water 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 on it up the search also continues in the hills and jungle above the cave complex of the 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 elaborate scott either al-jazeera. reports from jordanian officials of a second ceasefire and syria's there are province after an initial twelve hour truce ended it comes after 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 dyan reports. this is the province that sparked syria's uprising seventy years ago now rebel controlled areas of daraa are unrecognizable days of airstrikes have left their mark now over warning of civilians trapped in unable to escape the u.n. says there are reports fighters are not allowing civilians to leave the real concern is is that we're going to see a repetition of what we saw in the east and the bloodshed the suffering of the civilians being held being ungenerous see the u.n. estimates more than forty five thousand people have managed to flee most heading to the israeli occupied golan heights and to neighboring jordan but they can only go so far jordan has closed its border that they keep border open for people fleeing south there is no there isn't. no other place to go

but jordan says it can't afford to take in more syrian refugees. coming. in or jordan already has one point three million syrians our country has reached its maximum capacity jordan has been sheltering this responsibility and i must say we've been doing so alone. roughly one hundred targets were hit by russian in syrian forces on thursday dozens of civilians were killed. a deescalation agreement was in place but the truce was overlooked by syria's government and its allies russia's ambassador to the u.n. says the agreement doesn't apply and what he describes as one of the last trial holes of al qaeda and i still in syria or on the condition that the not this is not the. concern that that is who are. who are not exempt from from being fought and this latest ceasefire now over not long enough for those

still trying to get out katia llopis will yon al-jazeera. still ahead for you on the program trying to blend then yemeni asylum seekers who sought safe haven in south korea but now face an uncertain future. and a front runner in mexico's presidential election pledges to reverse decades of decline in rural areas is easier said than done. i was saying some massive downpours into central and southern parts of china recently long on the cloud just around shanghai runs all the way down to the southwestern corner this is the scene at just to the west of shanghai where you had huge rainfalls and a has cause widespread flooding as you can see says a major disruption in and around the region here that center going to be the case

all the way down to the southwest as you had some flooding all the way down towards the chung do more heavy showers here long line of very heavy rain there as you can see for saturday whether to into the far south hong kong thirty three celsius is hot issue but it sticky is very uncomfortable and the showers long spells of rain they are set to continue as we go on through the weekend to sunday another wet day for many so many wets across western parts of india as we would expect with the southwest lots of cloud showing up here also cloud to on the other side of the goal once again it's a medium are pushing up into bangladesh the fall northeast of india little changing conditions but do notice too we got some showers just around the northeast of india up towards kolkata pushing up a little further north which in this particular temperatures back in new delhi to around thirty three celsius little cooler in karate too with a high of thirty four. the

time had come for the p.l.o. to seek a new and peaceful solution. pursuing a path of diplomacy what was to turn their agreed with draw from lebanon into one of the most realistic civilian massacres of modern times women children queue we couldn't believe. chronicling the turning story of the struggle for a palestinian. history of a revolution on al-jazeera. welcome back just a quick look at the top stories this hour european union leaders have made commitments

to help send the flow of migrants from north africa including the possibility of offshore processing sentence the agreement came after a long and often tense in use on that. thailand's prime minister's told the families of twelve schoolboys trapped in a cave along with their football coach to remain hopeful more than a thousand people are involved in the weeklong rescue efforts and there are reports from jordanian officials of a second ceasefire in syria's dare our province after an initial twelve hour truce ended syrian and russian forces have been fighting rebels there for ten days. and in other news protest marches a planned in south korea on saturday against the number of people from yemen seeking asylum more than five hundred yemenis are flown to ju-ju island in the last six months most of them applying for refugee status the government has held an emergency meeting to discuss measures to stop the flow craig lease and travel to the holiday island to meet some of the refugees. the kitchen is the last place

adnan imagined himself working. didn't choose this job but i'm in an immigration and they all know of this place because me and turned out that it was a restaurant so. a qualified health and safety officer he worked for a patrolling company in yemen but was forced to flee the war after he was threatened and tortured by sympathizers of the hutu rebels and then fled to malaysia on a tourist visa but soon ran out of money. in december asia opened a new route to jeju island offering adnan and other yemenis the chance to into south korea through the island's visa free status the sudden influx of yemenis has overwhelmed the local community and the government is acting to stem the flow in april south korea's justice ministry banned yemenis and j.g. from traveling to other parts of the country and earlier this month excluded yemen from the island's visa waiver program the more than four hundred eighty yemenis

still here and now stuck until the government decides what to do with them. the percentage of successful asylum seekers in south korea is around just for saint could. take the time to board if you look at just twenty seventeen it's just one percent so the number of applicants are rising with the rate of acceptance is dropping. many refugees now live in cramped conditions up to twenty min in this underground shelter charity and aid a largely grassroots. there is a negative sentiment towards islam and public opinion so that's something that we need to consider in the long term. more than half a million people have signed a petition urging the government to revise its refugee law. the local government is hoping some including adnan to find jobs. council restaurants are asked if we could hire some of their given our labor shortage at first they didn't even occur to me

they were refugees or that there was a civil war raging in yemen it was outside my scope of interest to refute g.'s we spoke to said that brother be at home in yemen and stuck on what they regard as an expensive holiday resort island because of we have this in yemen so that we go back to yemen because you have to leave a new country where you grew up with new music or where you have no friends where you have lived. it is expected it will take up to eight months to process the refugee applications craig leeson al-jazeera j j u r l and south korea. lawyers representing catarrh in the u.a.e. and making their final arguments before the international court of justice at the hague catterick uses its gulf neighbor of violating human rights as a result of the blockade imposed by the u.a.e. and three other countries last year cats are says companies and individuals have been denied access to education medicine and justice needs baka has more from the

hague. 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 qatar of violating the international convention on the eradication of all forms of racial discrimination which the u.a.e. is a key signatory of 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 qataris 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. several molly and soldiers have been killed after a suicide bomber blew up his vehicle at e.g. five hell military base the attack which was carried out by unknown fighters happened in the town of safari which is seven hundred kilometers east of the capital bamako the base is host to a task force of soldiers from mali. chad and mark tanian created to defeat violence

across west africa. the lagos state government says it will introduce new safety measures following an oil tanker fire in the nigerian city at least nine people were killed when an oil truck crashed and exploded on an expressway on thursday on than fifty cars were destroyed in the blaze and an operation to clear the scene is still ongoing ethiopia's economy has a faster rate than any other african country in the past ten years but foreign investors and local businesses complain that a shortage of foreign currency is like the u.s. dollar holding back the private sector muhammadan reports from addis ababa this is the greatest. on the blue nile nearing completion the project has been fully funded by the government and the people of ethiopia it's a fact that many here are proud of yet them dishes infrastructure projects like the dam have put pressure on the country's foreign reserves which are already short supply foreign currency shortages the worst that i've witnessed in my entire life

in its all time lows that we have heard of and seen and this is because look at the economy look at the construction sector you look at the manufacturing sector that imports everything and the government projects all those that have been planned and viciously have slowed down. a mother calls for the crisis is that it appears sells fall less than what it binds the international monetary fund says that if he appeals for the reserves at the end of the two thousand and sixteen two thousand and seventeen fiscally stood at three point two billion less than what it spends on imports in two months. in recent years it's european has encouraged the must of chinese investment in industrial parks to create employment and increase exports the government does direct that one small piece of foreign currency to apologise for not insect must consider the priority such as pharmaceuticals and manufacturing

and with no means of paying their supplies many of them forced down. at that is just market monocultural traders complain of how businesses in our fight is clearly imports textiles from china and to buy themselves a muddy idealogue getting supplies is a very challenge for us increasing ties are also keeping customers away. last year the government devalued the local currency by fifteen per cent in an effort to boost exports and contain rising inflation but prices kept rising under it and we don't fix the prices that is beyond us they from us in rural areas do depending on the a production costs even ethiopia's new prime minister but the knowledge is that there is no quick fix to the problem for now he's calling for more cooperation with a private sector. ethiopia a one time ally of the soviet union is now enduring some of the principal

capitalism but there are growing pains the i.m.f. is focused on your growth rate of eight point five percent this year above the global object for mao it seems ethiopia is still an african economy force to reckon with mohamed atta well jessica how does somebody here. barney's international airport is closed and at least four hundred fifty flights have been canceled as a volcano erupts on the intonation island ash and smoke of shot more than two kilometers into the air from mt to go on seventy five thousand travelers have been affected officials fear the wind could carry the ash towards java indonesia's most densely populated island began erupting last year forcing tens of thousands to evacuate the area nearby. are now mexicans adding to the polls this sunday to choose their next president a front runner lopez obrador is promising to reverse decades of decline in poverty in rural areas but as john heilemann reports in the state of michoacan that will be

a tough campaign pledge to cape. because. the mix can countryside decimated but poverty and empty but migration over decades. is one of the aging population of small scale phone is struggling to compete with industrial scale operations in the world the mexico and the u.s. almost all that i know i produce grains but not money he says that in many communities the 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 or there was head of a kidnapping. this man promises to change that presidential front runner andres manuel lopez obrador has made the neglected mix can country side a campaign priority. he said he were focused government support from large

industrial produces to smaller farms to help them get quality seeds technological know how better access to loans and the guaranteed minimum price for their crimes it's all part of an ambitious plan for mexico to produce its own food. they're buying everything a bra that we could grow in mexico me that's going to start. 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 they mean with the booming urban population and the global market the question is if it's really possible or even worth the cost of resuscitating this sector so that. even lopez obrador team says the wholesale change he promises will be impossible one of been a straight. and agricultural economist who in general support the plan of question

dave price guarantees for individual farmers and in particular in forcing home grown food and carry a steep cost for authorities and consumers a certain consequences if you are that in consequence it's going to be very expensive for the government and mexican taxpayer. promise them so seems split between those two banking on the ruling party which has given them just enough to survive and those like a year or more voting in the hope of change john home and how does it make to account. to square look at the top stories for you now libya's coast guard is saying that around one hundred migrants and missing and feared dead after that capsized in the mediterranean it happened just hours after european leaders signed a compromise deal aimed at preventing these types of johnnie's from north africa including the possibility of setting up offshore processing centers but while some

of those leaders are calling the agreement to break through these hells are still vague on how this deal is actually going to work. if you go outside our deal migration it's far too early to talk about the success. we have from of the church to reach an agreement and to rip your local fruit but this is inside the easiest part of that us. store through rachel from the grove for a new start implement it. well in our other headlines thailand's prime minister has told the families of twelve schoolboys trapped in a cave complex along with their football coach to remain hopeful. told the boys families to keep faith as the search effort entered a six day rescue mission now involves over a thousand people including british and american teams. jordanian officials say a new cease fire has been agreed to southern syria this after

a twelve hour truce ended in dar province a pause followed intense fighting in a ten day offensive by government and russian forces against the free syrian army before the overnight cease fire began at least eighty people were killed in as strikes on thursday the united nations warning that civilians might be trapped the libyan warlord khalifa haftar says his forces have now taken full control of the city of derna rival armed groups and denying the reports but that hasn't stopped half the supporters celebrating in the streets than it was the last city in eastern libya not under half to us control is self proclaimed libyan national army is one of the main factions that have competed for power since the uprising in two thousand and eleven. and several mali and soldiers have been killed after a suicide bomber blew up his vehicle at a g. five sawhill military base the attack which was carried out by unknown fight has happened in the town of safari which is about seven hundred kilometers east of the

mali and capital bamako well over the top stories i will be back with more news for you in about twenty five minutes time joining. in one thousand nine hundred forty eight the state of israel was proclaimed. palestine was lost. sixteen years later in one thousand nine hundred sixty four the palestine liberation organization or the p.l.o. was founded. made up of different factions the p.l.o. has been at the heart of the struggle to regain palestine ever since. in the.

following expulsion from jordan p.l.o. leader yasser arafat decided to pursue the path of diplomacy. there were hopeful signs in the early seventy's but the optimism was all to come crashing down. the people who have. lost so.

little but only. those good to all small are not only the idea that suspect. but are following id in nov nineteenth seventy four yes and out of heart received a standing ovation at the general assembly. he had spoken over a peaceful solution the price the demand. for the green a leader standing among states it was a crown which. journey to the un had begun several years. following their expulsion from jordan some palestinian factions concluded their fiery rhetoric and revolutionary zeal had harmed rather than help their cause are you saying the same time that there will be increase in terrorism. no i am saying there will be an increase in people who hear this but i call

involution out a struggle inside palestine and i refuse the word terrorism because we are not that honest a lot of people in palestine if you are following them they are doing demonstrations every day in nablus in ramallah they are accusing there is not only conquered but why do you call this kind of as if at the same time you heard jack international ecker of ten hold hostages innocent women and children how do you expect the rest of the world to sympathize and respect the palestinian cause first of all the p f l p has declared lately that with this type of actions this is number one and number two during all of these actions which we have done previously we did not do harm to anybody however the f.l.p. operative when he heard that did not agree with happiness had that dissented and was expelled from the group but this did not prevent him from bergen icing further

operations in one thousand nine hundred eighty five he sent a group headed by the venezuelan revolutionary carlos to vienna to storm a meeting of opec and take several ministers hostage dead was angry that carlos had not followed the meticulous plans he had drawn. what the let me. say that the. what d.m. may not have realized about carlos is his narcissism which manifested itself in the opec operation carlos acted against what the years order and when they met afterwards what the slap him. i think when carlos negotiated and released the oil ministers it gave the impression that he could be bride which was a main reason for the failure of the operation from that moment when dia broke his connection with carlos. a year later a group of her dad's followers hijacked an air france airliner to intending uganda

the israelis mounted a spectacular rescue operation killing all the hijackers and freeing the hostages despite these acts of violence the political track was moving. following the one nine hundred seventy expulsion from jordan the democratic front for the liberation of palestine the d.f.l. be believed a more realistic political program was required. in one thousand seventy two it had floated the idea of accepting a two state solution by the summer of one nine hundred seventy four the p.l.o. had unanimously adopted the d.f.l. peace ten point plan. for the first time the palestinians spoke about establishing an independent national authority the word israel was never explicitly mentioned in the plan but after years of armed struggle the palestinians were now implicitly recognizing the state of israel and the owner but managed out of the work yet i am not i'm at a loss only about money and misleading it was opposed by the process. of command

and called the defeatists as genda but arafat and i will yet west mark there. as a bulldozer or minesweeper to clear the way for it. when i showed. my camera it took almost a year of discussions and on the eve of the b. and c. session in june of one thousand nine hundred seventy four we came to a consensus with factor that b f p and the process. and the ten point program that was adopted just weeks prior to his speech at the un artifacts received the mandate he'd long been seeking from out of leaders the arab league summit in rabat stripped jordan over its traditional role in palestinian affairs and named the p.l.o. as the sole legitimate representative of the palestinian people. for the palestinians it was a dream come true their decision making would no longer be bound by the yoke of an object at all broke out of state would continue to try and exert influence on

palestinian matters the jordanians felt there about some of the decision pointed the finger of blame back. but as. i wonder what would have happened if his majesty had expressed his displeasure by withdrawing from that about summit while leaving his prime minister there jordan was being harassed jordan was made out to be the root of the problem not israel. soon after artifacts triumph at the u.n. in november nine hundred seventy four consensus among the different palestinian factions over the two state solution proposal began to falter. after its expulsion from jordan the p.l.o. had moved its headquarters to the lebanese capital beirut. in april one nine hundred seventy five civil war broke out in a. lebanese politics divided into two camps christiane led dried and a muslim dominated left led by the socialist druze politician come out to. four years

lebanon's muslims had clamored for a fairer distribution of political power. the palestinians felt a natural affinity for their calls desperate not to repeat the mistakes committed in jordan the p.l.o. leader sought to keep his forces out of the lebanese. i know that arafat tried to keep the palestinians out of the wall at the beginning but that was never going to be possible impossible especially with they. especially with the common nationalisms you know the jumble. of nationalism on the palestinian version of nationalism but by nine hundred seventy six the palestinians no longer felt able to stay on the sidelines in the. palestinian fighters linked up with the leftist forces and gradually advanced into the christine heart of. syria found the idea of a p.l.o. backed regime and never known a recipe for disaster its feared such a regime would provoke israel into military action that would drag syria into war.

for their part israel and the united states also took a dim view of the rise of the lebanese left and its palestinian terrorists in one of the more bizarre alignments of interest in the oven on syria decided to throw its weight behind the christians with a green light from washington and tacit israeli consent syria sent its army into lebanon in june of one thousand nine hundred eighty six to stem the palestinian leftist advance. got a polygamist story out of the. and that's what it of syria was asked to intervene to curb the expansion of the palestinian and lebanese leftists. the lebanese left had become troublesome to a regime that. the leader of the left come out john blatt was viewed as a threat to lebanese and arab stability. another factor was the mutual dislike between arafat and syrian president assad. syria's military intervention was stepped up following an assault on a damascus hotel by the n.t.

out of the abu nidal palestinian group. the perpetrators were quickly apprehended and hanged in public. faced with the syrian onslaught i felt appealed to the arab world for assistance accusing syria of attempting to liquidate the palestinian resistance the syrian assault force the palestinians onto the defensive. they were no longer able to mount an effective resupply of their besieged refugee camps and the christians. the camps principle among which was telling were overrun and the residents expelled or massacred. two arabs some its work quickly convened they established what became known as the out of deterrent forces made up principally of the same syrian forces that had entered lebanon with only token representation from several other arab states syria had prevailed that fellow at the it had. been president assad's view was that

syria in its ability to achieve strategic parity with israel had to be supported by two strong wings a lebanese wing and a palestinian wing that is if syria was to have influence on the political scene it had to become the sole legitimate representative of syria lebanon and the palestinians. while lebanon was in the throes of conflict on another front there were moves towards peace. in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven egyptian president anwar sadat a longstanding ally of artifacts made a groundbreaking visit to israel to sue for peace in exchange for land artifact was stunned but out of fact had been making his own peace moves his representative in london side hamami had been promoting the palestinian vision of a two state solution at the artifacts behest. of us then the. other factor in the palestinian leadership were convinced that the most important thing was achieving

palestinian aspirations not the method employed to achieve them and if the method to achieve them was a civilized and peaceful one then that would be better than a violent one. out of five and the p.l.o. leadership firmly believe this. out of. chairman arafat's little very well that the one nine hundred seventy three war demonstrated the limits of collective action and what the international community could accept that for the leadership of fact that was convinced that the palestinians could never achieve anything more than a state where they've done the lands occupied the nine hundred sixty seven. but some palestinians took a very different view palestinian guerrilla leader abu nidal believed the two state solution was tantamount to capitulation he split from the p.l.o. and formed his own group calling it the revolutionary council and based in fact

that. the iraqi regime once again hostile to arafat's leadership of the p.l.o. provided backing to abu nidal splinter. in january of one hundred seventy eight gunmen loyal to abu nidal assassinated sight hamami at the p.l.o. office and. it was to be the first of many killings of federal palestinians that carry out. despite its talk of a two state solution the mainstream thought a hundred artifacts did not relinquish its arms struggle in march one thousand seven hundred eight a fact that unit led by a female commando. commandeered an israeli bus near the city of haifa. in the ensuing firefight thirty six israelis were killed. israel responded by invading southern lebanon and setting up what it termed as a security zone to drive p.l.o. forces out of rocketry which. almost a year later israel struck a massive.