getting that denims of the political solution here what the russians are talking about in fact here is we are not going to have any sort of political transition in syria what we are going to have is a new constitution and then we'll go for elections presidential elections in which bashar al assad will be allowed to run for office again so this is the sort of political vision the russians are presenting right now so most notably what we are seeing in geneva is going to be very much dictated and formulated by the russians who are the major force on the ground right now in syria which will see what happens for the moment kabul and thanks very much again for your analysis specifically thinking. well the war in syria has had a ripple effect in neighboring lebanon for people all syrian refugees it's taken a massive toll on jordan's economy as well but now the opening of a key border crossing between jordan and syria mention could help revive its fortunes. are reports from the back also raise concerns among some businesses.

business owners have been hit hard by the closure of the only overland trade route . exports which used to pass through jordan to reach countries have been badly disrupted by the war in neighboring syria. just like thousands of other. unemployed they're hoping that change with the reopening of. between syria and jordan. or egypt point where we have to sell our lands even the gold we had to survive we had loans to pay to the banks we are hoping the road will open so we can compensate for. the syrian army regain control of. it's been shut by the jordanian government since rebels seized control on the syrian side of the border in two thousand and fifteen. before the closure between one thousand one hundred ten trucks headed to gulf countries on a daily basis each truck carried at least thirty tons of goods we had to resort to

exporting via sea in plain. dollars have been lost especially on agricultural exports which primarily rely on land routes. lebanese products were less competitive and our markets because of the increased cost of shipping. after the road closure would take up to a month or more for vegetables and fruits to reach their destination and the goods were no longer fresh. the reopening of many here. is expect. it to revive a stagnant economy but farmers and other exporters fear the reopening could be delayed because of a political dispute over the divisive issue of future relations between lebanon and syria lebanese politicians course of the syrian government have been pushing for normalizing relations with the syrian government lebanon has not cut diplomatic or trade relations with the government of president bashar assad but it hasn't been

dealing with it in an official capacity since the syrian conflict began the livelihoods of tens of thousands of lebanese depend on the future of the crossing lebanese government leaders may have to take the road to damascus and resume direct contact with president bashar al assad's government before the lifeline for lebanon's export industry is restored. because bally lebannon once had to europe now where google says it will appeal a record five billion dollar fine hundred by the european union e.u. and you trust agents have been investigating contracts with phone manufacturers forcing them to pre install google services on an droid devices competition commission. says google used android as a vehicle to cement the dominance of its search engine. to find a four point three four billion euros reflects the seriousness and the sustained

nature of violation you and your trust rules the decision required to bring its illegal conduct to an end within ninety days in an effective manner. as a technology journalist joins me now from our london studio good to have you with us on al-jazeera and it's another huge slap on the hands for google but don't all companies like this microsoft apple for example look to enhanced that sort of tech profile with the consumer all the phones. well yes everybody wants a slice of that market google have managed to maintain that government by giving away android to phone manufacturers but although they said when they launched in two thousand and eight me personally said it to me and they said to other journalists we're giving it away we'll make it open source that means that anybody can modify it and play with it because as long as you know more people using the

web then it's good for google it turns out that that wasn't the case they do care more than just giving this away as a generous thing they said that if you want if a phone manufacturer wants to put android on their phone in the end well if they want to put the play store on their phone that's the the app store which is really essential because that's where all the apps live if you want the apps then you need the app store and you can't really sell a phone without it then you also have to bundle it with that google's email service their maps service their browser and defaulting to google search what sort of message is this sending out on to all sort of messages are sending out then to tech firms who are sort of producing the phone because it's sort of a shot across the barrels and other countries like russia have tried to curtail that sort of scenario that only one company would have an monopoly on droid.

yeah fourteen months ago it was a very some of the ruling well release agreement settlement with google in russia they were fined only seven point eight million dollars fourteen months ago by the russian federal antimonopoly service and they agreed the very same agreement to the e.u. agreement but they also agreed to pop up a screen that gives users a choice of search engine and web browser. the only place where really google don't have a monopoly on android phones is china where people use the different. apps store and manufacturers have really gone their own way but this is very similar to a ruling in back in two thousand and eight when microsoft was stopped from bundling their web browser which defaulted to their search engine with windows they were fined eight hundred ninety nine million euros back then so much

smaller fine and that was really because only and only there in that case it was because they defied the ruling. when there are only going to see only a handful few tech firms that can offer the equivalent of a play store or up. area where you could you can download up with apple mac. what choice does the consumer have how is it going to change your life and mine as we go to our mobile phones. i think the answer is nobody knows some people believe that it's already too little too late google are very dominant google maps is and ways which is also owned by google the dominant mapping services google is the dominant search engine chrome is the dominant web browser all google products book that was also widely believed when the you took action against

microsoft back then internet explorer and the vast stranglehold on the p.c. browns the market now chrome is the dominant web browser it may allow companies to produce their own versions of android which they've been prevented from doing the only really outside of china the only people who have done that successfully are amazon on their arms and fire tablets they have their own app store and the disadvantage there is that you don't get a lot of google services on it and you don't get the same range of apps it's very much a subset of the whole set of apps so it'll be interesting to see what emerges but the answer is nobody knows it might be something revolutionary and wonderful it might be business as usual well we'll have to wait and see i suppose and perhaps invite you back to and was what has happened thanks for the good to speak to you again. they survived on rain water for nine days inside the depths of

a flooded cave the time football team made their first public appearance and recounted what they called a regular skate after remaining trapped underground for eighteen days the twelve teenagers and their coach appeared in good spirits as they answered questions about their ordeal but he also paid tribute to the former navy seal who died in an attempt to rescue them where one of the boys explained why they into the cave in the first place. it happened in the evening routine for students on talk on the hill and we heard voices and told everyone to be quiet but there was people we weren't sure who it was for real so we stopped to listen and it turned out to be true i was shocked and told me to run down to the cave well let's cross over not just advance news monitoring of you see what happened in chiang rai a short time ago and start we getting to hear really but the story firsthand of what these young men actually went through and it is quite remarkable.

it absolutely is just listening to them it sounds to me like a movie script but of course this has been their reality for quite a long time and it was just interesting and very gripping to hear how despite this ordeal and the difficulties inside the case they sort of had some kind of organization among themselves they had some teams looking for clean water every day they kept themselves busy although they had no food whatsoever despite there were some reports they had snacks they had no food at all so they had some kind of a system they dick holes trying to find a way out they had ropes they actually also could swim they sat this by the fact that we heard before that they couldn't swim they could actually swim so some of them went through the water trying to find a way out and of course remember the youngest is only eleven years old he looked like a very small child still and he has been through this ordeal as much as all the others of course it was

a remarkable thing to listen to and of course when the interviewer asked them what have you learned from this they said well we won't live this carelessly any more we will appreciate our life a lot more and also be very good to our parents because they were all worried that their parents were so angry about them they didn't even tell their parents they went to the cave in the first place and of course the first appearance they seemed very happy relaxed cheerful generally in good health it seems. absolutely unbelievable after what they've been through of course when we saw the first images after nine days when the british divers found them they all looked so skinny they of course had lost a lot of way they had no food whatsoever but they have been now in hospital for weeks and they got back their strength and they got back their spirit they're in really good spirits when i heard this they have of course created this very very special bond among each other the coach who although he's only twenty five years

old is considered a father figure to them and also the navy seals who actually locked themselves together with the boys for one week they're also sort of one big family right now and i think that's what you feel that's what you see that's sort of the large that came from their ordeal and it's a moment we'll leave it course so for us in chang roy with those twelve survivors of the cave let's move on to neil greenberg he's a psychiatry easton professor of defense mental health king's college in london joins me from the via skype good to have you with us sir i mean on first impression if we've seen some of the pictures what do you think of the condition of the boys on the outside considering what they've been through. well that's a from my point b. they look like they're doing really well and they still look like at a team that together and they appear to be in good spirits and i guess for them there will be a bear bit of a challenge in sort of splitting up and going back to their individual lives and

over the next few days weeks and probably months they're going to have to hopefully get back to leading a normal existence is going to school and friends and mixing to get family and no doubt getting into a bit of trouble or not doing your homework and all those sorts of things that children. i'm sure we've all been there as well but for them it could be slightly different perhaps because i mean what's going on in the inside really still continues to concern medical professionals in thailand to me when you have a scenario like this what you have to consider in terms of treatment when dealing with a person who's dealt with what is a rather unusual psychological trauma. well i think from the stories that we've heard so far actually that they didn't appear to lose hope so then what's really important over the next few days and weeks and months is that they create some sort of meaning to this and so one hopes that they will begin to form a narrative a story in which something bad could have happened but in fact they remained resilient they say they lived on each other and in fact they came out ok and that

should set them up for the future so that actually in terms of how they cope with this in the future they they should be moved to zillions and more able to take risks hopefully that don't work out or as badly as the last loss of course there is a danger that people may serve to overprotect them and that they also might sort of best on their their fact that they're now a person who has survived this difficult ordeal and really their challenges is to get back home with that we are going to be normal in life you know whilst keeping an eye out just to make sure that they're doing ok indeed that's how they have to proceed in terms of medical professionals how does the treatment for example need to be monitored or changed you say from a child to an adult because there's various sort of forms of troll more that would be war conflict being trapped in a cave being in a train or plane accident. well it's just where senator most of these children are very much hope will not need treatment they won't need medical care going forward.

the u.k.'s national institutes of health and care excellent has a very nice phrase which is called watchful waiting and that basically means that they should have and i kept on them they should be monitored and actually if they're getting better they're getting on with their lives you know maybe with the old funny dream or the old intrusive thoughts then that's not a sign that any treatment however if unfortunately some of them do become ill and develop depression or post-traumatic stress disorder or some form of mental ill health then what we know is that she does some really good talking treatments out there which make a difference and in fact the evidence is that probably they work just as well for the children that they do for the adults indeed it seems that the tiles already have got most of it under control for the moment neal greenberg ivan king's college in london thanks very much for your insight thanks a. passenger flights between ethiopia and eritrea to resume two decades after they stopped due to hostilities between the two countries the first ethiopian airlines flight to eritrea as capital of smaller took off after

a short ceremony passengers on the inaugural plane trip included the former ethiopian prime minister it's the latest move aimed at normalizing relations mohammed has more from the airport in at the top of the. the waltz media is here to witness what is being hailed as history the first flight in twenty years from august to the editor couplet for most of the public does on board this is more than a flight to the mission of must one top of that i've twenty years most of them have been separated from their loved ones by the war on the eve of the war if you'll be expelled follow them off that it turns on its head of the same separating families now we spoke to some of the people on board deal with to separate them with their families for move on to their case with us saying is that they have not been able to communicate with them safe or just show up to let us there was something through the international red cross and most of them really eager to get to where their

loved ones on one of journalist your pm state broadcaster who got separated with these. two daughters told us that he wished that this flight took just seconds or minutes so that the company with his family once again well it's still on the continent where south africa is marking the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of nelson mandela the former leader known as the father of the nation in tribute to the anti-apartheid i called south africans are donating their time to charitable activities for sixty seven minutes each but it represents a year in which mandela fought for a new society. from johannesburg. this country still has a lot of challenges such as inequality and poverty and nelson mandela really believe that educating all children especially poor black children is a way to alleviate poverty levels in the country but it's not going to be as the

economy isn't doing well right now there's a high unemployment levels public levels keep rising and people are frustrated you seeing over the years more and more protests as a poor black majority start asking those promises that were made back in one thousand nine hundred four when i did indeed why had the not been delivered via millions of people still living in squalor still very very poor the ruling a.n.c. party is and a lot of pressure to deliver people say they get increasingly tired but right now the focus for the day is carrying on his legacy one of them being education. education with the key to success and then that education will soon have no feature . the all this thing at the streets and out decreases in whatever. just you. were there carol what was happening there this area is in a poor community in johannesburg the school has poor resources some of the children struggle to read and write some of the parents struggle to make ends meet they've

been given new books still nations from well wishers in and around johanna's a people who also want to carry on nelson mandela's legacy of education for children and these children understand how important it is to learn and read and write stuff the weather now has richard with these for him very even a rather unusual part of the world you know let's go right into the arctic circle seventy degrees north so while so far as to the case what do you think the temperature be in the far north of finland the moment you might think well ok they've got nearly twenty four hours of daylight so it's probably going to be some like ten degrees fifteen degrees up there but it's a bit freakish nowhere near it temperatures in northern finland reach thirty two. point seven degrees yesterday is absolutely phenomenal so you stripped off there are some bathing ices all melting incredible and this heat is affecting quite a swathe from parts of western russia through finland sweden parts of norway there

is causing its own problems because further towards the south and central parts of sweden we have seen wildfires breaking out more than sixty across the country and there are heat wave warnings out can you believe in the far north of the country is causing all sorts of problems of its own basically we've got this area of high pressure sitting across the region courses not much ice out in the arctic these days is nothing there to really cool things warm air across the interior of any constant and the temperatures are just crazy bodo it twenty nine degrees i'm struck in the computers are not really managed in the forecast very well in terms of the temperatures may call off air but the heater in place an archangel the next few days is could remain well mediterranean like. thanks very much richard well still ahead here on the al-jazeera news hour i will say this i don't see any reason why it would be. changed his tune the u.s. president admits the russians did interfere with the presidential election less than twenty four hours after saying they didn't and accused of poor judgment the

corruption scandal that's growing in peru. also in sport tiger woods gears up for his first open championship in three years we'll hear from the fourteen time major winner later in the program to stay with us here but i'll just. capturing a moment in time snapshots of other lives other stories. providing a glimpse into someone else's work out inspiring documentaries from impassioned filmmakers everybody's going to. sacrifice me. all. witness on al-jazeera.

al jazeera. where ever you are. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera news are with me it's a whole rather live and die hard these are a recap of our top stories to besiege syrian towns are being emptied of their residents after a deal between pro-government forces and opposition fighters thousands are being

bussed out of the northwestern towns of four i'm afraid and exchange the government is expected to release hundreds of detainees. also the time football team have made their first public appearance and recounted what they called a miraculous escape from a flooded cave the twelve teenagers and their coach appeared in good spirits as they answered questions about their ordeal the team also paid tribute to the former navy seal who died while trying to rescue. google says it'll appeal a record five billion dollar fine handed down by the european union e u n t trust agents have been investigating contracts with phone manufacturers forcing them to pre-install google services on a cold phones. now donald trump is praising his meeting with vladimir putin less than twenty four hours after making a stunning reversal on. his comments about russian election meddling the u.s. president was forced into a very public climbdown after politicians from across the political spectrum

criticized him for siding with russia instead of trusting his own intelligence agencies this is what he said two days ago at a news conference with putin in finland people came to me dan coats came to me and some others they said they think it's russian i have president putin he just said it's not russian i will say this i don't see any reason why it would be but then trump says he accepts the intelligence community's findings that russia did meddle in the twenty sixteen election and says he missed spoke and blamed it on grammar. and a key sentence in my remarks i said the word would instead of one hundred. percent and should have been i don't see any reason why i went or why it went to the russian. clearly how it is our correspondent in washington d.c. twenty four hours ago kimberly you said to me that you were aghast and nothing ever

surprised you that came out of the white house that you've been covering the trumpet ministrations government he seems to be launching a fresh defense now of his performance. yeah absolutely it's interesting because the last few hours the president has been op it almost seems like he didn't sleep much at all he got up early this morning here in washington and was sending out a flurry of tweets that really. do leave you sort of with your job dropping a little bit given what we saw just a day earlier a very scripted donald trump there speaking what seemed to be damage control reading from a piece of paper that we can assume was crafted by his communications team but now we've got a very different donald trump in the last few hours on social media sending out a series of tweets rightly defending that initial press conference in helsinki with

vladimir putin that has been widely panned just to give you a taste of some of these tweets he said that his performance in helsinki and his view was appreciated by what he called quote many people at the higher ends of intelligence and quote and he's also said that he believes that meeting with your results in improvements particularly for north korea and is that once again blaming the media instead of himself for the criticism that he is receiving from appearing with vladimir putin saying that some people hate that i got along with putin would really rather go to war it's called trying to range minute syndrome i don't know if that's what people would call it i think that a lot of people both democrats and republicans say that it's really donald trump who's responsible for his own behavior but again this all comes one day after donald trump seemed to be trying to mop up the mess now he's back to touting this meat is success even as the media response and sort of the overwhelming response in

general of that meeting seems to be largely critical i suppose the next nervous question i have to ask you can please all be expecting any more from the president today. yeah i see your he is expected to speak. he has the opportunity to speak at six hundred thirty g.m.t. in the cabinet room now sometimes he says very little but he's also gone freewheeling have the cameras in there somewhat painfully on their shoulder for forty five minutes as he's rambled on now he tends to seem to be able to judge his temperament sometimes when he's this angry in social media he usually then goes into the cabinet room and takes that opportunity to talk try and set the record straight we expect that he might do that again the question is is he going to be the script of donald trump or is he going to be the freewheeling one that can often overshadow we should point out some of the successes of donald trump's presidency and all of this negative publicity that he's generated for himself is there still

is a strong economy in the united states there is low unemployment and we should also point out donald trump's approval ratings right now this point his presidency they've picked up a little bit there about in the mid forty's depending on the poll that's really only about one percent less than barack obama at the same time and at the same point in the presidency so despite all this overwhelming negative press donald trump's approval ratings are pretty solid we'll see what compensates for the day and follow vince with you kimberly for the moment thank you. well staying in the americas and the government supporters and police have stalled an opposition stronghold at the center of protests against the president at least two people were killed and dozens injured in say a city to government protests have killed at least two hundred seventy five people and widespread human rights abuses alleged but even sanchez has more from and i quote. well since the early hours of tuesday the city of messiah was under siege by paramilitary forces close to 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 that 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 that 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 for human rights organizations say that the police and the paramilitary are doing these

joint operations and that the little use of force is being directed towards the unarmed population acquire to be fired by the international humanitarian law the government here has not condemned the arrest that any of these individuals instead the police chief. has said the government here is directing them through the president has called for sweeping reforms to the justice system. options scandal martin of skara is seeking the removal of all seven officials who chose judges and prosecutors after magistrates can be heard in audiotapes granting favorable rulings in exchange for financial incentives john holdren has the story. this was the first arrest but a corruption scandal has been brewing over the proven judiciary for more than a week on friday five judges were suspended and the justice minister was sacked i don't. want it all started with the audio is released by website idea

ripple terrell's and the panorama t.v. program which appeared to reveal a network of bribes lim fluence peddling judgment 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 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 authorities to

deal with the rampant top level corruption of the last five presidents before this got a two faced charges when was jailed one 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 prove ians trust john homan out zita. the shooting of suspected criminals by police in indonesia is alarming human rights activists offices of shot dead eleven suspects in as many days in the run up to the start of next month's asian games victoria gate and he has more. the ceremony to mark the start of the asian games torch relay in indonesia was carefully choreographed the successful games can be a major boost and the indonesian government wants to ensure everything goes to plan

to that end police in jakarta have an almost a two month long security crackdown to clear suspected criminals off the streets human rights watch says it's being used as a license to kill we know that the jakarta police chief himself has said on numerous occasions that he is encouraging his personnel to his for example to send criminal suspects to heaven rather than arrest them since the crackdown began two weeks ago police officers have shot dead at least eleven suspected criminals windage fifty two and arrested at least two hundred seventy police chief say the killed or injured posed a threat to offices and. we see that the asian games coming up to me want to be good hosts and make our guests feel comfortable you take one case a pregnant woman was shot dead in front of her husband people demonic we arrest him but he had a gun and resisted arrest so we acted according to our regulations it's not the

first time rights groups have accused indonesian police offices of heavy handedness indonesian president.