Their mouths because they were only allowed to be fed on nutritious food i believe them when they said they were sleeping on concrete floors for 2 months i believe them. Now among the other details provided to the House Committee were the fact that the morale of the guards was absolutely put bottom that the would be migrants were being kept in temperatures absolutely sweltering that there is simply not enough facilities for migrants on that border those that are delivered into federal custody or sometimes moved back to the Detention Centers because prosecutors refuse to try the cases or theres not enough evidence to try them so it is a system that is completely broken what ever President Trump has to say and part of that is resulting in what is now documented and substantiated mass small treatment of migrants particularly the very youngest ok mike hanna thank you plenty more ahead on the aljazeera news hour including. More than 120. 00 people who are said to be killed in 48 hours a serious army and its allies step up their fight for the last rebel stronghold. Gibraltar Police Arrest another 2 crew members from the iranian supertanker seized last week. In sports some moments to forget practice at the british grand prix rahul as the action from silverstone a little later. But 1st russian cargo planes have begun delivering a controversial Missile System to turkey the u. S. Warned it would cancel an f. 35. 00 fighter jet deal if turkey took delivery of the missiles sent of course who has more from istanbul. This russian plane cargo thats got turkeys allies who worried. This 400 surface a year Missile System is expected to give the Turkish Military a clear advantage in the region it can detect and destroy incoming missiles up to 400 kilometers away back to u. S. And nato say it is not compatible with their Weapon System and insist it could pose a risk to their new Stealth Fighter jet the f. 35 we dont know exactly the extent. The russians would allow this means size to be used in what kind of targeting possibilities of course the turkish sides argue that turkey would be totally free to use it but the more much depends on the called the. Friend in full i didnt cations nato says it is concerned about the potential consequences of this missile purchase while washington has vowed to impose sanctions if that 400 ever become operational. For turkey this is a done deal despite a possible setback for its Defense Industries that would earn up to 12000000000. 00 from their 35. 00 program. Surgeon if he says to the s 400 is a temporary solution to turkeys immediate need for air defense but we have many partnerships of the u. S. In f. 35 and other Defense Industries that are vital for us because the engines of the helicopters fighter jets we produce are u. S. Made no one would desire any ban on these imports. The list of possible u. S. Sanctions ranjan severer and include cutting turkey off from american and International Loans preventing its transactions on foreign exchanges and targeting turkish banks businesses and executives took a ses the tools the russian system because thats for hundreds were more sophisticated and cheaper among other reasons the system is expected to be operational by october during last months it went to summit in japan us present donald trump said it was the Obama Administration that refused to deliver American Patriot missiles to turkey and that was unfair presence our don says trump has now promised not to impose sanctions on tricky but it is unclear whether trump will be able to persuade congress to do the same scene and go solo aljazeera stumble a leaders from west african countries have agreed to switch to a single regional currency called the echo the move means the former french colonies plan to give up their use of the c. F. A. Franc currency its part of a plan to strengthen regional ties and boost trades by the dresses joining us live from abidjan ivory coast economic capital to tell us more about the decision of the leaders of the west African Monitoring Union as. Well basically the president of the european sort of west African Monetary Union and of course the president of ivory coast terms of who is the host president said or announced that they are going to roll out this currency the echo in the next few months whether or not other countries in the region right now there are 15 countries or member countries of the Economic Community of West African States and a lot of them have not indicated whether they will join this single Currency Initiative however. The president of ivory coast who is the host of this summit said they will go ahead to. Out countries that are not radio have not made up their mind can join later if they want and setting up questions as to whether the currency would be at par with existing french c. F. A. The president said that is the plan right now and they will try to keep it that way. One of the things is one of the things or what things of that was i have been looking at is these african countries or west african countries francophone countries. Come in and remember the c. F. A. Is is actually going to buy the french and its been an operation for more than half a century now they are trying gradually in turn towards Financial Independence from the french which a lot of economies and a lot of observers in africa say is good for them but its not clear that or not the french will retaliate somehow but so far the decision is made the west African Leaders have decided that they will dump the c. F. A. And of course go with the eco and hoping that regional economies like now and the rest will also join the bandwagon and then they will have better integration im going themselves however the question is how will this impact on the regional economy some believe that it will impact much but looking at the production values of west africa and indeed the african continent itself the production maze is weak most of the countries in west africa actually export all materials to the west and then import almost everything so there is virtually little trade im a member state of the West African Union and of course the african continental trade Free Trade Agreement that was agreed on by leaders in the last meeting last week in egypt actually will mean according to some economists will mean a little less right however the leaders are hopeful that they will be able to raise the production the sort of the the in to trade between them to more than 60 percent in the next 2 or 3 years ok as it is with an update from abidjan thank you sir to pick up on what adams was saying experts are divided on what impact that single currency will have on the regions economy nicholas hard cause more on that from senegal capital the car. There are topics that can pose designed to bring west african together football with the africa cup of nations. How to properly grill a chicken. And money thats because 15 west african countries have agreed to create and share a single currency called the fine exterior. Its a great idea if we have the same currency we could be one big country like america big and strong and then we would all be treated as equals. Already 8 of the 15 countries use the same currency the african franc or c. F. A. A legacy of french colonialism. Frances central bank acts like a manager holding part of their treasury to guarantee financial stability. The 7 other nations often deal with inflation in currency volatility with each of them directing their own monetary policy. I want to see a graduate student trade says he has watched leaders say a common currency is the solution since 1903 it was part of the problem but it was a real playing defensively of this of being too aggressive in not thinking of the collective we need to place a team for this to work for everybody to win from it including cynical. While it nigeria is the continents biggest economy senegal and i ricos to are some of the Fastest Growing in the world and yet the u. N. Says less than 20 percent of trade here is happening among african countries the challenge is to get the big players in the region like ivory coast and nigeria to stop using it against each other as a Team Together for the benefit of the people of west africa. For senegalese Chicken Stock maker but she said a common currency is good for business allowing easier access to nigerias 420000000000. 00 economy. Need to move beyond the african franc to. Nigeria is the driving force of west africa. A single currency would allow us to overcome all of her children just today. Its a sizzling debate with each its own opinion while there may be uncertainty over the single currency regional leaders believe that in the end. Africans will come out as winners Nicolas Hawke aljazeera. Police in somalia are reporting a large explosion from a car gunfire at a hotel it sets have happened that hotel in the port city of kiss my 0 local lawmakers were meeting at the time casualties are still unknown and the Group Alshabaab said it carried out the suicide attack. Demonstrations are taking place in northern algeria for the 21st successive friday opposition figures are calling for elections a civilian led government and an end to what they call the ruling elites prodemocracy protests began in february which led to the resignation of longtime president to flee 2 months later. Police and have arrested 2 more officers from an Iranian Oil Tanker seize last week bringing the total number to 4 and the ship was detained by British Forces on suspicion of taking oil to syria in breach of e. U. Sanctions none of the arrested individuals have been charged for a challenge following the story out of flunder what mori hearing about the arrests rory. So the man in detention now of the caps in the chief officer and 2 2nd mate says the 2 2nd mates who were detained on friday the other 2 men were detained on thursday the Gibraltar Police are saying that these 4 men theyre all indian nationals by the way not particularly surprising that they are not iranians given that the ship was an iranian oil supertanker because much of the Merchant Shipping around the world is crude by. An International Selection of sailors from south asia or in the philippines etc. These men are now helping the police with their inquiries according to the gibraltar and author of these they are being interviewed under caution as you say none of the 4 have been charged yet but this series of arrests is the result of several days worth of investigations and searches by the droves of police have been on board the vessel they have gone through documents they have seized Electronic Devices they have taken samples of the oil on board ready the accusation is that the ship was headed for syria and therefore it was breaking e. U. Sanctions against shipping oil to the asaad governments now the iranians of course say this is this is a gross violation of International Law and the gibraltar north orosius have taken the step of trying to dispel any accusation that the detention of the grace one supertanker was say directed by the americans they say thats nonsense this was an independence decision that was made by them and them only. Because of the intelligence that they had the ship was breaking international rules. And they say there were no Political Considerations taken in making this decision and yet another decision that was made or is that we are now hearing that the u. K. Has brought forward plans to send a 2nd warship to the gulf amidst the rising tensions with iran. Yes so they have a frigates thats there at the moment cold h. M. S. Montrose and it was montrose that in the last few days. Got involved or outside the british say in an incident where 3 iranian vessels according to the british were advancing on a an oil tanker that was operated by be paid in the gulf and the assumption was that these iranian vessels were going to try and seize or stop the British Oil Tanker the h. M. S. Montrose had to get in the way and warn the iranian vessels off mt the decision has been taken by the ministry of defense in the u. K. To fast track the deployments of h. M. S. Duncan which has been on deployment in the black sea area bring that forward and send it to the gulf so what that means is that for a while at least there will be a bolstered British Naval presence in the gulf area that will allow the agents one chose to go and do some resupplying and refueling but this is obviously taken because the british feel there is an imminent threats to shipping in the area the moments they put british vessels on its highest possible alert and announce like the military steps to protect them ok returns thank you still ahead on the news hour a look at why former rebel fighters into london are struggling to transition back to civilian life on the 135000000 dollar man who has details of the big signing up barcelona. How the weather stays hot and dry across the middle east and no surprises here we still got i shall is about the caucuses between the black sea and. The caspian sea they will sink a little further south which is because through the next couple of days is somewhat weather the in the forecast the georgia mania for. Both eastern pasta turkey also seeing some of that cloud and raymer 41 celsius for tara mostly a high of around 31 for beirut and also for jerusalem could have to 44 in baghdad 45 for a city stay strong across afghanistan and also into karate all the way across into pakistan those showers in the forecast here and a similar picture as we go on through sunday right across the region back towards the levant often try to across. A little more cloud a possibility still around southern parts of vermont as we go on through the next day or so temperatures falling back a touch and to around 42 degrees on sas they often they may well well see some of the temperatures across many parts come down into Southern Africa and here it is a lot each dry got a few showers just clipping the fos out of south africa sea temperatures in cape town of around 17 celsius durban with a high of 23 degrees. On counting the cost 3. 00 decades after the collapse of the soviet union is russia is engaging with africa to raise its political clout and we look at the economics behind that his decision to buy the s. 400 and after 35. 00 stealth bomb counting the cost and i just you know. Driven by outrage and spanning generations the real hinge of demonstrators gathered on the very day a widely criticized repatriation agreement between the governments of bangladesh and me and more was to begin the anger was all too apparent and the fear was probably if you dont like were so afraid that if they send one of us back to myanmar today tomorrow theyll send back to. And the day after tomorrow theyll send back 20 if we were given citizenship in myanmar then there would be no need to take us back there we would go back on our own we must remember. All among the most persecuted minority in the world. Hello again the top stories on the aljazeera news hour the u. S. Labor secretary stepping down over his role in striking a plea deal years ago convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein the president confirmed alex across that will be leaving his post in a week. Members of the u. S. House of representatives have testified to congress about the mistreatment of migrants at federal Detention Center and they described the horrible conditions. Russian cargo planes have begun delivering a controversial Missile System to turkey 1st shipment of the 400 air Defense System has been flown into a military airfield in ankara u. S. Warned it would council an f. 35 fighter jet if turkey took delivery of the missiles. Its been described as the adlib offensive but Syrian Government forces leading the campaign against rebels in the northwest are now on the defensive more than 120. 00 soldiers on fighters have died in heavy fighting over the last 48 hours in Hama Province and is in a while there are reports from neighboring lebanon president Bashar Assads forces are finding it hard to make substantial gains. Syrian Government Forces and their allies are struggling to take ground from the opposition their offensive in northwest syria has been costly and difficult instead of advancing they have to defend. Their territory in the face of a coordinated and fierce counter offensive launched by rebel factions but both sides have suffered heavy casualties in the battle for one town how many after village in northern hama more than 100 soldiers and rebels are believed to have been killed according to the syrian observatory for human rights it says that in more than 2 months of fighting nearly 900. 00 soldiers have died on the governments side while nearly 1000 were killed on the rebel side and yet the russian backed campaign has yielded little for president Bashar Assads side. But it has brought a lot of destruction rebel controlled towns in and around it live province are being targeted in russian and syrian air strikes more than 500 civilians have been killed more than 100 of them children. Health facilities ambulances Civil Defense headquarters all destroyed. Just in the last 2 days ago clinics or schools that have received. Civilian targets that is really unacceptable we have a total of more than 300000. 00 people the displaced in the last 2 months and our top concern is really protection of civilians the basic rule of. I words of condemnation have been repeated in recent weeks but little accountability or pressure from the International Community to stop the offensive russia and turkey will decide what happens next that has become a proxy war between them even though they should be working together on syria through the socalled asked in a process they were sponsors of a cease fire an adlib last year instead they are using it as a bargaining chip and another member of the asked and a team iran is involved as well. Unlike previous offensives iranian backed troops are not on the front lines its believed to be one of the reasons why the government has made gains it leaves those foot soldiers it seems there is no understanding between iran and russia and france rules imposed conflict syria and it seems russia and turkey do not agree on how to split northern syria. Civilians are paying the price. Beirut the trade imbalance between china and the us is getting worse despite the trade war started by donald trump for the 1st half of this year chinas trade surplus with the u. S. Rose by 5 percent to about one 140000000000. 00 in the month of june saw the biggest increase this year in the same month chinas imports from the u. S. Dropped by 31 percent but its exports to the u. S. Fell by less than 8 percent and thats after the u. S. Slapped tariffs on 200000000000. 00 worth of chinese goods both the u. S. And chinese president s have agreed to resume trade talks after they met at the g. 20 summit last month stan voice is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise institute he says its unlikely for china and the u. S. To reach a treat agreement anytime soon. I think the numbers show what you would expect from an increase from an increase in production as on both from the us side and then in response from the from the chinese side is what you see is that trade flows in both directions so exports from china to the us and from the us to china have both been reduced i think the administration the administrations original goal was to reduce the trade deficit not to reduce trade flows start shortly that was what they would probably say of course if you if you believe that the administration is purely a protectionist one which is a very reasonable position but not with what they say they are then for sure reducing growth flows. Was the objective and. Accomplished that its difficult i think the 2 sides have have very different objectives obviously the u. S. Has been very unclear as to what its specific objectives are it goes from a very narrow demand that china buy more soybeans to extremely broad demands that china completely changes system of political and economic governance i think as long as the u. S. Doesnt make it clear which one of those 2 goals it wants to accomplish. Hard to reach an agreement and if the u. S. Chooses the 2nd option that is demanding that china completely change its systems of system of economic governance then i dont think well ever see an agreement. North korea and several gulf countries are among the 44. 00 nations that signed a joint letter to the u. N. Supporting chinas policies engine jang it comes after 22. 00 western countries issued another joint letter to the un condemning chinas treatment of ethnic religious minorities is accused of detaining more than a 1000000 readers and what it calls Training Centers to stamp out extremism activists say their concentration camps against the muslim minority. Its a dispute that threatens to hurt the global Tech Industry and production of devices many of us depend on japan is restricting exports of materials to south korea which are used to make things like smartphones and t. V. s Priyanka Gupta explains why. A year ago japan and south korea came together their 20 goal of stopping north korea from Getting Nuclear Weapons and boosting regional trade. A year later the 2 sides meet again this time to trade disputes over north korea japan says south korea cannot be trusted to implement u. N. Sanctions against pyongyang its imposed restrictions on some exports south korea says japans claims are untrue and wants an international investigation. If the investigation finds fault with our government then we will make an apology for that and make corrections immediately however if the investigation draws a conclusion that our government is not at fault when the japanese government should not only apologize to us but also retract the retaliatory export restrictions immediately. There is anger and so calls for a boycott of japanese goods. The japanese restrictions are seen as a retaliation after recent south korean courts rulings relating to japans former rule over the Korean Peninsula and its actions during world war 2 Japanese Companies were ordered to compensate for most south korean forced laborers japan insists its not mixing politics with trade agreements you are going to get from japans perspective this measure is a necessary review of operations to appropriately execute japanese export control for National Security concerns and not a very measure south korea is the worlds biggest supplier of computer chips a small from displays with plants like apple and while way and there are fears japans restrictions quoted Companies Like samsung south koreas ruling party says the government will set aside more than 250000000. 00 to protect its companies from japanese action. This move made by the japanese government could be interpreted as the 1st shot in a trade war if it is a prolonged embargo and if. If the japanese inforce it very strictly and in a tough manner and if south korea cannot get these materials elsewhere then it could it could have a serious impact on. South koreas Technology Production the treat dispute may be sudden but the timing is critical in just over a week japan we elect members to the opera house and election Prime Minister shinzo are being doesnt want to use a south koreas leader seen as an important force in denuclearization talks on the Korean Peninsula is looking to maintain support for his party in parliamentary elections next year with neither side batten down the rift could widen even father Priyanka Gupta is here police in paris have removed hundreds of mostly west african undocumented migrants from the citys famed pantheon muslim lets cross over to Felicity Barr with more from our european broadcast center. Thank you terry yes the building which contains the remains of distinguished french citizens was stormed by protesters demanding the right to remain in france. For the demonstrators who have identified themselves as the black vest took over the building and barricaded themselves inside for a number of hours before their removal by riot police migrants showed videos on facebook demanding their residency papers are normalized as well as a meeting with Prime Minister at what felipe the reports from paris while hundreds of Asylum Seekers occupied the ponzi on central paris just after lunch time a local time here in paris is an Historic Building in the heart of the french capital that is where famous of french women and men are buried its a symbol of the French Republican that symbolism has not been lost on those who have chosen this venue for their protests now the Asylum Seekers are saying that many of them have been here for years they have the right to ask for asylum they have papers showing that the french state approves theyre a sign of requests but what they are saying is that they havent had those papers changed into the sort of papers and permits to the allow them to work legally in this country therefore many of them are working illegally many of them do not have access to housing and theyre saying thats simply unfair what they are demanding is to see the Prime Minister it was believed they want to have the legal right to stay in france they say it is right there was a promise to them some of them have been here for a decade without the white papers. Freedom is to have our papers to work we are here for violence will trouble we here for our right to work working illegally you slavery. See we do the work of it shameful to see this in france the country of human rights thats why were demanding papers for everyone and 2018 the french government passed a new Immigration Law perfect president came out all back or said it was all. Cracking down on illegal immigration and proving the situation for people applying for asylum but that its here disagree. The tree is in red crescent says the number of people who died in last weekends migrant ship disaster has risen to 72 only 4 of the 86 passengers on board are known to have survived the boat capsized off the coast of chile they were taken to a Migrant Center is our sister treatments the agency says the final death toll could rise further making it one of the worst michael disasters to date an Italian Court has acquitted on the eritrean man of being a notorious human traffickers saying he was a victim of mistaken identity but how do you test the marion barry was this extradited to italy 3 years ago and accused of being the kingpin nicknamed the general outlook ations be dismissed although he was convicted of the lesser charge of aiding illegal immigration helping his cousin reach libya as hes already served 3 years judges ordered his release from prison the Kercher Verbeek sais that my client is not the general and this is that the think that we always sustain 3 c. Units for the 1st time although they are restored michel i. Got germany social democrats the junior partner in chancellor Angela Merkels governing coalition have circulated a paper to the European Political Group saying you have on the land is unsuitable for the role of European Commission president s the German Defense minister and merkel ally was nominated for the position by the European Council last week the blocks parliament is due to vote next tuesday on whether she will succeed john claude younker paper calls her and in adequate and in appropriate countess. European Council President criticized russias decision to ban flights to georgia as unjustified and disproportionate already tense relations between to place and moscow have deteriorated further since the business of a russian politician to the Georgian Parliament 3 weeks ago or just was speaking at a conference on the e. U. And Eastern Europe in the georgian city but to me from where Andrew Symonds reports. Its the annual gathering of east european states and the e. U. Russia is always irritated by such familiar images of. Whats led the kremlin to direct flights to georgia the unfamiliar images of the russian protests every day for more than 3 weeks in the couple