un peacekeepers and is team in the occupied golan heights more from seventy. at least six air strikes have just come in and this is all part of the syrian government's campaign to get this area but from the rebels and you can also see just how close it is we can hear the plane in the sky just how close it is to the tents where those syrian internally displaced sheltering it gives you a sense of just how terrified these people are the border is closed an israeli authorities have made it very clear they won't be letting anyone in now we've been witnessing an intensive air strike campaign throughout the day our team has counted at least one hundred airstrikes they started a little further afield and then they started hitting right in front of us also quite close to the areas where you see those tents those tents or are housing syrian internally displaced these are people who fled the war these are people who are now trapped between closed borders and between the syrian government advances

also there's no real aid there for them no organized aid efforts yes the israeli army has been giving out some supplies in some tents but there's also a real fear of what happens when the syrian government takes over their areas they have been advancing very false these people are still in rebel territory they've been living under the opposition for around four years so they are terrified of what will happen to them if there is any sort of retaliation from the syrian government forces stephanie decker there the golan heights and if we move north there's movement in the towns are few and. two towns that have been besieged by opposition fighters for more than four years now around one hundred buses are taking pro-government fighters and their families to areas under the army's control in exchange the government is set to release hundreds of detainees. now we want to speak about the situation in syria now with harding lang who is the vice president for programs and policy at refugees international is live from washington d.c.

thank you very much for speaking to us i want to focus with you on what's happening near syria's border with israel because it's quite extraordinary the scenes we've seen in the past few days of people waving white flags trying to cross the border thousands of a ride recently there can you tell us who these people are and what sort of conditions they're facing in the makeshift camps along that border. yes good to be with you this is a particularly difficult complex situation at the moment along the border with obama if we start to wind back a few weeks we saw something very similar to this going on along the border with jordan when the government offensive was really pushing down quite close for you had tens of thousands of people messing up against the jordanian border and the jordanians refusing to let the men brought in some cross border assistance but still saying look we've taken as many refugees we possibly can and we're going to have to hold a lot a lot of pressure on the government or the time to open the border and that didn't

happen so now we see as the offensive government offensive really shifted into can they get up in the last two to three days will be getting in something so we're seeing the expansion of the offensive into areas that are right along the line and up until now there have been a signal from israel basically to the government in damascus and moscow that you shouldn't get too close and that it creates a space in which basically people could sort of survive in these makeshift camps as that bombing gets closer israel's going to come under increasing pressure to actually take refugees into their territory yeah and turkey where they control both ends and jordan has been providing some cans for some of the peace there but that's clearly not enough right now and don't the israeli and jordanian governments have an obligation under international law not to push back these being assigned and sickest. they do they do at the end of the day these refugees controlling this

place as they get up to the border they have the right to seek asylum in these in these in these countries and territories and so fundamentally the israeli government is going to be faced with a decision about what was going to comply with its obligations under international law one of things that we were pushing quite hard for at the minimum what they need to do is open up or a little bit more and allow more humanitarian assistance to flow into these displacement camps the un is a position to do this under big organizations because help is really government the army is doing some but not quite enough progress you know is as the fighting gets closer that observation is going to be heightened by the sense of emergency that people are in. and talk to us more about the conditions and emagine sees that these people are facing and there is concern of course also about you know what these families who have lived under rebel control for for yes what's going to happen to them once the government takes over the villages have been living in could they be targeted. saluting the populations are or petrified many of them this is the same

thing that we saw up close to the jordanian border or populations were deeply concerned over this is the birthplace right as the birthplace of of the revolution or the awakening against the assad regime and people in these areas are deeply concerned with very good reason that they're going to be persecuted whether or not they fought against the regime so there is a sense of credible fear they would meet the credible fear threshold under international law should allow them to take refuge in a neighboring country the issue fundamentally is that the pressure really hasn't been there for the government of jordan and the government israel to open those borders for that to happen. harding lang from refugees international thank you so very much for taking the time to speak to us and tell us a bit about what these people along the israel syria border are experiencing right now we appreciate your time thank you so much now as you've heard the syrians near

the border with israel and jordan have been fleeing the fighting in. after more than seven years of war rebel fighters have lost control of the southern province of where the revolution began and our team at inside syria has been looking at the impact of this victory for the government what will it mean for syrians and others in the region you can watch the show by clicking on the show stab at al-jazeera dot com and then click on inside story now to nicaragua where paramilitary police forces loyal to the government continue to attack university students journalists health workers and clergy across the country that's according to the u.s. state department which has called on president daniel ortega to stop an attack on an opposition stronghold at least two people were killed and dozens injured in the besieged city of messiah residents of the neighborhood have told journalists that more than a thousand men with automatic weapons entered the city on tuesday now at least two hundred eighty people have died in two thousand have been injured in nicaragua

since unrest began three months ago according to the nicaraguan association for human rights that includes at least one thousand police offices protesters are demanding that president daniel ortega stand down in the bloodiest demonstrations in nicaragua since the country's civil war ended in one nine hundred ninety the unrest began in mid april when ortega a former maxus rebel leader proposed reducing pension benefits to ease budgetary pressures and although the plan was later dropped the crackdown on protesters has been brutal as described by the un human rights office on tuesday. evil and so it has to date left an estimated two hundred eighty people dead and one thousand eight hundred thirty injured has been overwhelmingly perpetrated by the state and by pro-government armed elements. we are observing an emerging and disturbing practice of human rights defenders and people who merely taking part in protests in criminalized. on monday nicaraguan congress adopted

a law on money laundering and terrorism with a very broad different definition of terrorism which raises concerns that it could be used against people taking part in protests let's go live to al-jazeera as mariana sanchez in managua nicaragua as capital for us mariana tell us about the situation for us in messiah an opposition stronghold that was under siege by pro-government forces who is in control right now. well what we understand fully that still the forces from the police and the paramilitary are still in control of the city rights groups have told us that the access is still blocked and what is happening is that apparently paramilitary forces and police are going house to house looking for the protesters who have hidden in different parts not only of specially in the neighborhood of mourning

bowl which was a neighborhood that is very. rose against the. dictatorship twenty thirty nine years ago and now. the neighborhood that has been most has resisted most of the security forces we understand that at least two people have been killed since last night we don't know how many people have been arrested and how many are wounded but what people were telling. were telling through the videos and audios that they were sending out of me we heard a lot of gunshots including machine guns going on there until yesterday nearly three hundred people maryanna have died in the last three months in nicaragua because of these anti-government protests how is the un rest affected every day life or nicaraguans. i think it's very it's been affected because the people there when we went to messiah the day before yesterday

we were able to talk to some people they said that the situation has been very tense for a long time now there were a houses closed businesses closed a few people on the streets few cars on the streets and people saying that the situation there was very tense but you can hear you can also feel it here in the capital the men i went around the country you can see the paramilitary forces going around in four wheel drives without plates with we've seen cars that were riddled with bullets going around and you can also. see that even the clergy's been attacked anywhere in the past week at one church members of the clergy the cardinal and the bishop were punched. last week another member of the clergy has been is it was taken the from his car his car was

destroyed and so the paramilitary forces and the and the security forces here are not stopping and the police the chief of police from us high yesterday said that this was a strict order from directly from the president and his wife. who is the vice president that all the role blocs must be lifted whatever the cost. is in managua nicaragua thank you very much for that update mariana and as this unrest in the crisis deepens in nicaragua the organization of american states or us is meeting right now in washington d.c. to discuss the violence and try to find a solution to end it these are live pictures from washington d.c. where that oh yes meeting the organization of american states which nicaragua the united states and a number of latin american countries. that speak some more about this now to call in harding who is in latin america specialists and director of latin form which is a consultancy and information service online and. erica is by skype from manchester

in the united kingdom thank you very much for speaking to us so we're seeing this oh yes meeting today in washington they've already had two emergency meetings on the situation in nicaragua what do you expect to come out of this latest one what sort of pressure can they apply to stop this violence well they can deplore what's going on like an issue or another appeal to president to take it to accede to demands for early elections and political and electoral reforms which will make the date the competition. and to call off his forces but if you are saying the next meal is not going to be not missed it. well that is the legal it will have iraq on the organization of american states do. they have already have the. individual sanctions introduced against members of the government time to the security forces. princeton so you know blocking their bank accounts is stopping them from traveling abroad. they may be extended but it's most unlikely that

they'll be sanctions introduced against the economy in general because of course that would have much less fortunate collateral impact and that's probably going to be avoided so really short of bringing united nations and critics to change its ways it's very hard to say exactly what they can do they can keep up the pressure the pressure is really a kind hearted correct me if i'm wrong but they seem to have been a certain reluctance from the oas as a whole body from some countries anyway to directly denounce daniel ortega and his government for the violence why is that they were much more vocal on venezuela and nicolas maduro. yes this has been a source of more of some concern certainly and. they did take at least a micro day the secretary general of the oas question while a couple of months to issue a condemnation of what was what the government should be doing. and really the only

countries that make or go. who are close allies of huge ortega. to take quite awhile it possibly because of the the. the the background of all the senate is to revolution which is through dictatorship right now and there's a residual sort of respect for what they could in the past that may have something to do with this but i think that they're pretty well determined now to. ratchet up the pressure on the ground or take a suit to change the way he's handling this group and it will be interesting to see what comes out of that oh yes meeting in washington today on vent nicaragua thank you very much for speaking to us colleen harding live there from manchester and of course all you need to know about the unrest the crisis in nicaragua on al-jazeera dot com we've got a special page up that explains what triggered the protest and what have been the

regional reactions and also some great photos from some of the demonstrations in various cities across nicaragua it's all there on our website at al-jazeera dot com and he watching us on facebook live coming up next a story from my colleagues at al-jazeera online about a pakistani village where women are forbidden to vote and still ahead on news great events to honor now so mandela one hundred years after he was born to stay with us i am. welcome back let's look at the weather across the levant and western parts of asia is a fine picture and a pretty hot picture for many forty degrees and can't not far short of that in tehran baghdad forty four degrees but again southern parts of iraq could be pushing the fifty mark we've got temperatures there in excess of thirty all the way around the eastern side of the mediterranean we are losing the share or so across the

caucasus still wanted to in evidence but generous slightly improved situation fairly brisk winds picking up as well downs through iraq could be some dust around moving down into the arabian peninsula certainly with the low humidity with that wind blowing down through the gulf the temperatures are now on the rise generally so forty five forty six degrees on the cards here forward on the other side the potential temperatures just below forty's recent day so not too hot there for mecca medina so let's move across into southern portions of africa we've got fairly brisk winds coming in towards the coast of south africa there so durban temperature twenty one degrees it should be fine for cape ten for the most part patchy cloud around namibia but generally fine conditions when took there twenty degrees celsius and respecting fine conditions to prevail across much of zambia and zimbabwe although a major sea want to show is pushing into the east coast of madagascar. when

diplomacy fields and fear sweeps then our borders are wide open wide open to drugs terrorists we've proven the barriers are built to impose division and it's ill to sixty's instead of being an obstacle to toll it's into became another obstacle to peace in a four part series al-jazeera revisits the reasons for divisions in different parts of the world and the impact they have on both sides walls of shame on al-jazeera. fresh perspectives. new possibility. seeing in this genocide the fall of man made noise to be public support to face and discussion when you see tough questions like this what comes to why how do you respond before how global of all blow could we see al-jazeera is the award winning programs take you on his journey and found that the. only counties

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looking at i'm not. one there an interesting opinion piece about how president trump is not put in sports and here's why this of course follows a controversy in a summit between the two leaders in helsinki finland also training thousands set to be evacuated from two syrian town school and defy astore that will come out on these great today and at number three the first direct ethiopia eritrea flight in twenty is takes off and more on that right now on these things. called the bird of peace the first flight from ethiopia to eritrea in twenty years certainly brought joy to those on board the hundreds of passengers included people seeking to reunite with family as well as the former ethiopian prime minister haile mariam deciding the dramatic diplomatic fall in one of africa's longest running conflicts began last month it seemed the reopening of embassies and wrist ravishing a full mix between the two neighboring nations mohammed abdul has our report from.

dignitaries journalists and businessmen what if you open a land schools it's but peace it's the first flight from there to try and couple this century this is how. we are going to be. in. the deal and that is. the two flights within fifteen minutes of each other because of overwhelming demand the majority on board people separated from their families by the border wall with begun in one thousand nine hundred i don't know of. how to her troops we caught up with that is hard to go a journalist with the state media as he packed his bags he was separated from his a trail wife and two daughters seventeen years ago she was forced to flee if the

being sacked from her government job in ethiopia because of honest knowledge that he just got a good look at this and i will believe this is not a dream when i land in asmara i had never imagined the possibility of peace between ethiopia and eritrea during my lifetime the weight and lack of communication with my family was painful i felt like i had an incurable disease with us model becomes the one hundred fifteen for this the notion for if you have been ellen's which was also announced because of quiet twenty percent of the little known at it for an ally in the road linking the two countries as a full band and of a to evolve vehicles allowed to fly again. at a train has agreed to grant access to its ports a boon for ethiopia which lost its main group to the sea with the outbreak of the wall twenty years ago if we started connecting our populations we have big market. by some token a chance with the push and soon fifty so it's all hope that the opening of the port

relaunching to penalized was not a good for the strings in the twenty first deals have been a trip. to new ties with its much larger neighbor with a population of more than one hundred million people also raises the prospect of revival for a trade as ailing economy many are now hoping the tricky exercise of democracy to the disputed border will go us quickly and smoothly as the process to normalize relations mohammed atta walsh's eda at a suburb. what do it retrains make of the warming ties between their country any theo pierre read this very interesting opinion piece on al-jazeera dot com by abraham t. sorry he isn't a rich living and in exile executive director of pen an organization that defends freedom of expression in eritrea he says eritreans are happy about peace but wary of their leader away case promises he says despite officially welcoming ethiopia's

peace efforts the retreat and regime is keeping its people in the dark it's a very interesting perspective read it's on al jazeera dot com now one hundred years ago today the untie apartheid icon and father of a nation nelson mandela was born in south africa people there have been holding events to honor his legacy and his efforts to unite a deeply divided country former u.s. president barack obama was among them giving his highest profile species leaving office he urged people around the world to respect human rights and other values that are now under threat al jazeera has more from johannesburg on how schoolchildren and learning about mandela's legacy. 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 to 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 why a 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 was the key to success and then that's education full moon have low feature. we all this thing at the streets now fifty questions in whatever it was just you. were there carol what i was telling them 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 to hundreds of 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 right. joining us now on the news grid is sara gone who is a policy fellow at the institute of race relations she is live from johannesburg in south africa thank you so very much for being with us what happened to nelson mandela's dream of a rainbow nation to the work. it could've but i think it's been almost trashed particularly in the in the eight years nine years of president zuma as presidency that a lot that the hopes and the possibilities that were really associates with with nelson mandela have just given way to the most of appalling corruption and

disintegration to a large extent of the ability to provide services and grow the economy. to what extend you know it's africa struggling with this economy why is it still struggling with this economy even after you know the end of apartheid so many. ok. young you know well essentially obviously. some of the of some of the problems or the effects of being a developing country and having a currency that goes with it so it's and it's a very tradeable currency so it's very very volatile and now we're seeing. it's been particularly harsh on us of things like of the importance of huell that it has a ripple effect on every aspect of society but the largest problem we've heard is that essentially. the a.n.c. took its eye off the ball during the zuma presidency and it also took its eye off the direction the country should go in for growth so what is essentially happened is there's been a maintenance of. an a.n.c.

legacy of decades of a move towards a socialist economy and national democratic revolution and frankly i think we're in a time where we know that that is absolutely not the path to to suit the well being to prosperity that you really need some form of market driven economy to achieve that and in we giving lives we have a listen this of it what about race relations there was. an injustice restoration the peace and reconciliation commission that was set up in one thousand nine hundred five to help deal with apartheid crimes and injustices i wonder what's what are race relations like right now between black south africans and white south african the indians and so on is it better now to. ok. it's yes or no and let me put it this way we've done a lot of research on the server the last fifteen years and our servers have covered

a wide range of people across color the color bars cetera and uniformly every time we've done it we've done reduce these surveys racism or the effects of racism are fairly low on the list it has though it has come in somewhat up the list in the last year or so that the real issues that come up at the top of the list every single every single ton of jobs education health and crime and leave the increase in racism has partly been affected by the fact that. people which people govern very often have been mistakes all the the problems behind row spacing and i think this is to some extent what happened to some extent of the president's big key votes so large extent under the. under president zuma and what happens is that when things are getting bad and the going from bad to worse it's very very easy to stoke up feelings of aggression and racism one group

to another so we are certainly have a more heightened sense of it but i'm not sure that it's it's you know it's the issue that will ultimately determine so therefore it is first ok sara gone thank you so very much for sharing your views with us are gone is from the institute of race relations in south africa joining us there from johannesburg now if you get a chance read and watch this piece by al-jazeera senior correspondent mike hanna who has covered south africa for many many years he reflects on the decades of covering nelson mandela calls him a savvy political operator who became an african icon it's on al-jazeera dot com all right when our live in our multi view war here on the news great taking a look at the different pictures the news agencies are feeding as so i want to show you here the oil yes meeting the organization of american states meeting in washington d.c. today discussing the crisis in nicaragua where nearly three hundred people have done have died rather since april they're trying to find

a solution to this crisis an end to the violence in nicaragua we're keeping a close eye on that and bring you the latest science as in when we get them in the meantime let's check in with our london news center and barbara sara for a look at the day's other news. foley thank you google is promising to appeal a record five billion dollars fine by the european union for using its android system to squeeze out rivals and to trust regulators said the tech giant to block competition by forcing smartphone makers and telecom providers to pre-install google services on their devices now its parent firm has been given ninety days to change its business practices or face further penalties of up to five percent of its average global daily turnover so nick has more on the story now from paris. a record five billion dollar fine was imposed by the european union on to the tech

giant google for what it said was unfairly cornering the mobile phone market the european commission ruled that google had killed off the competition by forcing phone manufacturers to adopt its services to use them such as the web search chrome and maps as well as other services as well it also accused the tech giant of using incentives as a way of forcing these phone manufacturers to use their own services but this is not the first time that the e.u. has made such a decision on unfair practices back in two thousand and eight it fined microsoft one point three five billion dollars for its dominance in the software market as well taking into consideration that microsoft is still a market leader but at the time it had been dominating the market meanwhile this is not the first case where google has hacked forced to back down from its dominance

in china and in russia it cannot be the only search engine provider for mobile phone networks it has to allow other competitors in the meantime there is the question of whether this is too little too late perhaps this may only be a fraction of the tech giants revenues but the question is with this decision to be able to force google to change its future business decisions if it is to have any effect at all. at least nineteen people have drowned after a boat carrying migrants sank off the coast of northern cyprus turkish cypriot officials say the boat was carrying one hundred sixty people over all twenty six of whom remain missing the coast guard and helicopters are currently looking in the area where the boat is believed to have sunk a total of one hundred five people have been rescued and airlifted to a hospital in turkey. the best toll has climbed to eleven in southern iraq as

unrest continues of a poor public services the demonstrations began in the oil rich province of basra last week and have now spread to several other large cities the protesters are angry about high prices power cuts and lack of usable water on tuesday iraq's prime minister hyderabadi promised to address their concerns in run khan has more now from baghdad. there's a lot of talk in iraq on social media that the protests which began last week in the southern districts in the southern cities of iraq will spread to the capital baghdad come friday now promised the hydro the body has been trying to quell this protest movement by promising them billions of dollars in investment in places surrounding her and indeed the protest movement itself as issued a list of fourteen demands now these are very much economic demands they want the job's to be given to the youth for this a lot of foreign oil companies that are simply employing foreigners and these are

jobs that local people could be doing that also want the petro dollars to come in to buy itself in the surrounding districts to try and develop the city itself they say this is been going on for fifteen years ever since the u.s. led occupation and invasion of iraq in two thousand and three so that's really why the protest movement has developed in the south but the real nightmare for the government is if the if it becomes very large scale here in the capital and lots of people still coming out on the street to protest against things that actually is not just the south it's actually across iraq as well things like that just to shortages lack of jobs and the economy and things like that so the government's very concerned promise to hold on the body he's using his public addresses to try and quell the protest movements try and say that we all on your side we do want iraq to develop and we are trying to do as much as we can but corruption once again has read its ugly head it's one of the key things that the protesters say has led

to the development of iraq itself billions of dollars in all revenue every single year yet very little evidence the protest site on the ground and they say enough is enough. donald trump is trying to shift attention away from his controversial meeting with the russian president vladimir putin while still insisting that it was a success in a series of tweets the u.s. president says many positive things will come out of monday summits and. he also tweeted about the economy and that north korea saying russia would help end the nuclear standoff there protesters have gathered outside the white house for a second the straight day they're angry at trump's refusal to confront the mere putin over russian election maddening. that is it from london now let's go back to folly in doha barbara thank you very much for that story off the grade in cuba where mobile internet is being introduced for the first time nationwide. well it's

full of the western hemisphere's least connected countries in the world but that's about to change because cuba has started rolling out internet on mobile phones and it's only for a select few including journalists and state run news outlets but by the end of the year about five million mobile phone customers that's half of cuba's population will be able to access internet on the go anywhere anytime and it was all part of the new president's campaign to get connected now it may go out there as can all hopes the internet will not only boost the economy but also as he puts it help cubans defend their revolution so what do the locals make of it before people can see with the c.b.c. the prosectors was one of the first to receive the service and it has meant an absolute change in work practices now you can access any site from your cell phone and that makes the job much easier as you can access social networks also for journalistic purposes you. get up in the morning before going to work check your mail talk to friends with mobile internet doing the things would be so much easier

. yes we could have quite late a little later than usual the problem is not we don't arrive but how done and what prices will be offered because it could be that we get it tomorrow but if we don't have prices the cubans can afford it is though we didn't have it in the first place whether because of a lack of cash a long running u.s. trade embargo or concerns about the flow of information cuba has lagged behind in web access in fact until twenty thirteen internet was mostly only available to the public at sirius hotels in cuba but since then the government has introduced cyber cafes an outdoor wife i hotspots and slowly started connecting homes for world wide web and last month a free messaging app to case. told us described as a cuban what's up was introduced but it only runs on cuba's intranet not the global internet now the internet campaign is part of new reforms to the communist country

that still refuses to embrace capitalism bots it's not clear if or how the cuban government will evolve that mobile access to the internet now carney cubans may rely on an internet that's controlled by the one party island and the government blocks access to dissident websites and is also able to control wants information reaches who in cuba but the president has said cubans will be able to see internet to counter cultural and vulgar consonant with the content rather that's were those were his your words but people have been commenting also on this story from outside of cuban are proud brit tweets and if cuba wants to attract tourists then this is essential now some for all quite concerned at once well they say the mobile internet that's being introduced across cuba means they'll lose that innocence but this person says i can't even imagine what a shock to the system a horrible internet will be but hopefully they can learn from many mistakes now others have also been very excited and they've called it

a step or radical step forward rather and like terry here who says until wait until the world sees how many educated engaged and talented people are living there but what we do want to know is what you think i'm on social media if you want to get in touch your for me on twitter at slot a higher so thank you very much for coming up for our viewers on facebook a story from egypt that asks how much video gaming is too much and makes our job here with the sports all the action from tuesday night's major league baseball all-star game including a new record so that's coming up after this short. thank . you.

his job fairly thank you major league baseball as it the hoff way stage of the season and that means one thing the old stock i'm a record ten home runs with school does the pick of the american league beat the best of the national league pizza stomach reports. nationals park in washington d.c. the venue for the eighty ninth all-star game a game that was under threat just hours before the first ball was pitched heavy rain in the u.s. capital thankfully subsided in time for the start of the game there was a rousing welcome for bryce harper the winner of the home run derby the day before and a washington nationals player aaron judge of the new york yankees with the first homerun of the game i. won nothing to the american league. at the top of the eighth inning triple story of the colorado rockies leveled the

school at two two. then the game swung in favor of the american league team they moved into a five two lead courtesy of this three run home run by john securer of the seattle mariners i but they were not allowed to get away. the national league tied the game at five five when scoot again it's of the cincinnati reds hit this two run homer. the reigning world series champions of the euston astro's so it was fitting that alex braverman would hit a solo home run to send the american league back into believe. and then george spring though also of the astros did the same seventy five to the american league and they would not look back from their final score eight six and the american league team of twenty eighteen all-star game winners featuring a record ten home runs bregman was named most valuable player. i don't know i think

i think it's fun like competing. and. the best man wins i mean they kind of empty your tank and hit homers tonight. at this event is probably the best thing imaginable just to have that kind of emotion that comes with a home run especially when the big boys hit it and especially when the astros head now that the midseason fun is over the regular season will resume and tuesday when the st louis cardinals are at the chicago cubs peter stone at al-jazeera well while back game was going on one play was becoming a top trend in the united states on social media but it wasn't days before minces an all star as pictured. took to the mound his racist and homophobic tweets from two thousand and eleven began to surface them a walkie brew as player made the comments when he was seventeen and before he was drafted into the l.b. but he deleted them on wednesday they came back to bite him. you know our.

job. was immature. and that's why i'm a person with. a report you believe. to be live in the form of the story that i mean as the leader. of your kidneys we went on and on and. on. but that inflation didn't pass muster with some baseball writer scott wheeler said that a lot of professional athletes have regrettable tweets like impossible as immaturity josh hated his tweets and not that kind he outright degraded women black people and the l g b t two community you don't take them back well this ussa also drew parallels between heda still having a procreates more a well colin kaepernick who let the n.f.l. anthem process does not touch take america and someone else i don't hate is m o b

stats on which a p v a you can see his win loss record one average in strikeouts and he saved all his tweets apparently. well the term ping pong diplomacy was first used in the one nine hundred seventy s. when the usa and china built a diplomatic relationship off the back of a successful table tennis tournament now the premise is being used again to bring north and south korea close it's again a combat says from the north of travel to the south to compete in an international competition they even teamed up in the mixed doubles to form a unified squad and she say north korea's che il and south korea's new chinese pizza team in spain relations between the two neighbors have warmed since north korea sent its athletes to the winter olympics in pim chang in february. you can get in touch eason hash tag a.j. news great or tweet me at gerri cash or osca we'll have more sport for you at eight hundred g.m.t. but for now it is back to folly joe thank you very much for that that will do it

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celebrate a commercial plane flies from ethiopia to eritrea for the first time in twenty years and google is find a record five billion dollars by the e.u. for breaking competition rules. thank you for joining us they survived on of rain water for nine days inside the depths of a flooded cave now the members of a young football team have spoken out about their ordeal for the first time recounting what they called a magical escape after a major international rescue effort the twelve teenagers and their assistant coach appeared in good spirits as they answered questions at their first public appearance the team paid tribute to the former navy seal who died while attempting to rescue them they explained why they first entered the cave and described the

moment they were found. we heard some noises of people talking at that moment so we told each other to be quiet and listen to the noise we weren't sure so we listened and it turned out to be true i was surprised when. the moment they merged in the water they spoke to each other once we heard noises we went down near the water and they greeted us hello is anyone there first i thought they were toy so we said the officials are here but they were not stifle and when they got out of the water we were surprised they were british. well the team's assistant coach described how he tried to find a way out of the cave system. try to go into the water and dig to see if we can go through but i could feel that the bottom was all sand and the top was just rocks pulled the rope and the boys pulled me back afterwards i told one of the poorest that we cannot exit this way.

we found a sandy hill and there was water dripping from eclipse and so i told everyone that we'd better stay near the water so we decided to spend the night there before we went to sleep i told him we should pray together before sleeping. his stuff was that fastened joins us live now from china a step you were following the story as the rescue unfolded what struck you the most from this news conference. well listening to them earlier of course it sounded like a film a movie script to me but of course this have been their reality and what struck me most is actually how organized they were even though they were of course confused and they were very afraid in the dark inside that cave they had some kind of system to keep themselves and each other alive and of course the main figure in this whole survival or deal basically has been the coach of course he was the leader of the

whole group and they listened very carefully to him but they also had these teams who went out to try to find water from clean water in the cave and they have been digging and trying to find a way out throughout the whole ordeal and they said well the first day they were still find it had no food whatsoever but the second day they were becoming already quite weak and then imagine to have been there for nine days before they were even front exactly and all that time they must have thought that of course there was the chance that they wouldn't be found i mean we're seeing them pictures of them and now next to you on screen you know they look well they seem to be you know they seem to be happy search me to be out what kind of support will they keep on receiving i guess post medical if they need it but also emotional. exactly these are a bunch of very tough for boys i can say but of course there's some concern about their mental state maybe not now right now but maybe nightmares later on the trauma

that they can suffer from the government has been very protective of them also as we speak right now because they already gone back home and a lot of people were like around the house a lot of journalism trying to interview them get in touch with the boys the police and the military are actually cordoning off the area where they live right now and there's also a plan the government has to have some social support maybe some social workers going to their houses over a period of time to watch these boys and observe them to see if there is no mental fallout or any problems that they have after this ordeal they've been through. so that vasant who was at that amazing news conference in china rice that thank you. syrian activists say rebel held town in the southern province of the rock has come

under heavy bombardment by government forces there have been dozens of air strikes and heavy shelling on the rebel held city of najaf the city's only hospital has been bombed with reports of dozens of casualties now why is the largest urban center in southern syria still controlled by rebel fighters where the fighting has forced hundreds of civilians to flee west towards the israeli occupied golan heights many displaced syrians are still gathered along the border in makeshift camps after these really army turned them away stephanie decker is there. at least six airstrikes have just come in and this is all part of the syrian government's campaign to get this area back from the rebels and you can also see just how close it is we can hear the plane in the sky just how close it is to the tents where those syrian internally displaced sheltering it gives you a sense of just how terrified these people are the border is closed an israeli authorities have made it very clear they won't be letting anyone in now we've been

witnessing an intensive airstrike campaign throughout the day our team has counted at least one hundred airstrikes they started a little further afield and then they started hitting right in front of us also quite close to the areas where you see those tents those tents are are housing syrian internally displaced these are people who have fled the war these are people who are now trapped between closed borders and between the syrian government advances also there's no real aid there for them no organized aid efforts yes the israeli army has been giving out some supplies in some tents but there's also a real fear of what happens when the syrian government takes over their areas they have been advancing very false these people are still in rebel territory they've been living under the opposition around for years so they are terrified of what will happen to them if there is any sort of retaliation from the syrian government forces meanwhile residents in two besieged towns in syria's province are being

evacuated after a deal was struck between opposition fighters and pro-government forces thousands are being bussed. in the northwest the towns have been under siege by opposition fighters for more than four years those leaving include pro regime forces and their families they're being taken to areas of the government control. now the first commercial flight from ethiopia to eritrea in twenty years has landed safely drawing a line under years of conflict hundreds of people boarded the flight hoping to reunite with family they had been separated from during the hades of war the home of the reports now from the. dignitaries journalists and businessmen board what if you open land schools it's but of peace it's the first flight from the to that a train couple of this century this is how. we

are. and the fact that we are. in. that and that is. the airline operated two flights within fifteen minutes of each other because of overwhelming demand the majority on board people separated from their families by the border wall which began in one thousand nine hundred i don't love food. we caught up with artist alan hard to go a journalist with the state media as he packed his bags he was separated from is that a chair and wife and two daughters seventeen years ago she was forced to flee if the being sacked from her government job in ethiopia because of honest knowledge that he just got a dog and i will believe this is not a dream when i land in asmara i never imagined the possibility of peace between ethiopia and eritrea during my lifetime the weight and lack of communication with

my family was painful i felt like i had an incurable disease us model becomes the one hundred fifty of us the national forty feet up and elements which are also announced because of quiet twenty percent of the little known at it for an ally in the road linking the two countries as a full band and of a to evolve vehicles allowed to fly again. at a train has agreed to grant access to its ports a boon for ethiopia which lost its main group to the sea with the outbreak of the wall twenty years ago if we started connecting our populations we have big market. by some token a chance with the push and soon fifty source of hope that the opening of the port and relaunching the tip in the last was not further strains in the twenty first deals have been a trip. to new ties with its much larger neighbor with a population of more than one hundred million people also raises the prospect of revival for

a traitorous ailing economy many are now hoping the tricky exercise of democracy ting the disputed border will go us quickly and smoothly as the process to normalize relations mohammed atta walsh's eda a disciple. the organization of american states that's the top regional group for countries in the americas is holding a special meeting on the continuing violence in the seven member countries of the group including argentina chile and the u.s. requested the cold when it comes twenty four hours after security forces and supporters of the nicaraguan president daniel if they got stormed a major stronghold of antigovernment protesters. in the nicaraguan the capital for us says so many and it was a situation like after yesterday and what are rights groups saying about the developments.

we seem to be having problems with the live to mariana sanchez there in managua. we will try to cross live to her again hopefully right after the break so which is coming now remember you're watching al-jazeera live from london and still to come after the break leaving it all to chance the germantown using a lottery to decide who gets a final resting place in the local cemetery. straight to nowhere with allegations you. could be time media and civil society.