the single by choice on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello i'm so whole rob and this is the al-jazeera news our life my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes. zimbabwe's president survives what he calls a cowardly attack while on the campaign trail. also the final push for stay in power for turkey's president before the polls open in a few hours time. and stuck in a stinking rotting mess with migrants who've reached a dead end on the border between greece and macedonia plus.

i worked and nail biter for german fans as the defending champions league get to the last minute to keep their hopes alive at the world cup i. welcome to the news hour zimbabwe's president has survived an apparent grenada taggett a campaign rally ahead of next month's election. called the cowardly attack and said it would not influence the upcoming vote the bomb was thrown at the barbarian leader as he walked off stage with others only p.f. party officials in the city of bell away oh well scraped and hurt one of his vice presidents and another minister injured there's been no claim of responsibility so far well of course the attack was one of many assassination attempts that he survived. this

is. james sixteen. has more from johannesburg right now on social media people talking about how safe is it to attend these rallies what if there's another attack so people are concerned about that of course they're also asking who could have been behind this could it be a specific individual is it a group of people are these attacks like it increase as we head up to those elections so far the campaign has been relatively peaceful so people are quite surprised as actually happened they also surprised how this individual managed to get so close to the president and throw that grenade so a lot of uncertainty right now but again the president telling zimbabweans keep calm the security officials have things under control people much is prepared for these elections which he has will happen at the end of july shipard and is an

assistant professor who specializes in zimbabwean politics at college she explains why the attack is significant. this is definitely the best time to be in and of bait and tackle on the life of the president in the one on a long and early on people were confused it was in palm and you know i'm sure again just showing how new these easter there's a muslim situation here really speculations that are lying around social media and that isn't a challenge or investigation but i think these are long line are possibilities all of who could have had to act as if. it's what we have to think about the you know him and the idea that when every disagreement with the between the different factions and and in november is that i would see it here that we have some elements that are still disgruntled we might be with their absence in by something years and

so that's you know that's something to think of i just basically because of how he knows that happened to the president this wouldn't be and i didn't any citizen who doesn't know a lot of other there's a breach of nations around the president so that's something to think about but these also opportunist political app and especially in a situation we just had a pool we have a lot of people that may just be taking advantage of the situation and mike wants to see the election i didn't distract. the united states has reportedly told syrian rebels not to expect military support in southern syria near jordan and the israeli occupied golan heights deescalation zone was established their last year including parts of the provinces of the can syria and russia have been carrying out their strikes on rebel groups trying to expand their territory according to reuters the us government sent a message to the heads of free syrian army groups who would have supported in the

past. now the polls open in less than three hours for turkey's landmark elections presidential candidates have held their final rallies the incumbent president recipe bird won as people to get out and vote but he attacked his opposition for lacking vision and boasted of his achievements in office such as new infrastructure and improved health care one has been in power since two thousand and three he called the snap elections team months early when his main challenger in shea has held a rally in istanbul he painted a bleak picture of turkey and one saying its currency would remain weak and its refugee problems are resolved six candidates are running for the presidency send him takes a look at the frontrunners. this election is a milestone for turkey's president reject types are drawn he hopes it will see his

country resurge on the world stage he promises more democracy more freedom and more growth his supporters say he should remain president until two thousand and twenty three the centenary of the founding of modern turkey says that. we've come here to serve you not to be your masters and our journey will continue this way. don has five other rivals. that i never candidate for the main opposition party c.h.p. is a former physics teacher he has served as a member of parliament for sixteen years in jail is most likely to make it into the final round some critics say his retore is as populist as are dawn's especially on syrian refugees he wants to send them home he's also vowing to lift restrictions on fundamental freedoms and restore the rule of law in turkey. the constitution hands over everything the budget jurisdiction legislation to one person all these powers

cannot be handed over to a single individual breakaway nationalist party leader metal action air is the only female candidate called the she will by her admirers action are served as the interior minister in the ninety's a period turkish state have suppressed the policies against kurdish citizens she has campaigned on social justice and a self-sufficient economy. it is some of the also the government i use matters to deliberately impoverish our people and exploit that poverty to remain in power broker dish peoples democratic party h d p's candidate sell out and demo tosh has run his presidential campaign from behind bars as kurdish obama he promises to lift the state of emergency restore freedom and democratic institutions. what we are living today is just a teaser for the one man regime the actual scary part of the movie has not yet

begun so one sunday you will determine with your votes whether this obvious fear of fear begins or not you know. presidents are gone hasn't lost an election since two thousand and two despite his upper hand in public support he faces challenges in foreign policy security and economy plus this time his rivals are more competitive than expected seen anchor solo al-jazeera a stumble and mentally ill go is a lecturer. in university he says it's likely the president will win more than half of the votes in the first round. one of the things is still the c.h.p. the main opposition party does have a stronghold like in istanbul they do have big you know like fans of the hotter i mean jazz they see it's b. they do not like the policies of president of the on especially when it comes to the refugees policy the foreign policy as well and what see their wing in terms of

the fighting terrorism they crack down on the terrorist elements here in turkey what's happening in syria and iraq and most importantly it is me or it's the stronghold of the c.h.p. the main opposition party these main three big cities president added on lost in the last referendum and that would give the opposition more encouragement to rally more and to you know what realize that people in these cities hoping that they're going to vote for them rather than for president and go on but still on the other hand this is not a referendum this is a presidential and parliamentary election where the voters are going to vote more on the person himself and added on didn't lose any elections in the past sixteen years that would give him more momentum according to the polls as well on the

ground he is still the first one to have the possibility to when they first in the first round iraqi prime minister in cleric come up to the southern have a political blogs are entering into an alliance now the leaders say their partnership will cross sectarian and ethnic divisions so the party when the largest number of seats in the mail action well above these a victory alliance came in third and both leaders saying they're open to remaining parties to join them. not in the heart of our book we announce across sectarian cross ethnic alliance to speed up forming the next government a strong new government that serves the interests and aspirations of the iraqi people. and how do you seen. how the we are key to form this coalition and call upon all other political parties to join us also we call for a high level meeting with all of the political blocs nor to rid the country of its

current crisis retire the rocky brigadier general ismail danny says the new alliance has big challenges ahead but we. trusted all the political connections in iraq to make any change because all you know the public is accusing the political class and political figures of accusing the carriers iraq since two thousand and three how significant were the bullet to go significant yes but at the same time everybody is looking forward to seeing a government there will be and they never crossed at the end which i doubt they had you know the willingness to cross the security area or ethnic groups in iraq to form the government for the iraq air force says it's killed forty five eisel fighters in a strike across the border in syria the targets were three houses in the tone of hygiene where i still lead us were said to be meeting iraq says several high

ranking figures are amongst the dirt a grenade attack at a political rally in ethiopia's capital has killed at least one person and injured more than one hundred prime minister. had just finished addressing supporters in at assad the power when it happened and he's called the attack an attempt to divide the nation victoria gate and he reports. this was the moment the grenade exploded close to where prime minister abby achmet was sitting. for a few moments there was confusion before members of the security forces came onto the stage and led abby atma to safety. witnesses say they saw the man who targeted the prime minister as the prime minister was just concluded his speech and that moment there was a grenade. but i think the guy was just trying to stroll the stage.

beside him just took him. just went off and on sunday it was a bloody end to a day that it started with so much optimism hundreds of thousands of ethiopians had gathered in the capital addis ababa mescal square to support the new prime minister since taking office in april the forty two year old has announced a series of reforms including the release of tens of thousands of prisoners the opening of state owned companies to private investment and to propose peace deal with eritrea in an address to the nation after the attack could be said that those trying to divide ethiopia would not succeed in your my fellow why not but that i'm not certain groups planned and coordinated to destroy this large gathering to kill innocent people and to spill blood on our streets they have tried very hard but their entire plot has failed the questions are being raised about whether the

security operation for such a large rally was adequate some of the officers have been saying that this is an attempt on the life of the prime minister and the definitely. supporting the rally was agreed to most ration that there is a solid support for the reformist by the prime minister but at the same time the the great attack have revealed that the reforms are still fragile prime minister abbey says he is determined to bring change to ethiopia but this attack highlights the lengths some will go to to try and stop him victoria gave him a al-jazeera. well plenty more ahead on the al-jazeera news hour including from boom town ghost town are china's government is trying to combat the effects of tourism on the environment plus. the. singing for the less fortunate hundreds turn out for civil rights rally in

washington donald trump steps up his anti immigrant rhetoric. i'm and the richardson at the world cup in russia where fans are getting used to the idea that referees are also watching the action one of big screen. u.s. federal transfer schools being set up to reunite migrant children and their parents or detention facilities on the mexican border president trump ordered the splitting of families to stop on wednesday about two thousand three hundred children were taken in recent weeks by u.s. border control from los fresno gabriel elizondo has this report. at a bus station in macallan texas u.s. authorities released dozens of migrants from detention centers as before donald trump zero tolerance policy most have to wear electronic monitoring devices on

their ankles so they can be tracked to ensure they show up for court appearances with their asylum cases can be heard one of them was carmen and her small child they were kept together she's relieved to be free but says she was separated from her fifteen year old sister melissa who had to stay behind. my sister snuck out to say bye to me she told me to take care of myself and take care of the baby they both were applying for asylum in america the department of health and human services confirms to al-jazeera they have just set up a task force to begin the process of reunification of families separated at the border but provided few other details on how or when it might happen journalists are not allowed inside this detention facility but i'll just zero spoke to a human rights lawyer who was its does not there is probably they tell me that there are about at capacity but just five hundred people if they have it's rather they haven't been at that level we met with probably between our entire group we

have you know six or seven female lawyers who were in there probably two hundred detainees over the last two days alone and they're still there this afternoon meeting with more and they say there's more and more people coming in most of them every single one of them cross the border with children separated almost immediately from immigration asylum seekers still face hostility from the very country they look to as their hope for a better future the trumpet ministrations zero tolerance policy is still in effect so families seeking asylum that cross into the u.s. illegally are still apprehended the families are just kept together and sent to homeland security detention centers like this one where they all been face criminal prosecution it's a crisis on multiple fronts with little sign of any changes. even though the trump administration has said that they're not separating families anymore they haven't and the policy that is actually at the root cause of this surge of asylum seekers from central america has actually eased up since its peak in two thousand and

fourteen yet the u.s. navy has been asked to build more detention centers on military bases the intent is twofold keep them together but also in custody which also keeps trump's hardline zero tolerance policy alive gabriels and oh al-jazeera last fresno's tex's the father of a young migrant girl photographed crying on the us mexico border believes the picture has affected president trumps immigration policy the widely shared photograph of the distraught honduran girl has become a symbol of the troubled ministrations there are tolerance immigration policy although she was not separated from her mother at the border the picture drew international attention to the issue. i think my daughter situation will touch someone's heart yes maybe the president of the united states or the migration authorities there someone has to help my daughter but her picture was published in the united states and so the route for migrants has now changed.

meanwhile a french teenager who accidentally crossed from canada to the u.s. so into the u.s. in fact while jogging has been released after two weeks in detention center roman strayed across the border while on a beach on canada's pacific coast and despite protesting her innocence she was apprehended and taken to a center two hundred kilometers south of the border roman described the ordeal as the fright of her life and has now been banned from entering the u.s. . spain's coast guard has really rescued nearly three hundred migrants trying to make the journey across the mediterranean from north africa spain's maritime rescue service says it picked them up from sixteen boats in the straits of gibraltar also a danish container ship picked up one hundred thirteen migrants from a boat off southern italy on friday they're now waiting for permission from italian authorities to dock at one of its ports cold weather this week has encouraged to try to make the journey. print president manuel macron says he favors financial

sanctions on european countries that refused to take migrants with proven asylum status now mark on held a working lunch with new spanish prime minister petro sanchez in paris it's the spanish leaders first official trip abroad since taking office three weeks ago for their meeting comes ahead of an emergency summit between sixteen european leaders on sunday to address tension over migration policies views of the. u.s. about the system of sanction mechanisms which could be implemented in cases of non solidarity it's a debate we will have within a framework of financial possibilities i am for myself in favor of having mechanisms that indeed take this into account we can't have countries that massively benefit from the solidarity of the european union and that massively voice their national selfishness when it comes to migrant issues. as well from paris. well the main message from these two leaders in paris was that the european union simply has to have

a coordinated strategy when it comes to migration it has to be united now the french president emmanuel macro praised the new socialist prime minister pedro such as from spain saying that he had showed a gesture of solidarity when he decided to open up their doors in spain to the aquarius migrants and refugees those who were rescued by that charity ship or blocked by italy matt cross said it was indeed an important gesture but the migration cannot be solved in that way on a case to case basis what is needed is a much wider plan now both pedro sanchez and tomorrow michael will be at a mini migration summit in brussels on sunday and this meeting in paris is really an opportunity for these two leaders to get to know each other's the first time they met and also discuss some of the strategies which may be talked about at the summit on sunday later in the week at the main you summit there is no doubt they are on a same page or they believe new solutions must be found they also both pro e.u.

young dynamic leaders who really want more e.u. integration and what that means for them is that they must be solutions found to the migration crisis because they see the divisions that it is causing and they worry that that could threaten the future of the european union the future of the bloc in fact in model mark or even said that we could see a wave of populism and nationalism unless something is done because europe's leaders prepare for sunday's meeting many of the refugees and migrants trying to make their way across the continent a losing hope lawlessly reports from the greek border with macedonia were people who've traveled from turkey finds themselves in the dead and. dogs live better than this stinking piles of rubbish the air thick with mosquitoes they're mostly afghans and they know full well the not even germany will take them in nowadays their war has been deemed less importance than

a syrian woman so they stop people going to stay here but the system is too slow i.e. trying to move rules even to move no one to stay here do you hear but there's no camp that i can avoid this day there because of all this one year some have lived in a half built car park nearly a year so cornered mohammed had arrived the day we turned up he thinks he would like to risk the crossing through albania which thousands have already tried this year but how to afford it you have money for this or not i have one month in one year and no one euro yes. as banished if you want in person just ahead no one money is the northern pass to greece from turkey over the wide of ross river the route revealed by al jazeera several months ago that is causing this new humanitarian crisis everyone we spoke to would come this way and the total lack of hope in greece is forcing them to consider any routes out if you have any money you

can get a bus from thessaloniki to a port and try your luck on a boat to italy but most don't have the luxury of this option until a couple of years ago it or many was full of tents and journalists before the so-called balkan routes was closed by macedonia the media's all gone now but we'd been told dozens were still attempting this route every day and so it proved we found them a shepherd's track in a forest right on the border all of them pakistanis many of them teenagers where do you go do you know. macedonia serbia and to germany this way. trying to do what hundreds of thousands managed a few years ago but europe isn't the same anymore according to the united nations there are now getting on for ten thousand more refugees and migrants in greece than the were when this border was basically a refugee camp two or three years ago and frankly these people have got absolutely

no chance of getting asylum in any western european country if anything germany's likely to tell greece to take more and more people back these places become a complete trap and surprisingly the new waves of refugees coinciding with the new hostile european environments make local officials nervous either making it less bigoted and there are many happened because they wanted to fulfill their dreams and go to europe things that were done a traps that. phrase but we hope there will never again be an informal camp of refugees and migrants. for the refugees living rough in greece there is not even war so let alone hope they may as well pray because no country in europe will help them now largely al-jazeera northern greece. well germany have revived hopes of successfully defending the football world cup. if

that they made fans back home with wait for the final minutes because a late goal sealed the two one victory over sweden germany are hoping to become the first side to retain the world cup in more than fifty years all sports correspondent and which isn't has more from moscow. well there was a collective holding of breath for everyone concerned with this world cup here in russia as for long periods of the game against sweden it looked as though germany were about to be knocked sounds that coach yogi laugh had made for changes to the starting line up but the same defensive frailties still seem to be there the defensive frailties we saw in their one nil opening loss to mexico sweden took a first half lead through toivonen germany started the second half with an extra striker on the pitch and they dropped an equaliser through mark or royce but it still didn't look set to be the night they had to defend your own words saying get

sent off late in the game but it was still time deep into injury time for them rail madrid midfielder tony tries to smash i'm a free kick and completely change their world cup outlook that soon one win means they'll go into the final round of group games level on points with sweden sweden will play mexico while germany will take on south korea if lost by thank games so far now this is a notoriously difficult title to defend successfully the last team to achieve it brazil back in one thousand nine hundred sixty two but perhaps germany will look at slightly more recent history for some inspiration in twenty ten spain lost their opening game but still went on to lift the trophy. but still top of germany's group is mexico and he said so there was plenty of singing and sombreros from their supporters because they defeated south korea to want to make it two wins from as many matches in the tournament. well we have action from those matches person five

star performers from belgium later in the pro. but still ahead here on al-jazeera. two years after the brits tens of thousands marched through london to demand another referendum. also a crude prices oil train in the u.s. derailed spilling it flowed through farmland. and belgium found celebrate another huge victory for their team out the world cup so i will of course have those details. on. the weather sponsored by catarrh airways. welcome back we've got some heavy rain across parts of eastern china at the moment if a stands all the way towards the southwest too and that's a sense across the border into vietnam where we could be quite wet and certainly

northern parts of vietnam are looking a bit wet on moment so as we move on through into monday still plenty of rain across eastern areas for the bit drier for food hong kong still at risk of some rain meanwhile lots of showers coming in off the bay of bengal into me a model is really wet here in the swathe up into southern parts of china so more flooding i'm afraid is on the cards as we head into southeastern parts of asia here we've got a scattering of showers across the philippines generally not looking too bad pretty wet weather across much of borneo and the brain should be further towards the north but instead they're just flirting with the north coast there of java so the risk of showers is there also some heavy showers are likely up through them in a potential place for singapore in kuala lumpur bangkok i think for much of the time probably getting away with it dry and relatively bright for south asia we saw plenty of heavy showers developing all way down through the western ghats from mumbai southwards a few showers across more central eastern areas was good to report but the rain still a long way short of delhi very warm here highs of forty three cooler and crunchy

a maximum of thirty three. so whether it's sponsored by qatar airways. a new series of rewind i can bring your people back to life i'm sorry and brand new updates on the best of al-jazeera documentaries the struggle continues bar from baghdad till now huge distance rewind continues with baltimore anatomy of an american city i have close friends who were lost to the streets i can literally see the future of baltimore to the ass of my students and it does not look good rewind on al-jazeera and monday pointed well on the. u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for the dry riverbeds like this one five years on the

syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the war. welcome back to al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour zimbabwe's president to survived an apparent grenade attack at a campaign rally ahead of next month's election. because of the attempt to cowardly attack and said it would not influence the upcoming vote the ball was thrown out the zimbabwean leader as he walked off stage in the city of below where. voters in turkey head to the polls in a few hours time for sunday's landmark elections in his final campaign rally

incumbent president recipe oda was attacked leading opponents to have them installed locking vision. vote will bring constitutional changes into effect that will transform the political system into an executive presidency. the united states has reportedly told syrian rebels not to accept military support in southern syria jordan and the israeli occupied golan heights a deescalation zone was established there last year including the parts of the provinces of dia and syria and russia have been carrying out airstrikes on the rebel held area. thousands of civilians have fled their homes and there are a province where a major government offensive is underway rebels say that they've repelled the attack but fair they may not be able to hold out the iranian and russian backed army moves in. reports. this is the first time government forces have used battle bombs in daraa in

a year. helicopters struck several villages in what appears to be a major advance to take over the city but this violates a truce that was brokered by russia and the united states in africa to bring an eye and to the seven year war the rebels who are losing ground remain defiant. we don't recognize assad's law for a t. he has destroyed our cities and killed our people he destroyed syria to stay in power we will never recognize him and we reject the presence of the reigning and afghan militias it's only syrians who should decide the future of the country. the syrian army is massing troops in the area the opposition says thousands of shiite militias are also moving in dar was the focal point of the syrian

uprising in two thousand and eleven but in recent years the rebels have been retreating they now control one neighborhood in the city and a few areas on the border with jordan this is a show of force by the free syrian army. for years the f.s.a. was trained and armed by the u.s. europe and gulf countries but that support has diminished over the last. anti asset forcers are largely outgunned and outnumbered. now dozens of yemenis are fleeing fighting in the western port city of her data most of them heading to sanaa for safety the coalition has been bombing the area for ten days now as it continues to fight who through rebels rights groups have said the fighting is obstructing aid from reaching civilians in desperate. hundreds

of palestinians protested on the west bank on saturday against sanctions imposed on gaza by their own government tens of thousands of government employees in garza have gone without pay for months our reporter imran khan is in ramallah where the palestinian authority is based. it's likely that the organizers are going to be very disappointed in the size of this crowd about a couple of hundred people but these people are making their voice very clearly heard only really one demand and that's lifting the sanctions by the v.a. on gaza and giving some relief to the people of gaza now in recent weeks. already being criticized for heavy handed tactics against the protesters but this one seems to be a lot more peaceful there is a palestinian authority police presence but it's not nearly as heavy handed as it has been in previous weeks the former vice president of the democratic republic of congo will be given a diplomatic passport to return home following his acquittal at the international

criminal court. eighteen year sentence for war crimes was overturned earlier this month he's in belgium pending an appeal on the witness tampering charge and still a general secretary in his political party but it's unclear if he'll run in the upcoming december election a former vatican diplomat has been sentenced to five years in prison for possessing and distributing child pornography monsignor carlo capella admitted to viewing the images in what he said was a time of for gelati sparked by a job transfer to the vatican embassy in washington a tribunals convicted capello after today trial the first of its kind to be held inside the vatican. now tens of thousands of protesters have marched through central london and now they're demanding a second referendum on e.u. membership was the terms of the country's withdrawal become clear leave barca has more. i was you know again. politicians from across the

u.k. political divide side by side of the head of a munch attended by thousands. they arrived outside parliament with one demand a final vote on any u.k. exit deal among the demonstrators members of prime minister to resign may's own political party committed to overturning bricks it we want a people's fate deal or no deal and i think that's right it can't be right that six hundred fifty politicians sitting in parliament who are amongst themselves as indeed our government and cabinet is divided on this special i think sixty five million people in our country should have a vote on the final deal the protests is part of what's being called a summit of action to put pressure on britain's leaders two years after the u.k. surprizes cision to leave the e.u. britain is still an odds of the countries who lation ship with europe the countries from the bitter divide in the fray those divisions have to deal of the reason for

that i think is that since the referendum we lost the referendum was a factor but since that series of mayors govern as if all of these people kind of don't exist so what this is about is basically saying that we have to at least hold open the option that would just come up with a deal for the people who are to say yeah that's what we voted for is perhaps unsurprising here in london a city that voted overwhelmingly to remain part of the e.u. that there are such crowds at this demonstration but what is surprising is that two years after the referendum a year after crucial negotiations began between the e.u. and the u.k. there is still so much anger so much confusion public opinions remain largely stable since the referendum despite increasing pessimism from business is about what breaks it will mean for them this week the airplane manufacturer said that it would have to pull out of the u.k.

if the government failed to secure a post breaks a trade deal putting thousands of jobs at risk. the u.k. faces a fifty billion dollar divorce billfold. even the e.u. complications over its border with the member island and the us president he might not be as welcoming about british trade as first thought thank the world's changed since britain backed breck said only another vote say these people can correct past mistakes made by. london. now the international criminal court has given me a month to respond to allegations that full simply deported hundreds of thousands of rating meanwhile soldiers are accused of carrying out a campaign of violence which the un's called the cleansing more than seven hundred thousand. homes and crossed the border into bullish the i.c.c. has no jurisdiction but prosecutors argue a case could be made through bundle of. her small from. the

bangladesh government submitted its observations to the international criminal code last when is there the content is not made public it was a closed door hearing how did i.c.c. say that the transcript will be available within their weight on the other hand the man maher governments say it doesn't have any jurisdiction over me and my sense is not a signatory to the i.c.c. this is despite the fact that the un and many other human rights organisation have consistently stated that what happened to the ranger refugees in myanmar is nothing less than ethnic cleansing bangladesh would like to still personally have bilateral process with me on my part it has a lot of stake with me on my in terms of trade and connectivity with southeast asia and china despite the fact that since november signed a bilateral agreement father repatriation process not a single growing refugee is able to move back to me and my. going to refugees we

spoke to in the camp say that they need to have a say in this whole process then some sort of security guarantee and recognition for their citizenship before any such representation takes place we'll have to see how the whole thing unfolds down the road. well china has paid a heavy environmental price for three decades of economic growth but in parts of the southwest they're seeing the opposite thousands of businesses in the tourist town and valley have been forced to close over concerns about water quality at a nearby lake adrian brown reports china is rich in tradition and this is a relatively new one posing for wedding photos before the big day. and the high lake in you know and province is a popular backdrop. it's one of china's biggest freshwater lakes and one of its most beautiful. almost forty million people

visited in two thousand and sixteen now that rapid growth in tourism. is taking its toll on these once pristine waters last april the government told the owners of almost two thousand hotels and restaurants near the ancient town of darlie that they'd have to close for a year the order heard followed a visit by president xi jinping who'd urged action to save the normally these narrow streets which are such a feature of the old village of dali would be teeming with visitors but since april two thousand and seventeen this place has been like a ghost town and the owners of these businesses simply have no idea when they'll be able to open again a sign of desperation rent contract expiring will sell for low price says this note yearling owns two hotels and says their closure has cost her around one million dollars in this incident that you know i'm from and i know the reasons why people

come here because they're looking for somewhere beautiful but the closure of the hotels and the restaurants it has resulted in big damage to the local tourist industry. it is though the damage to the environment that is the bigger concern to the president there's been a proliferation of new hotels and restaurants discharging untreated sewage directly into the lake workers have also been kept busy by an outbreak of exacerbating the pollution. but more than twelve months on some people like this local farmer complain that there's been little change in the water quality. garment close hotels around the lake so they can't discharge waste water this has improved the warning quality in high lake but not by very much workers are laying pipes for a new water treatment system inferi all hotels and restaurants will eventually be

connected to these pipes only after that happens will they be allowed to open again and for many businesses that day can't come soon enough the lake is what draws so many people here but environmentalists warn that the measures taken so far to try to save it may have come too late adrian brown al-jazeera in darley southwest china . freight train carrying crude oil has derailed in the u.s. state of iowa no one was injured boyle has leaked into the rock river in the northwest of the state several homes nearby were evacuated or forty say that around that was caused by rising floodwater. poverty immigration and racism these were just some of these social issues that dominated a mass demonstration in the u.s. capital the protest is part of a larger movement that's had its roots in the civil rights era of nearly half a century ago rob reynolds reports from washington d.c. . gathering before the u.s.

capitol a diverse group of thousands rallied under the banner of the poor people's campaign calling for a moral revival in the united states the rally featured impassioned speakers songs demanding justice and prayers from clergy of many religions including a sacred song by native americans from the apache trod the. barber of north carolina is one of the main organizers of the campaign this is not fellowship this is revolution bring this mike up some cause we intend to get loud and draw a crowd. the campaigners demand living wages for workers universal health care and an end to institutionalized racism police violence and mass incarceration more funding for schools and social programs and less for the military and end to environmental destruction there are about forty million people living in poverty in

the united states according to official statistics from the u.s. census bureau but some researcher say the number is much higher as high as one hundred and forty million whatever the true number for the people who gathered here it's far too many and i think that the poor people's campaign something particularly radical in calling out systemic poverty as an evil and evil that the united states can very easily quell. the campaign is modeled on a similar movement that began fifty years ago by reverend martin luther king jr before his assassination in april one thousand nine hundred sixty eight that summer tens of thousands marched and set up a sprawling camp on the national mall called resurrection city civil rights leader jesse jackson was there the king's we must choose a healing at home and not killing abroad protester said the forced separation of

migrant families by the trump administration shows the country's leadership is morally blind not just jump it's been like this since he founded this country the immigration issue is particularly acute now campaign organizers say they are only beginning their fight they plan a major drive to get poor people and their supporters to the polls in the november elections to vote for a profound change in u.s. society rob reynolds al-jazeera washington well still ahead on the news hour unspoiled we'll have the latest from russia twenty eighteen where defending champions germany still very much in the world cup.

just. july on al-jazeera in a new series of had to head mad to house and tackle the big issues with hard hitting questions mexico is getting ready for a general election what direction will the country take as it struggles with drug violence and economic instability. people in power continues to examine the use and abuse of power around the world as the world cup in russia nears its end we'll bring you stories from on and off the pitch of the world's most viewed sporting event on television and online the stream continues to tap into the extraordinary potential of social media to disseminate news july on al-jazeera.

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a year to cure revisited. iraq history is so often told through the eyes of leaders but in amritsar india just thirty kilometers from the border with pakistan this old building is being transformed into a new museum mallika ahluwalia is the driving force behind sars partition musial it's really shocking because if you think about the fact that within a few years of nine eleven happening and nine eleven museum was there and they are now numerous holocaust museum this is not beautiful a lot i museum so countries around the world have walked to memorialize these events that have shaped them my dition is not about the political events that led up to partition it's about the impact on each person who went through it it's really important that we highlight the stories of humanity hopefully one outcome on this would be that we remember our shared humanity and the shed history.

as fighting continues in syria to solve that our problems rebels say the u.s. has told them you're on your own. but i have you see because this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. zimbabwe's president survives an apparent grenade attack on the campaign trail. the final push to stay in power for turkey's president before the polls open in just a few hours. and the u.s. says it's working to reunite families separated by immigration authorities but along the border there still confusion.