to leave four villages burned a smith is in amman having just returned from the jordanian syrian border bernat what's gone wrong here. peter we understand that there's one rebel group holding out in an area to the north of the crossing me now this crossing is strategically extremely important for the assad regime because it opens a highway opens a connection between the beirut ports in the north and the turkish border in the north all the way through to jordan and all the way through to the gulf states is a vital trade routes and the syrian regime wants that open as soon as possible but one rebel group just to the north of now see says that the russians and the syrians are not holding to their side of the bargain and so fighting continues there now the cease fire agreement and the surrender terms were that the opposition groups would hand over their heavy weapons those that wanted to would be given safe passage north to an opposition stronghold up there and that the russian military police would supervise security along the border area this was particularly

important also to the jordanians because the opposition forces do fear revenge attacks by syrian regime forces if they weren't monitored and the jordanians did not want any sort of hezbollah she had a militia presence along its border so this rebel group says that's not being adhered to the syrian regime has hit that area with air strikes and mortar shells that rebel group continuing to hold out big parts of the province are kind of encapsulated in one of these so-called deescalation zones to those zones on balance work or not. well i mean this was stopped really being a deescalation zone where the syrian regime led by the russians started bombarding it a couple of weeks ago and essentially bombarding it into submission that is how the russians and the syrians got the opposition groups there to give up their weapons

and so it is that part of the eastern part of dara while the province along the jordanian border is essentially calm now apart from this one small area because there's a cease fire holding on the rebels have surrendered their weaponry it will need the russians to make sure that there are no reprisal attacks there that needs the russians to make sure that it stays calm the jordanians as i say making will want to keep an eye on the russians to make sure they do that bernard thank you. still to come here on al-jazeera we'll meet four generations of one family who say they faced injustice for decades. standing firm with his asian allies america's top diplomat shrugs off north korean accusations that he is behaving like a gangster. the in with. hello there rain is still

plaguing parts of japan recently it's been incredibly wet in fact the heavy rain has been with us for over a week now and it's cause major problems these pictures from hiroshima showing the flooding that we've had there and what's left after the floods have cleared now just in the past few hours we've seen some more very violent storms in the south and those reports some very heavy downpours some places reporting another one hundred millimeters of rain on top of the rain we've already seen and so there is an emergency warning in force for some of the regions in the southern parts of japan at the moment now fortunately as we head through the next few days it does look a good deal brighter and carmo weather wise so i think the tokyo will be a good few days before we see some more heavy rain thirty two degrees will be our maximum on monday plenty of sunshine here to the next system is forming to the north of us that's here over north korea working its way up towards the northern parts of japan there as we head through tuesday and slowly that will sink its way

southwards but it won't reach us just yet a bit further south and for many of us in the eastern parts of china there's some good fine weather to be found at the moment there is a storm that's edging its way towards us but it won't reach us for a few days yet instead we've got a few heavy showers in the northern parts of i'm up over charm due he looks very wet. with. this story of a friendship between a filmmaker and a seven year old girl what is it would mean. giving hope to her a few being the syrian war. in the face of deep rooted tension between the libyan needs and the refugees. around my syrian friend. than. on al-jazeera.

welcome back here with our jazeera live from doha these are the headlines elite divers in northern thailand began the 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 them out if he appears prime ministers in neighboring eritrea from historic visit the prime minister where it was greeted by eritrean president. at the airport ahead of this summit the summit between two regional rivals ethiopia and eritrea fought a costly war eighteen years ago over a border dispute and south sudan's warring parties have agreed to another power sharing deal under which the rebel leader requests chart will be reinstated as vice

president regional leaders have been mediating peace talks in uganda to end south sudan's civil war. more than seven hundred thousand have fled me and into neighboring bangladesh since a government crackdown began in august of last year has become one of the world's fastest growing refugee emergencies but many re-injure say they've been facing injustice for decades mohammed jam jhoom met one family. in a camp in cox's bazaar. 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 us 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 at that out of if we couldn't have made our way here we would have been killed like stray dogs muhammad are you his goals graham son in law he says he'll always be haunted by what he seen back home in minus the horrible you know a lot of that 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 happening to this particular extended family really mirrors what's happened to so many other rohinton who face decades of repression and abuse their hands aren't just the world's largest group of stateless people they're also among the world's most persecuted minorities. more than anything mohammed are you 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 women should be heard by the international criminal court so that we get justice and if it's not be satisfied satisfaction is not a sentiment goal is familiar with for her pain has been

a constant and time continues to be as cruel as life has been hard. at the critical long camp in cox's bazaar on the dish the u.s. secretary of state might pompei or has brushed off north korean accusations of making gangster like demands and his push for the country to denuclearize the north koreans made those comments after mr pompei went to pyongyang for the latest round of talks now he's since been in tokyo to brief japanese and south korean leaders about progress. the still a lot of work to do but he is confident the north korean leader kim jong un will stick to the promises he made during the singapore summit with the u.s. president donald trump. the road ahead will be difficult and challenging and we know critics will try to minimize the work that we've achieved but our allies like the republic of korea and japan president trump and i believe that peace is worth the effort. and that's something that we all want as allies we share

and are committed to the same goal the fully verified final denuclearization north korea has agreed to by chairman kim jong il. is in the south korean capital seoul. also in the message we got out of that press conference this morning was that talks were on track or the tactics of the accusations that north korea had made against the u.s. in the way to engage the north korean delegation in the pyongyang talks he played that down he suggested that they had a good and open lengthy discussions with north korea about complete denethor as ation across iran angel weapons and he stated if a broad it's a broad definition and the north korean officials understood that now an interesting quote he said if those requests were gangster like the world is a gangster because there was a unanimous decision at the u.n. security council about what needs to be achieved so as mentioned the north korean other accusations suggested the talks were aggressive ball and the relations were

in danger. it was quick to to remind everyone turned to look for that one particular line in the transcript or the the foreign ministry message stating that from north korea we still cherish our good faith in president trunks so they're hanging on to that particular message suggesting that all is still ok with regards to the next round of talks between north korea and the united states spain's week long running of the bulls trustable has kicked off in pamplona five people have already been taken to hospital on the first day after being gored trampled injuries happen every year as the five hundred kilogram bulls chase festival goes through the cobbled streets around two thousand people took part in the nearly one kilometer sprint. to. correspond call them home. how many people across the entire week call it generally hospitalized.

last year peter around sixty five people were hospitalized and seven of those who are by the bulls the others suffer fools who are in on the call the streets not result in damage to the legs lame so the heads and faces as well so far in both the days and yesterday's running events a total of nine people have been hospitalized only one of those has been born and this street where we're on now well this was where the bull running was this morning this was where hostile and wild animals with very sharp tones were running down. saying crowds of hundreds down that way but now as you can see it's given way to that yesterday itself a lot of drinking a lot of dancing school bands will want to hit through here periodic late but of course the headline event is the bull running and this attracts a lot of foreign visitors as well we were talking to a group of american friends to see how they prepare for the event.

just minutes to go before with the bulls this is going on still in there and you're seeing there is. your. friends come from california to pump. facing down danger to get. this time is made of. from colorado he's sharing some safety advice. for you that's. where you. thereafter merican all through honest. anyways favorite bar he made the bull running world famous in his nine hundred twenty s. novel fiesta to keep your head. you don't know what's going to happen next to me. running. if. i don't have to ask someone out there but i have to be doused with

someone that you know that's my right with knowing how to bring. me. next morning this is that emotion and i think. i have tom bores eight hundred fifty meat is insane how fast it will be coming in fairly new and next thing you know you will right behind you the bulls are right there it was it's an epic it's like you're running and you're looking for the fools and someone just standing there and you just well we're going to cite oh my goodness you know the what if i don't know. if you can't be afraid of you can't. whenever. i do

a story or a instinct set right went out the window i can go tomorrow there's more days of. the photos tell of a trip they'll never forget and this video postcard from pamplona. which you will hear. how the bull running in pamplona has very much become the mother of all of spain's but unfortunately it's a track to the notorious reputation by sex crimes against women and so this yeah like you know they get is there has been a concerted effort by feminist groups and city whole to make sure that women can come to this b.s. and enjoy it safely and also as well have the right to party as hard as the men the tough call thanks very much. haiti has suspended a proposal to raise fuel prices after three people died in violent protests people

say they're already struggling and can't afford the steep increase. has more. the outrage was immediate and haiti's government got the message it canceled its plan to increase the price of fuel after ngo poured into the streets roads were blocked in major cities businesses were looted demonstrators burned cars and set fire to at least two police stations should it be said that's about them do you know this is a message to our president look at the cars are burning prices in local markets are going up the situation is bad the president must listen to us the plan called for a sharp increase of up to fifty per cent for fuel prices the leader of diesel would rice would be out four dollars roughly five dollars for regular gas with eighty percent of workers earning less than two dollars a day protesters call the move unrealistic and insulting drugs yeah that's got kids who grow up and who are families can't go to school the price of gas and other

goods are already high people want to eat but the price of rice cooking oil it's all going up. it is prime minister jack off entente announced the plan would be suspended until further notice the unrest led some major airlines like american delta and jet blue to temporarily cancel their fly support a process on saturday. that's now president of an elmo east took office last year promising to improve the economy the price increase was part of that plan the government says fuel subsidies cost too much and are hurting the country's economic growth in exchange for stopping the subsidies haiti was to receive aid from the international monetary fund. the caribbean nation is dealing with extreme poverty on top of that is struggling to recover from the devastating earthquake that destroyed much of the country eighty years ago about forty thousand people live in makeshift camps. firm called for an uprising after the gas hikes were announced

even though the plan has been suspended or there is still anger along with fear that the cost of living is going up while wages still the same katia lopez who began al-jazeera. the turkish government has fired more than eighteen thousand people from state jobs saying they are a security risk it happened one day before richard type one is one and again as president with his expanded powers those dismissed include nine thousand police officers and six thousand members of the armed forces one hundred thirty thousand people have been fired from state jobs under turkey's state of emergency imposed after the failed coup in twenty sixteen. this is al jazeera these are the headlines so far divers in northern thailand have now begun their dangerous operation to rescue twelve boys and their football coach from the depths of the cave complex

a thai army commander says it could take two to three days to bring all of them out . when the today our readiness has reached its peak today we're carrying out the d.-day operation at ten am thirteen cave died as went inside the cave to start the evacuation of the kids the thirteen kids know about the operation that's being carried out and they're ready to come out with us they're ready to face any challenges ethiopia's prime minister is in neighboring eritrea friend historic visit the prime minister ahmed was greeted by the eritrean president. at the airport ahead of the summit between these 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 the rebel leader rick machar will be reinstated as vice president regional leaders have been mediating peace talks in uganda to end south sudan's civil war. the syrian military and

a rebel group in the southern province of garage are accusing each other of breaching a recent cease fire deal it was only agreed forty eight hours ago opposition activists say at least four people have been killed in airstrikes targeting areas to the east of door our 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 for villages. the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o has brushed off north korean accusations of making quote gangster like demands in his push for the country to denuclearize the north koreans made those comments after mr pompei went to pyongyang for the latest round of talks now he's since been in turkey to brief japan and south korea about progress mr pompei o says there's still a lot of work to be done but he's confident the north korean leader kim jong un will stick to the promises he made during the singapore summit with the u.s.

president donald trump last month those are your headlines up next on al-jazeera is inside story i will see you very soon. pacifying syria's southern front government forces a back in control of most of the border with its. deal with rebels but. in the region this is inside story.

welcome to the program. after more than seven years of war in syria rebel fighters have lost control of the southern province of delta where the revolution began some rebels will hand over their heavy weapons as part of a cease fire deal with the government others will be given safe passage to the rebels last stronghold in northern province jordan and israel are cautiously watching the developments as the syrian army inches ever closer to the borders and of course the government's victory also brings big changes for the three hundred twenty thousand people who fled will be our guest in a just a moment but first al-jazeera has been at smith reports from jordan's border with syria. some of the thousands of displaced syrians who've been camped for up to two weeks along the syrian jordan border just behind me they started going home last night according to the jordanian military not long after the cease fire and surrender was agreed with the rebel groups here across the border in southern syria

the jordanians hope that the rest of those refugees in the coming hours and days will feel safe enough to go home and one of the most important things about making them feel safe enough is security guarantees that they'll be given that is that the russian military police maintain overall control of security along the border area because many people have been living under rebel control fear rebel a fear of reprisals from the syrian regime also important for the jordanians is that there are no iranian backed hezbollah fighters along this border side that was one of the major jordanian concerns they are expecting only to see syrians and russian forces along this area no involvement from the fighters who were part of the initial campaign to retake the dead up province. well let's get the thoughts of our guests joining us today from amman is london so

the only who's an independent journalist and commentator on middle east issues from west jerusalem we're joined by robi sable a professor at the hebrew university of jerusalem and from beirut rami corey a senior fellow and adjunct professor at the american university of beirut and welcome to you all rami if we can start with you some context here first to what extent does southwest and syria's pivotal location mean that any military offensive in that region would have had stakes the transcends syria's civil war. that's a very strategic area in terms of the relationship between lebanon and hezbollah and syria and israel and jordan and iran all together they are interested in this area and the russians of course behind the syrian government the russians are trying to prevent wars regionally but all these other actors or involved in confrontations and have been involved in wars over the years it's

a very strategic area and the golan itself the border area the go on has become even more important now because historically it was southern lebanon and northern israel that was the where fighting used to take place all the time between hezbollah and israel it shifted in recent years to the shebaa farms area which is in between syria lebanon israel and palestine and then it shifted now once more to the golan heights and that's really the mr a critical area that has to be addressed politically broadly sable in west jerusalem russia has mediated this this deal what kind of security guarantees has it given to israel as part of this deal what is always in two cities is the mentality of the agreement we had and i said before with syria which has a buffer zone where that no civilian military troops and a limited force limited forces either side of the border is about twenty five kilometers in other words what we're interested in is that that be maintained and

that no hezbollah will elayne forces be in the area i think these are two main strategic interests why is israel so concerned about. hesitate to call them this but i'm going to say to ragtag bunch of iranian backed militias operating so close to it to its border is it just paranoia of iran that that's driving this. it's not such a backpack bag they were operating under the commands of the evolution of god of iran and where syria has an interest in maintaining it maintaining a quiet border of the soon visas iran doesn't it has a contra inverse to want to stop trouble therefore we are very very apprehensive about any invading persons on the insert on the golan heights or insert all lamas and only the jordanian foreign minister was in moscow just a few days ago what sort of guarantees would he have received concerning the the syrian border with his country. i'm not sure he has received guarantees but i know

what he's asked for i have also to point out that until the june twenty third jordan and the palace the decision makers were under the impression that russia and . the musk us with the support of trump as well how it really it took a political solution so they were taken aback when russia allowed this collision over russia was not just preventing the war it allowed. a military solution to their our situation so but i know what they are asking for their asking for first. that this agreement will hold no for this collision and support in. solving the crisis of the refugees they did ask also that a pro iranian militia forces should be fifty in

a kilometer away from the borders this is the official position not my on and that there has to issue should be dealt with separately then the whole settlement so that it will not so that they would guarantee at least quiet at the borders i don't know how many guarantees you have thought but there's a feeling and official feeling of great dismay and fair they felt the sea of by the way that they were not informed that there would be an escape that did not expect jordan's vehemently refused to let any or any more syrians across its border is is that just because simply because jordan can't cope with any more refugees or is it more to do with with security concerns is it more to do with exactly who might come across the border. are i am i think that the initial decision to close the border

was a quick a fast response to this collision that was not expected and to pressure all parties to go back to the table they wanted a solution i thought of the think it was well thought out of and then there was a complaint in jordan against the yes security score sans are are there and they want to pressure also the international community committee to give more in but it has created divisions inside the country over the refugees issues many jordanians are not happy there and you know about the campaign to open the borders and of course the propeller opinion is divided because we have a segment of the population in general and the support the syrian. the this syrian regime and the syrians and they consider it if it three four assad from a korean knows they will open the borders without any guarantees they are not sure there will be an opening of the borders without certain guarantees from russia and

by the way the government what i know and i'm sure of that there has been communications director between jordan and the ask us for the last month saw that could be that could help by the. rami khouri how will russia ensure that no violation of this peace deal takes place and what would happen to the the deescalation zone that i thought that this this area was supposed to be. the deescalation zones are kind of like the arab israeli peace process they're there on paper but they don't really exist they're a bit of a figment of people's imaginations the syrians and the russians proved those the escalation zones but said they have to keep fighting terrorists which of course every government should do but they define anybody that they don't like as a terrorist therefore the fighting continues and this we've seen this happen throughout the country so there they deescalation zones were

a means that were used for two reasons one to heighten the diplomatic leverage that russia has including a little bit with iran and turkey in the broader process of political reconciliation in syria which would eventually go back to geneva but also to increase the leverage that the syrian armed forces have in the short run to be able to continue operations as they've done in several parts of the country near damascus and now in the south and they will continue their last push to the western part of the province in the south so the deescalation issue shouldn't be taken literally but as part of a complex diplomatic negotiation in which the russians and the syrian government have come out pretty much on top and the short run the iranians and hizbollah and others are watching jordan has serious real legitimate interests and concerns but everybody wants to end the fighting send the refugees back home let them live in

peace and open up syria again as a trading partner and transit zone lebanon and jordan will both mentally benefit from reopening the borders for trade and these sort of the brig are issues that people need to start looking at but the fighting is not over and the last point to make is that one of the really tricky parts in this is people talk of the rebels and the government the rebels are made up around thirty or forty different kinds of groups there are organized groups there are tribal groups there are local people some of the rebels and. shitted agreements local cease fires with the government through that all kinds of different groups that don't agree and that's why the rebel broadly they failed the syrian. army was not able to triumph and getting a full agreement in the south means bring with you know dozens and dozens of different groups who have different interests and we've seen that happen already but in the long run the government is going to triumph probably sable as

a tool of russia's guaranteeing security in this deal. is it possible that we could see russian forces operating in the golan heights or is that is that a no no i don't think russia is interested in having his ground forces operating though there may be russian military police which will help supervise is own there's a certain amount of joint interest between israel and russia in not having it done . in the area although they iran has helped assad's regime i don't think that russia is interested in that continuing presence and therefore i think we will see wash and support for the israeli position that there should be no it lady and toups in if not in syria certainly no in near the border israel has always seemed fairly ambivalent towards bashar assad despite the assad regime regime serving the. the vital but i mean strategic and security interests of israel since one thousand

nine hundred sixty seven how going forward do you think will israel deal with with syria politike.