work on the humanitarian side who have also condemned the attack on that school bus with those children on board and insisting that there be fought a way to end the civil war inside yemen now in the last couple of hours i had a chance to sit down with zaid hot hussein the high commissioner for human rights at the united nations he's completing his four year term and i did ask him about this incident because obviously the people who work for him have been very concerned about the well being of all civilians in the caught in the middle of yemen civil war. the specific and incident richard referred attack and i'm sure my office is gathering the evidence i've seen what you're seeing on the media. if it. occurred to me a better reason to believe it of course i mean absolutely horrific and it's

precisely these sorts of attacks that impelled us to request time and for a serious inquiry to be mounted by international experts to look into all of the major. and horrific poseurs for a civilians including children. were killed. the high commissioner also told al jazeera that there is already an investigation underway that was commissioned by the human rights council back at the end of september two thousand and seventeen that report should be coming out in the next several weeks and it could provide some guidance on how accountability is meted out in the conduct of both the saudi led coalition as well as of the the rebels who have been in control of the northern part of yemen for twenty fifteen and have been

trying to take control of the entire part of yemen so we don't know yet what's going to be in that report it is also worth pointing out that there will be a meeting between government representatives and who the representatives brokered by the special representative for yemen martin griffiths in geneva on september sixth the goal there mario is to try to see if there's a way to try to negotiate an end to this war we don't know whether this bombing is going to perhaps delay the scheduling of that event but just one week ago there was a bit of optimism here at the united nations that perhaps both sides could find a way to end what has been an extremely deadly conflict thank you very much for now at the united nations roslyn jordan well scott paul is the humanitarian policy to the charity oxfam america he joins us from washington thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us important to point out the there have been

violations of an international humanitarian law by all the parties in the war in yemen but we had today an attack in the northern province of saddam the red cross saying that the bodies of twenty nine children all under the age of fifteen were brought in can i start by getting your thoughts on this attack. of course marian thanks for having me on all of us who work in yemen with yemeni communities and people we see in the faces of the children who died today our children our brothers our sisters our nieces and nephews and of course we're heartbroken but we're also outraged and we're outraged because we see this kind of carnage on a daily basis like you said from all sides and it's not just attacks on civilians it's also attacks on the businesses and farms and factories and roads and bridges

and hospitals and schools that keep civilians alive and for the united states and the united kingdom which support the parties to the conflict with critical defense assistance there is no excuse anymore it's clear for all to see that these abuses are ongoing and that support needs to end and a political settlement to the conflict needs to come about immediately. just became a correspondent at the united nations about this story and i'm just wondering what more you think the united nations security council should be doing because clearly in yemen we are seeing absolutely no consideration all respect for humanitarian norms and principles. that's right and it's been more than three years since the united nations security council has issued a resolution a substantive resolution on yemen demanding that the parties resolve their differences peacefully or holds the parties accountable for these violations of international humanitarian law the united kingdom holds the pen the united states

holds a huge amount of influence on the security council both have been resistant to new u.n. security council action the time for excuses for inaction is long since passed the council needs to speak boldly to back the u.n. special envoy and demand the political settlement. the war in yemen is entering its fourth year now and we have seen the situation on the ground become more complicated at the same time we're going to have u.n. sponsored talks in september do you is the international community engaging with the right groups with the right stakeholders that have the balance of power on the ground if you like. in my opinion marion right now the international community is gauging mostly with political leaders that command men with guns women are half the population in yemen and have been mostly left out of talks you through

thirty percent of the population in yemen and are mostly left out of talks you like you mentioned before there's a huge opportunity coming up there is an opening and as a special envoy has said there is an agreement that the that's available to the parties that's consistent with all of their parameters that they've laid out each of them they can make peace if they want to but just the same there's a huge amount at stake there is almost eight and a half million people on the verge of famine another ten million people who don't know where their next meal is coming from oxfam has reached three million people in the last three years but aid is not going to keep people alive women and youth need to be included and the international community needs to put all of its weight behind the political settlement. all right thank you very much appreciate your thoughts on this story scott poole humanitarian policy that the charity oxfam america. thank you mary. and a reminder that you can watch roselyn jordan's full interview with the u.n.

human rights chief said rodd al hussein on the eleventh of august zero four thirty g.m.t. that's this saturday talk to al-jazeera. coming up on the news hour from london a russian ruble tumbles to a two year low on the back of new u.s. sanctions that moscow is slamming is illegal. the ship load of soybeans that stranded at sea because of a trade war between china and the united states. and rafael nadal continues his fine return to the rajah's copple have the details later in. syria's zimbabwean opposition figure tendai biti has been granted bail after appearing in court charged with inciting public violence and unlawfully announcing election results beattie of the movement for democratic change was arrested on

thursday after he was denied asylum by zambia is bail conditions include paying five thousand dollars to the court and surrendering his passport is also not allowed to address rallies or news conferences and till the case is over it's been in order to. spin or drill but so there we survived. to teach it to. muzzle for free we turn to strict little flory litmus test and that's not terribly surprising at least a third of the three i'm glad to be to be on intermodal we did courses no issues at all in the courtship and to me it's the way i'm here with elizabeth. meanwhile the united states is saying that it's worried about zombies cooperation in returning bt as well as reports of detentions beatings and other abuses targeting opposition activists in zimbabwe the u.s. state department says it will review its own cooperation with the zambian government are metastasize more from the courts in harare. tendai biti has been

charged with breaking the electoral law he gave a press conference where he announced nelson chamisa the main opposition leader had won the elections and there's a winner only a little commission can announce results he's also been charged with causing public violence last week during protests it's alleged that he told opposition supporters to burn cars and destroy property in harare an allegation he denies the judge has also told him that he cannot address press conferences or ellys until the matter is finished in court the charges i think are worrisome on the face of it we will continue to follow this case closely and we will continue to insist mr beattie's physical integrity human rights and constitutional rights and the constitution of zimbabwe are respected the main opposition m.d.c. alliance is just going to file papers in court to try and challenge the election results which they say were rigged they haven't done that yet they have until friday they say they have enough evidence to stop the inauguration from taking

place which is scheduled on sunday but officials in the rulings on a party say they are confident whatever evidence that the opposition says they have is not strong enough they are planning ahead with this dog aeration already rehearsing and some presidents have confirmed they will attend the inauguration ceremony on sunday. or else for us in the un african union have praised joseph kabila as decision not to seek a third term as president of the democratic republic of congo kabila is instead throwing his support behind close ally. dari there is still fears he will remain a political force behind the scenes catherine sawyer reports. when president joseph kabila finally made it clear that he will not be seeking reelection and handed over the baton to. a diary it ended two years of speculation and anxiety characterized by partisan violent confrontations between police and demonstrators some of his critics like martin for you luke who wants to be president say scott legacy is tainted today. gone harmony's

security the second is a big issue there is no priests are. scared to the contrary tabular legacy is a province and. we became. the president inherited a country that was just getting out of a civil war back in two thousand and one his father had been assassinated and he was thrust in the thick of the democratic republic of congo's complex politics is credited by some for unifying a country that was divided bringing a sense of normalcy reforming the military and starting an ambitious rebuilding program when puppy love became president go off you paid through the ranks are not at all in many other parts of the country that has changed especially. as a means to build a world being different parts of the congress some people say that what he's done

is not good enough. but his advisers say he's done what he could in incredibly difficult times while doing that we are hearing all sorts of bad things about him but most think sanctions here sanctions there are. wars but came from outside to come and invade the country so while fighting the war he was still building what i've just said that music infrastructure were destroyed chords airports bridges you name it. in marketplaces like this one in the heart of kinshasa people say they want a leader who's going to make their lives and more bearable on the basics an end to corruption jobs for their children and to feel they're living in one of the most resource rich countries in the world really is up by smart got there that. i want someone to stabilize the economy so i can take my children to school feed my family

and even afford to buy a house. is forty seven years old a shrewd politician many people we've talked to say whatever his legacy the fact that he's agreed not to run for a third tom can only be a good thing for a country that has never seen a peaceful transition of power catherine saw al-jazeera kinshasa the russian ruble is tumbled to its lowest point in two years after the united states impose new sanctions of a chemical weapons attack on a former russian double agent the kremlin has rejected the sanctions as illegal and says it's begun working on retaliate three measures or a challenge reports from moscow. well the kremlin response is that this is categorically unacceptable illegal under international law they say they've claimed again that they had nothing to do with the poisoning of the script and that these new sanctions are essentially inconsistent with the atmosphere of corporation that

they felt they got from donald trump of the helsinki summit with running with putin some weeks ago now where they're saying that washington is an unpredictable actor on the international stage and they don't know yet what they're going to do to respond because the kremlin says it doesn't have enough information about what these u.s. sanctions actually are. however this is in concert with another package of sanctions that looks to be shaping up in washington d.c. has rattles russian markets the ruble has fallen to its lowest level in twenty months and russian stocks and shares are being here to the script how sanctions come into bundles the first bundle comes into play on august the twenty second and involves limits on the exports of u.s. goods that washington considers to be of national security importance then if the d.c. does not get the assurance from moscow that is demanding that it won't use chemical

weapons again a new round of sanctions comes in in ninety days time and that will be as they put it more draconian then this separate package of sanctions that is being. cooked up in washington d.c. could further hit russia's oil and gas sector banks and look into the assets of president vladimir putin all of this shows i think really that whatever donald trump says to resume putin there is a large and powerful establishment in washington d.c. that does not like what trump is doing with. it's of russia and obviously there's no trust blood in me a person that is trying to protect itself from the activities of these two men which it feels may not be in the united states best interests still ahead for you on the program we look at what's next for argentina's pro-choice activists after

the senate rejects a proposal to legalize abortion endangered animals at risk of extinction because of a proposal by donald trump's administration. and england in india battling each other as well as the weather on the cricket field we'll have the details in sports . hello there cool air is now rushing across europe for a look at the satellite picture we can see this area of cloud here that's the leading edge of that cooler air and it's gradually edging its way towards the east but i did then it is a lot of fresh air so london there getting to around twenty degrees is the maximum on friday and force in paris will be at twenty three here's that leading edge there already overburdened we're in the cool air as well twenty three degrees will be our maximum but ahead of that system it's still hot water so about thirty two that will

change though as we head through into saturday all temperature this time topping just as twenty one for the south hot for some bucharest thirty one degrees will be our maximum and still pretty warm in madrid around thirty six will be all top of it further towards the south of so many of us here is fine and dry certainly is warm there in chile is up to thirty five but there is this is larry of cloud that's working its way northward the pulse of algeria than you think enough to give us a few showers some could be rather heavy it gradually disperses as we head through saturday there most of us see a drawing day once more for the central belt of africa plenty of showers here as you would expect stretching from eric try all the way towards the west some particularly heavy downpours there over parts of west africa at the moment and they still stretching along way into parts of northern mali. oh firebrand love your people nothing and what talking about passing people up for

women's liberation. grave victories for anybody sexual assault continued an iconic feminist and seven all right away for solution yes we need to do some but won't wait on dearborn are not all to do with soc med he has sand goes head to head with jimmy i can't do anything else on this i'll just lead their lives not just go . there and created the modern world. the slave trade into the language of geography and the very fabric of human civilization upon it were built the great western palace and was constructed and hierarchy of races but how did it come about and what became of it. slavery is coming soon on al-jazeera.

welcome back a quick reminder of the top stories now israel and hamas have agreed to a truce following a flare up of cross border fighting is comes after a day of violence which sold seven palestinians injured in israeli as strikes and hamas rockets fired into southern israel. a saudi a mirage the coalition air strike has hit a pos full of school children in yemen to see health solid a province killing fifty people have been calls for an investigation but saudi arabia insists the strikes were legitimate targets. in syria zimbabwean opposition figure ten diabetes been granted bail after appearing in court charged with inciting. public violence from the announcing election results. in other news

months of national debate in argentina of 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 cannon to disperse the crowd pro-abortion rights campaigners say they might have lost the battle but the war is not over yet latin america and its own you see a new man has. it was a bitter and divisive debate both inside the senate and out here on the streets of borno site is but after the storm comes the call middle east that is what president is trying to convey speaking from the presidential palace behind me he said that argentina had shown maturity and a willingness to debate a subject that until not so long ago had been absolutely to bull he said this was a sign of democracy and of dialogue between arjun tines let's hear what else he had to say. the important thing is that we all understand that we have to listen to

each other to respect each other and even expand all points of view and often change how put in many cases and i think this is the argentina we only want and speaking of expanding points of view the presidential palace is reportedly considering a change to the penal code to remove the part that contemplates prison sentences for women pull carry out illegal abortions as for those who lost in this vote well yes they are looking their wounds there were a lot of tears out in the streets this morning but the pro abortion advocates say that they have not lost the battle that they are going to continue to push for the full legalization of abortion and to also try to present a new law a new bill to congress before the end of next year. the trade will between china and the u.s. is affecting stock markets farmers and. local businessmen but it's also having an unusual effect on maritime trade an american cargo ship carrying soybeans has been

going around in circles near the chinese coast for more than a month it arrived on july sixth just after beijing imposed a twenty five percent tariff on soybeans from the u.s. the ship's owners haven't decided what to do next because the vessels didn't arrive in time to avoid the tariffs the chinese levies were a response to u.s. tariffs on goods worth thirty four billion dollars well al-jazeera is adrian brown has more on this now from beijing. well this vessel the peak pegasus has now been at sea for two months it left the united states in early june with the aim of trying to beat the deadline for the start of the trade war between china and the united states that trade war of course began on july the six and that was the day that this vessel arrived in the port of darlie and it seems that it literally missed the deadline by just a few hours the owners decided not to offload their cargo because if they did they

would face levies from chinese customs of some six million dollars ever since then the vessel has been circling somewhere in the yellow sea while the owners decide what to do next they don't have many options though because of course soybean prices have been falling in the united states is now basically a glut because china is the world's largest consumer of soybeans and it's no longer buying from the united states instead it's buying increasingly from brazil argentina and doing more to beef up its domestic soybean industry by offering subsidies to its farmers china currently produces soybeans that are consumed by about ten percent of the population meanwhile the trade war between china and the united states has been ratcheted up another notch china applying tariffs to some sixteen billion dollars worth of u.s. imports that of course was in response to what the united states did on wednesday

analysts say that it's quite clear there is no sign of talks or of a truce to try to resolve this dispute and in fact the terrorists that are now in place could be there not just for weeks or months but potentially years. well for more on this let's speak to isaac stone fish he's a senior fellow at the asia society center of u.s. china relations thank you very much for speaking to us now it's you could say that no one has anything to gain from a trade war in these tensions that we've seen between the u.s. and china and yet there is fighting talk on both sides how is this perceived inside of china. so it seems like chinese intellectuals and china is who are more critical of the communist party in the way that chairman choosing thing is taking the communist party are using the trade war and anger and

worry over the trade war to criticize she who has accumulated a lot of power from self and really brought back a lot of worries that china like it did under mao is descending into a personality cults. they have can always been reports every so often about divisions within china's communist party about cracks beginning to show how do you how do you balance the with the fact that the president has a very strong grip on power in the country and there is a great deal of influence concentrated in his hands. so it's always really difficult to know which reports to believe about what's happening at the top of the chinese communist party it's one of the world's most opaque institutions and on the one hand it's incredibly important and powerful the other hand we really know so little about what's going on so i think what we try to do as we're looking at reports that are coming out about hey maybe she is losing some of his power or

maybe he's no longer as influential as he once was is to try to say ok this is a good piece of information is a good potential rumor and let's just stack this against all the other things that we have and try to come up with a picture and try to understand what's going on so then have we seen any changes in the the commentary and the official messaging in china about these trade tensions with the u.s. the message or the messaging has certainly evolved over the last couple months and things seem to be in a holding pattern right now we're still getting a pretty firm response from chinese state media one of the potential reasons for that is that party leaders are believed to be an important and you'll come fab that they called a diet named after a seaside report resort near beijing and so we're probably not going to see any shifts until the leaders come out of this meeting after that's done say in a week or so i think we will probably start seeing

a shift one way or the other depending on what happens at this meeting which unfortunately us on the outside have no idea about and just very briefly we see this trade will coming at a time with when chinese economic life is already slowing we've seen stocks down shoppy the yuan is weakening as well how much concern is there a bout the situation at the at the highest levels of government. you know again it's really difficult to know what they're actually thinking i think from what we've been able to glean and what we've been able to read it seems like there is less optimism at the top of china than there was in two thousand and eight two thousand and nine when the u.s. was going through a financial crisis and china really wasn't or even a year ago when it seemed like oh here's donald trump here's this crazy american president who has this very unpredictable china strategy now i think chinese leaders are waking up to the fact that many in the american government really don't

trust china's intentions they don't think that a strong china is good for american interests and some people are pushing on the american side for more of a containment type policy towards china so it seems like beijing is very slowly waking up to that fact thank you very much appreciate your thoughts on this isaac stone fish see a fellow at the asia society sent to the u.s. china relations. but he's in the u.s. city of chicago have been accused of deliberately entrapping young black men activists say offices left a so-called bait shop filled with design issues in one of the city's poorest neighborhoods earing people to steal the footwear before arresting them john hendren reports from chicago. back in the truck at all she said paul you know these young people as opposed to a truck. police pull over the bait truck on locked and loaded with boxes of one thousand shoes they leave it on the side of the road in one of chicago's greenest

neighborhoods locals say sometimes the back is well never to reveal the one thousand shoes inside as though you are chasing crime you try to create drug crime then they wait for the young men of englewood to discover on this you tube video posted by anti crime activist charles mckenzie outraged residents call that entrapment. is the face of the a.t.f. the problem are going to be like the streets of chicago's south side are among the city's most violent but neighborhood activists say the bait truck preys on poor black children tempting them to steal what they wouldn't touch of police hadn't put if there are you probably want to be like you try to make it mighty hot in the ghetto. in the ghetto this young man apparently took the bait each year across the u.s. the f.b.i. says cargo theft costs twenty seven million dollars in losses but local activists say police tactics here are racist they say there are no reports of bait trucks

being parked downtown or in the affluent white neighborhoods of chicago's north side many here are now asking why no hound it's hasn't seen police officers of park a truck full of phones and mac books in a white neighborhood. one how many white kids actually go today then is try to start looking at doing grab an hour for all the math books you know get a word or go over there do they examine why kids are doing in a statement chicago police told al jazeera quote the operation was conducted by norfolk southern railroad police the chicago police department assisted with enforcement as necessary but i think this is bogus and also they're troubled by yeah the older brother was they committed why did you go why did you go preach this i don't know how to put this is you know the book that this time neighborhood after this persuade police to move the truck along and that's what i have this is a quite good job people and on it goes to the next neighborhood john hendren al

jazeera chicago the trombone ministration is given more information about plans to create a u.s. space force vice president might and says he hopes the project will be completed within two years and will help establish a sixth branch of the us military alan fisher has will from washington. has been pushing for the creation of a new branch of the military for months he talks about it often that israelis we may even have a space force know his vice president says donald trump's vision will become a reality while too often. previous administrations all but neglected the growing security threats emerging in space president trump stated clearly and forcefully that space is in his words a war fighting domain just like land and air and sea a new force will be used to protect u.s. satellites in space which provide vital services like communication it can also

protect spy satellites which direct military operations and there is the growing commercial space market too it's not a new idea in one thousand eight hundred three president ronald reagan called for a space based missile defense system just a year after congress demanded the establishment of a new space force the defense system dubbed star wars by critics never got beyond the research phase the u.s. already has a space command as part of the air force and some see the new branch as an expensive waste in fact defense secretary jim mattis initially resisted it but just earlier this week signaled he was no on board and we're in complete alignment with the president going to burn it down in our asset base could be we're hearing for economy we're going to have to address it to other countries capabilities what they're creating a new branch of the military needs congressional authorization and funding if republicans lose control of the house of representatives in november's midterm

elections it might never happen former astronaut mark kelly says he doesn't see the point there is a threat out there but it's being handled by the u.s. air force today doesn't make sense to build a whole nother level of bureaucracy space force if approved would become the sixth branch of the u.s. military it would be led by a four star officer and would pull resources from other military branches. russia has a space force china's space program is run by the military and the white house will include and the billion dollar funding request for their new space force in the next budget alan fischer al-jazeera. washington. seven hundred fifty people many of them children have been rescued from campsites in southern france off to floods in the southern region hundreds of firefighters and rescue is in helicopters helped evacuate tourists from five campsites a seven year old german man has been reported missing. dramatic video has emerged

from switzerland of an explosive mudslide splattering mud and rocks onto the streets of a village and happened in china song and.