thirty seven heads of state and all the other representatives from about one hundred fifty countries who were present today but of course the absence in the room was also very clear there was no significant representation from the u.s. as well as other major european countries who still remain deeply suspicious of the political agenda of this summit by china all still ahead on al-jazeera picture of the war. new un report on the number of civilian casualties. hello the weather's lossy dry across much of the middle east as it should be now

some places say it's. much better than has been recently into parts of iraq into iran of its wasn't going to stop and had some still a few showers in the forecast as we go through friday but they are pulling away twenty one celsius feel compelled to get up to around sixteen and twenty nine in baghdad temperatures starting to nudge up and just around the levant getting up to the mid twenty's for beirut out also for jerusalem over the next day or so i could catch wanted to shout by saturday to central parts of turkey elsewhere much of iraq iran is dry find it's sunny twenty two celsius a couple we've got thirty six in karachi we're getting into the thirty's to now quite widely across the way but instead behave we do have some base of plowed into central areas of saudi arabia over towards the red sea and we see the cloud could always catch a special two of right so that includes us here because i was a go on through the weekend but biologics settled and it is a sunny may want to southern africa but all eyes on mozambique now here we have

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welcome back you're watching al-jazeera time to recap our headlines now. here is revising the number of people killed in sunday's suicide attacks down to around two hundred sixty that's about one hundred less than previously thought the prime minister is admitting confusion over fatality numbers and intelligence failures more attacks warnings of being issued judges in sudan have for the first time joined the three week mass city in a military headquarters to demand civilian rule three leaders say they're willing to hand over top government positions to civilians if they insist on retaining control of the transitional process china's president has told world leaders gathered in beijing hill cut anticompetitive subsidies to chinese firms the issue

is a major bone of contention in the ongoing trade dispute with the u.s. . the afghan government says it's doing all it can to prevent civilian casualties the reassurance from kabul is in response to a united nations report on casualty numbers it says pro-government forces including the afghan army and u.s. forces killed more civilians in the first three months of this year than taliban and i still find shell about us has more from kabul. the u.n. has been keeping the civilian casualty numbers for ten years and this is the first time pro-government forces jarvey of which. u.s. military have killed more people in three months than the taliban and i so combined we asked the afghan government first focus off of this report came out we got a response twelve hours later in the statement they say that they take ownership and responsibility for their engagements and i howled accountable for their actions

in the statement they also reference in march when they realized that civilian casualties were getting out of hand president danny summoned his ministers and said i want on says the national security adviser he also says that haiti has called for investigations into all its civilian casualties and that he is expecting the declassified report from the findings of those investigations to come out soon that he will release publicly after the un report came out he also appointed a deputy to the national security council to specifically over look the civilian casualties the defense minister has spoken on this talked about civilian casualties because his response. unfortunately during the war we cannot say there were no civilian casualties the media has said that we are denying there are civilian casualties unfortunately they have been happening for a long time we can promise for our people that we will try our best even i can say

there were times our planes have gone to a target two or three times and didn't start an operation because they didn't want to kill one or two civilians even during ground operations our forces have been fired because of one civilian and we are proud of this. the taliban has also reacted to this un report they issued a statement saying that they have tried to bring the number of civilian casualties down to zero and they say they have been largely successful now that is true to a certain extent civilian casualties and this report down by twenty three percent which is the lowest for the beginning of the year since twenty three are seeing and that is largely due to a drastic drop in suicide bombings by the taliban and to a certain extent i saw how with in the report the taliban is countable for thirty nine pursuit of civilian casualties now that has hundreds of afghans and the u.n. is accusing them of deliberately targeting civilians because they target government employees and of course govern employees civilians. at least one thousand three

hundred mainly cuban migrants have staged the largest mass escape in recent memory from a mexican detention center their family say they've been facing overcrowding and unsanitary conditions in the facility meanwhile the caravan of some three thousand central american migrants has been broken out by immigration officials in southern mexico. reports from the mexican state of. the central american migrants are being chased by mexican immigration agents in coordination with federal police immigration officials now appear to be adopting a more aggressive approach toward migrants tearing through mexico's southern border . is traveling from us she and her family room on a group of thousands of central american migrants that was recently rounded up. they came and started rounding people up it was very violent mothers ran screaming

and children were crying foul and it was. some three hundred seventy five people were captured during a raid. many who managed to escape ran off into the surrounding countryside over the next few days migrants were forced to move about in secret under the scorching mexican sun and with very little food or water. that caravan which had numbered as many as three thousand people has since split up mexico's president has maintained that the nation's immigration policy hasn't changed saying instead that mexico's national migration institute is trying to achieve a more orderly and safe movement of people but the reality on the ground here in southern mexico is very different. checkpoints like this one along the highway leading north from the mexico guatemala border have seen an increase in federal police officers interviewing motorists and searching vehicles for undocumented

migrants. the growing criminalization of migrants traveling through mexico could mean the mexican government has cait to pressure from u.s. president donald trump. but mexico is now stopping people coming very easy for them to do stopping people coming in through mexico they keep it down if they keep doing that now if they don't or if we don't make. a deal with congress the border is going to be closed hundred percent ok what are your. along with a crackdown on migrants mexico is also no longer issuing humanitarian visas but despite efforts to dissuade central americans from leaving their countries the flow of migration shows no signs of easing official estimates suggest three thousand migrants have transited through mexico so far this year. for families like the nessus who are fleeing poverty and violence in their home countries and are unwilling to return to central america the only choice is to continue their journey

north through mexico toward a country whose president has repeatedly said they are not welcome. at mexico. former u.s. vice president joe biden has officially ended the twenty twenty race to the white house. attempts of the presidency and the white house correspondent kimberly how could explain 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 talks america night dear my dear it is stronger than any army figure in the ocean more powerful than any dictator 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 through tuesday. like any art ever seen in my lifetime fighting argues that despite looking a lot like trump his views are starkly different or in 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 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 were to reduce the number that joe biden will have to convince the diverse and 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 kimberlee help at al jazeera the

white house almost seventy people have been killed and hundreds of fled their homes after heavy rains caused flooding and mudslides in south africa it's once again raise concerns about poor government infrastructure. has more from pinetown one of the worst affected areas. this is what's left of several roads in pinetown he range in the last few days along the east coast of south africa to get catastrophic flooding and landslides wiping out homes and tearing down power lines. have tried to salvage a few positions things that can't be easily replaced and a six year old sister was nearly killed during the deluge. the houses collapsed and. she managed to get out just before. most people were killed in areas around the port city surrounded by hills

prone to landslides and. lost everything when a house collapsed she didn't realize how dangerous a downpour was until it was too late for a surprise costs which are so huge during the night. during the during the week just think it's rained. every folks. in. some here say part of the reason for the flooding is the government's failure to regularly maintain drainage systems. plainness says i don't think it's because of what's happened it's nature this. weakness or. us here and also fell in other parts of south africa but it's the hardest hit province the landscape in some areas has completely changed as water neighbor used to be here it was just a piece of land with

a few homes on it but many houses were washed away by water they are a few structures that managed to survive but they are standing and with more heavy rain and gale force winds forecast the risk of further flooding and landslides remains how to al-jazeera pinetown south africa. now in mozambique tens of thousands of people have been rescued from their homes after kenneth made landfall on the north coast mozambique is still recovering after the devastation from psycho just a month ago. an eleven day campaign of climate protest designed to cause major disruption in london has now come to an end exiting should rebellion demonstrators targeted the city's financial district on the final day of demonstrations have been calling on the u.k. government to declare a climate emergency and take radical action on climate change in french president emanuel micro is offering tax cuts and bigger pensions for those living

in poverty so-called yellow vests protesters say that still not enough have been demonstrating against economic inequality and they're planning to take to the streets again on saturday from paris and the reports. at his first presidential press conference on domestic affairs emanuel markoff 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 vestry protests if the cost of living in the state of politics emanuel mccoll 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 i does a policy to continue with his reforms will suffer. in paris yellow vests supporters gathered after the president's speech and said that not give up their battle the sort of my reaction to he says speech is one ward resign when

a government does not answer to people who need it is necessary to hold elections again we will continue your demonstrations to convince mr mccraw on to the side of these government. the real test of 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 itll 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 the tasha butler al-jazeera paris. or come back let's recap our headlines now more bomb attack warnings are being issued in sri lanka and the number of people killed in sunday's suicide attacks is being revised down to around two hundred and sixty that's about one hundred fewer thought so far the prime minister is admitting confusion over fatality numbers as

well as intelligence failures a number of people have been taken in am sorry i cannot be you know the number but yes some are on the run and the third found them remains or the first is to round up those people we have to admit the failure in intelligence the breakdown in the flow of information. and that's one of the matter that are being investigated. even in regard to the numbers of dead while the police have told it is three hundred fifty the health ministry said it's more about two hundred sixty so i've asked them to verify their numbers and let me know and i did to their shock i mean if not for the lapse many of them would be alive today. judges in sudan have for the first time joined the three week mass sit in headquarters to demand civilian rule tens of thousands demonstrated overnight in the capital khartoum following the

overthrow of president obama as bashir military leaders say they're willing to hand over top government positions to civilians but they're insisting on retaining control of the transitional process. china's president says he'll cut and he compared to subsidies to chinese firms it's a major contentious issue in the trade war between the united states and china she addressed a summit in beijing on the belt and road project it aims to link two thirds of the world's population through improved infrastructure and trade deals residential areas of tripoli are turning into battlefields that's the warning from the international committee of the red cross after three weeks of fighting for libya's capital forces loyal to warlords there are fine thing against the un recognized government in tripoli. it's now time for risking it all stay with

us here on al-jazeera back at the top of the hour with more news. china is a problem has become famous for its large number of elderly many age one hundred years or older one i want to investigate see if the raging holds the secrets to a long and healthy long on al-jazeera.

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on the way home the young couple who know each other since childhood already knows that the bag of notes will not provide enough money for the whole family and it's no longer possible to collect any mole because the torrential rains will turn the forest into a quagmire for weeks. since the death of his parents twenty six year old genco is the head of the family and

has fifteen mouths to feed and. he had to give up his medical studies and claudia her dream. genco younger brother roma who's eighteen will go to university in his place but there's just been some bad needs very long out of the public they said. just sit fees give us some. of them become a. few. looking for a solution genco tries to negotiate with the village co-operative for more than the usual prize. that's a good drama thank you every one. in.

fifty dollars or twenty five cents a kilo one be enough to pay for roma's university registration. lower rates ensure the bolivian harvest has continued to live hand to mouth. there's a consignment of nuts that might rots gie to the moisture. to avoid losses eg it must deliver them as quickly as possible to a processing plant. but he's just found out his tank is empty and he has to buy fuel from a colleague who you know. planted in the month of may. despite his troubles at gary's happy because for once he won't make the trip alone. if.

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precious cargo of know begins a perilous journey through the bolivian amazon to the capital la paz. edgar was divorced a year ago he lives alone and this trip during the school holidays is the only opportunity to see his son. to made him. feel that way but it was such a long time but then once you get going to let him go. in three days' time it's back to school for alan one thousand three hundred seventy kilometers away. if he's late as afraid he's ex-wife will no longer allow him to have his son. but it's the rainy season and the route through the forest has already flooded slowing the

traffic. across a tributary of the amazon the rio benny. this year exceptional rains have caused massive flooding. is. more inclusionary from. going to. the dock has disappeared under water. there are no boats to cross the river. the long wait is frustrating. a ferry struggling against the current finally arrives.

edgar is one of the first to pull but there's not enough room for every one. moment that the person will come out on to some of them but they. no i said. the bus is too long. so the sailors let the real wheels rest on the rusty fragile ramp. they usually try and get as many customers as possible on board ignoring the safe. with an old engine and a very strong current piloting the ferry is tricky. enough

but the gun. control going to slow the bucket for a nickel i. the ferries no longer being pulled. and begins to drift i. gets dangerously close to the banks of the river. the steering cable is finally repaired and at the last moment the pilot manages to safely guide the ferry across i.