so it's it's a matter of life or did it is a matter of defending yourself not just to just to do or do nothing to help yourself so it's in the interest of you know not in that not in the opposite thing so the u.s. special envoy martin griffiths just been in sana'a trying to get the warring sides around the table or at least talk about talks of course but mohamed was saying is there any desire on either side to do that. i think what you have to reference is doing is with. with. nonsense. with all due respect to him and to that of the u.n. but you know because they are talking and the other side of the issue they are talking in that they are talking about the. yemeni groups this is not to yemeni groups it's something else in the area and yemen saudi arabia saudi arabia want

something in saudi arabia is telling people that what is doing in the oven is being legitimate judgment and not anything and it has nothing to do with saudi arabia this is completely untrue it's something that is for saudi arabia saudi arabia is not. saudi arabia is not helping legitimate government subsidies and saudi arabia is doing what it wants saudi arabia is giving iran as they say they are killing iran in yemen but it killing and destroying yemen so if that if you would send u.k. and france in because if you will not understand this is so saudi arabia we killing yemen and martin griffith will do nothing to help be any use to come to that table of negotiations at all ok and. thanks very much for taking the

time that to join us your views on the situation in yemen just to recap for viewers especially if you're just joining us we are on this rolling breaking story of dozens of people mainly children being killed and a saudi amorality led strike now this hits a school bus in the north of yemen and signs up. the stronghold north of the capital now the red cross says the bus was carrying children and came under attack as it was driving in a crowded markets. ceilings media say the majority of those killed children were also hearing majority and ten years old our correspondent. joining us again from neighboring djibouti following the developments in this particular story and all of the story and yemen mother we were hearing there from nasa that the health ministry had confirmed around forty killed and more than fifty seriously injured do we

expect this death toll to keep rising. yes because of the dozens of the horgan injured some of them critically the death toll is expected to rise and. we're hearing that there are todd comprendo the boss was passing near a busy market so the casualties are more unknown but they're told could drive ok and they're being taken to hospitals they're being treated by the i.c.r.c. i mean that's that's a real lifeline for people in yemen isn't it because the medical facilities and the medical infrastructure in the country is so ravaged. it is and i will say i was here to see supporting most of the million for health facilities and they keep on sending medical supplies such a call it could meant usually depending on the cultural to fee is given just

a little while ago they said to see head of operations has been tweeting that. they have sent more medical facilities inside to call them and to some of these homes with those to deal with the high number of casualties it's also that most of the dead according to the red cross. children under ten years they were travelling in a school bus going to school in the morning when they were hit. or the bus was hit and has a little bit about this area south of province because it is hit the controls and also borders saudi. yes it does cause being. the. targets of most. air strikes by the sooty u.a. e. coli shouldn't because it is considered the most important to hold for the whole thing it is where the group actually emanated and came from that's where they have

the most ardent of they are supporters bridges have been destroyed works of been destroyed by the but i guess hospitals water sanitation facilities facilities are also been. targeted and you have a situation where it's becoming so so difficult for people to get supplies basic supplies that just food and fuel let alone medical facilities the other day we saw pictures sent in by the world health organization all. medical workers using teen sharks on the side of the road that's already destroyed. immunizing children against colette are we so the entire old city all. completely destroyed so. the markets have also been targeted so this is

a region that one could stay on the front much of the complaint campaign by the so to you you call it they were just talking to. a journalist in sana. and he was expressing his anger at the u.n. the u.n. of course has been trying to broker the tools so talks about talks between the two warring sides and another with anger at the anger at the futility of that office. i'm in i you know kind of this time the point where someone would come from one there and be about the whole. the whole setup of the talks you know making the whole thing to be about to yemen is sized. the rubble most sort of hard the government and pro government militias on one side and the the militias on the other when everyone who follows the yemen conflict keenly

knows that the. part of it that is all about a proxy war between iran and so there will be a and the u.a.e. on one side. and then they're on on the other. of course the toadies themselves have been complaining loudly about. who to fight us with sophisticated weapons such as drones but of the cop ability to carry out a tox response of course that who this say they have developed is. themselves something that many people cannot. agree with but again it's. this kind of set up what the talks and also the four things they're going to cause which is more or less you know a framework for paul. is like them talking about we can we

talk you know that that that's actually what the first thing on the agenda is and those people talking usually are not the people who are actually calling the shots so that is what is making many people not only me but also really have very little hopes about any success this talks might fall ok. joining is that song djibouti thanks very much for violence cannot hussein algo casey yemeni journalist and joins us live from santa and he's saying been seeing these pictures over and over again of these children who are suffering devastating injuries from this attack in on a school bus many of these children under ten years old what's the latest you're hearing on casualty figures from this attack. the casualty numbers could actually that are reports that could reach fifty five.

many children are still uncountable. this this bus that was in it deployed it was cut in sixty five children including their teacher they were on. a trip because we have those days in yemen is the holy day so a lot of money some schools do take those sort of didn't do a summer and. that bus was targeted inside a busy market this show that the saudis that coalition even though what they thought inside the this bus they didn't give any care to the market would of the boss. was going through. just about how often i want to go the saudi that coalition has targeted a few a funeral. procession in. killing four civilians injured and other

three civilians who seem to be is a way for you that coalition. and they will be targeted and i believe anything that moved. so this bus that was carrying children as you said was in a busy market place that would have been obvious to any anyone in an airplane what about the bus itself was marked as a school bus carrying children. to be honest with you the bushes in yemen that some schools are using is similar to do it. used to like to travel between city as we call it but a passenger buses but still in a market i think even though if they if they so do that coalition i mean know exactly that abdul medical houthi himself the leader of and some of those he was inside this bus to talk to get inside the market this is

a war crime. and the boss actually i mean it was not i mean everyone in that area i spoke to one journalist and he said that people would what would tell him that that was if you can see clearly that there were children children in this bus so i don't think that the saudis would be taking this coordinate who has helped them to target this bus move in and we know that the united states and britain are one of the few countries countries supplying the saudi with intelligence with coded in it a g.p.s. location for the fighter jets on the united states the only country actually fuel in saudi fighter jets that come over to yemen that come to strike him and that have this book tight blockade on yemen so all this country out of sponsible for what's happening what have been today and what have been from the beginning of this war so they say there's a lot of international players who are responsible have that part planned this war and the other side that it's often called the world's forgotten war do you think

attacks like these are going to push back on to the international. i don't think so because we have seen many a similar attack to this i remember the just a market in most about about one year and a half ago it had just. been targeted by the saudi led coalition killing one hundred. and twenty four civilians the funeral hold in sanaa two years ago was killed three hundred people injured in five hundred people and this has not actually brought yemen into back into the international community attention because since then they haven't done anything that out of more than fifteen thousand civilians who has been killed by the saudi direct strike two hundred thousand of your many civilians died because of the of the blockade because of the starvation because of the cholera as unicef say because of of vulnerable diseases every ten

minutes i am any child according to unicef about i had to go so i don't think the united nations and the u.n. security council will just add those children who were killed today to the number they have in the document or the number they have already. reported there before but still we see the blockade in yemen is a continuous saudi air strike that's just like one hour ago they have targeted some sites in the outskirts of sanaa yesterday they have targeted a tent out of severe un in iran north son are killing seven civilians it was a double top strike and after that five hours after that they targeted the same place killing five civilians and most of them were the one who was came from other city from other areas to look for the family member so this shows this war actually is only destroying and killing mainly yemeni civilians and on the other hand we see

that the hoti movement is getting stronger they are reaching more deep inside saudi arabia with their buddies stick missiles inside the united arab emirates using their drones as they did last time in abu dhabi airport so this war on yemen has actually failed what is the reaction of the recent response to the strikes like this. so i could what is the who see response likely to be. i believe the with the response it will be it has been before they will target the military installation. because most of this over the world are used by saudi fighter jets by the coalition fighter jet to target yemen so now i think that many yemeni people actually would support the host is when they see this

footage of those children who were killed in the. in the middle of a market and this actually only strengthen the whole movement in the fight against saudi arabia that led coalition ok. thank you very much taken time back to join us from just to remind viewers of this story that we are following at the moment in yemen saudi coalition led strike hitting a school bus in the north of the country and sagar province that's north of the capital sana'a who see controlled province hitting a school bus the health ministry the only health ministry of the ministry has said around forty people killed and more than fifty seriously injured it's known that that school bus was carrying up to sixty five children they were on a summer trip thursday is the start of a weekend the bus was driving through

a busy market place many injuries many casualties from that saudi and rossi led coalition air strike they can see the children being treated in what looks very much like makeshift hospitals the i.c.r.c. on hand to help deal with the injured in yemen for the moment we're going to leave that story we will keep revisiting it in the coming hours ahead. ok on to some other important news now and hamas affair. shells in gaza say restoring calm is up to israel and they won't escalate the conflict any further talks of more than one hundred forty sites and intense air strikes on besieged gaza strip for a palestinians have been killed including a pregnant woman and her eighteen month old daughter as well as the military action came after rockets were fired from gaza on wednesday night united nations says it

is deeply alarmed by the violence warning x. could lead to war under sevens has more from gaza. deep into the night intense bombardments the flash of outgoing rockets from gaza. israel's iron dome air defense system knocked out several of the missiles but the majority got through it in response came the blasts and claims from israeli air strikes. this is how it started here a rocket unlike most of them finding its targets the israeli town of detroit people fleeing in all directions in the panic towns right across southern israel under attack. the response was fast. as strikes right across the gaza strip up to twenty mostly bases of the al qassam brigade the military wing of hamas it released a statement saying in retaliation against the israeli aggression the resistance is

continuing to fire rockets at israeli towns. the casualties may not have been a higher number but they included a mother and baby in a house hit in daryl barracks. as emergency services on both sides of garza's walls responded to the bare arjan incoming and outgoing fire egyptian mediators were engaged in trying to pursue both sides to call a truce much rest now on the real intentions of israel and hamas to warn or both really intend to break down the cease fire talks and nicholai madden of the un special envoy has been here before not so serious but he mediated and succeeded in stopping the fighting a month ago his words our collective efforts have prevented an explosion until now we will work hard to ensure garza steps back from the brink.

can not and of and egyptian mediators bring gaza back from the brink again gazan people are in fear tonight that he may not succeed andrew simmons al-jazeera of gaza city. and she joins us from west jerusalem say stuff you've got the guns are officials saying that from their side this escalation is what we're hearing from the israelis. well they're currently meeting the senior political leadership in tel aviv in about two hours from now there will be these ready security cabinet convening in tel aviv as well in army headquarters that has the prime minister the minister of defense the chief of staff of the army and other senior official that they will be deciding how to move forward on this just referring back to that statement from hamas a spokesperson they said that they are on there and it is over the ball is now in israel's court in that they feel they have responded adequately to the killing of

two members of the military wing of hamas why because the escalation really snowballed after on tuesday israel killed two members of the first of all israel said it believed its forces were targeted by sniper fire across the border in the end they said it was a mistake that it was a training exercise so it just shows you how things can escalate very quickly when it comes to this conflict yes both sides don't want the situation to escalate but the big question now is will israel decide that enough is enough and keep going on the diplomatic track or is one hundred eighty rockets over night and this cycle of tension between the two sides again and again going to prompt some kind of escalation some kind of money to response even if it could be limited in scope i think we're going to have to wait and see the next couple of hours will tell us how things may develop having said all that over the last couple of hours things have been quiet in gaza and just talk us through the diplomatic track because of the

hamas delegation in egypt to go to egypt and the u.n. trying to to broker some sort of last sting solution here what's what's happening. yes this is been going on for weeks intensive negotiations particularly when it comes to the u.n. envoy to the middle east peace process and he has been shuttling really fire fighting between all sides we've had escalations in the past laura a couple of weeks ago similar scenes so there's been a real effort to deescalate to allow the diplomatic track to work we know how complicated that is we have been here before the what is on the table is a long lasting cease fire with israel many complicated points to that and then down the line a lifting of the siege an easing perhaps more accurate of the siege on gaza have how they succeeded you know at the moment you have a senior hamas political delegation in cairo you have mahmoud abbas in doha you had

the u.n. envoy ravin up in doha on tuesday all these talks are ongoing we're going to have to wait and see again whether those efforts can deescalate the situation and convince all sides that a long term solution is the way forward and certainly not another war stuff you know the potential flash points of course is the friday protests where we see hundreds if not thousands of people from goals and heading towards the security barrier with israel what are we expecting from tomorrow. well i've uncovered covered the last three and inside gaza the numbers are smaller than we saw in the very beginning so it's less than one percent of gaza's population that goes to that fence but it's keeping the pressure on israel one of the criteria of this cease fire is the end of those protests including what really was born out of these protests twenty weeks now laura is these incendiary kites and balloons that are being sent across the border they are far less but they do

continue it is always a barometer i think when we look at this friday protests about how things can develop it will be interesting to see and i think you know we have to take these step by step hour by hour because it is such a tense situation let's see what the security cabinet says let's see how we go overnight and then let's see what happens at that border because of course that is one of the criteria there's a lot of negotiations going on everyone wants to try and escalated i think again as is this conflict impossible to predict as things will develop but i think we'll have a better idea over the next couple of hours thanks very much to me will indeed keep a close eye on of events and what's going to come out of israel later today. elements of national debate in argentina have ended with politicians voting against legalizing elective abortion thousands of people have gathered outside parliament as the final vote took place following more than seventeen hours of debate police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse the crowd pro-abortion rights

campaigners say they may have lost the battle but the war is not over yet america as they say anyone reports from aries. since early morning thousands of supporters and opponents had filled downtown when a site is as the senate debated whether or not to approve a landmark build to legalize abortion. the influence of the catholic church and its argentine born pope could not be underestimated. unlike last month when the less conservative lower house now really passed the bill this time zone and had good reason to be optimistic. this is the final stretch to decide whether or not there will be legal abortion and we are here to support the senators who we believe will vote against the killing of an unborn child. on the other side of the senate building pro-abortion activists wearing their emblematic brinker just tried to keep their spirits up. but sooner or later it will be legal because we have launched

a coup and a social revolution yes there are different points of view but we have achieved so far is incredible. the debate went long into the night while the vigil continued under the pouring rain when the bill was finally defeated and many could not be consoled after what they describe as an epic battle i feel really sad about it because. it's raining it's really cold and we're still fighting for it because. girls are dying girls of every age are dying. although there are no hard statistics it's estimated that between three hundred and five hundred thousand clandestine abortions are practiced in argentina every year for the color green many here are carrying one of these this is a metal coathanger which too many women insert in their uterus to provoke a miscarriage the procedure explains why on safe and illegal abortions here in

argentina and the number one cause of maternal deaths in the midst of abortions say there are other ways to deal with unwanted pregnancy such as adoption by law a new bill cannot be submitted to congress until next year at the earliest washing campaigners insist they're already preparing for the next battle. she in human al-jazeera will cite is. former russian double agents and his daughter are at the center of growing tensions between the u.s. and russia washington is imposing sanctions on moscow over an attack on sergei scriptural and his daughter and press and the state department accuses russia of using the nerve agent to poison them in the city of souls free russia has called the allegations far fetched or italians joins us now live from moscow savory if we've seen any reaction there from the kremlin. yeah

in the last hour or so we have heard some comments from to be true peskov who is the kremlin spokesperson and he said that the. announcements from the united states about these sanctions are unacceptable categorically unacceptable that they are illegal under international law that's according to the kremlin the kremlin has taken the chance yet again to say that it had nothing to do with the poisoning of the script in the u.k. and that these sanctions are inconsistent with the constructive atmosphere of the helsinki summit some weeks ago between me putin and donald trump they're saying it's too early to talk about countermeasures counter sanctions because they need to understand more about what the u.s. sanctions involve but that moscow continues to hope for an improvement in relations with washington d c the the ruble the russian currency has been taking

a battering over the last day or so it's fallen so it's lowest level in about twenty months and there are also costs being borne by russian companies who are having their share prices hit because of the impact of this announcement but the kremlin has also said that its financial system is robust and knows where to weather the previous sanctions and therefore they're confident that it could do so again they worry more sanctions may be in the pipeline what exactly can be expected . yeah well this announcement of the script powell sanctions basically comes into batches so you have the first batch which is due to be imposed on august the twenty second and as far as we know this will involve the export of goods to the united states considers

sensitive to national security but if they do not get some surance within ninety days that russia is not going to use chemical weapons then there will be a further round of sanctions now we don't really know what those are going to be but it's being floated of the idea of say cutting off diplomatic contacts of you know sort of a severe restriction in trade between the two countries maybe stopping direct flights from rushers national carrier air flight from landing in united states territories so that pushes things into a new realm but then also there is another package of sanctions that is being discussed in the united states at the moments that is being floated by congress and this is not into the script files but all but more to do with protecting the united states from what it says is russian interference in its elections and that sort of

thing so that goes again a step further perhaps it in banks perhaps hitting russia's energy sector i think it is clear now for moscow that whatever donald trump says he is a lonely figure in washington and that there is blowback coming to moscow when you put together the response domestically in the united states to what donald trump is doing and also factor in russia's own foreign policy choices which basically means that we're getting a new series of codifying sanctions sanctions that are being put into legislation and that means that they are likely to be around for years behalf. decades to come ok many thanks bring us the view that from moscow. ok let's return now to our top story that attack in yemen we can speak to add on his arm in sinai he's a spokesman for the international committee of the red cross and we know that a school bus was targeted many children were killed and injured and the i.c.r.c.

the international committee of the red cross has been at the forefront of treating the wounded. attacker like no we don't have a further information. has been we don't like to share unconfirmed information but our focus now is to provide emergency medical support. the level of injury to her. calling all budgets to account for that to respect and finish the mission or even get a lot of value. on this which speaking today we here is pushing the women is getting worse more. cannot function well especially. on what we provide. congress with other organizations. to move their services to

the people her how difficult is it to treat victims of such attacks in these hospitals with saying that they're lacking such basic resources even sheets on the bed. this is what her didn't hurt it reflect reality of the health sector in the country it is a lack of communications also said you can apply some qualifying the stuff to our assessment in the last couple of retries as much as we can to provide assistance to these kids important. term to them to provide good services to the injuries and also to public health never days. really sort of. situation the country. many in the assessment and also for the folks in terms of health and also what. we would be the outgoing director there's

a committee of the red cross saying it's high time for these relapsing tragedies to stop in yemen no one should allow putting children in harm's way these sort of attacks do you see them are you seeing them a lot in yemen in this conflict will we confirmed we don't know more information about this but what we witnessed was her in the country that is many violations. which means or which i mean there are no international human being on loan. because size concludes every time we have our statement that if the parties involved in these good conflict expect the rules of law and avoid you have second civilians and also similarly because a section doesn't back again making me sick we should be forcing then than before so we try we turn to our. media and

also you're doing a lot of dialogue with the budget recover the good side in the important. i. thank you very much for taking time to speak to us that was the international committee of the red cross of the forefront of treating the people who were injured in that attack it was a saudi embassy led coalition strike on a school bus in sa in the north of yemen where we are herring of at least thirty nine civilians killed over fifty seriously injured most of them children under the age of ten do stay with us here on al-jazeera how robin is up next with more on the story.

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