Transcripts For ALJAZ NEWS LIVE - 30 20240714

Opposition activists in syria say rebels have withdrawn from the strategically important town of concho in southern italy province this follows days of fighting which saw them firing rockets into government territory the Syrian Government told its forces the battle isnt over yet. The rebels also retreated from the town of moore a quick is in hama and is the site of a Turkish Military observation post. The middle of province is a main Population Center it used to be a place where 100000 syrians took shelter before the military escalation began in april towns nearby in the northern harbor countryside of fallen to Government Forces for the Syrian Government the big prize was getting control of honshu who will give access to the m 5 an important economic highway crossing the country so the holder has more from beirut. Who is back under the control of the Syrian Government Images Released by pro regime media shows a town in southern italy empty of residents and fighters rebels will too early on tuesday after days of fighting and hundreds of air strikes its location gives the Syrian Government access to parts of a vital commercial highway that connects the Northern City of aleppo to the capital damascus and has been a military objective for months this is a very Important Development in the course of this conflict. This is the 1st step in the 1st stage maybe. In an effort by the government to regain control of the territories along with him 5 road between. And. I think the next target will be moderate to normal. The opposition didnt just lose. Rebel fighters had little choice but to leave towns further south in the northern hama countryside they would have risked being besieged if they didnt move further north the opposition was hoping the presence of a turkish observation post in the area would stop the government advance but it tempted by the Turkish Military to reinforce that position failed when an airstrike launched by a syrian or russian warplane on monday prevented it from reaching its destination. The Syrian Government and its allies have been advancing in the past 2 weeks they have now taken more territory than they did in the 1st 3 months of their military campaign its not clear if the rebels had been subjected to heavy fire power are exhausted or if the army is using better tactics like concentrating the strikes close to the front lines and on rebel supply routes but the relentless airstrikes and partment continue to force people into displacement in recent days more than 25000 are believed to have moved north closer to the border with turkey war monitors and activists say over 700000 syrians are homeless since the military escalation began in late april of. The past few days witnessed on president the bombardment that is why the people who didnt leave during the 1st months of the offensive back everything and left most of them believe that houses will either be fully destroyed or taken over by the regime. The bombardment of opposition held towns across southern libya continues as the Syrian Government presses on with its offensive there have been more civilian casualties as rebels promised to defend what is left of their last stronghold the battle is not over for their aljazeera beirut. The u. N. Security council has met for a special session on the crisis facing the middle east head of the meeting the u. S. Special representative for iran warned the Iran Nuclear Deal hadnt provided stability to the region what was promised in the Iran Nuclear Deal that the deal would moderate irans behavior that it would contribute to Regional Peace and stability has not happened in fact quite the opposite we have seen the Iran Nuclear Deal come at the expense of peace and stability in the middle east because iran spent the sanctions relief. On its Missile Program and on its proxies the u. N. Is also warning the conflict in yemen is at a critical point she habitants he has more from the United Nations or a great deal of change since Martin Griffiths last briefed the Security Council all him the situation in yemen notably the takeover of the southern port city of mumbai southern separatists griffiths condemned that movie said talks that have been proposed by saudi arabia in jeddah to take place as quickly as possible the sudden separatists have agreed to those talks the Yemeni Government however has said in the past that they want a full withdrawal of Southern Forces from them before those talks can take place however the Yemeni Government did welcome the prospect of the talks at least at the u. N. Security council meanwhile the graphic says for the future of yemen these talks have to happen as quickly as possible we are facing a crucial moment in the destination of this conflict in yemen as we have seen in other than and are beyond questions regarding yemens future being posed more forcefully than before the fragmentation of yemen is becoming a stronger and more pressing threat. This of course makes our efforts in the yemeni Peace Process more urgent than ever but there is no time to lose the stakes are becoming too high for the future of yemen the yemeni people and indeed the wider region also briefing the un Security Council uns assistant secretary for humanitarian affairs she once again said that the humanitarian Assistance Program of the un is only 34 percent funded the main problem there is saudi arabia and the u. A. E. Not stumping up the money that theyve promised and this could have really dire consequences in the next few days she said she said water and sanitation programs will be stopped in 4 governorates and 300000 people are extreme risk of cholera as a result italys Prime Minister just epic content has announced hell be stepping down after weeks of tension with these right Wing Coalition partner can take blame the leader of the far right league party methane ourselves the need for sparking the crisis hes warning the Political Uncertainty will harm if the economy. Like vision the. Motion of defiance is forced us to set a calendar for new elections there were also statements in these last days and in these last weeks that have forced me to put an end to this government experience. As the latest from rome. That he would be stepping down from the role of Prime Minister in his speech he laid the blame firmly at the feet of one of the deputy Prime Ministers met. The leader of the far right on to migrant lead part he said that their salvini had to straighten this clinical crisis for personal gain and for an opportunity for his party to try and make a power grab however you responded in kind that he saw himself and i was being a free man who was not afraid of being judged by the italian people and if they were to be a snap election coming up shortly he did use me very much the rhetoric that hes conducted at rallies reaching out very emotive language saying that he was speaking for the italian people but there was little in the way of any pragmatic solution to this crisis now. Goes to see the president later on this evening there was no guarantee that he might not have his resignation rejected he could be asked by president to form another government with a Different Party but with different parties involved i. E. 5 star and maybe the Opposition Democratic Party or it could revert back to the same formula where its the 5 Star Movement again with the party but there has been so much political wrangling and bad blood between the 2 parties and the numbers are still very much in the favor in the parliament of the 5 star but it is still very difficult to see how exactly the impasse that has been caused by my peers will find a way of resolving itself in the next few days. Paula. Business leaders niland have rejected britains calls to renegotiate londons exit from the e. U. The u. K. s Prime Minister Boris Johnson has insisted a new way must be found to keep the irish border open but he still cant say what the plan might be lawrence lee reports from the irish border. Challenge to have breakfast at a hotel outside dublin on the Small Business owners are being taught how to fill out piles of customs papers it means a border going up across ireland theyll have to and its an expense many can barely afford this is what people mean when they say the Irish Economy could suffer because of brick says do business is no do you know what the British Governments plan is. I dont i dont see why the commentator said the start of this whole process dont watch the inches watch the miles so if youre trying to think if you try to follow bragg said step by step be incredibly frustrating because its not a large most people are familiar with. Ever since he became Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said the u. K. Will leave the e. U. Before november in his letter to the European Union he also insists a new deal can and must be found to free his country from being stuck in a Customs Union because its been rejected by the British Parliament but neither here nor in brussels to they believe him weve no idea how old movie the latter didnt go into much detail but he keeps referring once again to the socalled alternative arrangements the problem with these alternative arrangements is they dont exist none have been given to us as an example in operation anywhere in the world the havent been laid out properly so thats why we really do need the box on germs policy. The sharp end of all this is in irish border towns like dundalk where Free Movement in and out of the u. K. Is crucial to their livelihoods there is no overstating the anger they holds towards the British Government so the one thing that weve learnt about irish history over the generations has been that britain gets bored and wanders off from the topic problems or rice and then its only when the problem that we can show up and we can bring them back into looking at it instead of looking at it in a camp situation where there isnt a security or anything its underlying the issue. So imagine a scenario in which this motorway crossing the border has customs posts and queues of traffic with all the contingent security risks to the place might not be far away the dread fear in our land is that any physical manifestation of a border could lead to this if the republicans attacking not only british but irish Customs Officials britain says its just scaremongering there will never be a border on the island of islands but in his letter to the European Union Boris Johnson cannot say how he could guarantee is in the sense of dundalk a sculpture was erected after former u. S. President clinton helped finalize the good friday peace deal and addressed 800000 people. In celebration the sculpture is called dialogue and celebrates the art of compromise how times have changed enormously aljazeera on the irish border. Or dolphin lists is the Deputy Director of the think tank british influence joins us now from the capital london lets 1st of all start with some lines that you just dropping here statements by Boris Johnson the british Prime Minister saying the use being a bit negative but im sure well get there is this optimism well founded. Well its characteristic of Boris Johnsons approach for the last 3 years which is to say that if we believe something hard enough well get it without putting in any of the work required to achieve the outcome or paying any attention to our negotiating partners are saying hes not looking at ease interests hes not thinking about how they might be able to see a process he simply say we want to get rid the backstop that for the buck so it must be got rid of its as though he cant conceive of anyone else having a position different from his own why is Boris Johnson not putting forward any new proposal for the e. U. To consider do you think. Because there arent any and he must know that there are 2 there are 2 lines of thinking about what johnsons done in this letter to donald tusk the 1st is that he really does believe that by sheer force of his alleged charisma the e. U. Will somehow cave in to all his demands even though theyve said they wouldnt do that the 2nd fieri is that he doesnt really want to have a renegotiation of the great city of the tool he simply wants to line up a new deal scenario which he can then blame on the e. U. And the easy intransigence because theyre not going to budge when the buck stop now i think that its more likely that he believes the e. U. Will cave at the last minute because i dont believe that johnson wants to be blamed alternately for an ideal scenario which will cause such chaos in his own country or if we look at this from the e. U. s perspective surely theyve got their eye on the British Parliamentary reconvening on september the 3rd right so in a sense do they have any incentive to do anything right now you know before Parliament Comes back into the picture. Does parliament have an incentive know if theres legally is or does the i mean the e. U. Must know that Jeremy Corbin has plans to bring down this government if you were the e. U. You know would you be thinking let me wait and see what happens on september the 3rd. The fundamental issue is that the e. U. Has no incentive to do anything the e. U. Primary objective is to maintain its own political integrity if the e. U. Were to give way to Boris Johnson when he didnt give way to his predecessor theresa may and screw up the backstop even to a just the backstop that would fundamentally compromise their integrity because what they would be doing is they would be throwing our islands under the blasts in favor of a member state that was actually leaving and theres no love lost between Boris Johnson the e. U. So it fatally weaken the e. U. To do that i would also tell not just oil and but all the small countries of the e. U. That fundamentally when push comes to shove theyre interesting count and not to be face or to the east long term objectives so theyre not going to budge so of course they know that parliament can make a move to stop new deal and the idea that parliament should tie its hands so the e. U. Will somehow move is a because that is simply giving away part of its leverage in the hope that the e. U. Wont excise its own leverage sounds like a crash out. On the cards thanks so much john than less. Still ahead of al jazeera thousands are evacuated as wildfires rage across the spanish Holiday Island of gran tenaglia. Hello and surprisingly still its summer so its the shower there are a few just edging out of afghanistan to the high grind of the himalayan plateau and the something appearing in turkey in fact the coup is a pretty substantial thunderstorms at least in northern turkey possibly including ankara during wednesday maybe even thursday otherwise its a dry picture the temptation to rounds drop down to a more reasonable 35. 00 but it baghdad was to the high end of the fortys in fact does an unofficial warning of a heatwave in the baghdad area tensions why ease a little bit its still hard to still further south than to kuwait weve been seeing temperatures approaching or even exceeding 50 in the last couple of days once again otherwise just a dry picture but the wind direction the terms are huge is in places like qatar and 39 degrees is hot what is this humid but that Standard Practice time of the year goes all the way ran through to buy a pedometer as well with significant prevailing breeze solace to get in the influence of the southwest monsoon 26. 00 degrees here off and its drizzling and often cloudy and extend some to some degree for the coast of the otherwise apart from the small chance to share in yemen it is across dry. It looks ugly it sounds ugly and scares people from americas high streets to mexicos on the wilds we control the seaside and who controls the other side people in power follows the smuggling route and test the ease of acquiring untraceable weapons on american soil the weapon that was designed for war and it took you about 5 minutes to buy at. Americas gowns arming mexicos cartel on al jazeera congressman are you interested in stopping crime. Theyre watching aljazeera time to recap our headlines now Syrian Rebels have withdrawn from the strategically important town of concho corn in southern in the province this follows days of heavy fighting with Government Forces the un Security Council has been warned that the conflict in yemen is now of a critical point the u. N. Special envoy told the council during a session on the middle east yemen faces being torn apart. Talian Prime Minister decepticon tires offered to resign after the league party leader in a withdrew support for the government contrary told the senate the collapse of the coalition could damage the Italian Economy. Now a dramatic illustration of the political crisis in italy is unfolding off the coast of the island of lampedusa more refugees have been leaping from a rescue ship and theyre trying to escape worsening conditions on board theyve been stranded for almost 20 days timing government is refusing to let the ship dock under pressure from salvage any spain has said. It will send a navy ship to pick them up a lot of the news is a spokeswoman for the charity proactiv a phenomenon she says many felt they had no option but to jump. All these people have been living on the deck of our boat for hunting days now seems the moment that we rescue so im going martin that was the beginning of the we ended the rescue we were 103 we were leaving thinking im doing everything on board to do about. We think that all of these people come for media known for. All of us by the lake. All kinds of is. On the are really really not so it was time for those of us say after the thing was with you 19 days ago when he was to both so alive to say who are being recruited for why are they happening in how we have rocky to sum up and let me go all of this and also the needs of a miner was you still are on the enough being 5 day those weeks and saddam was on they are seeing right now the smoke on the 200 meter. They need of the gun to reach the goal so they mean like the one they were uses pakistan says it will take kids disputes with india over the status of indian administrate kashmir and to the International Court of justice the move comes after Indias Parliament voted to revoke the autonomy of the region 2 weeks ago august on reacted to the move 5 counting trade in transport links and expelling in the of the best of the. Meanwhile new delhi is ease some restrictions in india and a minister of kashmir which has been in lockdown for more than 2 weeks is given some response to the people of the capital srinagar as well as journalists trying to report on the fallout of the decision to strip the region of autonomy and job vora as more from new delhi. 10 days after a complete information blackout the Indian Government set up 4 computers with Internet Access for more than 200 journalists in a media center it controls in srinagar the reporters wait patiently until its their turn. Some on latif who writes for the indian daily the tribune says sometimes he queues for hours just to email his story and if hes lucky chat briefly with his editor. You have to stand in the queue for them and then when you send a story you dont get. The response of. Then you have to go back again to the same computer and see. The Indian Government has issued press passes to most journalists in the past few days but access to the internet is tightly controlled and freedom of movement largely restricted to within itself. Conditions however have improved a little since the 1st days of the lockdown imposed earlier this month after a new delhis decision to revoke indian administers autonomy. What were doing is trying. To finding out whats happening on august 13th the editor of the Kashmir Times filed a petition in India Supreme Court against the Communications Blackout the government is saying that the people are happy everything is fine people are coming out on the lord let them tell us. That they are indeed happy desperate but if you read the grow over the newspapers lawyer and human rights activist says the journalists have had a particularly tough time even in the financing and crippling of media what we see is the targeted silencing of the Media Journalists we do not hear that was ignored today its been difficult for journalists to report from strain ago the capital of indian administered kashmir for the past 2 weeks a minute on one of the phone booths opened by the government was considered a luxury and although some restrictions have been lifted making it relatively easier to file stories from the city the rest of the rally remains mostly out of bounds art of war or aljazeera new delhi pakistan says india is using water as a weapon by releasing dams which could flood villages india is released to reservoirs including the major bakra dam saying its because water levels were too high Pakistans National Disaster Agency says it wasnt warned as issued flood alerts for villages downstream surrounding the city river under water sharing treaty signed in 1960 any dam release must come with a warning but india says the amount released was low enough but no warning was needed brigadier matara weather is the spokesman for Pakistans National Disaster Management authority he says the release will more than double the volume of rivers downstream. It will definitely affect the people those who are designing in the low lying areas along this because there was no. Issue of. It being the. Country and we are the country but now we are monitoring had both the lease of water and quantity of it is coming closer to pakistan and maybe tonight 2021. And then the floor will be monitored and amount of water which is coming into the pakistan. It is likely to affect 60. 00 to 70. 00 village only in one district which is just on the entrance. To the pakistan that is the School District same amount of villages are going to be affected and other distance. Along the river such. Hong kongs leader kerry lamb says she hopes the recent nonviolent protests show the territory is on its way to peace sundays march through 2000000 people it was the calmest in weeks of demonstrations which were often become violent they began over changes to hong kongs extradition laws but theyve expanded into a Wider Movement against beijings growing influence and i can give you this very clear commitment as a political level that the bill instead there is no plan there is no plan to revive the spell especially in light of the public concerns. From the civil human rights front in South Carolina is still on addressing what protesters are most upset about. On kong needs a mechanism that can ensure democratic election so that citizens could elect a chief executive that can represent the people and also listen to voices of the people and we do not need a platform for dialogue in which the. Law and without time with her money and of course we know a reform will take time so for the time being we carry land our chief executive to commission an independent commission of inquiry to really investigate what has happened in the past few weeks so that the government will win back the trust police in turkey have used water cannon battens to disperse demonstrators staging a sit in in the southeastern city of the outback and hundreds of people protested for a 2nd day against the removal of 3 pro kurdish mayors from the other back and in the cities of martine and van Turkish Police separately detained over 400 people on monday for suspected links to the outlawed Kurdish Group the p. K. K. 9000 people have fled several villages on the spanish Holiday Island. Where wildfires are burning fires started last week and have been difficult to contain so has more. Shock and disbelief in gran canaria these villages were forced out of their homes as large wildfires burn out of control across the Spanish Island they started spreading across mountainous areas on saturday as high temperatures strong winds and low humidity fuel the flames this headline reads the unstoppable catastrophe that oh they told me i had to move accommodation and to get out immediately because the fire and especially the smoke was descending it was so so hot. I think the Risk Youth Team saved me because i did exactly what they told me on the one hand its good news because they contain the fire in the town on the other hand its bad news because of the disaster that is happening. One of the biggest deployments of firefighters in recent spanish history is under way a crew of 1000 is working around the clock to control the fires the flames as high as 50 meters have made their jobs harder was preventing water dropping planes from operating in some areas. The fire is still beyond our extinguishing capabilities when the weather conditions start to change thats when we can start to control it. Gran canaria in the Canary Islands is popular with tourists millions visit every year to enjoy its mountains and beaches more the Spanish Government has assured them the wildfires are only confined to Higher Grounds environmentalist concerns that spain could lose some of its most important nature reserves so to hide it. And lets take you through some of the headlines here on aljazeera now Syrian Opposition activists say rebels have withdrawn from the strategically important town of corn in Southern Province where this follows days of fighting which saw them firing rockets into government territory the un Security Council has been warned the conflict in yemen is now at a critical point the u. N. Special envoy told the council during a session on the middle east yemen faces being torn apart italys Prime Minister just separate content has offered to resign after the league are to leave them and they are savvy any withdrew support from the government contacted told the senate the collapse of the coalition would damage the Italian Economy let this usually go legos motion of defiance of force just to set a calendar for new elections there were also statements in these last days and in these last weeks that have forced me to put an end to this government experience. And italian prosecutor has ordered the seizure of the migrant rescue boat the open arms the vessel is anchored off the italian island of lampedusa the prosecutor has ordered that more than 80 migrants on board be evacuated in needy atlee. U. K. And the e. U. Leaders appear to have hardened their positions on reopening brags that negotiations throwing more doubt on any breakthrough before the october 31st deadline European Council president has rejected british Prime Minister Boris Johnsons latest demands to get rid of the socalled irish backstop provisions in the current Withdrawal Agreement its an insurance policy to prevent border checks between Northern Ireland and the republic of ireland. Those are your headlines the news continues here on aljazeera the inside story. A small region in somalia heads to the polls and the results could have huge consequences for the horn of africa kenya ethiopia. Just going for influence over job so why is it so important and what i say this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program. A small region in somalia is at the center of a growing power struggle in east africa the