that of people being the peace for unification is the only option for prosperity of south korea hear their story on talk to al-jazeera. by stepping up the offensive syrian and russian forces launching more airstrikes over terra endangering three quarters of a million civilians. in the shock area this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up stepping down the head of the u.s. environment agency resigns after a series of ethics controversies plus. the owners are united at last but many microfilter in separated from their parents in the u.s.

may have to wait a long time for seeing them again. we have to suffer the ones we have to comply. with to see to generations to come and the battle for votes in zimbabwe candidates have their eye on one key group of voters ahead of elections. syrian russian forces are pressing on with their offensive to capture the south west of the country launching hundreds of airstrikes on rebel held areas the united nations says the fighting is putting the lives of three quarters of a million civilians at risk about three hundred twenty thousand people have been displaced since syria and russia began their offensive and the dare and can tear provinces more than two weeks ago sixty thousand displaced people are camped at a jordanian border crossing and thousands more are along the border with the israeli occupied golan heights jordan says it's managed to get syrian rebel

negotiators back to the table with russia talks collapsed on wednesday prompting the escalation in fighting as in a hotel reports from beirut. rebels indeed have province say they are ready to fight to the death but at the same time they say they are ready to return to the negotiating table several rounds of talks to end the fighting and restore government rule in the southern province peacefully failed jordanian mediation has yet again succeeded in bringing the warring sides together earlier the opposition said the terms demanded by the russian military negotiating on behalf of the syrian government are unacceptable and humiliating to the. people we didn't even begin the negotiations and the russians were not even ready to listen to our demands the russian side insisted on their own terms and left the meeting during that meeting we insisted on guarantees before we give up our weapons because how can we give up our weapons without an international guarantees. the relative lull in the fighting has been shattered the military offensive resumed in full force. civilians yet

again the victims activists say there were hundreds of airstrikes in the few hours following the breakdown of talks missiles and barrel bombs battered what's left of opposition controlled territory. the rebel held areas have shrunk since the almost three week long russian backed syrian government offensive began government troops continued to take ground moving closer to the jordanian border with the capture of the town of site it came at a cost dozens of soldiers were reportedly killed the opposition says it will continue to defend the remaining south of the edges in the province under its control. the revolutionaries managed to prevent assad's forces from advancing into toughest on salmon for the fifth consecutive day this will be the graveyard for the regime and the russians. that the revolution started here and is and will be here. there is defiance but there is also

a reality the opposition is surrounded. by its allies people are afraid of what happens. people are afraid of returning to their homes if the regime is president they're afraid of being forced to join the army in a risk to join the opposition rusher in the regime accuse them of terrorism there's a lot of fear the offensive has created a humanitarian crisis hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced the number is growing with the escalation in the fighting the opposition says it is afraid to hand over their heavy weapons without security guarantees from a third party they fear reprisals from syrian government troops if they enter their towns and villages those who don't want to live under president bashar assad's rule are demanding safe passage to rebel held areas in the north and opposition to go she does want the us and involved in talks about the fate of southern syria all those requests were rejected. the intensity of the bombardment has been described

as the heaviest since the offensive began just like previous military campaigns in the pro-government camp is hoping to bomb the opposition into submission. beirut s president on a pass except that the resignation of the head of the environmental protection agency scott pruitt had been under scrutiny for his spending habits and was accused of misusing his office anger conservation as by rolling back laws to protect the environment and fight against global warming john hendren has. scott pruitt was the environmental regulator industry always want it it's the e.p.a.'s objective my objective is the minister of the e.p.a. to come in and make sure that people's health is protected the former oklahoma attorney general went from being one of the agency's most aggressive opponents suing it fourteen times to running it to file two lawsuits challenging the e.p.a. mercury in air toxics standards you filed a lawsuit challenging the e.p.a.'s two hundred two thousand and fifteen national ambient air quality standards for ozone never since president richard nixon created

the agency in one nine hundred seventy has corporate america had a stronger or more controversial ally in it scott proteins done an amazing job that it was a very short period of time and most people left couple go right back. through it has declared war on regulation dismantling dozens of obama era protections on clean air chemicals in cars i think the focus in the past has been on making manufacturers in detroit making manufacturers in various parts of the country make cars that people are going to buy these gold global warming hopes infuriating progressives in congress if that's the kind of. e.p.a. administrator you will be. you're not going to get my vote he's drawn the fire of environmentalists scott pruitt saying taxpayers and president trump and danger. as to your family's health his alleged ethical lapses pricey first class flights

hiring a small army of security agents and running a cut rate condo from the wife of a lobbyist have drawn the barbs of late night comics got through it being the head of the e.p.a. is the same as new york's food inspector being a rat with a clipboard he's there to take a good piece a landing get the most money out of it is about time the environment got a pen and we got one now he used aides to try to get his wife a job in a chick fil a franchise he was recently confronted by this mother holding her son in a video that went viral i would urge him to resign but he had the support of the deregulator in chief then he got what white house watchers call the kiss of death a statement of lukewarm support from the president scott prudes are you support i hope he's going to prove it leaves a legacy of unraveled regulations an unprecedented support among the regulated john hendren zero washington. an executive director at american oversight

a government watchdog looking into allegations of corruption he says prove its conduct became too much of a distraction. over the past year or so i think americans could have asked and so whether corruption even matters anymore and i think today is a reminder that it does as long as people learn about it and tell the there or elected officials and the president that corrupt officials should not be representing them should not be making policies for them those officials have to go so i think this is a warning shot and are real or will step in as the acting administrator has to treat his agency like a superfund pollution site and clean it up i'm hoping that he can do that from a policy perspective people should keep in mind that the guy stepping in to fill scott proof shoes is a former co-op yes so santa claus might be out but mrs claus stepping in and i imagine the children of industry are still going to get their presents yes immigration officials are using d.n.a. testing to re night more than three thousand children split from their parents at the border with mexico was cut about

a mile and mother is back with her eight year old daughter in boston after nearly two months apart the top administration that separated migrant children from their parents and put them into shelters last month a u.s. judge ordered the government to stop that practice and reunite families by july tenth. and that they will follow them i do not have woods who express the happiness that my heart feels because the whole of my life is here today with me the most peaceful thing that i've received in my life many families will have a long wait before they're reunited al-jazeera spoke to a brazilian asylum seeker his nine year old son was taken away from her at the mexico border every elizondo has a story. she is so scared she would only speak to us by telephone if she came to us with her nine year old son seeking asylum cleaning her native brazil and not busuk husband who threatened to kill her when she crossed the border into america

her nightmare began border guards pride her son away from her grasp listen closely to what she says oh you know grab a non-story carter in crime they're not holding on to my thumb drive from work or they got to me in the rebel crying in the last second what happened in one cell was full of mothers the other packed with children both cells with a thick glass wall faced each other the majority don't think you're going to scream at them and climbing on the grass to criticize mine to get to the front where you see their parents across the battle in iraq that you wouldn't now would there were going for women to thirty women but they're what i need to regard being there when the. ninety nine zero zero yes. after two days her nightmare became even worse fear went into the flow and then all of a sudden i'm in there walking with my son thanking him wait that was five weeks ago

it was the last time she saw her son. after more than three weeks in detention she was finally released but her son was not she is now living with relatives in the u.s. and lawyers working on her behalf have filed a lawsuit against the federal government to force immigration officials to reunite her with her son so far that hasn't happened the same immigration officials say that asylum seekers that are detained are treated well but that wasn't her experience in new year's order for cricket really bared bickered there was no right to praise and not rape that we paid for parents made it worth. remembering our group there were no working people or anything like that there were. never over the mouth so we were expecting our thing she's been able to phone her

son only a couple times the last time she was allowed three minutes on. one night he was crying. when he went to home and he couldn't come here gabriel's. new york still had on al jazeera it is now time that the russian state comes forward and explains exactly what has gone on. record points to point the finger at russia get into man's answers on the poisoning of an english couple and rescuers and a rush to get a trap football team out of a cave in thailand before monsoon rains arrive. i just sold. the weather sponsored by qatar airways.

hello again across central and southern parts of china and taiwan we've got plenty of heavy showers here this time of the year we tend to see bands of rain all the way from chain do through hand toward shanghai further towards a say with that be some dry weather but showers it was likely very humid weather across much of indochina annoyed there just shy of the forty degree mark across los a scattering of showers but again a lot of share activity coming off the bay of bengal so for parts of me and mar it looks as though it's going to remain pretty wet in the course of saturday then southeastern parts of asia we've got fine weather for java bali and indeed through much of borneo as well the heavy showers for the north across the philippines and heavy downpours here and indeed across southern parts of indochina so much of cambodia central and southern parts of vietnam looking pretty wet but then southwards through. through sumatra and into java by the weather conditions are looking pretty good at the moment it should be a good deal of sunshine here kuala lumpur coming in at thirty one degrees then

across into south asia it's looking very lively down through the western ghats heavy showers across nepal the eastern states civilian bangladesh but also an area of low pressure giving intense rainfall across central areas and i think of the next forty eight hours we could see a lot of rainfall falling in night poor. so one of the sponsors. we have here is if data we know the products that are buying everything that you're doing that's really where the power of the all powerful internet is both a tool for democracy and the threat do you believe that any of your companies have a down a five to full scope of russian active measures on your platform in the echo chamber world of fake news in cyberspace the rules of the game left changed there are no precedents people in power investigates this information and democracy not just the .

you're watching al jazeera let's recap the top stories for you syrian forces backed by russia are pressing on with their offensive to capture the country's southwest they have bombarded rebel held areas around with hundreds of their strikes the u.n. says the lives of three quarters of a million people are at risk. and as president i will trump has accepted the resignation of his environment chief after a series of scandals ethics of scott pruitt have been under scrutiny for months over his spending habits and accusations of misuse of office he'll be replaced by his deputy andrew we are. guatemalan mother is back with her eight year old daughter in boston after they were separated at the us mexico border two months ago recreation officials are using d.n.a. test to reunite more than three thousand children by july tenth following

a court order. britain's home secretary is demanding answers from russia after a man and woman were exposed to the nerve agent no but shock in england police believe that donna sturgis and charlie rally collapsed after they handled a contaminated item in the small town of amesbury that is staring the town of saulsbury a russian double agent and his daughter were attacked with nova check samples are being analyzed at the u.k. military's porton down chemical research laboratory which is half way between ferrie and solsbury peter sharp reports the couple remain in a critical condition at seoul's breeze district hospital but police and counterterrorism office is investigating the second poisoning say it's unlikely they were deliberately targeted but were caught up in the fallout from the previous attack the couple. charley rally both in their forty's collapse in a house a mystery twelve kilometers from seoul's break. officials at porton down who had it

done to fight the nerve agent as novacek say it's designed to be highly persistent five sites are now cordoned off as they trace the couple's movements before they succumb to the poison a park pharmacy house and church are still being searched for any trace of the nerve agent police urging people who also visited these areas to wash their clothes and take precautions britain's counter terror chief warned that there still remains a low level risk to the general public but through it all the people of soulsby remain surprisingly upbeat i don't think it's fair in to anybody that we still buzzing as you can see is a shame that it's happened who is it what is it does anybody really know it's just unfortunate soulsby just picking itself up again and now it looks as though we're back to square one the british government has always held russia responsible for the attack on the script and the interior secretary has asked them to come forward

and explain what exactly happened the eyes of the world are currently in russia not least because of the world cup it is now time that the russian state comes forward and explains exactly what has gone on there is speculation here that those responsible for the march attack may have dumped chemicals on their way through a mystery to be they quickest route to the most a way to shop al-jazeera in salzburg. russia has dismissed all allegations of involvement as being merely speculative rough seas have delayed the search for at least forty nine people missing after a tourist boat overturned on thailand southern coast the governor governor of polk had says forty eight people were rescued before weather conditions force the search to be suspended the boat was carrying chinese tourists as well as the thai cruel. rescue crews and northern thailand say they are in a race against time to get their football team out of

a flooded cave monsoon rains are just days away and pipes and pumps have been brought in to train millions of liters of water the told voice in their coach are now being taught the basics of scuba diving scott heiler has the latest from chiang rai an uncommon yet welcome sight for this time of year no non the mountain reveals itself during the rainy season the top peaks of the rains containing the cave network is usually completely hidden by clouds underground rescuers work quickly during the break in rain installing more pipes and pumps as they try to lower the water level in the flooded caves divers also continue to supply the twelve boys in the football coach with food and water ferrying supplies nearly five kilometers into the cave where they have sought refuge for twelve days it takes the divers six hours to reach them the group is being trained by expert divers from the top navy seals on the basics of diving with scuba equipment they'll stay with the

boys and till they are out what though. now not brand and we stop what the inside and ran good at that little real well. but. we bring it all day all now all top but there's a weather deadline the monsoon rains are expected to return on sunday which is the biggest issue right now is it getting that water level down or training the boys. to get it. to get the. one hundred thirty million liters of water have already been pumped out of the massive cave system no the water level will not be down to a level where the boys can walk all the way out any time soon getting it is lowest possible helps reduce risk when they do finally leave. as well as much activity underground rescuers are searching above the cave looking for a possible altered it escape route. real calculating the position of the children

and the corresponding position on the surface we also mobilizing our teams to survey the jungle and about twenty to thirty teams of convergence to survey for may be of use to our plant. the governor says if the risk assessment of bringing them out is a ninety percent success they will go forward as with the weather forecast it looks like that number will only get smaller got harder al-jazeera. at least twenty four people including emergency workers have been killed in a series of fireworks explosions in mexico city agencies red cross says firefighters police and paramedics are among the dead drop in the town of told to pack which is known as mexico's fireworks capital at least thirty one others were injured while four warehouses were destroyed and israel's president nicolas maduro has put his armed forces on guard after reports of a potential invasion by the u.s. last august u.s. president donald trump asked his foreign policy advisers why he couldn't send forces into the in a swale at his brand of interest government

a corrupt left wing dictatorship during an independence day ceremony on wednesday mentor urged his troops to remain vigilant. but having a criminal and premises decision. according to a city official donald trump insisted very stong student private meeting with the president of colombia we know the allied right wing presidents the one by one the cumbersome so they would accept. military intervening in venezuela we rejected these we repudiate he said the time and to our national admirals generals you cannot let your guard down not for one second turkey's government says a two year nationwide state of emergency will be lifted on monday but a new to korea will allow some of those measures to continue president ratchet typer to want to impose a state of emergency after a failed military coup in two thousand and sixteen he wanted new five year term

just last month complete with a new executive presidential powers germany merkel has reached a deal with her coalition partners the social democrats on a plan to turn back some migrants at the border palls a deal with her other allies the christian social union on monday the government stressed it will not allow the creation of transit centers for migrants morkel met hungary's prime minister viktor orban to discuss controlling migration in the u. or vaughan his government has cracked down on immigration saying he's willing to strike a deal to limit the number of asylum seekers arrivals and merkel says there britons negotiations to leave the e.u. have entered a crucial phase shows to the u.k. prime minister to resign may for talks and berlin on friday may's ruling party will meet to discuss conflicts on how to approach the goshi ations the government's been criticized for a lack of clear direction. guarded side trying time is pressing and we already have to have sorted out the political framework by october it is now very important what

the british government decides in the next few days tomorrow i will be bringing my cabinet together to discuss and decide a substantial way forward which will enable the pace and intensity of the negotiations to increase political candidates in zimbabwe are trying to attract younger voters who make up the majority of the electorate or metacity has more from the capital harare on this month's election the first since better and president robert mugabe was deposed months ago. is one of several young zimbabweans running for office in the general election at the end of july she wants to win a seat in parliament the thirty six year old says the youth should stop complaining about how bad things are and do something to save the country the biggest mistake that the older generation has done is those. it's always been about self aggrandizement and what they'll get out of it but we are the suffering ones we have

to create a brighter future for the future generations to come the parliamentary and presidential elections will be the first since robert mugabe resigned last year appealing to young voters is crucial for perspective in peace sixty percent of the more than five million registered voters under fifty jobs are scarce many try to in a living selling second hand goods on the street there are no reliable opinion polls so the outcome of the general election is hard to predict the rulings on it here party has won every election since ninety eight among the frustrations with voters is a poor state of economy president took over after the army for some bobbies former president out the government recently opened what's described as an empowerment bank which the president hopes will help young people get loans so they start their own businesses is the. predictable rule to.

bring. we're really ready. to come. the elections are seen as a battle between the younger generation and the old guard such as when and who's seventy five years old his main rival opposition leader nelson chamisa is forty he's telling voters corruption and the crippling shortage of backyards will end if he becomes president but the youth vote isn't one group young world is divided into two. strong opposition as votes in the rural. parts linda is looking forward to the elections and wants more young people to actively participate in politics. she believes young new blood is what it's.

there with special events across the u.k. to celebrate seventy years have been national health service and h.s. was established as a universal health care system guaranteeing free access to treatment regardless of income or status but there are serious questions about its future as paul brennan reports. the n.h.s. is the world's fifth biggest employer with around one point five million staff offering more than two thousand three hundred different surgical procedures and treating a million patients every thirty six hours health care should be like this it should be free at the point of access i don't think patients should have to worry about how when they're poorly how they're going to fund things. and the scope and complexity of the treatments that it now offers the n.h.s. is almost unrecognisable from the service first founded seventy years ago but one thing remains the same the driving principle behind it all in the words of nih bevan the then health minister in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight no society

can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means the n.h.s. has helped u.k. average life expectancy rise from sixty eight years in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight to eighty one years now wonderful new drugs new technologies just look at the huge revolution happening in digital how we embrace innovation because with innovation we can improve the quality and safety of care but that longevity means today's n.h.s. is facing unforeseen challenges from obesity dementia cancer and cardiovascular disease earlier this year a parliamentary committee warned that the n.h.s. finances were in a perilous state an extra twenty seven billion dollars was pledged last month but the government spending watchdog warm that even that was not enough to improve services hospital administrators are contemplating difficult choices based on clinical outcomes and affordability and if we see procedures if we see things that

we doing in the n.h.s. aren't dilution money then let's have that conversation probably to say actually it would be better off spending the money doing something else and looking after a group of patients in a different way the n.h.s. remains free at the point of access but there after there are no guarantees. social care of the elderly is in crisis it is a very special people my age because the older you get the more likely to you to have to have cooler than we have got before the change they don't want to go because the know all they need on the rain and they don't know how they're going to . find anything to imply say that they have to be assurance and they know that they will still be cared for when they can time the problems have not gone unnoticed there are regular demonstrations against hospital closures and cutbacks this protest last weekend attracted thousands of marches the public affection for the n.h.s. remains undimmed and there is much to celebrate about the past seventy years but

the prognosis for the service remains uncertain paul brennan al jazeera milton keats the spanish city of perm florida has launched an app to prevent sexual assault at the running of the bulls festival users will be able to report the crimes to police by pressing a button that says their location upon a police happened cracking down on sexual abuse. take a look at the headlines now on al-jazeera syrian forces backed by russia are pressing on with their offensive to capture the country's southwest they bombarded rebel held areas around with hundreds of airstrikes and the u.n. says the lives of three quarters of a million people are at risk as president donald trump has accepted the resignation of his environment chief after a series of scandals for months scott promoted been under fire for his spending habits and accusations of misuse of office also never says an executive director at

american oversight that is a watchdog on government corruption he says its conduct became too much of a distraction. we can hope it means that a restoration of ethics. will step in as the acting administrator has to treat his agency like a superfund pollution site and clean it up i'm hoping that he can do that from a policy perspective people should keep in mind that the guy stepping in to fill scott group shoes is a co-op yes so santa claus might be out but mrs claus is stepping in and i imagine the children of industry are still going to get their presents britain's home secretary has called on russia to explain itself after a man and woman collapsed from exposure to a nerve agent and said their name glenn a couple fellow close to saul's barry were a former russian spy and his daughter were targeted with that same substance rough seas have delayed the search for at least forty nine people missing after a tourist boat overturned off thailand's southern coast the governor says forty

eight people were rescued before weather conditions forced the search to be suspended if it was carrying chinese tourists as well as a thai crew at least twenty four people including emergency workers have been killed in a series of fireworks explosions near mexico city the agency red cross says firefighters police and paramedics are among the dead happen in the town of told to pack which is known as mexico's fireworks capital. a guatemalan mother is back with her eight year old daughter in boston after they were separated at the u.s. border with mexico two months ago integration officials are using d.n.a. tests to reunite more than three thousand children with their parents by july tenth following a court order to do so. those are the headlines the news continues keep it here on al-jazeera much more to come inside story is next.

will the world's supply of oil continue to flow out of the gulf donald trump ultimatums when porters stop shipments by november will face u.s. sanctions iran hits back by block the straits of hormuz as the rhetoric heats up over a crude what's the cost this is inside story. welcome to the program. donald trump's nuclear reaction is threatening to turn off the taps in the world's major oil supply the white house is threatening countries which.