in jalalabad where i saw him the taliban have a strong presence the saudi led coalition in yemen has launched nine airstrikes and shell several provinces in the past twenty four hours according to a rebel news agency fighter jets launched four air strikes inside a province missiles also targeted several border areas causing damage to homes and buildings in sana'a province residential areas were also bombed and as strike has a technical institute navy airport there were three other raids on a farm in her data province and and as strike in the saudi border province of. tens of thousands of protesters have hit the streets all across the u.s. americans came out to demonstrate against donald trump's immigration policies huge crowds descended on city hall in san francisco also an estimated fifty thousand more marched through downtown chicago and donald trump's home city of new york protesters marched across the brooklyn bridge some are migrant children to be

returned to their parents also converged on his new home in washington d.c. where rosslyn jordan reports. tens of thousands gathered outside the white house on saturday to condemn the trumpet ministrations policy of separating migrant children from their parents at the us mexico border they will never be the same even if they are reunite. here ability to see to process to trust others in future relationships it's the. donald trump wasn't home to hear them the people in the park didn't care . they are outraged by the video and photos of some twenty three hundred children including babies caged like animals in detention centers and by the fact the government doesn't know where their parents are being held to

a lot of data. that we don't know that we need from the top administration but they've got a list of parents apparently they've got a list of children they've got to be reconciled we need to know where every parent is that matches up with every child and they've got to tell us that in a publicly accountable manner and i don't think they're going to feel compelled to do that unless there's public pressure even though the trumpet ministration vocal to public pressure and stop the forced separation of children from parents at the us mexico border it's now going to detain entire families perhaps indefinitely perhaps and military reservations across the us that has rarely go as here in washington fed up and that's the sentiment being repeated at rallies across the united states the signs in the messages were the same across the country obey international asylum law protect children stop the government's racist policies honestly the only reason our president is doing this is because of his ego he has no excuse these people are bad people they are running away from their homes and

take a lot in must be big to make them do that we accomplished some sort of change in the policy that we have. and really need our legislators to actually get something accomplished the challenge is taking the white hot anger on a hot summer's day and turning it into political action there's no guarantee people will do more than this even though they say they will rosalynn jordan al-jazeera washington. still ahead here on this news hour including corruption in kenya how mays is at the center of a multi million dollar scout. beating the drums of nuclear war fifty years on from a landmark deal to end the arms race. and find out why in the minds of many corporations it could be nine hundred ninety eight all over again will have details and sports.

german chancellor angela merkel has a range of meetings with a coalition government in the attempt to unite them in the e.u. summit michael had announced bilateral deals with fourteen e.u. member states to accept the return of asylum seekers to the countries where they first arrived some members of the c.s.u. and c.d.u. parties have demanded the government take a tougher stance on migration mccain joins us now from my door as to what's happening that today and why it matters. well we have two separate meetings effectively taking place this afternoon here in germany laura we have a meeting of the c.s.u. that's with various christian social union meeting in munich because they are the ones who effectively they are allies of angle americal traditionally but on the issue of migration and does wider issues of border controls and that sort of thing that had a difference of opinion certainly over the course of the last few weeks and so they

are meeting to discuss the aftermath of the e.u. summit and then separately you have angular merkel meeting the executive orders of her party and that will take place in berlin why does this matter well because the c.s.u. said that if there was no satisfactory outcome the solution from the e.u. summit in brussels and they would threaten to go it alone they control the interior ministry here as part of the coalition deal and the interior minister hosts a whole for that said very clearly if the deal that was arrived that was not to his liking he would go it alone by ministerial decree start turning migrants back from the borders as of tomorrow so very much happening today which we'll be following and of course today as austria takes over the presidency of the e.u. how might that influence the migrant deal that was finally agreed to in brussels. well the thing here is that sebastian courts and his government he governs in a coalition with the far right the freedom party of austria their agenda is very

different to the agenda of angle america as part of the christian democratic union and with the courts has tried to in some way suggest that his country can be a bridge in europe between west and east between the sides of europe want to have a more holistic integration is to europe and those on the other side out on the eastern side eastern fringes who are not so convinced so many things wrong with america here in berlin but in austria it's really all about what will they do next as i found out a few days ago. he's his country's youngest leader and finance for six months at least on paper europe's as austrian chancellor since last december sebastian cortes has governed in a coalition with the far right and increasingly his policies have reflected that year. and to have an image 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 them go right back. everybody jumps into the water our 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 it's 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 act river a natural frontier 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 bavaria and it was 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 the change in 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 a seat around the table he will face lots of questions which may not have easy answers. so laura that's the scenario facing mr chords in vienna but the scenario facing angle americal in berlin is very different and before her meetings she has given an interview to german television this afternoon and in it she says that this is a hopeful and her share the same ideas aspirations objectives it's just that they seem to disagree a little on the way to achieve them question will be what does he make of it and we'll know perhaps in the next few hours how things will progress and will keep watching closely dominic many thanks for his latest that from. now african union leaders have plenty to discuss as they meet in mauritania's capital particularly worried about south sudan where fighting has thrown the latest cease fire in jeopardy just hours after it was signed off but the main thing is corruption which

according to estimates cost africa twenty five percent of its g.d.p. . corruption is a big problem in kenya where a series of scandals has left farmers struggling after a soyuz that throw from the rift valley measure kiplagat families 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 are for the cereals board 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 part of this. because you find the middlemen

kimmie. imported meals and sold it to the cereals board now when 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 old fetch they keep like that 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. has ordered a life style 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 and to graft mechanisms within the a you can be strengthened there are some countries that are. very well in the fight against corruption. very well international. 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.

has more from the summit. south sudan poses a real challenge for african leaders meeting here in the mauritanian capital shot and the reason why they are concerned is that they would like to show the world they take greater ownership of their own problems the african union remains divided about how to move forward when it comes to south sudan some say that diplomacy should be given a last chance and that unless president salva kerry and his rival rick i'm a sharp agree on a road map to and the civil war tougher sanctions should be imposed on both leaders but this is not the only problem topping the agenda of the african union summit there is the need to tackle corruption which has become pervasive across the continent but the irony here is that the representative of west africa the advisory anti corruption body has resigned saying that he lost faith african

leaders would be able to tackle corruption any time soon there are also other issues like the need to stem the rise of groups are related with al qaeda and the islamic state and. in this region the african union was created to pave the way for a single market single economy single currency a united africa politically and economically however critics say that african leaders should stop thinking about ground just projects and focus instead on particular issues like if they can solve the crisis in western sahara or in south sudan or in central african republic or other places that could build momentum for solving problems across the continent. navy divers are pushing deeper into flooded caves in thailand where

a boy's football team and their coach have been missing for more than a week more than a thousand people from several countries including the u.s. and china have joined the search some progress has been made since the weather cleared on friday but there's still no sign of them and chang rice got hired sat down with someone who was once lost the last someone who was once lost in the same caves this is the map of their care into inchoate own has spent his entire thirty four years just minutes from the tumble on caves but when he was a teenager it almost took his life every while and praying like many times before he went in with some friends but this time they went in deeper and got lost for five hours and they yelled for help and someone inside heard them and led them out of his main concern about the twelve missing boys and their coach holes in the cave floor the could act as huge drains when they were flooded but also like what happened to him it's easy to lose your way don't want to scare all of us like when

the last light has gone you have to walk like you by only three or four meter you can walk like when you you are at home when you want you know you and i think you know everything in your house but when you cause you i and you turn around. you couldn't find a way the right way to go all. rescue workers have come to into for assistance in understanding the topography of the cave system he said the cave map stops at ten kilometers but in reality it goes on not far from in twos café a buddhist temple parking lot has been converted into a dispatch area for search and rescue team of volunteers squad from bangkok prepares to head out so after getting the call of the waiting area the team rushed up here into the hills to assist other search teams they're looking for more holes that lead down into the cave because this is the part of the hills that's above the potty a beach section of the cave complex that's one of the areas where they think the

boys and their coach might be fair weather has allowed ty a navy seal divers to also advance in the same area below in the cave but it's slow going and they still have hundreds of meters to go. there are now seven nations helping out in the growing effort to find the missing thirteen including australia u.k. japan laos china myanmar and thirty military personnel from the u.s. . nothing sold out and nothing is you know completely off the table when you think about ever changing conditions that being said the type three is taking the lead so whatever direction of color that they want to take we are fully there to advise assist and support and aspect and those conditions might be changing soon after a few days of little rain and better visibility for helicopters monday's weather forecast is calling for heavy rain once again making the time before it arrives even more precious harder al-jazeera. ok it's time now for all the

weather and his staff with south korea looking rather wet wet of the moment and a storm heading towards us so not good news let's take a closer look then you can see this area of town snaking out of china and across the korean peninsula this is the storm system that was over japan of course one of the rivers there to burst its banks cutting off a community there so that has now moved northwards it's over north and south korea at the moment and in the southeast of south korea that's where we've seen eighty seven millimeters of rain that's a loss of what whether to get a twenty four hour period it gives you an indication that the ground now is well and truly saturated and this system is going no way in a great hurry unfortunately we've now got another problem heading its way towards us because this kill ation here that is all tropical storm and it still intensifying as it runs its way north woods now as it works its way northward it will intensify as i said but then just before it makes landfall we're expecting it to weaken a little bit due to the friction with land and also because the sea that isn't as

warm so that takes away some of its energy but still by the time it makes landfall we're looking at sustained winds of one hundred kilometers per hour and gusts of wind on top of that now one hundred kilometers per hour that will be. it a tropical storm so not the strength of a typhoon but the amount of the rain is likely to be all real concern here and it's likely to stay wet heavy the next few days as well after that stuff thank you well still ahead here on al-jazeera we take a look at the impact of the tariff war on canada its industries jobs and people. and as both wimbledon is just a day away and we'll hear from world number one rafa nadal ahead of his bid for an eighteen grand slam title. 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. leak lose. our jobs here. and move where every. each year childhood ends for an estimated fifteen million girls globally before the age of eighteen. young girls compelled to marry after fleeing the war in syria share their stories and talk to.

her again you're watching al-jazeera has a reminder of our top stories this hour polls have begun to open in mexico's presidential election the biggest priorities for voters include dealing with widespread corruption and violence but not this poll opening yet the frontrunner undress manual obrador it away for about one hour to go and cast his vote in mexico city widespread corruption and gang violence like issues facing mexico. strikes by syrian fighter jets and their russian allies have killed at least seventy five civilians and over the last twenty four hours a string of rebel held town villages have now accepted government rule and talks

have resumed within rebel groups and russian negotiators as they try again to end the fighting. and hundreds of values have been held across the united states against donald trump's immigration policies protesters are demanding separated migrant children be reunited with their families and the travel ban targeting some muslim majority nations be stopped. french soldiers have been targeted in the suicide attack in northern mali but as news agency says at least two have been killed out zero has been able to confirm that a three thousand strong force of french troops has been in the region since two thousand and twelve when they were deployed in response to an insurgency by armed groups. it's fifty years since world powers reached a landmark deal to bring an end to the nuclear arms race nuclear nonproliferation treaty was designed to stop the spread of nuclear weapons and in time eliminate them completely but some warn the danger of nuclear war is greater now than it has

been in decades or in a haunted house more. it was twenty three years after the u.s. dropped an atomic bomb on hiroshima six years after the cuban missile crisis five nuclear armed nation signed a deal a nine hundred sixty eight the brought the world back from the brink of a potentially catastrophic war the us russia u.k. france and china undertook in good faith to give up their nuclear weapons the risk to the world pledged not to acquire them. every country in the world signed up to the nuclear nonproliferation treaty known as the n.p.t. with three exceptions india pakistan and israel we are willing for the banning of or let me guess if everybody else agrees to all three now have nuclear weapons and then this north korea it walked away from the n.p.t. so what could exploited peaceful nuclear technology to make nuclear bombs itself

something around end others are also accused of as it stands now there are nine nuclear nations and by that assessment the n.p.t. was a success dire forecasts of a global nuclear arms race never came to pass nuclear warheads once in the teens of thousands plummeted by around eighty the seemed but if judged by the pledge to reduce nuclear warheads to zero well it's fallen far short the stock i'm international peace research institute all separate is to make zero most fifty thousand nuclear weapons worldwide all but around a thousand of them are in u.s. and russian hands signatories to the n.p.t. when rick. wired to abolish nuclear weapons completely they simply had to act in good faith to disarm experts say if it's towards nuclear disarmament a slowing prompting warnings of a new arms race as nuclear weapon states like the u.s. and russia look to inject billions of dollars into modernizing and developing the

nuclear arsenals but they resist strong push for change even if the world's nine nuclear armed nations and their realize are resisting it just last year one hundred twenty two countries signed up to a new treaty to ban nuclear weapons it also prohibits nations from allowing nuclear weapons to be held on the territory sanctioned by the united nations it was the product of a ten year if it's for the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons or i can but the nine nuclear armed states refused to turn up and the u.s. urged its allies devoted against all boycott the u.n. conference i came won the nobel peace prize last year for it if it but it has a tough job ahead it needs fifty states to rectify the new nuclear ban treaty to make it legally binding to date only ten countries have done so none of them major world powers meet in the horn and i'm dizzy or. off as

a nuclear arms control specialist he says the nonproliferation treaty has been a success but some countries a still not living up to their obligations. india and pakistan never signed the treaty and india actually conducted its first nuclear test in one hundred seventy four and then went on to do more in one thousand nine hundred eight and then pakistan followed suit. israel reportedly activated nuclear weapons in one hundred sixty seven north korea left the nonproliferation treaty in january two thousand and three and went on to carry out a nuclear test in next to over two thousand and six however countries like argentina brazil sweden south africa and about sixteen seventeen other countries that at one time were thinking of nuclear weapons renounce their intentions to do so and kazakhstan belarusan ukraine as they emerge from the collapse of the soviet union had a number of russian soviet warheads on their territory which they returned to

russia and joined the nonproliferation treaty as non-nuclear weapon states so i would say it's been a resoundingly success what is weakening the n.p.t. is that the five nuclear weapon states china france russia united kingdom and the united states are not living up to their obligations under the speedy to work for nuclear disarmament and to eliminate nuclear weapons we still have about fifteen thousand nuclear weapons today and the second corrosive issue is the establishing a nuclear weapons free zone in the region of the middle east to bring israel into the n.p.t. and have it give up its nuclear weapons we have not made progress on either of these two issues and this will have a big impact in twenty twenty when we will have the next review conference. now time of us driven protectionism ministers from sixteen asia pacific nations have agreed to speed up negotiations for a proposed free trade agreement at

a meeting in take him holding further talks in singapore later this year to reach a basic conclusion there is a comprehensive economic partnership includes china india japan australia and southeast asian nations and the big question is whether host nation japan can achieve progress in the talks as the top ministration imposes trade tariffs on allies and rivals alike and its bid to protect american industry i want to trump targets is china which has slashed tariffs on imports from many asian countries and a move that could strengthen its defenses in any trade war with the u.s. more on that in just a moment from brides but first well here from daniel lak in canada where we tell you to retire against the u.s. and are taking effect. among the millions of products canada gets from the u.s. most of its recreational boats but summer fun afloat will be more costly now as the tariff on imported yachts takes effect

a response to the trumpet ministrations actions and rhetoric on steel and aluminum or helping one client who has a boat right now in miami who he's already purchased the boat it's paid for he needs to bring it back to canada and he's looking at you know ten percent on top of hundreds of thousands of dollars. more than steel aluminum and sailboats canada's also putting tariffs on the clock tick range of u.s. goods. at a politically sensitive part of the country chocolate for example from the swing state of pennsylvania u.s. states are the key to auto was trade war strategy canada is the leading destination for exports from thirty six of them many are being targeted for counter tariffs that's adding to the concerns of companies with cross border business as talks between the u.s. canada and mexico to renew nafta the north american free trade agreement stagnate some firms like this toronto pipe maker are expanding u.s.

operations in fear that the border may soon be a barrier my concern is the uncertainty about investing in canada. and what this will do even if it goes away to morrow buyers united states. working with companies as potentially risky. trade props up canada's prosperity particularly with its largest trading partner the us more than a billion dollars in business flows between them every day now as canada's government sees it a protectionist administration in washington is sweeping away decades of consensus on trade that the u.s. itself helped establish after the second world war all the bombast there's a logic to that instead of having him a rules based system same rules apply to everybody the global trading system we've had. it's bilateralism awkward word but one off deals. they were the big guys are going to have one off deals the government in

ottawa is hoping that targeted counter terror will add to pressure on the u.s. administration to settle this dispute and lead to a new nafta deal but much is at stake and the costs of failure are immeasurably high especially in a country so dependent on trade with its giant neighbor. then you're like al jazeera toronto. 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 to be given greater spending power oh absolutely this is consistent away the national strategy that improving the quality of a life now is a priority. deal average ing 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 it's fulfilling its commitments as a member of the world trade organization or w t o which regulates international trade. that china will continue to seek to improve multilateral trade reduce keep pace with the times the reforms the multilateral trading system with other members of the w t o u. 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 district you could jack to of putting pressure on local producers of low tech goods such as clothing and cosmetics to become a part of china's broad around bishan to be a global leader in high tech manufacturing that bold strategy made in china twenty twenty five is seen as

a major challenge to the technological dominance of the united states and design arguably one of the reasons behind the u.s. threat of a trade war to thwart china's ambitions of macbride al-jazeera paging. felipa grain is a political economist and former advisor to the director general of the world trade organization he says that trying to isolationist trade policies that bring in the rest of the world closer together. what you're seeing is the front things that he can barely the rest of the world to give him what he wants on trade but also package so the rest of the world is standing up to him and increasingly working around him and what's happening in asia is very significant transpacific partnership is going ahead without the united states and the chinese led.