returning home north korea. killed during the korean war. also coming up. more than four hundred children parents seven hundred. victory official results are expected later on friday. and. port.

returned the remains of american soldiers killed during the korean war and u.s. military plane flew to north korea on friday morning and returned to south korea carrying the remains a short time ago. to return the remains during his meeting with donald trump in june eight thousand. six decades after the fighting stops on the korean peninsula. has more from washington d.c. . the handover of these remains of these u.s. service members was one of the clear actions that was in the singapore communique from june when u.s. president donald trump met the north korean leader kim jong un over there in singapore and this was all part of it the handover of these remains it's unclear why it took so long after the sing this summit for this to happen but we do know that secretary of state my palm pale was over in north korea recently and it's

probably safe to assume that this was very high up on his list of pressuring the north korea's koreans to make this happen now over the years there's been a handover of repatriation of some other american soldiers that were lost during that war but it's believed that there are still five thousand three hundred u.s. service members that are unaccounted for from the war and it's believed that the north koreans pav about one hundred to one hundred fifty or so remains still ready to hand over to the americans at some point now what happens next these remains have been flown to the air base in south korea where highly trained medical officials are going to be sifting through these remains and trying to gain some identification with d.n.a. and other means and then there will be a formal and likely some for

a ceremony that will be next week on hearing these fallen soldiers from this war so long ago. robert kelly is a professor of political science and diplomacy at this on national university he says it's a small gesture from north korea but one which appears as a success for donald trump. one of the reasons why the m.i.a. returns was inserted in the singapore declaration from a month ago is because so many other things the north koreans probably aren't going to move on. and 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 that's right but it doesn't actually strategically are politically costly for north korea to give up their remains in the same way that is not costly for them to do family reunions you know they like this stuff that symbolize 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 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 the north koreans are asking for some mild sanctions relief 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 really needs extra inputs particularly food and fuel and so my guess is that or perhaps just money. now the u.s. government has just two hours to reunify a war that nearly three thousand immigrant children that forcibly separated from their parents the border a judge ordered the reunifications off to declaring the hardline emigre immigration measure illegal but government attorneys have indicated putting all the families back together again is currently impossible. alone and left behind despite thursday's court order deadline for the trumpet ministration to return all of the children who've been taken from their parents at

the border about seven hundred remain in government custody most of them have parents who've been deported and i should. say that they did children five year old and many younger children from their friends with no plan whatsoever to reunite them never read what the government has labeled these children in eligible for reno think they include children whose parents have been deported or who according to the government have criminal backgrounds that make them ineligible for reunification not knowing when they get to go or if they get to go is well written they will have developmental delays they will have long term chronic care problems they will have a question in their developmental status that morning everybody thank you for being here this morning the government says every deported parent had a willingly left their child behind but immigration attorneys insist that's false citing client after client who say they were forced to abandon their child that's a question that all parents could best be left when am i going to see my child

again some fourteen hundred kids have already been returned to their parents there are emotional reunions taking place in detention centers airports and bus stations across the country. i was it was hard because i wasn't together with my father. thursday's court ordered deadline for the government to reunite all the children and parents separated at the border was a hard one victor. for civil rights activists but this display of shoes left behind by migrants is a reminder of the many families who even now remain separated indefinitely i want to call to remember that this is not the end of the fight. now comes the challenge of tracking down the deported parents and giving them back their kids castro al-jazeera mccallan texas.

politician emraan khan has declared victory in the general elections promising to build a new pakistan five percent of the vote has been counted has won the most seats but he will need to form a coalition government. that has more from the whole. supporters of pakistan tehreek e insaf he celebrated their victory even before dissolves was announced initial vote tallies gave him a decisive leaves. which he has promised a lot for the people the huge number of votes the people gave him is because he can do what others think. he should the labor his promises are he should do a lot for the masses he should deliver now otherwise he situation where the worse. his supporters voted for change and after twenty two years in politics it's fine 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 like it's on the scene the beach won a majority and when he says their mandate was stolen from them there's also been criticism from those be. religious correlation and others but the election commission denies there was any foul play and. the complaints that we received procedural in nature and there's no complaints of misconduct in the elections so we are satisfied that the execution of the elections this free. iran hons 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. so you can take your money. 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 has promised to fight tooth and nail to see if they are 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 the 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 imran khan does not have those numbers alone the big question is who will he form an alliance with. yemen's here if the rebels say they've attacked abu dhabi airport with a drone. has denied their claim the airport earlier that there'd been an incident

involving a supply that said it had not affected flights or operations it's not clear if the tweet was referring to the same incident on wednesday they said they had attacked a saudi arabian naval vessel the saudis say that actually hit an oil tanker. well the last three years the u.a.e. and saudi arabia have been using a military coalition which is supporting yemen's government and its war against the eighty's and the past few months rebels have launched a number of missiles into saudi arabia and its capital riyadh david directs his associate professor at the national defense university he says they have these may not have been responsible for a drone attack on the ports i think that the who these two tend to over exaggerate their reach and their prowess their aiming for 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 here on al-jazeera the u.s. uses a conference promoting religious freedom to threaten turkey. and on wall street thursday

but lost more money than any company has ever lost in a single day we'll tell you why. welcome back as we look at weather conditions across the levant and western parts of asia it is a largely fine picture and a whole picture to tehran there at forty one baghdad little bit cooler that has been forty three degrees and that may in part b. two to a similar wind picking up so fairly breezy conditions obviously issues with the dusty stony across iraq down through kuwait eastern side of the mediterranean generally looking fine for the burst breeze coming in one or two showers for the caucuses where they're telling us die away as we head into the weekend so moving down into the arabian peninsula temperatures across the western side of jerry not being 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 and head through into saturday we should find that clearing away brighter conditions begin to fall on behind and it across about this region it's a sunny season fine conditions central africa plenty of heavy showers extending quite a long way north only see a few turning up in bamako mali highs here of twenty nine degrees. 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 world expose the impact of climate change and a catastrophic human era. on senegal sinking villages. north korea has returned the remains of some american soldiers killed during the korean war. morning and returned to south korea carrying their remains a short time ago. promised to return them during his meeting with donald trump and . his government says more than one thousand nine hundred children have been

released from immigration detention centers and more than fourteen hundred of them have been reunited with their parents announcement comes just hours ahead of a court ordered deadline. pakistan's elections around half of the votes have been counted. to be confirmed until friday but. the outcome allegations of vote. on a radical reform of argentina's defense trash the president has vowed to remove a ban which prevents the military getting involved in issues like fighting crime thousands of people though are demanding that troops be kept off the streets reports. has been protesting in front of argentina's presidential palace every thursday demanding to know what happened to her son who disappeared in one thousand nine hundred seventy seven during the military. he was a political activist but today she has

a different message he's not. saying no to the military on the streets the military pression people should have food and work. never again want to see the military on the streets. on monday precedent. and now she's removing a ban on military involvement in fighting crime terrorist threats and other internal security issues. we have a territorial deployment for old threats and i'm here to pay a debt with democracy to the armed forces we want a new defense policy. in the nineteen seventies and eighties argentina's military dictatorship tortured and killed thousands of political opponents it was a dirty war. and that's why thousands took to the streets to protest the presidential decree argentina military doctrine was adopted in. this country's military dictatorship in mind and that's why i mean thirty years on the military

and internal affairs it's a technique for been accepted in extraordinary circumstances people here fear that in times of economic troubles and social tension the armed forces could be used to once again to control does that. war veterans from the national falklands war between england and argentina in one thousand nine hundred two were also part of the protest there. since argentina it's a democracy it is going to social parts in which we never again see the military involved in the. military is not trying to apply internal problems are not fair that abuses like we see in mexico or colombia could. they. finally say this more by the government came at the wrong time. the government is going through a difficult time economically with the i mean if and it's trying to find announcements that will draw people's attention but this announcement is useless

without concrete measures that will help the military like more resources new equipment more funding. reforming the armed forces won't be easy with the opposition trying. to block the presidential decree congress and human rights groups adding to the pressure on the streets. flood water from monday's collapse in law also led to the evacuation of around twenty five thousand people from their homes in neighboring cambodia the total killed in laos has risen to twenty seven with one hundred thirty people still missing rescue workers are trying to move many people to safety whilst aid workers and volunteers are distributing emergency supplies. joins us from trend province in cambodia and friends what's the situation for villages downstream of that. where we're in strong trying province which is not far from the border with laos is

just adjacent to the cambodian border this is where according to get the latest government numbers it is still about one thousand two hundred families or about five thousand people who have been evacuated this is according to the cambodian ministry of water resources and meteorology there is a flood the adjacent province further south of province for crotty province but no one there yet has been evacuated but the authorities do say that they are alarmed that the foster rising water levels now in cross the province the water level has already risen past twenty meters which is considered very high and installing trying province where we are now and the water level rose by more than a meter in just over a day so these are really quite high levels and authorities are on high alert now and people have already been moved to safety soldiers also involved in the evacuation efforts helping to move people and their possessions to higher ground

some people have set up temporary shelters others have taken refuge in schools and temples volunteers as well as government workers also working very hard to distribute much needed supplies such as mosquito nets clean drinking water as well as food. throws any words the investigation into the cause of this collapse because one would think that a tropical climate would be built to withstand such heavy rain city i'm for it those that hasn't been anything much player coming from the south korean company that's one of four partners in involved in the sippin tsunami noid construction dam construction project they say they've discovered there was fractures in the dam on sunday and then the day if they notified authorities on sunday when they started evacuating people around the area of the dam in laos on

sunday it's a day before the dam burst. however there is some sort of discrepancy as to the timeline of. this occurrence the of the korean company involved one of the four companies involved in the construction of this dam said that the subsidence of about eleven centimeters in the center of the dime was noted was first notice on friday so that's about two days earlier than what the south korean company s.k. engineering and construction has reported so there's some sort of discrepancy in the timeline there leading to questions as to whether this really was an accident that could have been. could the people have been evacuated much. we still have the number of people missing is still over one hundred so really there are questions not just about how this accident happened how the dam collapse but also whether or not the people could have been in fact that much absolutely ok we'll keep following this story closely florence for

a moment thanks very much for the update from cambodia. now the trump administration has set off a new diplomatic row with a u.s. citizen who's been in jail since two thousand and sixteen and the fate of hama correspondent and reports the threat of sanctions against ankara came during a conference to promote religious freedom. u.s. vice president mike pence 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 on but no one expected pants 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 to the sun you know to the fight over bronson's legal freedom has reignited what 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 resolve 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 rule hinge of me and mark the use edis of iraq and syria to batten buddhists at the hands of beijing and jews living in europe and the united states but to new programs that pence 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 rosalyn jordan al-jazeera the state department. mali and voters will head to the polls on sunday if the side then next president abraham drove a car cater is seeking a second term but his popularity has been hurt by ongoing violence and instability across the country among his twenty three rivals one can see it as a potential challenger. points from bamako. he has presented himself as the candidate of hope and did city after city across mali so my list has been gathering momentum not to repeat it in. our country has a great choice to make either to continue in the present path towards demise or to redress itself to become once again a stable and proud nation and i've opted for hope and i have a plan to save this country see how served as a finance minister and run for president twice in two thousand and thirteen he came

second to current president to bihu bucky to when he lost in the vote he immediately accepted defeat and congratulated his rival five years later his supporters believe he's in a much better position the lack of security and public welfare and the president has helped bring supporters to see several former prime ministers along with some military generals and religious leaders now consider the candidate of choice but his most significant support comes from young people this community radio host and public mobilize and has promised to help win. the cd set for sydney we've decided this time around to not just condemn but rather to participate in creating a vision for a better running of the country and to choose a man and a policy that will restore mollies dignity and respect among nations. has. a huge following among the youth of last year they staged public rallies that forced president cater to withdraw controversial constitutional amendments for the first

time since the one nine hundred ninety one popular uprising that toppled military leader. marley and protesters managed to get the government to change course sisi has decided to capitalism on this achievement she says difficulty is that he's a northerner from a minority tribe in go on the other hand is from the majority bombard of the more populous south if tribal politics gives way it may hurt ceases chances of victory observateur however suggest that had the opposition united behind. he could secure an outright victory in the first round and even with the opposition divided as it is opinion polls suggest sisi is in second place after the incumbent president some of the other twenty two candidates have pledged to support she say in case of i don't know if that happens on a larger scale he may become the first candidate to defeat a sitting president in mali's democratic history one hundred five and dizzy a comical. i spoke stock has taken

a nosedive using nineteen percent of its value and thirty trading that wiped out one hundred twenty billion dollars in market value the biggest single day loss for any publicly traded stock ever and punch came out of the social media giants endings fell short of expectations and amid warnings about its future growth christensen amy reports from new york. for facebook which has experienced exponential growth since its initial public offering in two thousand and twelve it was an uncharacteristic plunge in market value after an uncharacteristically bad quarterly report on thursday share prices tumbled sure profits were up thirty one percent over last year but for the first time since two thousand and fifteen they fell short of expectations to some extent this correction was expected i think the smart money had expected this. and then your price for perfection there's no margin of error a series of scandals seem to be catching up to the social media company founder

mark zuckerberg was called to account by congress over rush's use of the platform to try to influence the two thousand and sixteen election we didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility and that was a big mistake and it was my mistake and i'm sorry and the harvesting of user data through the political consulting firm cambridge analytic the company says increases in security spending are likely to continue eating into profits and tougher user protection laws in europe have already cost the company some three million users but there are some structural issues right now and they need to really work that out it's going to take some time but at the end at the end of the day at the very end of the day facebook is a good company facebook remains one of the most valuable publicly traded companies heading into the two thousand and eighteen midterm elections when its new security protocols will be put to the test mark zuckerberg is attempting to reassure investors saying that this time he's confident the social media company will get it

right christine salumi al jazeera new york and plenty more can be found on our website the address and that at the bottom of your screens al-jazeera dot com. go with the. i'm laura carlisle these are the top stories north korea has returned the remains of some american soldiers killed during the korean war the u.s. military plane flew to north korea friday morning and returned to south korea carrying the remains a short time ago. promised to return them during his meeting with donald trump in june eight thousand u.s. soldiers are still listed as missing over six decades after the fighting stops on the korean peninsula his government says more than eight 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 when it comes just hours ahead of

a court order deadline. former cricketer imran khan has declared victory in pakistan's elections ninety five percent of the votes have been counted and khan's party has won the most seats but he'll need to form a coalition government his leading rival shahbaz sharif has rejected the outcome following allegations that the vote was rigged yemen's who the rebels say they've attacked abu dhabi airport with a drone but the u.a.e. is denying the claim the airport tweeted earlier that there had been an incident but said it's not affected flights or operations it's not clear if the tweet was referring to the same incident. floodwater from monday's dam collapse in laos has led to the evacuation of around twenty five thousand people from their homes in neighboring cambodia the total killed in laos has risen to twenty seven with one hundred thirty people still missing rescue workers are trying to move many people to safety aid workers and volunteers are distributing emergency supplies.

the trumpet ministrations set off a new to turkey over u.s. pastor who's been in jail since two thousand and sixteen vice president mike pence threatened sanctions against anchor if andrew brunson is not released. ugandan president yoweri museveni looks like you'll be able to run for a sixth term thanks to a court ruling kind as it's 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 as the opposition accusing was seventy of a power grab. all the headlines i'll be back with another news update after my chin is here. we understand the differences. and the singularity of cultures across the world so no matter how you take it al-jazeera will bring in the news and current affairs

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