the number of people caught crossing the southern border will likely reach a 1000000 this year heidi joe castro has more from the border town of el paso in texas. 60000 children are among the migrants who crossed into the u.s. in the last 40 days some came alone others with families fleeing violent homes in central america to walk thousands of kilometers north to now test whether the united states will receive them this is a place where you can historically. if you're feeling violence and persecution you come in you will get some kind of protection i mean people is coming with that mentality would that be from entirely that they're going to come in they're going to be embrace claudia's some old left want to mala with her 11 year old son 18 days ago. there was so much violence where we lived many games it became too dangerous but the u.s. government says this cannot continue president trump has pressed mexico to deploy troops to stop central americans from advancing toward the u.s. they're moving right now 6000 soldiers to their southern border whatever that you think we had that to weeks ago. g

of a crime against humanity by piping drinking water poisoned with lead into people's homes heidi joe castro has been using angry residents who now face a race against time. in flint justice is long awaited and elusive after thousands of the city's residents were poisoned with lead tainted tap water some dying and others with long long illnesses but government officials accused of knowing about the danger but say nothing has paid little for their mistake key to the criminal case is the decision of government workers to begin piping water from the flint river into people's homes it was cheaper than the old water source but due to insufficient water treatment at least led into the drinking water prosecutors argue that certain officials should have known better if this is a plan if you and he talked about humanity. but we're not the one that we have great homes one year old next to the boys in water that his mother unknowingly put into the baby's bottle and it was. other children show developmental delays linked to lead poisoning on friday a new team of prosecutors called a community meeting to

overcrowding the conditions have contributed to illnesses and deaths and continue to deteriorate heidi joe castro al-jazeera el paso texas. women across switzerland a rallying for equality hundreds of protesting what they say is the nation's on acceptably slow pace to women's rights it switzerland 2nd national women's strike 28 years ago a similar action show hof a 1000000 women on the streets in 1901 at the time of that strike there were no women in the swiss government women in switzerland weren't allowed to vote until $1071.00 and still around 20 percent less than them. the government in hong kong may be wavering in its support for a new law to allow extradition to mainland china and other mass demonstrations planned on sunday to stop the bill from passing into law a final reading of the bill will for next week but the government is divided over the to fast track it or to delay it an advisor to the government leader kerry lamb legislators should stop discussing the bill because of the level of opposition. from one of the protest sites in hong kong. this is an event that's been organized by a g

continue to grow in the city's children a reminder for them that the crisis is far from over heidi joe castro al-jazeera flint michigan. the neo nazi who drove his car into a group of peaceful protest as in the u.s. as have charlottesville 2 years ago has been sentenced for committing federal hate crimes the judge said it was too great a risk to release james alex fails a female protester was killed in the attack in the state of virginia at a call has the latest. it was the moment the country realized white supremacy just worm boldin taking to the streets of charlottesville virginia in mass with tiki torches they shouted a chorus of racist and anti-semitic chants was they protested the removal of the confederate statue their hate would not go unchallenged hundreds of counter protesters met them head on there were clashes and then there was this crime. james alex fields was behind the wheel he was found guilty of killing her hire and injuring dozens in this chaos he pled guilty to federal hate crime charges in exchange prosecutors dropped the death penalty and now he's learned for his crime he

people who've suffered and waited this is yet another drop of poison they're asked to swallow heidi joe castro al-jazeera flint michigan right now we can talk to melissa mayes is joining us from flint michigan and melissa you've been really active in the campaign haven't you 1st of all you must be extremely disappointed to see that these charges have been dropped. i am disgusted i mean we had 2 people going to trial moving forward for manslaughter 2 government officials going forward and to have the rug pulled out from underneath us and that these new prosecutors decided to come in and start over we're running out of time and people are running out of hope because nobody at this time is being charged and there's no hope we got no promised is no information last night that would even encourage us that new charges are out to be filed they haven't got any confidence and in the suggestion from the new administration that they're going to look for new charges and start a new case not at all i mean they've had the evidence in front of them it to phones everything none of that's new it's been already

difference that this drone was unmanned that an american life was not lost here miriam thank you heidi joe castro in washington iran's foreign minister gave to iran's version of events on twitter saying that the u.s. drone took off from the u.a.e. in stealth mode and violated iranian airspace he says it was targeted near. giving specific coordinates then he says quote we retrieve sections of the u.s. military drone in our territorial waters where it was shot down over saudi led coalition in the development says that it's launch strikes on who's the military targets in the yemeni port of data including booby trapped being prepared for attacks saudi arabia also says it shot down a drone launched by the who the rebels is that they were targeting an airport in southern saudi arabia riyadh has confirmed that it's at defenses intercepted the drone strike it comes a day off to who the rocket hit it desalination plant also is on. well the u.s. senate has run its president trying for a support to saudi crown prince mohammed bin salmond the handful of republicans joined democrats in voting to block $800000

overcrowding the conditions have contributed to illnesses and deaths and continue to deteriorate heidi joe castro al-jazeera el paso texas. some news from that moldova where they can take it government has resigned and to get past trouble triggered by an election that failed to give a clear majority to any party the democratic party has stepped down to make way for a new coalition government but not before calling it illegal and demanding a new election are still ahead here on al-jazeera. south america's biggest football competition gets underway in brazil saga it's all the action in sport. for 30 years the red cross has provided a lifeline for afghanistan's physically disabled one on one east meets the remarkable people risking their lives to help the disabled in blue to afghanistan on al-jazeera. i'll jews here. where ever you. capturing a moment in time. snapshots of other lives. other stories. provided glimpse into someone else's work. inspiring documentaries from impassioned filmmakers and the front lines i feel like i know it i have the data to prove it. witness on al-jazeera. let's get str

people who've suffered and waited this is yet another drop of poison they're asked to swallow heidi joe castro al-jazeera flint michigan. not just one but 2 erupting volcano is accusing a state of emergency in buffalo new guinea rescue workers say they don't have enough resources to help thousands of villages who've been forced to move to safety mount a one shot a cloud of ash 18 kilometers high in new west britain province forcing flights to be diverted and since that eruption a wednesday another highly active volcano manner and has started to erupt. these are our top stories here it out to sara the summit of the world's biggest economies has ended with china and the u.s. agreeing to restart talks and try to end the trade war president trump says he won't impose new terrorists on beijing for now. we had a great meeting and we will be continuing to negotiate and i promised for. at least the time being we're not going to be lifting tariffs on china we won't be airing an additional. you know tremendous amount of where we have i guess $350000000000.00 left which could be taxed or could be tariffs

overcrowding the conditions have contributed to illnesses and deaths and continue to deteriorate heidi joe castro al-jazeera el paso texas hundreds of women across switzerland are rallying frequency. there protesting against what they say is the nation's unacceptably slow pace and improving women's rights that switzerland 2nd national strike 28 years ago half a 1000000 women took to the streets back then there were no women in this with government women in switzerland went allowed to vote until 1971 and still earn around 20 percent less than men. the mayor of paris has awarded on or is citizenship to the saudi activist. in recognition of advocacy for human rights it was among a group of female activists arrested last year in saudi arabia campaigning to end the ban on women driving in the kingdom. iraq's vast oil wealth once paid for some of the best health services in the middle east but decades of conflict and political unrest have contributed to what the government admits is a crisis in hospitals. and reports is particularly bad in the oil rich basil province where people have long complained o

overcrowding the conditions have contributed to illnesses and deaths and continue to deteriorate heidi joe castro al-jazeera el paso texas. funny that her entourage became the 1st canadian same to win the n.b.a. championship as the a victory in game 6 of the finals ending the winning run of basketball's most dominant tame the golden state warriors this report from paul race it all sets the stage for another steph curry and the golden state warriors were never going to give up their n.b.a. crown easily despite being 32 down to the raptors for i'm a star forward co i learned. the warriors wanting to say goodbye to their fans in oakland with one last win before the team moves to some francisco was just shy thank you thank the golden state had lost yet another player to injury when clay thompson went off in the 3rd but i think cameron stopped pascal c. account showed no mercy as he wrong footed drayman agreeing with billy to eliminate the swipe green by all my sets up a late victory for the warriors when he scrambled the ball to carry the reports up i was still thank you but the man who has made 3 po

overcrowding the conditions have contributed to illnesses and deaths and continue to deteriorate heidi joe castro al-jazeera el paso texas the mayor of paris is awarded honorary citizenship to the saudi out of as mood in recognition of advocacy for human rights that was among a group of female activists arrested last year in saudi arabia for campaigning to end the ban on women driving in the kingdom. iraq's vast oil wealth once paid for some of the best health services in the middle east but decades of conflict and political unrest have contributed to what the government admits crisis in hospitals . report is particularly bad an oil rich bad province where people have long complained of government neglect. could there was diagnosed with leukemia 11 months ago. she is 4 years old. her father brings her to this government cancer hospital in basra for chemotherapy treatment but the drugs needed to keep her along it are often in short supply and. we don't know whether she will get better i'm very afraid because i see many children who come to this hospital dying of cancer the number of chemotherapy s

overcrowding the conditions have contributed to illnesses and deaths and continue to deteriorate heidi joe castro al-jazeera el paso texas. this is al jazeera that's going to round up now the top stories hong kong's plans for an unpopular extradition bill are being suspended after a week of mass protests and the threat of more the proposal would have allowed suspects to be extradited to mainland china the territories chief executive kerry lamb says they considered widespread public opposition to the proposal hundreds of thousands of people protested in large crowds gathered outside the legislative council on wednesday and forced the 2nd vote to be postponed sorrow and regret that the deficiencies in our work and various other factors have stirred up substantial controversies and as built in society following the relatively calm periods of the past 2 years this appointing many people. we will adopt the most sincere and humble attitude to our sept criticisms and make improvements so that we can continue to connect with the people of hong kong a protest organizers say they will still go ahead with s

overcrowding the conditions have contributed to illnesses and deaths and continue to deteriorate heidi joe castro al-jazeera el paso texas. women across switzerland a rallying for equality hundreds of protesting what they say is the nation's on acceptably slow pace to women's rights that switzerland 2nd national women's strike 28 years ago a similar action show half a 1000000 women on the.

washington flexing its military might only add to the tension and the fear of confrontation heidi joe castro al-jazeera washington. well earlier we spoke to my experiment thought who's the author and editor of grey zone project dot com an online news website dedicated to original investigative journalism and analysis he says the message from the us is that they intend to continue escalating the crisis. every step possible these 1000 troops are actually complementing 10000 troops that were authorized along with patriot missile batteries last month and what the u.s. is doing is stepping up its maximum pressure strategy in a show of force that's part of a 2 year long undeclared war on iran that includes what iranian foreign minister zarif has it correctly called financial terrorism and at this point iran feels cornered it is taking its own measures to respond and i think we're in an extremely dangerous scenario where a conflict could break out something that extreme elements of the trump administration might actually be excited for i think it is likely that iran if it hasn't already responded w

overcrowding the conditions have contributed to illnesses and deaths and continue to deteriorate heidi joe castro al-jazeera el paso texas. all right let's get a roundup of the top stories on al-jazeera the government in hong kong has suspended a controversial bill that would allow extradition of suspects to mainland china chief executive kerry lamb said days earlier she would push ahead with the proposal hundreds of thousands of people have protested against it after repeated internal deliberations over the last 2 days i now announce that the government has decided to suspend the legislative amendment exercise restart all communication with all sectors of society do more explanation work and listen to different views of society i want to stress that the government is adopting an open mind to heat comprehensively different views in society toss the bill leaders for more than 30 countries are intelligent to stand to talk about economic and security challenges in the asian region tensions between iran and the us took center stage following explosions on 2 tankers in the gulf of oman. france germany

washington flexing its military might only add to the tension and the fear of confrontation heidi joe castro al-jazeera washington. there is more uncertainty at the very top of the u.s. military just as those tensions escalate with the wrong defense secretary patrick shanahan says he doesn't want the job full time because of family issues shanahan moved up from assistant defense secretary when jim ussher resigned at the end of last year the former boeing chief executive had no prior experience in national security the secretary of the army will take over temporarily. now the u.k.'s ruling conservative party has held another round of votes to pick their next leader and of course that person will then replace to resume a as prime minister so let's have a look at the 5 still battling it out with a front running probe rex that m.p. boris johnson surged ahead yet again when $126.00 votes foreign secretary jeremy hunt was next with $46.00 environment got $41.00 votes is a national development secretary for east us got $37.00 and home secretary such as java just scraping through with a bare minimum

people who've suffered and waited this is yet another drop of poison they're asked to swallow heidi joe castro al-jazeera flint michigan. this is a 0 it's going to round up all the top stories the summits of the world's biggest economies has ended with china and the united states agreeing to restart talks on trying to end a trade war u.s. president donald trump said he would not impose any new tariffs on china for now. we had a great meeting and we will be continuing to negotiate and i promise that for. at least the time being we're not going to be lifting tariffs on china we won't be airing an additional. you know tremendous amount of where we have i guess $350000000000.00 left which could be taxed or could be terrorized and we're not doing that we're we're going to work with china on where we left off to see if we can make a deal. or trump has traveled to south korea to revive talks on denuclearization he was welcomed by south korea's president gerry and before talks earlier trump invited north korean leader kim jong un to shake hands with him on the demilitarized zone most korea's governmen

people who've suffered and waited this is yet another drop of poison they're asked to swallow heidi joe castro al jazeera flint michigan the 2nd debate all of us democratic presidential candidates and set a new record more than 18000000 people tuned in to watch thursday's debate the highest audience ever for the party the debate featured front runners joe biden bernie sanders and calm the house. immigration climate change health care and civil rights were some of the big topics voting for the party's nominee begins early next year meanwhile go to the polls on polls on sunday despite a raw between the prime minister and the president on the timing of the election the ruling socialist party held its final rally before the municipal vote the opposition party supported by the president is boycotting the election the controversy follows months of mass protests allegations of political corruption linked to organized crime and arguments over joining the european union. john psaropoulos has more from the capitol today. with 75 percent approval ratings. is set for a 2nd term as socialist party mayor of

overcrowding the conditions have contributed to illnesses and deaths and continue to deteriorate heidi joe castro al-jazeera el paso texas. caretaker government has resigned ending a power struggle triggered by an election that failed to give a clear majority to any one party the democratic party step down to make way for a new coalition government but not before calling it illegal and demanding a new election. leaders from more than 30 asian countries are into to start for a summit to discuss economic and security cooperation it is one of the rare international events that sees iran the gulf countries and israel gathering together in one place bernard smith reports now from the tajik capital the shuttle bay. looks spotless an army of workers has been drafted in to give the tajik capital a facelift for the biggest international event it's ever hosted the conference on interaction and confidence building measures in asia watching over the. work from seemingly every street corner is the man who has ruled the central asian republics for 26 years by law all media must refer to him as the founder of p

people who've suffered and waited this is yet another drop of poison they're asked to swallow heidi joe castro al-jazeera flint michigan well melissa mays as a friend horse activist and she says she's extremely disappointed my faith and confidence in our government was thrown in the garbage along with those criminal trials everything got thrown away and yesterday there wasn't even an apology to plant residents for not letting us know ahead of time for the shock and the re traumatization and the fact that they're making all these decisions about us without us and telling us just sit back we're going to do our jobs you just sit there and wait and just trust us these brand new people it's terrible it's this empty pit in my stomach and we saw it took 3 years to get to this part to get to this you know this time around to get you know to manslaughter trials to move forward and so i don't know how they going to do it 9 months and all they kept saying was big things last night wanting us to trust them but yet they don't trust us they didn't tell us about these decisions we heard about them through th

that he respects the country's laws whether a wall guards it or not heidi joe castro al-jazeera on the u.s. mexican border. an art exhibition has opened in india's capital showcasing work by underprivileged children but some were trafficked or rescued from the streets and are now living in a shelter the project is teaching them how to paint and skills for the future to see around us. in this gallery in new delhi the excitement is palpable as bonding artists show off their latest work. again i say this here is a canvas we were given for topics to paint some of draw on a tree and animal or a building is everything on here. the students have been taught over the past year by local artist make a modern. day all the children and i have come here to show our work this is my painting i did it myself the exhibitions part of a fellowship by outreach and organization bringing up to vulnerable children makers help them explore various techniques and discover their creativity the meaning is that it lets them express you know there are going to do more than one thing to express as well so through a

washington flexing its military might only adds to the tension and the fear of confrontation heidi joe castro al-jazeera washington iran's president hassan rouhani gave a televised speech earlier insisting his country had nothing to do with what happened to the time because he added that the u.s. is trying to stir up conflict. american efforts in the region to cut our relations with the world and isolate iran have all been unsuccessful if certain companies in some countries don't want to cooperate with us because of us pressure we condemn america for this we don't want war with any nation those facing us are a group of politicians with a little experience so the state media say to hootie drones have been intercepted one of them was targeting a residential area in saudi arabia's city earlier yemen's who the rebels that they targeted the airport with drones for the 5th time since wednesday who themes have warned continue attacking saudi airports in retaliation for the kingdom's actions in signed here and. the un food agency is warning that it will start to suspend food aid to hooty controlled a

government officials have recently been dropped leading to more mistrust and anger from the public heidi joe castro has more on the story. the line of cars waiting to receive bottled water stretches for almost a kilometer this is still daily life in point 4 years after the government 1st reported dangerous levels of lead in municipal water supplies i'm tired of it i really am it's been going on for years. it seems like it is not getting any better it's just a good word at least 12 people have died more than 90 have been hospitalized and thousands more have been exposed to lead tens of times above the federal limit in children that can cause severe developmental delays i know and i'm going to say a few years but on porridge. choice today the government says the water that comes out of randy hikes tap is clean it's what his 2 month old grandson bates in the city claims lead levels have been safe since 2017 the result of switching water sources and upgrading pipes but people here aren't convinced this is ok i don't believe. they've been lied to us for years about that water the people's mistrust in th

people who've suffered and waited this is yet another drop of poison they're asked to swallow heidi joe castro al-jazeera flint michigan heavy rain and flooding when tired villages and bridges in eastern russia at least 2 people have been killed in the siberian region of cook's state emergency has been declared as well. earthquakes there are constant danger in many countries particularly the philippines so if the big one strikes the government now wants everyone to make themselves prepared to make that story from manila. the philippine red cross shows us the different kinds of emergency response needed when the major earthquake strikes it's a 3 stage process extrication ambulance operations and 1st aid the philippine government says it is preparing for what it calls the big one a quake of magnitude 7.2 or above. an earthquake like that would devastate not just the greater metropolis of manila but the many provincial regions surrounding it the philippines has experienced regular earthquakes the last few months it's a big worry for the people who live here and that the big one is very frightenin

overcrowding the conditions have contributed to illnesses and deaths and continue to deteriorate heidi joe castro al-jazeera el paso texas. that it will be here in doha with your top stories so far today iran has rejected u.s. claims that it was behind to tanker explosions in the gulf of amman the u.s. released video to back up its claims but germany said it was inconclusive the u.k. says it's almost certain a branch of the iranian military was involved speaking on fox news the u.s. president donald trump called iran a quote nation of terra. we were being very tough on sanctions. when i came into office so they were a absolute terror they're a nation of terror and they've changed a lot since i've been president i can tell you they were unstoppable and now they're in deep deep trouble but they're not going to be closing it it's not going to be even slow zigzag going to be close to long and they know it and they've been told in very strong terms and we want to get them back to the table if they want to go back yeah i'm ready when they are saudi state media reporting airstrikes against yemeni target

washington flexing its military might only add to the tension and the fear of confrontation heidi joe castro al-jazeera washington well in a televised speech iran's president hassan rouhani insisted his country had nothing to do with what happened to the time because the u.s. is just trying to stir up conflict. american efforts in the region to cut our relations with the world and isolate iran have all been unsuccessful if certain companies in some countries don't want to cooperate with us because of us pressure we condemn america for this we don't want war with any nation those facing us are a group of politicians with a little experience well meanwhile russia is warning the us not to deploy more troops to the middle east describing the move provocative let's put this up with a new study that tell us more about russia's response. well words are for straight here also in moscow but also a very strong message to the united states from the deputy foreign minister ripped off to sad that if the u.s. is really serious not wanting any war in the middle east then they should not send any additional

people who've suffered and waited this is yet another drop of poison they're asked to swallow heidi joe castro al-jazeera flint michigan. after more than 2 weeks stranded at sea dozens of migrants have finally landed in italy but only after the german humanitarian ship that rescued them managed to dodge the coast guard the migrants who are on the sea watch 3 were taken to a detention center it's captain was detained she says she had to dock the ship at lampedusa because of worsening conditions on board mexican president under arrest manuel lopez obrador says he will give 40000 jobs to migrants as they wait for the u.s. asylum cases to be processed the presence of thousands of migrants is a windfall for factories in northern mexico which suffer from a local labor shortage lopez obrador has doubled the minimum wage although it's still lower than the pay in some of these central american countries the migrants are fleeing john heilemann has more from mexico city. there's now more than 14000 people in mexico from central american countries like guatemala honduras and el salvador who've asked for a

overcrowding the conditions have contributed to illnesses and deaths and continue to deteriorate heidi joe castro al-jazeera el paso texas. police in thailand have charged the captain of a boat carrying range of migrants from mimmo with people trafficking $65.00 people were found on an island in southern thailand on tuesday after the boat had engine failure it was heading to malaysia where many ranger tried to escape he recently where he has more now from bangkok. this boat came ashore on an island off the coast of southern province in southern thailand the boat developed engine trouble and crashed on to rocks as it was on route to malaysia further south where more than 20000 have been given shelter in the last few years after fleeing violence and persecution in rakhine state in western me and so in this particular case the police have charged the thai skipper of the boat and 5 crew members from me and ma with assisting illegal immigrants entering thailand and it seems they will also be charged with human trafficking because the police have already said that there is enough evidence to do so this