a refugee crisis in the making jordan and israel refused to open borders to people fleeing a syrian government offensive. matheson this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the un's human rights office accuses the u.a.e. of the torture and sexual abuse of yemeni president is. awaiting charges malaysia's former prime minister najib razak is doing in court to face corruption allegations . added spotlight for england as a lackluster side not only edges past colombia and into the world cup quarterfinals .

concerns growing over the human cost of the syrian government's offensive against rebels in the southern province of the three hundred thirty thousand people have been forced from their homes since the assault began two weeks ago many are heading to syria's border with jordan but once they get there there's nowhere to go jordan is refusing to open its border despite a plea from the u.n. jordan argues that it's already hosting some six hundred seventy thousand refugees and its fragile economy can't support any more. supplying aid and trying to broker a cease fire and rob the u.s. secretary of state met michael peo has also discussed a ceasefire with the russians who are backing the government offensive. and now as we watch the situation there we have extreme concerns about the situation there are ongoing airstrikes some humanitarian aid had been stopped we understand that soon the humanitarian aid may be getting back in again at least for now but it's

certainly not a safe situation so we're continuing to have talks with the russians we're continuing to have talks with the jordanians and express our extreme concern about the situation there well the u.n. has called the violence a looming catastrophe and the security council will hold an emergency meeting on thursday has more from beirut in neighboring lebanon. jordan in israel. and their towns are battlegrounds these people are trapped in the syrian government's 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 in time 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 lavrov there for a discussion on how we can work towards a cease fire and create conditions for the ground under which people would feel safe and also 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 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 guarantee of the safety of the civilians negotiations are difficult and wishes into beirut many of the syrians heading to jordan's border are seriously wounded jordan's army has set up a medical center to treat the sick and injured some are being transferred to government hospitals in jordan bernard smith has more from the about crossing on the jordan syria 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 times have been set up for men women and children there on the syrian side of the jordanian merit military says it's treated hundreds of casualties people injured by the bombardment people escaping the

bombardment but the jordanian military said that as soon as those people have been treated that 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 they're 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 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 higher and. that's my money is a professor specializing in the middle east at the university of waterloo in canada

she says assad's goal is to drive people out of their homes and jordan opening up its border would only enable that end of the day refugees don't want to leave their homes they don't want to leave their country they just want to be cared for and know that they're safe and guaranteeing safety should be our prime concern and that's why something like this safe zone humanitarian zone even bringing in united nations to sort of patrol that is important i would point out here that you know it's obvious our interest to the public is not that i have not seen the people who are in opposition and so i think we should not mentally feed the beast of the assad regime by. basically open doors and then done now basically remove their property right there right or. and basically make a fight accompli on that right now say that it's your know who is not real over anything sure that the this and are sick whatever but also not to be

a sort of bizarre possibly since at least eleven people have been killed in an airstrike on a wedding in the yemen's northern sada province the sodium iraqi coalition bombed the town of the casualties were mostly women and children the u.n. has verified that two thousand two hundred children have been killed and more than three thousand have been injured since the conflict began more than three years ago the hope the rebels have released a video showing the launch of a surveillance aircraft to monitor saudi emmott out he backed forces group says it's use this technology to carry out ten operations during the battle for one day the coalition stepped up its attacks on the strategic port city last month. the un says a number of yemeni prisoners have been tortured and sexually abused by soldiers from the united arab emirates it comes after witnesses provided the associated press news agency with drawings smuggled out of iraq to run prisons in yemen last month

the pictures describe a system of sexual torture and abuse the u.n. says it's requested access to the prisons but it's not yet been allowed in every human being is a yemen analyst based in new york and he says there's plenty of evidence around torture being systematically used in m.r.c. run prisons in yemen the torture by the u.s. united arab emirates forces in yemen and their kidnapping of detainees and sexual abuse is being well documented by a number of international human rights organizations as well as the associated press so this there will there is strong evidence and clear evidence that the u.a.e. has been committed crimes against yemenis run in secret detention kidnapping people and people who you know oppose their policies in yemen and bringing them to secret detention torture and them sexually abusing them committing all kind of violence against yemenis and so this is this is the time to end that kind of program not

only that i think there is an obligation right now toward the yemeni government there is a moral legal and ethical obligation application that the yemeni government should and the brandons of the united arab emirates and yemen given the these kind of crime the a lot of violations that committed by these forces in yemen so it is time to end their bread and yemen but asia's former prime minister is expected to be charged on wednesday over the disappearance of billions of dollars from the state fund while he was in office. because due to appear in court after being arrested by anti corruption investigators once louie has 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 and he corruption agents questioned one chip it 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 being 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. 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 been bezel for when hard billion dollars from one and b. not just 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 spacious 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 not just arrest has been greeted with delight by some finally like the nation that it might be and we get that. young son that all about a corrupt government that uses bribes and nepotism and cronyism now but the leaders have finally been caught it is an achievement these leaders must be brought to justice and be charged for their wrong doing. 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 just arrest the investigation into one and d.b. continues his successor. mahathir mohamad has said police have an almost perfect case against you and his allies well joining us now live from kuala lumpur florence give us some indication first of all what's going to be happening in court. well

not just is going to be brought here he had spent the night at the headquarters of the anti corruption agency and he's going to be brought to court here this is the call of them full court that's the sessions court below it sessions court and the high court in this building that you see behind me and then he's going to be charged at the lower sessions court and then the case will likely be transferred to a high to a high court that's what we've been told we're not sure yet whether he is going to be entering a plea today but then when the case is brought to the high court he will be able to apply for bail we're not also not sure what the charges that will be laid against him are going to be very likely that they could include criminal breach of trust well possibly corruption abuse of power perhaps even obstruction of justice now this is an investigation that started several years ago but it was blocked when. it was still in power it was only in may two thousand and nine off to the general election in two thousand and nine when not given his policy on no were defeated that this investigation has been gathering pace and now and he's been charged and

he's going to be charged in court on wednesday for as you mentioned in your report earlier that. it appeared on his social media that he recorded some sort of message do you tell us a little bit more about what was in the message. so this was a message that appeared to the world that was posted just several hours. was arrested it appeared on his twitter and facebook accounts and in this short video it was really about two minute clip it was it had showed pictures of post-election had pictures of it had video of him arriving at the anticorruption agency headquarters back in may to give evidence to when he was being questioned by offices and he had. should an apology he said you know he he but it wasn't an apology to admit that he had done wrong it was to say that he had tried his best but unfortunately it still wasn't good enough and he still he maintains its innocence it's a stand that he's kept all this while he says that he has done nothing wrong and

that the investigation against him is nothing more than a political witch hunt it's a vendetta against him and his family and he says all the accusations that have been leveled against him and his family on not true forms of no we're going to be checking in with you we're not sure makes his appearance in court but for now as thank you very much indeed for us in kuala lumpur. still ahead on al-jazeera they found the missing youth football team but i do rescuers bring them back to the surface. the. arab and poland protests the controversial new laws that could dramatically change the makeup of the supreme court. and that is wrong. with. the weather sponsored by qatar airways hello there we're seeing some heavy rain push its way back across

parts of china just a few outbreaks of rain really for so wednesday but some of them could turn out to be rather shop they will begin to pull themselves together and sink southwards as we head all way through thursday so some very wet weather through chengdu there are all the way across into shanghai to the south of that some sunshine but it's a one or two shower it's plenty of showers to across the southeastern parts of asia you can see them really get going over parts of the philippines then they gradually drift their way towards the west most of the wettest of the weather fortunately is away from borneo is just to the north of us and here is where we think the heaviest of the rain but gradually that disbands as we head into thursday and then they'll be somewhat to weather over parts of cambodia and for the northern parts of thailand which obviously isn't exactly what we want him if we head across towards india we've been seeing some very heavy downpours here over parts of the northeast and across parts of the poll that is easing now though in instead we're seeing this law in develop over parts of bangladesh and across the central belt of india i think this is again where we're going to see some of the wettest of the weather as

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you're watching all jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour concerns growing over the human cost of the syrian government offensive against rebels in the southern province of that up three hundred thirty thousand people have fled their homes since the assault started on june the nineteenth jordan's refusing to let them in despite a u.n. claim. the u.n. says a number of yemeni prisoners have been tortured and sexually abused by soldiers from the united arab emirates and it comes after witnesses provided the associated press news agency withdrawing smuggled out of an iraqi run prisons in yemen last month that he scribed threats and beatings. malaysia's former prime minister is expected to be charged in the coming hours over the disappearance of billions of dollars from the state fund while he was in power and i.g. braszczok is due to appear in court after being arrested by anti corruption

investigators. heavy rains are for cost in northern thailand in the coming days and that could hamper the rescue of a young football team from a flooded cave a plan is being worked out it's to extract the thirteen strong group who are trapped several kilometers below ground scott heide is at the site. 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 for.

that second half of the job will be very difficult getting them all out safely to family members are already thinking of what they'll do once they are out when up the road he won't see joan heard the good news all she wanted to do was hug her nephew my mom 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 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 see it 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 coach were found all eyes are focused here and

that's for two reasons for the dive teams are headquartered but also this is most likely where the third. you're watching al-jazeera this is live pictures coming from the court at kuala lumpur where the former prime minister najib razak is appearing to face charges of allegations of corruption in relation to the investigation into the one d b account which was set up by him after he became prime minister obviously a great deal of chaos outside the court you can just possibly see making his way in with his silver here in the middle of that crowd very being swiftly rushed in by his minders followed by a very intense press pack there he's going to be facing the charges that he has ten to ten billion forgive me dollars was placed into his ten million i forgive me ten million dollars was placed into his personal account he says that that money

was used as donations it is allegedly has come from one of the companies that was set up under the one d. b. organization we're going to come back to florence louie later on to find out more about what happened in court mexico's president elect has met the man whose job he's taking in the u.k. pinioned yetto to discuss his transition to office in december and the manual locus of the door won a landslide victory in sunday's election he says he will hold a referendum in three years the halfway point of his presidency to the voters decide if he should stay in power. the president of the european commission has asked lawyers to examine a migration deal of germany's chancellor angela merkel a struck with her bavarian coalition partners the agreement would set up so-called transit camps along germany's border with austria this is where refugees will be screened to see if they've already applied for asylum elsewhere in the e.u.

if they have them be deported back to the e.u. country the first registered in that member states would have to agree and austria has already signaled its opposition so far this year about eighteen thousand refugees and migrants have claimed asylum in another country america has been meeting her center left coalition partner of the social democrats to see if they'll accept the migration deal yes pedia rejected the idea of transit camps in twenty fifteen and they voiced skepticism about the new agreement. dozens of senior judges have been forced out of their posts in the supreme courts in poland after a new law came into effect reducing the retirement age european union's taking legal action against the polish government accusing it of undermining the independence of the judiciary david schaper reports from warsaw. thousands of demonstrators converged on the steps of the supreme court where forty percent of the judges are losing their jobs it was described by the chief justice as

a political perch. but the ruling laurent justice party described them as part of a self-serving elite out of touch with ordinary people but testers across the country accuse the government of undermining the constitution with a power grab the highest sentiment the law aiming to fill its benches with judges who will bend to their will. the spokesman for the supreme court said tragically history was repeating itself in poland turning back towards the one party state of the communist era. indeed we are seeing a breaking of the principle of the partition of power and then mutual balancing of the different kinds of power in favor of a uniform state power seeing the entire state from a single center the protest is how one powerful ally on their side though the european commission in brussels they've started legal proceedings which could end with poland being in the dock in the european court of justice but other members of

their legal establishment dismissed that move as politically motivated say the fundamental reforms needed after the fall of communism are long overdue then put off that process and this is meant of many people not just politicians and judges but most importantly citizens as not been completed. as the protests continued into the night outside the supreme court time and again the protesters chanted the word constitution what is striking about this demonstration on the steps of the court is well the majority of voters from the all of the generation of. the one who remember the stifling of human rights and freedoms and democracy under the whole congress regime. the government hope to ride this storm of protest but the opposition say this is a fight they must win for the sake of future generations david chaytor al jazeera

warsaw the international red cross has warned that humanitarian help alone will not solve the refugee crisis it says political solutions are needed to help hundreds of thousands of people who fled from me in march to bangladesh mohammed omran reports from cox's bazar where senior u.n. officials have been meeting refugees. the u.n. has been trying to highlight just how vulnerable the population of the refugees here in cox's this are bangladesh remains and where we are here including a 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 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 deep deep trauma he wouldn't speak children with nice 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 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. in a world where journalism as an industry is changing we have al-jazeera are fortunate to be able to continue to expand to continue to have that passion and drive and present the stories in a way that is important to worthless. everyone has a story worth hearing. and cover those that are often ignored we don't weigh our coverage towards one particular region or continent that's why i joined al-jazeera

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trump loses patience with nato the u.s. president accuses allies of failing on the tree lines and he's warning america can no longer bear the brunt of the cost of protecting. one of nato members fail to increase their defense spending and is the north atlantic alliance still relevant this is a story. i know and welcome to the program i'm elizabeth piron i'm leaf lettuce is said to show donald trump's increasing frustration with the north atlantic treaty organization the u.s. president's accusing allies in the military alliance of failing to pay for their protection the new york times says trump wrote a nation remembers a.