the various armed groups are not willing to make a grievance at the negotiating table and we as humanitarians we end up with the civilian population in the crossfire one hundred colleagues have been killed since december twenty third dean but we're not giving up we need to have this herculean effort now in the next three months when there is the lean season and in sudan and when millions will depend on really a you say are not giving up but famine has already been declared in south sudan you've got lean months coming up as you just say but the aid appeal is only twenty one percent funded can be filled with much hope that that's actually going to fulfill what needs to be done. there is still time actually this year famine has not yet been declared we still have time last year it was declared in two pockets of the country but the

the non-governmental organization that the united nations managed to avert the worst case scenario now we basically see that more people are more food insecurity in more places of the country and yes with only twenty one percent of the appeal funded we are very worried we need much more funding i just met with the ambassadors here in juba of the donor countries and peeved for more funding but we're also appealing to the government and to the doctors for a humanitarian ceasefire in the next three months so that we can reach to all of the millions who are totally dependent now on humanitarian relief in the middle of this conflict you mentioned that it's a very dangerous place for aid workers to work around one hundred people will nine hundred people have been killed since the start of the war are you failing this stress as you're moving around as you're visiting parts of these conflict areas.

well indeed my my colleagues feel college career a just so i would suit their needs and international colleagues tell us about you know rampant insecurity because there are too many armed groups that too many criminal gangs that prey on the civilian population but also take. rest abducted kidnapped and attack humanitarian workers so we need more security for our stock you know what when i was up in my yom in unity yesterday my ig colleagues had flown up to weeks ahead of this address that happened yesterday they dig their own latrines they stay in small tents within the local communities that are mostly displaced women and children from villages that

has been torched they have an enormous. effort for these this population we really need to help fund this operation so that it can sustain itself until the south sudan gets the peace it needs there are political talks between the government and armed opposition groups they can succeed this month of june and then we can turn the corner hopefully for better days in south sudan there are some small glimmers of hope there is as you say but in the meantime we've got the u.n. threatening to extend sanctions said the fighting continues and there is kind of move those pressure moves are they help at all. well that is indeed in the political reality this is the security council there is an energetic you know discussion among the donor powers and

the government. what we want is to be neutral independent impartial and do whatever we can to help the civilian population but we're also very blunt in saying . the government and the armed opposition activists need to defend the civilian population not attack them i've been meeting too many you know women widows mothers who tell of sexual abuse rape terrible things and it's happening with impunity there is no military other leaders who are really put accountable for what they've done. thank you for taking the time to to speak. so has hair out as there are dozens of workers a rescue doctrine explosion at a mine in northeast china i'm. a mentor thomas in sydney on

a new initiative to use technology to get women to tell city planets where they feel inside and why. alan has been spectacularly and disappointingly hot in beijing recently the sun's been shining not much in the sky and this is a little particularly active end of the spring and early summer rain so that rain is going through again leaving tokyo increasingly bright or sunny day twenty six degrees beijing is cooled down to thirty three that line you could argue is a cult fronts it sparks a few showers more like the thunderstorms in north korea and towards its north and in between warm sunshine as you can see the front tends to wander in iraq and he's on his way out and i went so good come friday and slowly warming on the little bit

in beijing not the forty one degrees you know some middle thirty's where it should be really the lack of rain in japan is because of this even you know which is a tropical storm hitting the coast of southern charleston running up for vietnam of the last three days is not particularly windy but it's dropping an awful lot of right i think up to two hundred fifty even the recent high nine reported recently i'm given is there for the next two days slowly revolving the chances are there will be flooding all the way up this case possibly including hong kong there are showers further inland but not really in one hand or much in shanghai or they are forming in the west to sichuan as the ground rises.

well again you're watching al-jazeera has a reminder of all top stories this hour and dina has canceled the world cup will not much against israel in jerusalem come pain by palestinian activists they demanded a boycott of the location of the game and in protest against israel's killing of palestinians border. and self declared libyan national army has entered the city of

two weeks of heavy fighting the island is led by a renegade general hospital. two astronauts and the cosmonaut have just blasted off headed to the international space station happened just a few moments ago the by cosmodrome in kazakhstan the crew is from the u.s. and russia will take the soyuz rocket two days to reach the space station where they'll stay for the next six months. well the worst may not yet be over for guatemala new evacuations have been ordered where. kanan has been spewing more lava at least seventy five people have been killed and hundreds more are missing after sunday's eruption rescuers have been sifting through hot ash in search of survivors whilst many have chosen to flee entire villages have been destroyed. many people have left my neighborhood everything is

silent shops are closed pharmacy to close there's no bakery bread tools are closed rescue efforts have been put on hold until the volcanic activity calms down when the one point seven million people have been affected by the crisis here i'm not going to moment we were working on the search localization and recovery of the deceased here in the san diego area when we suddenly heard the alarm by the commander telling us to evacuate so we all headed to the highway where we gathered now. we're going to. last five members of my family five of them and i haven't found them to. look at i don't sleep with my brothers managed to get out but they lost everything my brothers were never told anything when they fell to the lot of from the volcano was less than four meters away. one hour from second topic. we're here at san miguel los lot is this is the worst affected area the so-called ground zero of this disaster and you can see behind emergency workers are still

trying their very best to get bodies to locate bodies inside the houses but because of this huge thick layer of dust and ash and mud they're having to remove roofs and things like that to simply get access just to find out if there is anybody under there. one of the biggest problems that emergency workers are facing here is knowing when they can work and when they can every so often a whistle goes off and that means that everybody has to evacuate that's what's going on right now people are being told to walk out in case there's another eruption which could put more lives at risk those lucky enough to escape had just moments to evacuate their homes they had to leave everything behind there actually covered belongings bear witness to the tragedy of the in the first part five to eight minutes to get the second extended seven clinton just three to five minutes. now the long cleanup begins this is a major highway that connects the coast up to the highlands behind me trying to get

rid of all the debris the cars the tons of ash and mud this is going to be a major operation for the government here are going to cost a lot of money that they might not have but it's going to be a necessity and it's going to allow the country to move forward and why is kind of ok now has been erupting for weeks destroy and it's destroyed more homes to entire communities on big island displaced you know me to reports of casualties. so how long this eruption will last. more than eighty refugees and migrants trying to reach europe have been stopped by turkish forces mostly from syria and afghanistan two years ago the european union struck a deal with turkey to prevent refugees from getting to europe to stem the flow of refugees in exchange for billions of dollars in aid visa free travel and a fast track to e.u. membership. by now you will have had a loss about the upcoming summit sample between donald trump and now we know more

details of when the meeting will take place scott i reports i'm just tickled challenges of such an event. with the date set the starting time confirmed we now know the location for donald trump and kim jong un's first meeting the ultra exclusive capella hotel singapore's sentosa island a colonial era building transformed into a six star hotel by renowned british architect norman foster the decision has amounted to being the choice has not just been about security to see but on top of the hard security considerations it's also been about the aesthetics the optics of the summit as well this is a hotel that sits right smack in the asia pacific right by the same time it has cost more politan western story to it so east and west if you like it's been reported that the north korean delegation favored the hotel and sentosa when they were in town last week negotiating with just for the summer singapore's resort island of sentosa is known for its beaches casinos theme parks and golf course with

the personal interest of these two leaders a perfect setting for the summit or even a joint family holiday the city state has set up two special event areas that will start just before the leaders arrive sentosa island will be one as well as the waters off its southwestern beaches where the capella hotel sits and another one about nine kilometers away in the tangling area of singapore this is where the shangri-la and the st regis hotels are thought to be where the two leaders and their delegations will be staying in the run up we're going to see an increased signature of security personnel security equipment but also commensurate with that we're going to see an increase in the chill of the public now that we know what the location is everyone's curious and i think the security operations will have to be have to be brought to bear already in managing the crowd and managing vehicles there will also be a. clampdown in the sky parts of singapore's airspace will be restricted during the

summit the area building uses the pits for singapore's formula one race is being transformed into a huge media center more than three thousand accredited media will use the center but thousands more are expected in singapore over the next few days to cover the summit it's got other al-jazeera singapore. trade unions in jordan leading a nationwide strike as part of demonstrations against a controversial tax proposal king abdullah has called for the tax plan to be with you but many want it scrapped entirely they said unfairly targets the poor there is a process for as prime minister moki to resign on monday. united nations as signs an agreement with me and that could lead to the return of rango refugees from bangladesh it outlines steps towards the voluntary and safer patrick some of the seven hundred thousand refugees they fled a crackdown by man miles on me which the u.n. has described as ethnic cleansing the u.n. says conditions are not yet secure enough for the refugees to return home but the

deal is an important development. in his ruling party is under pressure from hundreds of thousands of followers who are demanding officials help them get more for their projects. and western states in the middle of a ten day strike spilling milk and vegetables to block votes and highways it's already pushed out vegetable prices in some cities by as much as ten percent as when the government to intervene by waiving lanes and delivering on promises to ensure that paid more ordered. some of them and the businessmen are getting richer and families are losing god. and as the prices are going down the number of farmers committing suicide is going down. thousands of people have been demonstrating in cities across the czech republic against the appointment of andre bobbish his prime minister for a second time. has been on. acting as caretaker since january when his one party minority lost the confidence vote in parliament but in

this is planning to form a government supported by the communist party protesters accused of links of having links to communist secret police. in china an explosion in a mine has killed at least eleven people in the northeastern city of bend see rescuers managed to pull out more than twenty workers who were trapped underground miners in china often face unsafe conditions whilst working underground young women worldwide are being encouraged to use technology to report harris meant in an effort to make the streets safer and sash one charity which is which women can use to highlight where they don't feel safe walking under thomas reports from sydney but the app was first created for young women the city streets can be or see a hostile environment when way to improve things an international charity is to highlight which areas are best and which worst for the last month women in sydney

have been encouraged to use a website to mark where they felt particularly safe or unsafe when and why more than three thousand incidents have been uploaded so far daughter is so powerful and it tells a story three numbers which a lot of the time is one of three ways that decision makers can be swayed these women from the charity plan international i'm out visiting the hot spots taking photographs for an art project to publicize the initiative among them is a woman with almost a million followers on the social media platform instagram my. audience on social media. seventy percent women aged eighteen to twenty four which is basically the demographic that way for this particular project although foundations of women are providing that data it's not them but the data is necessarily for. this initiative isn't about warning women off visiting certain areas but rather about providing a cash for city planners to improve infrastructure where women tell them they feel

unsafe sexual harassment on the streets is a worldwide problem plan international has rolled out its website to four other cities as well as sydney maps are being created in camp paula lima madrid and new delhi. everyone should be made aware about where we feel safe from where we don't perhaps this will help us and making unsafe place is safe to those behind this initiative hope information will provoke change the more people know whether issues that need to be addressed the more likely they'll address them under thomas al-jazeera sydney. or without is there these are our top stories the beautiful game is now at the center of one of the middle east conflicts a campaign by prior palestinian activists has led to argentina canceling a world cup warm up match against israel's national team in jerusalem they appealed

to argentina's leaders and stomp on lessing to boycott the game and i appreciate their decision and i think this is according to the first dirty words and according to the their brain. and their mission to bring more effects and values and to build a bridge between nations rather than to be a bridge. for political ends as the israelis tried to use missy and those stars from argentina and i would like to thank them and appreciate their decision which i think was on the right track. itself the libyan national army has entered the city of done after weeks of heavy fighting yellen is led by a renegade general. new evacuations have been ordered in guatemala where mount franco volcano has been spewing more lava at least seventy five people have been

killed and hundreds of missing after sunday's eruption entire villages have been destroyed. and hawaii's kilauea volcano which has been erupting for weeks has destroyed more homes two entire communities on the big island displaced there are no immediate reports of casualties experts still aren't sure how long this eruption will last trade unions in jordan a leading a nationwide strike as part of demonstrations against a controversial tax proposal king abdullah has called for the tax plan to be reviewed but many want it scrapped entirely he said i'm fairly tall gets the poor and middle classes days of protests forced the prime minister to resign on monday and a short while ago two astronauts and the cosmonaut blasted off heading to the international space station the crew is from the u.s. germany and russia will take their soyuz rocket two days to reach the space station those are your headlines more news continuing on al-jazeera of the inside story

stay with us. collateral damage or indiscriminate bombing the u.s. led coalition was fighting i still in the syrian city of raka but it's accused of killing hundreds of civilians and it's international says that could amount to war crimes so can the coalition be held accountable this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. i reports by amnesty international says there's

strong evidence the u.s. led coalition fighting violated international law and may have committed war crimes here are the reports main findings hundreds of civilians were killed and thousands wounded by coalition asked why it's this crime disproportionate and indiscriminate i sell use civilians as human shields by the coalition didn't take enough precautionary to avoid casualties british and french forces were also involved by the us was a responsible for more than ninety percent of. more attacks were launched on than an aware since the vietnam war called on the coalition to investigate claims of violations publicly acknowledge the scale of devastation and compensate victims a coalition spokesman says persistent efforts were made to minimize harm to

civilians. the u.s. led a four month campaign dubbed a war of annihilation by defense secretary james mattis to flush ice a lot of raka coalition warplanes and special troops supported an offensive launched by mainly kurdish syrian democratic forces as d.f. to take the city rocker lies in the north of syria and i still declared it the capital of its caliphate into a thousand and fourteen i said controlled large territories of iraq and syria rucka was a main stronghold the planning center for attacks around the world especially after mosul fell to iraqi forces but in a toll it's also lost iraq part of the much of the city is in growing and many of its three hundred thousand population fled during the fighting let's bring in our guests joining us from london and had syria consulting research

fellow of the chatham house from beirut. military analyst and retired general in the lebanese army and by skype from a writer in italy is just well and this director of the center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma thank you all for joining us. can the outcome of the report legal action against the u.s. led coalition well basically the scale of. casualties on the ground among civilians is what the report i thing is asking for because we don't know the scale exactly what we know so far is that their report confirms what locals have been saying for months during and after that that gorica they have been saying that a big number of civilians have been has been killed they also mentioned civilians

and other posters here not only iraq. was killed by u.s. led coalition strikes but so far we don't see serious efforts from the coalition in order first to investigate and to be transparent about the results of those. investigations or unless that is basically clear and transparent we cannot really assess what the scale of the vacation that we're talking about here in the. syrup or talks about disprove this proportionate and indiscriminate attacks that could. be described as potential war crimes how significant is this report from a military perspective. yes it is it is a war crime when you kill hundreds of civilians to say that this is collateral damage is not an excuse the u.s.

led coalition should resort to other means in order to. win the battle for example if they impose a seizure on iraq and try to negotiate with the people inside and try to. reach a settlement with them and the other solution better than one being if with. thousands of air sorties or thousands of. artillery rounds and killing the innocent with the. men together instead of that they should have been started to peaceful means in order to to minimize the damage and to save as much as they can civilians from the damage of this war we understand that the last that the coalition is fighting isis which is an. organization. with great terrorist actions the weather

all over the world but the that doesn't mean that they include civilians with them and harm the civilians and kill them so i think that the army center and the national airport should be the basis of for an inquiry mission in order to make all of these people had more light around double what they have done just what the coalition says that it has it took extraordinary measures to minimize civilian casualties but i mean you see the amnesty international report. testimonies from activists on the ground basically saying that areas were completely wiped out during the campaign to evict eisel from iraq. yes we've seen this over and over again if we look at ramadi we look at for the new

show we look at it with a look at russia that's of course on the coalition side all of those cities eighty eighty five percent of the house and completely destroyed lots of firepower many civilians will undoubtedly killed. but if we look on the syrian and russian side of course we saw the same thing we saw a tremendous condemnation on the part of the west towards the bombing in aleppo homs many other places and most recently of course the suburbs of damascus and odorless and all of these places very similar situation just underlines how difficult it in warfare is and how brutal all war for it becomes we look at this in reflection of the second world war for example where the war was ended in japan of course by first fire bombing tokyo the single largest day of deaths in the

second world war and then the japanese did not surrender after one hundred thirty thousand were killed in one day hiroshima nagasaki two hundred thousand mostly women and children incinerator not because they were a strategic importance neither city was but because they had been unbent and they could be a demonstration effect and this of course caused the japanese to surrender and this you know in a sense this lesson of using overwhelming brutal force breaking the morale of the people. is in a sense a lesson it lives on and every army tries to do it use overwhelming force we see there to end up many wars and it leads to this kind of all out brutality and we see it here again and of course the coalition tried to cover up their tracks to a certain degree by saying smart bombs were being extra careful we haven't killed civilians and being duplicitous lying about the numbers of so they kill and yet we

can't escape the fact just has wrecked tremendous human damage and we're seeing the same thing in yemen work we keep on getting reports of ten thousand people killed because nobody's counting anymore and all newspaper journalists are complicit keep on using the word two thousand and we know because inside is it's massively more than now you know as there's just one is there some of those areas journalists are restricted from going to those areas to independently verify exactly what's going on hide following up with with the what mr just was saying do you think that this could pave the way for activists operating on the ground different organizations to come together to try to uncover exactly what happened in iraq well definitely since the fighting stopped i think we have a great opportunity for people to be able to verify what happened there but for that to happen there are

a few issues that need to be taken into consideration the first one is that those groups and individuals should be allowed to enter the area and be protected in that area and they should be given access to different different people in different areas meaning whether some people were displaced to other cities or where the thin or their they're living in despair scant outside the fact car that's one issue or the other issue is that they should be allowed to given access to military or for a mission. and stand up some of this information might be a classifier but there are those without access to those information people will not be able to verify if what happened what they were for basically ammunition was yours what the number the official number that was reported in order to compare it to that the number on there are so few issues need to be taken into consideration in order for people to do that so far we don't see that happening that. basically

did a geisha when there was given access to people on the ground but i think they were not given access to military information and this is why they were not able to compare notes and they were not able to come out was basically concrete. figures as the. u.s. led coalition in its attempt to try in this bush to defeat i said has been using overwhelming force particularly in iraq in syria and also in mosul in iraq the find is now going to see international to what extent could change the rules of engagement in the near future if the coalition meets similar situation in different places amnesty and its. report said that they if that if you have dozens of people each one of them told what. was with them and their families many people from their families were killed and the one

being of the. coalition and the cats the still and from of these witnesses who saw their families. being killed so there are people killed there are someone who killed them the u.s. led coalition so to do what very thick a shim do we need now other then this witness and this proof from the u.s. led. war planes or artillery or missiles or other things so i mean there is the necessity for an inquiry mission in order to put an end of this bad conduct during the war. thought that the syrian army is not there to.