from parishioners from members of the faithful and from the country of oil and about the ills of the wrongs committed by priests brothers and sisters members of religious orders in the past we know as he touched upon that on saturday on his first day here he may met eight survivors there are some more details about how emotional meeting went they handed him a letter explaining how one hundred thousand single irish mothers were separated forcibly separated from their children told that it would be a sin to contact their children and when said sent to michael in laundries where they were subject to all forms of abuse pope francis is he going he touched upon in his opening speech and not knows that there is a deep and profound wounded irish society but can his presence here in ireland help heal it. as we're talking we're looking at the live picture of county mayo where the pope is just getting getting on board

a plane and he's going to be heading back to where you are and what i find quite interesting is that there have been despite what it looks like pretty grim weather where you are there have been thousands and thousands of people turning out to to greet the leader of the catholic church despite what is being described as the increasing secularization of ireland which of course in the past have been perhaps the most catholic of countries in europe. but the country has changed profoundly in the past forty years since john paul the second came to ireland he visited not for the first time he then turned it into a pacific a major place of pilgrimage which is why it has been paramount for the irish clergy to invite this pope pope francis back to not to send a message that he is with the people of ireland it has been a journey. that resonates really with the faithful the seventy percent of the

country still describe themselves as being linked to the catholic church will define themselves as being catholics many of those might well say well look we're culturally catholic and most certainly the number of people going to church on a regular basis has fallen significantly to less than forty percent in recent years as ireland becomes increasingly more more secular as it dismantles some of the cornerstones of perhaps dogmatic church doctrine over the years people are feeling emboldened whether they have faith or don't have faith to challenge some of the darker parts of the catholic church's history here in ireland all right for now thank you very much indeed me farka we'll be continuing our coverage of the paid a visit and hear it out as here. tributes are pouring in from around the world for the u.s. republican senator john mccain who died on saturday he was eighty one and had been suffering from brain cancer mccain spent more than five years as

a prisoner of war in vietnam he ran for the presidency in two thousand and eight against then senator barack obama by kana takes a look back at his life and his legacy. from prison off war to presidential candidate in two thousand and eight john mccain mounted a challenge against barack obama but lost in a landslide my friends we have we have come to the end of a long journey. people have spoken and they have spoken clearly he returned to the senate where he served as a senator for arizona more than thirty years after the war hero posts in the trump election a man with whom mccain had a prickly relationship in the past which did not improve senator mccain emerged as the conscience of the republican party in pushing back against several actions of a president who was the party's new voice on the trump travel ban i think the effect will probably in some areas give isis some more propaganda

we don't want to shake news on threats against the media when you look at history the first thing the dictators do is shut down the press and i'm not saying that that's that that president trump is trying to be a dictator i'm just saying we need to learn the lessons of history. on the likely reaction of past leaders to claims of alternative facts they would be alarmed by the growing inability and even an willingness to separate truth from lives senator mccain served in the vietnam war his aircraft shot down over her noyo he broke his leg and arms suffered torture and spent more than five years as a prisoner of war before returning to the u.s. as a war hero a description he humorously undercut during this visit to the libyan city of benghazi in two thousand and eleven they also served in the united states navy for many years i was a pilot. but i'm not

a very good pilot i was shot down diagnosed with cancer and recovering from head surgery john mccain received a standing ovation when he returned to the hill for a crucial senate vote and the motion is agreed to. he followed the republican line in voting to open a debate on repealing the affordable care act but in his speech was deeply critical of a senate that he described as more. and more tribal than ever before let's trust each other let's return to regular order we've been spinning our wheels on too many important issues because we keep trying to find a way to win without help from across the aisle and a few days later in the early hours of the morning john mccain put principle before party. defying immense republican pressure to support a bill is repealing barak obama's health legislation he's back. and in that moment he rose above the senate mired in endless squabble offering the hope that

governance by consensus rather than by command could still be possible but that felt right at times john mccain could be wrong but on the strong magic night he demonstrated truth to himself and to the country he devoted his life to serving. fare is a professor at the university of new south wales his australian defense force academy he's a specialist on the vietnam war he says mccain played an important role in the normalization of relations between the u.s. and vietnam. he always had a feeling about vietnam but it's the u.s. should support it moving out and joining the rest of the region he said he was only anger with his captors because of the way they treated others he bore them no ill will but the important thing in july nine hundred ninety five when president bill clinton announced the normalization of relations senator mccain was standing next

to him so he was a bipartisan supporter of the normalization of relations which for twenty odd years had been next bar conspiracy on the right by the mom how do we change prisoners a war that had not returned to the united states and was holding out on that and senator mccain joined other veterans chuck hagel a bit later secretary of defense john kerry and senator secretary of state pete peterson who even served longer as a person within the first basket of vietnam that core group of vietnam veterans played a very influential role in the when i lived nations and to use a vietnamese expression and it was to let bygones be bygones get beyond the war we've got a lot to come on this out as air news hour including top afghan security officials offered to resigned amid security concerns. a vote against corruption millions of colombians will head to the polls hoping for

a series of reforms. those hamiltons against poll position the sunday's belgium grown prepays it will have the highlights coming up in just a little box. that koreans have been separated for more than half a century amazing in a result town in north korea this is the second round every unions this year since the war in the one nine hundred fifty s. between north and south korea they've only been twenty such events the festal place eighteen years ago and they're likely to be the last and the only chance for some of these long separated families to meet face face to. we recognised each other and help each other tightly we cried quite a bit i said to my younger brother i know you are here right now but is this for real that you are alive and he said i thought you died too i never knew you were

alive only a select few get this opportunity there on the south korean side relatives the chosen by lottery tens of thousands of people would never get the chance and that's mainly because korean war survivors are getting very old of course the. in the year approximately three or four thousand separated family members die if you think about that within seven to ten years it may become difficult to hold reunions therefore is the most urgent issue between south and north korea. are either we can now sing to phil robertson he's joining us on skype from colombo and his deputy director for asia at human rights watch thanks for talking to us phil the fact that this this rare event has occurred what does it tell us about north south korean relations. well it says that things are getting better the issue is how how quickly will they get better between the two sides so that more of these reunifications can

take place i mean these are profoundly humanitarian issues the unification of families the fact that the red cross aside these are the ones who handle this technically on both sides indicates a humanitarian issue and there should be many more of these going forward and so this this growing well between north and south korea as we witness from the the summit in april between the two leaders and and this kind of thing this kind of reunion is it a tour de railed if you like by the the change of direction as appears to be coming out of washington at the moment with regard to north korea. actually i don't think so i think that the north-south discussion in the north korea u.s. discussion will in some ways proceed on different tracks you know koreans both sides of the thirty eighth parallel are overjoyed when they see these pictures of these elderly koreans being reunified after so many years apart i mean it's really

quite heartwarming and i think everybody across the peninsula really feels. the problem is that north korea has continued to use these reunifications as a bargaining chip to reward or punish south korea when it wants to rather than doing what needs to be done which is allowing as many of these reunifications take place now while these people are still a lot so there is quite a lot of them political of political benefit to be gained by leaders on on either side of the divide isn't it don't do a match in then we'll see any more of these three unifications especially given the fact that many of them of course all so very old well i think that we will see more of these the question is will the pace pick up i mean these are the first unification since two thousand and fifteen there are still approximately fifty six thousand south koreans waiting for the opportunity to see their relatives across

the border you know but as you know as your program said many of these people are passing away they've gotten to a situation where they're really quite orderly and some of them may not even be able to travel so which is why there should be a priority placed on this to take this out of the political realm and really make it the true can manage tarion issue it should be the robinson thank you. thank you . now at least three people have been killed and more than two hundred forty people have injured in a magnitude six earthquake which has hit western iran the u.s. geological survey is reporting that it happened in kerman shar province more than thirty aftershocks have been registered and state media is saying that rescue efforts are underway a crisis center has been set up with hospitals and relief organizations have been placed on high alert and staying in iran the parliament has voted to remove the minister of economic affairs and finance minister fall in the currency as well as

economic instability massoud. lost a vote of confidence by one hundred thirty seven votes to one hundred twenty one with two abstentions he's the second minister and president rouhani has cabinet to be impeached this month president rouhani i'm self is expected to appear in parliament on wednesday to answer questions on his administration's performance. afghanistan's national security advisor mohammed hanif atmar has resigned with the government under increasing pressure after a spike in fighting with the taliban some reports suggest could be preparing to challenge president ashraf ghani in next year's election his resignation has been accepted by the president but he's rejected the resignations of the ministers of defense interior and head of the national directorate of security. nunc ya'll is the political analyst he says public criticism and pressure led to these

resignations. security situation inside afghanistan was. especially i think on the guns in the province and i think and a president who told people as to how did the deal was going to come came undone soon hear criticism public criticism in a was under pressure due to. to encounter this pressure more high officials security of shell they have presented to resign the first was mr tenet. who resigned from his position and he worked for the last four years he was under criticism and there were. competition going on inside the pillows and people who were not. fifty names in the his position that is why he resigned and to know i knew what.

the national security adviser is appointed who was previously working as an investor to united states publicly going to mit is under pressure in criticism now president going he may decide he has to take action and bring somebody farms in the intelligence and also security sector because our take on the presidential palace was absolutely an intelligence failure that is why i need much coordination and much of the farms have to. be adopted in the security sector in also in the defense sector. now australia's foreign minister julie bishop has resigned just two days after a failed bid to take the leadership of the ruling party bishop got eleven votes out of eighty six party votes that toppled malcolm turnbull as prime minister scott morrison was picked to replace him instead turnbull was the fourth australian prime minister in

a decade to be forced out in an internal leadership challenge. colombians are due to head back to the polls just two months after choosing their new president this time they're going to vote in a referendum for tougher anti corruption laws opposition politicians are supporting the vote which needs twelve million people or a third of the electorate in order to pass if it does go through the bill could see the salaries of congressmen lowered force politicians to declare their income and change the way the public contract through awarded on the sound of m.p.'s he reports from the capital bogota on what could be a landmark decision. former senator cloudy a lot places on a mission trying to convince colombians to vote in the country's first ever and take corruption initiative because in columbiana titian's in colombia are stealing fifty billion a year that's a quarter of colombia's wealth they still through illegal contracts three full spitting and contracting their friends this is citizen action to end it. volunteers

gathered four million signatures for the referendum to reach the ballots but they now need twelve million colombians to vote on sunday for it to pass which says would be a turning point in the fight against graft i must get out on one years we have been waiting twenty five years for congress to act on these measures instead they voted them down every single time voters will weigh in on seven different measures that would affect politicians salary term limits and introduce mandatory jail sentences for corruption but while some cases of recently made headlines the initiative success is far from certain congress is widely considered the most corrupt an institution in the country and it was wise by many for long periods while lawmakers say things should choose maybe also seem to pose this referendum. most parties in congress voted in favor of the referendum before the last presidential

elections but have seen some voided. any promotion of being issued to have the president announced he will vote but many in this party say they will not. go to the floor laws don't solve corruption colombia is full of codes and regulations but nothing changes we need to change the culture in the country and we need citizens to keep a close eye on politicians otherwise we are just throwing away public money in initiatives that will have little effect. but on the man this of transparency international says the vote can have a major impact. if millions of citizens vote in favor for eleven strong symbolic effort in the political class it will said this is not an issue they'll feed in the background expecting results and concrete measures if it passes the referendums will be binding with congress obligated to introduce changes within a year the answer lies in the hands of colombian voters who have an opportunity to

turn the page on politics as usual in the country listen to them. coming up in just a couple of minutes everton will have the weather also coming up on this. yemen's historic council course in the civil war is finally open again to this. startled opportunity is the effect of an eleven year blockade on gaza as industry and its people. how the popular support of badminton is keeping the hopes of young people alive in the asian games. details coming up. from the neon lights of asia. to the city that never sleeps. well i should have seen from the pictures of the pope's visit to allah this pretty miserable across northwestern parts of europe lots of cloud still very much

spilling in from the atlantic that wet and windy weather will be with us for another couple of days or so the fine in the dry weather that is a still some warmth around actually temperatures in moscow getting up to around twenty eight celsius thirty one in kiev or into the mid thirty's there for remaining adults at the turkey low thirty's there for athens back up to the northwest where it is decidedly cool certainly in comparison to recent weeks eighteen degrees there in london as a sort of temperature looking at for sunday afternoon look at that cloud and rain that's going to make its way further research so it will brighten up in ireland things going downhill for much of sunday for the notting hill carnival but by monday carnival weather looks absolutely fine eighteen degrees celsius a little on the breezy side but it should be largely dry the wetter weather will make its way across scandinavia some blustery conditions still there in place around the baltic states and then you've got that line of rain which comes out to

western russia right down across remain the tools northern parts of greece east of that it's still warm dry and sunny but cold and blustery to the west. the weather sponsored by qatar airways. and nine hundred seventy eight. disappeared after boarding a plane to libya. for over thirty years his disappearance remained in mystery. but after colonel gadhafi his downfall in two thousand and eleven new evidence came to light. al-jazeera world investigates the case of the vanished in. syria. challenge your perception ethiopia's economy is growing at a faster rate than any other african country fearless journalism that sirens were heard here is that gives indication of just how close the fighting is groundbreaking documentary debates and discussions just six months ago we were at

the brink of a new al-jazeera show war winning programs take you on a journey around the globe. on al-jazeera. trying to second of the top stories here and out as there. is a minute warning the zimbabwe is president after weeks of political uncertainty of an election disputed by the main opposition on friday the country's top court threw out a challenge by the opposition leader nelson chamisa. the leader of the catholic church

has made an emotional appeal for god's forgiveness for what he calls the sins of sexual abuse in ireland pope francis also spoke out about false adoptions in the county. during a prayer at a stride. u.s. republican senator john mccain has died at the age of eighty one after suffering from brain cancer he'd spent more than five years as a prisoner of war in vietnam and more than three decades as a republican senator. john mccain had to criticize former president barack obama for not doing more to intervene in syria's civil war. is a former field director with the syrian emergency task force and she actually accompanied mccain during his trip there in twenty thirty she says syrian opposition activists i hope broken by the news of his death you trusted me you trusted in what you have been doing you went with me to syria fight all the rejection from the state department he went he put all his entire life in the hands

of an accident and went with her to deliver a message to the war and to be against obama administration who would be in support our lucian and our right and duty for democracy and human rights he went he was first person hired me like millions of people who are inspired by him police in brazil of arrested hundreds of people for committing crimes against women more than a thousand men been picked up during a nationwide sweep nearly a quarter of those arrested are wanted for murdering women in brazil is experiencing a rise in violent crime including an increase in femicide that's the murder of women. peru has granted asylum to hundreds of venezuelans despite the introduction of new entry restrictions as a saturday all new arrivals are required to have powerful but the government so far

has been willing to set aside these new rules on humanitarian grounds mariana sanchez reports from the peruvian city of tom bears which is on the northern border where that could or. hoping to escape the economic hardship gripping the country the spreads in this will answer pouring into beatles worry with it whether by bus by car or by foot before saturday's deadline meant to tighten entry requirements. fifteen year old joined the ladies traveled more than four thousand kilometers with some members of his family he says he never imagined leaving the house when we did that work at the my lab we were at the best time of our lives with friends school family but we had to leave to find a better life in venezuela we were hungry. separated from their families with a risky future ahead cinelli for the biggest venture down the road with friends leaving her career behind what i am but i am a good about it it's sad i graduated with a bachelor's degree now i can't begin my career nor we all gave up our future and

venezuela we don't have a chance exhausted ill or even penniless many even a swim and have had to rely on handouts to eat most of the people arriving here at the border between it well that and b. who are young adults who has been a mecca for these refugees for the past two years more than four hundred thousand venice winds are already living here open border policy allows them to work legally but now they will only be allowed in treaty with passports the united nations office for refugee says it hopes this policy stops this is very important for you in which possibility of exo school by asking for to sell your. soul we very much hope that. the government select people and most province when once don't have passports they're expensive and it takes many months and bribing to get them in venezuela while there are forty say they've imposed restrictions to prevent the

lincolns from entering the country at this point of crossing or trade it in a while the temperature was intense there are no controls. witness will and may still working to peddle illegal however thirty three year old looks a bill martinez says they want to have a chance to work i guess what it was to have dignity we must work that's why we are migrating to another country not to receive handouts but because we like to work. between the three say they will be flexible with children the elderly and pregnant women who don't have passports and protect those who apply for asylum in their world the least likely you know according to our refugee laws whether they have the documents or not if a person asks for asylum we have to process the request and allow them into the country the foreign ministry receives thirteen thousand requests each month and that number may grew as the exodus of this will continue many desperate to find

a better life for their children and innocent just just to get the speed. at least sixteen people have been killed and twenty seven others have been injured when a tourist pass crash on a highway in vogue area police say the vehicle overturned and then fell down a road it was on a weekend trip to a resort close to the capital severe the government has declared monday a national day of mourning is interior minister is under investigation after he refused to let one hundred fifty migrants into italy leading to a ten day standoff albania island and the catholic church in italy have now agreed to take these refugees after the tail selvi refused to let them get off the boat unless other nations agreed to take them selvi need to eat it that he would be proud if the prosecutor wanted to interrogate or arrest him for defending the borders and security of his country. the people of girls who have been locked in

for the past eleven years by israel's strict blockade but recently there's been a window of opportunity to get out egypt has reopened the rafa crossing they did is they did so in may and that allowed for thousands of people to leave many of them indefinitely and that is hurting girls is already crippled economy further threat explains. the fabric of gaza society is being torn apart locked in by israel's blockade with few jobs and no prospects those with means now have a way out through egypt. dan is heading that way ten years ago he says he employed four hundred people here supplying customers in israel and the occupied west bank now most of his sewing machines are rusting while loyola looked at the young women in turkey i did a feasibility study and realize there are more opportunities if i move there i still have the good contacts with israeli business partners but all they need to do is to switch the business from gaza to turkey in gaza there is no hope your sons

are growing and there is no hope for their future just over sixty thousand palestinians have left through this crossing since it reopened in may and only about four thousand have come back those the figures given to us by the immigration department and those numbers leaving would probably be much higher were it not so difficult to get the right the missions in the first place you have to give the egyptians a good enough reason maybe hospital treatment or studying abroad or you have to have a visa for your final destination country something else that's very difficult to come by. those who managed to get the right paperwork must wait here queuing sometimes for days for the bus to takes them to the crossing so yeah i'm travelling to cairo for tourism and to have a look around at what opportunities there might be i'm an i.t. specialist in gaza there's no work if i find a job in egypt i won't come back we have a problem if my brother will find work for me and i believe dobby there is no work here in gaza so i'm fed up so my main reason for traveling is to find

a job and just for some relief with tourism a lot more than a dozen people respect to here said they weren't coming back. and when her legal goes to turkey the few jobs left in his factory will disappear with him adding more people to the list of unemployed which is more than forty percent of the population . burnitz made al-jazeera gaza. now the yemeni government has reopened the historic cairo castle in time to visitors just days after regaining control of the site from the emmer r.t. bat. brigade for the last four years the council's been used as a barracks our official reports from neighboring djibouti. it's historic it's impressive now it's back in control of the local population. carol castle stands at the foot of the mountain overlooking the city of tire is in the yemen highlands the last four years has been used as a barracks for you back then abu abbas brigades but

a government military commission has no taken back control. but that about is that i believe the reopening of the castle after four years of closure sends a clear message that the state will extend its authority over every inch of the country no faction or party will ever have sovereignty or control over time as. this is a site loved by the locals and loved by the children who know little of its history built more than eight hundred years ago cairo castle is the city's top destination for tourists from all over the world that sound. it is always great to paint a smile on children's faces that's what we've seen from the first day of the number of visitors is far beyond what was expected it's the city's most important to restrict and historical site while the castle walls will remain solid it will need some restoration work it was shelled by coalition warplanes in twenty fifteen when it was used as a pretty fighter stronghold. and most of europe we cannot describe the overwhelming

feeling as we wonder at the highest point in time as we do not know how to express our delight the reopening of the castle has restored the civic nature of the city. cairo castle has a long and colorful history the events of the last four years especially know that it's back in the hands of local people will be another chapter another story to be handed down from generation to generation alan fischer. in djibouti. still to come here on the al-jazeera news. i wonder thomas involved carola this month's devastating floods i'll be looking at whether the state's pool important tourism industry from bounce back. major league baseball's leading team this season on the verge of an unwanted record future we'll explain all installed.