several of the boys apologized to the parents for going into the cave they described the moment they were found as magical step vassal reports. thank the happy faces of what is now one of the world's most famous football teams the wild boars can finally go home well no not for the performances on the pitch but for demo regular survival and rescue from the pitch black of a cave in north thailand. by a truck 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 a pulled the rope and the boys pulled me back afterwards i told one of the boys that we cannot exit this way and. what was planned as a one hour visit to the cave turned into an ordeal for eighteen days and nights closely watched by news viewers around the world. we found a sunday hill and there was water dripping from cliffs and rocks 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 the youngest is only eleven years old maybe. i tried not to think about food otherwise i'd feel it in more hungry. after nine days they finally were found. and we heard some noises of people talking at that moment so we told each other to be quiet and listen to the noises we weren't sure so we listened and it turned out to be true i was surprised. a team of international divers finally managed to swim them to safety in what experts describe as one of the most difficult and dangerous cave rescue operations ever remarkable stories of survival told by the boys and their coach for the first time with no food at all trying to fight any clean water they could drink all the time they were trying to find a way out as they became weaker and weaker by the day. the father of the fourteen

year old goalkeeper says he wants his life returned to normal as soon as possible of course i am worried we can't see in the future but i will tell my boy when he returns to the normal world he may face things he has never experienced before i try to encourage him to make sure he will be ready to face this issues only speak about what he wants to say things that hurt him he should avoid the wild boars will all become novice monks for a period of nine days to pay tribute to the former tiny navy diver someone who lost his life during their rescue. di artists have made this mural in chiang right to honor the extreme bravery and international teamwork of everyone who participated in the rescue operation after sharing their stories with the world the boys can finally go back home step fasten al-jazeera chiang rai. plenty more ahead for you

we take a look at the human cost of a strain is hardline refugee policy five years after it was imposed gaza protesters say their fire starting kites and balloons will keep flying despite the threat of israeli military reprisals and in sports could rory mcilroy won a fifth major title at the opening this weekend we'll hear from the former world number one golfer later in the program. the rebels in yemen say they've attacked an oil refinery in the saudi capital using a drone that targeted the state run around called refinery in riyadh they all company said it contained a small fire which was due to what it called an operational incident the rebels say the drone attack marks the start of a new stage in detailing saudi aggression in yemen meanwhile yemen's who feel leader has told a french newspaper he's ready to hand over control of the port city of her data to

the united nations if the saudi and not a coalition ends its offensive the red sea port has been controlled by the rebels since twenty fourteen it provides a vital lifeline for war ravaged yemen with seventy percent of food imports passing through it last month aside in a mirage a coalition which backs yemen's internationally recognized government launched an offensive to capture the port in the interview with le figaro hoofy chief. also accused france of contributing to the violence by selling arms to saudi arabia and the u.a.e. a spokesman for the un secretary general had this to say about the port negotiations . the special envoy for yemen continues to engage with the parties to get an agreement to prevent an attack on both the city and port of the data at the moment both parties are sending a proposal from which is based on a u.n. role in both the city and the port. and also syria has obtained video from

a refugee camp set up for people who fled the fighting in what data about one hundred twenty one thousand people have escaped since the beginning of last month so it tells us what's happened to those who've ended up in neighboring province. these are the young faces of those displaced in their own country the some of the thirty five thousand families who've been forced to leave their homes in the data. the heat is relentless electricity blackouts are common food water and medication ask us the risk of falling ill with cholera is extremely high. you know. there are about two hundred and fifty families living here and it's increasing by the day we're calling on the local authorities and international community to support and help us. became a refugee two weeks ago when he escaped the heavy fighting in her data between the saudi led coalition and her with the rebels. we have many burdens breakfast is

bread with beans dinner is bread with yogurt are suffering the food is not enough the cost of transportation is so high we can't even afford to go to the nearby market. hammoud who says he witnessed his neighbor's children kidnapped adds that many more family members are also trying to leave her data but can't. i'm asking human rights organizations to help yemenis it's a miserable situation we ask the north of yemen to also take care of us many of us don't have a place to sleep there are not enough camps so how can we receive more people here the world's largest humanitarian crisis just got worse in june when saudi led military action to take control of intensified its ports is the most important in yemen a lifeline to a country where almost eight point five million people are on the verge of. starvation. thanks to the generosity of

a local in the province of lads have more than his family are safe in these makeshift camps for now but with no end in sight to the war it's not clear when they'll be able to return home if ever thought of. al-jazeera it's been five years since a stray a tough and it's already hard line immigration policy sending refugees and migrants to remote prison comes on pacific islands it successfully deterred people from trying to reach a stereo by boat but refugee advocates say the human cost is far too great under thomas reports from city. the boats carrying refugee holiday manso and her son arrived in australia insurers in march twenty thirty mm they spent months in detention but are now on a path to a permanent life in australia how the second son app team was born in australia just four months after harmony arrived her sister and her two sons made the same journey in between australia's government to the now it's

a new policy towards refugees arriving by boat people who come by boat now have no prospect of being resettled in australia the rules have changed for the man saw and her sons were sent to the tiny piece of a garland of nuru and were told they'd never leave some people was lucky for. just four if you miles. last month variables how many days nephew killed himself he was twenty six five years in heart. and in the tent without condit have done nothing. as it were mine if you say i lost a lot of car i i said no you can't start again you are young now but. you know i lost you now and i can't live it. i can but it. australia's policy change in twenty thirteen was in response to almost daily

budgets and about fifty thousand people described as an authorized arriving from the nineteenth of july all refugees and migrants were sent to either the tiny island state of nuru or mouse island in papua new guinea as a deterrent it worked the boats had stopped arriving by the middle of twenty fourteen by which time a new australian government that it turning back boats it seemed to the policy since the commencement of operation sovereign borders we've been able to provide the human environment to the people to settle in regional processing centers obviously conducted boy in the now room carson our own government employee injury about the pay injury government we provide assistance to those processes but at the same time the dividend of the success of stopping bites and most importantly stopping drownings at sea is that we've been able to offer a record number of places under the humanitarian refugee program was an estimated two and a half thousand people were sent to mount a silent on a route around six hundred well later paid to return to the countries they've fled

three hundred have been resettled in the united states about four hundred have been brought to australia the australian government will not say so publicly twelve people have died or been killed or man a solar roof about a fountain people remain on the island if the policy is only successful because it demands the sacrifice of human lives of people offshore then it's not an effective policy but neither big political party in australia proposes changing the policy so its fifth anniversary is unlikely to be its last andrew thomas al-jazeera sydney. joining us live is peter hartcher who's political and international editor at the sydney morning herald newspaper thank you very much indeed for joining us on al jazeera at the height of this issue to the rest of the world watching the pictures that were coming from the boats being turned away and from the migrants being placed in the detention centers it seemed a very harsh policy but given the fact there were boats arriving daily and people

were drowning it seems the try to make the journey could this trillion government actually have done anything differently well we've seen a ratcheting up one government after another increasingly tough measures to prevent the uncontrolled arrival of asylum seekers and it kept retching up to a point where it did work so. that was the simple process of trial and error they just kept going until they found a formula that stopped the flow of boats and it has stopped completely it's been harsh and yet it's been successful how strong is the argument that these two million government perhaps should have a duty to have had a greater judy of care to the migrants that it was turning away and those that it was placing in the detention centers and not a while and for example. yes that's been at the heart of the political debate here and there is

a strong argument that rather than just handing them over to convey to the care and the tender mercies of the governments of papa new guinea on a route that australia should have taken more more care the israeli government has provided dwellings health care food medication. obviously there still been tremendous suffering so it's been inadequate one consequence is that the labor opposition that's the party that first began this off offshore processing and never to be resettled in australia policy. they're in opposition promising that if they come back into government they will keep the boats policy but they will improve the treatment the humanitarian level of care for anybody stuck on those islands how's the policy and its consequences are viewed by a story in this themselves well in broad the majority of the public supports the policy and that's why it's become

bipartisan national policy with both major parties have now signed up to the essential elements of the of this policy it's nonetheless been very controversial it has been a strain on the national conscience that the price that the country has paid to stop the boats has been the suffering of the people that have been stuck on the islands which is now it's much reduced it's about one thousand six hundred but it still a lot of people have been suffering for a long time. it's produced as polarized opinion but the overwhelming majority of the public is in favor of the policy and one consequence is because of the perception that the borders are now under control rather than the previous perception which was that the country had lost control of its borders is that public support for the larger overall national immigration program which is one of the biggest in the world has been maintained. what do you think the longer term

impact has been on a story is global image. well it was terrible for australia's global image it was in the words of one of strangers. more famous sons russell crowe australia's shame and it has been troubling the national conscience and it has been a stain on astroids international reputation no question about it. however in the last year or so with the increasingly difficult and controversial state of refugee policy not only in the middle east but obviously it's ripping europe and european governments apart. the policy seems to have been at least partially vindicated and is no longer universally vilified internationally and in fact is being discussed as a possible model to countries in europe that find themselves dealing with an uncontrollable border problem. really good to get your views on this peter hartcher

is political and international editor at the sydney morning herald thank you very much indeed still to come in the second half of this news out of the first commercial flight from ethiopia to editorial in twenty years seals the peace deal but also explain how people who've left african countries are using twitter to influence elections back home and there's a new leader at the tour de france details coming up to touch on in the sport. and it's. the weather sponsored by. hello tropical storm something's gone through high now and is now heading for has reached the coast of vietnam and the circulation sylvie's now has given winds up to eighty kilometers per hour which is a gale force winds which might do some damage but the amount to raise it was

expected to be the worst aspect of this storm it gave not a huge amount sixty seventy millimeters reported so far and high now and i think it will give more in the counties higher ground and it's slowing down now the same line extends heavy rain right back to lose all but by the time we get to friday the circulation is gone but the rain is to fall in the northern vietnam laos and across into myanmar as well and it will affect some parts aground on the rest of china fine warm but likely to be drawing and if you drop serves the shark has extend over through southeast asia even as fast as the singapore so good part of malaysia has got the potential but for indonesia spot where tribes are all that really see the showers build once more but if you're in bali if you're in java it could be wall to wall dawn to dusk sunshine which is fairly rare event to set the next couple days as the cloud just creeps through born here showing the potential for showers the heaviest rain there is always going to be further north thailand and miramar in

particular. so whether it's sponsored by cattle i always say. when people need to be heard. but he's been there a few jomo still in his life it's not unknown your life is short and the story needs to be told we do stories that have passed false just as i testify in the court of law to make sure that the bad guys appeal to find facts al-jazeera has teams on the ground to a new documentaries and live news on air and on. the promise of peace in the middle east not. enough but a new dilemma after the death of the man at the center of the palestinian struggle . now more than forty years after to status meant how far has the p.l.o. come to achieving its hopes and dreams including the turbulent story of the

struggle for palestinian homes. history of a revolution on al-jazeera. your daughters are a reminder of our top stories this hour donald trump says he holds russian president vladimir putin personally responsible for moscow's meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential election it's the latest shift in language from the u.s. president after he was criticized for failing to confront it and following their summit in finland. a tie for bolton trapped in a flooded cave for more than two weeks have made their first public appearance describing the risqué as a miracle the twelve teenagers and their coach appeared in good spirits as the

onset. questions about that ordeal. israel has passed a law that for the first time declares it to be the nation state of the jewish people out of members of the knesset shouted and ripped up papers after the vote the bells of also downgrades the status of the arabic language and encourages the building of jewish only communities. hamas says protesters sending burning kites into israel have every right to keep doing it that's despite reports that israel's army has been ordered to prepare for a large scale military offensive along the gaza strip if they continue the kites some of which israel says are also booby trapped with explosives have destroyed millions of dollars worth of crops from gaza stratford reports. it's been almost four months since protesters in cars are started flying kites carrying petrol bombs and burning rags over the border fence towards israel for israeli government says

they've set fire to many hecht is of land destroying millions of dollars worth of crops this protester insisted we hide his identity he's a member of a group calling itself the sons of the winery it's named after the man who helped hamas acquire drone technology and was assassinated in two musea in two thousand and sixteen. we will not stop launching the balloons and co it's until israel lift the siege the borders newsreels caught we don't decide whether there is a war and we are not afraid we have suffered in a war against this every day since israel started the twelve years ago. israel responded to the clinton balloon flying protests over the weekend by targeting dozens of hamas positions the attacks were seen as the worst escalation of violence between hamas and israel since their war four years ago. the sons of saudi described themselves as a loose organization with around

a hundred members now i must say that the youth of gaza have every right to protest in a way that it describes as nonviolent until israel looks the siege. a hamas spokesman told us the protests will continue despite israeli media reports of a large military operation being planned to stop them. part of what a lot of this these cuts and balloons are a peaceful form of protest they used by protesters including young people they have the right to use all kinds of peaceful resistance along the border to demand the lifting of israel's siege. at least one thousand five hundred civilians including five hundred children who killed in gaza during the two thousand and fourteen war protesters like this man who's actually supported by hamas and other armed factions in gaza say they won't stop despite israel's military threats charles strafford

al-jazeera gaza of the teller calling for the boycott of israel is setting off from italy to gaza the activists on board want to raise the international profile of the israeli blockade. ronnie has more from. here in the port of palermo there is a boat. it's the boat you can see behind me it's called aloud which means in arabic return return to palestine this boat is the main ship on this year's freedom flotilla allowed on there are three more ships are going to be sailing in few hours from palermo towards gaza in an attempt or a new attempt to try and end the blockade imposed on the palestinian strip by israel there are a lot of activists from around the world from countries like norway sweden north america canada the usa who are participating they are very excited about this trip and they think with their action and nonviolent action as they call it and insist

on the nonviolence they can be able to draw the attention of the international community about the problem that are suffering about the problem of the palestinians in the gaza strip the palestinians who are who are living and they're an israeli blockade this book is considered by the international community as an illegal one. the syrian government has intensified its bombing campaign on the largest remaining rebel held city in the south of the country reportedly killing a dozen people the ground in air attacks on no one came after negotiations with the rebels broke down and choose to about one hundred thousand people still live there it's located in the province bashar al assad's forces have retaken nearly all of the problems since its offensive began early last month 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 the israeli army turned them away stephanie decker sent this update from there earlier . 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 a shelter get it gives you a sense of just how terrified these people are the border is closed and israeli authorities have made it very clear they won't be letting anyone it now we've been witnessing an intensive airstrike campaign throughout the day our team has counted at least one hundred air strikes 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 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 elsewhere to besiege towns and it led province are being evacuated after the deal was struck between opposition fighters and pro-government forces thousands of being bussed out to four and cafe in the northwest the shia towns have been under siege by sunni rebels for more than four years protrusion forces and their families and among those leaving they are being taken to areas under government control and exchange the government is expected to release hundreds of opposition detainees. chinese president xi jinping has on his way to

africa he's going to make stops in senegal and rwanda before heading on to south africa to take part in a summit china is investing heavily in africa both financially and militarily in china correspondent adrian brown is in beijing adrian what are the key things we should be looking for in this trip. well he's going to be out of the country for ten days which for a chinese leader is a very long trip indeed a very long tour indeed before he goes to africa rob he's actually going to be stopping in the united arab emirates for a day or two the u.a.e. of course is a very important trading partner of china but so is good and so china has to diplomatically tread very carefully in this area because it relies on both for energy exports but the main i guess feature of his visit to africa will be the brics summit in south africa this is going to be addressed by president xi jinping

brics is a grouping of the world's leading developing nations that's to say brazil russia india china and south africa and given that china is now in a trade war with the united states i think it's fair to assume that we're going to be hearing a robust defense of free trade a multi naturalism from president xi jinping and he will be among allies and friends at this summit because brics believes in exactly what china believes in right now and i think he's also going to be banging the drum for his his favored economic policy right now which is his one built one road initiative africa very much part of that those maritime and trade routes that china is trying to revitalize all over the world feature africa very prominently so the focus is going to be south africa but he will also be going to rwanda zennie girl and moorish us china has a an interesting policy when it comes to investment in africa doesn't it because it's not just a question of chinese firms going in for example mining minerals from the country

it's also helping to invest in the infrastructure of the country as well as roads and railways in and buildings and so on. yeah that's right rob him in just a few days ago a new light rail system opened in nigeria built with with chinese money china has quite literally been building bridges in africa building new highways railway lines huge amounts of chinese investment i mean this country is that the continent is so important to china because it relies on exports of of minerals from africa to help fuel economy africa is also a very big market for tell of telecommunications companies chinese telecommunications companies that they have played a large role in literally connecting africa to the world and of course it's a very big market for all sorts of chinese products but that is actually led to a bit of a pushback in places like kenya and ghana there is

a feeling that china is behaving like a sort of economic colonialist and there's been as i say some resistance a feeling that at the end of the day china is acting out of self interest by all the infrastructure all the aid it's pouring into africa because it's using chinese laborers you know chinese building materials not local people and i think that is causing the beginnings of some friction and that may be something that the president will have to perhaps address when he's in africa adrian thanks very much indeed the first commercial flights in twenty years from ethiopia to eritrea have touched down in a smile and cheers and celebrations hundreds of people boarded the flights for emotional reunions with family separated by the long conflict but how about our reports from out of sabah dignitaries journalists and businessmen board what if you open airline schedules it's but of peace it's the first flight from a disciple to there to try and couple tell us mother this century this is how.

we are. this. and the fact that. this. was. the deal 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 board which began in one thousand nine hundred eighty. we caught up with artist and i'm hard go a journalist with the state media's 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 that he just got a good look at us 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 us model becomes the one hundred fifteen for this notion for if you are felons which are also announced because of quiet twenty percent of the little known as a friend allies the road linking the two countries as a full function of waited before 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 up the push and soon fifty so it's all hope that the opening of the port and the 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 trade ailing economy many are now hoping the tricky exit. the disputed border will go as quickly and smoothly as the process to normalize relations mohamed atta while dizzy at a subway. nigerian police say eight suspected boko haram members have confessed to being involved in the abduction of the chibok school girls that among twenty two members of the on the group arrested earlier this month across northeastern your b. unborn states the abduction of the two hundred seventy girls from their school caused global outrage in twenty fourteen was arrested also admitted organizing more than fifty suicide bombings for the us presidency of what it could not provide. services. which killings of innocent men didn't include into

a group that was not in your brain a gun or another as to you did not use of majeure. google says it will appeal a record five billion dollar fine handed to it by the european union the e.u. says the tech giant used its android operating system to cement the dominance of its search engine so i'm going to go report explains. a three year investigation and direct quote five billion dollars fine a steep penalty for google accused by the european union of abusing its power as it called it an entire sector in the phone market the us against illegal practices to cement its time and market position in internet search it must purchase an effective end to this contact within ninety days off face penalty payments at the heart of the issue is android the tech giants operating system for mobile phones used to more than eighty percent of the well smartphones.