thailand's lucrative sex tourism trade has bounced back after the global pandemic, drawing travelers from around the globe. 101 east investigates how vulnerable children are at risk. thailand's child sex tourism industry, on al jazeera. by all means available, constitutional order will be restored in the country. west african defense chiefs discuss the coup in niger. they say if everything else fails, they're ready to use force. hello there, i'm rua kyle. [...] this is al jazeera live from doha, also coming up.

morning in senegal after dozens of migrants drowned in the atlantic when a boat capsizes were in the village where many of them came from. a death threat for a judge overseeing the prosecution of donald trump and grand jury members have their identities published online. i'm jonah hull in a disused welsh slate mine and i'll tell you more about the lengths some of the people will go to for a good night's sleep. defense chiefs from the west african bloc, ekoas, say constitutional order will be restored in niger by all means available. they're in ghana to discuss military intervention following the coup last month in niger. is new military leaders have ignored calls to reinstate deposed

president mohammed bazoom. the junta is planning to charge him with treason. ekoas says it's giving diplomacy a chance, but all options are on the table. serious interests are at stake here, but that is not going to divert ekoas' attention. we just want to tell them that and inform them about the resolve of the ekoas' of state and government to make sure that by all means available, constitutional order will be restored in the country. and this meeting today, best testimony to that. stratford is following the meeting in accra and sent us this update. some very strong words from defense chiefs attending this closed door two-day summit in accra, but we know that ekoas is facing a whole host of different problems. first of which is the lack of unity amongst ekoas states themselves. for example, the very strong words from the president of the ivory coast on the

back of last week's ekoas summit in abuja. he described the detention of niger's president as nothing short of terrorism and promised to supply a battalion of troops to any kind of potential intervention force. but then of course, you've got to look at countries like ghana, which are facing serious opposition here by opposition parties for any kind of military action in niger. it's a similar kind of scenario in various countries across the region. then of course, there is the major security concern and causing a wider war. we already know that burkina faso and mali have said any military intervention in niger would constitute a declaration of war on themselves. and then of course, there are a whole host of armed groups operating right the way across the sahel region, groups affiliated to isil and al-qaeda that have killed thousands of people, forced millions already to flee their homes.

we were in northern ghana on the border with burkina faso. the ghanaian authorities, they're very concerned about any kind of military intervention in niger because of what it could potentially mean to a security agreement they have with the military leadership of burkina faso. and this is our report. there's an uneasy calm along this isolated border. people walk back and forth across an invisible line, only widely spaced stone markers demarcate where ghana and burkina faso meet. village life seems normal on the surface, but people here are afraid because armed groups like isil and al-qaeda have killed and destroyed villages just a few kilometers away. there has been fighting on the other side of the hills. people from burkina faso fled into our village, then went to a refugee camp. we are very afraid that the fighting may come here.

villagers say border patrols pass by from time to time, but ghana says it's struggling to find the resources to police this area. and events in the wider region could make things even worse. burkina faso says any military intervention by the west african regional bloc ecowas against coup leaders in niger would be a declaration of war on them too, which could threaten the security of thousands of ghanaians living along this border. you really get a sense of just how exposed this border is. the houses behind me are in burkina faso. now, the ghanaian authorities have praised the military leadership in burkina faso, saying that they're doing a good job in preventing attacks inside ghana. they say that vital security cooperation, including the sharing of military intelligence, could well be jeopardised if ecowas was to launch a military

intervention against coup leaders inside niger. northern ghanaian officials say they need more resources, and working with burkina faso's military junta in their shared fight against armed groups must not stop. the issue like this, you cannot do it alone. and we are doing it with our neighbours. we're sharing information, working with our government partners. sometimes you have the same clan, half in burkina faso and half in ghana. and therefore the chiefs are also helping us with some of these informations. the un expressed concern over reports ghana was forcibly deporting refugees who had fled the armed groups in burkina faso. but ghana denies the claim, highlighting similar problems faced in countries like iraq, where effective screening of people for being members of armed groups is a huge challenge. we get to receive them, we screen them, what is your name, where are you coming from? that is all what we can do.

we cannot dig further to find out who the person is, and that is a great fear. cattle herders roam free with their livestock across this borderland as they have done for millennia. rural life goes calmly on, but fear hangs heavy among people living at the foot of these hills. chastraaf at al jazeera on the ghana-bukina faso border. germany is calling for the european union to impose sanctions on niger's coup leaders. our correspondent, dominic kane, has this update from berlin. here in berlin, the governmental view is becoming clear. the foreign ministry is saying on social media that it believes that now is the time for sanctions to be imposed on the military leadership in niger that has precipitated the crisis there. but crucially, the foreign ministry here is saying that those sanctions need to be imposed at the eu level, which clearly suggests that 27 countries will have to

agree about the tenor of those sanctions. how long would they be in force for? what kind of sanctions would they be? that's not clear right now. it's worth making the point that anna-lina berbok, the foreign minister, has held conversations, a dialogue with other foreign ministers, certainly from france and the united states, precisely about this topic. it's also worth making the point that her cabinet colleague, svenja schurzer, the minister for economic cooperation and development, is herself in west africa and has been meeting ekoa's leaders again to see what further cooperation there can be. but the steer coming from berlin is that the government here now believes the moment is right for eu sanctions to be imposed. dominic kane, al jazeera, berlin. villages in senegal are mourning the deaths of dozens of migrants who drowned in the atlantic. thirty-eight survived when a fishing boat packed with migrants capsized near the cape verde islands. the boat with around 100 people on board left senegal a month ago, headed

for the spanish canary islands. almost to the dead from the village of fassboy in senegal, malcolm webb is there. people here in the small town of fassboy are mourning. they've gathered outside this home. the family that lives here lost three young men in the boat, in the house across the street. the family that lives there lost two. now, it's common for people to travel from all over the region to this part of senegal and continue journeys in boats onto cape verde, into the spanish canary islands. but on this occasion, we've learned from speaking to the people here that the majority of the people on the boat were from here. so it's devastating for this community. it's also caused quite a lot of anger because this boat set sail more than a month ago. normally, people here say it takes no more than seven days in a boat sailing into the atlantic to reach cape verde. so they've known for some weeks that this boat was in trouble. they alerted the authorities here in senegal.

they say they did nothing. they didn't launch a rescue operation. it's only in the last couple of days that people here have learned the fate of their relatives. that caused some anger. people have protested. there were burning roadblocks set up along the main street until police came and broke them up. and people here say in the middle of the night police then broke into homes and snatched teenage, mostly teenage boys, about 20 of them and took them away. we've tried to reach the police for comment. they haven't yet responded. people here are angry, not just because of the lack of a rescue operation, but they say for years of a lack of investment from the government and fishing, which is the main livelihood here, they say has become more and more difficult as foreign vessels take more and more of the fish from the shores of senegal and from the atlantic ocean. malcolm webb, al jazeera, fast boys, senegal.

a woman from texas has been arrested with threatening to kill a judge overseeing one of the trials facing donald trump. in a separate development involving the former us president, the names and addresses of members of the grand jury in georgia have been posted online. john hendren has more from atlanta, georgia. the dark side of the pro-trump army seems to have been mobilized here, as it was on january 6, 2021. in the case of washington, d. c., the judge, tanya chutkin, was threatened with a voicemail. that voicemail used racial slurs against the judge, who is black. the woman who left the message, or purportedly did so, said that we are looking for you. we want to kill you. that woman was later arrested, apparently, using her own phone to make that call. and then in the case of these far-right websites, they have been posting the names and addresses of the jurors here in atlanta, who came down with the

indictment of donald trump. and, of course, that threatens the potential safety of those people. there have been threats posted on those boards against those jurors. in a practical sense, their job has been done. they have already handed up the indictment. so it won't affect those jurors, except in the sense that they might need added security, as will the judge in washington, d.c. it is very unlikely that judge would choose to step aside. judges get these kinds of threats all the time. but what it does mean is that a pattern of intimidation that we've seen over and over again has been encouraged by the former president, who did attack the d.c. judge, calling her biased, among other things. iran's foreign minister has made a rare visit to saudi arabia, saying relations are on the right track. his arrival in riyadh followed a trip to tehran by the saudi foreign minister in june.

china brokered a deal to end their diplomatic rift and establish relations in march. the gulf rivals say they will work together to end conflicts in yemen, syria and iraq. torso jabari has more from tehran. the saudi foreign minister, faisal bin farhan, spoke at a press conference with his iranian counterpart in the saudi capital, riyadh. he reiterated the willingness and the eagerness of the saudi officials to implement the agreements that they've already signed with iranian officials. this comes, of course, after seven years of not having diplomatic relations with iran in march this year. iran and saudi arabia reestablished diplomatic ties with an agreement that was brokered by china, which saw the two countries resuming full diplomatic relations. and now the iranian foreign minister visiting riyadh for a one-day visit, the first in the past 10 years by such official to the saudi capital. the iranian foreign minister also reiterated that the iranian president, ibrahim

raisi, has received an invitation to visit saudi arabia. and he said the president will certainly make that visit in due course. for now, this high-level meeting in riyadh is being seen as another step towards moving the two countries closer together after years of not having any diplomatic relations. and we understand by what the foreign ministers have said that both embassies in tehran and riyadh are now fully operational. torso jabari, al jazeera, tehran. al jazeera's senior political analyst, marwan beshara, says the rapprochement between saudi and iran seems to be working well so far. it's proved to be quite successful thus far. certainly the skeptics has proven to be wrong on this. and clearly there is two important pillars to this rapprochement between the iran and riyadh. one is necessity, the necessity to end the zero-sum game, to end the bleeding

between the two countries, and certainly end the damage that the two countries' polarisation have done to themselves and to the region. and there is the desire to move on, to move forward towards something a bit more lucrative, if you will, for both countries to improve their standing in the region that has not really happened for them when a cold war between the two has paralysed the economies of both saudi arabia and iran, as well as a number of other countries in the region. so all in all, you can say that this is a really good deal just for stopping the damage that both countries have done to both countries, as well as to a number of countries in the region like yemen, like iraq, like lebanon, like palestine, and so on and so forth. so if it doesn't do any good, certainly it will end the harm.

israeli forces have killed a palestinian man during a raid in the occupied west bank. the 32-year-old died when soldiers stormed a house in the city of jenin. several others were injured during a gunfight between palestinian fighters and the israeli army. the israeli army has also demolished a palestinian school in ramallah. ainsanir school in the occupied west bank was destroyed just before the start of a new academic year. the palestinian ministry of education has called the attack inhumane and asks the international community to ensure the protection and rights of palestinian children. so ahead here on al jazeera. disaster at a jade mine in myanmar. dozens of workers are missing after a rock wall collapses.

the weather brought to you by visit qatar. it is still the dry season in indonesia, and it should be in malaysia, but maybe less so. there's far more cloud in the area. still, we're at our wettest now in parts of thailand, central thailand, cambodia and south vietnam. a little drier by look of it in the forecast for the central philippines. the heavy rain that was falling recently over hong kong is going south. the temperature is dropping here. we see no more evidence of typhoon land. it disappeared. it's left behind a legacy of showers falling over an area that had a huge amount of rain. and there's an obvious line here, which is thunderstorms on a cold front that brings with it a sandstorm. that may well briefly affect beijing. now, the monsoon rains over india have been at their worst in nepal, some parts of bangladesh and west bengal. they are disappearing in this general direction. so they're covering more of india that has been recently fairly dry.

so if you're in hyderabad or nagpur, you're going to get the showers. now, the western ghats, the breeze is lighter than it was. it's still cloudy with occasional rain, but not particularly heavy. in the northwest of india and northern pakistan, the showers that were and have caused landslides are going to be lighter. so by the time you get to saturday, it looks pretty dry in bihar, for example, a scattering of light showers in kathmandu, the heavy ones reaching down to hyderabad. time has stopped for him the day his son went missing. documentaries that inform our present and illuminate our past. i want people to see these things for themselves and make up their own minds. in sweden, it's become a thing to turn your back against the nazis. groundbreaking stories from award-winning filmmakers. it's actually not a human -elephant conflict. it's more of a human-human conflict.

witness on al jazeera. hello again. you're watching al jazeera. here's a reminder of our top stories this hour. defense chiefs from the west african bloc, ecowas, say constitutional order will be restored in niger by all means available. they're in ghana to discuss military intervention following the coup last month in niger. villages in senegal are mourning the deaths of dozens of migrants who drowned in the atlantic. 38 survived when a fishing boat packed with migrants capsized over cape verde islands. and a judge overseeing one of donald trump's trials has received a death threat.

a woman from texas has been charged. in a separate development, the addresses of members of the grand jury in georgia have been posted online. the united nations security council has held its first open meeting on the human rights situation in north korea since 2017. let's get more now from our correspondent, kristen salumi. she's at the un in new york. what did the security council have to say about the situation in north korea? the security council was briefed by a number of un experts who laid out a laundry list of shocking and systemic human rights abuses inside of north korea. everything from imprisoning people for reading information from south korea to forced labor. and that forced labor often includes children in industries that are key to the economy of north korea from agriculture to construction and so on.

some shocking statistics. by some estimates, there are 100,000 political prisoners in north korea. and the high commissioner for human rights volcker turk made the case that these abuses are so grave that they pose a threat beyond north korea's borders. many of the violations i've referred to stem directly from or support the increasing militarization of the dprk. for example, the widespread use of forced labor, including late political prison camps, forced use of school children to collect harvests, the requirement for families to undertake labor and provide a quota of goods to the government, and confiscation of wages from overseas workers. all support the military apparatus of the state and its ability to build weapons. kristen, these problems in north korea, they're not new. so why did the security council take this up now?

well, there's been this debate for many years in the security council over whether or not it is the appropriate place to discuss human rights abuses, and particularly when it comes to north korea. china, for one, has long argued that it is inappropriate to bring it up in the council, that it only isolates north korea more and increases tensions on the north korea. we heard that argument from them again today in the security council, as well as other countries who've taken that view as well. russia was very aggressive against the united states, accusing them of using this as a distraction from their own escalatory behavior in the region and the korean peninsula, taking military exercises with japan and south korea. but the united states, which holds the presidency of the council this month, had enough votes in the council to take this meeting, to have this meeting on this subject. and they came out after the meeting and made a statement that was supported by

more than 50 countries, saying that the situation in north korea has gotten so grave, and that these human rights abuses are, in fact, supporting the military activities of north korea, whether it's the forced labor or the censorship, the stifling of dissent and free speech there. they are supporting the weapons program of north korea, and that is against un resolutions, making this very much an issue for the security council. ok, kristen sloomey bringing us the latest lines there from the un. thanks very much, kristen. wildfires are threatening the capital of canada's northwest territories. 20,000 systems of yellowknife have been ordered to leave before the fast-moving flames arrive. it's the worst wildfire season in canada, with more than 1,000 fires burning nationwide. rosalind jordan has more. wildfires are burning within 17 kilometers of yellowknife, the capital city of

canada's northwest territories. officials say it's time for the city's 20,000 residents to leave. please take this order seriously and prepare to leave the city by noon on friday. officials already have started airlifting other provincial residents who can't drive themselves to safety. those who can drive may need police escort to help them navigate smoke-filled highways. emergency personnel say right now the weather is working against them. there is a possibility that without rain, the fire reaches the outskirts of yellowknife by the weekend. it is approaching, but there's time to complete the community evacuation. 20,000 square kilometers of land have already burned across the province. the prime minister has promised logistical and financial support to local authorities. some 6,800 evacuees have already headed south to alberta for the time being. but they have no idea when they can return. rosalind jordan, al jazeera.

on a wildfire on the spanish island of tenerife has forced the evacuation of several villages. roads have been closed near the tier de volcano, which is popular with tourists. 250 firefighters and water bombing aircraft are trying to stop the blaze spreading from the mountainous area. a heatwave in the canary islands last week increased the threat of wildfires. police in pakistan have arrested nearly 130 muslims after an attack on churches and homes of christians in punjab province. para-military troops have been deployed to jaramwala to restore order. the attacks follow allegations that a christian resident had desecrated the koran. recovery teams in myanmar are continuing their four-day search for missing workers at a jade mine.

many were swept to their deaths when a rock wall collapsed on sunday, sending a wave of water into the valley below. 33 bodies have so far been recovered, as tony chang reports. a group of jade miners stand over a vast open pit, the valley below filled by torrential rain. miners searching for the precious stone along the banks. warn them it's going to fall, say those above. the steep walls seem to be shifting, a cascade of rocks. then the whole hillside collapses. as it hits the water, a tsunami wave, sweeping away everything in its path. from the other side of the valley, workers try to point out survivors, tiny specks swirling around in the muddy whirlpools as more of the

hill slides into the water. we were at the spot where the large water wave struck. it was a huge wave. we were able to flee the area by running. that's the only reason we survived. rescuers have been struggling for days to recover bodies from the site. very few survived the initial landslide. heavy rains hampering the rescue effort in this remote part of northern myanmar. boats on the reservoir only able to drag the murky waters with hooks. more than 250 people died in similar accidents in myanmar's jade mines last year. a precious stone that exacts a very high price. tony chang, al jazeera. now a deep sleep is something most of us crave, but what if you were to take it literally? that's what's on offer in a disused slate mine in northern wales.

jonah hull went deep underground to find out more. tired of the mediterranean heat? this is what summer looks like in tanigrishai, north wales. where, besides hiking the picturesque hills of the vale of festiniogh, lots of people come to explore the disused slate mines. some even come to spend a night deep inside one. more about that in a moment, because first, well, there's no easy way down. 30 meters depth. so it opened initially in 1810, just a surface quarrying. the victorians, was it? that's right, yeah, yeah. it was, they then followed the vein of slate down into the ground and really ramped up the operation. and then it closed in 1903. the victorians were much more sensible about all this. i do this a lot.

they built bridges. and ladders. please note the making of this report was or work not fun. so this is one of our final descents and abseil of about 20 meters to a depth of around 400 meters down here in the darkness. the lengths and depths some people would go to for a good night's sleep. the victorians never got round to building this. welcome to deep sleep. look at that. extraordinary. vertically, we are 1375 feet underground. that's about 410 meters. we are confident that this is the deepest accommodation in the world at the present time.

we've not managed to find any any evidence with all our trawling that there is anywhere deeper than this. and guests are deeply impressed. it's the thrill of it. it's the danger but those beds. each room is slightly different with the decor but the grotto is incredible. stunning. it's really nice to wake up in a cave or mine but it's a cave you know. you'd do it again, recommend it to others. i would actually. yeah, i would because it was really peaceful and uncomfortable. something no victorian miner was ever heard to say. jo nohal al jazeera north wales. this is al jazeera. these are our top stories. defence chiefs from the west african bloc ekoas say constitutional order will be restored in niger by all means available. they're in garnet.