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facing the wrath of the united states the u.n. general assembly prepares to vote on donald trump's controversial jerusalem who. talks of iran you're watching after their life my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next thirty minutes the cholera epidemic in yemen reaches one million cases in just nine months one of the reasons the war torn country is facing the world's worst humanitarian crisis. at this stage we have fourteen people injured and several i predict will a deliberate act two people arrested after a car plows into pedestrians at a busy australian train station. it's also election day in catalonia it's a vote many hope will finally resolve spain's political crisis.

could have a complete welcome to the program now the united nations is due to start debating a draft resolution rejecting the united states' recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital on wednesday u.s. president donald trump threatened to cut aid to un members who voted against his decision now at the request of arab and muslim countries the united nations is holding the emergency meeting but countries like egypt which called for the draft resolution are in the firing line of trump follows through with his threat we have correspondents done buying garza we have malcolm where they west jerusalem we are very false that but first let's go over to mike hanna who's at the united nations in new york and mike what are we expecting in terms of the timeline of proceedings . well what we've got so far is the president of the general assembly has announced a list of seventeen twenty seven nations that have asked to address the general assembly they will speak we expect following which the vote may

be taken and then afterwards there may be some additional comments from other countries that are not listed among the twenty seven now why i'm sounding a bit vague about it is because it's a senate seat president of the general assembly who decides exactly what is going to happen when it's going to happen and how it's going to happen the one certainty though is that it's electronic voting and the fact that the twenty seven who submitted their names they will be speaking before the vote happens now we haven't seen a copy of the resolution yet either so but if it is similar to the one that was introduced into the security council earlier this week that did not mention the united states by name that just said that it calls on all states not to unilaterally alter at the status of jerusalem whether we see this similar type of wording in the resolution today we should know that within the next hour or so don't go it's going to give

the viewers some more of the nation here's the background because more than two hundred countries receive aid from the u.s. and after years of u.s. involvement in afghanistan it receives the most now the amount of military aid planned for next year is almost eight hundred million dollars that's a big drop from this year's allocation of four point three billion dollars egypt which called for the u.n. draft resolution on jerusalem is meant to receive one point three billion dollars in aid and the u.s. has one billion dollars of aid him up for jordan the custodian of jerusalem's holy sites a mike here in front of me i have a list of all the countries that are tough talking and have strong connections with the u.s. and get aid we've got turkey we've got pakistan. we got jordan bangladesh lebanon iraq oh one wonders what's going through their minds as we head towards that vote and what the repercussions could be if they do vote for the resolution against the u.s. . indeed yes said must be playing into their thinking however some

observations believing that it may actually push them to be even stronger in their remarks and they might have been in a show of defiance to what they see as the hectoring and bullying stance of president tran and his administration but there's a degree of schizophrenia here as well let me just take one example yemen which is introducing the resolution and will be speaking first this year to date has received six hundred twenty million dollars from the u.s. government in humanitarian aid now that is obviously through it however twenty four hours ago the u.s. state department issued a statement calling on humanitarian aid to yemen to be bought easily facilitated so we've got one arm of the u.s. administration threatening to rip away founding another arm of the u.s. administration asking for great ease in distributing it just a sign of how this is all being played by the minute to do it would appear by the

trump administration not really being thought through a conundrum in the making i'm sure we'll of course follow events with you from new yorkers as time progresses thanks mike let's cross over to west jerusalem harry force that is standing by and harry the israelis have been working very hard behind the scenes over a number of years really to try and make sure that scenarios like this that we are going to see in the general assembly don't actually happen by drumming up international support i mean our senior politicians are concerned. well the most senior politician here benjamin netanyahu is doing his best to slough off any idea of concern and say really that this is a nonevent he's come up with. one of many insults that he uses against united nations this time calling it a house of lies and issuing a preemptive rejection of this vote so there's no suspense about which way it's going what israel is trying to do is as you say on the one front lobby to try and

see if it can change some votes but also just decry the whole process as the prime minister did a little earlier. in the attitude towards israel of many countries on all continents is changing outside the walls of the night nature and that change will ultimately permeate into the u.n. the house of lies the state of israel totally rejects this vote even before the resolutions approval is our capital and we will continue to build there and embassies led by the united states will move to jerusalem write down what i said because it will happen. just a short time ago we had gideon levy on the program. columnist writes being a national newspaper there for our international audience and he was saying one of two things could happen it for the israeli public that if they see that the vote isolates them even more with israel and the united states on one side they could

still deem that conversation as we are by a solve the world hates us or israelis will have to wake up and say you know what being such such isolationists doesn't work we have to try and find a way forward and that's the larger conundrum that nobody can seem to find an answer to. well yes i mean there is some gradation of opinion within israeli society not very much gratian when it comes to feeling that jerusalem is the capital of the jewish people and the state of israel and has been since nine hundred forty eight that is something that is felt pretty much across the political spectrum here at least when you're talking about jewish israelis that the question of exactly where they will stand politically in terms of whether they will continue to support this declaration from trump. even if it does bring this kind of international order further sense here against israel well to some extent they are used to that and polling does suggest that there is

a great deal of support for this trump measure that among israelis seventy five percent or more of people in a poll in recent days i think it was toward the end of last week were in favor of the trump declaration and so around the same number of israeli palestinians who were felt that it was harmful and so i don't think it's going to necessarily shift israeli opinion in in great detail there is an effort underway to try and at least change the numbers in israel's favor in terms of those who will support it but given just how isolated the united states and israel are on this there's also a recognition i think that they're not going to be able to get a huge amount of traction there which is the what has happened certainly get reaction from the later in the day let's cross over to malcolm where policing gaza palestinians obviously very angry since declared his position what's the mood like there in the lead up to this vote which is just a few hours away. well still the same as you say very angry over the last few weeks

have been demonstrations most days here on weekdays they tend to be smaller dozens or maybe a few hundred people and they're bigger on fridays at weekends and wednesday there was a demonstration specifically against the u.s. veto of the u.n. security council resolution that was meant to preserve the status of jerusalem so a few hundred gathered here on wednesday factions here already called for another big demonstration to morrow have furthur of called for more demonstrations in the west bank palestinian officials say seven people have been killed in these on rest in the last two weeks when the protesters have clashed with israeli police and israeli soldiers but we're waiting now to see how many people will turn up here for the demonstration tomorrow which typically begins with street protests here in gaza hamas spokesman has called for two one in the south one here in the north and those street protests tend to be followed by

a number of protesting headed protesters heading towards the separation wall with israel where they've gathered in the last two weeks clashed with israeli soldiers who is always a difficult to gauge about what palestinian reaction will be as you said you know the public at large will come out onto the streets and throw stones in the will be fired upon by israeli security forces the politicians run around the region they go to lebanon they go to the u.s. they go to london and in fact i think mahmoud abbas has just come back from saudi arabia people on the ground really want to see progress and there is a power only been a real sense of frustration these past few weeks since president trump mentioned stated that drusilla's going to be the capital of israel what's the sense you get of the sort of that frustration really that the international community can't seem to really get their head around. first relations very great i mean definitely the word to describe what people feel here they do feel that they've been let down by the u.s. and the u.s.

is completely taken israel's side but meanwhile the palestinian palestinian officials are running around trying to put together their diplomatic fight back you mentioned president abbas is due to meet emmanuel mccrone the french president in france tomorrow and at the moment senior palestinian officials are in china and in russia seeking they say they're seeking a new broker for the peace process because they say that the u.s. is no longer fit to fulfill that role here as you say a lot of frustration and both at the general assembly may not change that since the outcome of that resolution is non-binding but what it will show is to what extent u.n. members are isolating the u.s. it's moved diplomatically or not so that's what we'll see in new york later today but that won't affect very much the great frustration that you mentioned people feeling here we'll leave it there for now of course multiple follow but it's with you through the day and with our correspondents in the region well let's stay here in the middle east because the cholera crisis in the yemen has reached one million

cases according to the international committee of the red cross continued violence and ongoing foreclosures also making it difficult to get food and medicine into the country as natasha going to. more than twenty two hundred yemenis have died from cholera since late april the disease continues to spread in what the u.n. has called the world's worst cholera outbreak the international committee of the red cross says yemen now has one million cases going to got even though it is figures that we deal with the u.s. one hundred twenty seven yemenis and not that good idea yet but no an outbreak of these d.v.d.'s why because children have not been vaccinated and we want to know what next more than eighty percent of yemenis can't get food or clean water and lack access to health care and fuel adding to their misery aid groups have struggled to deliver supplies since november that's when the saudi led coalition

blocked all ports of entry saying it needed to halt the flow of weapons to the rebel who thiis vowing to international pressure the coalition has allowed some aid in but the u.n. says it's still not at the level required to help the more than twenty million people in need a shortage of commercial goods is also driving up prices. the price hike will cost starvation of thousands of people many goods can't enter the market because of the closed airports and ports on the other hand we don't have enough money to buy things not only the people but the whole country struggling to survive more than two and a half years of war has battered the country's infrastructure making the water supply unreliable and yemenis are trapped in a dangerous cycle malnutrition compromises the immune system and cholera exacerbates malnutrition the majority of people can survive cholera if given fluids

to rehydrate and antibiotics in extreme cases aid groups are trying to expand access to health care and clean water one giant obstacle remains the war natasha going to al-jazeera. well we still have more here on al-jazeera we'll be looking ahead to see what a top course and how it quits the former airline heiress in south korea after she apparently violated aviation law. by delaying a flight for the time to. welcome back across eastern parts of china the weather soaking pretty good at the

moment twenty degrees in hong kong seventeen in fuzhou and fine taiwan is light to be drawing through the day two and four indo-china jerry looking pretty good a few showers for central parts of vietnam but for the most part fine across northern areas where that twenty one those fine conditions across at miramar and through into bangladesh so as you head across into south asians quite a bit of cloud showing up on the satellite imagery across northwestern heiress also the threat of further showers affect in sri lanka has seen some large rainfall totals here in the last twenty four hours so if you look at the forecast again sri lanka tamela do see in the old chap but otherwise it's looking fine for the limits of cloud but it should be a bright entirely their highs of twenty two degrees or head on through to suffer i am pleasantly warming crutchley that twenty seven across into the arabian peninsula so looking fine here much as we would expect we're looking at temperatures of twenty five degrees in both doha and abu dhabi the showers having cleared away we were on the other side of the clincher it's looking pretty warm in mecca coming in

at thirty two but you notice we are going to see more the way of cloud spilling down from the north during the course of saturday but it should remain fairly bright and medina heise here expected to reach twenty eight. you are making very positive remarks where on line the main u.s. response to drug use and the drug trade over the last fifty years has been to criminalize or if you join us on saying no evil person just wakes up in the morning and say i want to scour the world in darkness and this is a dialogue and that could be what leading to some of the confusion the lie was about people saying they don't actually know what's going on join the colobus conversation at this time on al jazeera.

welcome back you're watching al-jazeera ups a whole rob a reminder of our top stories the united nations is due to start debating a draft resolution rejecting the u.s. recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital on wednesday u.s. president donald trump threatened to cut aid to u.n. members who vote against his decision. also the red cross says the number of suspected cholera cases in yemen has reached one million more than two thousand people have died from the highly contagious infection to see outbreak began in april. peru's congress is expected to begin to debate this hour into allegations of corruption against the president the case is part of the so-called car wash bribery scandal in brazil which is implicated dozens of politicians a businessman across latin america mario

a son just joins me now from lima the capital of the subject what how what can we actually expect in terms of the timeline of what the president will say and when he will say it. well the president has just arrived here in congress with his lawyer his wife earlier and in a few and possibly he will be facing not only the car wash investigation investigation commission but all the congressmen here in congress plain who congressman that there was no conflict of interest when all the bridge the construction giant paid of money paid nearly eight hundred thousand dollars to account only in the united states for advisory services something that the president was totally legal something that he didn't know about because he was

a finance minister at the time and he told him that any dealings with all that red truck anything would and he would be apart from this so he has to prove he has to show through his lawyer that this was exactly the case now it is very possible that he could be removed if. many and perhaps friends already that people will vote to remove the president from office but the last few days some of them have been dubious about how they will vote if he is removed from office the press then the vice president will have said that they will resign as well so the president of congress is to take over the presidency and immediately call general election those that those the politics of what's going on i mean on wednesday what we saw was the president take to the television speak to the nation as a whole and apologize the but the people themselves of what i'm reading and understanding

also angry not just at the president but also in congress because they believe this is a grab for power so there's actually two trains of thought here in peru at the moment . we were seeing this last night when we were. at a protest what. we seem to be having a problem with mariana sanitation imagine a leader it's a long way from doha we're trying to get back to her through the day and i'm sure she'll give us some more information let's go to europe now because voting is underway in catalonia in a regional poll which may indicate to the extent of public support for seceding from spain separatist parties are pitted against rivals who want to stay part of spain paul bernard reports from barcelona. outside catalonians largest polling station the queue to vote formed early and stretched out of the gates and down the

street with polling day underway a mood of calm determination has replaced the bitter words and strident campaigning of recent weeks here that what we hope is that we return to democracy and that whatever the outcome is it is respected within a million of them i hope we go back to normality it is not clear whether that will happen but that's what we want while we're inside the voting has been brisk turnout will be a crucial factor under catalonia is proportional representation system the prospect of an outright victory for either of the two main camps process session or pro unity it's extremely unlikely it's just too tight but a lot will depend on a so-called silent majority of up to a million undecided voters secessionist believe their course has been strengthened by madrid imposing direct rule and by the jailing of catalan leaders suspicious of madrid's refusal to allow international election observers activists are conducting

their own shadow count the votes the grassroots movement has sort of organized so we're going to do our double counting of the ballot boxes and of the ballots. and that the result is going to be checked by the grassroots movement in catalonia and we are bringing international observers because we where we are not the we don't fear for impartial opinions binion polls those suggest the most likely result is a hung parliament with pro secessionist parties forming the biggest block and that will do nothing to repair the deep fractures and recriminations that have emerged during spain's worst political crisis since the return to democracy forty years ago . al-jazeera pass alone or. australian police say they have not found any links to terrorism after an attack on pedestrians in the center of melbourne two people were arrested after a car deliberately ran over people at

a city center to death street and crossing injuring nineteen hundred thomas has more. panic in the streets of central melbourne on a busy thursday afternoon witnesses saw a large white car accelerate into dozens of people using a pedestrian crossing right outside the city's main train station it was late for work people can't get home he can see their families and so just because of one person in this is just terrible feeling this shouldn't happen. it was full forty two in the afternoon the crossing was packed with people leaving office is heading to and from trains and doing pretty christmas shopping police say the driver was wrestled to the ground and handcuffed after his car crashed into a tram stop a little way down the road police quickly ruled out an accident at this stage where fourteen people injured and several i critique. at this stage we believe is it a deliberate act and i repeat that at this stage we believe it is i deliver it act

however we do not know the motivation and is still early stages of the investigation police say the driver they were arrested is a thirty two year old australian of afghan descent they say he has a history of violence and drug use and what they call current mental health issues they have not said what they think motivated his attack but we don't at fist time have any evidence or any intelligence to indicate there's a connection with terrorism police also arrested a second man that second man was same filming the aftermath of the attack on his mobile phone and when place searched him they found knives in his bag but although he was taken into custody place now i don't think he had any connection with the driver or his attack. the state premier of victoria says all indications are that this was an isolated attack by one man not part of a wider plot this is or if it's evil we are not defined by these sorts of

incidents i'm confident that we will go about their business and we will spend what should be a joyous time with people that we love but we will all i think spare a thought for those that have been touched and indeed forever china for the evil in care at least on flinders street today. australian police and politicians have warned of an attack like this coming in the context of international terrorism and isolate inspired atrocity so far though just as tragic police say this looks like something different andrew thomas al jazeera says. third least four people have died after a after a ferry with hundreds on board capsized off the philippines where the ferry was traveling from the town of in sandton case on province to political island over one hundred fifty passengers and crew have been rescued but dozens are still missing coast guard say the rescue operation will continue despite bad weather. at least eighteen people have died after a fire broke out at

a building in the south korean city of chio on the eight story building housed restaurants a gym and a public bath officials say all the victims were so far found in the sauna it's unclear what caused the fire but it's likely started in the parking lot. now the former korean air vice president to not trade tantrum delayed a flight in twenty fourteen will avoid more jail time south korea's top court ruled that choice on ya was not guilty of the most serious charge of changing a flying truitt and as kathy novak reports ho could face could have faced ten years in jail. it was a case of bad behavior that came to symbolize the power of south korea's most important people in december twenty fourth teen this korean air flight was leaving new york with then vice president and daughter of the company's chairman on board in the first class cabin show enraged over being served macadamia nuts in

a bag instead of on a plate was hurling abuse at the cabin crew she demanded the pilot returned to the gate so this men the head flight attendant could be thrown off in february twenty fifth tina district court ruled that in doing so show changed the planned flight route breaking aviation security law she was sentenced to a year in prison but three months later the high court overturned that verdict instead ordering a ten month suspended sentence on lesser charges on thursday the supreme court upheld that ruling. it is the majority opinion that it is difficult to interpret the plane's movements on the ground are part of the flight path with me review to aviation security laws to south koreans this case is about much more than an incident of air rage it has highlighted what many years view as unjust levels of power wielded by those at the top of the nation's biggest companies. democracy

activist and jindal says the public is angry because it feels powerful people are receiving special treatment my they tell you bernie if there were a justice culture of setting an example by giving punishment as a warning to others or if major conglomerates were punished to a similar extent that ordinary people would be punished in such illegal activities would not persist aviation law was beefed up in the wake of the cho incident to punish cases of air rage more severely and in another recent high profile case the vice chairman of sam's son jay wiley was imprisoned for five years on bribery charges he is also appealing that ruling kathy novak al-jazeera saw zimbabwe's new president and. is on his first foreign trip to south africa besides meeting south african president jacob zuma will also speak to zimbabwe is living and working in the country on official figures suggest up to three million

zimbabweans work in south africa. the top u.s. senator has warned president trump against firing special counsel robert mueller who's leading the investigation into russian meddling in last year's election mark warner the democrat on the senate intelligence committee was responding to growing at times by trump's allies on impartiality wallace says the attacks are simply laying the groundwork for miller's dismissal he says firing it would be a gross abuse of power and could provoke a constitutional crisis firing mr maher or any other of the top brass involved in this investigation would not only call into question this is ministrations commitment to the truth but also to our most basic concept rule of law it also has. the potential to provoke a constitutional crisis and you can follow all of the stories that we're covering got our web site at al-jazeera dot com how does a dot com. you're

watching under their arms the robin these are our top stories the united nations is due to start debating a draft resolution rejecting the united states's recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital on wednesday u.s. president donald trump threatened to cut aid to un members who vote against his decision israel's prime minister echoed the sentiments of its ally the united states because. the attitude towards israel of many countries on all continents is changing outside the walls of the united nations and that change will ultimately permeate into the u.n. the house of lies the state of israel totally rejects this vote even before the resolutions approval jerusalem is our capital and we will continue to build there and for embassies led by the united states will move to jerusalem write down what i said because it will happen the red cross says the number of suspected cholera

cases in yemen has reached one million more than two thousand people have died from the highly contagious infection since the outbreak began in april. at least nineteen people have been injured after a car drove into a crowd at a busy train station in the australian city of melbourne police believe the attack was deliberate two people have been arrested some of those injured are really critical condition and polls have opened for catalonia as regional snap election which may end spain's long political crisis now the leaders of the separatist movement pitted against candidates who want to remain part of spain. proves congress is fated to begin to debate in the hour into allegations of corruption against the president the case is part of a so-called car wash bribery scandal in brazil which has implicated dozens of politicians and businessmen across latin america at least four people have died after a ferry with hundreds of boat capsized off the philippines another ferry was traveling

from the town of advancement kase on province to leave your island more than one hundred fifty passengers and crew have been rescued but dozens are still missing the former korean vice president who's not trade tantrum delayed a flighted twenty forty will avoid more jail time cho the daughter of career as chairman got angry when a flight attendants had not seen a bag instead of a plate those were the headlines next al-jazeera it's the stream to stay with us. big business is replacing humans with roofs now britain's. governments are playing catch up terrified of what happens if millions of jobs cease to exist. but it is the workers whose livelihoods are at stake who have no say. the fourth industrial revolution and what it means for the future of humanity this is a special report on al-jazeera.