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i am for size my grave warning regarding the saudi monarchy led coalition's ongoing attacks in her days. a stark warning from the outgoing un human rights chief on the offensive targeting yemen's mean port an aid lifeline. i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera live from taha also coming up the battle for libya's oil a warlord khalifa hof tarr attempts to take back export terminals from armed groups . germany's ruling coalition is on the brink of arkell's conservative allied to bands changes and how refugees are treated at the border. as right wing president
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elect pledges corrections to the peace deal with far formal rebels call on i've indicated show good sense. the outgoing un human rights chief is warning the saudi and back to fence have on the many port city of data could have disastrous humanitarian consequences. for size my grave warning regarding the saudi monarchy led coalition's ongoing attacks in her data which could result in normal civilian casualties and disastrous impact on lifesaving humanitarian aid to millions of people which comes through the port. their own special envoy to yemen has been holding talks with the rebels in the capital sana attempts for a ceasefire if failed so far rebel spokesman says the un did not ask them to hand
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over their weapons and exchange for the saudis halting airstrikes. if the media is reporting over forty airstrikes in other parts of amman it happened in the past twenty four hours the u.a.e. is demanding. unconditionally from her adding that the saudi like coalition has numerical superiority. and has more. the three year war in yemen has reached what could be a crucial turning point with the battle for the port city of whole data since the intervention of a saudi and number on the coalition to stop the rebels in two thousand and fifteen more than ten thousand people have been killed tens of thousands injured and millions displaced famine and outbreaks of cholera and diptheria have turned yemen into what the u.n. calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis now an offensive by pro-government forces on what data could result in another quarter million casualties and leave
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seventy percent of yemen's population without access to food medicine or relief supplies the coalition says rebels have been using the port not only to import food but also ballistic missiles that have been fired at targets inside saudi arabia but the u.n. fears this attack could spark a new humanitarian crisis nearly two hundred people have been killed since the offensive for the key red sea port began on wednesday the u.n. says nearly five thousand families have had to flee their homes to stay alive. here we was safe at home and pro-government forces and who are fighting continuously we managed to flee but somehow. got stuck. displaced yemenis are seeking shelter from not only street fighting but also aerial attacks some of the families caught in the crossfire are camping in schools or makeshift shanties you know how. we started walking carrying our children while the apache helicopters hovered above not
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knowing with the will be shot or not we prayed we wouldn't get it there was nothing we could do. shuttle diplomacy by u.n. special envoy to yemen marchin griffiths hasn't succeeded so far who the spokesman has told al jazeera that the u.n. special envoy has not asked with the fighters to hand over their weapons in return for saudis stopping there are strikes that. the un envoy did not ask to hand over arms in return of stopping the saudi airstrikes he also did not ask us to hand over her data or its airport the saudi government and the u.a.e. government are lying to people by claiming that the un and voice carrying such demands this is because they are trying to justify their military defeats and failures the discussions are part of ongoing search for a comprehensive solution that covers her data analysts believe the best outcome to keep thousands of people from being killed and millions from starving to death is for the two warring sides to reach a ceasefire agreement somehow. al-jazeera. harmonizer has this update from
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djibouti. with. by the united nations to obtain a cease fire visiting place no letup in the offensive on. this so timid coalition. response at the bottom of the city targeting the air force and some of the militias that us stock holed up in that they also talk hell corpses targeting both use my post on the rooftops of schools and other buildings some of them with the central areas and this has led to a month of displacement of people on something that could have. led to the un high commissioner for human rights and making that statement in which he expressed concern about seeing father civilian casualties in these conflicts but so did that for reasons that would taking. from the movie why this is
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a lot of them want to take it to bring back the government the butt of a muslim holiday in. yemen they say they need to. ease back in what are they the means to them. at least twenty eight people have died in an offensive by the libyan warlord khalifa haftar are targeting oil terminals in the east as forces lost control of the town of ras lanuf on thursday after an attack by rival groups the so-called oil crescent was seized by halftimes forces in two thousand and sixteen that delegate has more from tripoli. security sources in the oil christian to say that have to his forces are mobilizing. trying to recapture the two major oil terminals of sidra and rice
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a new move that have been taken control of by forces loyal to the former leader of the petroleum facilities guards ebrahim i'll just run on thursday now. that is the national oil corporation here in tripoli has been warning against any escalation and the oil christened especially after two major tanks have been set on fire because of the military confrontations in the area and now the red crescent members in the area say that they have received twenty six but is of fighters. that were killed and in the attacks since thursday and most of them belong to a warlord khalifa haftar now yesterday two civilians namely two girls will killed in an air strike in the city in an area strikes law should buy any for have to his
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forces and now the area is very strategic because whoever controls. the oil soon can control libya's income because it's very strategic and it includes four major oil terminals a city that are just north. of oil port so these are the major oil the major oil ports in the country and whoever controls them can control libya's income which is the oil production is the backbone of libya's income. kemah has long gone merkel is scrambling to hold together her conservative government coalition follows a deepening divide over her handling of the european migrant crisis at a christian social union is on the verge of splitting the government a mccain isn't following all this for us from her lens dominic what's the latest what's happening now well richelle one thing we understand that is emerging today is the suggestion of
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a source of compromise as it were coming from the christian social union so the junior of the conservative parties in the grand coalition here in germany the mr hoar for us the federal interior minister the de facto leader as it were of the c.s.u. saying that one thing that may be possible is that people who present themselves on germany's borders appealing for asylum vying for asylum but who have in place against them some sort of travel ban can be denied access into germany straight away or the point here is that is not what he had been calling for up until this point viewers will recall that mr z. the whole focus of the course of the last week or so referring to what he calls his master plan as federal interior minister was that anybody coming to germany as of now who had already claimed asylum in another e.u. country should not be allowed to do the same thing in germany in essence that's a return to the sort of situation that existed here in germany until the summer of
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twenty fifteen before angle americal changed the rules and basically open the borders people recall she said germany can manage it via chef and us so that's what we understand this is emerging so far this idea of a compromise potentially i mean it can you put this particular moments and charm and politics in some sort of perspective for us how significant is it. well let's be clear about this for shall the two parties we're talking about the they call them in germany the one you want the tie in the union policies the c.d.u. c.s.u. until well until this moment they've been in lockstep with each other for decades they have been the glue as it were of coalition government for much of the time since the end of the second world war since the restoration of democracy in west germany and then of course after nine hundred ninety in reunify germany so for these two parties to be at loggerheads with each other over this issue is
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a real seismic event in one sense then of course there's the this what it represents for angle americal who's been chancellor in that building behind me in the chancery for the past thirteen years to have such an important ally to the answers and to have prominent conservatives on her side as it were effectively saying no your policy your central policy on immigration is wrong all that indicates that her or her or foresee is being questioned in a manner now that it never has been before. the right to make a life for us and our land dominic thank you. the right wing winner of the presidential election in colombia is calling for unity but i haven't a case pledging corrections to the peace process with fark a formal rapid rebel say he needs to show good sense a forty two year old to k. will be the youngest ever colombian leader and gallagher reports in the capital bogota i may be a fresh face in colombian politics but as event duke a took to the stage his supporters were ecstatic to gaze young untested at his
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promise to tackle some of colombia's biggest issues going on with. it going in order with humility and on her i tell the colombian people that i will give all my energies to unite our country no more divisions let's think about a country for all and everyone for me it's very important to tell you and the whole of colombia that today there are no defeated citizens because i want to be the president that gives the same love to those who voted for me and those who didn't the polls closed across colombia at four pm but it soon became clear that duke a had a commanding lead handpicked by former president alvaro uribe has promised to modify the peace accords with falk rebels they ended fifty years of conflict but it's not yet clear what any changes he makes will mean for an already fragile process despite losing gustavo put through his colombia's most successful leftist candidate the former rebel secured more than forty percent of the vote and has pledged to continue his fight for
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a fairer society and less dependence on fossil fuels. if you can governs with those who helped him win government suffers a fatal injury hopefully he is able to hopefully i am able to trick myself about his personality and the one elected has sufficient strength to separate himself from those who helped him become elected because they are the worst associations for colombia this was one of the safest elections in colombia's recent history there were no reports of violence across the country a sign say analysts the democracy here is maturing these are elections that have been peaceful. has been polarizing because citizens are. not used to have a left option and the right option with very different programs but i do think that this is the first time in colombia's history that we're discussing politics. in other democracies in the world if he has a lot to prove his critics say he's nothing more than
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a puppet of. a hardline of that's both popular and polarizing but it's what he might do with those peace accords with far the people watch most closely because stuff through may have lost but the less voice here has never been stronger on the gallacher al-jazeera bogota colombia still ahead on al-jazeera what lies ahead for the hundreds of migrants who entered spain after being stranded at sea for over a week. let me look at the program that helps the causes to sable get back into sport. hello and welcome back look at weather conditions across asia in northeastern areas we've seen some very heavy rain affecting us of them parts of japan us twenty four hours in association with this area of low pressure so if you look at the forecast
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there's more cloud and rain spilling up from the south into psycho tokyo probably just in the dry at that stage with twenty seven degrees as a high it's looking fine generally across much of the korean peninsula beijing should be dry and quality not looking too bad as we head on through into a wednesday that rain intensifies across japan and tokyo will see some what weather could well be some flooding across southern areas during the course of wednesday but i caught her looking fine sapporo there into the low twenty's we went across the southern and eastern parts of china you can see the rain there for hong kong and taiwan very wet there was some big rainfall accumulations over the last twenty four hours heavy rain also across more central parts of china and through towards the young sea river valley with hand seeing some heavy downpours noise likely to be pretty hot during the course of wednesday and showers generally expected across the other parts of indochina then as the southeastern parts of asia we've got a scattered showers for the philippines some showers across borneo but it should be generally fine across java with the highs of thirty four into carter.
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invented unique circumstances that pointer to the murder confessions are useless without corroboration she thought the near question her about her being a victim of a rape not a suspect in a murder case nearly a false confession involves a completely made up story some will say anything thinking they can fix it later but there's no fixing it later when the statements are used against them to the board along the system was job on al-jazeera.
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watching al-jazeera let's recap the top stories for you this hour the outgoing un human rights chief is warning that the saudi and immorality offensive on the data could have disastrous effects on millions of in many ways the u.a.e. is demanding that what the rebels should withdraw unconditionally from the port city an aid lifeline. at least twenty eight people have died and an offensive by the libyan a warlord khalifa huffed are targeting oil terminals in the east his forces lost control of the town of new fall on thursday after an attack by rival groups the so-called oil crescent was seized by half our forces in two thousand and sixteen. and is president elect of on two k. is valid to alter the landmark peace deal with. conservative newcomer insists that finished rather with fifty four percent of sunday's runoff vote the former rebels say to canadians to show good sense. the syrian government is accusing the u.s.
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led coalition of bombing military positions in the east on sunday but this has been disputed by u.s. central command this video posted online allegedly shows the aftermath of the airstrikes on the above all area which killed a number of iraqi militia fighters mohammad al has more from gaza but they turkey syria border. there are so far conflicting reports about what exactly happened the syrian official media talk about a strike against the forces near and become a close to the iraqi border but also the city observatory for human rights talks about a strike against rocket militias which work with the syrian government in baghdad area and the killing of about forty members of those militia the syrian government usually doesn't show its casualties and a problem to be there could be two strikes and the city government has accused the american americans of being behind these strikes the americans of course top deny responsibility for them so that victory is north korea so far and the videos that
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are being circulated are not seen on any of the official sites either of the militias or hezbollah or also the syrian government the chief executive of german car manufacturer audi has been arrested in relation to the emissions cheating scandal ripper stadler was detained on suspicion of fraud according to our parent company of all swag an arrest comes just days after he was fined more than a billion dollars for cheating diesel emissions tests by german prosecutors and protesters gather to demand justice for those killed in violent protests over the past two months oh. and the rest began it april when government forces first fought with demonstrators angry over pension cuts the violence has claimed at least one hundred seventy lives trace was struck over the weekend but it fell apart just hours later when a fire bombing shootout left eight people dead six of those killed in the weekend
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crime but then the violence came from a single family who died after hooded men fire bombed their house and managua a memorial and funeral was held for the family which included two young children president daniel ortega says talks to end the unrest will continue. six hundred thirty migrants are spending their first day in spain after arriving on ships which were turned away from italy and malta city council leaders in barcelona say the new socialist government in madrid mess back up its humanitarian gesture with money and resources to help the african arrivals are open hall has more from valencia. on dry land at last clearly happy to be here. special care for pregnant women mothers their toddlers and others most vulnerable these migrants and refugees were forced to spend all the we can see on european union leaders squabble over migration policy and show ships are just doing their work are saving lives as in the ben and humanitarian organization saving lives is not a crime or not
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a course of this situation we're also not a solution well we are at the end this is a symptom of a failing of the european governments relief workers say many migrants landing in spain were tortured in libyan detention centers or may have been traded a six slaves after a health check from medical workers migrants disembarked to be registered by police and assessed it's the start of a months long process while the recounts are scrutinised and the government decides who will be allowed to stay as refugees it's unacceptable that the those ones we wish to protect. i don't understand what's going on here i mean imagine that you have to explain to people that they are safe now but the next steps are completely empty spain's incoming socialist government has welcomed the charity ship aquarius and the two italian vessels but not all share that enthusiasm. hours
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before the ships docked and anti immigrant fringe party organized a portside protest they fear a migrant influx will change the spanish way of life but you feel you know your number you the other people in the next ten or fifteen years them. dorothy of young people in this country will have a religion and culture different from our own we're faced with a problem of survival the arrival of the aquarius means safe haven for some but a political solution to the migration crisis remains remote so that people look for prey to traffickers and smugglers so it's about you know a human situation that needs to be managed you know you mean wait for the latest arrivals the politics will have to wait for now a few minutes to play with new toys and celebrate their survival. pinhole al-jazeera valencia spain the car being chased by u.s. border patrol agents and texas crashed killing five undocumented immigrants and the
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u.s. homeland security secretary is denying the government has a controversial policy separating children from parents trying to cross the border from mexico president ronald trump has already falsely play in the democrats for that tactic castro reports from washington. stark photos provided by customs and border protection so the inside of a border patrol processing center where many immigrant children and families spend their first night in the united states and it only gets worse from there often with little warning the children are then taken from their parents and sent to detention centers alone we have heard of children being physically pulled from the arms of their parents nursing babies being separated from their mothers children with disabilities being taken from their parents and most recently a distraught father to see things on life rather than look watching his children a second grader. concerned democrats from congress demanded access to the
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government shelters were some two thousand children are currently being held by the troubled ministration they were allowed a brief tour sunday those kids inside who had been separated from their parents are already being traumatized doesn't matter whether the or well in the bed sheets tucked in tight what matters is the kids have been separated unnecessarily from their parents. protest is growing against the president's zero tolerance policy that seeks to prosecute every adult caught entering the country illegally adults are sent to criminal court but children are set on a different legal path in the immigration system now a former wal-mart store with blacked out windows and tents are the children's homes . in a rare public critique of her husband's policy the office of first lady molony a trump an immigrant herself released
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a statement mrs trump hates to see children separated from their families and hopes both sides of the aisle can finally come together to achieve successful immigration reform it reads she believes we need to be a country that follows all laws but also a country that governs with heart. but trump supporters like steve bannon remain unapologetic zero tolerance it's a crime to come across illegally in showing get separated i mean i hate to say that's that's the law and he's enforcing the law meanwhile the chaos along the border has turned more deadly five immigrants died in a fiery crash while trying to flee border patrol a reminder of the desperation to reach a better life castro al-jazeera washington an earthquake has rattled japan at least three people were killed and hundreds injured in a saka falling debris and collapsing walls injured many others in the second largest city and japan as well as bursting water mains in stopping rush hour
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commuter trains kyoto and large parts of western japan also felt the force of that six point one magnitude tremor. because we're doing our best to respond to this disaster urgently as some areas do going to act as gas a water as of now there is no damage and you leaving out the cities such as and we nuclear power plants. plans for a basketball competition between north and south korea have been discussed diplomats met in the demilitarized zone a week after donald trump and kim jong un summit in singapore for participation in the asian games which started in tunisia in september is also being proposed. signing a deal to change the name to macedonia has provoked protests in the capital scope so when strangers accuse their government of selling out the republic of north macedonia is to be the new name of the country to avoid clashing with the great province of macedonia but before the decades old dispute is settled both parliaments need to approve the preliminary agreement and macedonians are due to
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hold a referendum in september. taking a video of israeli soldiers could soon be a crime punishable by ten years in prison pictures such as these of an israeli soldier shooting dead a palestinian man could fall foul of the proposed law by the all sure nationalist israel it's a new party it's anti-democratic democracy we allow people to take photos to take videos and to disseminate them on social media otherwise we are not having enough information in order to conduct a proper democratic process that's a long way from the world cup and russia but the beautiful game is helping amputees in gaza play sport like everyone else hundreds of palestinians lost their legs and war some protests against israel but a rehabilitation center is helping some of the disabled get back into the game iran contra ports from gaza the end of the euros if the team take to the pitch for an
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exhibition match in this about the refugee camp they've split into two teams with a game designed to showcase disabled football. each of these players lost a leg in the last three wars israel has forty goals a full one hundred eighteen at the time but football's given them some hope a charles to take part in a physical activity and give them confidence there's life beyond injury i know if a sentence. by somebody in the sub in two thousand and seven i was walking near my house when there was an explosion and i was fifteen they had to amputate my leg i used to play football at school but to play football like this has been brilliant for me we can play sports like everybody else was heroes f.c. is part of the data rehabilitation society that helps people cope with injury this is a new initiative called him. because i felt. you know i came up with the idea after watching disabled in television i started to research and said to myself we should do this we have more disabled here than anywhere in the world to do the occupation
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and the siege i talked to people and we realized we could do this we started our first training session in march twenty seventeen was despite all the challenges the team has ambitions was disabled football is still very you have the players are very confident they want to be able fully and maybe even one day fight on the international stage. fourteen thousand seven hundred palestinians were injured in recent anti israel and protests many have been shot in the leg by israeli snipers and can't get proper treatment because of shortages of painkillers and medical supplies thirty three patients have had to have their leg amputated to stop the disease from spreading doctors could normally treat injuries if it wasn't for the shortages. heroes ever see hope that one day amputees can find something that will give them hope beyond their injury. the players say despite their life changing injuries a game of football is the new goal in lost cause how does
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a role this role to refugee camp because of the. trick at the headlines now on al-jazeera the outgoing u.n. human rights chief is warning that the saudi and amorality offensive on who data could have disastrous effects on millions of humanities the u.a.e. is demanding that hurt the rebels should withdraw unconditionally from the port city and aid lifeline. for size my grave warning regarding the saudi monarchy led coalition's ongoing attacks in her day and which could result in enormous civilian casualties and have a disastrous impact on lifesaving humanitarian aid to millions of people which comes through the port at least twenty eight people have died in an offensive by the libyan warlord khalifa haftar are targeting oil terminals in the east as forces
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lost control of the town of ras lanuf on thursday after an attack by rival groups the so-called oil crescent was seized by forces in two thousand and sixteen german chancellor angela merkel is holding crisis talks in a bid to prevent her coalition government from collapsing her party's conservative christian social union has demanded that refugees registered at other european countries should be blocked from entering the germany and we're expecting to hear from very shortly when that happens we will bring it to you live syrian government is accusing the u.s. led coalition of bombing military positions in the east on sunday but the claim it's been disputed by u.s. central command studio posted online allegedly shows the aftermath of the airstrikes on the mall area which killed a number of iraqi militia fighters. colombia's president elect ivan two k. is vowing to alter the landmark peace deal with fark
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a conservative newcomer finished with fifty four percent of the vote on sunday it was a runoff the former rebels say touquet needs to show good sense the chief executive of german car manufacturer audi has been arrested in relation to the emissions cheating scandal reports stadler was detained on suspicion of fraud that is according to audi's parent company else wagon their arrest comes just days after a volkswagen was fined for that a billion dollars for cheating it diesel emissions test by german prosecutors those are the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera as soon as longer merkel began to speak we'll bring that to you in the meantime inside story is next.
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who wants refugees and migrants rescued from the mediterranean sea six hundred thirty sailed into the spanish port on to italy and mom to turn them away being stranded at sea for mine days his highlight of the migration dispute between members can they all become dads deep divisions this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program and there's a peron on the arguments over who should take responsibility for refugees arriving in europe a heating up again leaders have long been divided about how to handle the migrant crisis.
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