capital islamabad he is expected to make a statement to the press and we will be going live to that event when it happens here on al-jazeera. also must funerals are being held for some of the two hundred forty victims of coordinated eisler tykes in the syrian government old southern city of al so way to the attack on wednesday involved multiple suicide bombings and similar tiniest raids it was the worst violence in the area since the war began in twenty eleven those attacks come as pro-government forces intensify their campaign to clear myself last remaining pockets of territory in southwest syria the area is closed to the close to the border of the israeli occupied golan heights earlier israel's military says it struck a rocket launcher in syria after two missiles fall into the sea of galilee seventy deca as the details we've been witnessing the most intensive fighting that we've seen and we've been here for the last four or five days government forces backed by

russia on this last pocket of opposition held territory which is controlled by a group affiliated with ice and what has been significant today is that we've actually seen and you can probably see behind me outgoing rocket fire now we've seen syrian government forces for the first time on the ground through the lens of our camera moving in vehicles and launching a ground attack against the eisel affiliated group so basically it is and an intensive campaign they want to take this back it's the last pocket in southwest syria there's also been spillover across the fence because as you can see the fighting is so close and in the distance you can now see airstrikes it has been such an intensive campaign and the government with its russian ally very keen to take it back. well still ahead here on al-jazeera searching for the missing in greece where some of the wildfires but where did some of the wildfires start.

hello there but all the parts of china it's been pretty wet recently mostly due to a decaying storm that's gradually been working its way eastwards doesn't look too impressive now but it's certainly given us some very heavy rainfall totals many places reporting around sixty or eighty millimeters of wet weather from this system it's now edging its way eastwards towards bloody well stop and here looks fairly wet during the day on friday for the south you can see a great big blob of cloud here that's running its way towards the north and it looks like it's going to slam its way into japan there as we head through saturday this is a storm it is a tropical storm still intensifying as it makes its way towards japan and it is likely to bring us torrentially heavy downpours and some rather damaging winds as well even further towards the south the most of the wet weather here is in the

southern parts of our map we've had a decaying system here as well so plenty more in the way of what weather across this region as we head through friday and into saturday further north is generally looking dry but still pretty hot shanghai right up at thirty seven degrees for the towards the south the force in the philippines are still some very heavy downpours particularly in the western parts of luzon further if the showers there are a little bit more broken up now and generally if you head further south it does get dry a java looks fine. young men join as she bad in the battle first a man. many never return. try to understand.

from the north. as you see her. or jihad as a reminder of our top stories are still being counted in pakistan's general election amid allegations of vote rigging cricketer turned politician and run car pakistan party is leading the preliminary tally his opponents say they would accept the results. funerals are being held for some of the two hundred forty victims of the ice lead in the southern syrian city of. it comes as pro-government forces continue their campaign to clear i still held area that's close to israeli occupied

golan heights. flood water from monday's dam collapse in laos is affecting thousands of villagers in neighboring come the total killed in laos has risen to twenty six one hundred thirty missing rescue workers are trying to move many people to safety while aid workers and volunteers are distributing emergency supplies teams from thailand china and south korea are joining the rescue operation. let's take a close look at which areas in cambodia have been affected the collapse of the say no more than is located next to soko river which extends from laos appalls province into cambodia is stone throwing province the water level of cyclone has risen to alarming levels due to the floods forcing those living downstream to evacuate from the slow reports of the come boating capital phnom penh. home villages swept away farms rice paddy fields under water the torrents of water that cascaded into

areas around the collapsed sippy ensign are now i damn are slowly receding. rescue workers are racing to reach those villages cut off by the floods in areas excessive only by boat or helicopter many are stranded on the roofs of their homes waiting for help to arrive. the most damage is in sanaa and the situation code is that they are displaced people who don't have shelter and we continue to search for the gate and missing people at the moment many roads are badly damaged by flooding or landslides hampering aid and rescue work more than three thousand people have been moved to safety many staying in temporary shelters like this one survivor say they barely had time to escape the fast rising water. i feel safe here but i worry for my husband and son who are still in the village

but then that we've lost all their position as motorbikes furniture animals cows and pigs the floodwaters have now float downstream into neighboring cambodia five thousand people and trying province have moved to safety since tuesday the cambodian government has also issued a flood alert for crotty province which is south of still trying province the concern is floodwaters could continue to flow south and affect more areas we are in the middle of the monsoon season which brings heavy rains and tropical storms it's not known why the newly built dam collapsed the south korean company in charge of construction said a small part of the dam was washed away following unusually heavy rain florence louis al-jazeera phnom penh. police and china's suspected firework device exploded outside the u.s. embassy in beijing wounding only a twenty six year old male suspect the embassy has described the device as a bomb. the choice between corporation and confrontation that was the message of

the tinies president xi jinping at the opening of the bric summit in johannesburg day two of the summit is taking place with the talked expected to be dominated by trade brics is made up of the emerging economies of brazil russia india china and south africa china is urging the world's emerging powers to unite amid growing u.s. protectionism. with the threat of terror of all five leaders here at the brig summative said they are more united than ever before and they're going to increase trade between each other china is by far the biggest economy here and british and it has to basically keep its friends and allies happy one thing we see in the past few days is just pumping billions of dollars into some african countries namely south africa and. and a lot of people are now waiting to hear from the leaders how they plan to counter the u.s. plans when it comes to tariffs another concern about how the chinese do business in

africa in particular is the issue of how they don't tend to not interfere in domestic politics and some people are concerned that if a country for example is accused of human rights abuses the chinese won't speak out against it another concern in terms of trade the concern is that a big economy like china wallflower its products in countries like south africa which will kill local businesses so a lot of the african tradesmen businessmen also want guarantees from these leaders that they will also be able to co-exist with the chinese one thing is clear as the u.s. market gets shut out from the chinese they will probably bring more departed to countries like south africa and other countries in the brics bodies and other people are waiting to see how that will fit them on the ground when it comes to business with china. saudi arabia is temporarily stopping shipments of oil on a major trade route have to turn to tankers who find as a reporter to have slightly damaged one of them. strangers between yemen or the

arabian peninsula and djibouti and of on the horn of africa where the saudi and iraqi coalition war in yemen is trying to protect shipping routes in the gulf of aden and the red sea tankers carrying container ships from asia pass through the straits on their way to the suez canal and ports in europe if transit through an important channel line. even for a short time it could lead to. will supply delays and higher shipping costs and that could push up energy prices worldwide the alliance fronted by saudi arabia and the u.a.e. are have been fighting in yemen for three years against the who the rebels linked to iran and during that time the u.s. has issued several warnings to commercial ships about using the route there have been attacks on u.s. turkish and saudi over r.t. coalition vessels but in the most recent incident a pro who the media isn't mentioning an oil tanker inserted two separate reports describe the attack on a coalition warship off the western coast of yemen rodger shanahan is

a research fellow at the institute for international policy he believes the saudis will resume shipments to. the fact that it targeted. and oil changes on the station the other. incidents progress in the thirties years. lend to ship led by ship missiles have targeted military vessels and i think this is probably in order to calm the markets saudi authorities have decided to temporarily put a halt to oil oil tankers traveling through the belmondo but i think it will be a relatively short term proposition i don't think we're going to see a long term trend in a rise in oil prices because i don't think that. might make out a long term campaign of this type if there are any other coalition vessels who are talented in this way you'll see a pretty swift response from those countries because freedom of navigation

particularly net sensitive waterway is something that is really essential. to the maintenance of the economic lifelines and the coalition will take. take significant steps to ensure that that occurs and you may well see as well additional force protection from the maritime s. it in the short term to ensure that there is freedom of navigation for. those economically vital supply lines. now hundreds of families in the u.s. are still waiting to be reunited immigration authorities rushed to meet a court imposed deadline doldrums government has until the end of thursday to bring together all two thousand five hundred families it separated at the us mexico border at least one thousand and twelve children have been successfully reunited with their parents but it also says four hundred sixty three parents have already left the u.s.

it's not known if they were forcibly deported several hundred others are still under review and it's also not known how long families will be given to decide whether to seek asylum the government has proposed a four day waiting period but the american civil liberties union says a full week is necessary to do a castro has more from mccallan texas near the us mexico border. close to a thousand families separated by the u.s. government have yet to experience these happy moments of reunion and it's uncertain when or if they ever will hundreds of children whose parents were already ported remain in government custody their forced abandonment the casualty of a trump administration's rush to implement its hard line border policies that. i was afraid if they deported my father i would never see him again i would be left here alone sixteen year old franklin dia says he's lucky that didn't happen he and his father left us in may to seek asylum in the united states. we turned our selves

into immigration because we thought they would help us we never thought it could go so bad the two were immediately separated the father sent to face criminal charges the son delivered to a children's shelter. i didn't suffer from the food or anything but i suffered from not seeing my dad. i told him not to worry about it because if he did he would go crazy and i would go crazy after forty days of separation father and son were finally reunited behind the gates of this texas detention center a judge set july twenty sixth as the deadline for the u.s. government jury unite the thousands of children who were taken from their parents at the border citing the practice of separating families as legal charities are offering recently reunified families a warm meal and a night's rest for a child that would turn around and look at me and say today i'm not going to cry or

tonight among them at a cry because tonight i'm with. cried every single day since the whole month because mom was not with me with the knowledge that many children remain with their parents franklin says he and his father for. fortunate they boarded a bus that will take them deeper into the united states knowing that for now they have their freedom and each other. castro al-jazeera mccallan texas. people in greenland long relied on sled dogs to hunt and fish on the ice but this tradition is slowly fading as unstable when to seize force fishermen to use boats and start the clock reports from it today sat on greenland's west coast. opponent of ache in the remote northwest there's a wedding on it's an occasion for traditional innuit dress to herald a happy future while keeping

a cultural connection with the past important in these changing times. down in the harbor a fisherman is unloading his catch of halibut it's been a good day fishermen can earn huge sums here maybe eight thousand dollars a week in some amounts most of the cash goes to the national fishing conglomerate which is expanding its operation into remote communities and one of the reasons why the fishermen do so well is because winters are getting shorter and the summer season is expanding open water for quite a a much slower time and we can ship our. goats to denmark to export them a little longer than we usually but that expanding season and less ice means a traditional form of transport is not as necessary as it once was all along greenland's coastal towns and settlements there are sled dogs everywhere that part of innuit culture there in the blood but this relationship is under pressure here

in the tourist center of ilulissat dogs have always outnumbered the human population which stands at round about four and a half thousand but now it's the other way round there are only sixteen hundred dogs left and they're still declining. fisherman call peterson used to sledge out on to the ice in winter to fish ice conditions and now say variable though is not possible anymore she and. i used to keep dogs outside my house but i stopped using them five years ago i can now use my boat all year round. there all those bucking the trend saddened by the gradual demise of the mode of transport that goes back thousands of them with us and is determined to keep the tradition. to an if for our culture my family still has dogs because we want our children to experience what we and our ancestors experienced in the winter we sledge to the ice fjords to fish and hunt seals. change is all around in greenland

from how to deal with the d. tree is to the modern world the remote settlements to more fundamental issues of alcoholism and high suicide rates there's an upside to of course better education and standards of living and better opportunities but who can say how the latest generation will play out their lives in the years to come nick clarke al-jazeera green. to watching all just their arms the whole robin these are all top news stories votes are being counted in pakistan as a general election. supporters of the cricketer turned politician imran khan already celebrating his party is leading in the projected preliminary tally opponents of a sharif from the ruling out and its alleging blatant election rigging charge the electoral commission has rejected. the israeli military says it struck

a rocket launcher in syria after two missiles fell into the sea of galilee that's near and i still held area which process government forces are trying to clear but this patch borders the israeli occupied golan heights russian and syrian jets have intensified their air campaign on the ice that affiliated area over the last four days israel says it will act against any attempt to compromise its sovereignty meanwhile must funerals are being held for some of the victims of coordinated eisler tanks in the government held city of all the way to at least two hundred forty people died in the attacks on wednesday that involved multiple suicide bombings and saltiness raids harasses military wing says it's on a high alert out israel targeted positions on the gaza strip killing three palestinians and al qassam brigades commander said israel will we quote pay a bloody price for the strikes and israeli army spokesman said it was spotted after troops were shot near the border with gaza. at least twenty six people have been

killed and one hundred thirty one are missing after a dam in law collapsed on monday the district governor says around three thousand people are still stranded in the floods thousands more have been forced from their homes. police in china say a suspected firework device exploded outside the u.s. embassy in beijing wounding a twenty six year old male suspect the embassy described the device as a bomb. and china's president has told leaders at the opening of the brics summit that they face a choice between corporation and confrontation day two of the talks in johannesburg are taking place with discussions expected to be dominated by trade brics is made up of the emerging economies of brazil russia india china and south africa. saudi arabia says it will temporarily stop oil shipments through the month of straight after attacks on two tankers carrying crude oil who say their time day warship belonging to the saudi a morality coalition not a commercial ship those were the headlines more news in half an hour next its inside story stay with us.

german or turkish footballer mesut ozil his resignation from the german national team has triggered a debate on racism and integration so how will germany's and europe's multicultural society deal with the issue this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm peter dobby racism and disrespect those were

the reasons mesut ozil gave for quitting the german national team after being blamed for germany's shock defeat in the first round of this year's world cup he created a media storm after having his picture taken with. kish president wretch up to the one in may critics began to question his loyalty and they accused him of loving turkey more than germany all was born in germany to a turkish family the german football association has rejected a claim of racism they did however concede they could have done more to protect him will be discussing those issues with our panel in a moment but first dominic cain sets up today's discussion from berlin. his international career is over now club duty's with arsenal have taken mesut ozil to the far east but in his absence the fallout from his retirement is reverberating around germany the newspapers have seized on his statement in which he pointed the finger at the german football association specifically and its president hein hardaker linda accusing him of having

a racially discriminative background earth still has been in the spotlight for his off the field actions since this moment posing with the turkish president both alone and with other german players who have turkish roots red chip type area one is a divisive figure in germany as are the policies of his government but in the turkish community in berlin even among those who oppose aerotow on many support earth will . begin fading racism begins with showing people where the limits are we've had enough someone needs to say that to the german football federation that all players with nine german backgrounds are welcome and we will make sure that you feel well in germany if you have a second or third home that's ok but you're here and you're a part of our society some in the football world here remember what happened after france won the world cup in one thousand nine hundred eight how that multicultural team acted as

a catalyst for then german hierarchy to change its thinking first of all the tried more integration they've tried to build of more schools and as you see it worked and whether you're twenty one in four thousand and nine and whether with the team in two thousand and fourteen in brazil. you know that if there are success nobody discusses where they come from. and yet after this summer's french victory in russia some did highlight the racial background of that team with one comedian describing the victory as africa winning the world cup something french officials angrily dismissed saying there is no hyphen in people's nationality they are french and only french. here in berlin a message does have one very powerful ally angle americal says she values him as a great footballer who did a lot for the national team and in his career he wore the national jersey ninety two times scoring twenty three goals and helping his team to win the world cup but

now he says the levels of racism and disrespect he's received mean he will never wear this again dominic kane al-jazeera berlin. ok let's bring in our guest joining us today here on inside story from ankara yousif cannily a turkish journalist and formerly the editor of the how to get daily news out of berlin we'll be talking to football commentator and radio host and in brussels julian to us french sports journalist and writer welcome to you all gentlemen use of candy and korea first is he german or is he turkish of course he's a turkish gentleman like me i'm a turkish cypriot no one can deny my cypriot north of my turkishness and miss it is ill is german all turkish origin and is proud of being turk and being a gentleman and this is what he has been saying all along many have therefore thinking that his idea or ignoring his turkish big grant or deny his

german identity would of course be a racist up roasted issue and that's why he was really serious with the treatment he received the very he will start since truly was a gentleman then he was a fool he was a turk the so-called unacceptable eric glasser in berlin can he really be both. well officially the german citizen years played for the german national team and the. twenty one national team and his roots of course his parents and all his ancestors they are turkish and for sure he was raised in girls and kiran where many people from turkey are staying and living and i guess there when he was a young guy he was talking more turkish than a german language julian doing in brussels player of the year five times how do you

go from being so incredibly naturally successful on the pitch to saying i've had enough i can't do this well in the end i think the political side of this affair has made in say he can't do it anymore because you know a footballer is also a human being and as it is ill as a man of two cultures. can't understand why he's been such criticized by reprinting his roots and india and he counts like jew is job any more in proper conditions you served in ankara what does this say about football in germany or perhaps about people who would describe themselves as being football fans in germany. course the kirksville problem seeing ozil in the german

national league edition of t.m. or his taxes his reports that arsenal are would hire hit me ivan has made big news in turkey now it is as though this force is force and soccer is very important in turkey as well as it is in any other part of the cut world. you know it is home power. still it was named after him and now they are changing the photograph. previously it was in the. german national team suited now the one that is shaking hands with edwin. it's of course important is a public figure. but if you love me i've been there footballer posing with a political figure might not be the best thing to do but the criticizing him for debt or accusing of him being more torque or war whatever i can understand.

discriminating him because of that is equally but eric last a football is posed with politicians all the time we saw the french president emmanuel macro wrapping himself up in the flag when he was his team did very very very well at the world cup this comes down to at some level surely the nature of mr de one because that's why the racist comments were made because it was a reaction to mr tough guy image. i mean everybody knew when and who is ill took this picture together that the couple weeks after that in turkey they had elections everyone knew it and i'm quite sure that ms would still new that also . i'd will not blame him for that because his roots are turkish no doubt about it but i will blame his advisors they took advantage of him for many years now

they achieved his bank account and their own of course but there's advise they gave him to pose with ever gone for this big was wrong. in brussels are they a bigger social issues in play here dominic kane are berlin correspondent there was talking about. the argument that the reason between france and a cable news network anchor who was talking about the world cup having been won by quotes africa and then you get into that whole territory of ownership who owns it where do people come from etc and then that plays into the multicultural debate well the situation is kind of complicated in france because issue take the victory at the walk of twenty years ago the players where. taken as examples of multicultural is he and they were given a role that isn't their role their role is actually to play football on the pitch

and twenty years later the players just wanted to represent france they all so then says our french players for example if you take the defender belgium and the he answer to a tweet who. try to show all the origins of the french players by responding with twenty three french flags showing that all the players see themselves as french and they and so it's not really understandable in france that a brode some people no matter there are people from the streets of anchormen talk about the the victory of the african scene also because in france this debate is history clee. extreme right wing debates when you speak about the african regions of some players. you enter the extreme right wing game and that's this is something

we don't want we don't want to do anymore because it would actually just ruin the joy of winning the world cup or a glance or what your reading of the german if a the dia be handled this because they at one point said we need an explanation they already had an explanation but it didn't seem to get any traction with the. well the dia of beers made the mistake just before the world cup did start. after the pictures were published with the other go on. do not forget the other guy. there was a press meeting in preparation of the world cup and they asked the grand to talk to the press people of germany and he did it and never the less than that in the first match after that the people in the stadium there were shouting on going no on and there there didn't like his appearance now for germany who is ill didn't talk to the press he didn't talk at all until last sunday and that was

a big mistake the be should have forced him to give at least the small statement why he has done this picture at this point of the year was missed they are the ground so they missed it and now they belong to the group of the losers ok let's pause for a second and take a closer look at how prevalent racism is in football in june after sweden's defeat at the world cup swedish player jimmy dumas was criticized for his performance and racially abused on social media earlier this year belgian mishi but she we who was playing for the german club are us your daughter on during a europa league game and it's only was subjected to racist monkey chants from atalanta fans in january jefferson of the colombian central med.