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 that 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 has 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 told me 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 and themselves have been defense of the stuff so i. thank you felt as with personal responsibility for the recovery of the land. i said saw the wall which he 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 superpower as a jumpstart the stalled peace process. i would have you said 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 i had. a week into the war sadat'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. saddam kaakha shade side not something 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 if we'd given up hope of winning the war. seduced by success sadat now refused the

british offer. he would only accept a ceasefire he said if israel withdrew from the whole of sinai things are going very well so course of that he would 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. the work was crossing of the canal that might scare them enough. but the egyptians alive to the possibility had held two on the divisions with over two hundred tanks each in a second line of defense west of the canal. it was a problem of which israeli chief of staff general divied early as it was well aware . before crossing the corral 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 to the business are waiting for him on the back of the canal when you're very vulnerable number two to have them is really so i worry can meet them on israel's terms. general i 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. carry on with russia 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 for wealth for the third time he said no this is a political decision and it has to be implemented c.s.e. or i with their fees. after a long debate with a shadley general a 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 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 dismay it 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 golden mayor's office was city's a near the head of the israeli intelligence.

review was ill with the. inner cabinet and the generals. in the middle of the discussions someone entered and whispered into chisholm is 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. 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 gate where there are spoke to. a book in the negative quarters of it before and out. suddenly out of a rocket of or egyptian tires. the israelis were waiting for the tank assault in pre-prepared positions on the ridges east of the egyptian bridgeheads. the tanks came up and boom boom boom boom. and the first few minutes of the battle the gypsum twenty first armored division suffered significant casualties. possession. of the city or at the border one of the armored brigade commanders was martyred corno a say a toughie up a shady 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 and that's

a worry you. will 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. to get you. home after. they arrived and surprised our forces when they attacked. we had put out an alert that the iraqi forces are moving towards the goal line 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 and. we arrived that night at the outskirts of damascus it was guarded by syrian civilians the things they said to us

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 sought heavy or sudden also. despite their fatigue the iraqi forces were rushed to the front to reinforce syrian troops retreating before the advancing israelis. short of so why 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 effect. if 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 which. 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 of the the iraqi presence or 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 of 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. sixty 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 with the military and i saw how much pressure they put on him to go to the war. but doesn't give it the jordanian forces. being. 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 to brigade to support the syrian front the moroccan brigade was given the name. p.t. that would win us over with. the very expression clearly the means home 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 two. then later the jordanians came an after that the saudis so we found four armies there 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 ok part 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 digits since. the plan to cross the suez canal had been finalized and given the name stout hearted man. examining mandatory sentencing in the us if the state of florida requires the rest of my life in here as a tradeoff for my family's life the bargain i'll do it if the defendant goes to

trial the judge has no option but to give the mandatory minimum they were complying with this judge gives you five years and this judge gives you twenty years so the legislature to make a difference exploring the dark side of american justice the system with job on al-jazeera. so then i am work on and i have a top stories on al-jazeera these talks in ethiopia between south sudan's president salva kiir and opposition leader at the shell have broken up without agreement on wednesday the two men met for the first time in two years and out is about with hopes of a deal to end the five years civil war more talks are expected in khartoum on sunday european union's top official donald tusk in austria for a meeting with chants us about him because immigration policies will likely top the

agenda ahead of a major a u. summit at the end of the month. hundreds of migrant children separated from their parents at the us mexico border are being reunited with their families squash them all and mother was reunited with her young son a baltimore's an airport it's been more than a month since she saw her son after being detained in separates for illegally crossing the u.s. border and invasion cleric with ties to eisele has been sentenced to death by a court in jakarta an hour drama and was convicted for his role in the two thousand and sixteen suicide bombing at a starbucks cafe that killed four people it was the first attack claimed by eisel in southeast asia police say the teachings and survive the attack is behind a string of bombings in so a buyer last month that killed more than thirty people. syrian activists are reporting several civilians have been injured after government helicopters dropped barrel bombs and there are province in a separate location activists say six people have been killed by shelling from the

syrian government forces and local officials told al jazeera that more than twenty three thousand civilians have been displaced by shelling in the east and there are countryside in the past three days. the world's largest oil producers are meeting in vienna to decide whether to increase production a move that would likely mean a drop in petrol prices saudi arabia and russia want opec to relax tight controls but iran and venezuela holding out restrictions on oil production of nearly tripled the price of oil since two thousand and sixteen. north and south korea have agreed to hold reunions for family members separated by the war the last time that happened was in two thousand and fifteen an elderly relatives were reunited after more than sixty years apart these reunions late august are part of the steps agreed to by kim jong un and one day in to improve relations. those are your headlines we're back with more news but first let's get you back to the war in october.

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 he is as commander of the southern front an assignment that had ended just three months. so then i asked him what will happen on the. way this war is going to. wear. it on the other side of the come up. that's the only place ready.

this is the first time i hear it's we are going to course the source that. was around seven thirty of top of the six. the pool. in his kitchen in the ship. on the night of october the ninth a full 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 to 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. 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. secor her from tomb bridge here before a war surplus and they're 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 tanks in the breakfast course you're going to order and you have a ready made room. 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 track 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. tank battle so that the bridges could reach the canal and the tanks could cross all the bridges. 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

findings of the sea kashif. i remember the conversation between opera gate command . 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 you raviv you had a d. crimean invoiced said forty two here it's our tanks that are gunning over. walsh our owns division was taking heavy casualties in the chinese form a seven hundred fifty strong israeli paratrooper force was advancing towards the canal across the genes. by midnight they had reached the crossing point. the. paratroop brigade. reached the canal after

a. and carrying with them after a rubber boots. and they crossed uncertain of what they would follow. and the first. clarke will give us another barrier are clear and the. base that was the bridge so there was no one is really present us army western backed. yes but despite the desperate efforts of the israelis the road to the canal remained closed by an entire egyptian infantry brigade. but there was one ray of light for the israelis and mechanized rafts 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 are there we are there on the canal transcends between twelve to twenty tanks across the canal and what happens is exactly what he said and it's in these their way their gypsy's 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 set out set out his conditions for ceasefire a total israeli withdrawal from sinai.

later that day in jerusalem told them i made her own speech she decided to share the good news with the israeli knesset. for fifteen this afternoon the israeli population were told for the first time that their troops were on the west bank of the so it's canal. want to mrs murray it 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 the is really crossing the confusing and underestimated the scale of the problem. conclusion killer from the floor there was a problem with the reconnaissance and most or all of the reconnaissance units where

on the eastern side of the come out 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 first 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. the voice as that of the air force commander general. you have a map. you see the flowers on them those are. better. please destroy them out. located on the western side of the canal the

egyptian surface to air missiles at 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. alas i shall get the ariel sharon received in 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 for 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 as a beautiful. by in the silence everything was vocally quiet. on the heavy heavy fire. really heavy for. supper and fuel injections numbers and tanks. 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 realized 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. with the us 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 with mr president this is not those drill words 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. from such decision was clear the next day seventeenth of october at zero seven hundred hours the twenty fifth armored brigade moved northwards to carry out his mission. the chesley was about to be proved right. of the muslim american work of.

the twenty fifth brigade came from the area of the bitter lakes and two 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 steroid only ten able to retreat. southwards. had looked as if a a consortium of 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 a 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 and. very painful mainly because of the dead. in their wounded. and one night of the crossing with the knowledge 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. general and john's on the division had successfully crossed the canal using the pontoon bridge. next day eighteenth of october early morning advanced tanks are unleashed on the egyptian red. soon they have destroyed more trees clearing the skies for the israeli air force. this out of. 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. 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 armored divisions. sharon's division would move north to surround the egyptian second army and capture the city of is my idea. 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. bridge. they were now ready for an army across to the suburbs. 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 four army brigades in the east with no job i said i have to

bring them back tonight as and then. 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. all this had a have a well it appears decision was to withdraw not a single rifle or tank room east or 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 there's a lot of. it but if he shows the cabinet nor the whole. the father of the theater for a long time general. the special forces the paratroopers. 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 a truck bomb all right marianna. fia in the obama two at the michigan. 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 at the high end as we 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 left center 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 ceasefire getting it right at that moment because the hard 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. in an exclusive documentary series al-jazeera reveals the full story of a war that changed the face of the middle east this is not afford to defeat israel this is a war that could open the way for diplomacy the final episode of a three part series explores the impending threat to global superpowers i don't

covers why the out israeli conflict continues to this day the war in october the battle and beyond this time on al-jazeera. i. mean the weather sponsored by cattle as always how the rains are art back to reform in southern brazil might even touch the old washington this thin line of cat hair which looks as i might want to do something is the answer is santiago at the moment but basically the next couple of days look relatively fine unless you are in maybe you're growing in the far side of brazil

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a plan to re-install his former deputy. oil producing countries debate whether the time is right to pump out more crude. and i'm peter with all the day's sport is five times world champions brazil the to kick start their world cup campaign if they take on costa rica better more later in the program. so we begin this news with the immigration crisis in the united states hundreds of migrant children separated from their parents at the us mexico border how have been reunited with their families now this was the emotional scene at baltimore's at port as a guatemalan mother reconnected with her young son after being apart for more than one month the reunion follows an executive order by president donald trump putting an end to the separations called by. course by his so-called zero tolerance policy

but the policy itself looks set to continue with the government preparing to house twenty thousand unaccompanied children on military bases in the coming months congress is struggling to pass the immigration reform a hardline bill was rejected in the house and a vote on a more moderate bill has been pushed back to next week let's hear now from the mother you just saw being reunited with her son their story is one of many that made headlines around the world in this immigration crisis. in england. i'm very happy to found my son i'm very happy and thankful especially to god i started crying when i saw him because he is the only son the time i have nobody will separate over again i don't regret coming here i'm proud to have made it to this country. practical and nash joins us live from washington d.c. some unifications have happened but there's still confucianism over the fate of

many of these children have been separated. you know this is ministration saying that they are doing these reunifications but they're offering no proof and i think it's important to point out that the woman you just saw she was able to get her son back because she sued in d.c. court and that was about to proceed and the government didn't want it to so they gave her back her son the bottom line is the office of refugee resettlement that is basically in charge of these more than two thousand children that have been scattered all over the country at different shelters they admit they have literally no plan to reunify these kids with their parents in this was done in such a way and with so many different agencies that there is no coordinated database so they do in many cases don't have any paperwork to determine who these children are or where their parents are so this is a story that is not going away the trump administration likes to say the executive order took care of it it's done it is and what we don't know is how these current

children are going to be brought back to their family to their parents we also don't know what's actually happening on the border right now the president said he didn't executive order they're basically going to keep these kids with their parents and they're all going to be in custody problem with that is it's against the law just to the court system has ruled that kids that are migrants they can stay and shelter for more than twenty days that is much shorter than this process takes so it's not at all clear how this is going to work out the president has sent his lawyers to court to try and get that changed it seems highly unlikely that the judge in california is going to agree that kids can stay in basically prison for more than twenty days so really right now this is a crisis the administration likes to think it's gone the way it hasn't absolutely and congress is not doing much to help as it is failing to move on this issue. tweeting today that republicans should let it go until after what he calls the red

wave of the november election. ok well i think it's important point yes the president is sabotaging the house republicans that wanted to do this bill that they call a compromise bill it's a compromise among republicans there is broad spread widespread support in the house in the senate if the democrats or republicans could come up with just a simple bill one that would say you cannot take families apart at the border or these children that were brought here. undocumented but have been living in this country they're called dreamers they can become citizens there's broad support for that but the republican leadership in the house in the senate will not bring that simple bill up for a vote they've been trying to do comprehensive immigration because the president says that's the only thing he's going to sign they've really been kicked down the road the other thing to point out is going forward if the administration says we want to keep families together but behind bars or in cages or in tents they don't have anywhere to put them so we know that the department of defense is looking for

twenty thousand beds by july in military bases now obviously the optics of this are absolutely horrific the u.s. military housing families in tents is going to send shock waves across the globe but that's exactly what the department of defense is looking at right now they're looking they're looking at four bases and basically what they're going to do is set up tent cities for these families as they're detained together that is if the courts allow them to do that right now it seems highly unlikely that's going to happen but it's all playing out every single day there's another story that's coming from the border that is possibly more shocking than the next. moment thanks very much let's talk now to mom she was head of the office for civil rights in the u.s. department of homeland security joined the obama administration and she joins us now on skype from the state of kentucky good to have you with us maga the extent of trump's executive order to reunite families has improved the situation. it

certainly has because. the government seems to have some interest in not separating people as your prior guest just said we don't know how that's going to play out in another three weeks when they run out of time for keeping families together in jail like settings which is where they're planning to put them so but for right now it is improving some there are thousands of kids who no one has kept track of where their parents are and nobody in the government has a plan to reunite them so we're certainly still in crisis mode but it's possible that for three weeks the administration has stopped digging the hole that it put itself in how difficult is it to connect the children to their families the ones that haven't already been reconnects in the past day or two you know it's very difficult so the kids don't know where their parents are the parents don't know where their kids are the names are not enough to identify people you need what's called an a number the kids in the parents don't know each other's

a numbers and all and all what it's going what the advocacy community has done is jury rigged to system where the kids who are looking for parents somebody calls all of the plausible detention facilities and says is anybody looking for a kid named and then gives their name and somebody and. a nonprofit boy or tries to connect them up it is a haphazard system and we will see in the next week if it succeeds at all but boy does it ever need a just a much more clear set of systems where the government itself is committed to reuniting these kids and that's not what the trumpet ministration has done is that is it the case then that you might see in some cases that these permanent separation between some of these children and their families i think there is no question that there will be some permanent rep separations where the parents give up their asylum claims because they think that. that is their speediest road to

getting their kids back in the parent that gets deported and the kid is still in u.s. territory in u.s. custody and doesn't know where the parent is and has no way to to manage that process i don't think there's any question we're going to see some permanent set or separate are going to be held in sort of almost permanent limbo of everyone other options are available to the old forties to deal with families who are entering the us illegally. well i think that the option that is the easiest option is totally available to them when a family comes in and is asked about fear of return to their home country if they have a credible fear of return then they can be released with a monitoring plan they can be released with some requirements to report back to him to immigration authorities they could be released even with electronic monitoring and they could be allowed to stay while they deal with their cases remembering they've screened in right their fear is credible the government has said when

people have that kind of approach they show up to immigration proceedings well over ninety percent of the time. very good venting speak to thanks for joining us from kentucky thank you. top official donald tusk is in austria for talks with chances about him on migration policies ahead of a major summit at the end of this month because was elected in december and want stricter policies to stop refugees entering and moving through the e.u. later to school travel to hungary where he'll sit down with right wing leader victor all both current and all part of an emerging and newly influential hard right wing bloc in the european union the leaders of poland slovakia and the czech republic come from a similar political viewpoint wealth italy's new government is also rightwing now crucially in germany chancellor angela merkel is under pressure from elements

within her own coalition to agree to strictly e.u. wide policies on migration and that's raising questions about whether there could be a split within the union between those who want to maintain the current system and those calling for borders to be closed and more on this let's go to dominic cain he's live for us in burlington so dominant merkel's office is trying not to dampen down any expectations for this mini summit that we're going to see between nations on sunday what does this tell her tell us about her position. well it tells us that her position is weaker than perhaps she hoped it was because earlier this week we saw the aid leak of what was purporting to be a copy of draft conclusions that the summit will take place in brussels at the end of next week with the full twenty eight member states will be in attendance and that seemed to point the way towards what a solution might be a european level with centers being set up in north africa by under also says to

filter through the people who were presenting themselves whether they were economic migrants or they were people who were seeking refuge fleeing war zones and there was also reference to what might happen to the secondary migration as it's called inside you know other words people who've claimed refugee status in one country going on to another e.u. country and claiming that she had to basically rebut that yesterday when the italian prime minister said not happy about that being published as a draft conclusion we haven't had the conversation yet and now her office is saying well this mini summit on sunday it's a working group we can't expect to see any conclusions emerge from it it just shows you that she's having to row back further and further from the suggestion that there was going to be. some as it were.