and diplomatic editor james bays has more from the united nations 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 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 there are 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 bahrain has gone ahead with the execution of 2 men convicted on terrorism charges despite international concern about the fairness of their trial a un investigator and human rights groups had court for the death sentence to be suspended but the man was shot by firing squad sa higher has more. the she our protesters in bahrain had gone to the streets to protest against the death sentence given to 2 men who'd been convicted of terrorism related charges on saturday the government executed and. who were in their twenty's it said they were guilty of breaking into a prison killing a police officer and carrying illegal firearms but their families say they were

coerced into false confessions they are present as family. to feel there are at their prisoners that we have tortured. and one of them that. was on wheelchair during that period when you was in the jail. on friday a protester c climbed on top of the behind the embassy building in london going on britain's new prime minister boyce johnson to enter the. international human rights groups had warned against the executions and called behinds actions shameful a last minute appeal by the united nations special repertoire on extrajudicial killings was ignored agnes' calamine said the men were allegedly tortured prevented from attending their trial and sentenced to death in abstention but the behind the embassy in washington compared it to capital punishment in the u.s.

adding the trials were conducted in accordance with the rules of the kingdom of bahrain which maintain international standards and 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 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 i was some see the executions as yet another crackdown on shias and the opposition by behind sunni led government says the 20. an arab spring protests hundreds of people demanding to be screw form as well as human rights activists have been jailed silenced and forced to live. in jersey. much more still ahead in the news our building the war the u.s. supreme court clears the way for president trying to. project and in sports how

refugees from afghanistan helping to grow the sport of cricket in sweden. oman's foreign minister is in iran for talks with iran counterpart about the intensifying gulf crisis our man is mediating in the dispute over a pound of brush and iranian tankers last week muscat urged tehran to release the u.k. flag stana a pair of iranian revolutionary guards detained it 2 weeks after u.k. voile marines helped seize the iranian tanker grace one of gibraltar let's go to our correspondent saying that he's joining us live from the iranian capital what's come of the visit so far as a. well elizabeth this visit the omani foreign minister's visit comes out of course another critical point in regional tensions but by all accounts it seems to have been

a positive meeting foreign ministers of odds or if iranian foreign minister zarif tweeting just a few hours ago that he was pleased to host his distinguished friend that they discussed what mr zarif described as u.s. economic terrorism towards iran and the security of their shared waterways including the waters around them on iran as well as the strait of hormuz which they both share control of now the amount of foreign minister has also met with the countries with iran's national security advisor others from conny and the message from mr shrum conny to the foreign minister was that as far as iran is concerned the taking the seizing of the iranian oil tanker in gibraltar was an illegal action by the british government the seizing of the british oil tanker by iran's forces was legal as far as iran is concerned and complies with international law so this very seasoned diplomat your money foreign minister representing

a country that on the national and on the international stage is quiet but they have a lot of influence regionally he's facing very stiff messaging from iran's leaders here so very much a peacemaker he is coming up against a very strong and firm to her own leadership but given as you say saying you know man's role historical role of mediation and of playing peacemaker odd that the high expectations that something can come of this. or will almost certainly we you know if we look back on how iran sort of came back into the international of fold well before the nuclear deal was even i thought it was secret negotiations between the united states and iran secret talks being hosted by oman that led to the brokering in the bench will signing of the 2015 nuclear deal before that there were no lines of communication

between to one in washington and if there is any conversation happening between those 2 countries now i think it's safe to say that it is oman that has a hand of a big hand in trying to make that happen now mine is trying to negotiate some kind of dialogue some kind of negotiated settlement to the problem of these oil tankers the tit for tat it seems the seizing of oil tankers by the united kingdom and iran and we have unconfirmed reports that there is a letter that your money foreign minister is now carrying to the british to certainly oman trying to play the role of a mediator in these regional tensions thank you zain zain with the latest live and pat thank you for now woad leaders are attending the funeral often as he has 1st democratically elected president of the subsea and 92 year old died on the day following a severe health crisis have a very good at

a hillside cemetery in tunis where other nativism and ted french president and cutters a man shake a maimed and how about tony are among those attending a presidential election is set to be held in september and a parliamentary election and a talk about a. let's go now talk david chaytor he is joining us live from the capital tunis the country farewelling a man respected by so many david before very important days ahead for tunis here. yes just to explain where i am we're on the final few 100 meters of the past to the hillside cemetery where the president will be buried just 13th century hillside cemetery which is just over the road here now crowds around me here tens of thousands of them been staying all day in the heat of

the day on the side of the streets hoping to pay their last respects to the president who they think set them firmly on the road to democracy now the cortege with full military honors is only a few meters away from the now that is the great his legacy people here feel. not the constitution which guaranteed. i mean the speaker of parliament became the president. i think that the president was announced. lections to be brought forward to september. that's going to be a problem for something. in the range but essentially people here already say commentators political analysts ordinary people on the street this is a real tribute to the president who actually wrote that constitution and got the country on the course to democracy but of course there are so many factors involved

and the future cannot be guaranteed as yet absolutely david at stake as you said the country is constitutionally strong. is credited with that but it has. any issues it's not economically strong for one and they have been attacks and recently is. yes that me take you through some of those problems by the way you can you could hear the drums rolling behind me drummers are the head of the procession. should bond with the coffin of the press that is so that's how close they are now on being interrupted by helicopters flying overhead but let's look at some of those with all the biggest problem is of course of the he had to call me by those 15 percent unemployment of the top of the moment of the to 31 percent twice the amount of box of graduates

that is building up right now for congress in this country that is one of the major key to the problem of the new president to do some of the september going to be will have to tackle also. a set of steps he helped keep the country going on the roads democracy through the attacks in 2015 with saul more than 70 people killed it at the museum british tourists on a beach resort more than 17 gun and grenade attacks that he's stated through that by actually coming to an alliance between the clerical side the just side and the secular side now that has held but most of the time and it is the unique and all the countries involved in the outspread nucor snoozer was the it's unique factor which has maintained a unit see the government the unity of purpose and kept democracies the only

just about the only arab country involved in the the uprisings which has a democratic street elected government in a sense so we would understand it so here now approaching you can hear the cheers of the crowd. these big companies with about 4 minutes made it 3 of us perhaps i'll step out of the way maybe you can see some of the. cool light you can see at the moment the cameras following following the possession. of the army he's out in the front to be uncertain presents the prime minister. or accompanying the coffin which is now and you've got a few 100 beaches to go before reaches the hillsides 7 straight to the 13th century $73.00. here is the bonds of friendship and i'm very soon we're will see the coffin but going back to the 2 the problems facing the

country there are so many of them at the moment because the i.m.f. has imposed very strict in most areas of measures because also. the prices of the feel i'm sued are going up but just to save you with this last shots of the government which is on the back of the lorry accompt about members of the navy the army the admirals all students are. now back to you in the studio david we thank you very much for that is david chase on live from the tennessee and kathy show at tunis thanks jeanne. moving on now a delegation from myanmar has arrived in refugee camps and bought a vacation the group traveling to causes bazaars trying to convince the refugees to return home that's where hundreds of thousands have been taking shelter after fleeing atrocities by myanmar and 2017. the conflict in neon

laws of northern state of caution is forcing more people from their homes as they saw between the government and the cochon independence on the ended in 2011 and since then and stability has been putting many families at risk including women who are being trafficked to china mohamad jump june reports. a long way in mars border with china in this camp for the internally displaced the stories are full of sorrow . as singer hour works she contemplates the desperate choices she's been forced to make how work dried up when the 17 year old cease fire between the and more government forces in the kitchen independence army broke down in 2011 how being unable to support her family that seeing route to a decision that still rocks her with guilt has had knowledge 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 the greed 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 that saying raus daughter who were 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 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 road for some there is a darker side to finding a new life away from the kitchen and out of me and more yeah 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 hong kong on my lawn i was asked if it i lived in terrible conditions they were abusing me with sexual violence i don't want to sleep with them about was forced i begged them to let me go but he was not listed in and he raved manta 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 1987 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. it is time for the weather now here's kevin that's right and we had a late month soon start but in recent days we have had some very heavy rain in certain areas i want to show you the most recent information that we have here take a look at india 1st of all on our satellite image most of the country is covered with clouds which means we're seeing a lot of showers across much of the area actually machine a lot of showers in areas that are normally a little bit drier and parts of the area i don't take you to talk which is and what just done which is normally an arid even in the months in season doesn't get as much rain as the rest of india but this is what $170.00 millimeters of rain in 24 hours looks like for that part of the country normally temptress would be quite

high here but heavy rain of course is causing quite a bit of problems not only with business but also in homes and residential areas unfortunately we are expecting to see much more rain in this particular area some other places we've seen some very heavy rain is down here towards the southwest from mumbai $284.00 millimeters of rain just to the south there $319.00 millimeters of rain just in the last 24 hours now because we have seen a late start to the monsoon we're still in a deficit and how much rain the country has received this time of year where about 60 percent of deficit for the whole country right now but over the next few days we're going to see some very heavy rain here across parts of the central and north east the northwest we could be seeing another $500.00 plus millimeters in the next 3 days. kevin thank you very much for that among the stories coming up a vote and religious diversity in jerusalem's old city and why the eminent closure of this has star hotel as adding to the problem and then. call up

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the problem than just smoking batteries. rewind broken dreams the polling 787 on al-jazeera. it's good to have you with us on the al-jazeera news hour these are our top stories saddam's government is blaming a few officers for june's crackdown on a protest camp and which the opposition's. at least 100 people were killed investigators say road offices violated orders by telling other security forces to fire on demonstrators. protest as a lot of the standoff with police in hong kong after refusing to leave the streets

police have been using tear gas and pepper spray to try to disperse the crowds. and at least 11 people have been killed in an airstrike and syria's problems the un's humanitarian human rights chief condemned what she calls the walls and difference to the rising death toll in. let's get more on our top story now so don we're joined by abdel wahab offending a professor of politics at the doha institute for graduate studies mr offended always good to have you with us on al-jazeera already heard from some of the civilian opposition have said that they are disappointed but not surprised by what's in the report is that a fair reaction yes i think nobody was waiting with bated breath for this report because anyway there has been an agreement between the opposition and the government to set about independent commission to investigate this and the

government itself is actually dock used yeah miltie council so and now we're still the current attorney general. is a placement of the old unit attorney general who contradicted what i mean it's also a city and he was somebody sacked you know so there is a lot of questions and in any case this is an issue that not to say a crime which has thousands of witnesses and as you say this was essentially the military investigating itself can we expect and dependent investigation and how important is that for the country to move on as you said thousands of witnesses protest as alcohol and saddam already on tapi roads what this report hasn't i mean from the justice perspective the reason they need to be an independent report. and i think the problem is that most of the information about this is mostly when

the ministry of truth witnesses. the victims who have been attacked. this whole thing this went on for what's. and about the way that the knowledge of the military is giving is probably might be one of 2 things i see we can take this sort of thought as a kind of defense argument. and include it in the report but i think the worry is that it could be a crime in itself if the attempt to obstruct justice and to mislead about who was responsible you can not really say that one or 2 offices are responsible. while the fact is that the military itself. had many many days after that. what happened to close file for itself yeah but they were actually they never

condemned anybody they were saying that it never happened and they'll say the last response will stand they say we planned it and they then they they have also been sending their troops in the street beating up people preventing them from coming back and saw there is. a pattern of behavior which shows that there is no repentance for this and actually there is an attempt to continue with that and if you look at that pattern of behavior it doesn't bode well does it for the militaries of all and they are going to roll before the civilians take over well i think you have a view on this where should that we have to look to justice in a number of ways because there are ways of looking at justice in the south african way that we see in the way in ways that yes. there is a problem the freedom and change groups have signed a porsche agreement and they want to investigate the people who say ship tours

i think that that would cause a problem because if you go on and say well you are under arrest you will be punished they will some for bill might happen so we have to think. in the long term what do we want absolutely mr offended thank you for your time as always we appreciate it thank you. now there are reports that russian police have arrested hundreds of people at an opposition rally in central moscow protests are demanding that opposition candidates be an entourage and elections for moscow city council election officials have barred some opposition candidates saying they didn't collect enough signatures the rally was called wild positionally to annex in a valley on wednesday was sentenced to 30 days in jail for doing so. to the us now with the supreme court has ruled that president trump is allowed to use pentagon funds for the border war with mexico it says he can divert $2500000000.00

from the defense department to fund the project in june he was blocked from doing so by a judge in california at a cost heinous following that story and washington d.c. us president dollars 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 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 had 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. the united states has signed a deal with guatemala and gratian that requires people who travel through the central american nation to seek refuge there instead of the u.s. days and president threatened to impose tariffs on guatemala unless it took action . thousands of people have marched in the gaza strip for the funeral of a palestinian man killed by the israeli army during a weekly protest at the border fence 23 year old was shot in the stomach along israel's fence another 38 hours to me and were injured by gunfire in southern gaza or was the 1st death related to the demonstrations against the illegal israeli occupation of palestinian territories since june since the gaza rallies began in march last year at least $307.00 protesters have been killed by israeli troops now

2 hotels in the christian quarter of the all city and occupied east jerusalem on to be taken over by a group of jewish settlers it is part of a long term plan to change the centuries old religious and ethnic makeup of the area brings to an end a 14 year legal battle as bernard smith reports. in the christian quarter of jerusalem's old city the imperial hotel built by the greek orthodox church as welcomed pilgrims and tourists for 130 years the property is one of 3 now in the hands of a settler group called attar at carni. this is my father with king christian 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 see that one day to see that jeff or gaev.

our medical 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 a 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 or. the sale of the properties 14 years ago was handled by a financial adviser to the then greek patriarch the adviser left israel soon after israel supremes court has now rejected claims by the current patriarch that the sale was illegal. as 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 this proud man. my children. yes yes. when this thing happened. i have made him where he is so i made my son to see is we have to do it and i could give you to get you to it i wish and our skirt that we could get

a few. yes yes. mr 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 off bernard smith al-jazeera in jerusalem's old city. 2 people have died in south korea after the balcony of a nightclub collapsed on top of don says 16 others were injured when the upper floor gave way on early saturday morning and the southwestern city of many of those hurt of foreign athletes competing in the world swimming championships. earthquakes in northern philippines have killed at least 8 people 2 tremors of magnitude 5.4 and 5.9 struck on saturday near the botanists islands at least 60 people are injured and there has been significant damage to homes and other buildings. now colombians have been protesting at home and abroad against the killing of rights activists hundreds have been murdered by criminal groups since

a peace table signed with fox rebels 3 years ago i listen to the explain from both . ends of 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. hundreds of ladies 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 the us one of 1300 community leaders currently on their threat almost 500 have been killed since the signing of a peace deal with far rebels as criminal groups fight for control of look at the drug trafficking and illegal mining in remote territories and as paramilitary groups connected to criminal political elites oppose lamed restitution programs.

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. 9 year old crying over the dead body of his mother community leader. sparked a wave of indignation that spurred the rally. 0 protesters want the government of president. this 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 did march in the coastal city of quetta to him in 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. a tone of. hurt when a life is lost in our country when

a voice is silence when hope is distinguished by violence we deeply reject old expressions of violence which are filled by drug trafficking organized crime and illegal mining this is the largest demonstration since the signing of the peace agreement and with the plea put more pressure on the president to get everybody here agrees that unless something gets done to truly effect the power structures 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 i listen to just you know. thousands of mines in south africa who are suffering from potentially fatal diseases have reached a legal settlement worth $350000000.00 lawyers for the mine workers sued 10 major companies the compensation 6 of the firms accepted a deal which is now being approved by a court in johannesburg up 210-0000 miners or the dependents could benefit many developed lung diseases or other.