rhetoric coming from the white house calling the media the nation's worst enemy etc do you think that may have contributed any way to what happened here yesterday i think there was definitely some politics involved i think that the media is under attack and i think that we. have to be mindful that you just. don't. tell the stories that we need to hear and we have to stand up for you and we have to protect you and. that didn't happen yesterday thank you so much for your time about race and vigil is planned this evening in annapolis remember those five employees flaying perhaps the one morial that speaks aloud if plank opinion page published in this morning's capitol because that with the words today we are speechless. extraordinary stuff thank you his account star in annapolis maryland inevitably a story like this plays out online as well in real time and like many of you i'm

sure i was following this myself looking for the latest updates last night it was doha time and what you noticed was deep deep feelings about attacks on the media and i tweeted about it as well and how something like this may have been fueled by certain people in america as the traitor is here now to guide us through some of that and it got pretty nasty as well that i really did come all a lot of what we're seeing on line right now is about the off to the station and people are talking about the newspaper stuff being evacuated from the crime scene take a listen. you mean you would start crying i started contacting my family member all i knew was that there was an active shooter and that we should stay in our office and barricaded ourselves in so we locked our doors and we all kind of hid. and waited to hear what you do in that we didn't hear anything out here gunshots i heard nothing and there is reference to conversations that took place before the shooting one was about the rightwing commentator mean the young enough of this who publicly called for journalists to be gunned down just two days before that many

online like nathan are blaming him for inciting violence against the media well he then responded on facebook saying that he is not responsible for inspiring the deaths of journalists and the president has also been getting a lot of attention this was his tweet say what he says fake news media is not my enemy but the enemy of the american people and then dozens of lawmakers have weighed in as well several democrats highlighting the need for gun control measures seven said dick durbin says that when will the republicans who control congress have the courage to buck the n.r.a. and act on gun safety bills to stop the next shooting well many on line are asking to support journalism. so you're saying this is not. this is not trying to capitalize on a tragedy this is just. personally i'm saying. i

could be. the baker the papers part of the community. and all those are using the hash tag not the enemy posting pictures including our very own santa maria but i have britney has tweeted that this is what journalists do even in the most difficult circumstances sometimes we all praised more often these days we are not well reporters without borders made a statement and they've said that it's deeply disturbed of a what's happened in the capital to set it in the news i'm old enough and this. is the sequence of the charlie hebdo killing all of the last bombing against journalists in kabul and any case this is a new tragedy for journalism which is the victim of increasing violence globally even in democracies according to the committee to protect journalists seven reporters have been killed in the united states since one thousand nine hundred two

but the shooting didn't stop the newspaper and the baltimore sun journalists from continuing the coverage as my colleague. reported well get in touch with us here's the hash tag on his butt and said in order for what's next for him seems like a good moment to remind you about al-jazeera as demand purse for him campaign we as a network have been targeted for years both physically and politically most recently of course of the call by the four countries currently blockading cusiter shut down the al-jazeera media network needless to say we will not be intimidated by such demands and indeed al demond is press freedom to search for demand purse freedom of al-jazeera dot com you will find our latest campaign there and feel free to join in that campaign using the hash tag demo and press freedom i said they felt it was important enough. already the statement we would love your support as well. and a photojournalist actually is facing the death penalty for taking pictures during egypt's military crackdown five years ago or just a hot appointed judge expected to deliver his verdict on

a year old on saturday diana karim with this mahmud that was aide better known as shoko and could be sentenced to death for simply doing his job and he gyptian judge is due to give his ruling in the case. show kind was arrested along with two other non-e. diction journalists who were later released while he was taking pictures during the post-coup fun rest in egypt where in twenty thirteen. he was among hundreds of people detained when injection security forces ordered by general add the fact that i.c.c. now the president to end the six week sit in almost one thousand people died in the violence that followed human rights watch has said the egyptian military's crackdown is probably a crime against humanity according to court documents show khan is being charged with weapons possession illegal assembly murder and attempted murder rights groups

have called for his immediate release. the egyptian embassy in paris refused to accept a petition with more than seventy thousand signatures in support of. amnesty international says his health is deteriorating on the demand that the behind. we demand that all charges against him are dropped we demand that the egyptian government stop the suppression of human rights defenders who are being silenced simply because they criticize egyptian authorities he's been diagnosed with malnutrition any mia and depression he's written a letter from his prison cell outlining the abuses he's faced and how journalism in egypt has become a crime there are thirteen journalists facing life imprisonment or the death sentence on saturday show khan will learn his fate diana kerim al-jazeera a lawyer representing qatar and the united arab emirates are making their final arguments before the united nation's highest court at the hague qatar took the

u.a.e. to the international court of justice they are accusing it of violating human rights by imposing the blockade last year and says companies and individuals have been denied access to education medicine and justice as the blockade includes sea and land in bangor more from the hague now with a pocket. there was a tense legal battle underway at the moment katsav the u.a.e. do not see eye to eye over whether the i.c.j. should have the jurisdiction to continue with this case just to remind you the u.a.e. has been accused by cats are of violating the international convention on the eradication of all forms of racial discrimination to which the u.s. is a key signatory and there are procedures to follow if there are accusations of violation of these key treaty firstly that the nations in question speak to each other directly in order to try and come to some sort of solution secondly that the

complaint is referred to the committee in charge of this treaty and finally that it's referred here to the un's highest court consul argues that all of these stages have been fulfilled that it has attempted to have negotiations with the u.a.e. with the u.a.e. is simply ignored those attempts secondly qatar also argues that it's possible for these different stages to happen similar taney asli allowing therefore this case to be heard here at the i.c.j. the u.a.e. disputes that claiming that protocol hasn't been properly followed essentially accuses the u.a.e. of discrimination against its people of preventing tarries with the expulsion of them from the country from accessing assets property education health care and judicial services a little later on in the day the u.a.e. will have a chance to speak of to which the court here will decide exactly what to do next with us now from the hague william morris to who is a senior lecturer at the hague university it's nice to have you with us do you make

of this whole thing as an exercise it is quite a dramatic thing when one hundred takes another to the i.c.j. but as an exercise to produce something what do you think. right indeed it is an exercise to produce something that the really the point of today is not to solve the whole case or to solve the entire diplomatic standoff but just to get to an emergency order to get at least some of these kinds of provisions reversed so that humans people can continue their normal daily lives how long do for say actually this might be one of those how long is a piece of string questions but you know how long does a proceeding that ensues they take it seems to be certainly over the last few days it's been a very gradual process well indeed i mean this is this is a court so they have to do things carefully the overall case that is the question of whether or not all these measures the diplomatic isolation of qatar this will

take potentially years to resolve but this case just today this provisional measures order is a question of urgency and so they came here they filed it the judges of have heard everything and they're going to expedite the discussion of this case and i hope that they would produce a decision on provisional measures rather quickly that way we can try to preserve all these people's rights before we move on to the big case where we have a more definitive settlement but again that that could be that could be years really so is the i.c.j. the is that the quote unquote best mechanism for katu of use to you of the most. effective potentially well one of the advantages of the i.c.j. is that you bring legal arguments rather than negotiations when the you have all kinds of other things that you're considering other types of influence and that type of thing at the i.c.j.

it's very strictly legal argument. and when the parties they get a decision from the i.c.j. they have a decision that's binding under international law now in theory what you could do would take that binding order and go to the security council and you can get that in force now no state has ever had to do that and the reason for that is that states ninety nine percent of the time comply with these orders because they don't want to be perceived of as being an untrustworthy state so when you get this decision under international law trying to purge all the politics out of it as much as you can really when you get this order that's binding on the parties that's that's a big advantage compared to say going to the committee for the elimination of racial discrimination where you just get a an advisory request or negotiations where a lot of power politics can be a play well i'm good to talk to get things some some explanations behind this move william was to joining us from the hague but as we know the blockade of gaza goes on which means our latest updates page does too everything to do with the story in

one place on our website updated by out seams of journalists you will find it by searching for gulf crisis all the latest updates quite often you'll find it in the what's trending section as well if you're looking for a quick link let's have a look at some other international headlines now with maryam namazie in london. yes we begin with some tough words from the you warning the u.k. prime minister to put cards on the table or risk crashing out of the block without a deal to reason may has been reluctant to spell out bricks it plans because of deep divisions within her party that leaders say time is running out to agree on tons of the divorce deal with the u.k. set to leave the bloc in nine months the future of the island border remains a key sticking point and a stalled progress on the brakes talks on bricks. we have made progress but nugent's are used divergence remains particularly on arnold the notion of

knocking. off two bricks. we want you want to lean. on trade as well and the security. that we have these partnerships on the one whose arm principle. thailand's prime minister has visited the flooded cave complex where tall young footballers and their coach is said to be missing for a youth channel told the boys families to keep faith as the search effort and to a six day rescue mission now involves over a thousand people including british and american teams scott haile reports from chiang rai. prime minister of china which i was on a trip to europe when the twelve boys and their football coach went missing but on friday he was back in thailand at the cave meeting with the search teams there's now a crowded mini village of rescue organizations and command centers only to have the right i think we will succeed we will succeed because we have faith in the way

everyone should keep their heads cool and advising one another how big one another and talking to one another about things that are headed to the wall with more personnel and equipment arriving every day there's growing concerns there are too many people involved reducing the efficiency of the rescue efforts. the prime minister also met the families of some of those missing many of whom have been camped out near the cave entrance since saturday cam'ron cayle runs a shop in the nearby village where the boys football pitch is located she might have been one of the last people to see them before they entered the cave. i cried when i heard about the boys from my shop i saw them practicing on saturday they came over and bought snacks and soft drinks when i asked why so much they said they were off to the cave this is the road that leads up to the mouth of the cave in the hive of search and rescue operations now for the first time in days the generators are running and the pumps are working i don't know if the search also continues in

the hills and jungle above the cave complex fissures and chimneys or downward tunnels are being explored and surveyed workers looking for any way to get into the cave beyond the flooded sections to look for the boys or any sign or clue of where they might be. with water again draining from the large mouth of the cave there's hope that the divers can again continue with their push farther into the dark and muddy labyrinth scott either al-jazeera chiang rai. well some of the stories we're following a twelve hour ceasefire in syria is there our province has ended a temporary truce was agreed on after intense fighting in a ten day offensive by government and russian forces against the free syrian army the ceasefire came after at least eighty people killed in as strikes on thursday with the united nations warning that civilians might be traps to libya where warlord honey five to says his forces have taken full control of the city of derna from rival armed groups people have been celebrating in the streets though local

armed groups are denying reports diana was the last city in eastern libya not under have to control self-proclaimed libyan national army is one of the main factions that have competed for power since the twenty eleven uprising the president of the international committee of the right cross says the rangar crisis is still an emergency situation the tim hour has been visiting myanmar where he's met the de facto leader unsung suchi seven hundred thousand rangar of fled the country since a massive military crackdown began last august china has offered humanitarian assistance to bangladesh to help shelter and feed the refugees china's foreign minister also said he hopes repatriation of refugees could begin soon but peter maer is saying that conditions are not yet in place to allow the ranger to return safely i saw certain houses abandoned their neighborhoods destroyed or half destroyed and i saw was so that in other parts of along the road where villages have existed before

nothing much is anymore existant the vegetation is taking over and. the landscape. this observation leads me to the impressions that we have and which confirm icier sees assessment that in the rock kind we are still very much engaged in an emergency operation and several mali and soldiers have been killed after a suicide bomber blew up his vehicle at a chief sahil military base the attack which was carried out by unknown fighters happen in the town of safari which is seven hundred kilometers east of the mali in capital bamako the base is host to a task force of soldiers from mali begin a fast chant and mauritania created to defeat violent on groups across west africa well i'll have more from london for you in about thirty minutes time now back to

doha. headlines from al-jazeera dot com and what's trending this world love that line in the second one yes we're putting out a damn site that's what little is that is tweeting a little bit earlier saying they would still put out so i can tell you what you're putting out there i get to spot five of the stones there is the latest on that boat

sinking off the libyan coast at the same day as the reach that decision on migration plenty of variety for you there as ever i don't see we're on what's trending this friday. but it's a huge for the iraqi city of mosul now a city left in ruins by the battle to retake it from iceland with thousands of people were killed well it was exactly four years ago that i saw announced the establishment of an islamic caliphate headed by that man i would baghdad and after that there was that almost lightning right through iraq and syria places like there are saw and singe and then mosul itself the retaking of that crucial dam it took years of finding back and international intervention for the governments in iraq to win back most of that territory lost what we're now able to take a look at life in mosul now and how conditions are still unbearable how much has that story. morsel maybe clear of eisel. but reminders of the

group's reign are everywhere. not just of the group's atrocities but also the brutal fighting it took to topple them. here streets are still him to eat and buildings are destroyed. for the former residents who were lucky enough to escape ice was web of violence and inhumanity and things remain difficult. thought his homecoming would be a happy one he and his family fled in two thousand and fourteen they were overjoyed when at out the forces declared they'd retaken mosul then he saw what remains of their house that civil a yet of saddam of a shot that isn't wherever you go there's awful destruction if you go outside you'll see entire neighborhoods destroyed and in some parts you can still smell dead bodies lying under the rubble it's impossible to bring our families to such

a place where the smell of death is still lingering. strewn about are symbols of suffering. of youth stopped dead in its tracks of a displacement crisis that is nowhere near over. the deer whose family can't afford to rebuild struggles to come to terms with all that has happened. neither one official nor n.g.o.s visited us in order to help no one has come forward and asked us if we have leads we have not begged still we only want to rights and help from good people so we can get back on track while the situation remains dire there are signs of hope some philanthropists and contractors are promising to restore this city. as bulldozers roll through bringing a sense of anticipation to these alleyways that. we have taken the initiative to rebuild destroyed houses in mosul because we have seen the high level of destruction so we decided to hold hands together with the people of mosul and start

this reconstruction campaign. still no one expects this will be easy attempting restoration and renewal amid so much despair. to have rendered done so with us now a research fellow chatham house joining us from london you know when we look at the state that mosul is in right now what do you think it is is it a case of not enough attention being put on rebuilding or just the fact that actually it's a massive task for the iraqi government and it's not just in mosul it's in many other cities as well. yeah well i've spent some time in wilson in the other areas recently and what you really do see is the toll that you know that so many years of islamic state caliphate rule had on the city but also the toll that the liberation of most of the other cities the military toll that it's had on the city

particularly in the west of mosul you still see destruction you still see destroyed buildings and so it's very much a city where there is hope and the people are happy to be sort of past. to be past islamic state sort of look hoping for a better future but i think the expectations that mosul and the other areas will be reconstructed in a matter of years is very optimistic and very likely and it is a good point you make people who obviously being happy to be free of ice so and also the fact that as we point out it's today it was only four years ago today that the caliphate was declared four years could sound like a long time but you know the scale of what happened in the fight back that had to happen with still it's still a young battle almost isn't it. i mean it's a short period of time but when you speak to these about what life was like under the islamic state you feel like they've actually it's more than just a few years there what the conditions particularly as the years went on i suppose

many people think there was this initial sort of what they call the honeymoon phase where the caliphate was trying to prove itself as this altruistic kind of benevolent government but very quickly they realized that this was a very harsh and dark rule that they had to suffer through but you know a very short period of time in the long run but again i think it's important to note that iraq has been here before a few years ago we were talking about flu jab we were talking about that we've been talking about many different organizations that emerge try and take over territory try and rule and then fail but none no one has ever addressed the kind of underlying problems as to why these organizations emerge in the first place well i mean it must be a disappointment for the people of iraq and the fact that they had elections not long ago but don't actually have any political stability yet you know not suggesting anything that under us was better but there's still so much uncertainty right now even with a proper political process. and you know the mood in iraq throughout you know i've

traveled around iraq particularly before the elections was very grim iraqis don't think of the political process will actually bring about change or benefit them and they made two main reasons one it's going to be the same political leaders who will govern afterwards even if we want change and two there's going to be fraud or we can't trust and both those things have happened right there have been allegations of fraud there's been allegations of mishandling and what we're looking at is a new government that will emerge which really has many of the same actors so many iraqis say well what's the point of voting what's the point of the political process and so really what you have is a society that's just completely disillusioned and i think the voter turnout and how low the voter turnout was in most of iraq is a sentiment to that disillusionment in a month so from chatham house a really do enjoy talking to you explain things so well for us thank you for your time. now mexicans choose the next president this sunday on the front runner lopez

obrador has bound to reverse decades of decline and poverty in rural areas john heilemann now reports from the states and. that'll be a tough campaign pledge to fulfill. the mix can countryside decimated but poverty and empty by migration over decades. is one of the aging population of small scale phone was struggling to compete with industrial scale operations in the world the mexico and the us. i produced grains but not money he says. many communities young have either left or turned to more lucrative benches. they sell drugs they kidnap they live well for a few days and then they get killed just next to my house where there was a head of a kidnapping. this man promises to change the presidential front runner and raise money well look. who's made the neglected mix can country side

a campaign priority. he said here we're focused government support from large industrial producers to smaller farms to help them get quality seeds technological know how better access to loans and a guaranteed minimum price for their crops it's all part of an ambitious plan for mexico to produce its own food. they're buying everything abroad that we could grow in mexico me that's going to stop. in the past there were incredibly strong ties between mexicans and the land this is the birthplace of corn itself but it's a different country now daming with the urban population and the global market the question is if it's really possible or even worth the cost of resuscitating this sector. even lopez obrador team says the wholesale change he

promises will be impossible one of been a straight. and agricultural economists who in general support the plan have questioned of price guarantees for individual farmers and in particular in forcing home growing food and carry a steep cost for authorities and consumers is because when testing that in consequence it's going to be very expensive for the government and mexican taxpayer that. promise them so seems split between those two banking on a ruling party which has given them just enough to survive and those like a year or more voting in the hope of change john homan how does it make to account well social media's played a significant role in mexico's election the statistics website statistic dot com says eighty five million people are on facebook in mexico and it's because it seems that it's seen as an alternative source of information compared to the mainstream

media either looking now at some examples of what's been done to the bank i'm sick of saying it. this very interest. so in the lead up to the elections this weekend there have been a lot of cases of social media manipulation eskimo says fake news but networks like facebook are trying to address this by deploying content moderators and fact checkers and set up a community standards page addressing hate speech and violent imagery misrepresentation propaganda and also distance information and together with google and al-jazeera they've created the first independent fact checking organization and that's called very thick oddo twenty eighteen which means verified so far they've debugged hundreds of fake posts very few cardo encourages people to send them stories on social media using the hash tag i want you to verify this and their research as well fact check and publish the findings and then science like facebook will then block it from the news feed to then decrease outreach so let's go through

a couple of the examples that we've seen so far the national action party or pan candidates because. reportedly said in the t.v. interview on may fourteenth that his income and his wife's added up to four hundred thousand pesos a month and this was said in a facebook page connected to undress manual lopez obrador also known as now he is the frontrunner for the post alleges that the tweet was posted by and but there is no record on his official twitter account nor was there any other major reports on the story just the image on facebook that was shed more than five thousand times and then there was a lot of false polls being circulated on twitter as well indicating that ricardo and i was ahead of undress or brad though this was shared by the pan party presidents and other members but it was falsely attributed to a mexican publication which was called vessel with the official logo as you can see

on the side. well the reversal responded with a statement online they say that the survey was a paid advocate and not conducted by them now there's also been a number of facebook pages and twitter accounts promoting partisan political messages and most of them are attacking or bread or the atlantic council's digital forensic research lab shows that the consulting firm victory lab set up by a mexican entrepreneur called carlos merlo created automated bots to give posts high numbers with likes and also retreats but what made this really unusual was the fact that there was no other reactions or comments to this post and the think tank says that most uses came from india brazil and also in indonesia facebook and twitter have since removed the victory lap pages from the sites and there's also links to russia the new york times article here refers to digital research

a manual of course you're ramos claiming that there was a russian bought driven traffic to help boost poll numbers for upper door and ramos claim that there were four point eight million mentions of the candidate on social media outside of mexico well al jazeera has not been able to independently verify this but over ago did respond on twitter with the satirical message. this is where i received my gold from moscow the opposing political parties are now saying that russia's government is involved in my campaign so i guess now my name is dress my knowledge. fabrications a likely to come in all sorts of forms of videos and images and also names and that can be hard to detect well this picture was shot on whatsapp showing a ballots with the woods which again stands for undress lopez obrador instructing people to vote with the abbreviation but it would have been resulted in the vote being an old and the real aim here was to take advantage of miss informed vote as

well we heard from monica glow walk away from the oxford internet institute and she explains how fake news is affecting mexican politics bots and false accounts on twitter and facebook are increasingly difficult to tack they are no longer purely automated by our instant stipe work meaning they are managed by humans who cultivate a history of human account activity to evade suspicion although tech companies are addressing the problem local civil society operates on the front line of the battle against peak news we're seeing new seeking behavior moving away from public pop forums like twitter and facebook to private one to applications such as what's up which is mexico's largest texting service and a sinister because misinformation is seeping into your private life. although attention is on foreign to chaunge european politics in a context like mexico we cannot least domestic level this information operations and biased reporting from traditional media with ties to economic and government power i would love to get your thoughts on this especially if you are in mexico

second actually the us is the hash tag aging is god's thanks for here now you know there is frankly quite disgusting images you see on cigarette box is not charred lungs or a person on a ventilator for example it seems those pictures are working and deterring people from smoking because in a landmark ruling by the world trade organization for tobacco producing countries have lost their appeal against australia's plain packaging laws back in twenty ten a study of banned logos and distinctively colored cigarette packaging in flavor in flavor in favor of the plain ones that carry health warnings to cuba indonesia hundreds in the dominican republic of argued it damaged international trade violated intellectual property and increased the risk of counterfeit cigarettes circulating in the markets but despite the strong opposition this latest ruling may only accelerate the rollout of plain packaging laws in more countries so far france hungary arlin new zealand norway slovenia and the u.k.

have already followed australia and plain packaging rules are also scheduled to take effect in bikini fonso canada georgia romania slovenia and thailand so we're going to talk about this with ben mcgrath who is a technical officer at the world health organization an expert on plain packaging joining us on skype from geneva i mean can we say now with a ruling like this that this type of packaging is working and that it is the quote unquote right way to go. yes we say it's the right way to go as part of a comprehensive approach to tobacco control sony including raj graphic health warnings as well as comprehensive bans on advertising promotion and sponsorship high taxes and smoke free laws that protect people from exposure to tobacco smoke but the evidence now on one plan packaging is fairly resoundingly and w.t.r. panel has found in a stratosphere out of finding that it is making a positive contribution to to reducing smoking rights in a strain what do you make of the argument from those four countries because as i

look to them listed them all off before trade intellect for public it basically sounded like they were making a business argument and a study was making a health argument. yes well in you know since under the law of the world trade organization there's a there's a balance between a rights and obligations the right to regulate such as in the interest of health and try to obligations on the other side and where this efficient evidence to support the effectiveness of regulation then for the most part it's consistent with the law of the world trade organization and so in that sense is really nothing that surprising about the decision it's their scope for this to be deployed elsewhere on the king about sugary drinks and the like where a lot of people they want taxes on them but they also want warnings about you know this is exactly what this drink or this type of food will do to your health i wonder if this can be deployed further and actually it will open up a whole lot more cases like this. with this stage from the world health

organization we on the recommend plan packaging in the context of tobacco products there's a very large body of evidence to suggest that plain packaging reduces the attractiveness of to record products it does limits the pack as a form of advertising promotion and sponsorship it makes health warnings small dardus of all more effective and it reduces miss lady tobacco packaging so this is very large body of evidence in the tobacco context and that i think is distinct from from other contexts and of course we know that tobacco products kill approximately half of of regularly uses which makes tobacco products a distinct and rather unique consumer product but ready for the world health organization that we could talk about this one thank you thanks very much. for the crew watching on facebook live got an extra story for you now about a moroccan protest leader has been jailed for twenty years after the demonstrations but for the country back in twenty sixteen seventeen and then in sport will he stay

or go to the question on every n.b.a. fans mind right now farai will be looking at what's next for james standing on a cliff. that's an international about. me or.

so i might say what's happening in the world cup sorry but you felt we needed some bus to go to that will he stay or will he go that is the big question so no world cup games today so fittingly le bron james the biggest basketball star on the planet right now is set to announce whether he'll be leaving his current team the cleveland cavaliers on friday multiple reports in the last hour are saying that she is a free agent so while the world continues to obsess about it this is what le bron posted on his instagram account of his thirty eight million followers just changes being james row x. and with his family by the ocean and jumping off a cliff this video posted on the eve of his big announcement has been viewed more than four point five million times so is le grande le bron about to take the plunge to another team let's take

a look at some of the options. the heaviest speculation is that james will join the lakers the team has lacked a franchise player since the departure of kobe bryant in two thousand and sixteen houston arguably presents the biggest chance of winning championships linking up with james harden could be the killer combo to get him closer to michael jordan six titles le bron has so far won three and then there's the possibility of him going back to miami to play alongside his close friend wayne wade with whom he won two n.b.a. titles but of course change could just stay with cleveland cavs fans are desperately hoping he will if he does go it will be the second time in his career that he leaves his hometown team and the reporter joe barton who covers ron tweeted if le bron james least cleveland again he's going to have to walk his local fans through the why after he told them repeatedly he wouldn't there's speculation that the lakers are trying to create

a big three like when james played in miami this time though it. we consist of james paul george and quo he leonard but to do that as lakers writer ryan ward points out that even though it would put them in title contention the lakers would have to trade all their young players seems unwise for what could be a short window of opportunity and james has until three fifty nine g.m.t. to decide now as i mentioned earlier no world cup games today but teams are busy preparing for the knockout rounds which begin on saturday that includes russia who placed spain in the last sixteen the home with a been one of the surprise teams at the world cup despite the country's rich football history decades of under achievement had followed the team into the finals but things are looking up for the national side andy richardson reports from moscow . oh russian football fans all used to feeling good about their national team

oh. written off is no hope is before the tournament began the lowest rank side of the finals qualified for the knockout rounds after two convincing if unexpected wins. a last sixteen game against spain now awaits many russians first play football on a pitch known as a corrupt when translated into english it means books and this sort of cage playing space he squeezed into small urban spaces all over the country this thing is for me honestly you're all democracy is everyone is welcome when you come in here you're equal to everyone else it's only human what you show what you do doesn't really matter which is your gender which is your nationality which is your like if you're russian if your is was based on doesn't really matter all you do you play soccer. pavel says a handful of players he's met in moscow have been given trials with professional

teams but many talented players don't make it. right i don't believe the way. i don't believe i feel like i made a lot of them. but they're not playing professionally so i hope the system will will be a little bit better so those people will get a chance to play professionally three years ago russian football introduced new rules and increasing opportunities for young players top clubs were told they have to have at least five russian players in their lineup in an effort to reduce the reliance on foreign imports but instead of investing in a cademy clubs have found themselves paying inflated wages to mediocre but in demand russian players who no longer have the motivation to test themselves abroad the head of player development for russian champions lokomotiv moscow has experienced the failings of the rules at first hand but he hopes this world cup will be a turning point in convincing emerging russian players they can compete at the

highest level. against egypt again. and this is the most important if you must believe your. blare for your account and . maybe after five years in national teams. the decades of faltering steps russia is finally getting to watch its own star performers on football's biggest stage and the richardson al-jazeera. as always we'd like to hear your thoughts on any of these stories you can tweet me directly at underscore tatiana we'll be back with more in one thousand nine hundred g.m.t. but for now i'll hand you backed off thanks far just before we go to say goodbye to someone today jane doesn't he read her last bulletin at al-jazeera today and she read our first bullets in together eleven and a half years ago so we decided to recreate that moment today complete with that

sort of cheesy look which co-anchors give each other. a real loss for us a real shame but we wish her well and heading back home to south africa. for this news group you can get in touch with the twitter facebook whatsapp and we're right back here in studio fifteen a down to zero fifty five. so. far

. the new poll ranks mexico city as the pool worst in the world for sexual violence many women are attacked while moving in the crowded spaces of the metro buses and even at the hands of taxi drivers the conversation starts with do you have a boyfriend you're very pretty and young you feel unsafe threatened you think about how to react what do i do if this gets worse no money on the uses a new service it's called loyal droid it's for women passages only and drawn by women drivers pull for some extra features like a panic button and twenty four seven monitoring of drivers.

how reliable is an eyewitness when you have an eyewitness to say i was there i saw him do it that is the best evidence about thirty percent of the time witness is a real case is to pick someone and say yes that's the person to turn it upon are wrong these are being falsely accused in costa rica it was something he did not to exploring the dark side of american justice the system with job on al-jazeera. european union leaders reach a deal on how to handle the migrant crisis but details remain thin on how it will work. hello i'm maryam namazie and london you're with al-jazeera also coming up.

parents pray for their children as emergency crews continue the search for a youth football team trapped in a flooded cave in thailand. as a temporary ceasefire ends in syria's dar province the united nations warns of a looming crisis with thousands trapped by intense fighting and we'll explain why ethiopia is economies in crisis despite growing at the fastest rate in africa. libya's coast guard says around one hundred migrants are missing feared dead after that boat bound for europe capsized in the mediterranean sea it happened just hours after european leaders signed a compromise deal aimed at preventing such journeys from north africa after american summit in brussels e.u. countries have agreed to consider setting up secure centers for migrants in north

africa and providing cash for those countries to help stop migration to europe the e.u. will give turkey more than three billion dollars to help take care of the three and a half million syrian refugees living that e.u. leaders also hope to set up secure centers within the block to process asylum claims and step up the return of undocumented migrants al-jazeera is lawrence lee has more now from brussels. when the future of the european union may be at stake it's worth standing up to save its so that's what they did. emerge and we're really at five in the morning the french president suggested they could bridge the gap many thought impossible. europe is not an island and we must be able to face up to this challenge was remaining loyal to our values and protect our people and national cohesion tonight we took an important step many predicted the impossibility of an agreement many predicted the triumph of national solutions tonight we have succeeded in finding a european solution and

a way of working in cooperation micron will take the credit for winning the rebellious it's how he and governments around the breakthrough policy is to set up sensors at which migrants and refugees will be screened and either sent home or resettled among countries prepared to have them even if it isn't clear how the italians who would also demanded reform of wider asylum rules then signals that can sense. at the end of this european council we have a more responsible and more united europe italy is no longer alone and keeping the hardliners happy extended to germany as well where chancellor merkel's political future has been in the balance the indications seem to be that the right wingers in her coalition seem satisfied that germany will be better protected from mass refugee flows that merkel has self acknowledged the vos rift in europe about humanitarian values. we have agreed on five guidelines but two are still lacking

a common european asylum system but i'm optimistic after today that we can really continue to work even though there is still a lot to be done to bridge the different views other moves like strengthening support for the libyan coast guard will be condemned by humanitarian organizations as europe turning its back on its legal obligations if this were a success it was only in that it staved off the apparent imminent collapse of the european union under the weight of migration but in doing so it gave more weight to the populist right wing in europe a further retreat from the liberal values the european union is so fond of proclaiming. and as ever the final communique was long gone which is very short on promises about how to accomplish them this may have averted the crisis for now but europe remains a political unit deeply unhappy lawrence lee al-jazeera brussels dominic cain joins us live now from lenin dominic it was really chancellor angela merkel it was facing

the most pressure in this summit did she get what she needed out of it. will clearly marry him she will be hoping so because let's be clear domestic coalition allies the bavarian christiane's social union the party that controls the interior ministry and in berlin and which had said that it was prepared to go it alone an act with ministerial decree as it were to send people back from the borders as of this monday well she's delivered effectively what she said that she would to them at least to a large extent the question will be whether the c.s.u. is content with what it is being offered as a result of this deal one thing to say is that the many in the c.d.u. that's merkel's part of christian democratic union are saying this is a victory that that i'm going to medical has delivered what she had promised but so far at least there hasn't been a really ringing endorsement as it were publicly from any particularly high figure in the c.s.u. point to make also is that there are going to be two meetings taking place over the

weekend on sunday when the c.d.u. separately from the c s u both of them will be meeting to discuss the fallout as it were of this this brussels summit we understand also that i'm going to be speaking to her coalition partners at some point in the next while whether this evening or over the weekend to two to sum up what has happened here let's see what happens from those meetings. we know that the austrians take over the e.u. presidency on sunday so what happens in the next six months on the migration issue especially given that it is just not clear how this agreement going to work. well it was interesting in lawrence's report that he talked about bridging the gap the austrian chancellor sebastian cortes has spoken about his country being a bridge between east and west well clearly given the differing opinions around the summit table varying from the east of austria you have the ariens where they really

don't believe that any more migrants refugees should should come to their country compare that with the point of view in germany in france in spain and in greece where you have a very serious difference of opinion so if the presidency under the austrian government is going to make progress on migration they have a lot of circles to square as it were not the least of which is trying to persuade some of the north african countries where centers might be set up actually to accept the proposals that are being put forward so that is the challenge facing the austrian government as they take over the presidency on sunday thanks very much from berlin dominic cain or european council president donald hirst has warned that implementing the agreement will be difficult as regards so deal migration it's far too early to talk about the success. we have for managed to reach an agreement in the repeal council but this is in fact the easiest part of that us comp

store from the growth for a new start implementing it. meanwhile italy's new populist prime minister just happy conti had threatened to block the deal unless are the e.u. countries agreed to share the number of refugees and migrants coming to europe charlie angela has more now from sicily. we're hearing tanya and this is the last ship that brought in rescued migrants two weeks ago since then interior minister matteo salvini has closed italy's ports and at the summit there was no discussion as to what will happen the next time a european boat carrying rescued migrants is left stranded in the mediterranean instead italy's prime minister just emerged from the summit saying italy is no longer alone he went in threatening to use his veto if there was not an agreement that suited italy he did and because of that italians believe they got some concessions but nothing will change if we don't play hardball on grey's our voices will never get anything so long. under the new e.u.

agreement italy could host voluntarily new migrant centers that would process all arrivals and determine which are genuine refugees and which are illegal migrants to be sent back these would be financed and managed by the e.u. this country already has refugee camps the difference is that these arrivals would no longer be subject to the dumping regulations italy would not be responsible for them so leave the ideas they could be divided up between other member states but again there's no country agreement on how that would happen and for italians sharing the burden is a key issue. italy has been left alone it's true but of course i don't agree on the methods used by our interior minister i do think europe has to be reformed especially because there is no agreement on this issue the agreement also promises to explore the idea of setting up disembarkation platforms in north africa to try and process migrants before they even attempt to the mediterranean crossing but not all italians are convinced that if trying to fix the problem in africa on the spot

and trying to help them here it is really difficult war should always be welcomed and not pushed away but pushing away is exactly what italy has done in closing its ports and the new e.u. declaration that asylum seekers landing in italy are actually arriving in europe seems almost redundant. thailand's prime minister has visited the site what of young footballers and coach a missing in a flooded case of. tell their families to keep faith as the search effort and has a six day a rescue mission now involves more than a thousand people including british and american teams scott hyder reports from chiang rai. prime minister i was on a trip to europe when the twelve boys and their football coach went missing but on

friday he was back in thailand and at the cave meeting with the search teams there's now a crowded mini village of rescue organizations and command centers on the web and i think we will succeed we will succeed because we have faith in the way everyone should keep their heads cool and advising one another how big one another and talking to one another about things that help them along. with more personnel and equipment arriving every day there's growing concerns there are too many people involved reducing the efficiency of the rescue efforts by the prime minister also met the families of some of those missing many of whom have been camped out near the cave entrance since saturday. cam'ron cayle runs a shop in the nearby village where the boys football pitch is located she might have been one of the last people to see them before they entered the cave. i cried when i heard about the boys from my shop i saw them practising on saturday they came over and bought snacks and soft drinks when i asked why so much they said they

were off to the cave this is the road that leads up to the mouth of the cave in the hive of search and rescue operations now for the first time in days the generators are running and the pumps are working i don't know about the search also continues in the hills in jungle above the cave complex of the fissures and chimneys or downward tunnels are being explored and surveyed workers looking for any way to go . into the cave beyond the flooded sections to look for the boys or any sign or clue of where they might be. with water again draining from the large mouth of the cave there is hope that the divers can again continue with their push farther into the dark and muddy labyrinth scott harbor al-jazeera sharing ride. reports from jordanian officials of a second ceasefire and syria's there are probably unself to an initial twelve hour truce ended it comes off to a ten day offensive by government and russian forces at least eighty people were killed on thursday with the united nations warning more civilians might be trapped

can't you lopez for diane reports. this is the.