and thomas in creativity. and protest to challenge and change ideas. gun a controversial to witness documentary on al-jazeera. syrian rebels to render the strategic town of khalid shaikh hoon following heavy strikes by government forces. hello again i'm with al-jazeera live from doha also coming up. the u.k. government expresses concern after a staff member from its consulate in hong kong fails to return from a trip to mainland china. acquitted of killing her still born baby

a young salvadoran woman says justice is finally being done. thousands are evacuated as wildfires rage across a spanish holiday island the grand canaria. but we saw in syria where the opposition activists are saying the rebels have withdrawn from the strategically important town of whom that's in southern italy province and this follows days of fighting which sold them firing rockets into government territory the syrian government has told its forces which are backed by russia that the battle is not yet over. well the rebels also retreated from the town of moderate which is in how much province and is the site of a turkish military observation point. is in southern italy province and is

a main population center it used to be a place where 100000 syrians took shelter before the militia military escalation began in earnest in april towns nearby in the northern hama countryside to fall into government forces rebel fighters would have risks being besieged if they didn't leave the north but for the syrian government the big prize is getting control of concha can that will give it access to the end 5 an important economic highway that crosses the country then a hard has this now 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 a major blow to the opposition they have lost significant ground what we understand is that rebel forces have withdrawn from the strategic town of houla and in southern that town was close to collapse saying no rebels have been also forced to withdraw from towns further south in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 who 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 staff member from its hong kong consulate is been missing since crossing into mainland china the u.k. foreign office says simon chang attended a business event. on the sea 8 of the supposed to return to hong kong on the same day. china insists it has no information on his whereabouts hong kong police say an inquiry is underway. point. from august leading to a missing person case but for the sake of personal data i couldn't just coast to much details here and the case is currently under the and try read by the regional missing person unit of how and when we can and so far the hong kong police force does not receive and the notification from the mainland of storage is under the reciprocal notification become some more now from our correspondent emma hayward in

london where we understand that simon chang travelled to shands then on august 8th to attend a business conference he told his girlfriend that he was going to come back the same day on the fast train but he simply didn't make it back home now the hong kong police have opened a missing persons inquiry into his whereabouts now they he is of concern of course to the british government because he is a member of staff in the british consulate so the u.k. foreign and commonwealth office has issued a statement saying we are extremely concerned by reports that a member of our team has been detained returning to hong kong from chen said they are now held trying to help the family of simon chang the chinese authorities in beijing say they have no information about his whereabouts of course this is all happening against a backdrop of increased tensions in hong kong because of the ongoing protests there

we understand there are more and more checks at the border between hong kong and mainland china but of course these are very worrying times for simon chang's family . well hong kong's leader carrier says she hopes the recent nonviolent protests show that the territory is on the path to peace sunday's march drew 2000000 people it was a columnist in weeks of demonstrations which of often become violent they began ever proposed changes to hong kong's extradition laws but they've since grown into a wider movement against beijing's growing influence. and i can give you this a very clear commitment at the political level that the bill is steps there is no plan there's no plan to revive the spill especially in light of the public concerns. ripples from hong kong now the protests is a not likely to be a total satisfied with the chief executives comments gary lam's words stop short of

the protesters expectations she was asked upfront by a reporter why don't you use the word withdrawn when you talk about the extradition and she answered that she can and sure everybody does the extradition bill was that protesters have been talking about this saying that she needs to use the word with drones they can't have any legal weight so that is certainly something that has been angered them she's been very stubborn about this fact another point that she did not address is a demand to form an independent investigation committee to look into the release of violence and that unfolded on the streets here well she said that she will toss a civilian body that's already exists and his government appointed the independent police complaints council to look into what happened and come up with recommendations for the government that certainly will not make cutted with the

protesters and also she didn't address a tool the 5 demands that they have been asking for so certainly they probably will have an increase anger maybe louder voices calling for her to resign so immediate reaction on social media everybody was saying so far that she did not know she avoided again addressing any of the grievances of the protesters in a more direct way. so while the protests in hong kong over the weekend were peaceful the chinese government has continued to have threats and dismissing the government movement. from beijing. president xi jinping last hong kong visit was 2 years ago to mark 20 years since the handover of what was a british colony to china he minced no words then about who was in control then.

any attempt to endanger china's sovereignty and security challenge the power of central government and the basic law of hong kong or to use hong kong to conduct if you trade and against the mainland is an act you cross the red line but the past 11 weeks of mass protests in hong kong seem to cross that red line the government even calling some of it here terrorism however there's been not a single word from sheik from self unlike his u.s. counterpart president donald trump who personally involve himself on topics big and small including these protests in hong kong present she rarely engages on specific issues focusing more on the big picture but some say don't confuse the lack of face time as lack of direct involvement on hong kong. anything that china will do involving hong kong will be a decision directly up to president xi jinping and the top leadership very closely

at his disposal he has lots of things to take care of and hold on probably is just one of them one tactic the top chinese leadership has decided on misinformation twitter and facebook have taken steps to block hundreds of accounts with ties to the chinese government twitter said the accounts were an orchestrated attempt to undermine the legitimacy and political positions of the protest movement. and through lower level officials the government has accused western nations of meddling. a strong visual warning from beijing coming several times over the last 2 weeks propaganda video of armed police amassing in training and syngenta just across the border from hong kong a not so subtle reminder of mainland might the stakes are high for the central government and. if they can't handle the hong kong situation properly it means a failure for its one country 2 systems it will affect their rule greatly china

wants to unify taiwan with the same one country 2 systems but if it fails in hong kong it won't work with taiwan is a threat for the future. all this just 6 weeks before the big celebration marking 70 years since the founding of the people's republic of china will be a big military parade here in beijing and a showcase speech by she looking into the future but a simmering situation hong kong could cast a shadow over that future it's got hotter al-jazeera beijing. and salvadoran woman at the center of a controversial abortion trial has been acquitted of all charges evelyn hernandez is charged with murder after giving birth to a stillborn baby the case has drawn international criticism of the country's strict anti abortion laws. a celebration after being cleared of all charges evelyn hernandez has become the say so of a car to decriminalize abortion and also the door 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. that was the. today there was just this i want to thank all the countries and international organizations are supported me i also want to thank my mother who stood by me i know it was difficult for her to see me being accused of something i didn't do. her case has been fought 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 was far from over. when 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 a 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 thank god 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. cocktail wrote this of a gone al jazeera. still to come here at al-jazeera is in his prime minister pervez a tell the country what comes next after the collapse of his ruling coalition. they are identified bodies in iraq that activists say are evidence of sectarian killings that the government is not talking about.

kevin to those late summer night of the still rain potential heavy rain potential japan plume of cloud there produced a fair amount you can see down the south and in the forecast to you could almost call a frontal system of the head of the circulation somewhere in eastern russia it leaves beijing in the humid city 3 but draw where the time the potential for big houses there in north korea and south korea but i think just one or 2 the persistent rain is as you get through honshu into south korea the next day or so and some places that just do not want persistent rain even now in japan but there it is however it does look a seasonal rain in china has gone offshore you could bend it from japan down through taiwan into the northern philippines hong kong is in the dry as are children do not so certain the further west you're in the higher the ground you've

got in china so the south has nowhere to wards should do potentially wet but the hong kong and shanghai and opossum between a couple of dry days and quite warm and 36 degrees for example the rain carries on its potential throughout the philippines and tails off through borneo looks fairly dry throughout india most if not all of malaysia during wednesday exception maybe singapore and k o. i was raised in france. these are my grandparents. these are my parents and this is me. by them both isis and the us on. the 2nd of a 2 part epic tale of a remarkable simony. the father the son and the jihad.

team on al jazeera. let's have a look at the top stories here it out there syrian opposition activists say rebels have withdrawn from the strategically important town of whom in southern italy a province this follows days of fires in which saw them firing rockets into government territory. the u.k. government has raised concerns about a staff member from his home called cults in the sea been missing since crossing into mainland china simon chang attended an event in chen gen on august the eights but didn't return. a salvadoran woman at the center of

a controversial abortion trial has been acquitted even and mandela's was charged with murder after giving birth to a stillborn baby in a tone. that russia has accused the us of escalating military tension off to it tested a ground launch missile with a range of more than 500 kilometers and the test would have been banned under the intermediate range nuclear forces jeezy or the i.m.f. washington formally withdrew from bad deal with russia earlier this month the us administration says moscow had already been violating it. so this comes as russia faces questions over an explosion at one of its weapons testing facilities in august so the us and has more from us. deputy foreign minister sergei he said that the really regret that this test has taken place and also that it shows that the united states has been preparing for this end of the i.n.f. treaty for a long time so as we know of course this treaty and it collapsed earlier this month

but of also says that he doesn't want to be drawn into an arms race with the united states and they won't put any more missiles anywhere as long as the united states is not doing the same thing this is all very interesting to hear because it all comes in the light of this very suspicious and mysterious accident that happened during a test of a particular weapon that has not been disclosed which happened on august 8 this is prime minister is due to address the senate in a couple of hours with speculation growing that he's due to resign the governing coalition collapsed just a few days ago after the far right league passing pulled out sonia gager reports from rome. it was never a partnership of equal measures held together by an independent prime minister italy's 2 populist parties the far right the the anti establishment 5 star movement

comfortably wedded to each other in a coalition of convenience. between the 2 the dominating force had always been the league with its strident anti immigrant policies and heavy reliance on its leader. combative personality and to prove popular eclipsing the 5 stars presence in the coalition. taking advantage of his surge in popularity only 2 weeks ago salvini took a gamble and announced that his party's alliance with 5 star was over the leak put forward a motion of no confidence in the government and salvini called friendly actions that could make him prime minister call it hubris or a nail time intervention the move hadn't quite worked out as salvini had hoped instead the 5 star movement and the opposition democratic party began to talk openly of forming a coalition among themselves leaving salvini out in the cold his supporters call

him the captain but his latest venture has left him adrift faced with the prospect of losing power back down and said he would be prepared to stick with 5 star with perhaps a cabinet shuffle but his one time allies the damage had already been done. but it won't be an easy right for 5 star either their decision to go into coalition with the far right party has cost them hard their supporters a humiliating defeat at this year's european elections and the league has overtaken the 5 star movement to become the most popular party in italy the kountry is going right in just moments to population economic reform liberal terms wants market reforms and the faster movement of always been embracing leftists economic policies so i don't think they will come back in the political approval from the masses of italians who are somehow demanding new elections it is a bitter breakup for 2 parties which will always ill suited for each other

a fight for italy's identity between the far right and more centrist forces and with a weakening economy close to a recession the country cannot afford any worsening of its political turmoil in the months ahead sonia aguilar al-jazeera rome a spanish activist group says 9 migrants have jumped from its rescue boat into the mediterranean sea the vessel the open arms is anchored off the coast of the italian island of lampedusa it picked up the migrants and refugees off the coast of libya several weeks ago and called on the italian coast guard to transport them to land so far is still is interior minister. has only allowed for the baby is and small children to come on to land and those with medical emergencies. there's been violence in yemen in southern region of the young between u.s. separatists and government forces this follows the end of a deadline imposed by the separatists southern transitional council for government

army officials to surrender their training camp yemen's internationally recognized government said earlier this week this is had lost control of all its military in the southern port city of aden. there are calls for an investigation in iraq after more than 30 bullet is a barrett in kabul a province without any identification they included women children and elderly human rights groups are accusing the government of covering up evidence of possible sectarian violence that's akin to a report from the iraqi capital but that. 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 identified and and claimed. there was negligence on the part of the government the government should have announced to the public the existence of these bodies d.n.a. tests 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 else so hard it was once controlled by eisel during the battle to defeat it she got 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 how they do have gone 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 hart 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 they'll be killed. he did nothing wrong if he had i would testify against him but as 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 2 u.s. congresswoman has spoken out about israel's decision to deny them entry for an official visit to labor and i know ma of a note from the critical of israel over its treatment of palestinians to les was later offered a visa on humanitarian grounds so she could go to see a grandmother in the occupied west bank but she says she turned it down because the conditions were oppressive john hendren reports. for many rashid a 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 fact checkpoints i remember shaking with fear when checkpoints appeared in the small village of ben foden forecasts tanks in guns everywhere to lay been in omar 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 high. and we are going to fight this administration and the oppressive ministries and 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 u.s. resident said israel sent her home and held her palestinian husband until he could resolve his own visa problems. here in this for 10 hours by the shin bet israeli security agency a marriage occupants were almost turned away and i was hearing. israeli palestinian issues were always 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. we are not willing to admit into his or he'll call for the boycott of the state of israel and

. 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. of course has acquitted the brother and the son of president jimmy. corruption charges prosecutors accuse them of taking in the full sophistication of invoices for an event in. which didn't happen president welcomed the acquittal saying his family has been the victim of political. 9000 people have fled several villages on the spanish holiday i'm linda gran canaria where wildfires are burning the fires started last week in the been difficult to contain sara higher has more. shock and disbelief in gran canaria these villages were forced out of their homes as large wildfires burn out of control across the spanish

island they started spreading across mountainous areas on saturday as high temperatures strong winds and low humidity fuel the flames this headline reads the unstoppable catastrophe that all they told me i had to move accommodation and to get out immediately because the fire and especially the smoke was descending it was so so hot. i think the risky team saved me because i did exactly what they told me on the one hand it's good news because that contain the fire in the town on the other hand it's bad news because of the disaster that is happening. one of the biggest deployments of firefighters in recent spanish history is under way a crew of 1000 is working around the clock to control the fires the flames as high as 50 meters have made their jobs harder. than god preventing water dropping planes from operating in some areas. the fire is still beyond our extinguishing

capabilities when the weather conditions start to change that's when we can start to control it. gran canaria in the canary islands is popular with tourists millions visit every year to enjoy its mountains and beaches more of the spanish government has assured them the wildfires are only confined to higher grounds environmentalist concerns that spain could lose some of its most important nature reserves so to hide at. times as a look at the headlines here about is there a syrian opposition activists say rebels have withdrawn from the strategically important town of qana shakun that's in southern province and follows days of fighting we saw them firing rockets into government territory. 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 shenzhen on august the 8th some were supposed to return to hong kong the same day but china insists it has no information as to his whereabouts hong kong police say an inquiry is underway to see from one point. of august leading to a missing person case but for the sake of present data i couldn't comes to too much details here. the case is currently and. by the regional missing person unit of how. we can and so far the hong kong police force does not receive and the notification from. the reciprocal notification comes up. hong kong's chief executive kerri lamb says she hopes the recent nonviolent protests show that the territory is on a path to peace sunday's march would strew 2000000 people was

a columnist in 11 weeks of demonstrations which i've often become violent. salvadoran woman at the center of a controversial abortion trial has been acquitted evelyn and this was charged with murder after giving birth to a stillborn baby in a toilet a spanish activist group says 9 migrants and jumped from its rescue boat into the mediterranean sea the vessels anchored off the coast of the italian island of lampedusa picked up the migrants and refugees off the coast of libya several weeks ago and called on the italian coast guard to take them to land so far it is interior minister vini as only allowed young children and those with medical emergencies. of today those are the latest headlines inside story is next.

it may be special but the close relationship between trump and netanyahu is causing controversy the decision to bar 2 congresswoman from entering israel has sent shock waves through both countries so what does that mean for the long term ties between the u.s. and israel this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. israel's recent decision to ban a visit by 2 us democrat congresswoman has drawn

a lot of controversy within the 2 allies the move to deny reseated to leave and omar in tree was condemned by top democrat politicians it's also been criticized by a pro israel lobby group.