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diplomacy and risk of violent protests. you're watching avs are like my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next thirty minutes hug durant police refused to follow orders i did force a curfew imposed after the disputed presidential election also the world has to sign a declaration to deal with the worsening pollution crisis but will it make a difference and. eight a.m. on. the french elvis holiday dies at the age of seventy four we'll look at his rocking legacy. welcome to the program. sions of us president donald trump's expected decision to

recognize jerusalem as israel's capital and move the american embassy there are already being felt even before he makes the announcement palestinian leaders in the occupied west bank are calling for three days of rage president mahmoud abbas says trump's move will have dangerous consequences similar sentiments have come from saudi arabia's king saul who says the decision will inflame the feelings of muslims he along with the leaders of egypt jordan turkey syria the european union france and germany are all warning trump against it the status of jerusalem is a central issue in the israeli palestinian conflict israel claims the whole city against international law while palestinians or the occupied eastern sector as the capital of their future state will be live in the occupied east jerusalem area shortly but first issue of returns is report from washington d.c. . that's beautiful at the white house there was no sense of the international

uproar that's been caused by donald trump's forthcoming speech announcing the u.s. is recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital this is a campaign promise to keep trump financial danas like las vegas casino magnate sheldon adelson and his poor right wing evangelical base whom the president needs now move them ever as his popularity ratings plummet throughout the day the president briefed the regional leaders which led to this question at the state department briefing i'm wondering if you can say that the that he's gotten the support of anyone for any decision that he might make so again i'm not going to characterize those conversations minutes later the white house press secretary was similarly callie about the decision i'm not going to get ahead of the president's remarks that he'll make tomorrow to say other than israel which thinks that this move is twenty two years overdue and all of the feedback he's been getting from world leaders is overwhelmingly negative so no again he spoke with five leaders

that's hardly indicative of everybody across the globe mr president the fifth fleet of the president called was the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu israeli politicians have welcomed troops decision on jerusalem the israeli mayor of the city so that the embassy move could take two minutes by switching the sign on the current u.s. consulate in west jerusalem administration officials who didn't want publicly to be named later said that was not going to happen more about building a new embassy would take at least three to four years to the question of whether that means of this decision could be reversed if president doesn't stay on for a second term the officials insisted once the process of planning and you embassy begins it would reach its conclusion they also said the president was simply affirming what they called quote reality both historical moment that connected the state of israel to the city they argued issues of sovereignty would not change and said that not moving the embassy since it was required by congress in one thousand

nine hundred five had not made any difference to the peace process but trumpet ministration was still committed to a two state solution they said if that's what both parties wanted. but with reports over the weekend of the president's middle east envoy is pushing a saudi backed plan that gives israel formal control of all of jerusalem it appears that drum's announcement on wednesday will be in keeping with the direction of his administration's emerging middle east policy she average hands the al-jazeera washington israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu earlier refrained from commenting about trump's announcement does he appeared at a media event in west jerusalem but around the world concern and criticism are mounting iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali how many says president trump's intention to move the u.s. embassy to jerusalem is and we quote a sign of incompetence and failure the leader of the catholic church pope francis has spoken to the palestinian president saying it's essential to recognize the rights of all people in the holy land and the united kingdom's far of the secretary

boris johnson says he's waiting to see exactly what will be announced but is concerned about what's being reported so far and china's foreign ministry is worried about an escalation in tensions edging all sides to avoid causing a new confrontation how we force it is our correspondent is with us from damascus gate in east jerusalem of course harry when there is now a ratcheting up you might say of international comment from capitals around the world there is still relatively sudden silence from israeli politicians but certainly positive murmurings. yes i mean no official cast iron reaction yet from the israeli government from the israeli prime minister . what's been coming instead has been from figures like the mayor of jerusalem the transport minister the mayor saying that this is really

a vindication of three thousand years of jewish history with thanking donald trump from the bottom of his heart the transport minister saying a declaration of jerusalem as the capital of israel would be more consequential more important more valuable from his perspective than moving the embassy from tel aviv to here as you say benjamin netanyahu during this conference on international diplomacy here in jerusalem earlier this morning he didn't in that speech make any comments about this but in a facebook video that he posted from his car as he drove away he recaps the main points of his speech about israeli technology and and various other things and then at the end of it he did make an oblique reference with a pretty big smile saying that israel's historical and national identity was receiving emphasis in important ways especially today so it's clear that he is welcoming this even though he hasn't done so properly and officially just yet and of course many people perhaps in inside and outside the area where you are

certainly concerned about the consequences on the ground of the particular terms of the statement that president trump will announce later. that's right there are consequences in the short term and the long term in the short term as you say there's been these three days of rage called war we've already seen some relatively minor protests so far people here we've been speaking to have been calling this insanity saying that it contradicts the whole idea of a two state solution which the united states is sponsoring as you heard from she heard in his report the united states officials are trying to trying to preempt this by trying to frame it in a way saying that a lot depends on the phrasing and the way that jerusalem could still be there to be decided its final status in the final negotiations between the israelis and the palestinians but as far as the palestinian officials have been speaking about this a concern this is a real declaration of taking sides by the united states they say it would totally

explode the peace process and it would scupper the idea of donald trump's peace plan in the weeks and months before it's even been unveiled well we'll continue to follow events all with you howie there it is sure is and thank you because of the day's other news our fighting has escalated in northern yemen forcing more families to flee their homes forces from the side of led coalition are battling with the fighters in southern province is a stronghold near the saudi border the u.s. says is extremely concerned about the situation the u.n. security council is similarly concerned following the killing of ousted president earlier on but day in particular their call on parties to immediately provide safe rapid anie hindered and sustained commercial and humanitarian access to the populations of all affected governorates. through all of the humans and boards most importantly who didn't

board and your board. the member of the security council urged all size to uphold their obligations under international humanitarian law. the fighters have fired shots at hundreds of women of sanaa who were holding a peaceful protest about the the release of solace kolb's. was killed by the reading of back t.v. rebels on monday after switching allegiances to the saudi led coalition then attacked the protest of living prompting them to flee. gulf leaders surface to criticize evans who which they accuse of backing the rebels us they finished their summit early in kuwait but there was little or no discussion about the diplomatic standoff between three member states of qatar the box was dispute says its creation

of reports from kuwait city. while the announcement that this year's gulf cooperation council summit would go ahead as planned in kuwait came as a surprise to many it also brought renewed hope for a diplomatic breakthrough that might in the gulf crisis upon his arrival in kuwait on tuesday but that is a mere shift i mean been handed a thani issued a statement expressing sincere gratitude toward kuwait's emir. and his wishes for the success of the current summit stressing that the current situation in the region required the council's members to band together against all odds and challenges but even before the summit officially kicked off divisions were very much on display. first the united arab emirates announced it had formed a new economic and military partnership with saudi arabia that would be separate from the g.c.c. then saudi arabia the u.a.e. and decided not to send their respective leaders to kuwait it could be that it is embarrassing for some of the leadership of the country is the quartet work i think

anthony has. to turn up. and therefore they sent a lower level but it could be that they're really just wanted to have this. just to show that they actually still exist and the summit is going to take place but nothing else is going to have an which is a really disappointing in that case. in the end a summit that is usually slated for two days ended after only a few hours kuwait's emir said his country will continue mediating in the dispute for just so we're going to crucially. recent months of saying a lot of trouble but the wisdom of my brothers of the leaders of the gulf countries managed to calm things down and now meeting today will lead us to continue playing the role that will live up to the aspirations of our people in order to have certain mechanisms to sort out disputes with guarantees that will allow everyone to

abide by these rules. added that the gulf has faced painful and negative developments over the past six months due to the rift six months to the day since the beginning of the blockade against qatar some here in kuwait say the fact that representatives of all member countries actually showed up means that this summit should ultimately be considered a success others however say that today's developments call into question the g.c.c. and institution which at its core is meant to highlight regional unity will be able to survive much longer. wait. well still ahead here on al-jazeera california wildfires fueled by high winds bring more destruction and devastation. and finally some closure for the families of unknown argentinean soldiers killed in the falklands war.

welcome to look at the weather across northeastern parts of asia now we've got weather systems moving in across parts of japan so as we look at the forecast we are like to see some showers of rain and snow a higher elevations across more northern parts of honshu and up into the temperatures really striking then sapporo minus two. heading on into friday still a similar sort of picture really with some snow showers around tokyo with knowing obviously we're not seeing the snow there but there is some snow across the korean peninsula and seoul sea temperatures hovering around freezing that will limit or warm in the house being but still minus eleven so let's head across more southern portions of china and taiwan here taiwan rather cloudy at times but generally dry hong kong should be bright heise about twenty four and we've lost the showers across more central parts of vietnam further towards the north gerri looking fine for the way there temperatures into low twenty's across the rest of indochina

weather conditions generally not too bad at the moment for yang on the myanmar it should be generally fine into southeastern parts of asia scottish of the philippines some of those heavy showers across borneo java will see some showers and it looks somewhat dries to move out through them with sunshine in kuala lumpur and singapore. the world's largest humanitarian crisis millions caught up in the civil war al-jazeera world examines the roots of the conflict in yemen and the complex history that drew our country into perpetual turmoil. for the it unit the old the separation of. the north and the south these dualisms are part of history. yemen the north south divide at this time.

but the back of watching out as it arrives the whole raman these are our top stories president donald trump is expected to announce on wednesday that the u.s. will officially recognize jerusalem as israel's capital and has plans to relocate the american embassy there arab leaders are calling for three days of rage in protest against the move the palestinian president mahmoud abbas says it could have dangerous consequences that's also been more criticism from reached out to global leaders. also making news a full recount or a runoff that's the proposal from the hall given opposition to end a stalemate over last month's presidential election commission has failed to

declare an official winner sparking violent protests and a time curfew but has been followed up teleports elite police are now refusing to confront the protesters in a demanding an end to the crisis. after more than a week since the presidential elections in honduras a winner has yet to be named prolonging a political crisis a nationwide curfew remains in effect but across the country protests continue well into the night hours. in the latest turn of events hundreds of elite police forces known as cobras have announced they will no longer be obeying orders to enforce the ten day curfew one officer told reporters they are rebelling. our people are sovereign and we are in their service furthermore we cannot be confronting and crushing their rights the ongoing demonstrations continue to call for a hundred president one orlando at nine days to step down and for the national elections commission to finalize an announcement the organization of american

states has expressed concerns over quote irregularities errors and systemic problems within the elections and have issued recommendations that the process become more transparent. demonstrations blocking roads and bridges are also having a significant economic impact across honduras several cities are reporting fuel and food shortages causing worry that the political crisis is only getting worse. now leaders are to un environmental conference in kenya have agreed on tough action against plastic waste entering the oceans they're going to sign a resolution to combat what the un ocean is chief has described as a planetary crisis but there's no timetable on the resolution isn't legally binding . is the no each and environment minister. his country is sponsoring the resolution he says agreements like this are important but the world also needs action to clean

up its mess. i think the most important is that we are now uniting the world behind deciding to stop the discharge of plastics into the ocean we're looking at action to be taken at the country levels we need better waste management systems not least in those countries that are the biggest sources of this problem and we need a better international architecture and we're going to spend the next year and a half determining exactly what that would look like we need action on the ground and that can't wait so there is an international process that is a long term process but action has to start or has to be stepped up right now and that means countries like my own will have to provide more funding towards supporting establishing why waste management systems beach cleanup operations innovation into alternatives to plastic and alternative ways of using plastic that her whole array of actions that need to be taken. now

the wildfires continue in the u.s. state of california they forced tens of thousands of people to leave their homes now the blaze northwest of los angeles has burned more than eight thousand hectares alan fisher has more. it really isn't it the extent of the fires in southern california can be best seen at night found 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 ins 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. the very nerve wracking to see a fire up in the canyon headed your way just i mean just be ready and just don't

wait. the fires are causing huge power outages more than a quarter of a million people in the area no have no electricity officials about the pace of the flames telling locals get out while you can you must abide by these evacuation notices we saw the disasters at the losses that happened up north in sonoma and this is a fast very dangerous moving fire in a tobar california suffered its most destructive wildfire in history forty three people died there is no indication how this latest fire started alan fischer. now the remains of hundreds of argentinian troops who were buried unknown soldiers during the nineteen eighty two fall clothes war have been identified it's giving relatives a chance for closure while argentina still claims the island's president show matching has adopted a softer stance than his predecessor trees about his wolf but as i was. not

a model mrs brother a lot of them was nineteen years old when he went to war and was killed. that was thirty five years ago and norma has traveled from the remote north of argentina to the capital to find out whether her brother's remains have been positively identified. i am very anxious them very upset because i'm not sure whether they have found him my mother died a few months ago waiting for her we need to know and be able to meet them a proper burial we need to know whether they have found him in. argentina and the united kingdom went to war when argentine troops invaded the british controlled. which the argentine. during the two months of fighting two hundred fifty five british troops and nearly six hundred fifty argentine soldiers were killed about twenty percent of the soldiers killed in that war where and identified buried in

graves marked only by a simple message i didn't only known to god according to a report by the international committee of the red cross out of one hundred twenty one graves eighty eight of them were clearly identified the relatives of those who were killed during the war were brought here to this building where they informed whether their loved ones where. they would be there has been working identifying victims in war zones for decades he says working on the islands was not easy. it was a complex process that took a very long time but the red cross form the team that involved experts with different specialties from all around the world working on the islands was difficult because of the conditions there but it was successful. what made possible the identification process was an agreement between the u.k. and argentina with the assistance of the red cross. this agreement was based on humanitarian law and it's an umbrella that unites all those aside from the conflict

that exists between countries that we will have to resolve but also shows that when the end benefits everyone the objectives can be achieved it. on tuesday not him i almost was told that her brother a lot of the was among those identified she's now hoping to eventually return her brother to the disputed islands where he was killed to be buried in a grave with a stone that will bear his name. russia's olympic committee is calling for a move to ban the country from next winter's lympics are just and moral while the international olympic committee says that russian athletes will still be able to compete individually but only under a neutral flag and if they can prove that they're clean than comes after an investigation into russia's state talking straight to doping program the competition will be held in the south korean city appealing chang in february.

a former georgian president has been given twenty four hours to surrender to police in ukraine after supporters there helped him escape from custody because i should believe you spent three years in exile was freed soon after ukrainian security agents in kiev dragged him from his home georgia has requested his extradition to face criminal charges including abuse of power he's been stripped of his ukrainian citizenship after falling out with the ukrainian president petro poroshenko. the nuclear age is seventy two years old millions of people around the world can remember a time when the threat of armageddon overshadowed their daily lives the threat has steadily diminished since the end of the cold war but with the rise of north korea's nuclear weapons capability will that fear return rob rattles reports the nuclear annihilation with little warning that was the terrible fate that the generation that grew up in the one nine hundred fifty s. and sixty's was taught to fear and prepare for your duck and then you cover

schoolchildren were drilled on how to avoid being incinerated we all know the atomic bomb is very dangerous it may be used against us we must get ready for public service films urged children to keep an eye out for soviet planes and to head for shelter when the air raid sirens you warn the flash that's the first thing they'll be get away from windows get under a desk you had the sense that it was going to be incredibly destructive and that we would be just part a tiny. lawns pieces of debris we had to hide in every crevice we could find. hollywood's response to this visceral fear was to produce a parade of nuclear spawn monsters giant ants emerged from the site of nuclear bomb tests to attack society as did giant radioactive spiders and humans bathed in terrifying radiation grew like enormous looming symbols of destruction

the terror peaked in one nine hundred sixty two when the cuban missile crisis brought the u.s. and soviet union to the brink it was a difficult and dangerous effort on which we have set out it receded as the superpowers negotiated a reduction of tensions and nuclear arsenals but under the hawkish ronald reagan fear of mutually assured destruction came roaring back it flares again the nuclear fear in the early eighty's when ronald reagan started building star wars and next missiles before the reforms started in the soviet union we were again at the brink this time popular culture delivered not giant insects but a realistic and powerful depiction of nuclear war in the widely watched television film called the day after when the soviet union collapsed most americans readily you pass their nuclear nightmares away now a new threat has emerged but so far at least the fear has not it's kind of

surprising now isn't it that we seem to be in very perilous times with north korea but it doesn't resonate the way nuclear crises did in the past it's too early perhaps for popular culture to absorb the north korean threat and decide how to respond robert oulds al jazeera los angeles. of rock n roll fans in france mourning a national popular and often compared to elvis presley johnny holliday has died from lung cancer at the age of seventy four but after a battle looks back at his career. he was france's rock n roll superstar the nation's elvis with his piercing blue eyes blond quick and charisma johnny early day dominated the stage and captivated fans for decades. and it is crisp and nearly sixty years he sold more than one hundred million records produced more than seventy albums and toured relentlessly his fame transcended music he was

a national icon but outside of the french speaking world many people were baffled by the popularity of the leather clad rocker they couldn't understand how he managed to appeal to fans of all ages and from all walks of life whether you were on the right or on the left he was a bit like getting the know him bodied fronts not an elite france but the one of ordinary people and the dreams the ones that went to his concerts in many ways johnny was from. halliday's personal story of rags to riches added to the myth he was born john phillips met during the second world war in paris his parents abandoned him leaving him to be brought up by his aunt and her american husband named lee halliday both were dancers when elvis presley broke through in the us in one thousand nine hundred fifty seven johnny found his idol and a template for his own career he hit the road as a teenage singer fast becoming

a sensation soon he was france's highest earning music star. always try to do shows that are a little bit different compared to the ones i did before but yes i do try and do things that are out of the ordinary with nice lights and special effects screens anything that can make people dream. as well as music there was acting starred in films by top french directors including. including louche. his personal life wasn't without controversy he was married five times and left france or switzerland to avoid paying high taxes. in his last years he battled illness but refused to stop working he will be remembered as an artist to the end as a star or simply as his fans always called him johnny natasha butler al jazeera paris.

your child was there i was the whole rom and these are all top stories president donald trump is expected to announce on wednesday that the u.s. will officially recognize jerusalem as israel's capital and has plans to relocate the american embassy there our bleeders are calling for three days of rage in protest against the move the palestinian president mahmoud abbas says it could have dangerous consequences that has also been criticism from regional and global leaders well in other news he fired as a fired shots at hundreds of women in sanaa who were holding a peaceful protest demanding the release of sailors corpse he was killed by the iranian back to two rebels on monday after switching allegiances to the saudi led coalition. elsewhere fighting is escalated in all forcing more families to flee their homes forces from the saudi led coalition of battling with fighters in the southern province it's a hugely stronghold the at the saudi border the gulf cooperation council summit has ended early dashing hopes of a breakthrough in the blocks largest crisis

a decades relations have been strains in saudi arabia bahrain or the u.a.e. cut ties of qatar in june. the main opposition in honduras is demanding either a full recount or a runoff vote to end the stalemate over last month's presidential election we all thought he's a fail to declare an official winner sparking a violent protests and a curfew. the worst year on record for wildfires in southern california is that big with more homes. being destroyed one hundred kilometer an hour winds are whipping flames higher in ventura county north of los angeles work on some of hollywood's best known t.v. productions as also stopped and thirty thousand californians forced from their homes this week the fire crews couldn't stop the blaze crossing u.s. highway one i want which connects cities along the coast of california. the russian olympic team has been banned from the next winter olympic games for doping offenses the international committee said russian athletes will still be able to compete

individually but only under a beautiful flag if they can prove their claim the president of the russian olympic committee has also been suspended the south korean city appealing chank in february will host the winter libya at those where the headlines here on al-jazeera board use it thirty minutes we continue with inside story had laura castro with us. yemen's ousted president was known for political cunning and shifting loyalties and on monday time ran out family abdullah falla how will his death impact the escalating conflict and world's worst humanitarian crisis.