i mean in treatment so this is the explosive yes it's basically a wearable robot like iraq revisited on out is iraq. the battle for side in amorality coalition forces launched an operation to retake the yemeni port city as aid agencies warn of a human catastrophe. number of madison 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 viruses the rights of the mother protesters argentina discusses whether to

legalize abortion. canada mexico and usa have been selected football's governing body chooses who will host the twenty twenty six in fact. the study am iraqi coalition fighting in yemen has begun a large scale offensive to take control of the port city of kut died from hooty rebels as 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 and an important point of entry for aid shipments intense air strikes have hit locations south of huldai into how the whole thing say they responded by launching missiles at a coalition ship the rebels seized her died in twenty fourteen. as more.

a major military operation is underway yemeni government troops. to take the portal for data from truthy rebels move planes and warships of the saudi and 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 but they do feel like 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 there. daters seaports is a vital lifeline for the whole thesis the sardis say that's where the shia rebels get weapons smuggled in from iran that 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 her these hand over the support to the u.n. but that wasn't accepted the bourse 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 routes 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 will enter 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 latest

know how succeeded none of the players are working together or at the national players so they can bring in many to the table the saudi and merit a coalition leads the campaign to drive the whole things out of the day. they get any capital and reinstate the government of president. of the rebels remain defiant firing ballistic missiles into saudi arabia and volley into the capital to the. yemenis are already suffering under the world's biggest humanitarian crisis now they fear vital aid could be cut off mcnally taking over what had a could be called an act of madness in every sense of the word it's a city full of civilians that is the main artery for all yemenis seventy percent of all aid comes through with their boat and now it will stop to have

a better. result in a humanitarian disaster it is a lifeline for the residents of said residents of the hooty controlled provinces. the fighting continues in yemen the exiled president is in the u.a.e. to patch up relations. these trip comes after months of tension between his forces and those backed by the u.a.e. both are part of the saudi led coalition that's been fighting who the rebels but they've clashed over the recent deployment of m. iraqi troops to the yemeni island of so-called well joining us on skype from washington d.c. done the she's a yemeni researcher and a fellow at georgetown university we appreciate your time thank you very much for joining us and al-jazeera her dad has been held by the who things for several years now why do you think the coalition has decided to take this action now. i think it became very clear when former president i got that last fall that was built by the

host these that this war is going to have to end militarily because the ts and the saudis having to have a clear victory and i think that's a problem because when you talk about you know twenty seven million people now are saying that yemen it's twenty nine million people we're letting you know what we're letting the egos of big countries come in the way and i think that both sides want to come out as victors that so there's no comparison and their powers study arabia and the u.a.e. far more powerful however the who views on the ground have proved that they don't care about civilian life just as much and would rather engage in a fight to death since there are no peace talks on the table and the worry here as about the yemeni people caught in between the west and as you mentioned in the segment before there are a lot of civilians and they that this is where all eight hundred yemen and a lot of the civilians in yemen for that we're not even able to evacuate out of her day that it's anywhere else just because of how expensive gas prices are so they're

going to have to write this through and the word we're now in is the better for it from massacre as the new my parents who are going to be far worse than it is right now and at the same time with interest going on here in washington me i'm seeing that the senate and the congress are important steps and are encouraging the american government pressure on them about these and the southeast kind of take a step back and not go through the data you know a lot of people said that during the obama administration today that was red line just because of its humanitarian importance just because that port is the main port for the entire country. take your point about the fact that the senate and congress are putting attempting to put pressure on the government but also we've seen the state department change its tone very slightly if i understand it correctly might bump a zero as slightly reversed from the previous position which was that it was advising

against any action against who died to saying that they are watching closely what is what is going on how do you interpret that change of emphasis. i mean it shows the americans don't really have a clear policy towards yemen they want the situation over and over again they say that they want a political end to what they would like a peaceful end but it seems that in the face of their allies they don't want to say no don't do this you want support you know especially when there is so much going on in america a lot of a lot of the deals that are happening have been about what sales to saudi arabia and the u.a.e. and so they would like to have that relationship continue ultimately because saudi arabia is a close ally of the united states but i feel like americans are kind of caught in a in an interesting situation where they are part of this war the weapons use are american weapons yet at the same time there are people in the senate and in the congress there saying no american should not be involved in this this is not

america's war and then you have of course the ministry of branch and specifically the department of state and the department of the fans saying that we have to support them and some people have actually even when i had them and said that the american position has shifted based on the fact that they couldn't stop their allies from going into yemen so now they want to offer assistance in targeting in order to limit the civilian casualties whether that's actually going to be true or not you know only time will tell but i think ultimately what we hear over and over again is we know going through a day that's going to be a disaster and a lot of people on the ground are going to pray that this war is very quick because if it's not it's going to be horrendous really good to get your thoughts on this thank you very much indeed for your time thank you. they are in general assembly has passed a non-binding resolution condemning israel over the recent violence on its border with gaza 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 arab backed 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 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 out in the revolution ask them

battered oval giulia of bangladesh venezuela with the revolution do you support terrorism do you think both suicide bombers in fact this resolution makes peace last possible it feeds a narrative to the desperate people of gaza that their leaders are not responsible for their predicament. it stokes hatred. it sacrifices honesty accuracy compromise and reconciliation in favor of the advancement of a narrow political agenda. the u.s. secretary of state is going to be meeting with south korea's president to before that meeting my pump air has set the trumpet ministration hopes for major disarmament on the korean peninsula by the end of twenty twenty one pale moon jay and we'll be discussing president trump's landmark meeting with north korea's kim

jong un trump's concession to end military drills with south korea will be high on the engender well wait he's joining us now live from seoul wane it's going to be a pretty busy day in seoul and not just from mike pompei it was a. no that's right the president of south korea moon jay in rob has called a meeting as well of his national security council which he will lead he hasn't led a national security council meeting since november last year that meeting was called in response to a north korean missile in fact the last north korean missile that was launched so clearly he feels the current situation is serious enough to warrant him leading that national security council meeting no doubt he will discuss the joint military exercises that have apparently been ended by donald trump in that media conference in singapore but more broadly as well how best to move forward following the agreement reached between donald trump and kim jong il and also for the first time

in more than ten years we're seeing military dialogue taking place in the demilitarized zone between north and south korea but really it will be the u.s. secretary of state taking center stage that meeting with the south korean president is underway and as you say he will also meet with the foreign ministers of south korea and japan because clearly there are potential regional implications for this when it comes to the cancellation of those joint military exercises there are going to be a lot of gray areas to clean up. i'm assuming though that ultimately south korea is going to have to go along with ending these military exercises. yes i think that ultimately they won't have a choice but to get on board and i suspect that following the meeting with secretary of state might pompei o. the message coming from the south korean president will be that we are on board with whatever it takes really to achieve the ultimate aims of

a denuclearized korean peninsula and bringing an end to the korean war behind closed doors i'm sure there will be some tough questions asked of mike pompei about why they weren't given any prior warning about donald trump's wish to end these military exercises and i think what ultimately we will end up with is perhaps a suspension of the exercises while dialogue is taking place between north and south korea and between north korea and the united states and that is certainly what it appears that the north koreans believe was agreed to in singapore a suspension in good faith while talks are taking place but that's not what donald trump said in that media conference in singapore he said he wanted to end the exercises because they're too expensive and they are provoked could have any even a regarding the cost of the exercises linked to them back to a trade dispute that the u.s. is having with south korea where in thanks very much. still ahead on al-jazeera

i'm joined now in rome where the government is embroiled in a diplomatic standoff with wrong so brits migration policy while hundreds of refugees and migrants turned away from it to make it to spain. and run two of the media marger is now comcast tries to buy twenty first century fox. i phone. me so whether sponsored by cattle i always however we've still got some bits and pieces of rain in the southern parts of china now i fully not suspect is it has been recently not too far away from hong kong you notice taiwan also seeing a fair bit of rain coming in here these two systems very close by bringing some really big downpours into northern parts of the philippines southern areas of taiwan and that will continue as we go on through friday quite

a circulation developing just to the south of hong kong at this stage the certainly something to watch out for on the south coast of china further north it is generally fine and try further south those showers continue into northern parts of the philippines in particular quite a rash showers across southeast asia as per usual you can see that the look the monsoon trough continuing to piles those heavy rains in across the philippines stretching their way back into a good parts of vietnam not quite as wet as it has been recently into thailand showers never really too far away chances and she was there when she was seven parts of malaysia i mean northern areas of indonesia two heavy rains continue of course just around will face in parts of the batting go into me and mom to the northeast of india southern parts of india still very wet and those rays from right the way up the west into. the weather sponsored by cattle i always.

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a large scale offensive to take control of the port city of her died out from the rebels that's despite u.n. warnings of catastrophic humanitarian consequences the one generally somebody has passed a non-binding resolution condemning israel for using excessive force against palestinian protesters in gaza israeli soldiers have shot dead at least one hundred twenty nine demonstrators at the border since march. the u.s. secretary of state mike comparable is meeting with south korea's president when j. and for that meeting he said the trumpet ministration is hopeful for major disarmament on the korean peninsula by the end of twenty twenty he's in seoul to brief top politicians in tuesday's landmark meeting between donald trump and north korea's kim jong un. more than nine hundred refugees and migrants who were rescued by the italian coast guard have arrived at the port of qatar in sicily it happened as france criticize italy's new government for refusing to allow

a foreign rescue boat to dock that vessel has been forced to head to spain with more than six hundred refugees on board john a whole 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 until 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. we were relatives and we remember the. difficulties when the way of belgium with germany where this is america to because of that the human beings the way there would be italy has a pro post in which immigration played a major part but he needs a future perhaps less so join a whole al-jazeera rome the us media company comcast which owns the n.b.c. television network and the universal film brand has been sixty five billion dollars for twenty first century fox and now looks set for a showdown with walt disney which is already locked in its own multibillion dollar bet for the same assets the move come from comcast comes just one day after a judge cleared eighteen teams takeover of time warner john hendren has more

comcast is offering sixty five billion dollars for the movie and television assets of twenty first century fox that outbids disney which had previously offered fifty two billion dollars at stake for the global television channels such as national geographic. satellite television networks sky in europe star in india and the hulu streaming service which is number three after amazon and netflix why is this all happening now because a day earlier on tuesday u.s. judge ruled that eighteen t.v. could go ahead with its eighty five billion dollars bid for time warner the trump administration had objected on antitrust grounds saying it was too much media in one set of hands but a judge overruled that saying it could go ahead that seems to have begun to set off merger mania media companies want to go vertical they want to marry content with distribution that's a model created by amazon and netflix which started out doing distribution and then

created their own content that's a model everybody is now competing with so what could happen now well comcast could simply win with its bid disney could make a counteroffer and win or the two companies could split the assets of time warner the time warner board will meet on june twentieth to consider the offers. argentina's congress has begun debating whether to legalize abortion hundreds of people have gathered outside parliament and what is said is while the session is taking place is an issue this do believe 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 today is a boy sent us this update from outside congress and want to say. it's a historic gain argentinos congress is debating for the first time the possibility of legalizing abortion in this country there's thousands and thousands of people here now in the evening waiting for congress to vote on one side are those

supporting and demanding that abortion be legalized in this country and on the other side there's those who are asking lawmakers to vote against it evolution is illegal in argentina except in cases of rape or when i woman lives at this risk the law would allow abortions to be carried out until fourteen weeks of pregnancy and after rice public hospitals to carry them out only rich people can afford to an abortion and a lot of women die. in the hospital because they can go to the hospital really because they can go to the jail and it's something that it's not right women can face after four years in prison if accused of having had an abortion but in spite of this around half a million clandestine abortions are carried out every year the. pro-life groups say that the two lives should be protected i'm very saying that legalizing

abortions is not the way. to have a disagreement on the bus and there are a lot of steps that should be taken prior to passing this law a lot of education needs to happen you know people have to know that if you do something there are consequences and one of those is getting pregnant as a consequence just got him out of. the store and. against changing the law were separated by a metal fence and by the police in order to prevent confrontations women rights groups say that legalizing abortion in this country is a matter of public health thousands of women are hospitalized every year because of botched abortions most of the debate is expected to go on all night long and a vote expected to happen on thursday morning people here are saying that we're waiting here for the results for the first time three countries will host the football world cup picked us canada and mexico to host the twenty twenty six tournament the north american joint that got one hundred thirty four votes to

morocco's sixty five twenty twenty six event will be the first expanded tournament featuring fourteen teams instead of thirty two. now in just a few hours one of the biggest and most expensive football world cups ever is going to begin in russia president vladimir putin hopes fans from around the world will get a nice taste of the country but of challenges has more. the fans are arriving football chancer reverberating around city squares one of the biggest sporting parties in the world is upon us once again that. it was eight years ago that fever announced the two thousand and eighteen host would be russia amid allegations of corruption in the world cup bidding process nevertheless by the may putin was pleased enough to accept with a rare speech in english. in least in clear fine.

you can make it work here. do that still. world cup moments is now here russian business news site estimates the full cost fourteen point two billion dollars and for that gets a chance to generate some much needed goodwill for the country because internationally russia has something of a reputation problem the annexation of crimea and the war in eastern ukraine the sports doping scandal allegations a russian interference in foreign elections the poisoning of a former spy and his daughter in england all these and more the list of perceived transgressions is long enough that political analyst under a kolesnikov suspects any world cup image boost will be limited to the home front it's extremely important too to make such a gift to a domestic audience but for four in the audience russia will not change

its image as a toxic toxic pollard toxic country. because there were so many events of other kinds that even the good organisation of football championship can change and i think i am sure. but as he spoke at the feet of congress on wednesday putin made it clear hosting the world cup isn't just about pleasing russians or international politics it's about giving visitors the best impression of russia to the goal is that all our guests from football stars to simple fans feel the hospitality and cordiality about people that they learn the authentic multinational culture and unique nature of russia and that they would like to come back to us again it's something he's tried before four years ago russia hosted the winter olympics in sochi the region was flooded with cash to smarten it up for all the visitors for the world cup that's been done on

a much wider scale in total eleven world cup cities have received investment money from the huge metropolises of moscow and simpy does work to smaller cities like. and some model the aim is to get fans and money to parts of the country far off the usual tourist trail making sure visitors get a russian experience is something that's filtered into the choice of this year's official world cup instruments these. and there are not dates on the space played in traditional russian folk music the sound of a full stadium banging these together it's something you're going to hear a lot of in the weeks to come. for visitors to have the best possible time here of course involved keeping them safe the european championship two years ago in france violent clashes between english and russian fans were broadcast around the world since then russian police have come down hard on local hooligans they want no

repeat of such violence here hands and you're a security measures such as a strictly controlled id system are in place to prevent bombs and other attacks for a month the eyes of the world will be on russia everything has to go smoothly rory chalons al-jazeera moscow. this is al jazeera these are the top stories the saudi amarok coalition fighting in yemen has launched a large scale offensive to take control of the port city of her died from hooty 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 yemenis fear the battle will cut off the entry of vital food and medical aid. taking over what had a could be called an act of madness in every sense of the word it's

a city full of civilians that is the main artery for all yemenis seventy percent of all aid comes through with their boat and now it will stop to have a better for the day don't result in a humanitarian disaster it is a lifeline for the residents of said presidents of the hooty controlled provinces. the un general assembly has passed a non-binding resolution condemning israel for using excessive force against palestinian protesters in gaza israeli soldiers have shot dead at least one hundred twenty nine demonstrators at the border since march the outer backed resolution was brought to the general assembly after washington vetoed a similar resolution at the security council u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o says the trumpet ministration is hoping for major disarmament on the korean peninsula by the end of twenty twenty he's been speaking ahead of a meeting with south korea's president monday and appears in seoul to brief leading politicians on tuesday's landmark meeting between donald trump and north korea's

kim jong un. argentina's congress has begun debating whether to legalize abortion hundreds of people have gathered outside parliament and want to say there is while this 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 all when the woman's life is at risk. for the first time three countries will host the world cup football's governing body picked the u.s. canada and mexico to host the twenty six tournament the north american joint bid got one hundred thirty four votes to morocco sixty five events going to be the first expanded tournament pitching forty eight teams instead of thirty two those are the headlines now it's inside story from.

dubai is identified as a real estate money laundering hala a new report says it's a haven for war properties finance years of terror and drug traffickers just like u.s. sanctions so what's the government doing about it and what's the security risk to devise neighbors this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program today with me peter dubey now within skyscrapers luxury villas and a high concentration of millionaires and billionaires as tobias rise to global city and business hub captured the world's attack.