returning home to north korea hands over the remains of u.s. soldiers killed during the korean war. and of them. live from doha also coming up the u.s. reunites more than fourteen hundred immigrant children with their parents but seven hundred remain separated from their mothers and fathers. reforms for pakistan as he claims an election victory official results are expected later on friday. and yemen's ruthie's say a drone strike has hit abu dhabi's port. it didn't happen.

north korea has returned the remains of some american soldiers killed during the korean war. had promised to return the bodies during his meeting with donald trump in june and the eight thousand u.s. soldiers are listed as missing from the korean war and the remains of five thousand three hundred believed to still be in north korea friday marks the sixty fifth anniversary of the armistice of the white house is praising kim jong un for delivering on promises made at last month's singapore summit saying today the chairman is fulfilling part of the commitments he made to the president to return all four american service members were encouraged by north korea's actions and the momentum for positive change in the two and a half million people died in the war between the two koreas in the one nine hundred fifty s. among the dead with thirty three thousand americans fighting on the south korean side and eight thousand u.s. troops are still officially classified as missing. and it's believed the remains of

more than five thousand of them in north korea wrote kelly is a professor of political science and the primacy at busan national university and joins us via skype from tucson good to have you with us so a very somber ceremony there at the south korean base bringing the remains home but what happens now how of these remains to be identified they will actually go off to hawaii where the defense department has what i believe is called the m.i.a. accounting agency believes the formal title where there will be forensic tests done in order to determine if these are in fact human remains and to whom they belong this has been a problem the past the north koreans have returned remains in the past and they were mixed with other people unidentified people and even animal bones this is also a problem when north korea returned stuff to japan human remains to japan this was also controversial so this is just starting but how difficult is it to find these remains i mean there's reports of them being found in unmarked graves and farmers

fearing that i mean it's difficult to actually identify them even in humans sometimes yeah that's right i mean that's i mean the war of course is sixty five years ago it was a long time ago rings of things have in this in the interim disintegrated the war it's very violent. so and the north north korea is also pretty technologically behind on a lot of things right is one of the reasons why it's war mark well they have nuclear weapons because on so many other things they're so far behind and you can imagine on something like this on forensics right on the north in remains from sixty five years ago often in mass graves right the north koreans just pushed them into a walk into a hole somewhere to be to be honest they're rather unfortunately and then they're also going to sort of dignam up and identify them and that would be a huge technological hurdle for for anybody and for a state as backward or as north korea it's even more so i believe that north korea has the remains of around two hundred soldiers in its possession i mean it's clearly using them as bargaining chips with the u.s. right what is it going to want in return. yeah well the north koreans have a long list of things that they would want you know this isn't

a big strategic concession or major political concession right this is more sort of a humanitarian one so i imagine the americans wouldn't give up so much but i imagine that the north koreans are asking for some mild sanctions will be somewhere or for some money you know the north koreans often ask for money fuel rice things like that i mean north korea's you know dreadfully poor course and economically rather backward and desperately needs extra imports particularly food and fuel and so my guess is that or perhaps just money that's just gone midnight in the us in washington we've had trump tweeting the remains of leaving soon north korea and heading to the u.s. he's calling it a great moment and he's saying thank you kim jong un how much has he got to gain from this you know i think one of the reasons why the m.i.a. returns was inserted in the singapore declaration from a month ago is because so many of the things the north koreans probably aren't going to move on. if you read the declaration the north koreans say complete denuclearization but there's no timeline and so i think donald trump needed something that was more immediately deliverable and this is something that's not

particularly costly for north korea to give up it's difficult for the north koreans to do for technological reasons right but it doesn't actually strategically are politically costly for north korea to give up their remains in the same way that it's not costly for them to do family reunions you know they like this stuff it symbolizes that they want to work with the outside world but without actually making any really significant costs on things that are significantly more important like nuclear weapons that syria is going to ask you how your rating progress on that front of course this is the easiest of the right the list of the moms to achieve so what about the rest of us. yeah that's right so i mean the hope is that this is sort of greasing the wheels right that all these things the last seven months the olympics and the intercom and musical troops and all that sort of stuff all this is kind of greasing the wheels and encouraging comments and getting the two sides accustomed to making concessions back and forth and that ultimately that will take us to what really counts right what what you know the president and everybody else is really concerned about which is the nuclear and the missile program and there are other things you want from north korea to human rights

improvements would be something fantastic if we could trade for that but ultimately we need to get to the to the nuclear program and there you've seen a little bit of movement on a few sites but you know nothing that's really irreversible most of it's low hanging fruit ok well it had a good speech thanks for joining us there from two thousand. the u.s. government says more than eighteen hundred migrants children have been released from immigration detention centers and more than fourteen hundred of them have been reunited with their parents the government also says around seven hundred children is still separated as they're not eligible for you know reunification. from mccullum in texas. the u.s. government has indicated it will not meet the court imposed deadline to return all children that had been separated from their parents at the border some seven hundred children have been detained in eligible for reunification and according to government attorneys they fall into groups where parents have red flags in their

criminal history or were discharged into the interior of the country and then lost track of by the government or the most concerning and predominant group more than four hundred cases of parents being deported from the country while leaving their child behind the government claims that no one has been deported without the opportunity to ask to bring their child with them but that assertion is being fiercely contested by immigration attorneys who cite client after client that claim they were removed from the country under protest knowing they were being forced to leave their children behind going forward there will be a status hearing on friday where the government will work with the american civil liberties union to come up with a plan of how to reach these four hundred some parents who have been deported asked them if they want their children back and develop a new plan and how to reunify them.

back on a great politician and wrong kaunas declared victory in the general elections promising to build a new pakistan still being counted in the official results won't be confirmed until friday but rival parties are already questioning the outcome of some of it has more from the whole. supporters of pakistan tehreek e insaf party celebrated their victory even before results were announced initial vote tallies gave him a decisive leaves then he went on kaneohe i'm getting a bore hole which iran khan has promised a lot for the people the huge number of votes the people gave him it's because he can do what others tell you to do he should deliver his promises and he should do a lot for the masses he should deliver now otherwise he situation where the worse out of now or sorry diary. his supporters voted for change and after twenty two years in politics it finally worked for their leader. i'm

thankful to god for the twenty two year struggle today god has given me the opportunity that i have dreamt of a dream for pakistan accountability will start with me then my ministers and then we will work our way down. but the vote count has been controversial pakistan muslim league which won a majority in twenty thirteen says their mandate was stolen from them there's also been criticism from below been put to repeat religious correlation and others but the election commission denies there was any foul play and i mean there's a guy here the complaints that we received are procedural in nature and there's no complaints of misconduct in the elections so we are satisfied that the execution of the election is this free and. imran khan's one pledges of change and people in pakistan even those who did not vote for him want him to deliver by improving living conditions healing the economy and fighting corruption are you so you can

take him out of reach of a government comes it should do good for us we want water gas and electricity. obviously there are other problems as well they should be problems. in punjab province plans to form a coalition government but he has promised to fight tooth and nail to save their provincial influence the challenge for the cricketer turned politician is to create an inclusive government and then keep it running for five years so far all major political parties apart from the p.d.i. have reservations about the results they've called for an all parties conference in the federal capital islamabad it is going to be a numbers game to form a government and it does not have those numbers alone the big question is who will he form an alliance with. humans hear the rubble of say they've attacked abu dhabi at ports with a drone you may official has tonight that claim. that being an incident involving a supply vehicle said it had not affected flights or operations it's not clear if

the tweet was referring to the same incident on wednesday that he said that attacks a saudi arabian naval vessel that the saudis say that actually hit an oil time cap of an austrian gives the u.a.e. and saudi arabia have been leading a minute she coalition which is supporting yemen's government in its war against the hafeez in the past few months rebels have launched a number of missiles into saudi arabia and its capsule van't david the right says associate professor at the national defense university and he says that he thinks may not be responsible for a drone attack on the ports i think that the these do tend to over exaggerate their reach and their prowess they're aiming for a strategic effect to cause on these in the u.a.e. and the saudi heartland which have been mostly not affected by the war in yemen they want to bring that war home but the second possibility is that they have been able to have some sort of minor impact and if that is in fact the case i wouldn't

be surprised to hear the way i do it if i was a hoot the i'd have a drone attack i'd wait for the denial that i'd show footage but we just don't have enough to know right now the who these have surprised everybody with their ballistic missile capacity i believe that they are being resupplied by iran and the fact that they have been able to reach out towards riyadh so far they haven't been able to hit any targets in riyadh but that is disturbing for the saudis. the drones have been an ever present feature of the battlefield they've been providing reconnaissance and providing attacks for the who these and that's just the way of warfare now every modern battlefield now sees drones with the russians have had drone attacks in syria this is just the way it's going to be going forward for everybody. still ahead hell on al-jazeera the u.s. uses a conference promoting religious freedom to threaten turkey. and the engineer in charge of the controversial down in ethiopia has found dad my son say he was not.

from long flowing the island winds to an enchanting desert breeze. welcome back as we look at weather conditions across the levant and western parts of asia it is a largely fine picture in a hot picture to tehran there at forty one baghdad little bit cooler the house being forty three degrees and that may in part be due to a similar wind picking up so fairly breezy conditions obviously issues with dusty stony across iraq down through kuwait he says side of the mediterranean generally looking fine for the brits breeze coming in one or two showers for the caucasus with their tennis die away as we head into the weekend so moving down into the arabian peninsula temperatures across the western side of jerry not been that high kind of a little bit now with forty four in both mecca and medina as we head into the

weekend forty three and forty two there now over in the other side of the peninsula we've got that breach is keeping the humidity relatively low just forty two degrees as a high in doha and then as we head on into southern portions of africa it looks can be quite wet in cape town in the course of friday so head through into saturday we should find that clearing away brighter conditions begin to fall on behind and the the course about this region it's the sunny season fine conditions central africa plenty of heavy showers extending quite a long way north will see a few turning up in bamako mali highs here of twenty nine degrees. the with a sponsored boycott on race. where were you when this idea to. get there on line go to the chief called. over to an inequality in our society today or if you join us on sat criminal justice system is dysfunctional right now this is

a dialogue what does it feel like to go back for the first time everyone has a voice and allow refugees to be the speakers for a change join the conversation on our. and i again without reminder of our top stories north korea has returned the remains of some american soldiers killed during the korean war a u.s. military plane flew to north korea friday morning and returned to south korea carrying the remains just a short time ago kim jong un had promised to return the bodies during his meetings with donald trump in june. u.s. government says more than one thousand one hundred migrant children have been

released from immigration detention centers and more than fourteen hundred of them have been reunited with their parents in us one comes just hours ahead of a court order. and former cricketer and wrong khan has declared victory in pakistan's elections around half of the votes have been counted although the official results is not likely to be confirmed until friday but is leading rival has rejected the outcome citing allegations of vote rigging. more than eighty people have died and greece after wildfires devastated beach resorts near athens some people who are still searching for missing family members are blamed for not responding sooner to the five. reports on the search for survivors and. recovery teams are going from house to house is in search of missing people. no official figures been released to the local authorities say at least one hundred unaccounted for. all along greece's charred coastline entire

neighborhoods are gone the village of marty was popular with retirees and young families escaping the capital. muster for. pets dogs cats for dark chickens. out of it was put up in the yard and you could not escape. fire there was the very real possibility of finding people that may have died go to russia but i personally i believe that the very most of a missing guard in the. police and search and rescue teams event to this property the woman who lived here is listed as missing she is also known to have had the ability problems to this is incredibly arduous task for these teams the house is empty no trace of the woman or two other people who lived here the search must continue. there were two people died beric upper house is lived in the town of

marty his whole life when the fire swept through here he sealed himself inside his house surrounded homes were destroyed his is unscathed several of his neighbors were killed it was like. see or fire a wave or fire approach and actually show it was burning everything. on the second floor or third floor. on buildings my house floor show just passed over the head with over my house i felt like i sat around it and protected from the buildings. many of the settlements along this coast sprang up in the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's houses were built without official permission fire safety was scarcely considered when people try to flee the fine they found escape routes to the sea blocked by locked gates only accessible down narrow channels. this is where many of the fires started high in the hills above the seaside resorts that fringe the

aegean sea a few kilometers away from here several days after the inferno ripped through this area the ground still smolders in places it's still hot underfoot the fear is now that when rain does come it will lead to mudslides. storm clouds gather after. the promise of a break in the weather to extinguish any remaining fires and cool the scorched. and in suisun the air force has resorted to dropping bombs on wildfires at a military shooting range to try to stop the flames from spreading their fire fighters on the ground have had to keep a safe distance because of worries over unexploded ammunition jets drop the bombs to try to destroy devices which haven't detonated and also to starve the fires of oxygen. although seven hundred migrants have stormed a border fence in the spanish enclave of say at least one hundred thirty people

were injured in the by evolved along the fence that separates the spanish city from morocco the hundreds of migrants that made it to spain were taken to a short term immigrant center. the head of special forces of iran's revolutionary guard has warned donald trump not to start a war major general kassam salami says that if the u.s. does begin a conflict iran will destroy all it possesses he's joining many of us have reacted to a tweet by don't trump that warned that iran would suffer die consequences if it continued to threaten the u.s. three months ago the u.s. withdrew from the iranian nuclear deal the german ministration has set off a new diplomatic row with turkey over a u.s. citizen who's been in jail since two thousand and sixteen and as our state department correspondent was in jordan reports the threat of sanctions against iran correct came during a conference to promote religious freedom. u.s. vice president mike pouncey talked about persecution during the first ever state

department conference on protecting religious freedom around the world hence highlighted the case of u.s. born minister andrew bronson jailed nearly two years ago in turkey on charges he was involved in the attempted coup against president recip tayyip erdogan but no one expected pence to say this if turkey does not take immediate action to free this innocent man of faith and send him home to america. the united states will impose significant sanctions on turkey until pastor andrew bronson is free to nap after a tweet from president donald trump confirming the threat he is suffering greatly this innocent man of faith should be released immediately the turkish foreign minister immediately fired back also on twitter no one dictates to turkey we will never tolerate threats from anybody rule of law is for everyone no exception no i

said i do this on you not to the fight over bronson's legal freedom has reignited foot seemed to be a bit of reconciliation between the u.s. and turkey trump recently congratulated aired a one on winning reelection raising hopes the two could result disputes over turkey's plans to buy russian made missile defense systems and over u.s. support for courage fighters battling eisel in syria the sanctions threat against turkey has overshadowed what was supposed to be one of the trumpet ministrations foreign policy initiatives protecting human rights or more specifically protecting religious freedom the conference discussed how people's religious beliefs make them targets for everything from harassment to death and what the international community can do to protect them indeed the vice president's speech highlighted the abuse suffered by the real hinge of me and maher the use edis of iraq and syria to

bouton buddhists at the hands of beijing and jews living in europe and the united states but two new programs that pends announced may do more to help small christian communities around the world than these other people's human rights groups say that's worrisome what was most troubling for me with the absence of any notion that people have the right not to practice the faith and the national that people have the right not to have someone else's faith and post upon them. but this new call flick with turkey may end up overshadowing the u.s. efforts to protect people's right to worship as well as the oversight to ensure the u.s. doesn't impose its beliefs on other countries rosalynn jordan al-jazeera the state department oh yes president donald trump is celebrating his meeting with the president of the european union commission which attempted to calm down the current trade war between them but another european leader might be throwing a spanner in the works by rejecting proposals to create

a new bilateral trade deal. fresh off a trade deal with the european commission u.s. president donald trump took to a steel plant warehouse in the state of illinois speaking to an invitation only crowd the president said he was celebrating a great victory rally with nationalistic undertows we will not let anybody bully our wonderful american farmers. our fortunes as a nation rise and fall together and that is why we are going to stick together and win for our farmers and our factory workers are still workers here we are all across this nation. but if trump ever wanted to see the divisions his trade policies are causing he didn't have to look too far. billions of dollars in tariffs on goods from china have helped the local steel industry in illinois that's why trump chose to speak here. but his trade policies have hurt the local soybean

farmers who ship more of their product to china than any other state china implemented retaliatory tariffs on us soil. that's why earlier in the day trump visited farmers in the state of iowa he boasted that a supposed trade breakthrough brokered wednesday in washington with european commission cheap john klobuchar would have avoided a trade war with europe and also help american farmers proclaim deal is light on details and promised just more talks in the future. could be and there are already signs that not everyone in europe is on board by example and want them that would be good for example in terms of access to the american public markets which are today primarily clewiston we need clear gestures from the united states we need signals of the escalations on the steel and i'll minium where illegal taxes have been applied by the united states and in my opinion and intervention in the subject

matters before taking any further steps i think earlier this year trump famously said that trade wars were good and easy to win but not everybody agrees and now the president is finding out that perhaps they're more difficult than he originally imagined gabriels andro how does it washington. the man in charge of a controversial project in ethiopia to don the waters of the blue nile river has been shelled shot dead in the capital addis ababa a multi-billion dollar project has faced opposition and a hundred ports some protesters believe he was murdered but welcomed the grandee to abandon a sense of idle and it's a project simone your book was the mastermind behind ethiopia's ambitious hydropower plan still under construction and with a four point eight billion dollar price tag the grander nice on stem is at the heart of ethiopia's bid to become africa's biggest exporter of power and shore up

its economic future it's a source of pride for many in ethiopia but outside the country it's controversial because his sudden death drew crowds and raised suspicions some protesters believe he's been mooted. we will not be silent over the death of a person that we hold in such high regard and we feel great sorrow for his loss. but our mizen and we are deeply saddened by his death and we call on the police to investigate and present their results quickly. but carlo was founded behind the wheel of his car on thursday morning in a busy area in the heart of the theo paean capital at this up of the police say he had a bullet wound behind his rice year. found a gun by his right hand inside his car base information that he was seen around his office at seven thirty this morning but this is an investigation. but how was

a popular figure an engineer and the project manager for the huff completely dame being built on the blue nile river it's expected to more than double the electricity that ethiopia currently generates making it the powerhouse for the rest of africa but egypt opposes the dame over fears it will affect the flow of the river nile its main source of water. in may sudan egypt ending theo peer agreed to set up a scientific committee to study the dane's impact and at a meeting in june the leaders of ethiopia and egypt pledged to work to give it to see the differences peacefully. because it is the second high profile figure connected to the dam project to have been found shot deed in just over two months and may take a shot and killed deep camera the head of deng go to cement ethiopia's prime minister joined many of those on social media to express his shock at because his

death. hundreds of protesters have been marching to vent their anger and the suspicions police is still investigating but many are already drawing their own conclusions medium honed images here. ugandan president yoweri museveni looks like you'll be able to run for a sixth term thanks to a court ruling comes as currently need to be under the age of seventy five to run with seventy or seventy three but would have been blocked from entering the next election due to be held in twenty twenty one now a new bill has been signed scrapping the age limit and as the opposition accusing the seventy of a power grab. and facebook has seen around one hundred nineteen billion dollars wiped off its value the largest one day loss by any company in u.s. stock market history social media giant shares dropped twenty percent of thursday's opening after the warned of lower than expected growth and revised profit margins

the company had cautioned investors to expect a big jump in cost because of efforts to address concerns about poor handling of users privacy and to better monitor what's posted online. this is al-jazeera these are our top stories this hour north korea has returned the remains of some american soldiers killed during the korean war u.s. military plane flew to north korea friday morning and returned to south korea kim jong un had promised to return the bodies during his meeting with donald trump in june and eight thousand u.s. soldiers are listed as missing from the korean war and the remains of five thousand three hundred are believed to still be in the north korea friday marks the sixty fifth anniversary of the armistice the us government says more than eighteen hundred migrant children have been released from immigration detention centers and more than fourteen hundred of them have been reunited with their parents in osman

comes just hours ahead of a court ordered deadline former cricketer imran khan has declared victory in pakistan's elections around half of the votes have been counted although the official results is not likely to be confirmed until later on friday but his leading rival. rejected the outcome following allegations that the vote was rigged . the rebels say they've attacked abu dhabi airport with a drone but is denying that claim the airport tweeted earlier that there had been an incident but said it had not affected flights no operations it's not clear if the tweet was referring to the same incident. the heads of special forces of iran's revolutionary guard has warned donald trump not to start a war major general says if the u.s. does begin a conflict iran will destroy all it possesses he's joining many iranian leaders who are reacting to a tweet by donald trump that warned iran would suffer dire consequences if it

continued to threaten the u.s. and the trump administration has set off a new diplomatic route with turkey over a u.s. pastor who has been in jail since two thousand and sixteen vice president mike pence threatened sanctions against ankara if andrew brunson is not released. the president has rejected any new trade deal between the e.u. and the united states. europe and france never wanted to trade war the u.s. needs to make just about reducing the trade. now with all the headlines we're back with more news on al-jazeera to the street. for the first time since robert mugabe was forced from power by the army the people of zimbabwe will see the next president but a struggling economy and frustration amongst many young voters means the result. is still hard to predict follow this election and i'll say.

ok and join the streaming live on out is here and on today we discussed a new proposal to house migrants and refugees attempting to cross the mediterranean sea into your family could be and then later we'll welcome back past guests and one eritrean to explore what renewed relations between the countries means for their people but first have a look at this story from out is there is a summer he reports from lahore with some of the latest news about pakistan's general election millions came out. of those convicted of corruption and serving jail time. for. me forget the criticism are hardest with. concerns about people manipulation in these elections and international monitors say not enough of.