other parts of western europe and indeed other traditional american allies but i think he's demonstrated that he can sort of look at a piece of evidence and take a tiny piece of it or just look at a completely separate. sort of universe and decide well no that's fine they all of course we've got the meeting with with coming up that is something something that almost feels like that's the key part of this whole trip because the way he dismissed nato was almost like we're discussing pastore these days until that one comes up as i read it the nato summit wasn't good i think it's fair to say the tenor of the conversation the sort of pin bowling between is he going to withdraw from nato is he just making a threat to it to the sort of ostensibly positive but still quite veiled threat of the press conference at the end the fact that he turned up late and left early those are all very bad signs now the alliance survived but i think there's any progress that might have been made on afghanistan on. increasing nato political

will against russia just general sort of nato comedy i think has has not been served by the summit and by the conversation that trump had around and with and the ways that he has his close advisor for quote it very great for your thoughts on this and your insight take a very callous thing to chuck from chatham house thank you so much to say chunk flew into london from brussels where he had been attending the nato summit day two it was supposed to focus on afghanistan crimea and other pressing international issues but almost inevitably it was largely about trump the u.s. president first threatened to pull out of nato then declared victory and his goal of forcing other member nations to increase their financial contributions and diplomatic editor james bays reports. president trump and isolated. at least how he wanted to be seen at the start of the day's proceedings even

chewing away and assistant nato will not forget this day the day a stern looking u.s. president came here with a clear narrative in his mind he created a crisis even hinting he might pull out of the alliance declaring a victory a tremendous progress has been made everyone's agreed to substantially up their commitment they're going to up it at levels that they've never thought of before prior to last year where they attended my first meeting it was going down the amount of money being spent and by countries was going down and down very substantially. earlier trump was late for a meeting between nato allies and partner countries ukraine and georgia the cameras were no longer in the room by the time the president once again brought up nato defense spending an issue everyone else thought of being settled the nato secretary general young stoltenberg had to ask you crane in georgia to leave as nato went

into emergency session. while trump insists they made new much increased spending commitments its allies later tonight that nothing new had been agreed there is a familiar pattern here trump is still declaring his diplomacy with north korea is going well even though the country itself which has made no firm commitments for what has just called recent talks troubling that was an amazing really an amazing meeting i thought and i really think that we establish very good relationships will see were all ends but there have been no missile tests there have been no research where there's been they have blown up a side i hear they're blowing up another side missile say so what actually was achieved at this nato summit virtually nothing and expose the divisions within the alliance the person that is going to benefit is russian president vladimir putin who president trump meets at the beginning of next week the u.s. president was asked about that meeting he was positive he was asked to about

russian amec sation of crimea he was once again positive about putin and at no point called for russia to withdraw from crimea the next few days will continue to be worrying ones for nato allies james zira at nato headquarters in brussels. syrian government forces and their russian allies have raised the national flag go in there are held city and the area that has been held by rebels for years is a hugely symbolic moment in the more than seven year syrian war major protests against perhaps president bashar al assad first erupted and era in twenty eleven why this scene is heralding the start of the conflict zain ahadith reports from beirut. it's a highly symbolic moment in syria's ongoing war dead our city was where it all began back in two thousand and eleven the first protest against president bashar assad's rule happened here and the whole town rebels who were besieged have now

surrendered after an almost three week long government offensive the choice to raise the national flag near the mosque was no coincidence it was the focal point of the demonstrations the loss of did our city has sparked emotions among many and the opposition by the service there was an interview with fellow sivan years since the revolution began after all the sacrifices that were made the regime is raising its flags about buildings in the city and other places as well this is affected the people badly people are depressed and disappointed but the revolution is in our blood and it will continue to run in our veins was these were the scenes of the incident was that after seven years ago it was protests that spread to other areas was. serious to democracy were met by bullets fired by security forces. was there

was a lot has happened since the protest movement turned into a war hundreds of thousands of people have been killed the syrian government with the backing of iran and russia now controls sixty percent of syria after steadily recapturing territory it lost to the rebels over the years the northwestern province of idlib is where most opponents of the i said regime live and defiance remains. we lost everything our land in our house but the spirit of the revolution lives with us we haven't lost hope even if we lost we hope that all syrians will unite a revolt. and god willing the regime will fall. back the revolution will remain the regime captured or rock just like it captured aleppo and holmes even if it controls all the opposition areas the revolution will continue just like in the past we

managed to revolt despite the presence of security checkpoints everywhere for the opposition losing the birthplace of their uprising is not the end of their struggle against what they call oppression but there is little doubt the latest military gains are yet another turning point and the government's efforts to crush the rebellion. beirut you're watching the. live from london is much more to come on the program amnesty international publishes evidence of torture and killings and the rotty run prisons in yemen which it says could amount to rule crimes austria and germany look for ways to allow for border free travel while preventing hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants from getting in and make money ok oh. becoming a boxing world champion story in. israel

. temporarily blocked a demolition order for better when a community in the occupied west bank. was set to be clear despite growing international criticism of the move the village consists of mainly makeshift structures of tin and wood which the israeli authorities say were built illegally are a force that has more from west jerusalem. well this is the very least a stay of execution for the people of qana lamarr a bedouin community of nearly two hundred people in the occupied west bank it did seem that a long threatened demolition was impending with the moving in of the heavy machinery of the israeli state the israeli military in recent days as they seemed to be preparing the way for that demolition to take place there had been a legal judgment by the israeli supreme court at the end of may which said that such a demolition would be illegal and then last week there was a petition lodged by activists which said that an alternative plan that had been

filed by them to the israeli civil war florence's allowing for coming to be made into a proper permanent community with plumbing and electricity that that had not been fully evaluated and accounted for and so they were petitioning against the demolition the supreme court has not accepted that but it hasn't dismissed it either and it says there needs to be a hearing on that question no later than or just the fifteenth western governments have been european governments have been petitioning or at least arguing for this not to take place there have been a number of diplomats from occupied east jerusalem traveling out to this community to try to attract attention to what's been happening here so this is by no means a permanent solution it may just be a delay to the demolition but it does give activists a little more time as they try to get the israeli government to change its course of action on this village amnesty international says it has evidence to prove

prisoners are being killed tortured and the disappearing from secret jails operated by fell just from the u.a.e. and southern yemen the rights group says it is happening there could amount to war crimes u.a.e. was previously denied similar allegations how mara choudhry has more. al-jazeera obtained a voice recording late last year of a man who said he'd been held prisoner in southern yemen operated by so which is from the united arab emirates. there are various methods such as the use of electric shock waterboarding as well as forcing detainees to strip naked this is how they torture us in different prisons they use different methods amnesty international says evidence from more than seventy families government workers and prisoners all show crew and unlawful practices in prisons run by amorality and yemeni forces some of these detention facilities actually official. what we

and others. in our investigations is that there is a network of secret detention. the most egregious violations are actually. a coalition of countries led by saudi arabia and the united arab emirates has been fighting heathy rebels for more than three years to back the government of president or hearty the who has created a humanitarian crisis and pushed millions of yemenis to the brink of starvation secret unknown you even detention centers in five governorates in southern yemen are detailed by the report says they say there are credible allegations of deaths in custody of missing detainees of torture and what's described as egregious detention related violations which cannot be justified under any circumstances other rights groups have made similar allegations and all of the warring sides are accused of human rights abuses. saudi arabia has just announced pardons for troops

disciplined for their conduct in yemen saudi state media didn't specify their crimes amnesty is calling for suspected criminals to be put on trial and for the united states to suspend cooperation with the u.a.e. including ending weapons sales america choudhry al-jazeera. sixty seven people are stranded on an italian coast guard ship unable to disembark it is interior minister matty are solving it says he well let the migrants off the ship which is docked in sicily until there is clarity over what happened when an italian tugboat rescued them over the weekend salvini says the migrants who allegedly threatened their rescue crew are criminals who hijacked the ship off libya's waters. austria and germany are looking to plug the gaps in their shared border to stop hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants getting in but i have to find a way around the shang and zone agreement which ensures border fee travel within the european union is

a heated issue in both countries i think collapse of the german coalition government earlier this month from varia dominant came of course. mention migration of meetings of e.u. leaders these days and many assume they're talking about stricter rules and allowing fewer people in certainly that's true for these three men the interior ministers of austria italy and germany. i think the three of us agree that we want to restore order in an area where for much too long disorder reigned from here we want to send a clear message to the world and especially to people smugglers that in future it will no longer be possible to reach european soil without the right to protection of his german counterpart wants to see much more of this sort of police controls on main routes into and out of southern germany offices here say they've stopped around fifteen hundred illegal immigrants so far this year there are three such control areas in operation along the border with austria which meanders for more

than eight hundred kilometers across rivers mountains and valleys alike with lots of road and rail connections. and as that makes clear there are many border crossings like this one where it's quite possible to walk or to drive from austria into the federal republic of germany without showing any identity documents without being controlled which means effectively that the german interior ministry will have no idea who's coming into their country yet that is the price of the german government's apparently continuing commitment to the e.u. use schengen zone creating a contradiction between wanting tougher border controls on the one hand and border free travel on the other with. the internal only want is going to not border checks as long as shang in isn't working in the right manner i am not in favor of border controls within europe in the long term the route from the italian coast to the

bavarian border was one of the main routes many migrants used to travel to germany over the past few years now it's increasingly clear the government's concerned wanted closed as soon as possible dominant came down to zero in bavaria stay with us on the news hour still to come on the program. a hero's welcome back a base for the thai navy seals who helped rescue twelve schoolboys and their football coach from off like a champ administration for further behind and its efforts to reunite migrant families separated at the mexican border and this lady is close to telling around what's been a miserable summer of sport for germany details coming up in sport. welcome

back let's start by looking at the weather across europe and we've got this area of low pressure we call a cutoff low city across parts of germany and into poland and it's only moving very slowly giving some very heavy rain in places meanwhile further towards the west where the conditions are looking largely fine though we have got some showers in the u.k. but still temperatures in the mid to upper twenty's and likely to stay that way so there we are looking a snapshot for saturday wanted to share still the northern part of your employer looking pretty potent elsewhere still got the area of rain across parts of poland and heading further towards the east but central southern parts of europe are looking fine really warm in both rome and athens on the other side of the mediterranean is generally fine conditions thirty six incur again the wind coming off the mediterranean but elsewhere these are winds coming up from the desert south of life you're bringing up some dust up towards parts of western europe so watch out for that some some red dust likely to be a positive for get the showers and also some sunsets now as you move into central

parts of africa we've got some heavy showers here as you'd expect west africa is looking quite lively in places they are cherry getting quite a way north bamako mali may just see the old shower certainly quite cloudy at times heis here of twenty nine degrees celsius. a new series of rewind a care breyer people back to life i'm sorry and brand new updates on the best of al-jazeera documentaries this trouble continual book from the till now is distance rewind continues with the silver friends we're going back to a poor south african neighborhood where music and tradition come together in an annual competition for the people of color we walked on al-jazeera. on july fourteenth. two thousand and sixteen. an attack on the city

a day in nice what changed people's lives forever. things that has killed at least sixty people. two years on al-jazeera world meets the french muslim families who lost their loved ones. truck attack a nice an al-jazeera. welcome back reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera donald trump is on a visit to the u.k. where he's attending a lavish dinner with british prime minister to resign lennon palace thousands of

protesters have been rallying against his visit in the capital london before heading to the u.k. was at the nato summit in brussels where he declared victory in his goal over spending but some nato leaders are disputing this claim and syrian government forces and their russian allies have raised the national flag over daryl's old city the birthplace of the uprising against president bashar. well anti-government demonstrations are being planned in nicaragua despite two hundred sixty four people already being killed in nearly four months of unrest human rights organizations accuse president daniel ortega of ordering troops to use grenade launchers against protesters ariana sanchez has been meeting grieving families in the capital managua. the family of eighteen year old alexander mendoza say he disappeared after taking part in a protest in may his mother must get the dust says ten days later she got

a call from the coroner's office she was asked to formally identify alexander's body so little as it was the letters that i never imagined this would happen that i would hear that the doctor told me both he died of natural causes then and that he got scared and had a heart attack. eighteen year olds rarely die that way so my little went to an independent forensic doctor for a second opinion so you know what affix apl and he said my son was strangled to death. but editor then fired the complaint with me get out was permanent commission for human rights the group say it's been overwhelmed by such reports. on wednesday the organization of american states described the situation in the ghetto war as grave. and. be considering the deepening and increasing deterioration of the grave human rights crisis in nicaragua the interim american

commission for human rights calls on the international community to demand nicaragua immediately puts an end to repression and arbitrary detentions and all other human rights violations. but the need to know when government dismissed the oas report as biased. nicaragua rejects the report it was rushed prejudiced and lacks objectivity it requires a professional attitude to report the truth about what's going on. the government says the protests aimed to topple president that they are here at me that i was national university students and other government opponents have been entrenched for more than one month the government accuses them of being subversive a threat to peace. but the opposition accuses police and pro-government paramilitary forces are firing live rounds at protesters this week has seen some of the worst violence since the protests erupted nearly three months ago. we care i

was long time president than he has rejected calls to hold early elections the opposition is just as determined but many here fear what's to come. with more teenagers like alexander are likely to be caught in the crossfire of the country's political crisis. just men know when to get out. well joining us now via skype from neighboring costa rica is kevin kasem or is the former second vice president of costa rica and a leading academic specializing and latin american politics very grateful for you joining us on al-jazeera can i just first of all turn to the escalating violence a young rest it does it feels like it's all aimed at trying to persuade president ortega to call elections is that how you read it. the e.-s. i mean but there's a there's

a more disturbing. phenomenon taking place which is that a lot of data seems to be digging in his heels there that's what his speech last night clearly suggested a rejected calls for an early election and and by doing so. the avenues. for a peaceful resolution of the crisis are being no stuff and that's of course a tragedy. and so basically you're saying he's just not listening he's not going to bow out of this violence and these cause so dare say an escalation even more it's almost certain it's almost certain because. the the one. option on the table to deescalate the violence and the option those called for by. by the private sector in the car which is very. powerful and relevant so

actual actor by a by the opposition forces by the international community in the in the shape of you're going to say sion of american states i mean the option that was on the table was. colleen an early election in the first quarter of twenty nineteen. you know an option that would stick built provide for date with a real peace a noble degree. control over the process source to turn it into an orderly transition he's apparently rejecting that right and that makes it very very difficult i mean what comes ahead a looks increasingly defined by him as violence if there are viable challenger then if we did start to say i let sets out that somebody could

come to the fore and challenge his position. that's a great question and i mean one of the of the of the problems in the situation is that the opposition does not seem to have a clear leadership a substantial leaders are part of this credit political parties they were this band the they were earlier in the in the in his administration so i don't think that a credible challenger could come from the traditional political parties you leaderships are emerging. in the process of. the protestant of them straight shins but they seem to be very you don't bury and that's that so as to become credible challengers to what they are that's one of the problems that that the opposition has a you know to be pressing for. or an early and early

vote very grateful for your insights into this kevin curtis summer thank you very much for joining us on out of there my pleasure the time administration says it has reunited over half of the children separated from their parents at the border under the age of five but it was meant to reunite all of them by tuesday the government will now have to convince a judge that logistical difficulties and concerns about child well for affected the process or it faces punishment. the trumpet ministration missed the tuesday deadline for reunifying children under five who were separated from their parents but early on thursday it said it had now reunited fifty seven of the one hundred three under five in its care with a parent however that still short of the sixty three children mandated to be reunified by a judge the american civil liberties union is unimpressed it said make no mistake

about it our government missed the deadline even for these fifty seven children accordingly by the end of the day we will decide what remedies to recommend to the court for the noncompliance miriam. i am miriam the a.c.l.u. has released this video of actions reading out the account of a home during mother who was separated from an eighteen month old son the u.s. immigration officers then told me that they were taking my son from me both the a.c.l.u. and the courthouse except for the government's arguments that in some cases reunification is impossible some parents have a serious criminal history that could endanger the child for example however the judge has not accepted that the government has no responsibility to reunite children with parents who've been deported the government maintains deported parents want their children to remain in the u.s. but has provided new evidence to back up that claim the next deadline is july the twenty sixth the government has been ordered to reunite all children separated from

parents by them in a conference call with the media the government said it was confident it would meet that deadline as quite efficiently as it had met his days deadline but of course the government missed tuesday's deadline. the al-jazeera washington. at least twenty nine soldiers have been killed in a taliban attack on an afghan army outpost and happened in the northern city of that late on wednesday is a strategic city where the taliban has tried to take control of twice in the past three. the former pakistan prime minister now as sharif is set to return to lahore where he's likely to be taken into custody sharif was ousted by the supreme court in july twenty seventeen he was sentenced last week to ten years in jail on corruption charges related to the purchase of luxury apartments in london sharif hasn't appealed his conviction and has been based in london his wife is in israel in hospital south sudan's parliament has voted to extend president salva kiir is

term in office along with other leading officials care will no stay on as president until twenty twenty one after parliament approved the amendments to the constitution the ruling is likely to undermine peace talks aimed at ending the four and a half year civil war rebel groups led by kira's vice president react machar have already said they are strongly opposed to the move according to a key house sentence seventy two people to life in prison for their role in violence during the failed coup attempt to years ago the defendants were accused of killing thirty four people after seizing control of a suspension bridge in a stumble in twenty sixteen cinema has more from istanbul. this verdict has a significant importance for turkey as they stumble bridge right behind me was the flashpoint of the clashes on the night of the failed coup attempt two years ago on

july fifteenth it was then renamed as july fifteenth martis bridge as thirty four civilians got killed on the night of the ferrets core temp that was the first place the coup plotters closed down the roads and their prisons are dance call to his nation to take to the streets and challenge the crude plotters istanbul citizens walked to the bridge that night since the failed coup attempt at least one hundred sixty court cases have been filed against the coup plotters and more than two hundred fifty people lost their lives across turkey that night and at least two thousand people got mourned it and since then turkey has been ruled by state of emergency and that these hundred sixty thousand people have been sacked due to their links with the. group which the government was the orchestrator of the failed coup attempt. the number of dead from flooding in

central and western japan has now reached two hundred with intense heat and water shortages raising new fears of disease and huge cleanup operation is underway after the worst weather disaster since nine hundred eighty two dozens of people are still missing and more than a million have been ordered to leave their homes landslides of course off road access to around twenty thousand people. the time navy seals who helped rescue troll schoolboys and their football coach from a cave have returned home to a hero's welcome the seals were mobbed by family and friends after touching down base near the capital bangkok they received awards for their part in the dangerous mission to rescue the boys from a deep underground cave complex a commanding officer says the rescue boys could go on to be a force for good in chinese society similar underground has more from channeling. the boys and the coach are expected to stay in hospital for the next few days this

is while three of the boys are being treated for a lung infection while the rest are going through laboratory exams and shortly after that they will be said home where they will still be under observation for about thirty days now during a recent press conference the thai government expressed gratitude and and basically extended its thanks not just its own forces but also to countries that extended assistance and sent their expertise over here this was a very complicated mission but it turned out quite successfully and even if it's something that happened a few days ago thailand is still in a celebratory mood while experts say this is how humanitarian agreements are for and this is going to be seen as a test case in future frameworks in future emergency assistance the will be conducted not just in south east asia but all across the world. sports is up next on the news hour. plus.

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