longer lasting peace in the region well i think i have to see that it was the first one is that we're going to see. fighting over it blip in the north west part of the country this is the main the main the only remaining opposition held territories in the countries because we have seen over the past few months that is taking control of most of the two or three that was under the control of the opposition in moscow in the south and north of homs south of hama and now the only remaining opposition have territories is it so the first scenario is that we're going to see fighting that office but that has to. i mean there should be first of all i mean some sort of talks between the russians and the turks because turkey is the main actor in the north all i mean this could actually behave the way for the political solution to the crisis as you mentioned the russians might now i try actually to put more pressure on the regime in order to start some sort of a political process over the constitution leading up to an election we've seen the

u.s. take a back seat we've seen as you say russia take a much more positive position in the conflict and certainly the way the politics is moving we have the un back talks mainly happening in geneva we have your standard talks as well where does this leave those international sort of talks the brokerage that could lead to a longer lasting peace and i think the americans there are i mean there is this lack of interest on the side of the americans on the part of the americans actually considering the situation in syria i think the americans they have just sort of the the i mean they are leaving russia actually taken control of the driving seat in the whole syrian issue and i think any political solution for the syrian crisis will be defeated at the end of the day might be known by the russians who are now the major force on the ground in syria and this is why we are seeing the russians putting pressure to actually mail. need to start the political process and talk

about these two issues the constitutions and the elections are like the genie of the process which actually. is that there should be a political transition and in order to end this this is a crisis so the russians are in in full control here that americans are taking a back seat and just watching how things are evolving in syria which the doesn't for the moment thanks so much for joining us. british detectives are reported to identify suspects who poisoned a former russian spy and his daughter now the press association says police have obtained security camera video of a nerve agent being planted and the suspects a russian guy and you to scribble were found unconscious in cells free in march the kremlin denies any involvement let's try to get the very latest on this sort of developing story from jonah hall our correspondent in london and of course it is a developing story and a new twist as well in the whole scenario of what happened in salisbury.

yes well i mean i think the first thing we have to say is that this is reporting by the press association as you mentioned they're quoting an unnamed police source but these reports often turn out to be reliable and the source of jesting that the police investigated was sweep up have come up with suspects number of them we understand and that they believe those suspects to be russian the thinking is that this is come about as a result of hundreds of police officers poring over hours and hours of c.c.t.v. footage collected around the site of the poisoning of solsbury in wiltshire in southwest england and related sites where the pair spent time in the hours beforehand and cross matching that c.c.t.v. footage with c.c.t.v. footage collected at airports and ports of entry into the u.k. particularly focused on flights coming in from russia and they obviously feel that they've made a visual connection we don't believe that they've named any suspects they certainly

haven't been in the arrests but clearly this investigation taking a long and in conjunction with it of course another investigation into a second not to talk poisoning using this nerve agent or bundle of nerve agents called navi chop produced in sabah times a woman named dawn sturges died earlier this month we believe from spraying a quantity of not to talk directly onto her skin from a used perf human bottle now police are or will be looking at where she may have got that bottle her partner is currently in intensive care where they may have got that bottle whether this came from the same batch of navi truck as that used to poison the scruples at those lines of investigation feeding into the st paul investigation and quite possibly now producing new leads we await more from the police indeed joan of course and while the british authorities seem quite content at the moment to point the finger russia one waits for the russian reaction to any sort of developments coming out of the u.k. . well the kremlin's line consistently both with the script of poisoning

and with the latest poisoning this month of dawn sturgis and her partner have is that they have denied point blank any official russian involvement in it of course they have also consistently offered help in the investigation it helped that the british side has consistently turned down preferring instead to operate through the o.p.c. w. in the hague that's the case chemical weapons body to which both countries are signed up and in this latest incident or these latest reports out of the p.a. the russian ambassador has just been quoted as saying that's alexander yucca vanco british investigators have no evidence of russian involvement in the script poisoning russia will exert political pressure on the british side this political pressure will continue through official requests and dialogue with the british side i think what he's referring to is repeated requests from the kremlin to have access to the script holes themselves who are now recovering they've been moved to a secret location the british have so far failed to offer them that for the moment general leave it there and come back to that situation develops through the day i'm

sure thank you. plenty ahead here on the al-jazeera news hour including five years on we examine the successes and failures of the australian program to prevent refugees reaching the mainland plus. your trip. there. and you are not alone. the victims of the biggest sexual abuse scandal in sport receive an award for their courage in speaking out joe we'll have more of that coming up in school. to south asia now where a new report by the human rights group of forty five rights is calling for the arrest of twenty two military and police officers and now they're accused of committing crimes that can still constitute genocide against the rigging an. armed group bombed more than thirty police stations in august twenty seventh teen and it

was these attacks that led to a military crackdown against the ringgit in rakhine state but the report documents how the army committed mass killings rape and arson against the running game twenty sixteen months before the police station bombings the military also disarmed by confiscating sharp objects from their homes at the same time provided weapons to non-routine get people food and humanitarian aid to the group were blocked but in a bid to weaken them ahead of the twenty seven thousand crackdown the report concludes that near mars government made extensive and systematic preparations for attacks against the writing matthew smith is the chief executive officer of fortify rights a nonprofit human rights group prepared the report here it is 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 un 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 now the families of the victims of the ferry disaster in south korea are all to get twenty million dollars in compensation three hundred four people mostly schoolchildren were killed when the say will capsize four years ago after months of mourning grief turned to anger when investigators found the ship was structurally sound and overloaded but for the first time the south korean court acknowledged the government's liability a lot of both the states and the ferry operator to pay compensation. every train media say troops are withdrawing from the border with ethiopia the gesture of reconciliation coincides with the expected arrival of ethiopia's ambassador to eritrea for the first time in decades the appointment of a red one is sane follows the reopening of the eritrean embassy and i designed the book a few days ago leaders of the two countries have been involved in

a whirlwind peace process after agreeing to end the border conflict and restore relations. nigerian police say eight suspected baccarat members have confessed to being involved in the abduction of the chibok schoolgirls the men are among twenty two members of the armed group arrested over the last two weeks crossing northeastern you babe unborn overstates the abduction of the two hundred seventy girls from their school calls global outrage and twenty fourteen police say those arrested have also admitted to organizing more than fifty suicide bombings. burst months of thought it could not. be lessened units including to a group that was not environment you're good at them or. in did not use of material the leaders of egypt and sudan will meet later on thursday to discuss ongoing tensions over disputed border regions and threats to water security both countries

water supply will be affected the five billion dollars grand ethiopian renee is completed while sudan continues to demand united nations mediation over the disputed oil and mineral rich region of the hill a up triangle. elif n.d. is a professor of politics at the doha institute joins you know here on set good to have you with us underlying lee why is sudan so important really not just to egypt and we'll talk about egypt in a moment but also at the moment to cattle and also to zante arabia two countries that it does not have a land border with us i think comes from the importance of africa for this conflict to be gulled for conflict at the moment. at the beginning of the school flicked. the emirates and saudi arabia wanted to get many african countries on their side and they thought that would be easy in the sense of giving africans money would

just get them on board they discover through their surprise that africa is a very different country nowadays and. and it does not cannot be many prelate it even the poorest african countries like somalia would in turn come on board and so they they have resorted to promises additionally i think egypt since sisi came to power has found sudan very important trade because in the past egyptian president never used to visit so that was true about affecting business or early ones and that maybe once was couple of times. you get through their knees leaders are supposed to go to egypt not by so versus a now this is. this is serious fifth visit to sudan and since he came to power relations are quite fraught so are they not over this whole time project and one wonders how that is going to resolve itself on one track while more than likely sisi will be commenting mentioning talking to his sudanese counterparts about that

positions over the gulf crisis which expect these two tracks of these two trains of thought to run parallel with each other yes i think the visit itself i think is very important because it has not be shared you see she was supposed to come to sudan you look at all but now the fact that he has come suddenly to egypt can have one of two explanations a most charitable explanation would be that. because of the fast happening changes in his european the lation rhetoric and as you mentioned the genitor collapse of the blockade those policies in africa with your beauty and sword and you can reach you know lost they want you to to them it's limitation to seek to seek sudan's support in trying to mediate through the next year but i think

a more sinister. approach might say that something. some seem. difficult to be more sinister is being. planned for cata because at the same time the merits for the minister's visit utopia the soldiers were in kuwait yesterday for agreements with something is being cooked i think. people should be wary well we shall see what does happen certainly and certainly keep a very close eye on the egyptian president's visit to sudan for the moment a lot andy thanks for joining us and thank you with the rebels in yemen say they've attacked down oil refinery in the saudi capital using a drone they targeted the statesman. refinery in riyadh not the oil company says it contained a small fire which was due to what it called an operational incidents not the rebels say the drone attack marks the start of a new stage into tearing saudi aggression in yemen. well staying with the conflict

there has obtained video from a camp for those who fled the fighting in the port city of data about one hundred twenty one thousand people have escaped since the beginning of last month many of them have ended up in neighboring provinces so the poles. 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 but this 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. how much 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 general city of

a local in the province of latch how moods and 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 so to. al-jazeera. well in a few moments we'll have the weather with richard but still ahead here on the al-jazeera news. oh oh. oh my pray for a long and happy life the toy football team is blessed by monks after the luckiest guy from a flooded cave. liverpool could be about to break the transfer record as they pursue a new goalkeeper that's all coming up with joe in sports. and it's. like. the weather sponsored by

cattle. parts of iran are said to be experiencing their worst droughts in something like thirty years but very often when we have drought you have to look at other factors which are involved farmers in far nancy are protesting about the water's being extracted from what was a wonderful wetland home to many migrating birds but it looks as those are really no change in the general situation obviously this time of the it remains hot and it remains dry now meanwhile in japan it's certainly hot and it has a main drive had a terrible flooding here in recent weeks but the country at the moment is in the grip of really quite severe heat wave a heat wave which is killed at least fourteen people and we actually look at some of the temperatures which have been recorded across the country absolutely phenomenal pushing the forty degree mark of the last twenty four hours and to put it in some six out of context we look at tokyo in tokyo the last six days have we seen temperatures above thirty four degrees when the average maximum is twenty nine

degrees so with that sort of different some of nighttime temperatures no lower than about twenty four degrees we have real problems across the country and it's not just for the temperature is about the humidity a lot of moisture of course because of the flooding the winds coming in from the the oceans and it looks as though the temperatures are going to remain in excess of thirty four degrees in tokyo to the end of the month. the weather. and. on the. british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for the dry riverbed like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the war.

building a new life on a beach living off the sea and. a dream shared by so many but so few make it to. a family. with a flair for cooking and. i didn't catch it on al-jazeera. watching the al-jazeera news with me. of all top news stories. for the first time the country to be the nation state of the jewish people the

legislation also makes hebrew the only official language downgrading the state as an arabic class it encourages the building of jewish communities. also to. have been evacuated after a deal was struck between opposition fighters and pro-government forces regime forces and their families were bussed. out of one threat in the northwest the shia terms of been under siege by sunni rebels for more than four years. and you haven't has emerged in these halls free another charge poisoning case the press agency says u.k. police have identified a suspect who may be behind the poisoning of a former russian spy and his daughter earlier in the year the scruples were found unconscious on a park bench in salzburg in march. let's return to our top story now on israel's passing of a controversial bill suffer an al is the head of her its foreign news desk joins me now live from tel aviv in israel thanks very much for joining us sir now this new

legislation formalizes to a certain extent the segregation and discrimination that was already in play and informally. yes hello i think that first of all a law that was passed last night didn't change anything substantial about the of life we need to have a start from the language which will top of the language you need to learn now he downgraded to a special status but if you walk into public space in his lair usually because not . when you try to get services in government offices ability to get to get them in now because very limited if not possible not to mention banco and the other private . in the top four to. within all big and. probably the most from one proposal policy about they're encouraging jewish

settlements. in the government attorney general said that this phrasing was only the clarity of which means that there is no actual legal and move that you can do based on it but some commentators some of that is. doing that these before than full called the war in favor of this. action in the future about housing indeed i mean how does this actually sort of sit with the israeli public at large when they see this legislation go through can you sort of give us an idea a sense of what it's what it's like on the ground and what people there are actually thinking about this. think that. most these ladies must be at least happy with the government policies

and think it's bothered by at least allows the government of the i think that it is a moment both of the right to realize what led to this legislation. they said before there was discrimination up until now we didn't change anything there are towns that only jews living in the. villages that the built. in for seven do is left on the foundation of a state of years later they decided they have to anything the law what caused it i think that one of the main factor is the challenge to the defacto discrimination that was there up until now this challenge comes form more active in a way of palestinian public inside israel. that the men from over i think with also from the most with ability to the nation so in order to sustain the status quo you have to change something that was a defacto discrimination to the you with discrimination but indeed while these

changes continue within israel there are many detractors outside of israel and many of the jewish voices many from the united states not very happy at the way all the direction that this particular government is taking the state of israel in that it's not going to sit very well within the cabinet certainly when they hear these dissenting voices and those very voices of the ones that normally financially support the state of israel. i think this is the main the main problem or the main issue for the israeli government as they said forced to put into law things that will form an informal but in thing no but doing that increase the criticism. from the outside and for if you want. to be there is a safety. we'll probably increase from outside but i think that the spiral that there is more pressure from outside so there is more pressure from the inside to sustain the situation to sustain the discrimination that is part of the definition

of the state of. a state for jews as it said in the closure of independence of where. i think that the goodness of them can. even likely to cause. more pressure from the inside to those policies and even maybe even increase them which is the work you're likely result of criticism indeed which is what does happen and what more comments are made throughout the day for the moment as a front all thanks so much for joining us from tel aviv well the turkish government has lifted its two year long state of emergency was imposed nationwide after the failed coup in twenty sixteen and extended seven times since then tens of thousands of people have been arrested for dismissed from government and i condemn it jobs as well as the military the government has proposed and the terrorism bill to replace some of those and urgency powers well let's cross over to sit in in istanbul

a change of constitution a recent election the president said he would deal with the state of emergency and he has. yes you have that was a promise a few days before the election actually it was lifting the state of emergency was not in the ruling party's future plans but turkish government received a lot of reactions from from the western countries from home and rights organizations and also international business in wire meant that's why many opponents of turkey turkish government i'm sorry many opponents of the turkish government say that this is a massive to the foreign visitors the tourists and foreign investors in turkey to show that the state of emergency is lifted but they criticize that what they expanded powers of president are done and the situation will continue in the same

way these are what their opponents say on the other hand the ruling party is supporters and the ruling party members say that this is a step for normalization that's a good very good message to the nation itself as well but however it window the state of emergency is lifted and the governmental decrees are out of question now with the new powers president our don has the right to issue new decrees that's what they call presidential decrees right now so he has more expanded powers and if in any in any possibility of a danger or a national threat present there don't we'll have the authority to issue or to impose state of emergency back again well thought up don't thanks very much then consider istanbul well it's been five years since australia toughened it's already hard line immigration policy sending refugees and migrants to remote prison terms on pacific islands where it's successfully deterred people from trying to reach the

mainland by boat the refugee advocates say the human cost is far too great under thomas reports from sydney. the boats carrying refugee holiday mansell and her son arrived in australia insurer's in march twenty thirty mm they spent months in detention but are now at a path to a permanent life in australia how many second son apennine was born in australia just four months after how many arrived her sister and her two sons made the same journey in between australia's government announced 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 pacific island of nuru and were told they'd never leave some people was like here on sunday for. just for if you miles. last month variables how many days nephew killed himself he was

twenty six five years in heart. and independent without condit have done nothing. as it were mine if you say i lost a lot how can i i said no you can't start again you are young now but. you know i lost him 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 of about fifty thousand people described as an authorised 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 of 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 were 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 a 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. well there it man is the executive director of refugee legal an advocacy organization for migrants and refugees joins me now via skype from melbourne good to have you with us live on al-jazeera it does seem that deterring more refugees arriving by boat has succeeded as far as the authorities are concerned and that policy really isn't going to change or could it one look at the policy itself has been a fundamental failure in human terms it has caused untold. men women and children. around two thousand people who sought protection astronomer and instead were exhausted and tremendous armor and have been held for years on end we now cross inside certainly of resettlement it's caused untold damage to them it's also been

a violation of fundamental human rights and there's also. practical. provide real cost of a future for many of those people so it is a fundamental failure in terms of the strayer as a great to do under the refugees convention that is to ensure that our people flowing from and not to further. what is the state of play there with them right now we know are they stuck on these islands that there was an agreement with the united states that was initiated in the obama period and continued into the trunk period and it's all but all seems to be up in the air it's been sort of sending a very strange mixed messages. well that's right this all of course occurred five years ago and it's a very dark anniversary five years ago government. announced a policy which essentially said good any person who are. seeking asylum will

be consigned to in indefinite exile essential on the remotest aren't no chance of settling in australia and that's the heart of.