all right still ahead on and you know when we come back a special report on the migrants making a secret journey across the border from central america into mexico. pleading not guilty to the new zealand mosque shootings the accused gunman smiles as he denies them out of 51 wash post and terrorism. the web and sponsored by cattle and ways. had i would still hot and stormy in some parts of eastern europe on thinking of poland in particular and that's the line to watch it's slow moving which means it can sunder for hours on end as it did so tina is in fact leaving 77 marys right which is sort of an irrelevance there was storm damage in this part of poland and has been recently started here as well because this front is marching slowly in that direction this is all in an area which is

typically in the low thirty's celsius which is pretty good for this time of the year which means the thunder potential exists all the way from the baltic states down towards turkey to the west is dumping quite the same the weather's been coming off the atlantic so tickly in the british isles it's not been very warm though in london it's up to 18 today but in france and dies by now there's been a cloud left but the temperatures are on my way up again only 25 in madrid is not particularly high and rain returns to west and so it's in the fronts come saturday the circulation still being very obvious. over land in june in europe in north africa very little in the way of showers it's the wind direction that affects the when the typically here so although it's still 35 in tunis not far away now it is $25.00 and still on the coast america it's a mere 20. the weather sponsored by qatar airways.

is a dialogue i'm reading about it for lessons on international media and on t.v. why should we stop this conversation with skepticism because there's a lot of that on why everyone has a voice we are being taken advantage of just because we are small community without any let's work just each help join the global conversation announces iraq all they want to do is start a project the same kind of stream. again you're watching al-jazeera reminder of our top stories this hour u.s. has released a video it claims shows men on their own iranian military boat removing an

unexploded mine from the hull of an oil tanker 2 ships were damaged by explosions on on thursday the japanese owner of one of the ships doubts it was damaged by mylan says his crew witnessed flying objects before an explosion. iran calls accusations by the u.s. alarming and says it is in charge of security in the strait of hormuz and their ships were among the 1st to rescue crew from the damaged tank with. iranian president hassan rouhani says the u.s. is pushing an aggressive stance that cannot be tolerated made the comments to asian leaders on the 2nd day of talks at the shanghai cooperation organization in kyrgyzstan police in thailand say they have enough evidence to charge the crew of a boat carrying wrangle migrants from me n. mart with people trafficking. $65.00 men women and children were found on an island in southern thailand after the boat had engine failure it was bound for malaysia

one many rahane where many would have tried to escape 2 recently in what police fear is a new trafficking campaign by people smugglers 3 quarters of a 1000000 fled me and ma 2 years ago during the military crackdown against the muslim minority when he has more from bangkok. this boat came ashore on an island off the coast of southern province in southern thailand the boat developed engine trouble and crashed on to rocks as it was on route to malaysia further south where more than 20000 have been given shelter in the last few years after fleeing violence and persecution in rakhine state in western me and so in this particular case the police have charged the thai skipper of the boat and 5 crew members from me and mine are with assisting illegal immigrants entering thailand and it seems they will also be charged with human trafficking because the police have already said that there is enough evidence to do so this is of course

all driven by desperation in many cases the rich in your pay relatively large sums of money to get on board these boats often run by trafficking rings the promise is that they will be given security and shelter possibly even citizenship in another country if they make the journey the reality can be very different they can be sold into slavery they can wind up being killed in 2015 there were many graves of ripping you discovered on either side of the thai malaysia border or they can be abandoned if the thais find them in the ocean they are often towed back out to sea so they can continue their journey further south if they come ashore in thailand it can be very difficult for them thailand does not recognize the rights of refugees or asylum seekers so it seems likely that the $65.00 men women and children will be spending quite some time in immigration detention centers while they wait for

possibly transfer to another country police in hong kong are bracing for any further demonstrations that may break out on friday night after days of demonstrations against a bill that would allow suspects to be tried in mainland china more prate protests were planned for sunday and monday. traitors have said they remain committed to preventing the government from bringing the bill into law rob mcbride joins us now from hong kong so rob the hong kong government is saying that the change is necessary and that the bill has to be passed but it this comes just as a senior government member seems to have hinted that a delay may be needed to head off a further conflict what more you hearing about that. that's right hasn't this comes from the channel he is a senior member of the hong kong government and also a senior advisor to carry land the chief executive speaking on the radio program

friday morning here when he said that in the light of the violence that we've seen around the legislative council the mini parliament this been discussing these controversial changes that that council it's impossible for them to have a rational discussion that maybe there should be a delay for further consultation now this is just one member of the government his comments but it does come from a government. normally has a very tightly controlled message it's difficult to see how he would make such a statement without possibly that statement having been vetted or still officially the government says it wants to go ahead it has to go ahead with introducing these changes in the law but effectively what we've seen is we have seen a delay since wednesday of further discussion it does seem as though the government has been shocked stunned to some extent by the level of opposition the level of violence and this may be has in just a slight hint of a more conciliatory tone from this government all right for the moment mcbride in

hong kong thanks will. a force member of the same family has died of the bowl of virus in the democratic republic of congo 2 relatives a 5 year old boy and his grandmother succumbed to the virus in neighboring uganda world health organization is holding an emergency meeting on the deaths in africa and whether to declare a global health emergency reports from uganda's capital kampala. where a hospital in which the new ganda is where the 5 year old boy in his grandmother died both had recently attended a funeral in neighboring democratic republic of congo with the boy's grandfather. to the virus health officials say after the burial other relatives accompanied them to uganda most of congolese nationals who were sent back on thursday after an agreement was made between the 2 governments to repatriate them the district surrounding the hospital is on alert began and government has banned public gatherings in the district as the ministry of health tries to control the spread of

the virus causes internal bleeding and. ugandan doctors say 2 other patients are being kept in isolation. the latest outbreak of ebola in uganda spades from the east and. the outbreak has since killed 1400 congolese and infected 2000 just over 500 have been treated to contain the sprayed had been hampered by militia attacks on treatment centers and hostility towards medical teams in the bustling markets and uganda's capital kampala concerns are growing. about you know. i think. this is. just.

does. not. pre emptive measures are being imposed ugandans are being urged to wash their hands with soap following previous outbreaks in uganda doctors and nurses are experienced in dealing with ebola patients they've also help contain outbreaks in sierra leone and other countries in west africa and emergency vaccination campaign is being set up in united health workers on the frontline in number of people over 700 frontline health has another one we are vaccinated in. and so from friday we shall be back again more frontline hills other work ring vaccination. the alert is spreading to the world health organization and emergency committee is planned on friday to determine whether be a gander she become an international public health emergency. algiers or.

a military judge to leaders in sudan are admitting they ordered the dispersal of the sit in protest in khartoum which led to the killing of dozens of demonstrators protesters released new video of last week's crackdown. despite an internet blackout a spokesman expressed regret for the deaths of hundreds of protesters. a mexico has delayed sending national guard troops to its southern border and till the end of the month an official overseeing the force told is there an increased military presence is still weeks away it is one of the conditions of a deal with the u.s. to stop migrants trying to cross over from central america deal struck to stop threatened tariffs on all old mexican goods. a little known town is being used to ferry migrants across the border between guatemala and mexico low security and regular people smuggling operations led to the area becoming

a crossing point for thousands our correspondent john heilemann joined their perilous journey. you have heard of the caravans thousands of people from central america crossing into and through mexico for they've attracted international attention and the anger of president donald trump. but there are other caravans to these ones a secret but over the last year they've almost certainly carried far more migrants than the ones in the news here they are convoys of trucks which head out from a little guarded border point between guatemala mit's co locals say they carry hundreds of people go most nights they controlled by people smugglers each of the charges has paid them thousands of dollars to get to the u.s. border. this one's been cool but it's the exception. is a scene from another night state police open

a truck see the migrants packed inside and wave it on. and this is where it all begins impoverished communities in honduras el salvador and here what the model where people like daniel desperate to get to the u.s. said. you can come good on the dream that you have a house or a plot of land an education for your children i struggled for my. family but i can't give them that future here. 3 months ago he agreed to pay smugglers $3500.00 for himself and his son to take the journey they made their way to the guatemalan border town of grass roots of the oss this incumbent shown on the mexican side of the care about the meeting points where people smugglers squeeze 50 to 70 people into trucks for the season that's it for. you can't sit down because your scores together my son started crying because people thought on top of him they covered it up with top wall and. they set off from grass you

said the us towards mexico crossing this wide open border on the way in 3 days of going to and fro we would never ask for documents different smuggling groups take over the route as it goes into the territory moving the migrants from safe house to safe house it's lucrative but it's getting harder after pressure from president trump miscues governments tighten security along the border week with a mother feels a little. more toward me now there's not a lot of movement they still go but it's gone down 50 percent it's more discreet. but it is still happening we staked out the caravan in a roadside field a local contact told us he'd seen the lorries loading up shortly after we saw them heading through followed by several issue these. caravans of going coast that go in front of christe it's clear that we've been seeing it just wait for

a chance to see it we go to and we just saw the long line of trucks good post migrants told us the smugglers usually let them out just before the u.s. border they can then cross and ask for asylum daniel never made it that far the convoy he was traveling in showed up early on his uncle was killed but with nothing at home and from now away north he's already. saving to go again john homan. grasses of the us the man accused of the mosque shootings in new zealand has pleaded not guilty to the murder $51.00 worshipers brenton terence infuriated relatives of the dead as the charges were read out andrew thomas reports from christ church. a a $51.00 people killed 2 mosques on march the 15th on friday the man accused of the shootings pleaded not guilty to murder brenton tarrant's lawyer said his client also pleaded

not guilty to 40 charges of attempted murder and one of engaging in a terrorist act tarrant seen here when he was 1st in court the day after the attacks appeared via video link from where he's being held in oakland he stayed silent but often grinned or smoked at one point he winked his camera more than a 100 family members of victims and people who were shot but survived wearing cool to see him for them it was difficult everyone. when you see the smiling face of a joyride say. his lawyers say he's not a guilty that makes me the after more upset and you shall not going times yeah in the al normal yeah and there you were seeing the man accused of doing that so yeah i'm strong what in new zealand they say stay strong and we are stronger than him yeah and then he's down to the weakest link he is going to be

a loser in we will win in march yama not be invited al-jazeera to his father's funeral on friday he came to see the man accused of killing him can get angry you just have to take a bit come in i work in the day after leaving the father loved one when i have family look any day now but others are angry we lost our. beloved part of our. clearly very very upset thing it's very upsetting. and. i really don't have at this point that would say this is the only way that won't happen these ilands abolish the death penalty a nice 99 and hasn't executed anyone for more than 50 years but tarrant does face

life in prison if convicted trials in new zealand normally start within a year of an arrest but the judge said that would not be possible with this one given the complexity of this case and the amount of evidence it won't be until next may that brunson turn to strikes and that trial could last as long as 3 months under thomas al-jazeera christchurch. this is al-jazeera that's going to round up at the top stories the u.s. has released video it claims shows men on an iranian military boat removing an unexploded mine from the hollow of an oil tank 2 ships were damaged by explosions in the gulf of oman on thursday but the japanese owner of one of the ships doubts it was damaged by a mine and says his crew witnessed flying objects before an explosion holes and more are going to the crew is saying that it was hit by flying object they're

saying that something came flying to put a bomb on the side of the boat is something we are not considering what iran calls accusations by the u.s. alarming it says it's in charge of security in the strait of hormuz and their ships were among the 1st to rescue crew from the damaged tankers earlier iran's foreign minister zarif accused the u.s. of sabotage diplomacy. iranian president hassan rouhani has been addressing world leaders at the shanghai cooperation organization in kyrgyzstan he said the u.s. is pushing an aggressive stance that cannot be tolerated as. the government of the united states over the last 2 years is using economic and military capacity and is creating an aggressive approach the united states has stepped over all the norms and regulations of the international community and has created new threats for the region and the world who the rebels in yemen say they've attacked an airport over the border in saudi arabia for the 2nd time this week saudi commanders say air

defense systems intercepted 5 drones targeting our airport that's near the town of hama some shade around 100 kilometers from the yemeni border police in hong kong are bracing for further demonstrations are after the earlier protests against a bill that would allow suspects to be tried in mainland china war protests were planned for sunday and monday demonstrators have said they remain committed to preventing the government from bringing the bill into. police in thailand say they have enough evidence to charge the crew of a boat carrying migrants from myanmar with people trafficking $65.00 people were found on an island in southern thailand after the boat had engine failure it was bound for malaysia where many really tried to escape to recently in what police fear is a new campaign by people smugglers those are the headlines we're back in half an hour right now on edge is it or is the stream.

we understand the differences and the similarities of cultures across the world. so no matter where you call home al-jazeera will bring in the news and current affairs that matter to you. al-jazeera. i fully ok i'm only you're in the stream today we explore the impact of anti-abortion policies around the world including 100 us this total ban on the procedure and a prohibition rights campaign and northern ireland a 1st a look at the trump of ministrations enforcement of a global gag of war otherwise known as the mexico city policy and a report by a women's health organization that says it is potentially a leaf threat have a look at this video explaining the policy of tweet us your thoughts. that the

u.s. hasn't funded abortions absolute since 1973 because of a law called the homes of men the global gag rule goes much further it prevents the federal government from funding organizations that provide access to all information about abortions it doesn't matter if the money were actually spent on abortion services republican presidents since ronald reagan have imposed that of the gun but president trumps and is the most extreme instead of only targeting family planning the ban applies to any organization regardless of what services they provide in other words if a facility that provides cervical cancer screening even mentions it may be forced to scale back or shut down for lack of us on then. a recent report by the international women's health coalition says that the trump administration's reinstatement of the mexico city policy is ultimately killing women joining the stream via skype in new york to help us on pack report out so as president of the

international women's health coalition was the biggest headline from this report is what would you say really should be catching our attention around the world. the report documents the impact of the global gag rule in kenya south africa nigeria and nepal 4 countries that received they receive a lot of global health assistance from the united states governments and what we see are health services being reduced women losing access to sexual and reproductive health information and services including contraception. treatment for hiv. tuberculosis and other services so it's not only about limiting access to abortion to safe abortion it's actually damaging the provision of health services for women and as a result women are already dying as

a result of the global gag rule dramatic findings there francoise but i want to show you this tweet we got jamie she says i would encourage the official name of the policy in protecting life and global health assistance calling this the global gag rule is a talking point of international planned parenthood and marie stopes and is not unbiased reporting she's talking to us at the stream there and she goes on to say other countries don't want the us forcing abortion policies on them talked to us about that view that giving money from the united states to fund organizations that deal with women's health and women's health care and some of that might be abortion is in her view forcing u.s. abortion policy on them it's rather the opposite i think what we're what the u.s. is doing with the global gag rule is contradicting the national policy of these governments for example south africa which liberalise its abortion on in the 1990

s. up to deliberation of the country in fact has one of the most liberal abortion laws worldwide and the global gag rule is preventing health providers in the country. from actually mentioning abortion providing abortion referring for services abortion services and even engaging in national debates on abortion policy and abortion law and so that is contradicting the policies of south africa the same is true in nepal which liberalise its abortion law in 2002 and to a certain extent also in kenya where the constitution to 2010 constitution provides for a right to abortion when the health of the woman is in danger has a policy on a political or a story about. real women. tell us one story covered by the reporter who want to share over our international audience so for example as

a result of the global gag rule organizations that had to make the very difficult choice to either accept us funding and stop providing abortion care and information in referrals or. to accept us funding and then turn women away when they show up at the clinic with an unwanted pregnancy and that has meant that organizations have been put in a very difficult position of turning away clients so in kenya for example a group that is working very closely with young sex workers on hiv prevention explicit to sign on to the global gag rule because they didn't want to lose their hiv funding but as a result have turned away young sex workers with unwanted pregnancies and they already documented a number of cases of deaths from unsafe abortion including a young woman who had tried to insert knitting needles in her cervix to try to terminate her pregnancy so it's already killing women and we can we can document.

stories like difficulty here with thank you for sharing that that's why we got this video coming from a carmen but also she's the interim executive director i'm global doctors for choice and she talks about the rest. the global gag rule is and conscionable because it drives women too unsafe service is what abortion because they don't have access to safe services where abortion and then why we don't think women's lives and women's health should be subject to this terrible threat our thanks to carmen for that comment will pause our discussion of the global gag rule busy there and into a campaign by pro-abortion rights activists in northern ireland where both women and medical professionals can be prosecuted under anti-abortion legislation crafted in $861.00 here's a doctor and i make up

a data had to say. and you send the always looking. into. you does it make any sense for them to want to don't move for the you may not know that i. was the leader of that island and the united kingdom had this problem how do you. think you're going to charge. last year's referendum in the neighboring republic of ireland which legalized abortion has given pro-abortion rights campaigners in northern ireland hope that change is possible so how are activists pushing to bring the region in line with the rest of the u.k. and with us now from belfast northern ireland kelly o'dowd is the co-chairwoman alliance for choice an organisation advocating for the bodily autonomy of women

transgender men and non-binary people and elizabeth nelson is a writer and activist for the belfast minister network welcome to both of you want to start with this new we got from a member of our community joe on twitter says i think the issue is finally being recognised in the rest of the u.k. because of things like ireland's referendum and sadly because of the backward steps in some us states i predict most people would support the law being changed from westminster while there is no northern ireland executive so help break this down for us alyssa bit the issue being recognised what does he mean by that. well what he means is that trial long time abortion on that island has been and i s'posed continues to be a very controversial issue but we've seen a massive shift in public opinion over the last decade i would say. to a point where most people in northern ireland according to several opinion polls that have been conducted would support abortion in northern ireland very some

people would only supported in cases of rape and fetal fatal fatal fetal abnormalities where some people would support our campaign for decriminalization for abortion but regardless it's absolutely true to say that public opinion has shifted and it now seems that people are that rather that the politicians are out of step with the public and northern ireland who want to see human rights for women actually delivered care why isn't over not and still operating a law that's over 150 years old. and get it yes it's quite bizarre that we are about and 1967 and the rest of the u.k. and had an abortion act and i'm not at was never extended to northern ireland so we find ourselves in a very precarious situation that we are perceived as you can see the dozens we had a c.m. taxes but we're only able to access the stamp reproductive health care of the rest of his business and and we also and today the department of health actually released figures of women who travel from northern ireland so today we find out

that 1053 women traveled in 2018 from their home in northern ireland to england and we lost access to legal abortions there and those figures have gone up but i think nearly 19890 since 2017 so that's a situation that we find ourselves and we are exploiting women and to child access reproductive health care which they should be able to access and northern ireland and so that's why we're asked people online are upset about that at least some of them helena says i feel that politicians in the u.k. are handling this issue atrociously parties against the abortion laws in northern ireland are not making this enough of a priority this is a human rights violation on our doorstep and yet we hear so little about it can you understand that view but to see taking their elizabeth out yet there's absolutely a lot of anger and kelly out of this kelly i hear you said as well so it's elizabeth you go to prison cal you come in after. there's a lot of anger i think particularly because of the way that politics are set up at

the minute in westminster after the general election in 2017 the democratic unionist party which is the northern ireland party has actually been involved in propping up the conservative government and that has without a doubt led to their priorities for that island being implemented or rather things that they don't want to see happen in northern ireland being blocked so they would be very much an antiabortion party very conservative and the equal marriage all sorts of things like that because they are so interested to the survival of the conservative government it means were. facing an even harder uphill battle because they have been able to block the government from interceding and delivering human rights as is their responsibility human rights are not good it is absolutely the responsibility of the westminster government whether human rights of which abortion is one and they are the ones who are abdicating their responsibility just to stay in power cannot just to add to. that we have we have the specter that is breakfast so we have had and to be a lot of the u.k. is moving towards decriminalization so $967.00 abortion act is not

decriminalization but there's an even westminster to say the 67 act is no longer fit for purpose and decriminalization is where we should be out and i think people are no more cognizant that northern ireland should not be left behind but because of drugs that because of the tory chaos and you know leadership you know leadership competitions going on at the minute northern ireland and again our women are fundamentally left behind and again we've had no storming of family for 2 years but as it lays already said this is a human rights that she and seato have set up devaluation of our human rights and it should be dealt with in westminster again elizabeth and kathy just like an earlier conversation is almost impossible to separate abortion policy from politics people are noticing and i'm going to shave his head i'm reading from the guardian newspaper abortion or in northern ireland he's cautioned that in alabama alabama the state of alabama now has the strictest abortion policy in.