property and we rushed out most of my things have been destroyed including my t.v. all my property is here and i don't know where to go with my children and the way that they're going to. be brought. up to see that even. that was not a. good one it's a good. shot much of the government could see that the community. that's not so. i can use roads authorities puts out this poll on twitter to find out how the community is reacting to the demolitions interestingly a lot of the people that have voted actually have voted for yes that they think the demolition should go ahead but we want to know your thoughts if you are in kenya so you got some such of those or comment on our long life facebook stream as well and my hash tag go to it's a rather handily as. sarah thank you so this is where pictures are coming in to us from right around the world as you can see so take

a look at what's happening at the united nations we spoke about this earlier on at the start of the show the discussions continuing about the situation in gaza with the french ambassador to the u.n. speaking right now we will cross over to barbara sara in london who will join us with more of the world headlines hi barbara. hello there there are stars with the e.u. member states there could soon receive seven thousand dollars for each refugee or migrant that they rescued from the mediterranean sea the european commission is proposing the payment to encourage more states to think in migrants after italy's new government closed that sports to rescue vessels italy has already rejected the idea with a derian minister but there's some vini saying it's lee doesn't need charity and restates are expected to discuss the idea on thursday for member states that open up their ports to allow disembarkation in on their territory operational support will be provided with disembarkation teams comprised of european border and coast

guard. agents assigned experts security screeners and return offices and again all costs would be covered by the european union budget and then also if the member states that voluntary excess to take a share of the people involved we would also provide financial support in the form of six thousand years per person. the united kingdom says it will keep european union rules for a transitional period after it leaves the bloc next year the u.k. breck's it secretary dominic rob says it's necessary to provide continuity and certainty for businesses and individuals the announcement comes just five days after he met his e.u. counterpart michel back in here for the first time it's now just two hundred and forty eight days until the deadline for the u.k. to leave the. hundreds of people with disabilities along with political leaders are gathering in london for the first ever global disability conference often people

with disabilities struggle to find employment and fulfill their education now the government in senegal is pursuing new laws to encourage companies to create suitable job opportunities in an effort to root out social stigma nicolas sarkozy port's them from the uk. it's in the water that christie feels the most that he. was born with a genetic disorder that caused a malformation of his hands and arms. despite others staring at him he completely forgets about his disability. it is. so full of course. i feel like a fish in the water or like a bird in the sky anything is possible. after earning about in marketing works double shifts selling t.v.

packages by day and chinese takeaway by night. the force of their lives only knew that disability is a state of mind we have so much to do to change public perception of people like me our society needs to stop seeing us as a burden and more like people you can depend on. almost one in ten in senegal is handicapped and yet many still believe it is a curse. like our gays parents who abandoned her as a child she's been living on the streets with others like her trying to survive. this is two weeks old mobile phone footage of a police officer beating our gate to the ground because she was breaking next to government buildings the officer was arrested then later released ok. i want us off the streets so do we what we need is work a job but no one will hire us members of parliament are debating a new law that will force private companies to hire people with disability and

ensure handicapped children have access to schools. senegal is one of the fastest growing economy on the african continent yet seventy five percent of those with disability are illiterate with this new piece of legislation the government wants to change that so that no matter what the disability everyone from participate in senegal is booming economy and it starts here in the only school for disabled in the country share wants to be a banker jennifer a doctor and city wants to run and i t company their teacher says nothing can stop them reaching their goals all vehicle wise they need to overcall more other people's prejudice go beyond their disability to be their best self and contribution to humanity then people will stop seeing their disability as one hundred that me that he was christopher good mrs teacher in school as much as it was that sort of attitude that shaped his outlook in life no

longer handicapped by his disability but now equipped to overcome whatever challenges lie ahead. nicholas hawke al-jazeera the car. some of the thai boys who were trapped inside a cave for more than two weeks have begun the process of becoming novices in a buddhist ceremony the practice is common for young men in thailand where buddhism is the main religion before has more. two weeks after their dramatic rescue came to an end eleven boys and their football coach began a spiritual journey a ceremony was held at a buddhist temple in my side near the cave where they were trapped for the boys becoming novices in the monkhood is a way of saying thanks for their rescue and honoring the memory of former navy seal divers among the nun who died during the operation will spend nine days living in the temple where they'll be joined by their coach will be ordained as

a monk for the second time in the vehicle that i was so happy to see them alive and i thought it would be good to attend the ceremony to show them our support i was pleased to hear that the code had led the boys through meditation inside the cave i'm also practicing meditation so i wanted to show my support to him. the operation to rescue the thirteen people from the cave became an international effort in canberra nine australians were awarded bravery medals you saved those young men and as you did so inspired not just your own nation our nation but holding its breath and praying for your success you inspire the whole world on behalf of all australians we thank you and we salute you to be a receiving special mention one a statistic richard harris and his dive buddy craig chalons harris oversaw the medical condition of the boys and they coached throughout the rescue and was the

last person out of the cave he and chalan were awarded the star of courage australia second highest civilian bravery ana shahzad got for al-jazeera. an inspirational story the one that i have more news out of london about half an hour now so let's go back to the window proper we'll see you then thank you for that well iraq is waiting for a shipment of fuel and generators from neighboring kuwait's as it tries to solve energy shortages that have triggered protests in the country and many are asking though why iraq which is home to the world's fifth largest petroleum reserves needs help iran con reports from baghdad. in iraq southern city of basra food rots and freezes because there's no electricity business owners here are frustrated that losing money the lack of electricity is driving ongoing protests in south q weights providing electricity generators and fuel to help alleviate the crisis and the iraqi government says that'll provide electricity for seventeen

hours a day but that's not enough for these people. we need our rights it should be twenty four hours of electricity to other countries have it why don't we iraq is the second largest producer in opec it has to import refined products in order to keep the country running and they include fuel such as diesel and kerosene. energy experts say this crisis could have been averted with long term planning. no future plan nor vision was put in place by ministries of planning or oil and electricity iraq needs twenty three thousand to maggie watts of electricity while the current production is between thirteen thousand to fourteen thousand megawatts this means that half of power production is missing power plants were built to consume energy sources that are not available in iraq such as diesel or gas add to that corruption mismanagement no future plans the ministry of electricity says iraq's recent war with eisel has damaged its capacity to produce electricity. in two thousand and

fourteen as part of our plans we have established in beijing city a power plant with a capacity of one thousand megawatts but this was destroyed by ice and we were also able to provide a decent supply of diesel from beijing refinery which was operating at fifty percent capacity before i sold destroyed it. the ministry insists there is a long term plan to improve the grid and provide a steady power supply here in the capital and elsewhere across iraq are in desperate need of an upgrade now there's no details available for any kind of long term plan and it does. think in short and striking deals with its neighbors. meanwhile the protests continue with summer temperatures set to soar the iraqi government will be hoping that it can provide enough energy to keep the demonstrations from escalating. al-jazeera. you're a sports update is about

a minutes away here on the news grid where tuesday march to here until the tokyo twenty. hour preparations going ahead of the events peter will join us and he'll story.

yes peter with a sports update hi peter good to see you again it's exactly two years to the day now before tokyo hosts the olympic games will be the first time since nine hundred sixty four the japanese capital hosts the games and the first time since nine hundred ninety eight japan hosts and a lympics often the going to hosted the winter games back to the preparations have

not been without the challenges a reshuffle of taste events could be on the calls with construction delays at two key venues and the city of tokyo has been experiencing an intense heat wave forcing organizers to think about weather conditions come twenty twenty. now is in tokyo and takes a look at the various challenges facing the organizers including how to beat the heat. mine is not the same you know but eventually yeah we can mention and do now many aforetime been done to use this heat for example here in this location they fix some kind of stray water spray devices he would use for heat but not in locations like the studs about places i don't really know i think a big challenge which is how to use this. one of the ideas that they came up is

starting the game for the sports and i think i'm deficient at an earlier time when somebody might have flown with a time yeah at seven o'clock and the fifty kilometer walk or them in which time i don't think so go am in the morning actually doing some prices where it kind of expensive and some people can decide the pricing because the highest price would be i don't two thousand seven hundred dollars for that's occasional the ceremony for the ceremony event. lowest prices would be able to twenty three dollars so we have a very unusual between twenty two that i don't know it's on when with two thousand seven hundred but for most of the games organizers there saying that they would like to tax more young people so they have set limits off about one hundred dollars for. an average of normal events for some soccer games and other football and

other sports maybe at a price with a range between twenty two dollars to seventy donuts beginning of the event they did some brochures on documents showing that they have all of the finished about forty percent an average of most of the. larger. problem for construction so forty percent it's a good percentage and they promised that they going to deliver it on time so but there's still that out speculations that in some in some locations especially in the international stage and taking into consideration its large size maybe they would face some delays but the japanese people as usual they like to give the orders that are promised and many people. will hold them to this promise. ok so lots of excitement building ahead of those games two years to go to the day or show you some of the excitement that's been building up on social media as well let's look at olympic ice dancer maya shubert tunney who tweeted this in her excitement it's two years to go hash tag tokyo twenty twenty and have

a look at the picture see go to two fingers up there look at the rising sun i really like that one judo world medalist nicola davis also shared the sentiment i cannot believe there is a need to years to go until tokyo twenty twenty account wait for the scrape junee hash tag two years to go hashtag tokyo twenty twenty and twenty twenty will venture into uncharted territory by featuring four new elim big sports skateboarding sport climbing surfing and take a look at this tweet sir exciting two years from today karate will be in the olympics hash tag tokyo twenty twenty. and finally how's this for an achievement polish unjaded about a pill as skeet is way into the record books becoming the first men to ski down from the summit of k two the eight thousand six hundred eleven meter mountain also known as mt godwin austin is the world's second highest after everest from the

summit the thirty year old ascended along the shoulder passing below huge serax and snow fields full of crevasses bargain also became the thirteenth pole to reach the top of the k two. as always you can get in touch with us using the hashtag a.j. news good you can get hold of me directly at peter underscore statement most of all coming up in the eight hundred g.m.t. alpha males back to dairy peter thank you very much for that and that will do it for this newsgroup thanks very much for watching we will see you back here at studio fourteen fifteen g.m.t. on wednesday see that.

on the atlantic coast of west africa communities are at risk. as rising sea levels and a manmade disaster of threatening people's lives on land and at sea. al-jazeera wild expose the impact of climate change and a catastrophic human error. on senegal sinking villages. conservation ease helping kick the stove to recover its snow leopard population to see the results i traveled up to the remote nature reserve of saudi chat at a touch camera traps have identified a healthy population of up to twenty snowed up it's just the technology improves who are finding all these ways in which our guesses are are getting corrected and

the latest evidence suggests there are more cats than previously acknowledged but the snow leopard trust believes it's premature to downgrade the cats on the international list of threatened species. when diplomacy fields and fear sweep then our borders are wide open wide open to drugs terrorists we've proven the barriers are built to impose division and its will to sixty's instead of being an obstacle. into became another obstacle to peace in a four part series al-jazeera revisits the reasons for divisions in different parts of the world and the impact they have on both sides walls of shame on al-jazeera. hundreds missing in southern laos after a partially built thousands of lapses washing away homes.

hello i'm barbara starr this is al jazeera live from london also coming up on the program wildfires a sweep through a greek resort town near athens killing at least seventy four people including entire families the israeli military shoots down a syrian fighter jet that it says entered its airspace killing the pilot and police accidentally pepper spray toward the fronts riders trying to disperse protesting far. welcome to the program hundreds of people are missing after a hydroelectric dam that was under construction partially collapsed in lao it's not known how many were killed but thousands have also been left homeless and at the pale province after the collapse sent flash floods through nearby villages when he

reports now from bangkok in neighboring thailand. in this part of southeastern laos villages have disappeared beneath muddy water that cascaded downstream on monday nights. it's not known how many people have been affected by the partial collapse of the. dam but it's thought that some four thousand families lived in the downstream area the dam was still under construction on a tributary of the mekong river after a recent heavy rain it's believed a warning was issued that a so-called saddle dam built around the reservoir was in danger of collapsing the warning apparently didn't come in time for many people laos is a landlocked impoverished country that's embarked on an ambitious plan to become the battery of south east asia by exporting electricity to neighboring countries this dam on the main stream of the mekong river in the south is one of at least six . that the communist government has built has under construction or planned but for

years critics have warned of impacts on the environment livelihoods and expressed concerns about safety this dam break shows several things it shows that there are there are major risks and downs that have a. down design maybe i'm able to cope with extreme weather events such as very heavy rains that. laos is a secretive one party state and there will also be concerns about the transparency of any investigation that may be launched into this incident wayne hay al jazeera bangkok rescue is in greece fear they may find more bodies after wildfires swept through coastal areas near the capital athens killing at least seventy four people the government has the claim at a state of emergency with many fires still burning well let's go live to meet parker who is in the coastal village of marty where twenty six bodies have been found i mean these kinds of fires aren't unusual in parts of the mediterranean at this time of of the year but tell us

a little bit about the situation they are now well i think barbara wildfires on this scale really caught everybody off guard as you said they are regular occurrence at this time of year in this part of the world but what we see here in the coastal resort of moxy about thirty kilometers or so from the capital athens is a scene of the a total devastation in parts you can probably see the house behind me this is one of perhaps several houses just from this woman blog at certain places every third or fourth house has been completely destroyed and bearing in mind that the fire was over twenty four hours ago some parts of the ground here are still smoldering away and down this street here. where people tried of course. they didn't get very far at all maybe every single car on this street has been completely and utterly destroyed what with more about what happened here in marty and the rest of greece

is my colleague. with ferocious intensity the flames tore through homes cars and livelihoods. and the wildfires quickly turned deadly. locked in a final embrace dozens of bodies discovered in the popular seaside village of matty east of athens families had huddled together for safety but found no escape. early this morning they discovered three other victims further away. unfortunately there are twenty six people men women and children. cars with the keys left in the ignition the doors open and first aid supplies left on the seats picture emerges of people abandoning their cars and trying to escape on foot. within hours large parts

of matty have been destroyed survivors describe running for the sea to escape the choking smoke military and coast guard vessels along with dozens of private boats joined the effort to rescue more than seven hundred people from the beaches some survivors were discovered at sea thanks summer. we headed towards the sea and fell into the water to get away from the smoke we went in as far as we could after you know what upsets me and that i carry in my heart is that it's horrible to see the person next to you drowning and not being able to help him you can't that's the tragic thing. there are fears the death toll could rise as rescue crews search the charred remains of houses and the coast guard scows the seas. is the mini me. today greece is mourning if i'm in memory of those who perished

we are declaring three days of national mourning and however we should not let the overwhelm us because this is a time to fight to be unified and courageous. in the hot dry weather fires burned on the other side of athens to there was panic as greeks looked for their neighbors the flames closing. this is connecticut a coastal town an hour's drive west of the capital. crews tried to limit the destruction but it was out of their control. and appealed for international help has resulted in additional resources being dispatched from spain and cyprus to deal with the worst wildfires in more than a decade. in two thousand and seven more than eighty people were killed as fires raged across the country for days this year a dry winter has again caused tinderbox conditions with one hundred kilometer an hour winds fanning the flames for greece in peak tourist season the fires are

a danger to its fragile economy only adding to the toll of a tragic summer jonah how al-jazeera and. who is live for us in the coastal village of. any of it is so many people already have died in this tragic fire but as jenna was mentioning there forces are still halfway through summer there is the risk that there could be many more casualties and much more destruction. that is the biggest concern and as the rescue teams now of course leading a recovery operation go from house to house says the coast guard scour the seas the number of confirmed dead is going up to in the last hour or so greek b.d.'s reported seventy four people have been killed in this year's wildfires one hundred sixty four people adults are in hospital twenty three further people children are also being treated some of them are in

a critical condition also some concerns about the fires west of athens the other part of the country that also saw an inferno tear through several coastal villages some of the fires that were put out overnight have reignited what really needs to happen here is for the temperature to cool off and for certainly for there to be some rain it is forecast but not anytime soon you've barkha with the latest there from greece and you thank you. well meanwhile japan's record breaking heat wave has now been classified as a natural disaster officials say that at least sixty five people have died in the unprecedented temperatures over the past week and more than twenty two thousand people have been admitted to hospital with heat stroke in some parts of tokyo the marquee is a forty degree celsius for the first time forecasters say high temperatures will remain until early august. about half of the people sent to the emergency

rooms for heat related ailments are over sixty five but they've accounted for eighty percent of the deaths well i'll just say we're seeing a weather presenter richard and when explains why the northern hemisphere is currently experiencing such high temperatures. well there's no arguing the fact that the heat wave we've seen across asia across japan the korean peninsula and china and repeated across scandinavia there of epic proportions we've seen so many records broken and so many more records likely to fall in the coming days even weeks dare i say parts of the explanation lies with the jet stream not the band of winds blowing ten kilometers up in the atmosphere like a river of wind but at the moment i'm afraid is nothing more than a stream dried up in places and that has an impact on weather types across europe for instance so what we're seeing is because of the weekend of a polar vortex and the changes in arctic sea ice it's allowing weather systems to become more persistent so day on day you get a building of heat on top of that of course there's more energy going into the

atmosphere we are living in a warming world twenty eighteen probably in the top five for misuse since eight hundred eighty and every chance that this sort of pattern is going to be repeated in the summers to come. israel is shot down a syrian jet it says violated its airspace a claim that syria's military denies the airplane crashed on the syrian side of the golan heights where the syrian air force has launched several raids in support of a government offensive against rebels well stephanie becker is in the occupied golan heights and joins us now as they think that the see you are where the jet was shot down what do we know about what happened. well the israeli army has now confirmed that the jet went down in the southern golan heights on the syrian side which is around this area behind us we were

a little further to the north when it happened we heard a siren in the area and then a field that was we could sort of overlook on higher ground started burning we went down to see what that was not clear we bumped into some israeli soldiers who looked checked it out and said it could have been perhaps juta the outgoing fire from here then there's a field behind us here as well that was burning so i think this all has to do with the action the russians are saying the russian official news agency sputnik that the pilot has died the condition of the second is not known and the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has just issued a statement where he said that israel will not tolerate a violation of its sovereignty of its airspace so i can tell you in the last couple of hours or so it was relatively quiet here but now we've just seen a russian jet in the sky we can tell because of its color that has resumed the bombardment of this area this is the last opposition held area of southwest syria is held by

a group affiliated with eisel and the syrian government backed by russia very keen to take that back and stephanie obviously we've seen in the past months the very least that is rose growing concern about that border what would you say is its main concern with the war in syria and how it seems to be progressing. well israel's main concern his only concern really is the presence of iran of aronian backed troops and with any potential shipment of weapons of missiles to hezbollah in lebanon so israel has undertaken various airstrikes on air bases allen weapon shipments on iranian backed presence inside syria they don't usually confirm them but the israeli government has made it very clear that if there is a threat to it under those kinds of circumstances it will take action now we've had the russian foreign minister here on monday they were discussing how far iranian troops are back to should be from this border hundred kilometers the russians have

offered israel has said that is not good enough it wants them fully out of the country stephanie decker with the latest from the golan heights stephanie thank you . so the calm in this half hour of news a casting agency advertises for tourists to protest at downing street while the emir of qatar was meeting the british prime minister and how one academic and his that means to show has become like venezuela's economic crisis. hello and welcome back as we look at the weather details across southern parts of china and through into indochina we've still got a circulation associated with what was tropical storm some tin now it's been one of the best part of ten days and still giving very heavy rain across southern parts of

china northern parts of vietnam and laos it will tend to weaken as we head on through into thursday rethink this region is seeing a lot of rain and some serious flooding problems are likely and that circulation of low pressure will probably entice more showers in off the bay of bengal so if you hang on and much of me in mind does look as though it's going to be very wet some showers likely for hong kong their highs of thirty to cross into south asia northern areas are seeing a lot of rain at the moment. it was a pretty wet day at the golden temple there ninety millimeters of rain over in bangladesh funny coming in a significant rainfall too and these northern areas again see lots of rain during the course of wednesday much of pakistan expects to be dry and fine some rain down through the western ghats but not particularly heavy. going to be the thick of it in terms of rainfall through into thursday across into the arabian peninsula we have a bit of a breeze keeping the humidity down here in qatar but the temperature up some of forty five in doha.

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