it's our in their hands over ham ass and they have hit how must targets right across the strip now that does seem to be definitely true in terms of casualties that a limited number is because how mass evacuated its base is this is standard practice or went into tunnels or underground so we haven't had a large amount of casualties here but this situation in this house was appalling for a family it has to be said the family father of this family is a ham ass policeman and they look right now they've closed the door on the property it warns people not to come in in case there are unexploded munitions around this is members of the public it says and as far as the the ham ass. hole approach goes right now it is one of a softer line politically although they are still using rockets and fog them into

israel and in response we've just heard and this is. a new a new information coming to us that there have been asterix back in gaza city on the beach again two rockets believed to be from a drone and so it's quite clear that there is a a low scale. battle going on right now in the run up to talks later on. possibly talks later on or indeed a decision we may hear from the israelis but the position here for this family whether or not there were reasonings for this attack it was a young mother twenty three years of age with her baby who was only eighteen months old both killed instantly the father as i say policeman is critically ill right now in hospital and when officials in gaza andrea say that this round of escalation is over and restoration of calm will depend on israel what do we make of

that statement is it some sort of tactical move or what is behind it. well it's impossible to tell and if you talk to any hamas official they can't predict events however they won't respond to any questions related to play what they won't respond they won't take on any suggestion from the israelis that they have to have a setup because of all the rockets fired they say the reasoning behind the how mass on the other factions launching rockets on israel initially and it was low scale initially well fairly low scale by their terms was because of an attack on monday when the israelis shot to have massed fighters who were stationed on a watched as part of a training exercise part of a graduation ceremony they were actually not aiming at the israelis and the israelis themselves except that there wasn't an aim at their forces however a tank did open fire and kill to them and so we now have that that line as being

the cause for the metallic nation as far as hamas is concerned this is what one of their senior officials had to say. the message is very clear that israel should disturb its aggression and military attacks again this causes and gaza's not open area for open ground for israel to target and in time and where and to strike here or there i think that no the resistance sent a very strong message that we could stop to weaken the kind of the terrorists and we can also act to crimes against our citizens have a cause i know that it's difficult for us now to someone but i think also we have to give a listen to israel and said that we are not. you cannot swallow gaza easily you cannot target people easily you cannot target people and after that you go back to the televisual go to other other with you have to pay the price. so there you have it that is the house reasoning and thinking right now i'm sure it does not fit

with the israeli opinion which is one of hostility towards hamas for what it's done the hamas leadership in cairo talking were talking twelve hours ahead of the first rocket going in of a more optimistic mood in car over a possible deal but that that doesn't really fit with with the strike that happened unless you take on board their reasoning in that it was an israeli attack mistake they called it but they actually said in a online statement shortly after the first rockets went out the brigades which is the military wing of hamas set out that we made a mistake with our first two rockets just like the israelis did in shooting two of our fighters so. that's you know hard to hard to really work out the dynamics of this conflict are rights and. amount of money not in the ground it's going to happen next in gaza andrea thank you let's not cross over to stephanie

decorous is joining us from west jerusalem to tell us about the israeli cabinet meeting that is set to happen this hour what are they discussing and what do we expect to come out of it. it is a security cabinet meeting during its significance the second time they convene in a week you'll have the prime minister there the minister of defense the head of the army senior officials discussing planning being briefed on the situation in gaza and perhaps how to how to move forward it is i think it's interesting hours dangerous hours just in this run up there has been meeting in the couple of hours before also in tel aviv and some of the reports coming out in the israeli media saying that have masses been dealt a severe blow this is something coming out of the meeting that the army is ready for everything it still doesn't give us a real indication of what they're going to decide it's either one of two really daryn at this point it is either a cease fire and they continue with these crucial diplomatic efforts that have been

underway in that continue to be under way the other option is twofold an escalation whether it's a contained escalation or whether it is a full out war i think the israelis certainly if you read how this conflict is unfolded over the years they don't like to be dictated to by how massive will tell them now that we've heard we have now to decide if this round is over it's up to israel how to respond so i think it'll be very interesting how israel reads this and how they decide to take things forward ok stephanie decker giving us the update from west jerusalem thank you well colombia recently became the last south american country to recognize palestine but it's not clear if that's going to last and a ship was here with more on the outs thanks to an well the stresses and came about as columbia was on the verge of a political transition and that's a crucial aspect to this story former president juan manuel santos recognize palestine on friday just days before he was set to leave office and the decision

was made public until after his successor even duke it was inaugurated on tuesday. israeli embassy in bogota published a strongly worded statement on twitter saying columbia's decision to recognize palestine is a slap in the face for loyal ally which contradicts the quality of the relationship between the two countries and leaders we expect the new colombian government to reverse this decision now israel statement specifically appealed to the new foreign minister carlos almost through here you know and he has answered their call give an impossible mission those that could come to light about the way in which this decision was taken by the outgoing president the government will cautiously examine the chimp locations and will act according to international news now santos is ministration has said that do case approved the decision to recognize palestine but that would be out of line with his statements while he was campaigning i

believe but is it. seems to me that if it contributes to the strength of colombia's relationship with israel and if it improves our geo political position in that region then we cannot rule out the possibility of placing our diplomatic seats in israel in jerusalem. so up until now colombia's relationship with israel has been pretty close prime minister benjamin netanyahu visited bogota last september and the two countries have very strong and trade ties especially when it comes to weapons deals educates handling of this issue could define colombia's future relations with both palestine and israel a palestinian diplomat released a statement on wednesday saying we thank the colombian government for this decision and we are sure that it will contribute significantly to generating the necessary conditions in search for peace in the middle east so palestine has been recognized as a sovereign state by the u.n. general assembly the international criminal court and at least one hundred thirty

six countries but its critics say the recognition is largely symbolic and doesn't translate to action or support on the ground but let us know what you think this recognition may have you can let us know using the hash tag it's a good thing andrew thank you well let's just return to our top story for just a moment we were telling you about the saudi in the air strikes that have killed dozens of people in fact children in yemen let's now bring in al jazeera senior political analyst my one beside i he's joining us from london i'll get to our viewer questions right away because there are a lot of questions and comments coming in to us on the story elizabeth wants to know why are none of the politicians trying to end the war in yemen i think that's the million dollar question marwan well and say they're trying to end but they're certainly not enough with if there if there was some will on the part of the saudis and the iraqis and to some degree on the part of the whole fees then we might have had some way forward certainly the u.n.

has been involved in as you heard earlier and very forth that the u.n. envoy wanted to get everyone together on the table in switzerland and the beginning of september unfortunately this has been tried before and failed before that us three years. clearly those who support saudi arabia and autumn of saudi arabia the united arab emirates and those who support and on the host these need to realize that this continuous killings of twenty thirty sixty forty people on an on in a country that is one of the poorest in the world to be devastated like that this needs to end you know wars need to have expired ration dates wars need to have set the nimitz in the end of the day the international community as if it wants us to call it work while there is little evidence evidence it exists but certainly those who arm saudi arabia in europe and the united states these just need to step up and put some pressure on riyadh and well on that point judith is

saying we should stop having anything to do with the saudis that's one of our viewers we should especially not be selling them are as arms so do you think an attack such as this one where children were killed dozens of them is going to press or countries like the u.k. like of the united states to stop selling weapons to the saudi led coalition. look there is no doubts that the psychological the political the humanitarian pressure is building up as i said over the last three years with tens of thousands of casualties and millions displaced in this war clearly there is some moral pressure now and political pressure on the parties to come forward with a solution a country like yemen impoverished as it is a civil war cannot be won it could only be lost and when saudi arabia and the arab

emirates intervene directly in this war and three years later there is very little to show for it then at one point those leaders in those countries and those who support them need to advise them that enough is enough simply because they meaning the and riyadh will start losing themselves not only because missiles are directed at them from yemeni territories it's simply because when you count when a war after three years and you continue to believe if you will financially and otherwise then you must stop the fighting so everyone needs to take notice of the you and attempts at brokering a deal and they really should come in with some sort of a will to do so while i have you with us let me finally ask you about what you think of the statement that was put out by the saudi led coalition saying that

these airstrikes were carried out in conformity with international humanitarian law yet we know made one under international humanitarian law civilians must be protected. you know. those arguments and counter-arguments we've heard them before and certainly i think the saudis are taking a page from israel's. wars and bombardments of gaza and lebanon and just like they are also taking a page from the assad regime's bombardment against his own people so we've we've heard these arguments before we've heard the israelis saying that we use our soldiers to protect to protect civilians but they use their civilians to protect soldiers we protect international law we respect international humanitarian role and so on and so forth i wish before everyone tries to make a justification for killing children to at least express some sort of a sorrow for the death of so many is such

a short time especially children in likes of yemen so really if those arguments by those who are involved in wars like in yemen in syria and in palestine need to stop with their just if cations and the others or to so-called international law when they are the driver behind violence and war in their regions that does include yemen and certainly syria as well as in palestine but on massada thank you might want is also on twitter you can contact him at my want to saga and also you can contact us here on the newsgroup you can send in your comments or your questions to any one of our online platforms you can tweet us at a.j. inglis we're on facebook as well at facebook dot com al-jazeera you can send us a whatsapp or telegram message at plus nine seven four five zero triple one one four nine just a reminder it's always use the has tag a.j. news grid well months of national debate in argentina have ended with politicians voting against legalizing elective abortion so the final vote followed more than

seventeen hours of discussion in parliament it was close ending thirty eight to thirty one against the bill pro-abortion rights campaigners say they may have lost the battle but the war is not over yet it's our latin america editor of the sea a new man reports from one of sirees. since early morning thousands of supporters and opponents had filled downtown when aside this 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 back to the night 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

a born 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 this look at it's raining it's really cold and we're still fighting for it because. girls are dying girls of every age are as i. although there are no hard statistics it's estimated that between three hundred and five hundred thousand can destine 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 the number one cause of maternal deaths. 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. campaigners insist they're already preparing for the next battle. al-jazeera when a site will further northwest el salvador bans abortion under all circumstances it also criminalizes women suspected of having one along with those believed to have been complicit in the process and in some cases suspects have been charged with murder so the team of people in power sent filmmakers to find out why this film is

from twenty thirteen it's still available for you to watch on al-jazeera dot com and if you're watching us on facebook we have a special report for you coming up about pakistan's robinhood on me distributing leftover food from restaurants to the poor that's coming up on facebook from our colleagues at a.j. online and just a moment right here on the news grid today marks an indigenous day so we'll take a look at how one man from the philippines is using his university degree to help marginalized communities that story's coming up. hello once again we've seen on the edges this chart in pakistan around the caucasus some decent showers but in the middle throughout iran in particular nothing a toe and tempers again have been hovering around the fifty mark just over the

border from iraq this past of iran she's not a big surprise is just persistent the forecast for showers and rather caspian sea coast least the southern caspian is still there but lives reached around otherwise dry and dusty forty five is still a constant temperature in middle of iraq and the breeze is still a suddenly quite dusty back on the coast lebanon for example beirut is thirty one sunny degrees a dry ones as well it's not that humid indeed it has been humid recently get as the wind dropped out around the gulf states qatar in particular and thirty nine hints more of the same as does the cloud has been some big showers recently in the southwest of salary and this hints of the potential for more shots of course of her life is to existence in salalah and increasing breezes lots of dry things are making dusty renate temperatures in bahrain and in qatar and it also suggests all a few a showers around in saudi but they still potentially there in the southwest

or in yemen. a new village commit to has been in it and is grappling with the audios tosca sustaining a community but the residents of this chinese village have grown impatient and have wanted to stand inside. the reclamation of that land democracy is complicated. to have a six part series they don't die but five years and china's democracy experiment on al-jazeera. amidst a climate of violence and paranoia and. those still willing to dream. in honduras dennis seeks a brighter future for his son and community. using ott to reclaim the city. and transform the very symbol of past oppression. if you find in latin america

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are the most articles right now on al-jazeera dot com so at their to read more about the day's top stories it's all al-jazeera talk on. president mike pence has revealed the u.s. administration's plan to establish a new branch of the u.s. military called they space force but says it will not be built from scratch this is what he said just a few moments ago now the time has come to write the next great chapter in the history of our armed forces to prepare for the next battlefield where america's best and bravest will be called to deter and defeat a new generation of threats to our people to our nation the time has come to establish the united states space force and that's what brings us here today.

seven weeks ago president trump directed the department of defense to immediately begin the process necessary to establish a space force as the six branch of the armed forces. present made it clear that our ultimate objective is to create a new branch of our military that separate from an equal to five other branches today the department of defense will release a report outlining the first stages of our administration's plan to implement the president's guidance and turn his vision into a reality. following the story and is joining us from washington d.c. so it seems like the vice president is basically laying the groundwork for this space force what do we know about. while it's not a new idea it's been kicking around in the united states since the one nine hundred eighty s. but it's something that donald trump has been talking about for a very long time in fact there's a suggestion that he said to the pentagon i want this done the pentagon started to

drag their feet and then as you heard from my pen seven weeks ago he said to the pentagon no i want this done and so he's creating this six branch of the united states military but there is already a space command it's attached to the air force this new operation will break away from that they'll be independent from nasa which is a question that many people have been asking as well and it will essentially be used to protect u.s. assets in space no is there a need for this well there are reports that the russians have been working on a missile that could possibly take out communications satellites or even spy satellites of course china destroyed one of old satellites itself using a missile a number of years ago and so given that so much know is controlled via satellite this is something that the united states is clearly intent in making sure can't

happen on donald trump's watch no there are those who will argue that this is just another layer of bureaucracy it's an extra cost more money going to the pentagon when you don't really need it but there are those who will firmly suggest that if you're talking about national security in the way that people didn't pay much attention to cyber security and the airlie days of the internet this is something that really needs its attention and donald trump is doing a good thing critics of course will say this is donald trump trying to make an impact or have a legacy on a military service when of course he himself a defender of military service when drafted for vietnam because of health issues but the bottom line is donald trump says i want. yes this is now in progress at the pentagon and it is going ahead it may take a couple of years to be firmly established but donald trump wants it interestingly enough it had a very quick search on google before i came people are already selling space force

t. shirts at they don't have a logo yet they don't know it's attached to some are serious some are pointing fun one of my favorites was space force it's like the air force but in space ok alan fischer thank you anticipate was our social media producer and like alan was just saying that there are many americans that support it but there are others that are poking fun at this idea and they've been doing so for the past few months what are you seeing yes it's a bit of a strange topic everyone has been waiting for more details on this ever since president trump floated the idea in march while speaking to a group of marines space is a war fighting domain just like the land air and sea we may even have a space force now in those remarks the president said he was joking when he originally came up with the name of this force this term but grew to take the idea more seriously and then of course the internet brand with it. doing this to.

a patient we need a new. little at this stage. and i was. saying that is. so as you can see much of the online reaction to the announcement has been pretty funny because few people thought it was a serious proposal while others wondered what exactly this space for spite actually do as alan was saying the united states air force already has a space command and spends billions of dollars each year building in launching satellites and other systems into space that branch has more than thirty thousand personnel already stationed at one hundred thirty four locations worldwide and the air force also works with companies like space x. using its rockets to launch military satellites and this secretive space plane that you see here into orbit but the secretary of defense jim matters says the u.s.

must remain competitive. we. have a. right. another big question of course is how much all of this will cost a previous version of the u.s. space command created under president reagan strategic defense initiative which was by the way nicknames star wars it burned through thirty billion dollars in its first ten years developing a bunch of weapon systems that ended up never being used and regardless of the cost of these new proposals there's critics on social media who point out a number of other suggestions for that kind of money that will surely be spent on this space force finally there are also concerns that this sort of force mites run afoul of international laws if it were to weaponize space the u.s. is of course a signatory to a treaty that prevents putting weapons of mass destruction in orbit some people

have been saying of course that the term space force it sounds cool but is it worth it and what are the ramifications of weaponize in space you can share your views with us using the hash tag it in its grip. and thank you well the trumpet ministration unveiled a proposal in july that's another proposal that would strip the endangered species act that's the n.s.a. of some of its provisions it's a move that conservationists say would weaken the law enacted forty five years ago to keep plants and animal species in decline from going extinct rob reynolds reports on palace veritas in california. a tiny and delicate creature the elsa good job blue butterfly has fluttered and danced on planet earth for tens of millions of years far longer than the human species has existed it is classified as an endangered species clinging to the outermost fringes of los angeles's sprawling

metropolis its native habitat largely reduced to suburban mc mansions and strip malls and dulcie works to keep the elsa good job blue from vanishing forever there is a habitat here that was planted for the endangered elsa going to butterfly there are thirteen hundred threatened or endangered animals and plants in the united states including the mighty california condor or the elusive eastern red wolf and the far ranging kemp's ridley sea turtle they are afforded special protection under a landmark law signed by president richard nixon in one thousand nine hundred seventy three it was intended to protect some or most imperiled plants in animals from extinction. and it's been highly successful in doing that ninety nine percent of the plants and animals that are currently protected under the endangered species act are still around now the trumpet ministration has proposed changes in

the endangered species act species already on the list would not be removed but rapidly declining species like the monarch butterfly could be in trouble threatened species would receive no special protection until they reach endangered status and are in danger of dying out the proposed changes to the endangered species act would make it easier for corporations to develop rare habitats drill for oil and gas cut down forests and lay pipelines the trump administration has consistently sought to ease environmental regulations it claims inhibit economic growth and this is just another piece of that puzzle that shows their total disregard for into into logical processes and the world that we live in for and dulcie the survival of the elsa good job blue butterfly is a symbol of nature's beauty and far sighted legislation from

a different era without the endangered species act we would behave working very aggressively on paving over paradise environmental organizations are planning a legal fight to derail the administration's proposed changes to the endangered species act rob reynolds al-jazeera palace verities california let's now speak to bret hartle in san diego he's the government affairs director at the center for biological diversity thanks for speaking to us what softly proposed changes than were you the most. well i think the biggest change that worries us is the fact that threatened species which is the lower level of protection under the act will no longer receive the full protections of the acts just like your story said the monarch butterfly the wolverine even if they are protected as threatened species in the future they may get virtually no actual

protections it would still be legal to kill them to injure them to destroy their habitats even though they're protected so that makes it a lot harder to get an endangered animal onto a road for recovery if you can keep doing the same things that threatened in the first place seeing as this is a law that has been around for a long time decades in fact why do you think all of this is happening now well this is really basically a large giveaway to special interests corporate polluters and big business there's no need for it's the endangered species act has always accommodated reasonable development we've been doing it for forty five years we've gotten most species on a path to recovery and recovered some of them and still had economic growth and development so we know how to strike the right balance this is just basically a giant giveaway do you think that any parts of this lore any of the regulations

actually do need to be a reform seeing that it has been around for decades and times do change. well sure and the tribe of ministration has been wrongly saying that these regulations haven't changed in fact president obama reforms some of the very same regulations that are being rolled back today so you know we have learned as we've gone we've made the act more effective at recovering endangered species but if we really want to get more animals and plants on the right road we need to do things like give them more money. find more partnerships and ways to move forward as collectively rolling back these regulations won't actually help any endangered species get off the list and get on a path to recovery so what is it that wildlife groups and your group a want to see going forward well i think what we want to

see is meaningful action and frankly the resources that wildlife needs to become recovered you know the trouble mr ation has proposed year after year large cuts to the fish and wildlife service budgets they've proposed large cuts across the board when it comes to environmental protections if you want to have healthy ecosystems vibrant wildlife populations you shouldn't be undercutting the very agencies that are doing the work to protect the environment so we think this approach is completely wrong headed all right so we'll leave it there we thank you very much for speaking to us from san diego now there are about three hundred seventy million indigenous people around the world and today their culture and contributions are celebrated but we spoke with the first college graduate of an indigenous community in the philippines in his own words he tells us how he's helping others overcome discrimination

hiring my name is norman king the first i graduate in the university of the philippines. i was actually a working student way back then i ate the fire and then i started the six to eleven in the evening. the only sad part as i experience a finite. is that no matter what you can still do discriminate then we're being portrayed as something like a major thing for people living in the mountains and sometimes when it comes to opportunities we have difficulty when it comes to competition the way other people see us it's much lesser of a person and that's when i realize no there's something more than this i prayed that i simply say lord i want to go to school university of the philippines my name is one of the premier school or just faith schools in the philippines the only

question. of they asked me is that why should we accept you in this program and the university my response is if it is required of us you know to study our own culture i'm going to do it because i want to be end of the day that they will hear our voice. that there was someone who could fight for our ites and be the voice of the many. thanks. graduation ceremony so when i walk there wearing my traditional costume i will wear with the head up high. because i know the good there with me shoulder to shoulder are my people type of community it's like wiping all of those negative emotions of all the hype the moderates on. i still want to work with the younger generations to strive

morning to encourage them to motivate them that what i have done is simply the start when you're saying. that's about. well to coincide with international day of the world's indigenous peoples we spoke to fiona watson watson who's a research director for a campaign group survival international about indigenous language loss and why our words matter and she says quite simply one way languages are being lost is through the massacre of tribal peoples you can read her very informative interview on al-jazeera dot com and you can get in touch with us we'd like to hear from you on these stories you can send in your comments to any one of our online platforms you can tweet us where it a.j. english we're also on facebook at facebook dot com slash al-jazeera you can also send us a whatsapp or telegram message up plus one seven four five zero triple one one four nine and use the house to a.j. news grids up next

a special report for our facebook viewers from our social video team about the mayor of london's plan to reduce water waste and scrape in just a moment in sports the english premier league transfer window is about to close to will be here after the break with all the very latest.

the frustration. you know again like i find out what people are talking about in sports today with joe terry thank you are we all picking up on what far i was telling you about yesterday and that is transfer deadline day in english football in fact the window for last minute deals will close in less than seven minutes from now it matches because it's one of the richest leagues in the world now teams from the english

premier league down a trying to snap up players more than three hundred twenty deals have been made so far in the country's top ten those deals are worth more than one point five billion dollars and that's down on last year's one point eight billion or so far the only team not to have signed anyone before the new season so far the most expensive signing in this window has been chelsea's new goalkeeper who cost them ninety two million dollars. the betty all in terms of the price me being the most expensive goalkeeper in the world but something i wanted to think about i'm just going to be myself the same i've always been i just try to give my best for the club no i don't think there will be additional pressures on me the only pressure right spirit is the pressure i put on myself i'm a player who demands a lot from myself this is always been the same so i'll just try to do it as best as i can and to be everything i can be now he's got

a tough name for commentators but luckily fellow chelsea player says that as billy quits helps us all out. you must my name already and now it's time to. his name. i'd beat obama. all right well chelsea fans have an interesting time coming up with a chant for him before the team's first game on saturday meanwhile their form a keeper courtois has joined real madrid on a six year deal worth around forty five million dollars the belgian was named best goalkeeper at the world cup in russia where his national team finished third quarter has described rail as the best club in the world and here's the thing this year is transfer window has seen keepers fetch the big bucks three of the top ten signings and goalies now here's a useful graph from the telegraph newspaper showing you which teams have been the most active and how much they've spent you can see the keepers are represented in

that perkily blue color over their defenders are in the light blue midfielders are in green and orange means forwards now live who are by far the biggest spenders having signed keeper allison as well as cater for binya and should carry so people have been using the hash tag deadline day which has become a worldwide trend with more than eighty seven thousand tweets and growing as you can see social media chatter has been growing steadily since six am in the u.k. a lot of people tweeting about it also in nigeria many of the jokes are surrounding spurs failure to sign anyone also the defeatist attitude taken by must see night is josie marine year when he was asked if they'd sign any more players in this window i'm not confident i'm not confident. the market closes today so it's time. at least for me at least for me to stop sinking about.

about the market because the market will be. real because so i will have to. to focus on. the players i have a right to something more exciting now the harlem globetrotters have been entertaining basketball fans with trick shots for almost a century but for the first time in ninety two years they've taken their antics to new heights. why do all. their closest star both followed by the team's first ever trick shot from an airplane leaning out of a plane he dropped the ball at a head on a landing strip in this slow motion replay you can really see how much skill he was needed to release the ball at the perfect time as the plane flew over the hope of more than one hundred kilometers per hour. on cloud nine after making the shots peter will have more sport for you at eight hundred g.m.t. but for now hand you got to read just thank you for that update and thanks for watching the news grid you can keep in touch with us on social media just

a reminder to use the hashtag age a news group we will see you back here in studio fourteen fifteen g.m.t. tomorrow thanks for watching today. it is when you look abducted and forced into sexual slavery by the japanese imperial army. for the so-called comfort women of the second world war decades have cost but the trauma lives on. witness on is the story of the women who campaigned with unwavering resolve for an official apology for this morning chapter in history

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zimbabwe's a senior opposition figure ten diabetes says he'll keep on fighting after being taken into police custody last. a huge mudslide slams into roads and bridges in switzerland. and we begin in yemen where saudi amorality coalition air strike has hit a bus full of school children it happened in. providence its health ministry says fifty people have been killed the red cross says it received the bodies of twenty nine children all of them under the age of fifteen a saudi led coalition is released a statement saying the strikes were aimed at legitimate targets mohammed atta is following developments from djibouti. still wearing his back while his boy was in a minibus full of children heading on a weekend out

a little funny but as the boss drove through a busy elf the city inside the province was targeted by asterix a hole the t.v. station accused the so the and what r.t. led coalition of launching the top. that united national security council and the older members tears this should hold all pressure on both the warring parties to this saw both rights and sailings and civilians must be protected under international human to not they have to respect that he mentioned and we want an immediate cease fire. why are and then go back to the peace talk that is now basically outlined by the un special envoy to yemen in a statement the sodium but article say that's. what aimed at missile launches used to talk an industrial cities sell them so that it via on wednesday the statement for the accused the filthy fighters of using children as human shields so did

everyone its allies up to fighting in yemen for more than three years against the north east who are aligned with iran to hold this control march optimal for human including the capital sana'a four years ago they drove us so deep government into exile these latest up talks more casualties to the list of files and so forth i think concluding these. the u.n. calls it the world's last humanitarian crisis. or he crossed. a day coalition says it was a legitimate attack what's the reaction on the ground. well there's been angry reaction lauren from the fight is also tribal leaders who hold the stock on the market a blatant and deliberate the tuc one aimed at causing the mugs of civilian casualties they both the spokesperson said this was not any different from.

this soda coalition of already cut it out on. in tons of displaced people's camps hospitals politicians and also in destroying the infrastructure also much of yemen so very angry at these and say it cannot believe that timid and they are not using people as human shields as alleged by the coalition and they have been allowed in fighting of seventy two hours while the well health organization is pushing ahead with its cholera immunization program and has actually been able to complete it. no it's husband according to the village or officials in yemen only been able to reach two hundred and six to six thousand off the five hundred thousand people that wanted to immunize against already in some places that reports of people who've been diagnosed with call it a day that the port city in particular and just a few days ago lisa good on bed the u.n. humanitarian coordinator held

a press conference in which she said that these countries yemen is could be one strike away from. the break off to call it an epidemic something that was already been seen in yemen twice before and affected more than a million people they're saying it could be a wass nol because majority to all the people in that country are separate from the question eight point four million people do not know where their next meal is coming from and they say because of these weakened immunity most people. cholera outbreak could become a stroll for a minute or thank you very much indeed. i would take a moment to remind you of how just how dire the situation is in yemen on wednesday the norwegian refugee council released a report saying that in the two years since it was closed fifty six bombs were dropped on sunday international airport that's one bomb every two weeks ten

thousand yemenis have been killed during the three year war the u.n. says two thirds of those are due to saudi led strikes hooty fighters are also accused of causing mass casualties getting accurate information is hard but save the children estimates one hundred thirty children die every day from extreme hunger and disease and just last week the u.n. as we were hearing warned of a new cholera epidemic yemen is now viewed as the world's worst humanitarian crisis with more than twenty two million people in need of food assistance whereas when jordan is at the u.n. force and joins us live so far we've had a lot of condemnation from aid groups about the strikes but not a lot of condemnation from the international community. well there's been a little bit of condemnation from people here at the united nations as you might expect but it is also august which is traditionally when many diplomats and aid workers here in new york go away for a bit of a holiday that said we have heard from capillary he is the regional director for

unicef in yemen and he basically said and i'm quoting here stop cruelty against children no excuses anymore please grandy who is with the organization for the coordination of humanitarian affairs also in the region has also condemned the attack on the school bus and the deaths in the injuries that resulted from that airstrike and she said it's all the more reason why the war in yemen needs to be brought to an end in the last couple of hours we had an opportunity to speak very briefly with jonathan allen the british deputy ambassador to the united nations about the attack this is what about ser allen had to say we've seen these reports it's very important as you said repeatedly but it's the conflict in yemen it here to international humanitarian the weather is an instant facility it's important its

investigative authorities conclusions in that investigation to learn from be calling for that in this instance as well. now there is no plan as of right now for the security council to hold any sort of emergency meeting to discuss the airstrike and the deaths of the children in that attack however it is worth reminding our viewers lauren that just one week ago today the question of yemen and the question of ending the war in that country was before the security council martin griffiths who is these u.n. special envoy for yemen addressed the council and he did announce during that briefing that he was convening a meeting in geneva on september sixth he wants members representing both the central government of president hadi as well as those representing the who the rebels to meet with him in geneva to try to start the process of negotiating an end

to this war we don't know whether this attack might in any way delay the holding of that meeting but mr griffith made it very plain last week that the carnage is simply too great that the damage to the country writ large is too great and that he is trying to find an opportunity in order to end the war sooner rather than later jordan thank you very much indeed i'm joined now by andrew there is a senior political analyst to. just get back to these pictures i mean it seeing them this morning it's enough to make anyone despair isn't it to see children. killed and injured in this horrific way and you know. the tragedy of such scenes throughout the years. having such a situation such a tragedy such massacres ended wars you know the subbranches theater massacre in lebanon the bombing of the u.n. compound in one thousand nine hundred six in lebanon by israel even recently the

israeli bombing of the owner was cool in gaza in two thousand and fourteen these were important events just the thresher the the senselessness war you know made people made leaders rethink their war unfortunately the increasing violence in the region from libya to syria to yemen it seems like leaders are becoming more and more immune to the kind of tragedies that we've seen happening you would hope that with the death of tens of children in one bombing after other bombings killed scores repeatedly over the last several months that the leaders in saudi arabia and i would be as well as the host the leaders and their supporters would think more seriously about a cease fire and a resolution to the conflict and those injured mention these talks potentially for september i mean could this be an escalation before we get there is a kind of an attempt to kind of establish

a bigger presence before they actually have to negotiate or was it just part of the way this thing is just carried on since the beginning look at all depends if there's will on the part of those who support saudi arabia and the united arab emirates and those who support the hope these if there's a will there's a way and clearly if there's enough international pressures on saudi arabia to. curb and eventually in the war and enough pressure on the whole of his and their supporters i think they would come up with something because a war a civil war like the one in yemen has no winners it will only have losers in the end of the day anyway and the country's already impoverished one of the poorest so they really have to come to their senses now. either you have an american president who says i'm selling beautiful weapons to my best friends in saudi arabia or you're going to have a responsible white house in america and that tells their saudi friends we need to end this thing it's the patrons it's the so the patrons in europe and the united

states that would have to make a call now because in the meantime though i suppose one of the pressures that might be on saturday is the cost of all this because they're continuing to have to. even though they have superior air power what it isn't is one of the a class a is symmetric situations whether he can still hit them with the occasional rockets into the things or it's not as you say there's going to be as when everyone is recognized not to be a political it is not to be a kind of a war solution to this is going to have to be a political one absolutely it will cost the fact if you think the thing is that you know everyone talks about there's no military solutions but they continue with the military onslaught like that we have in syria. but clearly a semantical warfare like that when the strong fights for too long the strong becomes weak we've known that throughout history of a symmetrical wars. now.