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come on santa maria welcome to the new st if you didn't know better you'd swear it was business as usual in zimbabwe after two days of house arrest president robert mugabe's appeared at a university graduation in harare a regular appointment which he kept despite the fact that the latest somewhere the mugabe is still in charge or if his exit is on the way also on the grid a u.n. investigation into the use of chemical weapons in syria is to be disbanded and is after a tense session in the u.n. security council where russia vetoed any extension of the inquiry it shows even when chemical weapons are concerned the battle lines in syria are as rigid as ever and in another rollback of decisions made by his predecessor president donald trump has decided the import of elephant remains into the u.s. as trophies will be allowed from zambia and zimbabwe for conservation so it's a big step backwards it's like trying to save elephant populations from being hunted to extinction. and this whole presidential election in the public of

somalia have turned soloist protests overnight and ahead of a homage to hashtags a.j. he spread. our as. you know with the news grid and live on air and streaming online live and they were dot com and having zimbabwe's leader appear at a university graduation isn't usually out of the ordinary except maybe this year when that leader robert mugabe been has. under house arrest for the past two days we're going to be appeared in public for the first time since the army seized power in tuesday night and he was welcomed here as the city by cheering crowds at that graduation ceremony in harare but despite the public show of palm beach future is still being decided military leaders say they were making significant progress when with him to bring an end to the political crisis let's get some details from

hollywood tossin our correspondent who's been covering all of this from harare is he still the president officially. the army says he is still head of state and commander in chief the war veterans gave a press conference straight after the graduation ceremony and they are angry they said mugabe has to go they say that he and his wife are to ruin the economy they say they cheated the country and the ruling party as their own personal property and he said zimbabweans have had it up to here and this what he did that had it up to here he was angry he said there's going to be an anti mugabe demonstration on saturday here in the capital harare and he's saying it's not about war veterans it's not a bad zanu p.f. he said every zimbabwean who is frustrated with the magog is let's come out in the streets and march this in the strategy to the stadium march and show the mugabe is that your time is running out he says that he has said a stern warning to the mcgarvie is on saturday they will hear from the people how

the people really feel and if the mugabe is still trying to hold on to power they will be dealt with another one of the negotiation process because as we say we've got one side the military is there as well there was a south african delegation that was certainly involved yesterday is there any clarity or indication of how that's playing out. or people are just waiting to see i mean we've been told the visine significant progress made but what that is we don't know if we thing else is just speculation we know that the regional bodies southern african countries are planning special conference special summit where they'll discuss zimbabwe and to give an indication that the outside play players are so i can trees are trying to mediate in this crisis it was interesting enough on social media in particular i've been complaining about this they saying that the region before has let us down there that they've allowed macgyver to stay in power for so long they haven't listened to

our cries about human rights abuses and allegations of rigging elections so they don't want the southern african leaders to come in as have been they saying the army is doing a great job leave them are we alone will manage by ourselves so a lot of people not to please others outside intervention but the talks are going on we've been told progress has been made what that is waiting for the army to announce us. friday in harare or what was a long time in the notice and yesterday on the ground that it was all looking pretty normal behind you with things carrying on as they were. busy or getting busier and busier and busier people getting on with their lives of course watching what's happening the interesting thing now about this war vision thing is that you must remember these are individuals who helped bring macgyver to power he stay there for nearly forty years some zimbabweans are wondering. if the war veterans say they are really fed up with mugabe are they really going to be any better if they do come into power for example and the wondering if we join them on

this march on saturday. will things really change on the ground a lot of people are still angry with the war veterans they blame them for violence for election rigging they say some of the have been cruel over the past so that war veterans have to really convince ordinary zimbabweans that they're really on this side and they will support them and when it comes to moving in the world here's a saying remember zimbabweans we have one enemy now that is the president join us now what issues we have in the past who have been deal with them fascinating times by harumi tonsil live in harare for us thank you as with most big moving stories we have the latest updates page on zimbabwe the online team kids taking over with the latest news and pictures and video the most efficient way i would say for you to stay on top of as i said a fascinating story out of africa isn't zimbabwe what's happening it is at al-jazeera dot com you can get in touch with us as well here come the contact details now hashtag a j news grid already had some comments coming through i think

he's put it nicely he is saying mugabe did liberate his country he has the right to be the leader but it's good for him to rest now he's so old and he can't run the country and certainly we saw pictures of him looks like it was falling asleep at the ceremony just quickly there facebook dot com al-jazeera that is where you go to find a live stream now rather than. sorry splash page a news grid we're broadcasting from the main page so we can reach even more of you . now we want to say in zimbabwe for a moment senator decision made in the united states concerning that country and zambia as well now this is the about the remains of elephants legally hunted in boats and bubbly in zambia which can now be imported into the united states as trophies this is another reversal of an obama era decision by this trump administration and it's a divisive move quickly praised by the likes of groups that champion the big game trophy hunting including a safari club international and also interesting the lobbying arm of the national

rifle association but conservationists call the decision troubling this is a really a disaster for african elephants elephants are in dangerous decline and it's outrageous that the trample ministration is greenlighting trophy hunters to go into zimbabwe and kill our offense when you look at the dollars that hunting brings in you're looking at funding for the conservation department in those countries most of their funding it does not come from the government coffers it comes from hunting let's talk to halakha whom they're now who is the c.e.o. of wildlife direct it is a kenyan conservation ngo and she is also the leader of a campaign called hands off our elephants joining us via skype from nairobi and we thank you for your time obviously this would be very disappointing for a group like yours if the united states is going to take a position like this then well who do you think should be stepping up is there

another country or another group that would step up on behalf of the elephants basically. course we're very very disappointed the u.s. has played such a vital role in conveying a message of concern about our lepanto over the last several decades so this reversal sends a signal around the world that ivory is ok that hunting elephants is ok and cannot are in dire trouble we can't afford to take these risks you can't afford to put such a magnificent species at risk because of you know one administration what did the ban under the obama administration want to that actually achieve because when that dealt with legal hunting there's always going to be illegal hunting the population is always going to be threatened did it allow did it help ideas that ban help countries rethought. it helped in a couple of ways first the u.s.

is one of the largest markets for every in the world second it's it's been studied studies have shown the second to china this means that there is a lot of illegal ivory already in the united states and so this ban actually helped to communicate to all americans that having ivory is not ok so that maybe the most important impact that it had was to win over the hearts and minds of americans having ivory is simply not ok but it also. any ivory trade whatsoever provides a cover for illegal trade in ivory so basically illegal ivory becomes laundered into illegal ivory and there are several trials in the united states where people have been trading in ivory calling it legitimate i read it they call it maybe antique ivory and then been found that it isn't really antique ivory and so this really waters down a very strong message that the u.s. had been putting out and it in a way it undermines what china is trying to do so china recently announced that it

was going to ban the trade in ivory which was on the back of what the u.s. was doing but we're terrified that china will look back and say well if the u.s. isn't serious why should we there is a theory paula and i'm not saying it's right but there is a series that reversing this ban could have a positive economic impact on some of the countries where they are for his coming from can you tell you see with a coming from with that. look there are loads of theories out there there have been many speculations about the economics of ivory trade and how trading in ivory or hunting in these wild and really quite endangered animals could help them. i mean i just don't think we should be taking the risk with such animals in the first place but secondly none of those theories have actually been proven if you look at what socrates in people said that trading in in not trading with hunting is helping conservation in africa and it helped conservation in america and that's why we should allow it in africa well it

actually doesn't work that way there are very few act in communities that i could point to and tell you that they have benefited from hunting and that they've been alleviated out of poverty in practice most new book the people who make more money from hunting hunting to turnitin polar combo we thank you for your time and your thoughts on the topic but to appreciate since thank you here is we're here to take a straw man reaction to this emergence from pretty big a lot of conversation simply around this topic but it's not just in the united states where people are talking about us but really around the globe and most people are not very happy about it especially because the tram family is known to be fans of hunting wild game and these pictures behind me show just doubleton sons holding hunted trophies and these are being the most shared with around one point nine ok now some people as well as celebrities are standing against the decision including richard faces

a comedian he says of the band is a blow to the survival of these beautiful animals is savage and pointless and also t.v. host ellen the generous shared this statement jerry had talked or. so basically by lifting this van this ban he is encouraging americans to kill elephants. i love elephants and if you take the time to learn about elephants you would love elephants to elephant show compassion sympathy social intelligence self-awareness they're excellent at learning abilities all the things i have yet to see in this president. and this is clearly something i'm passionate about i am determined to do something about this i am posting this picture on instagram if your is outraged as i am please reposed it retreat it with a hash tag be kind to elephants and for everyone who does will make a donation to the david sheldrick wildlife trust to help protect elephants and also in response that campaign be kind to elephants has gone viral and the hashtag has

been used more than one hundred and sixty thousand times now there's also a petition that's being shed to reverse the department of interior is decision and then less than twenty four hours it has around eighty thousand signatures. however there are some people who support this ruling have access trophy hunters pay huge amounts to legally hunt animals money that's used for the protection of such animals now to give you some background well managed hunting to help finance conservation is supported by many conservationists the studies have shown that local communities benefits from as little as ten cents per head from trophy hunting that's according to the international union for conservation of nature and the african wildlife foundation says that elephants are a vulnerable species with four hundred and fifteen thousand left in the world and

only eight percent of them are now poached every single year the w.f. also reached the trunks administration by saying i quote they expect that the united states may soon become the largest i free to demand market and that china will replace the u.s. as the global leader in the fight against poaching for ivory so is poaching a problem in your country let us know tell us your story using the hash tag a.j. news great or you can message me directly i'm at regina mohammed it's really the last of the techno team looked at this issue of ala elephant hunting but for a really interesting angle thousands of elephants kill each year for their ivory is a scientists in washington would compare the d.n.a. from the ivory samples with d.n.a. from elephant dung it was a one of the big sort of mapping down to base and it meant they could find where the are very kind from and then target the worst affected areas really interesting it always is with the technique guys and you can find that in the shows section a down to zero dot com but another controversial veto in the united nations

security council russia has used its vote to stop an attempt led by the united states to extend an inquiry into the use of chemical weapons in syria it means the u.n. team investigating the use of deadly sarin gas will be suspended diplomatic editor james bays as this from new york. the tenth veto in the u.n. security council on syria and one that ends the council's efforts to hold to account those who use chemical weapons in the country it was a vote that sparked outrage from the u.s. ambassador and she gave this warning that the u.s. may now work outside the u.n. russia has killed the joint investigative mechanism which has overwhelming support of this council the assad regime should be on clear notice the united states does not accept syria's use of chemical weapons as we did in april we will do it again if we must we will defend the international standard against chemical weapons use

there was drama even before the meeting began with ambassador hayley accusing her russian colleague of bad faith by refusing to enter into negotiations for some reason the phones at the russian mission aren't working we have tried to get a call with them and they've been too busy to talk to us this week and when i have tried to call the silly for some reason he's not available moments later she was able to express her displeasure in person a very public exchange of words with the russian ambassador vasoline the benzine or even it seems checking his phones for her calls when the meeting started they even argued over the rules of procedure in the council. i was invoking all thirty five of the of the previous little's of procedure the russian ambassador withdrawing and then reintroducing his own rival resolution this two failed to pass meaning as things stand now the team is investigating the use of chemical weapons

looks set to be disbanded. the use of chemical weapons is now a dangerous reality what is at stake here today is the very future of the international chemical weapons nonproliferation regime. there's been real division and high drama it's been a sad day for syria a bad day for efforts to fight weapons of mass destruction and a day on which the u.n. security council has really harmed its own standing as the security council meeting broke up some members were still trying to create a new compromise resolution to keep the chemical weapons mechanism going on a temporary basis that could be another vote on friday but it will now be very difficult to bridge the deep divisions that have been laid bare james by al-jazeera at the united nations has a summer binge right now in gaziantep near the turkish syrian border it's a huge blow for people there who i mean they had chemical weapons used against them

for one but now the idea of any sort of justice or knowledge about how and why it happened seems to disappear become our we've been speaking to people even before the meeting started and there was pessimism because they said that even if the united nations security council somehow magically comes to an agreement there is nothing that's being done when they're found that assad has been guilty they said this joint investigative mechanism found that the syrian government has used chlorine gas between two thousand and fourteen and fifteen and they've used sarin in april of this year but nothing has been done so people were from the very get go weren't really optimistic that having this mechanism actually helps them on the ground or because in the last six years they've been subjected to not just the conventional weapons but chemical weapons as well and while there are these long arguments where you see the united states every time threatens that it might act

outside of the united nations nothing actually has happened on the ground for the syrians we spoke to some of them here's one man from there who told us what he thinks. in. through these events we can see that bashar al assad in the end can be rewarded and he's not being punished by the international community because they've seen all his crimes and they keep silent. they failed the united nations security council failed russia backs assad and the only loser is the syrian people. and that's a saying that people have been citing to us that in syria you commit a crime when you know there isn't going to be a punishment and this is the way things are going to be they say there have been attacks. in the past they say that there will be attacks in the future now that's what is missing is that sliver of hope that there might be someone who would be held accountable they say the world knows who's carrying out these attacks but

there is no action on the ground and they are very disappointed frustrated and some of them are really angry and i know you imagine osama bin laden have thank you little facebook comment is someone saying the video should be taken away because both the u.s. and russia abuse it now handy little in for graphic video here down to zero dot com because while we talk about chemical weapons quite generically they do very they have different effects and so the interactive team put this video together which explained it's not the most pleasant of content but it is very informative if you search for chemical weapons in war you would find that out as they were took home. now israel says it is prepared to cooperate with saudi arabia to unite against iran israel's military chief told an arabic online newspaper that it is ready to share intelligence information with saudi arabia following the tensions between two and

riyadh this is gandhi aizen caught is the man who spoke and he said he had the iranian plan is to control the middle east by means of two shia crescence the first being from iran to lebanon and the second across the gulf to the red sea we must stop that from happening he said and went on to say this is what should be prevented in the region in this matter there is complete agreement between us and saudi arabia israel and saudi arabia don't actually have diplomatic ties but recently their relations have showed some signs of improving in june two israeli ministers separately called to establish full diplomatic relations with saudi arabia in october a classified memos by the israeli foreign ministry revealed it had instructed its ambassadors to begin a diplomatic campaign against iran and hezbollah both saudi arabia's rivals of course these included backing the saudi claims that those two allies were behind a missile attack on of riyadh a couple weeks ago prime minister benjamin netanyahu said israel is working very hard to establish an effective alliance with the modern sunni states to counter

iranian aggression and bashar with us here in studio a senior political analyst to talk us through this i mean initial reaction i think from some people watching might be thinking israel saudi arabia how does that work but when you lay it all out like that kind of makes sense in the current environment definitely well the relationship my sense. i mean at least on the on the level of officialdom as it were because in terms of people to people. certainly there is no love lost on saudis and israelis there are lists of my god there's vac there's lots of hate this build up over decades of relationships in the region but in terms of the leaders in saudi arabia they do feel or think rather that a relationship with israel today could help them in a configuration that's becoming disadvantages to them. the region is in

turmoil iran is has made major advances in a number of other countries pakistan is no longer listening to saudi arabia turkey is no longer listening to saudi arabia and if we judge by just the last couple of votes by the egyptian government they're also not exactly listening saudi arabia so it's kind of surrealistic an unfortunate that israel will feel that it is prime minister netanyahu and his patron in washington that it needs in order to reemerge as a power in the region can you sort of stick chill of these things together for me perhaps are we talking saudi in israel there's the saudi lebanon happening at the moment there's the gulf crisis which pits also. is there a way to stitch all of this together well look over the last two years or two and a half years we've seen the rise of mohammed bin solomon and saudi arabia based on a simple calculation or calculus you create some kind of crisis and you rise in

power so he became defense minister in march two thousand and fifteen. he became defense mr in january two thousand and fifteen he started the war in yemen in washington he became deputy crown prince in june two thousand and fifteen two months later. in june two thousand and seventeen he thought of a crisis with qatar two weeks later he became deputy prime pretty he became crown prince of. only recently in november for he created some sort of a crisis with lebanon two hours later he purged the entire saudi. ruling class his his cousins his ministers previous ministers or so forth so there is a correlation between creating a crisis and climbing the ladder of power in so actually on that note when you talk

about the arrests that happened i've seen reports today about some of those arrested being offered their freedom in exchange for i think in some cases seventy percent of their income and things like that do you know anything more about that or any thoughts on what i think if you were what he'd been and you have something like fifty billion dollars you were asked to give up twenty and keep ten or stay in prison for the rest of your life you know i mean i know there are yes there are deports in the financial times and the guardian and other western publications so there's almost a consensus that this is what's happening in fact the new york times reported two days ago that seventeen of those detainees were hospitalized because of the treatment by their captors meaning there's been talk sure in whether it's in the ritz hotel or or the mario's or what have you so certainly there's been some severe treatment so the knees and certain there's been almost i'm a few z. type crackdown now the europeans present officials in previous officials like the

foreign minister of germany the former prime minister of sweden and you know a whole bunch of other people certainly american press has been you know quite shocked by what's going on and they're now surely condemning the measures being used the mecca villian measures being used in saudi arabia the only silent partner in all of this is the trump administration and what did president from tweet. they know what they're doing and so did india and they did because no one thank you for that moment to use the word macchiavelli in there i've just found his pace here online which has been very popular macedonian prince welcome to solomon arabia worth a read it's been in the what's trending section for a couple of days of his that and also just something interesting to have a look at here given all these current disputes in the middle east a piece here would the saudis involved impose i'm sorry i cut a blockade on lebanon going down that path something to consider because right now as moment's notice anything is possible in the middle east have a read of it and the rest of the related news at al-jazeera dot com search for

saudi lebanon. now i know there are some of you out there who think of high fashion as little trashy united states and if you want your facebook black we're going to the chinese designer who agrees with you and then still ahead on the grid another high profile politicians and i think phil harris meant controversy so what's being done about that we'll talk about that just a moment. how it's just about stopped raining and snowing afghanistan and to the west throughout iran and back towards the mediterranean coast not much is going on but on the mediterranean coast something is going on and inducing color clouds to build the winds are suddenly has it still twenty seven in beirut and it's about the same in baghdad and down towards cuba it is a clear skies no sixty in terrible danger frost levels in

a good part of iran by night there and here is the clouds as it progresses slowly it was during sunday few green spots to suggest a bit of rain to syria iraq maybe down as far as kuwait not a lot but a hint all to sign for the most part of course the remove raby in peninsula remains now temp is just below thirty for most places though not in western side a saudi with lotion humidity and supposed to rain is still possible around amman yemen and of course maybe the gulf states is fastest gotta during the last part of the weekend or sunday throughout tropical africa we've seen the heaviest rain recently in places like uganda d.r. congo and gabble that's what was subtle i would suggest and that's about where you would expect to see the heaviest rain in this part of africa and then reflected in the forecast come power in the shower along with lee brazil at twenty eight degrees .

in the united states rights activists are still being targeted you have enough information that you found a good deal of what facing surveillance from both the police and the f.b.i. this is not law enforcement and. fault lines investigates the scope of these agencies tactics and the impact on civil society of confidential surveilling black lives at this time all knowledge is ear when the news breaks it was an announcement few were expecting to hear by announce my resignation as prime minister from the lebanese government and the story builds i can't stop thinking about the bullets my life when people need to be heard a mass exodus hundreds of thousands of really have fled ethnic cleansing imeem are for bangladesh al jazeera has teams on the ground to bring you more award winning documentaries and live news on and on line.

the big . headline from our viewer dot com and what's trending as well still a lot about zimbabwe there was probably his first public appearance in the last three days that i was at that so there is well. you know where they go what's

trending it's on the front page i want to look for something. just for you some of your comments will probably contact details on screen for you again lots of feedback about the elephant hunting story i'm not surprised i just picked up one comment here from john thank you for your common economic impact he says how can we reduce a species to economic impact even if it was possible to make money from death is that something we want to do excellent point the only reason i raised it is because that is an argument that is certainly put forward by people on the hunting side and even in the u.s. government in lifting this ban so that's why i brought that one up and instant comment here from colin who said up to this moment i forgot the republican party's symbol is an elephant a major missed opportunity thank you for your comments also in syria as well a lot of outrage about russia choosing to veto the investigation into the chemical weapons and basically saying syria is now say a proxy war in this case between russia and the united states at the u.n. keep the thoughts and comments coming in this the what's that number plus one seven four five zero one triple one four nine the hashtag. it's going to change.

now let's move on to a other day another public figure has been caught up in a sexual harassment controversy and this one reaches the holes of the u.s. congress and it's being criticized by the white house democratic senator al franken has issued an apology for kissing or a kissing and groping incident that happened back in two thousand and six on thursday leeann tweeden a radio host wrote a blog and posted this picture about the incident between her and franken and as you can imagine it went viral very quickly for her tweet and says she does forgive franken the apology sure i accept it yes i mean people make mistakes and of course he knew he made a mistake so yes i do accept that apology you know people make mistakes i mean i'm not i'm not calling for him to step down. that's her response this is the response from the president of the united states he says the al frankenstein as he calls and

picture is really bad speaks a thousand words where do his hands go in pictures two three four five and six while she sleeps now critics pointing out this is trump's first significant reaction to allegations of sexual assault in u.s. politics but he said nothing so far about the claims of sexual assault on teenage is made against alabama senate candidate roy moore moral of this now from in washington d.c. . it is beginning to seem like every single day another high profile man is charged with past transgressions about sexual harassment or assault the latest now democratic senator from minnesota al franken there is a radio anchor who says when they were on a tour entertaining troops this was years ago that he grabbed her forcibly kissed her when she told him to stop it he continued to basically poke fun at her for the rest of the tour and then the most damaging part on the way home she was asleep on a military plane wearing a flak jacket and he deliberately took a picture where he appears to be grabbing her breast and smiling now the senator's

come out and said he doesn't remember the forced kiss in the same way but that the picture was deeply inappropriate he says he has opened himself up to an ethics investigation this is just the latest as i said in a long line of controversies about this including the republican senate candidate in alabama he's facing allegations from multiple women that when they were teenagers he engaged in a sexual relationship with them he stayed in the race and it's interesting to point out president donald trump has not weighed in on that basically saying it's up to the people of alabama to decide if that's appropriate behavior but he has now weighed in on al franken saying that the picture is damaging basically criticizing the senator for speaking up for women's rights in the past this is a dangerous political move this whole topic really hasn't focused on president donald trump who let's not forget was charged during the campaign by more than a dozen women with sexually harassing or assaulting them and again he was caught on tape bragging about doing just that here at the level of having

a look at what's happening french president emanuel micro let's talk about it social summit seventeen it says it's a social summit for fair jobs and growth the word is that it is actually french president looking at the issues of jobs employment and fronts and you're ok felicity barr in london hello more international news from you. are there tomorrow we're going to start with the news that iraqi forces say they have retaken the last major eisel held town in the country government troops advance into rawer in western iraq early on friday morning they raised the iraqi flag over the district governor's headquarters iraq's prime minister said the operation had succeeded in record time and troops would now start looking for eisel fighters in the surrounding areas imran khan has the latest from baghdad. iraqi joint operations command have announced that the iraqi flag is now flying in the same type of and the city has been liberated now this was an operation that began in the early hours

of friday morning but the preparation had actually been taking place since the eleventh of november when the operation to take the last remaining strongholds of eisel began they first took them on a. small village from that they built bridges over the euphrates to bring in tanks and heavy equipment to go in to rob i know what they did was to take the surrounding villages that was about seven of them they took and then they used that as a staging post to go in to another joint operations command were very concerned about civilian casualties and they actually told odds are that we are waiting for the right moment to go in to try and keep civilian casualties to a minimum there's no figures as they've released yet if that have been any civilian casualties but what they did do was announce in the early hours of friday morning when this operation began as i said that any civilians should put white flags above their houses so the iraqi security forces would now so they went and now they've

been met with very little operation this wasn't a operation like the one from mosul iraq's second largest city a real stronghold of eisel fighters there which took months to being bring under control this was a very small town so it was a much easier operation now what we're hearing is a lot of the eisel fighters are simply dispersed over the border crossing into syria allowing the iraqi forces to go straight and it is the end of eisel as a caliphate as a state in iraq so we will be expecting probably the side of the body to make a statement we don't know when that statement is going to be but he does face a challenge on his hands this might be the end of eisel as a state within iraq as i say but the root causes of the the rise of the group still remain the still a lot of anger among sunnis particularly to the shia led government here and so those are things that promise to the body needs to address but this is actually being seen as thin as a significant victory for the iraqi forces that flag flying in the middle of is

very significant. the red cross is warning one million yemenis are at risk of a renewed cholera outbreak because of saudi arabia's blockade of the country the group says the cities of the data solder and tires have stopped providing clean water to residents because of a shortage of fuel the country see nine hundred thousand cholera cases in the past six months saudi arabia imposed the land sea and air blockade on yemen almost two weeks ago after hooty rebels launched a missile targeting its capital all of africa state of the whole of africa state of djibouti is now home to more than forty thousand people who have fled that war in yemen many have moved to the capital to earn a living and as the habit of day reports their presence is bringing big changes to the city. old school tom into a training center in the heart of djibouti a group of men are hard at work. the older figures from yemen until recently they

were living in a compass some two hundred kilometers away. they were then were just given papers and allowed to work. abdul rahman ali came here from the city of. destroyed his house he now owns the testament. we have been accorded outmost respect and dignity and. we thank the government and the leadership of that would. change. a lot of figures from. walk on living government officials. to see the bottom. line. for themselves and for their home. is one of the world's poorest countries with few not to notice sources the country has seen large foreign investment in recent years because of its strategic location but it still struggles with extreme poverty.

there is little else we could do for them so to make up providence just as welcome we allow them the right to work our president is a staunch supporter of the yemeni refugee community. more yemenis that i've businesses owned and run by them are becoming more visible in djibouti they are safe here and have a new start from the horrors so war yet they continue to follow closely events back home. the problem with yemen is the are militias there for hire and cause massive destruction that will. influx of yemenis is changing djibouti even the locals admit they have reinvigorated the city. for the refugees. and who knows if there will ever be able to go back home mohammed all the while just djibouti. and i was group of revenge of refugees on the me the again trying to escape a military crackdown in myanmar hundreds of stuck in what is known is no man's land

between me and bangladesh is footage filmed in bangladesh shows the refugees trying to get to cults is dissolved while the six hundred thousand working just have crossed that border since august the child he has more from the bangladeshi side of the border hundreds of rowing refugees crossed into. no man's land between caulks was out of bangladesh and me on my own now most of them are stranded in the paddy field behind me the hilltop you know saying is me on my bought r. and b. twenty of them not this has been one of the new points of a lot of the rowing refugee of the crossing into buying of that just last week and friday about six thousand refugees crossed into buying without using makeshift raft and fishing boat so the influx was really not stopped people are still coming in i mean wind that a lot of diplomatic activity is overseas as well as in buying of that the foreign minister of sweden japan and germany are scheduled to visit buying of that within this week on november nineteenth chinese foreign minister is also scheduled to

visit this coming week to me and mine and bangladesh between all the diplomatic jargon that it really hasn't been a solution about that report creation of the joint effigy is the army chief yes the day of the myanmar army chief of yes but if they do that it is up to the citizens of myanmar to decide how many water they're going to get refugees will be taken on not casting doubt about the whole policy just about a wig back the foreign secretary of myanmar animating and. india say that are for condition have to be mad before anybody is taken back the home secretary of myanmar said that he doubts that they will be taking all six hundred thousand refugees who have crossed into buying of the ocean breeze and they into me on mine . or lost it for me here in london back to come allow him to haul over thank you for that felicity i miss international is accusing i saw a link mortifies as an the philippine government forces of war crimes during this

five month battle. more than a thousand people were killed and another five hundred thousand word displaced tamil alan dogan has a report now from manila. it is the first detailed human rights investigation into the five month long conflict in the southern city of matter we it killed more than a thousand people and displaced hundreds of thousands of civilians amnesty international sent a team to land a province in the southern philippines to interview around fifty survivors and witnesses what they heard were stories of widespread abuse on both sides some of which amount to war crimes the amnesty report says members of a local group called them out they targeted christians the attacks were often brutal some people were shot at point blank range while others had their throats slit the philippine military also stands accused in the report it details accounts of civilians who say they were tortured by members of the marines after their

escape from out of fighters some say they were held tied beaten and accused of fighting against the government the ago is one of the civilians from our we who survived his story told to al-jazeera backs up the amnesty report but the mouth they beat us with their weapons and they made us wear black and told us to go outside and forced us to steal food some of the women were raped when we managed to escape the military detained us for days we were tired and beaten up the accused us of being the fighters. and this international also says the damage to the city is worth further investigation the group calls it unprecedented and questions whether the use of military operations was consistent to proportionality under international law. we. were guided by the rules of conflict which provides for the city and proportionality in the use of force the war in

morocco we is the longest battle that philippine military has fought since world war two to fighters to control of several parts of merari city in may and held more than two thousand people hostage the moutier made no secret of their brutality it is highlighted in their propaganda but many here believe the philippine military should be held to a higher standard the air is a protector of the people in this they are the ones who are bestowed with that by it of the way the protector of the people and the state and that's why we hold them to account because there eventually they are the military has been undergoing reforms for several years now the operation is being seen as a test as to whether lessons and human rights have been institutionalized accusations of human rights abuses committed by the state have been the cause of the grievances by so many muslim communities which in turn are being exploited by

radical armed groups here many believe these grievances need to be resolved soon before they again push more people to take up weapons against the government dog and al-jazeera manila. we don't have to quit now with right here and to be very clear somaliland sounds like somalia but there is a distinct difference here and there's a reason why it's called somaliland for the presidential elections or that took place in so on and this we can of them the thirteenth significant because as small just asked somalia is actually called a self declared republic in the northwest of somalia and it declared independence in one thousand nine hundred one but has not been officially acknowledged as a sovereign state now three candidates are in the running for this presidential election one is from the ruling party and two from the oppositions you can get that picture a little more technical issues there i think you can get

a good version of who's in the warning there anyway that's secure into the bigger picture right now it's been mobbed by violent protests after the main opposition party what dani accuse the ruling party kumi of rigging the elections and users have shared videos online which appeared to show riots in brough and how to gave the towns these are in the west of the country and as you can see protesters are burning tires in the streets to stop traffic and police also deployed to disperse crowds and you could also hear the sound of gunshots but i desire cannot independently verify these videos. we also heard from the police chief in somaliland he for the milan he spoke about the unrest and called for calm he also vowed to arrest those responsible for the election violence we also heard from a mob of car she's an analyst on the horn of africa and she says that the main issue here is based on politics splits along clan lines. but in the bigger picture it

seems that there is a split amongst clan lines politics seems to be the factor that is escalating the fierce mylan selection. now somaliland became the first region in africa so use the iris recognition biometric voter registration system and this year's a says that considering that there is technology to ensure that the election is free and fair the result sets will be announced by the election commission should be respected and there was also a call from international observers to avoid violence and also to use existing channels to resolve post election differences we also heard from mahmoud hussein who's in who's a businessman who's currently in he said that people should stay united i think it's important that we all wait to hear the news from the end you see and everyone here is urging for calm in this situation but we're very hopeful that the right

results will come out from the m.d.c. and regardless of whatever the result is everyone here will respect it you know there's always winners and losers and you can't win every time and we're looking forward to finding out who our next president will be. send in your thoughts on that situation in somalia and we are open to all perspectives to tweet me directly i met regina mohammed or use the hash tag. for that right sports coming up next with and they were going to have a look at how international. you know it's a foot on the wall to kill going to play football is betting revamped in north and central america that's coming up in a moment. thank

you what about tickets but with andy we're talking contacts can count any excuse to talk to say assad is north and central americans football region is set for a major overhaul of the region's governing body conquered half as announced it will be launching a new nation's lead tournament next year the usa mexico panama and costa rica some of the leading countries involved the region is following it europe's leaders laid out its plans for a nation's leader last month this is what we know so far about the conflict affirmations league and i says they going through all forty one nations from the region and in addition to world cup qualifying or radically reduce the number of friendlies countries compile a will be arranged into three divisions with the highest ranked teams in the top league will be promotion and relegation what we see in domestic competitions it will also be a qualifying competition for the biannual gold cup and will be used to see teams in world cup qualifying well they are only spoke to inside world football's underwater

sure he thinks the new tournament will mainly benefit week it seems. when it comes to cock a cat some of the smaller nations won't even play more than you know half a dozen matches a year so i guess the conquered leadership thought well this is a great chance for them to actually build up the development of the game the problem is that the big big in inverted commas because there are many big countries in contrast but say mexico u.s. costa rica the downside of this tournament is are they really they can really get the benefit more from playing smaller nations in their own confederation than they would have playing friendlies against you know bigger countries mother confederations it i've heard rumors several times that people want to expand your wafers nation even now contract one is well into

a global tournament involving every one of its member nations now that is quite a challenge because you've got regional and confederation competitions. all the time so you could say that if again if it's done properly anything think gives smaller countries the chance to develop the game because they know at the end of the road they have a chance to really fight for a major tournament that could only be a good thing probably there's a complete big commercial element in feet first thinking in culture casting here as well and no doubt you eight is the king for their own nations league it's going to be very interesting to see what this means in terms of sponsorship and how much how much money gets poured into the coffers of these individual confederations and aphasia but if if a further. if this filters through i.e.

if a few uses some of this money that they get from a global nations league if it takes place and is a long way to go then again that can only be beneficial for the developing nations . well lots of reaction to this on social media with u.s. soccer fans seeing some positives after their failure to reach the world cup on the one hand i guess it means the u.s. has games that kind of mean something in twenty eight saying but also it will be against really poor seems no more strong friendlies u.s. football writer matt reed saying this is a start of the last thing the u.s. men's team men's team needs is to be playing curacao in the virgin islands no disrespect when they could be scheduling friendlies against brazil or germany are to sense what being shared by many mexico and costa rica fans much more positive is the reaction from made ranking teams canada's national goalkeeper silents holmes believes it's a huge development in soccer in concord calf and for the canadian national team

canada remember part of a joint bid with the u.s. and mexico to host the twenty twenty six world cup and this from paid to go in there with sports nets i've wanted some form of gold cup qualifying for a few years this will help canada and the caribbean nations a lot's finally a reason finally to smile at the brazilian club shop occurrence a year ago you remember that scene was involved in a plane crash on the three players surviving the accident which killed seventy one people a completely new team was put together after the crash on thursday here they are celebrating the win that ensured they stayed in brazil's top division for another season and arguably even better news for their goalkeeper jackson form when he lost a leg in that plane crash this week here is back in training at the club is ambition now he says is to one day appear at the paralympics. well get in touch with us at. the school sport more from me in the eight hundred g.m.t. news for now let's get back to come thank you for that last night finally tonight

have you seen the robot video i lost track of the number of times i heard that in our newsroom today just one of those times when you know a video tends to pop up on our social media feeds and we'll just go world here it's a robot designed by the massachusetts based boston technology its name is atlas it's described as the world's most dynamic humanoid it can jump it can spin and it can backflip what's that again in slow motion here a robot executing a perfect backflip which a lot of people online declared the end of the world was nigh and i wrote what i was a little bit. but just to prove that us as human as a bit of a blue play here to remind us that nobody's perfect not even the robot which can do a backflip. but. it's still pretty. wonderful i think it's a great way to win friday's news good if you want to get in touch with us here is how you do it the hashtag is

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