just looking for joking. about shooting people are not must want to shoot themselves and their other countries have managed to solve this problem but you worry that this conflict could erupt into an open war that the city's job security sure the people who paid the price clearly the right top been prejudiced setting the stage for serious debate up front at this time on al-jazeera. response leaders of muslim countries meet in istanbul to discuss the u.s.

recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital. this is live from doha also coming up in the program sector state rex tillerson says the united states is ready for talks with north korea without conditions. a defeat for donald trump after his favorite candidate roy loses the alabama senate race to his democratic rival. i'm walking when excited i'm going to tell you the story of the rattling that is working to find babies born to women held in can understand detention centers. in argentina in the one nine hundred seventy s. . muslim leaders a gathering in istanbul for talks on u.s.

president donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital the extraordinary meeting by the organization of islamic cooperation was cool by turkey's president reza type one to send what he calls a strong message this follows talks on the issue between leaders of saudi arabia and jordan in riyadh on choose day and terms decision last week was with well why condemnation and protest at the latest demonstrations were held outside the u.s. embassy in tel aviv then there's been violence during protests in the occupied palestinian territory all week at least four palestinians have been killed and dozens injured in confrontations with israeli security forces let's join that mohammed today who's in istanbul mohammed to tell us more about this conference of what we might expect. nic states which is the main. of the day is about to get underway heads of state representatives of the various members of the organization of islamic countries. in

the hall where they're supposed to have a meeting sixteen heads of state in. attendance the other countries forty eight of them represented at the ministerial ambassadorial level of course turkey which holds the current presidency of the sea is looking to bring together these leaders to make a concerted response to president trumps the collaboration that it is to them ease the couple told of is that they say they want to ensure that those who have not recognized that is jerusalem the capital of palestine should do so on also for the muslim countries represented here and who are members of the organization to look be the world to recognize is to slim us the couple of to decide muhammad is it likely that the journey declaration here is going to have any meaningful impact.

well besides the impact what is uncertain is whether after all the countries that are gathered here the leaders that that gathered here can come together to anything near a concerted effort to include countries that do not a salute and a diplomatic relations and to turkey it's a tall order to bring all these countries with different kinds of relationships with the united states and. to go beyond brooke total whole position to trump the question of turkey understands that very well just hours before the summit begun for talking to foreign ministers could sized some other countries for what he called a weak crisp home saying that some. a fitting to the united states. for a matter that's a picture from istanbul that we can just show you the conference hall actually i

think you can see what's happening there right now they're just preparing for the impending arrival of russia talk about when he and other world leaders with the rest of it i think will be giving the opening address and we'll come back to that just as soon as he starts speaking. the u.s. sector state says his country is ready to hold talks with north korea without preconditions rex tillerson statement deviates from the previous u.s. position that demands north korea must disarm before any talks can be held he also said the u.s. has been in talks with china on pyongyang's nuclear program despite to listen school to donald and the white house says president donald trump's views on north korea have not changed state department correspondent listen jordan has more now from washington d.c. the u.s. secretary of state spoke extensively about the question of north korea and its nuclear weapons program at an event that was meant to focus just on that very global issue he was speaking in washington on tuesday afternoon and he indicated

what many people are interpreting as a big change in u.s. foreign policy the idea that the u.s. is willing to sit down with north korea without preconditions if only to get the conversation started here's what the secretary had to say we've said from the diplomatic side we're ready to talk any time north korea would like to talk and we are ready to have the first baiting without precondition let's just make unless we talk about the weather if you will talk about whether it's going to be a square table or around table if that's what you're shouting about. but can we at least sit down and and she chose her face to face but it's important to note that what rex tillerson was saying does not mean that the u.s. is changing its fundamental position reckoned north korea according to washington

should not have any nuclear weapons at all and that's washington's endgame in any sort of negotiation but they have to come to the table and they have to come to the table with a view that they do want to make a different choice. in the meantime our military preparedness is strong also it's worth pointing out that the u.s. by itself cannot just go ahead and negotiate some sort of denuclearization deal with the north koreans this falls under the auspices of the united nations and it's a situation where the u.s. would have to certainly consult with two of north korea's neighbors russia and china they also happen to sit on the u.n. security council and have a vested interest in making certain that not only does north korea comply with existing resolutions which basically ban it from having nuclear warheads or ballistic missiles but also making certain that their own people in their own territory are facing this existence will threat from north korea late on tuesday

however the white house issued a statement essentially saying that the u.s. president donald trump still sees north korea as an existential threat not just to the united states but to its closest neighbors south korea japan russia and china and he insisted in this white house statement that the toughest possible measures need to be used against pyongyang in order to persuade it to give up its nuclear weapons program once and for all but despite the the call for a diplomatic resolution to listen made certain that the u.s. cannot accept a nuclear north korea during that speech in washington he said the u.s. has assured china that if u.s. forces had to cross northward to the demilitarized zone separating the two koreas it would retreat back south wants to believe he returned he mentioned that beijing is taking steps to prepare for the possibility of a mass influx of refugees fleeing the regime and he went on to say that while china

is fully implementing sanctions u.s. president donald trump would like to see beijing cut off oil supplies to north korea because they know that has more now from seoul. south korea's unification ministry says south korea and the united states are on the same page when it comes to finding a peaceful resolution to the north korean nuclear situation and that south korea believes if dialogue will help towards reaching that common goal then this country would like to see talks going ahead as soon as possible south korea's broad position is that it would like to see more dialogue and engagement with north korea under the right circumstances now the u.s. special envoy on north korea joseph ewen recently suggested that north korea's stopping its missile and nuclear weapons tests would be a good first step towards talks the south korean news agency yonhap is reporting that joseph and north korean officials are expected to attend

a security conference in thailand raising the possibility that they are may be a venue for talks there also on thursday south korea's president. is meeting with the chinese leader xi jinping in beijing and north korea will no doubt feature high on the agenda in those discussions china of course has a big role to play when it comes to the north korean crisis the united states and south korea want to see china imposing further sanctions against north korea even cutting off the oil supply to that country china though prefers a solution that would to see north korea agreeing to freeze its nuclear development in exchange for south korea and the united states agreeing to scale back military exercises that anger the government in north korea now whether north korea is ultimately open to these talks remains unclear the u.n. political affairs chief jeffrey feltman it was the most senior u.n. official to visit pyongyang recently for the first time in six years and he came

back saying that the officials he met did not give any specific commish commitment to being open to talk. members of former president ali abdullah saleh party have met with a senior leader in yemen the tools the head of the supreme political council of yemen sally out summit received members of the general people's congress and sauna is thought the group is trying to make a new alliance with the g.p.c. office fighters killed i lived in a cellar last week a statement from the u.k. united states that u.a.e. and saudi arabia has called on the who these to stop talking to other political leaders in yemen. now for the first time in twenty five years democrats have won the senate race in the u.s. state of alabama doug jones defeated roy mall controversial republican county that has been accused of sexual misconduct and publicly been endorsed by president told trump chipper times he has mall from the city but me i'm in alabama was frankly

even many of the election night policy for democrat doug jones happened dad to expect to win alabama's special senate election but he did say i have always believed that the people of alabama had more in common than the device i we are not just around the state of alabama though we have shown the country the right we are the why we. however judge roy moore wasn't conceding the losing motion when the race was cooled was one of the health dissents yet his campaign invoked an alabama law applicable for a motion of palm five percent of the calls for amount of tree recounts thank you you know i i really want to thank you for coming tonight and realize when the vote is this close it is not over and we still got to go by the rules about this recount

provision and the secretary of state his explained to us and we're expecting the press will go up there and talk to them to find out what the situation. if the result does judge roy moore will have lost a reliably republican state where usually his swaggering brand of right wing politics his racist statements his staunch opposition to a woman's right to choose should have been acceptable for an easy win against a democratic party candidates but not this time president trump was quick to tweak his congratulations to doug jones in a particularly gracious message considering how much each state's own this race. if jones is certified as the wind up the republican legislative agenda will now be even more difficult to pass in the senate and the fishes between the extreme right wing of the party which back on the republican establishment will intensify the democrats this bodes well for the congressional elections next year but they can't count on running against alleged child abusers in every state they will have to put

together a form that appeals to use in the deep south seattle times the al jazeera. still ahead here on al-jazeera the philippine congress votes on the extension of martial law on the southern island plus. a vaccination campaign to inoculate thousands of facing a potentially deadly spiritual disease. by the sky knowing that to me. or off the coast of the italian riviera. hello there is staying cool for many of us in the eastern parts of china the temperatures there in shanghai are around nine degrees as a maximum on wednesday which in those that we're expecting on thursday will feel a bit different though on thursday because we'll have a bit more cloud with us and the chance of a few outbreaks of rain so it will feel

a bit cooler than it has done over the previous day there are further towards the south you can see the winds here all feeding in a bit more moisture into the extreme southern parts of china and through into northern parts of vietnam that will bring a few showers here that will gradually be pushing their way northwards as we head towards the southeast and parts of asia you can see lots of cloud around the philippines at the moment within the system we are expecting a low to be developing and that one could well in ha's the rains across the philippines over the next few days there's also a lot of wet weather just to the north of java and those showers have also been affecting us along the north coast of java so jakarta has seen flooding in recent days and the next couple of days all looking very very wet if we head across towards india so in the north we've had some of the wettest of the weather recently but there's the area of cloud responsible it's moving away towards the north now and so for many of us things are drawing out in the south though there are still a few outbreaks of rain to be seen mostly showery rain in the southern parts of india and through sri lanka and those will stick around into thursday. there with

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a reminder of the top stories this leaders from the muslim world are attending a summit in turkey for talks concerning jerusalem status it's been almost a week of protests u.s. president donald trump's decision to recognize the city as israel's capital. for the first time in twenty five years democrats in the u.s. state of alabama have won the senate race james defeated more controversial republican who's accused of child sexual abuse that was publicly endorsed by president trump. all the sexual state says that washington is ready to hold talks with north korea without preconditions rex tillerson made the comments despite the white house reaffirming president. changed that's enough for major brown has more from beijing. well diplomatically an awful lot is happening on multiple fronts right now a delegation from russia's defense ministry has arrived in north korea on the very same day that south korea's president is visiting beijing he's here for talks with

president xi jinping and north korea will be top of the agenda now we have the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson saying that he believes china is now making preparations for an influx of refugees from north korea the new york times on choose day reported that china was apparently looking at putting refugee camps in three villages and two cities in northeast china this followed a report in a newspaper last week which told people how to prepare for a nuclear attack telling people how to brush radioactive dust from. those body parts and from shoes and to take that and also warning people that after atomic bomb dropped on hiroshima in one thousand nine hundred forty five seventy thousand people died but also saying the weapons that would now be used would be a lot more lethal fully being told gress has approved a one year extension of martial law in the southern island of mindanao president he

said it's necessary for the total eradication of all groups in communist fighters despite declaring the city of monrovia liberated you know. a military rule was imposed across the region six months ago after hundreds of gunmen seized control of the always city more than a thousand people were killed and three hundred fifty thousand people were displaced by the unrest and good reports from manila. here outside congress and we have representatives of filipino muslims human rights workers activists who are protesting the votes of the joint committee in favor overwhelmingly of the one year extension of martial law here they say the one year extension of martial law means another year of violence because filipinos in the southern part of mindanao are afraid to speak up against violations against human rights abuses earlier today at the joint session not a single civilian was allowed to talk about are even and how do you feel about

martial law being implemented in the region now the philippine military is trying to justify that by saying basically that france now are not just coming from a building all across meant that now they've also talked about for the first time the new people's army a group that has been fighting the philippine military for decades now but they have not given a specific objective as to what they intend to achieve within that period. the united nations says hundreds of refugees living in crowded camps in bangladesh are suspected to have come to contract a diptheria vaccination campaign has begun to inoculate thousands of others from the potentially fatal respect for a disease that has more now from public colley refugee camp in bangladesh. there's another health emergency in the region refuse camps close to the myanmar border the bangladeshi government health worker cools the families to come for urgent vaccination against diptheria unicef says at least four hundred twenty refugees are

suspected of having contractions the highly infectious and potentially lethal response to treat disease at least six people have reportedly died. sixty percent of the approximate six hundred forty thousand range are refugees who have arrived here in recent months the children and many of them are suffering from severe acute malnutrition which weakens their immunity but our mother in the direct the little. in may and we didn't have any health care if someone got sick we had to take him to doctors a long way away and it cost a lot of money most would never inoculated against a serious and other contagious diseases in myanmar since the myanmar government withdrew their citizenship thirty five years ago they had limited access to medical care. there are fifty deferring back to nation centers like this that have been set up across the camps more than two hundred fifty people have be trained to give the

injection over the last couple of days the government and the un are describing this and keep it fair dr now as a top priority. the government is working with the un and international aid organizations to tackle the outbreak definitely out of solution have every chance to get an infection but if they are that interested this is this is that from medical side this is the truth but we have started our campaign as as our less plausible solution given to the one thing. hopefully around seven hundred thousand residual refugees have been inoculated against cholera and after an outbreak of measles at least three hundred fifty thousand refugees have been vaccinated against that contagious disease aid groups in the bangladesh government were already struggling to meet the basic health needs of these people a deep syria outbreak has made that challenge even harder trial stratford on

jazeera problem cully refugee camp bangladesh. for the second year in a row the number of journalists imprisoned for their work has hit a historical high a new census by the committee to protect journalists is found more than half of those jailed for their work are in turkey china and in egypt and they include al-jazeera is own correspondent mahmoud hussein who's been held in gyptian jail for almost a year along with nineteen others the report found hoffa's those imprisoned are him or health despite releasing some journalists this year taking remains the world's worst jail for the second consecutive year with seventy three in prison china has forty one journalists in prison right along she is one of them and he told the c.p.g. that he was sleepy jash that he was being refused medical treatment for kidney disease report also found that ninety seven percent of jail jenice are local with politics by far the most dangerous beat that they cover on al-jazeera continues to demand the release of its janis mufon hussein he's accused of broadcasting false

news to spread chaos which he and al-jazeera strongly denied saying has repeatedly complained of mistreatment in jail he was arrested on the twentieth of december last year while visiting family. australia's main gas pipeline hob is connected again after an explosion forced the entire facility to shut down on tuesday one person was killed and twenty one others injured it's an important hub for imported russian gas to europe paul brennan has this report. the explosion sent flames shooting hundreds of feet into the sky and the blast was heard more than forty kilometers away this photograph taken from neighboring slovakia's baumgarten is one of europe's main gas distribution hubs handling four hundred billion cubic meters of gas annually fire crews were quickly on the scene. when the first units arrived here baumgartner there were already huge shooting

flames it became clear very quickly that this had to be a gas explosion because the enormous heat six for the buildings caught fire they were completely aflame that's why two hundred fifty firefighters were needed to bring this fire under control the bound garden gas hub is the main entry point for russian gas into austria and onward to italy slovenia and croatia more than one hundred million cubic meters of gas every day is distributed through baumgarten and its sudden closure has caused an immediate and significant price rise in wholesale gas prices with implications right across europe. because of the blast is being described simply as a technical fault but the consequences for europe's gas consumers are significant and complex italy has declared a state of emergency more than thirty percent of its gas supplies come via bound garden and the timing could scarcely be worse if you were to describe a worst case scenario for the european gas markets today this would be it we have

this huge explosion abound grattan which is cut off all gas supply from russia to austria and italy we have the closure of two very key fields in the u.k. north sea because of a pipeline leak which is is really putting pressure on the u.k. gas system. on top of that in norway there is an incident at the troll field which is europe's biggest gas producing field and all of this on top of the first real cold snap of this winter in europe so you couldn't have actually described a more difficult time for all of this to have happened on the markets the gas prices spiked sharply upwards in italy more than double the price of the previous day austrian authorities say the flames are now at a damage assessment of will happen as soon as the site is safe they promise to resume supplies as soon as possible but that could take several weeks and in the meantime europe faces energy uncertainty paul brennan al jazeera. more than

a thousand people have been evacuated from a town in northern italy to riverbank and burst a river burst its banks say flooding homes and businesses a helicopter and boats are being used to help residents leave the town of plenty. most of italy has been hit by rain snow and freezing temperatures. around seven thousand firefighters are still tackling wildfires that have swept through the u.s. state of california burning an area at large of the new york city at least one person has died hundreds of homes have been destroyed in the fires that have burned almost a thousand square kilometers of dangerous wind gusts and dry weather conditions have been hampering efforts to contain it. now that d.n.a. technology is helping thousands of families in argentina reunites with missing relatives thirty thousand people were killed by government forces in the nineteen seventies and eighties during the so-called dirty war and many of their young children were put up for adoption or lied to about their biological parents to raise it has more from one is as. site is laboratory the

site of what amounts to being a forensic examination of the consequences of argentina's violent past it's where families torn apart by a dictatorship i reunited at least in part that are from a border i mean this is a study we work here with incomplete families we are working with a missing generation we have the grandparents and we try to focus on the other side because it is more consistent but if that is not enough we try everything else. thousands of people were killed during the military rule in argentina many of them pregnant women whose babies were born in clandestine detention centers the babies were put up for adoption many of them to those in the security forces their blood grandparents have been trying to find them ever since more than one hundred twenty have been found so far but human rights groups insist that there are still over

three hundred children and accounted for. people here tell us that they treat each case like a puzzle where they have to match the d.n.a. taken from samples or from bone samples like the ones that you can see here between families who are trying to find their grandchildren and women who were disappeared by the dictatorship. those who were babies are now about forty years old when we go inside basis one of them she's not sure where he was born but he does know when his mother was killed us the army and the police attacked the house with over forty men with gases and heavy artillery and my mother was executed but she saved my life i was five months old she had me in a closet i was taken to a hospital and left in police custody and then i was given up for adoption manuel never met his real grandparents until he was twenty years old and now he's working to help others located bears. we also use a lot of investigation and documentation and approach people that are now old

enough to go and take a test and many of them are willing it is difficult in a way it helps your life to make sense again and much of the work is done here a place that receives around one hundred twenty people every month who come to find out they're all regions. in the past we had time because the grandmothers were young when we find a grandchild the first thing i think is is the grandmother alive this is aside from science it's about changing people's lives now we have a few grandmothers left and we are working against time it's more than thirty years since the end of the dictatorship in argentina but the consequences of what happened then is still being felt by this country and so many families. when a site is. this is a desert these are the top stories leaders from the muslim world are attending

a summit for talks concerning jerusalem status the meeting was called by turkey's president recep tayyip want to send what he called a strong message they have been almost a week of protests at u.s. president donald trump's decision to recognize the city as israel's capital and the meeting was called by the turkish president recip one follows talks on the issue between leaders of saudi arabia and jordan in riyadh on choose a we've seen everybody collecting there and it looks as if an aggressive type one is about to start speaking president of one of course was perhaps miss strident of all voices in that condemning an internal trauma a move let's listen in and there dignitaries and heads of states and their general secretary and the the a guest. i. knew my warmest

regards. and salaam aleikum. good kind of. jerusalem. and i am now talking to you stunning brothers and. my regards and greetings to the good from here. today. to talk about the first couple. and also the city of. jerusalem the city and we are going to talk about the recent months what's happening in the region today. this is not only method for muslims but it is a matter for the community and i'd like to thank you each and every one of

you for attending this summit today i mean. sixth of. december to show that has the president of the united states of america ought to have declared that recognize it as there is it i look up to. this president and i said i have told. you. and anyone who will crush if you need a soul in the streets so jerusalem really realize that. occupation is under siege. and he. ran on you see the city you know a state like you see and such a declaration by the state head of the united.