after reports emerged that the rebels were diverting food away from thousands and need the whole thing is denied the accusations saying the food sent to them was stale not human rights watch is drawing attention to yemen's fishing communities which are under attack the rights group says at least $47.00 fishermen and children were killed in bombing attacks by the salvia morality coalition last year it says another 100 or so are detained in saudi arabia and some have been tortured in custody. also accuses who the rebels of attacking commercial traffic in the red sea well priyanka more part of these from human rights watch and she says that the coalition should start investigating the incidents and provide compensation to victims and their families in terms of the attacks 1st of all the coalition has repeatedly repeatedly told the international community its international partners in the u.k. in the u.s. it has told them that it is improving its targeting practices so that it will no longer take civilian lives these attacks are very dramatic examples of how that is

not true in the attacks that we documented coalition ships pilots you know the people operating the guns could see the fisherman they were attacking nevertheless they went ahead with these attacks and what that tells us is that there are very little cost for coalition forces to take civilian lives in yemen that hostage. in terms of the communities what the coalition can start doing is to investigate these incidents and provide compensation to either the victims or the families we found in all of the attacks that we documented we found only one case in which families received any form of compensation it was not described as compensation it was called mere help or assistance to the lines the last thing is that the communities are desperate to get back the breadwinners the men and the children who still remain and saudi detention centers they've attempted to raise the profile of the

issue they've attempted to bring awareness to these cases and these individuals need to be either charged or released without delay and sent home. now turkey has extended a deadline for unregistered syrian refugees to leave istanbul by 2 months they had been given until tuesday to return to the provinces they were 1st registered in or face deportation but turkey's interior minister has that date to a tobar. more than half a 1000000 registered syrian refugees and authorities say at current to accept any more we have plenty more ahead on the news hour including. more troops deployed. to control violent protests. and to form a world series champions league to one of the caribbean biggest drug trafficking networks have the details.

u.s. president donald trump has defended his decision to cancel his trip to denmark he called the danish prime minister a nasty after metta fredrickson rebuffed his idea of buying greenland greenland is a semi autonomous territory with a population of just 58000 people 80 percent of it is covered by an ice sheet a white house correspondent kimberly help because it has more. 3 mo 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 destiny i thought it was an inappropriate statement well she had to do is say no we wouldn't be interested. 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 dialogue with the u.s. but the public rejection outraged 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 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. also not the 1st u.s. president to try and buy 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 all of trump's last minute cancellation of his trip to denmark he says he loves the country and expects to return have 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 now the u.s. president has defended nouvel indefinite detention of migrant children along with their parents. humanitarian mississippi he says it's to protect children separated

from their families from abuse the new policy overturns an existing legal avoiding that bob's children from being held in custody for more than 20 days the regulations are part of a want a crackdown on the document of migrants who will come into effect in 60 days but legal challenges are expected very much as the joker. the very great. are about. one thing that will happen when they realize the borders are closed while the bill we're building. right now. it all comes together like the beautiful. thing that's happening but they can't get it. when they get it. they will be brought back to their matter if they get in with doing that they won't. say well let's get more on this now we're joined by

alan a well he's in the lawyer and the 1st vice president of the american immigration lawyers association and he's joining us live from washington d.c. very good to have you with us on al-jazeera so president trauma saying that this is to prevent children being abused that we've heard from many others including california's attorney general saying that this would actually remove the protections which have been in place for children why do you think the president is doing this well it's a political issue at this time just because of the election coming in 2020 we don't have a wall so what he's looking to create is brown faces in prisons across the united states to show he's tough on immigration with regards to it to the safety of the children there are number of lawsuits that are currently pending against the different various agencies of immigration of course in the united states against the health conditions that they're having in these facilities so it's absolutely positively not for that effect. the other thing that the california attorney general also said was that these children don't become subhuman because they

migrants does he have a point you know you're talking about donald trump trying to school points before an election by having brown faces behind boswell a lot of these faces are genuine legitimate asylum seekers are they not. they're all legitimate applicants to the united states which are asylum seekers you're absolutely correct and they are children and this is one of the faults of the obama administration that they learned from earlier that they could not detain families in these facilities and he had a horror harbel of crap from the public and they ended it towards in the visit ministration now the top administration is just bringing this back so it is bad politically it is bad for people who are seeking the in the united states we don't have these type of facilities to address anyone else that any of our other ports of entry and as we have mentioned you know a legal challenge is expected what are the chances that they'll be successful do you think they're very successful this is an executive order addressing

a court holding in which the court actually said this holding will in when congress acts and as long as the congress has not acted the floor settlement will continue but what it does is it brings this conversation back into the media and it takes away from the deficit is growing at all of the foreign. foreign problems that we're having in the world and so this is really just a distraction piece. and this to all just one last question about the children themselves because he's talking about it definitely holding children and detention and parents but what happens to unaccompanied children because there are many of them. so this is the same sort of only couple ridgeley floors was talking about a company children because that's the way it sort of started with were being released to guardians or to other caretakers so this really is about children in general as a units but what this family detention doesn't address is how many days these people are actually being detained the government saying it's not indefinite it's

50 days but actually from my practice and my understanding it's around $131.00 days that people are actually being detained that these families are and it's very expensive to do this which is funding private prisons and basically another profit area so that a company children are still going to be treated the same and they will still be process of the system in either released or guardians or the other some other health care systems in the united states must all thank you very much for your time and your expertise on this we do appreciate it that is alan on live in washington d.c. thank you now 5 nations have agreed to take in nearly 100 refugees and migrants who was stranded for weeks on a crowded rescue boat they disembarked on the italian island of lampedusa on tuesday night after an italian prosecutor ordered the ship's asia and evacuation nearly 150 people were picked up by the spanish charity ship open arms off the libyan coast earlier this month they spent 19 days on board before reaching land.

meanwhile another crisis is looming in the mediterranean the ocean viking rescue ship has more than 350 migrants on board and has been refused permission to dock in italy or malta so a new guy ago has more from the tally an island of lampedusa. several e.u. member countries have agreed to take on the nearly $100.00 or so people who are on board the open arms vessel that would be spain portugal luxembourg and france there being willing to take them on and so they will now be able to claim asylum in those countries as well the prosecutor did immediately order the disembarkation after having visited the vessel and saw for himself the state the condition that the bessel was in which we are told that was were in poor hygiene conditions as well as the very fragile condition of the people on board both physically and mentally as well but there is also another ship is not too far away

circling the sister island of lampedusa the island of the noise as it has been circling the area for several days now with $356.00 people on board this is already another cause for concern because they will have to at some point go to adopt for a safe landing they have already requested that an executive with the european commission has already called out the e.u. member states to show compassion and try and see if they can provide a solution with which these people can be taken on and given the opportunity to seek asylum in e.u. member countries but of course this is all part of the process which has been happening in these islands here even though the interior minister met there salvini has said that he has banned these landings from taking place the reality of the of the matter is that they keep turning up while there are people who are desperate to try next escape the conditions that they found themselves in libya they will do anything they can. possible to try and find safety in the european union country.

now british prime minister abbas johnson is getting mixed messages from the european leaders on breaks that french president amanda says europe will not be held hostage to britain's crisis warning an ordeal breaks that was the most likely outcome bot. german chancellor angela merkel was more optimistic a given johnson a 30 day deadline to find a solution john mccain has more. in coming to meet angela merkel in berlin boris johnson brought a message one of her desire to compromise when possible if his host would do likewise we in the u.k. want a deal we seek a deal and i believe that we can get what we can do this shop in the us i think is that is the phrase but clearly. they clearly. we cannot we cannot accept. the current

withdraw agreement. unfazed by hearing her own catchphrase used to her angle america went straight to the heart of the matter the contentious irish border backstop the banks of 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 the dumbness and balance constraint that's because we're at but another question for the german government is what sort of prime minister they are dealing with one analyst says ministers here question course johnson's sincerity that his journey to berlin was more about posturing than politicking we are talking about a blame game he's coming here to demonstrate at home once he returns ok i did everything i offered. our willingness to negotiate to renegotiate i made clear this

is not acceptable and i got just the know and then he will follow up on what he started already to blame it all on the e.u. on brussels berlin and france. and then we and most likely no deal scenario to avert that the prime minister will have to give ground boris johnson's brags that mission is very clear take it to the key european capitals where the decision makers in his opinion are based in on wednesday and anglo-american thursday the french capital and president my call and of course mr johnson is clear he wants movement on the backstop dominic cain al-jazeera. brazil's president is dismissing criticism of his environmental record after being widely blamed for a record number of wildfires and the amazon rain forest this year nearly 73000 were detected between jan. in august and the suggesting n.g.o.s are to blame.

the team are going to mars or that i am under the impression that it could have been said to enjoy yours because they had asked for money what was their intention to bring about problems for reveal. as the coordinator for forests and biodiversity at friends of the earth international and she says that corporate interests in the amazon rain forest are being protected by political power in brazil internationally everywhere we see that the extreme right is really links to the interests of. corporate interests at once just to sell more products and want to have more access door environmental places and we see this especially very very strong in brazil where there are corporate interests to have access to more agricultural land is really represent the bible sanabel we have heard earlier this year and minister of

environmentalists. in the her neck and environmental program the rest brazil does not like to agree with the army don't use to criticize the agricultural production of developing countries and so what they really need is for them the amazon is there for business it's there for making profits it's there it's not there for product in the environment and they are not worried about the international consequences and the consequences for the growth rates 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 do normally protect the forests which they are just completely in the situation. still ahead on the news hour and on easy common and the administered kashmir after the 1st don battles reported surface new delhi's stripped the region of the top on a main. and bolivia over the president's decision to contest another term.

and after 12 years in munich find out what's complicated frankly bribery a way that coming up with peter and. head over there we have got the usual showers and thunderstorms across areas of the united states generally popping up in the afternoon and working away across much of the northeast however it is pretty warm across the south the southwest not close the southwest we have got excessive heat warnings in place and this is this particular region here really the desert regions and that's because the time which is often a lot higher than the actual values 29 degrees in l.a. is pretty well as well for thursday and then across the south across the central plains it's really a mixture of the humidity with the temperatures so dallas for example $37.00 degrees with thunderstorms it will feel a loss also than that and of course the overnight hours not cooling off either it's a very unsettled picture friday across much of the southern plains pushing across

into the model but not a bad day generally up into new york concert in d.c. with the thunderstorms and you for calls for the next couple of days for all the west across the bahamas as well for the next couple of days but a dry day thursday across much of cubical those showers work their way across the tools to make it pushing out so western regions of haiti and then notice as unsubtle slightly as well i should say really across central america but actually by friday there's a back into southern areas of mexico so a wet day mexico city 22 degrees celsius but a very nice friday across the yucatan peninsula and maybe just a shot across into have.

fight. this story of a friendship between a filmmaker and a 7 year old girl. given to refute. the syrian war. in the face of deep rooted tension between the libyan ease and the refugees. my syrian friend. on al-jazeera.

on the news of a prominent or heart of the top stories this hour sudan's new leaders have been sworn in and after months of political uncertainty and violence general not the father albert heart will head the sultan council for the 1st 21 months new prime minister abdullah hum doc says he's ready to tackle the economy. the us president has defended new rules which allow the indefinite detention of migrant children along with their parents' policy overturns an existing legal ruling that children from being held in custody for more than 20 days and brazil's president has dismissed and criticism of his environmental record after being blamed for a record number of wildfires in the amazon rain forest this year nearly $73000.00 were detected between january and august but now it is suggesting that n.g.o.s are to blame. now india's 2 time former finance minister and senior leader of the

opposition congress party p. chidambaram has been arrested the 73 year old was detained amid high drama in new delhi on charges of corruption and money laundering he's accused of illegally clue . and foreign investment worth millions of dollars to a media group in 2007 when he was the finance minister earlier in the day than bottom said he'd respect the law. i should respect the law even if it is a lie with an unequal hand by the investigating agencies in the name of freedom i can only hope and pray that the investigating agencies will also respect the law in the present circumstances respect for the law can mean only one thing over it the decision of the wonderful supreme court now 2 people have been killed in indian administered kush made in the 1st gun battle between separatists and security forces since new delhi revoked its autonomy indian police say an officer and

a rebel fighter were killed in bottom of the district region special status was scrapped earlier this month and many areas remain under lockdown 1st to me and has more from 3 noted. even before getting to the kashmir valley you can feel the restrictions in place on flight to sri dogger passengers are instructed to keep their window shades shut before landing here on the ground the restrictions that have largely kept people in and around their homes have been eased on wednesday leaving many people to be outside as well as some vehicles milling around but as you can see most shops and businesses are shut now close to the center of the city is the sewer a neighborhood that has been a flashpoint for protests ever since the region's autonomy was revoked earlier this month some communication restrictions have been eased with officials saying thousands of landlines have been restored but most people here rely on mobile phones which along with the internet remain shut that's the reason why getting information from outside the tree huggers is so difficult but indian officials have

confirmed several of the fire violations between indian and pakistani forces along the line of control that's the defacto border separating india and back on an institution near special's also confirm the gun battle from 50 kilometers from here in the baramulla district on wednesday between security forces an armed gunman 1st reported since the region's autonomy was revoked. now thousands of protesters have rallied at a hong kong train station to mark a month since alleged gang members attacked demonstrators and commuters protesters accuse the police of colluding with the attack as no one's been prosecuted for the violence that left more than 40 people enjoyed hundreds of people gathered for a largely peaceful protest mass rallies began 11 weeks ago of the proposed changes to an extradition bill that they have since gone into a wide a movement against chinese influence and the campaign to free a bush consulate official detained in mainland china continues friends and

supporters of fireman chang according on the international community to exert pressure on china about the hominids reports from hong kong one that he disappeared aug 8th as he was returning to hong kong from mainland china. simon chen is an investment officer at the scottish 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 on the british government to take action mr boris johnson i like you and i believe in you mr. simon was. in his capture i urge you to in order. in order to. 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 certain gentlemen 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 his when he wrote a message to his girlfriend saying that the train was approaching the west 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 they 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 tacker said to be staunchly proby she. simon's portrait is now under wall among the victims of that day michael moore says he's

not surprised his friend simon has been detained simon has. involved in some academic related activities some of the forum some was acquired wrote of course stole some of those forms will have a particular stance. on busy the constitutional reform of the way our home was for terms of political development. if. 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 hong kong with that hamid al-jazeera. now $1000.00 extra security forces have been deployed to end a dangerous west papuan region to contain protests which began on monday

demonstrators accuse and the nation government of mistreating ethnic popcorn students south reports. police reinforcements have been censored west papuan it's a control protests have turned violent government buildings police cars and parts of an airport have been destroyed. the police have been accused of racism after 43 when students were arrested for disrespecting the indonesians flag on independence day. there were reports one flag was set alight outside a dormitory after being held for hours the students were released without charge. the government regrets the burning of the indonesian flag the incident is under investigation the incident was followed by negative statements which triggered violence and several areas over and west pop up provinces it is disrupting the nation's unity among. the protests came after videos were shared on social media

showing a school being tear gassed i and the students called monkeys a derogatory term used against ethnic pop ones. 3 years and an e.c. has blamed indigenous pop and separatists for unrest in the west papuan region but they accuse the government of human rights abuses. during protests on tuesday 258 inmates escaped from prison in the city of sarongs after it was set on fire the city's mayor called for calm. come on let's join hand in hand together united in our hearts we were differences and maintain togetherness unity and solidarity between top one or non pop ones. dinny seen president says he's committed to the welfare of all popcorns but it's not clear if his words will be enough to calm protesters they're now calling for

a referendum on independence. and. now the leaders of uganda and rwanda have finalized a deal aimed at reducing tension between the countries the agreement was signed in angola once close allies rwanda's paul kagame and uganda's yarima 70 have been accusing each other of espionage and political interference and relations have steadily deteriorated and february rwanda closed its border with uganda and pact and trade on both sides then in may and police accused rwandan soldiers of entering the country and killing 2 men a charge of the has denied malcolm webb has more now from kampala. president paul kagame me of rwanda and president 70 of uganda signed the agreement in angola as capital the wonder and it state 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 murders in uganda are over the last few years that have included a senior police officer and some government officials meanwhile people in the rwandan government have blamed uganda for rounding up and arresting and torturing its citizens as well as hosting and supporting one the exiled dissidents is running government says by trying to overthrow it. 70 have been allies since the 1980 s. both helped each other come to power in their respective countries but their armies

40 each other in the democratic republic of congo after they both invaded in the early 2000 ever since then the relationship between the 2 leaders has been up and down. now my jury is president mohamed the bahati has sworn in and new 43 member cabinet 3 months after starting his 2nd term behati has kept the key petroleum portfolio turned sell for yet another term nigeria is africa's top producer of crude oil. opposition groups have held a strike across much of bolivia they're angry with president even what alice for seeking a 4th consecutive term in office they say he's acting unconstitutionally by ignoring a national referendum which showed voters were against him standing again daniel schwann of reports. the opposition group stopped work and blocked roads in several cities across believe they accuse president of undermining the country's hard won

democracy and say he's outstayed his welcome again ever. we want to ask you mr morale it's to respect democracy to respect the vote and our human rights look your standards are standards but it's here today we're doing this to show that we're facing a dictator but we believe that we must continue fighting to win back the democracy that we had and not the kind that we've got now which is controlled and persecuted . president morales called the protests the home age the previous dictatorships he says his plan to build a modern country is still not complete. but live is emerging as a new country but bolivia as its own model and i'm sure that with the steps we are taking that's in 15 or 20 years live you will be an economic powerhouse in the region.