moves out of syria six hundred thousand pages of material so that one day they can bring the assad regime to justice it puts a human face on the charges it's a dead human face but it's a human tricks syria witnesses for the prosecution at this time on al-jazeera. on counting the cost the goldilocks oil price is there such a thing as the perfect price of crude for consumers and producers financial bubbles and big point loss the future of job creation in africa the only continent where the young outnumber the old counting the cost at this time on al-jazeera. who the rebels in yemen claimed they fired a cruise missile towards the united arab emirates but i'll be denies the claim.

hello i'm barbara sarah this is on 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. terrine eastern go to the syrian government mounts more airstrikes in damascus province. on john hendren on the detroit river in the only floating postal code in the united states. who the rebels in yemen say they fired a cruise missile towards the united arab emirates the u.a.e. is obviously part of the saudi led coalition that's been fighting the movies in yemen since two thousand and fifteen while the group's television service says they

were targeting the outback a nuclear reactor which is under construction in the west of the emirate well i would obviate self is the nine to who these claim all of this comes as fighting has intensified between the who these and their former allies the supporters of ousted president ali abdullah saleh solace party has issued a statement saying salah welcomes efforts to reconcile with the who these and his criticize what he calls the saudi aggression against yemen who the leader of that mallika who the had issued has accused the salah of trying to strike a deal with saudi arabia calling the move a coup against their fragile alliance well the group have been fighting the coalition forces since march two thousand and fifteen and the hoaxer 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 fighting began on wednesday between forces loyal to alstead present. and that his

face. is calling on yemenis to rise against his former partners. 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 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. 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 things after a popular uprising ended his thirty three year rule in two thousand and twelve he was succeeded by his deputy abdul rob a man 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 hardie 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 salah is past me motivated 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. while 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 and 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 arabic rebel months were heady 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 thieves 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 led coalition if it will put an end to the fighting and the locate why 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 sees their leader criticize the move as an attempted coup by saleh 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 claimed that quote fake news for covering what he called coleman's lies coming testified before congress in june that trump had spoken to him about letting flame go plane has pleaded guilty to lying to the f.b.i. and the center about his contacts with russia's ambassador he insists he was asked to do so by a senior member of trump's transition team it's 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. russia lings says 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 occasion that's obstruction of justice. getting more complicated by the day tom occurring joins us live now from washington so first of all what's trumps legal team being saying about his latest tweets today

. well of course trump has not been given to going back on any of his tweets but apparently he has allowed his personal attorney john dowd to in a sense backtrack on what he said on saturday in which he gave as an added reason for firing flynn the fact that he lied to the f.b.i. the attorney said that it was due to his sloppy drafting of trump's tweet and that of course gives rise to the question who actually does write those tweets before he sends them out that it was sloppy drafting of it that permitted trump to make that apparent error so that is out of sorts with the the president's unrelenting attacks against the f.b.i. as you mentioned earlier today more tweets talking about how the f.b.i.

are putting to. reports that the f.b.i. the f.b.i. as principal investigator or one of them in the hillary clinton e-mails was removed from robert muller's investigative team because of purported anti trump tweets that he had communicated privately to his mistress last summer that was several months ago and the press so the president has added to his relenting unrelenting barrage against the f.b.i. and ironically this is the current f.b.i. because he is still not differentiating between the f.b.i. under call me and the f.b.i. under his successor whom trump appointed christopher a in fact republicans in the house are threatening a contempt of congress resolution against the current f.b.i. director and the department of justice for what they say is failing to provide to hand over documents about the ongoing russia investigation well speaking of the

russian vista geisha i mean elements of it have been rumbling for months but a lot of people are calling michael saying pleading guilty a bit of a game changer and do you get the sense that president trump is really feeling the heat about it all. well i think it's apparent that there was no advance notice by to the white house that flynn as had exe had flipped there was very little advance notice in the fact that he had not only gone into a court and heard the indictments but that he pled guilty at once and that in fact it was clear from the bill of particulars that he was only charged with the most minor relatively minor of the potential offenses against him so hanging above him is the continuing cloud of possible further charges against him if he does not fully comply with all of the with all of the answers that the that the

investigators are asking for so it's also clear that contrary to what the president had hoped and what he had communicated to many house many congressional republicans that he wanted to see a quick end to the congressional investigation the special counsel's investigation is ongoing and could be going for quite a while now indeed tom ackerman with the latest from washington d.c. tom thank you will staying in the u.s. say 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 plane it's on the plan it's known as the global compact on migration and it aims to protect migrants and refugees the u.s. ambassador to the un nikki haley says the pact is inconsistent with the u.s. policies. it's going to syria now the government there has carried out air strikes

in several cities and towns in damascus province at least six people were killed in out of being while two others died in her arrest 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 mohammed though 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 to us 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 a that despite all relief. went out there are thirty to forty tents here two to three families live in every tent the are no toilets running water or schooling for the kids we don't have much they joined the ranks of millions of city

and most of the homes in the conflict. this is the hostile area of istanbul to this biters says find some it is the war crimes. the aerial bombardments israel is still running once vibrant neighborhoods into decrypted shells of their former selves the government insists it's protecting the people getting sold them terrorists based in residential areas but often it's the civilians who are right. 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 it is dangerous food shortages are also adding to the misery of syrians. we haven't eaten since last night we had rockets falling throughout so for the sake of god this has to stop. dozens of civilians are reported topping killed and was

sent on a to libya talks by government forces in istanbul to the un see monetary and coordinate a full city a young egland ses five hundred people with i didn't medical needs have to be of a created from is done with. the people of syria say they're victims of a crime committed by those charged with protecting them briefly they defied the regime but on cut uprising crushed these international outrage about what's happening in syria but no agreement on how to bring these two on and mohamed atta well just. still to come on the program security forces restore order in honduras where people await the results of the disputed presidential election and we look at why britain's nuclear deterrent is still facing heavy moral and political opposition.

hello there mostly quite quiet across the middle east at the moment weather wise we do have this week feature in the west and it's actually a developing one so not much to it force on monday but as we head through into chews day we'll see more in the way of cloud and rain and a fair amount of snow on the system too behind it it's not as warm as it has been so for ankara we won't get any higher than around eight degrees at best elsewhere more in the way of clouds along the eastern coast the mediterranean the beirut twenty two degrees some clouds for us and for the east although it's generally dry and the skies are clear certainly in north warm with tashkent in amante only getting to minus one as a maximum during the day now here in doha i think they'll be a fair amount of cloud over the next couple of days and that could bring us one or two showers temperatures will be dropping as way so twenty seven as a maximum on monday so by choose day will only get to around twenty five for the

southern parts of africa lots of on subtle weather here you see all the showers there and they stretch all the way down into the eastern parts of south africa some of this cloud is giving us a fairly lively downpours and they'll be more wet weather as we head through the next few days so some sharp showers then stretching down towards durban again on monday and on choose day the rain turns heavier so for many of us in the eastern parts of south africa it does look quite wet.

now reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera fighting continues in yemen as the for the rebels say they fired a cruise missile towards the u.a.e. abu dhabi has denied the claim the u.s. president donald trump says he did not ask former f.b.i. director james comey to stop investigating former national security adviser michael flynn flynn has pleaded guilty to lying to the f.b.i. and syrian government there are strikes have killed at least eight people in damascus profits. and security forces have restored calm after

days of violence following the disputed presidential election there the electoral commission is yet to the clear winner with the president one orlando at nine days ahead of opposition candidate salvador nasrallah three people have died during opposition protests the latest was a nineteen year old woman with this is say she was shot by soldiers in the capital on saturday the security forces have been given extra powers to stop the unrest manuel republic reports now from the honduran capital. we are as close as people are allowed to get to the national elections commission waiting to hear any word on a final decision of this partly contested presidential election in honduras now the military has sectioned off this part of the road not allowing anything other than pedestrian traffic and military personnel to move through now. as the head of the elections commission said on friday that representatives from both parties along

with international lection observers would be present during the special recount process the opposition however has failed to attend and there's really no sign as to when we're going to hear a final word a final decision from the national elections commission so the military isn't forcing a strict curfew from six p.m. to six a.m. that they say is going to last for ten days this in response to this wave of violence that we've seen spread across the country that's left at least three people dead including a teenage girl who was shot by military security forces now the concern moving forward is that if this process continues to stall and even further down the road the announcement is made that president one man this is declared is declared the winner we could see a resurgence of that same violence that same chaos that we saw over the course of the last few days catherine as foreign minister says the emir to mean been her son name will attend the gulf cooperation council in kuwait on tuesday the region alliance is facing its worst crisis in decades as the saudi led blockade of

catherine and to has its seventh month foreign minister abdul rahman out fannie says he hopes the summit will provide a blueprint for ending the standoff mohammed jim jim one points. kuwait has been the mediator in the gulf diplomatic crisis that began in early june the country is now getting ready to host a meeting of the gulf cooperation council invitations have been sent out to gulf leaders but it's still not known for sure who will attend since the beginning of the blockade on qatar kuwait. has attempted to end the dispute in october he warned of the potential collapse of the g.c.c. if the crisis continues many analysts agree this is i think the middle quite knows very well that the crisis is actually for a long and we are going to see probably two blocs within the g.c.c. one is led by saudi arabia and it. will actually have.

to a lesser extent probably kuwait. so we'll be having been to see a lot of that one asked on saturday about the gulf diplomatic crisis at the international mediterranean dialogue conference in rome how those foreign ministers shift mohamed when i'm on a sunny said it was important for countries to work together you need to reach a level of understanding going security principles that everybody is going to appoint and everybody should and should be committed to and then from there we've been. on it on the next system for a lot of the cooperation the foreign minister added that the gulf region is collective security had been threatened by the measures taken by the blockading countries i think the saudis that he's involved. with this is something couple would not do about it has made it to me and many times a by the middle and by other they cannot actually accept

a thought that they want a negotiation they want. concessions by all sides to solve the crisis the blockading countries of saudi arabia the you. beheading and egypt have accused cult out of supporting terrorism maintaining cordial relations with iran and meddling in the internal affairs of their countries allegations the company government has strongly denied other maintains there is no legitimate justification for the actions taken by the four nations calling their decision of violation of its sovereignty the last time father played host to a gulf cooperation council summit it was in two thousand and fourteen back then no one could have foreseen this kind of crisis now just three years later the g.c.c. may have arrived at a defining moment on the cusp of a hugely important summit that many observers believed would not be happening this year. the u.k. was the third country in the world to obtain nuclear weapons but now it faces

strong moral and political opposition to retaining its arsenal for sure scientists played a key role in developing the first atomic devices as barnaby phillips now reports. inside the control room tension mounted as the seconds away to zero. a weapon so terrible that britain argued then and now it helps guarantee peace nine hundred fifty two it explodes its first nuclear bomb off the coast of australia today its nuclear weapons are exclusively just for submarines at least one of which is always armed at a secret location at sea britain builds the bombs on the submarines but the missiles come from the united states. if relationships between united states and united kingdom broke down to such an extent the united states was no longer willing to continue to maintain the silos then over time.

they came. some stage after a number of years probably in the case of. we would have to give up our nuclear force or build our own. maintenance capability. this is the site west of london where britain's nuclear weapons are made and it's here that they have been made for many decades and during all that time this place has been a focus of protest from peace marches in the fifty's and sixty's to the nearby peace camps of the eighty's amongst all the nuclear states opposition to these weapons has been greatest if britain and prime ministers have preferred to retain an element of doubt as to whether that ever used them which made this debate so unusual personally prepared. right. hundred thousand innocent

men women and children. yes. the whole point of a deterrent is that our enemies need to know that we would be prepared. but the leader of the opposition a much more hesitant. to. use any circumstances where anyone's are prepared to use a nuclear weapon. it's disastrous for the whole planet although most british m.p.'s do believe that the threat of use makes britain safer the only time there has been a nuclear weapon strike in the world was a time when only one nation held that capacity and so it is in being able to be part of overall nuclear security as we push towards a nuclear free world which is really important that the u.k. can play its most effective role in other words in an unstable world don't expect britain to give up its nuclear weapons any time soon to be phillips al jazeera london well this is all part of a series in which we've been looking at nuclear power and next we'll be exploring

china's nuclear power the number of nuclear warheads in its arsenal is a state secret. parts of india are preparing for more bad weather just days after cycle an alkie battered the south of the country he killed at least fourteen people and more than two hundred fishermen at to be rescued by the coast guard. at the end of year holiday period is a busy time for postal services across the world but some deliveries are trickier than others john hendren went to the us city of detroit to experience a unique the livery route. welcome to the world's only floating postal code than the way we go. when cargo ships from around the globe travel the great lakes this boat brings mail and a lifeline will become alongside or just about as far if that's all right that'll

be fine and they don't even have to stop somewhere between detroit and windsor canada a makeshift mailbox plunges down the freighters side. and returns with the daily post. in an instant it's over. there on your porch. april through december if you're on an international freighter going down the detroit river this is the only way to get your mail and while every other postal code in the u.s. is fixed zip code for eight two two two goes wherever this boat goes this is captain. scott in eight hundred seventy four jim hogans great grandfather started using a rowboat to ferry messages supplies and later mail to passing ships that a century later the fourth generation owner got the call they had found an opening in the middle of that summer and said hey i need to this afternoon and one thing led to another and here i am forty four years later said the importance of

continuing at in the family as were his what really makes sense to me now there is no business quite like him throughout the world and in major ports there are boats who do deliveries to ships but the west is the only one of its kind that is specifically the extension of the us post office it's got its own zip code it's its own boat and frankly knowing the crew there they're pretty unique to the company has delivered everything from pizza to a donkey this ship sank during a stormy delivery in two thousand and one killing two crew members now the family business is expanding for delivering groceries. to some of the ships to go by and i also would like to get a few other boats to do some other. charter things if possible just in time for the fifth generation. john hendren al-jazeera detroit.

and now a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera the u.a.e. has the night it's been hit by a cruise missile fired by who the rebels the armed groups fighting in yemen made the claim on sunday violence has intensified meanwhile between the who are these and their former allies the supporters of ousted president ali abdullah saleh u.s. president don 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 the trump blamed fake news for covering what he called coleman's lies 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. about his contacts with russia's ambassador they will crack senator de dianne feinstein says a senate investigation into u.s. russian links has also revealed a possible obstruction of justice case i see it in the hyper frenetic

attitude of the white house 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 are strikes of hit cities and towns in damascus province at least six people were killed and out of being while two others died in her arrest there have also been attacks in eastern kuta which has been under siege since two thousand and thirteen. the u.s. says it will set its own policies on migration after withdrawing from a un pact designed to improve the handling of refugees globally the us ambassador to the un nikki haley says the global compact on migration as it's called is

inconsistent with the u.s. policies honda and security forces have restored calm after days of violence following that this future presidential election there the electoral commission is yet to declare a winner with president had none this ahead of the opposition candidate salvador nasrallah. a news hour in half an hour inside story next by. it's a red line for. violence across the region so why is the u.s. government considering moving its embassy in israel from tel aviv to jerusalem this is inside story.