it's a finalist. and is a. some israeli politicians have called for a full blown military offensive against hamas to stop the kites and balloons houses young palestinians have every right to protest against the blockade using what it cools peaceful means a committee representing all political factions in gaza has called on palestinians to protest again on friday the seventeenth week in a row. that al-jazeera gaza and syria thousands of shia civilians and fighters have arrived in government held areas after enduring three years under siege by sunni rebels and it led province began arriving in aleppo province earlier their windows had been shattered by rocks thrown at the fleet as it passed the rebel held territory about seven thousand people from the it led towns of why were evacuated as part of a deal struck between the government and rebels hundreds of rebel prisoners are to

be released and returned ammonia you know as a retired jordanian air force general and military analyst he says it's clear the conflict in syria is coming to an end. i think the only book at remain is the. book which is between jordan syria and israel that's the area and i think they will reach an agreement to go to i think eastern syria the desert area which is east of homes so this is there were otherwise there will be wiped off with the russian airpower and the syrian forces so it is almost over now and by going to the accord of one nine hundred seventy four the buffer zone which is allowed the syrian army to go to that is that mean the hezbollah. is there. the syrian air force can fly over the buffer zone according to the one nine hundred

seventy four accord so. said the regime on control of the southwestern syria. nicaraguans president daniel ortega has announced denounced rather recent violence in his country as an attempted coup he's been addressing supporters at a rally in the nagual they're celebrating the thirty ninth anniversary of the revolution that put him in charge for the first time from one thousand thirty seven to one nine hundred seventy nine nicaragua was a dictatorship under the us back some of the family it was characterized by rising inequality and political corruption in one nine hundred seventy nine the most as were violently overthrown by ortega sandinista national liberation front or takeovers leader for eleven years until one nine hundred ninety when he was voted out since being elected again in two thousand and seven he has tightened his grip on power and stalling relatives including his wife and keep posts in april social security court cuts were announced then quickly dropped after a public backlash but the protest turned into calls for taker to resign and

a crackdown by security forces rights groups say at least two hundred eighty people have been killed since the wear on the sanchez has more now from managua. and the. people here have come. under very serious mourning and i was shown the support i mean get out of there is one of the most. fundamental i'm not mad at a time when there. are so many a revolution in the south. where part of the. mission more rightly are going to remember. particularly right. now there's a lot of pressure on the. people here. have

to plan for. everybody that i'm seventeen years he's been in all things including two times in the last year. thank you to the turn this time he's not the person at the top of it out. of his social projects but the club creed thank you for your son but our show for you health care about their very grateful to them and they say that even though they have to say still at all now. the latest gesture of goodwill from eritrea as it looks to improve its relationship with neighboring ethiopia. club of heroes doesn't mean all of the rescue type footballers have equal rights.

welcome back it's time to take a look at the weather across the americas in north america we've got a quite an active area of low pressure across parts of the midwest extending through into the middle ontic states we've still got all these showers across southeastern areas through georgia and down into the florida peninsula bills unless you've got some very hot weather dallas there at forty two degrees as move the forecast through into saturday there is some weakening of this low pressure center and this system across the southeast begins to relax away me more out across the western areas is generally find there seattle looking at sunshine temperatures in the low to mid twenty's well songes twenty's still some showers around the desert southwest though as you move into central america we have some heavy showers to contend with through panama and costa rica but further north it generally doesn't look too bad there we will see that area of rain pushing further north during the course of the weekends or other areas may see some showers there's not much in terms of share activities talk about across the islands of the caribbean where the

conditions here are generally looking good into surf america some heavy showers across colombia and further south we're expecting largely fine conditions you see across much of the basin but then towards argentina and uruguay it is looking very wet and it's also looking decidedly chilly. in iran waste inefficiencies in a growing population have led to do when water supplies. to try to extract water from enforced possible this is what you see as a result now of the country's future at stake. attitude to change and innovative solutions are being found. people in power investigates iran's water crisis on al-jazeera.

now watching al-jazeera let's recap the top stories for you now the white house says president trump wants to host the russian leader vladimir putin washington within months that's just fight the controversy surrounding their meeting in helsinki. thousands of syrian civilians and fighters have arrived in government held areas after at least three years under siege by sunni rebels and it looked province hundreds of rebel prisoners are expected to be released by the government and return. was president daniel ortega has denounced the recent violence in the country as an attempted coup he made the remarks at a rally celebrating the thirty ninth anniversary of the sandinista of revolution

and three hundred people have been killed in months of anti-government aggressed. media reports ameritrade suggest chips are being withdrawn from from the heavily militarized border with ethiopia it's the latest sign of improving relations between the neighbors leaders of both countries signed a peace and friendship agreement earlier this month ending a twenty year state of war there a training embassy and opened on monday and ethiopia has appointed a new ambassador to eritrea mom joe reports from. a statement from that same press agency since the move to withdraw the forces from the border was an act of reconciliation one meant to force slaven goodwill between the two countries the statement also appealed to all fools who value this the ability of the horn of africa region to help at its hand if you appear moved beyond senseless war and in a move that shows it's your people could be thinking about following suit and withdrawing its forces from the border the parliament has been called from recess

to discuss on friday what officials say months as related to the peace process between a tree and if you appear to be as also appointed an ambassador on far as they trust his mr don't want the same a former minister for communications and the current ambassador to ireland. there are growing fears of violence across mali nine days out from a presidential election attacks by armed groups have risen in recent years despite international efforts to drive out i saw an al qaeda affiliates from their strongholds but security is not the only thing to worry about as mohamed evolve reports from. the presidential candidates looking for votes in bamako election campaigns launched a week ago in full swing the current president ibrahim keita is appealing to his supporters for a second term because he's widely known was elected in a landslide majority five years ago on promises to restore peace defeat armed

groups and improve the economy critics accuse him of failure to deliver on any of those promises as well as incompetence and lack of vision it has twenty three arrivals forty year lection led by this former prime minister so minus the c.e.c. in the president's main rival. having lost two previous presidential bids he's managed to rally a large support with promises to fix molly's problems and end poverty for voters there was no end to the list of the months for any leader but i think that. we will the next president to run the country efficiently and not think of obamacare only but also remote poor villages we need a solution to high prices and the shortage of food supplies in mali has great potential with rich natural resources on the niger river as well as being africa's third largest gold producer molly has large reserves of iron ore mine going east

and you're a name despite its natural riches mollies ranked among the poorest countries in the world landlocked on drought stricken in its a vast northern regions mali and struggled with for and that's government mismanagement political disunity and ethnic fighting mileage g.d.p. grew up around five percent last year not bad compared to many other developing countries but i mean even distribution of wealth especially of the half of the population and the internationally recognized poverty like many in mali don't care about statistics they simply want jobs and social services in a secure and stable environment. in my life it is my land the suffering because of low income and high cost of living we pray to god to give us a good leadership that would make the country better but the leaders in general don't keep their promises and they only think of their personal interests some have dubbed it the election of all the challenges and or the high stakes others doubted

the election could be organized in time because of the rising number of attacks by armed groups no matter who wins this presidential race everyone here is worried about the future of mali and few deny the need for change one hundred five dizzier by mccoll. they had a peru supreme court has quit over a corruption scandal involving several judges to really rodriguez is just the latest high profile resignation after audiotapes are released suggesting judges had been taking bribes in exchange for favorable court rulings minister of justice was also forced to step down bain has dropped its european arrest warrant for former cattle on president carlos approached him on and five of his aides the judge made the decision after a german court agreed to extradite approached him on but only on the charge of misuse of public funds and not in the more serious charge of rebellion the charges

relate to catalonia failed secession bid last october all six are still abroad in they'll be detained if they return to spain their pain commission has warned e.u. member nations and businesses to prepare for a no deal breaks it in case the u.k. crashes out of the block with no trade agreement and the biggest sticking point is the border between northern ireland part of the u.k. and the republic of ireland in e.u. state british prime minister theresa may as visited talking about ways to avoid customs and other friction along the border when the u.k. is due to leave early next year and the u.k.'s new bracks and secretary has been to meet the e.u. negotiator michael parnay in brussels. weeks left. during this show. we have two things to do. we must finalize the reason the rug remained and we are not yet their. documents.

we must prepare for forty two. on our run internship if i come out today to discuss and the detailed proposals that we've got in our white paper that you will see and i'm looking forward to with renewed energy vigor and vim looking at the detail of all of this says michelle has told us the clock is ticking and so i'm looking forward to intensify heating up the negotiations and making sure we're in the best position to get the best still friends as the latest country to send help to sweden where local crews are struggling to get a handle on forty wildfires are being fueled by severely hot dry weather affecting the entire nordic region sweetness called on european countries to help get control of the fires as it battles its worst drought and war than seventy years there and record high temperature set around the world this week the rescue of twelve boys and a football coach in the depths of that flooded cave in thailand captivated the world

now they're out and they're being treated like heroes but many people are unaware that fourteen members are stateless with barely any rights so it wasn't imports from may fall along in northern thailand at the most northerly tip of thailand lies the hometown of the wild boars the football team trapped in a cave for eighteen days nothing more than a small river device may sigh from neighboring me on my. like many other members of ethnic minorities in this border region for members of the team are stateless go check up all gentile long crossed into thailand to look for a better education after his parents from the shan minority died the twenty five year old is seen as the man who taught the boys how to survive in the cave. they all gave blessings at a local temple i am happy to be home i was finally able to sleep well last night

despite a night of rest his future status is uncertain born in myanmar he doesn't qualify for thai citizenship which makes work and travel difficult nearly seven hundred thousand people in thailand are stateless including hundred fifty thousand children an organisation who promotes education for people in the highlands visit schools in an effort to help kids such as me pull them out of how i was i really want to tie citizenship because when i graduate i want to continue my education i want to get a job so i can send money for my siblings to go to school in myanmar i'm the eldest of seven children i want all of them to have an education like me. the plight of the stateless children is in the spotlight since it seems dramatic rescue. i was happy to say that the stateless boys weren't treated any differently to the others some people were suggesting they should have been taken out of the cave last choice tyo non time we all have the same human rights that's far from reality for most

other stateless children many growing up without their parents survival instincts part of you to do the fighting spirit of the sadist members and the wild boars of both from an early age they learned how to deal with hardship and survive in a country that doesn't officially accept them now many hope would have been face to face that's had been rewarded citizenship the local district chief says he has yet to receive the applications for citizenship and they will only be successful if they were born in thailand and have birth certificates so while the team spirit of the wild boars has become stronger after the cave or deal some players won't have the same rights as their teammates any time soon step fastened al-jazeera may for a long north thailand. a former u.s. air force d.j. who inspired the film good morning vietnam has died at the age of seventy nine.

ager in crow now or served in saigon in one thousand nine hundred sixty five and sixty six where he was assigned to a u.s. military radio station each morning he opened his show with that now iconic phrase the signature line of course was made famous by robin williams who portrayed him in a film in one nine hundred eighty seven. we got the headlines for you want i'll just sirrah the white house says president trump wants to host russian leader vladimir putin in washington within months that's just by the controversy surrounding their meeting in helsinki as director of national intelligence james coats was surprised by the news of trump's invitation to putin as he learned about it in front of people at a conference say we have some breaking news the white house has announced on twitter that is coming to the white house in the fall so we can

thank. you. coming here. ok. it's going to be special. the european union has expressed concern about a new israeli law that defines the country as the nation state of the jewish people it makes hebrew the sole of official language and it downgrades arabic to having special status palestinians describe the new law is racist and verging on apartheid . meanwhile prime minister benjamin netanyahu is called as one carrion counterpart viktor orbán a true friend of israel despite allegations of anti-semitism viktor orbán has visited through slim's holocaust museum during his first official trip to israel jewish groups criticized or gone for praising the man who ruled hungry during world

war two and who collaborated with the nazis the netanyahu says orbán has been an advocate for israel on the international stage thousands of syrian civilians and fighters have arrived in government held areas after at least three years under siege by sunni rebels and adler province hundreds of rebel prisoners are expected to be released by the government and return. european commission has warned the u.s. i mean states pardon me and businesses to prepare for the possibility of a note that in case the u.k. government fails to negotiate an agreement comes as prime minister theresa may visits northern ireland which is part of the u.k. its border with southern ireland which is a member of the e.u. is one of the biggest roadblocks in the brics it goes she a sions those are the headlines to keep it here on al-jazeera for news throughout the day people in power is next thanks for your time. egypt is now china's

biggest trading partner in africa more than ten thousand chinese are living in cairo i wanted to see the permits and september one thousand nine hundred five i came with my friends to egypt many started a small traders but are now successful in business shifting and i began to do business in two thousand and three or two thousand and four at a time it was small but then it began to expand al-jazeera well meets the growing chinese community in egypt egypt made in china on al-jazeera. iran's water supplies are under threat its reserves to preach it by waste and inefficiency once fertile lands drained and barren innovative solutions are at last being applied with will a pay enough we sent recall to gallery to rope in from al-jazeera thrice servers to

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

as for the cultural heartbeat of central iran i'm here to meet global water expert dr call of a mad any he's asked me to meet him along the xi'an to root out the river which gave birth to this ancient city. i don't care madame if this is not at all what i was expecting what happened to the famous life giver the xi'an the rude oh for the past few years we have been seeing you like this once of the flu every year and the rest is what it's all for your good river. these massive cracks that we're seeing in this one flowing thousand year old river this is a manmade problem. unfortunately yes i'm not i'm not saying that nature had no

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

what we see as a result this is what i called water bankruptcy. do you see that the sprinkler yeah . that's a problem this is the mentality is that we don't we don't get it like look look at this like all around the river beds are green and we have a river which is going. to pull up the meet. the. the the lead up to the person so you and the rich to pay for the bank utilities above man have a rumor that means something to about a year and a whole new world i live. in the. can show you just about as that's because that's a should be to the heart of what this mother tongues are quite.

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

a greater and more invisible crisis underground. i'm traveling into iran's farming heartland to meet geoscientist man danny she's investigating iran's groundwater crisis over the past fifty years iran has extracted seventy percent of its ground water supplies mainly to support farming the arid southwest province of syria john which relies heavily on to stash farming is now running on empty but you have here this is the city of stair churn and you can see here the area which fills the substance so these or the groundwater depletion hotspots is that correct exactly what exactly is such that an. opera heart is from courtroom. after shit effective as a compact should we be worried right now about the ground water levels in syria john the author first one was there. to capture the water so we have

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

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

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

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

not sure we're there oh i'm as good as you would but you're on your mark get your guard only two on. bended. knee or you and me here are your when i was each take you know he just got. the story oh yeah they're each got to turn it into. a badge disorder this is the the of now the future. iran is clearly facing a huge and unprecedented crisis and without the government support it's hard to see

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