A time over his immigration policies with some democrats accusing him of cruelty because of conditions in Detention Centers on the border with mexico mike hanna reports from washington the trumpet ministration is trying to change the narrative of 2 weeks of negative attention Vice President mike pence toured a migrant detention facility along the Us Mexico Border different from what we hear from many of the critics. I couldnt be more impressed with the compassionate work that our cause and the Border Protection to doing here at this facility on capitol hill the House OversightCommittee Heard a different version of conditions inside the centers and what was worst about this mr chairman was the fact that there were American Flags hanging all over the facilities that children being separated from their parents in front of an American Flag. That women were being called these names under an American Flag we cannot allow for this as we have seen this current strategy unfold intentional and cruelly created by the Trump Administration dead set on sending a hate filled message that those seeking refuge are not welcome in america in our America President trump has dismissed the claims of mistreatment of their phony sources that even after they write whatever they want but the scrimmage he made clear consider the details of maltreatment are fully substantiated a report considered by the committee was based on data provided by president trumps own Administration Officials under subpoena among the facts that they confirmed is the fact that as many as 18 children under the age of 2 infants and toddlers were separated from their parents for periods ranging from 20 days to 6 months the house efforts to investigate claims of abuse do not end here the Judiciary Committee this week approved a number of other subpoenas to be served on those dealing with migrants the intention to establish whether the implementation of the administrations 0 tolerance policy contravened federal law. Washington now you saw the u. S. Vice president visiting one Detention Center in that report well he also toward another facility crammed with almost 400 men in sweltering hes some said theyd been there about 40 days and complained of being hungry mike pence acknowledge it was cold tough stuff and that it expected to be overcrowded however he says the facilities are something all americans can be proud of. The tunisian red crescent says the number of people who died in last weekends migrant ship disaster has risen to 80 only 3 of the 86 passengers on board are known to have survived after the boat capsized off the coast of tunisia they were taken to a Migrant Center in desires its for treatment the agency says the death toll could rise further. Police in paris have removed hundreds of undocumented migrants protesting inside the citys pantheon mausoleum the demonstrators who have identified themselves as the black vests barricaded themselves inside the building for a number of hours they shared videos on facebook demanding their residency papers be normalise and a meeting with the french Prime Minister into a field that has more from paris. Well hundreds of Asylum Seekers oaky by the policy 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 french women and men are buried its a symbol of the French Republic not symbolism has not been lost on those who have chosen this venue for their protests now the Asylum Seekers the 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 that the sign of request but what they are saying is that they havent had those papers changed into the sort of papers and permits but for those around 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 that simply unfair what they are demanding is to see the Prime Minister it was felipe they want to have the legal right to stay in frauds they say it is a right that was promised 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 violent trouble we here for our right to live working illegally to slavery. So why did it work so that shameful to see this in front of the country of human rights to be scandalous thats why were demanding papers for everyone in 2018 different government passed a new Immigration Law perfect president came out on marcos said it was all about cracking down on illegal immigration but do you think the situation for people applying for asylum here disagree. More ahead on this aljazeera news hour including how the zimbabwean government plans to help its Public Workers survive the countrys soaring inflation plus a state of emergency and mandatory evacuations as Tropical Storm barry ballasts toward sinhalese yanna cull sly and old dr always are we knew that wimbledon brown has the action passed federal takes on the da. Yes present donald trump of the austin not a member of his cabinet for the resignation of labor secretary alex acosta his face here skepticism over a secret pedia he negotiated a decade ago with billionaire Jeffrey Epstein who is accused of sexually abusing underage girls radical hain has a story from washington and i want to thank our god he was a great great secretary and with that another cabinet secretary announces his resignation secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta has been facing intense criticism for giving a very lenient deal to an accused child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in 2008 when it cost was a u. S. Attorney both he and the president tried to downplay the case cabinet. Are temporarily right. It would be selfish for me to stay in this day and when youre talking about a case of lawyers all rather than about basing it on me right now you made a deal that people ask me where the next 12 years later theyre not happy with it youll have to figure all of that out of the bag he did a fantastic secretary of labor a cost is just the latest to go this president has had more turnover than any other president in modern history looking at his original cabinet hes replaced the secretaries of Defense Health and Human ServicesHomeland Security interior the attorney general of the Justice Department the secretary of state the Veterans Affairs the Environmental Protection agency the u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations and now the labor secretary most left due to scandal some facing allegations of corruption both political analyst Bill Schneider says it wont impact the president support his base it even if he doesnt deliver what he promises to his base they see him as. Fighting for them and getting rid of people that are in his way and they think thats probably a smart way to govern a now familiar pattern those close to the president face scandal step down and are replaced and the president continues on knowing so far no amount of controversy has hurt him with his core supporters political gain aljazeera washington. U. S. Regulators have approved a roughly 5000000000. 00 settlement with facebook over its handling of the coding to the wall street journal the federal trade commission has been investigating allegations a social media giant inappropriately shared the information of 87000000. 00 users with the british Political Consulting from cambridge on a letter a settlement would be the largest civil penalty ever paid to the f. T. C. Leaders from aids west african countries have agreed to switch to a single regional can see called the echo that means the former french colonies will give up their use of the c. F. A. Franc as 5 a plan to strengthen regional ties and boost straight amity trees has more from ivory coast is commercial capital abidjan. Its definitely leaders of west african nations using b r c a face from the 8 countries in the region under the west African Monetary Union have decided to go ahead with the rollout of the proposed west africa single currency call this said they are they have decided to go ahead with a process and any other country but wants to drawing or not decided to join can join later so in the next 2 months we will see the roll out of this currency in west africa that is going to be. Legal tender in this region of course to president ouattara the president of ivory coast and was president of this conference and it went on whether or not the new congress will be a park or the existing currency to which he answered. The Exchange Rate between the existing front c. F. A. And euro will remain the same with the echo comes on board today the Exchange Rate is 65. 00 to the euro before the heads of state decide to join next year the rates will not be affected immediately we hope when echo is launched others will join us there welcome it will be nice to have 12 as the 50 now basically people in the region will be looking up too big a kind of a slight. Nigeria ghana and others are still whether or not they will quickly join this process now will be the deciding factor will be how quickly these countries will join the process of utilizing or other joining be a core currency which will facilitate trade according to the leaders of the other meeting here today now what economists are wondering is what how this will impact the economies of these countries in west africa basically was to africa countries rich in resources i agree cultural and mineral but be the Production Base is very very slow and they will continue to import most of the products that are needed outside what the export actually is are all materials to the rest of the world for processing. Zimbabwe is going to raise Public Sector pay for the 2nd time in 3 months after labor groups right and mass protests inflation is running close to 100 percent and the country is struggling with shortages of bread fuel and medicine are mortazavi or somehow i. Think its. Traditional to charles bondevik and his wife glenda both take home 280. 00 zimbabwean dollars a month after deductions thats roughly 30 u. S. Dollars each combining both they salaries they agree to spend no more than 40. 00 on groceries but when they get to the till they realize theyve gone over budget things are just too expensive to make things worse some products they really need arent available because of shortages things that takes. Very little takes. Just taking issue as it comes to this people take us with troops the government is offering Civil Servants including teachers a cushioning allowance on top of the monthly salaries by thats only an extra 10 u. S. Dollars. Dreamed of but. I can dream all and can and who we didnt. If. You take this version is. Your door source. When zimbabwe gained independence from britain nearly 4 decades ago it had a strong currency but rising inflation over the years gradually eroded salaries of Civil Servants these notes were years from 1918 up until 2003 after land reform the economy collapsed inflation was one of the highest in the world thats when the government introduced these they were called the barricades the highest note was 100. 00 trainee and dollars people would have to carry a bag of cast just to buy a loaf of bread the money was worth less. Been 10 years ago theres a dollar was abandoned as an official currency in favor of foreign money cash shortages continued in 2016 introduced to trade alongside foreign currencies but things kept getting worse last month the government the temper is a bargain dollar known as r t g s the only legal tender after shopping charles and when they joined the queue for fuel another scarce commodity and for some after finding fuel there is no guarantee they will be power when they get home because of daily and frustrating electricity cuts for struggling Civil Servants and millions of others this is now an everyday reality in zimbabwe. Aljazeera. The u. N. Secretary general says more money is a gently needed to help rebuild be kept to 2. 00 devastating side zones and tony the terrorists visited the port city of bear after 4 months after psycho need dying inside Diane Kenneth the storms flattened finishes killing hundreds of people and leaving more than a 1000000 others home this Tropical Storm barry is maintaining its strength as it moves towards the usa to have noisy on our parts of new orleans al ready underwater after days of thunder storms and floods states of emergency have been declared with hurricane Warnings Issued and long the coast feel cold spac is a Research Scientist in the department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State university he says the greatest concern with this storm is the possible rainfall already seen play that is raising the cedar day and even yesterday before we got some rain. For other systems so were going to you know hurt perry maybe a man fall probably in the wee hours of the morning and theyre forecasting and sleet and it is much as 20 inches of rain and as i said you know the signal is already a flood stage this is a way to exacerbate some go flying at a very and because there is a very slow moving storm so the plane caused the biggest concern however obviously is the forecast does it there are 5 it does like into a hurricane right you see going to see some very severe theres just some significant when it passes along and you guys as high as 80 miles an hour and also you are going to see some storm surge so basically 4 it is a shooting from want to die in 3 to 6 feet high storm surge warnings posted for Central Mission is in as well as western the city. At least 17 people have been killed and 6 more are missing across nepal after torrential monsoon rains caused floods and landslides. River over flooded its banks destroying roads and flooding towns splays have evacuated people from their homes in the capital kept on due to heavy rains are expected to continue for another 2 days still ahead on the aljazeera news hour well look at why former rebel fighters in colombia are struggling to transition back to civilian life and help in the battle against. A pharmaceutical giant announces an experimental vaccine in sports with some moments of a get in practice at the british grand prix. Hello there we have seen some very heavy rain for the last several days across much of central and Southern China still a blanket of cloud on the south lies weve had evacuations for nearly 80000 people across the southern regions and the rain is going to continue to fold i wont quite make it to you in hong kong on saturday. And dry conditions 36 in taipei again with some dry conditions for you should say draw on sunday elsewhere the rain continuing to push towards the north and the east 27 in shanghai with some heavy rain at times so whole leading to all flooding concerns and Southeast Asia weve got usual showers and thunderstorms popping up generally in the afternoon hours south a little of the cloud and rain across the Central Regions out tools the west not as bad into southern as sumatra 32 in jakarta and a sunny skies really through much of south of me and sunday will rain against that also kael a wet day on sunday with a high there over 32 india the rains focusing these monsoon rains on the northeast and in particular on tools bangladesh you can see these bright white. And also seeing those heavy downpours of monsoon rains that will continue on saturday and on into sunday and you can see this line here very dark shading and of course once again this could well lead to some very heavy localized flooding. Was sponsored by the town and. You know a strategy or a battle rages over the countrys bomb and with activists inviting font stealing a lot of stuff and intimidation from one when they. Have these type gone too far on al jazeera and that has to hold on whether someone is going or someone is very rich because not only you think its how you approach the job and i think it is a certain way of doing it to contest. The story and fly out. Every reclaim news cycle brings a series of breaking stories is maximum jail term has jumped from 5 years to 175 years joined the listening post as we turned the cameras on the media donald trump shouldnt be the one deciding who is a journalist and who isnt and focus on how they were caught on the stories that matter the most they moved closer and closer to lifting the tire shutter problem both international and domestic medias coverage on aljazeera. Youre watching the news hour on aljazeera a reminder of our top stories the u. S. House of representatives has voted to prohibit the sale of some munitions to saudi arabia and the United Arab Emirates so one year these weapons are the ones being used in the war in yemen the conflict has refs thousands d