the, the audience and the sentencing of derek children will be handed down on june 25th join us for lloyd coverage at this historic us court case reaches a conclusion june on the jazz either the news. ready and the russia contain an unfolding environmental catastrophe. salvage cruise deal with a cargo ship thinking officer, linkers coast. ah madison, this is all it is even live from dough hobb also coming up, the emergency crews are battling a large blaze. after a fire breaks out at a refinery in southern opposition. parties put together a coalition to form a government potentially ending

a 12 year grip on power for israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. green gold cocktails in mexico are eyeing up cash crop, but farmers and standing up to protect the lucrative condos. ah, i saw the jacks. pads are running out of time to contain a maritime disaster. offshore length is coast a cargo of chemicals and plastic pellets from a burning container ship has polluted beaches and waters near colombo. now the vessel is thinking a marine biologist, sand oil leak would be devastating. charlotte bellis reports. after 2 weeks of burning of shore lank, his coast, the in the express pole is sinking. the vessel still home 350 tons of oil and its fuel tanks. if the navy and salvage experts can't keep it afloat,

it will devastate the surrounding waters a marine life. the ref, it's on wednesday, ended with the ship stern sinking to the ocean floor. may never, you know, not in there. it tells you if the ship sinks the oil on the ship will lead to the ocean and the beach and our fishermen will lose their jobs. we cannot allow that to . the in the express po was sailing from india to singapore carrying a load of chemicals in plastic when it caught fire last month, the ship was carrying nearly $1500.00 containers. many were destroyed in the fire. others fell into the sea, polluting the water, and large stretches of sure lank as beaches. soldiers were deployed to clean up tons of plastic pallets that washed up on the coastline. the pallets themselves have already created one of the biggest environmental crises here in decades. these are really tiny and picking color and they look like fish it to a fish marine, but then animals and they inject them. and these can really, you know,

talk the until you to the water and become really toxic. and these chemicals can leach out into the bodies of marine and consume it. and if marine life is under threat, so we shall anchors fishing, industry authorities have already imposed a fishing band along 80 kilometers of coastline, affecting more than $5000.00 fishing boats. the ship is dealt the death blow to our lives. we can't go to the sea, which means we can't make a living. chill anchors. government has promised legal action to seek compensation from the owners of the singapore flagship. i will never get into invalid. similar incidents have taken place in other countries. when that incident took place, those governments have taken steps to get compensation. we hope to get compensation in accordance with marco and international law, we will never give up on the effort. the immediate concern is how to avoid

a massive oil spill that would turn this environmental crisis into a disaster, with the stern now stuck on the sea beard. how salvages plan to do that is unclear charlotte bellis, osha 0. ok, let's talk to michelle fernandez. she's joining us live now from columbus. charlotte was just saying they're the, one of the problems is the fact that part of the ship is not resting on the ocean floor. bring this up to date with what's been happening so far. well we have navy divers, a team of 99 specialists, divers that were deployed to the wreckage site earlier in the day. as you can see, the weather is absolutely or thick. there's been heavy rain so caused by the met department just over my shoulder for what you can see. we're talking about 800 kilometers off the coast. here is where the wreckage of that ravaged board lies. and the weather is not helping at all. the divers did have consolidations with the

salvage. they did a sort of a what's called a self assessment. and apparently they did do a dive even with all of this, with the which goes to show the sheer sort of expectation and the danger and the crisis that's unfolding. so they wanted to find out what exactly was going on. the navy spokesman told me a short while ago that despite them doing that dive, that was very, very poor visibility. given all of this, sort of, you know, bad weather the rough waves of the rough seas. so the divers were forced to come up without a very clear picture of what was happening at the sea, but obviously we're hitting that the keel, the base of the vessel has hit the, the bed. and one of the things that the divers did observe, but again, they con, confirm because it is ability. but there might be a certain part of the keel that has actually got stuck in the mud at the the bed.

but obviously they need a better condition to make a clear picture. and obviously the ship is day can be moved and they need to work with the situation within. it's around things where it is not only the facing the fact that this, the cargo of chemicals and pellets has, has spread through the sea and spread onto the beaches. but we're now facing the rest of the oil. that is, in the time of the ship may start to leak, as well as any indication of what's happening with that again, the, the, all the authorities, especially, i'll fighting this almost blind because of the unknown factors affecting that i, the salvage attempt, particularly where the oil is concerned now we did here a few days ago in terms of the payload. 5 there was something like 322 tons of

fuel on board. now we, we don't know how much of that fuel was actually burned in the raging inferno over the last couple of days. we don't know how much is left in the kind of sealed fuel tanks of the vessel. so even for authorities to sort of come up with a plan that is obviously a disaster management plan with such incidents. you know how to cope with the oil spill. certain chemicals have been moved to the side, which i use during oils. those that are booms that are inflated, both sort of tubing to try and contain in the event of a noise both. but we don't know exactly what the situation is. also the fact that there was such a massive heat generated by those files that we saw over the last couple of days. we don't know how much the structure has been weakened so sadly, authorities, all kind of coping or trying to deal with then come up with a plan of how to deal with this without actually knowing the real extent of what

they're dealing with. and at this stage, it does seem that noise is pretty much inevitable. manella very much indeed. that's meant fernandez talking to us from colombo, for cruising to crime, are still working to put out a blaze that's broken out at an oil refinery on wednesday. officials say the 5 of the tongue guy and find a refinery has been caused by a leak at a liquid gas pipeline. the facilities management has ruled out sabotaged in half and just hours out of the largest ship in iran's navy sank after a fire on board. let's get more now from us and bake. who's by for us in tech crime? just bring us up to date with what we know about this fire at the refinery. first of all, while it still continues to burn. in fact, just behind me we can still see some smoke and the skyline in south east and thereon. now, last night we had the efficient news agency for the oil ministry show

a video with the oil minutes the walking towards the fire. and what he said was that there is no damage to the refinery, that there will be no shortage of supply. and the refund, me should be back up and running tomorrow, which is today. in fact, that's what we're hearing from the officials. now. the official said that the only hope was to contain the fire and hope that the fuel run out. and that fuel in question is about 20000 barrels at that storage tank. now, as you said, they have moved out an act of sabotage. but the said, the incident is under investigation and it's too early to say what the cost of damages will be that this is $1.00 of iran largest refineries. if you find over 200000 brows of the day in the capital 15 percent of iran's refining capacity. now iran does have one of the some of the largest oil reserves in the world. but because of a limited refining capacity, i sort of sanctioned that sometimes limit supplies for maintenance. they do struggle with domestic demand and that has been the concern,

or the official say that domestic demand won't be effective. as you said. in the space of 24 hours. we've had iran's largest warship catch fire and think in the gulf of amman. and that this oil refinery authorities here say both incident the accidents of but what we are hearing from officials in regards to this refinery is that they hope to extinguish the fire. later on today. i said, beg into right now, so thank you very much of the coalition of opposition parties as an, as to power sharing government to oust issues, longer solving, prime minister benjamin netanyahu. yeah. le. pete struck the deal late on wednesday following mattress and talks ahead of a midnight deadline. i saw the of the media reports from western gruesome for the 1st time in israeli history, and our party has joined the government. should be a, be, it was a phone call that your la pete formerly informed israel's president, 3, when revealing that he made it barely an hour before the deadline to form

a government expired the vigor she should were long and tough. but in the end, let the manage 2, couple together the government for change. 8 parties ranging from the left to the far right, with little in common except the desire to as caretaker, prime minister benjamin netanyahu, and n 2 years, a political instability. for now, the new government will 1st the far right, you mean a party leader, naphtali bennett, as prime minister, he is an advocate of illegal settlements expansion. and their next station dalia is the one that told the president he had the mandate to form the coalition is not going to be the new stuff for the next. at least the next 2 years. it's natalie bennett, leads a much smaller party but became some sort of a king's making, going to be the time. and so for the next, the next, the next 2 years. so in many ways, this is the kind of the axis in the middle,

the heart of the government, and the relations between you and bennett. so in the past, the ups and downs are going to a larger extent, determines the stability of the government. but didn't you clearly sure couldn't have come together without the support from the most unlikely of political allies. to that beth and his slamming united arab list got the lay of it. i can just say an agreement with yellow p, like in former governments, we've agreed on many issues that were served, the interest of our upside and provide solutions to urgent problems. our society faces in various field is a phrase for palestinian israeli. even though our best will not be part of the government, accepting support from our best is a thorny issue for now. study bennett, with far right politicians, already declaring a government that relies under support of a palestinian israeli block. next step is a vote of confidence by the method that should take at least

a week. in the meantime, benjamin netanyahu a formidable political survivor, who is also facing corruption charges will do is best for the coalition to break up . if not, he will become a relentless opposition leader or that that, i mean as if you were in west jerusalem. still ahead on al jazeera and i on venus nasa. and i says you mission steering store one of our closest neighbors. and i'm scott hiler in thailand. we're 2 ancient artifacts haven't returned from the united states where they were on display. cultural officials are hoping that this sends a message to museum around the world. ah hello, that warm and sunny conditions are continuing to dominate across scandinavia and

much of northern europe. paris has seen plenty of that sunshine. this was the scene along the send, but things are changing. we've got fun. the storms rolling in from the north of spain. we're bringing with them those thunder re downpours and they're going to affect parts of paris extending up across the united kingdom. so what we will have sunshine. we will have those scattered showers and storms and the wet weather is affecting the netherlands and brussels as well. edging up into western areas of germany, we could see hail here. i'm a possible tornado and denmark seen some of that wet weather and just look what happens to the temperature is paris was seeing up in the high twenty's. we're now going to be in the low twenty's by the time we get into friday and plenty of cloud though. the warmth will return as we go into the weekend is weather as well across the south eastern areas of europe, but of a winter mix there across the black sea, bringing some heavy rain to southern areas of russia. ukraine, seeing some of that wet weather too. for the sunny and brighter skies,

we've got to get to southern parts of europe greasing plenty of sunshine. 25 degrees in athens. the warring drug cartels on digital anti groups in a population call in the middle. what's your reason for being mature? why do you want this territory? i'm reporting from an episode of mixed violence to investigate. can an upcoming election change? anything the people living here? so we're getting join me john, home and for the full report on out. oh the

ah, watching on tv that reminder about help stories. this are all the jack sites are running out of time to contain amount of time. disaster officer lang, because coast a congo of chemicals in plastic pellets from a burning container. ship colors and beaches and waters near colombo cruz into iran are still working to put out a blaze that broke out as an oil refinery on wednesday. officially say the fire the tongue guy and refinery was caused by a leak and a liquid gas pipeline. facilities management has ruled out sabotaged, coalition of opposition, party to power sharing government to israel's longest serving prime minister benjamin netanyahu, the idol appeal. it struck the deal late on wednesday. following madison negotiations had a midnight deadline. the

pan american health organization says governments across latin america are failing and their response to soaring corona virus infection rates. it says is information mixed messages are spreading and being encouraged. the organization says it's particularly concerned with the situation in brazil, and haiti. st cases will rise further without urgent action. your secretary of state antony, blinking, has wrapped up his 2 day visit to costa rica, but the focus was mostly on migration. as gabriel, alexander reports from san jose, most costa, ricans have more pressing concerns right now. and diplomacy with the us costa rica is witnessing a cooper 19 crisis. the number of infections more than doubled last month 267000. and the number of death, 810, was the highest sense of start at the pandemic. a 2nd,

cooper waive worse than the 1st, is keeping away most tourists who usually flocked to this country. and for jimmy hernandez, a van driver and tour guide that is meant he has said little to do these days. but in order, a tourism right now, because of the pandemic, has gone down almost 40 percent, it's affecting almost every one some days. we can't work other days, we can. so it's affecting us a lot. people say the situation everywhere is bad. you know, many places are close like businesses so many people can't work and i'm unemployed . so this pandemic is so difficult how it's affecting people financially, costa rica as a country of 5000000 people. of those only 11 percent have been fully vaccinated. and well, that might not seem like a lot compared to most other countries in central america. it is according to the pan american health organization,

the percentage of people fully vaccinated in el salvador is just a little lower. but then that figure slips to just under 8 percent in panama, and the rest of the region lags way behind in belize. it's just 2.6 percent of people fully vaccinated, ponderous, 0.4 percent. what am ala 0.2 percent, and nicaragua, we're statistics are unclear. it's believe almost nobody from the public has been fully vaccinated. the united states has promised to make 80000000 vaccines available globally. good morning, everyone. one of the us, but in it's visit here this week, the secretary of state antony blinking, said it would be another 2 weeks before details can be announced in central america to help can't come fast enough. gabriel's rando al jazeera san jose goes to rica, negotiations to save a nuclear deal with iran reported to be proceeding well. european negotiators hoped

to get an agreement soon in direct talks between iran and the united states. on a return to the 2015 deal will continue next week. negotiations have been taking place since april. the trump administration withdrew from the deal in 2018 and iran began accelerating its nuclear program. a number of artifacts from thailand have finally we had returned home decades after they were stolen. their return was welcomed by culture and finance officials in the capital. and they want this recovery to be one of many more to come, scott, who has been visiting the ancient kingdoms bangkok, the missing for more than 6 decades homecoming for ancient hand carved artifact from north eastern thailand. unveiled at bank cox national museum, the 2 sandstone lentils were once part of religious sanctuaries built nearly a 1000 years ago. they were stolen and smuggled out of thailand in the 1900 sixty's

during the war in neighboring vietnam. architectural pieces from the days of the career empire were on display at the asian arts museum in san francisco. they were secured as part of an effort by thailand, fine arts department. it took 4 years low men, but here we are giving up the artifacts that were exported illegally, especially if they're a part of ancient architecture. and there is an ongoing process to recall $32.00 artifacts from museums across the united states. from more than 500 years ago. i u . t. it was one of the world's largest cosmopolitan areas, a hub for trade, culture and diplomacy. it was captured and burned to the ground by invaders from what is now me and mar it. then sat mostly vacant for 100 years. i was the capital of the same kingdom from the 14th to the 18th centuries archeologist here are hopeful that the attention garnered from the return to artifacts will help them in their quest to find missing statues and historical pieces. most of the valuable

relics in the city have been looted over the years and most likely in private collections, including the heads removed from scores of statues of buddha. one of the, i think by publicly telling the story and raising awareness about the missing pieces of our history and who knows, we make it an important lead from someone who may spot missing artifacts when they are traveling abroad. so the hunt will continue to research in awareness to bring back what museum officials here call the pride of the nation. not only for their beauty, but as a representation of past prosperity and the roots of tie history and culture. got how they're al jazeera, our youth, the silence just on burden is a senior researcher and colonial collections and restitution. he's also affiliated to the university of amsterdam and he's joining us by skype from trax. thank you very much. indeed from being with us, as scott was mentioning there, many of the missing pieces from around the world are in private collections. this

may be good news that thailand has had these artifacts returned, but it doesn't necessarily mean that everybody is going to get everything back. does it no, not at all, and it's even, it's very difficult to get people to get private owners of collections to return objects. it's easy to work with public museums because government in europe day often adopt new policies for dealing with colonial collections and other connections. and they, they can set museums to, to investigate their collections. but the private owners, it is really hard in terms of the museums is now easier than it was before to get museums to return. artifacts that are being taken from another country or in some cases, is i desire to keep hold of these items. well, there is always a desire to keep hold of these items out. and the british museum basically,

example the victoria and albert museum in london. they are examples, but on the other hand, in germany recently, we saw a big change when both the government and the recently opened, new humbled form in berlin, announced that they want to discuss that in terms of the so called being bron system by g area. you know these bronze as they were captured in 897 by, by the, by british soldiers and they were dispersed over the whole of europe and north america. now as similar to discussion you see in the netherlands, where the national museum of world cultures is contributing turn off part of their bidding connection. so i would say both in some european counties, both at government level and in the museums, new ethics out arising. you know, as to that we really have to do something with the warranty. because it's more booty. why are you diane? she usually smuggled,

but like you see now the been bronson example from abilene university and university has promised to return it. definitely the board body given the 5. but these items can have a lot of controversy surrounding why is it that some museums take their heels in like the british museum that you mentioned and are very resistant to returning items. what benefit is it to the museum, to have these things in the collection that they're not prepared, or they're unwilling, should we say to return them back to the original countries? well, actually it's, it's just a little bit of a self perception. they think they are the best people, the best interests in the world, to preserve the sort of statues. and they think they get most visitors. but the point is that for instance, in the g area, they argue these objects are ours. they are the pages of our history because we do not have written history, our sales, and we need them back, remiss them so,

and as institutions like the big machine, they also hide themselves behind the british law. and they are supported by the government, big government, not to give back and at best to give that moment long term long shot on board. and it's been really interesting to get your thoughts on this and we appreciate you joining us. and i'll just thank you very much indeed. okay, one. michel. com in southwest mexico is the heart of the world of a condo business. it's a top supplier to the us in an industry that generates around $2000000000.00 a year, but the producers are under threat from criminal groups, john, home, and reports from pet upon in the states of mature con, green gold. that's what they call this fruit, mitchell county, southwest mexico. recent years, some have given the crop a different name, blood up because those both are partly true. industry here is worth billions

exporting to the us, but it's so lucrative, the criminal groups, a trying to muscle in we he impair rebundle with the ever called the farmers of fighting back. the town has set up its own self defense schools. this is a drill session before they head out on patrol. some of these 3 brothers, a part of the force and own this grow. they don't want us to show their identity. they say they're up against one of the most powerful groups in mexico. in 2008 years ago, the lisco new generation cartel came in here and wanted to take our land. so we had to take up arms and defend our home. there were places close to our village where they took groves and they killed the families. elementary. the mit can have a car, the industry is worth upwards of $2000000000.00 a year. and the police go cartel isn't the 1st criminal group go after it. the firm

has battled another call, so called the knights templar. before them. do you feel frightened or fear about what you're doing? because you go to farmers and you suddenly become like it's sort of a smooth all me. and then with that, and then with all the years that we've been fighting, now we're not scared of anyone. we're ready to give our lives. we're not scared anymore. and there are other color producing towns in the region who also had to defend themselves. the farmers here, so there are more than 2000 people in their force in several cells. after practice, it's this group's turns her head out. i talked to one of the brothers we met earlier. now in battle dress. why are you guys doing this? why isn't the police or another's full of security doing it? when we get to, the government ignores us. they sold themselves and they turn

a blind eye. so it's up to us to come out and petrol the area because the national guard just petrol in tones where there is no risk. ah, they admit that no, everyone's happy with them being the dominant force in town. a group of men with lots of guns and little accountability carries obvious risks. but it doesn't seem to be a lot of choice in a region in which farms factories may tie production chains or in the sites of nar coast. i mean with the, with the finding the traffic in the book and everything for now though the foam is say they've been kept parable and away from the green gold john home. and how does it a pretty bad and you can watch john home and use special, the full reports living in mexico's kill zone that's at o $730.00 g m t,

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