A half a 1000000 syrians to its border. And the guy said i know how to read g. M. s taking everything that they are giving us a kicking up yesterday 6 helicopters over our heads forced us to live on my dads bonding checking on that our legs turkeys president has told his russian counterpart that Syrian Military attacks in northwestern syria a causing a humanitarian crisis type one told bloody near putin that whats happening there threatens Turkish National security its one of the reasons turkey is so keen to get a safe zone up and running on the syrian side of the border but so far theres still no indication that turkey has agreed with the u. S. Military on who will patrol is zone and how deep into syria it will go burn its way aljazeera and taqiyya. Still ahead on the program prodemocracy protesters in hong kong say they are tired but they will not back down in their fight with beijing and russias Floating Nuclear power stations set sail across the arctic prompting environmental and safety fears. Hello there the wet and show us a breeze about the conditions they are back all my way to in the southeast of australia not too bad and the as you know. That is bringing the next round of showers so sunny if you in adelaide today are all the wet day 16 degrees so not cold the same across and against them or you could actually see a few of those showers and then by sunday its a bit cooler but it should be dry 13 degrees actually in both cases a warm day in brisbane at 27 and not about day sunday and. Sunday in south l. A. But it should actually stay mostly dry now the systems are heading across the sea the tasman sea on their way to new zealand a quality cloud in the last few hours to the north island that rain will clear fairly slow to clear but itll be a gradual process throughout south of the 14 degrees celsius is your high and really not a bad couple days into Christ Church 11 degrees the whole on saturday sunday fairly mild a 16 degrees but it is ahead of this next system so enjoy that rather mild fields of things that we had up to was japan. As we would expect this time of year with the new zealand 30 celsius in tokyo on saturday to try to date there is a chance of showers and thunderstorms but notice a bad couple days across much of the Korean Peninsula but a warm day in seoul south the sunday at 30 and a similar 30 across in tokyo. Rewind returns with a new series. The updates on the backs to town to see this documentary i think i am going to be the only really the only real wind continues with the last try secret army of the cia its down to 75 believe in the same way that the m sisters did living in the forest in the jungle and seems like theyre abandoned by everybody on aljazeera. In the u. S. Officials told the newspaper that there have been at least 4 strikes on weapons depos controlled by iranian backed groups in iraq a military official confirmed a base was hit and 3 people were killed including one iranian. Or an israeli teenager has been killed by a bomb near an illegal settlement in the occupied west bank the Israeli Army Says its not immediately clear if the device had been planted in advance or thrown meanwhile thousands of palestinians in gaza are rallying after a tense week at the security fence with israel it follows at least 3 incidents of rocket fire and as strikes 9 people have been injured at the demonstration so far is the 71st consecutive great launch of return. Russian president Vladimir Putin has ordered the Russian Military to respond after the u. S. Tested and new missile on sunday the modified ground launch Cruise Missile would have been banned on the 1907 intermediate range Nuclear Forces treaty which both russia and the us of now withdrawn from the u. S. Withdrew from the treaty citing russian violations a claim that last denies putin has ordered the Defense Ministry and other agencies to now take comprehensive mashes. It was in a book and i mean maybe the fact that we developed the newer systems of modern weapons which are on parallel out in the world was caused and we can say provoked by a unilateral exit by the us from the antiballistic missile treaty in 2003 we were forced to we had to guarantee the security of our people and of our country we are doing it now and we will be doing it in the future you know shes going to get was as you know we have never wanted to do not want and will not be drawn into a costly economically destructive arms rice that judging by the defense spending russia is on a modest 7th place of the United States chinese peoples republic saudi arabia United Kingdom france and japan. Meanwhile the russian Opposition Leader alexina valley has been released from prison and immediately vowed to continue his fight against president putin and only spent a month behind bars for planning demonstrations which call for free elections is that a wave of protests criticizing a decision to take us from standing in september elections in moscow he says the protest movement will continue despite intimidation and arrests suggest moving even a store right here for now we see that lies and fraud are not enough for them its not enough to bend the candidates from the election they want to arrest and beat up people to smash anticorruption organizations and these organizations can see they have no support and people feel afraid. Un investigators say the scale of Sexual Violence by the myanma military against the rango was so widespread and so severe that it demonstrates what they call an intent to commit genocide a fact finding report says men lost soldiers routinely and systematically raped gang raped and sexually abused women children men and transgender people hundreds of thousands of rango are living in camps in coxs bazaar in the bangladesh order stephanie deca sent us this report. The u. N. Report on the cities the Sexual Violence committed against the right is a reminder to the world that these are stories that people have been telling aid workers and journalists for the past 2 years they are the most horrendous story stories of mass rapes children being raped in front of their parents of wives being raped in front of their husbands now thats coupled with stories of killings of people being chopped into pieces of babies being ripped out of their mothers arms and thrown into the fire now this is why hundreds of thousands of people fled across the border here to bangladesh in just the space of a few weeks and this is why this is now the biggest refugee camp in the world these people want justice what does that mean it means they want to go home but they want to go home with full guarantees of citizenship and security and not dims a long way off hong kongs airport authorities want an indefinite course injunction against protesters to prevent them from present prevent them storming the terminal again 2 weeks ago a sit in by prodemocracy campaign is at the airport descended into chaos or saying hundreds of flights to be canceled and as wayne hay reports the action came as activists staged yet another protest. With hong kongs iconic skyline shining brightly the citys defiant protest is Student Solidarity they formed a human chain that stretched for kilometers around the city the chosen day was symbolic it came on the 30th anniversary of the baltic way when around 2000000 people in a stony and lithuania and latvia held hands to call for independence from the soviet union this protest was not about independence but was an attempt to show that the people of hong kong are united and will continue their fight against chinas increasing influence even we are tired of their charter maybe some of us but we are still going on we are not giving up right now this was a peaceful protest with no police in size the days ahead may be different though as protesters again target hong kongs airport they say they wont try to go into the terminal as they did 2 weeks ago but will try to disrupt transport routes to and from the airport there is no sign that these protests are slowing down but at the same time there is drawing concern about the impact on the economy tourist arrivals and down Hotel Room Rates are being reduced and the airlines are being affected in particular hong kongs main carrier Cathay Pacific which is coming under increasing pressure from beijing. The chief executive resigned and at least 3 employees of Cathay Pacific and its subsidiary cathay dragon have been fired after they showed support for the protest Movement Among them a former Union Representative who says china is creating a culture of fear in the company i know all the colleagues feel so depressed and sad because of what happened here but its not just about the nation. Of the top but its also the whole asia is on its 10th and terrified and all my colleagues are on terror and. Its that fear of chinas evil. Moving influence and control over the city that continues to motivate the protesters to come out week after week wayne hay aljazeera home call. Kenyan Scientists Say the northern white rhino is one step away from being saved from extinction there are only 2 of these animals left in the world both of them are female and infertile on thursday a team of that successfully carried out a groundbreaking procedure to harvest their eggs. Explains. The gene in fact 2 of the only 2 northern white rhinos left in the world they live under 24 hour protection in the open just so conservancy in kenya and thats because both females are the last and only hope of saving the species from disappearing forever. With the help of science sperm was saved from the last little northern white rhino male called sudan and a few others he became famous around the world when he featured on a popular dating app to raise money for an in vitro fertilization procedure since his death the team of International Scientists has been racing against time to fertilize eggs from the gene and fast to. Using Pioneering Technology and millions of dollars later on thursday they successfully extracted 5 eggs from each female. The eggs couldnt be frozen and were immediately flown to a fertilization lab in italy. But its already in the locker room i believe so the moderation starts and if everything goes well then he also says it will be. Ok but it was likely. To we can go where we have some embryos. For Health Reasons and the gene and fats you cant give birth so once the embryos a fertilized theyll be implanted into a star Great Southern white rhino instead. Of a demand for rhino horn in traditional chinese medicine as well as things like dagger handles in yemen fuelled poaching in the 19 seventies and eighties largely wiping out the northern white rhino population in africa but if a surrogate southern mother can produce a baby northern white rhino then these beautiful creatures that have roamed the earth for millions of years may avoid what seemed like certain extinction. Russia is launching the worlds 1st Floating Nuclear power plant it will be to thousands of kilometers to the east to provide energy to remote communities and our mental activists say there are safety concerns claiming it has the potential to be novel on ice severson explains from moscow. A Nuclear Power plant sailing decease russia says its one of the safest and cleanest ways to provide energy to remote areas the academic luminoso of combines both the technology of a Nuclear Powered icebreaker and that of a land based Nuclear Plant it took 10 years to design and build the power plant will be told by 3 boats from more months to the region of 2 caught 5000 kilometers away on a journey that could take up to 6 weeks depending on the ice the 2 reactor unit is one of the key projects of president putin socalled northern sea route a faster sea connection between europe and asia which has become accessible due to a melting arctic despite safety concerns russias Nuclear Agency sas theres very little chance of a Nuclear Accident so as resume promotion with. This floating station will of course give a momentum to industrial development. At least in the development of deposits there are plenty of minerals to mine at the same time as ive already said the launch of this station will put an end to the old Palace Station which uses coal. But greenpeace is not convinced in april 2017 the Environmental Group protested against a project calling a child noble on ice referring to the Nuclear Disaster in the soviet union in 1986. Of. If the Fukushima Nuclear station was damaged by a tsunami we can only guess what could happen in this case the place can be flown upside down it can be thrown onto the shore or get damaged by a recent Nuclear Accident in the north of russia which caused a spike in radiation has also raised concerns with several Nuclear Accidents happening in the past few months and the government that this by political about what exactly has happened people are growing increasingly suspicious that like in the time of chernobyl your fortys are trying to cover up incidents of leaks radiation even though the academic i dont know if well travel only to sparsely Populated Areas its journey will be closely watched russias plans to sell Floating Nuclear plants to other countries have also rung alarm bells according to greenpeace offshore reactors will be harder to monitor and it can fall into the wrong hands academically will stay in into got got for at least 10 years before going back to more months for maintenance and to dispose of its Nuclear Waste step fastened aljazeera mosco 8 years ago a 5. 8 magnitude earthquake hit the u. S. State of the jenea it was Strong Enough to crack the Washington Monument and calls 20000000. 00 in damage to the National Cathedral today stone masons are still repairing the gothic sun work the earthquake ship loose. My name is Sean Callahan im a stonemason stand stone carver at the washington National Cathedral in washington d. C. Bases knock on the door one day and ask for a job and thats how i ended up here as an apprentice and have been 107. When i 1st came here i would relish the opportunity it was very exciting and unique and over time it becomes who you are. When i came here it was the master carver i think the last one hired actually. Over the years you build up a breath of dollars like a repertoire of shapes and skills so each piece you do will inform the next piece you worked on when we had the earthquake here it was months before even got the Building Back open structurally what happened to us wasnt too bad it was a lot of things on the outside but we still had to shut down and assess the damage and see what was safe and what wasnt and that took some time my part of it is im here on the workbench hyper focused on this one piece of stone im always aware of how important building is to other people its an important as a public building and as a cultural icon im always aware of that so i have a responsibility to put my best effort in because its not just my work its part of the fabric of the building and its going to become historic hopefully itll be around for a very long time thats always the back my mind im working on this i have a responsibility to be faithful to the work it motivates me when i see the impression it leaves on other people when they come here and visit and see the building it gives me a sense of pride that i have a hand in that of giving that satisfaction to other people that touches people every day its something that grabs you and your soul and you you want to be a part of it. More on top stories here al jazeera dot com of course our top story that the fire is there on decimating the wilds biggest rainforest and the fear is of ace could mean not just the brazil but of course for the wild. I had line stories this hour thats just so bring up to date within the us president has Just Announced he will again raise tariffs on chinese imports off to beijing increase duties on 75000000000. 00 worth of American Goods u. S. Stock market slump more than 2 and a half percent of the american president warned he would hit back donald trump also tweeted a demand for u. S. Companies to leave china i do joe castro has more from washington this is coming at a particularly sensitive time in dollar trumps presidency over the last 2 weeks that u. S. Headlines have been dominated by forecasts of a possible u. S. Recession on the horizon and trump has accused everyone but himself thats the media and his political opponents of talking up this possible recession he says in an attempt to undermine his chances of winning reelection in 2020 fronts an island threatened to block a trade agreement between the European Union and south american countries unless brazil does more to tackle thousands of wildfires raging in the arms and rain forest is a major source of the worlds oxygen Environmental Groups are saying the fire is a link to brazilian president both