A see if he is saying is now difficult to control its difficult to control the situation which many of blaming him for having created in the 1st place now is trying to live for us in sao paulo daniel thanks very much air strikes have killed several civilians in opposition controlled tons around an important highway in syria near a turkish observation post the army backed by russia is continuing its offensive in the Northwestern Province of idlib along the strategic and 5 highway Government Troops that are already in control of part of the m 5 following the rebel withdrawal in the town of concha koon on monday the Palestinian Authority has reached an agreement with israel over disputed taxes israel is releasing more than half a 1000000000. 00 of tax revenue which had been withheld since february the money was withheld in response to palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas refusing to pay a tax for palestinian prisoners held in israel. Indonesia has restricted Internet Access and arrested dozens of people in its west papuan province where there have been days of violent protests 1200 extra security personnel have been deployed to the province to contain the riots which began on monday government Buildings Police cars and parts of an airport have been destroyed since the protests began it began when 43. 00 poplin students were arrested and racially abused for allegedly disrespecting the indonesian flag on Independence Day one protester says the community has suffered racism for decades and living up with the word monkey is always used to insult the pap and students this is been going on for too long we dont have freedom to leave it is the only way not indonesian citizens where he had to study we need to create problems but people have always treated us as if were animals south korea is ending an intelligence sharing pact with japan and yet another escalation between the country and south koreas National Security councils says japans recent tightening on export controls led to the change and it comes as the Foreign Ministers from both countries meet in beijing to try to find a solution. High School Students have rallied in hong kong many are threatening to boycott classes next month the join demands for political reform called for demonstrations to continue at the start of the school year. Venezuela has the Worlds LargestProven Oil Reserves but its one slot americas largest has fallen faster in the past year than iraq after the American Invasion in 2003 according to die from opec to lose a bowl reports from the town. In venezuela. Has always lived. In the Northwestern State of. Hes a fisherman but he says pollution from the oil industry is destroying his way of life. This is abandon completely abandoned in the past the oil and gas installations were taken care of but not anymore now are lake is filled with oil and contamination our boats are dirty or nets are dirty my family depends on this and its killing us were close to the town where oil was 1st discovered in venezuela in 1922 it turned this country from a coffee producing nation into an oil giant but things have not been going well in the past 2 years the bottom of the. Field with thousands of kilometers of. Pipeline some of them are broken if you can see right there thats a gas leak this is just an example of the enormous infrastructure problems that venezuela. Has today were told tankers i rarely seen here Venezuelas Oil production has dropped by more than 70 percent in the past 20 years and the u. S. Oil embargo is further complicating the export market. Has worked for venezuela. Very for over 30 years at one time. They were producing 80000 barrels a day now not a single one. I have fought with management how is painting a pipeline red maintenance when inside its rod and deteriorated weepin a pump and then it catches fire then things blow up thats the maintenance they want us to do with what we have and we have lots of accidents. Fransisco says hes paid around 8. 00 a month. Im a revolutionary but this is not the left i dreamt i want to work but we have no tools no boats total deterioration in the past there were food halls not any more we have said that until we are fed we cannot go out to work we cannot even buy food with our salaries so we are demanding a meal at least former president or chavez promised to improve peoples lives when he took office 2 decades ago and their state of company played a crucial role in his plan but experts say a lack of investment corruption and inexperience among chavez loyalist devastated the company now the government of the little with money from russia and china is trying to provide the only industry with a much needed boost so quick change in geopolitics to china for example is more costly because of the cargo shipments will have to see were ends venezuela has lots of debt with china and we will have to see whether they really invest in the country and if it generates cash and how the money is going to enter the country if we are sanctioned its a vicious cycle that generates lots of questions and problems many of these fisherman supported what is called the volley varian revolution and believed in the benefits it would bring now they feel abandoned by a government they say has forgotten about the promises that were once made. Venezuela. Still ahead and its a good day at the bottom of the World Championships for the top seed liz going to be here with the action in the sports. That is sort of this board who is live thank you very much olds 23 time grand slam tennis champion Serena Williams will face former world number one Maria Sharapova and a 1st round glamour tie at the u. S. Open the years final major starts on monday in new york williams is a 6 time champion at flushing meadows will share pope one the title in 063 and is chasing a record equalling 24th slam title although she has lost in her last 3 major finals and is withdrawn from her last 2 tournaments with a back problem as for the russian she has had her playing time limited by a lingering shoulder injury this year england are on top after a rain affected 1st day of the 3rd ashes cricket test against australia in leeds england won the toss and sent the ozzies and to bat for archer helped himself to 6 wickets as the aussies collapsed from 136422179 all out minus. The top scored with 74 while david warner hit 61. Rein also played a large role in colombo on the 1st day of the 2nd test between sri lanka and new Zealand William somerville and call in the granholm made a breakthrough is for the kiwis but sri lankan captain demotes taverner right name was on 49 not out when play was stopped for the day the home team were 85 for 2 and just 36. 3 overs were bowled sri lanka heads leads the series one nil. Barcelona superstar captain will know messi is in a race against time to be fit for his clubs legal home a good home game against real betis messi has adopted some slightly more unusual training methods this week as he tries to recover from the calf strain he suffered from earlier in the month the argentine missed. Opening night in league match a one nil loss to athletic bilbao but he is back in training now hoping to be fit for the teams 1st match this season at their home group at the no camp and are like player coach Vincent Kompany is to focus purely on captaining the club on match days from now on the belgian has lost all 4 of his matches so far in the Belgian League but starting with the next match against Game Companies assistant will be responsible for tactical changes and substitutions on match day Company Simply have simply captained the team. And over in the us wayne rooney was in trouble again on wednesday in Major League Soccer while playing for his team d. C. United was sent off early in the 1st half after v. A. R. Caught him elbowing his new York Red Bulls opponent the red bulls also went down to 10 men later in the game but then got a lucky break when the referee awarded a penalty for what looked to be a blatant dive by forward Michael Miller the successful spot kick given the new york society to one way. Brazils famous Corinthians Football Club has set a new world record of 28 consecutive wins by its womens team the team what were up against the south josie in the brazilian womens championship quarterfinals they won one nil to 51 on aggregate and reach the semifinals welsh team the new saints held the previous record will play. On saturday as they look to further extend this record. To baseball now in the chicago cubs are back on top of the National League central after winning a slugfest against San Francisco the giants open the scoring in the 1st and you know with Evan Longoria hit a 2 run home run the cubs quickly clawed that back through a home runs of their own and were up 62 by the end of the 3rd inning that lead didnt last long either as San Francisco went on to score 9 quick runs but chris bryant blasted another 2 run home runs to give the club the cubs the 12 to 11 victory and what the players are calling a season defining with. Championship leader automatic set the pace at the world rallies the latest stop in germany the estonian was the quickest during thursdays shakedown 6 time reigning champion sebastian was just half a 2nd off 10 expats but norwegian driver mads also bird was lucky to get away without damaging his car after ending up in a field. At the badminton World Championships top seed kiddo. Is through to the quarter finals in Basel Switzerland the japanese defeated indias a just for annoy and straight games on thursday hes also the world number one and defending champion for malta will meet malaysias. Next. And just a few days after knocking out the top seed singapores mens excellent form at the World Championships is continuing the 20 year old booked her place in the quarter finals she beat and beat turning of vietnam 2 games to one. And you may remember sister jeanne who became an internet sensation last year when her u. S. College Basketball Team made it to the final 4 of the in tournaments now the basketball loving none is the center of attention again celebrating her 100th Birthday University mark their chaplains century with a massive cake and tributes to her work which includes prematch prayers sister jeans devotion to the team is a strong as ever how cute is she will hand you back over thank you very much indeed laurens going to be here with more of the latest news in a couple of minutes on robotic sometimes for being with me live from the. Building a new life on an entirely beach living off the sea and then last. A dream shed why so many but so few make it a man its. A Family Business led by a remarkable woman with a flair for cooking and desist than if. I didnt catch it on aljazeera. The nature of news as it breaks each week that the angry creases and the divided government grows deeper. With detailed cover each month i was once known as the cold the 15 venezuela and thats why people are not used to the situation. From around the world. Its been over a decade since morphia had seen had brando with a machine that played. Me. And the next episode of techno the team travels to the heart of the amazon. Where we are now should be grateful to investigate illegal gold mining mercury has a very unique characteristic of binding the goal for a minor its almost like magic and the technology being used to expose its devastating impact and so what we end up doing is imaging a forest in very high fidelity 3 d. Techno on all just 0. Coming. Up. Life. Brazilian prosecutors open an investigation into devastating wildfires burning across the amazon rain forest. On our intake this is live from london also coming up irans foreign minister says his government could consider french proposals to salvage the 2050 nuclear deal. In paris the u. K. Prime minister looks for flexibility on the e. U. Divorce deal with the french president again rules out any major changes. And Science Fiction becomes reality as the 1st robot astronaut is blasted into space. I dont know present in federal prosecutors have begun an investigation into the recent spike in fires burning across vast areas of the amazon rain forest earlier the president both so narrow aust for International Help saying his government lacked the resources to tackle the flames unloaded and a message on his Facebook Page of sonora repeated his accusations that Environmental Charities started the fire as to make him look bad. Now the amazon is bigger than europe how can you fight criminal fires in such an area it is clearly criminal how can you do it you need to catch them in the act otherwise theres nothing you can do now nongovernmental organizations are losing money money that came from germany and norway they are unemployed now so they are trying to overthrow me. When a car in burning is the largest since records began in 2013 up 84 percent on the same time last year gabriel and his own. Fires engulfing large swaths of the amazon rain forest the smoke is traveling far and wide it darkened the skies over sao paulo which is more than 2000 kilometers south of the burn area the scope of the fires is massive these satellite images from nasa show how the smoke has covered most of the northern half of brazil which is larger than the whole of europe the amazon produces 20 percent of the worlds oxygen and is home to more than 3000000. 00 species of plants and animals fires in the amazon are a natural occurrence often started by lightning strikes but that doesnt explain the sudden increase in fires this year which environmentalist say has been exacerbated by cattle ranchers and saw a farmers clearing forest at an increased pace. Enforcement of amazon burning has been scaled back under president bush the not of a long time skeptic of Environmental Concerns bosn r. O. Slashed government funding to environmental agencies and on tuesday suggested the fires were being staged by n. G. O. S to embarrass his government. Under the impression that it could have been set by the n. G. O. S because they had asked for money what was their intention to bring about problems for brazil when fires burn in the amazon the area is so large theres nothing firefighters can do to put them out when these fires finally do go away environmentalists say that damage will have been done here it is really permanently wasted. Ages to recruit forest and it can never be repaid in the original way the amazon rain forest often called the lungs of planet earth now filled with smoke and fire and choking one of the worlds most diverse ecosystems gabriels sandow which is either wearing a silver was an environment minister under former president Lula Da Silva she says whats happening in the amazon is a crime against humanity admitting that i have found that its the 1st time i speak publicly about this since the world began watching to the 1st station and fires that up out of control in the rain forest its a situation i consider a crime against the state and a crime against humanity in brazil is history weve seen this you go situations but for the 1st time we have this kind of situation that was created almost with official encouragement from the government. And across the border in bolivia the government is sending soldiers to contain wildfires in the east of the country all in the 500000 hectares of forest in the area have been destroyed environmental organizations say 500 species of wildlife are at risk resident evil waratahs has created a new environmental emergency cabinet to deal with a crisis. Irans foreign minister gemmas serif says theyre willing to work on french proposals to salvage the nuclear deal which is signed with world powers in 2015 u. S. President donald trump withdrew from the agreement last year and has been reimposing sanctions french president emanuel says hell either try to soften the effect of the sanctions or come up with a way to compensate iran in return iran would keep complying with the deal which restricts its Nuclear Program in exchange for sanctions relief. Comes as a running president has unveiled a new Missile Defense system to talk with bing tension with the United States president has on ronny says the domestically built long range system is more vast but its russian equivalent yes 300 percent bang reports with iranian port city of banda us. A day of National Pride for iran the unveiling of its own long range surface to air Missile Defense system 373 after years of sanctions that stopped iran from importing many weapons its had to develop its own domestic arms industry and now facing a military buildup in the region president Hassan Rouhani is defiant. Now the no enemies do not accept logic we cannot respond with logic when the enemy launches a missile against us we cannot give a speech and say mr rocket please do not hit our country and no innocent people we cannot say mr Rocket Launcher please hit a button and selfdestruct the missile in near. The far 373 can ide