al jazeera. this is al jazeera. the news live from london coming up in the program the united nations needs to open its border to huge numbers of syrians trying to escape the government's offensive into a province. that heavy rain will delay efforts to get twelve tiny school boys and they coach out of the cave system that they're trapped in. two months after his shock election defeat malaysia. has arrested. and mexico's president elect says he will hold a referendum giving people the chance to remove him halfway through his.

and i'm tatiana. with all of the day's sport and i'm colombia change the place in the world cup quarterfinals west lyon white and more from russia twenty eight. or. so than jordan and israel refusing to open their borders to thousands of refugees who fled a government offensive in southern syria the u.n. now says as many as three hundred thirty thousand people have been forced from their homes by the government offensive to recaptured there are problems jordan is sending food and aid supplies but despite a plea from the u.n. it says its border will remain closed then a hoarder has more from beirut in neighboring lebanon. jordan israel won't let them in and their towns are battlegrounds these people are trapped in the syrian

government offensive and that our 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 into masochists 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 also discuss the facilitation of 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 demand 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 idlib 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 guarantor of the safety of the civilians negotiations are difficult center whether elses into beirut. well the u.n. says the least fifteen people have died because of severe conditions at the jordan syrian border most of them children intense air and ground based reich's have reportedly continued in multiple areas in serious there are governorate resulting

in the death and injury of civilians and the largest displacement in the area since the conflict began our humanitarian colleagues say that an estimated two hundred seventy thousand to three hundred thirty thousand people have been displaced including some sixty thousand at the knesset job or border crossing a smiths are subject to change as numbers continue to be verified and front lines shift the situation of internally displaced people at the jordanian border is precarious aggravated by dusty desert winds and high temperatures of up to forty five degrees celcius local sources report that at least twelve children two women and one elderly man died in areas close to the jordanian border due to scorpion bites dehydration and diseases transmitted through contaminated water well syrians are desperate for the border to open so they could reach their families one mother explained her situation it really sooty you can own it was going to miss out us my son was once a refugee here in jordan but he went back to syria with many others the recent

bombardment targeted the area where he was sorry he was forced out and now he's trying to come back to jordan i hope he could reach us but i'm not able to communicate with him i appeal to the king of jordan to open the border and allow the displaced syrians in that trapped between two evils either to be killed by the shelling or die out of thirst in starvation we appealed to the king to allow the borders to be opened and allow our fellow syrians through. well it's an hour from bernard smith who has more from the job across the on the jordan syrian border. some aid has been getting through this crossing point between jordan and syria and just on the other side of the fence here we believe there are at least twenty five thousand syrian refugees syrians fleeing the fighting in and around. three separate towns have been set up for men women and children there on the syrian side of the jordanian mira military says it's treated one hundreds of casualties people

injured by the bombardment people escaping the bombardment but the jordanian military say that as soon as those people have been treated bed being sent back over to the syrian side so the most seriously injured have been sent to hospitals in amman the jordanian capital but again as soon as they're treated being sent back again into syria. we received people of all ages from young children to old people and we've treated all of them we've had pregnant women people suffering from burned hundreds of casualties. the jordanian government like the israeli government also is sticking to their decision not to allow any more syrian refugees in the jordanians say they've got six hundred fifty thousand syrians here already they can't cope with anymore they can't afford to take any more ends up at the moment that border stays closed but the number of refugees arriving here keeps getting higher and higher now than rescuers in thailand are working out the best

course of action to extract a young football team and their coach was stuck deep in a cave system they were found alive on monday after being missing for nine days officials say they're in relatively good health but heavy rain is forecast for the coming days it could hamper efforts to bring them out it's got hired to reports now from the site and showing 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. or. 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 he won't see joan heard the good news all she wanted to do was hug her nephew but oh my god i hope all of them come out safely no tenney my nephew everyone who's 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 to rancho 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 is 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 tyler al jazeera chang right well let's take a close look at the layout of the cave complex the belongings of the boys and their coach were first spotted at the entrance of the system they were thought to be in a cave nickname for tired beach but they're actually trapped in the main cave which is about four kilometers further in through some extremely narrow passage ways and blocked by floodwater gary mitchell is from the british cave rescue council and explained why getting the boys and their coach out will be so difficult it's

a kilometers worth of diving if you assume these guys have no diving experience at all they've been underground nine days they'll be slightly weaker than and you would hope it would be a lengthy process them out so they may start them out in small batches small into the chambers of the pockets. and do that over a staggered area and obviously the biggest risk really is current rain or. if it keeps raining or to rain and water levels up rise and there's the media required weather a significant. and we now know that we're sort of in a monsoon season. the water levels rise quite quickly they do it as a training as well but with the rising water levels it's apparent it's orientation and so it could be a drawn out process well let's speak to our correspondent wayne hay who joins us

live from the scene in chiang rai and wayne the search effort is over the rescue effort is very much underway but they're considering their options and it's very clear that they're not exactly without danger. that's exactly right and as we speak now there is no sign that that procedure has begun to try to get the thirteen out of the cave system the local administration which is leading the rescue effort has really led the search and rescue effort throughout really since the boys and the coach went missing is saying they want to stop this process as soon as possible they say that could mean immediately it could be a week it could be a month but they're not committing at this stage to any particular timeframe because they can't they say it's too much of a changeable situation and there are a few reasons for that they want to make sure that it's as safe as possible they want to guarantee the safety as much as they can of everyone involved that means of

course the the rescue personnel themselves the dive divers who will go in there to take them out and of course that means that the scene inside the cave they also want to make sure that the thirteen the boys and the football coach are as strong as they possibly can is as healthy as they possibly can be to make that a long and dangerous journey out and then as you heard before there is still concern about the water levels inside some of those areas of the cave that they will have to go through to get out yes it's been dry for a few days but more rain is forecast so there is a bit of pressure there to stop this process but they're also reluctant on the other hand until everything is in place when you mention the boys state of health as we look at the pictures of them inside the cave you can see in the in the torchlight the flickers across them that they are looking quite thin but in relatively good shape do we know any more about the state of. yes well

remarkably they seem to be and fairly good health and in good spirits those are the comments that have emerged from the team that is with them at the moment they are navy seal personnel with them around the clock ensuring that good health remains trying to get them strong enough as well their medical staff with them attending to any particular medical medical concerns that they may have yes they are hungry yes they have some health issues but it doesn't appear amazingly that they have any major issues but they do need to regain strength and one of the jobs of that initial team that is with them at the moment is to try and build that up so that giving them some food supplies nothing to substantial because the really being without food for around nine nine and a half days so that giving them things like energy gels to try and regain their health as much as possible to begin that journey out and also they are hoping in

the next few hours to connect a phone line between the area in the cave where the thirteen located and people on the outside so family members close friends who have been camped here for the last week and a half are able to communicate with those inside or away in thanks very much indeed back with you as things develop the way in haiti reporting. a second man has been shot and killed in the philippines in as many days on board to he was leaving a government office in norway but. province when the gunman approached his vehicle . on monday mayor antonio levy was shot and killed at a flag raising ceremony in total one city he had previously led a controversial walk of shame campaign by a suspected drug dealers were paraded around the streets. malays is former prime minister najib razak has issued an apology off to being arrested by

anti corruption investigators may be building a case against him over the disappearance of billions of dollars from the state fund when he was in power for in slowly as the details this is where former prime minister najib razak will be spending the night at the headquarters of the anti corruption agency before he is charged in court on wednesday anticorruption agents questioned made in connection with ten million dollars allegedly deposited into his personal bank account from a state company known as s r c international which was part of the state's investment fund one and b. the seizure of designer handbags and millions of dollars in cash from its homes was part of a wider investigation into stealing from one and be. the fund was started by not just soon after he became prime minister in two thousand and nine not given his associates are ledged to have embezzle for one hard billion dollars from one and the knowledge of has repeatedly denied committing any crime describing the

investigation as a political witch hunt. hours after his arrest a prerecorded video message was posted on his social media accounts it appeared to have been prepared in an to spatially of his arrest the one n.d.b. scandal is seen as partly to blame for his party's defeat in the general election in may on seating a political alliance that has ruled malaysia since independence sixty one years ago news of knowledge of arrest has been greeted with delight by some five me like a few the malaysian cops can't find me and we get stuck. on that for about a corrupt government that uses bribes nepotism and cronyism nobbut the leaders have finally been caught it is an achievement these leaders must be brought to justice and be charged for their wrongdoing. a small group of not just supporters turned up outside the anti corruption headquarters to protest this innocence and demand his

release they believe not just assertions that the money in his bank account was a donation despite not arrest the investigation into one and d.b. continues his successor mahathir mohamad has said police have an almost perfect case against and his allies anticorruption officers have questioned stepson. is the let's just spend some of the misappropriated one m.t.b. funds to produce a hollywood film more arrests could take place florence lee al jazeera. coming up announcer this news are the mounting toll in the mediterranean more bodies are discovered on the beaches migrants and refugees attend the perilous journey from libya. the head of parents corvallis to resist what she calls a government forcing a third of the court's judges to retire on wednesday. a small coming out of rafael nadal continues his quest for a night wimbledon title tachyon and we'll have the details

a little bit later. the head of the european commission says his legal team will look into the migration deal that germany's angela merkel has agreed with her very own coalition partners to ensure it's in line with the laws the deal would seize so called transit camps 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 austria has already signaled opposition to it recent figures from this year show that around eighteen eighteen thousand three hundred forty nine people that saw most one in four had an asylum claim already open in another country well merkel has been meeting her center left coalition partner the social democrats to

see if they'll accept the migration deal the s.p.d. rejected the idea of transit camps in two thousand and fifteen and have voiced skepticism about the new deal dominant cain has more now from berlin. the route of a migration is the prices that just won't go away frank get a mouthful soon and she agreed to deal with her variant 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 they 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 a good read on it will take and they say also that they are going to strengthen

their borders to the south to the east specifically with the slovenians and with the italians so what they see 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 not that high nowhere near the sorts of numbers some twenty fifteen yet still this issue will not go away. the libyan navy says sixty three refugees and migrants are missing feared drowned in the mediterranean off their inflatable boat sank on monday no reports of another seven including two children drowned on tuesday a monday night the libyan red crescent recovered another seventeen bodies on a beach in tripoli and believes have been among at least one hundred three refugees including three babies who drowned on friday when that boat capsized the united nations are now relying on the libyan coast guard to take charge of all rescues but it says it lacks the resources to handle the influx while the captain of the german humanitarian ship 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 after being refused to offer its safe port. the libyan coast guard has threatened us and the crew and especially me. 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 europeans were with the ones that threaten the european citizens with saving lives fail me well it says free now to ruben know about who's the space with the sea watch which is a nonprofit organization that conducts civil search and rescue operations in the central mediterranean joins us live now from berlin reuben first what's your sense of the libyan coast guard capabilities in these rescue efforts. to libyan coast guard is neither trained nor equipped to carry out proper rescue operations i have never

seen a single life check it on the boats of libyan coast guard and this comes a step priority seems to be not saving lives but to return people to libya where they face unlawful detention and torture at the libyan coast guard is paid off by the european union to do the dirty work for them and that's what they are actually doing quite well they bring back the people and they force them back to libya but they are not that good in actual rescue operations we face it several times already that libyan coast guards just run in to rescue operations by properly equipped and well trained nongovernmental rescue organizations and that they cause a lot of chaos because their priority is to bring back the people and not not to save human life in that we all have these why why do you think that said there is

this hostility to n.g.o.s vessels who are making these rescues. i mean it's quite obvious because the libyan coast guard is actually trained and supported by the european union and this is the anti migration chorus of the european union that puts migration control before the respect of human human rights and also human life's and so their priority is to bring back the people obviously if we rescue the people as n.-g. o. we are. bound to dig in even a refugee convention so we have to bring the people to a place of safety and that's what the libyan coast guard tries to avoid right so what's the solution of it because in a sense the boats are a source of hope for the migrants a target almost that encourages them to come and you do need the libyan to police their own coastline to you. i think it's ok to have

a rescue organization also in libya but the priority has to be to save human lives and this is not the case at the moment we have fresca assets clocked in malta currently our ship is not able to leave port since a few days and this is hindering rescue operations if you would do this every sin ambulance for example there would be a public outcry and people blocking the ambulance would end up into chailly or at least it could and then basically the same thing is happening at the moment by rescue ships blocked by european heads of state in the port of malta and so if we're talking about to a solution the first thing to do at least would be add to send out the rescue efforts again that are there and to set a priority for saving human lives instead of forcing people back to libya but i really know you appreciate your perspective on this it's very much indeed. let's take you to the polish capital warsaw now web hundreds of people are protesting

outside the supreme court there angry at a controversial new law which will force forty percent of the. court's judges into early retirement on wednesday david chaytor is standing by their forests at the protest david tell us what's the latest on looks relatively peaceful behind you. well nic at the stroke of midnight as you say forty percent of the judges here in the supreme court behind me will be out of a job forced into early retirement by a new measure brought in by the law and justice party the conservative party ruling here and the chief justice has actually said that she thinks this is a political purge it will empty the supreme court of the opponents to the ruling party and allow them to put in their own appointments who will bend to the government's will and she's called it a purge of political courage now is speaking earlier to the spokesman for the

supreme court and he said essentially what's happening here is history is beginning to repeat itself that in some way poland is becoming once again a one party state much like it was in the communist era but the government say as far as they're concerned the justices are a self-serving elite who are out of touch with the ordinary people and they say that the reforms that began in one thousand nine hundred nine after the fall of the communist regime have not gone far enough there is still a stain of what they say is corruption and even communism in the judicial system here but of course nic as you know the european commission thinks that these measures against of the founding ideals the charter of the european union they started a case against warsaw in the polish government which could eventually lead them into the european court of justice so the country itself could be in the dock at

the end of that legal process and that means of course. another problem for the european union but many other people on the government's side say that that move by the earth european commission is simply a political move and they have to carry through these reforms and that is that mandate so it's an extraordinary standoff at the moment the actual demonstration is true to kick off at the top of the next hour to begin with lectures from law professors about the complex political situation here the the chief justice had a meeting with the president this afternoon and they announced in a statement from the presidential office that she was resigning her response to that of course is that she'll turn up here at court tomorrow morning at her fall official regalia and intending to get in back into the supreme court so a stand off is developing here and is being watched with great anxiety in europe

plagued by so many problems at the moment but it seems that there is a confrontation not only between the opposition parties who are gathering here and the government but between the government and brussels itself for a day would leave that thanks very much the reporting from. so to come as an uphill battle warnings that humanitarian help alone will not solve the crisis red cross calls for a political solution. linked by tragedy and demanding the argentinean families who want the government to act faster to locate a missing submarine. and find out why sweden celebrates the like it's nine hundred ninety four all over again that's for sport.

hello there the weather is generally quite quiet across many parts of the middle east at the moment quiet but very hot particularly in the western parts of baghdad about forty seven degrees before the east you can see a keen wind working down from the north that's picking up a little bit of haze at times it's not quite as hot here is it might be and then you can see some showers still over the northeastern parts of our stretching out into kazakstan and those showers are likely to stick around as we head through the next few days before the south or for the arabian peninsula plenty of sunshine as you might expect but a little bit more cloud now some cloud over parts of saudi arabia and also a few bits and pieces over yemen as well probably not bringing us any weather but just hiding that very hot sunshine for us here in doha our temperatures are expected to get to around forty one forty two degrees over the next few days and here it will also be a bit more humid now as we head down towards the southern parts of africa you saw that area of cloud that made its way towards the east it didn't bring us rain

though for many of us it brought us an awful lot of snow so plenty of wintery weather these pictures from cherry farm in serres showing just how much snow we saw there a good amount of snow sheet blanket of it looks like that's the last of it the temperature in cape town back up to sixteen degrees sixty one in fahrenheit and plenty of sunshine. seen but rarely heard india's two million street children live the desperate existence one of the nice meets the child reporters from the slumdog press are giving a voice to india's invisible children on al-jazeera. july on al-jazeera. in a new series of head to head maddie hasson tackled the big issues with hard hitting questions pakistanis going to the polls to elect a new government. will the country take people in power continues to examine the

use and abuse of power around the world a generation of voters in zimbabwe grew up knowing only the leadership of robert mugabe now they're electing a new president and for the first time since independence his name's not on the ballot on television and online the stream continues to tap into the extraordinary potential of social media to disseminate news. july on al-jazeera. and we get a reminder the top stories here on al-jazeera in jordan and israel are refusing to open their borders to thousands of refugees who fled a government offensive in syria's daraa province the u.n.

says the fighting has displaced as many as three hundred thirty thousand people. rescuers in thailand to work out how to extract a young football team when their coach trapped deep inside a cave system the thirteen strong group was found alive on monday they've not been inside the cave ten days. and malaysia's former prime minister has been arrested by anti corruption agents but she is expected to be charged on wednesday over. his alleged involvement in embezzlement of a multi billion dollar estate investment fund. the international red cross has warned that humanitarian help alone will not solve the refugee crisis he says political solutions a needed to help hundreds of thousands of people who fled to bangladesh the un secretary general and high commissioner for refugees have been visiting the range of camps in the caucasus bazaar. is there also. 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 rainwater is 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 there has a 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 the 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 that 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 speak 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. at least eleven civilians have been killed in an airstrike on

a wedding in yemen's northern sort of province the side led coalition struck the town of guff for killing mostly women and children the united nations says at least two thousand two hundred children have been killed and three thousand four hundred injured since the conflict began but those are only the ones it's been able to verify the israeli government has been given the go ahead to deduct three hundred million dollars a year from the palestinian authorities budget politicians pass a law allowing the money to be taken from taxes and tariffs israel collects on the authorities behalf they cues the palestinian authority of paying three hundred fifty million dollars last year to palestinian prisoners jailed for attacking israeli security forces are a force that has more from all q pide west bank. in the occupied west bank incarceration is an issue that touches the life of family after family graffiti on the wall of one home celebrates

a recent release from an israeli jail on the other side of the wall is some are rooms home three of her six sons are in israeli prisons one held without charge two serving life sentences jihad was part of an armed cell that abducted and killed an israeli soldier his older brother imad was convicted of killing two alleged palestinian informants the palestinian detainees commission pays them respectively one thousand four hundred fifty and one thousand five hundred eighty dollars a month at the death for what they need no it's never for the money they do it for their country and no one makes money out of this it's no lowance that they spend on themselves it's their lives and that are wasted behind them or on their own for. the payments don't just go to current and former prisoners compensation is also paid to families of palestinians killed by israeli forces whether or not they were taking part in an attack on monday night the israeli parliament the knesset voted to withhold the same amount spent in these ways it says about three hundred million

dollars a year from the taxes it collects on behalf of the palestinian authority israeli cases and these payments reward even incite acts of violence against israel citizens and its military for the palestinians they represent a vital part of a social welfare system assisting thousands of families in some of the poorest places in the occupied west bank six thousand five hundred palestinians are currently being held in israeli jails often depriving families of their main breadwinners palestinians say as many as a million have been jailed since the creation of the state of israel seventy years ago and they say israel has no right to withhold funds amounting to about seven percent of the palestinian authority's budget this is clearly a financial policy of the palestinian money that goes to serve the more effective palestinian citizens from the elite. violation and crimes committed by the illegal israeli occupation the israeli defense minister is promising the new legislation will be implemented and the what he called salaries for terrorists the palestinian

authority says that will lead to a dangerous dead end road in relations and that in any case the payments will continue. to a refugee camp in the occupied west bank there's been an outpouring of grief in the u.s. state of idaho where a three year old girl has died after being stabbed at her birthday party on saturday at least fifteen hundred people gathered for a vigil in boys to honor the refugee families targeted in the attack five other children were stabbed and three adults injured while trying to protect them police have charged to me kinna with murder and battery but please don't believe the attack was a hate crime can i had recently been asked to leave the housing complex where the attack took place. over the two thousand migrant children separated from their parents at the us border has led to mass protests but another twelve thousand children were already in custody most crossed the border without their parents and rights groups have been concerned about their treatment for years

a case has now been lodged against one detention center in virginia alleging employees there were abusive she had returned as more. several recordings of migrant children separated from their parents have emerged over the last few weeks. and the response has been massive and green but a court hearing on tuesday and then the abuse of migrant children by u.s. authorities has been going on for years they handcuffed me and put a white bag of some kind over my head they took off all my clothes and put me into her straight chair where they touch my hands and feet to the chair they also put a strap across my chest they left me naked and has to the chair for two and a half days including at night. that is one of many accounts of life at the sharp end of valley juvenile center in virginia sworn testimony recounts routine verbal and physical assault by staff and days of nude solitary confinement in freezing concrete cells these children when convicted of any crimes they say they were

fleeing violence in their home countries their lawyers say they were subjected to malicious and sadistic applications of force by physical and psychological the center denies the charges since the obama administration latin american boys and girls twelve and up accused of being a gang member await a hearing in facilities like these we don't know if any children separated from their parents in recent weeks have been sent here but amount says many children are falsely accused the youth were being screened as being involved individuals and then when they came into our care. and they were assessed by our clinical in case management staff they weren't necessarily identified as being involved individuals in fact aid groups say these are simply children traumatized by violence in their home countries the reason they sought asylum in the us and that one's out shenandoah they are traumatized further. lawyers say that information children give

to social workers and medical staff is used to determine whether to send them to facilities like for example a child expressing fear of gang violence may be classed as a gang member it is very troubling that whatever they tell their social worker their caseworker is not staying within that confidentiality and the child is trusting my caseworker and it is very troubling when that information is being shared outside of the scope of why that caseworker and social worker is is helping that child only a fraction of the some twelve thousand migrant children in the care of the u.s. government end up absolutely is like this but it's hoped concern for children separated from parents will lead to a wider review of the treatment of all migrant children held by u.s. authorities. the. mexico's president elect has met with the current president enrique peña and yet to do because his transition to office in december and it has meant well lopez obrador won

a landslide victory in sunday's election and said he will hold a referendum hopefully through his term in three years time to let voters decide if he should stay in power let's hold more about this with benjamin russell who is and that it's a for america's quarterly who's the magazine's correspondent in many cases he and mr russell this indeed is a bold move this promise by the president elect to hold a referendum. through his term. it is yeah it's actually something he's spoken quite a lot about on the campaign trail. in. campaign videos and commercials originally he was saying he was going to have a referendum every two years. he said that maybe every three would be better to try and save costs. but it's something he's been talking about it's a commitment that he made very prominently and something that he would have difficulty trying to just sweep under the. after being elected the question is

whether it's actually going to happen mexico's constitution has no provisions for this kind of thing would likely require. a constitutional amendment which and there's another look at what other one has said he would do. that is i think we'll see what happens yeah see what happens essentially setting out is still to be amount of the people in this problem is also to take less than half what the current president it currently is. yes right and it's in line very much with is his governing style as mayor of mexico city in early two thousand he was well known for showing up to work very early in very kind of a home or car he's known as being a very struck personally austere politician and part of here is his rationale for. this referendum that he's proposing is you know of the take it on the polo give it and the take it away or for the people give it and the people take it away right

what do you make of his relationship with the build up to assuming the presidency in december and especially the mexican relationship with the united states and president trump. sure i mean actually it's very early on. and there isn't look as i would have or as made a career of speaking about the mafia of our power elites in politics and business who. have to his view outsized influence in mexican lives. since the election and election speech is that kind of a little bit more hostile rhetoric was gone he showed a much more conciliatory tone he was actually. praising rick it's been yet though in terms of the transition or in terms of his behavior during the campaign for president. and also with trump i think the first indication we'll see how long this kind of positive relation last but they had apparently about

a half hour phone call supposedly very productive and orgill speaking go up potential ways that you can work together so so far i think we've seen a little bit more of a again a conciliatory and an unlimited we will see how long that lasts but but those are the signs so far ok but when russell a just great to get your perspective on this preacher at that thanks very much mike boettcher thanks nick. relatives of the crew members of the missing argentine submarine the. demanding the government speed up the horror of a private company to continue the search some one disappeared with forty four sailors on board while on a training mission last year to raise a boat has this report from one of those. dear relatives of those who went missing when the argentine navy submarine sunk one disappeared in the waters of the south atlantic eight months ago. on this husband let our son just was one of them she has

changed herself with others to demand then cers from the government of president. we are all sacrificing ourselves to be here we have children families but we won't leave my husband does not deserve to be forgotten like this he was serving his country and the least the government can do is try to find the sound one with forty four sailors on board was what he said to have been a routine mission when it was lost the commander of the vessel had reported the water had entered the vessel resulting in better remote function then nearby underwater listening devices identified an unnatural sound in the area the navy believes it was an explosion this one was never seen again this people have been sleeping in tents for days they are demanding to know what happened to the family arena and they're also asking the government to hire a private company that will help find it since april the search for the missing sub has been suspended because i didn't tina does not have the technology for deep sea

exploration they said one was allegedly investigating illegal fishing in the southern atlantic but official answers have not been enough for members of congress who have created a special committee in charge of finding out what happened if you do. what is clear is that we did not have the resources to react in the case of an emergency to find out that we don't have anything to save our sailors shock to me it's like sending pilots to a war without a parachute this tells us a lot about the conditions of argentina's navy. last month the government announced it had hired a spanish company to rescind the search but the contract was never signed apparently because of the. sun was one of the forty four he says the government needs to act now. we were told that it was going to be cancelled. we don't know how this will continue we told the president him to continue

searching promised that they would do that and it is not happening and that's why the family say they want more from here and contract has been signed and sealed. to. defend her.

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