on trial on al-jazeera. the un urges jordan to open its border to syrians trying to escape the government's offensive in terra province. this is live from london also coming up in the program is that heavy rain will delay efforts to get twelve school boys and their coach out of the cave system that trapped in. two months after his shock election defeat prime minister najib razak is arrested in the missing state money. and she struck a new deal to save the german government but will angela merkel center left coalition partners except to.

say that the united nations is to open its border to some of the tens of thousands of syrians who have amassed around two hundred seventy thousand people have been forced from their homes by the russian backed government offensive to recapture southwest and there are a province jordan is sending food and aid supplies across but says its border will remain closed so honda has more from beirut in neighboring lebanon jordan israel. and their towns are battlegrounds these people are trapped in the syrian government offensive and province now into its third week has displaced more than a quarter of a million people according to the united nations some are living in makeshift tents many others out in the open they have little food water or medicine or protection from the heat. there is a humanitarian crisis and the united nations is calling on jordan and neighboring

countries to open their borders to allow refugees in we recognize that jordan lebanon and turkey have long hosted a large number of refugees particularly from syria since the beginning of the syrian conflict it's been heartening to see many people in these countries doing what they can. to call on their governments to keep the border open and to gather food and water for syrian refugees. we call on the jordanian government keep its borders open for other countries in the region to step up and receive the fleeing civilians jordan's leaders say they can't cope with more refugees instead they say aid is being delivered to them across the border in syria and they say it's up to the u.n. to obtain approval from government leaders interim ask us to allow in supplies to reach our province jordan's foreign minister says the focus should be on preventing more devastation i'll be meeting with the russian foreign minister lover up there for a discussion on how we can work towards

a cease fire and create conditions of the ground under which people would feel safe and all the sort of discuss the facilitation of the provision of supplies to syria and their country on their land indeed our syrian government troops are advancing with the help of russian airstrikes troops have seized towns and villages under rebel control and through so-called reconciliation deals that involve a return of president bashar assad's rule sixty percent of daraa is now under government control and the offensive is continuing to pressure the remaining rebel held areas to surrender. russia has been negotiating on behalf of the syrian government with rebel factions the opposition says russia is only offering one option they're describing it as a humiliating to mand to surrender it involves rebels handing over their weapons and accepting state control opposition activists have told us russia is not offering them the possibility to move to the rebel controlled province of. several

rebel commanders fighters in opposition leaders are refusing to reconcile with the state and live under are said to rule. they also refused to stay without international security guarantees rebels are hoping for a deal that would make jordan a guarantee of the safety of the civilians negotiations are difficult senator and which is into the root well let's hear now from our correspondent bernard smith who joins us live from near the jordan syrian border benedicite tell us what is the latest situation along the border line or that could be now nic as many as one hundred thousand syrians along the border line on the border between jordan syria and israel all of them fleeing the violence and all of them desperate for water desperate for food desperate for sanitation because nothing's getting through to them now certainly from the jordanian side the jordanians have been allowing some aid through what one of the locations further down the border we saw

or a trucks crossing earlier on is not really nearly enough but the jordanians do not want are not going to allow the syrians to come this side so the jordanians doing everything they can to make sure the syrians stay on their side of the border and providing there today means providing what they believe is sort of basic medical necessities the u.n. would like to see more syrians being allowed in here but of course syria will say well it's already got about six hundred fifty thousand syrian refugees here in jordan there's already concerns at that city stabilizing the country that is why jordan doesn't really want to let any more syrians in me was the backdrop to all of this rebels are beginning a new round of talks with russia. yeah i mean this is been very very difficult for the rebels because they say the russians are demanding sweeping negotiators sweeping surrender terms which is what put the negotiations what delayed the negotiations early or made the rebels walk

out of the negotiations the russians want the rebels to hand over their medium and heavy weaponry they want them to surrender completely the. rebel fighters are looking for more guarantees really the one the jordanian jordanians more involved in the process they want the russian military police more involved in the process they just don't trust the syrians at all they're wary of the russians as well so they're very very careful very very reluctant of course as well to give up this land that they secured over the last years they want to make sure that they at least get good terms for their fighters on the some eight hundred thousand people living here in dara province nic are better thanks very much indeed ben a smith there on the border between syria and jordan at least eleven civilians have been killed in an air strike on a wedding in yemen's northern solder province the saudi led coalition struck the town of gaffa killing mostly women and children the u.n.

says at least two thousand two hundred children have been killed and three thousand four hundred injured since the conflict began there's only the ones it's been able to verify well who read rules of release the video showing the launch of a surveillance aircraft monitors saudi iraqi back forces and the armed groups says it's uses technology to carry out ten operations during the battle for the data. now rescue is in thailand are working out the best course of action to extract a young football team and the coach stuck in a complex cave system the group was discovered alive on monday off to be missing for nine days authorities say that in relatively good health with any slight injuries but heavy rains a full cost for the coming days and that could force also artes to speed up plans to bring them to the surface so highly reports from the site and check in right.

i'm. at first glance the crowd in busy center for the rescue effort looks like it has for more than a week the good news that the boys were found by two british divers on monday night means only half of the job here is done with. that second half of the job will be very difficult getting them all out safely but family members are already thinking of what they'll do once they are out when up the road he won't see her the good news all she wanted to do was hug her nephew but what i hope all of them come out safely now tell me my nephew everyone who stuck in

the cave divers and doctors are now going back and forth to the boys and the football coach who found refuge on a ledge when the cave flooded following terentia rain the divers are checking on their health and taking them food and water they're said to be in good health with only slight injuries but there may sit the group is four hundred meters further into the cave system than the so-called potty a beach section where rescuers originally thought they might be. getting them out isn't expected to be easy reaching them requires a technically difficult and dangerous dive through narrow passages and low visibility and the trapped teenagers will have to be quickly trained to use scuba equipment so they can swim out a day after the boys and their coats were found all eyes are focused here and that's for two reasons this is where the dive teams are headquartered but also this is most likely where the thirteen will exit the cave and be loaded into ambulances when they will see daylight for the first time it's difficult to predict rescue teams are pumping water out of the cave and continue their search for another escape route because of the difficult conditions for rescuers both in and outside

the cave like the search operation the rescue is expected to be slow going scott harder al-jazeera. or let's take a closer look at the layout of the cave complex the belongings of the boys in the first spotted at the entrance but so they're trapped about four kilometers further in through some extremely narrow passageways and with floodwaters blocking their way back out it's a complex problem for the rescuers that speak to wayne hale correspondent joins us live from the scene in chiang rai it's gone eleven o'clock at night there now way and i understand so the rescue is they've they've found they've searched they found another rescue operation begins. yes that's right exactly right nick and i think the description really about the prospects of exactly when we might see the thirteen begin to be brought out of the cave the message coming from the

authorities from the chiang rai provincial administration here is that they really don't know that it's a changeable situation and there's a couple of reasons for that really they're saying they could begin the process immediately but they won't do that unless they can guarantee the safety of of course the people who are bringing out but also their personnel they dive in there and will be doing that operation and they're also of course still concerned about the water levels inside the cave yes that been dropping at a rate of around one centimeter per hour they are saying but they would like that to speed up significantly because as you mention they still are going to have to dive through several sections all of this cave to get out so the lower they can get their water the better it will be the safe it will be so that still pumping water out of the cave system trying to take advantage of what has been a fairly dry couple of days in terms of rainfall because as we mentioned earlier

more rain is forecast to come in the coming days we talked about this a little bit last night doing anything more about that well being off to this unimaginable time inside this cave. well all indications so far the reports coming from inside the cave seem to indicate that they're doing remarkably well physically in ok condition given the ordeal that being through given the ordeal they continue to go through really given that they are all still in the city to be in fairly good spirits we're getting those reports through the navy seal team that is in there at the moment with the boys and the coach around the clock so it's not like they've been abandoned there are people there with them supporting them helping them get better and there are also two medical staff in there giving them the medical attention they need i mean given also fairly basic food supplies nothing to substantial because after all they really didn't eat anything for the best part of nine and a half days so they're being given clean drinking water things like energy gels to

try and get them well enough as well as possible as strong as possible nick so they can begin what will surely still be a very dangerous journey out of that location inside the cave where they are and what could be a boost to their spirits to their emotional states in the coming hours we believe is a phone line is being taken in through that network that will be connected here to the outside so they'll be out to communicate with family members talk to them over the phone so that will be a tremendous boost emotionally for both those inside the cave and those on the outside absolutely it is an extraordinary story when back with you the night goes on and the rescue efforts progress thanks a lot. still to come this fall foul pill bottle of warnings humanitarian help alone will not solve the hinge a crisis red cross calls for a political solution. and the australian knowledge push it becomes a hans ranking roman catholic official to be found guilty of covering up child sex

abuse. hello there it's raining pretty heavily for some of us in china at the moment we've got pockets of thunderstorms and all of them have given a sim pretty heavy downpours including recent ones over hong kong is in the northern part of our map there we've seen some of the heaviest of the rains just in the last twenty four hours all say these pictures from the shanxi region show just how wet it's been there it has caused problems on the road and more wet weather is expected over the next few days i think for us on wednesday the wettest weather is likely to be around the southeastern coast but as we head through wednesday and to thursday the rain in the northern part of our map will just tumble a little bit further southward so we'll see heavier downpours here could give us a problem with flooding including around chengdu they further towards the west in

the wettest weather here it's been in the northeastern parts of india and through nepal lots of heavy downpours here but now you can see this line of clouds from bangladesh all the way down through the central parts of india now this feature is going to stick around as we head through the next few days so very heavy downpours here and that does stick around even as we had three thursday to the north of all of that was largely fine and dry for many of us here and warming karate at thirty three for the arabian peninsula a little bit more cloud that we've got used to and here in doha humid at forty one . eradicating leprosy in cambodia relies on education and treatment. on. him but he early disability yet. until three year old boy he'll have a disability. and a normal weight for the next generation of antibiotics just the way taking at the

bottom of the ocean. revisited. again a reminder the top stories here on al-jazeera the united nations is to open its border to tens of thousands of syrians about two hundred seventy thousand people have been forced from their homes by the government offensive to recapture their a province. and rescue isn't working out the best course of action to extract a young football team and their coach stuck in a complex cave system the group was found alive on monday after being missing for

nine days. malaysia's former prime minister najib razak has been arrested by anti corruption investigators they've been building a case against him over the disappearance of billions of dollars from a state fund when he was in to pick up pollen reports now for quite a long. it's the culmination of weeks of investigation into malaysia's former prime minister and the malaysians watched in fascination as police conducted raids on properties linked to najib reza falling out with they said with millions of dollars in cash boxes of luxury handbags high end watches and jewelry it is all mounting evidence of what could be one of the country's biggest corruption scandals because when you look at that structure called a complicated and complex conception across so many countries it would seem to be like. to actually siphon no money from from government fund funding. if you could put it in a one way is more like

a scam. the case focuses on how ten point six million dollars from estate investment entity s.r.c. and set up in the jeeves personal account it's part of a wider investigation into the abuse and misuse of the one m d v state fund that was started by najib soon after he became prime minister in two thousand and nine and twenty fifteen the public learned that four billion dollars had gone missing from the fund and nearly seven hundred million dollars allegedly transferred into the bank account they were outraged fearing that taxpayer money was being used to fund the lavish lifestyle of politicians businessmen around the world and even a hollywood movie. eventually the anger was taken out of the ballot boxes in early may denying the third term in office and handing a historic defeat to his ruling on no party. political career i did was gone. even though in the rule of law and the speed of justice one is innocent until

proven guilty but in terms of the me that. is already gone people he will always being seen as the image of corruption the new government is made up of a coalition of opposition parties headed by the former prime minister mahathir mohamad the government says its priority to find out what's happened to the millions of dollars that went missing it's discovered the taxpayer money has been used to fund one m.t.b.f. debt obligations so far one point eight billion dollars of state money has been spent to bailout the fund and hundreds of millions more will have to be paid out by the end of the year in interest payments. the lavish lifestyle of najib and his luxury loving wife had been under the microscope for years but until recently there was little evidence to link them to the embezzled money analysts say now it's just a matter of time until the true extent of the scandal will be revealed and more former government officials will likely face charges. of kuala lumpur. a

second man has been shot and killed in the philippines in as many days for them both it was leaving a government office in the way the province when going to approach this very clean shot him. from monday mare and tell you how he was shot and killed a flag raising ceremony twenty one city had previously led a controversial walk of shame campaign where suspected drug related dealers were paraded around the street. the international red cross has warned that humanitarian help alone will not solve the refugee crisis it says that political solutions are needed to help hundreds of thousands of people who fled to bangladesh u.n. secretary general and high commissioner for refugees have been visiting the region camps in cox's bazaar june is also there. the un has been trying to highlight just

how vulnerable the population of or hinder refugees here in cox's bizarre bangladesh remains and where we are here in critical long can this really just highlights it highlights just how dangerous things are for the refugees it's monsoon season cyclons have not begun but look all around us this is what accumulated rainwater does these steep hills behind the steep muddy hills that most of them lacking vegetation well these huts are built on them when rain waters come means that this landscape is prone for natural disasters for landslides for flooding it's one of the reasons why people are so concerned and i spoke about that concern earlier with united nations high commissioner for refugees the legal grounding he talked about specifically the kind of trauma that the rains the refugee population has already encountered i came here last time in september just after they had just the right the last group of seven hundred thousand and i found the camp in deep deep trauma people wouldn't speak children would use my women with recount the most horrifying stories of rape and violence i must say that people are

more confident now nine ten months of relative stability people are telling us at least you know we can sleep have given them a bit more confidence he's no less chilling. the stories that now we hear even more details are still very very frightening stories of abuse which means two things one is that we really need to. address it's just trauma with psychosocial interventions into that we need to address the root causes of these big through and find solutions back in their homes that have to be thinking fundamental for these people to go back to the world bank has announced that they are going to give around five hundred million dollars to the government of bangladesh to assist through him to refugees but the aid workers that i've been speaking with well they say that that's really just a drop in the bucket that this crisis is going to continue to unfold that it is severely underfunded and that there are hints of population is going to need

a lot more help. the libyan navy says sixty three refugees and migrants are missing feared drowned in the mediterranean after their inflatable boat sank on monday night the libyan red crescent recovered another seventeen bodies on the beach in tripoli believed to have been among at least one hundred three refugees including three babies who drowned on friday when the terms. of the captain of the german humanitarian ship a lifeline says the libyan coast guard threatened to kill him and his crew the rescue ship was detained last week when it docked in malta with two hundred thirty four refugees on board of its lee refused to offer it safe port. lavaca hope the libyan coast guard has threatened us and the crew and especially. if there is a radio message to the libyan coast guard while the ship was sailing close to us saying kill you and that makes me wonder about the organization the europeans were

with the ones that threaten our european citizens with murder for saving lives words fail me or going to the head of the european commission says his legal team will look into the migration deal that germany's angela merkel is agreed with her bavarian coalition partners to ensure it's in line with the e.u. laws the deal would seize so called transit camp set up along germany's border with austria to screen refugees and see if they've already applied for asylum in a different country if they have they'll be deported back to the e.u. nation where they first registered but that member state would have to agree to this and australia has already signaled opposition to it recent figures from this year show that around eighteen thousand three hundred forty nine people that's almost one in four had an asylum claim already open in another country. or merkel now needs to secure the backing of a center left coalition partners social democrats former german foreign minister gabriel accused horst of taking the government to merkel hostage for weeks.

this is a result plan always see first of all we have to see what mr c. hope his master plan looks like up until now it was kept secret but i don't think this changes the fact that this is the offer and the c.s.u. going to look the german government hostage for weeks for this to see harper blackmailed the government and chancellor merkel which is an unbelievable literals when i say now from dominic cain who has more from berlin. the route of a migration is the crisis that just won't go away frank that america will soon and she agreed to deal with her very and conservative allies a compromise solution which will set up centers that migrants will be processed in and indeed detained in for some time before being deported if that's what their fate will be then she has to persuade the social democrats to the center left in parliament that this is a good idea tough task given that a few years ago the social democrats rule that idea or a completely they say the social democrats say that there are many questions that

need to be answered before you can agree to this compromise solution throw into the equation also the austrian government saying that it needs urgent clarification from the german government about what exactly this proposal later read on it will take and they say also that they're going to strengthen their borders to the south to the east specifically with this leniency and with the italians so what this means is that we have to dilemma off the german government trying to work out whether it can go ahead with this all the while the numbers we're talking about and not that high nowhere near the sorts of numbers some of twenty fifteen yet still this issue will not go away. the most senior catholic cleric in the world has been sentenced to a year in detention for covering up child sex abuse the archbishop of adelaide phillip wilson could serve that time in him to attention after the court was told he was potentially suffering from the early stages of alzheimer's disease much they said that wilson had shown no remorse for failing to report the repeated abuse of

two altar boys by a paedophile priest during the one nine hundred seventy s. well ben millington from australia broadcaster a.b.c. has more from outside the court newcastle. the magister robert started today sentenced philip wilson to a period of detention of twelve months but he stopped short of sending him to jail it's likely that that detention will be served as home detention now he's still the archbishop of adelaide he stepped aside from his duties but he's refused to stand down in the church as yet as yet still hasn't forced him to resign so we're waiting to see if this will force his hand in that. trial was extended today so he has walked free of court and he will return to court in august when his assessment for home detention will be complete or thirty's in indonesia are scrambling to rescue more than one hundred forty passengers from a ferry that sank off the coast of sin away zee island killing at least twelve the

disaster comes in the wake of last month's the sinking of an overcrowded ferry on the southeast asian nations lake which will produce of finally called off the search the technical in the just tickle challenges a cruise ship worker who fell overboard treaded water for almost twenty four hours has been rescued in cuba. the thirty three year old was found by another cruise ship passing by passing just cheering as the rescue boat reached him the man has been identified as a filipino employee of a norwegian cruise liner and survival has been described as miraculous mexico's president elect says he will give voters the final say on whether he should complete a full term in office under his manuel lopez obrador it won a landslide victory in sunday's election said voters will decide a referendum in three years time halfway through his term obrador meet the current

president and rick a pm yet to shortly to discuss the transition process. the month. before was. the mood. among.

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