business on the working class rescuers drop food into the depths of a cave in thailand as a break in the rainy season flooding and squares on the search efforts and then store world number one carolyn was reacting when says second time for international . syrian rebels say that peace talks with the government and its ally russia have ended in failure the free syrian army is say they refused to surrender in the southern province of daraa it comes as a string a rebel held town and villages that have accepted government rule more than one hundred sixty thousand people have been forced to flee the fighting with found as a matter of saying at the jordan border where they're being given a catcher lopez for diana has we'll. show you a celebration over syrian forces claiming control of rebel held town isn't daraa

province syria's state media showed these images allegedly showing unwavering support oh the father god but on syria's border a desperate plea for more than one hundred sixty thousand civilians have fled in just five days neighboring israel and jordan have closed their borders jordan says it can't afford to take in more syrian refugees one of them and with him we came from the city of hama it was drawn by bombs and came under siege we've pleading with jordan and its king hoping to go through the. airstrikes led by syria's strongest ally russia have gone on for at least ten days rebel forces have been all powered peace negotiations and on and off cease fire deals with russia following. the previous ceasefire deals had been breached before. that vision 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 to stop. daro was one of the last rebel told areas in syria symbolically it's much more it's here where the uprising against syria's government began seventy years ago now its fate may have international implications it has a very important strategic value for israel because it's about its north border the u.n. warns the situation could turn into a humanitarian crisis many of those who try to flee now have nowhere to go katia lopez so the young al jazeera. or for more on the dar i'm joined by afzal ashraf is a visiting fellow with the center for conflict security and terrorism at nottingham university thanks very much for coming in to al jazeera. first i want to pick up on what the turkish foreign minister has been saying and he said i think on friday

russia iran and the u.s. basically a violated the cease fire and it really does almost feel like they've decided to let down our fall is that a fair assumption well i think that's a consequence. ceasefires orany a temporary solution to the problem and there is no long term solution except that the syrian regime supported by russia and others wants to reestablish its sovereignty over syrian territory which of course they regard as their right so unless a political solution can be found the cease fires are only a stopgap and in some ways it may be the recognition that this is what convention is going to happen the syrians are going to take over certain on the side of the americans that is led to this continued assault and as we are hearing in the last few hours possible collapsing of several towns eight figure of eight is mentioned none of these are confirmed reported. stage so i think there is this exceptions

that the syrian regime is going to reestablish control but of course there are other issues humanitarian aspects but also political tensions with military tensions with the israeli border being so close to the action and by golan heights and that's the other question i suppose the longer that the rebels hold off the longer the violence carries on the more likely civilian casualties are going to happen and indeed they're driven out of their homes the u.n. human rights chief is saying a catastrophe jordan is saying we can't take any more people when they're basically going to be left in no man's land i suppose a majority of border with with desperately in need of and i think those two points there one that you mentioned earlier which is a positive point in that it seems that the rebels are recognizing that hanging on and risking further civilian casualties no is not

a good thing obviously for civilians and there are. coming to agreement with the regime at an earlier stage than had been the case a about a year ago in aleppo so this is a positive thing in terms of the second issue. in some ways the quick closing of the border by the jordanians and by of course the israelis is probably not such a bad thing if it is exploited well by the regime and the u.n. what we do end up getting if it's well managed is camps within syria as opposed to outside syria and if those camps have are allowed access by the u.n. and other n.g.o.s what that will do is once hopefully this problem is sorted out we won't have the problem that you have in how the complex of returning. refugees to the country already will be in the country but it all. so will mean that many of

those areas which are rebel areas allows a syrian regime to get control much more quickly the rebels are saying they don't want to surrender but we are probably looking at a situation where they are going to have to move somewhere else and the obvious place is the northwest but that has to be the next place that assad's forces and indeed by russia are now going to start attacking it live the whole area almost certainly but what they are going to do venture is get to that place it might be directly might be via other areas that they're trying to recover the the strategy is obvious and clear they want to reestablish control of all of their territory of south africa so much for coming in. so incensed it will host yemen's warring parties for negotiations meanwhile the u.n. says it will help run the red sea port of data the saudi and u.a.e. military coalition has been fighting to take the city from hooty raffles for two weeks now so the country is humanitarian supplies come through the ports to feed

millions of people who desperately need a. south koreans are continuing to rally against the rapid rise of yemenis seeking asylum there more than five hundred people from yemen have flown to jeju island since december about half a million people have signed a petition urging the government to revise its refugee legislation the government was forced to hold an emergency meeting on friday to deal with the crisis eventually promising to tighten its laws craig leeson has more from seoul. south koreans are protesting against what they see as a rift or says here in the country this is because more than five hundred yemenis have accessed the currency through our holiday island called j g u r l and then are stuck there because the government has moved to heal them coming to the mainland there's only about three hundred people here right now but they represent about half a million people who signed

a petition urging the government to revise its legislation given all the refugees these protests is taking place for is another protest one hundred meters away in support of the refugee none of this is hoping for yemenis who so far as do a start on jade you are a lot of fighting in yemen has forced more than two million people from their homes most remain some of the country but hundreds of thousands have fled overseas according to the u.n.h.c.r. fifty one thousand have gone to neighboring amman another forty thousand are in somalia which are ready has one point five million internally displaced people is followed by saudi arabia which is leading the coalition war efforts in yemen and djibouti a much smaller number have traveled to asian countries like malaysia where they can stay visa free for three months most geminis trying to get to europe go via libya making them vulnerable to mistreatment and drowning. one of the asylum seekers

katie said he had few options but to go to change island. was the only country of bailable for us to go to without a visa and claim asylum because we can go into few countries in the world without us of these but they don't accept refugees or they didn't sign the. united nations convention they cream and want to accept refugees and stuff so. it's of south korea but it's i mean we can't go to south korea we can go to. and it's dali country now while we can go to. claim asylum because obviously if we go to another country and stay there with. if our visa expires than we will be stuck in jail or debilitation censored because in order to be deported back to him because he's an expired us and then you have to go through a neighboring country because it isn't that and that was there's not there is a dire explains we can go to back to yemen we can go back you know because of the

war anyway but if let's say you want to go back you'll be in jail because you need to get a visa to go to a neighboring country i mean they don't usually access to refugees and if they do it's really a small percentage maybe three percent something so and now a case they said they considering to give us a human to release a set of refugee status so they missed basically keep this in july then and so the was finished or at least until the think it's a safe country to go back to so. they do i mean they are considering to give us a human to me and we have to wait at least six months but they did say they'll try to speed the process and probably give us an onset within three months. mexicans will head to the polls on sunday in an election that could up end their country's politics big business is pushing its favorite candidates but the

country's working class are expected to be the king makers hoping for an end to violence poverty and corruption a latin america they certainly see in human explains. michael steele of a side you'll have yet 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 santal you'll need a former finance minister is a friend of big business and the free markets the end to sis of the populace left wing candidate who's leading in the polls mr the little sad your believes he would be disastrous for mexico we had example of venezuela is a leader in for what wasn't to the kids. what happens after sixty years he went out

of money then you know been his role and he's i mean are very tough story so we don't want that to have an image. and this is locus of brotherhood is a long time opponent of so-called savage capitalism and accuses prominent mexican billionaires of belonging to what he calls a power mafia. there was a study i need 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 live 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 better so because of the now 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 spokes. investors but the concerns of the business sector. among millions of poor.

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. who says the two other candidates represent options that have failed the working class. or because we need jobs education sports farmers. need help so the country. 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. joins us now from. john this has been

a rick election why. well as you say this is being billed as historic because it's going to be the biggest historic election inmates can history there's more than three thousand four hundred posts up for grabs and among them obviously the top job and in that particular post there's a chance that the two oldest parties the ninety year grip on power might be about to be broken and that's because by far the front runner in this is a leftist populist could under his money lopez obrador who's got a clear lead i'm here now with chris wilson from the wilson center as mix constitutes talk a little bit more about this so this isn't the first time that as manuel lopez obrador has run he's run in two elections before and been defeated what's changed this time yet this is a totally different scenario in the sense that mexicans are really frustrated with the whole political system they feel like they've tried the paan that ruled between

two thousand and two thousand and twelve they tried the p.r.i. which ruled earlier as a single party system and then in two thousand and twelve to two thousand and sixteen but none of those parties got rid of corruption none of those parties were able to contain violence in mexico none of those parties were able to bring people out of poverty insufficient levels to meet the aspirations of mexicans and so there's just an overwhelming feeling of frustration and a willingness to try just about anything now in two thousand and six was the weather was seen as sort of a danger to mexico in two thousand and twelve again was painted as a danger for mexico but people are willing to overcome that fear and take a chance with him this time around it seems and you took short on some of the reasons that willing to overcome that fear but tell us a bit what are the major issues this election will certainly corruption is there that the top issue and that's what you meant well it was a real has run his campaign on his anticorruption he says he's not corrupt and therefore the system will become less corrupt when he's in charge of it but besides that the sort of regular pocketbook issues in mexico are incredibly important

meaning poverty and inequality those economic issues we have a country that has a high concentration of. in the hands of you there are parts of the country regional disparities as well where the southern part of mexico is much poorer than the northern part of mexico that's integrated into the north american economy has strong manufacturing presence and so it was worse from the south he will be the first president if elected to be from the south in fifty years and mexico and so this is a time to try to overcome some of those disparities that inequality that mexico has had for too long at this point and you mentioned there a little bit about the north being integrated in the into the north american market one of the big things that hasn't been talked about this election that much is the united states who with of the comes the president who have a governs is going to take a troubled relationship what should they be doing with yeah and first of all i totally agree that it's really been the issues that are driving this election are domestic issues nonetheless as you say whoever wins will have to manage a challenging relationship there's a lot of tension on issues of migration with the united states the separation of

families we've been hearing a lot about lately obviously nafta the north american free trade agreement is being negotiated any president who wins whoever wins this election will have to take on that relationship in a trying time because there really is a level of negative rhetoric and challenging policies coming out of washington that we haven't seen for the last twenty years has makes us mexico relations does have improved i think the next president will have a hard time coming up with a strategy that's very different from the current strategy because on the one hand mexico needs the united states it sends eighty percent of its exports to the united states on the other hand mexico has to maintain its dignity and that's incredibly important for mexicans to have a president that will stand up to the united states and won't be bullied by the united states but the press will have to walk that fine line between managing the relationship on a day to day basis and keeping it alive and functioning without rolling over and giving in to the demands of a rather aggressive at times u.s. president. thanks a lot for chris so

a lot of different issues that the next president is going to have to go into groups of one that we didn't mention. it was crime and security two thousand and seventeen was actually the most violent year in recorded on record for mexico two thousand and eighteen looks set to surpass that just to give you a statistic here in may there was a killing every fifty minutes on average in mexico so as well as poverty as well as corruption many mexicans are going to be looking to see if the next president can result so far from all of the candidates we haven't really seen a detailed policy on resolving that problem so the whoever is chosen as the country's next president will have five months which is an extremely long time before they actually take power to try and get that strategy together work out today with a huge thank you john heilemann bringing us the very latest there for the upcoming presidential election in mexico much more to come on the program including more than a million afghan refugees await their fate as the pakistani government decides whether

to deport them or not competing claims of blame after south sudan's latest cease fire was violated just hours after it began an in-store howland's most decorated olympian age seventy two. well again that starts in the levant and western parts of asia are weather conditions looking pretty fine a woman there untouched can thirty eight degrees finer of the caspian sea tehran pushing forty not far short bypass forty three and it's looking fine around the suicide of the mediterranean much to turkey to say look in drawing no significant share right to it expected there now as we head across into the arabian peninsula region then we've got fire hot conditions just about everywhere on the western side

temperatures there into the low forty's similar sort of values on the eastern side but the big. difference is we're now getting very light winds and the think it may well be the case that humidity is going to stay up through the rest of the summer forty two degrees in doha if the humidity was low there was no problem but now the humidity is really creeping up then it becomes quite uncomfortable at times as i move the forecast through into monday no change here and across the rest of the gulf region temperatures sort of similar now heading across into southern portions of africa it's looking dry and fine here across many areas we have got this front there just giving the chance of some rain. in the course of sunday highs of sixteen degrees still going to be shera thing as we head through monday in temperatures really struck me in just thirteen but the eastern cape looking fine durban you look in quite a bright day highs of twenty three. i'm not. going to. 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 cases who picks out clients yes that's the person to terminate the plot are wrong these are being falsely accused in costa rica it was something he did not to exploring the dark side of american justice system with job on al-jazeera. expelled from their base in jordan in lebanon and left in a political. rebellion this rising in the ranks of the p.l.o. but was this just another inevitable step down the road. this is a long story just for the conflict that would cost out of sight his leadership in life. chronicling the term story the struggle for palestinian. history of the revolution on al-jazeera.

welcome back reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera hundreds of protests are underway across the united states against the trumpet ministrations controversial nine gratian all the see over the two thousand children remain separated from their parents despite president signing an order to end the practice the free syrian army says peace talks with the government on its ally russia broken down in the southern province of dera several rebel held town and villages in the area of accepted government rule. and more protests have been held in south korean capital seoul against the arrival of yemeni asylum seekers more than five hundred are flown to jade u.r.l.

and since december. south sudan's latest ceasefire has reportedly been violated within just a few hours of government forces and rebels in the north west and blaming each other for breaking the cease fire agreement was signed by president salva kiir and rebel leader react machar in neighboring sit down at least fifty thousand people have been killed and four million forced from their homes since the civil war began him twenty thirty when the african union has asked tribal leaders in south sudan to stop fighting and pursue dialogue to end civil war their meeting in mauritania ahead of the thirty first summit which begins on sunday. has more from the show. african leaders are concerned about the growing instability in the sahara region particularly following the deadly attack targeting their headquarters of the g five in savory in mali five is the task force which comprises troops from mauritania book enough fossil chart news share and bali and its goal is to defeat

groups of related with al-qaeda the islamic state and. and the spy of the assistance that the five has been getting from the international community of the un and france it seems that this is going to be a long battle to be able to contain the rise of those groups the african union also is concerned about the instability in south sudan following the collapse of the cease fire now leaders meeting here in mauritania are going to put more pressure on the south sudanese president. and here's why of all rick must charter trying to contain the crisis and push for a road map that would and civil war in sas are down there are also other issues like the dispute between morocco and the over the future of western sahara african union is a pan african organization they mean to speed up political and economic integration

they hope to be able to have their own single market single currency and central bank but many say this is going to take some time unless african union's tackle first of all regional conflicts the need to and armed conflicts for them to be able to pursue their political agenda. washout. and court has delayed the final ruling in a mass trial involving seven hundred people until next month they're accused of being involved in assisting in twenty thirteen that was broken out during a military crackdown those on trial including. photojournalist's mahmoud who's facing the death penalty and i'll desire is demanding the release of journalists who are saying he's been in an egyptian jail for more than five hundred fifty days without trial is detention has been extended for the fourteenth time he was

detained without charge in december twenty sixth seen during a holiday to cairo just there and international human rights organizations have repeatedly urged egypt to release jailed journalists german chancellor angela merkel says fourteen e.u. countries have agreed to take back migrants who originally registered with them merkel made the claim in a letter to her coalition partners who are demanding the government take a tougher stance on migration michael also reportedly said she also wants to establish anchor centers to hold on protests migrants the german border but hungary one of the fourteen countries reportedly included as denied reaching any deal dominic cain has more from berlin. the details of the fourteen countries who've given pledges to angela merkel to the political level that they will take back some migrants and refugees are as interesting for those who are not part of it as for those who are because the italians and the austrians are not party to this deal

they are not prepared as things stand to be part of this pledge system and that means that and so far as italy is concerned that's one of the front line states in the migration crisis where many of those who cross the mediterranean first landfall let's remember angle americal already announced that she had arrived as a form of understanding with the greek government and with the spanish government such that anybody who presents themselves across the german border with a stamp in their in their documents from spain or greece will be sent back ultimate question here is is this enough to placate merkel's political allies from bavaria the c s you will find out on sunday when the two parties the c.s.u. and the c.d.u. merkel's party meet separately to discuss the fallout from the e.u. summit more than a million afghan refugees living in pakistan will find out on saturday whether they're allowed to stay for more than a year pakistan's government to set an extended deadlines requiring all registered

afghan refugees to cross back over the border some have lived in pakistan for decades with many having fled afghanistan when the soviet union invaded in one nine hundred seventy nine in recent months the government has taken a less sympathetic stance with ministers describing refugees as a burden the economy can no longer maintain kamel high there has more from islamabad. ever says the russian and reagan of honest on nineteen seventy's. refugees have corp august on their home their country has become host to millions of refugees and even today she and a half decades on august on is said to host over two point five million afghan refugees of which one point five million afghan 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 sang cities 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. as far as dealing with the of foreign refugees is concerned the country is also due to hold an election on the twenty fifth of july. new government will be in place in islamabad to take key decisions on the future relationship with afghanistan 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 it was indeed the deadline the government of pakistan was likely to increase that deadline. and to ease the suffering of the of one refugee dieting across this country. diver someone has to go several kilometers into a flooded cave in thailand looking for twelve young footballers and they coach

you've been missing for a week and you are opening to the underground complex was discovered on friday offering hope the boys may still be found along scott highway postum chiang rai. one. week after the boys and their coach passed 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 monk 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 that 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 these would happen because when ever he would leave home 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 this 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 coats 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. while offerings to the caves spirits 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 or hole leading 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 scott how to al-jazeera chiang rai still to come on the program. i'm andrew thomas nam a little on australia's ace coast i'll be explaining how he runs a transforming the white lifesavers away stealing people at sea. and in sports it is the battle of the same speech that will tell you who sits in pole position for sunday's austrian. every weekly news cycle brings a series of breaking stories join the listening post as we turn the cameras on the media and focus on how they report on the stories that matter the most on

al-jazeera. july on al-jazeera. in a new series of head to head maddie hasson talk of the big issues with hard hitting questions mexico is getting ready for a general election what direction will the country take as it struggles with drug violence and economic instability. people in power continues to examine the use and abuse of power around the world as the world cup in russia nears its end we'll bring you stories from on and off the pitch of the world's most viewed sporting event on television and online the stream continues to tap into the extraordinary potential of social media to disseminate news. july on al-jazeera. land.