on and on. the human rights council is a poor defender of human rights the u.s. pulls out of the u.n. human rights council accusing the organization of hypocrisy i'm not with its name. well i'm down in jordan this is our jazeera live from doha also coming up. donald trump is heckled by politicians ahead of a vote on his immigration policy of separating children from their parents. fierce fighting at the airport in the yemeni city of a date as pro-government forces take on who the rebels and no longer under a cloud canada becomes a second country in the world to legalize recreational use of marijuana.

a cesspool of political bias is how the u.s. described the u.n. human rights council and that's why it's pulling out of the u.n. body president donald trump has been threatening to quit the council if it wasn't reformed al-jazeera has enjoyed reports both a year ago the us ambassador to the united nations criticize the u.n. human rights council for what she called its hypocritical behavior and nikki haley said the u.s. would quit the council if it didn't change its ways it's hard to accept that this council has never considered a resolution on venezuela and yet it adopted five biased resolutions in march against a single country israel it is essential that this council address its chronic anti israel bias if it is to have any credibility it is correct to chris. besides the

state of israel for its actions as said by rabbi law you can you can challenge the israeli government's policies without being a mighty comet such as this a permanent agenda item investigating israel's treatment of palestinians and the us is recent failure to prevent the un general assembly from condemning israel's use of force in gaza finally made the trumpet ministration say enough on tuesday but when organizations undermine our national interests and our allies we will not be complicit when they seek to infringe on our national sovereignty we will not be silent we take this step because our commitment does not allow us to remain a part of a hypocritical and self-serving organization that makes a mockery of human rights we could have withdrawn immediately we did not do that instead we made a good faith effort to resolve the problems the u.s. has had a troubled relationship with the council when it was set up in two thousand and six

president george bush refused to join because he feared countries with poor human rights records would be able to sit on a panel intended to punish human rights violators key in bush's decision making the us ambassador to the u.n. at the time john bolton he's now president trumps national security advisor. president barack obama then joined the council in two thousand and nine are you the u.s. would have more influence and give israel more protection from negative resolutions in the process now the u.s. is leaving the council again and that has human rights groups around the world very concerned they fear that without the american presence on the council it will be much less able to hold countries such as russia syria or north korea accountable for the mistreatment of their citizens it's also not clear how long washington plans to stay away from the human rights council rosalyn jordan al-jazeera the state department well the un's human rights chief responded on twitter shortly

after announcement zayed rod i'll hussein says the decision is disappointing it's not really surprising given the state of human rights in today's world the u.s. should be stepping up not stepping back. yes republicans have agreed to work on legislation to end the president's controversial policy of separating migrant families of the southern border but democrats are not willing to support it saying donald trump can act alone while official reports from washington d.c. today the president went to capitol hill to discuss immigration as the crisis on the southern border escalates system is broken for many years the immigration system that has been really. interesting probably the worst they were the word of we're going to try and see if we can fix it as he went into a meeting with members of his own republican party democrat staged a protest outside that are a number of bills doing the rounds which deal with various immigration issues trump

wants an end to children being separated from the parents and funds for his promised border wall so while he wants a comprehensive deal the problem is there isn't comprehensive support no republicans in the senate a working on not only focused legislation on just the separation issue congress can step in and pass this this week i'm a urging congress we can fix this problem we can fix this and i've been speaking with both republicans and democrats we can come together we are all be united and say of course kids should be with their parents but democrats aren't ready to help the president out of a crisis the insist he created with his own policies president trump if you're truly ashamed of what's happening at the border get your team together and undo this shameful policy immediately which you can do with a flick of the pen. there's no need for legislation there's no need for anything else you can do it mr president you started it. you can stop it after

a little more than an hour donald trump left capitol hill he didn't take questions during the meeting but told his party he would sign any immigration deal that got house and senate approval he said this is an opportunity for us to be compassionate but also stand for security he said security and dark to fix together you're lucky you're very strong. right eighty percent sure there is a clear consensus across the house in the senate to address the immigration issue here are the two big problems first of all there isn't a clear idea of what will get enough support to pass all the president says he'll say any bill that emerges he has changed his mind in the past the more critics continue to say that what is happening on the southern border is cruel unacceptable and un-american alan fischer al jazeera on capitol hill in washington and the american civil liberties union suing the trumpet ministration for separating migrant children from their parents it says the practice violates the constitution

. the administration keeps talking about how this is designed to make people follow the rules but people who have been following the rules have also suffered family separation people who have presented at the ports of entry as they are supposed to do have had their children taken away from them so the narrative that this is only targeting people who have broken the law is a lie well the separated migrant children are being detained in at least three shelters across southern texas one is in brownsville right on the mexican border gate in a zonda reports from their. welcome to ground zero donald trump's zero tolerance immigration policy for asylum seekers welcome to brownsville texas. this is the border crossing many migrants fleeing poverty and violence want to cross legally to ask for asylum. the lines are long recent weeks most asylum seekers get turned away so they try other means crossing to the u.s.

illegally then are often arrested and families are separated. and then the children often here more than one hundred of them that were detained here in this shelter that was once a wal-mart store journalists are not allowed to film and so this is how close the people of brownsville texas are to the immigration issue this is the border fence where i'm standing now is the town of brownsville on the other side is mexico when the zero tolerance policy was announced and parents started to be separated from their children it not only brought unwanted attention to this town but also divided opinion i mean right now it's kind of like a really negative light for i guess the environmental community everyone's kind of turning hostile it's a really negative impact on people in general i know i mean i don't know why they're doing it but i just know it's not right kids not being with their parents i

don't like what's happening but they have to come in legally they don't speak english they're on the welfare system and it's just not fair to our all our homeless in our citizens that are in poverty it would be some people here say the parents bear part of the responsibility for protecting their kids on that issue alone is difficult i wouldn't be able to handle it i would hate to be you away from my children but at the same time i can also understand if i'm going to take that risk. you're running into that very possibility you know and maybe as a parent if i'm going across a border maybe i should you know follow the rules with the trumpet ministration appearing to double down rather than back down on its policy a sign that the four families it separates or polarized communities like this are likely to be give rosendo which is either brown's texas canada has become the

second country in the world to legalize recreational marijuana the bill passed both houses of parliament on tuesday the federal government could issue licenses within eight to twelve weeks for producers to sell kind of this people will be able to grow up to four plants you're a guy was the first country to legalize recreational weed in twenty thirteen with adam green that is a brand manager chemically growth corporation and a long time medical cannabis activist he joins us live via skype from montreal and adam this was a campaign pledge by justin trudeau to legalize recreational weed then he's now delivered on that pledge but why is he doing this briefly. a cannabis legalization and well there are certainly a lot of positive economic benefits. ok well apologies for that we have some problems with adam greenberg out there in montreaux but try and come back

to him on that story a little bit later lots more still to come here on our jazeera including immigration sparks debate in europe as well with germany's chancellor given an ultimatum on the issue plus. the russian gold rush that skating home fans really excited at the world cup more that stay with us . welcome back we'll take a look at the weather across the americas this time in north america it's a bit of a messy picture really we've got some fairly heavy rain from washington down towards dallas texas there and parts of the midwest also seen spells of heavy rain and would like to find that continuing as you head on through into thursday more northern areas fine drawn to the sunshine in twenty one twenty two degrees and then across the western areas well we like to see some showers for the pacific northwest

but first san francisco los angeles it should be fine in denver should be quite bright as well twenty eight degrees in the sunshine now as you head down into central parts of america the rain which has been affecting the pacific coast line in mexico is beginning to ease away there are still some showers around from a disorganized area of showers which is affecting the yucatan peninsula and the gulf of mexico reach in germany we have got quite a bit of rain developing across more central parts of the caribbean in the course of wednesday into thursday so kingston jamaica probably seen some showers at times into south america and certain across northern areas plenty of showers across venezuela through towards ecuador but we come south was jerry weather conditions are looking draw and find that continues through into thursday a warm day in asuncion empowered by highs of thirty. for twenty three years mohsin has collected objects he finds along the coast.

enough to fill his museum enough to break a guinness world record. with a story for every object he's become an environmental activist an inspired. and a voice for the plight of countless migrants. might you need such a. welcome back a quick recap of the top stories here this hour the u.s. is withdrawing from the united nations human rights council accusing it of conic bias against israel donald trump's administration has long threatened to quit if

the right body was a month before. the u.s. president donald trump is a meeting republicans on capitol hill to discuss passing legislation to overhaul the immigration system trump says something needs to be done to curb illegal migration that he plans to sign either other public and bills that the house passes and canada has become the second country in the world to legalize recreational marijuana the federal government could issue licenses within eight to twelve weeks for producers to sell cannabis and people will be allowed to grow up to four plants with more on that now without a green blatt was a long time medical cannabis activist joins again from skype from montreal adam this was a campaign pledge by justin trudeau wasn't it now that he's delivered on that pledge but why is he doing this now. well so there's a there's a perception out there that we're legalizing cannabis just for the tax revenue and for the economic windfalls and certainly the economic benefits will be significant but canada is actually legalizing cannabis for public health reasons because our

federal government has has realized that the criminalization of can of this is harmful to individuals and harmful to society and its harms way its capacity to prevent people from using cannabis which it has obviously failed in doing so as well if the figures are correct out in the weed marketing canada is estimated to be of a six billion canadian dollars that's that's a lot of marijuana so how will legal weight work in canada what will people be allowed to do briefly. well adults who are over eighteen or nineteen in some provinces will be able to legally purchase cannabis from from from legal retailers retailers will look a little bit different in each province some provinces are going with state monopolies to control the sale of cannabis which means only the government will be acting as the distributor and retailer other tribes and so they're opting for a for a privatized system of retailers or

a mixed system that includes private and public in addition to meetings will also be allowed to grow for cannabis plants at home some provinces would like to prohibit this activity but at the federal level it will be allowed and and that. and they'll be able to purchase a cannabis product of known provenance and purity so adults who go into these stores will be able to purchase products where the h.d. content in the d.v.d. content are labeled and subject to very rigorous quality controls and what about the political opposition to legalizing weed i mean how concerned well canadian law enforcement be that the system on the low could be abused. well the there has been some concerns around the. concerns around and impaired driving and around access and cannabis but really these are already problems that exist under prohibition that we will be able to better deal with under a legalized system where there is

a transparent supply chain in place and also new legislation to deal with the issue of a put in air driving so so a lot of this stuff is there are legitimate concerns that are actually being tackled in legislation as well and it will be more able to effectively deal with under legalized the work and i'm just as a slightly jovial footnote to this the canadian government's own figures say that canadians spend as much money on we need as they do on wine i mean that's an extraordinary revelation that i'm. we certainly love cannabis over here in canada and we are known not only for the quality of our of our candidates crop but now the quality of our cannabis regulations which we are now going to be exploiting across the globe as the you know the brick wall of prohibition crumbles globally so we're very excited to be leading that stage and for it to be a beacon for the world and and if i can permit myself to wish my mom a happy sixtieth birthday i will take that opportunity ok all right adam green but

in montreal adam thank you very much indeed to you and your mother thank you to yemen now where saudi and marotta coalition forces have taken control of parts of the data as airport as they fight who think rebels and the yemeni army is blocking the road between her data province and the capital this would cut to the supply lines and stop reinforcements from sana mom that i was on the other side of the red seems ability but much of the aid for yemen goes. the intensity of the bottom floor with either into port said in a mobile phone. the u.s. backed sodium arctic coalition has been fighting for control of the airport for a week while calling on the fighters holding them back to start and on condition of the hose the response has been one of defiance prompting fears the bottle will spread into the town until humanitarian catastrophe the problem of always is highly

densely populated areas trying to clear these areas from non-state actors who are embedded in the civilian population who are dug in and have nothing to lose and then you have a semi conventional military trying to clear these areas and that's always going to be difficult as pictures often tonally displaced people in who they are continue to emerge the united arab emirates red cross and ses it's sending an aid convoy north from aden it's a gesture only criticized outside yemen thing to national rescue committee says the relief plan announced by student to be on the united arab emirates to protect civilians living in the data as they all talk the port city is a publicity stunt meant to draw attention away from the undo suffering the offensive is cause. the united nations special envoy for human martin griffiths just left after three days of meetings with the rebels who control large parts of the country he failed to secure any peace deal the u.n. envoy to yemen. in the same request. but if you're.

a u.n. envoy to yemen will. cease fire or a truce in the data over the border to. the united nations says more than five thousand two hundred families have fled in the past three weeks here in djibouti aid just watching the unfolding situation in that they are with increasing they've not been able to deliver aid to say that since the offensive began civilians to have been caught in the crossfire choose the horse the health official claimed that six people had been killed after the boss they were traveling in was bombed by the coalition forces yet despite all the fighting the portal for the a lifeline for millions of yemenis remains open the question is for how long we are planning to be doing to should be. tomorrow. we heard of heard from others

i think through brace for the. destruction to. but the day is yemen's main port on only three for international aid there's growing concern that millions of yemenis will of so far survived more than three years of war hunger and disease could now for establishing mohammed at all does it or djibouti north korea's leader has told china that his country will do all it can to protect peace kim jong un is visiting for the third time since march he briefed china's president xi jinping on meeting president trump in singapore earlier this month north korean state media say the two leaders discussed ways to work towards digitalisation age and brown has more from beijing. well this is an unusual visit when kim jong un came here in march and again in may details of the visit were only released after he left china this time the details were released on the morning that he arrived he received

a full welcoming ceremony at the great hall of the people with full military honors slowly the north korean leader is being eased into the international fold no longer treated as the leader of a pariah state but as a bona fide leader of his country now i think that kim jong un and president xi jinping would have discussed perhaps what has so far not been made public about kim jong un's discussions in singapore with president donald trump this of course is where the two leaders committed themselves to the denuclearization of the korean peninsula of of course north korea and the united states have very different definitions of what denuclearization is and indeed what timescale it should take place in nevertheless kim jong un has really been at the center of world diplomacy now for the person for the past three months he's met not just the leader of china but also the president of the united states the president of south korea and of

course the prime minister of singapore and he's due to meet president vladimir putin of russia in september and i think they're. kim jong un and president xi jinping would also have been discussing sheeting pings imminent visit to the north korean capital it was also something else that came out of this meeting both kim and she jinping committed themselves to maintaining stronger bilateral relations whatever happens internationally and reading between the lines i think that means that even if you know the deal between kim jong un and president donald trump doesn't work out china is essentially saying we will still be your friend at least one hundred sixty six people are still missing after a ferry sank in lake dobler in indonesia's northern sumatra island on tuesday the area is a popular tourist destination so far only eighteen people have been rescued the ferry had a capacity of sixty passengers but it was overloaded at the time. there's been more

violence in nicaragua after the latest round of talks between the government and protesters failed. at least two people died in the southern city of messiah after police and paramilitaries confronted demonstrators well earlier protest leaders abandoned talks mediated by the catholic church the opposition's accusing the government of not keeping its promises to invite international monitors to investigate the violence which began in april erica virus the americas director of amnesty international she's just returned from nicaragua and described what she saw. it was unbelievable to believe that the government the police of the at a military groups that have been used by the government and have been colluded with the police were going to attack a peaceful demonstration but unfortunately we were able to witness to observe the situation we've been documented in the great violations of human rights that are happening in this context i mean for also it's clear that this is a systematic obviously of repression directed by the state we need to

remind ourselves that the police is under the direct instruction and orders of the president of the country press in the north they've got so they received they is the main commander of the police forces but we have been also able to document through the photos and the video that we have very fight that the government is you see in these military groups pro-government civilians armed civilians that are attacking the population and they've been used precisely on the one hand to increase the capacity to the state to repress people and on the other country confused the responsibility of the state in this atrocity there is not a position there are not two parties in the city and there are representatives from civil society from many different sectors that are trying to negotiate to get into dialogue with the government but unfortunately the government is not concealing its

commitments france and germany have called for a joint european approach to migration the german chancellor is under pressure over the issue of coalition partners given a two weeks to reach an e.u. wide deal or it withdraw its support dominic cain has more from berlin. of all the other e.u. leaders emanuel is the one i'm going to america will have heard shares her views on how to deal with the continent's migration crisis the issue has dominated the debate this past week in berlin on choose day the french president made clear his determination to act. see that meant that i mean. it is with this same determination that we believe very strongly in the european response to the migration challenge we have not just discovered this challenge we did not discover it last week but we have very clearly determined together to act and the european coordinated why such friendly sentiments from the french president are exactly what angle america would have been wanting to hear from this meeting because in the past

few days she's had to concede on immigration policy to her to mystic c.s.u. allies promising a european solution the price for not seeing her coalition toppled in this document which purports to be a draft of what e.u. leaders will deliberate over in brussels next week much of the policies the c.s.u. have been speaking about are discussed so what are the prospects for an e.u. wide solution this is the school is the team out of the topic which currently concerns us or is a topic of migration we understand to as a common challenge we first have to make sure that the cause for migration is eliminated that's we support the plans of the commission and the austrian presidency to strengthen the protection of outer borders which means nothing else but a significant increase in personnel from tax but despite her apparent confidence some analysts are less convinced a wide agreement is possible and i don't see twenty eight solution coming so i will

definitely be a bilateral or multilateral coalition from those all within those countries actually in the e.u. which are most affected. it will be a coalition of the willing in berlin this. weak part of machall coalition has appeared to be willing to put her in an impossible position the question now is how willing other e.u. member states to help her answer is dominant came out there in the german capitol. police of stop demonstrators them storming ukraine's parliament. oh a one. thousand war veterans and miners protested against plans to cut the benefits of a five hundred police officers have not been deployed outside the building. now hopes are soaring at football's world cup. it's no wonder russian fans are so excited that they guaranteed to make the

knockout stages the lowest ranked team of the tournament made it two wins from as many matches up to beating egypt three one in sent petersburg and they're enjoying a gold rush they've struck eight all up so far and any team left in russia's way in pool plays you're a guy who faced saudi arabia on wednesday but the only matches japan beat ten man of colombia two one and sent a goal post of the first win by an african nation at the tournament too good for poland. for the band for my fee for bosses at the world cup at the invitation of russia's president sepp blatter was ousted in twenty fifteen for ethics violations as part of a corruption scandal he was banned from all football related activities for six years but it doesn't stop him attending matches its two year old expects to watch two games but it's not known if he'll meet president vladimir putin. you know that he invited me two years ago do. you think you still the organizing committee to did meet in the range to see the ridiculous. i guess taking.

the program they are all free to leave and then happy to be. tough a quick check of the headlines here in al-jazeera the u.s. is withdrawing from the united nations human rights council accusing it of hypocrisy and a chronic bias towards israel donald trump's administration has long threatened to quit if the right's body was not reform. the united states is officially withdrawing from the un human rights council in doing so i want to make it crystal clear that this step is not a retreat from human rights commitments on the contrary we take this step because our commitment does not allow us to remain a part of a hypocritical and self-serving organization that makes a mockery of human rights we did not make this decision lightly the u.s.

president donald trump is in meeting republicans on capitol hill to discuss passing legislation to overhaul the immigration system trump says something needs to be done to curb illegal immigration and he plans to sign either the republican bills or the house passes he's been under fierce criticism for his policy of separating migrant families at the mexico border which he continues to defend. canada has become the second country in the world to legalize recreational marijuana. the federal government could issue licenses within eight to twelve weeks for producers to sell cannabis and people would be able to grow up to four plants you're growing was the first comfort to legalize recreational weed in twenty thirty saudi iraqi coalition forces have taken control of parts of the daters airport in yemen as they continue to fight the who the rebels u.n. and aid agencies fear the battle will spread to the city and cause a humanitarian disaster at least two hundred sixty six people are still missing

after a ferry sank in lake dobermann indonesia's northern sumatra on tuesday air as a popular tourist resort so far only eighteen people have been rescued ferry had a capacity of sixty passengers and north korea's leader has told china that his country will do all it can to protect peace kim jong un is visiting for the third time since march he briefed china's president xi jinping on meeting president trump in singapore earlier this month north korean state media say the two leaders discussed ways to work towards denuclearization and kim is on his third visit to china this year. well those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera up to my chin is a stitch in time so watching. al-jazeera since its swear every day you.

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