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legalisation of abortion. and round two of the media mergers now kong costs tries to buy twenty first century fox. so i am iraqi coalition fighting in yemen has launched a major offensive to take control of the port city from huth the rebels that's despite u.n. warnings of catastrophic humanitarian consequences the security council will hold an emergency meeting in the next twenty four hours to discuss the situation the red sea port is yemen's second largest after aden and an important point of entry for aid shipments intense air strikes if it's locations south of florida say they responded by launching missiles at coalition ships the rebels seized hard data and a top twenty fourteen as part of an f. . to topple the government of president abdurrahman once or hadi and about seventy

percent of yemen's food enters the country through the port it's feared the fighting is going to cut off much needed supplies of food fuel and medicine twenty two million people that's around two thirds of yemen's population rely on aid and eight point four million are already at risk of starvation save the children says famine is now a real possibility about six hundred thousand people live in and around hard data some have fled the fighting but many are still there. as more. a major military operation is underway yemeni government troops are on the move to take the port of her data from both the rebels warplanes and warships of the saudi emirate coalition have also launched strikes on the city and reinforcements are joining soldiers on the ground for what many say is

a decisive battle for control over northern yemen they do feel a little but they are here on our way to for data and we will liberate it from the who we are determined to celebrate you and mark the end of ramadan their. day does seaports is a vital lifeline for the whole thesis the sardi's say that's where the shia rebels get weapons smuggled in from iran that's denied by both and the host these the united nations fearing what the spokesman called a bloodbath if the day there was attacked by coalition forces has proposed and you deal that would see how these hand over the seaport to the u.n. but that wasn't accepted the force also a vital lifeline for millions of civilians caught up in the war and aid agencies are now warning of a humanitarian catastrophe. they say supply of booze for urgently needed aid will

be caught and more than a quarter of a million lives are at risk the fact that we have more military operations going on will just exacerbate the situation which means that not enough we entered for the entire population of human we have already today eighty percent of the yemeni people who rely heavily on humanitarian aid. for the war in yemen has already claimed tens of thousands of lies mostly civilians many have died of hunger and disease but the fighting has gone on so far none of the attempts to have its it is know how succeeded none of the players are working together regional players or the national players so they can bring in many to the table the saudi am a routine a coalition leads the campaign to drive the whole thing is out of the data and they give any capital and reinstate the government of president.

of the rebels remain defiant firing bullets to besides into saudi arabia and volley into the capital to the. well joining us on skype from connecticut is ibrahim qatar being his a political analyst he specializes in the yemen conflict thank you very much indeed for your time sir what effect do you think this assault on the ports is going to have on the future of the conflict there. well this is the end of ramadan where people supposed to have some peace mercy and love and now they that is they add an additional disaster to the world whereas humanitarian disaster in yemen so this is i don't know if it's going to create any peace that we you know with the city of there are about three hundred thousand children and we don't know how they identify military targets to begin with and we know from previous experiences and bottles

that the saudi led coalition did in the past they just didn't they they couldn't distinguish between military targets and civilians and they did many crimes that i have in a chinese. you know crimes against humanity that were committed by the coalition also as well to host these so this is adding more problems to the existing you know him in a china and disaster and we don't know if it's going to solve any problems and we know that even if they take the port from from the whole season we the most of yemenis one country to be liberated not only from the healthy but also from the saudi amounted to a coalition the question becomes right now as they go into hand over as they take the part of the city or data from the house these are they going to turn it to the yemeni government and the question i don't think so because we have seen crystal

clear examples and the city of i den and how the mode where the coalition didn't hand those cities and ports and i and airports to the legitimate yemeni government and the stead they created militias and they handed that power to the militias and their mind the yemeni government that they said they come in here they they were they came to support so that i don't think that will resolve any conflicts i think will create more disaster for the. yemeni civilians i think it will block more aid from flowing into a lot of different areas including the years that that are controlled by the healthy so i think yemenis will be punished as a result we're talking about people here in terms of the the conflict itself do you see this as having the potential for being a game changer if the saudi and saudi and iraqi coalition are able to seize the port and hold it even if they use these yemeni forces that you're talking about.

and mike but the problem is from like i said from previous experiences yemenis have lost a lot of hope and that saudi led coalition because what they do and that actually the complete opposite that they they you know the example they said they come in to support yemenis until we store the legitimate government it might be but that all other indicators are down the country says that's not too because the saudi led coalition are we talking about here their marriage is on the saudis are only and to state and us most city just look ations and yemen and that's the control on the sea ports around the west and south shores and sea ports around yemen so they're not interested and green other states like to has like a like you know joe so they only interested in taking over the ports and the aim is not to target jose they want to keep him and sign on elsewhere because they want

the country to lose its sovereignty so to fall apart and they created militias that will only be loyal to the saudi local coalition but not the yemeni so we don't see any sort of. you know that would be a game send it in a way that it will empower the yemeni government we know all along the yemeni government it's almost out of the equation from the south to the center to everywhere so they created that examined her data they support the saudi led coalition supported the nephew which is a militia that not that has an up to this point recognize the yemeni legitimate government so the problem is how do we replace the question would become how do we replace and when getting rid of one militia and replacing it with with the other. one abraham could i be i apologize for interrupting you but time is slightly tight for us thank you very much indeed for your time and. well where the fighting

continues in yemen the exiled president is in the u.a.e. to patch up relations after months or hiding his trip comes after months of tension between his forces and those backed by the u.a.e. both are part of the cellular coalition that's been fighting hooty rebels but they've clashed over the recent deployment of amorality troops to the yemeni island of. the un general assembly has passed a non-binding resolution condemning israel over the recent violence on its border with one hundred twenty nations voted in favor eight countries including the us voted against the recent flare up of violence in gaza has seen one hundred twenty nine palestinians killed by israeli forces the other back to resolution was brought to the general assembly after washington vetoed a similar resolution at the security council as the occupation intensifies in its brutality witnessed every single day in the oppression intimidation

and humiliation of palestinian men women and children by the is the veil occupying forces and extremist settlers and as the dangerous political impasse persists the need to protect our people under this occupation remains urgent and unquestionably i ask you all i ask them both of turkey why couldn't you include come earth in the revolution after them battled over judea of bangladesh venezuela with the revolution do you support terrorism. do you think board suicide bombers. in fact this resolution makes peace less possible it feeds a narrative to the desperate people of gaza did their leaders are not responsible

for their predicament. it stokes the patron. it sacrifices honesty accuracy compromise and reconciliation in favor of the advancement of a narrow political agenda. while my kind is joining us live from the united nations mike if this ruling isn't binding how significant is it well it's deeply significant indeed because although the general assembly resolutions are generally symbolic mainly this one does has some teeth because written into the resolution that was eventually passed is a recommendation that the secretary general travel to the area to conduct an inspection to find out how best to protect palestinian civilians to rule on the viability off a international protection force and to report back to the united nations within sixty days now this is certainly unusual in terms of

a general assembly resolution which as i said are largely symbolic this one actually offering something concrete directing the secretary general to essentially conduct an on the site inspection and to report back to the general assembly on how to protect the lives of those civilians who are being attacked and occupation mike if the secretary general does carry out that investigation how confident can people be that he's going to get the support that he needs to find whatever evidence is there. well that's a very good question because as was mentioned the fact that this general assembly session took place was because the u.s. vetoed the original resolution tabled by kuwait in the security council the security council does have teeth so even today the u.s. introduced amendments aimed depth forcing accountability on hamas now there was a whole lot of procedural votes to a total of four votes in the course of the afternoon before that was rejected by

the majority of members so the one thing we can be certain of is that the u.s. is not going to give up in terms of fighting the broader decisions being reached within the general assembly when it comes to israel and israel's accountability in that ongoing war on gaza its support is slim just to mention those who supported it in opposing the a resolution in the course of the day togo naru micronesia australia marshall islands israel of course and solomon islands that's the u.s. to support within the general assembly but it has the veto within the security council let's see what happens when the secretary general reports back to the general assembly what kind of steps the u.s. will take to avoid having in its eyes israel being singled out for what it says should be at best a shared responsibility along with them us my god i'm asking you to speculate and obviously as you say we have to rely very much on just waiting to see what that report contains but if there is evidence of accountability on one side or the other

or both sides how much confidence do you think there is that there will be sung tangible action taken and what options could be open. well there are a number of options it can go back to the security council the security council as i said does have muscle it does for sanction but as i mentioned to the u.s. has a veto within the security council what are the avenues yet another session of the general assembly perhaps one in which a it is a united assembly in which a simple majority or two thirds majority can enforce or can provide for sanction there's also the option of the international court of justice so there are many ways in which this can be pushed forward but underlying it all is the secretary general's constant striving to maintain the unity within the body as a whole we've seen the deep division within the security council not only on the

issue of israel but also on other issues such as syria what the secretary general wants to avoid is this type of division manifesting itself within the wider body within the general assembly that very very difficult to see how this is going to be avoided should he report back to the general assembly with the advice for example of implementing an international protection force which in all likelihood israel would vehemently reject mike thanks very much indeed qatar has extended a five hundred million dollar aid package to jordan to help its struggling economy qatar's foreign minister has been holding talks with jordan's king in amman anger to stare into measures triggered waves of protests in recent weeks which led to the resignation of the prime minister of saudi arabia the u.a.e. and coate have already pledged two point five billion dollars to help jordan. plenty more ahead on the news hour including wheel of good who came out on top in

mexico as the presidential candidates held their final debate. how rocky the recruiting scaled great heights to become an internet sensation and. i'm andy richardson in the russian city of sochi west spain will be going into the opening world cup game against portugal in a state to unexpected off the field chaos. of the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o says the trumpet ministration is hopeful for major disarmament on the korean peninsula by the end of twenty twenty is in seoul for meetings with south korea's prime minister and foreign minister and also japan's top diplomat they're going to be discussing president trump's landmark meeting with north korea's kim jong un trans concession to end military drills with south korea will be high on the agenda wayne hay is in seoul. the diplomatic activity will

continue at full speed in seoul on thursday when the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o meets with the u.s. president mungy in the end it is clear he is going to face some questions over donald trump's announcement in singapore that the joint military exercises between exercises between the united states and south korea will come to an end so far all with head from the south korean government in response to those comments is that they are still finding out the exact meaning and intentions of donald trump's remarks while mike pompei is in south korea he will also meet with the south korean foreign minister and japan's foreign minister as well because this potentially has regional implications two other important events taking place on thursday there is a national security council meeting that has been called by president moon and he will lead that meeting that is significant because the last time he led

a meeting of his national security council was in november last year that time that meeting was called in response to north korea's last missile test and we will also see in the demilitarized zone for the first time in more than ten years a meeting between military officials a high level meeting between military officials from both north and south korea during his one on one with kings wrong talked up the potential for north korea's economy if it keeps its promises it in brown has more from singapore. there was a surreal reality to much of the singapore summit it got particularly strange before president donald trump's news conference. can history be seen when journalists were shown what some thought was north korean propaganda the new world in fact it was a video produced by the white house one of offering a vision of what north korea could be like if it sticks to its promises prosperous

and gauged with the outside who are ready to be in that was a version of what could happen what could take place as an example there are great beaches. you see that whenever they're exploding their cannons into the ocean i said boy look at that we were doing that make a great john doe. in the chinese city of dandong that faces north korea there are plenty of new condos they were mostly empty when we were there early last year but now many have been sold a symptom of the easing tensions trump says the tough u.n. sanctions china's been enforcing against its neighbor will remain so investors are unlikely to be rushing across the border just yet it's way too early to think about investing from my perspective into north korea but in the north korea is a country of some twenty five million south korea's maybe fifty million but it is an impoverished state so i think the first invest and when we ever get to that stage will be about infrastructure for north korea's leader kim jong il economic

rather the nuclear development appears to be his priority his unorthodox tour on monday night offering a glimpse of a potential future for his impoverished state singapore which has been on show for the past few days has one of the world's most successful economies forty years ago when china was just starting to open up its needed done shopping paid a visit marveling at what he saw kim jong un appears to have been equally impressed adrian brown al jazeera singapore. the us media company called us which owns the n.b.c. television network and the universal film brand has been sixty five billion dollars for twenty first century fox it now looks set for a showdown with walt disney which is already locked in its own multibillion dollar bid for the same assets the move comes from call from comcast comes does one day after a judge cleared eighty and t.'s takeover of time warner john hendren is joining us

live now from washington d.c. john there are so many different strands to this i'm really frightened of getting into the detail in this but give us just seems as though the floodgates have opened for this that the bidding wars have begun. they have indeed rob comcast wants the movie and television assets of twenty first century fox and they're willing to battle disney to do it that includes t.v. networks like national geographic satellite television networks like sky in europe and star in india and it includes the hulu streaming service which is number three after amazon and netflix why is this happening now because a day earlier a u.s. judge ruled that eighteen t. can go ahead with its bid to buy time warner for eighty five billion dollars the trump administration had objected through the justice department saying on antitrust grounds it was just too much media in one set of hands but the judge said that was not the case and allowed it to go forward and that seems to be setting off

merger mania media companies want to go vertical they want to marry contribution they want to marry distribution with content that's a model created by amazon and netflix which started out doing distribution and then created their own content and that's what everybody is competing with now so what can happen now comcast could simply win with its bid disney could make a counteroffer and win or the two companies could simply split the assets of twenty first century fox the fox board will meet on june twentieth to consider those offers. john thank you you made that incredibly clear thank you very much and. argentina's congress is expected to vote on the legalization of abortion hundreds of people have gathered outside parliament and balances while the session is taking place it's an issue that's deeply divided a country that remains strongly influenced by the catholic church argentinean law only allows abortions in cases of rape or when a woman's life is at risk there is a boat reports from the service. it's been

a green wing that has taken over argentina with one demand to decriminalize abortion victoria one northeastern artist who says she had an abortion in a country where you can spend up to four years in prison if found guilty of terminating a pregnancy you need that only money while women terminate pregnancies anyway it doesn't matter if it's legal or not our grandmothers did this great grandmothers up till the present day and so the problem is that if the state doesn't take responsibility we're going to continue having young women who are dead you know didn't tina it assessed he made around half a million abortions are carried out every year hundreds of women many of them poor have died because of it. in two thousand and fourteen around fifty thousand women according to the health ministry had to be treated in a hospital because of botched abortions i wanted to be legal because i understand that the people who are most affected the most vulnerable are the poorest women

they want with the least amount of resources because this is more than just about economic resources this is also about access to information on wednesday argentina's congress will vote for the first time whether to legalize abortion the catholic church and pope francis argentinian have stepped up efforts to influence the boat it see. there is a belief of the power the church has to take votes away in every province to mobilize catholic schools in the streets to excommunicate them. and that's why activists who support abortion rights have taken to the streets center right president he says he is in favor of the debate and he would not veto a measure even though he personally does not support abortions. this public debate has increased the social visibility of this problem this makes it easier for us in the health ministry and regional offices to speak seriously about sexual education

in schools educate about contraception family planning so we can definitely prevent abortion which is not a solution for anyone for anything. it is a vote that has divided the country and even though its outcome is expected to be close it has forced argentina to debate on an issue that has not been talked about for far too long. a decedent went to. mexico's presidential candidates have laid out their versions for the nation in a fierce televised debate the latest opinion polls show frontrunner and the rest but our door has extended his lead ahead of next month's election john heilemann has more from mexico city. musclemen it was the final presidential debate may be the last chance for under his manual lopez obrador as rivals to land a blow against the overwhelming from russia they tried.

to center is nothing seem to stick you'll get good but. it's not my fault that you're tired at the bottom and you think in the debate you're going to get back thirty points i understand you're desperate to calm yourself. the bickering key issues were raised in the country's monstrous inequality and the poverty in which more than fifty million mexicans are trapped for second place to recover to a nice would be a monthly payout for all mexicans to third place told me to meet better access to education like the candidate said the public money could be rustled up their plans by stamping out official corruption and did official. the front runner in particular insisted that government corruption was at the root of all of mexico's problems but is only strategy to eradicate it seems to be leading by example in general mr lopez obrador with on his third presidential run as a fish has plans but he's providing few policy details he's been reticent for

example of what he'll do to a still fresh reform of the energy sector or if you can't so the new thirteen below . that's worried many particularly business leaders but others see the leftist populist as an outsider they're willing to take a chance on they've been repeating that love is a real that is still a danger and that he's he's totally unpredictable and it seems to be basically lost all of us now it doesn't seem to do any damage at all and i think that's got to do with with the electorate also being fed up of every party and with a good let's give these guys a chance now. now there are less than three weeks to election day the result that barring major surprises seems increasingly inevitable john homan. city. antarctica has lost almost three trillion tons of ice since the early one nine hundred ninety s. according to a new study scientists have tracked the thawing by satellite data and they

discovered sea levels have risen almost a centimeter causing a risk of flooding from the pacific islands to florida there have been sighs of relief in the u.s. after river coon swapped the safety of the ground for the terrifying heights of a twenty five story building in minnesota there were fears that rocky could fall as it climb from ledge to ledge the adventure was tracked by nervous followers on social media but the raccoon made it to the roof of the skyscraper on wednesday after animal control enticed it there with cat food still ahead on al-jazeera. i'm joined now in rome where the government is embroiled in a diplomatic standoff with from so brits migration policy while hundreds of refugees and migrants turned away from me to look ahead to spray. on that refugee crisis in europe is bringing back memories of a similar incident in australia. and in sports the promises of

a big party in the u.s. canada mexico in twenty thirty six but why was celebrations muted after the when. still no sign of any useful rainfall across southwestern parts of the u.s. than a lot of the showers severe storms actually easing across the plains just making the way a little a switch so you can see a fair bit of cloud all the way back towards school a lot of we can deal with the rain here cools the wildfire blazing away the show is down towards the panhandle maybe northwards of fats into georgia alabama but a bit wet weather that just around the carolinas twenty celsius in d.c. and also into new york a sticky thirty celsius for at plants a little more cloud just around the upper midwest come into central pos and we

clear skies blue skies mainly here. for seattle it should be lousy fun to drive west and sort of kind of that doesn't look too bad a bit of wet weather just sliding out of alberta making its way east within that rain may well pep up as it pushes three minutes. east of positive kind of hot dry twenty five celsius there for ottawa twenty six in new york still wish i was down towards the carolinas but hopefully not as heavy as of late meanwhile we've got some very heavy rain into western parts of the cap in lots of cloud showing up here and of course we keeping a very close eye on. couple storm now heading. i don't insist it is a plane i was a kid things would go for me it was a pleasure and a passion would want me always found the ball to play with a toll in the living room. bad to pick out one playa who's made the difference to

major yachts or a boy is it the big farm or some who can make things up and people can make things change you know thank you football tuireann brahimi on al-jazeera world. one of the really special things about working proud is here is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much empathy and contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else would be foolish is you know it's very challenging even in that particular because you have a lot of people that are divided on political issues we are we the people we leave to tell the real stories are just mended is to deliver in-depth journalism we don't feel inferior to the audience across the globe.

you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour. the side am iraqi coalition fighting in yemen has launched a major offensive to take control of the port city of kut divert from the rebels that's despite u.n. warnings of catastrophic humanitarian consequences. a un general assembly has passed a non-binding resolution condemning israel over the recent violence in its border with gaza the recent flare up a c. one hundred twenty nine palestinians killed by israeli forces out of backed resolution was brought to the general assembly after washington vetoed a similar resolution at the security council. the us secretary of state might pump ayos says the trumpet ministration is hopeful for major disarmament on the korean

peninsula at the end of two thousand and twenty he is in seoul to brief top politicians on tuesday's landmark meeting between donald trump and north korea's kim jong. dozens of macedonians are showing their support for their president after he said he bloc of the. well with greece and changing the country's name. your game even house says the deal violates the constitution in greece the government of prime minister alexis tsipras may face a no confidence vote on the issue the dispute between the two neighbors has been an obstacle to macedonia joining nato and the e.u. john psaropoulos has the latest from the greek capital athens. the conservative opposition leader in athens has called this a bad agreement he believes that accepting the master in language in the master only in ethnicity are simply not acceptable national concessions that is what he said in a statement after the agreement was outlined by the prime minister he believes also

that the government doesn't have the political legitimacy to conclude this agreement internationally because it is not supported by the governments junior coalition partner or without that partner the government doesn't have a majority in parliament over in scope here the president has said he would not sign this agreement if parliament passed it and sent it to his office for counter signature but that is not the intention of prime ministers or in servant of macedonia what he has said he intends to do is put the agreement to a referendum by the people if that is successful he would then ask parliament to make necessary constitutional amendments which would accommodate the agreement therefore the president would no longer have any constitutional grounds for rejecting it the prime minister of georgia has resigned. really cited disagreements with the ruling party on economic policies that follows mass antigovernment

demonstrations earlier this month thousands of protesters are sent to resign over allegations of political interference in a murder trial. or the nine hundred refugees and migrants who were rescued by the italian coast guard have arrived at this port city of qatar in sicily it happened as france criticized a sleeze new government for refusing to allow a foreign rescue boat to dock that still has been forced to head to spain with more than six hundred refugees on board john holl reports from rome. disembarking in italy one hundred thirty two migrants and refugees rescued in the mediterranean by the italian coast guard on the crossing from the libyan coast among their number more than two hundred miners and two dead bodies. heading instead to spain hundreds more on the ngo rescue ship aquarius the italian government believes it's borne the brunt of this crisis alone for long enough and

international rescue vessels like aquarius now banned from italy are it says an invitation to people smugglers and this is what it amounts to in practice file pictures of the u.s.s. trent on a navy vessel currently on patrol in the med with forty shipwreck survivors on board and twelve dead bodies it's unable to transfer them to a german rescue vessel because italy won't give them safe harbor real time consequences real lives at stake facing criticism from n.g.o.s the u.n. and some fellow e.u. members the italian government is unbending the far right leader now interior minister mattel's salvia new who authored this change of policy has shot back at the french president for calling it cynical and irresponsible salvias a view that's pure hypocrisy here's what he told the italian senate that the margin now you request. from january first into the end of may moment ten thousand people

have been turned back from france into italy in very occasionally dream to twenty fifteen france agreed to take nine thousand eight hundred migrants instead it's taken six hundred forty so i asked president micron to take in one thousand migrants tomorrow morning is a show of real generosity not just words. meanwhile civil society has been joined by civic society in pushing back the mayor of palermo in sicily is among a number of mayors declaring their cities remain open to all we remember our grandfather we remember. were. right up to us and we remember that. difficult is when the way badger when we were in germany where this is for america to because of that the human beings there where will it be italy has a proud post in which immigration played a major part in each future perhaps less so jonah hill al-jazeera rome.

from paris natasha has more now on the french government's position. well the french president tomorrow my call is certainly trying to calm the situation he said in comments on wednesday that france and italy had always worked side by side on the issue of migrants in europe he also urged all sides to stop getting caught in emotions now less of course just one day off to a man or might call sparked a diplomatic row with this in a with his comments that the italian government had acted irresponsibly and cynically in its blocking of the aquarius ship now that seem to put france on the higher moral ground and that infuriated italian officials who are very quick to point out that of course france did not put its hands up to take in the aquarius boat that we know has fall into spain and the interior minister of italy also speaking out against on france in the front simply hasn't done enough to share the burden with italy of the amount of migrants that are coming into the country trying

to share that burden and ease the burden on the italian people now emmanuel markhor is federal to meet the italian prime minister on friday that may not happen italian officials are saying it could be canceled they are demanding that amount of apologize for his comments it is unlikely that the french president will apologize but he would certainly want that meeting to go ahead he says it would be a good opportunity to talk about perhaps a new solutions well italyan mulder's refusal to let the aquarius land on the shores has echoes of a similar situation in australia the so-called tampa crisis in two thousand and one when historians government refused to let rescued refugees ashore was the beginning of a set of tough policies known as the pacific solution thomas explains from sydney. seventeen years ago another ship carried refugees no one wanted the temper was a norwegian container ship whose captain rescued more than four hundred mostly

afghan refugees from a sinking fishing boat in the indian ocean nearby was a stray this christmas island facing a reelection campaign prime minister john howard refused to let the tempus captain bring his ship into australian waters sending soldiers the border when he tried the refugees were instead taken to the rue the tiny pacific island country which was paid by australia to take them what was seen as toughness by how it helped win him reelection most of the tempest refugees were eventually brought to australia or new zealand but competing on toughness towards so-called boat people has been a theme of australian politics since policy now is to turn back boats at sea refugees who do get through deported to remote pacific islands and told they'll never be brought to australia more than a thousand people have been held in papua new guinea's manna silent and in a room for almost five years australia's policies were seen as extreme now they're

being copied a stroller is never a role model for europe or role model for countries anyway when it comes to refugees in fact australia is a textbook example of how not to treat our refugees and asylum seekers and i think european leaders if they're looking at the australian model should go into medicine or if they should go and meet the refugees and asylum seekers and see how their lives have been completely destroyed by this policy but australian politicians and their supporters think it's a tough approach to what they call illegal immigration has meant people have had faith in the immigration system more broadly this was a sign to the public at large that the nation state still existed that it could still control its borders and that ultimately meant public confidence in our immigration system was enhanced which allowed us to have. a regulated orderly refugee humanitarian program that as i say is one of the largest per capita in the world australia's prime minister was applauded in april when he gave

a speech in berlin making a similar argument humanitarian organizations are appalled australia's model is being exported australia's politicians acclaiming indication under thomas al jazeera sydney ok let me bring you some live pictures now from the u.k. this is grenfell tower in london it's being lit up green to mark the first anniversary of the devastating fire that claimed seventy two residents thursday marks twelve months since a small kitchen fire in the high rise turned into the most deadly domestic blaze since the second world war locations across the capital are also set to change color in solidarity with those affected by the tragedy the moves just one of many events which have been organized to mark the commemorations and there will be a ceremony at a local church where the names of all seventy two victims will be read out. scotland's devolved government says it will seek changes to its power sharing

agreement with the u.k. after the british parliament voted to push through controversial bragg's it legislation british m.p.'s and tuesday approved measures which will affect scotland's agriculture and fisheries the legislation spot widespread anger and it does not have the consent of the scottish parliament and peace from the scottish national party saves a dramatic walkout from the u.k.'s lower house over the vote. mr speaker and i need to hold that the people of scotland listened very carefully to what the prime minister said because the reality of the situation is that it didn't shine down into the scotland dark ten thousand nine hundred ninety eight are being comped by. the world's biggest video games expos underway in the us with fans flocking to listen julies to try to doubts the latest trends gaming remains the world's most popular form of entertainment with expected revenue of one hundred thirty eight billion dollars this year robert analysts reports from los angeles. the e

three expo is always a clyde a scope of color clamor in crowds eager to experience the newest in cutting edge electronic entertainment this year everyone is talking about fortnight the massively popular multiplayer battle royale game i'm just madly in love and. like all the dancing and and battle royale it's my favorite now if you're a parent you've probably seen your kids playing fortnight nonstop if you're a millennial you're probably playing it right now i'd say spend more time than i should yeah yeah. i probably spend a few hundred hours in the time i played. it's hard to keep track game industry professionals say fortnight could be if you'll excuse the pun a game changer. right now it's high like everyone wants to get in on the battle royale of john wright you know the last player standing shiner i think blake then

that will this thing about for tonight is the fact that it's cross-platform play you know so when you're playing on mobile you could be going up against someone who's on p.c. or console this year's eve three features plenty of the game industry's bread and butter bullets bombs and blood this is a soft take on homer's epic the odyssey a new addition to its assassin's creed franchise forget the poetry bring on the goal or it's kind of going back to the very gun have you. really. like i saw some stuff that's just ultra violent but there are other games that reflect the times we live in there's an amazing game of my vocal bettering me my love which is a it's the story of a syrian refugee you play the syrian refugee texting his wife as she travels across europe video games don't get the artistic respect that recorded music in films do

the gaming industry has already long surpassed the recorded music and the cinema industry in terms of revenue as a source of entertainment and huge new markets for you like tronic entertainment are opening up in china and the developing world robert oulds al-jazeera los angeles time for another type of sport here sana. thank you very much the u.s. canada and mexico will jointly host the twenty twenty six football world cup in north american bed one twice as many votes as its only rival morocco football's governing body is denying that pressure from u.s. president on the trump may have influenced the voting reports from moscow canada mexico and usa have been selected by their feet for congress to host the twenty twenty six world cup the world cup will return to the united states of america for the first time in thirty two years it's pretty involving mexico and canada united

but it was the heavyweight counter that it was in fact taken on surprising triumph with one hundred thirty four votes to sixty five for the other contend. the us were the big players in this all along by we host sixty games mexico ten and canada ten thank you for entrusting us with this privilege the privilege of hosting the feed for world cup in twenty twenty six let us also salute our friends from morocco at the end of the day we are all united in football that's the spirit of the world cup . snubbed in that twenty twenty two bit losing out to qatar the stars and stripes of loom large over faith it was the american investigators attorney general and the f.b.i. who brought down setbacks as faith for three years ago new faith same issues the politics of keeping america sweet and crucially making money the united bid promised billions of dollars more this host decision was

a transparent vote for the first time which caused its own problems so hundred three national associations with their decision under political scrutiny president trump and tweeted in april that it would be a shame if countries that we always support with a lobby against the us did not worry about anything at the least i'm worried about about the president of the united states or in mexico or canada prime minister or i don't think you should. finger question was answered i don't think anyone tries to take over fever fever belongs to football and to the members of fever now the task for trump police have been the station will be to work closely with mexico and canada neighbors were playing relations have been distinctly strained in recent months over immigration and trying to promote pride in their bid terms of frustration this is the fifth time they have tried and failed and they made strong like progress to have a genuine chance still the tournament has been staged in africa just once the tone

of that's about to kick off here in russia will feature thirty two nations competing but it's all we get so mexico canada and the united states twenty twenty six they'll be forty eight teams more teams more money and that's what appealed so the fee for fighters here but despite its critics its own win is set to be a big success the wellings zero mosque well despite north america's political defies officials insist the decision came down to what's best for football gabriel alexander is in new york with more. each it's usually a big party this was a scene in doha nearly eight years ago when qatar was awarded the two thousand and twenty two world cup when brazil was named the host of the two thousand and fourteen tournaments this was how brazilians reacted in rio de janeiro but in new york city on wednesday morning no such celebrations many people didn't even realize the u.s. mexico and canada were bidding for let alone had won

a joint bid to host the two thousand and twenty six football extravaganza the most excited people seem to be tourists it's where the date that. mexico is i think is going to be a good. work up. maple mexico have to prove that is the best name in the bank account in mexico voters are a loser. football is everything in mexico. and back home this is what mexico's president and to say. after the successful tournaments held in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine hundred eighty six mexico will make history by becoming the first country to host three well cups the u.s. is also hosted one thousand nine hundred four and canada hosted the women's world cup a few years ago but it will be the first time world football's marquee showcase will be held in three countries simultaneously in many ways selecting north america was an easy decision everything is already built and ready to go such as stadiums and

airports and all that infrastructure and then of course there's new york city but despite all this people still needed some last minute convincing not that the united states would be ready but that the world would be welcome president donald trump sent three private letters to feet officials in the past few months assuring them that america would not for hit any fans officials or players from any country coming to the u.s. for the tournament even if trump is reelected to a second term. he won't be president in two thousand and twenty six but he wanted to assure people and none of his anti immigration policies or travel bans would apply when the us co-host the world cup well there were no big celebrations here or even in mexico or canada for that matter after it was announced the world cup was coming back to north america this is what it will probably be like in eight years promises of the biggest and best world cup to date hosted in three nations across

one continent gabriels on doe new york. to our. space coach to here has been sacked just two days before the team's opening well cup match against portugal the spanish football federation say they were forced to let him go because he failed to tell them that he had agreed to join real madrid at the conclusion of the tournament and they were to send reports from such. behind me is the stadium where twenty ten world champions spain will kick off their tournament against the reigning european champions portugal is also expected to be the venue for julian to take charge of spain at a major tournament for the first time but that has all changed on choose day it

emerged he would be succeeding is emitting down as roma driggs coach at the end of this tournament and it appears those negotiations have been taking place without the knowledge of the spanish football federation it was news they were less than happy to hear about so unhappy in fact that they've chosen to fire a lot for taking now his reputation at club level is decidedly underwhelming his one foray into coaching a senior team came in portugal with porto and it finished with him being fired inside two seasons but with spain he's had great success he's led the age group seems to suit european championships and since taking over the senior team after the euro two thousand and sixteen tournament he has had great success and has guided them to a twenty game unbeaten run coming into this event and then one of the favorites to lift the trophy but they now go into their first game in a state of unexpected off the field chaos and they have

a tough game to get organized for the taking on a portugal same led of course by rail madrid's christiane. well fernando hierro will take over as spain's replacement coach for the world cup the former spanish international who played at four world cups coach for just one year at a second division side he told media once day that he won't look to change anything head of the opening game. in the current circumstances a sip this responsibility with courage it couldn't be any other way i'm aware that we have a group of staff and players have been working towards the world cup for two years i've been sporting director for the last seven or eight months and i understand if your body's great excitement i just couldn't let them down beyond that i have the greatest respect and affection for for the great work he's done over these last two years without a doubt i wish him the best but many spanish fans are unhappy with the decision

you're going to be bigger fan i think the way it's been done is not the right one i believe real madrid should have waited until the end of the world cup to make the announcement to avoid destabilizing the national here. and find the decision to fire up to take you head of the world cup incorrect an outrageous because we're two days away from the opening match against portugal which is the most difficult rival we're facing in the group i think leaving the team without a coach at this stage is going to be fatal because at the end of the day the dynamic they had until now is going to be lost i don't see much future for spain at the world cup due to this decision. has returned to training ahead of egypt's world cup opener against uruguay on friday while he gave his fast when he joined his team mates for assess and wednesday the liverpool striker has been sidelined with a shoulder injury that he picked up in the champions league final loss to real madrid is still not known if hill start in their opener. roger federer has won his

first match back at the stood guard open after three months layoff he will number two looks rusty early on and drop the first set to his german opponent michel's vivid but the swiss star found his rhythm and broke spirit of twice in both of the next two sets for the win federer can take the number one ranking from raw rafael nadal by making it through to the final. close second major the u.s. open gets underway on thursday and tiger woods says he's feeling confident after being in contention at a number of recent events however it is a decade since the former world number one last won a golfing major and five years since he last won a tournament and that's all his fault for me will have more later on that's it for marie rob matheson for this news hour i'm going to be back in a moment with more of the day's news including that attack on the yemen port city of how died far from.

on october the sixth one thousand nine hundred seventy three when muslims were observing ramadan and jews was celebrating young capone. egypt and syria known to surprise move against israel counters were a primitive so to get into the situation of disaster now in the first of the three part series al-jazeera expose what really happened during the first week of the war in october on al-jazeera.

volcano kill way erupted explosively last thing boiling pods of steam and ash and rock high into the atmosphere scientists say it's not unusual for eruptions to stop and start up again later as for kill away a it has been spilling lava continually for more than thirty years native hawaiian spiritual beliefs say eruptions reflect the mood so of the goddess pale a. us as native hawaiians to the family is always nice to us whether she takes our home or not we accept this type of event. the diagnosis he has been sick for a long six months now the challenge ahead there when one of these ninety six could be a new cure or the basis of a new cure all for color. illness or disability al-jazeera examines priam meaning treatments so this is the explosive yes it's basically

a wearable robot like iraq we visited on al-jazeera. the battle for side in the morality coalition forces launched an operation to retake the yemeni port city as aid agencies warn of a human catastrophe. number of mother son and this is all just here a live from doha also coming up. standing up for gaza the un adults a resolution condemning excessive israeli force against palestinians. the right to life of virus's the rights of the mother protesters argentina the.