they protect them with the same vigilance so it's very concerning to us when the public is at an outcry about this yet the things that we see each and every day and the dangers that we face those things get put in the background and to us that just takes away the the resources that we have to protect the country and to combat the transnational criminal organizations really interesting to get your point of view in this town should thank you very much for your time while there have also been protests on the mexican side of the border thousands of gathered to accuse u.s. authorities of turning asylum seekers into criminals as part of a trumpet ministrations zero tolerance approach to undocumented immigrants and they demanded an end to child migrants being separated from their parents. syrian rebels say their peace talks with the government and russia have ended in failure the free syrian army says it's refuse russia's demands to surrender in the southern province of the not comes as

a string of rebel held town so villages have accepted government role and intense bombardment campaigns forced more than one hundred sixty thousand people to flee their homes catch a lot has only done has more. with the celebration over syrian forces claiming control of rebel held town isn't all right province syria's state media showed bees images allegedly showing unwavering support. but on syria's border a desperate plea 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. we came from the city of hama it was drawn by bombs and came under siege with 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 follow. previous cease fire deals had been breached before. 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 it's the north border the un warns the situation could turn into a humanitarian crisis many of those who try to flee now have nowhere to go.

so the young al jazeera. the leader of hezbollah has said he'll help some of the syrian refugees in lebanon return home. has confirmed to work with both the syrian and lebanese governments to assist any syrian who wants to go back more than a million fled over the border to lebanon since the war began. so even the says it's willing to mediate between yemen's warring parties and this comes as the u.n. says it will help run the red sea ports in her data the saudi and u.a.e. military coalition's been fighting to take the city from who the rebels for two weeks most of yemen's humanitarian supplies come through her day to support. and weapons which may have been destined for use in yemen have been at the center of a legal battle in belgium i judicial body suspended this sale to saudi arabia last year riyadh about nearly one hundred eighty million dollars worth of arms from producers in the belgian region of the lonely. the mandate for iraq's parliament

has expired with no new leadership confirmed the country still waiting for the results of a manual recount of suspect ballots from last month's election that's due to get under way in some regions and tuesday and it will take about two weeks leaving iraq in political limbo mohammad vali explains. your x. politics is a moment when the clock struck midnight local time ticked over into sunday the mandate of iraq's parliament expired. a new parliament was supposed to emerge following the general elections last month but differences over results are still under dissolved which presents a constitutional belamour for iraq after weeks of discussions about whether the outgoing parliament should extend its mandate it has finally decided to end its term from now and until a new parliament is in place we rock will be in a constitutional vacuum who can put things back on track legally or speaking i mean

so the government has the opportunity to sell so the government is responsible for implementing the law and the end of the constitution and the courts are responsible for overseeing that the implementation has taken place in accordance with the law and the constitution so the government can do so together. the results of the may twelfth election came as a shock to the ruling coalition led by prime minister hietala betty it came in third contrary to its expectations and nationalistic alliance of mostly secular parties but led by shock lyric mokhtar the southern got the most seats fifty four of three hundred twenty eight in second place came in alliance of iran groups. several parties cried foul alleging irregularities that included vote rigging glitches in new voting machines and destruction of ballots prime minister hyderabadi said security agencies had evidence of unprecedented violations on saturday the independent high electoral committee decided to start

a manual recounting of votes only in areas where irregularities were reported. that would be good could it be and other provinces on tuesday some party say that's not enough and want a total recount these are serious problems none of which were resolved before the current parliament expired which adds political uncertainty to our long list of problems four hundred five a disease. well let's speak to fight about in charleston west virginia he's a former iraqi ambassador to the united nations. as director of the center for the study of the middle east at indiana university thank you very much indeed for your time we had a correspondent mohammed vall there describing this iraq's politics at a critical moment is that the case yes i think show i think there was but in this particular election cycle has

a number of problems in the iraqi constitutional system. where the constitutional office from the president to the prime minister members and to members of parliament expires at the same time. leading to the sort of vacuum where now we have to sort of interpolate into the constitution a notion of a caretaker government i suppose a caretaker president the courts of course go on and they want overseeing the process of a recount but really this indicates to me that there are sort of gaps in the iraqi constitution which i would hope the next parliament would turn at attention to somebody always rushes in to fill oh i beg your pardon the sorry for interrupting you but i just want to ask you about this concept of a political vacuum because somebody as we know always rushes in to fill some sort of vacuum somewhere where are the threats do you think to the feeling that vacuum

if it exists. well one of the things of course we are most concerned about those of us who watch iraq is the existence of militias who act outside of agenda of actual government control not withstanding what was that was that's a problem regardless of whether we have this particular problem arise or not and of course given iraq's history over the last. five or so indeed now six decades. one is always concerned about the rise of of a strongman or a committee of strongman and this kind of back you are. of course lends itself to that and so that's something we have to be very very careful about i don't think however about the iraqi public with all of the writ large tolerate that kind of a power grab now even though

a substantial number of perhaps fifty five percent of the iraqi electorate chose not to participate in the last elections and that of course. i understand of course the situation is very complex with so many different players when it comes to the iraqi parliament but who's to blame for the situation that it now finds itself in well i would say that we have a constitution that was written in haste. well you know an american a timetable at a time in two thousand and five it was ill thought out it was smart. some of these problems are entirely predictable. that you could have a deadlock of some sort and so i would say that there is i advocate a and it's not a popular thing to say amongst the iraqi political class that these are really examination of the iraqi constitution. you know we've had that even the americans

operated under the articles of confederation for about ten years and then after what became the american i think we've been through enough cycles and had enough problems to look to see that perhaps it's time to relook at the constitution i hope there's a serious discussion of that even though i understand there are also entrenched interests. that benefit from the sort of constitutional ambiguity but i would look to the constitution once a future of the elders under the current constitution that looking for ways of strengthening them in the future we mentioned briefly the recount of the votes the suspect votes that's going on at the moment how significant is that and will that make any sort of difference to the current situation. it may do in certain areas on the overall result i mean is it going to make the prime minister's party go from coming on third in the elections to coming first i don't think so it may

balance there may be a rebalancing although somewhat individuals in certain places so in my knee and out of the then cut called in other you know the voting districts who lost. may find themselves elected after all once the end ballots are counted i expect i could be wrong but i don't expect that you will have a major restructuring. surprise me faceless about it thank you very much indeed my pleasure thank you. plenty more ahead on the news hour including the future of south sudan's peace deal is in jeopardy as a cease fire is violated within hours. masses of maize how the crops at the center of a multimillion dollar corruption scandal in kenya. and in sports world number two carline was the case when this first second title i think he's born international.

navy divers have gone two hundred meters deeper into a flooded cave in thailand in the search for a boy's football team and their coach more than a thousand people have joined the rescue operation which is now in its eighth day some progress has been made since the weather cleared on friday but still no sign of the team scott joins us now from chang right scott one of the most impressive things that we've been learning about this rescue is the continuing optimism and hope that rescuers and parents have that these people are going to be rescued. absolutely rob and you know when you get incremental good news like you just report you know another two hundred meters further in these navy seal divers have been able to do overnight from saturday to sunday that's good news you know that kind of feeds that hope if you will for the rescue workers and for the family members you

know we've been speaking with them over this you know week plus ordeal so there is a little incremental good news as you said you know the weather has cleared so that's really helping the process so where they are right now the navy seal diver team is still in the water now they had been overnight they went in at two am on sunday time here local and they are closer to pop the beach area that's an area named after a famous beach here in thailand that's where they believe these boys and their coach might be getting closer to that beach area that cavern if you will and that is there still though about four to six hundred meters away from that two hundred meters in further but they're still four to six hundred meters away so good news incremental good news but again there's still a lot of work to be to be done and they're still working to get closer to where they think they might be again still no clues there also above in the hills above this vast cave network trying to find a way in from the top there have been a couple of good news there two holes found holes being explored but again no kind

of breakthrough just yet rob i understand there's been some into international help in this as well scott and i believe that they've also been dropping supplies down through some of these chimneys that you've spoken to some. in the past in order to in the hope that the boys will be able to find these in song but they're also if i understand it correctly exercises one point to do in the event that they finally managed to get the boys and get the modes. absolutely a robin on saturday morning yesterday morning they had a drill if you will and what's interesting about that is you know they lined up the ambulances there thirteen people in there they had thirteen ambulances and assure. stand ins from this. part right here just off camera to the right here my right that's where the mouth of the cave is so they they did at rehearsal a drill if they found them and how they would take them out but what's interesting about that since that drill took place yesterday morning now sunday morning here there are a lot less vehicles here they've restricted this path this roadway out down the

hill from the cave mouth so obviously they saw the drill how it operated how it went and they figured found out that they needed to get a lot of these vehicles out so in fact they have to be shuttle buses now to bring people up to the mouth of the cave yes international organizations and groups are here you've got the united states military here about thirty person contingent you've got expert divers in the united kingdom has sent a force also japan is here so a lot of different nations involved in this one thing that's been critical critical word coming about out about how this has been operate is because there are so many bodies here coordination is very difficult again maybe we're seeing a little bit better coordination because they've at least gotten a lot of the vehicles out of here and you know yet you see a little bit less crowding going on that we see in the previous days but again you know it's still about what's going on in the cave in above the caves and right now we have a little bit of good good news but again no major breakthrough scott thanks very much indeed south sudan's latest cease fire has been violated just hours

after coming into effect with at least twelve people killed in the north government forces and rebels are blaming each other for breaking the truce the agreement was signed by president the rebel leader with much on a neighboring sudan at least fifty thousand people have been killed and four million forced from their homes since the civil war began in twenty thirteen morgan who's covered the conflict in south sudan extensively as more. now the fact that there is a violation regardless of who started it and who's to blame shows that both leaders don't have complete control of their commands the fact that they would issue an order on a national scale to all their forces and there is a violation it shows that not every single commander on the ground is on board with this agreement of ceasefire but every commander is happy with what with all the negotiations happening whether it's in addis ababa or in khartoum or the coming and in the coming round of talks in nairobi commanders come out and say we're not happy

with this deal so they form their own factions and when the opposition leader again splits from the government again they join so what happens is you usually have people who are having grievances against the government or against the opposition forming their own alliances forming their own groups and then they merge together and then again separate this so many fraction groups in south sudan's conflict we have more than a dozen armed groups all of them fighting they have signed the cease fire recently but the fact remains that not everybody is on board with the agreements that are being negotiated not everybody is on board with the cease fire is being signed this is the tenth ceasefire to be signed and violated since the conflict started in twenty thirteen the african union has asked sudan's rival leaders to stop fighting and pursue dialogue to end the civil war blocs meeting in mauritania ahead of sunday's summit which is be overshadowed by an attack in mali on friday. as more from new york showed. 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 in mali g five is the task force which comprises troops from mauritania book enough fossil chart news share and somali and its goal is to defeat groups are familiar with all kind of the islamic state and book and inspire 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 ceasefire leaders meeting here in mauritania are going to put more pressure on the south sudanese president silva care 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 south sudan there are also other issues like the dispute between morocco and the police over the future of western sahara african union is a pan african organization a mean to speed up a little girl 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 how al-jazeera washout. another issue african leaders will be tackling is corruption and how to fight the growing problem in kenya farmers a struggling following a series of multibillion dollar scandals catherine sawyer reports. mesha kiplagat

spam is one of the largest maize farmers in the rift valley but this has not been easy now we're stuck with this maze thousands are struggling to sell their crop government warehouses off for the cereals but has run out of money to buy more grain and private millers are buying cheaply families accuse boat officials of fraudulently importing maize from uganda and mexico instead of buying locally it's a nineteen million dollar corruption scandal implicating senior managers and politicians do you think corruption is the biggest problem for you. here corruption is the only problem this is. because you filed the middlemen kimmie. imported maize. and sold it to the cereals board now in us genuine firmus. we're told by the syrians bodies food. they have now reduced by half the amount of maize they've planted. this maize will be ready to harvest in

november in a good would fetch the keep family about ninety thousand dollars but this is definitely not a good idea they're not even sure where they're going to sell the grain the maize scandal is just one of many government corruption deals in which tens of millions of dollars have been stolen in the last five years dozens of people are already in court and president hu who has ordered a lifestyle audit of all public servants kenyans are angry. those are cvs they are stealing our money when dealing with this the president should start at the top. we vote for people when they go out there to steal the build big houses and buy airplanes with still hungry african heads of state are meeting in mauritania for the african union summit which is focusing on the fight against corruption and how to graft mechanisms within the e.u. can be strengthened there are some countries that have done very well in the fight

against corruption. very well international rhonda. and others but if you look at the c.p.m. up. which means that you have a. problem of corruption. this kenyans reason he took to the streets to demand better accountability with a huge public debt of about forty five billion dollars and a third of the budget lost annually in corruption and mismanagement they say the government needs to do better catching al-jazeera why ben the rift valley. sunday is election day in mexico the left. is the frontrunner is gained popularity because of ongoing violence and corruption in many of the country's poorest citizens finally get little or no help from authorities when a family member is murdered in america at

a time the syrian human reports from mexico city. this is my son her son he was nineteen and studied architecture but he said mantel piece is in fact a shrine to her two murdered sons place where she can at least keep their ashes close to her three years ago the eldest herson was kidnapped in. a few hours later fifteen year old allen a football player was murdered along with his brother in law invade a goose where they used to live even though the family paid the ransom to get her son back he was never returned eventually the remains of my eldest son were found in a bass grave along with one hundred ninety other missing people in your area. i thought one day i would find. the only thing i have of him now is his call and a piece of hip and leg because those monsters chop them all to pieces.

there's no peace for the families of the more than thirty thousand mexicans who were murdered last year and the equal number who are still missing records that are expected to be surpassed this year. but there is another type of crime that is also destroying mexico this is what's left of a school that collapsed during last september's earthquake here in mexico city and these little angels represent the nineteen children who were crushed to death when a structure that was built illegally by the school's owner fell on top of them she had apparently paid off local officials to turn a blind eye to the building code the victim's parents say that they died not because of the earthquake but because of corruption a phenomenon that is spreading like a disease throughout mexico in every aspect of life. which is why confronting crime violence and the widespread corruption that makes those things

possible are the main issues for tens of millions of mexicans as they choose a new president. one has to pay the criminal so they could lead to work in peace sometimes it's the police that bribes corruption is everywhere. the mexicans against corruption and impunity says the corruption costs the poorest thirty five percent. into their income putting poverty and violence in a vicious circle and when you start. kaname with those levels of violence and those levels of corruption of course nobody's going to want to invest and that's where. you have more inequality more poverty and of course more crime at that i mean that there is neither a silver bullet nor a presidential candidate with serious proposals to turn the tide and yet like millions of mexicans might be sela hasn't given up fairly or he tech area and come here they have all they have now there will be

a new government which has the power to do more we hope this time things will change. after losing so much hope she reminds us is the last thing you can lose you see in human i just see that mexico city. italy and malta have both refused to take in sixteen migrants rescued from a rubber dinghy in the sea near libya on saturday they were picked up by a spanish flagged vessel run by a humanitarian group proactiv open arms allow sale for days to reach barcelona italy's interior minister matteo salvini has what vowed that no more humanitarian groups rescue boats will be allowed to dock in italy about one hundred people are still missing after their boat went down in the mediterranean on friday. on sunday austria takes over the rotating presidency of the new its chancellor sebastian cortes has taken a hardline stance over europe's migration crisis dominic kane looks at how having

austria at the helm could impact the bloc. he says countries youngest leader and finance for six months at least on paper europe's as austrian chancellor since last december sebastian quotes has governed in a coalition with the far right and increasingly his policies have reflected that year. austria's goal is to stop the tide of illegal immigration the refugee and migrant influx into europe we have always stuck to our position and will use the e.u. presidency to work on a sound european solution that can only be achieved if the protection of our external borders works we have to be the ones who decide who come into europe not the people smugglers. and courts says he sees his country's role as a bridge between east and west which is why he's been making overtures to the countries of what's called the visa grad group the czech republic hungary poland and slovakia who some in brussels consider to be in the e.u.'s awkward squad they

don't share the desire for an ever deeper union and don't want to accept more migrants or refugees trying to cross the mediterranean that he would have to go right back everybody jumps into the water people catch them bring them out fish them out of the water and automatically they're basically ferried into the european union i don't believe this is a complex border defense is extremely important that we define what happens with those who are trying to cross seas illegally into the european union. there is another border that is important to ministers in vienna this is the south's ak river a natural front here dividing austria and germany from each other but in recent times the government of sebastien courts has been reaching across this river to try to establish good relations with the government in a very and it's a sickly regarding immigration and border controls because ministers in munich and vienna want to see much more of this police checking people crossing their shared

frontier a technical but apparently temporary breach of the e.u. is showing an open borders deal but while this is clearly what courts is seeking his counterpart in berlin angela merkel has resisted the widespread return of such controls insisting that chang and is a vital plank the e.u. policy away from the issue of migration another problem the austrians will face is the pressing question of how to deal with the e.u.'s budget which means that as mr cortes takes his seat around the e.u. table he will face lots of questions which may not have easy answers dominic kane al-jazeera oberndorf by sport. but i mean rival rallies in south korea over the rising number of yemenis seeking asylum there. hundreds of protesters gathered in central sold to support refugees and to welcome them and letting also turned up to express their anger against yemenis seeking refuge at the

resort island of jeju about five hundred of our lives since december the government held an emergency meeting on friday to deal with the crisis and eventually promising to tighten its laws. well fighting in yemen has forced more than two million people from their homes most remain inside the country but hundreds of thousands fled overseas according to the u.n.h.c.r. fifty one thousand have gone to neighboring oman another forty thousand are in somalia which already has one point five million internally displaced people now it's followed by saudi arabia which is leading the coalition war effort in yemen and djibouti a much smaller number of travel to asian countries like malaysia where they can stay a visa free for three months most yemenis trying to get to europe go via libya making them vulnerable to mistreatment and drowning. is an asylum seeker from yemen

he says he's got no choice but to go to jail island in south korea. g.-u. island was the only country available for us to go to without a visa and claim asylum because we can go into a few countries in the world with us of these but they don't accept refugees or they didn't sign the. united nations convention they cream and 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 still the country while we can go to. claim asylum because obviously if we go to another country and stay there. if i were visa expires and we will be stuck in jan or debilitation sense and because in order to be deported back to me because you have 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 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 results go back to a neighboring country. china will cut tariffs on a range of imported consumer goods on sunday in a bid to show it's taking steps to increase imports it says the cuts in goods from food to med sent off further evidence that its domestic market is opening up the come as the u.s. continues to threaten increases on billions of dollars worth of chinese exports problem bright reports. tariffs are being cut on nearly fifteen hundred products ranging from cosmetics to home appliances clothes and pharmaceuticals it's seen as a boost for global brands wanting greater access to china's booming consumer market and a boost for china's consumers who were promised by president xi jinping last october's party congress should be given greater spending power oh absolutely this is

consistent away the national strategy that improving the quality of a life now is the priority. of the leverage ng i had of the trade war but with the threat of a trade war with the united states china has just released a white paper claiming its fulfilling its commitments as a member of the world trade organization or w t o which regulates international trade. as it should have china will continue to seek to improve multilateral trait reduce keep pace with the times and the reforms the multilateral trading system with other members of the w t l taken together with the tariff cuts it seems to be sending a message that despite u.s. claims of unfair trade practices china is playing by the rules the tariff cuts also serve a wide distorted you could object if putting pressure on local producers of low tech goods such as clothing and cosmetics to.