble to a waiting ambulance. that young man is blind. tonight rescuers saved 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 fifteen 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 writing. them commands for the refugees to stay still so they don't camp saris they're scared. the first group is shuttle to the main rescue boat some have. a handshake both planes to come but. one of the rescuers calls out the one of the incoming passengers is. late afternoon and

a group of migrants are permitted to leave the holding area police need the space this little time to talk they're eager to be on their way so it's been tough. we would take your. minutes later another rescue boat sails in with one hundred three more refugees with little wind and calm seas rescuers for cost hundreds more may soon be on their way to. spain. security sources in libya say a powerful warlord has captured two major oil terminals have ties forces have been battling for control of al sadr. led by abraham and strong the oil ports last which. has more now from tripoli. forces loyal to warlord have

to have finally recaptured the two major oil terminals of oil city and the rustler north that were taken control of by forces loyal to the former chief of the petroleum facilities guard brahim i should run now forces loyal to a run have just confirmed that they have withdrawn from the oil christened area and they have not mentioned a specific reason for that was to all but we understand that hefted his forces have been supported by drones and fighter jets and also according to local sources in the area. of strikes were conducted by have to his forces and set two major oil storage tanks on fire and also killed a couple of civilians during the last few days according to hospital

staff that is the hospital in as deadly as it is around one hundred fifty two kilometers to the southwest west of from one of us according to the hospital staff they say that they have received fifteen bodies of fighters going to. have to and twenty five other wanted and this battle today. the wife of israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been charged with fraud the justice ministry says sarah netanyahu is accused of misusing state funds by allegedly spending government money on catering services that has. it's been coming for months and now it's confirmed sarah netanyahu indicted for fraud the case against misuse of state funds connected to her husband's position as israel's prime minister investigation started three years ago when a government official issued a report on excessive spending at the couple's official residence in west jerusalem she's charged with using nearly one hundred thousand dollars from the official

prime minister's residence budget for private ships and food for family events allegedly conspiring with an official to hide the fact that a resident chef was already being employed and falsifying fifteen invoices for the services of outside caterers all very different from the prime minister's initial rebuttal of the allegations when he spoke of take away dinners in full trays the fact that she's indicted this is a sign that. the system and the police and the people of. such a criminal behavior and this is a bad sign for netanyahu because they will stop with the wife and will finish with him the israeli prime minister understands all too well the position his wife has been in in february israeli police recommended that he be indicted but the two corruption cases begin to slowly i will continue to lead israel responsibly and by the way as long as you the citizens of israel choose me to lead you i am certain i

am certain that the truth will be revealed and i am certain that at the next elections which will be held on schedule i will earn your trust again the.