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alone barbarous are you watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up on the program u.s. president trump says he never asked the director of the f.b.i. to stop investigating former national security advisor michael flynn. terror on easter the syrian government announced more air strikes in damascus province and. i'm tanya page reporting from cape town on the world's first successful hotch transplant which happened fifty years ago and that's for. hello thank you for joining us who the rebels in yemen say that they fired a cruise missile towards the united arab emirates however abu dhabi has denied the

claim and all of this comes as fighting has intensified between the who are these and their former allies the supporters of the ousted president of doing less salat now his party has issued a statement saying salah welcomes efforts to reconcile with the who these and it's criticized what he calls the saudi aggression against yemen meanwhile who the leader of the who they had accuse the solow of trying to strike a deal with saudi arabia calling the move a coup against their fragile alliance the groups have been fighting coalition forces since march two thousand and fifty one the huckster has the latest. of the alliance to control the yemeni capital sama which was unexpected as it has been violent dozens have been killed or wounded since the forces began on wednesday between forces loyal to alstad present. and the who feeds. now sana is calling on yemenis to rise against his former partners. and i call on all the yemeni

people in all the cities all the provinces all the districts and neighborhoods to take a united stand to defend the revolution and the republic against this group who have been irresponsibly playing with yemeni people for the past three years robbing the institutions and breaking into government buildings only seek revenge on the revolution and the republic. has called for talks with the saudi led coalition on condition they stop their attacks if the crippling blockade and allow for more humanitarian support and coalition statement welcome sollars move saying it would redeem yemen from the evils of iranian terrorist and sectarian militias return it to an arab pure and natural fold but the loosies who are backed by terror and say they still have support from members of silos political party and addressed directly. feel we used to praise your position in the past even though it was one of words only which came with its fair share of backstabbing

disappointment discouragement disobedience and many other problems remain patient but that wasn't enough for you shame on you a big shame. silas struck an alliance with the who's these after a popular uprising ended his thirty three year rule in two thousand and twelve he was succeeded by his deputy abt a month or so had a who fled to saudi arabia after the who take over in johnny two thousand and fifteen and it was there he called an emergency meeting on saturday to discuss the situation with. the saudi led coalition has been fighting to restore hadi to power meanwhile salah says he wants a quick end to the conflict which is a volved into the world's largest humanitarian crisis. the regional analysts believe is past me. integrated and is looking for a future role for him and possibly members of his family in government whatever the

case this latest violence is threaten to destabilize yemen even. well the war in yemen has its origins in the failure of a political transition following the two thousand and eleven arab spring the uprising forced out longtime president saleh triggered a complicated struggle for power as now explains. in many ways the conflict in yemen underlines the contradictions and rivalries of a post arab spring middle east it was all about reinstating the authority of araba drabble months ahead the the internationally recognized yemeni president he had risen to power after the popular uprising in two thousand and eleven taking over from his boss abdullah saleh who had led the country for three decades had to struggle to impose his authority in a country riddled with poverty the spread of armed groups and corruption he also couldn't fend of the rising influence of the who thiis who had taken control of the

northern province of solder and the capital sanaa. once at odds the iranian backed who these and deposed president who still had the support of many in the military became allies and were planning a total takeover of the country. but more than two years later neither side appears close to achieving a military victory and the political cards are being shuffled once again the tactical alliance between the who through supporters was fragile at best both being highly suspicious of each other's motives but united by the same desire to overthrow the had the administration. former president ali abdullah saleh now says he's open to talks with the saudi that coalition if it will put an end to the fighting and the blockade while they need to lift the blockade and open the airport and allow food and medicine into the country we will open a new page for them for dialogue what is happening in yemen is enough. this

turnaround effectively puts an end to the partnership with the who thiis their leader criticize the move as an attempted coup by sol he's very charismatic in the way that he knows how to to actually go out of his way change one hundred eighty degrees and be very pragmatic in who he. goes into a coalition with and showed that once again if it suits him of the timing is right he will do what is necessary to remain in power it's about regime security and he's very good at the probably the who this is that they're an ideological player so they do have a clear belief system they believe in something they have an ideological objective they want to achieve and solid doesn't have that for solid it's pure about purely about interests and it's about establishing or maintaining his power base as president certainly has a close saudi ally and full of who through several times he's also known as a man of great survival acts friends have once again turned into enemies and flows into new. living head the illegitimate president of yemen in the cold but at the.

u.s. president donald trump says he never asked a former f.b.i. director james comey to stop investigating his former national security adviser michael flynn in a tweet to trump blamed fake news for covering what he called coleman's lies that comey testified before congress in june that trump had spoken to him about letting flynn go flynn has pleaded guilty to lying to the f.b.i. in the seven for about his contacts with russia's ambassador he insists he was asked to do so by a senior member of trump's transition team all of this is part of an investigation into allegations of russian meddling in last year's u.s. election well in a second tweet the president also attacked the f.b.i. he said its reputation is in tatters and called it the worst in history. well

democratic senator dianne feinstein says a senate investigation into u.s. russian wings has also revealed a possible obstruction of justice case. i see it in the hyper frenetic attitude of the white house that comments every day the continual tweets that. and i see it most importantly in what happened with the firing of director komi and it is my belief that that is directly because he did not agree to lift the cloud of the russian vest a geisha and that's obstruction of justice we'll talk back when joins us live now from washington tom first of all give us a little bit more detail on what president trump has been tweeting. well it's not only what he's been tweeting it's but what his lawyer his personal lawyer

john dowd has been saying yesterday on saturday the president added another reason for his purported motives for firing flynn and that was not only that he lied to vice president mike pence but also that he lied to the f.b.i. now that is a new feature which had not previously been. accounted for by the president and today his lawyers said that it was his sloppy drafting of the tweet that made that inclusion necessary and that he he shouldn't have done it that raises questions about who actually is doing the tweeting on the president's verified account and secondly if the president does or does does not believe that that was the reason for for for firing flynn it raises other questions about his attitude towards the f.b.i. and he's been unrelenting otherwise in his other tweets against the f.b.i. as you mentioned calling the f.b.i.

in tatters and today specifically pointing to a report that the special counsel robert muller had called on had the support aside one of his investigators because of his purported anti trump and pro hillary personal tweets during the investigation earlier this summer. tom we and we know of course of the president is quite an avid tweeter over all sorts of things but i guess one interpretation of his current tweets could be that he actually is really feeling the heat about what's going on and certainly about the flavor issue. well i think that that that must be the case even though the president shows that repeatedly as he said on saturday that there is no collusion no collusion although collusion is actually not a legal crime in the united states so that would not be on the bill of particulars here but the fact that he said that he that there was no reason for flynn to lie

and that and that he had no contact with other members of the administration when he consulted when he actually made the contacts with the russian ambassador these raise a lot of unanswered questions these are the questions that the. investigation will be proceeding with in intense detail talking to many many of the people who are witnesses to these to these. communications and also to what the motivation might be this this is an indication that the president realizes that the investigation is not going away at the same time republicans in the house are trying to give them a little bit of a flanking protection by subpoenaing or calling for contempt of court rez resolutions against the f.b.i. for not supposedly handing over documents relating to the russian investigation promptly as they've requested it's getting increasingly ever more complicated tom ackerman from washington d.c. thank you for saying the u.s.

it says it will set its own policies on migration after withdrawing from a un pact designed to improve the handling of refugees and migrants globally un member states will meet in mexico on monday for talks on the plan known as the global compact on migration it aims to protect migrants and refugees around the world well the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. that's nikki haley says the pact is inconsistent with u.s. policies. syrian government airstrikes have targeted several cities and towns in damascus province at least six people were killed in our debate while two others died. there have also been attacks in eastern hotel which has been under siege by the syrian army since two thousand and thirteen about four hundred thousand civilians are believed to be trapped there those who have managed to escape are living in makeshift camps has more. on an open field just outside the city of hama displaced syrian families have set up camp they are part

of the now familiar exhaust from syrian cities and from government falls as they endured weeks of bombardments then fled. defenseless in the face of incessant talks and with little hope of me that despite all relief. there are thirty to forty tents here teacher three families live in every tent the rain no toilets running water schooling for the kids we don't have much. they joined the ranks of millions of syrians most their homes in the conflict. this is the hardest is. this bite us is find some it is the war crimes. the aerial bombardments israel is still running once vibrant neighborhoods into decrypted shells with their former selves the government insists it's protecting the people getting sold them terrorists based in residential. but often it's the civilians who

are. whenever the bombs land it's the syrian civil defense force or why told it's come to the rescue rushing in to free the injured and recover the dead that is as clean as if you don't use food shortages are also adding to the misery of cities. we haven't eaten since last night we had rockets falling throughout for the sake of . dozens of civilians. killed in recent. months. the u.s. humanitarian. hundred people i didn't. have to be. the people of syria say the victims of a crime committed by those. briefly they defied the.

uprising crushed. outrage about what's happening in syria but no agreement on how to bring the. still to come here on al-jazeera we're going to be doris where there is. less people await the results of the presidential elections and we're also going to meet the lebanese basketball player who is. the way of his sports or the. hello there for many of us in the southeast in parts of china it's fine and dry at the moment when the feeding down from the north so it's not feeling that warm and the temperatures will be dropping as we head through the next few days as well so i will monday shanghai should get to around fourteen degrees but as we head into

tuesday we won't get any higher than around eight you can see the winds they're feeding their way down and down towards parts of vietnam and the picking up a fair or more of moisture as they do so so along that coast then we see a lot of cloud and quite a few showers around too as we head further towards the west for us in india we've been watching this storm here it is still a very intense storm it's already worked its way across sri lanka in the southern parts of india now it's running its way up the western coast and looks like it's making a beeline towards it's very intense at the moment is the equivalent of a border category two three and it looks like that system is just going to weaken slightly as it runs its way northward so for many of us along that western coast watch out for the next few days because they could well be some very heavy rains that could well give us some flooding as we head out towards the west here in doha i think we'll see a fair amount of cloud with us over the next few days but could squeeze out one or two showers so twenty seven degrees will be the maximum there on monday but as we head into tuesday we won't get over around twenty five.

in jakarta school students are taking up weapons to fight in deadly street battles . one on one east investigates this violent phenomenon. at this time on al-jazeera. you stand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world. al-jazeera.

hello there a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera fighting continues in yemen as the rebels say they fired a cruise missile towards the. abu dhabi has denied as a clay u.s. president on trump says he didn't ask former f.b.i. director james comey to stop investigating former national security advisor michael flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the f.b.i. and syrian government there strikes have killed at least eight people in damascus province there are also been attacks in eastern hutto which has been under siege since two thousand and thirteen. the home duren security forces have restored calm after days of violence following the disputed presidential election the electoral commission is yet to the clear winner with president twenty orlando and nine days ahead of opposition candidate salvador. three people have died during the opposition protests the latest was

a nineteen year old woman witnesses say she was shot by soldiers in the capital on saturday security forces have been given extra powers to stop the unrest well our correspondent. is live in to before us now manuel what's the latest on plans for the vote counting to actually restart. well we're as close as we can get right now to the national elections commission with the police here behind me the military military police here behind me ordering off this section of war road to make sure that nothing gets through other than the best traffic and military vehicles motos he is the head of the elections commission he said on friday that representatives from both parties as well as international elections observers would be present at the special recount process but we do know that opposition has failed to attend both on friday and on saturday and are instead calling for more demonstrations against quote fraud and dictatorship now. the opposition leader he's

calling for a recount of over five thousand ballot boxes but the national elections commission they've already begun recounting somewhere around one thousand and thirty one ballot boxes that contain some irregularities as they say now the national elections commission still has not given a formal announcement we actually don't even know if the opposition delegation is participating in that recount today and it's been a week it's been a full seven days since the general election and there's still no announcement made as to that hotly contested presidential election here in honduras and that meant well i mean i guess it might be hard to say but what do you think would be the reaction if it is actually declared the winner. right well since wednesday there have been at least three deaths. related to this wave of violence and chaos here across honduras and there's been a curfew that's been put in place

a strict curfew a six p.m. to six a.m. curfew that the military hears and foresee they say is going to last for ten days it seems to have brought back some calm at least here in the city of god but even though people are breaking curfew we saw people break or a few last night these protests remain largely peaceful the concern here is that the longer that this electoral process this special recount process continues to stall the higher the chances that we're going to see those riots take place again and furthermore the concern for there down the line is that if president one is declared a winner we could see a resurgence of that violence and chaos that we saw over the last few days absolutely the latest from des. moines iowa thank you. egyptian presidential candidate athlon shift has reportedly arrived in cairo after being arrested and deported from the united arab emirates had been based in abu dhabi since losing to mohamed morsi in the two thousand and twelve election the former

prime minister and the air force commander announced last week that he plans to run for president next year the incumbent leader i've been fucked and sisi is widely expected to see another term. there is the man being the release of its journalists who do the same who has spent almost a year in an egyptian prison hussein is accused of broadcasting false news to spread chaos which he and al-jazeera strongly deny he's repeatedly complained of mistreatment in jail he was arrested on the same for the twentieth while visiting family. pope francis has the fended his refusal to directly address the ranger refugee crisis while visiting me on mar the leader of the catholic church says he spoke more candidly in private meetings he's facing international criticism for not using the war drew him until he was in bangladesh where he met for hanjour refugees escaping the military crackdown i mean that is her i was interested in my message

getting through so i saw that in my speech if i'd use that word the door would have slammed shant describe the situation the riots that no one should be excluded citizenship to allow me my private meetings to go further i was very very satisfied with the discussions i was able to have parts of india are preparing for more bad weather just days after cycle naki battered the south of the country. excuse me a low pressure system near thailand could strengthen into a tropical storm and move towards tamil nadu and under a private states. it's fifty years to the day since the world's a first successful heart transplant it was carried out by dr christian barnard at a hospital in cape town well the transplant technique had already been used on a dog in the u.s. a decade before but dr bernards was the first human to human transplant the

operation gave a heart from a twenty five year old woman to a fifty three year old man the spited success the patient to lewis washington skied died of pneumonia eighteen days later the anti-rejection drugs had weakened his immune system but is new hard functioned normally until his this and that led to the development of better transplant drugs by the late one nine hundred seventy s. many of dr bernards patients were living up to five years with their new hearts. on that first heart transplant operation is still generating groundbreaking ideas today as tanya page now reports. crotty scale hospital is home to a museum dedicated to the world's first heart transplant it happened in this room under the steady hand of dr christiane barnard who died in two thousand and one the surgery has barely changed in fifty years what has of course dramatically changed is the postoperative immunosuppression post-operative care and that led

to a phenomenal survival rate we have today seventy eighty percent of transplant patients living after ten years in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven the first transplant triggered a debate on whether it was ethical all not letters written at the time show a mixed response to the surgery one doctor in a former yugoslavia describes it as the most important event in the history of the human spirit a man in turkey wants to send everyone on the surgical team a new pair of shoes congratulations but some were negative as well one man in australia has filed a complaint with the police he thinks the operation was illegal and this woman and italy said never men shall be able to replace a human heart as men can't replace god's world half a century later a lack of education and awareness continues to prevent people from bridges storing

as organ donors but without them none of these men would be alive today three of them have new hearts the fourth a transplanted kidney we don't have a very strong tradition of people becoming organ donors so why not consider living on to somebody else and giving somebody else a second chance and to weigh in a little it is one legacy of dr barnard's pioneering surgery is inspiration the cardiology team at the hospital where he worked is continuing to break new ground just launching a new plastic heart valve that could revolutionize the treatment of remeasured heart disease the significance of what we do now is a practical significance because we talk about thirty three million patients. who would otherwise that these trainee nurses have come to be inspired by dr work by looking at the first six hots he transplanted some see the vital organ as the same

to all of our emotions others as a pump but it's only understood as well as it is because of dr bonnet and his teeny tiny page cape town. the sable people in lebanon are demanding fair treatment saying laws protecting them are rarely followed sunday is the worldwide day of persons with disabilities and time reports from beirut. says the best word to describe him would be competitive. several times a week he comes to this basketball court in central beirut to practice drills he's part of a wheelchair basketball league and also takes part in marathons over the years use of has one dozens of medals and trophies and says his disability which combines into a wheelchair has never stopped him from succeeding. i have challenged my disability and i have challenged this society l. even i ask every person with a disability to fight and face these obstacles because if we don't fight we will

die. use of his part of the lebanese welfare association for the handicapped that campaigns for the rights of disabled people according to government statistics around four hundred thousand lebanese live with disabilities and although legislation has been passed to protect them the laws are rarely enforced. those with physical challenges aren't the only ones who are fighting for rights and acceptance those struggling with other disability see big too often feel ignored and excluded. works in administration at a high end bathroom and kitchen design store in central beirut he was born with down syndrome and has been working there for the past four years says he loves his job and you have. heard of. and here. runs the company he

says some of his staff were initially uncomfortable with the idea of having a colleague who is disabled something he believes is common for most workplaces in lebanon but soon after she started working there attitudes began to change which had been is an asset for all of us he's a catalyzer of good spirited of joy. and we had a feeling great and they for force had been that is among us. says despite all of his awards and medals because of his disability he still doesn't feel fully accepted by society and that others like him are still too often excluded from work and other opportunities which is why until that changes continue his fight for the rights of all disabled people in lebanon. al-jazeera beirut.

here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera who the rebels in yemen say they fired a cruise missile towards the united arab emirates however of the has than i do the claim meanwhile fighting as intensified between the movies and their former allies supporters of ousted president ali abdullah saleh his party has issued a statement saying sally welcomes efforts to reconcile with the bees and as criticize what he calls the saudi aggression against yemen u.s. president donald trump says he didn't ask the former f.b.i. director james comey to stop investigating former national security adviser michael flynn in a tweet trying to blame fake news for covering what he called kohli's lies could we testified before congress in june that trump had spoken to him about letting it flame go flynn has pleaded guilty to lying to the f.b.i.

in the somber about his contacts with russia's ambassador. in a second tweet meanwhile the president attacked the f.b.i. he said its reputation was in tatters and called it the worse than history. democratic senator dianne feinstein says a senate investigation into u.s. russia links is also revealed a possible obstruction of justice case i see it in the hyper frenetic attitude of the white house that comments every day the continual tweets that. and i see it most importantly in what happened with the firing of director komi and it is my belief that that is directly because he did not agree to lift the cloud of the russian vesta geisha and that's obstruction of justice. syrian government there strikes have targeted the mascot's province at least six people were killed they are being while two others that i had in her arrest. and

the u.s. says it will set its own policies on migration after withdrawing from the u.n. pact designed to improve the handling of refugees and migrants globally the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. he haley says the global compact on migration is inconsistent with u.s. policies that's it one of. the the. the the. on the streets of jakarta hundreds of high school students armed themselves ready.