american warships when miss was that somehow time is aiming to replace america and going to run the world well the chinese are not that stupid these guys want to dominate a huge chunk of the planet this sounds like a preparation for our first president george washington said if you want peace prepare for war the coming war on china at this time just see it. al-jazeera. where ever you are. two thirds of the leaders are absent as a g.c.c. summit finishes without concrete progress on the gulf crisis.

hello i'm maryam namazie and you're watching al-jazeera also coming up trump tells the palestinian leader he intends to move the u.s. embassy in israel to jerusalem abbas warns of dangerous consequences. celebratory rally by who sees and yemen's capital where a funeral for former president ali abdullah saleh has been postponed. and the international olympic committee bans most of russian athletes from the winter games though some will still be allowed to compete. be a mayor of kuwait has called for a blueprint to resolve the gulf crisis during the g.c.c. summit in quite city katter and kuwait are the only gulf nations to have sent heads

of state to the summit others were represented by ministers or deputy prime ministers it follows a regional dispute which began when saudi arabia bahrain in the u.a.e. cut ties with cattle in june. i would like to point out the reason for this summit jordan is very sensitive time regionally and internationally and that is the wisdom and the good judgment of all the leaders of the g.c.c. and their belief of the importance of this organization under any circumstance. jamal michel joins us now from kuwait and nothing concrete seems to have emerged jamal has anything been achieved by this summit that. well not much i mean aside from the fact that they managed to prove that the g.c.c. is store able to convene a summit albeit a very short one that only lasted a few hours and one that lacked any real representation for several of the member

countries as you mentioned saudi arabia the united arab emirates opting to send a degree level diplomats sign that they not only maybe didn't want to reciprocate the efforts of coates to mediate a solution but also that they were really interested maybe in terms of trying to resolve the conflict that has struck at the heart of the g.c.c. so in terms of actually achieving anything maybe aside from meeting in agreeing that the next meeting would take place at another neutral country in terms of it being hosted by a little in the way of actual real results here was there any concern about the status quo and whether or not there's a path forward or does it look as though this crisis is sort of frozen in stalemate . well that is the big question and the reality is it does look that it is a very big bleak future for the g.c.c. at least in terms of just what an uphill struggle it's going to be to try and

bridge what is possibly the biggest divide that struck at the heart of the g.c.c. in the forty year or the years that it's been of existence not only has this crisis going on for exactly six months to the day now not only have the calls by call wait for dialogue been rejected or at least. the countries of the blockade in qatar have not responded positively to it but also on the same day as this summit was meant to take place we had the statements coming out of the united arab emirates announcing a new corporation with a structure between it and saudi arabia that would focus on economic security political cultural and military cooperation between the two countries outside of the g.c.c. so the reality of it is that not only have some of these countries not reciprocated the attempts to try and bolster the corporation and mend fences but they've actually gone out of their way maybe to instigate or antagonize the countries that are trying to safeguard what is really the source or the last remaining source of stability in

a region which is forged by conflict and disunity and other challenges from from from from each side of the region all right thank you very much general michel following that summit there for us in kuwait city. u.s. president has called the leaders of palestine jordan egypt and saudi arabia to inform them of his intention to move the u.s. embassy to israel from tel aviv to jerusalem a call has been met with criticism across the board with the palestinian president mahmoud abbas saying it will have dangerous consequences and the saudi king warning it will inflame the feelings of muslims donald trump is expected to announce his decision on wednesday after a six month waiver to delay the move expired last week israel claims all of jerusalem as its united capital while east jerusalem is seen by palestinians as the

capital of their future state our position the position of president progress is very complete you know if. they're going to give him this is going to be moved to the jerusalem this is against the law and this is this will be home acceptable for some. this. would probably give it to the north to go to the peace brooklyn's maybe it will be the end of the peace process hopefully not a good solution would back that out from this region if. you couldn't. or in a moment we'll speak to her abdul hamid who is in ramallah but first let's go live to kimberly healthcare is in washington d.c. do we know much more about the u.s. presence conversations today. well the white house has been promising that there would be readouts on these calls but we have not received of yet we've been getting most of the information as you point out cautioning the president against any sort

of formal declaration and move of the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem by a number of leaders around the world but what's interesting when it comes to these readouts is that we know that the french president crawl on monday did in fact also caution the president against this but we learned that from the readout from the french president's office not from the white house the white house amid that in its readout so one can expect when the white house does talk about this and there is a white house press briefing coming up in the next hour that certainly reporters will be pressing on this but the chorus of sort of condemnation about any sort of announcement with respect to moving the u.s. embassy to jerusalem seems to be growing ever louder not only outside the united states but also inside the united states for example there is the liberal leaning jewish group called j. street here in the united states is very committed to the two state solution it has

sent out a press release saying that it believes this would be in its words a profound mistake and they're also career foreign service officers within the state department who are not going on record but are in fact saying the very same thing on the near eastern affairs desk we know that there are a number that have expressed deep concern so these are all the messages that are going to the trump white house but at the same time the consistent message we get is it's not a question of if the embassy will be moved to jerusalem but when thank you very much kimberly how kant and washington d.c. live now to the who's in ramallah so hearing from committee the hold of it it looks now as though it is a certainty that trump will make this move despite being cautioned and warned against it what is the latest response then from the arab league. well the arab league has already sort of warned against taking the move and actually making it official so far everyone is talking about intention even though

when you speak to palestinian officials and certainly what you're getting through to through the lines from what other arab leaders are saying is that everybody is quite sure that that intention might turn into a reality very soon everybody being very apprehensive about it now we know that jordan has called for an emergency meeting of the arab league and also of the organization of islamic cooperation to be held as soon as possible what you do get in a region where usually there is not so you don't see such of a united front lately at least well on this subject on the issue of jerusalem you are having a united front from all the arab leaders we also know i mean at the moment probably president mahmoud abbas and his. aides are still

trying to make as much reach out as much as possible not only within the region but really around the world we know that. spoken to putin we know that he also has spoken to pope francis according to a statement we received so certainly he's trying to mobilize as much as possible people be world leaders behind him trying to stop that move if indeed it will happen in the next days or in the next hours now certainly the overwhelming message you get from everyone that that would take to. put things in a very dangerous area many people would tell you is just going to be a disastrous move and the consequences will be very serious thank you very much. of the latest there from ramallah. well now the funeral of ousted yemeni president ali abdullah saleh and son has been postponed meanwhile his former hoofy allies who killed him on monday have been holding a celebratory rally in the capital the u.n.

is as it tries to arrange more aid deliveries for beleaguered civilians and more. the killing of. has plunged yemen into even more uncertainty the ousted president with the unit dominant political force for over three decades was killed in an attack led by who the fighters on monday had been in an alliance with the iranian backed rebels for more than two years and his death sparked intense fighting on the streets of the capital sanaa. the clashes were ongoing the entire night until the morning if someone stepped out into the street or fled they would have a bullet hit the mean the head chest or body. on tuesday thousands of the supporters filled the streets of sanaa celebrating what they called the end of the crisis but yemen's challenges are far from over the saudi led coalition which supports the internationally recognized government led by

a man who are hadi has said it will still strike rebel targets and how to use urging yemenis to rise against the who these ladies. and i call upon all of you with an open heart and a strong will to turn the new page and to get rid of such a nightmare let's put our hands together to end the control of these criminal gangs and to build a new united yemen. so the who pushed out toddies government in january two thousand and fifteen and set up their own administration prompting the saudi led campaign against them since then the country has been split between the who the rebels in the north administration in the south and forces loyal to saleh. his death could mark a turning point and the conflict getting worse a conflict which has already killed nearly ten thousand people but yemen to the brink of mass starvation and triggered what the united nations has called the world's worst humanitarian crisis we remind all parties to the conflict that

deliberate attacks against civilians and against civilian and medical infrastructure or clear violations of international hume. a chair in law may constitute war crimes. a former military officer became president of north yemen in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight after a coup that in one nine hundred ninety when the north and south reunited he was elected as the first president of the newly unified country he was ousted in two thousand and twelve during the arab spring uprising that managed to stay in the country and wielded considerable power behind the scenes salih ones like in his involvement in yemeni politics is dancing on the head of snakes and while it's not yet clear who will succeed him or what his death will mean for the fighting on the ground or the future of yemen one thing appears certain this nearly three year war is unlikely to come to an end anytime soon india's time i'll just.

come for you on the program. we'll look at the decades long military rivalry between india and pakistan and the latest in our series on nuclear powers. and at least twenty seven thousand people are evacuated as a bushfire rages across southern california. hello there it's very mild in the west in parts of europe for now that's because we've got an area of high pressure that's dominating the weather here and it's giving us plenty of fine weather however towards the east it's a bit different you can see all the cloud toppling over the top of that area of high pressure and then down into the eastern parts of europe so it's cooler and it's also rather unsettled for many of us as well quite a bit of rain around quite a bit of snow to the next system though that's waiting in the wings and on

wednesday and thursday be drifting its way southwards i don't london in london will get to around fifteen degrees but that will be an early fifteen degrees around lunchtime we'll see the temperatures begin to drop. continue to drop until we get to friday and friday there will be a very different feel to the day it will be bitterly cold for many of us than that cold weather will continue to spread its way across many other parts of europe to if we head further south you can see the winds here firing down from the north so it's not particularly warm for many of us here triple a day seventeen there's also a fair amount of cloud being brought in by those winds and one or two showers around as well looks like we could see a couple more showers as we head through thursday as well for the western parts though five an hour bat there at eighteen degrees and had a bit further south there's plenty of fine weather to be found here just the chance of a shower in nigeria. the world's largest humanitarian crisis millions scored off in civil war all dizzy

world examines the roots of the conflict in yemen and the complex history that threw a country into perpetual turmoil. that is unique fueled the separation of. the north and the so these dualisms are a part of history. yemen the north south divide this toy. come back and live out his era let's update you on the stories making headlines foreign ministers told g.c.c. leaders that the bloc remains crucial to regional stability the enemy is of quite

encounter with the only heads of state to attend the summit and quite. u.s. president has called the leaders of palestine jordan egypt and saudi arabia to inform them of his intention to move the u.s. embassy in israel from tel aviv to jerusalem the call has been met with criticism across the board of the palestinian president mahmoud abbas saying it will have dangerous consequences. on the funeral of ousted yemeni president ali abdullah saleh and santa has been postponed meanwhile his former hoofy allies who killed him on monday have been holding a celebratory rally in the capital. now the lebanese prime minister saad hariri has withdrawn his resignation after talks with opposition leaders. while visiting riyadh last month spot political upheaval i know holder has reaction from beirut. saddo had to because the political crisis early in november when he suddenly resigned while in the saudi arabian capital riyadh he has now decided to

stay on as prime minister he made the announcement after rival politicians renewed their commitment to lebanon's policy of staying out of regional conflicts the agreement was reaffirmed by cabinet after it met for the first time since the crisis. all groups in the lebanese government are committed to disassociate themselves from regional conflicts or wars or any of the internal affairs of other countries so that we preserve our economic and political relations with arab countries. how did say the main reason for his resignation was hezbollah's meddling in arab affairs he later said he would consider withdrawing his resignation if the iranian allied group stopped intervening in conflicts beyond lebanon's borders. hezbollah has recently made changes and its political stance has starting what has been lost secretary general. who for the first time hinted has been was real to

withdrawal from syria and this means that they will stick to that this association policy he also noted that hezbollah denied being involved in. hezbollah has sent thousands of fighters to neighboring syria to support the government there it has also sent commanders and advisers to iraq but it denies militarily backing the who and the. resignation were seen as a saudi move against iran's ally in lebanon hezbollah wanted to undermine iranian influence here topple a government that considered too close to iran and prevent hezbollah from taking part in the government none of that happened. hezbollah still part of the government and its political opponents including heidi have agreed not to discuss the divisive issue of the group's huge arsenal how did his relationship with hezbollah has largely determined lebanese politics their relationship now is one of cooperation returning to a power sharing agreement that was briefly disrupted during her attempt to resign

said a. beirut. russian olympic team has been banned from next winter olympics in the south korean city of young chang for doping offenses international olympic committee made the announcement within the past hour russian athletes will still be able to compete individually if they can prove their claim they've also suspended the president of the russian anaemic committee. the report. president to take on the integrity of the olympic games and sport. the report includes in particular the mali pollution of the end. of the olympic winter games two thousand and fourteen. so here with me now. correspondent how difficult a decision was this for the i.o.c. committee this was an absolute nightmare for the international olympic committee as it was when they had to make

a similar decision before rio and i didn't really get it right then because they put it out to federations you had to make individual decisions i didn't take a collective decision and this time at least they said ok we're taking responsibility for the whole thing but it was still so difficult for them they knew they knew before the report came back that russia would be damned the question was what were they going to do about it the didn't upset that amir putin so much didn't spoil that relationship so much but appease those who wanted a blanket ban on russia so they come up with the i of the olympic athlete from russia no anthem no russian flag and olympic flag it's somewhere in the middle it's a bit of a fog but it was really difficult for them so a lot of different people to play that's always well it's an impossible task i guess but what kind of response can we expect now you can expect the same response of art all along over the past two or three years from those who. russia poisoned the twenty four in sochi winter olympics the entire lympics so many individuals by

and russia have already gone from winning easily down to the fourth position. the medal table so it was or how can anybody from that country compete now on the other side of it there are going to be clean russian competitors in winter sports and all the sports so they i say can say well we can't discriminate against them we can just go on like on a legal basis against that we have to allow them to compete i will say that this is the this is the best we can do it's easy to criticize but what would you have done in this position in the background pressure from russia when they are say. for the past few weeks months on yes thank you thousands of people have been forced from their homes in southern california by wildfires fanned by winds of almost one hundred kilometers per hour well the one hundred fifty structures have been destroyed with many more risk and fisher reports it really isn't the extent of the fires in southern california can be best seen at night

fanned by one hundred kilometer an hour winds that tearing through the countryside thousands have left their homes many under mandatory evacuation orders the fire is pushing quickly towards the city of ventura we are making sure we are out ahead of the fire making sure we have evacuated in advance of the fire and we're basically leapfrogging our engines doing structure defense as a fire proceeds. more than five hundred firefighters walk through the night doing what they could to bring the flames under control but more than one hundred fifty structures have gone many more are under threat. very nerve wracking to see a fire up in the canyon headed your way just i mean just. the radian just don't work. the fires are causing huge power outages more than a quarter of a million people in the area no have no electricity officials worried about the pace of the flames returning locals get out while you can you must abide by these

evacuation notices we saw the disasters or the losses that happened up north in sonoma and this is a fast very dangerous moving fire. tobar california suffered its most destructive wildfire in history forty three people died there is no indication how this little fire started on fish or. the u.n. human rights chief is calling for a new international investigation into the ranch a crisis orning of possible elements of genocide said rodd al has saying condemned what he called widespread systematic and shockingly brutal attacks against their agenda as well as decades of discrimination and persecution. the council condemned these violations against rangel muslims in myanmar has called on the government there to ensure justice for the victims thirty three members who voted for the resolution also want access to rack and state for investigators and aid workers the former president of georgia has been rescued by his supporters after being

detained by police in his adopted home ukraine because saakashvili fled from police to the roof of his kiev apartment where he threatened to jump before being dragged down and arrested is forced into a police van but a large crowd of supporters later surrounded the vehicle and broke him out they then joined him in a march on parliament saakashvili has lived in ukraine for the past three years he's become a leading opposition politician. they accused me of having connections with people involved in the whole of the post soviet world that there is no bigger enemy of law putin than me i commanded an army against putin i built independence i bought a drop in offices sacrificing my life for ukraine against russia how could they even think of accusing me of this.

well on sunday this year's nobel peace prize will be added to the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons oh i can in the days leading up to the ceremony in oslo we're looking at the nucleus status of a number of countries a rivalry between india and pakistan has existed since the split that created two separate nations in one nine hundred forty seven and already violent conflicts went nuclear in the one nine hundred seventy s. and both countries tested atomic bombs in developing new military technology to gain strategic advantage in the region ever since including new kampongs same as ravi reports from islamabad. the might of pakistan's military on display the kind of hardware any potential aggressor would have to face including short range tactical nuclear missiles for use in battlefield situations more likely to be used in the simmering in conflict

than traditional nuclear weapons observers worry they mean pakistan as part of its defensive strategy may someday strike first and as india pakistan and neighboring china rush to modernize their nuclear arsenals this is the kind of celebration of the tools of war that could be the beginning of a second nuclear arms race this one in asia. for just paul is an expert on pakistan's nuclear program he says smaller countries have learned their nuclear lessons from bigger ones about those that are locked into you the nuclear weapons against north korea be called north korea has a nuclear weapon a nuclear weapon is the tension of preventing the nuclear blackmail for preventing a nuclear strike edition to it if the state is using like the force multiplier be to gap between the india and pakistan in a conventional arsinoe definitely nuclear is about a useful. pakistan began developing its nuclear program largely because it did not

enjoy the promise of support from countries that already had nuclear arsenals for the next generation it's as important today as it was in one nine hundred seventy one when the program began it is really critical for pakistan's security and we cannot deny the five doctors how we are present in the whole that is how we are important for the grant that is why the country was. strategically important and secondly i knew only important. security is for foremost concerns of course. because if we secure our research life then then we have to think about other things at stake we cannot think about other things for pakistan's future leaders the nuclear weapons program may be a deterrent against the existential threat that is posed by india but for pakistan's future followers regular working men and women their biggest concern is

not india it's feeding their families. this human rights campaigner and father of five says the prevailing fear of india is exaggerated and tensions will never come to nuclear blows you know you're probably going to him at the top though this is drama this is propaganda whenever politicians come to power they create drama to get money out of their countries indian people living to show what we should look in india and how many pakistanis live in india and this is all propaganda or do i wish for as an international committee to be informed to address this issue and put an end to all this drama. his wife is an educator and says continuously committing resources to weapons of war makes it nearly impossible to create the space needed for dialogue there were. guns and these weapons are not the solution for the country or for progress what we should do is give more attention to education and whatever funds are going towards terrorism and bombs we should put these towards education. will be everyone we spoke to said south asia without the need for

nuclear deterrence is a good idea but no one thought they would see it in their lifetimes and while having nuclear weapons and using them are two different things some worry so many in one place would lead to nuclear bombs being used as more than just political tools. zero islam about. well you can watch our exclusive interview with this year's nobel peace prize laureate find from i can bring to us right here on al-jazeera sunday the tenth of december at sixteen hundred g.m.t. or as much won everything we're covering right here al jazeera dot com for comment analysis and video on demand don't forget that you can watch us live right there as well you can see a little icon there in the top right corner of your screen. that

take you through the top stories this hour quite foreign minister has told g.c.c. leaders that the bloc remains crucial to regional stability but catherine kuwait are the only gulf nations to have sent heads of state to the summit in kuwait city others are being represented by ministers or deputy prime ministers it follows a regional dispute which began when saudi arabia bahrain and the u.a.e. cut ties with cattle in june. ward. i would like to point out the reason for this summit jordan is very sensitive time regionally and internationally and that is the wisdom of the good judgment of all the leaders of the g.c.c. and their belief of the importance of this organization under any circumstance. the us president has called the leaders of palestine jordan egypt and saudi arabia to inform them of his intention to move the u.s. embassy in israel from tel aviv to jerusalem a call has been met with criticism across the board with the palestinian president

mahmoud abbas saying it will have dangerous consequences and the saudi king warning it will inflame the feelings of muslims donald trump is expected to announce his decision on wednesday after a six month waiver to delay the move expired which expired last week israel claims to all of jerusalem as its united capital while it is true some is seen by palestinians as the capital of their future state. the funeral of ousted yemeni president ali abdullah saleh insana has been postponed saleh was killed on monday after five days of fighting with iran back to things rebels a group of been his ally until he recently announced he was switching sides the lebanese prime minister saad hariri has withdrawn his resignation joining a line under a month long but a political crisis triggered by his shock announcement in saudi arabia that his cabinet is now held its first meeting and reaffirmed the country's official policy of dissociation or remaining neutral in regional conflicts. and the russian olympic team has been banned from next five years winter olympics in the south

korean city of young chang for doping offenses the international olympic committee made the announcement within the past hour russian athletes will still be able to compete individually if they can prove that plane and also suspended the president of the russian olympic committee. as he headlines i'll see in about twenty five minutes after the stream which is next. hi anthony ok you're in the street family could be out today will legislating sexism put him into sexual harassment and assault the french government think so

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