mr chairman it 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 in cruelly created by the top administration duds and sending a hate filled message that those seeking refuge are not welcome in america and or america president trump has dismissed the claims of mistreatment of their phony sources that even have sources they write whatever they want but the scrimmage he made clear consider the details of maltreatment 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. mike hanna al-jazeera washington when you saw the vice president visiting one detention center in that report well he also told another facility crammed with almost 400 men in sweltering heat some said they'd been there for about 40 days and complained of being hungry pen's said it was quote tough stuff and that he expected it to be on the crowded but he also said that the facilities to something all americans can be proud off.

still ahead on the bulletin that will have the latest on heavy monsoon rains causing havoc in a pod class. projects in paris as migrants take over the country and and demand for the prime minister. carlos not looking quite certain mid summary across a good part of europe not far from the direction of cloud as it is mostly a northerly wind it is cool things down but to some degree it's also in harms the sun still as we've seen down the balkans and greece this is in northern greece and this is a clear operation because if you put cold air above a rather warm ground you get some pretty big thunderstorms and they have been

pretty dramatic recently not as in the risk is quite a great quite as great the next 24 hours or so but anywhere in this green mass is going to be at least wet and down the south where we're talking about $30.00 degrees very close by again sundry possibly as hail possibly damaging winds so the risk hasn't gone to these parties great and that's a position for the next 24 hours it does tend to move such that by sunday we've got the shower and thunderstorm risk again in northern greece but also places like remain here and maybe western turkey there all this time that i've been. standing over it in spain and portugal if you woman sally just were 2 shows but in france those sunny it's not quite as warm 23 or 24 with that northerly breeze probably that he feels quite chilly if you're standing in it now the consequence for north africa hasn't been that great in fact temperature wise was still quite high in tunis. sponsored.

every weekly news cycle brings a series of breaking stories this 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 is a focus on how they were caught on the stories that matter the most closer and closer to the. shutdown both international and domestic news coverage on al-jazeera. good to have you with us on al-jazeera these are our top stories protest as a back on the streets of hong kong to voice their discontent at china's influence

the gathered and the border district. where they say mainland chinese shoppers of pushed up prices and just stopped at the local community. turkey has received the 2nd shipment of a russian missile defense system the united states is threatening to impose sanctions and retaliation. and the u.s. house of representatives has voted for a 12 month freeze on weapon sales to saudi arabia and the united arab emirates but the amendment aimed at stopping the killing in yemen still needs the approval of the senate and president trump. now at least $26.00 people have been killed during an attack on a hotel in the somali port city of kismayo the president of the region says kenyans americans abroad and tanzania are among the dead that's according to the rocks his news agency a regional presidential candidate was also among those killed in the attack which the group al-shabaab has claimed responsibility for. now

south african soldiers are being put on patrols in cape town to help fight a surge in gang related violence and murders the defense ministry says they'll be there for at least 3 months let's go now to our correspondent farm in the militias joining us live from there looking at some of the figures farming the nearly 2000 deaths in the past 6 months a spike in violence last weekend and is this why authorities feel they have to take this move. that's certainly some of the reasoning behind why they have decided that the army should to be deployed that violence is now reached essentially absurd levels people in communities like this one we're in manenberg and they've been calling for some time as well as local governments have been asking the national government to deploy the army because they say police have lost control there been a high number of murders and looking back in the last couple of weeks in 52 hours

alone about 55 people were killed and one of the major incidents was 6 women being found dead in a home last weekend then people here say this is related to gang violence and one of the biggest concerns is that police aren't able to maintain a decent level of safety for people here in areas like this for every for every one police officer there are about $721.00 citizens and that's you know a big difference compared to more affluent areas where there are at least one officer for about $135.00 people and looking at the murder rate in these areas in the cave flats me the army's due to be deployed in the stats so far show that of those 2000 murders that you mentioned almost harf in 10 areas within the boundaries of the city of capetown and those murders essentially go across the

entire province so many questions from either other soldiers out on the streets how are they going to react to seeing soldiers on the streets and do they address the underlying causes of the gang violence. a lot of the people we've spoken have said this is a long time coming they say that the army will be able to stabilize the the level of criminal activity in these areas but there are also critics of this plan who are concerned that the government doesn't have a plan in place besides putting these boots on the ground they say soldiers are not equipped to deal with civilians they're also concerned about the militarization of policing you know but they are many here who look forward to it saying that they aren't able to live normal lives some people have told us that's an abnormal day in these areas is when there isn't any gang violence there just so accustomed to the

level of crime but also once the army is deployed they all of course as you've mentioned questions around that being a long term solution is it just a temporary measure is the government dealing with the greater issue of poverty inequality and and why there is a high level of crime in areas like this compared to affluent areas in capetown where this just doesn't exist in the thank you for that found in a 1000000 live in cape town now the edges of tropical storm barry lashing the u.s. state of louisiana as it moves closer to land a state of emergency has been declared in several parts with a dangerous storm surge as heavy rain and high winds predicted they have been some good news for costas now expect the mississippi river to remain below the navy's protecting the city of new orleans and the sea corresponds jay gray has the south date. area says that it's prepared though you never know every storm is different to give you an idea of what they're dealing with the this is the mississippi river

already at flood stage and it's been that way for a record $260.00 days they stop all traffic it's a major thoroughfare for boats and barges and things like that it's shut down so nobody going back and forth on the rivers you come back across so you can see some of the lights in the power poles here in this area that's normally an area where kids play where they hope little concerts and things like that completely underwater when you talk to people in this area a lot and we just talked to a woman who says she's never seen the water this high and here and now we're going to add the effects of barry on top of that still a tropical storm right now likely be a category one hurricane when it does make landfall thanks. in a pile at least 20 people have died and many more are missing after a heavy monsoon rains triggered floods and landslides about the river overflowed its banks destroying roadways and flooding towns police have a vacuum at homes of the capital come on do the rains are expected to continue for

2 more days sabina stressed has moved from touched london. i'm here in the neighborhood i'm in the outskirts of cashman do where 3 people including a pregnant woman yesterday when a wall fell on them there were a series of cottages over here and most of them. working as laborers around here one of them. and then over here goodman is going to tell us what happened then what he saw yesterday. we didn't know the war was dangerous we had a lunch and since it was raining all of us went to sleep by the time we woke up. across the country at least 20 people have died and more are missing because of both landslides and floods in a city like. many people say that haphazard development has a lot to do with the chi. disasters that we're seeing earlier we walked to areas around the river banks

a lot of the rivers have been encroach it making it impossible for water to flow out of the government has spent millions of dollars in disaster preparedness but as scientists say because of climate change there are going to be longer periods of drought as well as intense rains which are going to cause more of such disasters in the region indeed authorities have transported more than 2 and a half 1000000 liters of water to chennai the city is struggling with months long shortages people living on the outskirts of the city have been blocking roads and holding up trucks carrying water over fears that reservoirs are being prioritized businesses in luxury hotels groundwater levels in the city and surrounding regions have been declining due to a lack of rain for and poor management. accordion actually has rolled out in every train man accused of leading a people smuggling gang is a victim of mistaken identity madani tests for marion barry was extradited from

saddam to italy 3 years ago he was thought to be in a tourist smuggling nicknamed the general he was convicted of a lesser charge of aiding illegal immigration by helping his cousin reachin to be a. police in paris have removed hundreds of undocumented migrants protesting inside the city's pantheon was and am the demonstrators who called themselves the black vests barricaded themselves inside the building for several hours they shared videos on facebook demanding their residency papers be processed and a meeting with prime minister eduardo. has more from paris. hundreds of asylum seekers occupied 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 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 to 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's simply unfair and what they are demanding is to see the prime minister it was felipe they want to have the legal right to stay in france they say it is a right that was promised to them but 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 we did it shameful to see this in france the country of human rights to be scandalous that's why we're demanding papers for everyone 2018 the french

government passed a new immigration law perfect president came out of the marcos said it was all about cracking down on illegal immigration but i don't think the situation for people applying for asylum here disagree. the turners in red crescent says the number of people who died in last weekend's migrant ship disaster has risen to 80 only 3 of the 86th passengers on board and known to have survived after the boat capsized off the coast of tunis here they were taken to a migrant center and for treatment it's estimated that $682.00 migrants have died in the mediterranean so far this year. now today is beach as a fast disappearing because of rising sea levels and erosion the economy relies heavily on the coastline where a number of us called world heritage sites are also under threat so our hierarchs reports. yes seen bran has been fishing for 40 years or longer to new zealand coastal town of harbor in many and while the

traditional method of catching fish hasn't changed for generations the climate has you seen so the effects of global warming are evident in these waters. there's no 80 percent less fish than before we now live day to day we catch a pitiful one to 2 kilos of fish then head home with nothing else to do we have no other source of income. 2 thirds of to newsies population lives along its coast but climate change is threatening their habitats and livelihoods plastic waste water pollution and illegal urban expansion are worsening the problem farmers in the heart and many say their crops are blooming too early pests are appearing and their bees are suffering too. yes ian says the government hasn't responded to their plea for help but they say they're trying to tackle the problem and raise awareness.

of their food service and workshops locally and would report to the government with a budget needed to tackle these issues so if you use coast is also home to ancient ruins a study last year found rising sea levels in coastal erosion are threatening around 90 percent of its you know sco world heritage sites on low lying coastal areas along the mediterranean. we've been traveling from the north of the country and we're heading down the crazy decided to stop here and take a look at these phoenician bathrooms now more than 2000 years old they're also one of 3 unesco walls heritage sites in tunisia that in years to come will be flooded by the sea as you can see it's very close to the ruins. of this beach at the popular tourist town of how matt is expected to disappear and restaurant owners in the area are concerned they could lose their businesses in a matter of years. my place is was. 4050 meters of the

sea. it's only. we're not going to have a breach since it is 80 percent of tunisia's economy relies on almost 2000 kilometers of coastline and with climate change taking its toll people here say it needs urgent protection before it's too late. al-jazeera along to his ears coastline. hello again i'm elizabeth brannaman daughter how were the headlines on al-jazeera protest as a back on the streets of hong kong was their discontent at china's growing and slow and that gathered in the border district of shang shway where they say mainland chinese shoppers have pushed up prices and disrupted the local community coming out in the gun as their with the latest. here they are marching towards the station

basically demanding for transparency regulation from the government they are shouting for caroline caroline to resign they would like her to step down from obviously believe that she's no longer * capable of running the government with transparency they say that it seems as though her focus and her lawyers the are actually with the government of beijing recently and now what they would like is for caroline to step down. turkey has received a 2nd shipment in the controversial delivery of a russian missile defense system the 1st shipment arrived in the capital on friday and the country is expecting more parts for the s 400 to be delivered over the next few days the deal has angered the united states with washington threatening to impose sanctions and retaliation the us house of representatives has voted for a 12 month freeze on weapon sales to saudi arabia and the united arab emirates but the amendment aimed at stopping the killing in yemen still needs the approval of

both the senate and president donald trump. at least $26.00 people have been killed during an attack on a hotel in the somali port city of kiss my own the president of the land regions has kenyans americans a brit and tanzania among the dead that's according to the reuters news agency a regional presidential candidate was also among those killed in the attack which the armed group al shabaab claimed responsibility for. the edges of tropical storm barry lashing the u.s. state of louisiana as it moves closer to land a state of emergency has been declared in several areas with a dangerous storm surges heavy rain and high winds predicted. in a part at least 20 people have died and many a missing after a heavy monsoon rains triggered floods and landslides the river overflowed its banks destroying roads and flooding towns homes have been evacuated in the capital

. the rains are expected to continue for 2 more days those are the headlines on al-jazeera the listing post is coming up next. on counting the cost $3.00 decades after the collapse of the soviet union russia is engaging with africa to raise its political clout and we look at the economics behind that his decision to buy the s $400.00 an f. $105.00 stealth bomber counting the cost and i just hear. you're on t.v. and this story will live on on the web talking about israel and palestine how careful in. your words right now i'd like to think that i've always been careful. but at this moment i'm especially careful not because i want to get away with something but because i want to be heard. magine you're going on the air at c.n.n. and there are cameras there are bright lights there are questions being thrown at

you what goes through your mind what's going through my mind is there are so few opportunities for palestinians to be able to tell our own story i have to get this right it's like a hostile interrogation as a palestinian been so deeply internalised all the land mines that we can step on that i. it's almost 2nd nature and i also know it's had some tough stuff has to be said so critics have to be made but at the core i believe that if i am careful with my words i can help contribute to a conversation that will lead to an outcome that is freedom justice equality and self-determination for every minute. hello i'm richard just heard you're watching a special edition of the listening post from washington d.c. we're still more than a year away from the american presidential elections but there are already more

than 20 candidates running on the democratic side vying for the right to take on donald trump in november 2020 as they establish their campaigns stake out their policy positions and fight for news coverage among the issues threatening to divide their party is this country's relationship with israel. america's support for israel usually at the expense of palestine has been unwavering one of the most reliably bipartisan issues in congress with republicans and democrats standing with their israeli allies through thick and thin but there is change in the air you can see that online and to a lesser extent on the airwaves we have i would say probably the best relationships right now with israel that we have ahead of president trump's unquestioning support of israel and its ever more hawkish prime minister has shifted the debate. in the democratic party the firmly pro israel old guard faces a challenge from

a rising wing of progressives and activists who are calling out israel as never before the goal must be to try to bring people together and not just what one country which is now run like when. there i say racist government they sense an opportunity to force previously taboo topics such as b.d.s. the boycott divestment and sanctions campaign into the political and media mainstream one of the most critical rights that we have in our country it's freedom of speech. our country having the right to economic point the narrative on israel is shifting not just here in d.c. but in news rooms reflecting what is being said online on university campuses and amongst activists across the country. that's what we're here to examine in d.c. new york city and the states of michigan and texas. the most recent

changes in washington began at the ballot box last year's midterm elections sent 111 new faces to the capitol resulting in the most racially and gender diverse congress in america's history for the 1st time more than 100 house members scored today the 1st muslim women michigan's rashida to lead and minnesota's still had almost challenging conventional washington wisdom on immigration policy racial injustice and economic inequality is not what provoked the most intense criticism of these congress with their positions on israel to the same wave that brought in hung ahmed and xandra. and it is she that into office the same wave that makes bernie sanders so popular amongst young people that same progressive wave is actually creating speech for 2 congresswoman to support us by sanctions for the 1st time ever to criticize israel very openly and to call out the us his

policy on israel more broadly the bipartisan nature of support for israel that for several decades has been sort of the standard position for any ambitious politician to take that has been blown wide open and part of it is the omar conversation part of it is the election of a militia to play we know that the progressive movement is increasingly seeing israel as an ally and increasingly are concerned about palestinian rights at the same time the critique and the punishment for critiquing israel is becoming much harsher we see that israel's influence is waning that the hetero doxie around israel as infallible as something that both. sides of the aisle will protect we see that crumbling so it makes sense it makes sense that as it's crumbling there isn't a head gemini that holds up itself where people just self corrects and self discipline

but instead there is a rise in the coercive force to punish those who step out of line support of the boycott divestment and sanctions movement has suggested that if you're a supporter of israel your guilty of too old loyalty in the past and she along with so i don't march as part of an anti-semitic tension the democratic party now being protected by the democratic leadership so i expected. what i mean by pushback is you know ugliness hate and misunderstanding and anger being directed at me and really my faith or somebody that looks like me kind of developed into this massive kind of targeting attack. which she did to leave has been pressured scrutinized in a way 1st term members of congress almost never are and she says what her colleague you have omar has faced has been worse really critical time and hahn all mar in so many ways is at the forefront of being a person that is there at the right time at the right place and we have to uplift

that so even before she became a congresswoman omar had been branded an anti semite for her criticism of israel then in february after a republican congressman repeated that accusation and an online debate ensued omar tweeted 6 words echoing lyrics from the world of hip hop words for which she would later apologize the benjamins were a reference to $100.00 bill omar was talking about the millions the pro israel lobby spends in washington the online reaction was swift. but. the opinion editor of a jewish newspaper the forward accused omar of peddling a malevolent trick. omar responded by calling out a path the american israel. public affairs committee the most influential croak israel lobby group in the us but your. reply went far. this country is desperately in need of

a conversation for how we can be leveraging our closeness with israel to end the occupation of the palestinians that is not the conversation that congresswoman omar is having she did not criticize israel what she did was characterize support for israel among americans and among american jews in a way that was just off enough just long enough that it slipped to right into the well worn grooves of anti-semitic tropes what do i mean by that she criticized a pack the israel lobby. of course you can criticize a pack without being anti-semitic i do it all the time the problem was that she mischaracterized apac exactly in a way that fell into an anti-semitic trope just like everyone else you know i read i read the tweets and i thought i don't see this is being particularly anti-semitic

riva sickly controversial there are progressive american jews people i know well who hear some of the things that are being said and just it hits something deep inside of them and i think it hits them sometimes as allies who say i've been a good ally of the rights the palestinians or human rights but here this hurts me so much you've gone too far and the sense of we should be able to pull you back and tell you what is the right way to criticize israel so that you don't offend us by the same token it is not up to white or jewish progressives to tell palestinians or progressives of color what is the acceptable way to to to express their concerns that's not a good look for progressives to say the least. the controversy around omar's position on israel and palestine and the language she uses did not end with the tweet affair a few weeks later at a town hall meeting that was live streamed omar said this i want to talk about the

political will in. this country that says ok for people to push for a foreign country she was talking about israel the context was disregarded and once again she was called anti semitic the charge of anti-semitism is leveled at anybody who is potentially vulnerable to it so for example when. thomas friedman of the new york times says that a pact bought and paid for an applause line got congress to basically apply that to the other speech nobody or person that is anti semitic because they know the duck charge would not stick and somebody like thomas friedman by contrast when you have . muslim black member of congress making comments about the israel lobby she's much more vulnerable to that kind of charge that she is a hater i'm going to say she's got the whole world is watching watch an israeli audience supposed to take from a comment like that what she did not say critically she did not say anything about american jews using money to control politics and she said absolutely nothing about

american jewish loyalties to the united states or to israel or anything of that sort and yet that was the dominant narrative in the media which i thought was really preposterous the media pile on did not come out of nowhere it was a long time in the making a congress are under attack. it developed in the corridors and back rooms of american politics where legislators the reporters tracking their words anti-semitic trope and studio anchors across the country have collectively constructed and reinforced a largely black and white narrative on a story with multiple shades of gray this anti-semitic charged that is used against jewish people literally for hundreds of years the condemnations from the political side came not just from republicans but also from democratic congressional leaders like nancy pelosi and chuck schumer they reflect simply prepared a resolution for a vote to condemn anti-semitism in effect they were singling out omar preparing to

bring her to heel but the pushback was fierce and unprecedented the young multi-ethnic progressive wing of the party demanded that any resolution and evolve over what it will hand old markets it had to condemn not only anti semitism but also islamophobia hate speech against immigrants the l.g.b. t. community and other marginalized america. then when key democratic contenders weighed in siding with the new guard over the old the democratic leadership did the math and realized it did not have the votes it had to concede to the pressure from the progressives the resolution is agreed and widen the scope of the resolution that marked a turning point. over the course of 70 years the american israel public affairs committee

a pac has grown into one of the most influential foreign policy lobbying groups in washington. its annual conference is a key event on the.