says it won't let the men mohamed jump in the polls. as the battle for intensifies government forces say they've taken control of the two towns above sort of how do you know and really had an opposition in the eastern that are countryside videos like this one purport to show troops many of whom are believed to be iranian backed militia members entering sort of how do you on tuesday the town has come under heavy bombardment and its capture is the first major government advance in this offensive that will allow the syrian army to advance more southwards thought of that i'll bet at the city of that i take it i think that connecting. with that and occupying the valleys of allies that the which way are full of. groups from a guy that forget that the group that will allow. the syrian army to advance first

that i first thought of towards the city of that out. by cutting off a key rebel supply line and province more pro-government troops will be able to move in retaking the entire province of that i would give the government control over its border with jordan all the way to the israeli occupied golan heights. and in the extremely complicated terrain of syria's war analysts believe deals have already been made i believe that. the americans that we have a good deal with the russians now they are out of this of this of this anyhow and the city of beijing will take control of that will be good for everybody what is a need for the russians for jordan because jordan also although the jordanians actually are but it concerned about any new influx of refugees inside of them but they want thirty much to open the border crossing with syria because economically this is a bloody a more tenth lifeline for the jordanian economy according to the united nations

forty five thousand people have so far fled the violence and headed toward the border with jordan concerns are growing about the humanitarian situation no matter the regime's recent advances rebels say they will continue to fight even as many wonder if this fight may be coming to an end. as. the u.n. special on watching yemen is continuing his shuttle diplomacy to try to end the fight for control of the port city of hadera into motion buffet's will meet president. in aden on wednesday after holding talks with. us last week culture that the poet's. fierce fighting between the rebels and forces loyal to yemen's president continues on what data threatening the lives of some six hundred thousand people saudi amorality backed government forces launched their offensive to take the important southern port city two weeks ago on tuesday a saudi led coalition air strike hit a bus carrying displaced residents trying to leave the city the media said at least

nine people were killed. and several others including women and children were injured. human rights watch says it is extremely concerned that human rights violations and casualties have multiplied since the study led coalition intervene in the war three years ago human rights watch has documented eighty seven apparently unlawful coalition attacks which have killed nearly one thousand civilians a thousand deaths hospitals and clinics and capacity with thousands more injured and a new report on the use of child soldiers by both sides all sensational headlines that have yet to stop the so-called proxy war between saudi arabia and iran. aid groups worry an all out assault on what data may cripple the port and prevent essential food from reaching nearly eight million people. we were forced to leave our home difficult to be here our situation being out here not knowing what is next

we ran away from the bombing we only fled because we couldn't take it anymore. it's already more than a dozen aid groups are meeting in paris and pleading that those involved in the war in yemen do what they must to prevent a new humanitarian disaster most of these groups withdrew their workers from yemen ahead of the offensive that began on june twelfth because of major security concerns the u.a.e. minister of state for international corporation remote hashmi told reporters that the safety of civilians in her data is of the utmost importance she added that her government is in contact with un envoy martin griffiths stressing that the withdrawal of who the troops from the city is essential we cannot imagine a setup that would work if the who continue to be in the city and as you've seen continue to use civilians to use child soldiers to have land mines being sprinkled around the entire place but while those involved in the fighting give ultimatums

many in the city are desperate they've been. forced out of their homes without food or proper medical care. she is two years old she has been suffering from diarrhea i was having problems feeding her she couldn't eat when i asked the hospital they told me it was malnutrition we still cannot find a proper food and the pharmacy doesn't have that cation doctors without borders is warning dado could turn into the city with civilians caught inside the organization says it won't be able to help those injured when the warring sides begin street to street fighting in the port city. and the u.n. says it's counted more than eight hundred cases of children being used in the fighting in yemen a new report accuses both bills and the coalition of the crew. young as eleven years old and it says up to seventy six was used on the frontlines many got to checkpoints and government buildings and took a quote meant to military positions. we have plenty more head on the news hour

including. politics for an end to hostilities between ethiopia and eritrea after twenty years of fighting and to drive on from now taxi firm can carry on business in london pops there are conditions and in sports time's a charm for the n.b.a. players details but some are later in the program. the rescue is a confident football team stuck in a flooded cave in northern thailand for three days still alive and navy divers are taking part in the search for twelve boys and their coach they became stranded when heavy rain blocks they only exit scott. for a third day hundreds of rescue workers continue their search but still no sign of

the twelve players from the academy football team and the twenty five year old coach. it's not the first time that an outing at the tom long cave in northern chiang rai problems they're not just teammates but good friends to. come to has been under this tent since saturday her sixteen year old son is missing he's one of the oldest the youngest is eleven maybe at least if not just my son i feel bad that he is not alone so now i need to be strong so i can see his face again when he walks out of the cave she adopted i don't stand on when he arrived from myanmar at the age of two he's now fourteen and missing chin is hopeful the boys will survive and says they work well together we have very strong i want to see if you're a strong yes this is the mouth of the cave complex that runs some eight kilometers deep into these hills right along the border with myanmar the bikes from these four boys and their coats are still here just as they were left on saturday

a small makeshift village has been created for the rescue workers there divers cave climbers soldiers and forestry service workers the man in the morning at the museum and his own biggest challenge is in the rescue of two nation we are trying to pump out the water so the diving team cannot we need to string more electricity in the case to run the pumps we are pumping three kilometers in need more power and more help keeps coming in the race is on to find the boys with rescuers aware time is not on their side it's got harder al-jazeera chiang rai. the u.s. military has sent a third aircraft carrier to patrol the south china sea washington has been critical of china's growing military strength on new manmade islands the u.s.s. ronald reagan docked in the philippines capital manila after sailing through the south china sea as part of a mission to reassure allies of the area. this continued. presence in the indo-pacific has supported our ability to defend

our nation. but it also promotes our ability to safeguard freedom of the seas but indeed commerce to deter conflict in coercion and to promote it here are just two rules based international order now if he says it's time for the decades of hostility with ever trade to end the two sides are holding talks for the first time since diplomatic ties for seven twenty years ago the home of the reports from the capital at sabah. a warm welcome for members of the fost trained in addition to visit the disk of a bomb in almost two decades they here to discuss peace overtures by ethiopia the top raised hopes of a breakthrough in one of her because most of them with interest on the off side if you have been prime minister ahmet say the earlier this month he was ready to or not all the times of

a peace deal lot and of the country's one thousand nine hundred eight to two thousand conflict he suggested ethiopia would be willing to give up its claim to disputed land raising hopes of a settlement toughest getting drawn over their common border with three billion nets. every trillion and ethiopian people are brothers and sisters ship goes way beyond the border dispute the peace between our two countries will be helpful to the people of the horn of africa and the entire continent at a tram president assad is a forward in a surprise move last week welcome what he called if the o.p.'s post of messages and decided to send his first official delegation to addis ababa form a province of ethiopia eritrea walked for independence in one thousand nine hundred three its oppression from ethiopia declared its will landlocked resit broke away with the portal as someone must so what. five years later the two countries went to warm up over the ports over the small undusted village of button on the border and

who it belongs to. how the two countries dealt with the aftermath of the war has had the most intimate impact on their citizens thousands of it turned nationals were deported from ethiopia that had three or two sent home ethiopians living and working within its territory dividing families and running businesses built over a long period your last a brahmananda term by both chose to stay in addis ababa and keep his job at a pro-government were custer when his entire family was deported in two thousand and two at a trailer nothing prepared him for the two decades he spent away from his patents and siblings and i'm getting a new procedure much of my father died and i couldn't even attend his funeral it was painful not to see my mother for so long i'm so thankful that the two countries are finally talking about peace his brother benteke it's also a journalist and it up walking for the state because they need a trailer he fled to theo p. a few years ago to escape forced conscription into the army no less violent it was

strange to see two brothers on either side of the border us peeling propaganda and trading insults over the airwaves. many thea present at a trance are surprised at the speed at which things are now moving apart and easing of hostility to raised hopes of a normalization of relations that might boost regional trade and law tensions mohammed at all just a disciple the ethiopia. libya's u.n. backed unity government has condemned the handover of oil ports. to a company linked to has allies the government called for the united nations to block any illegal all exports out of libya comes after have to us forces recaptured two terminals in the last week after then announced he was handing over control of the terminals to the parallel national oil company in benghazi. that was all international partners that the legal in the only channel is the national

institution of petroleum and tripoli the security council resolution or decisions then any dealings with any other interests except the national petroleum institution in libya. as has president silva care and react much are have agreed on some points to end the civil war has been attending the latest round of peace talks with his former deputy this time in the sudanese capital khartoum the un has given both sides until the end of the month to reach a deal or face sanctions. aid workers in northeastern nigeria warning thousands more people are being displaced by the armed group. the norwegian refugee council says more than four thousand people are already sleeping rough without shelter in the town of. some bob was two main political leaders have failed to attend a peace pledge signing in the run up to next month's election president. and m.d.c. leader nelson coming so missed the meeting in the capital harare it comes days

after the president escaped unhurt from a grenade attack at a rally in the city of. germany's chancellor says an e.u. wide deal on the migration crisis will not be reached at a summit on thursday angela merkel blames sello e.u. member states for not resolving their differences earlier a medical and spain's prime minister petro sanchez agreed to cooperate on migrant policy but she still faces pressure from within her own government to deliver a deal this week. there is still some time needed to solve this and for this reason i spoke about working with countries that are willing on all dimensions of the migration policy the spanish prime minister spoke about the external donation and i spoke about the internal damage and in this spirit we will have through the talks in the coming days. you know if you know what i would like to tell the public in the media is that we will be going to this summit at the end of the week with a very constructive attitude and attitude of integration an attitude that we must

present proposals because we are experiencing it ourselves the only way to respond to immigration is through a common european approach. and six you countries have agreed to take in more than two hundred migrants stranded on a rescue ship off caused after days of bickering about the boat fate the lifeline has been at sea for more than five days after italy and malta refused to let it enter their ports but french president says each of the member states that include france italy and portugal will take a few dozen individuals and in austria hundreds of police and soldiers have been taking part in what's being called a migrant control exercise on the border that's the beginning of the new specialized police unit ted a major role in the drill or saw a crowd of people posing as a. once in a staged riot austria is pushing for tougher migration and asylum policies in the european union. a judge in the u.k. has said the taxi firm can keep operating in london at least for now the city had

stripped the taxi company of its operating license last september over safety concerns but an appeals court ruled that it has fifteen months to prove its problems are over for good paul brennan reports from london. as a business is a global disruptor turning the traditional taxi profession upside down and provoking protests bans and restrictions as it does it the company is now valued at more than seventy billion dollars and after starting with just three hundred u.k. drivers in two thousand and twelve now has sixty thousand u.k. drivers forty five thousand of them in london but it's had a confrontational relationship with the london regulator t.f. out the company boss told elbridge admitted that previous correspondence for example with the regulator had been inaccurate incomplete and in adequate they accepted that the reporting of crime for example was not what it should be that said the judge despite acknowledging

a gung ho approach by the company in the past was willing to give it the benefit of the doubt and granted a fifteen month probationary license under the strict supervision of t f l who but insisted that since last year there have been wholesale change in the way it now conducts its business it was now transparent and open but has u.k. boss tom eldridge declined to be open with the media afterwards instead issuing just a brief written statement we are pleased with today's decision we will continue to work with t.f. l. to address their concerns and earn their trust while providing the best possible service for our customers with a body representing london's traditional black cabs is not happy at all they've admitted a catalogue of errors in their treatment c.f.l. as a regulator and basically the magistrate has said i will as long as you've apologized and everything's going to be good for merrill we can move forward i mean this decision was an absolute disgrace and one former driver says c.f.l.

now needs to prove itself too to a fellow new tackled over at the end of a five year license term why was cheerful not on top of this throughout the license terms that's the question we need to be asked now is that changed as well is it capable of managing a goober is on probation will it now play fair or take t f l for right paul brennan al-jazeera westminster magistrates'. still ahead on the news hour good fellow not taking. but as. several u.s. states taking action on my point children being split from their parents plus. for me the spanish woman at the center of a storm babies court case has been searching for her real mother and sports defending champions germany prepare for another must win a world cup clash don't have the details on the program.

we've got the rain clouds gathering across the east the side of the u.s. maybe into eastern parts of canada as well as the tree has been down to the southeast in kona around the carolinas around the panhandle area without a line of cloud another system just sliding across the northern plains for the rockies just making its way further towards the appalachians watch this guys come back into what we will see some very heavy downpours anywhere from that eastern side of the lakes is coming out of ontario right the way down into the deep south just towards our console a few showers there into louisiana west of that is just a lousy try we could do with the right in northern california coast where we have the wildfires fausto but into into colorado dry denver getting up to thirty seven

celsius we'll see temperatures around nineteen for san francisco twenty six for i come a little further north you might just catch wanted to showers into british columbia a few showers into central parts of the u.s. but it's the eastern side of the country where it will stay pretty wet and these are big downpours that will be some localized flash floods from time to time some showers to still affecting the greater antilles particular across cuba western side of the caribbean sea in the line of the cloud and indeed the right further east it's fine dry and sunny. it was a war that united egypt and syria against israel but in the heat of the battle that different agendas soon became apparent i suppose the dream was to avenge to see tonight the sixty seven when president sadat came to power he told us just give me ten centimeters of land in the east the second of

a three part series the israeli population were told that their troops were on the west bank of the su is going to explore the second week of the war in october on al-jazeera. as it simply takes a tougher line of migrants organized crime is making vast profits from the misery. people in power investigates the state funded perception centers where the helpless are reduced to commodities ripe for exploitation. goods.

that have you with us on the al-jazeera news hour things are our top stories the u.s. supreme court has now evolved to uphold president donald trump's travel ban on people from five muslim majority countries calls it a tremendous victory for the american people the bad for habits most people from libya somalia syria and yemen from entering the u.s. from the syrian government forces had a very taken two towns in the strategic province of the u.n. says at least forty five thousand have fled the intensified fighting in the south heading for the jordan border but the government there. says it let them. and the u.n. says count on more than eight hundred cases of children. and the. eleven year old many got to checkpoints on government buildings and carried equipment to military positions.

president donald trump's administration. families the states want to force officials to children but their parents they think families a separation despite thomson executive order to end the practice gabriel has this report oh now they protest in america in texas and across the u.s. people are demanding answers to why the u.s. government is still detaining undocumented migrants and keeping children in shelters it's been one week since president donald trump signed an executive order abruptly indeed the policy of family separation of migrants a policy he put into place that's only added to the confusion on how to implement rapidly changing policies from the administration especially as video emerges from inside the detention centers of suffering children. on tuesday senators were reminded that the government is legally limited on how

long it can keep migrant families together in detention right now i would gladly put these children back with their parents in the custody of ice or customs and border patrol but i legally can't because a twenty day mark will just be they have to be sent back we need congress to change this twenty day limit on parent unification or we need to stop criminally prosecuted. but far from the halls of power more than two thousand children are still separated from their parents some for months with no end in sight to the crisis on the southern border it's easy to start to just think of this is nothing more than a store. policy what's the latest news out of washington what's the latest thing trump has tweeted or think of it as nothing more than numbers how many families remain separated but in the end it's not about any of that it's about the human condition real people fleeing poverty and violence in their home countries to try

to come to the united states across this border and when they finally get here many are now discovering it's not what they expected for miriam. the pain of separation from her four year old son is real. i couldn't say anything to him because they took him from me when he was asleep he took my son it was friday night going on saturday they meant for me me gratian told me get your son ready because we're going to take him with my group detention centers a capacity to be built on military bases migrant families. reunited the rest wondering the same as everyone else what comes next. brownsville texas. now president trump is unleashed an angry tirade at harley davidson on twitter one end of the motorcycle company will fail if it moves production overseas harley davidson says it plans to shift some of its operations

to avoid paying towers some posed by the e.u. but trump says the company will be taxed like never before when it tries to sell its goods back in the u.s. . coffers foreign minister mohamad been up there has held talks with the u.s. secretary of state and washington d.c. he discussed bilateral relations with my pompei as well as the saudi and that blockade against her which is now into its second year also in jordan reports. the meeting between the u.s. secretary of state like pale and the qatari foreign minister bahama. dani lasted just about thirty minutes. afterwards the qatari foreign minister told reporters here at the state department that the biggest policy issue for doha in fact was on the table with clinton i would have to see up to a boy and we dealt with the crisis in the gulf within the context of the regional issues the u.s. is playing a positive role in the gulf crisis in support to the efforts of the kuwaiti emir

there are ongoing efforts by the u.s. and all our friendly countries to gather the parties around the table the state of qatar has expressed its clear situation and accepted to meet the others around a negotiating table within the framework of respecting the sovereignty of the countries respecting the international law and having a clear road map for these meetings the troubled ministration has called on saudi arabia and its allies to remove the blockade on qatar before a planned september summit between gulf nations and the united states here in washington when asked whether he thought that actually would be the case and if the summit would go forward told reporters he's not sure but the country is hopeful. the u.k. has proposed giving more power to the world's chemical weapons watchdog to name and shame those who carry out those types of attacks russia and its allies syria and everyone have strongly reject the plan they both have reports from the hague. the

emergency meeting was convened at the u.k.'s request to give the chemical weapons watchdog more bind the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons can currently only establish where and when an attack happened not who's responsible britain's foreign secretary urged member states to back the u.k.'s plan and allow the o.p.c. w. to attribute blame this is an opportunity to restore the global ban on the use of chemical weapons and to strengthen the a.p.c. w.'s ability to respond to any violations and i hope countries will feel able to support the decision tabled by the u.k. . the pristine city of duma earlier this year scores of children being treated after exposure to an apparent nerve agent as bashar al assad's forces sought to take control of rebel held areas since two thousand and twelve the o.p.c. recorded four hundred gc's of chemical weapons in syria and a year and a half ago

a brazen assassination at kuala lumpur airport the half brother of north korean leader kim jong un attacked with a deadly chemical substance he later died in hospital and in march the attempted murder of former russian double agent sergei scrip owl and his daughter in the british town of souls. investigators concluded they were poisoned would not be choking a nerve agent developed by the soviet union. russia and its allies syria and iran strongly oppose britain's proposal russia's published a plan of its own only the un it says can apportion blame the only international border. all the responsibility. to rebuild their responsibility is currently the united nations security council this isn't the first time that there's been an attempt to point the finger at those responsible for carrying out chemical weapons attacks in two thousand and fifteen

the un security council in partnership with the o.p.c. w set up the joint investigate three mechanism to look into allegations of chemical weapons use in syria that body concluded that four attacks had been carried out by bashar al assad and his regime the two are being carried out by eisel but the work of that organization was short lived after russia refused to extend its mandate. the u.k. says russia is trying to protect its ally syria russia says extending the o.p.c. w.'s mandate will undermine its independence member states will vote on whether to accept or reject the u. case proposal of wednesday the result could lead to the biggest shake up in the organizations twenty year history they've balk at the hague. to spain now with the first trial of the so-called stolen baby scandal as about to begin thousands of children a believed to have been taken from their mothers of a several decades and eighty five year old doctor is now on trial accused of

stealing a baby and nine hundred sixty nine pizza shop reports. are. what they call themselves the stolen babysit association each of them horribly scarred by the loss of the newborn and each of them could tell an all too familiar story. you know doing my baby was with me for the first day i fed her she was fine then they took her away to wash her but they didn't bring her back three days later they told me she was dead they gathered outside the municipal courthouse in madrid but they were denied a confrontation with the gynecologist standing trial you know not washing the most famous eighty five year old eduardo valle m. is accused of abduction and the illegal adoption of an infant off a century ago he's the first person to appear in court charged with involvement in a secret practice that saw hundreds of thousands of baby stolen was sold under the

dictatorship of general franco. in spain there was a mafia top network of baby boy right up to the early ninety's when democracy was already well established and it dates back to the fifty's under the franco dictatorship it took newborns from their mothers who had just given birth and sold them for the equivalent of three hundred euros in the fifty's to six thousand euros in the ninety nine seasons of england. many of the babies were from single mothers and they were placed with families that supported the franco regime and now there's a determination to pursue those responsible despite any statute of limitations let everybody know. i'm fifty years old i was stolen and i have not expired here i am look at me i'm fifty years old i want to expire no money is enough for any of us they have stolen al lives. in his matter the gal who brought the case to court says for sixty years spain was the baby supermarket for europe and south america. she's

now forty nine has been searching for her real mother all her life. the trial is only due to last two days and magical says it's unlikely to provide her with the answer is that she's been looking for but she hasn't given up when it was his posse lega that went on it out what it is possible that in some way it will open a road to reduce the great gap between the two thousand planes that have been for now and the one that has gone to trial but more importantly she says it offers the potential for similar actions the thousands of cases to be reopened peter shop al jazeera. still ahead on the news hour i'm on the richardson of the world cup in simply to spur biology insane and lino messy the result they needed to stay alive and that's one of the.