today it is a. little more detail every day for the good of the exodus here but this is cuba she soon. coordinated attacks by armed men on police in chechnya it's reported that this is for a cease fire her. tears smiles and embraces family separated for decades are reunited in the latest sign of warming relations on the korean peninsula. a research group plans to release details of sex abuse in the catholic church in ireland just ahead of a visit of pope francis. as close as carter is can get to the hostile the religious holiday has become the latest casualty of the dispute this being qatar and saudi arabia.

is that it is carried out coordinated attacks on police targets in russia's chechnya region policemen in the provincial capital capital that is grozny opened fire on a car that tried to run over two officers police bases in two other cities have also been attacked russian military has felt two wars of the chechen separatist since the collapse of the soviet union or these attacks he has said that. has been active in trying to pose the minds of young chechens and that's what he suspects have been in this case ok we're challenged with the latest out of moscow rory thank you. more than one hundred people taken hostage after a taliban ambush in northern afghanistan have been freed many were said to be women and children the ambush happened in the northern province of. the buses were stopped on the car highway about three hundred kilometers north of kabul on sunday

a president declared a three month conditional cease fire but the taliban has not yet officially responded in two thousand and sixteen the taliban set up a fake checkpoint on the highway and posed as government officers kidnapping two hundred twenty people out of zero as soon as i seen has more from the capital kabul . less than twenty four hours after president assad of twenty announced a ceasefire taliban today announced that they kidnapped dozens of passengers including. provence in the north tell even said that they. kidnapped those passengers because they received some intelligence that among those passengers were top security officials the security forces have their own story they said that the taliban did not free those passengers but the and the security forces managed to free them. but the main question asked by many afghans here in

afghanistan is is that even going to accept the offer of cease fire for three months just a day by president how has yet to answer this this question but according to our sources some members of the leadership of taliban are leaning towards accepting. the all for not it's not for three months at this for all or seven days but some of the members in taliban leadership believe that the movement should keep the taliban should keep fighting the government and force them to go for more concessions in the future. really two hundred people separated by the korean war have had a motional reading into the relatives they haven't seen in decades south koreans had to win a lottery to take part in this three day were union at a resort in the north more are set to travel north on friday the leaders the two nations agreed to resume there were unions after a landmark meeting in june that monaghan has more. they waited

a lifetime to make this journey families separated by war will finally be reunited . they are the lucky ones tens of thousands applied but only a small number get to go. eighty five year old boxing you know him was a teenager when the korean war broke out in one nine hundred fifty. she still remembers the horrors she witnessed as she fled after her parents were killed she made the perilous journey south would get involved like a jet would come down with a loud noise and there would be bombs being dropped i saw those massive amount of people who would fall down to death. her siblings in the north are no longer alive but she's looking forward to meeting her niece for the first time jill oh no you cannot describe that in words and i'm probably not the only one who feels that way they share the same blood and i wanted to visit the place where i used to live but another from the group this ninety four year old one suck her union will also be

bittersweet. i do not get to see my son but i'm happy that i will be meeting my granddaughter. they set off on their journey north is just a few hours drive but for decades that's been an impossible distance for the earth when the moment finally comes many urgings to tears they. think they know this three day reunion will almost certainly be their last. but i am so thankful and grateful that you could come all this way i finally get to meet you after so long. i know it was hard i remember how beautiful you was. good. because we were separated when you were two and i was four wow what happened to us what a world i'm so happy together they share memories of times past and stories of family

they've never had the chance to know. only twenty reunions have been organized by the red cross since one thousand nine hundred five south korea's president when jane has called for more as relations improve with the north. more than fifty thousand people in the south are still waiting and for many time is running out. in somalia and al jazeera. police and soldiers in uganda have used gunfire to disperse protesters in the capital kampala they were angry at the arrest of officer politician the wine president you sorry most have and he rejects allegations that the government has been torturing him on sunday one person was killed and several others injured when police fired live bullets and tear gas at demonstrators welcome has more from kampala. than the police and the army would really break up those protests using the live gun firing tear gas can see the remains of women as banding roadblocks just a short distance over here supposes

a baby one angry following incidents that began a week ago bobby ryan was campaigning would come that in a by election in northern uganda campaigns that have gone peacefully and that in violence will be ones driver was shot dead by security forces the wind said they were trying to kill him meanwhile the president's office said that opposition supporters that stone the president's convoy broke in the windows of one of the vehicles that they were reacting to protect the president of the city then the wind was arrested. police say that they found the weapon in his hotel room so he's being accused of treason and he's due to appear in front of a military court in a couple of days time that's another potential flashpoint might see on breast in the streets of composite. french oil giant total has officially quit its multibillion dollar gas project with iran total was contracted to develop the south horace gas field it's in reaction to threats from the united states that any company doing business with the wrong with a block from u.s.

work washington has reimposed sanctions on iran after pulling out of the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal and iran is one of the major themes that talks between the u.s. national security adviser and israel's prime minister john bolton is holding holding meetings that is with benjamin netanyahu unless truce on. it's a question of the highest importance for the united states that iran never get a deliverable nuclear weapons capability it's why the president withdrew from the wretched iran nuclear deal it's why he is really imposing economic sanctions it's why we've worked with our friends in europe to convince them of the need to take stronger steps against the iranian nuclear weapons and ballistic missile program and. i want to use this opportunity once again to present a troll from walking away from the deal with. the nuclear deal

did not block the ball. to an entire nuclear arsenal and by removing the sanctions it enabled the wrong to bring the billions and billions of dollars to its coffers which only fueled war machine in syria and lebanon and elsewhere. still ahead on al-jazeera. one hundred from a stamp room a perilous state india and one of five thousand relief centers it's going to be set up across its site for evacuees from the floods. people here are facing days if not weeks. of living like this. separated by thousands of kilometers and donald trump's top stand to deport and mother still hoping for a reunion with her son. plenty

of warm sunshine across the middle east over the coming days no great surprise this one it's still in place around the black sea the caspian sea but for the most part it is place guys and the hot sun shines a forty celsius in kuwait forty five celsius that for baghdad a rather more pleasant twenty nine in beirut i will say in jerusalem they go with i shall is a little further north they continue to run across georgia armenia and azerbaijan but a cloud there in southern parts of pakistan you notice but again no real sign of any rainfall the dry weather that continues across central areas soran down into the arabian peninsula warm sunshine here in cots temperatures in done how to have forty three degrees thirty but a cloud you know it's just just around them on just about that eastern side of amounted to most scots much just catch one of two light showers as is the case too across the fos south of yemen as we go on into where the stakes see that cloud

becoming a little more expansive but the dry weather will continue here in doha a lot of dry weather too into southern africa but a few showers just around the southern kite long line of play out here just making its way across cape town easing from west to east and a filter its way a little further race woods by wednesday. on the streets of greece anti immigrant violence is on the rise you have to go. to some and increasingly migrant farm workers of victims of vicious beatings. is helping the pakistani community to find a voice the stories we don't often hear told by the people who live them undocumented and under attack this is zero on al-jazeera.

and watching al-jazeera let's recap the top stories for you right now. responsible for a series of attacks on police in the russian region of chechnya several officers have been wounded and at least four of the attackers have been killed. afghan forces say they have freed more than one hundred people who were abducted by the taliban they were captured after an ambush of three buses three hundred kilometers north of kabul early on monday morning on sunday president declared a three month conditional cease fire but the taliban has not responded. families torn apart by the korean war catching up after more than sixty years of separation

only one hundred people have traveled from south korea to the north for three days of meetings with relatives leaders of the two nations agreed to resume the reunions after a landmark meeting in june. out of his trip to ireland pope francis has apologized for sex child sex abuse committed by clerics and an open letter he wrote looking back to the past no effort to beg pardon and to seek to repair the harm done will ever be sufficient looking at. to the future no effort must be spared to create a culture able to prevent such situations from happening but also to prevent the possibility of there being covered up and perpetuated and the pope's message comes just ahead of the release of a list of child sex abusers in ireland's catholic church and international research group or put the information online to coincide with his visit that includes the names of priests and religious brothers as well as summaries of the allegations against them organization wants the pope to disclose the names of all irish clergy

who have been disciplined for molesting children. as the director of amnesty international and a victim of sexual abuse within the church says the apology is not enough for victims and their families. well i think the statement today is welcome it goes further and use a stronger language than we've ever we've ever seen before but i think we have to put this in some context i mean the problem is that the bar has been set so low by the catholic church which for decades dismissed the idea idea that abuse was even happening accuse those of us who spoke out about the systemic nature of the cover up of slander of being anti-catholic accuse the media of an anti catholic bias and denied all of this for years so the acknowledgement of the fact that all of this has happened the acknowledgment finally that there was a cover up in parts of the church is welcome but unfortunately have no point in the pope's very lengthy two page letter dizzee acknowledged the vatican's responsibility for that cover up he talks about

a culture of clericalism about systems that allowed all of this to happen but he doesn't simply and honestly and truthfully finally acknowledged that those were systems that were put in place and underpinned by canon law by church law that these were policies willfully and deliberately implemented by the catholic church at the global level by the vatican by his successors and he begs for forgiveness but he doesn't say for wash so i'm sorry to say that was the language is stronger if it doesn't go anything like far enough. then as whalen is trying to cross into neighboring countries are being blocked at the borders the u.n. says more than two point three million venezuelans have fled the country but there's been a rising are still a day towards this wanting to escape an economic crisis brazil is sending troops to its border after locals set fire to migrant can't see any reports from bogota. but they have come for president nicolas maduro huge devaluation of the venezuelan currency the believer in athens with me last friday and now they've had

a whopping ninety five percent from their currency it's now called the sovereign power lever and they pegged it to a digital korea if you get petro which is. back by even he said as all reserved for the government here is besting picking get to their all reserves that they will be able to maintain their currency more and table in it has been suffering from hyperinflation for over a year now inflation has been out of control for a few years at this point it's a national holiday in many swear less so the new currency is we're rolling in quite slowly most stores and businesses are closed but people are quite worried about how all this will play out in particular worried about another increase in the minimum wage by three thousand percent but which was decided also by the government

so many expect the prices to go up again starting on tuesday and the opposition already called for a problem. using a national strike against the government measures. spread of disease has to come in a worry for rescue workers in the southern indian state of carla wanted a half million people have been forced from their homes after the worst flooding in a century only eight hundred fifty thousand people are living in temporary relief camps and her thomas reports from care. and still it rains the downpours all less heavy less frequent and shorter than they were but in carola they are still coming to people here fresh rain lengthens the time they'll have to stay in a camp. there are more than five thousand cross carola although really camp is to ground the words there simply community holds in schools which open the doors and quickly filled with people and each of acuity has

a similarly harrowing story. that not until the water has destroyed everything we had it was up to my neck it even took my cows. everything at home is lost and here there is nothing to do what can we do. i think it's hot in this hole there's no privacy or dignity some here were evacuated on thursday and i've now spent four days living this public school of life others were rescued only on sunday having spent four days and nights on the roofs of floors of their flooded homes both grates on the regional streets. the exhaustion shows. but there is enough food here enough drinking water and medicines. volunteer doctors at the center so

they haven't yet seen outbreaks of disease i also know that in the world thankfully and thanks to all that are not maybe communicable disease or something like that it's just. been spreading because we're also getting affected maybe. since i six so badly there is no one ever to make something like that that's all you are really working hard for that. people's mental health is suffering everybody is simply. distributing dramatic video of a total it's risky but most the most you see evacuations are over and after the drama reality hits after thomas al-jazeera. a report from n.d.s. has revealed the widespread sexual mental and physical abuse of disadvantaged children and adults living in care homes in the state of the heart researchers and the tata as a social sciences fifteen state funded homes needed immediate action because

appalling of these claims the report was commissioned by the hard government last year and released to the public on friday one of the worst examples medical reports confirming the rate of thirty four inmates of this offer poor a shelter this was revealed earlier this year the managers at that shelter were arrested but the pool report says violence was prevalent and almost all of the one hundred ten and situations that were audited was so many heads a task force examining poverty and homelessness at the tata institute of social sciences he says social audits should be mandatory. it was a student shooter grossest so. there were no signs of social order so this made us the process we got access to all the institutions and the materials you which we applied while doing the social law is to talk to the residents separately and privacy and other management stops with them some pretty so we got time to interact

one to one with the dissidents in privacy also and we took them in confidence we didn't promise them that we were going to improve the things. that we just informed me just a short them either. if you have a story to tell just tell us and we write it down and we'll make sure that you sort this and this one leads to the ottoman my recommendation would be to make the social order mandatory and this exercise should should be carried out in real estate because i'm sure things are going to come up like this in other states also because situation and institutions are not. to get the social order in this process the stakeholders you know the residents of the institution should take part in this arctic process they should be fine but the storm is being rendered to them in the institutions of acceptable or not but there's freedom and dignity are being restored not being while i don't want there should be done major focus point who should actually do the process of social lot of along with elizabeth members and.

to people have been arrested at from the u.s. embassy in the turkish capital ankara was peppered with bullets and a drive by shooting several of the bullets hit a window of a security post but there are no reports of anyone being hurt there has been a growing dispute between anchor and washington over the trial of the u.s. pastor. the top administration is having trouble finding that a ported parents of hundreds of children who were made in government care the children have been taken from their parents after they cross the border of the spring a judge ordered the family separations to end but reuniting them has been a problem castro has a story. since being deported to guatemala two months ago evil or villainous llopis is a lifeline has been her telephone each ring brings hope she'll hear the voice of her seventeen year old son jordan calling from two thousand kilometers away just simply i always ask if he's ok he says yes but how does his mother i know that's not true because he tells me mom my experience has been very difficult i never

thought he'd be so far from me and he's heard mother and son had left quite a mala together in may at the u.s. border they used a raft to cross into the country then. they turned themselves into u.s. border patrol. i thought i would find hope but instead i found this very cruel law the trumpet ministrations zero tolerance policy resulted in the separation of almost three thousand children from their parents was prosecuted for a legal entry and deported while her son remained in detention in the us i wonder also it was very painful my intention wasn't to leave him in the united states my intention was to fight for him to fight together if us son is behind the gates of this government funded shelter near the us mexico border the children here are cared for they're fed they're even educated but they are not allowed to leave

jordan has been here for nearly three months despite a judge's order that all children separated from their parents at the border be reunited with their families earlier this summer the government says the delayed reunifications are due to the difficulty of tracking down more than four hundred parents who like ever had been deported without their children in washington a democratic member of congress called the operation a colossal mistake i know. systematically separate inference and toddlers from their families soon to me. the government says it has no parental information of at least five children in its care effectively rendering them orphans davis worst fear is to never see her son again never been someone to say i'm all for i regret all of this because of the pain i've suffered all i had was my house i lost it but more important than that i

lost my son the u.s. government has yet to say when or how her son will be returned to her until then she says she thinks of nothing else. castro al-jazeera. about it is one of the five key pillars of islam and something that all muslims are meant to undertake in their lifetimes for the second consecutive year three citizens and expatriates are unable to travel to saudi arabia for the pilgrimage to mecca that's because the blockade imposed by riyadh and three other countries led to accusations that saudi arabia is using her as a tool of pressure and its foreign politics of all has a story. for over fourteen hundred years this was called the. hundreds of thousands of muslims from faraway lands flocked to these holy sites in mecca and medina to perform hajj the annual pilgrimage one of the five pillars of

the islamic faith. in one nine hundred thirty two a bedouin clan by the name of. what was ruling in the desert region of nudged to the east and next to him leading to the creation of what is currently known as saudi arabia over the years the number of pilgrims grew to millions the saudi monarchy imposed a quota system limiting the number attending from each country in the name of safety and logistics. but foreign muslim countries accused saudis of utilizing had visa restrictions to serve political goals in iran mr idiot i mean for the fourth consecutive year saudi arabia refuses to give clearance the yemeni pilgrims even to receive official documents sent by our yemeni ministry during the last few decades it became more and more difficult for saudi arabia to insulate had from the impact of politics. in one nine hundred eighty seven saudi security forces killed about

three hundred reigning pilgrims during an anti us demonstration which they staged in mecca in two thousand and fifteen iran accused saudi authorities of complicity in a stampede that caused the death of hundreds of iranian pilgrims the following year iran decided its citizens would not attend and since june last year when saudi arabia the united arab emirates behind and egypt imposed a blockade on qatar saudi arabia banned any coordination with qatari had agencies for billy graham's. it said the qataris were welcome but because land sea and air routes were closed found it difficult to travel the absence of any consular representation in saudi arabia also raised safety concerns and it's not just qatar is have had problems according to the french newspaper saudi authorities threaten to reduce had visa quotas to some west african countries with sizable majority muslim populations unless their governments cut ties with qatar and during the last

few weeks the kingdom became the dohc of social media platforms when it's granted three hundred visas to its new ally the lebanese christian maronite leaders. photoshop pictures of joshua and his wife in had uniforms were circulated in the middle east media under his leadership and in coordination with the israeli army justice for large party militias were behind the one nine hundred eighty two sobre and shatila massacre in which hundreds of palestinian civilians were killed outside beirut. with a blockade on qatar still in place qatar is and mostly makes pottery is a living there say they continue to be denied a basic religious and human right. mohammed fine i'll just. take a look at the top stories right now on al jazeera says it's responsible for a series of attacks on police and the russian region of chechnya several officers

have been wounded and at least four of the attackers have been killed the russian military has fought two wars the chechen separatist since the collapse of the soviet union or at chalons has more from moscow. that could have been as many as three separate incidents in one two men walked into a police station and sort of attacking the policeman with knives in another there was an attempted suicide bombing attack in which the bomb didn't kill anyone not even the attacker and then in a pap's of unconfirmed one there was an attempt by someone in a car run over a policeman which that was then followed with a shoot out. afghan forces have freed more than one hundred people who were abducted by the taliban they were captured when the taliban ambush three buses three head of kilometers north of kabul early on monday morning on sunday present

declared a three month conditional cease fire but the taliban hasn't responded and only two hundred people separated by the korean war are meeting relatives they haven't seen in decades south koreans had to win a lottery to take part in the three day were union at a resort in the north another three hundred are set to travel north on friday. that francis has apologized for child sex abuse committed by clerics before his trip to ireland the open letter comes just ahead of the release of a list of child sex abusers in ireland catholic church and international research group will put the information online to coincide with the pope's visit. those are the headlines the news continues to keep it here on al-jazeera much more to come after inside story thanks for your time.

it's called the state capture inquiry a judicial investigation into alleged government corruption in south africa involving billions of dollars of public money some say the ruling african national congress is on trial but how far can the investigation go this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program that hamid south africa's president zuma has vowed to crack down on government corruption and he could end up implicating members of his own a.n.c. party.