have the dead fighters where from the city. of tripoli they left to and have to as forces took control last month. is lamenting the fallen fighters he says they were brigade mates neighbors and lifetime friends. they were killed by half to warplanes in all here area we just took up arms to defend our city and on or after forces came a thousand kilometers to enter our city we didn't go to their ears the homeland is our cause it has taken lots of blood and souls we will return to carry on no matter what it takes. them and when tripoli but have to this forces went through very yann since april fourth they have been fighting forces loyal to the you recognize the government on the southern outskirts of tripoli while the world health

organization says close to three hundred libyans have been killed in the three week battle for control of tripoli and tens of thousands forced from their homes many civilians including women and children were killed by indiscriminate shelling the owner recognized the government accuses have to his forces of targeting gray's attention areas with heavy weapons more than thirty thousand people have been displaced and aide workers are struggling to reach people trapped in parts of tripoli the forces of the u.n. recognize the government are valid to push half the forces south out of tripoli. fighters lake mohammed and his comrades are determined to reclaim the city but with no sign of the fighting in any time soon there are likely to be many more commemorations in this main square with at the. tripoli.

well still ahead an al-jazeera not an exclusive club china's president reassures the world about his signature foreign policy project. and the war on migration goes south mexico succumbs to u.s. pressure and cracks down on central americans traveling north. welcome to another look at the international for cars some place a vehicle some pass a weather coming into texas over the next as i we have had was supposed flooding to close the eastern side of the state and that's been pushing its way across louisiana mississippi easing of its was alabama sweeps it was to go through friday surprise us guys come back behind tempest in dallas get up to rather more agreeable twenty five degrees celsius the let's see clever around the eastern seaboard middle

of the states looking pretty wet that right pushing out through pennsylvania new york arrived into new england eastern parts of canada looks like a pretty wet day on friday coming ladislaw see fought in trying to get to that cloud and rain that we have around the rockies north of the border we could even see some snow there just spilling over towards calgary that's going to drift a little further east for its saturday west coast is fine and dry and by saturday east coast is largely fine and dry just push up into new england as the east policy kind of get some wet weather around here as is the case to just drown the northern plains we got some wet weather too just making its way across the caribbean clouding over anywhere around the gulf of mexico down towards the yucatan peninsula that's going to sink its way further south what's an ace was for saturday was like a day of sunshine and shallow as for much of the greater antilles.

for drug use. seeking to get clean one rehab option has been raising serious questions work based therapy a so-called treatment that is a long one and no pain. faultlines investigates how people reeling from drug ece having exploitation added to that was. recovering from rehab on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera reminded of our top stories this hour sri lanka's health ministry is revised the number of people killed in sunday's suicide

attacks are more than one hundred the prime minister says some body parts were wrongly counted in the death toll now stands at two hundred sixty. sudan's military leaders say they're willing to hand over top government positions to civilians but insist they will retain the leadership of the transitional process in the capital khartoum tens of thousands of protesters including judges have been camping outside the military headquarters demanding civilian rule. the international committee of the red cross is warning residential areas of tripoli are being turned into battlegrounds at least three hundred people mostly civilians have died in three weeks of fighting for libya's capital. russian president vladimir putin says he wants to help resolve north korea's nuclear standoff with the u.s. he was speaking after his first face to face meeting with north korean leader kim jong un steadfast in reports from the lot of us. it's almost

a year since russian president vladimir putin and fighter. north korean leader kim jong un to russia now today finally met face to face for the first time i thank while russia and north korea and neighbors ties have become more distant so instead collapse of the soviet union both leaders say they want to change that. i am proposing a toast to happiness and the beautiful future of our two countries people as well as the health of our comrades and friends here. do you know rice ation dominated the two leaders nearly two hour long private meeting with inside the united states and russia have mutual interests and that is a north korea without nuclear weapons or terribly we're going to what is denuclearization it is to a certain extent disarmament of north korea of course i have spoken about it all the time and can confirm once again the north korea side speaks about it as well

democratic people's republic of korea needs guarantee of its safety and sovereignty even though no concrete results were announced came and put in both used this summit to send a message to the united states two months after denuclearization talks with donald trump and vietnam failed they praised each other extensively clearly showing the world that their very first meeting was a success it's a third foreign trip this year for kim jong who is staying here at the university campus his long and what he described as candid discussions would fly to me a put not only show that he has to turn to but also that he has options before considering signing a denuclearization deal with the united states. putin said to have asked him to convey north korea's position to the u.s. government the russian president will also meet chinese president xi jinping in the next few days while russia has not been included in thoughts about the korean

peninsula for some time this summit might have brought putin's involvement a little closer step al-jazeera. russia. putin is among the many world leaders attending what's been described as china's biggest diplomatic event of the year president xi jinping addressed the summit on his ambitious road infrastructure project linking two thirds of the world's population tried to address concerns about china's investments putting countries deep into debts beijing is expected to invest one trillion dollars worth of infrastructure projects and seventy countries to treat you as the latest from beijing. thirty seven heads of state are in beijing this weekend for the belgian reform including russia's vladimir putin and nike and one hundred from malaysia and they're about seventy countries involved in this parliament together they make up about thirty percent of the world's g.d.p. but for china this isn't just a discussion about maritime and railway infrastructure projects for china this is

a long term project and really their attempt to reorder the global economic and political order what they want to do is pull the power away from the west towards themselves putting themselves at the center of it and really becoming a flag bearer for globalization and we saw president xi jinping say in his address that he was going to sign more fee trade deals and he's also addressing some criticisms of the belgian road project the u.s. and the e.u. have said that it's really just vying for more political influence by beijing and it's getting countries into a debt trap by lending them this money and then sort of being beholden to china because of it so during his speech he did emphasize that they're going to put forward some more us. and it's to fight corruption to put more sustainable green financing and to really have a higher standard of infamy mentation in these projects but for all the criticism the better road project is starting to be taken more seriously by other countries

and we saw a big win for china actually with italy joining the first g seven country what's clear though as more players are involved in this project china is aware that there is going to be more scrutiny and they're really going to have to deliver on better deals more effective deals and deals that are truly a win win not just for china but for the countries in which these projects are implemented in former us vice president joe biden has officially entered the twenty twenty race to the white house mark says the term the presidency those are white house correspondent can be held that explains his candidacy is not without its challenges. so glad to be here with you today never before have the candidates to become the u.s. democratic presidential nominee been more diverse of the twenty running many are candidates of color and female joe biden is neither in the battle for the soul of this nation that might be one reason biden chose the issue of race in his

announcement video to be a candidate for u.s. president books america tonight dear my dear it is stronger than any army figure in the ocean more powerful than any dictator or tyrant he's confronting his vulnerability and selling it as a strength. he says with u.s. president donald trump blamed the deadly twenty seventeen white supremacist rally in charlottesville on both sides are new threats to the station. like any are never seen in my lifetime fighting argues that despite looking a lot like trump his views are starkly different or touch with the issues progressive and younger voters care about but biden's decades of experience as a vice president and senator also present challenges will be scrutinized for past traditional views he says have changed over time on issues of race and women's rights last month he defended himself against accusations of inappropriate touching

of women. and changed. her. given five and shifting positions many younger a progressive voters continue to support senator bernie sanders candidacy. they see biden as the old guard washington fail to stop trump and the progressive see sanders as a consistent challenger of the democratic party's establishment wing joe biden has a wealth of experience decades of experience the problem is joe biden's record is all over the map but perhaps one of the best men. years of biden's vulnerability comes from his former running mate president barack obama america's first black president obama's spokesperson so far has praised biden's candidacy but stopped short of endorsing biden river windsors. when the moment joe biden will have to convince the diverse useful members of the democratic party that

a seventy six year old white man is the only candidate that can defeat president donald trump it's a paradox that biden will have to work to overcome kimberley health at al-jazeera the white house mexican immigration agents have detained over three hundred central american migrants who attempted to cross over to the u.s. this week it's the largest raid they've carried out in more than a year the detainees were part of a caravan that was traveling north through mexico and with immigration checkpoints now dotted around the south of the country people are taking more dangerous options they're resorting to sitting on top of a train known as the beast. and seen people die old lose limbs in the pasta for the north my view of apollo has more from i mean. we're standing near the railroad tracks in the town of in southern mexico just under three hundred kilometers north of the mexico guatemala border and it's kind of

a surreal scene to my right is a freight train known as the beast in spanish and to my left a group of central american migrants and all i would say that there's some around three hundred central american migrants that are waiting to climb aboard this train now the reason that we're seeing so many of these people opting to climb aboard this specific freight train which has been known in the past to claim the lives of migrants who simply fall asleep and fall off the side of the train cars is that many of them are afraid to walk on the highway or hitch rides on the highway given a change in attitude by the mexican people and the mexican government themselves and i say this change into. attitude because in the past when we would see migrant caravans making their way north across the mexican border with the wal-mart with water mala we would see people walk among these migrants with open arms we would see donations taking place and we would see mexican officials simply allow them through mexican government was even handing them humanitarian visas to allow them

to transit really throughout the country none of that is happening any more it's almost a night and day change you can hear that that's a train signaling for more people to get ready the trains are getting ready to move now. most of the people that we've seen have already climbed aboard but what we're hearing overwhelmingly from central american migrants predominantly from honduras is that they're afraid they're worried they're uncertain about what their next steps are going to be but they are determined to make their way toward the u.s. southern border. thousands of bosnia and serve attended the funeral of a prominent bosnian serb businessman and government critic. and his bodyguard was shot dead on monday the forty eight year old was a vocal opponent of bosnian serb nationalist lead to me that i don't think he's been accused he had accused him rather of stoking tensions to divert attention from his corrupt practices french president emanuel my call is all for tax cuts for workers and more money for pensioners living in poverty but supporters of the

so-called yellow vest protestors have been demonstrating against economic inequality say that still not enough and they're planning to take to the streets again on saturday from paris reports. at his first presidential press conference on domestic affairs emanuel mark karr said he'd listen to people's grievances over social inequality and the french political system in response he offered a raft of new policies including a reduction of m.p.'s and income tax cuts for workers let me you're going to fuel the best way to address the needs of fiscal justice is not to increase the taxes of dispersal of that person no it's rather to lower taxes for the greatest number of our fellow citizens in particular for those bloat and part of the middle class is he also touched on personal matters saying he regretted that some people considered him arak and. i've given the impression of always giving orders of being tough and

at times unfair this i regret because it's not why i am and it's not helped our cause. macro's new policies were based on the findings of the great debate and initiative he launched in january to give people a chance to discuss their concerns at a town hall meetings and online an attempt by the president to end months of yellow fest street protests over the cost of living in the state of politics emanuel not all hope that his speech in new policies will convince french people that he's heard their concerns over the social inequality and he's trying to help he knows that if he fails to persuade them his credibility his popularity and is a policy to continue with his reforms will suffer. in paris yellow vests supporters gathered after the president's speech and said that not out there back to the sort of actual to do it my reaction to he says speech east one word resign when a government does not answer to people from need it is necessary to hold elections

again who will continue your demonstrations to convince mr mccraw on to this of these government the real test the macro will be how the wider public will regard his new policies and whether he's managed to bury his reputation as a president who favors the rich this it'll doubt that the timing is vital halfway through his presidential term and just one month until the european elections he urgently needs to rebuild trust its russia partner al-jazeera paris. let's take you through some of the headlines here now just now sri lanka's health ministry has revised the number of people killed in sunday's suicide attacks down by more than one hundred the prime minister only a worker in a single day says some body parts were wrongly counted and the death toll now stands at two hundred sixty sudan's military leaders say they're willing to hand

over top government positions to civilians but insist they all retain leadership of the transitional process in the capital khartoum tens of thousands of protesters including judges have been camping outside the military headquarters demanding civilian rule the sudanese opposition has expressed fears the gains made by protesters so far could be reversed. of counter. because. i think we're not. quite. and this. agreement. between the military council and ourselves is. any kind of. residential areas

of tripoli or turning into battlefields that's the warning from the international committee of the red cross after three weeks of fighting for libya's capital at least seven fighters were killed in an airstrike south of tripoli on wednesday forces loyal to war three for half dollar fighting against the us recognized government of tripoli. russian president vladimir putin says he wants to help resolve north korea's nuclear standoff with the u.s. he was speaking after his first face to face meeting with the north korean leader kim jong il after the summit kim said peace and security on the peninsula will depend entirely on washington's attitude putin is among the many world leaders attending what's been described as china's biggest diplomatic event of the year president xi jinping addressed the summit on his ambitious belton road infrastructure project linking two thirds of the world's population beijing is

expected to invest in one trillion dollars worth of infrastructure projects in seventy countries those are headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after faultline stay with us. eason sanctus was nineteen when he tried heroin for the first time. and the dog care about one dog one dog in ten things i care about by the age of twenty three it almost ruined him and i just broke. and i'm just tired of living the

out of living. when he checked himself into this drug treatment center in texas ethan knew that getting clean would be hard work. but soon he'd be introduced to a new concept. work based therapy to work alone and they it's all about work these men also ended up in rehab seeking treatment for addictions that had taken over their lives. but their treatment plans were soon dominated by long hours working for private corporations. as a wal-mart distribution center saw it with a low cargo containers listen you need to give me a day off because i can't do this anymore they work these jobs without pay verd to me that it's hard to describe. for you to work every day. it is the of the week you have nothing to show for. and they labored in dangerous conditions the whole life flash before my i thought i was good. a little bit. and while i was all the

one i had to grow in face of the next the wind cleaned up and that's what they call work there and what is work therapies or such just are they saying. you work to pay for your tree. but it wasn't really a lottery. so often people go into these programs blighted for their labor they're injured they're made to feel expendable this is been going on for a long time and no one's really paying attention when these two reporters began asking questions about work based therapy they covered a national trend of all things called old work nothing right. in the midst of an. drug epidemic they found high demand for low cost rehab and a set of labor practices that might be illegal people just didn't have enough time to get their required hours of counseling because work came first these are the

stories of four men who were told that work would help them beat their addictions in this collaboration with the reveal from the center for investigative reporting faultlines finds out what happened to them instead place was. all about manipulation and greed. for five decades a nonprofit called the center court foundation has made a promise to people seeking help with serious addiction lol i was loss loss and i did actually. i live a spinning out of control check into one of cent of course three long term rehab centers in texas and louisiana and work a job to pay for your treatment but there are also. treatments tell it to me that truly worked with the counseling. center for two years later you can walk away

clean and sober. can help you right. they make it out to be a sweet deal until you get there until you get your mind right after you get there and you get little clean time you start at thanks training and then you're now and then you start to think well you know this is kind of shady deal you got. when he entered the program in two thousand and thirteen ethan sanctus agreed to work without a paycheck remember signing this yeah president received no monetary compensation for assigned responsibilities in the facility all funds you see go directly back to the foundation to help offset the costs of treatment services saying isn't right here. soon his days were spent cutting wood at this sawmill outside of houston called. load for the day you know bunch of pals full of wood solid hurry up and get it all down and i've been down

about one o'clock and they bring more. good start on than anybody is going to get tired of working for a year straight not getting you know seven corps clients work unpaid jobs at private companies for eighteen months if they graduate the program they can be hired on as paid employees but the problem is the majority of the people leave around a year they'll make it that long work for free that long and then get mad and tired and leave the power so tight they just they're constantly getting your work a year or ten months for the work from people and then i turn around in the last five years said of course partnership with more than three hundred private companies generated about thirty six million dollars making it one of the largest and most lucrative work based rehab programs in the country. you know wouldn't statement and the court told us that work has therapeutic value for clients ethan says his drop left little time for actual therapy sessions the whole time i was

there i can probably count on both my hands how many times i want to grow up and in the light and love on a war and focus more on like recovery thank. reporters amy julia harris and shawna walter have documented similar stories from about one hundred former senator clients now their investigation has turned to the accounts of former staff. holly is this andrea. after nearly three years as a counselor and of course but miss facility andrea brooks left her job in two thousand and eighteen. and curious what. role you think work plays and recovery and what that ratio should be to counselling just watch. out.

for a while. so in staff meetings we would raise the question they're working too much and he said they did not work that much now we heard that from the client so we wanted to know for a fact thank you bilodeau also worked at the baton rouge facility as a clinical director of. the year at sun a core she became concerned that work was getting in the way of her clients recovering did other counsellors there have the same concerns as you every one of them to you. every time the issue was brought up they would deny and say no they're not working those amount of hours we would say it again they would deny deny and then we just made up a spreadsheet to show the proof at a staff meeting peggy presented senekal monitors with a document that revealed that some clients were working twelve hour days seven days

a week it was gratifying to slide the spreadsheet across with the data or data but you had kind of proof of what you were saying yeah i was disappointed that we saw the facts the facts were delivered the facts were not acted on and that's what i was disappointed about and so i was hope that we had could have made a difference where we could given the more solid foundation to move forward on but it was not it was not that was just kind of fell on deaf ears. outside the baton rouge was still to the long workdays continue. it's just after dawn and these white vans. shuttling senekal clients to jobs. many will end up inside the oil and gas industry some of the most dangerous work places in america. in two thousand and fourteen alister williams was working at a chemical plant called for most of plastics. the job building scaffolds put him

seventy feet in the air. you're right there's this guy right there was cut from here to here on a rainy day alister slipped and fell shattering his knee when you care was nearly on the side of my leg i'm in a really strong she in pain i'm crying and carson. you know please give me to the hospital. you had no training to do. have been a job for very dangerous you know people went on they had no experience at all. you know is right and i've been into the real world and just looking around and just be like you don't know which direction the. after surgery i was to had months of recovery from the phone so i had to learn how to walk on. that's once in a core officials called into a meeting they gave me an automated. you know either get

a job. and get to step. twenty two that's what i was i was faced with. i'd get spent. yesterday. for ethan nevers the choices were even more stark. he could work long hours for a subcontractor at this wal-mart warehouse or face prison time. or you ever worried about you know saying you need a break or complaining about the type of work that you could get kicked out of the program you know we've been told that several times in the. refused to go to work you're refusing to pay for your program and therefore you can leave the program. about half of all clients are sent to rehab by a judge that's what happened to evers after he failed a drug test violating his felony probation i could go back to the judge and see if

he wants or what he wants to do and more like me and so we're talking about three felonies. go away for a while. or some of course. across the us some defendants are being given the option of drug treatment instead of prison. you maybe. inside the dallas criminal courts judge ernest white says incarceration won't help people on his docket beat their addiction. we did lose one of our clients about a year and a half two years ago to her when. we tried to stay on top of the folks particularly after her. judge white special court program requires people to seek treatment make regular visits to court and stay clean test positive for. come back. i'm not buying your story about how.

this is your chance to get it all right. if this man continues to fail drug tests judge white has options he can lock him up or he can send them to a treatment facility like. if you can stay clean it's going to be back to jail and it's going to be inpatient. in a decade judge white to sense many people to live inside cynical facilities. but there's more to the story of this court reform. the unpaid work program. might be illegal they're facing the prospect of jail they're addicted they need treatment they're desperate. i would say they're being preyed upon because of that desperation because of the position they find themselves and i think that the government broadly has an obligation to try to protect us during two decades.

of companies that had failed to pay their workers. we showed them the wavered.