new video of the stranded thirteen shows a tie a navy seal emblem drawn on the cave ledge where the teenagers assault safety eleven days ago the words say thirteen lives referring to the name of their youth football club meaning wild boar personnel from the navy seals are staying with the boys at all times who are reported to be in good health after treatment for minor injuries rescuers are under intense pressure to get the twelve boys and their coach out quickly there has been a pause in the monsoon season rain but it's expected to start falling again in the next few days keeping water levels in the cave system down is critical for the rescue one option is to train them on the basics of scuba diving. something one diving expert at the cave thinks will work if they use a full face mask. and it won't take long it is basically just a cave fix a saw if you do it them sit. on the sand you put the mosque on they get a feel for it they get an understanding. you sit through water calm so they

understand that they have a common occasion they can talk to the diver guides and if they see any problem they can calm him down the governor of chiang mai province says that the trapped thirteen might not all come out at the same time they were value each one and bring them out only when they're ready the u.s. is one of at least six countries assisting the rescue will getting them out is the goal providing food and supplies is critical the assistance portion in the resupply and able to provide supplies to the shoulder and you know it's very very relevant to the operations that are being conducted and how we're able to support our type partners in anticipation of that moment everyone at the cave entrance is waiting for rehearsals are being held and when it's not a thai soldier playing a role it's a member of the teenagers move football club it's got harder al-jazeera chiang rai . now you have probably seen something similar to this recently which i'm about to show you but it does bear a quick recap a three d. map of the area where the boys and they coach are trapped they entered the cave

system there they go to far as here what they call a type h. as you know a beach but that is where they got stuck and if we turn the map a little bit this is from al jazeera dot com this just gives you a sort of cross section again starting here moving up through this whole distance we're talking about four kilometers they have traveled in land if you like and it is this which is a big concern here which i've just scribbled on the top of and that is of course the flooding in the caves so much depends on the weather and the rescue teams really need a break in the rain to save the trapped boys we've got an update now from observers everton folks on what the future holds meteorologically speaking. does look actually a little drier over the next couple of days kemal but the rain never really too far away southern parts of thailand around the gulf of thailand seeing the wettest weather at the moment but as we zoom in you can see we do still have a little china showers just rolling in from the andaman sea across those northern

parts of thailand up towards chiang rai it is the wet season this is the wettest time of year july normally sees around three hundred millimeters of rain september a similar value in august is actually looking a wettest still over the next couple of days it will be dry you can see in the heat of the day we do expect to see a few showers just cropping up across northern parts of thailand those showers never really too far away but as we go through thursday friday into saturday some slightly drier weather at least for the time being kamau right evan thank you for that we're going to get a check of some international news and say weather news now more headlines with barbara there in london. come out thank you let's start with yemen the u.n. envoy to yemen has expressed optimism after meeting the leader of the who's the rebels in an attempt to end the country's devastating civil war martin griffiths says the rebels expressed a strong desire for peace talks in the capital the u.n.

hopes to prevent a full scale coalition assault on the port city of her data which is a vital aid a lifeline for the country a saudi led coalition has been at war with the who these since two thousand and fifteen. all parties of not only underscored their strong desire for peace but also engage with me on concrete ideas for achieving peace i will brief the security council on the outcomes of my discussions both here in sun up and last week and under. my talks with the parties will continue in the coming days and i will hope to see very soon. president months or the. scuffles have broken out of the bedouin village in the occupied west bank after israel moved three bulldozers in to begin demolishing the village israel has long sought to clear bedouin from the area and the supreme court approved the demolition in me harry fox it has been quite the situation here now i come out has been out

pleased to hold down into what remains a pretty tense stand off for just a few minutes ago there was the latest in a series of fairly major scuffles between local villagers and activists and these really security forces they have been here since this morning it seems to be prepared to work ahead of the demolition of this metal individualised close to illegal israeli settlements here in the occupied west bank in the area between jerusalem and jericho and palestinians have long said that this is part of a plan called the one plan designed to extend those settlements and divide the occupied west bank into northern and southern areas really interrupt. the territorial flow of what palestinians to want to be their future state and so what we've seen here the attempts by bulldozers and other mechanical diggers to come in and make that proud to work in fact one is just still continuing its work over here so far it seems there is

a good deal of moments of great being built up here ahead of what does seem to be an imminent demolition of this bedouin village here in the occupied west bank. u.k. police are investigating a suspected poisoning close to where the russian double agent sergei script and this daughter were attacked with a nerve agent in march a man and a woman are in critical condition after being found unconscious in the town of amesbury in southwest england on saturday it's around thirteen kilometers from saul's breathe that's where the script poisoning took place counterterrorism police are working to identify the unknown substance which led to the couple becoming ill . china says it won't be firing the first shot as a trade war looms between the world's two largest economies the us is set to impose a twenty five percent tax on thirty four billion dollars of chinese products on friday china in turn announced a thirty four billion dollars of tariffs on u.s. goods but says it will wait until washington makes the first parts of the us are

already feeling the sting of tariffs as straight can tensions also play out with europe canada and mexico. the first president of poland supreme court has turned up for work in defiance of a new retirement age law thousands of people rallied outside poland supreme court in support of chief justice to get us off and the twenty seven other judges affected by the legislation the new rules came into effect at midnight and they cut the retirement age for justices from seventy to sixty five the issue is at the center of a mounting conflict with the european union which accuses poland of trying to gain political control of the judiciary. my presence here is not about politics to make it clear i am here to protect the rule of law. the four malaysian prime minister najib razak has been charged with a string of corruption offenses the allegations are in connection to the scandal

plagued the state fund one the n.d.b. which he set up while he was in office but the sixty four year old remains the five telling reporters the upcoming trial will be his chance to prove his innocence and slowly reports now from the capital. i. arrived at the college of poor high court to want to charges of corruption and criminal to trust which carry a maximum twenty year prison sentence i. cite his supporters mostly from the political party who once led chang to three nights a. month and he's the former prime minister and party leader who's done a lot for malaysians now that he's facing such trying times i've come here to lend my support to him and his family malaysia's former prime minister pleaded not guilty and off to be released on bail set the case against him is a political vendetta. i expected this this is what the

new government wants if this is a price i have to pay for my twenty four years of service to the nation and its people i'm willing to pay that price but i hope and pray that the court process will be fair and in accordance with the rule of law i believe in my innocence this is the best chance i have to clear my name. the court set bail at two hundred fifty thousand dollars and audit not just to surrender his passport he's accused of using his position as finance minister and prime minister to enrich himself with public funds and transferring ten million dollars into his bank account in two thousand and fourteen and two thousand and fifty prosecutors say the money came from s.r.c. international a former subsidiary of the state investment fund one m d this case is part of a larger investigation involving one for which not jim and his associates are alleged to have a budget for. and a half billion dollars let me state the obvious but he used the word want to be when everybody uses the word want him to be. it's such

a shorthand. statement to describe what happened over forty five years so there were discrete separate transactions. or fight over for five year period which is the public told me the fraud scandal is also being investigated in several countries including the us the initial investigation into this case started several years ago but stalled when one ship was prime minister allegations of a cover up have been made since the new government came into power it made it has made recovering money stolen from one and to be a top priority not ships trial will likely start next year he's the first person linked to the scandal to be prosecuted and it's odd likely to be the last florence . the pakistani city of lahore is seen its heaviest rain in thirty eight years six people have died including four who were buried under a building when it collapsed two others were electrocuted in rain related incidents

heavy monsoon rain is expected to continue this month's that's it for me from london i'll have more news in half an hour now though let's go back to come on barbara thank you for that the german chancellor angela merkel is parliament to get behind her new migration policy and her last address to m.p.'s before the summer break follows a compromise deal with a main conservative allies the c.s.u. the christian social union to limit the number of asylum seekers arriving in germany local needs the backing of her other coalition part of the social democratic party along with the member states if it is all to succeed well from dawn to ten our correspondent in berlin in a moment first though here is anglo-american. it is my firm conviction and the firm conviction of many others that the handling of this migration issue will decide whether europe will enjoy because it's such a moving issue it's important that we come to this agreement. in her last

main address to parliament before it breaks up for the summer recess until america returned to the theme of immigration and said something that basically she's been saying now for some weeks perhaps months that no person claiming asylum should be able to choose exactly where in the e.u. they do so because that's being a thorny issue in this whole round of this idea of secondary migration where a personal arrives from its landfall in the plains asylum but then goes on to claim it elsewhere and have a variant conservative policy allies have been very very hot on this topic trying to stamp down on this side of the problem for an american right now is that even though she has the agreement of a conservative partners she yet needs the agreement of her social democrat partners and they are not wedded to the idea of transit centers detention centers where people would be held before being pushed sent back across the border they'd come into germany from so as things stand polman tears from the leaders this morning and today but the question will be what will emerge from

a key meeting taking place on thursday where this idea of and consent is transit centers will be discussed by the main coalition partners were here that news to do with refugees office and picks up traction online but in germany itself is this is this sparking discussion that is being widely discussed actually people in germany are using to hash tags and the first one which in german means asylum compromise and it's all about how to handle asylum seekers and the second one addresses the crisis facing the coalition government over migrants and there are a lot of different angles some are discussing chancellor angela merkel's future calling its last chapter with this cartoon showing a map of european countries replaced by countries from the middle east africa and asia and here you can see merkel saying wonderful in the caption meanwhile others are comparing the proposed transit centers to concentration camps and. some a debate in the feature all of the european union and it's freedom of movement

policy and there were there were other things that caught our attention as well like success stories of asylum seekers who integrated into german society rafael rashid said this picture of a somali refugee and he started volunteering at a local fire brigade in a small town in brandenburg this was off he got his asylum and then amnesty international lost a campaign highlighting the struggles of allen a syrian refugee who escaped the war and made it to germany in a wheelchair now they pose the question what would you expect the world to do if this happened to you the group also urges european leaders to come up with a fairer asylum policy or we've been speaking to refugees in germany and this is what some have to say. to people who think this argument concerning. the validity of who. i am really worried

about the political. might return. or. people who have. protection. from. here want to hear about will probably who are greedy who trying to reach you have me think the new situation for the future is in germany is a little bit disappointing because people started to fit in with the society and i'm one of them and took time and it's not easy to do so starting from zero again it's so hard slog of people are sad about it even germans because away from beulah takes it something about humanity people must stand together and i hope this new situation will be in that small. well if you are in germany we do want to hear from you suspend us your stories hatchet us use the hash tag. turner is

a researcher at the arnold birds tosser institute in germany has risen his opinion piece from zero dot com interesting take on the refugee story specifically your children's eyes in both europe and the united states and right down the bottom as well there was an episode of counting the costs they're looking at the economic effects of e.u. migration and politics complete coverage as ever and al-jazeera dot com this particular page is called demonizing children at u.s. and european point. this is the news great if you're with us through facebook live a bonus i'd say plus story coming your way right now about a student in the u.s. who lost her academic only this it is she was critical of her school's administration and later the white house is reversing on a bomb a year a directive to universities that promoted diversity among students that story and the headlines in a moment. welcome

back it's time to look at weather conditions across the levant and western parts of asia in the east the region we have got some heavy showers still across parts of stan and extending into specky stan but i think for tashkent and our marty weather conditions shouldn't be too bad it's fine around the caspian sea is very warm in baghdad forty seven degrees other parts of iraq pushing the fifty degree mark once again it seems to be most summers now temperatures getting towards that fifty degree mark fine conditions around the eastern side of the mediterranean but we have got the risk of some showers across the caucuses during the course of friday afternoon here in the arabian clinches all pretty static at the moment temperatures there in the mid forty's for medina on the other side pincher light winds are certainly some high humidity affecting doha some of forty three more creative change heading on through into friday that's not across into southern portions of africa will weather conditions for the most part are looking good we've got some cloud across the east coast up into mozambique with

a chance of some showers but otherwise weather conditions looking dry and fine for the most part not a great deal of changes ahead on through into friday though johannesburg struggling temperature wise highs of just twelve degrees into central parts of africa some big showers across west africa could be a wet one in guinea-bissau. july on al-jazeera in a new series of had to had maddie hasson talk of the big issues with hard hitting questions pakistan is going to the polls to elect a new government what pump 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 of the first time since independence his name's not on the ballot on television and online the stream continues to tap into the extraordinary

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headlines from al jazeera dot com and what's trending with the one title a voice part of the diet must certain to. more about this the potential rescue of the football team and they touch plenty about a new city there for you to run. continuing. and this isn't the jena six this isn't very distant to me mails from different philippines town started the day at a read of that anything else which takes your fancy but set down to zero in on what's trending. really going back to one of our top stories as i said the challenges facing the thailand tave rescue operation we've got andrew watson with

us now commercial director of m.r.s. training and rescue joining us via skype from dunfermline in scotland and we thank you very much for your time and based on everything you've seen of the so you're not there but based on everything you've seen of this particular case just how difficult is this one going to be i think this is about as extreme as it gets i mean it is definitely not enough if it was i don't you know dealing with but to deal with. such a much an experienced children you have to explain the difficulties. and you have to take people with absolutely no experience and try and propel them far. the rescue attempt i think as i said just about as extreme as you can possibly get and while my sympathy allies with the children and their you train out who got dropped out of a lot or something or isn't all right well if they know they have you and oceans

and the lines cracking up a little bit i'm going to keep going and you just hopefully you can still hear me all right i don't know a lot about diving certain scuba diving in the light to teach people that. in a cave full kilometers into the earth i can even imagine how difficult it would be and i'm guessing once you're actually trying to get them out you only really get one shot at it. well the outset you have covered just to the situation just exactly as it will happen normally if you have treated people to die of unscripted yes for the pleasure of seeing the sights that's isn't tyler the opposite and he has taken i don't think the fact that they have the children consequences are really an issue because but not going to be swimming as part of us they're going to put a nap on ottis on and they're going to be assessed that didn't to move through that but as i said just to train them to we have a cat to go sightseeing and would be. a serious task in itself but to go from

not want of experience to the really the extreme end of scuba dive in such a dangerous task to undertake and from my point of view and has to be one of the last resorts and i think they need to be looking at the situation and making sure that as a last resort and prepare for a lot as much as possible before attempting it let's try to look at some positives i mean the positives the fact that they've been found alive in the first place but also the fact that and maybe you can speak to this they seem to be in extremely good hands an incredible international effort of people who are absolute experts in this sort of thing regardless of how difficult it is a totally i do agree with that you can get better assessments for them and also i think if you look at the way they are doing the plan and the way that prepared and where they're trying to make sure let's go all the right equipment in place

everything seems so positive and i just hope that nature itself goes in the time to get out preparation in place to make sure less and as it should do as a success anything more you can tell us any more expertise you can shed on the sort of thing i know is it's a you know they are and but maybe the types of of things that you've done in the past and then how difficult it is golf and disinterested to know from someone who's done it themselves. i would try it was a couple of things from the main investor without one is the chilean with to be there i think again i'm going to give up hope and we all know the success that came out a lot. and look at him years ago into the main and what old time sentiment wasn't on the hands where we there was over one hundred rescue miners rescued by usually in an opera does that they had no training on whatsoever. the circumstances and not was the oxygen they were relying on to just their particular man live was being diminished so the time ran out and the s.

they escaped had to be done amiel them one was planned for but it was done successfully and i think you've got to look at these circumstances and say we've got more time than the second stance is i do have the circumstances i just outlined so obviously take advantage of make the most of it get your preparations in place make sure you've got all the information you can possibly get and make sure les is a success and you're what i'm so glad you could join us and share your expertise with us on the story thank you so much thank you moving on the trumpet ministration has reversed and obama era policy that promoted diversity in universities from it of action the u.s. attorney general jeff sessions revoked twenty four guidance documents as they're known many of them involving race and schools institutions have been using those guidelines to overcome issues things like a lack of diversity and also overcoming the segregation which is not the america's past at the same time you got the prestigious harvard university facing

a discrimination lawsuit which alleges it limits admissions for asian americans. the federal guidance that had been issued during the obama era was an important tool for colleges and universities that were trying to do the right thing and were trying to revise modify and institue admissions policies that. were mindful of the supreme court's ruling in fisher and at the end of the day helped to achieve diversity on their campus it sends a message that the federal government doesn't believe in racial diversity and we run the risk that we may see school officials going back to the drawing board revising their policies and changing their approach in ways that can be really harmful to us is a country. or another story which i suspect it's people fired up online in most things to do with the trumpet ministries and do that once you put race into it as well exactly as a lot of different opinions call but u.s.

attorney general jeff sessions cole the change is a step towards restoring the rule of law and blamed the possibly for imposing the new rules without seeking public comment and the new policy is a stark contrast to the guideline put in place by the obama administration and twenty eleven which look to empower racially diverse populations the trumpet ministrations announcement is now more in line with the policy by the bush era and this push for race neutral alternatives such as percentage plans and also economic diversity programs the guideline also now appears to be on the education department website as well and this all comes off for a court case read missions at harvard university the students full fair admissions allege that the college holds asian american applicants to an unfairly high admissions standards and they welcome any governmental action that eliminates racial classifications now asian americans currently make up twenty two point two

percent of students admitted to harvard that's according to their official website and hobbits. as it will continue to consider race as an admissions fact to create i quote a diverse campus community westerns from all walks of life have the opportunity to learn with and from each other while there's been a strong reaction to this online some say that it's political rather than effective policy making and the us democratic senator dianne feinstein says the supreme court has clearly allowed the use of race in college admissions for sending guidance to schools on considering race will only discourage a practice that levels the playing field for students yet another example of trump's need to undo everything former president barack obama did and then he had the civil liberties groups have also criticized this decision the lawyers committee directed at this tweet to the education secretary saying that the move is

a deliberate attempt to create fear and confusion on the part of school administrators meanwhile olivier says that the top administration is racist and amanda adds that affirmative action works and helps to reverse the effects of hundreds of years of racism but not everybody agrees alice argues that admissions should be race and ethnicity blind the only fact is that should be considered grades and test schools well what do you think should the u.s. remove affirmative action and universities send us your thoughts is the hash tag it in is good. or is pleased to speak to professor queer finkelstein on the news grid joining us via skype from philadelphia she's director of the center of ethics in the rule of law at the university of pennsylvania law school high clear aside from the sort of minor obsession that the trumpet ministration has with rolling back anything president obama did was say your views on why we're doing this. this

is part of a concerted attempt on the part of the trumpet ministration to push back all progressive politics in a number of different areas having to do with rights of minorities rights of women are obviously the rights of immigrants and there is a segment of the trump base that would go so far we know as to favor a limb elimination of the landmark supreme court nine hundred fifty four case brown against board of education that integrated public education in this country so there is a very regressive base here that is pushing for a little back of progressive politics not just the obama administration this goes back sixty years to directives that president kennedy issued attempting to recognize the disfavored position of african-americans and of

women and making it a priority for schools secondary schools and universities to attempt to integrate so let's let's play devil's advocate here and actually we heard it in one of those tweets with the read out a little bit earlier when he said someone saying that this should be i think it was race and ethnicity blind getting into a school should be about your grades and what you're able to do and hard work and all these sorts of things. that is an argument. it is indeed an argument but realize that schools and universities have operated in the middle ground for many many years and that has been the sort of orthodoxy we're headed in here or by a number of supreme court decisions. most notably there is the baki decisions that decision from one thousand nine hundred eighty eight that said schools could not use racial quotas on the other hand you have more recent decision

like the fisher case in texas that said race could to be a factor of among others in a reasonable emissions policy so this is a kind of in ecuador poises has been an echo poised for many many years attempting to allow schools to consider race but not as a unique factor in decision making so then that middle ground has allowed universities and schools to have a diverse class rather than them an all white class which is what could result if we go the direction that the trumpet illustration is pointing to a clear focus on always a pleasure thank you so much for your time and your expertise on this thank you black history month that was back in february when your friend has morgan from santa clara university ogg is that still very much necessary just to something like affirmative action is in this opinion piece she says quite plainly if i just girl

down to it here it is until a limited view of history and who gets to be an american undergoes a significant change like saying black lives matter we need to specifically claim a space for black history can read that yourself without the zero dot com by searching for black history month and clicking the opinion filter on the left hand side. we are back in a moment on the newsgroup with the latest from the football world cup apparently england won a mattress today we'll have something on that first though a quick check of some international with.

what about which will disappoint will the world cup it's far it's all about england right you know and i bumped into a few happy english fans just a few. days last sixteen match were in libya colombia was one of the world cups most socially active matches online nearly half a million people were tweeting about the game and that chatter was happening across the world if we look at our trends map there was plenty of heat coming from virtually everywhere europe north south and central america asia and africa.

to say that english fans are happy about the wind is a huge understatement there on the so-called easier side of the draw and many fans think this is their best chance to win the world cup since their sole triumph in one nine hundred sixty six celebrations were caught on camera and posted on social media and i want to show you the reaction from former england and arsenal striker ian right after the winning penalty shot and this is been viewed on twitter over a million times check it out the reaction a secret. was we've heard i'll come down because england was we were in a shootout it's wrong but. it was our. quoting or it's got a great time and for terror the car was going like this it was a. look at our car as bright the huge

reactions to cheese days when and even though the english premier league is the most popular club competition in the world certain online trends suggest that england's national team isn't amongst the most followed globally according to you tube videos of argentina's team were the most popular on their site last year by watched time with brazil in sakhalin england were not in the top five during the group stages of brazil where the team that had the most illegally strained matches online that's according to web security firm or darrow england came fifth on that list interestingly mexico lead the way in terms of social media interactions it has over twelve million interactions across facebook twitter and instagram according to analytics firm media social bakers england didn't even register in the top three. well in addition to supporters from the likes of brazil and many of the big teams fans from nonparticipating nations also descended on the world cup in particular tens of thousands from china who have been enjoying the games and looking forward

to a time when their national team is back at the finals and the richardson reports from moscow. he finally and you are un are two of more than sixty thousand chinese founders in russia at home in beijing they watch the spanish league now they're buying in to the world cup experience we had the lovers of football we had the football fans we always watched that different game seen china and we support different teams and different you know football stars. despite the national team's failure to qualify for russia football is on the up in china president xi jinping is a fan and cash is pouring into the domestic lead. these finals are a chance for chinese supporters to watch the players they follow on television in european competitions they will enjoy the games because they don't see a lot of beautiful soccer beautiful football or even the most elite so they want to

see the highest level of its football in the world cup lots of people want to see china back to the walcott maybe we have a chance to get the whole slow walk up so yeah i mean it's a lot of if we come back. seven chinese companies are sponsoring this world cup and president xi has said it's his dream for the country to one day host the event china of qualified just once for the world cup that was in two thousand and so and they lost all three of their games the current saying is ranked down in seventy fifth in the world but the official aims of the chinese football association offer the same to be an asian power by twenty thirty and for them to have a world class side by twenty fifth pick one one one one one zero but the man who is in charge of china at the only will come appearance says careful planning is required for that to happen if you choose. to do for the future which is the more more important the world with the young people to the school room. to question for

the again. this is reported to to pollute to joy i hope one child never. he wanted this company. i john his fans have made their presence felt at this world cup much still has to change if the country's football is to one day follow suit ok. i'm the richardson al jazeera moscow. as always we'd like to hear your thoughts on any of these stories you can tweet me directly at f underscore is small son will be back with more at eight hundred g.m.t. but for now i'll hand you back to you all thanks farai you had to get in touch with us hash tag i don't use that i had one final comment from helen actually thank you for this at all the u.s. rights affirmative action story which said you know what if you have to put down your race on a former application for one thing and just put down human and cheat the system i'm not necessarily advocating that helen but i do like the idea i like where you think

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dictator on trial on al-jazeera. al-jazeera is a very important fourth of information for many people around the world when all the cameras have gone i'm still here go into areas that nobody else is going talk to people that nobody else is talking to and bringing that story to the forefront. warnings of a humanitarian catastrophe on syria's border with jordan and israel as talks to end the fighting in there rob break down. are you watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up on the program rescue teams started giving crash courses in swimming and diving to the twelve school boys

trapped in a cave with their coach malaysia's former prime minister pleads guilty to corruption charges connected to the disappearance of money and souls very finds itself at the center of another suspected poisoning after two people are found in a critical condition. thank you for joining us there are reports that russia has resumed their strikes in southern syria after talks broke down between rebels and russian officers and that's the spy jordan's foreign minister calling for a cease fire as soon as possible to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe hundreds of thousands of civilians have been forced from their homes by the russian syrian offensive said holder has more now from beirut in neighboring lebanon. these people move to the border areas to escape the fighting in province but they also fear the syrian government who considers them terrorists

for being involved in opposition activities among them army defectors activists and employee. ministrations at least for now returning to their towns and villages that have fallen under state rule is not an option. people are afraid there will be reprisals retaliation or even execution is this is why they are asking that any deal is guaranteed by a regional power like in jordan or another other country or international guarantees from the. the opposition has little cards to play they have lost ground and abandoned by their allies but they hope to improve their bargaining position by continuing to resist the government attempts to recapture the remaining rebel areas in. jordan has been mediating its foreign minister ivanov stuff and he went to moscow for talks with his russian counterpart sergei lavrov about how to implement

a settlement in south syria after rebel surrender their areas and to look at the situation in the south of syria with strong concern to believe that the fundamental goal is to resolve this crisis through a political process that would like to begin with a cease fire and then proceed to solving the question that would help to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe in this area but it's clear that it is absolutely unrealistic to iran to withdraw from syria and that it won't be possible to solve the problems of the region without the participation of key countries including iran saudi arabia jordan egypt and many others there is no trust between the opposition and the government. we have seen this happen in the past regime and to design area. first and they take revenge against the opposition particularly is the video this happened in east and there were arbitrary arrests many men arrested we heard of mass executions rebels say they are ready to lay down

their heavy weapons but president bashar assad's forces and their allies should not be allowed to enter they have all held towns the opposition is also demanding government forces withdraw from recently captured towns it also wants state institutions and rebel held areas to be managed by the local population which will create their own military force to secure the area these conditions are unlikely to be accepted by the syrian government which wants to regain sovereignty in the southern corner of the country there are also demands for jordanian or a wider arab military presence in the area that too is unlikely to be welcomed by damascus with so many players involved it's proving difficult to reach a deal to end the fighting. beirut. the fighting in ten years but both jordan and israel are refusing to open their borders to the many syrians stuck at the border bernard smith is that the job they're crossing on the jordan syria border the sound

of exploding tank shells and tank fire is being heard again coming from the syrian side of the border an indication that the talks have indeed broken down as it is an end to the cease fire the rebel group says because of an insistence by the russians the rebel groups hand over their heavy weapons however it was understood earlier on that one of the conditions the rebel groups lay down was that they were willing to give up their heavy weapons if the syrian regime forces left areas they'd recently taken control of and allowed a greater role for the russian military in policing areas that the rebel groups surrendered to regime control or russian military control however it seems that whatever was being discussed will however though follows talks progress they've now broken down the rebel groups say there are no plans for no date or no plans for any new talks although jordan we can be assured will be trying to get those talks restarted as soon as possible because as

a consequence of those talks breaking down will be yet more refugees heading to the jordan border heading to the border with jordan and evolving and deepening refugee crisis for the joe danial part isn't to try and deal with. iran is threatening to stop all oil exports from leaving the gulf the iranian president hassan rouhani said the measures could be taken if u.s. sanctions prevent iran from selling oil on global markets and the senior iranian revolutionary guards commander says they're ready to implement the policy if needed the u.s. pulled out of the iran nuclear deal in may and has since told countries they must stop all imports of iranian oil from november or face financial penalties. nazeem as the americans have claimed they want to completely stop iran's oil

exports they don't understand the meaning of this statement because it has no meaning for a rainy and oil law to be exported while the region's oil is exported assuming that iran could become the only oil producer on able to export its oil is a wrong assumption that the united states will never be able to quote iran's oil revenues well for more on the story we're joined in the city by one of the shar al-jazeera senior political analyst at marlin we just heard the us and rouhani there what exactly is a round threatening here. it's an implicit threat if the united states imposes an economic blockade on iran basically cutting off its oil revenue that means putting its survival its economic wellbeing. on. the test that iran will respond that iran has ways of making the united states and its allies pay a price because iran would consider this to be in in my opinion

a declaration of war you simply cannot cut off the lifeline of a country like iran that's almost totally dependent on oil and we have a precedence for this back in the mid one nine hundred eighty s. thirty years ago there was something called the tankers war when where eventually iran started attacking ships. in the persian gulf after some of its own shipping was was attacked during the iraq iran war and some of those ships started carrying american flags and in america got involved in that tankers war in the persian gulf and that certainly put the entire oil production the world oil production at a risk so today the iranians the on the one hand they can deter the united states by saying that on the other hand they can also inflate the oil prices because

that's after all what person trump is trying to do lower it ok when you say deterring the united states i mean it seems unlikely from everything we've heard from president trump about the iranian to leave before they've pulled out of it that they would be deterred by this i mean you likened it to a declaration of war where could this lead well this is the thing now so on friday we have the meeting of rouhani perhaps as foreign minister with the forum for five foreign ministers of france england germany russia. and china in the hope that they would come up with some kind of a deal that would revive the iran nuclear deal with iran making some compromises that president trump insists on my sense is the iranians will not agree because they've always insisted that they're not going to read negotiate they're on the nuclear deal so the second step will be russia july sixteenth that's where trump meets putin i think it's russia that will will have

a huge role to play it will do so on the question of iran and the persian gulf oil and so on so forth but it will also do in the question of syria that we've just covered in this bulletin because russia is the global power that has a certain leverage when it comes to iran because they are close and we've seen by the way russia being able to distance itself from iran as with oil prices with oil production when they sided with so eurabia in the united states in increasing the production when iran did not want to but they also sided with iran in support of bashar assad so i think come july succeed we would see a deal where the united states and russia could you know manage if you will the iranian crisis and i want to share a senior political analyst thank you. new video has been released showing a young at time football team in good health despite being trapped in a cave for what is now eleven days rescue teams are giving them crash courses in

swimming and diving while experts assess conditions for getting them out safely but it's got high live reports now from china just how and when that will happen is still unclear new video of the stranded thirteen shows a tie a navy seal emblem drawn on the cave ledge where the teenagers sought safety eleven days ago the words say move past thirteen lives referring to the name of their youth football club meaning wild boar. personnel from the navy seals are staying with the boys at all times are reported to be in good health after treatment for minor injuries rescuers are under intense pressure to get the twelve boys and their coach out quickly there has been a pause in the monsoon season rain but it's expected to start falling again in the next few days keeping water levels in the cave system down is critical for the rescue one option is to train them on the basics of scuba diving something one diving expert at the cave thinks will work if they use

a full face mask. and it won't take long it is basically just a cave fix a saw as you do it and them sitting on the sand you put the mosque on they get a feel for it they get an understanding. use a through water column so they understand that they have a communication that can talk to the diver who guides somalia and if they see any problem they can calm down the governor of chiang rai province says that the trapped thirteen might not all come out at the same time they were evaluate each one and bring them out only when they're ready the u.s. is one of at least six countries assisting the rescue will getting them out is the goal providing food and supplies is critical the assistance portion in the recent finding able to provide supplies the shoulder and you know it's a very very relevant to the operations that are being conducted and how we're able to support our thai partners.