to deal with we know of the the ship aquarius where refugees from that ship finally made their way to spain and has missed the centuries has spoken at the mini summit the the working group session that was held in brussels at the weekend spoke about the the the problems of immigration that the e.u. was suffering from so john magaw all these meetings meetings today meetings tonight coalition meeting what is the likelihood that anything substantive any real progress on immigration will actually come out of all of this. well the point here richelle is that angular machall has met most of the people she's meeting today in brussels on sunday certainly she met mr sanchez heard from mr sanchez his position from the from mr tusks point of view what he knows he has at least this twenty eight state summit taking place on thursday and friday in brussels and he has the job as it were of presiding over all those disparate opinions that the different countries have you know that the austrian government has a different position to the german government and that's before you get into the

other countries that border germany who have different points of view and then this meeting this evening that's a meeting that was called at the request of the c s u all of merkel's domestic very political allies because they were slightly unhappy with the agreement she announced last week with french president michel about a separate independent budget for the eurozone so all these issues coming together merkel is really having to as it were to juggle different issues different attitudes from different political leaders both in europe and germany the chances are we won't really see anything substantive to use your words michelle until at least those they will friday when that brussels summit gets underway ok john mccain live for us in office thank you. still ahead on al jazeera caught between the military and i so link fighters the people of morality in the philippines come to the capitol to tell their stories plus a heavy price for a harley davidson move some production to europe to offset costs from trucks

terrorists. hello there we're seeing quite a few showers across many parts of southeast asia for look at the satellite picture we can see this law and of heavy downpours that appears just to the north of java and then gradually tracks its way towards the south so long that north coast of java pretty unsettled at the moment and it looks like they'll be more showers drifting their way towards us over the next few days or so borneo head towards the south and towards the west here it's likely to be fairly wet at times as it is across parts of the philippines that further west there's more in the way of dry weather here and the showers generally speaking a little bit more scattered a bit further towards the south and we've some rain making its way into western australia you can see the cloud that we've got with us at the moment that's giving us a few outbreaks of rain some pretty strong winds as well and still with us as we head

through the day on wednesday more wet weather is out towards the east and that's gradually tracking its way towards the coastline there so do expect some pretty sharp showers the good news is that the temperatures will be quite as low for say camber of the temperatures have been dropping to minus five at night but it won't be quite that latex for a bit more clouds and a chance of a few breaks of rain as well every towards new zealand them for many of us here this fine settled weather but the winds are coming up from the south so it's not that warm for christchurch where at twelve. demain the intersection of reality and comedy and post revolution tennessee a. mission to entertain educate and provoke debate through satire how weapon of choice. and internet look at what inspires one of tuna's his most

popular comedians to make people laugh. miten asea hack on al-jazeera. watching al-jazeera let's recap the top stories for you this hour the world's chemical weapons watchdog is holding a special meeting at the hague this was requested by the u.k. after a nerve agent attack on a former russian spy and his daughter in england chemical attacks in syria will also be discussed you in chief and turning to terrorism is calling on the world not to abandon the united nations agency for palestinian refugees organization says it's facing a quarter of

a billion dollars shortfall and may be forced to cut emergency assistance within weeks. the german chancellor is discussing at europe's migration crisis with the spanish prime minister before the e.u. summit on thursday merkel is under pressure from a coalition partner to find a new wide solution to stem the flow of refugees and immigrants. navy divers have reentered a flooded cave in northern thailand to search for twelve boys and their football coach they were trapped after a heavy rain storm walked the only way out of the cave on saturday at fishel say they are confident the boys are still alive because that cave extends several kilometers locals have performed rituals to pray for their safe return scott heiler has more from the cave entrance in shanghai. a third day of searching for these twelve boys and their football coach in the cave network behind me now goes sixty eight kilometers into this hillside that's just along the border between thailand and me and mar now divers have been in the water in this cave because it's been

flooded it's the rainy season right now i'm standing a couple inches of mud and that's making things very difficult for the rescue operations in that we know that the divers have been able to go into the cave network about a kilometer they're setting up a base there they strong in an electric cable so they can have power to stage there and go further in there been indications that the boys in the coats are still in there they have found handprints and some bags inside this cave network so they're still holding out hope that they're alive in there there are many challenges again yes it's a vast network but parts of it are cavities that will have air most likely in parts of it are going to be flooded so even when they find the boys in their coats they're going to have to bring them back out if the water stays in this cave network bring them back out train them on scuba very basic scuba operations so they can come out through the mouth of the cave here now helicopters have been flying on monday trying to look for another way out and also look for chimneys where they can possibly drop supplies down to the boys and a message saying we're out here we're looking for you but right now no definitive

proof that the boys are still alive there's been a makeshift village set up here just outside the mouth of the cave there's a tent area for family members and friends and villagers and that's growing quite bit quite a bit there about one hundred hundreds of people there and then also the rescue operation minister of interior just walked out of the cave a couple minutes ago the governor of chennai province is still in there talking and working with the rescue workers now there are deaths many different kinds of rescue workers here you've got navy seal divers you've got the national police you've got the army and you also got the national parks people here this is a national park in thailand they're also working all of them working together again this is the third day now trying to find any hope any indication they're holding out hope that those boys and their coach are live in this cave network. civilians caught up in laster siege of merari in the southern philippines fear that conflict may not be over president really go to terror tape declare victory over isolated melty fighters in october after a five month battle that siege left much of the city in ruins and displaced two

hundred thousand people. going has more from manila they're taking their anguish from are we to manila these are civilians who see their voices back in their home city have been muted because martial law is imposed all across the mindanao region and this is one of the rare forums where you hear civilian voices to d.c. we've heard from civilians who've lost their homes their livelihoods and loved ones in the five months long war that's started in the last year at the forum today they called on the government to act swiftly we would like a congressional hearing that will look into what really transpired and these see the human rights violations that are continuously being committed against civilians there hundreds and thousands of civilians remain displaced to this day and the need for humanitarian assistance remain dire and desperate civilians see no amount of sophisticated power point presentation or even an ostentatious declaration of

liberation basically of the war against the mode it can hide the very sad realisation on the ground that hundreds and thousands of civilians continue to suffer not just in malawi but all across the province of la now world leaders have been congratulating turkish president hyper to juan for his reelection and sunday's vote in the simultaneous parliamentary election the pro kurdish parties won almost twelve percent of the six hundred seats in parliament but they face alter natural nationalist rivals who also gained seats in the assembly voller ports and they are because our on the in southeastern turkey. the skyline of the yard across sunday night when the election results were announced. the pro kurdish democratic people's party or h d p celebrated winning sixty seven seats in parliament close to their highest achievement of seats three years ago all of that could you know sure we

only heard the results are going to be beneficial for our country people have made their choice we should respect it unlawful search and binds are good i'm not happy with the result because we're going to remain under one model really i think he has to adopt an attitude which are nurses all sides should stop marginalizing people and segregating them. the article is the capital of the care dish heartland in southeastern turkey nearly twenty percent of techies eighty million population are kids and they've long complained of political and cultural marginalization. a peace process initiated by the government of the ruling party resulted in more rights for the kids but it's been close and for the past three years because of renewed fighting with the quetta stand workers party the turkish government says that the k.k.k. is a television organization. h d p is the most prominent of care displayed can party is its leader salon did not run for president four years ago and was charged with

terrorism in two thousand and sixteen he's campaigned to become president this time with one from his prison cell kurdish voters say the election results came close to what they had anticipated but their future aims are much higher they also believe the president of the one needs to do much more during his new attempt to form a response to kaddish political aspirations for the sake of a more united and prosperous turkey how to make that happen is a major question the ultra nationalist party m h p which most opposes kiddish empowerment has and to the not is for all in a k party after winning eleven percent. the six hundred seats in parliament the m h p counterbalances the kaddish m.p.'s the m h p discourages any policy over consolation with the cats which could further complicate the peace process disintegrations are the election results are a component by worries about what the future holds in the new parliament and how

much fun and does iraq turkey. and u.s. president donald trump has criticized motorcycle maker harley davidson for its plan to move some of its production out of the country the company wants to avoid paying tariffs imposed by the e.u. as part of an escalating trade dispute robert also has more from washington. the growing global trade war is claiming some of its first victims in the u.s. motorcycle maker harley davidson announced it was moving some of its production overseas to avoid steep tariffs imposed by the european union. the e.u. action came after president donald trump slapped tariffs on european steel and aluminum harley davidson says it sold forty thousand motorcycles in europe last year it's not yet clear how many workers will lose their jobs trump tweeted surprised that harley davidson of all companies would be the first to wave the

white flag asked about the wisconsin based manufacturers decision white house spokesperson sarah sanders defended trump's trade policy the european union is attempting to punish u.s. workers with unfair and discriminatory trade policies and president trump will continue to push for free fair and reciprocal trade and hopes that the e.u. will join us in the meanwhile soybean farmers in the midwest are dreading the prospect of china taxing their product in retaliation for trump's tariffs on chinese goods so we'd be futures are already at their lowest in nearly a decade to export twenty five percent of your products any time your stock start talking train to go she mentions it's going to be a big impact on your business. tariffs have gone into effect on us cranberries peanut butter orange juice and levi's jeans also in a blow to european liquor aficionados and american distillers bourbon whiskey has

become costlier from lisbon to warsaw all thanks to e.u. retaliatory terrorists twenty five percent price increase is going to put us really expensive compared to other products that are already available in europe made by either european producers or indian or even japanese producers the kentucky distillers association urged trade negotiators to quote sit down over a glass of our signature spirit and resolve their differences rob reynolds al-jazeera washington. spain and portugal have both advance to the world cup knockout stages the video system yet again played a controversial role in their respective draws or europe why has topped the group a after beating host russia and the richardson as in moscow so explain portugal have

qualified out of group b. but few would have predicted just how close iran and morocco would come to causing a major upset political needed to drop a game against iran so make sure of their place in the knockout rounds they did cite the lead through ricardo charisma but iran was equalized in injury time through a penalty and they missed a big chance to win the game and not portugal out of the spain in that game against morocco white suit just needed a point to make sure of their place morocco were already out of the competition but seemed determined to leave a lasting impression they were leading to warn late into the game your go out spouse scored an equaliser through spain it was only given after video ruled he was on the side and spain sneaks through and they finish top of the group despite finishing level on points with portugal they scored one more goal it means spain will face towards russia in the last sixteen while portugal will be taking on europe why. so let's look at the four matches to be played on tuesday

a draw for denmark will be enough to see them advance to the round of sixteen along with france while there is everything to play for and her day is iceland nigeria and argentina can all still qualify along with croatia who have already guaranteed their spot and the knockout stage as you just mentioned one team through to the knockout stage is france excitement is building in the most deprived suburbs of paris where some of the top players grew up and tossed about reports. he's one of the stars of france's world cup team nineteen year old striker killing him pappas already schooled in the tournament in russia he's carrying the hopes of a nation but he's also inspiring young people back home in but they grew up in the paris suburb of bondi and children of his first club are bursting with pride. i'm so happy that becomes from here when people ask me where i play i said. and

immediately they know where i come from to train here so when we train here we want to be like in france players plays mattie in the goal or can say are also from paris is suburbs places where unemployment is high and people often feel marginalized these teenagers from on a superstar say the footballers are role models who have kicked away stereotypes. they came from misery and now they are successful people think everyone in the suburbs are scum but that's not true all the big players come from the suburbs. when france last won the world cup in one thousand nine hundred eighty many people saw the team as a symbol of multiculturalism that would help heal divisions today few expect a french victory to change lives but excitement still running high a paris is all the airport children from on they prepared to fly to russia their school raised money for the dream trip for these teenagers this is a trip of

a lifetime not only are they going to the world cup but they may even get to meet some of their favorite players. we're really lucky not everyone gets to do this it's unique and we want to make the most of it. i still remember the trips i went to another child but nothing like the world cup they'll never forget it. whether or not frogs wins the world cup the players from the suburbs have already won the hearts of these children and encourage them to reach for the dolls natasha al-jazeera paris. the headlines now on al-jazeera the world's chemical weapons watchdog is holding a special meeting at the hague it was requested by the u.k. after a nerve agent attack on a former russian spy and his daughter in england chemical attacks in syria will also be discussed barker is at the hague we just heard some of the opening remarks

of the chairman here the a.p.c. w. has called in the room to can see the u.k.'s proposal but this isn't the only proposal being considered over the course of the next two days russia house one of its indonesia we know has put forward one to that seems to have much less support than the u.k. is warm but all in all while the u.k. is hoping for is for the monday. to be extended to allow it to not just technically say whether chemical weapons have been used but to point the finger and attribute blame which country or individual actors all groups may have carried out chemical attacks anywhere in the world the un chief antonio terrorises calling on the world not to abandon the united nations agency for palestinian refugees organization known as says it facing a quarter of a billion dollars shortfall the u.s. slashed its funding by more than half an january or than five million refugees in the middle east rely on that agency for education food and just basic health

services during the king abdullah has met u.s. president donald trump at the white house insulators discuss the u.n. the u.s. administration's peace plan for israel and palestine senior advisor and son in law kushner says the plan will be announced soon with or without support from the palestinian leadership. the german chancellor is discussing europe's migration crisis with the spanish prime minister in berlin before the e.u. summit on thursday angle merkel's under pressure from her coalition partner to find an e.u. wide solution to stem the flow of refugees and emigrants she will separately meet the e.u. council president donald tusk later on tuesday navy divers have reentered a flooded cave in northern thailand to search for twelve boys in their football coach who were trapped after a heavy rain storm lockyer only way out of that cave on saturday or so the headlines the news continues analogies here after my tunisia keeper. the i.m.f.

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business updates brought to you by qatar airways going places together. this is al-jazeera. hello i'm adrian figure this is the news live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes syrian government forces say they've taken control of two towns as they advance further to capture the strategic city of. another diplomatic showdown looms as russia and western powers face off at the world's chemical weapons watchdog

conference. calls for a unified approach on migration as germany's leader meets the spanish prime minister ahead of a critical summit. and insupportable have all the latest from the world cup in russia as portugal's three total at fifteen after being held to a draw by iran. pros syrian government forces say they've taken control of large areas of the town of bush. in eastern darragh state media is showing troops believed to be iranian backed militia entering the sound earlier on tuesday however the rebel free syrian army says that fighting is ongoing in the area. has come under heavy ground attack in recent days as part of the government's campaign to retake the northeastern dead up province the u.n. says that forty five thousand people have. the violence will capture of bush at all

here is the first major government advance in that offensive it cuts off a key rebel supply line indebt a province allowing more pro-government troops to move in retaking the entire province adela would give the government control right up to the border with jordan all the way to the israeli occupied golan heights let's get some analysis on this now by talking with the ideas for how to use a strategic analyst and retired military general he joins us live from beirut what do you make of this offensive so wasn't dead a supposed to be a deescalation zone. yes the syrian army. had to take the two cities. and. thus connecting the government of. which all pro-government with the syrian. syrian deployed.

that will allow the syrian army to advance more southward towards the at the city of that i take it i think that connecting. with. and occupying the valleys of our allies that which we have full of. groups of i forget that the group that will allow. me to advance fast that i first thought of towards the city of that out situation. is that the russian or putin taking part in this operation thus making a. political military aggression come out over all the operation of course on the ground we have. hezbollah forces.

iranian gone sort of with them and it seems that the bottle of the dollar will soon out of than expected some forty five thousand people fled the violence what impact is this likely to have on they bring is it going to see another influx of people fleeing the fighting. yes. we have heard from jordan that they will deny any one to the jordanian soil and from the people who are running away i think that this is not about and such operations when thinking and rethinking. and. we see more and more when the syrian army approaches the city of that ah so some people will fled south of but i think that. if this if the

jordanian insists on their decision not to receive any. refuses that will make bubbles what all these civilians who flee the the but the from here and then at economically how is this going to affect jordan. yes if this syrian army reaches the point of not see which is connected to the cut off point of jabot and the jordan jordanian side of the syrian jordanian border that means the crossing point will open which means that convoys of trucks will come from syria to jordan but they are up an answer and someone come from lebanon as well and the when the turks fought it is that a lot of other reason or thought you had act would send that blacks then that means the movement of the crossing in jordan will flourish you know that.

the fees of the crossing in jordan they don't then make about five hundred million dollars of of out of these fees this is good for the economy of jordan as well as lebanon and syria ok good to talk to you so many thanks indeed. live in beirut and syrian state media says that israeli strikes have struck near damascus international airport activists say the target was an arms depo belonging to the lebanese own group hezbollah are a force that is following the story from west to restore. well as is usually the case after events like this there's been no official comment from the israeli military on this strike but it is being blamed on israel by syria's state media it says that two israeli missiles struck a target close to the damascus international airport the u.k. based syrian observatory for human rights says that target was a hezbollah arms depo this is been

a long term policy by israel to try to strike iranian or iranian links targets within syria trying to hamper iranian military activity inside the country if you go back to april there was a strike on the t four syrian military base it was reported that seven iranians were killed in may there was a volley of rocket fire israel said coming from syrian territory towards the occupied golan heights israel blamed that on the iranian revolutionary guard and responded with a huge blitz on targets within syria the biggest for several decades and then just last week there was a strike very close to the iraqi syrian border in which it was reported that twenty two iraqi fighters were killed so again no official comment no official confirmation from israel about responsibility for this latest attack but it would seem to fit in with what has become very much business as usual for israel's military chemical attacks in syria being discussed at

a special meeting of the world's chemical weapons watchdog in the hague that meeting was requested by the u.k. after a nerve agent attack on a former russian spy and his daughter in england one hour from sawyer gago i'm. young children being treated after an apparent nerve agent attack in syria the devastating effects all too obvious as that deadly compound was reportedly dropped over the perceived city of duma in april just one of a number of times that poisonous gases were used in syria as bashar al assad's forces sought to take control of rebel held areas. nearly a year and a half ago there was this attack in kuala lumpur international airport the half brother of north korean leader kim jong un targeted in full view of an unsuspecting public by v.x. nerve agent he later died in hospital over in the u.k. another targeted attack a full russian military officer and

a double agent said basically powell and his daughter yulia poisoned the substance in question by investigators to be navi chuck a nerve agent developed by the soviet union while such weapons have been widely banned since the end of the first world war when it was used to devastating effect routine condemnations by international leaders have done little to stop them and the attacks in syria have invariably been met with routine denials by bashar assad and his sponsor the russian government and they've been seen as a provocation to the international chemical weapons watchdog eleven member countries of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons called for an emergency meeting at its headquarters in the hague to defend and strengthen the global ban on such nerve agents. currently the organization only determines whether such attacks have taken place not who carried them out they want to use the session to set up a new mechanism so the a.p.c. w.

is able to assign blame for attacks carried out with banned munitions proposal would need a two thirds majority to pass and would likely face challenges from iran and russia which has previously criticized the o.p.c. w. in light of its findings in syria as well as souls. but there is an urgency to tackle the troubling spate of such dangerous and indiscriminate attacks attacks that have already cost the lives of too many civilians so yeah go. let's go live now to the hagar seriously parker is the knave is there any support for the new case proposal to in hans the role of the o.p.c. w. well you know there is of course initial support the u.k. has the backing of ten other permanent members of the a.p.c. w. to be able to hold this meeting in the first place we believe that that number is now possibly increased to around twenty but what we've seen really over the past couple of hours is really the negotiators and delegates here going round in circles

with the russian federation raising technical point after technical points in order to slow things down they have also been supported on the sidelines with points of order being repeatedly made by iran and also by syria what we have been waiting for is a row call vote on whether or not to adopt the agenda to move forward with talks over the coming days that now literally in the last few seconds has begun so it looks finally as if we may have made some movement in getting negotiations and talks started over whether or not of course to adopt the u.k.'s proposal to widen the o.p.c. w.'s mandate to attribute blame for the carrying out of chemical weapons attacks around the world of course the russian federation has its own proposal which is called simply for the a p c w to stick to its current game plan to stick to its current role without attributing blame but to allow countries to help strengthen

the role of the organization going forward could well judging by what's happened the last couple of hours be a very very long conference lasting possibly several days i was going to ask you and i've a feeling and i know the answer to this what you've just been saying what are the complications that exist here in getting the o.p.c. w to blame to apportion blame for chemical attacks. well there's a huge major philosophical question i think that's really been touched on by delegates here this morning the o.p.c. w. as you know is a technical body it's avoided wading into grand political diplomatic discussions by having basically chemical weapons inspectors go into the ground say exactly whether or not weapons have been used and possibly even say what kind of chemical weapons have been used but of course it's falling short of attributing blame if it does attribute blame which is what the u.k. wants in order to.