party in australia proposes changing the policy so its fifth anniversary is unlikely to be its last andrew thomas al-jazeera city. although 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. true men women and children. around two thousand. who sought protection astronomer and it still breaks out. into madness armor and have been held for years on end we now cross inside survey 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. as a great to do it under the aegis convention that is to ensure that our people flame 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 will of course occurred five years ago and it's a very dark anniversary that was five years ago of you stranded government. announced a policy which essentially said good any person who runs in the strata saddam will

be consigned in indefinite exile essential on the rear amount of stalin with no chance of settling in a strata and that's the heart of the predicament here because really the successive governments of lock themselves and others use of deterrence we have protection is as in prioritized over the expense of protection of it so they at the expense of the protection of the haitian and what our we look at is a situation where the only prospect of resettlement for some of these people is to the united states the united states as a great take up to twelve hundred fifty people which would no way near account for all of those who are on mass solid and the word and progress by foreigners of the phrase that omens the u.s. as being very slow are only several hundred people of a very stable in what in the circumstances where we're looking at a humanitarian emergency of people suffering so severely that way of saying i'm

severe and widespread psychological and physical deterioration of the very very serious times well that we have to leave some of those men thanks very much for joining us not touching us on the situation as you see it thank you you thank. members of the time football team trapped in a cave for more than two weeks of attended a buddhist ceremony to rid themselves of misfortune. the. beauty in the ceremony is believed to extend life and war of danger the boys and their coach were released from hospital wednesday a week after that dramatic rescue they spoke publicly for the first time in a news conference board comes live across the world some of the boys describe the moment they were found as magical so fast and has more 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 demo regular survival and rescue from the pitch black of

a cave in thailand. i tried 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 sandy 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 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 to make sure he will be ready to face this issue don't 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 baby diver someone who lost his life during their rescue. di artists have made this mural in chang 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. the basketball the. three hundred thousand dollars. with.

is turn of every emotional lawrence in the us yes a hell that's right and in pick champion gymnast raisman has stolen the show at this year's espy awards in los angeles but it's not for her chief in the sport instead she and other victims delivered a scathing attack on those who protected a u.s. team doctor who abused them pizza stomach reports now on how brazen and her fellow sisters survivors were honored for their coverage. the annual awards recognize excellence in sports performance and this year's ceremony in los angeles had a female host for the first time racing driver danica patrick an appropriate choice given what was to come the authoress courage award is given to sports stars who are

deemed to possess strength in the face of adversity courage in the face of peril and the willingness to stand up for their beliefs no matter what but cost this year's winners were the survivors of one of the biggest sexual abuse scandals in schools victims of the former u.s. gymnastics team dr larry nasser olympic gold medalist gymnast alleyways and sent a strong message to anyone who had protected message for so many years all we needed was one i don't. have the integrity to stand between us and larry nasser and just one i don't have the list sans believes and acted the people standing before you on this stage would have never met him first thirty years people at the united states olympic committee usa gymnastics and michigan state university all placed money and medals about the

safety of child athletes. serving a sentence of up to one hundred seventy five years in prison for sexually abusing athletes and patients for decades. kill often abusers and enablers perpetuate suffering by making survivors feel that their truth doesn't matter to all the survivors out there don't let anyone rewrite your story your truth does matter you matter and you are not alone the women who spoke out against nasa can look to be cool sister survivors on the nasa scandal as. need to other sports around the world to examine the relationship between coaches and it's interesting that algis even. when he is a look at some of the other went as on the night the houston astros were named best team of the year after winning baseball's world series sign stephens took home the

best women's tennis playoff to victory u.s. open while roger federer won the men's award and the award for best female athlete went to the youngest woman to win an olympic snowboarding medal we came alexander ovechkin of the washington capitals won the award for best male athletes basketball chiefs have come down hard on both the philippines and australia for their involvement in a brawl during a world cup qualifying game earlier this month the sport's governing body fever has suspended thirteen players and two coaches from both teams for a huge fight in manila the philippines had ten players in two officials banned from a total of thirty nine games will have to play the next home game behind closed doors they've also been fined almost two hundred fifty thousand dollars from sportsmanlike behavior while basketball australia has been fined one hundred thousand dollars it was a black eye and i still stand by that i think that's rod think that's something that you know and by the contrast when i spike previously that the game that we

played against japan in tokyo two days before was a thrilling one point match it was played in the right spirit it was it was a fantastic contest that's the way we play a basketball so what we saw in the philippines was was the polar opposite of how we want to go about that so tell me this in front of you know why is it time a team management is you know you know when we go out on the floor we buy because you know fair and within the spirit of the guy and you know will be judged on actions as we go through the next window of favor qualifiers for september and november february and also into the world cup. they were poor close to completing a record breaking signing for a new goalkeeper for the upcoming english premier league season roma is believed to have accepted a bid of eighty seven and a half million dollars from brazilian international allison that would surpass the current record for a keeper held by you ventus who paid sixty one point seven million. in two thousand

and one. now the world's best golf is a taking off for the open championship on thursday the season's third major on the way it in scotland jones faces the defending champion but all eyes will also be on tiger woods as the fourteen time major champion plays in his first open for three is falling back surgery in condé c. is a place that holds good memories of form a while number one rory mcilroy the northern irishman won the silver medal for the leading amateur the last time the venue host of the tournament in two thousand and seven since then back who really won four majors in four years including the open in two thousand and fourteen but he says that people shouldn't be surprised that he's yet to add any more to his tally. you know my performances in the majors at that point that i wasn't the norm i was in my normal level that was above my normal level and then you sort of you go back in and then you build yourself back up again but you know every everything finds its balance and it's you know and you know even the fourteen that tiger won you know that wasn't his you know that was him at the

peak of his pars and that was him at his one hundred percent best and we're not all going to be like that every single time all right that is useful for now more like to say oh thanks very much joe you've been watching the al-jazeera news hour with me so rob elizabeth is up next for the full half hour but until then for me and all of the team thanks very much for your time and your company.

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 stablish mind how far has the p.l.o. come to achieving its hopes and dreams concluding the turbulent story of the struggle for palestinian home. history of a revolution on al-jazeera. when people think of cuba they think of

revolution but it's undergoing a revolution. yes and. we're here to discover if those changes are reflected in the plea that this is q what is the q and. russian owner trying to make sure to leave me a.j. it's on al-jazeera. a jewish nation state that how a new is very new to all both defines and divides citizens. and welcome to al-jazeera live from our headquarters in doha with me elizabeth

parag i'm also ahead and what's being seen as a major victory for serving as president rebels a gracious surrender their weapons in the southern province of could they threaten . hope poison to form a double agent and his daughter a brush police are reported to have identified russian suspects and the calls were louder for the resignation of. president daniel thank god as nationwide protests spread. israel has passed a controversial nor that for the first time declares the country to be the nation state of the jewish people that makes hebrew the only official language downgrading our bit to an ambiguous special status and also promotes the construction of jewish communities or critics say the law marginalizes the israeli palestinian minority who make up twenty percent of the nine million population israeli palestinians have

the same rights as jewish citizens but have a long face discrimination rights group said the law will only further promotion of racism well stephanie decker has more now from west jerusalem. it's official israel is a state exclusively for jews that's the essence of the controversial nation state bill passed by the knesset on thursday after hours of heated debate the measure became law by a vote of sixty two to fifty families with two abstentions for years the language of the bill divided political opinion between the ruling parties and the opposition members of the knesset say the law legalizes discrimination whether. 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 it turns israel into a fascist state yes i know most controversial clause in the bill a provision calling for jewish only communities was replaced at the last minute the

original legislation would have allowed the state to establish separate communities on the basis of religion and nationality the replacement provision says the state sees developing jewish settlement as a national interest and will take steps to encourage advance and implement this interest. illegal settlements for jews are already being built in breach of international law and u.n. demands another controversy is the status of the arabic language the new law says hebrew will be israel's only official language demoting arabic from second. deputy attorney general says the law also allows the construction of synagogues and ritual baths but not mosques the israeli president says the legislation could harm jewish people and israel's enemies could use it as a weapon protestors against the will march to tell of even saturday. of israelis came today to protest against the nation state law which is a racist and fascist law that is trying to turn israel from

a democracy into something else therefore we are here to block this drift towards dictatorship and fascism. i came today to say that the arab citizens of israel are not inferior to the nation state law discriminate against them as the israeli government has been doing for many years arabic is an official language and they deserve equal rights. the government led by prime minister benjamin netanyahu insists that it's important to establish that israel is the historical homeland of the jewish people who have the sole right to national self-determination palestinians say they see the move as legitimizing apartheid turning what is already an act of policy of discrimination against them into stephanie decker al-jazeera. now suffer on his head of hearts for news desk and he says a number of israelis will be happy with the legislation. 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 that our towns that only jews living in the. villages that the built for jews but now for seven do is up to the foundation of the state the reason they decided they have to anything the law what caused it i think that one of the main factors is the challenge to the defacto discrimination that was up until now the challenge comes from him oh active in the. palestinian public inside where would you do anything if you the demands more rights and i think with you. believe mold we could be good to you to be human nation so in order to sustain the status quo you have to change something that was the fact of discrimination to the you with discrimination let's move on to other news now to syria and agreements have been reached between the government and opposition in the city of najaf and in the province of connector

the areas have faced intense aerial bombardment of the past two days rebel fighters from can a to being taken to live in the north of government troops but never to show their two thousand and eleven positions elsewhere to besieged towns and syria's at the province of being evacuated after a deal was struck between opposition fighters and pro-government forces thousands were bussed out of four and a cafe in the northwest the shia towns have been under siege by so many vegetables for more than four years pro regime forces and their families were among those who left their being taken to area under government control and in exchange the government is expected to release hundreds of opposition detainees my one couple on is director of policy analysis of the out center for research and policy studies and he explained what pay things might happen next. think about to see that he was the first one is that we're going to see. fighting. in the north 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 there 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 thirty's. so the first scenario is that we're going to see fighting over that office but that has to. i mean there should be i mean some sort of talks between the russians and the turks because turkey is the main actor in the north. i mean this could actually believe that we for a political solution to the crisis as you mentioned. i try to put more pressure on the regime in order to start some political process over the constitution leading up to an election. the turkish government has lifted to hear state of emergency nationwide after the failed coup in twenty six days and extended seven

times since then tens of thousands of people have been arrested or dismissed from government and academic jobs as well as the military the government has proposed antiterrorism bill to replace some of the emergency powers. detectives have reported to have identified suspects who poisoned a former russian spy and his daughter the press association says police have obtained security camera video of a nerve agent being planted in the suspects russian. unconscious in salt spray in march the kremlin denies any involvement john hall has more from london. 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 souls britain will tour 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 in ports of entry to 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 know which are produced in soviet times a woman named dawn sturges died earlier this month we believe from spraying a quantity of nabi talk directly into her skin from a used perf human bottle now police are will be looking at where she may have got that bottle or partner is currently in intensive care where they may have got that bottle whether this came from the same batch of navi truckers that used to poison the scruples those lines of investigation feeding into the strip of investigation and quite possibly now producing new leads we await more from the police. the

families of the victims of the ferry disaster in south korea are to get two hundred million dollars in compensation three hundred four people mostly schoolchildren were killed when the seawater ferry capsized four years ago but after months of mourning grief turned to anger where investigators found the ship was structurally sound and overloaded and for the first time a south korean quartet knowledge the government's liability and on it both the state and the ferry operator to pay compensation. a new report by human rights group forty five rights is calling for the arrest of twenty two military and police officers and myanma there are queues of committing crimes that constitute genocide against the hendra of a group more than thirty police stations of the twenty seven team for the government the government says it was these attacks that led to a military crackdown against a state that the reports documents how the army planned and committed mass killings

rape and acid against one hundred twenty 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 hedge a brockton a bid to weaken the head of the twenty seven thousand crackdown the report concludes that myanmar's government made extensive and systematic preparations for attacks against. kerry kennedy is the president of robert f. kennedy human rights and she recently visited the her calves and cox's bazaar and described the shockingly terrible terrible conditions she saw there. been working on human. refugee camps. area to jordan to just all of the. nothing in. degree of horrors. now so really.

the. killing children in front of their. parents used. it was horrible the main thing is that they cannot return until return to the routine state is saved and they have security coming or. that cannot happen and as long as the perpetrators of the. of this genocide are still three and so the first thing that has to happen is that those perpetrators have to be held accountable and there has to be investigation i.c.t. needs to be involved. and the people of myanmar must call for these perpetrators to be held accountable. so they had all of the focus on the first commercial fight.