on al-jazeera. after days of fighting syrian rebels withdraw from the town of calm shakun as government forces capture more of the last opposition held province. hello i'm on team did a show with al-jazeera live from also coming up in the program acquitted of killing her stillborn baby a young salvadoran woman says justice is finally being. a coffin saddam his evidence of former president al bashir received millions of dollars from saudi arabia. and the muslim imaam and the christian pastor who are trying to end decades

of fighting in northern nigeria. opposition activists in syria say rebels have withdrawn from the strategically important town of homs shakun in southern province recapturing it is a significant victory for the syrian military and its allies russia the towns being in rebel hands is 2014. the rebels withdrawal follows days of fighting which saw them firing rockets into government territory and the l. me has warned its forces that the battle isn't over yet. rebels have also retreated from the last pockets of land they held in neighboring hama province their foothold in hama. earliest days of the war then the holder has this from beirut.

a major blow to the opposition they have lost significant ground what we understand is that rebel forces have withdrawn from the strategic town of and in southern that town was close to collapse saying the rebels have been also forced to withdraw from towns further south in the northern countryside because losing. would mean they would be besieged in northern how much so the syrian government and its allies taking control really of a large chunk of territory in the past 2 weeks we've seen the syrian government and its allies advance they've taken more ground than they have in the past 3 months it's not clear why what has changed has the rebel morale been weakened they have lost hundreds of men in this fight or has the government employed new tactics like concentrating their firepower and airstrikes closer to the front line targeting rebel supply lines in the past 3 months we've seen them target indiscriminately across southern mainly to terrorize civilians now one of the main rebel groups. is

saying that it's just a redeployment of forces and we are going to continue this fight rebels are expected to continue to defend as much territory as they can because it is their last stronghold but there is no doubt for the syrian government taking control of country koon is a strategic when it lies on a highway that connects the north of the country to the south of the country. the british government says it's extremely concerned about the disappearance of a stealth member from its hong kong consulate he's been missing since crossing into mainland china the u.k. foreign office says simon attended a business event. that. he was supposed to return to hong golan the same day china says it has no information on his whereabouts. hong kong's leader caroline says she hopes the recent nonviolent protests show the territory is only the path to peace sunday's march of history 2000000 people with the calmest in weeks of

demonstrations which of often become violent they began over proposed changes to hong kong's extradition laws that have grown into a wider movement against beijing's growing influence. and i can give you this a very clear commitment as a political level that the bill instead there is no plan there is no plan to revive the spill especially in light of the public concerns but to me shame is from the civil human rights front which organize this weekend's protests he says caroline is still not really addressing what the protesters a most upset about hong kong needs a mechanism that can ensure democratic election so that citizens who elect a chief executive that can represent the people and also listen to voices of the people and we do not need a platform for dialogue in which we. would love and

with all time with her money and of course we know a reform would take time so for the time being we carry land our chief executive to commission an independent commission of inquiry to really investigate what has happened in your past few weeks so that the government will win back the trust. as a dorm woman at the center of a controversial abortion trial has been acquitted of all charges evelyn and hand as was charged with murder after giving birth to a stillborn baby cases drawn international criticism of the country's strict anti abortion walls kathy lopez had begun reports. of celebration after being cleared of all charges evelyn hernandez has become the face of a car to decriminalize abortion and el salvador she faced up to 40 years in prison in a retrial after giving birth to

a stillborn baby prosecutors accuse her of aggravated homicide the 21 year old said she was raped and didn't know she was pregnant but as the hours that it was these today there was justice i want to thank all the countries and international organizations are supportive of me i also want to thank my mother who stood by me and it was difficult for her to see me being accused of something i didn't do her case has been filed in court for years evelyn was 1st sentenced to prison and 2017 but was released 2 years later while she awaited a ruling in her retrial with 17 other woman behind bars under similar circumstances her legal team says the work is far from over. with there are women who have been in prison for 10 years for something that isn't a crime we will keep fighting for their release. the case brought international attention to the salvador strict abortion laws a full ban was implemented in the central american country in 1998 including in

cases of rape or incest women who go to public hospitals after a miscarriage are sometimes accused of murder and charged with aggravated homicide . we cannot allow this to continue we have to change the law we have to change the enforcement of the law and we have to free the women who are still in prison. after spending nearly 3 years in prison evelyn says she's ready to move on with her life out of court. consular officer began al-jazeera. there's been violence in yemen southern region of between u.a.e. back separatists and government forces and this follows the end of a deadline that was imposed by the separatist southern transitional council for government army officials to surrender. besieged training camps yemen's internationally recognized government said earlier this week that it had lost

control of all its military camps in the southern port city of aden russia has accused the u.s. of escalating military tension after it tested a ground launch missile with a range of more than 500 kilometers the test would have been banned under the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty or the death washington formally withdrew from the landmark pact with russia earlier this month the trumpet ministrations says moscow had already been violating it at least a dozen soldiers have been killed and others are missing after an identified fisons stormed a military unit in northern became the fast so it happened in nassau and that's in soon province in the sahara region the military says it could be the worst attack on its armed forces within a faster has endured months of violence that's killed hundreds of civilians. so than former president omar al bashir says he received millions of dollars from

saudi arabia's role family during his press presidency but the fathers were not included in the country's financial records the revelation came during his 1st court hearing on corruption and bribery charges have been more than reports from khartoum. he was once feared and guarded as the head of the country now sudan's former president on what it was here is under a different guard as he appears in court to face criminal charges which include illegal possession of foreign currency and bribery investigators say they found more than $130000000.00 in his house days after the military deposed him in april. presenting the head of a country to trial proves that there is a rule of law in the country and that no one is above the law this message is not just for the ousted government but the incoming government the case will resume next week we can't tell you what the outcome will be but we can say that we are assured that the case is going in the favor of the defendant. the court heard that

bashir admitted to receiving $19000000.00 from saudi arabia he also admitted to receiving millions more from the ruler of the united arab emirates during his time as president bashir is sent sudanese soldiers to fight alongside the saudi u.a.e. coalition in yemen but investigators say the former president said he doesn't know how the money he received was spent nor did he follow up on its use he was also charged in may for inciting to kill protesters in demonstrations that started in december over the rising cost of bread which quickly turned into a nationwide anti-government movement those charges are yet to be heard in court charges not addressed are charges that are brought against him by the international criminal court which involve work crimes crimes against humanity and genocide the transitional council that ousted him said that they will wait until a transitional government is formed and an independent and impartial judiciary is set up and that body will be the one to determine whether the former president

should be tried for these crimes and if he is whether he's guilty or innocent. more than 300000 people have been killed in the western region of darfur since 2003 and more than 3000000 displaced international experts say there are many reasons as to why bashir isn't likely to be handed to the international criminal court. recent research demonstrates. war and sober arrest released by the international court would do not really. provide incentives for a peaceful solution to the current transitional government that is composed also by many who are directly. allegedly of course in the mosque because that late since the $1003.00 so we should start asking the question on whether the just weak claim the i.c.c. could bring to sudan wouldn't be a plus sagal justice but after 30 years in power with immunity from any kind of

prosecution for people in sudan the corruption charges are about to start to justice then a ton of them were going on to they were. still to come here at al-jazeera the unidentified bodies in iraq that activists say are evidence of sectarian killings the government is not talking about. i remember shaking with fear when checkpoints appeared in a small village the bedouin pork i think of everywhere the u.s. congresswoman denied entry to israel recalls painful memories of life in the occupied west bank. the at. heller's quite a lot of potential tropical activity to of course storm activity in the western pacific you see some cooling of the clouds have tickly the east and philippines

otherwise this is fairly dry term of the year for a good part of malaysia and in these years the monsoon rains are really take it out of the atmosphere over india but you can see in singapore kuala lumpur northern sumatra even some thailand rain is a possibility it's also still light in the philippines most of borneo all of indonesia looks pretty clear of cloud on the satellite picture and indeed on this forecast for wednesday and on thursday the universe's the green comes back over northern borneo the shah potential there for increases. it's a stormy looking time in tasmania and one front tarsier on its way through the speed of moon to the cloud considering the scale mark a summer day we're talking about winds in excess of 100 kilometers or waves a 7 or 8 me to seem likely to bash the west side of tasmania that is the nastiest bits of weather throughout the whole constant not very warm in melbourne or in adelaide at 40 degrees and onshore breeze better in sydney and usually better in person temperature wise 22 or 20 going to reason the sunshine but she all the

constant looks dry which means where we want the rain particularly in victoria new south wales there right now. trust is fundamental to all our relationships we trust banks with our money talk to us without really small talk what happens to trust you know my own. as more i want to systems and process by these complex pieces of the question that kind of thing. can we trust. the 1st of a 5 part series great question of the neutrality of digital the. trust me i'm an algorithm on a. let's

have a look at the top stories here that is there opposition activists in syria have told us that rebels have withdrawn from conscious that's a town in southern province and we hear the rebels of also retreated from neighboring hama province. a salvadoran woman at the center of a controversial abortion trial has been acquitted evelyn and. endos was charged with murder after giving birth to a stillborn baby in the toilet. saddam's former president omar al bashir says he was given millions of dollars by saudi arabia's role family during his presidency the revelation came during his 1st court hearing all corruption and bribery charges . now there are calls for an investigation in iraq after more than 30 unidentified bodies were found buried in kabul a province last week they included women children and elderly people human rights

groups are accusing the government of covering up the possible aftermath of sectarian violence that's going to reports from the capital baghdad. beneath the shrouds are the faces of men women and children their families longed to see again longed to know what happened to them. last week 31 husbands grandmothers and daughters were buried in an unmarked grave in the cemetery in iraq's karbala province the morgan neighboring babel province gave the bodies to a local charity saying they were on identified and and claimed it wasn't a coma there was negligence on the part of the government the government should have announced to the public be existence of these bodies deny to use must be conducted to determine their identities so that they can be returned to their rightful relatives. human rights groups are accusing the government of covering up

possible sectarian violence about 250 bodies have been given to the same charity for burial since 2016 the governor of baba province says they're from the area and their cause of death range from what he calls terrorism to murder. suspicions have been raised because witnesses say the bodies are likely from a sunni dominated town called jurf hills so hard it was once controlled by eisel during the battle to defeat it kinda paramilitary groups are accused of killing civilians and forcibly displacing the population the iraqi high commission for human rights is calling on the government to investigate reports of additional bodies scattered beneath the soil in babel province government denies there is anything suspicious going on. there has been a lot of negative media coverage in order to take a sectarian turn these bodies were stored at the morgue to be identified after the

investigation was over they were buried because the bodies were not claimed by their families but with so many families in the area still living in displacement camps that might explain why no one came forward to identify the 250 bodies. for also not dared knows her son could be among them the family is from jeff carr she hasn't seen her son since 2015 when she says our group accused him of being an eyesore member and arrested him her family was later driven out of their home they're afraid if they return will be killed. he did nothing wrong if he had i would testify against him but his god is my witness he did nothing wrong who dared like so many iraqis never know what happened to our loved one the answers could be

buried deep in the soil of her country natasha going to name. baghdad u.s. president donald trump has spoken by phone with india's prime minister there under modi and stressed the need to reduce tensions with pakistan it's been 2 weeks since it is parliament voted to revoke bail ptolemy of india little in the said kashmir and modi also discussed increasing trade and preventing what they described as cross border terrorism. meanwhile life is slowly returning to normal in india that misses kashmir some schools have reopened after 2 weeks shut down but most of them remain empty 1st tamil reports now from new delhi. it was a 1st day back for primary students in srinagar but many didn't show up some schools had more teachers and students others had virtually no one. less than a quarter of primary schools have reopened in tree hugger but even if more were to open many families say they don't want to send their children. home or the use of

his kept his 3 young children home from school because he doesn't believe it's safe to let them outside where you should be. there is no security even the teachers won't be coming the other thing is there's no communication if i send them to school the phones won't work something happens what will i do it was a better situation in other parts of india administered kashmir some students piling to school were trying to look on the bright side. it was today we're going to school after a long time it's been 10 to 15 days since we went to school and met our friends i'm feeling good. back in srinagar many felt much less optimistic. we're scared what environment will be sending our kids it's already a bad situation living under restrictions and curfews is nothing new for people here they know how easily violence can break out and the consequences many people including children have been injured or killed over the years after joining

protests were just being nearby when they happened the consequences of the the revenues that are open the future that the young people and children see for themselves i think that is a very grim and very dark future. this activist recently returned from a fact finding mission in indeed administered kashmir children are easily caught in the middle children as young as 11 years old who had been spend several days in police custody in illegal custody illegal police custody in the police station being beaten up and being intimidated and. that is partly why many here are worried about the safety of their children with more school due to reopen in the valley. say police will guarantee the safety of schoolchildren as they go back but many parents say that's too much of a risk right now given the continued protests along with security and communication

restrictions still in place. and out. of aid has been speaking to the president of pakistan administered kashmir that things could quickly spiral out of control that anything can happen there can be miscalculations but before miscalculations india has taken 3 steps in february this year indian prime minister of pakistan with nuclear weapons and at that time we had said that he doesn't know what he's talking about by if he takes that step. then that would be a nuclear armageddon. and a nuclear winter nor just to show but for the entire world and you can see that interview in full on our program talked to al-jazeera at these times on tuesday and wednesday here at al-jazeera russia

says it will investigate the threat of foreign interference in moscow's upcoming local elections the kremlin suspects outsiders have been whipping up protests police recently broke up large demonstrations that were in support of opposition candidates who've been banned from running in the elections a parliamentary committee has now agreed to set up a special commission. the united states has delayed its total ban on while ways access to american suppliers the chinese technology giant will be allowed to continue buying some components from the u.s. in order to fulfill existing contracts the u.s. says the action 90 days will help american companies quote we in themselves off while way products washington as it is a company of building a back door into its 5 g. network for chinese intelligence services. to u.s. congresswomen has spoken out about israel's decision to deny them entry for an official visit clip and omar have been openly critical of israel over its

treatment of palestinians to live but was later offered entry on humanitarian grounds to see a ground grandmother but she said she turned it down because the conditions were oppressive john hendren reports from washington for many rashid ritually story of her palestinian grandmother's humiliation told a familiar tale as a young girl visiting palestine to see my grandparents and extended family i watched as my mother had to go to do human eyes in checkpoints. i remember shaking with fear when checkpoints appeared in the small village of beverly fork out thanks to guns everywhere to laban in the 2 u.s. members of congress were denied entry into israel after president trump urged israel to ban them in a tweet he said it would show great weakness of israel allowed representative omar and representative to play division they hate israel and old jewish people and

there is nothing that can be said or done to change their minds on monday they fired back at the president so we are going to hold our head up. and we are going to fight this administration and the oppressive administration until we take our last breath the invited others to share their stories of what they call the human cost of the israeli occupation amber harris a jewish us resident said israel sent her home and held her palestinian husband until he could resolve his own visa problems and here it is for 10 hours by the shin bet israeli security agency a marriage occupants were almost turned away and i was healing. 3 israeli palestinian issues were so partisan in u.s. political circles but with the fiery rhetoric coming out of the white house and the makeup of congress changing both republicans and democrats alike have grown more contentious the u.s.

administration is giving no ground in a statement white house spokesman hogan gidley said israel has a right to prevent people who want to destroy it from entering the country and democrats pointless congressional inquiries here in america cannot change the laws israel has passed to protect itself that the israeli prime minister. by law we are not willing to admit interest. to call for the boycott of the state of israel and demise of the state of the jews. with netanyahu and trump both facing upcoming elections their alliance shows no signs of breaking anytime soon john hendren al-jazeera washington. a rescue ship with more than 100 refugees and migrants on board has rejected an offer to leave italian waters and in said go to spain the open arms charity vessel wants to dock illicitly saying the passengers a 2 distress to make another journey. about 9000 people have been ordered to

leave villages on the spanish island of gran canaria where wildfires are burning the fire started last week in high temperatures strong winds and low humidity. there for decades people in northern nigeria have engineered endured almost constant conflict particularly in this state the fighting pits the majority muslim population against the minority christians mohamed odeh reports now on reconciliation efforts. under the reign of the muscle the elements these are the latest victims of the ongoing violence it could do no state hundreds of them have been come to this school since march this year when gunmen from an opposing tribe attacked their village killing dozens and destroying homes our main problem the moment is shelter from where we are able to go but while there we talk about security. located in northwestern nigeria and with a population of nearly 6000000 consumers state has been embroiled in conflict for

decades the violence has its roots in ethnic tensions between the state's muslim and christian populations the muslim christian divide has been so exacerbated by the fighting that the government has mandated these 2 men a muslim in mom and a christian cleric to use the potty to try and bridge the gap between the 2 communities and they're brought together traditional leaders to join their course the politicians have taken this important element sensitivity to our religious values as a chess game for women political office this is why it becomes so seen as the dims we're is him self a victim of the ongoing conflict he lost his arm when his village was targeted in the tit for tat attacks and now wears a prosthetic arm and i wish they know the benefits of peace sometimes i feel incapacitated i wish this superman somewhere

in the movie can go drop waters in trouble zones system to skill it will not help you. the conflict is mainly concentrated in rule could do now but has also spilled into the city the people of kut do not have also been fiscally divided along religious lines with the river could do not forming a natural boundary many christians are fled the state over the years fleeing almost and last cycle of violence caught remain behind have sought refuge in the south from part of the city while the muslims dominate the north. this month the governor of could do now is also leading a force to bring peace to his conflict ridden state we're making progress wrong they said it was not built in a day we are very realistic expectations were pragmatic about this but what we optimistic about is that we are now as a state as community it will move in the right direction in the 1st 6 months of

this year ethnic clashes in north and central nigeria have killed an estimated 1300 people that is 6 times the number of deaths from the war with boko haram according to the international crisis group it's these grim statistics that make the need to bring peace to the affected areas of a more urgent mohamad the world just cannot. terrorists take a look at the top stories here of his era of position activists in syria have told us that rebels have withdrawn from county a town in southern province and that rebels have also retreated from neighboring hama province and the rebels have also retreated from the last pockets of land they have and hama as we've just said their foothold that dates back to the earliest

days of the war. the british government says it's extremely concerned about the disappearance of a staff member from its hong kong consulate has been missing since crossing into mainland china the u.k. foreign office says simon chang attended a business event in shen jan that was on all the cia's he was supposed to return to hong kong on the same day china says it has no information as to his whereabouts hong kong's leader kerry lamb says she hopes the recent nonviolent protests show the territory is on the path to peace some days march which drew 2000000 people with the calmest and weeks of demonstrations which of often become violent. but there's been violence in yemen southern region between u.a.e. back separatists and government forces this follows the end of a deadline imposed by the separatist southern transitional council for government army officials to surrender their besieged training camps yemen's internationally

recognized government said earlier this week that it had lost control of all its military counts in the southern port city of aden. russia has accused the us of escalating military tension after it tested a ground launch missile with a range of more than 500 kilometers the test would have been banned under the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty the i.m.f. washington formally withdrew from that part with russia earlier this month the us administration says moscow had already been violating it the u.s. plans to test an intermediate range ballistic missile in november are a joke today those are the latest headlines all hail the algorithm is next. the leaders of the 7 most powerful economies in the world meeting barretts this august for the climate crisis is high on the agenda. but tried walls bricks it on the tension with iran will be vying for their attention how much progress can mine mike

for the g. 7 summit on al-jazeera. and the next episode of techno the team travels to the heart of the amazon. where we are now should be grateful to investigate illegal gold mining mercury has a very unique characteristic finding the gold for a miner it's almost like magic and the technology being used to expose its devastating impact and so what we end up doing is imaging a forest in a very high fidelity street techno on all just 0. trust is fundamental to all our relationships not just with our family and friends we trust banks with our money we trust doctors without really personal information . but what happens to trust in a world driven by algorithms as more and more decisions are made for us by these complex piece of code the question that comes up is inevitable can we trust

algorithms. from google searches to g.p.s. navigation algorithms are everywhere we don't really think too much about them but increasingly governments cooper ations and various institutions are using them to make decisions about us who gets public services who gets to nod how people are monitored and policed how insurance is challenged. i want to start here in australia where an algorithm used by the government has resulted in more than 400000 people being in debt to the countries will face this.