that period they come in and there are a number of congressional leaders who say look if turkey goes ahead with this we will punish them through sanctions so where are we now ellipses of both sides have taken this to the absolute brink but at least they are no talking to us about selling a new system to the turks which is the peace treaty system which the talks of wanted for a long time and the talks are talking about not switching on the russian system which is just bought for hundreds of millions of dollars. testimony from the u.s. special counsel robert millner has been delayed by a week when it has published a report on russian interference in the 20000 u.s. presidential campaign had been deal speak to 2 separate house committees on wednesday the public testimony has now been pushed back to july 24th at his requests. present donald trump says raids aimed at deporting undocumented immigrants will begin in 10 u.s. cities this weekend his coming under renewed

a time over his immigration policies with some democrats accusing him of cruelty because of conditions in detention centers on the border with mexico mike hanna reports from washington the trumpet ministration is trying to change the narrative of 2 weeks of negative attention vice president mike pence toured a migrant detention facility along the us mexico border different from what we hear from many of the critics. i couldn't be more impressed with the compassionate work that our cause and the border protection to doing here at this facility on capitol hill the house oversight committee heard a different version of conditions inside the centers and what was worst about this mr chairman was the fact that there were american flags hanging all over the facilities that children being separated from their parents in front of an american flag. that women were being called these names under an american flag

we cannot allow for this as we have seen this current strategy unfold intentional and cruelly created by the trump administration dead set on sending a hate filled message that those seeking refuge are not welcome in america in our america president trump has dismissed the claims of mistreatment of their phony sources that even after they write whatever they want but the scrimmage he made clear consider the details of maltreatment are fully substantiated a report considered by the committee was based on data provided by president trump's own administration officials under subpoena among the facts that they confirmed is the fact that as many as 18 children under the age of 2 infants and toddlers were separated from their parents for periods ranging from 20 days to 6 months the house efforts to investigate claims of abuse do not end here the

judiciary committee this week approved a number of other subpoenas to be served on those dealing with migrants the intention to establish whether the implementation of the administration's 0 tolerance policy contravened federal law. washington now you saw the u.s. vice president visiting one detention center in that report well he also toward another facility crammed with almost 400 men in sweltering he's some said they'd been there about 40 days and complained of being hungry mike pence acknowledge it was cold tough stuff and that it expected to be overcrowded however he says the facilities are something all americans can be proud of. the tunisian red crescent says the number of people who died in last weekend's migrant ship disaster has risen to 80 only 3 of the 86 passengers on board are known to have survived after the boat capsized off the coast of tunisia they were taken to

a migrant center in desires it's for treatment the agency says the death toll could rise further. police in paris have removed hundreds of undocumented migrants protesting inside the city's pantheon mausoleum the demonstrators who have identified themselves as the black vests barricaded themselves inside the building for a number of hours they shared videos on facebook demanding their residency papers be normalise and a meeting with the french prime minister into a field that has more from paris. well hundreds of asylum seekers oaky by the policy on central paris just after lunch time a local time here in paris is an historic building in the heart of the french capital that is where famous french women and men are buried it's a symbol of the french republic not symbolism has not been lost on those who have chosen this venue for their protests now the asylum seekers the saying that many of them have been here for years they have the right to ask for asylum they have

papers showing that the french state approves that the sign of request but what they are saying is that they haven't had those papers changed into the sort of papers and permits but for those around them to work legally in this country therefore many of them are working illegally many of them do not have access to housing and they're saying that simply unfair what they are demanding is to see the prime minister it was felipe they want to have the legal right to stay in frauds they say it is a right that was promised to them some of them have been here for a decade without the white papers. freedom is to have our papers to work we are here for violent trouble we here for our right to live working illegally to slavery . so why did it work so that shameful to see this in front of the country of human rights to be scandalous that's why we're demanding papers for everyone in 2018 different government passed a new immigration law perfect president came out on marcos said it was all about

cracking down on illegal immigration but do you think the situation for people applying for asylum here disagree. more ahead on this al-jazeera news hour including how the zimbabwean government plans to help its public workers survive the country's soaring inflation plus a state of emergency and mandatory evacuations as tropical storm barry ballasts toward sinhalese yanna cull sly and old dr always are we knew that wimbledon brown has the action passed federal takes on the da. yes present donald trump of the austin not a member of his cabinet for the resignation of labor secretary alex acosta his face here skepticism over a secret pedia he negotiated a decade ago with billionaire jeffrey epstein who is accused of sexually abusing underage girls radical hain has

a story from washington and i want to thank our god he was a great great secretary and with that another cabinet secretary announces his resignation secretary of labor alexander acosta has been facing intense criticism for giving a very lenient deal to an accused child sex offender jeffrey epstein in 2008 when it cost was a u.s. attorney both he and the president tried to downplay the case cabinet. are temporarily right. it would be selfish for me to stay in this day and when you're talking about a case of lawyers all rather than about basing it on me right now you made a deal that people ask me where the next 12 years later they're not happy with it you'll have to figure all of that out of the bag he did a fantastic secretary of labor a cost is just the latest to go this president has had more turnover than any other president in modern history looking at his original cabinet he's replaced the

secretaries of defense health and human services homeland security interior the attorney general of the justice department the secretary of state the veterans affairs the environmental protection agency the u.s. ambassador to the united nations and now the labor secretary most left due to scandal some facing allegations of corruption both political analyst bill schneider says it won't impact the president support his base it even if he doesn't deliver what he promises to his base they see him as. fighting for them and getting rid of people that are in his way and they think that's probably a smart way to govern a now familiar pattern those close to the president face scandal step down and are replaced and the president continues on knowing so far no amount of controversy has hurt him with his core supporters political gain al-jazeera washington. u.s. regulators have approved a roughly $5000000000.00 settlement with facebook over its handling of the coding

to the wall street journal the federal trade commission has been investigating allegations a social media giant inappropriately shared the information of $87000000.00 users with the british political consulting from cambridge on a letter a settlement would be the largest civil penalty ever paid to the f.t.c. . leaders from aids west african countries have agreed to switch to a single regional can see called the echo that means the former french colonies will give up their use of the c.f.a. franc as 5 a plan to strengthen regional ties and boost straight amity trees has more from ivory coast is commercial capital abidjan. it's definitely leaders of west african nations using b r c a face from the 8 countries in the region under the west african monetary union have decided to go ahead with the rollout of the proposed west africa single currency call this said they are they have decided to go ahead

with a process and any other country but wants to drawing or not decided to join can join later so in the next 2 months we will see the roll out of this currency in west africa that is going to be. legal tender in this region of course to president ouattara the president of ivory coast and was president of this conference and it went on whether or not the new congress will be a park or the existing currency to which he answered. the exchange rate between the existing front c.f.a. and euro will remain the same with the echo comes on board today the exchange rate is $65.00 to the euro before the heads of state decide to join next year the rates will not be affected immediately we hope when echo is launched others will join us there welcome it will be nice to have 12 as the 50 now basically people in the region will be looking up too big a kind of a slight. nigeria ghana and others are still whether or not they will quickly join this process now will be the deciding factor will be how quickly these countries

will join the process of utilizing or other joining be a core currency which will facilitate trade according to the leaders of the other meeting here today now what economists are wondering is what how this will impact the economies of these countries in west africa basically was to africa countries rich in resources i agree cultural and mineral but be the production base is very very slow and they will continue to import most of the products that are needed outside what the export actually is are all materials to the rest of the world for processing. zimbabwe is going to raise public sector pay for the 2nd time in 3 months after labor groups right and mass protests inflation is running close to 100 percent and the country is struggling with shortages of bread fuel and medicine are mortazavi or somehow i. think it's. traditional to charles

bondevik and his wife glenda both take home $280.00 zimbabwean dollars a month after deductions that's roughly 30 u.s. dollars each combining both they salaries they agree to spend no more than $40.00 on groceries but when they get to the till they realize they've gone over budget things are just too expensive to make things worse some products they really need aren't available because of shortages things that takes. very little takes. just taking issue as it comes to this people take us with troops the government is offering civil servants including teachers a cushioning allowance on top of the monthly salaries by that's only an extra 10 u.s. dollars. dreamed of but. i can dream all and can and who we didn't. if.

you take this version is. your door source. when zimbabwe gained independence from britain nearly 4 decades ago it had a strong currency but rising inflation over the years gradually eroded salaries of civil servants these notes were years from 1918 up until 2003 after land reform the economy collapsed inflation was one of the highest in the world that's when the government introduced these they were called the barricades the highest note was $100.00 trainee and dollars people would have to carry a bag of cast just to buy a loaf of bread the money was worth less. been 10 years ago there's a dollar was abandoned as an official currency in favor of foreign money cash shortages continued in 2016 introduced to trade alongside foreign currencies but things kept getting worse last month the government the temper is

a bargain dollar known as r t g s the only legal tender after shopping charles and when they joined the queue for fuel another scarce commodity and for some after finding fuel there is no guarantee they will be power when they get home because of daily and frustrating electricity cuts for struggling civil servants and millions of others this is now an everyday reality in zimbabwe. al-jazeera. the u.n. secretary general says more money is a gently needed to help rebuild be kept to $2.00 devastating side zones and tony the terrorists visited the port city of bear after 4 months after psycho need dying inside diane kenneth the storms flattened finishes killing hundreds of people and leaving more than a 1000000 others home this tropical storm barry is maintaining its strength as it moves towards the usa to have noisy on our parts of new orleans al ready underwater after days of thunder storms and floods states of emergency have been declared with

hurricane warnings issued and long the coast feel cold spac is a research scientist in the department of atmospheric science at colorado state university he says the greatest concern with this storm is the possible rainfall already seen play that is raising the cedar day and even yesterday before we got some rain. for other systems so we're going to you know hurt perry maybe a man fall probably in the wee hours of the morning and they're forecasting and sleet and it is much as 20 inches of rain and as i said you know the signal is already a flood stage this is a way to exacerbate some go flying at a very and because there is a very slow moving storm so the plane caused the biggest concern however obviously is the forecast does it there are 5 it does like into a hurricane right you see going to see some very severe there's just some significant when it passes along and you guys as high as 80 miles an hour and also you are going to see some storm surge so basically 4 it is

a shooting from want to die in 3 to 6 feet high storm surge warnings posted for central mission is in as well as western the city. at least 17 people have been killed and 6 more are missing across nepal after torrential monsoon rains caused floods and landslides. river over flooded its banks destroying roads and flooding towns splays have evacuated people from their homes in the capital kept on due to heavy rains are expected to continue for another 2 days still ahead on the al-jazeera news hour we'll look at why former rebel fighters in colombia are struggling to transition back to civilian life and help in the battle against. a pharmaceutical giant announces an experimental vaccine in sports with some moments of a get in practice at the british grand prix. hello

there we have seen some very heavy rain for the last several days across much of central and southern china still a blanket of cloud on the south lies we've had evacuations for nearly 80000 people across the southern regions and the rain is going to continue to fold i won't quite make it to you in hong kong on saturday. and dry conditions 36 in taipei again with some dry conditions for you should say draw on sunday elsewhere the rain continuing to push towards the north and the east 27 in shanghai with some heavy rain at times so whole leading to all flooding concerns and southeast asia we've got usual showers and thunderstorms popping up generally in the afternoon hours south a little of the cloud and rain across the central regions out tools the west not as bad into southern as sumatra 32 in jakarta and a sunny skies really through much of south of me and sunday will rain against that

also kael a wet day on sunday with a high there over 32 india the rains focusing these monsoon rains on the northeast and in particular on tools bangladesh you can see these bright white. and also seeing those heavy downpours of monsoon rains that will continue on saturday and on into sunday and you can see this line here very dark shading and of course once again this could well lead to some very heavy localized flooding. was sponsored by the town and. you know a strategy or a battle rages over the country's bomb and with activists inviting font stealing a lot of stuff and intimidation from one when they. have these type gone too far on al jazeera and that has to hold on whether someone is going or someone is very rich because not only you think it's how you approach the job and i think it is a certain way of doing it to contest. the story and fly out. every reclaim news

cycle brings a series of breaking stories is maximum jail term has jumped from 5 years to 175 years joined the listening post as we turned the cameras on the media donald trump shouldn't be the one deciding who is a journalist and who isn't and focus on how they were caught on the stories that matter the most they moved closer and closer to lifting the tire shutter problem both international and domestic media's coverage on al-jazeera. you're watching the news hour on al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories the u.s. house of representatives has voted to prohibit the sale of some munitions to saudi

arabia and the united arab emirates so one year these weapons are the ones being used in the war in yemen the conflict has refs thousands dead and millions facing famine police in gibraltar have released all 4 crewmembers of any raney an oil tanker sees last week the ship was detained by british forces on suspicion of taking to syria in breach of e.u. sanctions all 4 were released on bail without charge and turkey has received its for a shipment of the russian s. $400.00 missile defense system a controversial deal was has angered the united states with washington threatening to impose retaliatory such. on the war in yemen hundreds of yemenis have been protesting outside the un office in the capital demanding action against imposed by saudi arabia the shortages are forcing some people to choose between buying fuel and food because they can't afford.

fridays a day of prayers for much of the islamic world for these people in yemen's capital sanaa they are praying in front of the u.s. office as a sign of protest they want saudi arabia to lift its actions and. we've been protesting outside the u.s. office for nearly 100 days to put more pressure on the world body to uphold its main responsibility and allow fuel shipments into yemen as they have even been sold from countries involved in the oil. officials from an oil company here say the saudis. is preventing 6 oil tankers from docking of the southern port city of how they do. the loss of. the restrictions on fuel continues to increase the burden on yemeni civilians 6 or oil tankers have been checked and given permits by the u.n. but 120000 tons of fuel have been prevented from entering her data support that

could have helped the company ease the suffering of civilians and reduce the severe shortages of fuel. most of the protesters being outside the office for $100.00 days now they say they don't want any saudi restrictions on fuel and thousands more are lining up outside the gas stations for hours hoping to get fuel. this is the result of the fuel shortages in the city and the miscues of cars . drives a taxi tells us he spends a lot of his time at gas stations. i spend most of my own is at gas stations. and on food most of the time my family does not have enough. gas station owners say they are also struggling from the lack of fuel in the city. we suffer a lot from restrictions on the flow of fuel into the market i have a big responsibility towards my staff my rent and many other financial. discussed

asian has been set up for women but some say it is not enough. barack i look at the overhead and learn we suffer a lot from severe fuel shortages sometimes i'm forced to leave my car on the road and we travel long distances to this women's gas station. fuel me because for millions of people here and abroad but despite the war and with the continuing crisis in yemen many turned up for this exhibit in the capital i like seeing the benefits of clean energy on the bar and. somehow. in south africa soldiers will be deployed in cape town to help police fight a surge in gang related violence and maddest the defense ministry says they'll be there for at least 3 months but some locals say the military can't fix the economic reasons behind the armrests army to miller has more from cape town. we're in the

precinct of the manenberg police station police have told us that it would be better for us to full within the police station rather than out in the street because it's not safe it's been 24 hours since the minister of police announced that the national defense force would be deployed to areas of the cape flats the army is going to target at least 10 areas here that are infested by gangs where there's a high crime rates especially murders and this is what's led to this decision by government the minister of police says things are out of hand and this deployment is expected to stabilize the situation here so that police can do their jobs people here say that they live in fear and even as that announcement came from the minister of police this evening we've continued to hear gunshots people here telling us that it's likely gang violence and perhaps a lot of that coming ahead of this army deployment people here are scared they say

that they have difficulty sending their children to school people often keep indoors because the streets are unsafe we have seen homes that are riddled by bullets people here say that this deployment by the army is a long time coming at a normal day would be a day with these noble islands that would be normal though everybody is trying to figure out why you sit quiet what is happening the extent to which going to. put people have become desensitized to these a lot of and within the community there's a lot of trauma also within the community because of the history of violence in in the the decision by the government to deploy the army to the streets of the cape flats has both its supporters and critics many are worried that policing in this area will be militarized they're also concerned that soldiers don't have the training to deal with survey. millions but many here are also supporter of they say

there's no other way to deal with the levels of gang violence they also accuse the police of being corrupt and one other concern is that police are under resourced just to give you an idea in affluent suburbs in cape town there are about 135 people to every one police officer here on the cape flats there's about one police officer to about 721 citizens police simply current keep up and the government is hoping that this deployment of the army will stabilize the situation and that people here won't live in fear. at least 10 people have been killed during and it's happened a hotel in the somali port city of kiss my oh the fighting happened at the hotel where local elders and politicians have been discussing an upcoming regional election a journalist group says to reporters are among the dead the armed group has claimed responsibility for the attack. syria now and it's been described as the offensive

by syrian government forces leading the campaign against rebels the northwest are now on the defensive more than $120.00 soldiers and fighters have died in heavy fighting over the last 48 hours in hama province and as in a hot air a force from neighboring lebanon present bashar assad's forces are finding it hard to make substantial gains. syrian government forces and their allies are struggling to take ground from the opposition their offensive in northwest syria has been costly and difficult instead of advancing they have been defending their territory and the face of a coordinated and fierce counter offensive launched by rebel factions but both sides have suffered heavy casualties in the battle for one town how many at a village in northern hama more than 100 soldiers and rebels are believed to have been killed according to the syrian observatory for human rights it says that in more than 2 months of fighting nearly 900 soldiers have died on the government's

side while nearly 1000 were killed on the rebel side and yet the russian backed campaign has yielded little for president bashar assad's side. but it has brought a lot of destruction rebel controlled towns in and around it live province are being targeted in russian and syrian air strikes more than 500 civilians have been killed more than 100 of them children. health facilities ambulances civil defense headquarters all destroyed. just in the last few days ago clinics for schools that have received. civilian targets that is really unacceptable we have a total of more than $300000.00 people that go displaced in the last 2 months and our top concern is really protection of civilians the basic rule of. i words of condemnation have been repeated in reese. weeks but little accountability

or pressure from the international community to stop the offensive russia and turkey will decide what happens next that has become a proxy war between them even though they should be working together on syria through the so-called athan a process they were sponsors of a cease fire and last year instead they are using it as a bargaining chip and another member of the aston a team iran is involved as well. unlike previous offensives iranian backed troops are not on the front lines it's believed to be one of the reasons why the government has made gains it leaves those foot soldiers it seems there is no understanding between iran and russia on to an arms ruled in post conflict syria and it seems russia and turkey do not agree on how to split northern syria. civilians are paying the price. beirut. china is vowing to impose sanctions on u.s.

companies involved in a potential arms sales to taiwan beijing says the $2200000000.00 deal seriously violates international law says the u.s. state department has approved the proposed sale which could include $250.00 stinger missiles and tanks taiwan's president is currently in new york on a 2 night stop over for an official visit to the korean caribbean china has told the u.s. not to allow the transit stop. pharmaceutical giant johnson and johnson says it's preparing to test an experimental hiv vaccine it will be the world's 1st immunization against the virus the drug maker plans to conduct a large scale study of the vaccine across the u.s. and europe some times this year hiv which causes aids kills about a 1000000 people around the world each year dr cardiff and back from the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases. the purpose of this vaccination is to create a method of preventing people from becoming infected with hiv we're testing it

in the americas to test it specifically in game and transgender women importantly there's a parallel study that is already falling and rolled with this vaccine that is in sub-saharan africa being tested in women so we're testing this vaccine simultaneously in the highest risk most important populations that need a vaccine the fundamental obstacles have always been does the vaccine induce a strong enough immune response and then does the vaccine response stick around long enough to protect. the studies that we've been following with this vaccine it looks like we're in pretty good shape on. colombia's president has asked the u.n. to keep supervising is fragile peace agreement with the 2016 accord ended the world's longest running conflicts and included land reforms and programs to bring

prices back to civilian life but. for some the call can return in southwestern colombia the reforms have mostly stalled. heartbroken and helpless relatives of former fired gravel and cry over his coffin. the 41 years old which showed that on july 9th as he went to work at his fledgling pineapple field. pieces coffee is our life he believed in this process was surrendered his heart to give himself to peace now closed took away his life his laughter his dream to see his children progress. he's the 9 x. combatants from this demobilization camp in southwest colombia to be killed when if more than 140 nationwide. since surrendering their weapons 2 years ago former combatants were promised security guarantees access to lend and support for productive processes but most have only received the monthly allowance which is set

to expire in august of the more than 200 former combatants and their families that built the mobilization camp only 27 remain the rest left in search of work opportunities or fleeing serious death threats. some former fighters set up agricultural comparatives with the help of international n.g.o.s and farmers associations catulus worked in this field planting pumpkins and beans among other crops they've started a fish farm and raise pigs but it's coworkers say they feel powerless and fearful. this is very difficult news for us our companion was coming with seeds the way the government is failing to fulfill the peace deal is desperate we have no financial or political stability. current colombian president a critic of the accord promised to help former fighters while insisting on changing

parts of the deal he announced new security measures for them after receiving threats former local far commander cutler's and tanya acosta was given a body.