when his grandmother dedicates herself to his upbringing, never knowing whether the next explosion or echo one step closer to the place they call home the distant barking of dogs, a witness documentary on al jazeera. ah, the russia contain an unfolding environmental catastrophe. salvage cruise deal with a cargo ships thinking officer lincoln's coast. ah, robinson, this is al jazeera alive from also coming up. emergency cruise bottle, a large blaze after a firebreak such as a refinery in southern opposition. parties pull together a coalition to form a government potentially ending

a 12 year grip on power. but it's really prime minister benjamin netanyahu got hiler in thailand. were 2 ancient artifacts haven't returned from the united states where they were on the lake. cultural officials are hoping that this sends a message to museum around the world. ah, salvage experts are running out of time to contain a maritime disaster. auction length is coast cargo of chemicals and plastic pellets from a burning container ship as polluted beaches and waters near colombo. now the vessel is thinking a marine biologist say an oil leak would be devastating. charlotte bellis reports. after 2 weeks of burning of sure lank is coast, the in the express poll is sinking. the vessel still hold 350 tons of oil in its fuel tanks. if the navy and salvage experts can't keep it afloat, it will devastate the surrounding waters and 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 thinks the oil on the ship will lead to the ocean in 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 body of the 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. while love never gets into the, you know, 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 if it . 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 ha salvages plan to do that, is unclear charlotte bellis. osha 0. ok, let's talk to michelle fernandez is joining us live now from colombo. now i can see that the weather conditions have taken a turn for the was how is that impacting on the efforts to try and deal with this situation? yes, i mean it has had a huge impact of the door and we have the navy who sent in the specialist, steve of 9 divers to try and work with the salvage, is to actually get a clearer picture as to what was going on. we heard basically late yesterday that the keel of the ship had hit the sea bed. this was basically a mid effort to try and pull the ship away into deep sea. so obviously that had to be halted. and the especially steam of dye was trying essentially to assess the

situation off to doing a stuff as assessment. but despite them doing a dive, the very poor visibility has not brought in much information about the states of that wreckage. obviously, there was some indication that the done that, that one part of the keel had actually got stuck in the mud, probably up to about 3 meters. but all of this information has to be verified when that a beta conditions, as you can see around me. it's absolutely buckets in the salvage the wreckage of the ship we're talking about is about 800 kilometers on the beach of the sea. behind me, you'd have to take my word for it because obviously visibility is not really great . but that's the situation as well as i was talking to as we were watching some of the pictures of the ship itself and the big stent of the damage is very,

very significant. under must be concerns about the oil that has been left on the ship as well as the chemicals and the plastic pallets that already swept towards the shore. yes, absolutely. and the crazy thing with this thing is as much as environmentalist expert, you know, there are people who know how this kind of disaster should be responded to the final details, the exact sort of payload on that board, the exact amount of fuel the exact amount of chemicals that are still within those containers, the hazardous materials, the sort of toxic noxious materials. no one knows. so it's the best thing that they can do is to get ready to have the things on stand by their course. god vessels that are some indian vessels for support,

and they're just waiting to try and deal with the situation. but unfortunately, all of these voted days are kind of fighting blind. and that, particularly with the weather like this doesn't make for a great sort of an operation to contain and fight any potential is bill fernandez in colombo manella, thanks very much indeed. well, far cruise into a crime are working to put out a blaze that broke out at an oil refinery on wednesday, the official said to fire the tongue guy in reference, refinery was caused by a leak in a liquid gas pipeline. tom managers have ruled out sabotaged. it happened hours after one of the largest ships in iran's navy sank after a fire on board. also big has more fun to run. while it still continues to burn. in fact, just behind me, we can still see some smoke in 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 minister walking towards the fire. and now what he said was that there is no damage to the refinery, that there will be no shortage of supply and the refund. you should be back up and running tomorrow, which is today. in fact, that's what we're hearing from other officials now the, the official said that they 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 . they have moved out and act of sabotage, but they 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 the wrong largest refineries. the refunds, over $200000.00 browser for the day in the capital 15 percent of iran's refining capacity. now ron does have one of the some of the largest oil reserves in the world. but because of a limited refining capacity, as well as sanctions that sometimes limit supplies for maintenance, they do struggle with domestic demand. and that has been the concern, although official said that domestic demand won't be affected in the space of 24

hours. we've had iran's largest warship catch fire and think in the gulf of oman and this oil refinery authorities here say both incidents, the accidents. a coalition of opposition parties is announced a power sharing government to oust israel's longest serving prime minister him. and if a yahoo, yella prove it, struck the deal later on, widens day following madison talks ahead of a midnight deadline. i saw the other committee reports from west jerusalem for the 1st time in his family history and our party has joined the government. should be a be, it was or the 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 seizures were long and tough. but in the end, let bede manage to coupled 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 of political instability. for now, the new government will 1st the far, right? yeah, i mean a party leader. and after the 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 prime minister 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 become of the axis in the middle, the heart of the government, and the relations between you and bennett. so in the past, ups and downs are going to a large 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 interest of our upside and provide solutions pretty urgent problems or society faces in various field. it's a phrase for palestinian israeli. even though our bass will not be part of the government accepting support from our best is a thorny issue for next study. bennett, with bar 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

in high forces. joining us live now from west to this one house we just saw on how does report that i suppose historic picture of the leader of a not a big party saying in agreements being part of this, this coalition, this is not a done deal though, isn't it? there is, there are some steps still to go. yes. people are digesting what happened very late in the day on wednesday and looking forward with some, depending on what side you are perhaps on both sides. some optimism in some trepidation as to what's going to come. but yes, the idea of all of this hinges at one point as it seemed to on the sanctioning or otherwise of this move by months or bus by the muslim sure, a council, the religious advisory body, the idea that an israeli government was sort of sitting in tend to hooks waiting for the decision to be made by this body as it was that was a real landmark in israeli political history. and the idea that this very desperate

group of people coming together as what it was saying for the express purpose of getting rid of netanyahu, but also in our bosses case for the express purpose of seeing what he can get for his constituency, palestinian israelis make up 20 percent of the population until they have been vastly underserved in terms of resources. also in terms of discrimination over the years in israel, as for the mechanics of what takes place next year, peter's saying that he wants to unseat the current. nothing yahoo friendly at the very least. speaker of these are the parliament that connects it. because the suspicion is that he's going to try and delay things and spin it out for as long as possible before this vote takes place, allowing netanyahu more time to try to intervene. so there's a plan to vote for a new connective speaker on monday. we then might be able to schedule the actual vote for the government perhaps on that day or certainly more quickly than the nuts

and yahoo supporting could member levine currently has that post. as for netanyahu himself, as he was saying, he will be trying everything in the book and outside to try to get at least one or 2 of these. right. wingers, who might be uncomfortable with this sort of agglomeration of left wing as an palestinian israelis in the same block as them to try to come back to the right, he would put it. and as well as that, there is some pretty unpleasant pressuring going on in the public space, in terms of, in person protests and online intimidation. against some of these members, there was even a call at one point in one protest for traitors to be executed in the streets and for a country that still remembers the fascination of the former prime minister yitzhak rabin, $995.00 executing traitors in a public square, which is exactly where he was shot dead. has a very disturbing echoed hurry. thank you very much. indeed, that's hurry for such talking to us from western lucel them. still ahead on al jazeera house arrest in nicaragua,

prominent opposition leader and expected challenger of the president is detained by police plus us secretary of state antony blink. and came here to central america to talk about climate change, security and migration. among other things. people here on the streets have more pressing concerns, primarily a search in corona virus. i'm gabriel's on doing san jose goes to rica. that story coming up. i i, it's time for the journey to with sponsored by cut on airways. hello. there europe thing. a lot of sunshine and warm weather and that's going to continue over the weekend. but on thursday and friday it's thunderstorms at a stealing show for much of northwest in areas. we can see those thunder re downpours brewing of north of spain and they're working their way across the fonts,

bringing wet weather as well to luxembourg, to the netherlands and brussels as far afield as west germany. and we'll also have some wet weather for denmark, but up in scandinavia we've got high pressure keeping things largely fine and dry, lots of sunshine coming through there for sweden, for the u. k. we will have a showers coming into play on friday, but the sunshine will continue over the weekend. things are drawing up across the balcony. we could have a thunderstorm or 2 in north western areas of slovenia. much of the wet and windy weather there will be in ukraine as well as southern areas of russia. turkeys got a pretty dry picture. we did seasoned torrential downpours in ankara and there are a few showers across those coastal areas of the black sea. well restarted, things are looking largely dry and bright. lots a heat in italy, and most of those storms are continuing to brew for the north of spain.

cooper sponsored pay cut on airways. talked to al jazeera, we are in the army were attacking ringer. and now they're attacking everyone in me on my do you regret? well, it's like that we listen. absolutely. nigeria with a woman present, it would be great. we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on algae sera. we know what's happening in our region. we know how to get to places that others and not as far as i said, i'm going or the way that you tell the story is what can make a difference. ah the me

you want to, i'll just either reminder of a top stories this salvage exports are running out of time to contain amount of time, disaster, offshore lighters, coast, cargo of chemicals and plastic pellets were burning, container ship those polluted beaches and waters. you're colombo. far crews and we're going to put out a blaze that broke out as an oil refinery and wasn't state officials sabotaged and said the fire at the tone going refinery is caused by a leak and a liquid gas pipeline. i coalition of opposition parties has announced a power sharing government to oust israel's longest starving prime minister benjamin netanyahu yard, lockheed stock the deer late on wednesday. all the talks ahead of a midnight deadline, un and other humanitarian agency officials have been visiting garza to assess the extent of devastation falling and 11 day is where the bombardment more than 250 palestine hands were killed in the air strikes and sizes or forced out to their homes as una, i'll fade reports,

families. i still cleaning out the deborah from the flocking homes. 2 weeks after the conflict. in this part of garza and known as it was 42 people were killed. half of them belong to one family. the collect last 22 people across 3 generations in their home. no one medical at the beginning we heard a strong sound and our home violently shook. after that we get it in the center away from the windows and furniture. the 2nd strike was stronger and the walls began cracking. soon after the 3rd strike, we found our home 40 men. we lived on the 3rd floor and suddenly we were on the ground. a site from anger and death trapped in the rubble are all that's left in this neighborhood. the head of the red ross is here to see the destruction for himself, many civilian women, man, and children, paid the ultimate cause. the magnitude of this destruction here is the,

is of course shocking and heartbreaking. and it's an indicator of the number of years that will be needed to build again, those private home here and in many other places in the guise of 254 people died in the offensive. the cease fire between her mos in israel has held for 2 weeks. but the reality of her gods is very much the same as before. the conflict. there is a lack of water, electricity, and basic infrastructure. the only commercial border with israel used to supply good aid and fuel is now closed. well, there's many turning situation in gas. i was already challenging before this recent cycle of escalation. of course, the 11 day of intense fighting is adding another layer of challenges. in many fields that are of interest to the tv, the supply of drinking water,

the evacuation of to it's about also all the supports hospital health sensors, the, the palestine retrogressive society for the alcoholic family. they will try to reveal, like they have many times before before. why? why a mac on israel attack without any notice or responsibility. they don't care about human rights or safety, gillian, or even prior notice, they didn't call us like they did for other building. we were asleep and suddenly our home fell over. the price of a new home is out of budget for now, but it's nothing like the price they've already paid. unit c, l 0 godsa. the us ambassador to the united nations is in turkey to meet sevien refugees. men to thomas greenfield is automation to renew cost for the humanitarian assistance. on july 10th, a mandate of a un mechanism allowing a to be provided directly through turkeys borders will expire. greenfield will be

arguing for to be renewed at the un headquarters next week. the pan american health organization says governments across latin america are failing and their response to soaring corona virus infection rates. it says misinformation and mixed messages spreading and are being encouraged. the organization says it's particularly concerned with the situation in brazil, and haiti is wanting cases will rise further unless something is done urgently. you are a secretary of state antony blinking has wrapped up his 2 day visit to costa rica for the focus was mostly on migration. but his gabriel alexander reports from san jose most costa ricans of more pressing concerns than diplomacy with the us. the 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 since the start of the pandemic. a 2nd covered wave 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 said, little to do these days in order 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. ever so many places a close like businesses, so many people can't work in an 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 while 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 believed almost nobody from public has been fully vaccinated. the united states has promised to make 80000000 vaccines available globally. good morning everyone, and one of the, as i thought, but in his 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 on ho, i'll just either san jose costa rica unions in columbia,

taking part in another strike. the country seemed massive anti government demonstration since april, but it didn't even do ok. has applied military forces to the city of cali, after at least 3 people were killed in the increasingly violent standoff protest initially spawns my anger over tax reforms. you could go and police have rated the home of opposition leader christianity model. she's now under house arrest. she was expected to run in presidential elections in november. now the organization of american states and human rights watch a warning president daniel ortega is trying to eliminate competition ahead of presidential elections. our latin america editor to see and human reports which harlow of riot police arrived in nicaragua and opposition leader, christiana. tomorrow's house with the search and arrest warrant pushing, waiting, journalists, and family members away. unexpected raid on her home spent immediate condemnations

at home and abroad. ortega should understand that he sanctions to grab power and to a sure himself as the data from our for the rest of his life is not. it's not an option. what is at stake here is the credibility of the bite and ministrations commitment to the lever protection for fundamental rights freedoms protecting democracy in latin america. the us secretary of state anthony, blinking, who was a neighbor in costa rica as the raid was underway, tweeted that the wind reflected quote, ortega's fear of free and fair elections on the office. this week the pro government prosecutor had charged her moral nicaragua, the most competitive presidential candidate with alleged money laundering and with the terms as ideal, logical deviations. she did not is all charges. i can get him on that for morning,

up there trying to fabricate him a calm trial. she said to call out to other candidates in november the presidential election have already been jailed and to opposition parties band, which i'm more of the daughter, a former president lead tomorrow, and a visitor parking cham oral, a newspaper publisher who was assassinated by nicaragua, as former samouce a dictatorship is the most high profile target of the latest government crackdown. after more than 5 hours, the government put her under house arrest, leaving police to guard her home. they are trying to prevent a democratic, peaceful way out of all crisis. the alternative is one that will not end while the decision not to take more to prison, could reflect growing international pressure on president daniel ortega and his wife and vice president ro, side your. but the big question is whether that will be enough to guarantee

a competitive election in the trouble torn central american nation. the see and human al jazeera, a number of artifacts from thailand have finally returned home decades after they were stolen. the return was welcomed by culture and fine arts officials in the capital. they want this recovery to be one of many more to come. got idlers been visiting the ancient kingdoms there, 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 committee 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 were part of ancient architecture. and there is an ongoing process to recall. 32 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 a 100 years. i was the capital of the science 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 a 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. ah, this is all. these are the top stories. salvage experts are running out of time to contain amount of time. disaster option length is coast a cargo of chemicals and plastic pellets from a burning container ship that's producing beaches and waters near colombo. michelle fernandez has more from the colombo m. we polo the.