on the turkish side of the border with syria the guns haue fallen silent but what happens next is not clear this is a very ambiguous ceasefire according to the syrian government is that it is conditional on the implementation of the sochi deal now the opposition saying that we won't withdraw our heavy weapons unless we have guarantees from turkey and russia and you have high authority to share which is the main opposition group but the strongest group an adlib saying that we reserve the right to retaliate if the truce is violated without without even mentioning whether or not it plans to implement that sochi memorandum h.t.s. was the group that refused to withdraw from a demilitarized zone making it very very difficult for turkey to create this cell and in fact this is why russia kept on criticizing turkey saying you're not fulfilling your commitments under the sochi deal will turkey be able to do that this time around so there is a lot of concern that this is just a short term agreement or an arrangement at the end of the day we keep talking

about the opposition and the government but it is russia and turkey that brokered this deal the 2 powers who support their warring sides on the ground and both of them really have to reach some sort of a compromise because turkey had political leverage if the rebels were holding ground the government was not able to make any significant advances the russians and the syrian government were targeting civilian areas killing civilians pressuring the rebels to try to surrender so there was a need to reach some sort of an agreement that specially since turkey and russia don't want to rupture their relationship but whether or not it will be short term or long term well we have to wait and see how the u.n. has a welcome the cease fire. according to the office of coronation of humanitarian affairs nor strikes have been reported since midnight but there are reports of artillery shelling in northern hama the pause comes after 3 months of intense hostilities that have resulted in close to 500 civilians killed and the displacement of more

than 440000 people the un reminds all parties to the conflict and those who have influence over them of their obligations to protect civilians and civilian infrastructure and the principles of distinction and proportionality enshrined in international humanitarian law. puerto rico has a new governor lawyer pedro pan luis he has been sworn in but his appointment still has to be confirmed by the u.s. territory senate crowds but out celebrating in the streets though after the car daughter sello stepped down he was forced to resign following a text message scandal and corruption allegations. is live for us from san juan so gabriel a new governor takes his position but the principle medical uncertainty remains there. yeah there really is it's really puerto rico that's still in a constitutional crisis quite frankly we do have a new governor that was put into place a little after 5 pm local time about 5 hours ago here and as you can see it's after

10 pm local time here we're just about a block outside the governor's mansion there's still no a few dozen protesters out there but it's very celebre tory mood for the most part we're still in a constitutional crisis here because well petro purely we see the new governor was confirmed by the house of representatives he was not confirmed by the puerto rican senate yet so it's really unclear on the legality of if he could even be governor nevertheless he was sworn in we do expect to hear in the coming days from the senate to see what they plan to do on this but the bottom line is that this is basically an island that has gone through a lot the last 3 weeks of street protests the governor did that that they wanted out is now out but now they have an interim one in but it's unclear how long or with the legality of him being in offices but clearly this is been a long 3 weeks and really historic moment in the history of puerto rico the 1st time that a governor was forced out of office before his term indeed by street protests like

what we saw here and i want to protest this have been saying about all this clearly they are there they're happy about the the change of governor but what happens next for them. well that's what i've been at them and they basically say we are going to stay on the streets we are not happy they say that well peter the i.o.c. is the best option that was available to them or the best option that was the ones considered they said they're ok with that for the most part but they said this is an interim government a governor and they say they are wanting to fight for health education into corruption here these are many things that they say that they want long term here this is a an island that has never seen street protests like they've seen here hundreds of thousands of people taking to the streets everyone here says we no longer have fear to continue on the streets if we do not like this governor we will come back out on the streets until we get the respect that we want they say and basically this is

the better services such as health and education which they say have been lacking for many many years so they feel invigorated and they will take to the streets again and continue on the streets until they are satisfied right now they're basically taking a break until things settle down here with this new governor. gabriel thank you gabriel is on the in san juan for us. and we've got plenty more ahead on this news out a devastating year for children in conflict the u.n. says record numbers were killed or maimed in 2018 we'll tell you why libya is shutting down 3 detention centers men from my goodness hoping to reach europe and let us for one of the name of teammates speaks out on the brazilians desire to quit the french league details coming out late.

to come before us the democratic republic of congo says only hof of the a bowl of cases they have may have been identified the government fears the epidemic could last 3 years health workers are trying to contain the virus in goma an import. transit routes on the border with rwanda it is the 1st time in spread to a major city 4 cases have been confirmed in goma and hundreds have been vaccinated michael ware has more from nairobi in kenya. the head of the government of bowler response dr john jack miami has said that is a bowler outbreak could last 2 or 3 years and he said that based on an estimate that there are only managing to identify about half of the above the cases the other half remain at large with an awful able to identify them or trace the people that they've come into contact with but it's widely seen as a positive thing that the response has now been taken out of the hands of the politicians and put into the hands of the scientist the dog to me and they said

a change of strategy was now required and that the response needed to be moved to devolve down to the smallest units of government in the villages so that when communities are approached by government workers and health workers who are trying to trace people who've been contacted or trying to encourage people to get vaccinated then they need to be approached communities need to be approached by people with whom they're familiar by people who they know he says to date it's been problematic the community has been approached by people who've been trained in nearby towns and cities and to them essentially strangers this is in a context where there's a widespread mistrust of health workers and a general widespread mistrust of government not least because of decades of conflict poor delivery of public services he said this new strategy needs to be brought in hoping that they can prevent the spread of the virus especially since it's reached the regional capital of goma a city with a population of more than 2000000 people so officials now are very concerned that

this polar outbreak which is the 2nd worst that the world ever seen could soon get a lot worse. are checks and been tightened on the d.r. sees border withdrawal and all the fears the virus could spread across the region stephanie dacca has more from kigali. authorities here are incredibly concerned it led to them closing the border on thursday for a couple of hours so that they could beef up the health checks in what is a very busy border trying to monitor those cross a monitor in their temperatures and also trying to make people more aware of the threats of the virus that has now hit. the city of over 2000000 people there's a lot of cross border activity this is why there is renewed international concern i suppose if you will because of the closeness to the other countries now rwanda has over the last year or so been vaccinating its own health professionals been

training them and also at the moment there are drools carried out in hospitals also here in the capital because they want to be prepared it is also of course a virus that carries with it a huge stigma a lot of fears this is a country that depends a lot on tourism so there's a lot of interest to try and contain this having said that there is never been a case of a bowl here in rwanda but of course authorities will tell you they want to be prepared they are prepared and they're monitoring the situation very closely telling people not to travel to go unless it's absolutely necessary. a libya will close 3 migrant and refugee detention centers of to criticism from the u.n. over conditions there 2 of them are in the coastal cities of misrata and homs the 3rd is in suburb of the capital tripoli forces loyal to a leaf a house that hit that facility in an airstrike a month ago killing at least 52 people more now from where he lama hummel. as

bodies continue to wash ashore on libya's coast this week the death toll from last week's disaster in the mediterranean is still being counted among just 20 bodies were recovered previously we have recovered 8 bodies and now the search is still ongoing for the rest of the bodies. 150 people are believed to have drowned when their boats capsized late last month as they tried to reach europe and u.n. agencies say they are not the only victims of a broken migration system for those who don't make it to europe their boats are intercepted at sea by libya's coast guard and placed in detention under an agreement supported by the european union around $5000.00 migrants and refugees are being held without having committed any crime 3000 of them are being detained in facilities close to the frontline where fighters loyal to warlord hurley for half time are fighting for the control of the capital tripoli according to the un refugee agency many are living in squalid conditions within the adequate food

supplies libya's un recognized government is now closing 2 such facilities in misrata and columns and a 3rd into jura where scores of detainees were sent even though an airstrike blamed on ward one have to hit the facility killing $53.00 people last month which we are calling on now is for an orderly release or for refugees in detention centers to urban settings and we stand ready to provide to provide these people with assistance through our urban programs asylum seekers and refugees should not be kept in detention we absolutely oppose any idea of detaining children. in whether they are refugees or asylum seekers or migrant. while fighting continues between libya's warring factions there's growing concern about where the displaced migrants will go next and if this will lead to more of

the crowding in the remaining centers he'll mohammed al jazeera. in france people have been protesting against what they say is their government's support for . french weapons were found at a military base used by his forces last month after launched an offensive in april to take the libyan capital from the un recognized government the fighting has killed more than a 1000 people and forced tens of thousands from their homes. and the united nations says conflicts around the world last year killed or maimed a record number of children in report it says 1800 children were killed or seriously injured in syria mainly from pro-government airstrikes attacks on schools and hospitals were the highest since the 8 year war began in syria and elsewhere children continue to be recruited or soldiers there are more than 2000 in somalia there are also hundreds of cases of sexual violence reported there 65 percent of

all child abductions worldwide happened in somalia as well mike hanna has more from the u.n. in new york the report is now under discussion in the security council and the secretary general has already expressed his deep disappointment at the terrible figures illustrated in the report the rise in the multi talent of children in places around the globe indicating that previous reports have had no impact whatsoever in terms of reducing the level of risk to children this is what the secretary general's special representative as just told the security council. into india 18 very fide cases of children killed and maimed to reached record levels since the creation of the m a m i echo the think at the dinner is concerned that unprecedented numbers of our relations with attributed to national and international forces it is vital that this council redoubles it if wants to ensure that all parties abide by the principles of this think of proportionality and

military necessity the major point of debate other 2 annexes to the report list a and list b. the so-called list of shame now list a contains parties and countries that have taken no action to reduce the risk to children and are responsible for such acts let's be and nominates countries or parties that have taken some form of action in a bid to improve their record but what is significant and what many have pointed out is that within the body of the report and large number of parties are listed as being responsible for every gate in children's rights including the u.s. led coalition in afghanistan the afghan national army yet these bodies are not listed in either of the a dead end to the report equally with israel it is specified a number off. of the children's rights however it does not feature in either of the lists at the end of the report the saudi led coalition in yemen features in list to

be for the 3rd year in a row the human rights watch contends for example that if the grid remains on this list for 3 years without moving then it is not doing anything to reduce the issue so human rights watch to contends that these disparities within the report itself undermine the recipe of details and facts that are critically important all right still ahead on al-jazeera tens of thousands of civil servants in hong kong show their support for pro-democracy demonstrators. the growing human organs in animal. and the ethics questions need raises. tell a transform we need a female box of fighting for equality in ghana.

hello there we're still watching very closely the progress of tropical storm we put out will continue to weaken as we head through the weekend but the rains are still very heavy with this system is old tied into this massive can see here on the satellite now through saturday the rains very heavy out towards the west particularly cross into northern sections of it mamma so a very wet day in hanoi 27 degrees is the high temperature 31 in hong kong with a break on saturday sunday though those rains they were back in the forecast there very widespread pushing into more eastern sections of china but a break though to shanghai 32 degrees celsius not as hot as it has been an exhibit of rain with extending all the way down into all central areas of the thailand and in fact really quite a long way south in fact it's really just going to borneo so much the money peninsula where we see some dry conditions as we go through the weekend the satellite showing us the most activity is and there it is on suffolk he said it really does extend right the way down into come by asia phenomenal so into those more southern sections of thailand already much change on sunday perhaps more cloud

those spinning southwards but not much rain with it as it heads across into borneo we've got both across into india those monsoon rains really very extensive pushing up into the fall northwest we'll see rains across into poland as well for both days the weekend and also quite heavy once again across into myanmar. sponsored town in. the wilderness of cambodia is under threat. for profit by an illegal timber trade one of one east investigates the plunder of cambodia is of course. going out to 0. al jazeera. every. combining asymptotic knowledge. to challenge soviet era methodologies. busy

through making creating and performing. turning a generation of children. into the trailblazers of tomorrow. after school. part of the rebel education series. on al-jazeera. hello again you're watching al-jazeera reminder of op top stories celebrations have begun in sudan after the announcement a constitutional agreement was reached between the military jointer and the opposition alliance it will lead to

a new civilly and led transitional government but the green mint has not yet been signed talks will continue on saturday. puerto rico has a new governor lawyer pedro we see has been sworn in crowds are out celebrating in the streets arthur ricardo sello stepped down he was forced to resign following a text message scandal and corruption allegations after months of bombing airstrikes have stopped in northwest syria after the announcement of a ceasefire truce in adlib province serious last rebel stronghold came jane peace talks in kazakstan. the united states has extended temp. protection against deportation for around 80047000 rather syrians that means that they'll be able to stay in the u.s. for at least 18 more months as christensen linley discovered the extension offers them some consolation but not much 31 year old i had is

a syrian activist who 1st came to the u.s. in 2015 to give a talk about the situation back home in 2011 she'd taken to the streets in her home city of aleppo to demand a more inclusive government started an islet but we started really like people and then it started to be like 100 and than thousands of thousands but what started as a protest movement quickly turned to a civil war as her family fled to turkey she stayed behind volunteer in a hospital you see like you see sometimes people are dying the front of your eyes you can't do anything to them here see how families are a good evening there. until the hospital like so much of her hometown was destroyed by government bombs. tossed i left working in me because. i i stopped i couldn't see any want to get on worldwide some 14000000

syrians have been displaced by the ongoing war indiscriminate bombing continue to claim the lives of children and civilians syrians like the stoop who've been residing in the u.s. since 2016 have been granted temporary protective status that means they can work legally and for a further 18 months at least won't face deportation but those who work with refugees say so many more need help other syrians who came even hours later after that that are left without that protection and left in a really insecure position and really uncertain about what's going to happen next 1st stukas mixed feelings about staying and she can't leave the country to visit family or help people back home and you should be grateful and feel like you are the lucky person to be here while your people are under the bombardments and their daily life ultimately she wants to go home we are going back when this crazy regime

is killing us but so far no one has been able or willing to protect them kristen salumi al jazeera new york the u.s. has impose new sanctions on russia over the poisoning of a former russian double agent and his daughter in the u.k. so gay and yulia script were attacked with a chemical nerve agent in the city of souls for the last year the russian foreign ministry says the sanctions will further damage already strained relations atika lane has more from washington. u.s. president donald trump complying with something congress told him to do last year after the poisoning of surrogate scripts all the u.s. congress passed a measure saying that because chemical weapons were used russia has to be sanctioned in less they can certify that they would never do it again and allow for inspections the state department months ago said that didn't happen so now congress is basically just been waiting to see if the president would impose these sanctions

the law says that he has to pick 3 from this list of options the president is picking 2 and the 2 that are least likely to cause damage to the russian economy he's forbidding financial institutions in the u.s. from giving loans to the russian government and also international financial institutions from doing business with russia he could have taken such extreme steps as banning russian planes from u.s. airspace limiting imports and exports breaking off diplomatic relations the president chose not to do this no if you're soonly we know that the president had a conversation with vladimir putin thursday when asked what they talked about the president's didn't mention the sanctions didn't mention the i.n.f. treaty he said listen they talked about forest fires and the u.s. is offering to help russia a protest is a planning to hit the streets of moscow for the 3rd straight weekend despite authorities mounting an avalanche of crackdown key figures have been arrested before saturday's demonstrations and there's concern mass arrests are likely imran

khan reports from moscow. away from the iconic sites of kremlin and red square it's here in the suburbs where protesters are planning their next move they cues the kremlin of interference in trying to rig the city council election in favor of the candidates of the ruling party united russia thousands have been arrested but they say that once stopped them. only time will show how people will react to the authorities actions fate but we are full of fear if we let the fear control us we are truly living life is when we are calm our fearless and i understand the risks to me and my family but i don't see how to resolve this issue in any other way to understand what people want you have to give them. the moscow city council is an administrative body not a political one and its elections rarely trigger control bisi this time it's different the banning of opposition candidates by the government has angered most

courts and that's spilling out into the streets maria lipman is a political analyst and says the government crackdown is designed to prevent the public becoming aware of the protests and from it spreading nationwide every thing at their disposal and. unfortunately sounds like a real prospect right now the government is showing determination to use more violence hard to violence the policy gets harder on a daily basis. the chance of this protest to become nationwide is i would say it's 0 the police say the arrests with the public order fences and necessary to maintain public order according to the police more than a 1000 people would stay and last week or more are expected. to reach a good call for one of the opposition politicians bodies running has been arrested for calling for protests he appeared at an appeal at the moscow city call on thursday and it's not just him in this band behind me is another opposition

politician who wants to run for the city council but has been barred now given the everybody is expecting saturday's protests to be even larger than they were the previous week expect to see more scenes like this outside of court come monday iraq on al-jazeera moscow. now a days after becoming british prime minister and promising to take the u.k. out of the e.u. do or die in his words boris johnson is barely holding on to power is ruling conservative party lost by lost by election and wales cutting is working majority in parliament to just one seat or a challenge reports from london jean guards is duly elected member of parliament for the said constituency was the announcement was made in an echo we haul in mid wales but this results will be heard very clearly in london the liberal democrats have taken this seat of brecken and ravisher from the ruling conservative

party it whittles boris johnson's parliamentary majority down to just one m.p. the new leaders pre-vote visit to wales wasn't enough to prevent the chances of a government collapse going up barely 9 days since he took over as prime minister this is why this by election was so significant because we're looking at general election very shortly and it really shows some of the key factors that are going to be at play in that in that election i was seargent made a vote under the liberal democrats and also bracks a party to contend with. the liberal democrats newest m.p. was clear about what she thinks this results means and here we stand. this day was john says. in the 1st week he was punished. and here we are saying i mean i'm. not just you. will not tolerate that's right. but some voters do want to know deal breaks it and although nigel farage is bracks and party didn't

perform quite as well as they might have hoped with 10 percent of the vote they still arguably cost the conservative m.p. his seat by splitting the preprinted vote although local issues are often important for by election results this one could also be seen as. another example of how breaks it is rewriting the balance of britain's political system with supports for smaller parties like the lib dems and the brics it party on the rise at the expense of the big 2 labor and the conservatives. when parliament returns from recess at the beginning of september it will have less than 2 months to bricks a day and boris johnson the man who said he will deliver it come what may he's clinging on to power by his fingertips. now to 012. china's ambassador to the united nations says pro-democracy protests in hong kong should not be allowed to continue calling it reprehensible behavior thousands of civil servants defied

government warnings and rallied in support of the demonstrators for the 1st time they're demanding an independent investigation into alleged police brutality during weeks of protests which began over an extradition bill andy thomas has more from hong kong. the been a lot of protests in recent weeks here but perhaps none as significant as this one because these people are real civil servants they work for the government the government their employer that they have come out to protest against and that is despite an open letter published on thursday by the government to carry land saying the civil servants should not take part in this protest or any other so as to preserve their impossibility but they come out to meet strains of thousands filling this square here to capacity all the main roads around here are blocked with crowds hundreds deep as well people i've spoken to here say that they felt they had to come out to show their support for protest as they said it has nothing to do with their employer the government what they do in their free time i spoke to

a math teacher i spoke to the translator thought this is well saying that this is more important frankly of what they do day to day in terms of working for the government now this cycle has been a completely peaceful protest or a more protest planned over the weekend so on saturday a further one on sunday and on monday calls for a strike right across from. japan has become the 1st country to approve the long term growing of human organs in animals scientists say human stem. will be grown in mice rats in pig embryos will then be transplanted into surrogate animals and brought to term it's hoped that will create a supply of human organs for use in transplants japan had previously banned developing animals with human embryos beyond 14 days a goodish taylor is a post-doctoral research fellow at the francis crick institute she says there will

be some ethical issues to take on board and the ethical dilemmas that this sort of work mostly focuses around the fact that people feel quite uncomfortable about it i think but. none of the sort of most ethically challenging organ systems will be researched at present so for example the central nervous system the brain. and the germ cells which will contribute to the eggs in the sperm they are not systems that people we will be researching a centrally so we're hoping to avoid basically too many of the deeper ethical pitfalls the ultimate aim of this research is to try and create donor organs that are effectively fresh that are that. have been built for purpose. and so it's the difference between potentially in the future being able to use stem cells that have been derived from the patient themselves such that they can have organs that are actually their own that have been built essentially hosted in

a different organism while they're being built for them and you know it means the difference between having to wait for organ transplant list for years but. more than 1400 people have been diagnosed with dengue fever in a single day in bangladesh countries grappling with its worst ever outbreak of the disease at least 14 people have been killed and 17000 affected hospitals are struggling to find space for patients the outbreak began in the capital dhaka and has since spread across bangladesh. indonesian authorities have lifted a tsunami warning after a strong earthquake hit off the coast of java a magnitude $6.00 quake hit at a depth of about 40 kilometers people were initially ordered to higher ground so far there's been reports of minor damage but the trauma was felt as far away as the capital jakarta a forest fires in indonesia are threatening the lives of endangered elephants and

a nature sanctuary animals have been fleeing the flames in teso nilo national park which is home to 140 elephants 6 indonesian provinces have declared states of emergency and 6000 people are involved in firefighting efforts fires in indonesia often started 5 plantation companies and private owners to clear the land at least $900.00 suspects have been arrested. now is mexico edges closer to recession the government has embarked on an ambitious program of spending cuts president under his man when lopez obrador says they've already saved $6000000000.00 but while many mexican support the measures others are worried to fight for services around the threat john heilemann reports from mexico city. there's a new buzzword a mix kampala ticks all stare at him and his money. more than half his salary so

the presidential plane flies economy his supporters love him for his approval polls are in the sixty's. it was always the people who had to tighten their belts now it's the government that's the change no waste no luxuries austerity is. the country's congress has followed his lead both houses of cut back on benefits thousands of them was reluctant to look at either see if we could look people in the eye and say we haven't got bodyguards we haven't got cars we haven't got private medical insurance or saving ports for when we finish the people aren't carrying our costs as they did in the past but while slimming down fact politicians is popular other cuts in the public sector and less so cost cutting the public hospital with waiting rooms precarious medicine supplies and staff shortages said the head of social services he resigned but protests like this will continue.