despite their ongoing operations against eisel it out there are no officials insist the group has been defeated and play down the fears of a comeback. we hope that both iraqi and kurdish forces unite together and eliminate any remaining pockets of terrorism across karkoc the security situation remains a challenge for everyone here if security is improved economy will be boosted. kid coke is a melting pot of iraq's major ethnic groups. cuts and talking live side by side here. the recent the opening of conflicts apple to commercial flights has instilled in the residents of this it. has been used as a military base by american troops since two thousand and three and later and cut a special medical forces. our thought we have overcome many obstacles to make the dream of reopening the airport for commercial flights a reality for the people of her province our province is

a symbol of iraq's diversity and it represents the unity of iraq kirkuk is also home to some of iraq's alderson most productive oil fields the province coming clipper knees us up to four hundred fifty thousand oil and there are plans to truck some of these coote to iran but the road to the border is yet to be sick you would about makes the fight against remnants of i still have been more urgent. about. sending out another day another warning to the migrant care of and in mexico heading towards the u.s. border the president says they are an invasion and anyone caught crossing the border illegally will be detained until that claim is heard in court asylum is not a program for those living in poverty there are billions of people in the world living. at the poverty level the united states cannot possibly absorb them all asylum is

a very special protection intended only for those fleeing government persecution based on race religion and other protected status well the president has olds thousands of u.s. troops to the border with mexico he's told them that if they face rock throwing migrants they should react as though the rocks were rifles despite the threats warnings and denigration the like when say they come in peace. we're going slowly we're going peacefully we're not aggressive if we go aggressively than will be treated like terrorists we're going peacefully to get a chance to work in the us the only thing we want is to work to take our families forward to get a better life because in honduras you can't get anything you can never get ahead no matter how hard you work there's nothing in honduras president trump let us pass we're going peacefully we're not aggressive. and one of the many families in the migrant kind of has been telling a reporter john holeman of the struggles they will encounter every step of the way

. when alexander starts his day's journey at three am he's not even awake he's system maria is and every step is a small tool it's not just legs a little used to walking a marathon every day she's developed to call. them on half whether it's because we're sleeping rough the winds get to her that's why she's sick this is a day in the life that the re is a lie a family durance travelling in a caravan trying to reach the us today's route forty kilometers to the mexican town of weeks they've left early to avoid the midday sun but dad alvin is struggling to rule can push the stroller in a dorm break he explains why it's that this is that this is the leg it's bad it's this one with policy or it's been seven months mum elin has sophie's eight months pregnant but she didn't want to have her baby but code that meant it let out alone he would have suffered like the other children they're born into poverty off to for

i was she struggling then the family gets a break a ride from a passing truck it revives the flagging children it's set some down before a migration checkpoint one of several in the south from its commercial without papers their only hope to get through is by sheer force of numbers they have to wait for the others at least erling compressed two hours later the caravan catches up and passes together the type things worked. but as mid day approaches the race allies have other problems no food or water no spare clothes a man pulls up out of nowhere and helps with the first two and then the third. becomes he said he makes consent been divided over the caravan but today help is ever present this lady simply sweeps up the family and pays the bus tickets just in time at the end of their strength. and it makes you wonder what's going to happen

to them i just had to help and i saw the baby they finally made it two weeks here they can rest but there's no shelter so that we just have these blankets for the children don't sleep on the pier pavement as the rain fools they try and work out their next move so everyone is just settling down now after what's been an exhausting day but they've still got about two thousand summit says to get to the buddha and that they cover right that's going to take them at least a month and a hall but first there's a lawyer a his family has to try and get through the noise john home and how does he weeks. well in a few moments we'll have the weather with stuff goaltimate still ahead here on al-jazeera. we will no longer of he's dictators and despots here are sure. nothing is more sanctions against what he calls the point of tyranny and lots of america. grow bored by beach but to think it's just full time little straighter

than just. printed sport could you say balls football dream be coming to an end those details this summer in sports after the break. from the waves in the snow. to the contours of the east. hello there we've got some more wet weather building across parts of the middle east at the moment the cloud is already visible on the satellite picture you can see the clowns there bubbling up the red sea and then making their way towards the northeast across many parts of saudi arabia and then heading northwards now at the moment the heaviest of the downpours are on along the western coast of saudi there but as we head through the next couple of days this whole system is going to intensify and push its way towards the north let's have a look at that happen then as we had three saturday some showers there up towards

iraq and then it intensifies and moves its way north woods we're expecting some fairly heavy downpours out of this particularly over possible saudi she weight as well and across into parts of iraq and that system then back was back around towards the east coast of the mediterranean so you can see this whole system here is going to give us some fairly heavy rain now for the most part this will be quite useful rain but it will also cause a fair amount to disruption because you can see the the direction of the wind are it's feeding up from the south and they're going to pick up a fair amount of dust as well so i want to pull creates a rather severe weather out of that i should imagine giving us some heavy downpours and and little bit of flooding at times too talking of flooding but also some severe weather across parts of the mediterranean at the moment i've seen video from sicily showing some flooding that's currently happening there and it's stretching up through parts of italy as well. the weather sponsored by cattle and race. and monday pointed world on i j z the u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west

africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for the dry riverbed like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the war. history has called it the great war in the first episode conscription draws hundreds of thousands of arab troops into both sides of the conflict their story is rarely told but had a huge impact on the course of the war world war through arabic bodies on al-jazeera.

book about to the al-jazeera news arts a whole rob never mind of our top news stories the u.s. secretary of state says sanctions are being prepared against these involved in the killing of jamal khashoggi saudi leaders have so far resisted international pressure to reveal who ordered the journalist murder aides to proud principle have been salon implicated. also the saudi led coalition has launched new offensives in yemen it's begun an operation to retake the port city of data which is under the control of who the rebels in the early hours of for. i.t.v. coalition also attacked sanaa international airport and an adjoining base also phone lines in some areas of pakistan have been cut by the government to try to stop two days of protests over eight blasphemy verdicts supreme court judge just

spout out rage when they acquitted a christian woman sentenced to death for insulting islam eight years ago. or more on this let's go to watch it some soul her son who's a former pakistani high commissioner to the united kingdom joins me now from the british capital good to have you with us on the program sir successive pakistani governments have had a problem you're dealing with the blasphemy law and amendment two which was brought about by a military dictator in the one nine hundred seventy s. nots created a much larger problem for pakistan over the years years it is indeed a problem because there's literally to the edge of those looking to do that and to bless the law of the brother by the real or the there were not very bullet of the there was hardly any chance of anybody getting making a false accusation and getting over that but this time he used to use

a lesser love for political ends to economize is. for little opponents so this has come to really really mostly abused law in the country and every government democracy government has tried to amend the law but they did not have the majority in the parliament and if you're already for the moment they're going to really proceed with that in terms of what's going on right now on zimmerman so we mistrust that been tense what's going on right now it is the first major test of the current government is his response to the nation just what twenty four hours ago the right way of dealing with it right now. well it is definitely a major challenge to khan's government and han has made a very big commitment to you yesterday when he does the nation he said that we are not going to draw great and the sort of a position to the judgment by the supreme court of bug stand which is the epics order and the desmond has been based on months reasons and solid facts and

evidence and not just i think is a sham of some of the men who fought among themselves in the field and they accused of committing lesser so again that is challenge for khan because he had been you know in the past accused of. having close ties with his rightist extremist parties taleban in the us but now the time has come for the congo man to take on these people who have been you know very is smaller group of people but having you know all the time calling for these said dens and the strikes and bringing the country to a standstill by capturing the key points you don't need laying for that for that matter laying the federal capital under siege by sorting to wylie's so there's

gomen has taken a stand and i hope it's sort of eyes that the stand and it takes on and then to takes effective measures to deal with these miscreants and restore those laws are a because people of others who up peace loving they are really fed up with these people and use a vision for their own small need and you know if it is sand that made that may be the case but also we're seeing in parliament that we have some political parties that are quite happy to make political gains from this impasse of the mental certainly this problem that. can say since with we with this whole blasphemy issue you've got the p.p.p. set me supporting him at the moment because they too had one of their senior party politicians assassinated over the very word of trying to change the blasphemy law to. look after all but certainly to try and take the charges away from b.p.

no i didn't before up b.b. there's law had been a sponsor on foreign hanging a few people on the grounds of bless me but in the times of benazir bhutto when she was prime minister she did tried to do certain administrative measures richard made it impossible for anybody to give a divided by just symbolic is a thing somebody of committing less than me at it was thought that said the measures would be introduced by the parliament to reduce the impact of this are gracious less of a law but unfortunately the no government so far has said do it third regard due to ring about it change but i'm sure because i believe in that bigger the better he's bought the pakistan people's party would go all out for any death amendment and the blessing of a law because it is an abuse of law and i'm sure now be but b.m.i.

and we're also joined this because i've been there also know that these miscreants have been the sponsor for destroying fees and law and order in the country i'm sure if all of these political parties join hands they can bring about a change and it will have a very good effect on have a major broad as well as within the country because our society seems to have become very vividly oppressive we should see what does happen certainly in the coming days so the moment why should some sort hazon thanks very much for joining us from our london bureau. thank you. now the murder of jamal khashoggi is highlighting the dangers facing journalists worldwide the united nations is recognizing that with an international day to commemorate reporters who died doing their jobs or the killers remain unpunished from london. anticorruption journalist daphne cairo on a. killed when a bomb exploded under her car in malta one year ago.

palestinian photographer shot by israeli forces during a mass demonstration along the gaza border in april. and at least eight journalists murdered in mexico so far this year their profession now categorized as high risk in that country and getting riskier almost everywhere else this year seventy five journalists at least have been killed roughly to a week i've yet nobody gets punished for these crimes so what we want are buying international norms in the form of a united nations convention so we're trest the question of impunity because impunity doesn't just affect the journalists or their families it affects the whole of society because the implication is that if you can get away with killing a journalist more people are likely to attack and kill journalists and in that way more journalists end up self censoring in certain societies where they're under threat in one nine hundred seventy eight told

a day not unlike this one bugbear in dissident and journalist yogi markup was murdered on london's waterloo bridge allegedly by a member of his country's secret service the weapon of choice a poison tipped umbrella. attacks on journalists are nothing new they've been going on bryza long as the powerful about something to hide from the people but the silencing of free speech is no less shocking for that whether by bombs by bullet or other insidious means. the two thousand and eighteen version of the umbrella murder on waterloo bridge the alleged strangulation and dismemberment of exiled saudi journalist jamal khashoggi inside the country's consulate in istanbul the middle east is at the louis rank of the. reporters without borders index for freedom of press it is the was pleased to be a journalist we know of cases where journalists have. just one in many in

syria in palestine in egypt across the region in the gulf this is a pattern that has gone on for far too long what chance of justice for her and the great many others the u.n. notes that in nine out of ten cases the killers go unpunished jonah how al jazeera london. even general christians from the united states have made a rare visit to saudi arabia they've met senior saudi government ministers and the crown prince mohammed bin slim on the kingdom is trying to repair its international reputation in the wake of the murder of jamal khashoggi some of the visiting group pastore pro israel and described themselves as zionists several are close to u.s. president donald trump saudi arabia bans all religions except islam and doesn't officially recognize israel the us president trump ours announced new sanctions on venezuela and warned of more measures against cuba and nicaragua his administration

has branded them a troika of tyranny measures include sanctions on venezuela's goal sector which the u.s. says has been used to finance criminal groups u.s. citizens are not allowed to trade with people or networks involved in its sale or export national security advisor john bolton says new sanctions on more than two dozen entities owned or controlled by the cuban military and intelligence services will be announced soon and he's threatened action against the nicaraguan government of president daniel ortega which is accused of cracking down on protesters and eroding democratic institutions we will no longer appears dictators and despots sure will not reward firing squads tour.