zero. fares that fighting the yemen's port city of how data will cut food supplies for people already on the verge of starvation. for them or a call this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up these laws are the same that have been on the books for over a decade and the president is simply enforcing now the white house defends the separation of undocumented immigrants from their children. and the u.s. isn't the only place where as a political reffed over immigration and germany is causing trouble for chancellor angela merkel. and russia makes its mark in the opening match of football's of world cup but off the pitch not everyone celebrating.

united nations has emphasized on thursday that only a political solution can end the conflict in yemen but on the ground a new phase of the war is taking shape as saladin forces move on the key port of data through a button money has more. yemen's port city of how data was bustling with people buying food on thursday bought this is also a city bracing for a heavy bombardment and the. people here live in these unemployment you know data there are no jobs the person you know works to amuse daily living there would be a big crisis if the fire china moved into the city and now with poverty and hunger and the residents will be victims people are dying from hunger the country will be destroyed. the coalition is kept. it is

a town south of the data as fierce fighting and as strikes pound the area the u.n. security council has had to closed door meetings this week both concluding that the only solution to the crisis is a political and not a military one the u.a.e. ambassador says there are ships on standby to supply her data once the military operation and even our ships just see waiting so we have a fright we have a very we're very well organized and we are ready to do. every assistance for. the council will meet for further discussions on monday but many analysts agree that a basket of her data would not draw yemen's three year war closer to an end. supposing that there will be a successful sort of military takeover there are many questions remain what will happen to other parts of the country you know what will happen to who will run her

data what will happen to you know the deep divides among among yemenis i think that you know it's important to recognize that who sees as as a political actor as they were back in two thousand and thirteen fourteen. as the saudi led coalition forces a military victory over the strategic port the formerly exiled president abu drop a month so harvey has arrived in the southern city of aden for the first time since february two thousand and seventeen to oversee the operations. but the un want the attack on how data could kill up to a quarter of a million people and shut down the main route food and humanitarian aid to the rest of the country this would have a devastating impact on survival of a population already teetering on the brink of famine. algis there are. the u.s. president has approved plans to impose tariffs on tens of billions of dollars worth

of chinese imports the levies could be as much as fifty five billion dollars as donald trump tries to fulfill a campaign pledge to clamp down on what he calls unfair chinese trading practices times already imposed charges on still an element of imports from canada mexico and the e u let's go live now to france so she joins us from beijing so they do is warn that it is repaired prepared to respond to any tariffs that the u.s. imposes could this be the start of a trade war between the world's two largest economies. well certainly i think when the trade talks first started beijing had said that it could slap tit for tat tariffs on as much as one hundred fifty billion dollars worth of u.s. goods but the two countries have been holding talks to try and avert a possible trade war they had their third round just most recently u.s. officials were here in beijing to try and stop this scenario from happening now and

the chinese have known about this for a couple of weeks now and the u.s. had initially said that it was going to postpone slapping tariffs on chinese goods while talks were ongoing and then they went back on their word so they've known about this for a couple of weeks now and then china's response and it has to be pointed out that there's no there's been no official announcement from the trumpet ministration as yet each on these latest on these tariffs now and the china chinese government has said that if the u.s. went ahead and imposed tariffs and we've heard that it could be as much as twenty five percent on possibly more than fifty billion dollars worth of chinese goods now if the u.s. goes ahead with these tariffs then what what the two sides have been discussing in those trade talks of the past few weeks now all those deals that they've agreed that they've made now all those will be void now and the chinese have already promised that they will increase their purchases of u.s. energy and agricultural products by its much as seventy billion dollars but that

promise could now be invalidated now as for retaliate in response to this round of tires by the u.s. it hasn't actually commented on that yet because i think the chinese would still hoping that the u.s. wouldn't go ahead with its plan to slap these twenty five percent of tariffs or sensing is that there could have been a shift since the singapore summit because trump has indicated that he doesn't need china's support on north korea now that he's got a direct line to kim jong un and so therefore can go hard on something like trade terrorists but is that really the case. well china the u.s. does need china's help though in enforcing those tougher u.n. sanctions those tougher u.n. sanctions them a trump ministration believes brought north korea to the negotiating table that led to the summit taking place in singapore so in effect it does need the relationship to with china to really be on on good terms however as you've said some analysts do

believe that because those talks in singapore were successful those talks between the u.s. and north korea with successful it does give the trumpet ministration a little bit more leeway to be tougher on china when it comes to trade and certainly u.s. officials in the past few days we've been hearing their remarks they've been making it absolutely certain that they were not going to give a little bit more leeway to china on trade just because those who talks were successful we heard from u.s. secretary of state might bump a zero when he visited beijing on thursday and he met with chinese president xi jinping he met with the foreign ministers well he brought up the issue of the trade deficit again with between china and the u.s. and the trade deficit is one of the reasons why the u.s. is going hard with china on trade why it wants to slap these tariffs on chinese products so there's been no indication from u.s. officials that it was going to be a little bit softer on china just because just because the talks have been successful between u.s. and north korea ok lawrence and many thanks for that from beijing. on those

singapore talks the u.s. actions say it says sanctions against north korea will not be lifted until it has completely denuclearize pompei was on diplomatic told briefing north korea's neighbors on the summit between donald trump and kim jong il but on those comments appear to contradict north korea's view that the process would be phased in and reciprocal. the brain rallies across the u.s. against the time the ministrations separation of migrant children from their families seeking asylum in the united states thousands of children have been forcibly removed from their parents and placed in detention facilities a laborde with mexico many families say they were told that children were being taken to be washed and interviewed but did not know that they would be separated think of the stress of these children they take a baby away from a nursing mother they tell someone you're going to going to give the baby a shower bath and then they take the baby. permit a car seat and drive them away this is not normal and fact it's

barbaric it has to stop now what they're saying is well we'll find a way not to separate them one of their ways not to separate the children is not to let them even seek asylum which is a right that people have in the world to seek asylum so that's not a solution the solution is not to tear children from their parents don't piece up your know don't stick a stick in your ear or what is it that they don't get about how stupid and wrong. speaking to reporters at a briefing white house press secretary sarah saunders addressed the comments made by u.s. attorney generals jeff sessions who quoted the bible in defense of the border policy she's shifting the blame on democrats for not coming up with better legislation to deal with undocumented migrants i'm not aware of the attorney general's comments or what he would be referencing i can say that it is very

biblical to enforce the law that is actually repeated a number of times throughout the bible however this time i hold on jim if you'll let me i guess i'm not going to comment on any specific comments that i haven't seen one because not what i said and i know it's hard for you to understand even short sentences i guess but please don't take my words out of context but the separation of the legal family and families is the product of the same legal loopholes that democrats refused to close and these laws are the same that have been on the books fruit for a decade and the president is simply enforcing them well meanwhile the republican party in the u.s. house of representatives as outlined its immigration bill to be considered next week it would prohibit the separation of undocumented children from their parents and u.s. borders would also look to include a pathway to citizenship for the so-called dreamers those young emigrants brought to the u.s. illegally as children and media reports say it will also authorize some twenty five

billion dollars for the construction of a border wall. has more from los angeles. they're a wonder people have gathered here in macarthur park in los angeles outraged by the drug administration's new zero tolerance policy which allows the government to separate families of migrants at the border there are now one hundred detention facilities around the country that the government is contracted with and eleven thousand migrant children are being held there people here say that many of the migrants who come from central america face harassment injury or even death if they are sent home this is one of several dozen such rallies that are being held around the country and it comes at a time when the religious authorities in this country both the conservative protestant organizations and churches of the catholic conference of bishops and

others are denouncing the trump administration policy calling it in you may and say that it needs to be stopped. well should immigration is causing a main suspect and gemini between christian democrats and the bonfire insist upon to the question social union this is who wants to refuse entry to people who have already made a slide in times elsewhere and europe something which acts dominate cain has more from ballen. the row over what to do with people who come to germany claiming refugee status who had already done so initially in the first e.u. country in which they made landfall has really blown up in the course of thursday the issue has been one that has dogged the the formation of a grand coalition government and now the various allies of angela merkel the christian social union is putting its foot down its leader it's the minister federal interior minister says the horse is in a hole for who is affectively the leader of the party on

a national level federally anyway has said he wants to go back to the conditions that prevailed in twenty fifteen before anglo-american open the borders to people with that famous phrase version of and us germany can do it i'm going to merkel disagrees very considerably she says no there this should be no return to that status immediately that it should be there should be some sort of compromise solution her partners the social democrats will they agree they do not want to see germany go back to those those scenes of the summer of twenty fifteen the point here is that the coalition that exists right now has a smallish majority if there were a real problem between the bavarian party and angela merkel's party that could spell real trouble but the point also to make is that it's as if the main parties have marched up to the edge of a precipice in the course of today looked over the side of the precipice and thought actually let's stand back from that the next step here will be what the leadership of the c.s.u. decides and we'll know that in munich on monday. still ahead here on al-jazeera

passionate scenes outside argentina's congress building author of vote on legalizing abortion. and leave no girl behind the new campaign in kenya to help keep girls in school after they become office. i. mean the weather sponsored by cattle i always however whether set fire across the middle east lots of sunshine plenty of showers to further north just around the caucasus just pushing up towards the caspian sea the black sea scattering a sadness has to go on through the next few days and just around the edge of him allows to see somewhat of weather coming in here on friday forty celsius in baghdad forty one there for kuwait city rather more pleasant twenty seventh of beirut twenty nine in jerusalem picking up to thirty three for jerusalem by sas day that

he starts to ramp up still a few showers there just around with eastern parts of turkey into georgia maybe to azerbaijan i mean it could see a little bit of wet weather further south you go with the hot sunshine which stretches its way down across you've been punished i'm hopeful that the northeast when the somali wind is off a touch over the next couple of days forty five celsius here in. maybe a little less warm as we go on into sastre but still quite a came smile you notice always the scope for that lifted dust and place and him pleasant enough across much of southern africa seen some useful range a little bit of flooding pushing its way into the far south of south africa sixteen celsius in the cloud in the rain there for cape town on friday we do still need the right don't it's a sad day it does look last you try and that dry weather stretching right up into zimbabwe. so whether it's sponsored by cattle i always. unpack it for us what were you hearing what were you seeing whether on line horrendous things humans want us to. there's absolutely no doubt about that or if you join us on the

sat of the major countries in the commonwealth so far bigger fish to fry and chips to eat this is a dialogue about some of this perhaps everyone has a voice what happens when the world watched them so are making. join the global conversation amount to zero. zero zero again you're watching al-jazeera has a reminder of our top stories this hour sally led coalition fighting to oust with the rebels in yemen has captured the town of the student port of a data base the second day of the coalition's campaign back and government forces

to take a day to saudi arabia and the queues the shia who the rebels abuse in the port to smuggle weapons from iran. the pain rallies across the u.s. against the trump administration separation of migrant children from families seeking asylum in the united states thousands of children are being forcibly removed from their parents and put into tension on the border with mexico. and immigration is causing a major space in germany between christian democrats and the barbarian sister party the christian social union says he wants to refuse entry to people who have already claimed asylum elsewhere in europe. rejects. well the u.s. says it will take quote an appropriate action against the syrian government for violations of a so-called deescalation zone president bashar assad's forces have recovered much of the country's territory but rebels still control some areas in the southwest that the escalation deal brokered by russia u.s. and jordan last year has contained fighting but the assad government has vowed to

reclaim every inch of syrian territory. a new report on the former f.b.i. director james comey accuses him of mishandling the investigation into hillary clinton's use of a private e-mail the findings are already giving feel to white house attempts to prove the f.b.i. is corrupt and out sister u.s. president donald trump can be helped get us the story. it was a bombshell announcement during a heated presidential contest we did not sign clear evidence that secretary clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information former f.b.i. director james comey concluded in july twenty six team that u.s. presidential candidate hillary clinton did nothing wrong when she used a private e-mail server well secretary of state this is the biggest political scandal since watergate as a candidate us president donald trump still used those conclusions to bash his opponent arguing she was corrupt. and after he became president he took it

a step further saying call me himself was corrupt trump says he fired his f.b.i. director chris how telling of a separate investigation into allegations the president's campaign colluded with the russian government now a new report by the department of justice inspector general says the komi team made errors while investigating clinton for weeks the president has suggested the findings will vindicate him and his decision to fire colby and prove the f.b.i. is out to get him in it the justice department argues some a ploy showed a clear bias against the campaign one employed peter struck even texting he'd like to stop trump the conduct by these employees cast a cloud over the entire investigation the i.g. report causes a great deal of concern and i think points out the political bias that the president's been talking about but the report also concludes we did not find

documentary or testimonial evidence that improv. considerations including political bias directly affected the specific investigative decisions the current f.b.i. director argues the employees named in the report have been removed from any investigation involving the president and may face disciplinary action nothing in this report impugns the integrity of our workforce as a whole or the f.b.i. as an institution calmly reacted to the report calling it reasonable even if he disagrees with some of its findings and as the russian investigation continues the president may now use this report as proof of why the probe should end kimberly helped get al-jazeera at the white house. has completed his eighty five billion dollar mega merger with time warner deals being done two days after i got the go ahead from a federal judge time warner is the owner of c.n.n. h.b.o.

and warner brothers yes justice department argued against the move but the court says the government failed to prove the takeover would harm competition or affect consumers. there being passionate scenes outside argentina's congress building after politicians narrowly voted in favor of legalizing abortion the bill must now pass in the senate before it becomes law tries a bow reports for one us areas. of. the national anthem to celebrate a historic vote emotion was high among those who wanted to legalize abortion in argentina. i can't stop crying because we are together this is a fight there are so many emotions we know that a lot of things are missing but we are still moving forward we have worked so hard we are being ignored for so long and today we are making history. the debate lasted for twenty three hours and the vote was very close especially when two congressmen changed sides and decided to support the law for months women here wearing green

bandanas have been taking to the streets to change a law that affects this country's most vulnerable thousands of women are hospitalized every year because of complications with illegal abortions most of them are poor in the last decade argentina after the recent progressive reforms like gay marriage but have never seen what the table filled out when the fighting started to change especially women and young people who took to the streets demanding change. opposing the law is the catholic church issued a statement saying the results in congress were upsetting and they did not solve the real problems poor women face today seen their last year released the country is not ready for them but i think i want there are a lot of steps that should be taken prior to passing this law a lot of education needs to happen people have to know that if you do something there are consequences and one of those is getting pregnant the consequences of.

the opposition as well as allies of precedent were divided on the issue. has encouraged his party members to vote as they see feet even though he's personally opposed the proposal. ski has been campaigning to change the law for years she says but the most difficult part is yet to come in the senate is quite quite difficult the sleeper and head east east northeast leave here in the company day in those days they put this time there in the senate timer is going to be most difficult the numbers tire i really really bad at the moment but well we are we're doing these like step by step a green revolution has taken over large sectors of argentina society they have managed to convince lawmakers that legalizing abortion is a matter of public health that urgently needs to be addressed that is i will when i cite is somebody who is election commission has twenty three candidates for july's presidential polls as

a close current president i was among opposition leader nelson chamisa as the country's first election since robert mugabe was ousted by the military last year after thirty seven years in power we have received eliminations in the spread of the following candidates. know some of the m.d.c. i learned we have to join still ride. from people's rainbow coalition party. we have none go by your muscle. from is run a few have party. your son i don't know do more you also on loans for the people's agenda we take you brian todd running an independent. this is the object that we have we have presence of most. tens of thousands of pregnant girls and teenage mothers across africa are often denied by and even discouraged from going to school all redemption reports from nairobi. when angela

found out she was pregnant her father said there was no need for her to continue her education but the twenty year old mother from western kenya's mcgorry county says she was determined to stay in school because i would run back home to feed my son during the lunch break and then come back to school to study encouraged by her principal and her mother angela didn't quit accept this these two men were there to drink then they grew up in for one lavish not rejected by society other young mothers in the glory county weren't nearly as lucky. as him i did not go back to school because no one gave me any advice and then when my mother told me there was no more money to pay for my school fees side have to stay in time a report from human rights watch says laws attitudes and cultural values in some african countries can keep pregnant girls and adolescent mothers from continuing their education what we're calling on all the african union governments to do is to

adopt reentry policies to ensure that a pretty girl so i know that the mothers can go back to school and i governments to reinforce the fact that girls have a right to education that you know a school official can discriminate against martinez tells us kenya is among a group of twenty six african countries that does have school reentry policies for young mothers in place but says those policies are not implemented in the same way often a lot of school officials are not aware of these policies others do accommodate girls in school is out of a good way of well but when you talk to them about the policy a lot of our partners and other going to surgeons that actually there is fair little awareness according to the report barriers remain in all countries while some countries are making progress human rights watch says there are others like tanzania sierra leone equitorial guinea that still banned pregnant girls in teenage mothers from attending public schools how much improvement is it iraq. russia has made a stunning start at football's world cup thrashing saudi arabia five mill in moscow

president vladimir putin watched the match alongside saudi crown prince mohammed bin selma and feet of president gianni inventin know the victory margin for the host nation was a surprise russia and saudi arabia are the two lowest ranked sides at the tournament. well john is also a chance for campaigners to put the spotlight on russia's human rights records right talons reports from moscow. the world cup is the best football party the planet has to offer but in russia not everyone is celebrating this is british gay rights campaigner peter tatchell detained in moscow while protesting against russia's treatment of l g b t people and he's far from the only person who's decided the world cup has a use but it's not funny ukrainian filmmaker alex sense of is starving himself in a siberian prison times to cause russian or thirty's maximum world cup discomforts they jailed him for twenty years on terror charges he says it was for opposing russia's annexation of crimea sense of is supported by international organizations

like human rights watch and russians to oscar nominated russian director andres yeah i can say is one of them. was to be used in the the man acted as a true patriot for his country to turn him by force into a citizen of the russian federation and to judge him by russian law as a terrorist simply by being someone who sits and dogs on fire is an absolutely disproportionate response it's outrageous for recent presidential candidate and t.v. personality to send you a sub jack says she's given a bloody me a person a list of political prisoners to be released including sense of and i'd like to talk to him i want the eighteenth day of. his starvation period and. i hope that he will be released because it's unfair and i support the movement. for freedom for like since all perhaps is because of world cup attention baps it's

for other reasons but in the past week president putin of russia and president poroshenko of ukraine talked about a prisoner swap ukraine wants sixty four people returned sense of among them whereas russia wants to have back captured soldiers and journalists like carol russian ski the local editor of a russian news agency in ukraine. amnesty international is campaigning on the well cut it wants to draw attention to human rights workers in russia's eleven host cities. we would like that people know there is not. only that work and live in russia but i mean really look people. daily basis are fighting for justice and dignity in the country. hosting the world cup means russia is in the international spotlight for the next month rights campaigners are hoping some of the lights can also shine on their. glory chalons al-jazeera.

all the latest on the world cup and other daily news event on our website the address there al jazeera dot com. without zero these are our top stories the coalition fighting to oust hooty rebels in yemen has captured a town south of the course of the data is the second day of the coalition's campaign back and government forces to take data saudi arabia and the u.a.e. accuse the shia who three rebels of using the port to smuggle weapons from iran the us president has approved plans to impose tariffs on tens of billions of dollars of chinese imports and levies could be as much as fifty five billion dollars as donald trump tries to fulfill a campaign pledge to clamp down on what he calls unfair chinese trading practices trump has already imposed charges on steel an aluminum imports from canada mexico

and the q they've been rallies across the u.s. against the trump administration separation of migrant children from families seeking asylum in the united states thousands of children have been forcibly removed from their parents and put into tension facilities along the border with mexico prob runnels has more from los angeles. in the past children were not taken away from their parents in the past. entering the country without documentation was subject to administrative proceedings now people who are brought it to come in either alone or with their kids are charged with either felonies or misdemeanors and put in the detention system and their cases go before federal courts so it's completely disingenuous to say that this is a continuation of past policies nothing like this is ever been done before immigrations causing a major split in germany between angela merkel's christian democrats and the

variances to posse the christian social union c.s.u. wants to refuse entry to people who've already claimed asylum elsewhere in europe and chancellor merkel by jack's and football world cup hosts russia have thrashed saudi arabia five nil in the tournament opening game isn't that a mere putin wants the mats alongside saudi crown prince mohammed bin salmond and fifa president gianna johnny infantino they too margin for the host nation was a surprise and saudi arabia are the two lowest rank sights of the tournament those are your headlines i'll be back with another full news bulletin for you hair analysis era after the strain. getting to the heart of the matter if the stuff i can see the turkish cypriot leader calls you today and says let's have talks with you except facing realities when you think reunification of like majority of people think the peaceful unification is the only option for prosperity of south korea here the story on top talent.

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