on the 21st of july so people are not asking for a thorough investigation and independent investigation on this incident. thousands joined saturday's demonstration of lock streets in a tense standoff that went on for hours but eventually police lost their patience and moved in to disperse the crowds. they fired several rounds of tear gas used a sponge and pepper spray some protesters fled others refused some volunteers also attempted to negotiate an end to what started as a peaceful rally he said. going on we hope people come peacefully poised to opinion their wishes so please i hope to protest as the police because they call the crowds then move to your long trying station where last sunday's attacks occurred protesters hit the building and use fire extinguishers on police to resist arrest permission to go ahead with saturday's rally was denied by the government this

demonstration was an illegal assembly and placed my a number of arrests these protests aren't going away as another rally planned on sunday in central hong kong and this time demonstrators are expected to target china's mine liaison office sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong. well still ahead here they're up behind bars and out of reach the palestinian children imprisoned by israel and denied contact with their families plus there's a promise of jobs enough to stop central american migrants from heading to the u.s. we'll have those stories on the other side of the break. and i was a bit more cloud floating around in iran around the caspian of course markers share out of it but i don't think. to be honest and it has not the temperatures back in

the forecast around still around the 40 mark if anything done in iraq is actually going to war for the next couple of days back that up to 46 you can think of 48 to 49 kuwait just a little bit lower than that typically though it's still sunshine for the most part and it was so the last few days of forecasts where i've been standing over levant nothing much has changed the breezes picked about of iraq is running down the gulf at the moment as temperatures probably slowly on its way down having had 45 of their buys on saturday were down to below 40 for both sunday and monday and that usually indicates rather more humid air and look at the wind direction that's probably exactly what to feel like in qatar and in bahrain not necessarily dubba dubba dubai or the u.a.e. typically has got this drier breeze from the empty quarter although it's still producing the relief in salalah which is of course overcast and. now the weather in cape town has warmed up considerably still a bit of

a breeze admittedly but 70 degrees for you on sunday and more sunshine with the same temperature on monday. take the worst possible material eurabia grounded into dust comparable to flour and make a whole lot of it and put it into a place where people live think is a cause colossally bad idea as well and so many people are thinking this is the fellow here but doesn't make 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.

welcome back you're watching al-jazeera with me so robin a reminder of our top stories hundreds of people in sudan's capital a back on the streets protesting against the findings of an investigation into the deadly crackdown in khartoum last month it blamed rogue soldiers for the violent breakup of a city demonstration. syrian government as strikes have killed at least 13 civilians in northwest province many of those killed were children russian backed government forces launched an offensive to recapture the last major rebel stronghold in april . more than a 1000 protesters have been arrested mainly violently and authorized to march in moscow they were protesting the bombing of opposition candidates from local elections the homes and offices of several candidates were also raided and they were detained ahead of the march. a delegation from myanmar has

visited writing accounts in bangladesh to persuade refugees to return home hundreds of thousands have been sheltering since fleeing a violent crackdown by the military in 2017 of the child rehearsal from cox's. security was stepped up for the visit of representatives of the myanmar government to the refugee camp at cox's bizarre there had been a fear of protest and only a select group of rowing was chosen to meet with the delegation in one of the camps offices shade though when it was among those who attended the talks the me and my government is trying to persuade the refugees to return home. they told us that all arrangements are being made for us to return they also told us that there are camps built for us with the necessary security and facilities outside the camps office several 100 running as gathered to get to meet the delegates and ask questions but they were quickly dispersed by police and nearby another group of refugees try to

stage a demonstration but that was also quickly broken up by security officers some of the community leaders at cox's bazaar expressed their concern at what condition will be like if the refugees return to rakhine state we demand before our water going back i want to be done in done have committed to you should visit inside africa area about us in there about our protection this is the 3rd high level visit by the me and mar government that repatriation of the 1st batch of refugees was to begin officially last november but it stalled amid protest at the camps and bangladesh. many are still traumatized from their experience 2 years ago when they were forced to flee their homes during the me and my own military crackdown so who are accountants 25 year olds and 18 year old grand daughter in law were killed by the security forces. we will seek compensation and justice 1st for the loss of our

family members we also want to be recognized as if these demands are met and we get justice then we will think about going back critics said this trip pettish unplanned is just me and maurice latest attempt to divert international criticism from its policies directed at the row he got nearly a 1000000 rowing are refugees are crammed into this densely congested shanty camps in the caucasus bazaar area they're getting increasingly frustrated and angry about their future but no one is willing to return home to me and mark without citizenship papers and their security guarantee. with the following parts of bangladesh. thousands of people have marched in gaza for the funeral of a palestinian man killed by the israeli army during a weekly protest of the border fence 23 year old was shot in the stomach near the barrier another 38 palestinians were injured by gunfire in southern gaza. since

june related to demonstrations against israeli occupation. and israeli human rights organization is pushing for palestinian minors to be allowed to make phone calls while in detention $210.00 palestinians under the age of 18 are held in israeli jails right now security detainees or prisoners 2 of them are under 14 according to the rights group. it says most children report physical and verbal abuse from the moment of their arrest as well as their coercion and threats during interrogation many aren't told where they're going or allowed to have contact with their families or a lawyer now the group how market is petitioning the courts for that change need it bringing has more from. in the occupied west bank. thought of as he missed his little sister the most israeli authorities held the 15 year old under arrest for 3 months last year charging him with throwing stones at israeli

soldiers he says he was questioned without any good counsel or member of his family being present and he only saw his mother once from a distance while he was detained. my friend was a restart with me the israeli interrogator told him that i confessed against him that he threw stones they wanted him to confess against me as well he came back to the prison room angry and shouting thinking that i did that to him he almost hit me via palestinian prisoners associations say that teenagers like thought and even younger children are often arrested late at night or during confrontations with the israeli army in the occupied west bank they are tried in military courts and around half a storage is of hurling stones that carry a prison sentence of around 6 months now the israeli human rights organization how good is petitioning the courts to allow minors to have access to phones the phone contact with the pick families is doubly important i mean of course it's a basic right but also when you look at everything these kids are going through

it's very important for them to have some sort of support from their families. you know i meant to try to fill that void he spent 2 years in jail until his release a few weeks ago and looked after young this unease while he was there he says some inmates whereas youngest 12 and found him the only consolation sawyer but some of them start crying they tell me i want my parents i want my mom but i know there's little i can do so i'm force a lot of them i say you'll be able to talk to mom soon and should visit in 10 days just so they can calm down and start adopting it usually takes more than 2 months for parents to get a visitor's permit but sometimes they never do they're allowed to attend their children's military trial but they're asked not to touch or talk to each other in the gaza strip many palestinians say the situation is usually worse now. just as his 16 year old son yusef was arrested 3 months ago he's accused of trying to smuggle himself into israel but it says he doesn't know much about what's happened

to his son since his arrest and is worried he won't be able to visit him. more often i was a wristed in the past so i might be banned from visiting him as they would deem me a security threat the israeli army says the juvenile military court is designed to improve the rights of minors but according to those representing them many young inmates suffer physical and psychological harm in jail and having no contact with their families makes that worse need a better him al jazeera the occupied west bank. today is his 1st democratically elected president as a d.c. has been laid to rest in the capital tunis the 92 year old who was given full military honors died on thursday david chaytor as more. foreign leaders came to pay their respects a carthage palace to the man who helped guide tunisia to a new era of democracy. they praises the ship courage baiji

card as see came out of retirement to become the country's 1st democratically elected president in 24 he forged a link between the secular and religious sides of the political spectrum here avoiding the clashes that tore apart so many of the countries in the arab spring uprising. his coffin carried on the back of a lorry with a full military on a god pass through the capital on the final journey to the city's 13th century cemetery. everybody here has been out all day lining the streets open to give and pay their last respects to the legacy of the president and. his history as we consider. father. just died as if we we lost him and we crying about that hopefully the next time it will be good and may god protect our country but i've been. to just

a little suburb you feel the patriotic soul too noisy and people public and policeman are all hand in hand today. you met on cell phone as of the today tunisia lost a real man of the state the man who worked a lot for his country and he saved many time from bloodbaths i'm proud of him. on the captaincy of country but there are clouds on the horizon unemployment is still increasing in fuel and food prices rising there is no doubt that. that you cannot have the surviving democracy without solving the economic and social problems i think most political actors it is yet aware of that it was a dignified end to such a long political career but a new and much younger generation must now shoulder the burdens of state and those burdens are set to grow heavier by the day david chaytor al-jazeera choose. a course in nigeria has given the government permission to classify

a shia group as a terrorist organization members of the islamic movement of nigeria have been marching in the capital of future calling for the release of their leader exactly that he's been in detention since 2015 despite a court order to release him the group says at least 20 of its members were killed during the week's protest. the leaders of mexico and one dearest have signed a pledge to curb the number of central american migrants seeking asylum in the united states on jurist will adopt similar programs to mexico which put people to work planting trees and offer a monthly payment to young students the pledge was signed in the mexican state of vera cruz and the republic is the. the presidents of mexico in honduras met in vera cruz on saturday to announce a multilateral agreement aimed at curbing the flow of central american migrants seeking asylum in the united states mexican president and. says mexico will direct $100000000.00 toward development projects offering jobs to people who might

otherwise consider migrating north. that this is an important action because it shows the as another way another alternative to provide a wreck tional solution to the migration phenomenon that isn't through coercive muses and addresses the causes of migration. the meeting between president lopez of what i thought of mexico and one orlando at 9 days of honduras took place in london a city in mexico that sits on a popular route among central american migrants traveling north toward the united states and outside a migrant shelter near the outskirts of town we spoke with one man a penis he recently fled honduras with his teenage son he's aware of the 100 president's visit to mexico but says he and the people around him are desperate nothing at. the chain of migration will continue i don't think it will stop we don't have any other choice if we stay behind well stuff to death. since june of

this year mexico has cracked down on migrants and migrant numbers have declined. but many who still continue to leave their homes in central america point to worsening living conditions and widespread government corruption in countries like honduras as a reason for fleeing mexico is calling on the united states for more participation and investment to improve the conditions in the countries where migrants originate went up on. record with mexico. now thousands of government supporters in venezuela have held what they call an anti imperialist march for peace in the capital caracas hundreds of soldiers and several politicians joined the demonstration the country is preparing to host a regional conference of left wing parties and organizations opponents of president nicolas maduro have criticized him for hosting the event saying it's a waste of resources. now the speaker of the u.s. house of representatives nancy pelosi has denounced donald trump's twitter attack

on the democratic congressman as racist the president unleashed the online to raid after representative elijah cummings criticized his mexican border policies in response trump called him a brutal bully saying his baltimore district is far worse and more dangerous than the border he also called cummings district a discussing rat and rodent infested mess the congressman responded saying mr president i go home to my district daily each morning i wake up and i go and fight for my neighbors particle lane has more from washington d.c. . another norm broken this is a us president denigrating a major american city that has happens to be mostly african-american and it's african-american congressman but the larger cummings is not an ordinary congressman he is an icon of the civil rights movement he has huge respect not only in his district but in the halls of congress the president has made it clear this is his

strategy to get reelected he believes if he fires up his base core supporters of white supporters that they will come out in droves and they will get him another term there are a lot of analysts who are sending a warning message though about that strategy they look back to 216 and one of the reasons that trump won in this incredibly close election was because the vote was down in african-american communities and hispanic communities polls show that his racist tweets and comments are hurting his support among african-americans and hispanics so what some analysts are warning while the president is firing up his own bases core support hasn't moved he's also fired up the base on the other side. is their own civil role but this is a reminder of all top news stories hundreds of people in saddam's competition back on the streets protesting against the findings of an investigation into the deadly crackdown in khartoum last month it blamed rogue soldiers for the violent breakup

of a city in demonstration. and i mean one of the brigadier's was warned that he's not responsible for the operation and yet he disobeyed orders and led the rapid support forces into the city area and handed down orders for them to get out of their armored vehicles and force the protesters out it's also established that the riot forces led by one of the colonels he alone with these forces moved into the seating area and some personnel talking about sleeper testers firing indiscriminately. syrian government air strikes have killed at least 13 civilians a north west it led province many of those killed were children russian backed government forces launch an offensive to recapture the last major rebel stronghold in april more than a 1000 demonstrators have been arrested many violently at a normal theorised march in moscow they were protesting the barring of opposition candidates from local elections. hong kong police serve again the 5 rubber

bullets and tear gas of protesters after thousands of people defied a government ban and rallied in a small town near the chinese border a group of men attacked protesters at a train station there last week. thousands of people have marched in garza for the funeral of a palestinian man killed by the israeli army during a weekly protest of the border fence 23 year old m. and a hurdle was shot in the stomach near the barrier another 38 palestinians were injured by gunfire inside garza. was the 1st since june related to demonstrations against israeli occupation donald trump's twitter attack on a democratic congressman has been denounced as racist by the speaker of the u.s. house of representatives trungpa unleashed the online to raid after representative elijah cummings criticized his mexican border policies in response the president called cummins district a disgusting ratan rodent infested mess that is far worse and more dangerous than

the border those stories of course can be followed updated on our website al jazeera dot com more news in half an hour next its people and power media. it's my privilege to name al jazeera english the broadcaster of the year the country has a fight each other and we've been told that we can still hear these is the largest demonstration that's been held by the director g.'s since over 700000 dear some of the nicest losers in the front here for them to think that they could be plastic here. al-jazeera english proud recipient of the new crystals called the cost of the elite of the city. 2018 a new government came to power in armenia amid widespread optimism that its leader they coped with in decades of corruption and the economic mismanagement but now his

administration faces a major dilemma whether to proceed with a huge be defunct mining project but some are warning will cause enormous environmental damage and endangered one of the world's rarest animal species. the former soviet republic of armenia has witnessed dramatic changes in the last 12 months. a bloodless revolution led by journalist turned politician nicole pushing a promised an end to decades of corrupt rule this. is just one

a snap election and for the 1st time in years there is hope to ms a. first for priority is to continue. to call it was and to make a real difference to see not many on the record. or mania has enjoyed years of blockades imposed by its neighbors turkey and azerbaijan the country's economy never really recovering from the collapse of the u.s.s.r. . previous governments resorted to leasing its mineral rich benton's to foreign mining concerns it was driven by need for revenue but it also caused an enormous environmental damage even worse say some of the economic benefits were only ever enjoyed by a few new army of oh sure google problem out. there still will go to those who move along but on the notion of. cool the loss of

some of those in the he she said beautiful show but it will let the police. have the latest of these mining projects is proving hugely divisive supported by the previous government and poised to begin work it is said to exploit a massive gold deposits in the south of the country but it is being blockaded by activists who believe that profits are less important than amin is unique environment you can't drink gold or you can't eat gault you can't just bury gold you need pure environment for life. what happens next. asked whether the mind goes ahead will the activists win that battle lies in the hands of the new prime minister nickel pushing me and. it's a decision that could affect the future of his administration and threaten the ecosystem and even the fate of one of the world's most imperiled animal species.

tiny landlocked all menial is the oldest christian country in the world. blessed with rich soils it is also considered to be the birthplace of wine and even today agriculture forms the mainstay of the economy. the magnificent mind ararat where many believe the remains of noah's ark will one day be found is the national symbol. today the mountains of armenia like the fabled on remain a refuge for many endangered animals the hunting ground of the world's rarest big cat the koch asian leopard of which there are estimated to be only 10 left in the country. this unique footage was captured by trial cameras.

alexander more caution a rule authority on the reclusive animal has been charting the leopard's battle for survival for over 20 years. as an awful events and outdated doric what. was shelagh the break so show up short i missed it. and as such i'm not going to be a lot of karloff. power not whether it did it or a box of years i'd say. what you're not going of course the good click of. but the fate of this magnificent beast hangs in the balance with the new mine ready and waiting to get into production as it is our last after the many of. them where you are but it was enough in the. deep within the karabakh ridge a mountain called amel saw which translates as the barren place is ironically the side of a massive gold deposit discovered by anglo-american mining company lydian international

who intend to extract the precious metal by means of a controversial he pleasing process. maybe an international is of biggest for any western culture during the last for bin years we invested about 500000000000 over this project is very important for the economy or. we designed the project to be. environmentally. safe 1st of all he placed ethnology doesn't have to face down there is no issues with water no issues with health or community. but local see things differently and fearful that their lives are about to change forever. the tourism in the free trade which have always been the main source of

income will be destroyed if the mine goes ahead. spurred on by the recent revolution for the last 6 months protesters have blocked all roads to the mountain stopping for the mine construction. at 1st we leave out our cars then we bring and now we bring temporary housing like this is the place we are living now. this is our scene well that's we must save on the side of the dollar hence our mom i know we're almost sorry and. we must save eat right home michael he not going while we're on last night while we jump are you going to tell your run john i would get your rights reborn as the loved you document your for. i bore sure none of them made it home michael j. got although it's been. many. have come to this remote to support the book ages. people like annie from the capital younger than he was

a 7 year old son is. every time i go to. ask in need to stay with him and i just explain him that if i don't go. who who can go so i feel some moral duty to go there and to stand with them anyway it's a little bit difficult because i'm a girl and they're all boys but i can say that during this months we became just like family. well let us know when there should this have this nice woman ya got sushil you bastardo here should just leave it right it. would do but branch with. the blockade has proved from markedly effective. the machinery and trucks lie idle the project is

literally frozen which is it. it's about hollywood dollar but now it's more because we're lost people. professionals we had a mean 800270 contra. the blockade is making some people just because of the wider implications. for not coming one day close all the mines because they will have basically you will be destroyed a big part of your budget thousands and thousands of people will be out of the job armenia's to chill a head of state president sarkozy and used to be on the board of lydian the blockaders believe he's just one of many power brokers backing the mind his role was more of brokering this potential big investment into into the country as opposed to anything else.

on my side has been a fixer for this mining project and we wanted to. we actually asked him directly questions of what was his role and asked him to disclose information that is particularly important at the moment. he denied to disclose information when you join a board you saw him challenging. my cautious is absolutely clear what i did absolutely clear. non the less the blockade is a wary of the president preferred to put their faith in armenia's new prime minister nicole pushing him on his shoulders the future of the minaya rests a political outsider and in a fired man of the people last spring the shinya was swept into office on an

unprecedented wave of popular support. he promised to end the endemic corruption that had told his country under the decade long rule of former president says sock sound of the republican party his attempt to stay in power by becoming prime minister had set off a political earthquake. the legitimacy i mean social legitimacy psychological edge over a public good port was there they were not popular even 10 years ago with this except to keep the troops. pushing a former political prisoner began a long march from the west of the country to the capital yerevan much of the time with his wife at his side in her right at the. height of itself. i doubted what. we had a good hour to get it behind our back to someone else almost. like a slum lord yes that's how it's called in christiane's us that's

a very good that's the good nots i levels. most economists that. with hundreds of thousands of supporters on the streets demanding he became prime minister instead of socks in pushing eunice yoon pilot in a velvet revolution. he immediately set about tackling corruption with high profile cases like the mayor of yerevan his numerous mansions were filmed by a drain the video of which went viral on the internet. people were incensed love that these are options to push you know that those films should be should dish nearest to the real. lucia look at those that still can look up you should a lot of them still sprouted lucia perfume from the in you bustle of the roast them a bit of a culture of corruption came from the soviet era and it

was and it wasn't fought with in the early stages of arminius independence just like it was the case on other in other words so he.