of pakistan administered kashmir. while my 7 year old son noor had dreams and ambitions his family says he wanted to join the forces which protect his village he was killed in the latest cross border shelling in pakistan administered kashmir as usual india and pakistan accuse each other off what they call unprovoked aggression and violation of the ceasefire pakistan's military spokesman tweeted that retaliatory fire killed 6 indian soldiers. the day after the shelling from the indian side we witnessed more shells landing on the civilian population in that the piney sector of district courtly a few homes were damaged. a life comes to a standstill every time tension escalates on the border. indiscriminate firing continues from india the target civilians and kill innocent people as you can see we are a few kilometers from the border and. you can still hear their guns. people rush to

see what happened to their property even the fighting subsided. muhammad bashir is a farmer he refuses to move because he would lose his now and livelihood now damage . there is no way to run the heavy shelling from the indian side and i was scared and tried to hide in the basement when mortar shells were landing everywhere. this year at least $33.00 civilians have been killed in artillery and mortar shelling in pakistan administered kashmir and indian officials also say civilians have suffered on their side it's difficult for villages near the line of control the dividing line between the 2 sides every day activities such as going to school or the shops becomes impossible on about he started talking we were coming from culturally town towards battle sets out on the line of control we heard there was heavy shelling from the indian side so we took shelter in the basement of a mosque the foreign minister says pakistan will be taking. to be international court of justice but people here have their doubts that there will be any outcome there's mounting anger and bhagavan administered fish read not just against their

shelling across the line of control but also about the plight of kashmiris stranded on the indian side of olive drab it out of their own with africa are still ahead on this news hour from london the u.s. needs to tighten the laws on migrant children so they can be held in custody indefinitely. the german chancellor challenges britain's new prime minister to come up with a new book supplier instead he days and some great news for iraq from football's world governing body fisa peaceable have the details in school. now the number of forest fires in brazil's amazon rain forest has surged to its highest level since records began in 2013 since january nearly 73000 fires have been detected by satellites from brazil space agency i and p.

that's up from just under 40000 in the same period last year an increase of 84 percent well the 9 and a half 1000 new fires have been detected since last thursday alone. well majority of the fires are in the amazon basin home to the world's largest rain forest which is viewed by environmentalists as the planet's lungs several regions of brazil are covered in thick smoke president diable sonera has dismissed concerns saying it's the time of year when pharma set fires to clear land he also said without offering any evidence that n.g.o.s could be burning down the forests to shame his government well nearly marion is the coordinator for forests and biodiversity at friends of the earth international she believes corporate interests in the amazon rain forest are being protected by political power in brazil. corporate interests will have access to more agricultural land is really represented by also a novel we have heard earlier this year and minister of environmentalists.

an environmental program reza brazil us not to agree with the alarm me don't use to criticize the agricultural production of developing countries and sort a release for them the amazon is there for business it's definitely profits it's there it's not there for product in the environment and we are not worried about the international consequences and the consequences for the group. at the same time they are interrupting our gorilla normal processes as well as literally the human rights of indigenous peoples which there are multiple in brazil and they are actually the ones who normally protect the forests which they are just completely in the situation. the u.s. says it will bring in new rules to allow migrant families to be detained indefinitely while judges consider whether to grant them asylum in the united states on the current legislation migrant children can't be held for more than 20

days and the policy part of a crackdown on undocumented migrants will have no limits on how long children or their families can be detained officials say it will stop people deliberately traveling with children to avoid detection the scale of this crisis has required us to ask a tremendous amount of our border patrol agents and save your officers as they have stepped up this new rule provide them with a well deserved relief and allow them to rededicate their resources and time toward stopping criminals at the border the job they signed up to do and 4th the new rules protect children by reducing incentives for adults including human smugglers to exploit minors in the dangerous journey to our border mike hanna in washington has more details. the trumpet ministration ruling changes the way in which immigration families or would be immigrant families are dealt with this up to now has been based on the florist agreement and 1997 agreement which insisted that immigrant families could not be hilled for more than 20 days while they were waiting for

a decision on the immigration status the new trumpet ministration rules do away with this they provide for indefinite detention of would be immigrant families and to all the immigration status is defined that could be anything from months up to a year however human rights groups have insisted that these rules cannot be accepted and there is one particular hurdle they've got to cross and that is a judicial exceptions it will go before a california district judge dolly m. g. who incidentally is the same judge that rejected the administration's attempt to extend the detention of families last year even in the unlikely case said it passes this particular judicial hurdle there will be a number of other court cases to come certainly human rights organizations insistent that the u.s. would be a further degradation to the rights of immigrant families and their children the us

president has accused the danish prime minister matter fredrickson of being nasty after she rebuffed his idea of buying greenland storm a trump demand it will respect the show to the united states adding that his suggestion of buying the semi autonomous danish territory was just an idea on white house correspondent kelly halkett reports. the remote quiet of greenland was disrupted this week when former real estate developer turned u.s. president donald trump confirmed he wanted to buy the danish territory but that bid was publicly rejected by denmark's prime minister i thought that the prime minister's statement that it was absurd that was that it was an absurd idea was that the i thought it was an inappropriate statement well she had to do is say no we wouldn't be addressing. trying to been scheduled to travel to denmark for bilateral meetings the hard rejection by denmark of the us proposal prompted trump

to abruptly cancel his state visit via twitter on wednesday the danish leader responded to the snub this does not change the capture of our good relations and we will of course from denmark continue our ongoing dialogue with the u.s. but the public rejection outrage trump twitter he continued to chastise denmark accusing it of not fully contributing to nato to pay for shared defense trumps interest in greenland is the 1st time he's mixed real estate with diplomacy they have great beaches trumps repeatedly i'd north korea and its untapped waterfront property entice in north korea's leader with promised assistance developing the north korean economy if kim jong un gives up nuclear weapons so you know instead of doing that you could have the best hotels in the world right there think of it from a realistic perspective. like north korea there is a u.s.

strategic interest in greenland the airbase there is part of the u.s. ballistic missile early warning system and is used by the u.s. air force space command harry truman trump is also not the 1st u.s. president to try and by greenland the last time was in 104600 president harry truman and before that in 1967 right after the u.s. completed the purchase of alaska from russia. despite donald trump's last minute cancellation of his trip to denmark he says he loves the country and expects to return to add another time but not until he says he sees improved respect shown to the united states can really help get al-jazeera the white house well john robert clemmensen joins me now from copenhagen he's an associate professor at the royal danish defense college thanks for being with us on the program from purely strategic perspective does it make sense that donald trump wants the u.s. to buy green and. well it would make sense for the u.s.

to be very interested in greenland because as as your reporter just mentioned the u.s. has a strategic. strategically important base in northern greenland that's part of the missile defense system but the u.s. has been caught netting over the past decade it has noticed that russia and china have have have looked at greenland as we'll and have seen a weakness in the us alliance system so china has been chinese companies have been investing in greenland and the fear in washington is that that will give china some leverage over the green agenda government which can be used to undermine the u.s. on the island at the same time russia is currently building a an airbase in the arctic that can be used to to knock out the the us rate us in greenland and thus punching a hole in the u.s.

missile defense system so there's a good reason for trying to pay attention to greenland but the whole idea of actually buying the island is this to use the word of today in prime minister it's absurd because greenland isn't denmark to sell greenland under danish law is is considered and independent people with a right to self-determination and that means that essentially it's up to the greenlanders to decide who they want which country they want to be part of i mean how does denmark feel about the president now deciding to cancel this trip because he just like the idea of being called by the danish prime minister i mean that invitation wasn't actually extended to him by the prime minister's i'm just not it was actually extended by the danish queen was not yeah exactly esus ss always custom because the queen is the is the head of state. i

think it's viewed as as a bit of a snub i mean denmark if you if you look at european countries. denmark has been one of the most. most staunch u.s. allies over the past couple of decades it's one of the it was the country that lost the most soldiers in afghanistan per capita and denmark has unlike many other european countries. participated in a u.s. military operations without having kevvy its meaning that the danes have been in the front line and i think there's a feeling in copenhagen that that all that goodwill is now suddenly lost over something that's basically a misunderstanding so i think there's a real fear here that that denmark might be losing its status as as a key u.s. ally and there's a fear that it's not really the things government's fault how important is that relationship though denmark i mean do you think that the relations between the 2

countries have been damaged or they just going to be damaged by the time president trump is in office and you'll be able to kind of you know just brush that away that's being a sort of blip in the relationship. well. i mean president trump might be in office for another 5 years so that's that's quite a stretch of time true it's just brush off right. but of course you're right that i think the feeling here is that. that the the security apparatus in the u.s. understands how denmark has supported u.s. strategic interests it both in the middle east but actually also in greenland. over the past decades and there's a feeling that that once the spotlight moves to another issue. that that that security relations may be able to go back to normal at least that's the hope in the

danish ministries really good to have you on the program john roberts comments and joining us there from copenhagen thank you. thank you french president emanuel mackerel says europe will not be held hostage to the u.k.'s democratic crisis he also said a heart breaks it would not be offset by a trade deal with the u.s. which would make the u.k. subordinate to washington michael made a comment today before he's due to meet britain's prime minister forced johnson early a chance to enjoy a warmer than expected reception from the german chancellor angela merkel in berlin telling her he wants a new brakes a deal without the controversial irish backstop she gave him 30 days to come up with an alternative to backstop. we in the u.k. want a deal we seek a deal and i believe that we can get what we can do this up and us i think is that

is the phrase but clearly. they clearly. we cannot we cannot accept. the current withdrawal agreement arrangements that are you could divide the u.k. or look us into the regulatory treaty arrangements of the e.u. legal order of the e.u. without the u.k. having any say on those matters so we do need that backstop removed says the banks of the say look folks was it the backstop has always been a fallback position if one is able to solve this conundrum if one finds the solution and we said we would probably find it in the next 2 years to come but we can also maybe find it in the next 30 days then we're one step further in the right direction and we obviously have to put our all into this and our dearest on a case sent this update from berlin. in setting

a 30 day timetable angle or merkel as it were was laying down the gauntlet for the british government for british prime minister boris johnson to accept that challenge can they agree in 30 days his response was to say that he thought that she was setting a blistering pace but that the united kingdom government would do its best to try to meet that but of course the day that's as it were in shrine in stone it it seems is october 31st that day when bragg's it will happen according to boris johnson's timetables the question will be whether the initiative from boris johnson from angle americal will be picked up by other e.u. leaders clearly mr johnson will be going on to meet the french president emmanuel mccall in paris on thursday taking a substantially similar message the question will be what sort of mood music will there be in paris we know that the french government on wednesday is said that there is not a cigarette paper that can be put between themselves and the german government

regarding the withdrawal agreement the key question though is about the backstop angle america says that she believes practical arrangements might be achieved what will the french government say. 5 states have agreed to take in nearly 100 migrants who were stranded at sea for weeks migrants have been spending their 1st day on dry land after they were finally allowed to leave the open arms rescue ship and enter italy on tuesday evening italian government had stopped the boat from docking the local prosecutor intervened in one another crisis is looming as the ocean viking rescue ship which has more than 350 migrants on board is also trying to duck its a hitch. there is. including a stark warning from the united nations as it faces a massive funding shortfall to deal with the world's worst humanitarian crisis. historic agreement between rwanda and uganda and

a long running dispute but it looks like a reluctant deal. after 12 years in germany a french football legend touches down. there we have. some policy of year in quite a stream of cloud at central areas we've seen some very heavy thunderstorms some flash floods have been cause across into the northeast that concern well the next couple of days but we have still got some warnings in place across a lot of the alps again. and also it is quite possible. pushing through batteries into west as russia set a very warm day. 25 degrees celsius warm ahead of all this

a cloud and rain as well and actually temperatures across some trip not exactly caught in fact warming up over the next couple of days still very windy with rain across northern sections of u.k. through much of scandinavia sikkim the temperature down in stockholm even on friday just 20 degrees celsius but look at these temperatures in london paris 272927 in berlin these are around 5 degrees above the average for this time of the year so that warm a little bit muggy still quite a bit of cloud across these will southern sections of europe again we could see some showers and a similar story into eastern sections as well most of the med is fine and dry but that front which is heading its way through taking their showers across those portions of europe also taking a few showers into algeria over the next couple days that is to try to by friday with a high of 28. after years of war and found a dramatic transformation is emerging. al-jazeera goes on

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welcome back and reminder the top stories on al jazeera saddam's knee joint military and civilian suffering council has been sworn in to rule for the next 3 years the new prime minister is out to solve the country's economic crisis. 2 people have been killed in indian administered kashmir in the 1st gun battle between separatists and security forces since india revoked its autonomy. and the number of forest fires in brazil's amazon rainforest has surged to its highest level since records began in 21st. turkey has extended the deadline for unregistered syrian refugees in istanbul to leave the city hundreds of thousands of people were given until tuesday to return to the

turkish provinces where they were 1st registered or face deportation refugees now have until the end of october after complaints they weren't given enough notice istanbul holds the largest number of registered syrians in turkey but authorities stopped accepting new registrations last year saying the city can't cope with anymore. the u.n. special envoy to yemen martin griffiths has arrived in sanaa where it's believed he'll meet who the rebels want to say he told the u.n. security council that yemen is at risk of falling apart he said agreements to end the decades long conflict was urgently needed elsewhere protestors have been out on the streets of thais in the southwest demonstrating against the takeover of the port city of agent by u.a.e. back separatists and showing their support for the internationally recognized government of president of rubble once a hardy. well the u.n. has warned that $22.00 lifesaving aid programs in yemen will be forced to close

unless countries fulfill their promises to donate funds $2600000000.00 was pledged for yemen back in february less than half of that has been received 4 years of civil war have killed tens of thousands of people and left millions on the brink of famine the u.n. has called it the world's worst humanitarian crisis let's go to the u.n. in new york and speak to shihab rattansi so she has why have these countries not actually all of those pledges. well that's a very interesting question which i guess you'd have to ask them and we'll get into that in a little while but this is an extension of what we were hearing at the u.n. security council briefing on yemen on tuesday where the assistant secretary general for humanitarian affairs has already told the security council that overall the funding for the unitarian programs in yemen were only 34 percent funded and she was saying that within the next few days water treatment sanitation in various areas of

yemen would be stopped putting around 300000 displaced people at risk of color infections and on wednesday we're getting more detail about all of that as you say 20 to life saving programs in danger of being shut down imminently within the next few months unless the funding is received unless the funds promised at the fed recon friends are received in the coming weeks food rations for 12000000 people will be reduced at least 2500000 malnourished children will be cut off from services which have been keeping them alive some 90000000 people will lose access to health care including 1000000 women who depend on the un for reproductive health clean water programs for 5000000 people will shut at the end of october and tens of thousands of displaced families may themselves fight may find themselves homeless so she had name and shame time who actually hasn't paid up yet. well this is the

intriguing thing because on the woman's new people if we keep it up $2600000000.00 figure which was pledged in february at the donors conference for the immediate needs of the yemen humanitarian program and we hear on the one hand from the u.n. look it's actually rather good almost everyone has actually stumped up the money they pledged in february or given more but then you hear that there are 2 main donors who haven't and those are saudi arabia and the united arab emirates you began the bombardment of yemen 4 years ago they each pledged in february $750000000.00 each and what we keep hearing from your officials is they've only given a modest amount of that figure so that's why even though a majority of those who pledged in february have given just those 2 donor countries saudi arabia the u.a.e. then not giving that money has meant that there's that it's less than half under that the humanitarian programs

a lot of the have funded right now and we have these dire predictions now from the u.n. she had at the u.n. thank you in the philippines dengue fever has killed more than 800 people this year as the country's politicians debate whether to reintroduce a vaccine linked to the deaths of several children almost 200000 cases have been reported between january and august but health professionals can't decide if the vaccination should be brought back philippine officials said at least 14 died and the vaccine was administered to 800000 children in the easiest chief security minister says he will fly to the eastern province of west palm after violent protests government has also sent 200 police officers to the city of sarong to help search for 250 prisoners who escapes claim a prison assessor 5 during the process government buildings were torched roads blocked and an airport was damaged to protest as demand independence for the province. thousands of protesters have rallied outside

a subway station in hong kong that was attacked by a mob last month most assailants assaulters supporters of the pro-democracy movement in july at least 45 people were hurt the type was suspected of being carried out by local gang members of congress been in turmoil for months after i'm going against a controversial extradition bill spiralled into a larger antique of its movement and the campaign to free a british consulate official detained in mainland china has ramped up in hong kong friends and supporters of simon chang a calling on the international community to help exert pressure on china hoda abdel-hamid reports from hong kong. he disappeared on august 8th as he was returning to hong kong from mainland china simon chen is an investment officer at discounters development international section of the british consulate and was on a one day business trip in changing his hold of

a british national overseas passport which china doesn't recognise now his family and friends are calling the british government to take action boris johnson i like you and i believe in you. simon. has been captured i urge you to in order. in order brews. save simon saving simon is your number one priority now the chinese foreign office has confirmed that simon chen is being held in what it's calling administers of detention in changes for an initial period of 15 days but didn't explain why simon's family says it hasn't received any notice of the tension the last time simon chen was heard of is when he wrote a message to his girlfriend saying that the train was approaching the west calhoun station it is in hong kong but it's manned by chinese immigration officials. border

checks are conducted here not on the mainland and chinese laws apply his family says it's from here that he was taken back to the mainland the announcement of his disappearance comes as protesters stay just sit in to mark one month since an attack by suspected gang members on that it happened at the wayne long station near the border with the mainland yet tacklers are said to be staunchly probation. salman's portrait is now on to wall among the victims of that day michael moore says he's not surprised his friend simon has been detained simon. involved in some academic related activities some of the forum some of the 6 there are of course those some alerts or those forms would have to tickle is that it's. on the constitutional reform the way of almost forward in terms of political

development. it might it makes. you know sensitive. salman's lawyer says he hasn't been able to locate him but his case is likely to feed into the anger and suspicion among protesters who fear beijing's growing influence in the whole cocoa that hamid own call. on gerry's president mohammed who bihari has formed 43 ministers into his new cabinet of him just 7 women it's almost 3 months since bihari began his 2nd term and 6 months after he was reelected president has begun to assign ministerial roles but chose to hold the key a trillion portfolio himself nigeria is africa's top producer of crude oil south africa's high court has set aside the findings of an inquiry into a controversial multi-billion dollar on stale the original investigation stated

there was no evidence of corruption the high court says the allegations were not properly examined it could have major repercussions for former president jacob zuma fahmy the man has more from johannesburg. the houghton high court has sitter side the findings of a commission that 3 years ago concluded that a government deal that procured billions of dollars worth of military arms had not been corrupt now that commission was set up in 2011 by former president jacob zuma and it said at that time there was no evidence of corruption in the more than $2000000000.00 military equipment deal that these were contracts that were entered into with several european defense companies back in 100-1900 time the commission didn't hold anyone accountable and said there was no undue influence in the selection of bridges then president zuma said the commission also found that there was no evidence of bribery or corruption but today's court judgment said that the

commission had not done enough to fully investigate those allegations of bribery and corruption now that the commission has the commission's ruling has been set aside it means that anyone implicated in the deal including former president zuma can't use the commission's findings as a defense and this is important because who resigned last germ is facing renewed corruption charges related to that arms deal and his trial is due to start in october however the former president has been in court to have the charges thrown out the court is due to decide within weeks if zuma will stand trial or not but for the moment today's findings may certainly hurt the former president's bid to stay out of court. the presidents of rwanda and uganda have agreed to end a long running dispute and reopen the border between the 2 countries the deal brokered in the angolan capital winder ends months of tensions with the 2 leaders

exchanging accusations of spying political assassinations and meddling but under president paul kagame me and ugandan president mr bennett accused each other of trying to destabilize each other's country and lead to rwanda closing the border what has more from the gotten capital kampala president paul kagame me of rwanda and president 70 of uganda signed the agreement in angola as capital luanda and it stayed that both governments should refrain from subverting or destabilizing the other and also that cross border activities should resume as soon as possible but it contains no solid commitments and in a press conference held after the signing the 2 leaders barely acknowledged each other tensions reached a head in february this year that's when rwanda closed its main border crossing with uganda to cargo and stopped rwandans from crossing into uganda both

governments have accused each other of a spear knowledge some ugandan security agencies blame the rwandan government for a series of high profile my.