football, rum on al jazeera. ah morning allow government al jazeera as a, you know, i me see if you will be military admits carrying out air strikes and t gray, but denies hitting a markets and then attacks that reportedly killed doesn't ah, how am i here? and this is al jazeera life and joe holmes, also coming out the philippines moons, former president, been in your keno, died at the age of 61 protest. it was returned to thailand, streets calling for the resignation of the prime minister and changes to the

constitution. and seeking reconciliation, rebels and columbia, men and women, they kidnapped, including former presidential candidates. ah, if you appears defense, ministry has denied one of its airstrikes. it's a busy markets in the northern region. but it does admits attacking detroit regional fighters in the area. dozens of civilians were reported to killed in the strike in the village to go on tuesday. the u. s. is content, the attack colon get a reprehensible act. it comes during some of the most intense funny things is the conflict with the army and see dr. regional forces began in november, you and also expressed a deep alarm at the reports of violence and says it's pushing for access to the region. some of the most critically wounded people from what we gather,

were evacuated by ambulances last night. and this morning we have requested access to the area to assist to assess the situation and see how we can, how we can provide assistance. but so far we've not been able to, the situation in the air remains very, very volatile. it's important that everyone engaged in fighting do their utmost to protect civilians to obey international humanitarian law. meanwhile, across the border in see done, people are reporting increased attacks by on groups. alpha show goes to $3000.00 square columns, a regional fertile land, claimed bible c done. and ethiopia, the scene fighting in recent months. and they're all report civilian, abductions and casualties are on the rise. have a morgan report, some gallivant's on the sudan. if you p a border for more than 15 years selling

what has been met the fierce source of income. he gets it from the forests inc. and above incidence got out of state near the eastern border with if you appeal. but he says fighting near the border in recent months has affected his livelihood. to get the guns, i wanted to let them for i and 2 others who were farmers were abducted by ethiopian militiamen who crossed the border. they demanded ransom from the village resident. while they held us, they kept saying that it is because of the border dispute between sir, dun and ethiopia that they launching attacks. i'm on to make us move far from the border. the ransom was paid, and now i don't venture far out for fear of my safety. miss village is one of several inca bodies that lie along the border area. it's also an area where if you don't need people, were to cross and come to trade and earn a living. but the use of movement here has led to fear. dozens of people here have reported being abducted by you can militia for ransom. since the start of the year, part of the reason for the instability along the sudan if you p a border is

a lack of clearly defined boundaries in most areas. this issue has led to not only the abduction and killings of civilians in border villages, but also fighting between the 2 sides in the past month. in november, last year for dance, military moved to take over a freak out, 3000 square kilometer area in the notes and for chicago. that's to then clean and the colonial agreement, seating back to 1900 or 2, but ethnic i'm her father from that have been farming it for 50 years and it belongs to them. the dispute has resulted in the loss of lives on both sides as talk to the market. the border stalled to dance. army says it's working to keep civilian faith, not to get more in law and forces spread throughout the eastern region and to capable of protecting civilians. there are safe signs with marked civilians to be in and to famine and continue with their livelihoods. but the areas that a danger zone should be avoided to avoid abductions by raiders from the other side . if the o p s as a border talks,

one tissue unless to dance army retreats from sugar. the violence has led to the repeated closure of the official border crossing by those who cross from the that affects their economy as well. or their number. i bring goods to gal about and take other goods to sell back home. the insecurity affects us citizens because we're just simple people. what happens at a political or military level affects everyone on both sides, but those on top don't experience what we do. back in mid village. he says he hopes the border disputes between the dana. if yoga is resolved soon, if it isn't, he may have to find another way to support his family. he will morgan olga 0 than that bad. the bought estate. well that's returned to those air strikes into dry region. the hammer that though, joins us no line from the european capital as a suburb. you've just been at a military briefing, what have you learned about those air strikes own that markets?

well, colonel, get till it's done this box one for the if you have 10 defense for this is the targeted just competence. i'm not civilian. he said they did not talk up market. it's all propaganda by the guy defense forces. he said that i've talked an event about i've been attended by competence. he said they've been, was to muck the muffler car of how then which happened in 1988 during the dead. redeem of men get so high lumber em. but target had to get a malicious or rebels and had killed a hundreds of people, mainly civilians. and he said that govern that they had intelligence. they had the knowledge that this was why they taught them. he also spoke about the rebels taking advantage of the if you appeal force has been moved. some of them

from out of the region to take part in protecting the civilians during the election but happen on monday. and also he talked about issues regarding protection of the ground, the nissan thumb. and he said they took advantage of that at the bonds. and now he said, if you're up in defense forces, trying to recapture some of both areas or villages that they have to, you can of course we're hitting also reports from the ground that the, the guy defense forces uptick him the tunnel. i'd be glad about 40 kilometers away from the board. if you hugs with a trail, these put them with enough tie, keep distance of a trail, a country. they have a lot of beef with a huge ox, the good i. and because at a sales force as well helping the feel, feel forces in the war into guy and accused of having cut it out, must have

a good civilian. some also they have also doesn't make the rank and file of the 3 great defense forces fighters. so we think us tuition where the rebels seem to be reciting 7 months of the prime may be had declared victory for his forces in that guy. region of norfolk and mohammed, what have the military been saying about this y e to conflicts in the t drive region? well that was on the box one also talked about the humanitarian situation. denied of that was from in on said if you up in defense forces on the feel, been government were busy taking relief for just 2 different parts of the country. he has also said that part of the reason why they have moved out of both areas that

have now been taken by the rebels was because they wanted to give us that confidence to go back to their field. some plans that crop said that there was a lot of hope or guns from the rebel side, including the muslim civilians. all i do said that was just a part of life. and so they feel forces have been trying us much as possible to have the civilians where they can. one question, he didn't have an answer to was who actually easier than killed those children was pictures. we've seen been taken to a hospital in kelly, kids with their hands, some of them in extreme pain. he didn't have an answer for that. okay. so the biggest, the lease is from just about thank you very much and deeds. the former president of the philippines, than he knew keno has died of renal failure as

a result. as diabetes, 61 year old had been hospitalized on thursday morning. in manila, akito was the only son of 2 of the countries famous symbols of democracy, jemila and organ looks back at the life of the leader who these a mixed legacy. been looking, the 3rd came from a long line of filipino politicians. he was the son of a much loved president, as well as a national hero, his father, benito, nina kina junior, a well known opponent of president for a dinner mark was, was assassinated at manila airport. in 1983. his killing on the tarmac was described as breathing treatment. and shocking if i were to know his widow corazon aquino, who had seeds out of politics, took over his rule. she became the face of a people power movement that led to the end of the 21 year rule by marco. regarded

by many as a dictator. she eventually became the 1st female president of the philippines. in 1986. his mother's passing in 2009 followed the huge out pouring of grief for her, the symbol of democracy. to many filipinos. she was a catalyst for him to run for the highest post in governing, bidding her he was born in as the 15th president in 2010 live and die for nothing. d. b, i like this. i shot the torch forward. at the end of the day, for a man would lived for so many years in his parents shadow. keenop soon came into his zone. he focused on fighting corruption. when moving as sitting supreme court chief justice accused of corruption and jailing its pretty sister former president

gloria, i'm a couple royal for government irregularity. he pushed through a long and reproductive rights feet many warned with be near impossible in the nation, predominantly roman catholic and defense. during his administration, the economy grew by an average of more than 6 percent a year. he challenged china's territorial claims in the south china sea filing, a case of the international criminal court at the hague and winning. the major ruling declared, most of china's claim invalid. the victory was seen as unprecedented members, but a keenest presidency wasn't without contractors. the philippines was battered by severe natural disasters in 2013, but he was mostly impatient with criticism, especially with his government slow response in dealing with high for high young,

one of the strongest storms on record. 2 years later, a botched operation to capture a fugitive muslim fighter killed more than 60 people, including 4 to 4 police officers and 5 civilians, turning the armed encounter into aquinos biggest political crisis. he leaves behind a mixed legacy, but said all he ever wanted was to be remembered. someone who was given the honor to serve the people and he gave his best fell heads on al jazeera, the food amongst the use paper daily prints, its final edition released blue to media, freedom in the territory. and we'll have more on the homes, on crew with 1900 vaccine and cuba that figure hope i said the panoramic and held

for its struggling economy. ah, ah, it's time for the journey with sponsored by kettle airways. hello. good to see you. here's her weather story, europe on thursday, while what a temperature difference from the east versus the west. we've got that syrian heat as far north as moscow. 35, we can trace it to the south, toronto high of 38 degrees on thursday. but let's talk about where i think those rounds of what weather will be pretty much the same zone where it has been the last few days toward that south and southeast of france, switzerland through germany, poland pushing up into the baltic states. and now yeah, we have a weather makers sliding across the british isles, so that's going to keep your temperatures low and the days to come, where the heat is certainly on is as we head toward the bulk in. so very info,

look at this, we've got the miss sprinklers going on to try and keep people cool. 38 degrees. so this is a new all time june temperature record that was said, well not your temperature down a bit on thursday to 36 and you know, the atmosphere will be conducive to seeing some storms because of that high heat. so we'll keep the risk in there for the very oval after the mediterranean right now, and we've also got building heat from talia 38 degrees and you know, we'll keep this theme of heat going. as we head toward north africa. i live libya, tripoli, your temperature is at 45. when typically you should have a high of 30 degrees, so that heat locked into place. sponsored call cut on airways. be part of the debate itself defeating the end, posing in the us or in the u. k. because it will just come back again when no topic is off the table. what we wanted to talk about were these latin white men, touching aloud to your dream, where a global audience become a global community,

jump into the comment section. and part of the discussion there are like kinetic efforts to silence fell opinions on the online based on al jazeera. ah, ah, the me, this is just a quick reminder, all the top stories this if you'll be military denies, it has a busy market in t drive in an air strike in dozens of civilians, but it does admit kicked targeting to rebel fighters in the area. you have found the un on the fool investigation. former phillips presidents when you are quino, has died of renal failure results of diabetes. the age of 61,

keno serve one term from 2010 to 20. 16 presided over a period of steady economic growth protested in thailand, back on the streets after 6 months breach. due to the cool with 19 pandemic. several groups are rallying in bangkok, demanding the resignation of the prime minister. protest as are also colon from motions, fancy from the monarchy and an overhaul of the constitution. the rallies come as the country marks the $8910.00 adversary, the abolition of absolute monarchy. tony chang has more from outside parliament in bangkok. well, it surprisingly lively. i think we've got a crowd of about a 1000 people here. they started about 3 hours ago outside democracy in monument. they've 6 kilometers through the central bank in the baking that they have to get here. they're trying to make the point to the politicians inside that they won't

change it to cope the constitution. in particular, the role of the senate, which is appointed by the government, they want that to be abolished. but generally, they're here with essentially the same demands as they were pulling for last year. when we were getting tens of thousands of protests is out on the street regularly, which are namely that they want to reform the constitution. they want the prime minister to set down. that hasn't changed. we spoke to one of the protest need us just know who's facing the very serious challenges of less mad to say offending them on a case because of her calls to reform them on a case. nonetheless, she's coming out and she says, their intention is exactly the thing to come out to protest peacefully and pull down on kung fu democracies paper. apple daily has just printed its last edition. it's been forced to close after its assets are frozen until the executives arrested. the newspaper is the latest institution in the territory that folders

under pressure since june imposed a national security law. bose, i call but i'm a priest. freedom in hong kong after publishing the last edition of apple daily. i can't see a future for hong kong. i'm extremely disappointed and angry that we have to stop operations under such circumstances. i am sorry. i started working here right after i graduated. i have a great boss and great colleagues and now all of the others, i think i will really miss them and our readers. so we have no choice but say good bye for now. i'm at one of the newspaper sounds that i've already sold out of apple daily in the early hours. i've received some fresh coffee. and as you can see behind me, there's a steady stream of people coming to get their coffee. now apple daily, faster this printing about a 1000000 copies and expected to be sold out to put this into context,

hong kong has only around 8000000 people. so, but apple daily has in its last edition, made a course to show how it's been so important to hong kong pro democracy movement. and one of the things that i've done is made a special supplement here showing all the major stories that covered. many of them are process and the both the offline, the number of papers that sold. and this will be the most to ever add $1000000.00 previous call, previous highs for around half a 1000000 during major event by protest and anniversary. and on their front page here they have a picture of the scene outside their headquarters last night and into the early hours of the printing process made their final run. you can see they were surrounded by supporters and normally quite industrial area where their headquarters are and there's the title. the headline says home home, people say good bye to apple daily in the rain and at the,

at the bottom here at the sub headline. they say we support the awful daily with a sense that they are leaving with a lot of sentiment and emotion here. nice al jazeera steve is appalling. there in hong kong. i'm a former colombian presidential candidates kidnaps and how by far rebels for 6 and a half years has come face to face with her former captors on live television. in greed, better cause appearance as part of columbus truth commission. it's documenting an official account of the countries 5 decade long war and centered on peer to reports from book with us. it was the 1st time that former presidential candidate ingrid betancourt came face to face with her former captors. now demobilized foreign fighters at a public event organized by the countries to its commission. they will go to execute your leaders accepted responsibility for tens of thousands of kidnappings

earlier this year on stage and in front of cameras. betancourt criticized which she described as their lack of empathy during an emotional speech. your mrs. c. talk is stay expressing. i need you to express that you feel this shame? is it a social shame? because colombian society is complaining about what you did? or is it wednesday, or is it the shame of the soul? you can hear. i wanted to hear you talk from your heart. not in political terms from your heart, betancourt was held in captivity for more than 6 years. be those of her in the jungle made headlines worldwide. as due to her rescue in a cinematic military operation in 2008, making her assemble of one of the most,

hiring crimes of columbia, the internal conflict. far to systematically kidnapped more than 20000 people has a way to finance their war against the state and terrorize entire populations on wednesday from a 5 command, their regal and the new repeated their regret. neither not up with a, nothing can explain what justify your pain. we are absolutely conscious of it. we don't pretend to excuse ourselves with any argument when people involved in the conflict, but innocent victims of it. that's why we understand if they had those who don't feeling client, forgive us. but it was, you know, i mean, they said another victim escaped testimonies and wednesday said they were indeed ready to forgive or go now. but i know i have forgiven to stop poisoning my spirit and stop generating hate and resentment, like amanda aconia, who returned to his captor a magazine in a book he received with a hostage. and then he has kept until now get up in italy. i want to ask you all to

do this humanly and even in humanly possible for peace of this country. help us please. overall it was an emotional and highly symbolic day in a country still deeply divided on the reasons for its decades long conflict. and that struggling to heal deep wounds, to help forge a more peaceful row, the heads, allison, and the address, the good news. brazil has seen a record daily rise and covert 19 cases, confirming fears of a 3rd wings of infections. the health ministry says more than 115000 cases were reported on wednesday, and almost 2400 deaths. with half a 1000000 people have died since the pandemic began. hebrew has committed to

licensing is covered 19 vaccines in other countries. this week it announced its a double job is 92 percent effective, with 3 doses. its hope to consume, provide relief to developing countries and the economy and august on reports from havana. scientists work stuck when the results were announced. phase 3 clinical trials. so there vaccine abdullah is among the world's most effective and on the streets of havana. people say that proud of that come through the treatment. vaccines normally take 10 years to develop that. so making one in a year and a half is a record of cuba is in the medical house and coming up with this vaccine is really special. and the fact that it's free is even better. why don't we also, main thing, i'm very proud because it's one of cuban scientists biggest achievement is taking a huge effort. like i said, i mean, the only 10 countries in the world have their own vaccine. and at this rate,

cuba will become the 1st country in the developing world to vaccinate its entire population with its own vaccine. when appropriate, the projects leader admits the result surprised him not that our visitors. i didn't expect the result to be as high as 90 to proceed to efficacy. we extraordinarily heavy vaccine is now the 4th most effective in the world. her laquata. the result is a rare piece of good news for an island that seen its economy plummet during the pandemic under relief for the communist party, which says us sanctions have slowed down the vaccines development. they've done everything possible, so not a drop of fuel get to they've done everything possible so that medicine don't get here. but in 13 months you've come up with results. cuba has refused to import foreign current of iris. vaccines betting instead on 5 homegrown versions, the government is close to broke, but as port every last sent into vaccine development and production, cuba has taken a gamble that seems to have paid off case numbers in the capital. havana,

at half since the ministry of health began an emergency mass facts nation campaign with a dollar last month. the high efficacy could also be a boon to exports. the government hopes that sales to latin american african and asian countries will help lift the country out of its deepest economic crisis for 30 years at augustin algebra. havana, the cybersecurity pioneer, john mack, if he has been found dead in a spanish prison cell. the spanish court just approve of expedition back to his native us on tax evasion and full charges. the 75 year old invented one of the 1st anti virus programs in 1900 ninety's. but he say several legal trouble since then including a murder investigation. the government statements said, mcafee appears to have committed suicide. italy's prime minister has told the vatican not to interfere with a propos, low, designed to combat homophobia. mario druggie says parliament is free to discuss the

draft legislation as it is a secular stage of african has formerly opposed the bill saying that in its present form it could restrict the religious freedom of the catholic church. 9 separate as politicians and activists are promising to keep pushing for a capital and the public after their release from prison in spain have been serving sentences of between 9 and 13 years as a capital loony has failed independence. but in 2017. so you're going to go reports this was the day they had waited for the leaders of catalonia secessionist movement, leaving prison surrounded by supporters and all that herman to continue the campaign for catalan, independence, vullez wrangler, political. we want to transfer to the field of politics, all aspirations, commitments and ideals. because there is no ideal and commitment, more nobles,

and that of the freedom of the country, the independence of our country, than the republican values than the commitment to social justice and the freedom of all people. but with a freedom comes conditions, all mine have been borrowed from public office and there pardons rest on the not committing what the spanish government would consider serious crimes. they had each set more than 3 years behind bars for their roles in the 2017 illegal independence referendum, figured off the worst political crisis in spain. in decades. the crisis that may have recently ab, what is by no means. most spaniards outside of catalonia, against the pardon, but there were very few options available to help resolve the current situation. please prime minister sanchez has banked on the move ending the political pass game he says is to kickstart talks and to secure reconciliation between the central government and capital and nationalists. but it has drawn fury from his political

opponents, jacqueline gobble, and the lovely people government. i know some of it up, you have placed yourself on the wrong side of history, which will not absolve you if you have any dignity left you should resign today and submit decision to the judgment as the spanish p. sanchez will meet the cattle and lead a pet otto this on tuesday and opportunity, which he hopes could lead to better relations with a pro independence movement. but he runs the risk of gambling away his minority government. so i think i yeah, go, i'll just, sarah. i this is al jazeera and these are the headlines. if you have his military denies, it has a busy market and to draw in an air strike, killing dozens of civilians. but it does admits attacking to try and revel fighters in the area. the u. s. and the un have can.