life. syrian activists say government forces have launched a frenzied attack on a rebel held city in the southern province of there are dozens of air strikes and heavy shelling on its only hospital was bombed with the reports of dozens of casualties the largest urban center in southern syria and is still controlled by rebel fighters well the fighting is forcing hundreds of civilians to few west towards the israeli occupied golan heights let me just play syrians or so gathered along the border in makeshift camps after the israeli army turned them away stephanie this update from there at least six air strikes 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 planes 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. 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 out of the four and a fry in the northwest the towns have been under siege by opposition fighters for more than four years of those leaving include pro regime forces and their families they're being taken to areas under government control and exchange the government is expected to release hundreds of detainees and still to come on this program. that's how the sounds of cheers and celebrations as the first commercial flight between ethiopian eritrea touches down and a smart after twenty years at war plus. to me is changing its migration policy i understand you an inside job i'm coming up i'll explain why hundreds and thousands of migrants including hastens are rushing to meet

a deadline. has got to get even colder in the southeast of australia a cold front coming through this is it in the bite that is just moving towards and light now full cost wise puts it sort of overland it is like a rather dreary day in adelaide and just turning that way in melbourne thirteen at best that would be after a cold night particularly probably a bit further east and a cd for example the sun is out further west percept about seventy degrees and sunny is fairly typical though it's not particularly warm even when you get that thirty knot late eleven year best in melbourne and tasmania has gone all windy and wet once more with probably some stay at height for new zealand well we got rid of the real story where they had

a good day or so the clouds building one small to see that they're on its way into the western side so it's already likely raining on western side of new zealand both islands and that's increasingly likely during thursday in northern ireland maybe on friday it looks a brighter picture you know it's just not very much happening in tonga or fiji and we rather worse is on the pacific again to mid summer sunshine again continued warm in fact you'd say it's hot soccer's forecast and actual temperature mid to high thirty's. in the wrong waste in efficiency and the growing population has led to do when. you try to extract water from any source also told this is what you see as a result of the country's future it's to. attitude to change an innovative solution

to being from. people in power investigates iran's water crisis on al-jazeera. again here's a reminder for our top stories knowledge is there a u.s. president donald trump says he holds glad to put in personally responsible for allegedly russian meddling in the twenty sixteen election. teenagers and their coach who were rescued from a cave in thailand have spoken publicly of their ordeal it's robbing the moment they were rescued as magical. and syrian activists say the residents in the rebel held city of now and there are province have come under frenzied attack by

government forces. the first course all flights from ethiopia and twenty years have touched down and to chairs and celebrations hundreds of people boarded the flights ok to reunite with family that been separated from during two decades of conflict oh my god has this report from. dignitaries journalists and businessmen board what if you open land schools it's but of peace it's the first flight from addis ababa to their to trent cup the last month of this century this is a new. we are going to getting other moms i just. and the fact that we are going into tonight's shows. that and that is that. the airline operated two flights within fifteen minutes of each other because of

overwhelming demand the majority on board are people separated from their funds by the border wall which began in one thousand nine hundred eighty. we caught up with artist alum hard go a journalist with the state media as he packed his bags he was separated from his a chair 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 and 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 fifty of us the notion for if you have been ellen's which is also announced because of quiet twenty percent of the little known at it for airlines the road linking the two countries as a whole bunch of innovative before vehicles are 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 start to connecting our populations we have big market. by some token a chance with the push and soon so it's all hope that the opening of the port launching to penalized was not a good for the strings in the twenty first deals have been a threat. 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 trail ailing economy many are now hoping the tricky exercise of the marketing the disputed border will go us quickly and smoothly as the process to normalize relations mohammed of the world as it. google says it will appeal

a record five billion dollar fine handed down by the european union the says the tech giant used its android operating system to cement the dominance of its search engine sunday gago has this report from paris. a three year investigation and direct court five billion dollars fine a steep penalty for google accused by the european union of abusing its power as they call it an entire sector in the phone market who has engaged in illegal practices to cement its time and market decision internet search. and effective end to this contact within ninety days or face a penalty payment at the heart of the issue is android the tech giants operating system for mobile phones used to more than eighty percent of the world's smartphones it is essential to google's future revenues. but the european commission found google had blocked competition by forcing phone

makers to pre-install services such as search engine and map software as a condition of using its operation system it also paid phone manufacturers incentives if they installed google search without rival services the case would seem to prove the point that there's no such thing as a free lunch when tech giants come bearing gifts and google is finding out to its cost it's having to concede this is already the case in countries such as china and russia the french government has welcomed the decision to stop it from squeezing out any rivals. google will have to change their practices in terms of licensing of devices and road software applications that in turn would have a considerable impact on their commercial policy. google has said it will appeal against the decision it may only be a fraction of its revenue but the real challenge will be if the e.u. forces it to change its future behavior. paris.

police and medical sources in iraq say at least eleven people have now died in protests in the south regarding the poor state of public services they arrest began in basra last week and spread to several other large cities one of the main reasons for the anger is the frequent power blackouts in iran contra forth from baghdad. protests now into the second week have spurred the government into looking for a solution a summer temperatures soul electricity supply has become the erratic a problem made worse by iran cutting off supplies because of one of the health billion dollars in unpaid bills it says that sparked protests by iraqis opec second largest oil exporter is appealing for help from the world's number one producer a high level iraqi delegation visited saudi arabia on wednesday iraqis hope iran's regional rival can supply electricity to them via the regional grid analysts

suggest that saudi arabia would be keen to help out as it's long been concerned about iran's close relations with baghdad. i believe that such a visit by the iraqi side to saudi arabia is a very important one because saudi arabia has expressed keenness and readiness to supply iraq not only with electricity but to help in other several sectors such as housing projects and transport on the level of spreading its political influence on iraq because saudi arabia has implemented a rather new approach the success of saudi arabia on the economic level will definitely ensure saudi arabia's political success in iraq iran will be watching what is negotiated with saudi arabia closely. iraq is racing to find a short term deal that can bring economic and energy relief to the southern districts and by doing so it hopes that it can quell the protest movement before it turns into

a nationwide movement that could topple the government. leaders of iraq and an enormous go to person. case of war corruption and infrastructure to collect means a long term multibillion effort is needed to find a long term solution imran khan how does it like that who the rebels in yemen say they have attacked an oil refinery in the saudi capital using a drone drone targeted the state refinery in riyadh the oil company said it's contained a small fire which is due to an operational incidence the iranian aligned rebels say the drone attack marks a start of a new stage in deterring aggression. and who these leaders has told a french newspaper he is ready to hand control of had a dust port to the un if saudi backed troops and their offensive the red sea port has been controlled by the who with these since two thousand and fourteen provides

a vital lifeline for war ravaged to yemen with seventy percent of food imports passing through it the saudi led coalition which supports yemen's internationally recognized government launched an offensive to capture the port last month in the interior interview with a figure who. also accused france of encouraging the fighting by selling arms to saudi arabia and the u.a.e. . the organization of american states has condemned the human rights abuses being committed by the nicaraguan police and armed pro-government civilians the resolution was adopted by twenty one votes to three and condemn the government's actions since mass protests began against president daniel ortega in mid april as a porches of the government painted over opposition graffiti and dismantled offices and barricades on wednesday in messiah that's one of the cities that's been worst hit by the violence one of the two hundred fifty people have been killed across the country in the unrest. chile has become

a magnet for migrants seeking relief from economic and political strife it's home especially for people from haiti venezuela and colombia and president influxes paul prompted the conservative government to crack down on what it calls irregular migration the tougher regulations and new deadlines for applications this year newman has more in this. industry and thirty four year old my sending arrived in chile seven months ago from haiti and works at some towels largest fruit and vegetable market. nearby damages for a house who came three years ago from the ms raila runs a restaurant that sells venezuelan food. venezuelans chile is largely united staff that he the work opportunity is a much better and it's much easier to enter than us. but that has changed to confront what it describes as a migration emergency chile's government is making it tougher hiring migrants who

want to settle here to first apply for a visa in less than two years the number of migrants who entered chile as tourists has tripled from four hundred sixty thousand to more than one point two million it's added diversity of to latin america's most stable economy but it's also put a strain on a country clearly unprepared for such a sudden influx and i. think the problem is not migration to chile because we have the capacity for migrants the problem is lying so you can migrate like coming as a tourist and then staying that generates an irregular status that creates all sorts of problems. and so chile has adopted a carrot and stick policy which began expelling two thousand migrants who committed crimes while offering hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants already here a one time chance to apply for residency this is part of a three block long after all of the applying for their legal status here in chile

after sunday bill for having done so will be subject to deportation. without papers you call mark and so this reform will help lines of us who are here but for those who want to follow. haitians can no longer arrive without a work visa of the ten thousand relatives of those who already residents will be allowed to come every year. barring a criminal record and israelis will automatically be approved because of the political and economic crisis there but if they are upset about the new rules are that being the same thing that now chile is demanding penal records and consulate visas these procedures used to take a week now to human cost a fortune in venezuela because of the chaos that people there can't wait that long . chile's migrant center which is run by just would priests predicts the new regulations will simply spur migrant trafficking along chile's porous border there will be. we're already seeing venezuelans entering through regular

means we need to improve the institutional ability to document moderates here rather than making entry more difficult. indeed chile is working to overhaul its outdated immigration law the oldest in the region the big question is how that will change this country and hopes and dreams of those who want to make it their home. see in humans i just see that santiago. and their reminder you can always find much more on our website at the address for that is w w w dot com. hello again mr weiner for top stories and al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump says he holds by the airports and personally responsible for allegedly russian meddling in the twenty six thousand election i made these comments during an interview with u.s.

media during a day of back and forth on the issue often seeming to contradict the advice of his own intelligence agencies. the twelve for those who were rescued from a flooded cave in northern thailand last week have made their first public appearance the teenagers and their coach appeared in good spirits as they recounted their ordeal at a news conference in china right the boys paid tribute to the former navy seal who died in an attempt to rescue them and describe the magical moment which divers found them. and boy 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 emerged 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 to tie for shoes and when they go to

the water we were surprised they were british. syrian activists say we're about helltown and the southern province of daraa has come under heavy bombardment by government forces have been dozens of airstrikes and heavy shelling on nowa the only hospital has been bombed with reports of dozens of casualties the fighting has forced hundreds of civilians to few westwards the israeli occupied golan heights. on the first commercial flights from ethiopia to eritrea after twenty years that war has landed safely the flights which has been called the bird of peace arrived in asmara to red carpets welcome those onboard included people seeking through united family members as well as the former ethiopian prime minister. google says it will appeal a record five billion dollars fine handed down by the european union and the e.u. has been investigating contracts with phone manufacturers which forced them to

pre-install google services on android devices and those are the headlines people and power is next. we understand the differences and the similarities of cultures across the world. so no matter where you call home al-jazeera will bring in the news and current affairs that matter to. al-jazeera. iran's water supplies are under threat its reserves to preach it by waste and inefficiency once fertile lens drained and barren innovative solutions are at last being applied with will it be enough we sent reporter gallery to robin from algiers or is it worth royce errors to find out.

it's hard to imagine life without water but in the middle east that's an increasingly troubling prospect in this fragile region of water shortages have been linked to mass migration drought food shortages and political instability here in iran years of stifling international sanctions have put pressure on an already deteriorating water management system but as iranians watch their precious bodies of water disappear and international restrictions east there's a new understanding that in order to survive change needs to happen.

elaan the archer bar want to. lend the load the han the cultural heartbeat essential iran i'm here to meet global water expert dr kahn a mad annie he's asked me to meet him along the xi'an to rid the river which gave birth to this ancient city the eye doctor medan if this is not at all what i was expecting what happened to the famous life giver the xi'an to rude for the past few years we have been seeing it like this few months of a flow every year and the rest this is what you get it selfish only of that river these massive cracks that we're seeing in this once flowing thousand year old river this is a manmade problem. unfortunately yes i'm not i'm not saying that nature had no

effect on this we have exhausted the water upstream and this is what we're left with what is the water upstream been used for mostly agriculture. nationally we use more than ninety percent of the water in the acceptor. that's common in dry in the dry areas of the ward where you want to produce food wherever you are gates and you run out of water and that's a general rule this is really a symbol of what is happening at a larger scale at a national scale in this country and what is happening right now rivers and lakes going dry after one after another losing what we're losing wetlands. we are seeing land subsidence very same deserts of vacation and declining groundwater levels which is really sad we have been determined to maximize a water use to extract water from any source possible move water from one location

to another and this is what we see as a result this is what i called water bankruptcy. do you see that the sprinkler yeah . that's a problem this is the mentality is that we don't we don't get it like look look at this like all around the river beds are green and we have a river which is going. to pull up meet. the. the the live up to the person so you and the rich to pay for the blanket was above mine to have a three month mission just about a year and a hundred move over to. the los. it's the best as that's because that's a should be to the heart of what this mother tongues are quite.

what it is here that i can imagine when this is full of water people this is just left it exactly is just so sad. so what would you say are the real causes of this crisis how do we get these things i generally think there are three main. causes one being the rapid population growth in less than two decades the population of your own double the second cause is the inefficient agricultural sector and has been very important for us over the years of war with iraq and after that we're hearing these sanctions. it was natural to be really warned about food self-sufficiency and food availability in this country and the third cause being mismanaged water is also linked to so many other things in the list will understand and appreciate these linkages this complexity we can all solve the problems. while many iranians are grieving the loss of desire and a rude river there's

a greater and more invisible crisis underground. i'm traveling into iran's farming heartland to meet geoscientist man danny she's investigating iran's groundwater crisis over the past fifty years iran has extracted seventy percent of its ground water supplies mainly to support farming the arid southwest province of syria john which relies heavily on pistachio farming is now running on empty what you have here is the city of syria churn and you can see here the area which rolls the substance so these are the groundwater depletion hotspots is that correct exactly what exactly is such that an. opera hardass from courtroom. after shit effective as a compact should we be worried right now about the ground water levels in syria john the author first knows the i can't have moved to capture the water so we have

run off we have fraud and sinkholes the role of the infrastructure so should we go find yourself and think oh ya course. does it all collapse all at once or is it over time one second oh really so sinkholes unless of side and there are indicators on the ground of a much deeper problem you know you can see the former opposite side of the vault they are connected so when you extract the ground water from one point the ground water level drops people are over exploiting the water and not paying attention to the the aquifer underneath. in the past decade fifteen percent of this region's to stash to trees have died forcing farmers to abandon their land and homes at this rate more than half of iran's provinces could become uninhabitable within fifteen years displacing millions. five years ago

everything was green and it all dried up in such short time yeah is this region is it able to support pistachio farms anymore i think they can't because there's no more votes with. the farms so what happens now what do you tell the farmer and the family like these people over there we should see their home what do you tell them when when the water runs out it's impossible they can't do anything for four days areas where do you think it's somebody who lives in. that. and it's good for thirty four and i think. i think it's on solid and you're going to end rivers i think the fear for my i am is that this is just the beginning of this

entire iconic region might become uninhabitable. just disappear. until very recently stashes were iran's main export after crude oil and the province which syria john sits in was one of the largest producers in the world contributing to a billion dollar industry but now farmers that remain are struggling to survive without water i have left dr danny to meet a family still trying to eke out a living. human child so they can to go with us economy when the whole god send them upon yourself to charge a quarter of all the kidneys all from traditional. owners and that you want more church or the. more your church your more rituals in the record you're a moment you're done off done shot or shot. to. some of the enemy on the new law following. all of these some of

the water is completely contaminated because they've been digging so much into the ark or for they've had salt water leech in from the nearby lake bed it's not just lack of water it's salt water entering the fresh water that they use for farming. but orlando on that there ought to give. russia. if most of them very. serious present you're out there most of them to give up are not drawn from. ten years ago they had a nice diversity of crops but as the trade in pistachios started really bringing in money it was very profitable everybody one invested in pistachio farming and now the future is completely bleak because they've invested in only one problem. anything you want to get by and then you don came can time i had cash advised me to from a moment you normally get out your quarter to quarter to quarter days because i'm

not sure where there are a much greater value would draw on your mark get your degree our goal if you want. then it. twenty or you and me here are your when i was each take each person i'd. be stored all year and they're each going to turn them into a. badge disorder this is this is the of now the future. iran is clearly facing a huge and unprecedented crisis and without the government support it's hard to see

any hope of resolution i'm in town to meet masa may have to carve the country's vice president and head of environmental protection. would you say that iran is currently facing a water crisis yes iran like many other countries in the region is currently facing water scarcity we need to change the current water management water consumption patterns in order to be able to deal with this currently the x. factor uses ninety percent of the water in this country how are you planning to reform this industry we actually started a project working with farmers educating them training them about three hundred villages are directly involved how much do you feel that international sanctions have added to the escalation of the crisis that we face today we have a lot of pressure on our economy there was a lot of pressure on producing more crops we need to take off the pressure i

think from our national.