the european contribution in other words how far we can see in action by the russians and the saudis on one hand and some reaction from the europeans and other members of the oil community unfortunately i don't think that the europeans have a lot of influence in presumably because it happens to have members like venezuela . and nigeria saudi arabia and russia so i'm waiting to see a reaction from paris or germany or england where some compromise can emerge and then help us russia not it of course will bring up us any reaction we see from europe on this story thanks for joining us there from washington. covering a check on the weather next and then. holding on to hope. missing young for. i'm andrew thomas nam a little about australia. i'll be explaining how. a transforming the white

like. a rescuing people at sea. welcome back to look at the satellite imagery across southern and eastern parts of china you see the massive cloud behind me some heavy rain here so really the see that continuing on sunday maybe more towards the east we've got heavy showers for hong kong but across much of indochina weather conditions are pretty quiet at the moment fine conditions for noise very hot and humid and as much drive across mere man police will report yang gone maybe dry for the day which should be quite something similar conditions expect as we head through into monday for the east so that rain continues so let's head across into south asia where the monsoon rain is looking pretty active in many areas in d.c. sending quite a long way towards north never getting showers turning up in faisalabad for

instance as we look at the forecast we've got some heavy rain down through the western ghats eastern areas also seeing decent man to share activity but it does still look very wet indeed across parts of nepal through towards bhutan nice and states of india bangladesh could be some significant flooding here could conditions i'm from delhi highs of thirty three similar temperatures in karate here in the arabian peninsula we have lost the winds down through the arabian gulf region so the humidity is creeping up very sticky indeed here in doha with a nice one temperature of forty two. a new series of rewind or care bring your people back to life i'm sorry and bring you updates on the best of al-jazeera documentaries the continual book from. used to students rewind continues with alfred's free press. i'm sure they didn't

talk we inform the public of what's how can you address or sites that have been some changes over the years you know rewind on al-jazeera. hello again you're watching al-jazeera has reminder of our top stories this hour peace talks between syrian rebels and the government's allies russia have broken down and the southern province of daraa the government gains in the area president bashar assad's forces took over the town of dale earlier on today. south sudan's latest cease fire attempt is under threat from heavy fighting in the country's north western rebels and government forces presence of

a carrot revelator grammar saw signed their agreement in neighboring sudan on wednesday. and there are demonstrations in south korea against the sudden jump in the number of yemenis arriving there to seek asylum more than five hundred yemenis of the south koreans jeju island since december. divers have managed to go several kilometers into a flooded cave in thailand looking for twelve young footballers on that coach they've been missing for a week ago rescue crews have been joined by british divers and u.s. military personnel and you opening to the underground complex was discovered on friday over and hope the boys may still be found alive as god hide the reports relatives remain positive despite some. so many questions and few ounces. a week after the boys in their coach pass through this entrance into the tom long cave a line of ambulances and hundreds of workers carry out a drill for their rescue. non-home is the mother of one of those boys

she tells us thirteen year old among them loved all sports but football was his favorite mother and son are very close uncharacteristically he did not ask for permission to go to the cave often take them he's a good boy he liked to play football since he was small i always support him i never thought and if the light this would happen because when ever he would leave will he always act. for the first few days after monk or went missing his mother just cried at one point she was so distraught and exhausted she fainted she's only just started eating again she did not previously know any of the other parents of the missing boys now they're getting strength from each other i feel much better now and that's the pause is making me stronger i have to be strong but i received my son. the thumb on cave complex goes on for kilometers now this is

a section of it across from where the searching for the boys and their coach is going on now now people here locals believe that there is a spirit in these caves and this is where they come to make offerings to it. well offerings to the caves spirit and gods continue. so does the searching for a second day water is flowing from the mouth of the cave decreasing the level inside the flooded sections of the cave complex and rain has been light. and in the hills another chimney you're holding down toward the cave is being explored as a possible way into the cave complex. the spirit of the cave is fable to be that of a woman who is waiting for her husband to return to her much like the relatives who have been here since last saturday he's got her al jazeera. one of the parents gave scott this picture showing several of the children before they went missing he circled his son would bring more updates on this ongoing rescue operation as we get

them time is running out for pakistan to extend the rise of more than one million registered afghan refugees to stay in the country for over a year pakistan's government has set and extended deadlines requiring all registered afghan refugees to cross back over the border if asked a deadline is not extended they'll be legally required to leave immediately some of it in pakistan the decades with many having fled afghanistan when the soviet union invaded in one nine hundred seventy nine many of them have never been in afghanistan i'm a born and raised in refugee camps in recent months the pakistani government has taken a more hardline attitude with menaces describing refugees as a burden that the economy can no longer maintain come on harder has more from islamabad. ever says the russian and region of honest on late nineteenth seventy's on refugees have corp august on their home their country has become host to millions of one refugees and even today over three and

a half decades on august on is said to hoard over two point five million of run refugees of which one point five million of run refugees are registered and the others do not have adequate documents the government of pakistan has been exerting pressure on these refugees to go back because they. say you will die sanctuaries by militant outfits which are targeting august on however the relationship between kabul and islamabad has become. several rounds of talks between the civil and military leadership buggiest on it as far as dealing with the of foreign refugees is concerned the country is also due to hoard an election on the green the fifth of july. new government will be in place in islamabad to take key decisions on the future relationship rid of run a stand and the plight of the afghan refugees residing in this country the united nations high commission for refugees is optimistic that despite the fact that

thirty years was indeed the deadline the government of pakistan was likely to increase that deadline. and to ease the suffering of the of one refugees dieting across this country and the egyptian court has to lay its final ruling and a mass trial involving more than seven hundred people until next month is on trial accused of being involved in a system that happened in two thousand and thirteen but holding it up by the military plane the delay and what it calls security concerns that each analyst mahmoud opposite is one of the defendants awaiting sentencing he's facing the death penalty for taking pictures from it she cracked down. and al jazeera journalist mahmud hussein has been in the gyptian jail for more than five hundred days without trial his tension has been extended fourteen times he was detained without charge while forty's in two thousand and sixteen during a holiday to cairo is there an international human rights organizations have repeatedly egypt to release jailed journalists. gaza's health minister says

two people one of them a thirteen year old boy big killed by israeli gunfire the boy was reportedly shot in the head during friday protests on the border with israel more than three hundred palestinians were injured have been weekly protests at the border since march against israeli land confiscation and the ongoing occupation more than one hundred thirty palestinians have been killed by israeli live fire and thousands injured since march but that hasn't stopped people from going back out to protest and. i had three operations on my leg and a fourth one yesterday from the hospital to participate with my people in today's protest we want to wake up the sleeping palestinians from gaza to the west bank despite my injury i came to throw stones and burns hires and cut the wires of the border fans mexicans vote on sunday and lection the kurds and the country's politics big business is pushing its favorite candidates but the country's working

class are expected to be the king because i have picked for an end to violence poverty and corruption a lesson america has anybody explains. michael steele of a side you'll have to rent a car parts factory that exports to the united states to a mexico's number one industry and like dozens of other prominent industrialists and businessmen he's part of a coalition that publicly supports the presidential candidate for mexico's governing party. the sampling you need a former finance minister is a friend of big business and the free markets the end to sis of the populous left wing candidate who's leading in the polls mr the little sad your believes he would be disastrous for mexico we had example been in front of the same eleven for all i was was into the kids. what happens after sixty years he went out of money then you know been his role and he's i mean our very top story so we don't want that

happening next. god is a long time opponent of so-called savage capitalism and accuses prominent mexican billionaires of belonging to what he calls a power mafia. everything story. media is appealing to mexicans to vote for continuity and not for a return to what he describes as the disastrous populism of the past and may well lead in visa elections what we believe what we love what we've built is at stake in this election the country's future is at play. because one of the conservative opposition party plan couldn't agree more he too wants mexicans but the choice is between stability and the kind of uncertainty that spooks investors but the concerns of the business sector don't seem to be striking a chord among millions of poor mexicans who struggle to make

a living for many here the prospect of electing a president who promises to make the have nots rather than the privilege his main priority seems irresistible people like fruit vendor israel who says the two other candidates represent options that have failed the working class. of a whole new profusion of record we need jobs education sports health for farmers not just for those who have benefited from welcome power need help so the country can grow. your had it remains optimistic he says it's illegal to tell his employees who to vote for but that he has explained what he believes would be the consequences if mexico were to veer off its present course. newman. mexico. u.s. car maker general motors is warning that trade tariffs on imported vehicles could lead to the isolation of u.s. businesses from the global market g.m.

also told the u.s. commerce department that the levees could force the company to downsize putting thousands of jobs at risk that contrasts with the trumps administration's argument that the terrace will protect u.s. industry some of the vehicles that the company sells in the us a manufactured in mexico and canada. will kansas hit back at the u.s. over steel and aluminum terrorist by imposing twelve billion dollars worth of taxes on american goods and his plan will take effect from next week and includes charges on the u.s. imports such as your good coffee and blue paper canada has no choice but to retaliate with a measured perfectly reciprocal dollar for dollar response and that is what we are doing i cannot emphasize enough there were grant with which we take these countermeasures we are acting very much in store oh not in anger but the us terrorists leave canada no choice but to defend our industries our workers and our

communities and i can assure you that we will maintain the firm resolve to do so. eighteen people have been killed in a head on collision between a boss and a truck in china's hunan province. after one of the vehicles reportedly crossed central divides on a rain soaked highway on friday world health organization says around two hundred sixty thousand chinese die every year in traffic accidents. around thirty people are rescued from drowning in australia every day and saving lives is about to get easier later this year joy in the southern hemisphere some a drains will be used to help rescue stranded swimmers and to support shocks that might be getting a little too close for comfort andrew thomas reports from berlin. a drone flies over the australians as well as the rough water films in the center of the shot to swimmers who've been swept out and are in serious trouble but rather

than just film them the drone drops help a self inflating float to which the swimmers cling on and used to get gradually swept by the waves back into sure it was one of these drones which in january carried out the rescue of two sixteen year old boys mark phillips was at the controls lucky. we didn't actually put it on our end because we're obviously busy but we did it with avatar from the video footage from the fly so we know from takeoff to them receiving a part was just sixty seventy seconds a demonstration shows how it works the drone hovers above the person in trouble then it's operates at times when to drop its load swimmers hold on until help arrives and i'm more traditional way in some cases drones are equipped with the loudspeakers too connected to lifeguard radios they act in a preventative capacity where being able to get above people and say i stop there's a repair or you are about to get into trouble or you're about to be washed off head

back in with had that capability so we've intervened probably close to one hundred times where we'll stop people getting into that situation before they've even got the last australian summer beaches down the east coast where patrolled by seventeen lifesaving drones by this november more than fifty rescue drugs will be operating the water today is calm of that ever get but in a rough way that with waves rising can reach places that jet skis can and far in frightening they've gone from shore to drop in just twenty five seconds. other drones look for sharks computers have been taught to recognize different species we've tried it with images this computer system and it can actually come back and actually give us accurate answers on the basis of the data we fit the computer can then alerts people to get them out of the water it is an excellent example where.

being used in not replacement things but a system in getting the work done in a better way the shark spotting and life float dropping drones have finished their trial periods they'll be patrolling australian beaches for real this summer and those behind them hope to sell their technology worldwide under thomas al-jazeera. and you can find plenty more on all the day's news on our website there it is al jazeera dot com. top stories peace talks between syrian rebels and the government's allies russia have broken down in the southern province of daraa. government gangs in the area president bashar al assad's forces took over the town of day on saturday his forces and his russian allies have been fighting to gain ground in recent weeks. well

that's despite the fact that large parts of daraa province fall inside a deescalation zone negotiated by the united states and russia to his foreign minister says the two countries have a responsibility to end the violence. the united states and russia have reached an agreement regarding this area and syria they reached an agreement for deescalation zones and according to the deal opposition forces would be deployed on one side while syrian regime forces would be on the other but syrian regime forces launched an attack on the other side so who made this agreement the united states and russia they both have responsibility and this needs. dog. south sudan's latest attempt at a cease fire is under threat from heavy fighting in the country's north west between rebels and government forces presence of a karen rebel leader signed their agreement in neighboring sudan on wednesday demonstrations are taking place in south korea against the number of yemenis arriving there to seek asylum more than five hundred yemenis have flown to j.g.

island since december about half a million people have signed a petition urging the government to revise legislation on migrants stop in a week since twelve young footballers and their coach went missing in a cave in northern thailand heavy rain flooded the cave leaving them trapped inside more than a thousand divers soldiers and border guards have joined the search for top british cave divers and some u.s. military personnel also are involved. and ships in court has delayed the final ruling in a mass trial involving more than seven hundred people until next month those on trial are accused of being involved in a sit in in two thousand and thirteen that was broken up by the military photojournalists. is one of the defendants awaiting sentencing he's facing the death penalty for taking pictures during the military crackdown five years ago. you have to say now with all the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera off to rewind stay with us each year childhood for an

estimated fifteen million girls. before the age of eighteen. young girls compelled to marry after fleeing the war in syria share their stories and talk to. hello and welcome to rewind on the radio over the last ten or so years here at al-jazeera english we've built up an incredible library all award winning documentaries and on rewind we're taking another look at some of the best of them

and seeing what's happened in the years since they were first shown this week we're going back to two thousand and twelve and a remarkable film from africa's oldest republic the west african country of liberia and its capital monrovia where less than half the population can read and write and sixty four percent live below the poverty line so with many of those people cut off from normal news sources one man decided to tackle the problem using just a bit of chalk and a large blackboard called the daily talk blackboard lists all the latest news in a simple language used by monrovia's disadvantaged poor from the witness series in two thousand and twelve here is alfred's free press. hello. hello. what we're doing is like this our

responsibility. to measure the information. from those who. tell you they receive. our job. and they did it tom. to create a list before that would be on the street and everybody have access to it. it would just believe that discreet things will never come into reality. but. that that's the kind of present our facility is. i believe that people should be informed of what is happening. to.

the leaders of the world really want to be rude harsh. it is this war that prompted the creation of the did talk i saw the meat of people wanting to be reform but there was there was no means of getting information soon the idea of the book came to me to deal talk news put that in the chalkboard news people and some to begin to click to music you can start over just like. a. diary. as sauce or refract to be on the scene there is out of way of origin by some being and will saletan is that when you are after you less so. it makes sense you had to.

get out more want to do the wanted to fight drug use. every time i walk along the avenue i usually make a stop like ten or fifteen minutes in a reader there and know what is going on around me in the city what is happening in my country and around the continent. when the war was coming to the country people were forced to take you and they give you gone and the rich life to see you go and fight you know. it happened to me. used to used to. take you for the seven ball and

the whole country where i was so i was compared to do it for my life as like you take and go to hunt for animal in the forest. and to take you and you hunting one another. member of friends friend of mine got. less lose. and even lose the life. this is what i do to make a living. i use a bullet empty case and create straw. our transformation from war to peace.

this is how we meet here. this is across germany in front of you. think. one of the problems my mom would have me for some time is i don't stay with my family. alone. you know she was able to walk out of that i have or don't sit with it funny every day they see this for rains a lot people call a wild story yeah ok let me call you about five minute please yeah i get. a new story coming in again. oh i think you know there's.

always good every morning to get information. if i'm a sure it's a bridge between field and source s. c. c. g i joe is from ward's. minister but he'd want to shoot us. so that we know where we can bring them back together religious my thought i must say just. if i. were in the world my parents left me there any way and they left me and i left alone. i. didn't ask.

that. kind and in this scene you have to risk you must. azita see this side now. we are trying to build a charge. then now now you call me a a c in new biddy feet happy she has some tears have been the iranian yes i think change is coming to liberia gave me a choice what do is stretch of leg this is so doing the people feel that go is still with them. we are not seeing where the body will form and he's hoping to be updated. by somebody that we don't know and then this is what i mean i'm not going up to the

nearby exactly how did you how being the boss involving two it's things i believe will be what do you call me with the opposition. alone. good morning to our president i had this morning i would describe here in a bad. light. oh i was just going on. and then about a dozen of us who were running away how could. one when it's good to get back to you had to tell me what's happening here that. i thank you because when you. look you know. you know you didn't rule of law. or not. and you don't want to have the. place i just. leave you if you move up in the end of the. bed you're going this morning you know what they're

pretty close to the mail well all i want to know where you are and it's in the groups on the ballot you know. you see there by their voice if you look at it. and . you know us in general if you don't have the signature office you can get it used by just sitting you have to pull up the p.c. . i don't have t.v. and if you don't miss in the video game news if you don't mean to use the phone in the place we're going to get news is folded it up. on waking in monday i j. on my shift. i just had to do it to live. but. am warning him to live

such. an one. hundred one into rent incompatibility. so that in a modern well what to avoid a one in two going to have a two children. who will go to. school today and. play days who did it. on response well they've both lived with me. responsible to see their day to day. while.

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to. be given his name. and i can tell him. to make a program. in our menu or more from debut garden. if it does have raised the number of a gene down. there which got so many and i. guess they didn't know. they did it all caps to educate people. around so it got me interested.

in crime i work i love doing it. cos he look reasonable that. it is to defy the me because. it is also. mine country. yeah. input issues especially from china. more durable i'll be using this year. five years away or almost every day. will be delighted to do all of these. issues. are one due. to how affected with.

my dream. in the hour i will be very very discouraged. i mean me a brawl but in. my. mind . i'm good as dream you are now. my life my future it's not business i don't want to sit back and want better shoes or the. whatever you want to be in export their short term numbers and it's get your lab rummy you have your morning. i want to be made and. my usual busboy is the white people and the lashon and people like you when people . in the evening time like this they can

be on these beaches having a good time and we can't go there when the average blacks to be able to sell what i produce myself. i feel happy. does somebody say i will come was our overcome i was. here when a minister goes. to counseling people i feel much. in and out of tune on the planet. that we have the good news for you. now well what did i not bother to to. know that it would be well with you in jesus name. it came of dying love you know that people are running for office still bless you feel that job is nothing left is a game but today you might enjoy. to bet you look around

you you are no longer you haven't cosigned well if you know how people in the past let the past go for the past wrecking then it is still hope for this country i want you to believe that if this possible in your generation now you can be the cause of the transformation of this country. the bureau would be one of the best country to walk in jesus' name. by. little what. i wanted. or what to do. monday night in my house. my room with my children. is now behind. the deaf and dumb school when it was st.

above them i'm now training. for our society in liberia. yeah quiet it gives you a good job is is there a. while and then who is. so no longer bloody. so. you do to help them. i get. i get frustrated. because you're talking to a mate do you try to teach him he's not be attention to me.

i would like my don't take you want to dismiss i'm the one you know and if you are truly enough to just do it if you make some of the grew up passions for what you doing it's like. you are visions ok and what if they're not. going to. be disciplined so i want to. go out to the land of the republic of liberia. one nation indivisible. with liberty and justice for all. there shall i go. thank you so that's nice.

mood. in the lead even very important money indeed in a new money in. the mood they're very much mistaken. even right this month. alfred's free press a wonderful film which was broadcast more than six years ago now so rotten show you're wondering what happened to alfred what happened to his news chalkboard rewind went back to monrovia to find out what has become of the daily talk of alfred and his rate is.

low from the public on a daily basis of. what's happening in the average society. the bezel changes before over the years you know. how you don't know you know you know i don't know one of the we came up with on which we would inform the public about it. we keep factual information the information is up. to the people. on the newsgroup or everything that was. researching before we. got to. this is the news room this is where the news stories is published and is how it's done it like i said a news release i don't. mean for you look at these things that were printed in your school. this is. the decks new sticks and.

other stories and this is the story the house and the board have in the story. it's hard to work. on is. what you're for time and and do with your family hundred percent it's very difficult you have to spend half of the time running out the stories you have to have time to research and all of those things and from from where i come from and look you know especially liberia in your story. in the press freedom it was difficult. because what you people come after you you know it was a very tough. was

broken down it was the mahdi each it broke me because. levy who. when i was a dog at the. family anyway when it broke i guess all. last i said though i get i get i myself in though. so i must continue to go out there and these also encourage me i may keep it all so i'll do that a common stock in a new a friend called me a man i used to make an issue that they had about my house so they didn't have better shoes and then dad and i started from.

believing god that we were we had me one day and i always did this i would do what i had timed out or does the b.b.c. all of what we were to be seen plus the nuts clark is preaching what we were. if you have to be heroes just to put to good use you will have the money to people so they didn't get judges news from heroes news people and they get put out oh. yes and the point up with a refill. it did it very very great problem got some time with. god the amount to buy a newspaper would get information on this say well. yes you are really making a lot my hope for liberia is that one of the liberian.

people of one hundred fifty dollars. and everybody else cesspool melich. everyone else as to who rose would what and how the end of the day liberal got washed better. well that's it for this week of course you can find out more about alfred's free press and watch other films from the series on the rewind page at al-jazeera dot com i'm come all santamaria from the whole rewind team thanks for joining us. a new series of rewind a care bring your people back to life i'm sorry and brand new updates on the best of al-jazeera documentaries the struggle continues book from back to now use distance rewind continues with the return of the lizard king steve child and one

east upwards of two hundred species are going extinct every twenty four hours and a lot of that is attributed to wildlife trafficking rewind on al-jazeera when the news is restricted and send said the press is not free in this external interference and influence and that is used to exploit not explained. when journalists access to information. he said at the time but i want us press. and the most of the costs. and just as never sees the light of day no idea about anybody and. what the show will have. and the stories that matter go on told and the press is not. neither are we.

every year in pakistan hundreds of women are victims of so-called honor killings one on one east searches for the truth in a case that exposes the growing clash between old beliefs and modern life on al-jazeera. this is al jazeera. live from thirty or forty in here and out of their headquarters in doha i'm daddy and i will go to welcome to the news grid families that belong to . other docks the message from those protesting president donald trump zero tolerance policy on immigration hundreds of thousands of people are expected demonstrations right across the united states politicians religious leaders and

celebrities all calling for children off illegal migrants to be reunited with their parents also on the grid on a desperate journey from yemen to south korea hundreds of refugees fleeing the war in yemen seek refuge on the holiday island of jeju but are met with angry protests from locals there and mexico's presidential hopefuls we take a look at the four candidates and what's at stake ahead of sunday's key vote. and fighting for their rights presence in uganda at the kidnapping and killing of forty two women and a lack of police action on such a high and i connect to those throughout the show with the hashtag a.j. great. you're with a news group we're live on air we're streaming online through you tube facebook live and at al-jazeera dot com well seven hundred protests in the fifty states that make up the u.s.

americans hundreds of thousands of them unites with one voice to denounce donald trump's immigration policies and while the president has ordered changes to stop migrant children being separated from their parents more than two thousand kids are still not back with their families what kind of pressure can these protesters are looking at right there live pictures what can they bring to the administration which believes in a zero tolerance approach we've got correspondents in different parts of the country we have gabriel is on though he'll join us from new york in just a moment but first jordan's with us she's in lafayette square just outside the white house in washington d.c. and it's a scene off one of the main rallies tell us what you're seeing and hearing. well basically there was a lot of. expectation that not many people would turn out it's just before the fourth of july long holiday weekend it's going to be nearly thirty eight thirty

nine degrees celsius here before you factor in the humidity and people would probably want to be doing something else well daryn as you can see behind me people are streaming in to lafayette park across the street from the white house to express their opposition to the trumpet ministrations policy of forcibly separating young children young migrants children from their parents when they arrive at the us mexico border you're seeing lots of people already saying i'm undocumented and i'm here and i'm not going to be moved the theme of the event families belong together you're seeing people of all ages all races all creeds all political stripes coming out and saying that what the tropic ministration is doing not only violates international treaties but also violates human decency joining me now to talk about the significance of this rally ahead of the fourth of july holiday is hi jan who she is the executive director of the national domestic workers alliance hi

jen thanks so much for joining us here on al-jazeera why is it significant for people to stand in front of the white house and to declare their opposition to this policy we are fighting for the soul of our country. this administration put into place a policy that he calls zero tolerance we call it zero humanity that created a humanitarian crisis at the border and we now have babies in cages and he's building internment camps for families with young children it is absolutely unconscionable and unacceptable and i think the people here are saying that is not that is not in my name you are not going to do that here why do you think it took this moment. and not other things such as the rich heated mass shootings across the country the validation of the so-called muslim ban the travel ban that was held by the supreme court this week the pushback against the me to move it what is it about

this immigration policy that you think has people streaming into the park as we speak i think one opposition and anger and outrage has been building around the travel ban around attacks on health care and on the gutting of our. institutions of our democracy like we're about to happen with the supreme court unless we get in motion and i think what people are seeing is that our institutions and our leaders in this democracy are failing and it's time that we take matters into our own hands and reclaim the right to live their high jet blue the national domestic workers alliance thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera and daryn the program is just getting underway there is a bit of a celebrity star power program more important is that the most bulk of the speakers are going to be people who have been involved in immigration rights people have been personally affected by the trumpet ministrations policy as well as members of

the clergy clergy i should say were trying to motivate americans to get more involved not just morally not just spiritually but politically because of this because of this policy all right so roland jordan for the time being we'll leave it there we thank you for giving us that update from washington d.c. well there is another rally as we're saying taking place in new york and that is where gabriel is on those joining us from just a moment ago gabriel we saw the pictures of people streaming into this scene of that rally in new york tell us what you're seeing there. you know we're here on the brooklyn bridge there is famous brooklyn bridge where there are thousands of tourists here but in the next couple of minutes they're going to be potentially tens of thousands of more people protesters these are all people that have gathered foley square here in new york city they've gathered just on the other side of that bridge behind me there and they're expected to take over this bridge here in the next few minutes

a huge crowd of people that we've seen here new yorkers are coming out in force today to basically they say they're giving two messages one reunification reunification of families that are separated and to stop stop there saying this is zero tolerance policy of the trumpet ministration the policy that these protesters say is inhumane and not fair and many of them say simply illegal because a lot of these protesters say that people applying for asylum in the u.s. are trying to do so legally this is a huge rally can't see quite right now but you can see from the pictures there's going to be tens of thousands of people streaming over the brooklyn bridge here in the next few minutes. all right. thanks for that update from new york let's not cross to los angeles and speak to helen sklar she's an immigration attorney she's joining us via skype thanks for speaking to us on al-jazeera what kind of pressure can be as protests bring on the administration which believes in the zero

tolerance approach. well i think we've seen the pressure working already the executive order that stopped the separation the kidnapping essentially of children of all ages from parents stopped. what is coming in the aftermath of the cessation of separation doesn't look good and it's being litigated all over the united states so that this story is not completed yet but this pressure is a normal sleep helpful as another means of expressing enormous dissent opposition to the cruelty of the treatment of families and children and the illegality of running roughshod over people's legal right to apply for asylum in the united states under both domestic and

international law what can you tell us about what you've seen for want of for what it's like trying to reunite some of those children with their parents are families being reunited. my understanding and i'm reading on a daily basis to stay up to date on developments mander standing is very few children have been reunited there are enormous obstacles that relate to both bureaucracy and the lack of recordkeeping when the parents were separated it was done in chaotic conditions i've read and the type of record keeping that would be considered. necessary and standard in handling family cases children's cases was not

done when the families were separated so finding children to reunite with parents some of whom have already been deported to other countries is an extremely difficult task and that's what the news is reporting let me ask you about one idea that's being floated around mainly social media but it is being adopted by some left leaning democrats they are calling for ice to be abolished where do you stand on this debate well i was. to that was. came into being. to deal with circumstances relating to. national security and some ways at least that was the.

tenor and tone in the united states when ice came into being that the level of inforce meant in connection with people seeking entry to the united states and needed to be ramped up substantially due to events nine eleven and other events in the aftermath of nine eleven. the types of things we're saying ice in gauge and now to me and dictates that the agencies charge went way too far and its willingness to follow these orders that are blatantly in violation of domestic law namely not. permitting people who approach the ports of entry or who locate border patrol officers after entering the united states

between ports of entry up until this administration that would essentially automatically result in a person being permitted to stay in the united states and pursue their claim to asylum and there's a whole mechanism to do that. if they articulated a claim to a border patrol officer either between ports or at a port of entry they were permitted to make their claim to a trained asylum officer that is not happening people are being kept away and that's a violation of domestic law all right so we will continue to watch this debate for the time being helen sklar we thank you very much for speaking to us on al-jazeera of sarah heritage is here with us to tell us.