to get the nine o'clock airplane and i caught it with the divers and i've been in thailand the following morning but despite immense efforts to pump water out of a thai cave and local teams teaching the boys to swim and scuba dive the experts say it's definitely not going to be easy or the only way out seems to be out and out the. cave entrance postell the announcer wally the floods. the problem then is how to do it. there's been talk of teaching me teaching the boys how to dive and years diving equipment and then letting them dive out that seems fraught with all sorts of perils because cave diving is a not like ordinary mortar dining these cavers use their passion to save lives they say they're driven by a sense of camaraderie right now they can't help thinking about the ongoing rescue efforts in thailand lady barbara al-jazeera darbyshire in northern england

a private humanitarian rescue ship has docked in barcelona in spain after being refused entry to italy in malta the estrella belongs to the open arms charity that rescued sixty people from a river boat off the coast of libya on saturday italy has accused private rescue boat operators of encouraging human traffickers to take refugees across the mediterranean from africa to europe. says enough and we managed to rescue sixty people on fortunately since we left the area and i think if i haven't lost count almost five hundred people have died in the last four days this demonstrates that what's happening is only viable the closing of the ports in italy and malta if they get ships like those out of the way as evidently italy and other european countries want what happens is that people will die the german chancellor angela merkel said to meet hungary's prime minister she tries to sell her migration plan to e.u. member states signaled his willingness to strike a deal with merkel that would limit the number of asylum seekers arriving into

europe on monday merkel reached a compromise deal with her conservative coalition partners to set up migrant transit centers on germany's border with austria germany's interior minister is heading to vienna to try and get the support of the austrian chancellor dominic kane has more from berlin. after speaking in parliament on wednesday anglo-american went on german television and in an interview she gave more detail about the sort of shape the plans for migration detention centers might take the crux of this is establishing where in the the person concerned and the migrant the person being detained first claimed asylum deal forages here in germany would have forty eight hours to hold that person and if they can't establish which country to send that person back to in that period of time the detainee will then be sent to a place where they can they're not going to be held against their will separately to that we received information that suggests that mr minister is a hole for from the christian social union he's talking about three centers that are already federal police headquarters or bases where these detainees might

temporarily be held remember all of this will be contingent on getting support from the social democrats who are the main partners to angela merkel's christian democrats in the grand coalition so the meeting on thursday where all this will be thrashed out will be pivotal in establishing whether this compromise solution between the two conservative parties in the coalition will actually then go on to be a settled policy of the grand coalition. all right time for short break here now to zero when we come back zimbabwe's army help to pose robert mugabe now it's making a major promise ahead of the country's elections plus i'm planning is a service which will provide the best medical advice and treatment to everyone every man woman and child in this country a milestone for britain's public health service which urgently needs a check up more on that stay with us.

to phone. me in the weather sponsored by. hello and welcome to international forecast the heat wave continues to dominate the weather across much of europe but you can see across france and through towards the through this area of cloud indicative of an area of storm potential and i think they'll be some very severe storms again of the next twenty four hours meanwhile further towards the west across the u.k. the heat wave continues it's going to be the driest spell of weather since one thousand nine hundred seventy six by the looks of things and so the forecast adjusts no great changes temperatures in the mid to upper twenty's across the country during thursday there's still might be one big mass like that it's going to be showers so more ice later but never less some very severe storms across more a snare is looking more unsettled there twenty one degrees in moscow has come towards the southeast temperatures still into the thirty's for the most part so

having north africa the weather here is the dry and fine not much to be said temperatures there are thirty nine for car over the dust across parts of mauritania western sahara southern parts of algeria to dust is going to be an issue into central parts of africa as predicted we've seen some pretty severe storms here across parts of west africa we're expecting more in the forecast. downpour same for lagos nigeria with a high here of twenty eight degrees celsius. the weather sponsored by qatar airways . every weekly news cycle brings a series of breaking story out of the was in the truck then out on the board told through the eyes of the world journalists the images matter a lot of international politics joining the listening post as we turn the cameras on the media and focus on how they report on the stories that matter the most the big third someone from the country who guides you will lead you to the story of the byline tells us who wrote the listening post on al-jazeera.

welcome back time for a quick check of the headlines here the syrian government and its ally russia are intensifying their bombing campaign in southern province that's according to opposition reports they say the number of air strikes has increased after talks with rebels ended without an agreement. counterterrorism police say two people critically ill in southern england have been exposed to the nerve agent is the same substance used to poison the russian agent. and his daughter union souls great in march. a monsoon rains are expected in thailand on sunday which could hamper the rescue of the football team trapped in a flooded cave for twelve days the twelve boys and their coach are being taught the

basics of scuba diving and millions of liters of water i think pumped out. poland is facing growing international criticism over a controversial new law forcing supreme court judges to retire early prime minister . has defended the changes saying they're within poland's rights is the latest in a number of changes in the judiciary implemented by the ruling party since it took power in twenty fifteen but as david schaper reports the latest move has infuriated the e.u. . a drumbeat of defiance was sounding as thousands of protesters converged on the supreme court it was a boisterous reception for the former chief justice. who returned her death on the first day of her own thirst for a tile. almost lost in the crowd she declared she was determined to defend the legal order of the country not to play politics but to bear witness to the truth.

but far removed from the sounds of the protest the ministry of justice was turning a deaf ear to her claims favre can enter the building of a can be there of a can they can be there as guests but they cannot work as judges because they are retired. that uncompromising line was repeated by poland's prime minister when he addressed members of the european parliament in strasburg eucharistic right each ear state has the right to shape their legal system according to their own traditions but with the european commission bringing legal proceedings which could land poland in the dock of the european court of justice the e.c. j many experts are predicting a compromise so i am expecting the polish government to show the respect to their opinion as well and to at least to freeze the law not to appoint new judges to allow them. to decide on this issue at the moment the highest court in the land

appears to be in a state of the eagle limbo with neither side showing any signs of backing down. joining the chorus of protest outside the supremum court on wednesday evening the former president lech when sir was leader of the solidarity de b. union brought an end to calmness rule in poland. trust me and then joy is real if we surrender the courts so we go further we must prove all our efforts into defending them. here's the crowd to unite behind a new and younger leadership to fight for the future of democracy in poland david chaytor al jazeera. zimbabwe's military commanders are hoping to convince voters there remain neutral elections planned for the end of the month the army was instrumental in unseating robert mugabe eight months ago well since then offices of taking up key posts in the electoral commission has more from harare. joining

robert mugabe's rule army commander supported his rulings on it and the military vowed not to allow the opposition to take over the army which forced to resign last november say this year things are going to be different this in public defense forces is not de red in the upcoming election. role in the elections is mainly to support the zimbabwe public release in their role of maintenance of roi in order in the country before during and after the elections previous elections jima got israel were often marred by violence voter intimidation and fraud opposition leaders often said security forces were involved allegations denied by the commanders without nelson chamisa who leads the opposition m.d.c. alliance is concerned about for tricking and intimidation we are ready to prove as people alledge where we have problems with certain people who are problem us quote

i ding is the army it could be that is not the army but they must be able to then move those people out so that they are not in the rural areas just yesterday in there they are people we must go to the soldiers. human rights workers say they are also concerned about the army's policy at least fifteen percent of the electoral commission the secretariat. or former belittles he shows. the military issued make the commission more independent professional by removing say the move that will see shows from the board some political analysts say the july polls will be a battle between the. one nine hundred seventy s. independence war and the younger generation these are the first elections will be on the ballot since one thousand eight hundred more than five million people have registered to vote and no single presidential candidate with an outright majority there will be a runoff in september the army says it will respect the constitution even if the

opposition wins the man replacing president. promises these elections will be free fair and credible. several people have been injured after israel began to destroy a bedouin village in the occupied west bank the military exclusion zone has been established around the village on protesters put themselves in the path of the bulldozers are a force that reports. on the dusty rocky ground below the bedouin village of qana heavy machinery prepares the way from friday this will be a military exclusion zone a clear signal of the villages impending demolition near the threatened homes israeli security forces moved in another bulldozer had been stopped in its tracks by protesters stand off and then they started dragging people away. i was ready to take forces of the libyan now they're pushing the way as they try to remove the activists the most obvious. this is what the activists are trying to do

that trying to stop this activity this seemingly imminent demolition here and they're being moved out of the way by israeli security for. the treatment was marginally better for members of the media judged to have got to close. the apparent aim to allow for easier access to the area for large vehicles potentially required for the demolition of the villages. on the solid structure it school. has lived here since his birth he says the pressure on the community has mounted drastically in recent days. we haven't been sleeping not just last night we haven't slept for two weeks since the decision came out every day they show up on the top of the hill over there they come here they scare the children in the school. going to. the village lies in the way of a long planned expansion of the illegal israeli settlements in circle in jerusalem in the occupied west bank in may the israeli supreme court ruled that qana school

and homes had been built illegally in military controlled area c. and therefore could be demolished with its residents transferred to a palestinian town on jerusalem's east infringements but he has this for the international community is. how we come in fear one day that israel can be held accountable or if not it means you're pushing this region. and the other horror of violence and violence and things back in can the israeli operation ground on and the scuffles continued to break out the palestinian red crescent society treated dozens of people injuries in the background the bulldozers moved with a sense of inevitability laying the groundwork for what now seems the imminent destruction of this community are a force that al-jazeera. in the occupied west bank the chairman of korean air whose family has been at the center of a series of scandals and court insults rulings expected on an arrest warrant for

sixty nine year old cho young who he suspected of tax evasion and embezzlement a court last month rejected a request to arrest cho's wife on charges including assaulting workers. well on thursday the u.k.'s national health service will celebrate its seventieth anniversary gallon tease for you access to treatment regardless of a person's income or status and became a model much admired around the world and looks at its evolution from the postwar period to today. the national health service was nothing short of a revolution it provided universal health care for britain's post-war population and funded it through a system of tax and national insurance by nine hundred forty five all three main political parties was supporting the concept art is a service which will provide the best medical advice and treatment to everyone every man woman and child in this country but when the left wing labor party swept to power in the one nine hundred forty five election it fell to the young health

minister bevan to take on the task of making the n.h.s. a reality in the face of bitter opposition from the medical establishment and despite britain's postwar financial hardships bevan's n.h.s. was established in one nine hundred forty eight. in one thousand forty eight it was post-war with all the rationing the challenges facing the n.h.s. were very different infectious disease was really the biggest killer in those days because we had tuberculosis we had all sorts of other infectious diseases so you won't be surprised if you see many warts which were built back in those days they would have been designed in a very different way secondly cardiovascular disease and cancer. the prevalence of that was obviously the big challenges facing the n.h.s. then thirdly the n.h.s. changed british society to myra hurley and eileen were among the thousands of women

whose n.h.s. careers in the one nine hundred fifty s. and sixty's gave them not just employment but advancement and they were on the front line the n.h.s. continuously improved patients chances of surviving and recovering when i was doing my general training if one had their appendix out to be in for ten days. now. the next night or the next day when i work in any. definitely emergencies he didn't get the down in the hospital now. more and more and that's made a difference today the n.h.s. is the fifth biggest employer in the world now offers more than two thousand three hundred different surgical treatments and treats a million patients every thirty six trish bonds has previously had an n.h.s. heart bypass and is today recovering from a hip joint surgery really is on just full of praise for more than everything for

us and the country needs to continue to n.h.s. but in an era of tight budgets the n.h.s. is struggling to cope with the costs of an increasingly elderly population and increasingly expensive treatment options the medical need is clear but if the n.h.s. celebrates its seventieth year its future is less clear paul brennan al-jazeera london and you can catch up on all the news on our website there it is on your screen. the address al-jazeera dot com that's al-jazeera dot com. for a time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera the syrian government and its ally russia are intensifying their bombing campaign in southern province that's according to opposition reports they say the number of airstrikes increased after

talks with the rebels ended without an agreement. at least two hundred seventy thousand people have fled their homes and so offensive began more than two weeks ago counterterrorism police say two people critically ill in southern england have been exposed to the nerve agent novacek. it's the same substance used to poison the russian double agents script l. and his daughter yulia in salzburg in march the latest incident happened in the neighboring village of amesbury. on monday the second of july due to concerns over the symptoms but if the man and the woman were displaying samples from both patients we said to paul three for analysis. following the details analysis of those samples we can confirm that the man and woman have been exposed to the nerve agent. which has been identified as the same nerve agent that contaminated and so the case. monsoon rains are expected in thailand on sunday which could hamper the

rescue of a group of teenagers in the football coach who'd been trapped in a flooded cave for twelve days but old boys in their coach are being taught the basics of both swimming and scuba diving and millions of liters of water being pumped out. the german chancellor angela merkel is set to meet hunger as prime minister and she tries to sell her moderation plan to e.u. member states to oban signalled his willingness to strike a deal with merkel that would limit the number of asylum seekers arriving into europe well on monday merkel reached a compromise agreement with her conservative coalition partners to set up migrant transit centers on germany's border with austria. on the chairman of korea whose family has been at the center of a series of scandals in court in seoul a ruling is expected on an arrest warrant for sixty nine year old cho young whom he suspected of tax evasion and a court last month rejected a request to arrest cho's wife on charges including assaulting workers.

well those were the headlines the news continues here on al jazeera after the street. culture we know the problems that affect this part of the world very very well and that is something that we're trying to take to the rest of the world we have gone places and reported on a story that you might take an international network for months to be able to do it united nations peacekeepers out there anti-riot. challenging the forces were challenging companies who are going to places where nobody is going. ok on your way in the stream today comedian. and i'm ali could be glad we're taking your questions live far away on twitter and you tube for

those of you who don't know harvey his new netflix special warrior relatives was released globally this week and he reflects on everything from indians love affair with mangoes to the trump presidency here's a quote. i don't think white people are used to being called white people. you know the rest of us have to be explained. why people get to be fancy people and human. so when they're called white people there are some white people who just aren't used to. see that the shows you'll see like white people with their arms folded like. you talk about the white people you must be talking about me if you think i'm talking about you. gave me a new one i love most about the joke now is that when i look into the audience you always see this. just to the non-racist stretching. how hard it kind of joins us

here on sat welcome to the stream to this story and. good to have you so as we saw there social justice racial justice plays a key theme in your netflix special and that's one of the things that apparently really resonates with our online community who are also i want to pull up a tweet here this is actually shaq he says the racism bit peppered throughout the show was very well done not preachy but making the right points about racism and being racist now there's one particular joke that someone picked up on he actually sent us a video comment because it resonated with him so much this is drew i know he's a student at harvard university and this is what he said about watching you're not special have a listen. harry i really enjoyed your relatives one of my favorite parts was when you used. a comment to give a social commentary about police brutality and justice and i realize that

a lot of of your job is to kind of make social commentary like for instance. organ donation one. and i was wondering how you can approach that and how you write your jokes to have a meaningful impact so this could be you giving away any secrets how do you approach yours in a library he's talking various. jokes about loving firefighters i think most of hating but i think the key thing is. just like any other person you have interesting conversations throughout the day you have tons of thoughts like you're a human being you think about things the difference between i think an artist and everyone else's everyone else moves on with their lives you go on you have lunch things happen then that with artists you get obsessed with that thought you get obsessed with that idea you have to write it down you have to think about it over and over and over again and you think about you know reconstructing it and recontextualize and whatever that idea was to strangers most people don't think

about now i had a lovely conversation with you i can't wait to say the things i said to someone else and that's what we do it's a very bizarre things i think part of it is as simple as keeping track of the things you think about and being really vigilant about that so i think that's that's one part and the other part is knowing who you are you know that that i set out to make comedy that involved social justice issues i'm not going to be i want to be a social justice comic and i want to be an activist and i want to use comedy it's not bad at all this is who i am i actually care about these things and i think when you can share what you care about with a broad audience and be able to make them understand it and hopefully laugh at it that's what i think when you're successful you have to be you on stage so the. this is me this isn't a special political lens i put on this is actually me sharing my believes in my ideas and. using humor to cope with things i'm frustrated about and as a student do you actually had to study for a b.a.

in comparative politics you have a m.a. human rights from the london school of economics a lot of money was wasted before i got here so you have a very impressive degree is how did you get from that ad with a monster is to do stand out now did my mom send that question that. highly qualified you are very slight but that's one of the criticisms of your comedy is you're too small which is i don't think i'm too smart in america. really affairs if we think that but i mean. you know i've always done comedy comedy when i was sixteen seventeen eighteen years old and i plan to do it for the rest of my life that that doesn't mean i was going to do it professionally i don't think if your passion about something you have to make money doing it necessarily nor do i think it was possible back then there were no south asians on american television there was no south asians of comedy careers why would they even think that so i did

it i enjoyed doing it i was an immigrant rights organizer out of college in seattle i worked with people in detention who were in the middle of deportation proceedings people whose family members were you know were dealing with that i mean it was intense hate crimes victims and i did comedy at night and i did it because i love doing it i did it just because it was a wonderful thing to do and it was a great scene in seattle of the time and it took off you know i stumbled into a career in comedy and when i had these opportunities when i got on television when i became when i got a manager and i got attention you know it took me a long time to decide to actually pursue it because it felt like it could just go away it wasn't available to us but it felt like the door was open and if i was in a make an attempt to do it than i. i would regret it later and i'm glad you know i'm glad i stepped through that door so you mentioned your mom earlier joking about her. joke this is stacy who picks up on that theme that the theme of family that often makes its way into your comedy stacey says i like his jokes about his parents

cultural expectations and his mom's text message his airport security jokes and his material about race and white people he pointed out true societal elements with a sharp wit but he wasn't and of course for all of our audience members who art quite sure about these jokes that steady men stacey mentions you can you can check out when that it's available one hundred eighty countries but she talks about your mom is is that an intentional thing or is it just that you find her funny so she comes up in your comedy but others funny but it's just me i think objectively people who meet her i think her charm charm by her she's very quick. i think so much of not only like being witty comes from her but also taking frustrating hard situations and being able to turn that into something positive how do you recycle pain and turn into something that can bring joy to yourself and other people and i think my mom said to do that and some ways to survive that's what a lot of us have to do to survive when you're dealing with different kinds of pain

you want to talk a little clip of you talking about your mom yes absolutely let's have a look you know when you're like an adult child and you like try to push your limits with your parents. you know you're basically acting like a jerk and you know you can get away with really going to you know i mean so i started doing that with my mom i'm at home i'm like hey i'm hungry immigrant feed me immigrant my mom walks over to me looks beat dead in the eye and she says don't have children only stupid people have children i do you actually write down word for word. now when i do it or when i tweet something she says she's like stop writing down everything that i'm saying your material but she sees. you know because she's she's really funny she's really thoughtful and i think people have all these preconceived notions about immigrants as we all do immigrant women if your accent in particular like you have whatever depictions you have and

like my mom is a complex person who's lived in america longer than she's lived in india at this point she's a u.s. citizen she's struggled she's raised kids here her experiences aren't just pain she's also funny they are just struggle it's how you deal with that struggle and so you know she's grown in thirty five plus years and it's really funny to see her kind of look back at all of it. another family member who pops up in your comedy your brother on your facebook page i found a couple of pictures of you and your private i just want to. and i won't disagree easier that's essentially. going forward mean like. what's your relationship like how are you with little kids and how are you now because you work your butt here and so what is regarded right now you know we have the kind of all of this podcast i feel like the dynamics of the podcast are still very similar to pictures of this. i mean it's still very much older brother younger brother you know the older brother and he's younger brother and he's definitely

a lot more i think curious he needs to learn things from self cautious and i'm constantly much more anxious and worried and that hasn't changed the same way we were in that regard when we were six on a bigger level with the same way i mean what's nice is that you know we grew up together we were inseparable but as adults we've gone in different directions we've done different things i love about the pod cast as you see two brothers who have similar roots and certain core values but you see how they're different and you see how they can argue and discuss and talk about things big and small and it's so relatable just because we're family more than anything else it's about the podcast about the connection of two family members and the different journeys they've been on the fact they're back in the same place let's have a look at the proper is just. suntans. you know this is hard because i think it's hard for either of us to relate to that . it just feels overrated and maybe that's just because we've never had to

try for it. so what's the big deal if anything i find it incredibly insulting right like it so hard to be a person of color is one of the darker you get you're telling me you just do it for fun. and when you do it it's value yes i'm doing it right now during. the it's like a your skill it's great no once in there if it's a way for the jews the beach yeah you globe. you know offering it you know material . reaction i mean i think most of the show honestly it's him like i thing my job is to create some foundation for the show and his job is to go as far away from what i planned as possible and just be free and my job is to make it feel like a show and make the audience think that we're actually in control when we have no idea what's about that but but you know he's think has such an incredible mind and it's really nice to have this part cast out of people discover

a brilliant i know my brother is for a long time ago you were working on a show court totally biased and you did a little sketch which was about a simpson car to court heard of fast forward to a documentary that came out in november when you were telling a story about a coup in your childhood i'm just going to say a little picture a little clip of the ideal behind it because the documentary is available us not international so everybody. with a problem with have a look. and because of that i just like the whole serious i love the simpsons because you hate yourself. my name is harry had a great career full of laughter critical acclaim i should be completely happy but there's still one man who haunts me who the people peddle. get don't come again how many of you had to deal with being called up for the.