in tripoli has been recaptured by forces loyal to the backed government of national accord that's after have to us forces briefly took control of a military camp military sources with the government say that the have those forces that were positioned in the old in active airport just took advantage of the the military stalemate in that area that has been creating for the past couple of days and more early on saturday and not clear military camp about 3 kilometers to the north east direction of the old international airport and briefly took control of a military camp medical sources at the field hospital say that they have found 10 dead bodies belonging to have those forces fighters and we know that this advancement this military advancement is there is the major advancements since have

those forces lost the strategic city of the end of the capital tripoli in late june this comes only hours after have those fighter jets targeted the air base in the city of misrata that has been used to fly drones that have been targeting forces locations in and around tripoli over the past couple of months. more ahead on this al-jazeera news hour including bahrain executes 2 men convicted of terrorism charges despite an international appeal not to do so fast myanmar officials tried to convince or hang their refugees to return home but is it safe and qualifying nightmare for harare ahead of the german grand prix peter will tell us more in school it's. the as. an organization that monitors for political arrests

in russia say more than $700.00 people including prominent opposition activists have been detained at a large protest in moscow to facilitate felicity barnow in our european youth center in london felicity. thank you for yes this was the latest in a series of demonstrations against the decision to bawl opposition candidates for moscow's local elections in september several opposition leaders were arrested earlier this week and the protest was banned it went ahead and turned violent reports. they chanted this is our city as they came up against the power of the russian authorities it was supposed to be a rallying call for band opposition candidates to be allowed to run in local elections in moscow. but it was met with a baton carrying of right police soon after the arrests began.

i believe this is political pressure ok to make the independent kenya dates is just standing there in the street at the right to do that. we of trade around the streets of oil. this is nonsense it's a shame. the un authorized protest had been called by the jailed opposition leader . of mauritius had banned local election candidates from running because they said the candidates in question had not collected a sufficient number of genuine signatures in their support a charge rejected by the opposition movement who say the candidates are being unfairly excluded from. all that is being done is an attempt to intimidate and we need to show that they cannot intimidators with these methods the protest also comes at a time of serious questions over president vladimir putin's popularity discontent and anger over falling incomes and

a rise in the national pension age appear to have caused a slump in putin's approval ratings that have been denied by the kremlin. but the opposition sees this latest crackdown as a struggle for its right to challenge what it says is a legislature loyal to the president and attempt to be seen heard and represent those who want to change in moscow's political scene sony vaio al jazeera. well for more now let's speak to victor all of it she's a political analyst and lead expert at the moscow based think tank center for actual politics and he joins us live from moscow good to have you with us on the program the electoral commission says it won't change its mind about allowing these candidates to take part in the elections do you think though that decision could be reversed given the protests. well it could be a versed in fact there is an appeal process that is enshrined in the russian election law and there is an appeal that's going to take place in the early or go

star in fact there's just a little over a month left until the elections on september 8th and all of the sort of the has happened has taken place that they could really have been prevented if the moscow city election commission plead fair and square and did not take political size and registered those not just those came to that the demon to politically loyal but also the candidates that i thought were politically in admissable because what happened is that since the moscow election commission barred a significant number of opposition candidates based on what the election commission claimed to be not enough signatures proper signatures collected by them this has

actually consolidated various opposition groups in various opposition forces that have been squabbling with each other and among each other for 4 years so we are going to you in the next few days we are going to you are in the next few weeks we're going to see how the federal or storage his car the central government in russia reacts to this and if there are going to be changes made and how the ideals process is going to go to the election commission well how big a problem is this then for president putin who as we know he's a preview rating has dropped witnessing more and more discontent this was of course the 3rd weekend in a row that we've seen mass protests how big a problem is this for the president. well obviously when there are thousands of people demonstrating dead and disenfranchised people demonstrating and holding for terrorists in downtown moscow it's obviously

a sign of political problems and of course if these issues are of use in french as most of the of this part of the population of moscow is not going tell you these issues are not going to be absolved within the next with the upcoming days and weeks then these protests are likely to continue and possibly expand so it is in the interest of the central government of the federal government to resolve this ship this issue fairly and state those. those candidates that have actually really qualified to be part of the election because in the el it's year a number of these candidates if they would have been registered properly by the book by the law they would have easily lost 2 due to pro-government you know not that none opposition candidates but instead of playing. by the book by the law

going by the lection law the mosque election commission has unfortunately made the decisions that have caused events that we are seeing to the end that we have seen or the last several days thanks all that it's good to get your analysis. thank you . france says it's going ahead with plans to tax revenues of big technology firms despite the u.s. president threatening to tax french wine finance minister bruno lemaire said donald trump shouldn't mix digital taxes with wine terrorists other european countries are also planning distal taxes on friday trump blasted what he called president foolishness for pushing ahead with the levy and said is that ministration would announce substantial reciprocal action not to mix to do you choose to key question of now is not the question of trade stories on why all. these hawke and we get a consensus on this issue of digital activities and further or

a t v d's thousands of people have rallied in poland in support of gay rights protesters waved rainbow flags and condemned recent violence that a pride march in the conservative city of the stock the government say they say the government is failing to protect them moments ruling law and justice party has made gay rights a campaign issue ahead of parliamentary elections in october but many polish politicians say pride marches promote unnecessary public displays of sexuality. 2 men from the u.s. have been arrested in rome in connection with the murder of an italian police officer a man with attained in their hotel and are said to confess to the killing the 35 year old police officer was repeatedly stabbed on friday after trying to arrest 2 people suspected of stealing a bag from a man in a popular tourist district another officer was injured in the incident. and forensic experts are analyzing bones extracted from to also raise in the vatican

it's part of an investigation into the disappearance of teenage girl in 1983 investigators received an anonymous anonymous tip this month which led them to open to to to see if her body was hidden inside instead they found mysterious phones which are now being excitement. from here in europe right now to fully into home felicity thank you very much for that a delegation from myanmar has arrived in refugee camps in bangladesh the group traveling to cox's bazaar is trying to convince the refugees to return home that's where hundreds of thousands of been taking shelter after fleeing atrocities by myanmar's amin 2017 tanveer chandrika has more from cox's bazaar. several 100 running a ref were destroyed together near the center where the myanmar delegates is supposed to meet with the community leader they wanted to have the opportunity to see them maybe have the opportunity to question but there 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 me and more delegates to get some answers to our questions but we were not allowed to meet with them. if you recognize this 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 comes they have certain fundamental demands before they even consider moving back to me on mars one of them is they be recognized as a growing us they get citizenship and there is a guarantee of security by the international community what the mayor and more delegates will achieve we have yet to see but from the rights groups and others we know their environment is not conducive for them to return. and conflict in myanmar is no more than stage of a chain is forcing more people from their homes a cease fire between the government and the chain independence on me ended in 2011

since then instability has been putting many families at risk including women who are being trafficked to china moment john john has a story. 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 me and more government forces in the kitchen independence army broke down in 2011 how being unable to support her family let sing route to a decision that still rocks her with guilt 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 agreed she should have a better life so i made the decision for my daughter to marry a chinese man in. the groom promised to pay almost $7000.00 to sing around but

ended up paying only around half of that 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 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. cincom 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 their have a better life in china they thought the chinese government would take care of

china's citizens perry road 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 hong kong on my long lost 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 manta became pregnant. alleges he had 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. as. still ahead on al-jazeera president trump says he's reached an agreement with the tomato that could make it even harder for central americans to claim asylum in the u.s. and where not every cost where families are moving from cocoa to a new cash crop. and rugby world capitals japan and looking good less than 2 months out from their tournaments you know. the story in sports i mean. hello again welcome back we're here cross a live and we're looking at fairly dry conditions across much of the area now we have a few showers here passing across the caspian a few showers over here also for parts of turkey but in terms of temperatures

a lot of widespread thirty's and above for many areas of ungar here on sunday $32.00 degrees down towards aleppo at $35.00 beirut at 30 and as we go towards monday those temperatures are on the rise expect to see areas in syria 35 to 37 and even a close to 40 in some locations there baghdad of 46 degrees and kuwait city a dry day for you at about 45 now speaking of humidity it has been a dry day on saturday here and doha but unfortunately that is not going to last we're now getting into that seas with the middy is a big problem we're going to be dropping down to about $38.00 but the minute he is going to be on the rise it is going to be very uncomfortable here on sunday as well as into monday temperatures are still staying below 40 but it's the high humidity that we are going to be watching with scott some clouds coming into play there at $33.00 degrees and down here towards the law we do expect to see $27.00 few and very quickly across parts of southern africa we are going to be seeing very dry conditions across much of the area but in terms of temperature for durban expect

about $25.00 degrees and johannesburg at 19. going behind the scenes of one of mexico's most love soaps using fiction to mirror the struggles of real life. this week the story line focuses on the basis of systematic violence in mexican society and issues close to home for the producers and act as a life as they struggle to portray in fiction the much the face of reality so what's mexico every day mafia on al-jazeera. demain the intersection of reality and comedy and post revolution tennessee a. mission to entertain educate and provoke debate through satire how weapon of choice. and internet look at what inspires one of tuna's year's most

popular comedians to make people laugh. martin asea hack on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching the news on al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories demonstrations in khartoum as don's opposition rejects a government report blaming a few offices for germans crack down on a protest camp investigators dave grohl golfer sues violated orders by telling other security forces to fire on protesters killing dozens of. demonstrators in hong kong are refusing to leave a metro station to the natives day of violence in the territory they're angry over

attacks on demonstrators fair on sunday which they say were carried out by police by gang members and world leaders have attended the funeral of tunisia's 1st democratically elected president sepp seat the 92 year old died on thursday after what's being called a severe health crisis. and the united states has signed a deal with guatemala on immigration it requires people who travel through the central american nation to seek refuge share before they can apply in the u.s. meanwhile the u.s. supreme court is allowing the trump administration to use pentagon funds to build a war on the us mexico border the decision overturned a lower court ruling and will make it easier for president trying to build his long promised border wall last in jordan has more from washington. even as u.s. president donald trump is celebrating the supreme court ruling that the pentagon

spending on the border wall between mexico and the united states can't continue the majority leader standing hoyer is criticizing the court's decision saying that this is an inappropriate use of defense funding and that it is not going to make the united states safer oyur also said that he believes that once the actual legal challenge to the spending of pentagon funds on the border wall is concluded he believes the courts will rule ultimately that the money never should have been spent meantime the u.s. president is also celebrating what he calls a safe 3rd country agreement with guatemala the u.s. administration have put a lot of pressure on the government of president jimmy moralists to accept a deal on holding those migrants who are trying to reach the united states or otherwise facing a total travel and economic ban all guatemalans trying to come to the united states

or who are sending money home to their relatives the guatemalan government for its part says this is not a safe 3rd country agreement because such a deal would need to be approved by the guatemalan congress it's on recess right now however this is a deal which the u.s. believes could stand the numbers of people trying to reach the united states for economic or political reasons but the u.s. is also already facing a potential legal challenge the a.c.l.u. says that such an agreement does not work because guatemala itself is not a safe place for people whether or not they're trying to flee political or economic deprivation or let's not speak to susan fasts key who is the policy analyst and program coordinator in the international program at the migration policy institute she is via skype from washington thank you very much for being with us susan what is your understanding of how this so-called safe 3rd country agreement with

guatemala will work we need in any way how solve the u.s. immigration crisis. well the exact details of the agreement are still to be released that we don't have these x. checks of it yet from what we've heard from the way that it's been described by the department of homeland security it sounds like essential what it's what it's been termed. elsewhere which is a safe their country remain which means that anyone who arrived in the u.s. after transiting through bottom olive regardless of their nationality would not be eligible to apply for asylum in the united states and when that he returns to what amala the exact effects of the remit will depend on what exactly the terms are and how it's forced but what we've actually seen from remus like this that have been implemented elsewhere in the world is that they don't necessarily have the effective deterrent you're right also in the case of guatemala many of the migrants

actually originate from there from guatemala so would the agreement only apply to citizens from other countries like honduras or as salvador who are trying to get through guatemala or to go out to mountains as well and also is guatemala equipped to take in asylum seekers. this is very good questions and again we don't have the exact text of the agreement what we've heard from the way it's been described by officials sounds like it would not apply and bottom on nationals and usually an agreement of the sort of safe their country agreement would not apply to people who are. that particular country. but there have been a lot of questions that have been raised about one of mahler's capacity to actually teach in people who would be returns to it who are in need of protection what amala is a signatory of the un refugee convention which the us has pointed to in the past is suggesting that they are able to in asylum seekers but the state department itself

within the last year has said that what i'm on asylum system doesn't necessarily have the capacity to identify people who are in need of protection the system itself isn't used to receiving a lot of asylum claims. that you would be able to return large numbers of people to guatemala and see them actually effectively receive asylum is questionable present trump is not just pushing guatemala but also mexico to act as a buffer zone and at the same time he's gotten the ok now from the supreme court to build his border while using military funds so these are being seen as big victories for the company ministration but so then will a wall and this deal with when it curb illegal immigration in the u.s. what's the situation right now at the us mexico border. well they said with the regards to the the safe their countrymen in particular will have to see exactly

what the terms are and how it's worse but what we've seen from these tapes of the agreements with been and elsewhere on your resample try number of different safe their country agreements and 2015 or 26 teams huge try to stem the flow of migrants and refugees arriving there. in practice been quite difficult to enforce very few people are example are under the agreement that the e.u. actually signed with turkey where actually returned from europe to church. and when something like this is difficult to enforce it actually doesn't result in a deterrent effect and you still see he will come in and trying to find protection and in fact what it can do is actually cause people to teach their routes to rely more on what about the law. with regard to the wall specifically i mean what you've seen with were barriers that news the past again is are people changing in or out were more difficult and dangerous route but again it depends on

exactly what's put up and we're very good to talk to you about this thank you so much for your insights and fast skis from the migration policy institute joining us there from washington thank you for your time thank you mean a few days the governor of puerto rico will step down ricardo rosales resignation follows a scandal over offensive text messages that protesters are still calling for radical change and a gallagher reports 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 island's governor following a tech scandal and accusations of corruption have shocked puerto rico recorder a seo 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. and the other jurisdictions we have a lot of activity and i believe that this is the moment to to clean the slate and. that will 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 high mostly on better governance a better government in general. really can connect with the necessities of our people we're brothers and sisters in the eyes of god and the eyes of the nation and we are on the eyes of the whole world and we need to keep unite everyone hates being elected have to understand that they work for the people totally constitutional expert and human rights activist judith burke and is optimistic

about the island's future she tells us change may take time but it's coming so there may not be a temporary solution that's going to be seen or quit many way but i think nonetheless the way the protest who are in particular is a 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 who the future leadership of this island needs to reset its moral compass when the trust of its people and give them hope there's now a new generation of young voters here and they're joined by the events of the last 2 weeks and they may very well shape the future of this u.s. territory and. someone puerto rico. colombians have been protesting in bogota against the killings of human rights activists 107 madded by criminal groups

since a signing of a peace deal with falk rebels 3 years ago. well from the capital. gains 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 latest 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 under threat almost 500 have been killed since the signing of a peace deal with far rebels 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.

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 collection 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 the hanna 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 holding

. russians 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 will undoubtedly put more pressure on president bush yet everybody here agrees that unless something gets done to truly affect the power structures behind the violence there will be more killings and they will remain the single biggest threat to the implementation of the peace deal in the country i listened to i just you know what that. the european union has called on bahrain to introduce a moratorium on executions after 2 men were shot by firing squad and men were convicted of terrorism charges despite international concern about the fairness of the trial as the details. these 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 ahmed who were

in their twenty's is 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. prisoners families. feel there are. their prisoners that we have tortured. and one of them that. was on wheelchair during the period when you was in the jail. on friday a protester climbed on top of the behind the embassy building in london going on britain's new prime minister boy's johnson to intervene thank god 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 absentia 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 laws of the kingdom of bahrain which maintain international standards at the sedition 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 since the 27 arab spring protests hundreds of people demanding political reform as well as human rights activists have been jailed silenced or forced to live upon.