i didn't catch it on al-jazeera. thousands flee the violence in syria as government forces drive rebels from a strategic stronghold. on sami say this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up italy's prime minister just epic on tape resigns blaming his right wing coalition partner for the political crisis. refugees and migrants jumped from a rescue ship in a desperate bid to reach the italian shore. also quoted of killing her stillborn baby young salvadoran woman says justice is finally been done

. now opposition activists in syria say rebels have withdrawn from the strategically important town of clanchy horn in southern italy province this follows days of fighting which saw them firing rockets into government territory the syrian government has told its forces which are backed by russia the battle isn't over yet . the rebels also retreated from the town of mora which is in hama it's also the size of a turkish military observation post hone in southern province is the main population center used to be a place where 100000 syrians to shelter before the military escalation began in april towns nearby in the northern hummer countryside fall and the government forces for the syrian government the big prize was control of who were given access

to the m 5 that's an important economic highway that crosses the country so the holder has more from beirut hunch a hole in his back under the control of the syrian government images released by pro regime media show the town in southern italy empty of residents and fighters rebels withdrew early on tuesday after days of fighting and hundreds of air strikes its location gives the syrian government access to parts of a vital commercial highway that connects the northern city of aleppo to the capital damascus and has been a military objective for months this is a very important development in the course of this conflict. this is the 1st step in the 1st stage maybe. in an effort by the government to regain control of the territories along the m 5 road between. and aleppo i think their next

target will be moderate to normal. the opposition to just lose. rebel fighters had little choice but to leave towns further south in the northern hama countryside they would have risked being besieged if they didn't move further north the opposition was hoping the presence of a turkish observation post in the area would stop the government advance but it tempted by the turkish military to reinforce that position failed when an airstrike launched by a syrian or russian warplane on monday prevented it from reaching its destination. the syrian government and its allies have been advancing in the past 2 weeks they have now taken more territory than they did in the 1st 3 months of their military campaign it's not clear if the rebels had been subjected to heavy fire power are exhausted or if the army is using better tactics like concentrating the strikes close to the front lines and on rebel supply routes but the relentless airstrikes

and partment continue to force people into displacement in recent days more than 25000 are believed to have moved north closer to the border with turkey war monitors and activists say over 700000 syrians are homeless since the military escalation began in late april of. the past few days witnessed unprecedented bombardment that is why the people who didn't leave during the 1st months of the offensive back everything and left most of them believe their houses will either be fully destroyed or taken over by the regime. the bombardment of opposition held towns across southern libya continues as the syrian government presses on with its offensive there have been more civilian casualties as rebels promise to defend what is left of their last stronghold the battle is not over then for their al-jazeera beirut. italy's prime minister just up a contact has announced he'll be stepping down after weeks of tension with his

right wing coalition partner kaante blame the leader of the far right league party material salvini for sparking the crisis in warn the political uncertainty will harm italy's economy. like vision the lego's motion of defiance is forced us to set a calendar for new elections there were also statements in these last days and in these last weeks that have forced me to put an end to this government experience so the go go. home. that he would be stepping down from the role of prime minister in a speech he laid the blame firmly at the feet of one of the deputy prime ministers . the leader of the far right on to migrant league party he said that had to straighten this political crisis for personal gain and a full an opportunity for his party to try and make a power grab however many responded in kind that he saw himself now as being

a free man who was not afraid of being judged by the italian people in if they were to be a snap election coming up shortly and he did use them very much the rhetoric that he's conducted at rallies reaching out very emotive language saying that he was speaking for the italian people but there was little in the way of any pragmatic solution to this crisis now. goes to see the president later on this evening there was no guarantee that he might not have his resignation rejected he could be asked by president to form another government with a different party with different parties involved i.e. 5 star and maybe the opposition democratic party or it could revert back to the same formula where it's the 5 star movement again with the party but there has been so much political wrangling and bad blood between the 2 parties and the numbers are

still very much in the favor in the parliament of the 5 star but it is still very difficult to see how exactly the impasse that has been caused by. the find a way of resolving itself in the next few days. more refugees and migrants have been leaping from a rescue ship in the mediterranean sea trying to escape worsening conditions on board reached the nearby town and island of lampedusa the crew of the spanish ship says the situation is out of control. people are getting increasingly desperate they've been stranded for most 20 days literally refusing to let the ship docks fane says they can go and be sending a navy ship to pick them up. slowly alone says a spokeswoman for the charity proactiv open arms she says many felt they had no option but to jump all these people have been living on the deck of our boat for

hunting days now seems the moment that we rescue so i'm going martin that was the beginning of their we ended the rescue we were 100 the 3 who were leaving thinking i'm doing everything on board to know about. we think that all these people come for media grown for a song off of music by the laces or kind of as the person on the i was really really not so it was not allowed to go or say after that they were really new 19 days ago when he was the both online who are they or you know it was as if there was they have been seen how we have rock uses some of them who had to go through this and also the niece of a minor with these numbers on the not being 5 day we could and i thought it was on they aren't seeing right now the growth. of the 200

meter. they need to have the kind of reach because so they mean like the they they were invented. now the u.n. security council has been meeting for a special middle east session starting with the ongoing conflict in yemen and on iran ahead of this meeting the u.s. special representative for iran warned the iran nuclear deal hasn't provided stability to the region what was promised in the iran nuclear deal that the deal would moderate iran's behavior that it would contribute to regional peace and stability has not happened in fact quite the opposite we have seen the iran nuclear deal come at the expense of peace and stability in the middle east because iran spent the sanctions relief. on its missile program and on its proxies with more on this let's go over to the habit tansey is live for us at the u.n.

in new york so some signals that the u.s. is trying to rally action in the u.n. security council against the iran nuclear deal there tell us more about that should happen right and we got a preview of what might pompei with the secretary of state is likely to say at the u.n. security council in about 3 hours time or so as usual the scathing derision about the j.c. peary the iranian nuclear deal that we've come to expect but it seems there is rather a specific agenda now as well which is going after the u.n. security council resolution 2231 that underpins the j.c. peary specifically there are 2 provisions that which say subject to certification from the i.a.e.a. about iran following the j c p o a travel ban against some members of the games members of the iranian government that's currently in place will be lifted including the travel ban on the head of the iranian revolutionary guard and also the arms embargo currently in place will

be lifted so it seems that pump air is coming to the security council today too to urge the security council to do something to dismantle 2231 the u.n. security council resolution which allows for those provisions. and at the same time we've been hearing from the u.n. special envoy on the yemen what's his message being why not let us change this modern griffith's last brief the u.n. security council notably the takeover of the southern port city by saddam separatists griffiths condemned that move and he called for talks to happen as soon as possible talks have been proposed by saudi arabia in jeddah the sudden separatists have agreed to those talks but so far the yemeni government says that the south the southern suburbs have to have to depart from all the positions they've taken in arden before those talks can happen however at the security council meeting the yemeni government would welcome the idea of talks but griffith says they have to happen as soon as possible we are facing

a crucial moment in the destination of this conflict in yemen as we have seen in other than and rb on questions regarding yemen's future being posed more forcefully than before the fragmentation of yemen is becoming a stronger and more pressing threat and this of course makes our efforts in the yemeni peace process more urgent than ever but there is no time to lose the stakes are becoming too high for the future of yemen yemeni people and indeed the wider region. and we also heard from the assistant secretary general of humanitarian affairs on yemen about the dire situation there we've already heard that the humanitarian assistance program was only 34 percent funded right now once again we hear we heard from the u.n. official that it's saudi arabia and the u.a.e. which isn't which aren't given the money that they've pledged but this is going to have real real impact in the coming days she said she said in the next few days

water and sanitation programs will stop in 4 governorates leaving $300000.00 displaced people at extreme risk of cholera she called for the money to be paid that has been promised to the un humanitarian program in yemen or i should have returned see there. still ahead on al-jazeera a staff member from the u.k. consulate in hong kong goes missing after a trip to mainland china. the challenges of reporting on life under lockdown we speak to journalists in indian administered kashmir. hello i get the impression that the seasonal rain in change in china this year hasn't really followed his normal course and at the moment is precious little the

few by satellite or in the forecast for a good part of this eastern side of china for shanghai down to hong kong the dry couple days coming up the rains offshore taiwan the north the philippines getting the bulk of it the cloud is building to the western united in northern vietnam up towards sichuan that could well produce a significant amount of rain during certain particularly and it is edging this way but still looks dry in hong kong and shanghai right now the monsoon trough itself are made its major advances now slowly dropping better back of course yeah we're nearly in september so plenty of rain to come if in flooding up in which pradesh again the green the next couple days is more nepal and southwards the 2nd plateau of india is now dry in a good part of the west side of india and indeed in pakistan and afghanistan in detention system quite hard to the west is that we've got a warning of a heat wave if you believe in baghdad the temperatures in the high forty's we're

looking at middle forces versus sunday rabia and just below that in doha where of course weather and that's true throughout the gulf is humid. rewind to 10 days with a new series i i am playing updates on the past about using documentaries one. rewind continues with back i will compare the onion you have the onion the weakest part of the heart. of the city we are holding on by our fingernails to the 2 state solution today it is still barely possible on al-jazeera.

welcome back you're watching out just in time to recap our headlines now syrian opposition activists say rebels have withdrawn from the strategically important town of country all in southern italy province this follows days of fighting which saw them firing rockets into government territory. italy's prime minister just has offered to resign after the league the leader salvini with through support from his government. told the senate the collapse of the coalition would damage the italian economy. the u.n. security council has been warning that the conflict in yemen is now as a principal point un special envoy told the council during a session on the middle east yemen faces being torn apart. politicians and business leaders in ireland have rejected british calls to renegotiate london's

exit from the e.u. u.k. prime minister barak johnson has insisted a new way must be found. to keep the irish border. open rather he still can't say what that plan might be lawrence lee reports from the irish border. challenges i think that breakfast as a hotel outside dublin and the small business owners are being taught how to fill out piles of customs papers if perhaps it means a border going up across ireland they'll have to and it's an expense many can barely afford this is what people mean when they say the irish economy could suffer because of brick says do businesses know do you know what the british government's plan is. i don't i don't see why the commentators at the start of this whole process don't watch the inches watch the miles and so if you're try thinking if you try to follow brags that step by step i'll be incredibly frustrating because it's

not a logic that most people are familiar with ever since i became prime minister boris johnson has said the u.k. will leave the e.u. before november in his letter to the european union he also insists a new deal can and must be found to free his country from being stuck in a customs union because he's been rejected by the british parliament but neither here nor in brussels today believe him we've no idea how old movie the latter didn't go into much detail but he keeps referring once again to the so-called alternative arrangements the problem with these alternative arrangements is they don't exist known have been given to us as an example in operation anywhere in the world the haven't been laid out properly so that's why we really do need the box on our side of germs policy. the sharp end of all this is in irish border towns like dundalk where free movement in and out of the u.k. is crucial to their livelihoods there is no overstating the anger they holmes towards the british government so the one thing that we've learnt about irish history over the generations has been that britain gets bored and wanders off from

the topic problems all right and then it's only when the problem that we can show. we can bring them back into looking at it instead of looking at it in the current situation where there isn't a security or anything else on the rowing that you should. so imagine a scenario in which this motorway crossing the border has customs posts and queues of traffic with all the contingent security risks to the pigs might not be far away the dread fear in our land is that any physical manifestation of a border could lead to this is the republicans attacking not only british but irish customs officials britain says it's just scaremongering there will never be a border on the island of violence but in his letter to the european union boris johnson cannot say how he could guarantee it in the sense of dundalk a sculpture was erected after former u.s. president clinton helped finalize the good friday peace deal and addressed

a 100000 people in celebration the sculpture is called dialogue and celebrates the art of compromise how times have changed enormously al-jazeera on the irish border . the british government says it's extremely concerned about the disappearance of a staff member from its hong kong consulate who's been missing since crossing into mainland china the u.k. foreign office says simon chang attended a business event in shan jan or was the 8th and was supposed to return to hong kong the same day and china insists it has no information on his whereabouts only say they're trying to figure out what's happened. so you found one point on 9 of august we're leading to a missing person case but for the sake of personal data i couldn't just constant to too much detail here and the case is currently under the and primary by the regional missing person unit of how and when we can and so far the hong kong police

force does not receive any notification from the mainland of storage even though the reciprocal notification mechanics of. a word has more from 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 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 . the indian government has some restrictions in indian administered kashmir which has been along down for more than 2 weeks it's given some response the people of the capital srinagar as well as journalists trying to report on the decision to strip the region of autonomy and as more from new delhi. 10 days after a complete information blackout the indian government set up 4 computers with internet access for more than 200 journalists in a media center it controls in srinagar the reporters wait patiently until it's their turn. some on latif who writes for the indian daily the tribune says sometimes he queues for hours just to e-mail his story and if he's lucky chat

briefly with his editor. you have to stand in the queue for them and then when you send a story you don't get. the response of. then you have to go back to the same computer and see if. the indian government has issued press passes to most journalists in the past few days but access to the internet is tightly controlled and freedom of movement largely restricted to within senior got itself conditions however have improved a little since the 1st days of the lockdown imposed earlier this month after a new delhi's decision to revoke indian administers autonomy. what we're doing is trying in setting of the trouble finding out what's happening on august 13th the editor of the kashmir times filed a petition in india supreme court against the communications blackout the government is saying that the people are happy everything is fine people are coming

out on the lord let them tell us. that they are indeed happy desperate but if you read the grow over the newspapers lawyer and human rights activist says journalists have had a particularly tough time even in the silencing and crippling of media what we see is the targeted silencing of the media journalists we do not hear that why. it's been difficult for journalists to report from strain about the capital of indian administered kashmir for the past 2 weeks a minute on one of the phone booths opened by the government was considered a luxury and although some restrictions have been lifted making it relatively easier to file stories from the city the rest of the rally remains mostly out of bounds of war or al-jazeera new delhi. police in turkey have used water cannon and battens to disperse demonstrators staging a sit in in the south eastern city of the other back hundreds of people gathered

near the city hall for a 2nd day angry about the removal of 3 pro kurdish mayors from around the cities of martin and. turkish free separately detained over $400.00 people on monday for suspected links to the outlawed kurdish group the p.k. k. . salvadoran woman at the center of a controversial abortion trial has been acquitted of all charges evil and how to land as was charged with murder after giving birth to a stillborn baby the case draw international criticism of the country's strict anti abortion laws. for. a celebration after being cleared of all charges evelyn hernandez has become the face of a card 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. there is always the. 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 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 in 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. 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 a salvador strict abortion laws of war 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. room this is the gun al-jazeera. of watermelon cause has acquitted president jimmy morales his brother and son of corruption charges prosecutors accuse them and several others of taking part in the false occasion of invoices for an event in 2013 which never happened president moralez welcomed the acquittal so his family has been the victim of political persecution bolivia's president has delivered humanitarian aid to

residents who fled wildfires in the center of the country nearly half a 1000000 hectares of bolivia's agricultural heartland is burnt no deaths have been reported the country has declared a state of emergency. 9000 people have fled several villages on the spanish holiday island of gran canaria where wildfires are burning the fires started last week and have been difficult to contain sort of hired 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. 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

risk youth team saved me because i did exactly what they told me on the one hand it's good news because they 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 fire fighters in recent spanish history is underway 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. 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 the spanish government has assured them the wildfires are only confined to higher grounds environmentalists are concerned spain could lose some of its most important nature reserves.

let's take you through some of the headlines here on al-jazeera syrian opposition activists say rebels of withdrawing from the strategically important town of cotton in southern province this follows days of fighting which saw them firing rockets into government territory italy's prime minister just said to contact has offered to resign after the league party leader my tail selvi and he withdrew support from his government contrary told the senate the collapse of the coalition to damage the italian economy let this go lego's motion of defiance of force just to set a calendar for new elections there were also statements in these last days and in these last weeks that have forced me to put an end to this government experience. a

spanish activist group says 9 migrants of jumped from its rescue boat into the mediterranean sea the vessel 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 called on the italian coast guard to transport them to land so far italy's interior minister vini zomi allowed in minors and those with medical emergencies. the un security council has been warned the conflict in yemen is now at a critical point the u.n. special envoy told the council during a session on the middle east yemen faces being torn apart. u.k. and e.u. leaders appear to have hardened their positions on reopening breaks in negotiations throwing more doubt on any breakthrough before the october 31st deadline european council president has rejected british prime minister boris johnson's latest demands to get rid of the so-called irish backstop provisions in the current

withdraw agreement it's an insurance policy to prevent border checks between northern ireland and the republic of on. johnson hasn't presented any viable alternatives so there's nothing to renegotiate the british government says it's extremely concerned about the disappearance of a staff member from its hong kong consulate he's been missing since crossing into mainland china the u.k. foreign office says simon chang attended a business event in jan on august the 8th he was supposed to return to hong kong the same day. or as the headlines the news continues after rewind.

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