so it was impossible even if they knew how to access the beach to go there because there was already a fire in front of them behind them they were trapped there were kids kids were taking them down the cliffs all a.d.'s a pregnant lady when i was helping them until a certain point. and then i. myself we have lost everything everything. without rain the most effective defense greeks have is the sea water scoop from the a g.n. is flown to fire still smoldering of the hills in this parched brittle landscape small fires can quickly become infernos. in the town of marty the cleanup has begun streets normally bustling with holiday makers are clogged with burnt out cars the blaze was so intense it turned metal into liquid many seaside businesses were relying on a profitable summer season now they're salvaging what they can and. greece is no

stranger to wildfires but many public services including the fire service have been crippled by years of a stereotype the full scale of this disaster is still unfolding but the author of cheese are investigating the possibility some of the fires were started deliberately whatever the cause is the consequences have ruined homes and destroyed lives we've barkha al-jazeera marty much more to come on the program including the family stuck in border limbo on a bridge between the u.s. and mexico and scientists detect a massive lake and ice on mars raising the possibility of life on the red planet. hello there we're still seeing some wet weather in the southern parts of australia

at the moment the latest system just grazed the southwest very border some fairly heavy rain as it did say answered fairly brisk winds but it's breaking off a little bit as it makes its way eastwards but they'll still be a fair amount of cloud so they could just be one or two showers perhaps force in perth but what you'll notice is the temperatures begin to ease so our maximum by friday will only be sixteen that system that worked its way across as well that's here for friday making its way out of south australia towards victoria still capable of giving us some real the shop showers and we'll also see somewhat weather across tasmania too for new zealand lots of clouds rolling its way across us at the moment you can see it on the satellite picture gradually drifting its way eastwards for some rain also fair amount of snow as well looking a lot dry as we head through thursday but on friday the winds will be from the west so pick up a fair amount of moisture so the western parts are likely to see quite large amounts of cloud at times and quite a few showers particularly if you're on the south island because we had up towards japan the temperatures are easing now force in tokyo it's been incredibly hot here

but that's because we've got a typhoon edging its way towards this is still strengthening and probably will reach us even as we head through friday further west though it's still staying caught insole. they suspected money laundering operation but this time it was different. an accidental discovery of the war so initial suspicion. and on rivals an unprecedented scale of systemic international corruption people in power investigates a rocket of such magnitude that it threatened government redefine the rules of impunity. the car was. just the.

welcome back reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera saudi arabia says it will temporarily halt all oil shipments through bab al mandeb strait is in response to an earlier attack on two of its crude vessels in the red sea by demonstrating rebels counting is taking place in a tightly contested general election in pakistan it's been overshadowed by another attack at least thirty one people were killed in a suicide bombing outside a polling station in the city of course and at least two hundred fifteen people have died in i saw the times in the southern syrian province of the way there that's according to the province's health department. the u.s. secretary of state says he's personally warned russia of severe consequences over alleged interference in the u.s. election twenty sixteen in testimony to the seven it's far enough relations

committee compare said president chump and made it clear to russia's president putin that washington would not stand for any interference in its internal affairs by moscow. the president disclosed what he said divided by putin about russian interference in our elections and he said that he is confident that as a result of that conversation vladimir understands that it won't be tolerated united states and the european union have agreed to work together on lowering trade barriers u.s. president says he will start trading on ca sions would be you and result sale an element in tariffs as well as retaliatory tariffs in ousmane following a meeting at the white house between trial and the european commission president jiang cohen younker tensions have been rising to both sides stop tariffs on billions of dollars worth of imports of course is on the understanding that

as long as we are negotiating unless one party would stop the negotiations we are hopeful of further tariffs and unison reassessed existing tariffs on steel and aluminum this will open markets for farmers and workers increase investment and lead to greater prosperity in both the united states and the european union it will also make trade fairer and more reciprocal. i mean actually states has lifted restrictions on one hundred ninety five million dollars in military aid to egypt and u.s. state department officials says cairo will now be allowed to use they minute trip financing funds because steps are being taken by egypt to recognize what he calls a specific u.s. concerns. the u.s. government has asked a federal judge to allow the quick deportation of undocumented immigrant parents while so reunited with their children it has until first day to reunite families separated under president chum's so-called zero tolerance policy hard to jocasta

reports on the effect that policy is having on families trying to cross into the u.s. . it's over forty degrees celsius as the sun beats down on the u.s. mexican border atop a concrete bridge connecting the two countries a few dozen families huddled under what little shade they can find some have been here for three days the heat is unbearable but we've already suffered to get here this man and his five year old son are from hundred us they travel twenty days to make it this far near steps from the u.s. now they're waiting to claim political asylum eleven kerio sector workers they tried to make us leave to intimidate us but we aren't moving once a person steps foot across the middle of this bridge past these orange cones they would technically be standing in the united states and there they are guaranteed by

law the right to make an asylum claim the now for the first time of the nearly forty years that the law was written many people are being denied that chance u.s. border patrol agents are here making sure they do not pass it around them or the good living will never we beg them to let us pass because the heat is suffocating the children why are you guys not allowing these asylum seekers to pass and i'm not allowed to give you anything a customs and border. protection spokesperson says individuals without documents sometimes must wait to be processed due to strained resources meanwhile the trumpet ministration has made clear it wants to keep out what the president calls an influx of illegal aliens. eight month pregnant a tourist says she and her son were forcibly removed from the bridge she says u.s. border patrol which cannot cross into mexico had asked mexican police to arrest her getting there the whole day said to me you think the u.s.

president is offering political asylum that doesn't exist anymore she had hoped to give birth in the united states away from the dangers of her native one during this now without a plan she's returned to a shelter on the mexican bank of the rio grande a river so close to the u.s. yet so far heidi jo castro al-jazeera mexico south sudan's rivaling does have agreed to share power again three years after their previous deal collapsed solve a kid and rick are set to sign off on the final a cold on all this a fifth of the visual news agency says care will lead the transitional government. will return as vice president the two men are attempting to render a four year civil war that's killed tens of thousands of people and displaced millions of all those muhammad oh has more from can chew. of the nineteen days of deliberations parties insults the downs conflict covered here in sign

a preliminary agreement on power sharing it's unlikely to stop the war in south sudan's because it is incomplete and they say that while the agreed on most of the issues they discussed the could not agree on how to share power of the local level while their full five to the poem is a transitional period of three years in which president salva cuban means president the appointment of five vice presidents four of them from the opposition to depart those for the president and also are there for them on how many states the country should how and where the boundaries should be the final agreement they say is going to be signed on the fifth of august with leaders from the regional neighbors such as kenya uganda sudan if you appeal with listening to simon of the final agreement . israeli forces have attacked hamas military positions in the gaza strip killing

at least three palestinians and israel's army says its troops came under fire near the border with gaza and then response shelled several hamas posts it comes just days after hamas leaders agreed to a cease fire with israel to prevent hostilities from escalating at least eighty people have been killed in japan's record breaking heat wave with thousands of people being sent to hospital this ambridge has reached forty degrees celsius in many cities and authorities are warning about whether it will continue to live beginning of august the elderly make up the mass majority of deaths. rescue teams are heading in to a remote remote part of loud to help more than three thousand people who've been less stranded after a dam collapsed at least nineteen people were killed when the hydro power down failed in the southern province of of her on monday sending a deluge of water rushing downstream flawlessly reports from neighboring thailand

from the air the devastation is clear huge tracts of land under water with only rooftops and treetops visible six thousand people are homeless after a dam on the lower scipion river collapsed early on monday morning the death toll is expected to rise as dozens of people remain missing the walls of water swept away homes and destroyed roads making rescue and emergency work in this remote part of laos even more difficult over the last few years the government launched a plan to build hydroelectric power dams to export energy as a way to help its economy but it's had to rely on foreign expertise and money the dam that collapsed was being built by lao tie and south korean companies. s.k. engineering and construction one of the south korean companies involved said fractures in the dam were first discovered on sunday and efforts to move people to safety started. the south korean government says it's providing assistance.

president mungy in issued the order to provide aid without hesitation as our companies are participating in the construction of the dam while looking into the cause of the accident one of the companies that has a stake in the project is run electricity generating holding company in bangkok it said in a statement on wednesday it set up a relief fund and that its staff have traveled to the affected area in laos to help provide assistance experts have said the dam can only be fixed when the rainy season is over the search and rescue work goes on florence. bangkok flooding caused by stan has reached neighboring cambodia photos posted online show residents in cambodia a strong trying province being evacuated officials say water levels in parts of the mekong river are risen to more than eleven meters chinese president says there'll be no winners in

a global trade war he says the brics nations are russia india china and south africa tonight in the wake of tariff threats by the u.s. president xi jinping as call came at the start of a three day break summit in johannesburg as the. leaders from brazil russia india china and south africa say they are united in fighting protectionism and promoting global trade it's the first time presidents on the brics trade bloc are meeting since donald trump's administration said it was ready to impose tariffs on all chinese imports a movie karma say could also hurt smaller countries like south africa we are meeting here. at a time when the multilateral trading system is facing unprecedented challenges we are concerned by the rise in unilateral measures that are incompatible with world trade organization. and we are worried about the impact of these

measures especially as the impacts developing countries and economies. of the brics by some of the world's biggest emerging economies more than thirty percent of the global population china has a world they could largest economy off to the united states already done for the markets to buy and sell their products the countries of the really. become privatized. community activists feel the scrabble for resources could undermine human rights and good governance in perspective of india there are many infrastructure projects coming which are causing a lot of human rights violations so we have farmers who are fighting against the language. there is a project called industry bardot dogs coming which will acquire forty percent of the india's line and so we are just concerned about the amount of displacement that

when having some economists say improving and increasing trade among brics countries could make the election economies more competitive and perhaps challenge the u.s. it was some insist is an attempt to stoke tension and start a global trade from a. gender split. team of italian scientists say they discovered a huge underground like a mouse in lies beneath a southern icecap and is the first time a large stable body of liquid water has been discovered on the red planet nadine barber explains. a stunning discovery is what they're calling it one that could help scientists know for sure whether life ever formed on mars or even exists today the study led by italian researchers says they found what could be an underground lake it's a large body of liquid water twenty kilometers wide and one point five kilometers below the surface and it was found using radar instruments on board the european space agency's orbiter mars express scientists looked at radar readings from the

planet's southern ice cap which provided ideal conditions ice is a very thin aspirant medium expression if it's called the impurity of the electromagnetic waves so it's. they can make the applied to their the much simpler caps of course these are these caps. have some impute this magnetic the called there then the ice on the mars might be cold and dry now but we already know thanks to rovers on its surface and other probes examining it from orbit that it was once a warm place with plenty of liquid water and lakes. the new study doesn't tell us how deep the reservoir is so researches can't say whether what they found resembles an underground pool or is simply a layer of sludge but they do believe it's potentially a huge breakthrough liquid water tunnel of exist on the surface it's simply not possible because of the miscarriage pressure on mars is still incredibly thin

though for water to remain liquid you have to be very deep underneath the surface and it also has to be very very altering the areas is also of huge importance because of a stall so water lake is potentially exactly the sort of place you would go to look for life form the search for life on mars has been going on for decades scientists now have to find out whether this discovery can help them in that quest nitty barber al-jazeera. is give you a reminder of the top stories herron al-jazeera saudi arabia's energy minister al folly has announced the kingdom is temporarily halting all all shipments through the bab el mundo straits which is the entrance to the red sea between yemen and your take is a missed funds to an attack on two of its crude oil vessels by yemen's heathy

rebels and the same mentor who faced save a direct they targeted the ships because they violated its waters and were engaging in what it called antagonistic acts. counting is taking place in a tightly contested general election in pakistan has been overshadowed by another attack at least thirty one people were killed in a suicide bombing outside a polling station in the city of course the millions have been voting for the lower house of parliament and four provincial assemblies that some avenge of eight is in lahore eve local networks have given the mantle to run hahn already and that is why there was a late night news conference by sure even his party saying that it's not just his party but that all the major parties of pakistan have come out with reservations about the election results that have come out before seeing that this is what the anticipated but they would we didn't think that it is going to be this worse at

least two hundred fifteen people have died in isolette attacks in the southern syrian province of so wedo that's according to the province's health department. is held by the government i still still has a presence in that region syrian state television says this is the aftermath of one of the attacks. rescuers in greece are searching to see and on land as they try to track down people who are still missing after this week's wildfires eighty people are now confirmed to have died with officials say expect the death toll to rise further. the u.s. secretary of state says he's personally warned russia of severe consequences over alleged interference of the u.s. election twenty sixteen in testimony to the seven senate foreign relations committee on pay as said president trump made it clear to vladimir putin that washington would not stand for any interference in its internal affairs so the head

those are the headlines people in paris next looking at the massive car wash corruption scandal and that's the american. twelve boys in their football coach go missing deep in a cave in northern timing with rising floodwaters rescuers are running out of time and want to an east begin side story a time and extraordinary case on al-jazeera. provoking one of the largest corruption investigations in south american history the cold war scandal has left its mark on countries from brazil her. business leaders multinational corporations and politicians have been caught up in on the creation ranging from bribery and money laundering to distorting the democratic process to the case some photos we sent before took a stockbroker rich to find out. the

biggest corruption scandal in brazil and latin america began by accident at this complex in the nation's capital. it was march seventeenth two thousand and fourteen and the federal police team had the location on the surveillance they believed it was the center of a money laundering operation run by a former convicted criminal i'll bet you're safe. to say. the. latest date on the annual leads a group of state prosecutors overseeing what is now known or the carwash

investigation discovered you may you intercept don't have to say. were made into a source but me that this is. a little bit of walking in one of the ways you know sort of at the rice. paper. with a vector of the national oil company turned out to be. the executive in charge of refining and supply if a school keep all about the cost of. the. i was arrested after trying to destroy evidence and held without bail. in. this. for. about the cost of this is me is the boy's video. of what. he. is both so is this your source for your big debate. over was just one of many bribes he

received contracts to construction companies the money launderer youssef also negotiated a plea bargain with the law enforcement dust force that had been set up in the city of. confessed to police that they bribing scheme was much larger than anything they imagined he knew. this is. in the us in. all. those begun a wide ranging investigation of corruption leading to the highest levels of brazilian financial and political power. still ongoing the car wash investigation has now spread to eleven countries more than one hundred fifty executives some politicians have already been arrested or convicted. the scandal is exposing an entrenched system in which multinational companies dispense personal and political party bribes to promote their interests. the fallout is ensnaring letting american

elites and shaking governments to their core. nuke was about as useful dog oops all just all money is fault or is cause you know with his legitimacy in office of transparency international and in goal that combats corruption around the world he has been working closely with prosecutors on the carwash case. if you see is here the system exists for us on the phone and. you're going to. the moon and systemize if you get on mir's most is there more than this is very inspiring how could you explain the fact that you have a job to place here impressive how was it possible what was the significance of the case it was probably a month ago but as you were systemic or make a new year's more. or no more deals what i mean to do was

but is norfolk i scholar was followed is well known as the movie result but he is on this to. do so. there. was. possibly. going to federal police inspector philip has the financial crimes unit of the force of. god to take to. tell you purchase. up a little bit of us was a bit as well as up while. all. well as this. but i. don't enjoy it. according to a secret agreement that existed for more than ten years the cartel would nominate one of its members to be awarded each bit robust contract for refineries oil rigs

and other multi-million dollar projects. with. the old rules resulted in steep overpayments for the work done. executives were bribed to go along and they coast built into the contract. in fact this scheme stretched. to building stadiums for the two thousand and fourteen world cup the two thousand and sixteen olympics and other major infrastructure projects throughout the country. traditionally.

yaz is made usual your will to see. in june two thousand and fifteen the task force move against the construction companies in the cartel twelve top level executives were arrested. but. the most powerful prince. c.e.o. of the company that bears his name. is the largest construction company lot in america its bing operation. members and was the most extensive in the region. this. blog is a. that he she is. if

you. will give me much. given. that he. was up at the. he was up at the. on march eighth two thousand and sixteen marcello the village was sentenced to nineteen years in prison for corruption money laundering and criminal association. we headed to some other a north east brazil to get the other british company's response to the scandal the business was founded here in one thousand nine hundred four by monticello the bridges grandfather and the city is still its headquarters. its role your current business interests or are very historic and mostly. iraq. is a longtime member of the other bridgeboro played actors despite the conviction of its

c.e.o. on the bridge to liberating more than twenty countries around the world and had revenues of about twenty six billion dollars last year but there was. more gain but is there british space was substance faith. g g. g absolute the suspect. of the company was too slow to warm up to deny everything to deny deny and deny this who. they seem to. live. on the union square miles let me just say to do going to deck a busy deck of the deck of the sea to walk in the wood as you keep either we see

the. deer they did you danger dodge it all being set of damage bhargava wal-mart was awash with. expedite the process but it was to invent a corruption but it made it war in a competitive way it was able to prove that it had also an amazing capability of organizing a very efficient corruption and pull the most of force gene but in the. air. it would go to guns are so. out. of me you know we see this all of you must say. sygate chew over the only evidence you. know get the sponge you do more for the preview according to authorities other brits had

a deviation that ran an intricate off the books accounting system and how it's own bank to bribe note only company executives but politicians that started to become clear when marcello there but it's begun talking in hopes of reducing his one thousand years sentence for marcello i know. he was. going to i was even talking to the public to see president's political coming. members of all the major political parties in brazil receive kickbacks in exchange for appointing petro brass executives dozens of congressmen senators and ministers have been implicated in this conflict other branches testimony of a body blow to the workers body of former president. and he successor. the model said he was impeached you know was two thousand and sixteen two weeks

later you will i was formally charged with corruption in connection with the car wash scandal well but i see the sleep was being held to account investigators were also making steady progress on the international front with the help of the u.s. justice department. is that by year's. new this was just so part of the scheme is that. all of them all up on the moment saying well that was a. whole performance of those. yes for nasa. in the summer of two thousand and sixteen the company pled guilty to american charges that it provided almost eight hundred million dollars in bribes for more than one hundred projects in twelve countries. all the brits agreed to pay a three point five billion dollar fine and disclose details of its corrupt activities in latin america and africa.