five beings. china's democracy experiment amounts in syria. there is a perfect storm based on warning counter warning. civilians in syria's every province as the government fails to go all out to retake the area from rebel fighters. blown down jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up central bank hikes its key interest rate to sixty percent to stop the pace of plunging as the country's financial crisis deepens hopes for peace in south sudan rebels sign a deal with the government to end

a five year civil war plus. a star studded tribute in the u.s. to say a final farewell to the queen of soul aretha franklin. the u.n. special envoy for syria staffan de mistura scolding for a humanitarian corridor to free nearly three million people trapped in the province the syrian government down its ally russia planning a major offensive against rebel groups in the area where we challenge reports from moscow. the question of if they'll be an assault on it live has faded recently now it's more a matter of when that shift has been hastened by hardening language coming out of moscow. it was with satisfaction that we noted the majority of the syrian arab republic is now freed of terrorists what we need now is

to wipe out those terrorist groups which persist particularly in the deescalation zone in italy. sergey lavrov was meeting his syrian counterpart. in the russian capital while him said they'd finish the groups they call terrorists but also try to protect civilians. here this saudi the decision of the syrian leadership is to fight al nusra front whatever the sacrifices are we are ready to exert every possible effort not to harm civilians. but civilians have paid a heavy price in previous russian backed syrian government pushes to recapture rebel areas the siege is in bombardments of aleppo guta and. turkey is urging russia to take more care to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe and grow wants extra time to persuade any armed groups in open to a deal something the un special envoy to syria also advocates one having you would

be one not accelerate military escalation and give a little bit more time for this type of discussion to allow in facilitate a credible credible humanitarian corridor to allow civilian population to temporarily create to a safer area moscow says it will consider demister as humanitarian corridor or suggestion and it needs to show its listening to turkey if moscow decides to push for massive offensive on. that will produce another huge wave of us who are in record use maybe hundreds of thousands fleeing to. turkey which which is counter to russia's interests and russian parrott is there and also. that's tonight a scenario which is not very. affordable for turkey as well. it live is the largest

remaining rebel stronghold if the syrian government takes it to rascasse will claim the war is effectively over and that's one. but there are an estimated three million people trapped there ten thousand of which the u.n. estimates to be nuestro or al-qaeda linked fighters and the severity of the onslaught that they all receive depends largely on how much force the russian and syrian military is willing to use reach allan's al-jazeera mosque or so here's what's a stake in province the last major rebel russia has called it a hotbed of terrorists the u.n. envoy stuff under mistura believes ten thousand fighters linked to al-qaeda there it's home to nearly three million people almost half the space some territory recaptured by the government including aleppo east and boots and that our province nato has reported a russian naval build up in the mediterranean exercises starting from saturday well

not ahead semi's from the university of denver he's highly critical of the un's proposal for a humanitarian corridor or out of it live. it makes no sense to me at all the question is where are they going to go they're certainly not to not going to go into syrian government regime territory they've all fled from there and they are opponents of the assad regime and turkey is the only place they can go there's a long border between in the province and turkey but turkey has explicitly state stated that they have maxed themselves out in terms of hosting refugees there's three point five million syrian refugees in turkey already turkey has said it will not open its border so i don't know what stephan demister is talking about and i think it really does not help when he sort of advances arguments about humanitarian corridor that simply make no factual or sort of political sense and it live it's a very complex picture of multiple rebel groups of course the dominant rebel groups are the extremist faction that is there they have no none of the rebel groups have

any sort of significant international backing or regional backing so there's no way that they can really i think we stand a a military onslaught that russia seems to be organizing the one unknown however are these rumors that if diplomacy doesn't work between russia and turkey perhaps turkey might try to organize and mobilize some of the more moderate rebel forces within the if you had better not affiliated with. the insta stage some sort of resistance and to try and prevent the onslaught from taking place two children have been killed in an asteroid in the libyan capital a day after a cease fire began they were reportedly out playing when the missiles struck a house in tripoli that follows days of fighting between rival groups twenty seven people most of them civilians have been killed since monday the cease fire was in place until saturday on the head has more from tripoli. the question now is will the rival competing groups will date will they be committed to the

ceasefire agreement or not we know that on tuesday there was a fittest cease fire agreement but it was breached by both got conflicting groups especially with deployment and forces and force meant coming to both sides now this latest conflict in this southern suburbs of the libyan capital tripoli is between the seventh infantry brigade and its affiliates from the one hand and they come from the city of god who now which is around one hundred kilometers to the. east and south of tripoli on the one hand and other armed with groups from tripoli which are that. backed national accord government on the other hand and this conflict is for power for control of a strategic locations in tripoli that includes military camps and also the

tripoli international airport argentina's currency continues to fall despite the central bank raising the key interest rate to sixty percent that's the highest in the world the peso lost another thirteen point five percent against the u.s. dollar on thursday and as hard in value against american currency this year on wednesday president madison mockery asked for the early release of funds from a fifty billion dollars international monetary fund bailout while economist alan simpson says the government's taking a wrong approach what you need to do in a situation where foreign currency is fleeing the country is impose some sort of some sort of controls be it exchange controls be a deal or currency exchange rates. different sorts of regulatory measures that will sort of ice. so late the economy a brilliant. the outflow of foreign exchange however the government has done the

exact opposite they've totally deregulated markets. sort of setting the grounds for this run on the dollar and the agreement with the i.m.f. does nothing bots. deepen those deregulatory measures so it's hard to see within the current policy framework that this could and in and of a house that a major crisis. farnan shops in south africa have been the target of days of rioting and looting at least four employees were shot and stabbed to death in the townships of summer to one krugersdorp naja his book attackers accuse them of selling expired food police said moves have made several arrests in a shelter in workers who are vulnerable to further attacks has more from johannesburg. foreign nationals who own shops in so with the area primarily have had to pack up close their stores and look for places of safety and many instances

at local police stations on many of these foreign nationals either my mother lived in hockey ston or somalia and they say given the looting and the violence that's taken place over the last twenty four hours they can't continue to operate in this area as now this all began off to miss ijaz was circulated on social media illusion that the screws were supplying people in the area with fake food food and good to have expired people they say the food is making them sick and they're not happy with how the shops are operating since some instances illegally now this is skule to and four people have been killed one of the outside so where to and this isn't the first time that south africa has seen such violence especially relate to choose in a phobia in these areas where there is a certain resentment towards foreign shopkeepers specifically thing is a concern that this could possibly escalate however the city officials in

johannesburg have begun raids at certain stores looking for these goods that people say done not me with something down the son still was in the various locations but the worst that we've seen of this was back in two thousand and eight when at least sixty people were killed in a phobic violence and of course in this instance the concern would be to contain what's been happening restore calm to these areas and ensure that to these incident . don't continue in saxony don't sprains south sudan's opposition leader rick mashad has signed a piece of code to and in five years of civil war he agreed to sign after receiving assurances that a passion airing deal would be ahmed they agree met with president salva kiir followed discussions in sudan's capital khartoum well michael is a former at unicef spokesman he's not optimistic the deal than of a long lasting peace i can't help but being skeptical and a big reason for that is welcome or why you have

a lot of several dozen nothing or groups that still are very uncertain about this deal and secondly i noticed in reading the kind of reservations if you will of the smaller opposition groups they had four main concerns one was about the decision making mechanism and the other one was about the number of states and their ethnic different cation because don't forget we went from something like ten states to twenty eight states to thirty eight states and now it seems the opposition groups want them brought back to ten and then of course concerns over the constitution making process and a transitional security arrangements it seems to me that they want kenya and ethiopia of course the big regional card brokers involved and then finally a lot of these issues are going to be discussed i supposably in the coming weeks and got the east african regional bloc so we'll see how that works out but at the moment very tough to be optimistic especially because a lot of this depends on oil revenues as well now it's really really important that

the united states for engage in this issue. if i know i'm trying to be diplomatic here but i hope that president trump even knows where he's also done is what the u.s. should because as you recall a lot of the birth of this state africa's youngest nation was the result of work by people like barack obama and susan rice but i don't see that engagement there right now. time for a short break here and al-jazeera when we come back from earning money to kicking goals iran tries to step up efforts to stop child labor on a tense standoff in germany as the far right run is against immigration or in the state with its. head over it has been very hot for some of us in north america recently or on the east coast is where some of the hottest weather has been these pictures are from

new york where not only has it been hope but it's also been incredibly humid the holton humid day they shouldn't stick around for too much longer thanks to this weather system hey there's just a way to the west of us it's galloping its way towards us it will bring us some wet weather and a change in the weather to say twenty five degrees the maxim that on friday that says seventy seven in foreign heights and then we should have more in the way of sunshine and still with some fresh air as we head into saturday to the west of us though this developing feature here that's galloping its way across the midwest as we head through saturday heavy downpours here including force in chicago for the west though mostly fine and dry not too hot in seattle to talk with the maximum temperature at twenty degrees for the central americas just plenty of showers at the moment it really is very unsettled for many of us there will be some sunshine but showers will be the main order of the day for most of us and some of those showers will be banding together to give some more persistent rain at times too particularly if you're in panama or through costa rica now a bit further towards the south and forests in paraguayan it's been very hot

recently but things are changing it will only be fourteen on saturday. desperate for a better life millions of people have sought refuge in europe sometimes their dreams of sanctuary are realized but sometimes disenchantment and hostility drive them home. in the second of two films on these contrasting experiences people and power meets the returning migrants now determined to discourage others from following the same. gambia back home from al-jazeera.

welcome back a quick reminder the top stories here on al-jazeera the u.n. special envoy for syria is warning of what he calls a perfect storm in italy province if the government pushes to retake the last rebel stronghold staffan de mistura is calling for a humanitarian corridor or to free nearly three million people from the. argentina central bankers raise its key interest rate to sixty percent it's trying to stop its currency from continuing to tumble the pacers lost more than fifty percent of its value against the dollar since the beginning of this year. and south sudan's opposition leader reckless shot has signed a peace accord to end the five years of civil war agreed to it after receiving assurances that a power sharing deal would be on. now iranian politicians are debating laws to cut forced child labor between three and seven million children have to work to help support their impoverished families so it was rather reports from tehran. children

working the streets to make money something iranian politicians say they're trying to change a new bill being discussed in parliament would overhaul the country's child protection laws to better help kids vulnerable to abuse it addresses a wide range of issues including cyber protection trafficking child marriage and child labor. the bell is the first comprehensive rule for children's rights in iran the issue of economic misuse is addressed here kids whose families are struggling with some even under the age of fifteen by their parents or other people but even m.p.'s admit passing new laws is one thing coming up with the budgets to pay for public services is another. that's where the private sector often steps and for two decades the volunteer group of mom only society has been providing social services to thousands of people around the country including

organizing a nationwide football league for at risk youth some have parents with drug addiction others struggle with poverty and are forced to work for their families to survive for many this is a break from difficult daily routines. some of the kids aren't here because they're working in workshops selling things in the streets sometimes they can't make the practice sessions it's a problem for us especially when we want to take part in that tournament we ask their bosses to give them time off. the group also helps parents earn a living so their kids don't have to work these mothers run a catering service society gives them work space transport and training they supply the woman power. since her husband died been raising children on her own and has kept them all in school having the skin just before i started working my life wasn't good we lived in a destroyed building or to share allows me to pay for my rent by making efforts so

my children can have a good future i want on the study and not have a life like my. fourteen year old to me this getting ready to take the field when he's not in his football uniform or in school he helps his mother clean houses to make money. a financial situation isn't good so i go with my mom to work two three four times a week my father has been sick for twelve years had a strike and move a sweep stairs i clean and wash doors and i don't like it but we have to do what it . says when he's at practice he feels honor and pride and somebody wants to play professionally. for now in this place kids in iran forced to grow up too fast and hold on to childhood dreams a little while longer. now the u.n. atomic watchdog has found that iran is complying with the twenty fifteen nuclear deal with world powers a new report from the international atomic energy agency says tehran is sticking to

limits on stockpiling and enriching uranium the agency says it had access to all sides this is the second report into iran's atomic activity since the u.s. withdrew from the agreement in may. now thursday is international day of the victims of enforced disappearances a report by human rights watch has highlighted mexico where thirty thousand people have gone missing since two thousand and six john home and sent this update from mexico city only. to the religion it is just a few. minutes go. by organized crime. authorities and. the relatives and. incredibly this is all it. has been. a trying home to turn news not have you heard today and help these people i want to find their missing relatives instead he was heartbreaking stories from those who are serving their own

without the civilians here equally stuck by police. investigating. we've had to be the investigators did check to see everything we produce our reports the go thorough eighty's and they just shelved they don't use them a tool makes us very sad because we're putting ourselves in danger. but it's been exhausting painful and sad like you're drowning it finishes us sometimes you don't even want to live. relatively those missing been encouraged. to help the president. and an incoming government willingly. take power. really what they're. looking for their lost loved ones who to finally know at least what happened to the . seven more far right rallies in the eastern german city of china's against

government immigration policy this follows their arrests of two men with syria and iraq in fact rounds suspected of stopping a german man to death on sunday donna cain has this report. their messages last note and it is clear they are the people whom their country has forgotten neglected so they say by a government that encourages tolerance and integration on thursday they took to the streets of chemist's to oppose a meeting of solidarity between the main parties taking place nearby was to highlight their distrust of mainstream media perhaps around a thousand people here protesting against the numbers of migrants in the cam that's in fact official figures show only around one and a half percent of the population here is from syria and afghanistan this

demonstration was peaceful in stark contrast to the scenes on sunday and monday when thousands of far right and far left protesters threw rocks bottles and fireworks at each other and at the police the violence flowed from the events on sunday morning that german nationalists fatally stands during also cation with two migrants in the wake of that many people wondered if there'd be collusion between elements of the far right and someone in the judicial system on thursday an official admitted to having leaked the details of the suspects he has been suspended on a wider level this week many germans have been wondering at the strength of the far right in saxony one local analyst explained how their approach has shifted. they use facebook and twitter and if this would not suffice to telephone calls and they say well something ugly has been happening here we have to show that we do not agree with it and we have to make clear that there is many of us.

the people here speak with a loud voice and seemingly a united voice but then numbers across germany remain very small but their message certainly is being heard across this country. is. the challenge for the political elite is what they will do about it dominic came out zero candidates. austria has proposed using the european union armed forces at the blocks borders to keep out undocumented migrants the country's defense minister mario classic outlined the plan that a meeting of e.u. ministers in vienna austria governments currently led by a coalition that includes an anti immigrant far right party germany and other countries have expressed concern over the proposal the ugandan opposition politician robert kagan widely known as bobby weiner has been blocked from flying abroad for treatment government soldiers dragged one away from entebbe airport as

he attempted to board a flight to the us wine was charged with treason last week this family accusing police of beating him in custody the authorities say he can leave the country for treatment after a government doctor examines him british prime minister to resign may has wrapped up her three day trip to africa the visit to south africa nigeria and kenya was planning to boost trade outside the e.u. which the u.k. quits next year reports. this is been a crucial trade mission for the british prime minister brics it is less than a year away and to mitigate the expected disruption in trade with europe the u.k. needs to strengthen economic ties with africa. links which have been allowed to decline in recent years in two thousand and one the u.k. provided ten percent of kenya's imports last year the figure was barely two percent analysts say teresa mayes raft of technology partnership and investments

initiatives comes not a minute too soon because it's a huge amount of investments can china and even can the united states the largest private equity firms back from the united states are investing in africa at this point of time amazon has things like the african regional open the danish it is for example where they're collecting huge amounts of data from this country and the u.k. if they don't get in at this point they're going to lose out the world bank forecasts africa's economy will grow by three point two percent this year and three point five percent next by twenty twenty five africa's g.d.p. is expected to be five point six trillion dollars to tap into that potential the u.k. is establishing several new programs to improve coordination and support of africa's tech industry and at the same time the u.k.'s overseas aid budget is being targeted to nurturing entrepreneurs and encouraging private sector investment as i've said this week i want to ensure that the u.k.'s relationship with kenya and with africa

is more and more private investment about doing business and making the most of commercial opportunities together. here is elsewhere in the continent where using our aid and our supply ships to lift countries out of poverty spread stability and create jobs and prosperity for the future corruption is a problem estimated to result in more than fifty billion dollars of assets flowing out of africa every year on thursday theresa may promised that any corrupt funds originating from kenya and seized in the u.k. would be repaid to nairobi this issue of coming and saying now we're going to turn your money after investing and trading in it they should actually put the interest that that money accrued and give it to us unconditionally with apologies because they are culpable or being accessory to the theft and that's a conspiracy and this is what has been happening twenty sixteen the u.k.'s trade with nigeria south africa and kenya africa's biggest economies totaled less than

seventeen billion dollars compare that to the seven hundred twenty billion dollars of trade that the u.k. enjoyed with the european union that year the prime minister will be pleased with the largely positive headlines she has received but the balance sheet remains a concern paul brennan al-jazeera. now while the british prime minister trees amaze well used to the delicate footwork of diplomacy her three day visit to africa might be better than but for her efforts to get into the swing of african rhythms dancing star was on show not once but twice during the trip she did a shuffle with scouts at the un campus in nairobi follow the dons routine in south africa which made headlines for her role the distinctive moves at least perhaps from the pressures of brits that negotiations. now thousands of people are paying their respects to soul singer ethan franklin in the hometown of detroit.

the r. and b. legend patti labelle was one of the stars who took to the stage at the tribute concert one of the last chances of fans to say goodbye to the queen of soul before a private funeral on friday the casket has been taken to the new bethel baptist church where she worshipped a life of john hendren is the tribute concert in detroit. the house of a wreath at franklin is rocking thirty and you got it together for the people tribute to read and you can see how they're celebrating it this is day four days of celebration of the queen of soul she has been playing in repose here at the museum of african-american history for two days after she lay in state at the new bethel baptist church that's where she began singing in the choir became the standout solo singer of the church her father was a preacher and it will end with jesse jackson and bill clinton.

speaking at a. different. tribute to. the end of the week which is really strong local time in a time of celebration. part of a quick check of the headlines here this hour the u.n. special envoy for syria is warning of what he calls a perfect storm in italy province if the government pushes to retake the last rebel stronghold staffan de mistura is calling for a humanitarian corridor or to free nearly three million people trapped there argentina's central bank has raised the key interest rate to sixty percent it's trying to prevent its currency from tumbling further. the peso has lost more than fifty percent of its value against the dollar since the beginning of the year south

sudan's opposition leader rick machar signed a peace deal to end nearly five years of civil war he agreed to it after receiving assurances that a power sharing deal would be honored to have been more far right rallies in the eastern german city of chen myths following violent confrontations early this week thousands of germans have been protesting against foreigners and the government's immigration policy is what follows the arrest of two men with syrian and iraqi backgrounds on suspicion of fatally stabbing a german. austria as opposed to using european union armed forces at the blocks borders to keep out undocumented migrants the country's defense minister outlined the plan of a meeting of e.u. ministers in vienna it suggests placing soldiers that europe's borders to support e.u. god's already stationed there. ugandan opposition politician robert kiani want to be known as bobby wine has been blocked from flying abroad the treatment of

government forces dragline away from entebbe airport as he attempted to board a flight to the us local reports say the m.p.'s been taken to hospital in uganda his family accuses police of beating him after he was arrested earlier this month to say he can only the country after a government doctor examines him. thousands of people are paying their respects to soul singer erykah franklin in the hometown of detroit. the army legend passing a bell was one of the stars who took the stage at the tribute concert. it's one of the last chances for fans to say goodbye to the queen of soul before a private funeral on friday. all right well those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after people in power station thanks so much for. full of struggles. yeah it's. over he said. full of pleasure. out of the goodness of the

lead on the wrong facts about the but i me without a doubt what gift an intimate look at life in cuba today it is what a mom there will be like i say ok perfect but the comment that my cuba on al-jazeera. desperate for a safer more prosperous life millions of people have sought refuge in europe sometimes the dreams have come true sometimes disenchantment until stability have driven them home in the second of two films on these conflicting experiences people in power has been for cambodia where disillusioned former microscope are trying to persuade others from following to sign off.