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 assad regime their defiance remains. we lost everything our land and our house but the spirit of the revolution lives with us we haven't lost hope even if we lost we hope all syrians will unite a revolt and god willing their regime will form. the revolution will remain if the regime captured the rock just like it captured aleppo and homs even if it controlled 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 in the government's efforts to crush

the rebellion. they built. still to come on the program austria and germany look for ways to allow for border free travel while preventing hundreds of thousands of migrants from getting in and the trombone ministration misses the legal deadline to reunite migrant children separated from their parents and the u.s. and mexico border. phones again will start by looking at weather conditions across the strait it's generally looking fine but it's actually quite chilly and you look at the alice springs they're struggling to reach twenty degrees celsius they might get to it but no overnight temperatures we don't but minus one and really at melbourne still looking pretty chilly stricken twelve degrees sydney nothing special that across western

australia we've got to just eighteen degrees for perth and also the threat of some showers as this frontal system moves in to the forecast forward into saturday is not a great deal of change temperatures much the same and weather conditions broadly similar how do you cross into a new season the weather remains fine across the bulk of the country during the course of friday but this low pressure center is going to be moving this way into the course of saturday so on the western side of the south island the maybe some rain developing later on but north island still looking fine oakland sixteen degrees movie on parts of northeastern parts of asia here obviously we don't anymore rain after all the flooding that we've had certainly for northern parts of japan as a chance of some rain there but for tokyo and across much of honshu down into the southern islands weather conditions are looking draw and find indeed they'll stay that way through the course of suffolk the fairy woman day thirty seven degrees as my storm but there's likely to be some heavy rain moving across parts of north korea northeastern china and russia.

with a crackdown on media and political opposition cambodia is getting ready for its national election when one east investigates how far w.'s ruling party will go to consolidate its power when he first on al-jazeera he has no passport yet he's politically active in two thousand trees i was due to external power peaceful transition when because the short term which part you know part of the world some people think you are stupid the crazy if you do that mccown saakashvili former president of georgia and ex governor of the odessa region in ukraine talk to al-jazeera. welcome back remind 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 may have been in 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 and he's go overspending but some nato leaders are disputing his 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 al assad. israel supreme court has temporarily blocked a demolition order for a bedouin community in the occupied west bank qana was set to be cleared despite growing international criticism of the move the village consists of mainly makeshift structures of ten and warrant 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 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 i disappearing from secret jails operated by cell just from the u.a.e. and southern yemen their rights group says what is happening that could amount to war crimes the u.a.e. has previously denied similar allegations and march out as well. al-jazeera obtained a voice recording late last year of a man who said he'd been held prisoner in southern yemen operated by soldiers 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 are not actually official. what we and others. in our investigations is that there is a network of secret detention centers 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 mansour hadi the who has created a humanitarian crisis and pushed millions of yemenis to the brink of starvation

secret to knowing 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 in. saudi arabia has just announced pardons for troops discipline 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 marriage choudhry out you sara. sixty seven people are stranded on an italian coast guard ship unable to disembark isn't his interior

minister matter salvini says he well that the migrants are off the ship which is docked in sicily until there is clarity over what happened when an italian tugboat rescued them over the weekend savini says the migrants who were 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 borders to stop hundreds of thousands of migrants getting in but that have to find a way around the schengen zone agreement which ensures border free travel within the european union is a heated issue in both countries threatening the collapse of the german coalition government earlier this month from the varia dominic cain reports. mention migration of meetings of e.u. leaders these days and many 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 the main routes into and out of southern germany officers 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 map 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 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 wheel the 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 and now it's increasingly clear the governments concerned wanted closed as soon as possible dominant cane al-jazeera in bavaria. nicaraguans are holding a generally strike on friday a sponsor of a three day protest against president daniel ortega demonstrators have already

marched through the capital managua two hundred sixty four people have been killed in three months of unrest are on the sumptuous join some of the process. this is the beginning of three days our road posts here in the now of the capital of look at our watch the alliance the a civic alliance a group made up of businessmen students farmers civil society they are marching against a president to the other world would pressuring their government some of them want the government to hold early elections not in two thousand and twenty one but in two thousand and nineteen but many others want president the miller thing up to resign immediately. the inter-american commission for human rights on wednesday said to washington that they demand that the mikado one government allows these protesters to march in peace the united nations secretary general and on who their recess said that he soon very worried about the increasing

the escalation of violence here in the got out of people have been protesting and you got i was getting off first stuff because of pension reform spots as the months the weeks and the months have gone by people are demanding the president to resign a president there has been in the presidency for three consecutive terms and that many people here say that he has installed a dictatorship and he got out of this by the president being his wife. however people here say that the violence is mostly perpetrated by pro-government gangs and that's why many people here say that it's time for the thing up to leave . the time for the ministrations says it has reignited the hot. the children separated from their parents at the border under the age of five but it was meant to reunite all of them by choose day the government will now have to convince

a judge that logistical difficulties and concerns about child welfare 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 no 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 judge the american civil liberties union is unimpressed it said make no mistake about it the 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 i marry and. i am myriad the a.c.l.u. has released this video of our actions reading out the account of a home during mother who was separated from a eighteen month old some of the u.s. immigration officers then told me that they were taking my son from me both the

a.c.l.u. and the court house 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 quote a fishing fleet as it had met his days deadline but of course the government missed tuesday's deadline shepparton see al-jazeera washington. the former pakistan prime minister now as sharif is set to return to lahore why he's likely to be taken into custody sharif was ousted by the supreme court in july twenty seventh team it was

sentenced last week to ten years in jail on corruption charges related to the purchase of luxury apartments in london sure it hasn't to pay on his conviction and has been based in london where his wife is ill in hospital. new york's times square is completely underwater in a new mixed reality public art exhibit the work which is the brainchild of the artist mel chin is intended to raise awareness of climate change al-jazeera is christian salumi went to take a look. at first glance this weathered shell of a ship in the center of times square looks like well a fish out of water but the sculpture called week by mel chin is bent to recall new york's past and how that relates to its future we could talk about climate change or political issues or economic issues but i think that creating artworks separate by the option and investigation into all our worlds a little deeper deeply probably really we're all place right now chipping help the

city become a center of commerce finance and entertainment but the consumption on display here can be related to climate change there's more to this exhibit than first meets the eye in addition to the sculptural elements there's a virtual reality component and when you put on these goggles it makes it look like times square is completely underwater and if you don't want to wait in line to use the special how lens goggles created by microsoft you can download an app on your phone for a similar experience when you're working in a space like times square it's very difficult to control the environment you have to be a little bit pushy about keeping people out of the interactive space a real immersion in living in a subterranean world called unmoored the second exhibit imposes a virtual world over time square it's not safe it's angst to go to catalyze when it looks like there's a whole bunch of boats coming up times square it's pretty cool creating

a mixed reality future in a city just a few meters above sea level in which global warming has gone unchecked i saw boats moving through the air and also the sap was moving far and the air with johnny going into the air also past present and future collide in an experience that suggests the very things that have on time square the nickname crossroads of the world could also be its undoing kristen salumi al jazeera new york. good reminder of the top stories now in al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump is in the u.k. on a four day working visit first lady being welcomed by british prime minister tourism may for a lavish dinner and then in palace in oxfordshire many is expected to use the event to press her case for an ambitious new trade deal with the u.s.

post breakfast but it's not all glitz and glamour thousands of protesters converged on the capital london to show their opposition to some of trump's more controversial policies. and this is only. interesting i think what's the intention is to keep them awake make noise any way we can to let them know how happy we are about to still sit down my mom is a big guy is a racist i don't like what he's done to the u.s. i just think that the majority of people here in america around the world we don't support him you know a racist bigoted billionaire who represents the economic interests of the billionaires the rich the one percent i think that's a message that we don't support those policies and you know what i'm. with her heading to the u.k. was at the nato summit in brussels where he declared victory in his go over spending but some nato leaders are disputing is claimed to have persuaded members to agree to double their defense spending france president emmanuel macro says the

joint statement went no farther than what further than what had been previously agreed. syrian government forces and their russian allies have raised the national flag with their hours old city is a hugely symbolic moment in the seven year war there i was the birthplace of the uprising against president bashar al assad. the former pakistani prime minister nawaz 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 seventh teen he was sentenced last week to ten years in jail on corruption charges. amnesty international has published evidence it says shows prisoners are being killed tortured and disappearing from secret jails in southern yemen the prisons are operated by soldiers from the u.a.e. the rise group says what's happening there could amount to war crimes yury has previously denied similar allegations. a set for may but stay with us here on al-jazeera one i want to waste is coming up next thanks for watching.

it's a long journey from home in haiti to school in the dominican republic crossing national borders and cultural barriers to tell his son but not the time in. discovering filmmaking talent from around the viewfinder latin america follows a young man who will stop at nothing to secure an education. the crossing on al-jazeera. ranked as the most corrupt self east asian country cambodia is about having a lecture. but with the main opposition party banned from participating it's being widely viewed as a sham. not that you'll read that in the local press the country's head of taxation has been accused of forcing the closure of independent media but what has he got to

heart i don't want to talk about. i'm steve on this episode one has to investigates cambodia's brutal crackdown in the lead up to the national election. it's monday morning in the cambodian people's party headquarters in the capital phnom penh having ruled the country for more than three decades the party's propaganda machine is well oiled. down within from one count on the long haul will cool more about proponent of the it won't bore hole been poor. spokesman saka son is presenting his program true voices for people who live on facebook and on seventeen government on radio stations across the country. comin along.

who are who won't. solve it. except those with an opposing opinion. in the past five years his support for the main opposition party surged the world's longest serving prime minister would send notes to brutal campaign against it. opposition politicians have been beaten more than a dozen jailed the party's leader held indefinitely on treason charges and then the final blow in nine months before the election the party was out mood for conspiring with the united states to overthrow the government. picks ross he's been accused of acting for the ruling party when he filed

a complaint against the opposition that lidge to with its icon planned them because they act opposite the law. is evidence of twenty thirteen video of the formal opposition leader cam succumb. to. such such are. done to see. the bite. now that they are. told me that my debt is. so here. and do as a government if the politics in cambodia and the county its are all of a shit of the law in cambodia. picks ross is now leading a campaign for his own cambodian youth party one of the twenty mostly new parties

contesting the july twenty ninth election. yeah. but once again he finds himself ending off accusations he and his party are puppets of who said. our good job is that. they must. be mad not only did. no no. no people will. get. sad. and he insists it's his own money behind his party i sell my den i sell my house i sell my car just before i have a good cause. comfortable cars but for now i just. maybe mitch being. cambodia is a failing democracy where a one party state. is the director of one of

cambodia's oldest and most respected human rights organizations. if you look closely at some of these parties the other night. except from one tiny one they're all aligned in some ways and they all popped up recently so this is no tea party. and actually this is. a non competitive election. the one and only party that knowledge people always says is independent is this one the grassroots democratic party set up in twenty fifteen today it's candidates a meeting on the outskirts of phnom penh to talk election strategy on what i mean how much of america walk on are you me in class could you speak of.

saying coma is a party founder and its prime ministerial candidate. i know that general but hang your. the portrait of his party's co-founder is an eerie reminder of just how treacherous cambodian politics can be. in july twenty sixth seen ken lay was shot dead in a phnom penh cafe in one of the country's most feelings critiques of the ruling party he's widely believed to have been a victim of a political assassination a lot of people try to convince me to want to become a force there was no no i know what i'm doing so. for me i have no choice i have to continue with this mission all my life like the people they hope to represent most of the candidates have little money and with the campaign budget coming out of

their pockets funds are limited to saying coleman is encouraging party members to be creative like recording policy messages for facebook so we have thousands of people are doing like that. so it's like grassroots media yes when there is no independent media you have to find out if you have to find a way out or what. it's not only the main political opposition party that's been destroyed in the lead up to the election the independent media has been decimated to the alleged new weapon taxation. last september after twenty four years in operation one of the country's most fearless newspapers the cambodia day was forced to shut down when it received a tax bill all six point three million dollars its final headline pulls no

punches. the cambodian dailies for many douglas steel and a new publisher deborah christmas steal a current leaving in tokyo. back in cambodia they both face criminal charges for tax evasion carrying a prison sentence of up to six years they chose essentially a number that was unpayable and were very hardline about that yeah steel vehemently denies evading tax but concedes the company may have owed the department some money the whole country is coming into the tax system most businesses are still not register you're going from a zero percent compliance to a normal system and we were moving along in that process we got singled out because they didn't like us. you're excellent mary ann

jolley from sarah the man who's overseen the tax reform is on the ball the director general of the taxation department is a member of the ruling party's elite central committee today we meet him in his palatial office on the top floor of the department we have done a tremendous reform. on the revenue because the government realize that. for the country to move forward for the development of the country we need to live in you to expand the ball kong refutes accusations his department has targeted independent media i think. that statement is not true is for but some people would say that it's an amazing coincidence that four of the only independent news organizations in this country received very large tax bills

it's not true we got less or independent newspaper or not independent newspaper they are subject to the rule of law here that's my role here. the united states government isn't convinced in january it withdrew funding from the tax department citing concerns about anti democratic behavior somebody the lea when they see the tax bill they jump. to talk to the from the ticks. to the embassy to international community by this committee in the government that the government target them but actually we are not targeting anybody what about ten thousand other companies in which we are auditing they never complained in this ng why only cambodia the. but a search of the cambodian company registry revealed kongs family appears to own a very large business and may have some questions to answer. one of the biggest

petroleum companies in the country it was incorporated in two thousand and night but according to the records here it didn't register with the tax department until march twenty seventeen the same time as the cambodia daily it says on the company register that it only registered for taxation in twenty seventeen. other move while you're talking look i'm just trying to understand whether paps your own family company has main orders to to determine tax owed prior to when it registered with the department in two thousand and seven tank no it's not true it's been a long time ago so that date on the official cambodia company registry is wrong. maybe they put in the system wrong. when i mention the company registry also shows that two directors and

a chair woman all relatives live at his home address it seems those records are wrong to talk about to the wrong person. i think i have nothing related to this company but they share a home address with you know i think a long time ago. but i got nothing to do with that but those details are only company cambodian company registry that's now online which is being really put online yeah but i think it's wrong it's wrong. so your family has no association with company anymore so long time i think. maybe they use my address before but they never.