promising billions in return for influence infiltrating the british media. trying to influence media coverage. as a step too far. still ahead on the. tree and. how the southwest monsoon is fully invaded now so on this side of your screen you just see the the white clouds that represent thunderstorms in pakistan the trying everyone can show themselves not even east in iran but that's an unusual surge

otherwise it's just draw and of course it's halt where mid summer but a few showers around the caspian sea the might go on to others but i wouldn't hold your breath it's like she just be hot sunshine and dusty would forty five so for cost baghdad better on the coast by routes at sea with an on shore breeze probably reasonably pleasant now it's a halt with the coast it keeps blowing down the coast not quite sure it's called should moderate thing but it's close to so we get forty for the full cost and bus the same inland mon up to forty round up a dobie as well in fact the whole of the peninsula is in the forty's quite easy to get to the coast this is also a result of the southwest monsoon the whole of the i'm on the coast tend to be grey just where you find higher ground slot as a fun example three months worth of drizzle and coolish weather in comparison to the present ready and then jump to the equator and of course it's the middle of winter when the temperatures for places like botswana run about the ninety degree

mark for the capital. about fifty thousand people were arrested under a policing strategy known as stop and frisk the car got about here with a guy coming behind me and kicking him out back how many of your children have gotten caught in this trap i have seven sons and six of them have been arrested for drug charges though me against the war maybe take us think is what we've now created the atmosphere the police the bad guys exploring the dark side of american justice the system with job on al-jazeera.

it's good to have you with us on al-jazeera our top stories donald trump has been forced into a very public and embarrassing climbdown the president announced says that he accepts the intelligence community's assessment that russia did meddle in the twenty twenty sixteen election says he misspoke at a news conference with a lot of men who said in the end finland. security has been stepped up that oil fields across southern iraq is antigovernment under arrest spreads deadly protests have continued for more than a week amid growing resentment of government corruption and a lack of basic services and a u.k. based investigative agency has obtained documents revealing an expensive lobbying effort by the united arab emirates and both britain and the us the spin watch reports a secret meetings were held between our without these problem prince and russians former prime minister david cameron now the first ethiopian airlines flight to ever try in two decades is due to take off in about fifteen minutes of the latest move

in the storm relations between the african countries are two decades of conflict. prime minister made a landmark visit to every trade as capital earlier this month then eritrean president travelled to addison alba buffer a historic state visit to end the two decade conflicts the leaders have agreed to open up embassies developed ports and restart and. now thousands of children are being denied the right to education by the european union's migration agreement with turkey that's the finding of a report by human rights were. churches looked at the schooling of asylum seekers on the greek a.j. and i then saw more than a thousand children living in camps on the islands at any one time they are taken there after arriving from turkey by sea and can be held for months while their asylum claims are processed the reports say fewer than fifteen percent of them are involved in formal schools that's despite the greek government receiving millions

of dollars from the e.u. well human rights watch accuses greece of violating its own education what it says is adding to the stress and anxiety for children and their families about let's get more on this now we're joined by bill van as well things a senior researcher for children's rights at human rights watch and he's joining us live from the greek capital athens very good to have you with us on al-jazeera to tell us more about the situation for children on the islands because i know that it is different to the situation for children on the mainland and the access to or the lack of to education. that's exactly right i mean what we're calling for is for children who are stuck on the islands under the terms of the e.u. turkey migration deal the way greece is implementing that is to keep asylum seekers on the islands without being able to leave until their asylum claims are process

what that means is that people are stuck there for very long periods with very few resources and that includes school age children those resources are available on the mainland but the children are not able to go to where the schools are so figures have not been published on this before but what we found is that at any time there are at least three thousand school age children on the greek a-g. and islands who are stuck there and fewer than four hundred of them were able to get into school and all of those almost all of those four hundred children who could go to school were the lucky ones who were able to move out of the government run refugee camps and into apartments or other shelters or accommodations but the ones who were in those. cam's words conditions are really terrible they're operating at almost three hundred percent of capacity those kids we interviewed over one hundred seven of them and none of them that we interviewed was able to go to school just about estelle why aren't the resources that ave to the children in the mainland making it to the islands and what have you seen from the children that

you've interviewed and terms of what the lack of education is doing to their development. well the greek government authorities when pressed on issues like this will claim that the children who were in the camps on the islands are only there for a short time and that's what's supposed to be the case but it isn't in fact the reality we met kids who'd been stuck in those camps for eleven months and they had no access to education this is appalling particularly given the scale of the amount of money that has gone into the humanitarian response to this so-called refugee migration crisis in greece this is the most expensive per capita humanitarian response ever funded by the european union more than fourteen thousand dollars per asylum seeker in greece and yet these children are being denied education on the islands what needs to happen is that these kids should be allowed to move from the islands to the mainland where they can get into school and the result now is that

you know these kids are coming from traumatic situations they fled from war they've had terrible experiences on the way to greece then they're stuck in these camps where conditions are truly bad i met a young boy who'd just seen a man commit suicide in the morea camp on the island of lesbos if you were able to go to school if you have a regular safe routine that can help you recover from trauma as a child that can help get your mental health back in shape and that's not what's being offered to these kids they're stuck in those camps day in day out with no education and no hope for the future. we thank you very much for your time and your insides and to the situation for children on. the agent islands that has been van as bill that has thousands of human rights watch joining us from athens thank you. write to nicaragua now where forces loyal to the president have regained control of an opposition stronghold and the city of messiah police and armed pro-government civilians began advancing into member before dawn on tuesday by afternoon they

gained control of the neighborhood at the center of resistance to president or figures government rights groups say two people died in the violence money on the sanchez has more from the capital. well since the early hours of tuesday the city of messiah was under siege by paramilitary forces who closed the entrance to the city which is south east of the capital people have been calling throughout the day early in the morning and into the afternoon people have been calling desperately at the television stations radio stations asking for help they said there was a lot of shooting around these paramilitary forces were in caravans going around now the chief of police of messiah said in a press conference that the order to clean up the road blocks it's a cleansing operation strictly ordered by president and his wife vice president he said at the order was to clean up whatever the cost the un secretary general.

has said that the number of deaths in the nearly three months of protest are shocking and that the use of force on behalf of the state is not acceptable well human rights organizations say that the police and the paramilitary are doing these joint operations and that the lethal use of force is being directed towards the unarmed population a crime to be fired by the international humanitarian law the government here has not condemned these actions has not arrested any of these individuals instead as the police chief. has said the government here is directing them now more arrests are expected in a corruption scandal surrounding peru's judiciary audiotapes appear to expose john just and magistrates granting favorable rulings in exchange for financial

incentives john homan report. this was the first arrest but a corruption scandal has been brewing over the proven judiciary for the week. five judges were suspended or. the justice minister was sacked i don't. know what it all started with the audio is released by website idea ripple turtles and the panorama t.v. programme which appeared to reveal a network of bribes lim fluence peddling judge will to rios was to be one of the leaders of. the arrest of the president to the superior court of justice of k.l. is a good reaction from the very justice system itself but however we believe that more arrests need to be made. it's a big test for recently appointed president martin b. scouter who pledged to cut out corruption after his predecessor. was also brought

down by on the cover recordings he's called together a group of legal experts to plan a judicial reform. the justice system must not and cannot be an instrument in the service of dark powers but it must have the basic conditions for equal access but all citizens to it. to the proven public it's yet another failure of the authorities to deal with the rampant top level corruption of the last five presidents before this got a two faced charges well was jailed a woman resigned just before an impeachment vote. this shows that we defeated the dictatorship but we did not defeat the political system that they organized now the latest incumbent is facing the uphill task of beginning to restore through vians trust john home and now does it or now is being described as the strongest yet by hong kong government to clamp down on the prime dependence movement top officials are trying to ban a party that advocates separation from china saying it threatens national security

but critics wonder who will be targeted next. reports. there are a recent arrival in hong kong's political scene and despite their margin. influence top officials in the city have gone above and beyond to curtail their influence the hong kong national party a pro independence group that advocates separation from china has been given a three week ultimatum now they have until august seventh to explain writing why the party should not be banned all the species of political pressure. as possible for the political parties and. changes. every other person the next one coming up what he said on tuesday police delivered a letter to the group's founder and chan saying it was recommending a ban on his party due to national security concerns in hong kong we have freedom

of association. which rights is not without prescription. valvular the rights holder the rules. of restitution is can be made by law. if it is necessary in the interests of national security john lee warned that he did he decided to ban the party anyone attending meetings or making donations to the group could face up to two years in prison he added however they'd still be given a chance to appeal his decision with hong kong's most powerful politician the city's chief executive kerry lamb it marks the first time a political party's targeted under the society's ordinance a piece of legislation that has been previously criticised by a un human rights body for un julie restricting freedom of association these kind of conditions would have a chilling effect on the. oh because now we don't know what it means in national

security in the government sense that actually anything any groups can be accused of endangering national security calls for independence have grown louder in hong kong after a wave of prodi mock. protests that brought the city to a standstill in twenty four team failed to achieve its goals. was then activists seeking more autonomy or all out independence for the city have been barred from running in elections or even detained but many chinese city that has prided itself on the unique freedoms enjoyed by its citizens alarm bells are already ringing as concern spreads over whose freedom will have to be limited next in the name of national security when the silver zero. nine north korean movies are being shown and south korea for the first time they're part of a film festival in blue china after its organizers applied for a special permit to screen them as the hours away reports they're providing

a rare glimpse into daily life and they isolated their show. welcome to the international fantastic film festival lots of glamour lots of star power the event is into its twenty second year and this time it's featuring nearly three hundred films from more than fifty countries but what makes this year's event stand out is the fact that for the first time as many as nine north korean films are being shown to the public without restrictions. because north korean movies are classified as special day which means to screen those films a south korean cinema would need to pry approval from the government. in line with the recent deaths in expectations of untrue korean relationships and mutual exchange we suggested to the ministry of culture sports and tourism new way of screening to allow our audience to watch north korea movies without any difficulties that lead to what you could call

a free release. one of the films being shown is an animation made in two thousand and eight to educate people about traffic rules the organizers chose it because they thought it depicted city life n.p.r. young the north korean capital the other is about three young orphaned siblings who overcome odds to stay together an award winning film with a strong focus on the universal theme of family bond. is a north korean japanese film director who's traveled to north korea several times to make movies. sports good actors a jumpstart to resolving conflicts so in that sense if we strengthen mutual exchange for example collaboration or exchange of technology we can extend this opportunity to achieving peace and independence relations have improved since north korea sent a delegation to take part in the winter olympics in february muvico us at the festival hope the screenings will contribute to that effort. from him here in north

korea but he's passed away so. this is a very special moment i feel great try watching a movie in the north regardless of what kind of movie it showed. i want to know their standard of living compared to well i think we may be allowed to visit north korea in the near future so i want to take a peek into their culture there's room for more of such exchanges in the future the korean film council has set up a committee to look into this and it's said to be exploring the idea of filming on location in north korea florence li. now again on. the headlines on al-jazeera donald trump has been forced into a very public and embarrassing climbdown the u.s. president now says he accepts the intelligence community's assessment the russia did meddle in the twenty sixteen election says he misspoke at

a news conference with that image putin in finland i have full faith and support for america's great in its agencies always that. i have felt very strongly that well russia's actions had no wind at all on the outcome of the election let me be totally clear in saying that and i'm certain many times i accept our intelligence communities conclusion that russia's meddling in the two thousand and sixteen election took place. u.k. based investigative agency has obtained documents revealing an expensive lobbying effort by the united arab emirates and britain and the u.s. to spend watch report says secret meetings were held between abu dhabi's crown prince and versions former prime minister david cameron security has been stepped up at oil fields across southern iraq as anti government on the west spreads deadly

protests have continued for more than a week amid growing resentment of government corruption and a lack of basic services the first ethiopian airlines flight to eritrea in two decades is due to take off soon at the latest move in restoring relations between the horn of africa countries after twenty years of conflict the leaders have agreed to reopen embassies develop ports and restart in banks forces loyal to look at our goals president have regained control of the opposition stronghold in the city of messiah police and pro-government civilians began advancing into the number before dawn on tuesday afternoon they gained control of the neighborhood at the center of resistance to president daniel of thick as government rights groups say two people have died in the violence police in hong kong have proposed banning a political party on national security grounds for the first time the government has given the hong kong national party twenty one days to explain why it shouldn't follow the recommendation of the party describes the threat as political

suppression those are the headlines on al-jazeera but do stay with us walls of shame is coming up next thank you for watching. a remarkable portrait of a removed japanese village in the aftermath of the two thousand and eleven earthquake and tsunami. seven years later how has the community of meow call been able to move on and rebuild their lives. in japan aftermath of a catastrophe on al-jazeera. this is the u.s. mexican border a harsh landscape that's become the focus of bitter debate between the two countries. yes. ok well bill the long but always get up take. a look the

right got it right for. the film were about to show you the first ad in two thousand and seven it questions a policy that's become even more contentious today. the sonoran desert in the south of the united states a harsh hot and unforgiving landscape straddling the border with mexico a natural barrier not so much a protective wall but a regional belt dividing the bodies of two nations. thousands of illegal migrants cross into this area of arizona every year to them it represents a gateway to a better life. in reality it's often a cold glitter of death from which they may never return. crossing the desert to

avoid these steel and concrete walls which mark the border in urban areas where the main road like this with for. anybody out here they could be standing on the side of the road if they had made it this far need help. little. volunteer catherine ferguson and physician norma price all samaritans. rescuing those who are in desperate need of help illegal she'd been physically and mentally defeated by the deadly conditions people walk not only trails but they walk in circles because they're lost so you could have a child walking out here you could have a man a grandmother or you could have a group of people and all i'm doing is looking for anything that looks like a human being. but katherine and norma all the only ones on the lookout. and then. tell first who took us to the united states government has.

as many border patrol and border patrol backup as there are stars in the sky. in an attempt to secure its borders the current administration is spending billions of dollars on enforcement money many argue is doing little to stop the human traffic merely rebooting it since they've closed the ports it forces people out into the secure. desert and people are dying so. it is supposed to send a message back to the villages and mexico that if you come here you'll die out of the desert it's a policy of death. and they really don't know what they're facing i mean they don't know how hot and dry it is most of them if they haven't been here before they don't know about the desert and mostly women in high heel shoes are wedge issues

and they all have one bottle of water and in this environment that is so hot and dry and desolate. if they need if they have any degree of. exhaustion stillness they need to be techno hospital me live in the heat literally just close the door bryan the heart the kidneys and see a lot of pregnant women and that also. increases the risk that they'll get into trouble. the the worst saddest of all course is the children and we see a situation to where children die. bob for those making the passage it's a terrible choice a gamble really face death and avoid capture or seek help even if that means deportation orders. a head in the distance emerging from the scrub stands a solitary figure. his decision has been made paying with his life is too high

a price for passage to the promised land. but does this in your. so much somebody. frightened disorientated and exhausted his story is like so many of those left behind when he couldn't keep up with the group. just based on this one. thing. one of the things that go on. to be an iraqi journalist is. that he never. base. what it. wants us to. think.

but all. with the brew and. let me tell you that. i found myself in a white boy and make a hole in the butt of it and committed to go where i will need to would be. more chief and. just been. they want to thank you for you before you. move. in. and so if they don't come near you they can. go. the samaritans presenting him with his options but his face betrays the arms. peers

who simply either on. a play or they're fed up and. going to us nor means the samaritans can do nothing but call the border patrol placing an illegal in their own car would mean a possible jail sentence anybody that gives them a ride would be arrested if they're caught we can't do that they could spend five years in prison for transporting. and ten years for conspiring against the united states government. with little time to collect his thoughts and belongings he's arrested by the border patrol. and this is a first time blow up the mall and i can't just stand back and really like jot them . down. i apologize for

america they're really nice americans here those guys were nice. but if the authorities appear to be taking a hard line there's a reason for their lack of hospitality the truth is many who attempt to cross illegally will do so again and again until they succeed and that means zero tolerance. your. life. as you put it on the well ok. they have a warrant. oh my goodness these are human beings we're dealing with intelligent feelings since you know beans and we can't give them socks or water there's something very wrong with that. we have a schizophrenia sign at the border we had this big sign that says keep out and at the same time metaphorically we have the sign that says help wanted we have there's

a tremendous number of jobs we have significant sectors of the economy that need large numbers of low skilled workers that were not producing in the native born population and there are no legal channels for those workers to command and therefore the only way those workers can enter in large numbers it's illegally. judas is an academic and an immigration x. but she knows the statistics speak for themselves since two thousand people have been entering at the rate of about eight hundred fifty thousand a year there are currently an estimated twelve million people in the country illegally and that's a huge number but the other thing is happening is that immigrants are going to what we call nontraditional states communities all over the country are suddenly waking up to find large foreign born populations in their midst in their schools and it seemed like it happened overnight in felicitous and wait a minute what's going on and there's a feeling that the system is out of control which in fact there are serious

problems with our immigration system. a series of offenses doctored along the three thousand kilometer border between the united states and mexico were designed to stem the flow of illegal movement in there is based on current estimates the system is a failure. the walls have not been an effective deterrent they've changed their way and the costs and in getting at the time the fence was put up in california they had the assumption why. that the answer was too difficult or environment the desert itself would be an effective wall and people would come in through the desk that has turned out to be false people have come into the desert as you know a lot of people died trying to cross. despite this the walls will continue to go up with president bush signing off on the secure fence act in two thousand and six approving the construction of

a war stretching one thousand kilometers on the other side of the fence the lure of the american dollar appeals to both citizens and the mexican government alike mexico benefits tremendously by having its workers here. remittances money being sent home by mexican citizens working in the united states to their families in mexico is the second largest source of foreign currency in mexico it lessens the social pressure within the country so mexico in a real way doesn't have a huge incentive to stop this. over doro all she can see is a separation barrier which has divided her family. but i. was . led by the only bookkeeper. amano they. love him. and they're not without legal status one cannot move between the

two countries so for the past fourteen years he hasn't seen his family in mexico. but i want to tell me. that i'm all. yes so one of them and then there are. it's a sacrifice millions have been willing to make and a part many more seems certain to follow. their. mexico a country of more than one hundred million people but where more than forty percent live below the poverty line for so many that poverty line ends here at the border with the united states. getting on the air.