convicted last year of a series of offenses unlikely to be among the prisoners who have been executed honesty international and other rights groups say their trials were grossly unfair and the men were tortured and forced to sign confessions while blindfolded or shortly before the executions we spoke to a bahraini human rights activist. she believes the government's taking its cues from washington. these 2 young men who are in their early twenty's were both sentenced to death during and much trial and generally 2018 both of them were subjected to severe torture which included electric shocks at the pulling out of 20 miles. prolonged solitary confinement as well as being forced to send confessions while blindfolded and these confessions that were extracted under torture were then used as quote unquote evidence and courts against them sense them to death one when he was visited by his family today at midnight he told his family that he never harmed anyone and while he was the one who was harmed he was the one

who was tortured he is not also said to be executed there are many who are asking why now why why are these executions being carried out now and i don't think it's a coincidence that the situation to execute these 2 young men came one day after the united states announced that they were going to start federal executions again which of course when you know the politics in the gulf you know that the gulf states always feel like they need a green light to commit the violations that they commit from their allies in the us and therefore the united states is going to continue it's going to start committing federal executions again then the bahamian government feels like they have the green light to do the same. types are so breaking out as iraq when we come back what lies ahead for puerto rican is part of a force that governor to resign. sayyid spot consider obscene way threatens to melt the arctic gushy record or not stand in this.

fairly quiet weather pattern across much of the middle east some cloud just streaming to the far north elsewhere we have got relatively clear skies we could on sunday seas and rain pushing into northern areas of pakistan cloudy skies with that rain setting to islamabad further to the south 34 in karachi and no sign of any rain 30 celsius up today on sunday into beirut and a warm couple of days in ankara with a high than 32 degrees celsius they do calls really kicking in further to the south across the arabian peninsula and we'll see a bit of a fluctuation the next couple days into temperatures into doha 44 degrees on saturday a little bit of a breeze but really cools not bringing any relief from that tape in south and we also see some shots just pushing into western areas of yemen 34 celsius in muscat saturday and they similar 34 on sunday you notice the temperature in doha down to

about 38 but really not feeling certainly much relief from that humidity is well of course as you very present this time of year down into southern africa no sign of any rain we need that in cape town 18 degrees on saturday it's a warm day and up and 23 degrees in fact set to get a bit warmer as we head through the start over next week and then on sunday we might just see some for the conditions in cape town high of 80. a victim. being his past as an instrument of pinochet's brutal dictatorship a father tries to forget. but his son's quest for answers reveals there are often 2 sides to even the dacosta stories

witness the color of the chameleon on mount is there. welcome back a program out of our top stories here on al-jazeera the un's u.n. watch treif as condemn what she calls international indifference to the rising death toll in syria's rebel held in the province michelle bachelet says those targeting civilians should be charged with war crimes in the past 10 days 104 civilians have been killed. al-jazeera has obtained a copy of a un report on child casualties in conflict zones it's a saudi arabia is trying to improve its record in yemen and that israel has been left of a black list of concerns despite being blamed for the deaths of $59.00 children

last year. the us president is celebrating what he calls a big victory for his solemn border wall from the nation's highest court the supreme court has ruled that donald trump come divert $2500000000.00 from the defense money to fund the project. on a few days the governor of puerto rico will step down recall that also your's resignation follows a scoundrel of offensive text messages but protesters are still calling for a radical change on the gallic a report from san juan on what's next for the u.s. territory. on the airwaves of puerto rico's radio stations a dominated by one topic the resignation of the arlen's governor following a tech scandal and accusations of corruption have shocked puerto rico ricardo ross a go will leave office in days with speculation that wanda vasquez who's next in line will play a role in selecting a new governor rather than replace him political commentator osvaldo carlos says it's the chance for

a new start attorneys from the states here in puerto rico investigating agents of the f.b.i. from other jurisdictions we have a lot of activity and i believe that this is the moment to clean the slate and. that really response to me to the people the governor's mansion is now a place of celebration where people come to take selfies and revel in the governor's removal as puerto ricans look to the future expectations mostly on better governance better government in general. really can connect with the necessities of our people we're brothers and sisters in eyes of god and eyes of the nation and we are on the eyes of the whole world and we need to keep unite everyone that's been elected have to understand that they work for the people totally constitutional experts and human rights activist judith

birken is optimistic about the island's future she tells us change may take time but it's coming so there may not be temporary solution that's going to be seen. but i think the way the protest. and particularly this nation of an otherwise apathetic generation will mean long term fundamental change puerto rico then is it a political crossroads it's not yet certain who the next governor will be but it is clear that the future leadership of this island needs to reset its moral compass win the trust of its people and give them hope there's now a new generation of young voters here energized by the events of the last 2 weeks and they may very well shape the future of this u.s. territory and gallacher al-jazeera san juan puerto rico. a rally is being held in colombia's capital in protest of 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 thought rebels 3 years ago. a decades long conflict in me and mine valving the northernmost region of kitchen is forcing more people from their homes a cease fire between government forces and the kitchen independence on me ended back in 2011 and since then increased displacement unemployment and instability has led many families to take grave measures and that's but more women at risk of being trafficked to china mama june reports. along me and more as border with china in this camp for the internally displaced the stories are full of sorrow. as saying rao works she contemplates the desperate choices she's been forced to make how work dried up when the 17 year old ceasefire between me and more government forces in the kitchen independence army broke down in 2011 how being unable to support her family let's sing route to a decision that still rocks her with guilt he has had no with my daughter was still

young i didn't want her to get married at 1st but the chinese family said they would take care of her well my relatives they greet she should have a better life so i made the decision for my daughter to marry a chinese man. the groom promised to pay almost $7000.00 to sing rao but ended up paying only around half of that saying raus daughter we're not identifying for her safety eventually returned home. my friends keep asking me how it was to marry and live in china was it fun were you happy i told them it wasn't fun and that i'm not happy i was very sad and disappointed to get married. the escalation of hostilities in kitchen state has resulted in a huge increase in the number of displaced many people who used to cross into china to earn a living as day laborers can no longer do so saying come who works with the kitchen women's association says that makes the situation more dire for the internally

displaced. and that a growing number of families are now forcing their daughters into marriage i won't i i think many of the parents want their daughters to marry a chinese man because they thought their have a better life in china they thought the chinese government would take care of china's citizens gary well for some there is a darker side to finding a new life away from the kitchen and out of me and more. according to human rights watch traffickers are increasingly preying on the despair of women who feel they have no choice but to seek work across the border this woman who are also not identifying for her safety was trafficked to china nor hungama lot of us have suffered i lived in terrible conditions they were abusing me with sexual violence i do want to sleep with them but i was forced i begged them to let me go but he was not listed in and he raped me on to became pregnant. human rights watch says another reason the situation is worsening is because for every year since 1987 the

percentage of women in china has fallen a gender imbalance that is leaving many chinese men without wives and one that will lead more traffickers to try and take advantage of an already vulnerable populations ever increasing desperation homage and doom and disease. europe has been sweltering straight 2nd heat wave of the summer and provisional data shows the u.k. may have experiences hottest day have a on thursday a provisional temperature of 38.7 degrees celsius was recorded in the city of cambridge it confirmed by the national weather service that would be the u.k.'s highest temperature on record germany france belgium and the netherlands one experience record breaking temperatures this week well in france hundreds of tens of fields caught fire due to the intense heat wave several firemen were hurt. well that heat now appears to be moving towards greenland where the u.n. has warned it could cause record levels of ice melt greenland's ice sheet covers 80

percent of the island's territory and is the 2nd largest in the world but it's been losing ice at an accelerating pace the ice flows in 2012 years 4 times the rate in 2003 and there are fears that this summer as he could break that record the extent of the melt in june has been 4 times the average between 181-2010 well this month alone its last 160000000000 tons of ice through surface melt that's roughly 64000000 lympics sized swimming pools so why should we care well the total volume of the ice sheet is 2900000 cubic kilometers if all of that eventually melts it will raise global sea levels by 7 meters devastating most of the world's coastal cities where ruth mottram is a climate scientist of the denmark region logical institute she says a clear link to me drawn between climate change and the increasing rates of ice melt in the arctic. we know that the arctic is warm so much more than the rest of the world we have processes called the arctic have that occasion so that climate

change is felt much more strongly in the arctic than it is here even in europe right now and so when we get these big melting events happening they tend to be more extreme than they were in the past at the moment we're not where very close to our record melt year of 2012 we're getting very close to matching that frank now we won't really know until the end of this month or even mid august which one has been the highest amount but that's what we're looking at right now it's probably fair to say that we will not know until we've passed if it's irreversible or not there have been a lot of studies looking at how much climate change we have and and still keep the ice sheet and it's important to remember that the ice sheet will still take hundreds if not thousands of years to melt completely it doesn't go overnight. but there is a lot of work now indicating that one and a half or 2 degrees might be the sort of temperature global temperature threshold

beyond which we cannot keep greenland ice sheet frozen and thousands of miners in south africa who are suffering from lung disease have reached an historic legal settlement worth $350000000.00 and a class action lawyers for the mine workers sued 10 major companies for compensation 6 of them accepted a deal which is now been approved by a court in johannesburg up 210-0000 miners or the dependents could benefit the rich of spores a human rights lawyer who's been working on the case for many years he says the court's decision said someone in the history of miners rights in south africa. before this there was no such rot in south africa and there was no civil accountability on the part of employers towards workmen who suffered from occupational diseases so that was the big break $32011.00 but the last 78 years have been spent litigating against the mining companies and the last

several years in parallel with that it's a geisha in process. of negotiations that culminated in the settlement that was approved today we've had a migrant labor system for many many decades the majority of them a living in deep religious in south africa and in neighboring countries like mozambique pursued to in swaziland where they really don't have access to medical facilities to screen and examined him so we don't know the status of the vast majority of formal mind work is up there and step one is rolling out. a program to get medical facilities to them for chicks it just extras learn french and tastes and generally physical exams and to a 6 whether or not they are suffering from lung disease and qualified to be compensated now the rising cost of prescription drugs is forcing many americans in

need of long term treatment to cross the border into canada to buy medicines or it's much cheaper of those travelling in the so-called insulin caravans are hoping the draw attention to their financial burden. correspondent daniel like followed 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 like in my everyday life that diabetes looks sight this is kind of basically one or 2 months of like survival for me also along for the ride nicole smith holt 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. we need a long term solution 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. banting sold the patent for insulin for a dollar intending it never be used to earn a profit but that hasn't happened 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 daniel lak al-jazeera london ontario. all the news of course on our websites home the latest on those airstrikes in syria more than a 100 people were killed the address. that's al jazeera. time for a quick check of the top stories here on al-jazeera the un's human rights chief has condemned what she calls international indifference to the rising death toll in syria's rebel held above it. says those targeting civilians should be charged with

war crimes in the past 10 days more than 100 civilians have been killed in a strikes in southern italy 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 abstract last night and some really today as well so it's ongoing it's relentless and the people suffering most of all i'm not the fighters al-jazeera has obtained a copy of a draft u.n. report on child casualties in conflict zones saudi arabia has been criticized for its role in the war in yemen but the report says is trying to reduce casualties israel has been left off a blacklist despite killing 59 palestinian children last year syria and south sudan

levels have been highlighted for concern. but rains public prosecutor says 3 men convicted on charges of terrorism and murder have been executed comes hours after a un special rapporteur on extradition killings agnes kalamata peeled the bahrain's government to stop the execution of. they were convicted last year for serious offenses and are likely to be among the prisoners who've been executed. the us supreme court is allowing the use of pentagon funds for the southern border wall it rule that president trump can divert $2500000000.00 from the defense department to fund the project in june he was blocked from doing so by a california judge. heat wave that shattered records in europe this week is moving north and is threatening to melt billions of tons of ice in greenland the u.k. was the latest country to the experience its highest ever temperature 38.7 degrees celsius was measured in 10 bridge germany france belgium and the netherlands also

broke records this week. well those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after my statement that subject. every weekly news cycle brings a series of breaking stories join the listening post as we turn the cameras on the media and focus on how they were caught on the stories that matter the most on al-jazeera. towards the. doors here at the ramadan or zambia. behind the other donors. to.

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