they had a sort of a standout moment that allowed her to see a bit of a bounce in the polls so joe biden see a bit of a dip in his front runner status so we expect that we're going to see a more aggressive joe biden a in the debates tonight as john hendren touched on in this piece there that we heard just a moment ago that joe biden will be flanked on the stage by senator cory booker as well as senator collins harris but what's notable in all of this is that of course joe biden is a white male he'll be flanked by african-american competitors and the issue for him in all of that is defending a very controversial crime bill that joe biden when he was a senator was put in place cory booker calling him the architect of that really saw a disproportionate amount number of african-american men jailed and many who are still sitting in those jails today so he's going to have to answer for that as well as a number of other policies but in the midst of all of this there are still 7 other candidates on the stage that ordinary americans hardly even know their names so the

challenge for them will be trying to even be relevant after this debate and you have to remember in all of this well the news media is covering this feverish lee almost as if there is an election in the coming weeks it is still more than a year away towards a kimberly thank you. know you a civil rights lawyer as i've gone bunch of cool to distill the separation of migrant children from the families of the border with mexico the moken civil liberties union says more than 900 children have been removed from the parents since last year that's despite a court ruling in 2018 of the practice should be stolen. time for a short break here al-jazeera when we come back just days after demolishing palestinian homes in the occupied west bank israel's cabinet approves building hundreds more. than 6 years after a 1000000000 as promised what's happened to nicaragua's the panama canal stay with us.

we've got more flooding on the cards to southern parts of china over the next couple of days what's a cloud pushing up towards hong kong and with this huge swirling mass that is a tropical depression fading a lot of heavy rain to the eastern side of the storm there 150 millimeters of rain in the past 24 hours and that wetter weather with this system is a weakening system not concerned about the winds but it's going to throw a lot of heavy rain across hong kong for one don't parents province i'm going to say that gradually make its way into high and then very heavy rain across a good part of southern china widespread flooding certainly on the costs that we want to watch out for because we have same watch spread flooding into parts of india recently the latest batch of heaviest rain is across the northeast of the country but it stays very disturbed across the western gas as well some more big

downpours coming in here if anything that wetter weather just pushing a little further north which as we go on through friday new delhi seeing some very heavy rain and again we are likely to see some flooding coming in here now sort of flooding across the arabian peninsula but we could see a spot or 2 of rain a fair bit of cloud there across on piles of saudi arabia into yemen and also into armaan with the risk of a shower here by friday. perception is validation clearly want to be seen. but in one life time we cannot see everything. we rely on experiences. and the legacies of previous generations. i think testimony. documentaries that open your eyes and.

welcome back a lot of our top stories here this hour schools across the been closed indefinitely go after more student protests marching forward to demonstrate against the deaths of 6 people who took part in a march monday. the 2nd death caused by a bone has been confirmed in one of the democratic republic of congo's biggest cities goma it's just 2 weeks since the 1st case was found there but officials say they're unrelated to the aussies facing the 2nd worst about the outbreak in history which has claimed the lives of 1700 people and british prime minister abbas john smoltz visited northern ireland to discuss brags that the political leaders

discussions were expected to stand on the so-called stop a contentious point of to reason why it's failed brags that deal designed to avoid a hard border with. a roadside bomb explosion in the west in afghanistan has killed at least $35.00 passengers on a bus many of those a woman and children the blast happened between kandahar and herat in the province a provincial government spokesman is blaming taliban fighters plotting the improvised device to target afghan and foreign security forces. turkey's defense minister says his country will set up a so-called safe zone in northern syria with or without the u.s. and its allies will resume talks soon in an effort to reach an agreement but as a maha to reports now from the difference between them randi. more soldiers arrived at already heavily fortified positions the show of force coinciding with turkey repeatedly warning it might carry out a possible cross border operation its military wants a safe zone inside the y.p. g.

controlled area in northeast syria it considers the syrian kurdish armed group a threat to its national security but it is also an ally of the united states which has warned turkey against taking any unilateral military action we know that there are officially $2500.00 u.s. soldiers and nearly $220.00 u.s. military facilities in the region so in case of a military operation there is a risk that too metalized not all military east could come face to face there has been a marked increase in u.s. army patrols close to the border with turkey in what seems to be a message to its nato ally they have deep disagreements despite months of discussions over the creation of the zone turkey does not just want to wipe e.g. to disarm and withdraw from the border area it wants control of the zone that's at least 30 kilometers deep and would stretch from the syrian town of girard loss to

the iraq border that would include why peachey controlled cities and towns like co bonnie tell commission. as well as members. turkey says the u.s. needs to end its support to the y. p.g. which it considers an offshoot of the outlawed kurdistan workers' party or the p.k. cape it is also not satisfied with the buffer zone solutions proposed by the united states those proposals reportedly involve a zone with a depth of 10 kilometers that excludes the main population centers along the border . right e.g. supporters have held protests against a possible turkish takeover saying they'll only accept an internationally enforced zone in turkey and the syrian opposition say areas under y p g control are historically hours and a proposed zone means millions of refugees can return to syria in turkey dependent . or russia so i. say guides

me it is hard to make a prediction about. steps. cooperation with russia has allowed turkey to clear the white peachy from at least 2000 square kilometers along its border since 2016 but russia doesn't seem to want turkey to increase its influence in syria it says any safe still needs the consent of the authorities in damascus for now it is under u.s. control but if u.s. policy shifts how long that will remain the case is unclear jennifer there because . the south korean government has held an emergency meeting of the north korea launched to ballistic missiles the 2nd weapons test in less than a week was launched in the town of oneself military commanders in the south said the missiles flew around 250 kilometers before crashing into the sea. bright has more now from the south korean capital seoul. this latest missile firing is being viewed with deep concern here in south korea it's the 2nd double launching of short

range ballistic missiles in less than a week and the 3rd missile launch to take place since may in direct contravention of the landmark military agreement signed between north and south korea last september during the period of improving relations that was meant to have put an end to testings like this one south korea's defense minister has said that if the north continues with threats and provocations like this then it would have to be considered an enemy so there has been some very strong words used by south korea contrasting with all of the period of reconciliation that we've had over the past year and a half or so north korea said when it launched the missiles last week that that should be considered to be a solemn warning to south korea being very careful not to direct any of its anger

all wrath at the americans and that u.s. president donald trump in particular but this does seem to be a reminder from them about the size of their nuclear and missile arsenal that yes this is only a short range missile but it is a reminder that they are serious about getting the u.s. back to the negotiating table and eventually getting some relief from the crippling sanctions now iran is warning it will further reduce its commitments to the nuclear deal unless europe does more to protect the agreement foreign minister mohammad zarif once the remaining signatories to shield iran from u.s. sanctions and allow it to sell its oil tehran has already begun rolling back some commitments by breaking a limit on which uranium agreed and the 2015 accord as it was door such a barrier has more now from the iranian capital. the foreign minister following the weekly cabinet meeting that was held in the capital this morning said that the e.u. signatories of the nuclear agreement are their actions are not proportionate to

their expectations meaning that what they've been expecting from iran to do under this nuclear agreement iran has done but the european signatories have not upheld their on the deal and the iran officials believe that that is because the united states withdrew from this agreement last year and imposed a series of sanctions on their own banking and oil sector which has also affected the european countries that were supposed to invest in iran's economy that was one of the main points of this agreement that iran will freeze its nuclear activities to a certain extent and return it will get relief from a series of sanctions and vestments will return to the country but none of that has happened than iran has decided. since may the year a new president announced that every 60 days iran will continue to scale back its commitment and the foreign minister today stress that that is indeed the plan they are going ahead with and the next phase which will be the 3rd phase of their

scaling back their commitment will happen in early september the steps that they've taken so far are reversible immediately this is what the reigning president stress and that is the feeling here that once the europeans really decide to stand up against the united states and their sanctions then the iranians are more than happy to go back to the terms of the 2015 nuclear deal israel's security cabinet has approved permits for the construction of 700 palestinian homes in the occupied west bank announcement comes ahead of a planned visit to israel this week senior white house advisor john would push he's expected to push both sides to join talks of time david in the lead up to israeli elections in september force that has the latest now from west jerusalem. well just days after carrying out an extremely controversial series of demolitions of palestinian homes in occupied east jerusalem the israeli government is now sanctioning the construction of some $700.00 palestinian homes in the part of the occupied west bank which it controls known as area c.

at the same time notably talking about the approvals of some $6000.00 units in illegal israeli settlements as well all of this coming at the same time as a tour of the region by president donald trump's son in law gerrard and his chief envoy to the region jason green blatt will be visiting both jordan israel qatar saudi arabia and the united arab emirates at a time when the israeli press is reporting that the u.s. intends to host a summit at camp david the presidential retreat for arab leaders to brief them on the details or at least the broad outlines of the trump peace plan now according to that reporting president trump intends to talk about in hard seeing palestinian autonomy but stopping well short of palestinian statehood and that is a message that his ambassador to israel david friedman has also been putting out an interview on c.n.n. he said that autonomy would only be enhanced or increased up to the point that it

does not affect israeli security so stopping well short of a palestinian state the palestinians of course will be entirely opposed to that in fact there has been reaction from the p.a. foreign ministry saying that this is all it intended to achieve 3 things to increase netanyahu is chance's prime minister netanyahu has chances in the israeli elections coming up in september also to consolidate normalization between israel and other arab states before the resolution of the israeli palestinian conflict and thirdly to try to achieve peace with the exclusion of the palestinians something which of course the palestinians will resolutely oppose in hong kong where $44.00 protesters have been in court charge of the rioting they face up to 10 years in jail if convicted of the 1st riot and prosecution so far and months of mass protests against china's control most were granted bail until a further hearing and ordered not to leave hong kong the charges relate to recent violent protests by the chinese government's office. donald trump is accusing china

of waiting until the 2020 u.s. presidential election to strike a trade deal is threatening to be a lot tougher with beijing if he's reelected the trade talks between the world's 2 biggest economies have resumed after stalling in may over tariffs on china's trade war with the u.s. is expected to be discussed at a regional summit in thailand foreign ministers from the assy and regional group are being joined by the u.s. secretary of state alongside his russian and chinese counterparts other talking points are expected to include the territorial disputes in the south china sea and tensions on the korean peninsula. well the $50000000000.00 plan to build a rival to the panama canal appears to have sunk it 6 years since the president of nicaragua and a chinese billionaire announced work was starting the project should be well on the way to completion by now but as our correspondent john holdren has been finding out construction workers and nowhere to be seen you can blow it out. it was meant to be

the culmination of a century of nicaraguan dreams the country's very own great canal linking the pacific and atlantic oceans when doing it by chinese billionaire handed a generous concession by the government in 2013 everyone was talking about it we found not a stone's been laid abyss point there was a big ceremony in or great the building of the can now but as you can see 6 years later there's nothing here but a dusty road. why has the canal failed to materialize the short story the billionaire lost most of his billions before work could get started but the ripples still being felt particularly in the form of a law passed especially for the project that says any properties needed can be exported predated that law is still on the books. there are still other risk that thousands of campus senos could have their land expropriated and occupied by private interests that's why the citizens demand that the law be struck down.

it's a permanent worry for custer lenore and her family when the canal was 1st planned workers showed up to measure out their house when they protested things turned nasty. be almost broke our heads the national guard had his lying down on the motorway and if we lifted our heads they stomped on them they swore at us hit us with sticks they broke my brother's ribs. just a full state of wide a state repression in the country when police ransacked and then occupied her office monica lopez fled to costa rica custer lenore's family still fears they will be targeted again and they will yet while this government is in power we are not safe everyone the big rub them putting in jail is that risk and the government still budgeting for the canal authority that set up despite the lack of progress we went from office to office looking for the man who heads it money well coronel but

couldn't find him or interview requests to the government also went unanswered. to all intents and purposes it seems this is now a ghost project but while it exists at least on paper it's still hanging over those who never wanted it in the 1st place john home and. now a russian rocket is on its way to the international space station the unmanned progress cargo carrier blasted off from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan as around 3 tons of food fuel and supplies on board eagerly awaited other 6 astronauts in alt. right out a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera schools across the dam have been closed indefinitely after more protests by students and marching down for to demonstrate against the deaths of 6 people who took part in

a march on monday the opposition of the military trying to piece together a transitional government. a 2nd death caused by a boehner has been confirmed in one of the democratic republic of congo's biggest cities goma it's just 2 weeks since the 1st case was found there but officials say they're unrelated to seize facing the 2nd worst of both the outbreak in history which has claimed the lives of 17 of. the south korean government has held an emergency meeting after the north launched 2 ballistic missiles observers say the short range weapons test could be aimed at increasing pressure on the united states for a new denuclearization talks has more than the south korean capital this latest missile firing is being viewed with deep concern here in south korea it's the 2nd double launching of short range ballistic missiles in less than a week and the 3rd missile launch to take place since may in direct contravention of the landmark military agreement signed between north and south korea last

september during the period of improving relations that was meant to have put an end to testings like this one. a roadside bomb attack in western afghanistan has killed at least $35.00 passengers on a bus many of them women and children the blast happened between kandahar and herat province a provincial government spokesman is blaming taliban fighters for planting the improvised device to target afghan and foreign security forces. it is prime minister boris johnson has visited northern ireland to discuss brags that with political leaders discussions were expected to center on the so-called irish backstop a contentious point designed to avoid a hard border with ireland and the ideological divide among democrats in the us has been laid bare during the 2nd round of presidential debates for the party's nominee publicly funded health care was a key issue with some heated exchanges between the parties progressive and centrist

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