go and talk to children in schools giving them their narrative what they think may be wrong about certain policies in this country another bill passed that limits palestinian access to courts in the west bank now only being able to go through administrative courts not the high court in the high court had in the past been seen as being more sympathetic towards their cases often allowing or calling and making happen the demolition of settlement homes in the west bank so you've got to look at this is a bigger picture of a shift to the right and of this government pushing through bill after bill after bill and many people will tell you they are discriminatory they're racist and as you mentioned many people calling this the entrenchment. of an apartheid state and all of this before the elections next year we will leave it there for now though stephanie thank you very much for that stephanie dechen live in west jerusalem thank you let's move on to other news now to syria and agreements have been reached between the government and opposition in the city of now what and the province. the areas have faced an intense aerial bombardment over the past two days. elsewhere to

besieged towns and syria's problems have been evacuated after a deal was struck between opposition fighters and pro-government forces thousands were bussed out of four and fair in the northwest the shia towns have been under siege by sunni rebels for more than four years probation forces and their families were among those who left they have been taken to areas under government control and in exchange the government is expected to release hundreds of opposition detainees. a south korean court has ordered two hundred million dollars in compensation be paid to the families of victims of the two thousand and fourteen seawall ferry disaster more than three hundred people mostly schoolchildren drowned when the overloaded vessel capsized a group of victims' families fond of also against the government and ferry operators saying they were liable for the disaster the court's order to each family be paid about two hundred ten thousand dollars. now

a new report by the human rights group forty five rights is calling for the arrest of twenty two military and police officials in myanmar they are accused of committing crimes that constitute genocide against the country's community of a group bombed more than thirty police stations in august two thousand and seventeen the myanmar government says it was these attacks that led to a military crackdown against. the state but the report documents how the army planned and committed mass killings rape and ask them against two thousand and sixteen months before the police station bombings the military also disarmed by confiscating sharp objects from their homes at the same time providing weapons to normal people food and humanitarian aid to the hinge of a blockage in a bid to weaken them ahead of the twenty seventeen crackdown the report concludes that myanmar's government made extensive and systematic preparations for attacks against. matthew smith is the chief executive officer of forty five writes the

nonprofit group that prepared the report and he's urging the international community to act against those responsible for the atrocities. meum our military would like the world to believe that it was fighting terrorism in rakhine state and that this was a spontaneous response to the attacks of we have documented crimes by our so but more importantly with respect to the mass atrocities that have taken place we have documented the way in which the military was making these systematic preparations weeks in months before august twenty fifth two thousand and seventeen which is when that attack by running in militants took place we do have hope that this will spur meaningful international action the one thing that we've learned in the thing that the russians are community of all have learned is that following the october two thousand and sixteen violence there was almost complete inaction from the international community and that essentially paved the way for genocide to take

place and so we do think that the international community will take this information act we have sent a report to the international criminal court we do have other information that we're making available to governments and others and right now u.n. security council member states should apply. unprecedented leverage against other member states on the council to ensure that there is an i.c.c. referral urgently. with the rebels and yemen's have attacked in all of refinery in the fall of the capital using a drone a target of a state run around covert finding in riyadh that all companies had it contained a small file which was used in what it court an operational incident the rebels say the drone attack monkfish soften a new stage and deterrent good question and yemen. still ahead on the protest to set a fire starting kaif and will keep flying despite the threat of as rain military

price on and we'll explain how people have left african countries using twitter to enter one selections back home. i. mean the weather sponsored by katter. hello and welcome to international weather forecasts there's no real change in the weather across europe central eastern areas to the east so that weather front looking pretty unsettled with some big storms western areas largely dry and fine but there's a massive storm potential across parts of western france that's like you continue through the day on thursday so anywhere from brittany we're down to aquitaine could see some really severe storms temperatures in the upper twenty's into their beer and potentially into the low thirty's fine all the way across the mediterranean as a move the forecast through into friday still looking pretty disturbed across those

eastern areas with widespread storm might seventy central as i said with a bit brighter nice day in berlin but again storms across many parts of france into western parts of germany and down through into the alps the other side of the mediterranean looking dry and find plenty of sunshine here thirty seven inch enos should be reaching thirty eight degrees in cairo perhaps later in the day and then into central parts of africa shows quite a long way north so has seen some heavy rain turning up in senegal and northwards towards mauritania on things quite likely to be some thunderstorm activity into southern parts of mauritania akron ghana not looking too bad lagos in nigeria where you see one or two showers here of twenty seven the weather sponsored by catarrh. with a lot of chess. after years. he has to be strict to stay out of prison with these friends. he's planning his next move to get back to society.

that saved his life discovering new filmmaking talent from around the globe. latin america. good to have you with us on al-jazeera and these are our top stories as well has passed a controversial law that for the first time declares the country to be the nation state of the jewish people the legislation also makes hebrew the only official language downgrading the status of arabic and it encourages the building of jewish communities. has been accused of committing crimes that constitute genocide against

the community a new report is calling on the international criminal court to arrest a twenty two officials in myanmar for making extensive and systematic preparations ahead of the military crackdown on the hand in two thousand and seventeen and two towns and syria's province have been evacuated after a deal struck between opposition fighters and pro-government forces regime forces and their families. and in the northwest the shia towns have been under siege by sunni rebels for more than four years. now hamas says protests to sending burning kites into israel have every right to keep doing so that's despite reports of the israeli army is preparing for a large scale military offensive along the gaza strip if the cuts continue to be flown from gaza stratford reports. started flowing. over the border fence towards israel. these

ready 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. it's named after the man who helped hamas acquire drone technology and was assassinated in two musea in two thousand and sixteen and. we will not stop launching the balloons and kites until israel lift the siege the ball is in israel's court we don't decide whether there is a war or not we are not afraid we have suffered in a war against this every day since israel started to block a twelve years ago. israel responded to the kite and 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 describe themselves as a loose organization with around

a hundred members now i must say is 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. the. first these kites in balloons or 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 a lifting of israel 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 john strafford

al-jazeera gaza now there's even more confusion about what donald trump believes or doesn't believe about russian interference in the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election the latest twist see him at odds with his aides and contradicting his own comments rosalyn jordan reports from washington d.c. . u.s. president donald trump ended wednesday the way he started it leaving a country and the world very confused about whether he thinks russia interfered in the twenty sixteen presidential election trump told us television he did blame russian president vladimir putin well i would because he's in charge of the country just like i consider myself to be responsible for things that happen in this country so certainly as the leader of a country you would have to hold him responsible but also on wednesday trump told other reporters this is russia does targeting us. that sent the white house press

secretary into damage control mode he was saying no he's not taking questions for trump's aides this was day three of cleaning up after the president during his joint press conference with putin on monday trump said he had raised the interference question during their meeting he just said it's not russian then after republican and democratic outrage over trump statement the president spent tuesday trying to walk back his words and a key sentence in my remarks i said the word would instead of what you. said should have been i don't see any reason why i went or why he didn't want to pay russia as far as the u.s. intelligence community is concerned there is no question about the russians behavior he's got his view he's expressed his view i can tell you what my view is. the intelligence community's assessment has not changed my view has not changed which is that russia attempted to interfere with the last election and that it

continues to engage in line influence operations to this day but only a few people are paying attention to a policy conference in the american what's what is getting most people's attention is the stream of mixed messages some would say alarming messages from the white house about raw. in the american political process george washington now u.s. judge has ordered a russian woman charged with acting as a foreign agent to be held in jail pending trial prosecutors warmer via bettina has ties to russian intelligence and as a flight risk she's accused of conspiring against the u.s. government and infiltrating the national rifle association. now they'll be in ethiopia ambassador in eritrea for the first time in two decades the apartment of red one hussein comes just days after the every train embassy was reopened and. leaders of the two countries have been involved in

a whirlwind peace process after agreeing to end their bitter conflict and restore relations. chinese president xi jinping is flying to africa for the books economic summit to make stops in senegal and rwanda before heading to south africa where china is investing heavily in the continent both financially and militarily adrian brown has more from beijing. well this will be president xi jinping third visit to africa in less than six years that is a measure of just how important africa is to china right now he's going to be away for ten days the highlight of his african tour is probably going to be an address he's due to make of the brics forum in south africa brics of course comprises the world's five leading developing economies that's brazil russia india china and south africa and given that china is now in broiled in a trade war with the united states it's fair to assume the president xi will

deliver a robust defense of free trade and multilateralism which is something the brics believes in so he's going to be among allies and friends at brics africa has become hugely important to china it recently opened a military base in djibouti on the horn of africa where the united states also has a base china relies on african minerals to help fuel its economy and of course china is behind some of the biggest infrastructure projects in africa recently a new light rail system opened in nigeria that was paid for and built by china and of course china has hundreds or thousands of labor is in the country at the moment that's all helping china's g.d.p. but we are starting to see a push back especially in places like kenya and ghana a feeling that after that china is in a sense acting out of self interest and is becoming more and more like an economic colonialist. now elections in

a number of african countries are subject to considerable social media and florence from outside that's the conclusion of a study of twitter use across the continent the researchers behind how africa tweets looked at online traffic around elections in nine nations that voted between june twenty seventeen and april this year they found more than half of key influencers tweeting on the elections came from outside the countries that were voting well some were from other african countries notably south africa but fifty four percent of the most influential external voices were from outside africa the u.s. and russian leading the way followed by france and spain and the u.a.e. either whose influence was strongest in egypt or robert what concerns a partner with portland communications which released the study you told us more about how external voices had a significant impact. we looked at ten elections taking place in africa and there are really three key findings that stood out from the report the first is the

degree to which external voices a shaping the debate on twitter in africa around the elections be it was particularly interesting the voices from outside the continent were particularly prevalent there the second key finding was that politicians seem to be less influential in twitter debates around african elections the average across the elections that we studied was just under ten percent and there are some outliers there for example in rwanda about a third of the influential voices were politicians but it was lower overall than we expected and then the third key finding which was really interesting to us was the prevalence of balts we saw faults. in other words twitter accounts exhibiting machinelike behavior prevalent across all of the elections rising up to in fact twenty five percent in kenya versions former foreign secretary has accused the prime minister of planning what he called a phony breck said barres johnson quit talking to me as cabinet and protest over her breakfast strategy last week or during his resignation address in parliament on wednesday he said the government's plan will leave britain in

a permanent and miserable state of limbo but he failed to outline how he would achieve a better departure from the european union. it is not too late to save bricks we have tried in these negotiations we have changed once and we can change again the problem is not that we failed to make the case for free trade agreement of the try and spell it out like as the house we haven't even trying. we was trying not because we will not get another chance to get it right. members of the thai football team trapped in a cave for more than two weeks have attended a ball the ceremony to rid themselves of misfortune. for the ceremonies believed to extend life and ward off danger the boys and their coach were released from hospital on wednesday

a week after their domestic rescue well they spoke publicly for the first time in a news conference board cost lives across the world some of the boys described the moment they were found as magical step boss and reports from chiang rai. 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 my regular survival and rescue from the pitch black over in north island. a try to go into the water and dig to see if we can go through but i feel that the bottom was all sand and the top was just rocks the rope and the boys pulled me back afterwards i told one of the boys that we cannot exit this way. 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 fill it in more hungry after nine days they finally 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. a team of international divers finally managed to swim them to safety in what experts this cry by 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 hide 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 and 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 chang right. 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 steadfast and al-jazeera. hello again i was a problem in doha with the headlines on al-jazeera israel has passed a law that for the first time that declares it to be the nation state of the jewish people. the arab embers of the knesset were removed from the hall after tearing up the bill the legislation also makes hebrew only official language downgrading the status of arabic and the building of jewish communities arab members of the knesset say that legalizes discrimination. this is a bill from a government that is an enemy to palestinians it's the most dangerous measure it's a law from a racist government against palestinian rights and to create an apartheid regime turns israel into

a fascist state. and syria and agreements been reached between the government and opposition and. remaining rebel held city in the cell that has faced an intense aerial bombardment over the past two days. myanmar's army has been accused of committing crimes that constitute genocide against the hinge a community a new report is calling on the international criminal court to arrest twenty two officials in myanmar for making extensive and systematic preparations ahead of the military crackdown on the hanjour in two thousand and seventeen donald trump says he holds russian president putin personally responsible for moscow's meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential elections the latest shift in language from the us president a south korean court has ordered two hundred million dollars in compensation be paid to the families of victims of the. two thousand and fourteen ferry disaster more than three hundred people mostly schoolchildren drowned when the overloaded vessel capsized the stream is coming up next the i.m.f.

said riyadh breakeven oil price twenty eighteen is likely to be around eighty eight dollars a barrel why is argentina again turning to the i.m.f. for help and now we bring you the stories the economic world we live in counting the cost on al-jazeera. power australia's hardline immigration policies impacting border security and how are they affecting the lives of refugees will hear more about the country's system of offshore prisons in today's show remember to send us your comments and questions live via twitter or you tube. i'm not much of a dean and you're in the stream. zero chance of resettlement that's the message the australian government has been sending to asylum seekers desperate to migrate into the country by boat it's been

five years since australia began refusing the mainland resettlement for asylum seekers sometimes described as boat people who are refugees who do take the chair arms they face the prospect of indefinite detention while they wait for their asylum claims to be processed in offshore refugee camps the government says its hard line stance against illegal immigration has deterred people smugglers and illegal boat arrivals but at what cost. here to discuss this is not a detention advocacy manager with the asylum seeker resource center she's joining us via skype from melbourne and london al jazeera sydney correspondent andrew thomas who covers asylum seeker policies in australia and joining us on the phone is. he's been living at mannus island for nearly five years he is an asylum seeker who received his refugee status three years ago welcome to you all should start by mentioning we did reach out to australia's government to take part in this conversation but they declined our requests and with fact i will start on my laptop

with this quote from the government from peter dutton to be exact this is a minister for home affairs in an interview june twenty third this is how he describes the policy thus far we are in danger of days because only a month ago we stop to still hold brussel with one hundred thirty one people coming out of sri lanka there are fourteen thousand people still in indonesia and there is excited chatter among people smuggling syndicates about the prospect of australia be available again he goes on to say it's essential that people realise that the hard won success of the last few years could be undone overnight by simple acts of compassion and bringing twenty people from menace to australia and through with those words does the government see these past five years in this never australia policy as successful.

has the government seen these past five years as being a success in terms of their immigration policy. and i absolutely hate success yet the government is very proud that it's in the law obviously if this is seen by the other party in australia the labor party back in twenty the same when kevin rudd was prime minister but then shortly after that kevin rudd lost an election and the conservative brought a sense of government that came in on the time yeah but now in the mountain temple has run with it expanded its and really made it very proud and those comments from that integration minister a rule about domestic politics because like you don't know the international picture is over the place looks straight and show you he's very cruel on necessarily cruel in many people's eyes policies but the message the policy strengthens do not like the idea that bore out the trouble that's been proved in

opinion polls offer opinion polls while the resistance stance a minority of australians disagree with that position the government takes the votes is going to keep them in power the one thing. they cite let me get back in the stump what you had that was all about them and then her you know hearing you say that it raises a question that we put out to our audience our community we asked if you know the system is actually deterring illegal immigration and if it's working and interestingly enough we got one comment from joe diddley here saying it's illegal to deter refugees and it is immoral regardless of whether it's quote unquote work what an appalling premise natasha what do you see success as an immigration policy is this the right measure. firstly i think that it's very interesting that government. the moment. the council and the senate is all about

domestic politics and the moment the liberal. kicks on another issue or something embarrassing for them and. so they completely. constantly fight. the bugs in the last all watch out there was another in iraq last month so it doesn't really make much sense except full of the fact that it's very. political. so i think this comment that you just brought up very very accurate in that even if it were. unsuccessful and we call this kind of success which we will start but if we did. i want to. excess at the expense of somebody's. natasha of course a valid question there and one that our community members are pondering before we move on to much further i want to show a map her audience just so they get

a perspective on what it is we're talking about here and what you're seeing on your screens are australia's offshore prisons for immigrants arriving by boat and the man asylum facility closed on october thirty first twenty seventeen but many detainees still remain in transitional camps on the island and we got a comment actually from someone who is among those this is a to love someone who's tweets we read in our very last show when we talked about the closing of the prison there on menace island he says i really don't have hope for resettlement i already rejected p. and g. papa new guinea and australia i won't those countries don't have respect for human beings so i hope the us will give me an appointment asylum i hope that's just one hope of one person but as these you are there talking to us on the phone and then a silent talk to us about what is your facing your time there and then a. thank you very much.

briefly i want to do. something about the current situation the money and. all the. above the government personally about. five years ago. we were not informed that you are going to spend years of our lives. and we are not. what will happen to us be going to lose eight or seven or. seven with you. by this in order to send a message for the other people around the world and we. by the government in order to parse their agenda into power when you say situation. i want to pause you there

when you say killed by the system what do you mean what i mean by killed by just. the people. and they're hard. to believe. because. baby. in the. their life always. believed to. you no answer as you're listening to the to put up this headline here critics warn of a humanitarian crisis for six hundred asylum seekers in an offshore australian detention camp this is twenty seventeen when you were last on our show and we were discussing refugees refusing to leave them in a silent detention center what's happened since then where we now. well i was lost in the band but in fact as the njt pop and you get in place when team to that

formal same time and forcibly remove the asylum seekers and refugees who didn't want to go i'll go say i think if these would cite a site that also in a moment but that wasn't much about protest as it was about anything else they realized that amount of silence was in the spotlight of media attention like frankly it rarely is that anymore because your study in the media is bored of the story they hardly touch it but that moment as camp the formal prison like the city are now saddam's clogged and the refugees are being moved into more transit camps elsewhere on the side and they knew that if they made a stand refused to go the media would cover it and to some extent they did but that was about it getting attention but it really was one of the few times that the story has broken through the australian media because even the both sides of politics doubt it will strike the adult the same policy that old saying those refugees a mouse on the road and that's going to come to a strike it was a much political the bike to follow the a.b.c. the next.