scene a deafening silence from boris johnson's new government and a complete unwillingness to protect the human rights do you think that it's more international pressure and scrutiny would make a difference though. absolutely i mean there are you know the reason they're doing this now is because they're worried about the scrutiny from the parliament so you know we are in a position where bahrain does not like to be seen as a tortured state and likes to get its executions done as quietly as possible and so parliament you pressure is absolutely vital as our demonstrations in front of embassies and we've seen before in react very badly to the amends pressure from civil society human rights watch amnesty reprieve the un special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings they were spoken out and that is useful. mr walton we thank you very much for your time on this we do appreciate and that is sam walton live in london thank you. probs. now 4 policemen have been killed

in a suicide attack in the afghan province of does me from others were wounded in the explosion and the bomb district the taliban has claimed responsibility. thousands of people in hong kong define a police band by marching in the same town where protesters were attacked by alleged gang members last week the rally is being held in un long that's a child on the outskirts of hong kong close to the border with mainland china and a short time ago police fired tear gas at the crowds blocking a main road but the march had been largely peaceful many shops and businesses in the area have remained closed protests accuse police of colluding with those behind last week's attacks at a metro station when 45 people were injured let's go to our correspondent sara clark she is live for us in hong kong and we've been looking at pictures of thousands of people coming to join the protests for the last few hours in this

location because of what happened there last week sara what's happening there now. look at the last hour or so the situation has on the protesters with the anti-government protesters as you mentioned they're targeting accusing the police of valley to act in the last weekend when it was a bunch of criminal thugs is that the describe the. facts the anti-government protesters are they why i'm so this is what happened last week and this is why the protests of the rallies happening here at the moment in the last hour the police are taught to just such protesters that fired a number of rounds. at the moment you just stand up and. see some of the place what i mean by iran the tear gas masks on and this certainly threatening to file the suits of tear gas again this is trad disperses as soon as possible and say what the protesters don't have a permit here so how delicate

a situation does that put them in. the mission to hold the simply and the police denied that the mission. so that this is legal assembly of course this is a trait. here it's a legal assembly and therefore it's. look as we see in the last few weeks this has become a recurring theme these protests and tear gas being fired even rubber bullets on these protests trying to disperse the crowd at the moment the scale of this continuing it certainly intensified tomorrow. and that is also. want to one area which is. quite serious. sara thank you very much for that there is our correspondent in hong kong the sarah clarke as we're looking at live pictures of police and protesters in

the u.n. long district we have had police firing some tear gas in the past hour and we are keeping a close eye on these protests. now earthquakes in the northern philippines have killed at least 8 people to tremors with magnitudes of 5.4 and 5.9 struck on saturday near the bottom in silence at least 60 people are injured and there has been significant damage to homes and other buildings. 2 people have died in south korea after a night club balcony collapsed on top of dances 16 others were injured when the club's upper floor gave way on early saturday morning in the city of guangzhou okla police say many of the injured before an athlete's competing in the world swimming championships. a rally is taking place in new zealand on concerns over the housing development of land seen as sacred to the indigenous people thousands gathered in

or with the country's largest builder plans to develop 480 homes protesters say the land was an important archaeological site and is culturally significant new zealand's prime minister just sent our durned says no construction will happen on the dispute is resolved there are plenty more ahead on the news hour including. trying to convince 300 refugees to return home that is it say. a road in religious diversity in jerusalem's old city and by the imminent closure of the. hotel is adding to the problem. for refugees from afghanistan are helping to grow the sport of cricket in sweden. a delegation from myanmar has arrived in refugee camps and bangladesh the group

traveling to cox's bizarre is trying to convince the refugees to return that's where hundreds of thousands have been taking shelter after fleeing atrocities by myanmar's army and 2017 child that he has moved from cox is bizarre. several 100 writing a referee just tried to gather near the center where the myanmar delegate is supposed to meet with the community leader they wanted to have the opportunity to see them maybe have the opportunity to question but they were dispersed by the bangladesh police now we spoke to a few of them this is what they have to say. we came here to meet the myanmar delegates to get some answers to our questions but we were not allowed to meet with them. who i don't. know if you're recognised as rowing is and they give us a citizenship card we'll go back there in one second. our experience talking to the rowing as months after months and this they have some fundamental demands before

they even consider moving back to me on mars one of them is they be recognized as a growing as they get citizenship and there is a guarantee of security by the international community what the mayor and my delegates we have yet to see but from the rights groups and others we know the environment is not conducive for a band to return. now the conflict a non muslim state of kucha is forcing more people from their homes as he's fond between the government of the country an independence army ended in 2011 and since then instability has been putting many families that risk including women who've been trafficked to china while hama jump june reports. along me and mars border with china in this camp for the internally displaced the stories are full of sorrow . a singer our 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 has had now the g.a.a. and 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 around but ended up paying only around half of them saying raus daughter who 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 where 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 kitchin 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 alone i i think many of the parents want their daughters to marry a chinese man because they thought they would have a better life in china they thought the chinese government would take care of china's citizens barry 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 long by my long lost i suffered i lived in terrible conditions they were abusing me with sexual violence i do want

to sleep with them by i was forced i begged them to let me go but he was not listed in and he raved mounted became pregnant. at a contacted china's ministry of foreign affairs for comment but has not received a reply human rights watch says another reason the situation is worsening is because for every year since $1087.00 the percentage of women in china has fallen a gender imbalance that is leaving many chinese men without wives. for now concern is growing that more traffickers will try to take advantage of the increasing desperation of people who are already vulnerable. and dizzier. now world leaders are into nazir for the funeral of its 1st democratically elected president the subsea and 92 year old died on thursday following what the government said was a severe health crisis he laid to rest at a hillside cemetery in tunis where other leaders that buried french president

a man you met can german chancellor angela merkel and cutter's amir shaikh i mean bin hammam pani are just some of the leaders attending let's go now to our correspondent david chaytor he's joining us live from the capital tunis a funeral underway for the man who was respected by so many david. yes final resting place will be the cemetery behind me dates back to the 13th century it's overlooked by that autumn thought of course each new zealand flag is at half mast now everyone will be talking about the way that the constitution has managed to already and sure a stable transfer of power within hours of the president dying the speaker of the parliament was sworn in as the interim president so that is his legacy but looking ahead to the future after the next 3 months or so the elections presidential elections september just how steep hill does this country have to climb to stay on

track to stay as dogs as a democracy as well to help me answer that question i have with me and i could demick political attack. tarik can you tell me what size of the problem is it that's now facing this very young democracy well it's a major change and it's amazing. to me she is going through many economic problems . terrorism is still a threat not as before but still a threat so the tunisian young democracy is facing major challenges yet they think many tunisians are looking forward now for the coming elections so the main next challenge is but is this elections and we're going to have an early presidential election and the are going to happen in september 15th and it may have because they are going to be early it may have an impact on the number of candidates who may have fewer candidates then expected but most tunisians are thinking of the

transition itself that we're going to have the most people to think is having a fair free elections as we had in 2014 but one thing tara the president didn't finish was the equality laws that gender equality nor the rights of inheritance equal rights or inheritance but women that's still in limbo yes it's still a let's say in the line up lining up the parliament maybe the next parliament is going to deal with that i don't think that there is. room now in terms of time in terms of availability of the parliament to deal with that it's going to be but his main legacy is going to be that he was the 1st president to be elected in the 1st position x. is a tradition history and many politicians are going to envy him for that. but they won't envy the fact there is 15 percent unemployment here and double that 31

percent among the country's graduates and there's a lot of pressure coming from those areas and certainly as you said you are going to have to deal with many problems the coming elections the. elections that just as with the position elections are going to have to provide the put it before a new mandate for a new government for a new political power to deal with that many tunisians are thinking about that they're very worrying about the economic situation yet at the same time clearly this is a moment of pride many tunisians are proud of living in a democracy with. fair elections they don't see that in many surrounding arabic countries and for that they think for today at least we have to think that we have that we have that democracy. that was very eloquently put thank you for that so essentially the national anthem is being played at the moment and one of the verses

of that anthem says that the tunisians were were born with arms as strong as granite towers to hold up the flag and we just heard from tarik that people here are proud they know they've got problems but they want to stick with democracy they are sticking with democracy and they're proud that country is still on course for a smooth transition of karna back to you elizabeth david thank you very much for that david changed. and a few moments we'll have the weather with kevin but still ahead on the news hour. the cost of medication in the u.s. is sending diabetics across the border and to canada to buy drugs we travel with $1.00 of the so-called and foreign carriers battles what lies ahead for puerto rican fashion or some day when it's a step down. and of course a frank hailstorm for the chaos that cycling's twitter from.

this hour we want to take you over here towards india and update you on what is happening with one soon is that you can see on the satellite most of the country is filled in by clouds and it has really we're seeing a quite a bit of rain across much of the area but i want to take you specifically to russia stan where lately the rain has been quite heavy here in tong now normally this particular area is a drier area of india and the temperatures are normally very very high during this time of year but they have seen over $175.00 millimeters of rain just in the last 24 hours and this is what has looked like on the ground because when it's this dry across this area of course have the rain has no place to go except cause some flooding across much of that area and other areas across the coastal areas here towards the west we're talking anywhere about $260.00 millimeters here in parts of

mumbai and so of that we are talking about $319.00 millimeters just in the last 24 hours now with those rain totals we are still behind this time for this time of year because of the monsoon we're about 16 percent behind the amount of rainfall we should have for this time of year a lot of that was because of the late onset of the monsoon as well and as we go towards the next cold days heavy rain is expected across much of this area in fact we could see over $500.00 millimeters in some locations. sponsored by the town. take the worst possible material you radiate grinded into dust comparable to flour and make up a lot of it and put it into a place where people live there is a cause colossal event. as well and so many people i feel this is the silent heat. but as it makes you feel nice you feel like a murderer we have created an enormous amount of mental disaster. and investigation

south africa toxic city on al jazeera where there is water there is life but finding it that australia has arid deserts is a skill few still possess they took us to a small wet spot in the sea in the desert and this was this is a very important place that i've been telling us about for the last 5 days training . and under orders against all odds an aging population is possibly on its knowledge the rainmakers of the outback on a. it's

good to have you with us on the al-jazeera news hour these are our top story the un's human rights chief has condemned what she calls international indifference to the rising death toll in syria's rebel held province in the past 10 days 100 people have been killed 27 of them children. the train has gone ahead with the execution of 2 men convicted on terrorism charges that's despite international concern about the fairness of the trial un special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings agnes callum are headquartered in bahrain not to carry out the death sentences and thousands of people in hong kong defying the police bad by marching in the same area where protesters were attacked by alleged gang members last week police have fired tear gas the valley has been largely peaceful so far. now oman's foreign minister is in iran for talks with iran's top diplomat about the intensifying gulf

crisis oman is playing the role of mediator in the dispute over a pound of british and ronnie and tankers last week muscat urged head on to release the u.k. flag stand and pair of iranian revolutionary guards detained it 2 weeks after u.k. royal marines help seize the iranian tanker grace one of gibraltar let's go to our correspondent zain bus robbie he's joining us live from the iranian capital this visit coming at a particularly sensitive time even by the standards of tensions in this region saying. that's exactly right lou is the amount of foreign minister use of been allowed we've been a visit comes at a very critical time we know that this morning he's met with members of the foreign ministry including his counterpart drugs serif no doubt they were discussing the seas tankers the u.k. iran as you said of both seized each other's oil tankers and later today your money

foreign minister will be meeting with iran's national security advisers so really these tankers will be the crux of the conversations they'll be having he's been here before his last visit was 3 months ago so this dialogue about regional tensions has been ongoing with oman for some time it also comes as the u.k. announced just days earlier that it will be sending as a matter of routine as a matter of course military vessels to function as escorts for its oil tankers and its cargo vessels that navigate the waters of the region especially the strait of hormuz so really the talk and the tactics being employed now are vermin the essence of a much more violent time of a of a much more dangerous time for vessels in the region in the 1980 s. when many oil tankers had become casualties of the iran iraq war now it is certainly not as dangerous in those waterways now as it was back then and the omani foreign ministers mission will be to try to keep it that way but also to deescalate

tensions even further and iran has star. has started. has being one of manka between iran and others in the region thing. yeah that's exactly right really oman when it comes to if you were to compare it to other countries in the region to some of its neighbors it's a much more quiet nation but it is a very effective and influential country when it comes to regional diplomacy it has to be remembered that it was in oman that secret talks began between iran and the united states that led to the growth in the signing of the landmark 2015 nuclear deal not before amount to gotten involved officially speaking there were no open channels between iran and the united states and if the iranian if iranian officials in the u.s. officials are communicating in any way now i think it is safe to say that it is of

oman now that a lot of messaging is perhaps being done once again now on is an important ally leaders and to her and certainly have a great deal of respect for officials from that country but even though the foreign minister is likely getting a very warm welcome into iran there is little doubt that iranian leaders will be putting down a very firm position putting down a position of strength making it clear to the diplomat that they will not compromise on their policies in the waterways in their shared waterways and in the region so even though he is likely getting a very warm welcome here into iran it is very likely that he will find it a much tougher job to play peacemaker now than perhaps a few years ago saying thank you very much for that sound with the latest live and patty thank you. now on to hotels in the question quarter of the old city in occupied east jerusalem to be taken over by a group of jewish settlers it is part of their long term plan to change the centuries old religious and ethnic makeup of the area and it brings to an end

a 14 year legal battle and then it smith reports. in the christian quarter of jerusalem's old city the imperial hotel built by the greek orthodox church as welcome pilgrims and tourists for 130 years the property is one of 3 now in the hands of a settler group called at or at coney. this is my father with king cross in the did johnny family has managed the imperial for 70 years they've been served with an eviction notice lead to johnny there's only pressure from the jordanian palestinian and greek governments can save them if they feel i'm a good friend then i'm sort of say that when they see that jeff. the club square will be in the hands of these settlers if they can if i don't see nobody cares about what is happening now. jerusalem's old city is shared between

jews christians and muslims it's a delicately balanced status quo with settler groups stated aim is to make the old city predominantly jewish and they do that by buying up buildings like this and moving settlers in. that prospect prompted a rare show of solidarity from all the christian leaders in jerusalem they are opposed to the takeover. the sale of the properties 14 years ago was handled by a financial adviser to the then the greek patriarch the adviser left israel soon after israel supremes court has now rejected claims by the current patriarch that the sale was illegal. las corey is a lawyer with decades of experience in legal cases against settlers we are very small figures to fight the israeli government and this issue this issue is more a political issue that we don't have here

a better chance forces playing together one against the other a small figure against an elephant mr de johnny strongly defends the leadership of the greek patriarch 8 but the worry of what the future holds clearly weighs on his proud mom my children. yes yes. when this think happened. i have my children where he is so my daughter and my son to see has reacted to it and i could give you to get you to it i wish and the us got that we could get a from a trip. yes yes mr to johnny says he needs to raise funds for his battle against eviction if he goes he says many of the tenants may find it hard to resist the money offered by the settlers to sell or burn its meth al-jazeera in

jerusalem's old city. now the rising cost of prescription drugs is forcing many americans and need a long term treatment to cross into canada to buy medicines where it's cheaper traveling in. caravans are hoping to draw attention to their financial burden. that followed one of. the. 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 that diabetes looks sight 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 the 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 to this this isn't isn't the solution this isn't the fix you 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 led 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. to colombia now where people have been protesting. against the canons of human rights activists hundreds have been murdered by criminal groups and the signing of a peace stand with rebels 3 years ago from the capital on assad there are reports that. thousands of colombians took to the streets of the capital enough dozens of cities worldwide all united by a single message and the alarming rate at which human rights defenders and civil

society leaders are being killed there i am at this at this hundreds of late as have been killed and our government pretends to be deaf and blind they pretend they don't see what's happening to our leaders. and these moody us one of 1300 community leaders. scurrying to be under threat almost 500 have been killed since the signing of a peace deal with far gravels as criminal groups fight for control of lucrative drug trafficking and illegal mining in remote territories and as paramilitary groups connected to criminal political elites oppose lamed restitution programs. are not enabling that but i think this government doesn't want to find out who is paying to kill these leaders there are very powerful look at how west with high connection to the national power and i believe there is a complicit silence. this 9 year old crying over the dead body of his mother community leader many others. sparked

a wave of indignation that spurred the rally. 0 protesters want the government of president who opposes part of the peace deal to do more to protect the leaders and impunity and recognize that the killings are systematic in nature. but while president ducat did march in the coastal city of quetta to hana his right wing party was the only one not to endorse the rally despite being booed by protesters who came made the call for unity. her twin a life was lost in our country when a voice of silence when hope is distinguished by violence we deeply reject old expressions of violence which are filled by drug trafficking organized crime and illegal. this is the largest demonstration since the signing of the peace agreement and put more pressure on president yet everybody here at present unless something truly affect

the power structure is behind the violence there will be more killings and they will remain the single biggest threats to the implementation of the peace deal in the country. now in a few days the governor of puerto rico will step. around because as resignation follows the scandal of offensive text messages and frustration with government corruption a protest as a stern warning for radical change and a gallon of reports from some fun on what's next for the u.s. territory. the airwaves of puerto rico's radio stations a dominated by one topic the resignation of the islands governor following a tech scandal and accusations of corruption have shocked puerto rico recorder a seo will leave office in days with speculation that wonder 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 state 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 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. better governance better government in general. really with the necessities of our people we're brothers and sisters. 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 it's been elected have to understand that they work for the people constitutional experts in 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.