8 presidential elections planned for earlier this month were cancelled because of a lack of candidates interim president. says a special panel will meet soon to oversee plans for a vote israeli soldiers have fired tear gas at palestinians protesting the demolition of their homes in occupied east jerusalem this week the houses that were the homeless were on land controlled by the palestinian authority but their owners lost the 7 year legal battle to overturn an israeli military eviction order the un and various human rights groups have condemned the destruction but matheson has. just a few moments ago the prayers here in what he called most ended and the violence began it started when a group of palestinian protesters who'd also been holding prayers further up the hill started to make their way down carrying palestinian flags the group on this side of the fence which is the occupied east jerusalem side of the fence started to make their way towards the fence as well in order to try to meet the opposing group

in the middle as the security forces came down and attempted to stop the 3 protesters from throwing rocks and stones into the road the number of rocks began to increase we saw some tear gas being fired further up the hill the whole process of the demolitions has been proved talkative since monday since the houses here in what he called were destroyed by the israeli military and there has been a tremendous concern that what have up until now been peaceful protests against these demolitions is going to turn into a situation like this. destruction of the amazon rain forest is fast approaching a level from which it may not recover that's according to satellite data from brazil's government here is the forecast here is the forest rather in 2001 millions of square kilometers which helped stabilize the global climate just watch the right

hand side 17 years later here's the damage that's been done last year alone 120000 square kilometers were wiped out and now it's shrinking even faster already this month more than 1300 square kilometers of rainforest have been cleared for large scale farming president jail boats are not has been accused of dismantling protections for the forest he's called his own government's figures lies and says the amazon is brazil's business researches say with deforestation getting worse we may soon reach a point of no return 100 more what is a campaign coordinator for fearne an environmental social justice organization she told us about some positive steps being taken to protect the amazon. this week on tuesday the e.u. publish an action plan which sees the e.u. for the 1st time opening the door to regulator measures that would set standards on the goods that the imports to ensure they're not associated with deforestation are

for a sacred isn't. it wants this to be a partnership approach so the e.u. is not going to impose its standards on other countries but the e.u. does have a duty to respond to the increasing concern among you consumers about the impact that their consumption is having on forests on the people who depend on those forests and with this communication with this action plan that it published this week it shows that the e.u. is for the 1st time willing to bring in new options that could be regulator and that would ensure that products that are being placed on the market from countries such as brazil would not be linked to human rights abuses. or different station the rising cost of prescription drugs in the u.s. are seen many people in need of long term treatment crossing into canada to buy medicines where it's cheaper those traveling in the so-called insulin caravans to draw attention to their financial burden our correspondent daniel lak following one

of them. activist quinn nystrom shares the good news with fellow u.s. diabetics a drug that they need to survive is available at the local wal-mart store for less than a 10th of what they pay in the united states their caravan crossed 3 u.s. states to make a purchase i decided to bring this today because this kind of shows what my everyday life the diabetes looks sight and this is kind of basically one or 2 months like survival for me also along for the ride nicole smith told who doesn't have the disease but she's here for a very special and personal reason i am part of this caravan in memory of my son alex smith who passed away on june 27th of 2017 from diabetic ketoacidosis as a result of rationing because he cannot afford it the group came to canada to buy cheaper insulin but mostly this is a gesture aimed at u.s.

political leaders in the pharmaceutical industry insulin prices are so high that one in 4 diabetics in the u.s. has to ration the insulin they can afford putting their lives in danger and. we need a long term solution to this this isn't isn't the solution this isn't the fix to what's going on in america but if it's temporary prices for life saving drugs in canada are regulated by a government appointed body organizers of the caravan say that should happen in the us too we are from a developed country. we are from a great country but we are not taking care of our citizens after buying their lifesaving drugs the diabetics from the united states will come to the home of frederick banting 1920 came up with the idea that lead to man made insulin. the patent for a dollar intending it never be used to earn a profit. and diabetics from the united states say it's time to honor the wishes of

the man who helped make sure they could survive a disease that used to be a death sentence. coming up. his one day international.

all right time now for sports here's andy. thank you very much could become colombia's 1st ever thought of france champion he's climbed the latest yellow jersey as the 19th stage was dramatically cut short it was called off 30 kilometers

from the finish when a freak hailstorm triggered a small landslide that blocked the road this is how the teams were alerted by race organizers. through all the games are very important but the big board member of the group very good about to get into i don't want to go very very. we are not very good we are little bit dated but more of a little bit bigger than that but looking good doing it all. and we are going to get. the regular order to go well with more landslides spotted and further bad weather forecast for saturday organizers have already made the decision to shorten the seconds of our states to just 59 kilometers but i will take a 48 2nd lead in so that stage that's when i'll be decided by what's essentially become a 23 and a half kilometer time trial up the final climb to the summit finish 1st. one of the

all time greats of sri lankan cricket has signed off his one day international career in style after 15 years and more than 300 wickets last if malinga still have the energy to produce one more match winning performance the 35 year old adding 3 dismissals to his tally sri lanka beat bangladesh in colombo fittingly it was mullingar who took the match winning wickets around $91.00 when he has decided to carry on playing 20 internationals. arlin's 1st test match against england turned into something of a nightmare they were bowled out for $38.00 in their 2nd innings to lose by $143.00 runs at lord's ireland and only a bold england out for 303 it meant their record 182 to win but instead they were blown away by the english bowlers chris woakes taking 6 for 7 saying if it doesn't happen i reckon the position of peter sellers and we can take a lot from martin actually look back and reflect on it yes and be disappointed but still enjoy the moment of of being here and i together how far to go over the last

3 days has been for england now turn our attention to the upcoming ashes series against australia the australians have recalled cameron bancroft for the 1st time since he was banned for ball tampering the past and part of a 7 same man squad former captain steve smith an eye opener david warner also sets a play their 1st test after serving year long suspensions for their role in the scandal they're welcome back with open arms is no doubt about it. steve smith and all of the. very very good cricket as world class players obviously it was natural that we would include them there were going and cameron bankrupt of course is a quality goods playing county cricket. now believe it or not cricket is the fastest growing sport in sweden its popularity is being driven by the arrival of migrants from across asia and as poor research pours from the sport is helping refugees from afghanistan integrate into then you have. the new world champions

maybe england but nowhere has a bigger influence on global cricket than the subcontinent indians pakistanis on sri lankans have been the catalysts in sweden where cricket is the fastest growing sport from a dozen or so clubs 5 years ago there are now more than 70 with the scandinavian born 2nd and 3rd generations ready to add to sweden's $4000.00 players but it is a huge influx from one of asia's newest cricket contenders. that's responsible for the sudden big spike in numbers. afghan youngsters zakir to car we. were barely into their teens when they arrived among 160000 refugees 4 years ago. they and hundreds of others have found a home from home 3 cricket with zakir only waiting on a passport before he can make his debut for the swedish national team i remember when i came 1st to sweden i felt myself very alone i didn't have many of my friends

my family and all that meant i didn't know about cricket that there is actually a game of cricket in sweden and it made it very empty for me being here together with many people you do you feel like home you feel like with you with your family you feel like you're with your brothers your sisters to play cricket in sweden and to maybe premier present the country itself is going to be a very great honor for me these sessions for immigrant youngsters in malmo a run by sweden's under nineteen's coach who is enjoying a boost to the talent at his disposal the likes of zakir naik crucial to not just the under nineteen's but i think the future of cricket with unswayed are largely due to the influx of refugees. afghanistan's as a massive massive contribution to growth. for the players it's a chance to break through social boundaries and speak they're already fluent swedish the finest cricket language cricket has been in sweden for

a long time but they haven't been so many clubs until we came here it's not easy to just go up to a swede and start talking in the street but through cricket they can approach us afghans and be part of the team it's much easier for everyone and there's a wider purpose to following the gains made by anti immigrant parties at last year's election the mass immigration of 2015 has hardened attitudes in sweden with those on the right complaining that refugees are failing to integrate but for many immigrants this most swedish of sports is helping them to do just that paul reece al-jazeera. south korea's me here angry has a one shot lead at the halfway stage of the everyone championship in eastern france this is the 4th major of the year on the women's top 4 and a power run of 60 seven's moved its head on the day i mean for the 1st major title of her career. and for our look to be in good shape ahead of sunday's 4 long grand

prix in germany or one soon for the italian team at the hockenheim circuit ferrari yet so win a race this season title leader lewis hamilton of mercedes was 1st this. ghastly did little to quell speculation about his future red bull that crashed the latest twist in his disappointing seat. ok but as always for more later and that is it for this news hour but i'll be back in a couple of minutes with more of the day's news daily.

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the news breaks. when people need to be heard and the story needs to be told pretty remarkable too to that of we it died last week crossing from mexico to stay with exclusive interviews and in-depth reports we can live according to the fishing life in that section al-jazeera has teams on the ground to bring in more award winning documentaries and live news. this is a failure of leadership by the world's most powerful nations condemnation from the u.n. a syrian children bear the brunt of bombings by government and russian forces. has

them seeking this is as you see it on live from also coming up a leak u.n. report blames israel for the deaths of 59 palestinian children last year the highest since the 2014 gaza conflict. the u.s. supreme court clears the way for president trump to tap into pentagon funds to help build a wall along the mexico border. and fire spike as europe's heat wave threatens to melt the arctic ice sheet or record low. the un's human rights chief has condemned what she calls international indifference to the rising death toll in syria's rebel held italy province. says those targeting civilians should be charged with war crimes in the past 10 days 104 civilians have died in an strikes in southern 27 of them children warning viewers may find some of

the images zana hot his report disturbing. they are images that have shocked many a tragedies like this are happening nearly every day in northwest syria where the government's assault is in its 3rd locks. of love the law desperately trying to save his daughters as they dangled from the edge of a building destroyed in a syrian or russian airstrike the 5 year old we have held on to our 3 year old sister drove one for as long as she could. but then they fell to the ground i died. well when struggled for life but later passed away in hospital. the high number of people killed and injured here particularly children reflects the scale of the humanitarian situation war monitors say there have been at least 800 civilian deaths 200 of them children since the russian backed syrian government offensive began in april in the past months at least 33

children were killed according to save the children that's more than in the whole of 2018. they are linked all with it and most of all it's the places they live in that are being hit marketplaces hospitals that the facility is schools no one and nothing it is the thing more and then. these scenes have become all too familiar rescue workers at times dig for hours to find survivors and remove the dead civilian infrastructure schools hospitals. and help the syrians are protected under international humanitarian law they're meant to be spared and yet they're being impacted more than anything else so there has to be outrage. the latest offensive is no different from previous ones during the 8 year war they are carried out with impunity and little accountability . the pope sent

a letter to syria's president bashar assad asking him to protect the lives of civilians the european union says attacks on critical civilian infrastructure must stop the united states and the u.k. renewed calls for a cease fire an adlib but the international community statements have not been backed with action. the bombardment hasn't stopped it's intensifying the u.n. describes what is unfolding in islam as a worsening nightmare for the civilians they are not players in this conflict but international humanitarian rights organizations say they are being targeted. istanbul. earlier we spoke to rupa colleville the spokesman for the united nations high commissioner for human rights he says government and strikes are relentless and indiscriminate where we're definitely seeing a military escalation in general but particularly from the government forces and their allies over the past 3 months or so and just in the past 2 weeks i would say

it's escalated even further with daily attacks and multiple attacks daily i mean over and what we were talking about this morning we were hearing of more as strikes last night and some early today as well so it's ongoing it's relentless and the people suffering most of all i'm not the fighters on either side it's the civilians who are caught between them i mean just in the past 10 days alone we know of 10 different locations that have been hit by a strike some of them. more than once several times over 10 places where the been civilian casualties that in other strikes where they've been having been casualties these tend the strikes are along 2 main routes the m 4 the m 5 in live and there are essentially civilian areas the civilians really have nowhere to go and bombs are falling in market squares in bakeries and so on are the wider issue of children in the world's conflict zones is the subject of

a new report to the united nations has obtained an exclusive copy of the document saudi arabia and israel have been criticized but rights groups say the report doesn't go far enough on diplomatic editor james base has more. this report comes out every year it makes very grim reading it's from the secretary general of the u.n. to the security council it's not yet been published but al-jazeera has obtained a copy of the report ready in recent years it's become a political hot potato with 2 countries not wanting to get mentioned in this report and that's israel and saudi arabia it's pretty clear to me from reading this report that there's been political pressure again because inside the report it says that israel's responsible for the highest number of deaths of palestinian children 59 in 2800 for 5 years and yet at the end of the report the amex which lists the countries and groups responsible for killing children israel is not mentioned saudi

arabia does get a mention on the list but on the part of the list here of listed parties that have put in place measures during the reporting period aimed at improving the protection of children now saudi arabia the saudi led coalition in yemen has been under that section for 3 years it does though beg the question if they're putting measures in place to stop killing children to protect children why are children in yemen still dying a louis charbonneau is the u.n. director of human rights watch he welcomed parts of the report it's good that the syrian government remains. the worst part of the blacklist for what it's been doing in the war there same for the military in myanmar and the south sudanese military we're quite disappointed by the inclusion of the

saudi led coalition on what is known as the not so bad part of the. a turkish president tired and says he is determined to eliminate what he's called the terror corridor or in northern syria a u.s. and turkish officials have been holding talks for a safe zone east. to address its security concerns over the presence of kurdish fighters there but. we are determined to destroy to pieces to tear a corridor in the east of the euphrates regardless of the way negotiations with the united states go on the forming of a safe zone along the border with syria with this operation we will in the context between tira groups based east of the euphrates entier wrists and northern iraq this way we will be able to squeeze and destroy the tear a corridor from the east and the east of the un special rapporteur on extrajudicial

killings agnes cullum are has appealed to bahrain's government to stop the execution of 2 men. who were convicted last year of a series of terrorism offenses amnesty international and other rights groups say as the trials were grossly unfair and the men were tortured and forced the signed confessions while blindfolded adonal transborder war with mexico is one step closer to reality he's been given the green light to redirect money from the pentagon supreme court says trump can now use the $2500000000.00 to fund the war project and this is how he reacted to the news on twitter he wrote a big victory on the war the united states supreme court overturns lower court injunction allows southern border war to proceed big win for border security and the rule of law had to go high and has the latest from washington. u.s. president dolls from taking to twitter claiming a huge victory at the u.s. supreme court and for now it is

a victory the conservative justices ruling that he can't begin spending about $2500000000.00 in money that was meant for the u.s. military to begin signing contracts to replace border wall on the southern border now it's a little bit more complicated than that basically this lawsuit was over the question of whether the president can simply ignore congress declare a national emergency and use money the congress doesn't need it for other areas of the government to fund his wall to earlier judges that said we don't know if that's going to be legal but in the meantime you can't build the wall the supreme court is saying go ahead you can start building the wall but they're not deciding on the merits of the case they want to let the lower courts work through it make those decisions as to whether or not the president is in his right to do this but in the meantime he's going to declare a political victory and he's going to say the wall is being built on the united states and guatemala have signed an agreement to restrict asylum applications from central america stays off the president trying to threaten to impose tariffs on

guatemala if it did not agree to the deal the u.s. has been struggling to stem a surge of central american migrants trying to cross its southern border. iran is being held in colombia's capital to protest the killing of human rights defenders and community leaders nearly $500.00 have been killed and many more have received death threats since columbia signed a peace deal with fark rebels 3 years ago asunder and yet he has more from bogota. colombians are marching in more than 50 cities and towns across the country anymore cities across the world to protest the alarming rate at which human rights defenders and the community leaders are being killed since the signing of a peace deal with the fired rebels back in 2016 many of these social leaders community leaders are defending their territories from reciprocal criminal groups that are fighting for control of these territories they're fighting for control

over profitable drug trafficking illegal mining and to try to stop the of the return of many of the people that were displaced during the conflict to their land a lot of these groups are also connected to political elites in these territories that are trying to stop the implementation of the deal so the people are protesting to demand more guarantees for the life of these leaders they're also asking to end the impunity most of these cases don't go behind the investigation face and also or asking the government to recognize what they consider the systematic nature of these killings which the government has so far avoid the doing good now the party of president the evil and do care the most right wing party in the country is not supporting this much the president didn't sell for just a couple of days ago.