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no i'm maryam namazie in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up. iraqi civilian celebrate after government forces push i still out of its last stronghold in the north of the country. we report on how armed groups in the central african republic have been accused of using rape and sexual slavery as weapons of war. and how a traditional harvest festival is providing a briefer spite for an escalating tensions between north and south korea. the united nations has strongly criticized the saudi led military coalition fick killing and injuring almost seven hundred children in yemen and attacking dozens of schools and hospitals last year from will detail on this story wouldn't go to mike

hanna who's at the united nations in new york to tell us more about what the u.n. has done mike. well this is part of an annual report released by the united nations in title children and armed conflict and it looks at incidents in which children were injured maimed or killed throughout the year and across the globe the report in detail has some four thousand violations of children rights by government forces around the world and eleven thousand five hundred violations by non-state actors across the world now specifically with regard to yemen this report finds that the saudi led coalition operating in yemen was responsible for six hundred eighty three children casualties that was also responsible for the destruction of a number of schools and villages the opposition there responsible for four hundred fourteen children casualties maim or killed now important to note though that

the parties that have been accused of this are contained in an annex at the end of the report and one which is divided into a and b. in the a section of those parties states and non-state actors that have committed these violations and then inception be there are parties non-state actors and states that have and i quote from the report parties that have put measures in place during the reporting people period to protect children now the saudi led coalition is listed in the section b. of the so-called black list or list of shame saying that it has put measures in place to protect children during the reporting period and the interesting thing is that they have been blacklisted for violations against children in this this year

but then why were they removed from the list last year. well exactly in the twenty fifteen report saudi arabia the saudi led coalition was also listed in the annex to the support as a list of shame however the then secretary general ban ki moon removed them from the list after intense process protest saying that it was a matter for review they were never added back to the list however the current secretary general we are told has considered the wording of this report very carefully he has looked at it personally he's approved it personally and hence we see this division of the annex one into point a and b. saudi has returned to the blacklist where the saudi led coalition has returned to the blacklist but there has been this new category provided in the list that although it has been guilty of violating the rights of children during twenty

sixteen also during that period it was seen to put measures into place to help protect children so in a way the current security general is holding to his guns as the previous one critics would contend did not but at the same time he's left himself some leverage room in the controversy that the saudis are likely to provoke in the hours and days ahead thanks very much mike hanna at the united nations. so we think your other top story this hour a rocky forces of capture the town of how we judge and the surrounding area isolate last stronghold in northern iraq iraqi military say some fighting is still going on to the north and west of the town where i solicit around dead troops are greeted by jubilant villagers in six kilometers northwest of the town where the capture of how we judge the only area that now remains under the under eisel control in iraq is a stretch alongside the western border with syria but military operation has come at a cost as charles strafford reports from

a nearby checkpoint at davis in northern iraq. exhausted and scared it took this family five days to reach the peshmerga defensive position. they walked across these parched hills from their village in iceland controlled territory sometimes struggling to find shelter from coalition airstrikes and iraqi army shelling. the situation is tense there are airstrikes artillery shelling i have escaped with my family as soon as we could i saw were relocated from one place to another and many of them were pushed and squeezed further into how egypt there is no food or water available and i want to delay just one. condition so it barely managed to get out we used to devolve to scraps of property and lead result destroyed. the peshmerga are defending this position against potential leisel fighters from this area as the iraqi military and shia militias

advance in this direction this area here is still a number of villages there that are controlled by i saw in the last few minutes we've seen two i saw fighters come here and surrender the commander of this position says that in the last two weeks around two hundred i saw fighters have surrendered at this position alone. the peshmerga took control of this area from my school in two thousand and fourteen after the iraqi army fled. it is beyond the official boundary at the same meal thomas kurdish regional government controlled areas of northern iraq but the commanders here say the peshmerga won't withdrawal when the fight against the last pockets of i saw. that she had all these lands you see have been taken and defended by the peshmerga and we will not give them back many died defending these lands we've opened humanitarian and military corridors are people displaced and military personnel who is or was the last stronghold for

eisel in northern iraq iraqi prime minister hydrilla body says the town has been retaken but disagreement between the kurds and the iraqi government about who will control areas such as the we have just begun. to debase iraq. groups are using rape and sexual slavery to terrorize women and girls according to human rights watch investigators documented more than three hundred cases of rape torture and sexual violence in the past four years some women and girls were held as sex slaves for up to eighteen months imran khan has more in a warning that you might find some of the images in his report up setting. hidden beyond the tall grass and veiled behind curtains survivors in the central african republic talk of barbaric acts cruel and brutal crimes that are still unpublished the minimoog lead one of them took a grenade and they put it in my vagina then they removed the grenade and they raped

me. this thirty five year old is among hundreds of women and girls he told human rights watch about sexual violence and torture. when i think about it my heart beat so fast and really hard when i remember my heart beat so hard so hard so hard even right now when i'm thinking about it it's beating hard and so fast fast fast. three of the victims were children when they were raped and became pregnant. they raped me over and over again they never stopped not for even one day when i was eight in the months pregnant. when i had the baby i didn't want to hold him i felt like killing him the survivors say they were raped by a dozen men fighters beat the women and left them with broken bones smashed teeth and headwinds. the fight is kidnapped women beat them up rape them and tortured

them young girls older women they just didn't have. the rights watch says the abuses are not only crimes under central african law but also constitute war crimes and possibly crimes against humanity a new task force is trying to address the plight of survivors. that we know responsible for these grave crimes of rape and violation of human rights if you're not arrested right now and taken into custody no victims will have the will to seek justice and that makes justice inaccessible you have to talk about zero impunity then you need the women to have the courage to come forward and report the fact human rights watch says only eleven of the two hundred ninety six survivors interviewed try to initiate a criminal investigation so far no member of any armed group has been arrested or tried to committing sexual violence. u.s. president donald trump is expected to announce that he will decertify the landmark

international deal to curb iran's nuclear program so for more on this story let's. what are we learning about whether president trump is moving closer to pulling back from the iran nuclear deal. well president donald trump always the entertainer and the basically an expert in driving driving up suspense is just now speaking to the media he's meeting with his military leadership saying that he is going to have an announcement on iran next week we're hearing reports from very credible journalists here in washington longstanding journalists here in the capital at the washington post of reuters that he is going to decertify that iran is living up to its part of the deal so what does that mean really for the deal nothing it's an internal u.s. check every ninety days that he has to certify to congress that that iran is or is not comply and so what happens next well that it goes to the u.s.

congress and they have sixty days to decide if they want to reimpose sanctions on iran just yesterday twenty four hours ago we heard secretary of defense jim maddest say that iran is complying with the deal and that it is in the interest of u.s. national security to stay in it asked about that here's what the white house press secretary had to say the president has as he said made a decision on this and he'll make that announcement the appropriate time that's the main focus that he has had has been a comprehensive strategy on how to deal with iran that is what he wanted his team to put in place and i think you'll see that announced in short order and that will be a comprehensive strategy with a unified team behind him supporting that effort. it's not at all clear that the national security team is in fact unified behind the president and we could see those voices have a critical mass when it comes to congress we're already seeing some republican

leaders say they don't think they want to give the put those sanctions back made allies walk away from the deal because blame for causing iran to develop its nuclear program but let's not forget there are going to be very powerful lobbies pushing to have the u.s. reimpose those financial sanctions namely the pro israeli government lobby and the other side you're going to have the general mattis is of the world secretary tillerson and also a lot of allies who also signed this deal. but yet this is been a big bone of contention of president trump from from day one and he's certainly been a secret if it was logic point they use then to make the case that iran is not in compliance. figure porter's just now president trump really gave an indication he said iran's not living up to the spirit of the deal and here's what they cite they cite the very first page of a very big agreement where it says that all parties believe that the agreement will serve to and i want to quote this year positively contribute to regional and

international peace and security the way the trumpet ministration is playing that is saying that iran was supposed to live up to these ideals and to positively contribute to regional peace and security that's not what the agreement says it says the deal will actually help bring stability to the region when you push officials on that they're like oh well we didn't really read that whole sentence so it is going to come under even more scrutiny because if you ask the experts the people who are monitoring iran compliance the i.a.e.a. they say there is one hundred percent no question that iran is in fact living up to its end of the bargain so this is if you takes the step if congress follows suit it will not sit well with the other people who signed this agreement remember it was the p five plus one and iran so the u.s. isn't the only ones in this case thank you very much in washington d.c. . well as much more to tell you about on the program still the british author has been awarded this year's nobel prize for literature. and keeping the planet's blue

heart beating wildly just meet in malta to find ways of saving the world oceans from pollution. welcome back now the weather soaking pretty unsettled across parts of australia at the moment we've got two circulations this high pressure center low pressure center and we're seeing changes in wind direction so melbourne going from thirteen on friday up to twenty one as we get through into saturday about stays city look at highs of nineteen some showers across eastern areas had to cross western australia the weather looking on the cool side there for perth a mix of just sixteen degrees some showers possibly for alice springs so let's head across into new zealand where it's not looking particularly good at the moment we've got a deep area of low pressure working its way across the tasman sea bringing rain into the south on and during friday and then for saturday that rain spreading

across much of the country is quite a tight circulation here so some really strong winds temperatures dropping twelve degrees there in christ church but it could be some localized flooding let's head up into northeastern parts of asia where the weather conditions across the korean peninsula and southern parts of japan are looking pretty nasty pretty wet weather is expected here central northern parts of japan dry and fine indeed across the car though it's looking sunny on friday but come saturday we'll see that rain working its way further towards the north so wet day in tokyo following conditions expected across the korean peninsula and it should be largely dry and beijing with high seer of twenty three. an indian mining company is heading to australia to build one of the world's biggest mines will it be an economic but no answer or an ecological disaster. at this time when i visit.

with every. welcome back you're watching on just a quick look at the stories making headlines this hour united nations a strongly criticized the saudi led military coalition for killing and injuring almost seven hundred children in yemen and attacking dozens of schools and hospitals last year. iraqi forces say they've recaptured the town of how we lost wrong hold in the north of the country the troops were greeted by jubilant villages

nearby and human rights watch has documented hundreds of cases in the central african republic of on groups using rape and sexual slavery to terrorize women and girls. russia and saudi arabia who back rival sides in syria's war agreed to work together to unite syria's opposition saudi arabia's king salmon has been missing russian president vladimir putin in moscow is the first saudi monarch in history to visit russia as roy chalons now reports from moscow. as a saudi monarch has never visited russia before this meeting had a ceremonial pump you'd expect the kremlin's alexander. already disappoints in that regard a grand setting for a handshake that confirms the altered power dynamics in the middle east. your first or your colleagues and friends let me warmly creech you in the capital of russia moscow thank you very much for except in our invitation and paying us to visit.

recent history has provided much for these two countries to disagree on russian bombs and missiles still rain down on bashar al assad's opponents in syria for six years saudi arabia has been supporting groups fighting to throw the syrian president out but with russia's syrian intervention both securing asset in power for now and making russia an important regional power broker there's fresh impetus for adversaries to work together my view is really the syrian crisis we are working on resolving it in accordance with the decisions of geneva and the un security council resolution and on finding a political solution that would guarantee the achievement of security and stability as well as preservation of syria's unity and territorial integrity. away from the battlefields russia and saudi arabia have been cooperating for some time over the

last year together with opec they've limited oil production to boost prices and the saudi visit is as much about the dozen or so energy trade and investment agreements that have been signed here as it is about politics riyadh will put money into russian transport infrastructure they'll be a joint platform for investing in energy projects but much of this probably wouldn't have happened if saudi arabia along with countries like turkey israel jordan and egypt hadn't noticed a marked decrease in u.s. influence in interest in the middle east. is just the latest in a long line of middle eastern leaders to visit russia although the u.s. still commands a preeminence position in the region rulers like king solomon have decided that these days it's wise to deal with russia to rory chalons al-jazeera moscow. the speaker of the catalan parliament has slammed spain's constitutional court

after it suspended its session planned for monday the parliament was expected to declare independence unilaterally from spain after two million catalans voted in favor of secession. that it that it will neda this is an act of extreme seriousness because it curtails the freedom of expression of members of catalonia parliament this shows the total incapacity of the spanish government to resolve political problems for the political way we repeat what we've always said that we will not allow the parliament to be censored. also two of spades biggest banks appear to be preparing to move their headquarters out of catalonia over fears the region will secede by osama dell which is spain's fifth largest bank has already decided to move its legal based al account a gold panel has more from barcelona. reaction. to fish you know if you don't make. the.

right. to. own your. own i. think. the. toughest thing. to have but. not. yet even. when they come in to gather outside. of their civil god only this really was sent into right now i'm not a referendum they come for. me out about the potential economic impact to face banks already saying that they could move out from the

region. that if catalonia stays plain that economic impact would be temporary. i didn't see as a warning that zambia is facing a humanitarian crisis the country is dealing with more than twenty seven thousand refugees who've crossed the border from the democratic republic of congo at least three thousand of entered in the last month the u.n. says on average one hundred asylum seekers enter each day government forces a fighting a local militia in the castle region more than one point four million people have been displaced by the violence that since august last year are tossers in the end chilling a transit camp in northern. this transit center was set up three and a half weeks ago the people are many from attending and some from the troubled region is a running away from ethnic tensions and fighting between government forces and

militia groups aid workers say isn't as good between eighteen hundred people coming into zambia every day and conditions a basic the new arrivals who haven't yet brought their own form of structure to live and stay in these policemen or kind of compounds held together by reading mats and some top hole in tents to cover the top three or four families can live in here and till they move to a spot where they can build the own temporary structure with their families some aid workers say that they see a large number of mainly women and children coming into the strands at center and about sixty percent of those who are coming here are children under the age of eighteen there is a communal set up already whereby the meals are prepared by the women the men cut the firewood the people are then given food in the morning and then at supper but at any c.c.a. they need more help the rainy season is about to start in a few weeks they're concerned once it's rains all this to be flooded with water

people need some kind of decent accommodation in the mosquito nets and it mysen they need more food and a concern that as long as the balance keeps continuing in the d.r. seeing more people crossing into zambia for. the multi million dollar pledge by the e.u. multi-million dollar pledges been made by the e.u. at the our oceans conference is currently being held in malta at this event the heir to the british throne prince charles a spoken about the need for decisive action to be taken to cut down the amount of plastic we use. it is i believe awfully crucial that we transition to a secular economy. a secular economy allows plastic along with many other substances to be recovered recycled and re used instead of created used and then thrown away. honoring critically overcrowded planet this economic

approach has to be a critical path of establishing a more harmonious relationship between humankind and the ocean that sustains us oh. now people in south korea are enjoying a traditional holiday celebrating the years good harvest holidays also celebrated in north korea giving residents a break for spite from escalating tensions bride reports. traditionally a time for family reunions for these aging koreans this is as close as they will get to one it's a ceremony near the d.m.z. border between the two koreas. people like one young hope who attends every year and who was separated from his family in the north during the korean war more than sixty years ago he's on a waiting list for an official reunion but the current tensions have put the program on hold. if both sides can compromise hopefully

my chance will calm. the two koreas may share the same holiday but seem as far apart as ever while north koreans celebrate to soch in a similar way to people in the south it's only a one day holiday in north korea and while millions of south koreans are travelling to see family and friends travel restrictions and a lack of transport in the north means that most people there have to stay put translated as harvest festival to self is a time of thanksgiving with special cakes made from the rice just harvested. one of the many festivals and art group of north korean defectors perform in front of their south korean audience. some of the most popular songs date back to before the war when there was only one korea. by celebrating our culture through art we can show how south korea and north korea are one nation but as the families

waiting for reunion can attest the political divisions remain as wide as ever. urged north korea once again to join us in the past. reconciliation to help reunite families who don't have much time left. not knowing how many more to start festivals they will see without seeing long lost families. rob mcbride al-jazeera jim jim gak on the last south korean border. the british author ishiguro has been awarded the nobel prize for literature and sugar was born in japan and is best known for his books there remains of the day and never let me. as you girl receive prize money of just over a million dollars. well the tiny sixteen about peace prize award to colombian president juan manual santos list seen as opposed to government efforts to strike a deal with left wing rebels but twelve months on and despite the agreement with

the revolutionary forces deep divisions remain in place in colombia as reports. when a razor thin majority of colombians voted against a peace deal with quiet rebels a year ago many feared the treaty would collapse. the referendum result was a humiliating defeat for president juan manuel santos and the millions of colombians who were hoping for a yes vote. a surprise lifeline withdrawn from norway. to avoid just dinner bell peace prize for twenty six thousand two colombian president santos. peace negotiators say the price helped him overcome the shocking rebuttal was also a message from the international community in terms of the importance of saving lives of having a peaceful country he gave strength force and renewed the process of

negotiation lasted for forty days negotiators scramble to make changes to the deal and sometimes forced its approval of congress but the damage was done famous colombian sculpture of. donated this white. port of the agreement he believed as many that the deal would have brought hope and enthusiasm to all colombians instead it left the country deeply divided and those divisions have not been men the right wing opposition senator says is fighting against the implementation because it grants impunity to the rebels you cannot force an agreement into a country. moreover would you told the people that the last word of the said we win was in the plebiscite and the no one will fight fight. have laid down their weapons and the number of killings that's falling two story close only a few aspects of the deal have been implemented. with the approval rating of president santos hovering around twenty percent in presidential elections seven

months away the peace process remains fragile especially if the if the transitional justice system is not approved in the congress and starts operating before the elections the whole process will become tremendously politicized. the nobel peace prize reaffirmed international support in one the president the place in history that the fate of peace in colombia will depend on what happens next starting with who takes over from sun come election day next me i listen to them you just see the water. you're watching out as they are the top stories now the united nations has strongly criticized a saudi led military coalition for killing and injuring almost seven hundred children in yemen and attacking dozens of schools and hospitals last year. iraqi

forces say they've recapture the town of how we lost wrong hold in the north of the country the iraqi military say some fighting is still going on though to the north and east of the town where i sill is surrounded. in the last half hour the u.s. president has been speaking about the iran nuclear deal during a meeting with military leaders at the white house we must not allow iran to attain to obtain nuclear weapons the iranian regime supports terrorism and exports violence bloodshed and chaos across the middle east that is why we must put an end to iran's continued aggression and nuclear ambitions they have not lived up to the spirit of their agreement. human rights watch has documented hundreds of cases in the central african republic of armed groups using rape and sexual slavery to terrorize women and girls victims say they've been targeted by

both the muslim rebels and christian fighters and russia and saudi arabia backed rival sides in syria's or agree to work together to unite syria's opposition the decision emerged from a meeting between saudi arabia's king and the russian president one i want is next it's not just phones contributing to samsung's bumper profits if we look at the u.s. economy the moment it does seem to be in pretty good shape up until around two thousand and five greek debt levels were basically stable we bring you the stories the economic world we live in counting the cost on al-jazeera. the. women around the world are demanding more respect. but the rise of this new family has met a backlash specially in south korea. rights groups are enraged that you.