finally dr a rescue ship with more than two hundred refugees and migrants arrives in malta after six days at sea. and sam is a damned this is al jazeera live from dollhouse so coming up setting up a summit the white house and kremlin agreed to a meeting between donald trump and putin. from the south china sea to north korea nuclear talks busy agenda as the u.s. defense secretary says it's asia. from yemen's president to host the fight is the

key port city of. more than two hundred refugees and migrants of reached land after being stuck at sea while european leaders argued about their fate the charity ship lifeline has docked in malta but only after eight countries agreed to take a share of the migrants johnson reports from. after six days it's the lifeline finally came to dock at the letter but also to be impounded the multis government says it is not registered as the search and rescue ship has failed to obey the orders of the italian coast guard and often switched off its transponder to disguise its position raising suspicions that the ship could be deliberately helping smugglers the head of a. mission lifeline says italian authorities opens the investigation against it and

suspects political motives under the new anti migration government in rome because the lifeline operated without problems last year we started in the last year and in september. we were starting here. and we had a fight we had five missions with this board last year and rescued five hundred forty nine people for the two hundred thirty three people from sub-saharan countries on board it was the end of an ordeal seven european union members agreed to help malta with their asylum claims that agreement persuaded the maltese government to allow the lifeline to dock. the life line six day odyssey ended here a boiler war the refugees and migrants have carried will have their asylum interviews in europe but will thora to say this is an individual arrangement there's no guarantee of safe harbor for future shiploads italy's refusal to accept

search and rescue ships has opened a new rift in the e.u. it's twenty seven leaders a broadly divided between two camps those who believe in collective action and a growing insurgency that says the e.u. needs to push its defense outward creating process in camps in africa and the middle east allowing no one to cross these waters multis premier says the hardliners are attempting to politicize a practical issue what i think it is is surely a situation where there were member states who show that for the values of europeans. are not something to be fought just treat. but that we asked i don't think it's all about. grandstanding and. i like political. experience it's how we act cooperation. and how to manage the situation solidarity is certainly what these multis teenagers have in

mind when they think of europe i think they should be divided by a different kind. so we don't have much coming here anymore i thought it was a small plane. but not all european countries feel they're in the same boat jumps are all plus al-jazeera the letter. politicians in the u.s. house of representatives have rejected an immigration bill which would have addressed the crisis of families separated at the border with mexico it also would have given the president twenty five billion dollars to build the wall along the border as well as long term protection for children brought into the country illegally by their parents a vote on the bill has been delayed twice in attempt to rally support the u.s. and russia say a summit between their two leaders will take place but few further details have been released officials say the talks between donald trump and live in mere putin

will be held in a third country comes a day after trump's national security advisor john bolton met the russian president to moscow our state department correspondent roslyn jordan reports from washington . it was the warmest of welcomes for john bolton the national security advisor for u.s. president donald trump is greater president vladimir putin's west but he just must cool off so your visit to moscow gives us hope that we can at least make the first steps towards restoring for formal relations between our states bolton build his political career criticizing the russian government but on this trip bolton suggested better days were in fact ahead even in earlier days when when our countries had differences arab leaders and their advisers met and i think that was good for both countries good for stability in the world and president from the feels very strongly on that subject trump has long wanted closer ties with putin

even in the face of allegations moscow was trying to throw the twenty six thousand election trumps way and that trumps campaign knew about it all the time they like to tie me to russia and they say such bad things about potent and then the supposed to go shit was potent why would he do this in the middle of the moeller investigation trumps aides told him not to see too much after putin one reelection in march he ignored them. call with president putin and congratulated him on the victory has a lector all victory and even though russia was kicked out of the g eight for annex in crimea in two thousand and fourteen trump recently said it was time to reverse course russia would be in the mood if it be a part of you know whether you like it or not even though the two countries are still at all odds after a former russian spy and his daughter were poisoned in the u.k. in march washington expelled sixty russian diplomats moscow responded in kind the

u.s. criticizes russia for violating the rights of political activists and journalists and it says moscow should be stopping by attacks on. syrian civilians however the u.s. secretary of state told congress on wednesday ignoring moscow is not an option we have been harder on russia in this administration than has been the case in many previous administration the president is looking forward to an opportunity to find those handful of places where we can have productive conversations that lead to improvements for each of our two countries political observers in both russia and the us doubt the upcoming summit will be anything more than theatre but that maybe all the two leaders want any well in jordan al-jazeera washington u.s. defense secretary james mattis has been in china's capital for talks on the regional security territorial disputes in the south china sea and the presence of

u.s. troops in south korea were the main issues discussed in beijing mathis's next stop is south korea craigslist and follow this report from jeju island where matters will meet with a south korean counterpart. this will be the third meeting between the defense secretaries this year and on the agenda the main topic of course will be the alliance between the united states and south korea and moving forward following the announcement that the alliance will be suspending these military exercises off the korean coast which have so angered north korea in the past freedom guardian the biggest of those military exercises involving some seventeen and a half thousand u.s. soldiers has been suspended and more recently the announcement that they will suspend two other exercises the careen korean marine exchange program drills of course this has been woken by the north koreans who saw these as provocative mr trump himself admitted they were provocative but also said they were expensive

which may be one of the reasons that they've decided to act on this suspension certainly the issue of how that will be played out going forward and what that means for security in the region will be discussed by mr song and mr madison at today's meeting those issues and how serious north korea is about continuing these peace negotiations being discussed here at the peace for him in jail where academics and political leaders are looking at into korean re conciliation and the issue of denuclearization on the korean peninsula attacks via pro-government forces on for medical centers in the rebel controlled syrian province of have killed thirty two people including ten children russian banks regime forces are trying to recapture the region the area is close to the border with jordan and the israeli occupied golan heights it's posed to be part of a deescalation zone and the situation and could be worse than the siege of

aleppo in eastern alter that's the dire warning from the u.n. special envoy to syria our diplomatic editor james faces more. it's a pattern of violence that syria has seen a number of times before like darius aleppo in eastern guta it's been a carefully planned military offensive by the assad regime using artillery and other indiscriminate heavy weapons the syrian government's planes assisted by the might of russian air power the u.n. special envoy briefing the security council by video link said he was deeply concerned it could be like limbo and if they're caught that combined together in terms of the population in the area some forty five thousand people all of fifty dollars in the ear have already been displaced due to fly during the u.s. and its allies called out russia saying it and the syrian government would

breaching an agreement on deescalation in southwest syria made last year the united states can confirm that russia itself launched air strikes in the southwest the escalation zone in recent days to be clear the unilateral military operations underway by the assad regime and russia in southwest syria represent a violation of the cease fire arrangement reaffirmed by president trump and president putin some humanitarian groups and now calling on jordan to take action some of those fleeing the violence in southern syria have nowhere to go and the jordan syria border remains closed james pays out just era of the united nations two car bomb attacks in our free and in northwestern syria have killed at least eleven people turkish fact forces captured after three men from kurdish y p g fighters in march after a two month military campaign. yemen's president is demanding who think rebels

withdrawal from a date a province present updatable months old hardee's ultimatum comes after he met the united nations special envoy the u.n. fears an all out assault on the ports says he could trigger famine pulled santa jan reports. in the southern yemeni port city of port data hundreds of desperate people wait in line for a handout food. the health care is. eight million people rely on the food that comes through the port the offensive by saudi and their morality backed government forces is hurting them already shops bakeries and restaurants are closed and grocery shelves remain bare where available price of wheat and vegetable oil have increased by about thirty percent while prices of cooking gas increased by fifty two percent in the last week the u.n. says most areas of the city don't have electricity or water it warns that any sanitation problems could trigger another cholera outbreak. hundreds of thousands

have been infected by cholera in the theory since the war began four years ago ten thousand people have been killed and three million of yemen's twenty eight million people have been forced to leave their homes. there are thirteen thousand nine hundred seventy four internally displaced families inside the province of hyundai to the humanitarian organizations efforts only meet ten percent of what's necessary at the cmin aid organizations meeting in paris some participants wonder how the west claims to be worried about the plight of yemenis but continues to sell arms to the saudis and amorality six time on hold because it's extremely complicated to discuss the humanitarian situation and peace process while bombs are being that randomly dropped on civilians heads. as fighting continues in yemen the un's envoy remains hopeful that a political solution can be found who will say they're willing to hand over management of a data port to the u.n.

but them roddy's demand out who the fighters leave the city altogether as a precondition for any peace deal. in the meantime the prognosis for the southern port city where data is not good for centuries yemen was known as the arabian peninsula as most fertile land it was often called the arabian felix latin for happy or fortunate. now yemenis find themselves in what the u.n. calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis paul chatterjee on al-jazeera. still ahead on al-jazeera in thailand the setback in the race to rescue a group of teenagers stranded in the cave was. protesters demand action now policeman is charged with murder for shooting an unarmed black teenager.

i. mean the weather sponsored by cattle. hello again we'll start this time by a look at the event and western parts of asia still want to see showers across stan but otherwise don't we find conditions on marty coming a twenty nine it's pretty hot there in tashkent and his back is down mid thirty's mid thirty's also for tehran baghdad forty four degrees pretty hot weather there and down into kuwait temperatures when excess of forty but generally for a change is looking fine across much of turkey we seem to have lost the most of the shower activity and that fine weather largely continues to head on through into friday further south it should be a fine day in beirut with highs of twenty seven degrees into the arabian peninsula and weather conditions here looking fairly quiet temperatures mid forty's much as you expect at this time of the year here in doha the winds easing down temperatures get into the low forty's and not continuing as we head into friday patchy cloud around there you'll notice now into southern parts of africa it's

a fine picture here so we'll do well in this region too long a little bit of patchy cloud for the eastern cape but otherwise a fine conditions continue into friday lusaka zambia their highs of twenty three central parts of africa we've got showers all the way from the ethiopian highlands through south sudan and run the gulf of guinea with some heavy downpours expected here certainly for both lagos in nigeria and ghana we could see some heavy showers with temperatures of around twenty nine so whether it's sponsored by qatar airways . way way when this idea. when they're on line it's undoubtedly. call of poverty and inequality in our society today or if you join the sunset criminal justice system is dysfunctional right now this is a dialogue what does it feel like bring you to go back for the first time everyone has a voice and allow refugees to be discrete there is first change join the conversation on our.

you're watching out to zero mileage out of our top stories this hour more than two hundred refugees and migrants stuck at sea while european leaders argued about their fate have reached land after a six day stalemate the charity ship lifeline has docked in malta a.t.u. countries agreed to take a share of the migrants. u.s. defense secretary james mattis is in china's capital for talks on regional security territorial disputes in the south china sea in the presence of u.s. troops in south korea with the main issues discussed in beijing.

attacks by pro syrian government forces on for medical centers in the rebel controlled province of data have killed thirty two people including ten children russian backed forces are trying to recapture the region. more heavy rain in northern thailand has hampered the search for a football team missing for four days in the flooded cave which rescuers remain optimistic that teenagers are alive in the past cave explorers have been found when floodwaters receded scant high blood has more from outside the cave chiang rai. heavy rain overnight between wednesday and thursday brought the water level in the cave system to its highest level yet but now that on thursday morning the rain has light the water level has retreated a bit but the pumping systems are still sitting idle you can see a lot of the hosing over my shoulder now on wednesday morning they're putting hundreds of meters of a hose in there trying to go deeper into this cave system that has stopped that is

halted because of that heavy rain overnight on wednesday and now they're waiting to see how the conditions go here on thursday even though the rain has stopped no part of the problem is yes the water level but also the water is very muddy now this is turned in through the international operation we have a team from the united states and from the united kingdom here as well as from laos they're going to provide their expertise to try to push further into the cave system no right now they're about three kilometers in they believe there's speculation that team and their coach might have retreated to a chamber that's about five to six kilometers and that's why you see a lot of this hose behind me because they hope to further move in now while that's going on well that's on idol on hold i should say they're also serving the area on the outside trying to find a fourth chimney a fourth tunnel upward tunnel to get into they found three but they were impassable so that's where the focus is right now and as the day goes on we'll see if they can get these pumps back moving and also if they find that fourth jim thai human rights

lawyer has been sentenced to sixteen months in prison physician of or a facebook post. published come and savant tynan's nine hundred thirty two revolution would change the country from an absolute monarchy to a constitutional government he received five months each count plus an additional month refusing to let officials take his fingerprints thailand has some of the world's strictest laws on protecting the moment he. one of the nine members of the u.s. supreme court is retiring giving the u.s. president the chance to bring in a new justice anthony kennedy was appointed by ronald reagan thirty years ago he was often the key vote on controversial issues but appointing a successor could lead to a lengthy and bitter battle unofficial reports from washington and from a kennedy spent thirty years as a u.s. supreme court justice he may have been appointed by a conservative president but he was often the crucial swing vote on controversial

issues abortion was one in one thousand nine hundred he rejected a law which insisted parents had to be notified if a minor was seeking an abortion and he supported gay rights writing the majority opinion on all four of the court's landmark rulings on the issue including the constitutional right to same sex marriage his retirement had been predicted he informed the president on wednesday and no donald trump gets to nominate a new supreme court justice his second in less than two years we will begin our search for a new justice of the united states supreme court that will begin immediately. and hopefully we're going to pick somebody who will be as outstanding. the supreme court was an important election issue for donald trump many conservative christians threw their support behind him hoping he would change the make up of the one person bench when given the opportunity barack obama had

a vacancy to fill in his final months in the white house but republicans blocked him repeatedly now the top republican in the senate which confirms any appointment has asked democrats to play fair it's imperative that the president's nominee be considered fairly and not subjected to partial or touch. yes in three months of taking office donald trump appointed neil gorsuch a conservative favorite now he gets a second pick which could cement a conservative majority on the court for years to come so will writes criminal justice everything is on the line with this new justice being appointed kennedy was the second oldest justice on the court the oldest is repeated ginsburg considered to be a reliable liberal vote it's no belief she's less likely to stand on the head of the next presidential election giving donald trump a third supreme court pick alan fischer al-jazeera washington a police officer in the u.s. state of pennsylvania has been charged with murder for shooting an unarmed black

teenager the incident was captured on mobile phone video and led to widespread demonstrations in east pittsburgh christian salumi reports. it's a scene that's become all too common in the united states demonstrators pour into the streets to vent their outrage over their lease officers killing of an unarmed black man but in this case the calls for justice have resulted in criminal homicide charges against a thirty year old east pittsburgh police officer it was michael ross fields first day on the job with the east pittsburgh police department when he shot an unarmed seventeen year old it's an intentional act recklessly. and there is no justification for the district attorney said there was no evidence the officer's life was threatened cell phone footage from the scene showed and when rose was running away when the officer fired on him are assuming no mean feat a bullet hitting him in the back the officers lawyer says he acted reasonably given

rose had been in a car that was used in a drive by shooting earlier that day another passenger in the car has been charged for that crime but rose's family said that was no excuse for officer rumsfeld's actions he was a passenger in a story so from the wrong place at the wrong and in no way justified his murder why are we. going by. the charges are exactly what protesters have been demanding he still has a long way to go to get the conviction they say and one rose deserves christianson only al jazeera. the us call to sentence the libyan national to twenty two years in prison for attacks on the american consulate in benghazi u.s. ambassador and three american citizens were killed in the raids in september two thousand and twelve a jury acquitted. of murder attempted murder in november he was convicted on all the charges including terrorism and conspiracy political parties in

mexico and the final few days of campaigning ahead of sunday's presidential election the country's largest vote in modern history nine governorships and hundreds of county positions are also being contested latin america and its aloose in human has more from mexico city. mexico city's has put full stadium for the final campaign rally a month this month i love visible that a lot of the business that's going and that it was a party to love polls on the presidential election on sunday it was a. good seat to supporters who say that they had to make very this is the first time that my little visible daughter has tried to leave the presidency for years has been a little problem but this time it seems that a certain amount of trailing in second place is we can't learn from the

conservative national action party more than it is well spoken well educated but he has absolutely no administrative experience he's never been elected to office before and he also has the disadvantage of representing a political party that has twice had the presidency and according to most mexicans fell short of their expectations and their base is one and paul you'll meet he is a former finance minister of the current government the most popular government according to polls in recent mexican history and that is of course his biggest handicap the big issues here are corruption and violence which have reached record levels here in mexico with just a lot to say some thirty thousand people were killed in two thousand and seventeen and two cows of eighteen is expected to surmount even that because of the rising crime levels among one of us old our lord says that he is going to rule by example

he is the only candidate who has not been tainted by corruption scandals but that may not be enough to do the job still at this hour the people who support him believe that he will be the next president who will be the one to bring change to this country and if the polls are correct he will be the next one to would least give it a shot. well members of the world's chemical weapons watchdog of passed a resolution giving it the power to assign blame for illegal attacks the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons has until now a lank the mandate to name parties it believes responsible for chemical attacks russia along with syria and iran had aggressively opposed the move moscow said the move was a sign the o.p.c. w. was on the brink of collapse if barca has more from the hague. the u.k.'s proposal to allow the o.p.c. w. to attribute blame for carrying out chemical weapons attacks has won the backing of the majority of member nations of the o.p.c. w the proposal was tabled by the u.k.

in light of what they described as the spate of chemical weapons attacks globally since two thousand and twelve including recently in march the attempted murder of the russian double agent surrogates cripple and his daughter. along with other chemical weapons attacks elsewhere in the world including syria and iraq well on tuesday britain's foreign secretary voiced johnson came here in person and urge member nations to back britain's plan this is how he responded to the result after the recent stage of the use of chemical weapons research i don't swear it's great so many of our friends and partners supported the u.k. today and the result of this book is that the c.w. with our vision. of chemical weapons now has extra powers russia has

been firmly against the u.k.'s proposal throughout saying that the only your thoughts when it comes to apportioning and attributing blame for things like chemical weapons attacks lies with the un security council the heads of the russian delegation accuse britain of blackmailing some smaller nation members of the o.p.c. w into supporting britain's proposal the head of the delegation had this stark warning about the future of the world's chemical weapons watchdog me. fetal fetal blue. musicians we don't know what it looks like. the all new organization that will now of course be a process of implementing these changes to the mandate of the o.p.c. w. we believe that chemical weapons inspectors currently on the ground in syria will already begin to start attributing blame for who they believe may have carried out

attacks there this is regarded very much as the big a shake up to the world chemical weapons watchdog and its twenty year history. sounds in syria and these are your headlines now more than two hundred refugees and migrants stuck at sea while european leaders argued about their fate have now reached land after a six day stalemate the charity ship lifeline has docked in malta eight countries agreed to take a share of the migrants i think it's too early to say how many will go where we have been clear indications. of and play just very concrete pledges from each member state i think everyone will take to it's safe to say everyone was take according to. its. its capability.

the u.s. and russia say a summit between their two leaders will take place but they've given few details officials say the talks between donald trump and live a mere putin will be held in a third country on wednesday trumps national security advisor john bolton that the russian rises in moscow u.s. defense secretary james mattis continues his tour of asia with a visit to south korea he will meet his counterpart to the scarse regional security matters left to beijing not too long ago where he sat down with china's president xi jinping the main topic. it was the territorial dispute in the south china sea attacks by pro-government forces on for medical centers in the rebel controlled syrian province of that have killed thirty two people including ten children russian bank regime forces are trying to recapture the region the area is close to

the border with jordan and the israeli occupied golan heights more heavy rain in northern thailand has hampered the search for a football team missing for four days in a flooded cave but rescuers remain optimistic that teenagers are alive in the past cave explorers have been found and floodwaters receded political parties in mexico are entering the final few days of campaigning ahead of sunday's presidential election the country's largest vote in modern history the anti establishment candidate and this very well lopez obrador is expected to win it's the stream next stay with us african heads of state and government will gather in mauritania for the thirty first december you have the african union ongoing conflicts in the fight against corruption will take center stage al-jazeera will bring you extensive coverage of the summit and its outcomes the african union

summit on al-jazeera. ok and during the strain today the separation of immigrant families crossing into the u.s. southern border may have stopped but the challenges of children with their parents remain legal action is ramping up and so is political pressure to make immigration north america live on you tube and we want to hear from you later in the program we'll also take a look at the state of global press freedom but first to zimbabwe where elections are scheduled for july thirtieth and the youth are energized. about one single thing that is hopes and aspirations of young and sometimes of the composition and in this instance they want to feel like. in this particular with paul.