journey to level flooded passages with lives fully into the hands of cave divers let flown in from all over the world to guide them out the boys are being kept in isolation to make sure they didn't get any infectious diseases inside the cave an agonizing wait for their parents who were allowed to see them but not get near to them yet. last night once we successfully completed our mission there was another team ready to place the equipment for us immediately we were able to complete our mission earlier than expected by around four or five hours if the weather stays like this and we're able to prepare ourselves faster we can conduct our operation faster barons feared the worst when their boys disappeared more than two weeks ago after entering the caves just before it got flooded only to be found nine days later in relative good health it was a tough call to make to rescue the boys who console him nor die for this flooded and narrow gateway it could only work if the boys wouldn't panic and fully rely on

the rescuers for guidance although details of the rescue operation have yet to emerge it's safe to say that this tricky plan has so far been successful authorities say the boys are doing fine despite their ordeal by details about their medical conditions have not been released dramatic disappearance of the football team and their equally dramatic rescue has not only captivated thailand but many worldwide how has poured in from around the globe something the parents of the boys say they will never forget as long as they live step fasten al-jazeera at that time long cave in northern thailand. well as we've been hearing the rescue operation is a difficult and dangerous one this is the journey ace of the boys have now made and which still faces those remaining four boys and their coach are still trapped here on the muddy bank four kilometers inside the cave system well to get out each boy

is guided by two trained cave divers using ropes through a series of narrow dark passages in several places the cave is submerged and they're under water for up to fifteen minutes at a time further all they have to exchange their diving gear for climbing equipment to get up steep rocky slopes before reaching the cave entrance that's a total journey of five to six hours well the eight rescued boys are now in hospital in chiang rai scott heide larry is there and he sent us this update. second day a second rescue mission is successful four more boys pulled from deep inside that cave here in northern thailand and now eight boys are in this hospital over my shoulder they have a special floor that dedicated just to them we know that they're being protected they're isolated that's because there's concern about infectious diseases there's concern about bacteria their immune systems most likely are compromised they're worried about something passed to them from outsiders but also possibly something they picked up in the cape so right now they're up there they're being cared for

but again it's kind of a nice place we know the family members are up there on that same floor but there's no direct contact communication just yet now the third mission is planned for thirty for tuesday and they're hoping that those five other beds on that very special floor will be filled on tuesday night. coming up on the al-jazeera news our claims russia is violating a cease fire deal as rebel held areas of the russet he is surrounded by syrian government forces more than one hundred people are killed in floods and landslides that have devastated large parts of japan and peter will have the details of more korean success of the lady whole story. but first israel's prime minister has ordered the media closure of a key economic lifeline into gaza the care of crossing is

a vital access point for supplies in the besieged territory humanitarian aid medical supplies and food will still be allowed in but israeli authorities are also stopping fishing boats from operating more than six miles off the coast it's in response to palestinians launching incendiary kites into israel. is going to hamas we will immediately use a heavy hand against hamas in the gaza strip in a significant step we will today close it could. crossing it will be more steps but i will not elaborate. a force that has more on this from last year. let's measure from the israeli government has come as something of a surprise given all the talk that had been in recent weeks and months about trying to improve the situation humanitarian economic situation inside gaza for security reasons that have been the argument of the israeli army it has been the argument we understand of jason green's latin jarred cushion of the u.s. envoys who were here recently trying to get some international and israeli support

for some sort of restructuring inside gaza economic assistance to try and stave off this security problems and indeed give some traction potentially to donald trump's middle east peace plan yet to be public published instead we have this announcement from israeli prime minister in which he said he was acting with a heavy hand against hamas because of the continuing use of kites and balloons carrying incendiary devices burning material over the gazan border and into israel east israeli territory where forests and fields have been burnt for many weeks now there have been a good deal of pressure on him to act more firmly from his own coalition partners but this action will also be felt hugely by the two million residents inside gaza the four hundred or so trucks and day that come to caroms shalem as it's known in israel. as it's known to the palestinians they bring all sorts of goods humanitarian goods food livestock animal feed medicine will still be allowed

through but all industrial commercial goods will be banned the gaza chamber of commerce has told us that that will be catastrophic to the gazan economy there will be millions of dollars worth of goods stranded on the israeli side prices will spike inside gaza already gazan unemployment is running at more than forty percent the economy has been teetering on the brink of collapse so we're told by numerous analysts over recent weeks and months this could be a decisive measure and one which could further destabilize gaza. six civilians including four children have been killed in an airstrike by the saudi and erotic coalition in yemen it happened near the southwest of the country coalition air support is being used to back the government troops in the fight against who the rebels in yemen. syrian government forces have surrounded rebel held parts of there are city where the uprising against president bashar assad began seven years ago the siege comes just three days after

a russian brokered cease fire was agreed for there are province and opposition fighters say russia has not made good on any one of the key promises of the truth of what of reports from beirut. most of that our province is now under government control tens of thousands of displaced people have returned to their villages they left makeshift camps close to the border with jordan after a cease fire deal between the rebels and the russian military which has been negotiating on behalf of damascus but there are tens of thousands of others who are still camped out along the border with the israeli occupied golan heights. some of them are wanted by the syrian authorities for engaging in opposition activities it is risky for them to return without international guarantees. the people here are really shocked from what's been happening lately we can't believe how rebels have been handing over territory to the government with no real guarantees the russians for example guaranteed government forces would leave for

towns under the cease fire deal those troops have been left and people can go back they fear arrest and executions and now some of them are under siege the rebel controlled part of the divided city of daraa is surrounded by government troops a few thousand people are trapped inside among them fighters their family members and members of the opposition rebel commander say the russian military is violating the cease fire deal by failing to provide safe passage to those who don't want to reconcile with the state they were supposed to be bussed to the opposition held areas and the norse that evacuation may now happen on tuesday. government forces are already in control of more than seventy percent of the province either through military force or surrender deals the opposition was in a difficult position the rebels didn't get any support from their regional international allies they were divided and they faced what they described as a scorched earth policy the government and its allies are close to regaining

complete control of the province where the uprising against president bashar assad's rule began over seven years ago they have taken most of the areas along the jordanian border except for the yarmouk valley under the control of the eisel affiliate armed group jaish khalid and they consolidated control over the last strip of the main highway to the syrian capital damascus their target is not just that are they also want rebel areas in the neighboring province of connector they have the upper hand and the government is on the road to a final victory in the south. beirut but seventy percent of their province is now being captured by government forces including the main border crossing with jordan and then the same job it crossing connects a trade route that runs from turkey and lebanon down to the arabian peninsula and it smith reports on the impact its reopening is expected to have on jordan's

economy. five thousand trucks a month used to rumble across this border between jordan and syria then the civil war started starving the jordanian economy of four hundred million dollars a year in trade you need to be assured that it's had a huge effect here with business from shipping people had jobs now they are sat at home when the border all balloons this area will flourish one and a half billion dollars worth of goods a year pass through this border before it closed now it's clear of governments across the region but especially in lebanon and syria and here in jordan on the border reopened again as soon as possible. jordan is desperate for revenue nationwide protests in early june forced the government to abandon tax rises and employment is over eighteen percent the highest it's been in twenty five years and there are more than six hundred fifty thousand syrian refugees living here we have meager resources the fact that the government is is almost bankrupt

they cannot invest more money in developing the infrastructure so the jordanians have to share their weak infrastructure with hundreds of thousands of refugees in the last four years six hundred eighty million dollars has been lost in transit fees alone from cargo heading north and south they have been. forced to go with by sea and that has. put major financial pressures on it because of the extra costs and not only the time he considerable extra time that it requires to transport these shipments and cargoes so once that is the zoomed and there is a recovery of that. you will see trading going. between the two countries. reopening the border also helps the syrian government rebuild

its economy but further cements the return of bashar assad's control over his shattered country. bernard smith al-jazeera on the jordan syria border russia paper the hun says turkey is embarking on a journey towards a strong government in parliament as he was sworn in for a second term as president at a ceremony in ankara at that assumes office with sweeping new powers after a controversial referendum on the role of the president in april last year critics though say the changes undermine the strength of the country's the ocracy and centralized decision making in the office of the president meanwhile turkey's economy is struggling and the currency has fallen significantly in recent months. well funny how cora is a turkey analyst at the international affairs think tank chatham house he joins us live now in the studio thank you so much for being with us so first of all i guess the think the say about the cabinet is that the number would be fewer than sixteen

down to twenty seven members but any particular appointments the you will be looking out for the most crucial will be the. check the former deputy prime minister will be appointed in a in a in an economy related role the markets financial markets tend to view him positively he's been absolutely critical in projecting a positive image for turkey among foreign investors so whether he stays in the cabinet and the minister of commerce or not will be viewed closely by markets ok will this also heralds the new ear of turkey if you will that the centralized powers of the president no more prime minister party also controls parliament i mean obviously at the well is a lot more powerful than he has been since he took power back in two thousand and three but i guess all that power also means that he might be blamed for things like for example the economy how tenuous would you say the economy is right now and how

damaging credit be to evelyn's power the economy is everyone's achilles heel we've seen the turkish lira depreciate by almost twenty percent this year against the us dollar we've seen also that the the the inflation turkey is in double digit territory inflation is the unemployment rate is stubbornly high so turkey's really has been growing too fast too quick and is unlikely to slow it down it's a bit like he's been trying he's going for ferrari style growth rates but with an audi a mid-sized car engine i mean obviously in any election anywhere the economy is always key i mean in his case you know you would say was a free election with a. early fair certainly the media coverage was skewed very much towards their don and his party but again i mean how damaging could the economy be for him either seem to have the support of the country right now but how long do you think the

honeymoon so to speak last the electorate in turkey is deeply polarized along sectarian ethnic and religious lines turkey has an ideological voting and as we know with in turkey and the same is true also with briggs it i do logical voters very rarely move from one camp to the other what it takes something dramatic to happen such as a major economic crisis which then becomes the tipping point and allows them voters to begin to consider alternative candidates and should the crisis take place in turkey which i anticipate within five years then that could shake up his popularity took right thank you very much for the akula from chatham house thank you. was that the kind we hear on al-jazeera living in a time of peace eritrea jointly declare the war is now behind them. making journalism a crime a course in myanmar charges two journalists with violating state secrets for

reporting on the refugee crisis and in sports twenty time grand slam champion. i just closer to an eight wimbledon title. plenty of sunshine across the middle east normal service really has been resumed here barely a cloud in the sky actually it is going to be dry as we go through the next few days the winds of greater significance i suspect take a look at the time which is mid forty's to kuwait city and also for baghdad that came sliding out of iraq pushing down towards the arabian peninsula twenty. eight lovely sunshine here this is the place to be similar valleys as we go on into the middle part of the week so still getting up into the mid forty's there for

baghdad at forty six celsius so thirty six the for a couple of praise here as well the much as he wanted to showers the into is back in style but otherwise it's generally try southeast of pakistan could see a little bit of wet weather now right in the forecast across the maybe potentially more sunshine that came wind continuing here in qatar over the next couple of days hopefully easing off a touch as rick i wanted to wednesday but notice bit of an easterly feed so that my will just pick the humidity up once again meanwhile while this last you draw across southern africa a little bit of cloud into the southeast of south africa having said that eastern side of the country seeing a little more in the way of cloud possibility of one of two showers just around the mozambique channel. in two thousand and fourteen israel inflicted

a devastating attack on gaza. filmmaker mohammad job captures the destruction of his home city through the struggle of those he saved lives for a living. i witnessed ambulance on al-jazeera. we headed to jerusalem bureau covered israeli palestinian affairs we covered this story with a lot of internet to we covered it with that we don't dip in and out of the story we have a presence here all the time apart from being a cameraman it's also very important to get journalism to know the story very well before going into the fields covering the united nations and global the policy for al-jazeera english is pretty incredible this is where talks happen and what happens there matters.

welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera britain's pro breck said foreign secretary has resigned plunging prime minister. may's government into crisis or as johnson is the third minister to twenty four hours as may struggles to keep her cabinet united over how britain will leave the european union eight schoolboys have now been rescued from a thai cave where they were stranded for more than two weeks four more boys under football coach remain inside the head of the rescue mission says he needs three more days to get them out and israel has shut down the carom of crossing into gaza it's a major economic lifeline and vital access point for supplies in the besieged territory . the japanese prime minister has cancelled an upcoming foreign trip as the number

of people who have now died from flooding and landslides increases to one hundred fourteen sixty one others remain missing after record torrential rains inundated many areas in the southwest region rob mcbride reports. this was the first day. this father could return to see what's left of his house and possessions he abandoned it with his wife and young children in the middle of the night stalled waters inundated his neighborhood. we were told to move to safety to leave so that's what we did we took nothing with us except what we had on. this day he showed us how the waters quickly rose to the upper floor of his house. his father can't remember rains like it. was because you've never experienced anything

like it. is not a city that is apparent disasters. this part of crash city was one of the worst affected areas here as elsewhere the river simply couldn't handle the incredible surge of water and it broke its banks in three places inundating thousands of homes and sadly claiming lives with the break in the weather and waters receding emergency teams have stepped up their efforts to look for the missing the rising death toll has already made this one of the most lethal storms japan has experienced in decades at its height a broad swathe of western and southern japan were affected stretching emergency teams to the limit many people couldn't escape the unprecedented rainfall in time and had to be rescued thousands of people remain displaced wondering when they can go home along the banks of the river in karate pumps work around the clock to bring

down water levels in the coming days for the cold water family rebuilding their lives will take a lot longer. and it's hard to express my feelings in words tatsuya tells us that he hopes he'll never have to again rob a bride al-jazeera akiyama prefecture japan. police in the u.k. say they don't know whether the death of a woman from the nerve agent navi chalk is linked to the attack four months ago on a former russian double agent and his daughter darren star just died on sunday just over a week after she fell ill in amesbury in southern england that's a few miles away from salzburg. and his daughter yulia were poisoned by another chalk in march star just as shown here on the shop surveillance camera less than twenty four hours before she fell ill. this latest horrendous turn of events has only served to strengthen the results of our investigation as we work to identify those responsible for this outrageous reckless and barbaric act. the investigation

is being led by detectives from the u.k.'s counterterrorism police and networks and they are unable to say at this moment whether or not the nerve agent found in this incident is linked to the attack on so again nearly a script. however this remains our main line of inquiry. president donald trump as usual now as his latest candidate for the u.s. supreme court it will be the second time he's been able to choose a justice in the past eighteen months and it is significant because it is a session will probably swing the court formally towards the right our white house correspondent kimberly hellcat reports. few us presidents so early in their first term have had the opportunity to leave their mark on their country like donald trump does the supreme court is the final judge in all cases involving laws made by congress so those who are appointed matter these raise your right hand donald trump

his first nominee a conservative judge neil gorsuch was confirmed last year just as gorsuch we had a home run there and we're going to hit a home run here and step by step we are making america great again trump interviewed at least seven candidates to replace retiring justice anthony kennedy his announcement is expected to kick off a contentious nomination process president trump has proven that he wants the best of the best on the supreme court conservative groups have launched an offensive to shift the nine member court to the political right this video is just part of that multimillion dollar lobbying effort but democrats are spending to determine to block republican efforts i don't like judges who want to make law rather than interpret law so i don't like judges too far right now i really don't like judges too far left either if confirmed by the u.s. senate the incoming judge has the potential to remake the ideological balance of

the supreme court potentially overturning precedent setting decisions on health care gay marriage and even the landmark one nine hundred seventy three ruling which legalized abortion in the united states. that's why grassroots groups on both sides are mobilizing to influence the confirmation. what we have is the american people who are side if you look at the poll numbers if you ask people what they want out of a jurist what they want out of the supreme court it is not the kind of people who donald trump has on the short list democrats are pushing to delay the confirmation vote on donald trump's supreme court nominee until after november congressional elections republicans made the same argument back in two thousand and sixteen and successfully block barack obama's third appointment to the supreme court their argument now blowing back that americans should have the opportunity to weigh in on a justice with the potential to influence the supreme court for at least

a generation well there are four leading contenders for the soon to be vacated supreme court seat first up is brett kavanaugh now he began his career as a clark to justice kennedy who is retiring at the end of the month the fifty three year old this is a popular choice for conservatives because of his stance on abortion immigration and gun rights and there's raymond catholic to fifty one year old sixth circuit appeals court judge he's seen a supporting a regionalism that's interpret the constitution along the lines of its meaning at the time of enact meant that forty six year old mother of seven amy kone barrett is viewed as the outside choice she's a former professor of law and member of the people of praise religious organization and a favorite among social conservatives the fourth candidate is thomas hardy a minute fifty three year old philadelphia appeals court judge he's a conservative former cab driver and would be the only supreme court judge not to

have attended either of the elite law schools that's harvard or yale well kimberly how kid is live for us in washington kimberly we have a kind of short list of sorts there any sense that trump has actually made up his mind. well the president said that he was going to make his decision by noon today that was a couple of hours ago here in the united states and the east coast and we've not heard anything from the president he certainly has from the beginning as we often see with donald trump turned this into a bit of a reality t.v. show he's promised that this will be revealed at twenty one g.m.t. or rather one g.m.t. on tuesday that is nine pm here in the united states which is notably prime time television viewing hours here in the united states so he's producing this moment leaving a lot of suspense but he did give us a little bit of a tease on sunday saying that the list down to the four people that you mentioned saying that every one of them in his view you can't go wrong that is

a quote from donald trump so certainly this is a lot of drama built into all of this but it is nothing compared to the drama that we're expecting to see after the nomination is an out in terms of the confirmation process exactly just talk us through that confirmation process because obviously a lot of people a lot of people will be opposed no matter who don't trump proposes but especially because of the supreme court and as you mentioned b.'s decisions last a generation so talk us through what happens after the nomination. right well once the nomination is made there is no guarantee that donald trump's pick is going to be confirmed that it's up to the u.s. senate to do and this is a long process there are hearings a lot of questions that have to be answered not only publicly but also in writing and then the senate will ultimately vote now this is where it gets kind of interesting because you may remember under brock obama's administration when he had the opportunity to make a third nomination in fact he did make that nomination to the supreme court but his

pick was never confirmed that's because republicans effectively blocked it from being voted on and then we had the u.s. election and everything changed so what we have now is the same sort of scenario as i said in my report there the republicans argument that was made during the brock obama administration that the american people should have the opportunity to weigh in on this in the u.s. election and this vote should be delayed in the senate while that same argument is now being made by democrats and so there's a bit of a battle going on such as a bit of a battle this battle both sides spending tens of millions of dollars because the concern is that donald trump has had his shortlist vetted by very conservative groups and as you said in the intro to this segment that in fact this could shift the balance of the court further to the political right that is what democrats are concerned about going to try and stall this vote but the top republican in the senate says that it will happen before the u.s. election congressional elections in november and really how kip following that

story for us from washington kimberly thank you. well the leading human rights group in the u.s. says it's unlikely that present government will reunite migrant told lies with their families before a crucial deadline a judge ordered that one hundred two migrant children under the age of five who have been separated from their parents of the u.s. border must be sent back to their families by tuesday but the american civil liberties union which called the lawsuit that led to that order says less than half of the will be successful. rebels in south sudan have rejected a peace plan reinstating opposition leader rick vice president saying it fails to dilute the president's strong power base mashal was president salva kiir is that pretty until two thousand and thirteen when a political disagreement between them the generated into a war that has ravaged the south sudan ever since the deal naming our first vice

president was reached in and in talks mediated by uganda's president of any. well meantime meanwhile longtime regional rivals ethiopia and eritrea say that they're no longer at war after their leaders signed a declaration of peace and friendship the decision to restore diplomatic relations came during a landmark visit by ethiopia's leader. to eritrea priyanka gupta reports. with smiles and handshakes if you o.p.'s prime minister left eritrea and a decades long military standoff behind him at the abbott's visit was high on symbolism but also led to the most significant steps yet to its peace between the two longtime regional rivals at the covered you don't know where you are now the chances and the opportunities were there for us and we were hoping to use them but they were locked away from us for the past twenty five years twenty five years is

not a short time the loss we incurred in the past twenty five years cannot be recovered but today we feel like we have not lost anything we feel as if what we've lost has been regained. the wall that was built between our people against their will for the last twenty years needs to be demolished the war that took the lives of thousands of waited many years and cost us dearly financially and finally become war without. abir took the first step weeks ago by surprise and controversial decision to accept the terms of a peace deal they signed of the year two thousand that ended a two year conflict over their shared border and now the two leaders have decided to take it a step further by opening that border and reestablishing their embassies resuming flights and developing ports. but the forestall to peace has some sobering reminder there are a number of territories along the border and territories will both directions.

and there are going to be communities like resist being. transferred to another national jurisdiction or divided by the new order so the implementation is going to be on. the border dispute has taken a toll atreus isolated regime and its focus on the conflict with has the thousands of people flee the country mainly diskeeper mandatory military conscription via wants to put landlocked a few back on track as one of africa's spots to score economies with access to eritrea threats seaports but for many it's a coming together of the better force that have raised hopes for peace in the horn of africa. al-jazeera the son of former south african president jacob zuma has been released on bail of a corruption charges linked to his father's time in office thirty four year old. is

alleged to have tried to bribe a former deputy finance minister and.