we saw that look. i'm the international efforts to combine the pests that threaten so they bring in their. office just like a doctor writes your prescription you're doing the same thing here you're writing a prescription for the farmer explores inspiring advances to farming for the future . facing new realities the president said that there would be a complete audit a hundred percent audit that audit hasn't happened getting to the heart of the matter so are you saying then that the future of the g.c.c. will be in doubt. here the story. on talk to al-jazeera at this time. saudi arabia or does its citizens to leave lebanon as the mystery grows over the

whereabouts of lebanese prime minister saad hariri. and this is al jazeera live from london also coming up aid agencies warned the saudi led coalition that cutting off yemen could bring millions closer to starvation and death syria's army says i so has withdrawn from its last town in syria retreating to the desert plus i have great respect for you. president trump changes his children praising china talks in beijing despite his campaign rhetoric . and zimbabwe renames harare international airport after the president as tensions grow in response to. the by. saudi arabia has told all its

citizens to leave lebanon and me just lately or the camas five days off of the surprise resignation of lebanese prime minister saad hariri and an announcement from riyadh qarase office says he's back in the saudi capital after a quick trip to the united arab emirates and deny suggestions he's been held against his will his future movement party says his resignation from riyadh raises many questions it's demanding that he returns to beirut. that you should look many the return of prime minister saad hariri head of the future movement is necessary in order to restore the internal and external balance of lebanon with full respect to liberties the just a messy in accordance with the constitution and to the thai if accord and with respect to the arab and international legitimacy we confirm our support for prime minister saad hariri and for all the decisions he makes under any circumstances.

meanwhile saudi arabia's attorney general says it's now question two hundred people as part of what it's calling an anti corruption crackdown he says the investigation has uncovered around one hundred billion dollars worth of forward we're all family members officials and prominent business men are among those being held in a luxury hotel in the capital riyadh critics say crown prince mohammed bin solomon is leading the crackdown and to consolidate his power. well let's get the very latest from the political situation in lebanon from his in the hall there who is currently in beirut. the promises own party has said that they don't recognize his resignation so is he still prime minister recently. well according to the president of the country and the speaker of parliament yes he is still the prime minister because according to them he cannot just resign on television he needs to submit his resignation in person to the president he needs

to explain to the president the circumstances behind his decision but the biggest question is where is the prime minister that a very strong statement coming from his political party saying how d.d. needs to return to lebanon immediately they stopped short of saying that he is being detained or that they believe he's under house arrest but we did call his office to try to get further clarification what they told us was we have no information about his whereabouts so the his own party expressing concern sources close to the president as well as the speaker of parliament telling us that the president himself believes that saddam had it is under house arrest so a lot of concern about the fate of saddam had many and lebanon believe in one way or another he was forced to resign by the saudi authorities and as i said saudi arabia now calling on its citizens to leave lebanon whether they live there or visiting immediately this really feels like the situation is escalating rather than calming down. definitely escalating and you know statements like that is just going

to cause even more tension and uncertainty in this country also there has been a statement from the saudi official in charge of gulf affairs what he is saying is that there will be further measures what he called escalate tory measures that we will take to achieve our aims now saudi arabia's not saying what measures those will be but it has issued threats telling lebanese politicians you need to curb hezbollah has influence in lebanon you need to move away from the party and one way or the other saying you have to choose between hezbollah or us so people are worried what can saudi arabia do put financial pressure economic pressure on this country people are ruling out military action but financial pressure economic pressure that will cause a lot of suffering in this country and i know qana me already struggling so a lot of uncertainty saudi arabia really bent on finishing off hezbollah and they're able to really is to curb iranian influence in the region and what they've decided to do is to start here in lebanon by targeting its proxy hezbollah good to

get your thoughts as i know how that would be very uncomfortable situation. the u.n. and more than twenty eight agencies are warning that the saudi led coalition is tightening of the blockade on yemen could bring millions of people closer to starvation they're calling for the opening of all and seaports closed after saturday's attempted missile attack on syria and organizations including oxfam save the children and islamic relief say that more than two thirds of yemen's twenty eight million people are reliant on imported supplies more than twenty million people need humanitarian assistance including seven million facing famine like conditions food supplies are expected to run out in six weeks and vaccines in just a month and the international committee of the red cross says it can't bring in chlorine tablets to prevent malaria cholera the number infected by the outbreak of yemen's is expected to reach one million by the end of the year humanitarian groups

say mass starvation is possibly just weeks away. basically ninety percent of the young men spewed is in. the breakdown on the food pipeline like we've now seeing it's not going to take money weeks before we can watch more people will face the ration and we're struggling to move around it takes from one town to another we have to almost go through one hundred checkpoints we're asking for the airport blockade to be opened to allow lifesaving medicine and food to get into the country this is a manmade disaster and there is no humanitarian solution to this we're asking for all parties to come together to find a solution desperately which is desperately needed for the people of yemen. and seaport city abandoned while the crisis gets worse and citizens express outrage mama judging reports. at some international airport an ominous silence terminals are as him to you of people as runways are devoid of planes clear signs

that the crisis in yemen. it is only growing more dire not only sunnah international airport was completely brought to a halt by the warring coalition stateside that included preventing the un end of planes humanitarian aid the red cross and doctors without borders is a bit of luck but airport officials aren't just angry with the parties to the conflict a compass that and m m m a to head to the united nations could have taken a brave and clear decisions to condemn the aggression the un could have compelled the belligerent states to allow at least humanitarian aid to arrive and to allow access to the injured casualties and humanitarian cases for its part the u.n. has warned that in yemen which is in the grips of a cholera epidemic that has seen more than nine hundred thousand suspected cases since april is also facing the world's worst famine crisis. one that could kill millions of people unless the saudi led military coalition ends its blockade and

allows aid to flow into the country saudi arabia imposed a land and sea blockade in yemen after a ballistic missile was fired on saturday towards its capital riyadh since then it has only become more difficult for citizens to get their hands on vital commodities with prices of petrol and cooking oil rising drastically in the port city of her data humanitarian access was already difficult for aid agencies now it's only got worse than this and so far as closing down the ports and borders these are war crimes in the first degree at the u.n. office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs in sanaa officials are extremely concerned of what will happen if they can't continue to bring food into the country you know that yemen is the largest food insecurity could isis all over the world every month we feed seven million people these are people who depend completely on relief aid for those survivors and we import these commodities the

food to help these people which is why the longer yemen's air. and seaports sit empty the longer the suffering will continue. the global whistleblower group of global leaks has released for the peers to be a plan by the united arab emirates to destroy cattles economy and eventually steal the twenty twenty two world cup the plan was found in the email account of the u.a.e. ambassador to the united states yousif al tiber global leaks handed over the files to the online news outlet the intercept orion graham is the washington d.c. bureau chief of the intercept. the plan is a if fairly simple one in the end it's to take all of the existing bonds that u.a.e. and affiliated parties already own and put them in a kind of off shore confidential vehicle and then go about purchasing additional qatari debt. and then by credit default swaps against that debt so that when the

debt goes down in value the credit default swaps rise it's like buying an insurance they would then take these these bonds according to the plan and swap them back and forth among parties who from the outside look like they're independent but are actually the same people as like me and you trading a bond back and forth and that creates an illusion of volatility and with people aware that there is this political crisis going on then the plan as they see this enhanced volatility and traders start to panic and say oh my god something must be going on here we need to sell our own our own could tare debt which drives the price down further that that dries you know that increases the price of the c.d.'s which then puts pressure on the currency the qatari currency which requires carter then to bring in dollars to prop up its currency and all of this

creates a sense of crisis which then you would use to say well that the country is in crisis you know it ought to at least be sharing the world cup with the rest of the g.c.c. countries the syrian army says it's now in control of the eastern city of. fighters withdrew though the city was one of the last remaining pockets territory in syria held by the armed group iraqi fighters allied with the syrian government have been pushing into alba kemal from both sides of the border the syrian minute she video appears to show iraqi funniest flying yellow shia militia flags near the city on wednesday still has been losing ground rapidly since its self declared capital rocka was captured in october by syrian democratic forces. the head of the un's a humanitarian task force for syria is warning hundreds of thousands of people need and ask us are facing a complete catastrophe young egeland says it's difficult for international aid to

reach those in need while the situation is tough for syrians everywhere is nowhere is as bad as east and go to on the outskirts of the capital this the center of suffering has poor hundred thousand civilians. men women and children in a dozen beseeched towns and villages. since september it's been completely sealed off until september there was some access through with commercial and other traffic. now the only lifeline would be our convoys. so there is an accumulated number now of around four hundred. men women and children i would estimate maybe three quarters of them women and children that need to be evacuated now.

so to come this half hour new delhi announces plans to take half the cars of its roads to tackle the toxic small smothering the city plus. i'm daniel why i'm there in the remote brazilian community. it's known as the colombo all the home to escape slaves who are again fighting for their freedom. hello a good part of central southern china is still enjoying spitta warmth releaser twenty to thirty degrees typically from shanghai down to hong kong but this cloud in than this developing and the spell of rain on its way. up in sichuan it's dry here really for chengdu is seventeen degrees and temperatures relatively consistent the rain might even spread

a little bit further east towards the east coast but hong kong stays dry and your rest of it means coast for the months past is dry there's a feed of showers right about denying a bit to science maybe but not quite as heavy as they were but there is still flooding here in the northeast monsoon as it now tucks it in chases away that monsoon trough from india is producing heavy rain in town and insert a figure for sort of like a seventy three minute wait is still worthwhile stuff for the most part there is no wind there is no rain in fact the problem is the morning mist and fog and pollution colder in the north indian plain and crossing to northern pakistan conditions in the air are pretty poor and they're not light to improve any day soon this could last for weeks if not months in the arabian peninsula pictures largely a dry one and a pleasant one just around the coast of a man in the yemen though it could well be cloudy enough for rain.

twenty three unions has collected objects. to fill his museum enough to break a guinness world record. with a story for every object he's become an environmental activist and inspired. for the plot to countless migrants. march music. welcome back remind of the top story. saudi arabia has all that its citizens to

leave lebanon as part of an escalating crisis began with the shock resignation of lebanese prime minister saad hariri his political party is demanding that he returns to beirut. the u.n. says a saudi yemen on the brink of the world's worst famine in decades with millions at risk of starvation. u.s. president says he's found common ground with china's later over the crisis on the korean peninsula he. visit to beijing where the two signed multibillion dollar trade deals and jim brown in beijing has more on the lavish ceremony for the u.s. president. china's leaders know how to put on a good show and to make important visitors feel honored. the finally tuned welcoming ceremony was far more lavish than the one given president trump's

pre-disaster president xi jinping has rolled out a very long red carpet for trump who ensured his tie was color coordinated. the two leaders talked for several hours later before the cameras trumpet player surprised his host by saying the u.s. trade deficit with china wasn't all china's fully and i have great respect for you for the things you're representing china but it's too bad that past administrations allowed it to get so far out of kilter they held a news conference without taking questions where trump again pressure she over north korea all responsible nations must join together to stop arming and financing and even trading with. the murderous north korean regime their statements offered more plaudits than substance trump said she was

a special man and that is people were proud of him president she reiterated his call for diplomacy and not threats to resolve the crisis on the korean peninsula he said it was natural for the united states and china to disagree but they owed it to the world to work more closely. but i told president trump that the pacific is big enough and both the u.s. and china by side should increase communication and cooperation in regards to asia pacific issues they agreed to cooperate over combating drugs namely the chinese made chemicals blamed on the us opiates epidemic. many of the outcomes on thursday were prearranged two hundred fifty billion dollars worth of trade deals were announced but their real substance still needs to be assessed those agreements mean trump can show his supporters that he's making progress in reducing the trade deficit china of leader with clearly one president from to leave here. and they

appear to have given him just enough to ensure that happens in return china's state controlled media so that it's time for the united states to preach china as an equal trump spin tweeting about his successes here which means he's been breaking chinese law because twitter is banned but on this occasion his hosts probably don't mind adrian brown al jazeera beijing. human rights watch is urging world leaders to confront me over the treatment of its for a hinge of minority to upcoming summit me on mars defacto leader unsung seat she is in vietnam for this week's apec summit is not a formal member of the group but was invited by the enormous president her government faces international pressure over violence in iraq kind states which has forced more than six hundred thousand to flee into bangladesh the six hundred refugees refusing to leave

a decommissioned camp and papua new guinea have been given until saturday so ago australia shut down the camp on minus islands last week but the refugees say they fear for their safety if they leave and you guinea it says conditions are not hygiene ik and the people must go and the center national has criticised the warning saying the refugees need access to aid and running water. northern india and pakistan are in the grip of an air pollution crisis weather conditions and farm fires a created a corridor of pollution banked up against the himalayas with nowhere to go india's capital new delhi has declared a pollution emergency it's already close to four thousand schools and from monday it will ban cars from the road on certain days charlotte dallas reports. more than four million children are on holiday in new delhi a move that's mean to protect them from dangerous levels of pollution the air

quality in the indian capital sitting at forty times the world health organization safe limit doctors say it's the same as smoking fifty cigarettes a day. our school wasn't visible because of the smog and pollution so they closed our school for a few days. and they started watering and i was having problems breathing this is what new delhi's nineteen million people work up to on thursday it's supposed to be sunrise residents experience the same claustrophobic conditions last november every year at this time farmers burn their crops at the same time as heavy cold ear pushes down from the himalayas it acts like a lid trapping the pollution between the ground and the cold air above us this image from nasa shows what's called aerosol optical thickness the more orange the more pollution new delhi is the worst hit urban area but it spans the entire length

of the himalayas including pakistan second biggest city law. the region's chief minister arvind k dry will describe new delhi as a guest chamber and blamed crop burning in other states but there is another big reason for you and i want to see my mascot start all black with just one day's exposure to the road. the governor. it is bringing in a traffic scheme for monday where private cars with even or odd number plates are allowed on the roads on alternate days your dog will be brought about by. pollution totally dependent on the amount of traffic on the roads if there's not much traffic the pollution reduces doctors need levels to drop quickly this won't with patients suffering from breathing problems and allergies we know all this is harmful and it is there and i have no option if i don't want to drink a little i mean or drink because it's harmful pollution i can't run away i have to

read a recent study found that pollution was linked to two point five million deaths in india and twenty fifteen and new delhi is its most polluted city charlotte dallas al-jazeera target opposition is holding its third and final day in a row of protests against the rule of president for an awesome day demonstrators are calling for constitutional reform i mean seduction of two term limits for the president and asked him by his family has been in power for fifty years at least sixteen people have been killed and more than two hundred others injured since the protests began in august togo's security forces accused of repressive practices. harare international airport has been renamed voice president robert mugabe it comes amid rising tensions within his ruling zalman past party were going to be fired his long time ally and former vice president. on monday and

critics accuse him of trying to poach his rivals. as more from her. opposition leaders and critics of president robert mugabe say be are concerned they're worried that he could be turning the country into a family dynasty harare international airport has now been renamed to the robert gabriel international airport the prison supporters say this is to honor a great man they say he helped and white minority rule and he gave land to the barbarians. it's been a dramatic few days on monday in a cement was fired as the country's vice president he was seen as the heir apparent the one who could possibly take over from prism a gobby one day there wednesday he was officially fired from the ruling zanu p.f. party he has now left the country and the speculation now as to when he's coming back in a statement released on tuesday he says he'll be back in the country soon to lead

zimbabweans we spoke to some people close to him on the phone they maintain that the former vice president is out of the country for medical reasons and that he'll be back. the speaker of catalonia as parliament is among six people facing charges of rebellion and sedition for their own in last month's independence referendum common folk adel and five of a council on deputies arrived at the supreme court in madrid there on thursday the courts will decide whether to remand them in custody while the investigation continues or release them under conditions a form of the catalan government and two pro independence leaders are already in custody awaiting trial on sedition charges. brazilian supreme court is jitter all shortly on the land rights of columbus they are four hundred year old communities in brazil that were established as a home to the descendants of a skate slaves but the villages are facing a new threat from a proposed charge changed to brazilian law the critics fear it will strip them of

their land rights reports from sao paolo state. there's a battle for land raging in brazil indigenous land untouched forest colombo land there are an estimated six thousand colombo's across brazil communities of the descendants of escaped slaves noise that about. we have worked very hard to build these communities and all of the communities are living now with fear. you know bulldozers the residents are known to the supreme court revoking law in the one nine hundred eighty eight constitution protecting their status and claim to land that was the brazilian state needs to recognize this group's rights most importantly their right to land then all the other social rights should follow their right to schooling to health care and full citizenship. the communities were founded in remote regions far from the sugar plantations that escaped from they

mixed with indigenous people and developed a new culture their ancestors escaped slavery to live in freedom and try to build a future in remote communities like this one their fear now is that those hard won freedoms are under threat from hungry landowners and a society reluctance to recognize their rights. the current government is supported by agri businesses and wealthy landowners many don't recognise the definition of colombo's and say land claims should be better regulated that most colombo's don't have official land claims to kill them bolos say they face their greatest threat since the eight hundred eighty eight abolition of slavery. that. everything that is ours is here our land our agriculture a way of life our way of doing things of course our people do not want to loose on the back. at least fourteen colombo leaders have been killed this year in land

disputes it is a new process there is. it's a process of resistance that's prevailed for more than four hundred years with all that's been happening in our politics recently that resistance has to grow a lot more. was ill the world's fifth largest country with more than eight and a half million square kilometers seems so vast but in court and on the land it's still struggling to accommodate its many diverse communities the new shrine al-jazeera sao paolo state brazil. u.s. actor kevin spacey is to be erased from an upcoming hollywood film after accusations of sexual misconduct were made against him spacey played the late us all billy jean jean paul getty in the ridley scott film all the money in the world is to out next month. again with christopher plummer replacing him spacey faces a growing number of sexual harassment allegations in the u.s. and britain netflix says it will no longer be involved in its popular series house

of cards a cell driving shuttle bus has got into an accident on its first day of service in the u.s. state of nevada the vehicle which was carrying several passengers was hit by a lorry driving at slow speed in the city of las vegas no one was injured city officials are blaming the lorry driver for failing to give way. the traffic was bad . and. at his angle and it's like forty five degree angle while he's like trying to back into the alleyway he just couldn't see he just couldn't see the shuttle and the shuttle didn't have the ability to move back either like the shuttle just stayed still and this is another argument for why. you need to be able to look at how humans make decisions. perform the way it was designed unfortunately truck driver. with the

by. the top stories in saudi arabia has ordered its citizens to leave lebanon as part of an escalating crisis that began with the shock resignation of lebanese prime minister saad hariri and we were his office says he's still in the saudi capital and denies he's being held there against his will arrest political party is now demanding he was sent to beirut five days after he announced he was stepping down while in riyadh. now that you should look ninety the return of prime minister saad hariri head of the future movement is necessary in order to restore the internal and external balance of lebanon with full respect to liberties legitimacy in accordance to the constitution and to the thai if accord and with respect to the arab and international legitimacy we confirm our support for prime minister hariri and for all the decisions he makes under any circumstances saudi arabia's attorney general says it's now

a question two hundred eight people as part of what it's calling an anti corruption crackdown he says the investigation has uncovered around one hundred billion dollars worth of ford world family members officials and prominent business men are among those being held in a luxury hotel in the capital riyadh the u.n. says a saudi like blockade has put yemen on the brink of the world's worst famine in decades with millions at risk of starvation a groups say seven million yemenis are facing famine like conditions ten million are in desperate need of food and humanitarian workers are calling for the opening of all and seaports that were closed after saturday's attempted missile attack on me. the global whistleblower group global leaks has released what appears to be a plan by the united arab emirates to destroy castle's economy and eventually steal a twenty twenty two world cup the plan was found in the email account of the u.a.e.

ambassador to the united states youssef. this area and he says it's now in control of the eastern city of them all after i still find his way through the border since he was one of the last remaining pockets of territory in syria held by the armed corey those are your headlines stay with next stop it's my two micio.