when one of my barker had come to juba for treatment with the children's mother the war happened and i couldn't contact my children i even got sick and lost weight because i was worried about them sometimes thinking that they were dead. tens of thousands of people have been killed in the war and a third of that told me in population displaced sixty percent of them children aid organizations say more than seventeen thousand children have been separated from their families since the start of the war and the fighting continuing and more families displaced it's likely even if some children are being reunited with their families even more are being separated the process of tracing families and getting them back together is no easy task some children are very young and you need to have a lot of. trained staff you know to get information from children and the wide search area the transportation of children because no routes and it's only one flight security's a very challenging thing sometimes you know we identify families and we know where

the parents are and the children in this kind of situation really storing the links between family and the child because we cannot reunify the child due to some of the security situations and security situation that's kept war from seeing his children for years and which is my hopes will not and i heard your fertility for a long awaited reunion with her family. so we have a report from juba but she's here with us on the set in doha she's covered the conflict in south sudan extensively so what we know so far is so sudan's parties have agreed to yet another power sharing deal what are the specifics while it looks very much like the agreement that was signed into the fifteen with a little bit of variation which are would be vice president again but the two current vice presidents vice president top on doing and vice president when you go would still retain their positions and there would be a vice president who would be from the opposition and has to be a woman that's what the agreement states but let's remember daryn the issue of south sudan was never about signing an agreement it's about implementing it the last time the twenty fifteen agreement was signed it took nearly nine months for my

charge to come back and three months after he came back it collapsed this time around you've got more people vying for power more people in position of power each and every one with their own agenda each and every one with their own point of view of how to govern south sudan so it's going to be very hard to see how all these sides can come together and then there's the issue of trust to get all these sides to work together in twenty fifteen when the peace agreement was signed when machar came back to town it took them i think probably cure my charm only once and it took a lot of effort and a lot of talks to get those two sides together they really communicated so it's very hard to see how when you had one vice president one for his vice president you couldn't communicate with him now you've got so many people all of them right under your deputies effectively it's very hard to see how you can come together all four including the president who's number five in this case and agree on how to govern a country like south sudan do you think that there is the political will this time around to get everybody together so that we don't see a repeat of what happened in twenty fifteen and what sort of practical steps are

being taken if any to start the implementation of this all sides of said repeatedly that they want to end the conflict in south sudan that they want to see peace return to the country but to be honest everyone has been putting his or her agenda forward saying if i don't see this we will end the conflict if i don't see my my will and my. desire and my position my requirements for power in south sudan being fulfilled i will not end the war now let's be very honest my char has his forces his party recently enjoying the government so he doesn't have an opposition force to the government so effectively he is part of the government but then you also have the other opposition and you've got the women's group who also have their own it's very hard to see how again different people in this conflict different sides different agendas it's very hard to see how they can come together sit down and try to govern a country where has it's basically been as war for most of its existence tomorrow marks the seventh anniversary for sausage and out of those seven years five has been in conflict millions of people displaced and more than half of the population

dying because of hunger basically on your report earlier on have a mortgage for the time being thank you plenty more ahead on the al-jazeera news hour including returning home syrian refugees make the journey back despite warnings not to do so. dozens dead and many more missing in japan after two renshaw rain triggers widespread flooding and landslides and england fans rejoice after reaching the first world cup semifinal in twenty eight years stories coming up with joe a little later in support. of the syrian military and rebels in the southern province of that are accusing each other of breaching a cease fire deal that was only agreed forty eight hours ago opposition activists say at least four people have been killed in airstrikes targeting areas near a city the russian brokered deal so rebels agreed to hand over heavy weapons in

exchange for security guarantees and safe passage to other areas government troops took control of a border crossing with jordan and promised to leave four villages bernard smith is now in jordan he's having just returned from the jordan syria border what are you hearing about these accusations off who breached the ceasefire bernard. well we know that there is a small town to the north of crossing the nasuwt crossing is this main arterial route that links jordan to syria through to beirut is a main trade route that the syrian regime was very very keen to get hold of we know that just to the north of that there's a small town or village where one rebel group is now holding out this group is accusing the regime in the russians of not on airing the cease fire agreement we don't know what aspect of the season green they're accusing them of not on uring

but nevertheless that has sparked we understand airstrikes there and fighting on the ground there in the syrian military says there is an operation ongoing the cease fire agreement effectively meant that the opposition groups in that part of that a province in southern syria would hand over all the heavy weapons and they would be given safe passage north to them the last remaining real sort of rebel stronghold in northern syria and that the russians would be involved in maybe securing the border area in patrolling and in securing that border area that was a very important part of the agreement because many people were fearful many people living there and the opposition groups there were fearful that the syrian regime would if unsupervised take out revenge attacks so one rebel group seems to think that this part of the ceasefire a part of the ceasefire is not being on it during and you were at that messy border crossing where you saw tens of thousands of syrians over there but now we understand that the u.n.

is saying some of them are actually returning back to syria what are you hearing about that. well in fact the u.s. is the most of those certainly near the north. who have been there over the last couple of weeks in briley pretty desperate circumstances with nothing it's all they've gone most of them have gone back to their villages where they lived there are still rights in these sort of western part of syria in another area there are still on the other side of dallas city and it connects or there are still plenty of thousands of refugees there that the u.n. wants to get aid through to but certainly to the relief of the jordanian or all foreign sees the displaced people on the opposite side of the border in syria they most of those seem to for now gone home and the hope is the ceasefire will hold because otherwise they will come back again all right bernard smith giving us the update from amman in jordan thank you for speaking of syrians returning home several hundred refugees who had been living in lebanon have also begun returning

home despite warnings from the u.n. and human rights groups that say it's too dangerous to go back but for most returning to syria is unthinkable without safety guarantees from international organizations zain i heard that reports from our sound. their years in exile are now over the syrians are on their way home. they are the latest batch of refugees living in the lebanese border town of our south to voluntarily return. there haven't been mass returns yet but these people are among those who can make the journey back to syria now mostly under the control of president bashar assad. but. she was. saved many homes are destroyed but ours is following the circumstances are different for every person. before syrian. refugees approves the applicants request to return lebanon's general security is

overseeing the process. so far the returns have not been in significant numbers the united nations says thirteen thousand refugees have gone home in recent years there are over one million syrian refugees registered with the u.n. here but lebanon's government says hundreds of thousands more are not registered. lebanese politicians are pushing for a speedy returns because of the economic burden on the country but the united nations says we turns our premature it refuses to organize them because it believes conditions are not right syria is still not safe and assurances need to be put in place many refugees fled persecution and continued to be considered a security risk by the syrian government. there are refugees who don't want to return because they don't feel safe there waiting for circumstances change they want international guarantees. among them refugees from the syrian town of qusayr

at least forty thousand of them are in lebanon and tens of thousands of others are displaced across syria because there has not just been totally destroyed there was mass displacement mainly among the muslims the bulk of the opposition. is from that town he says he joined the calls for democracy but never took up arms however is enough to be called a terrorist by the syrian government. holmes because of the regime and they want us to return home to the regime and we if our towns are destroyed and we face security risks is just one of the many areas where the regime is making demographic changes. those who come from areas like qusayr which formed the backbone of the uprising cannot make this journey back they say they are unwelcome and their safety and security are at risk there is too little reconciliation and peace in the new syria but there are still northeastern weapon

on. if your prime minister is in neighboring eritrea for a historic summit it's the first such visits by any ethiopian leader in more than two decades he was greeted by eritrean president i say as if working at the airport ahead of a summit between the two regional rivals ethiopia and eritrea fought a costly war between one thousand nine hundred eighty two thousand over a disputed border but there have been signs of improving relations in recent months after prime minister agreed to accept the terms of a peace deal that ended the conflict let's make. the program director of africa joining us live from ethiopia's capital. so what's being called a change in relations between ethiopia and eritrea what would it mean for. i think you. just peace between two countries to ordinary countries for two or

three neighbors if you video to each street shared culture shared religion and should be more intro so if your peers in your studio foreign policy and regional engagement has been significantly been shipped by the water and this film it does for for eighteen years and the two countries that you know the film at the water we know peace policy has significantly damaged their. economies the regional security and the political situation in the two countries and the two countries have huge potential afford to konami cultural and political cooperation this issue was going to last fall between lucy ok and eritrea and now we know that ethiopia of africa in the because of star in africa if europeans did accept the two thousand peace agreement that ended that war between ethiopia and eritrea. mr how

do you lose the can you hear me all right i'm afraid we may have lost our connection with my guest from policies for that we will move on and perhaps try to bring him on the program a little later now israel's agriculture minister has become the first member of parliament to visit the mosque compound since restrictions were lifted yury ariel was seen in the courtyard of the holy site during regular visiting hours for nanda muslims last week prime minister benjamin netanyahu lifted a ban on members of parliament visiting the site the palestinian authority denounced the decision as a blatant and serious provocation. at least sixty four people have died and dozens are missing in japan after heavy rains caused widespread flooding and landslides almost four and a half million people have now been ordered to leave their homes with the worst flooding these are the latest of the live pictures in fact are from hiroshima so

alexy o'brien has more on the story. across half a nation a sea of muddy water flooding has ripped japan into with central and southern regions largely submerged. the death toll has steadily climbed an elderly man was swept into a swollen river and hiroshima homes have collapsed and landslides have buried at least ten people. east to west from kyoto south dozens of people a missing whenever a night out of an i offer my deepest condolences to the victims and my sympathies to all people who have been affected. in central and southern regions one point six million people have been handed evacuation orders another three million have been advised to leave the heavy rain is forecast until monday. heavy rain will continue in the area from western to eastern japan and it will be historic during fall which could be the heaviest rain ever recorded nearly fifty

thousand police firefighters and civil defense personnel have been deployed kyoto's riverside promenade a major tourist spot was shot when the cow more river burst its banks roads and bridges a shot to the hundreds of kilometers warnings have been issued for landslide prone areas this rainfall is hitting basically everywhere at once so there's no it's difficult for the emergency services to prioritize where they should go first because there are so many things happening all at once and obviously if a road is washed out or bridges destroyed even if you have a nice fire engine or ambulance you can't get to some of the places that you need to go to and responders have experience rural areas of japan struggle with flooding at this time every year but this year they were special circumstances typhoon preparation into the sea of japan on tuesday high winds taunting japan southern

islands before it moved north dropping unprecedented rainfall the typhoon has passed and those that means to those navigating its wrath. brian al-jazeera. in a few moments we'll have the weather with stuff but still ahead on the al-jazeera news hour we meet four generations of one family who say they faced in justice for decades plus. the thrills and spills of the running of the bulls we find out whether the risk is all worth it and the shock defeat at wimbledon for a world number one simona halep we'll hear from her later in sports. i. mean the weather sponsored by qatar airways.

hello there we've got a huge typhoon in the pacific at the moment you can see it on the satellite picture and you can see a very well defined eye and that's a you usually an indication that it's a very well organized system and if it's organized and it can become very powerful and that's exactly what we've seen out of this system here it does now have incredibly strong winds with it it just increased in the last hour or so so they're now sustained at two hundred fifty kilometers per hour with gusts over three hundred kilometers per hour so an incredibly strong system if it was in the waters around the americas it will be classed as a category four hurricane on the five point sufis simpson scale so clearly a huge beast and it's gradually working its way towards the west is only moving slowly west woods around to twenty kilometers per hour but eventually we're expecting it to graze the north coast of taiwan before slamming into the province of china and by the time it makes it here it won't be anywhere near a strong as it is at the moment but you can see it's covering a huge area it's also going to be pushing an awful lot of water ahead of it as well

so expect a lot of inundation a lot of very heavy downpours here as that storm eventually makes landfall on around choose day or wednesday we've got another storm with us as well about so far smaller and you can see in our so it's an indication that it's not as powerful but this one is edging its way towards the caribbean islands and is certainly going to give some wet and windy weather. the weather sponsored by qatar airways. the story of a friendship between a filmmaker and a seven year old girl what is it would mean. giving to her a future family being the syrian war. in the face of deep rooted tension between villepin eans and the refugees. my syrian friends laugh bisect on al-jazeera thank you of opinion

and wits that take that view is no point to make an argument that i have no basis in fact or knowledge understand chamber of debate i was in every important meeting an examination of the ideas the thinkers the theorists and the leaders so a lot of people see them as victories for me too and from there i haven't thing victories for any body search for itself in fear of a new series of head to head coming soon on al-jazeera. land. hello again the top stories on the al-jazeera news our elite divers in northern thailand have begun a dangerous operation to rescue twelve boys and their football coach from the

depths of a cave complex a thai army commander says it could take two to three days to bring all of the maoists ethiopia's prime minister is in neighboring eritrea for a historic visit prime minister obviously it was greeted by eritrean president i say yes after work here at the airport to head off a summit between the two regional rivals ethiopia and eritrea fought a costly war eighteen years ago over a disputed border south sudan's warring parties have agreed to another power sharing deal under which rebel leader react machar will be reinstated as vice president regional leaders have begun mediating peace talks in uganda to end south sudan's civil war. now the u.s. is reassuring asian allies that progress is well on track to rid north korea of nuclear weapons the u.s. secretary of state my pump aoe has been in tokyo after another round of talks in pyongyang where he was accused of behaving like

a gangster sarah clarke reports from seoul. the u.s. secretary of state was among friends when he arrived in tokyo met by japanese prime minister shinzo abhay my palm pio briefed the u.s. ally playing down accusations he engaged a gangster like demands at the two talks in pyongyang and so if those requests were gangster like they're that the world is a gangster because there was a unanimous decision of the un security council about what needs to be achieved instead he described the meeting as productive making good progress he said north korea agreed to destroy test sites and the next round of talks to sit down for later this month. north korea reaffirmed its commitment to complete denuclearization we had detailed and subs in discussions about the next steps towards a fully verified and complete denuclearization. of north korea painted a very different picture describing the talks as regrettable and relations were

entering a dangerous phase in a statement released by the foreign ministry it said the fastest shortcut to denuclearization is to leave deep rooted distrust in the past and prioritize building trust via new solutions and phase by phase actions criticism aside north korea did declare we still cherish a good faith in president trump. on the second leg of his asian two a mike pump reassured the japanese and south korean foreign ministers the talks were still on track despite the best the u.s. allies presented a united front declaring once again the commitment to complete denuclearization in the korean peninsula we reaffirm the international community will continue to fully implement relevant un security council resolutions in order to materialise cv id despite describing these talks as making progress.

says progress alone is not enough to justify lifting the un sanctions on north korea that were made in place and to pyongyang abandons its nuclear program that sentiment is shit by the japanese and the south korean foreign minister as for a timeframe on how to achieve that neither side is set a date sarah clarke al-jazeera sold more than seven hundred thousand have fled me and more into neighboring bangladesh since a government crackdown began in august last year and it's become one of the world's fastest growing refugee emergencies but many were hidden just say they've been facing injustice for decades mohammad june met one family in a camp in crocs is bizarre. she's the head of four generations of family and the bearer of forty years of suffering. a heart or a hinge a refugee in her ninety's has fled persecution in me and more three separate times

in her life first in one thousand nine hundred seventy eight then one nine hundred ninety one and finally in two thousand and seventy five. she speaks softly and slowly telling me that while age may have left her unable to remember everything she'll never forget the constant horrors her family suffered at the hands of security forces in me and more over the years. war they beat as they kidnapped as they detained does. google and her family span almost a century in age bonded through blood and displacement they now all live in a single hut located in the world's largest refugee camp. her son only ahmed first fled rackrent state and came to bangladesh as a teenager he recounts just how awful the crackdown by security forces was in two thousand and seventeen i didn't know it that out of if we couldn't have made our way here we would have been killed like stray dogs muhammad i you is goals graham

son in law he says he'll always be haunted by what he seen back home. in minus the horrible you know no one could even ask questions about locals disappearances even a brother didn't have the right to ask about his missing brother distant we had no clue who was disappeared into way we just had to remain silent about it here the signs of trauma are everywhere and fear is clearly etched on faces. in many ways what's happened to this particular extended family really mirrors what's happened to so many other rohinton who face decades of repression and abuse their hinges aren't just the world's largest group of stateless people they're also among the world's most persecuted minorities. more than anything muhammad ali you've once his children to be able to experience peace and to get justice he says there's only one way that can happen atrocities that are being committed against

a middle women should be heard by the international criminal court so that we get justice and if it's not who won't be satisfied. satisfaction is not a sentiment ghoul is familiar with for her pain has been a constant and time continues to be as cruel as life has been hard let's take you live to bangladesh that is the un special rapporteur on the situation of human rights and me in mar a yankee league holding a press conference let's listen in government has not allowed me to visit myanmar to carry out my work and then dated by the human rights council. following their every middle of my mandate in march i was i had also requested the government of india to facilitate a visit to india so i could meet with refugees in new delhi shamu in kashmir. but received no response before i proceed further let me take this opportunity to

thank the government of bangladesh for always about coming and facilitating my visit the un entities in bangladesh particularly the resident coordinators office have been extremely helpful in facilitating my visit i am grateful to the introspective courteney sheehan committee group and those who provided support in cox's but as our government denied my access to me on my own i was only able to meet people in bangladesh the neighboring country that hosts over one million refugees. i met with government un agencies and. and in this regard i met running into refugees in a number of counties and settlements as well as the government un humanitarian un humanitarian

and protection actors and and you know i also thank the u.n. . team and my mom for speaking with me i took ninety photos of what i saw and you will upload them on flicker the link will be on my special offer to read page what i am presenting today preliminary findings resulting from this visit my reports are the tendency of a seven hundred thirty lengthy and general assembly in october will contain more details and for the matron recently i have received more questions than ever about my mind and work on me i'm not i have also read reports that said i no longer hold a mandate or that i have been replaced by the special envoy of the secretary general of the united nations at the outset i would like to clarify that my nine

days was astonished by the human rights council that was established in two thousand and six pursuant to the resolution sixty two five one of the general assembly my mandate was renewed this my four year period of one year special rapporteur is an independent expert who is mandated to monitor and report on the situation of human rights in there much to the human rights council and to the general assembly as we hear my role is therefore different to that of this special envoy and then there's a general dignitary who is. appointed by the secretary general to provide good officers and to pursue discussion on a range of issues. additionally to my recent discussions i need to provide further clarification on two other issues first the critical issue status the

people who fled decades long systematic discrimination and recent extreme violence and. and now live in overcrowded council in bangladesh i run the engine read to g.'s international law is very clear the definition of refugees provided by i called one of the nine hundred fifty one refugee convention replies applies the refugees from them are living in bangladesh and other countries running in bangladesh phlegmy in my opening to a well founded fear of prosecution and as a result of ongoing persecution by that government and the military for reasons of their identity race and religion they must be recognized as threatening directly by all including by host governments such as desh and they must be referred to as

refugees in all public and private statements by all afternoon as well as on any documentation issued to them we still do to recognise their identity in this city and their current status denies them the right to which the title not least the rights of non rich toland to marry him second we must also acknowledge not only the ruins of status as state less people but the way in which this state lessness came about we're going to share this in chip rights have been systematically. discriminated back since. nineteen seventies and they have been effectively barred from accusing them since the introduction of the nine hundred eighty two citizenship law the government has discriminatorily the unites position to them since that time and continues to do so

while i was in congress i met with vastly jesus showed me documentation related to citizenship held by previous generations including their parents and grandparents that they have churchly preserved when we speak of the future of the range of citizenship we must speak of its restoration by the government of myanmar and not use vague terminology such as a pathway to citizenship for doing so deny the reality of what types happened as well as the dignity of the people that it happened to and does not provide a durable and long lasting solution for their own injured populations for milan government is committed to ensuring a pathway to citizenship for the range of people however in reality for years to accept governments have placed the ring on a pathway away from the citizenship rights that they previously enjoyed during

their mission i have had the opportunity to have teleconferences with various individuals and groups and now must i am aligned by what i was told about the developments affecting the human rights of those in myanmar by all the people like spoke to on this trip in person and by phone. well like overwhelmingly the message that they gave me is that enough is enough for them to represent civil situation that exists for the people of myanmar must and today. it was reported to me that the democratic space and continues to sharply deter hearing repressive laws for example that teletech medications law of peaceful assembly and peaceful procession and unlawful let's see asian long.