so the process has been going on challenges that they've been facing overnight tuesday into wednesday morning here now more rain a lot more rain we spoke to one of the head rescue commissioners yesterday and he said the biggest challenge is continued rainfall and that's what happened last night that's what's happening today so we hear that they had to retreat they have pumping stations within this network of caves and they had to retreat one because the water level was rising we know that at the end of day tuesday there were three kilometers in now we're hearing they had to retreat back because of the rising water levels other things we're hearing they're going to try to launch a couple of helicopters we know that there's one black hawk helicopter that will have some seal team members their plan is to try to repel down one of these chimneys these openings into this cave complex to try to do some searching that way also another larger helicopter do some kind of serving around the area again this is a network of caves that go all over the place looking for any possible entry exit any kind of signal any place they can maybe drop more food parcels in so right now

that's what we're looking at but because of the cloud cover because of the rain today it's really stunning these rescue efforts absolutely scott do we know what do we know about the children i guess they still are and what they were doing in the cave. yeah they're part of the move cademy football youth football team now they're very close they train very close to here it's not an actual academy it's not the same school where all these boys go to that are on this team i know there are twelve of them in stock in the cave now they came on saturday after a practice match very nearby they came here in the something that they've done before they actually used this cave complex in the last couple of years as a training facility for their matches and we know now that they have been training a tense league because there's a tournament that they're supposed to be part of next month we also know wednesday morning some of their team members not the entire team was in the cave complex some of their team members came out here to give information to the rescue workers may be where they train before we know that they are very well aware of this cave

complex so maybe they're giving hints of the where they might have retreated we heard on tuesday that some rescue officials believe they know where they might have gone to and that there's a cavity where they could be holed up with a decent amount of air supply but again you know we're looking at the fourth day right now is this so it's really the clock is ticking in these rescue workers are doing everything they can to get to where they might be any kind of indication where they might be but the rain is really working against them and has been scott thank you very much for that finale that scott hodler with the latest from chang thank you. 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 to sailing through the south china sea it's possible mission to be a show allies in the area. this continued presence in the pacific.

has supported our ability to defend our nation. but it also promotes our ability to safeguard freedom of the sea and indeed commerce to deter conflict in coercion and to promote it here in studios based international order. there are plenty more ahead on the news hour including both sides of the conflict in yemen who accused of using hundreds of child soldiers plus. we meet the spanish woman at the center of the stolen baby squid case searching for her real mother and in sports time's the charm for the n.b.a. player details later in the program. the u.n. says forty five thousand people are fleeing the fighting around the city of that

and southern syria they're heading for the border with jordan but the government says it won't let them in june reports. as the battle for debt intensifies pro syrian government forces say they've taken control of the two towns above sort of how do you know and believe that the opposition in the eastern that i countryside videos like this one purport to show troops many of whom are believed to be iranian backed militia members entering what sort of how do you on tuesday the town has come under heavy bombardment and it's captured is the first major government advance in this offensive that will allow the syrian army to advance more southwards thought of. the city of that i take it i think that connecting so wide with that and occupying the values of allies that that which we have full of. groups from the guy that forget

that the group that will allow. me to advance fast that i'm first thought of towards the city of that. by cutting off a key rebel supply line in that op province more pro-government troops will be able to move in retaking the entire province of debt 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. out of this of this of this and the syrian regime will take control of that will be good for everybody for the russians for jordan because jordan also although the jordanians actually are pretty concerned about any new influx of refugees inside jordan but they want very much to open the border crossing with syria because economically this is

a very important 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 rebel say they will continue to fight even as many wondered if this fight may be coming to an end. the israeli army says a rocket has been fired from the gaza strip earlier an israeli jet targeted a vet says was used to launch burning balloons from the northern part of the strip into israel or tension has been high in the area since late march when gazans began protesting at the border with israel. the u.n. special envoy to yemen is continuing his shuttle diplomacy to try to end the fight for control of the port city of hadera. president. aden on wednesday after holding talks with. week. reports.

of fierce fighting between with the rebels and forces loyal to yemen's president continues on what data threatening the lives of some six hundred thousand people saudi and amorality back 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 at 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. difficulty not knowing what is next. 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.s. minister of state for in are now. corp remote told reporters that the safety of civilians in her data is of the utmost importance withdrawal. from the city is essential we cannot imagine a setup that would work if they continue to be in the city but while those involved

in the fighting give all to made a mess many in the city are desperate they've been forced out of their homes without food or proper medical care and. she's two years old she has been suffering from diarrhea we still cannot find a proper food and a pharmacy doesn't have new medication doctors without borders is warning. could turn into besieged city with civilians caught inside the organization says it won't be able to help those injured when the warring sides began street to street fighting in the port city. john. 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 with the rebels and the saudi amorality coalition of recruiting child on the young as eleven years it says up to seventy six were used on the frontlines many got a check points in government buildings and took equipment to military positions. as

a political analyst who specializes on the yemen conflict and he says the u.n. has an obligation to hold those who have accrued child soldiers to account. the recruitment of shoulder and using them as shields and bringing them to the. you know word zones two to being gay than the conflicts and the wars and the killings it's a crime against humanity all parties the saudi look coalition and the whole of these have committed crimes and crimes against humanity and yemen and in particular against shoulder and they got them out they remove them out of schools they recruit them they do all kinds of violations that are actually listen to the local and international laws and i think this is all these people all these you know militias in the coalition need to be held accountable this is not new and to be honest this is only a fraction of what is being done to the shoulder and the future of yemen these are

the future of yemen and to kill the future of yemen killing the sheldon of yemen and without any accountability without any transparency this is a serious problem going into the future and i think the u.n. has an obligation to do what's right for yemenis and to hold those who committed these crimes accountable. the leader of the protest movement and morocco's refreezing has been jailed for twenty years via court in casablanca nasser's of sofie was sentenced for undermining state security and other criminal acts are to being arrested last may and number of other political activists were handed jailed ranging from two to twenty years rocco's for region was hit by social unrest last october after a fish monger was crushed to death in a rubbish truck. is taking the united arab emirates to the un's international court of justice for violating human rights has been prompted by the blockade of qatar by four countries which is now in its second year where lawyers for both sides will settle their arguments during hearings at the hague in the next three days victoria

gate and be explains. saudi arabia the u.a.e. behind egypt cut diplomatic relations with cattle last june imposed a blockade and expel qatar ease catalogs and eyes its neighbors accusations of supporting terrorism cattles national human rights committee estimates the blockade affected thirteen thousand people four thousand cases of human rights violations have been reported in the past year and it's affected all aspects of davie life in cattle education health the right to perform religious rituals own property or freedom to travel abroad and perhaps most crucially the right to family reunification in a region where family ties go beyond borders the blockading nations forcibly deported qataris and separated children from their parents rashid mother is qatari and his father is bahraini and gulf countries children take the citizenship of

their father he believes if he continues to defy an order by bahrain to leave cattle he'll lose his bahraini passport and be stateless once my passport expires what do i do do i stay here and not pursue my future because i don't have a passport because i did not want to go to the country that i hold the citizenship nothing else but the citizenship and that's some sort of leverage that they have against me the blockade in countries also crack down on the nationals for expressing sympathy for cattle with jail terms and fines catalyst for ministry says the u.a.e. is violating international law prohibiting racial and national discrimination in the u.k. has proposed giving more power to the world's chemical weapons watchdog by allowing it to name and shame those who carry out those types of attacks russia and its

allies syria and iran have strongly rejected the plan leave both of reports from the hague. the emergency meeting was convened at the u.k.'s request to give the chemical weapons watchdog behind the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons concurrently 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 the trees will feel able to support the decision tabled by the u.k. . the pursuit city of duma earlier this year schools of children being treated after exposure to an apparent nerve agent has 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 script and his daughter in the british town of souls. investigators concluded they were poisoned would not be chunky 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 international border .

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 the body concluded that four tanks had been carried out by bashar al assad and his regime and the two it being carried out by 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. mandate will undermine its independence member states will vote on whether to accept or reject the u.k.'s proposal on wednesday the result could lead to the biggest shake up in the organizations twenty year history. still ahead.

here and eritrea after twenty years of fighting and a. clash. later in the program. the weather sponsored by. how i want place to say we have got some dry weather now coming into southern parts of china following on from the weekend rain still a little bit of wet weather down towards the southwestern corner northern parts of vietnam where of course we have had some flooding and those showers extend their way or are across china will be downpours coming in here but as you can see by thursday it should be a little dry for southern parts of china few showers and just slide in the way

towards more than parts of the philippines want to showers in the south as well the usual rush of showers the heat of the day showers he will see the the clouds just bubbling up there across much of malaysia indonesia should stay largely fine and dry some heavy showers into that western side of borneo maybe over towards some monstrous towards the malaysian peninsula the heavier rain will be just to the north of ching so some showers in the forecast there for a k.l. for the good parts of thailand and then we go with that wet weather that we have pushing a rod across the bow have been go into me and ma the northeast of india still plenty of clout there just around the west and get some more big down pulls coming through here for wednesday's and now lets up in the summer rains as one would expect but notice the cloud and right it's nothing a little further north would so not as hot in the day thirty four celsius here on wednesday and forty back to just thirty one for thursday. the weather sponsored by qatar airways. every weekly news cycle brings a series of breaking stories with us in the truck than out on the board told

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it's good to have you with us on al-jazeera these are our top stories amnesty international is accusing me of carrying out a plan the systematic campaign against the hendra its latest report names thirteen military personnel it says of responsible for war crimes including murder rape and for starvation the human rights group says they should be tried at the international criminal court. proceeding and on the force of the very taken to tell and so the strategic province of that ah the u.n. says at least forty five thousand. people have fled the intensified fighting in the south there heading for the jordan but the government there says it won't let the men. and the u.s. supreme court. president travel ban on people from five muslim majority

countries. libya somalia and yemen from entering the u.s. well we've been speaking with a former u.s. department of justice official and steven rogers who is a member of the president advisory board and i asked whether the supreme court is still independent or reflecting the political divisions in the country. the decision certainly follow along partisan lines in terms of the five republican appointed justices ruled in favor of the president and the four democratic god justices ruled against the president but you know where i would have a beef with this decision is even if you thought that this version three point zero of the travel ban was narrow enough and i actually do say in that courtroom of fact that group of people the fact that the majority went through great pains to expand the ability of the president to basically institute any version of this is

problematic because they didn't have to do that they could have just said under these facts in this specific situation we will allow this particular proclamation that continue. mr rogers do you think that the supreme court's has a real national security justification for this ban yes i do keep in mind that it was president barack obama in two thousand and fifteen that picked out some of these nations rightfully so president obama actually called them countries of interest during his time and so the president didn't just win them but he picked these countries out that's number one number two in europe winning a. third there was an analysis there was studies this was research with regard to the chances of someone coming from these countries would be greater. than any other country to harm the united states and number three this is not and there was

a ban on muslims if a european american was in one of those countries and tried to come here without proper id without any. knowing where he or she is from they would be banned so the supreme court did in fact make that decision based on national security reasons mr fresco do you think that even if they did base this on national security reasons they should have taken into consideration donald trump's many of our mosques about wanting to ban muslims from entering america or his intention and to consideration here. i think the remarks are important that they can do a count i think complicated is you have to ask a question and this is a hard one for anyone to address in good faith which is are these the testable remarks that the president has made in the do they forever ban him from doing anything that actually is in the national security interests of the country and where do you draw the line and how do you draw that line and that way or the court

was wrestling with that's why i would have limited this opinion to the very narrow facts of this proclamation and if there's a future proclamation made citing the statutory authority we will analyze it again because that because i think it's dangerous to allow this authority given that we've already seen the president use national security as a basis to impose tire of. saying that that threatens our national security and so what are the chances then that you think the ban. expanded to include other countries. i think in the short term very high but in the immediate in the medium to long term i think if there's an issue where the president feels it's the his political advantage or his advantage to say to a country look if you don't want to do something with us on trade or on foreign policy or on something else and your people from coming in i could see that

happening and mr rogers you know donald trump is facing a lot of criticism at the moment for separating families of migrants from the u.s. and mexico this is a victory for him will he use this against what's happening at that border saying. well i don't think he will mr fresco brings up a very reasonable concern i would agree with him on this we don't want to see any president expand on what was ruled today and i don't think president trump will do that which goes to your point president trump again has kept the scenario national security very very concerned about criminals coming into the country very concerned about drug cartel people or human trafficking so the president has been very consistent on the reason why he wants to protect these borders and look no one including the president likes to see children separated from their parents the

president puts in forcing the law and now he's corrected that and how is separate saying families and separating very young children from their parents stuff and criminals and drug cartels. well to begin with once again he said forcing go or a lot of our children came unaccompanied a lot of the adults had no idea we don't know if a baby was taken from someone in a you know other country and cross the border here so what they did was. they had no choice but to separate them they're processing or you want to make sure a child is matched with a parent or a road that they came with and in addition to that these children are being taken care of pretty well even the democrats are agreeing that well you know what this is these are not there to recall any of detention facilities to psychology or sociologist doctors etc understanding they'll be a lot of people that disagree with you on that last point mr raja's unfortunately we don't have a lot of time left and i'd like to give the last word to mr fresco we're looking at

pictures now from new york of people protesting the supreme court ruling mr fresco's how much do you think that this ruling and what we're saying now just really once again is highlighting the divisions in the country well it's a difficult time because honestly a lot of these issues can be solved by people of good faith coming together and doing sensible immigration reform i mean for instance this issue of drug smuggling we can say all we want about policies in five years this will be a technological problem which is that drones will be smuggling all the drugs into the united states and these are not these are the kind of things we're not thinking about at all because we don't have policymakers of good faith coming together to come to solutions we have both sides saying you have to pick my solution and if you're not doing that you're not being bipartisan and that's not true we can have a lot of robust in force by him and have compassionate immigration laws and that's

what we should be focusing on. now president trump is on least an angry tirade at harley davidson on twitter one of the most companies will fail if it moves production overseas davidson says it plans to shift some of its operations to avoid paying some post by the e.u. but says the company will be taxed like never before when it tries to sell its goods back in the u.s. . libya's u.n. backed unity government has condemned the handover of oil ports by warlords. to a company linked to his allies the government called for the united nations to block any illegal exports out of libya that comes after half those forces recaptured two oil terminals of the east last week after ben announced he was handing over control of the terminals to the national oil company in bed. you know that was stressed to all international partners that the legal in the only channel is the national institution of petroleum in tripoli the security council

resolution or decisions then any dealings with any other entity except the national petroleum institution and libya. it's time for decades of hostility would ever try to end the two sides are holding talks for the first time since the diplomatic tifa seven twenty years ago the home of the reports from the capital. a warm welcome for members of the first trend in addition to visit that is in almost two decades they're here to discuss peace overtures but if you have the top raised hopes of a breakthrough in one of most militarist. if european prime minister ahmet say the earlier this month he was ready to or not all the times of a peace deal and of the country's one thousand nine hundred eight to two thousand conflict he suggested it would be willing to give up its claim to disputed land raising hopes of

a settlement toughest didn't roll over the border with three billion nets. every trillion and ethiopian people are brothers and sisters ship goes way beyond the border dispute peace between our two countries will be helpful to the people of the horn of africa and the entire continent at a tram president forward in a surprise move last week welcome what he called if he appears positive messages and decided to send his first official delegation to addis ababa former. trail of water for independence in one thousand nine hundred three it's approaching from ethiopia declared it. broke away with the portal as someone must so what. five years later the two countries went to war over the ports but over the smaller the village of but there on the border and who it belongs to. how the two countries dealt with the aftermath of the wall has had the most intimate impact on their citizens thousands of better term nationals were deported from ethiopia that had

three or two sent home ethiopians living and working within its territory dividing families and bringing businesses built over a long period your last a brahmananda term by both chose to stay in addis ababa and keep his job but the pro-government were custer when his entire family was deported in two thousand to the trail nothing prepared him for the two decades he spent away from his pardons and siblings. procedure mother 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 ended up walking for the state because they know the trail 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 borders 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 hostilities has raised hopes of a normalization of relations that might boost regional trade and lower tensions mohammed at all just a disciple the ethiopian. felt saddam's foreign minister says president salva care and revelator very much i have agreed on some points to end the civil war kerry has been attending the latest round of peace talks with his former deputy a stalinist houdini's capital khartoum the un has given both sides until the end of the months to reach a deal of face sanctions. aid workers in northeastern nigeria are warning thousands more people are risk of being displaced by the group boko had arm the norwegian refugee council says more than four thousand people are already without shelter in the town of choir. some bob boys two main political leaders have failed to attend a peace pledge signing in the next month's election president and the son of man

and god and m.d.c. leader nelson chamisa 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 bell the wire. a bill has been approved in the netherlands that bans face covering veils from some public building schools and hospitals critics say it's only a mr bad the bokeh the dutch off the house passed the law for the lower house approved it in two thousand and sixteen the ban includes helmets and ski masks and carries a four hundred fifty dollars fine flouted those in favor say it will make public buildings safer. to spain now where the first trial of the so-called stolen baby scandal is about to begin well thousands of children are believed to have been taken from their mothers over several decades an eighty five year old doctor is now on trial accused of stealing a baby girl and nine hundred sixty nine pizza shop reports.

that 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 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 the most famous eighty five year old eduardo is accused of abduction and the illegal adoption of an infant half 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 sold under the dictatorship of general franco. inspire.