using syrian rebels. the pressure may now turkey had warned russia and iran that a government offensive an adlib would threaten their political alliance the three countries the main stakeholders in the syrian conflict have been cooperate ing through the so-called asked in a process their partnership has recently taken a whole new meaning the united states has declared economic war against them cooperation between these main players could stave off a battle that could affect the lives of millions in it live limited military operation telenor are expected around the edges of the province the government wants to secure main highways and prevent it from being used to attack its strongholds jennifer to beirut huge crowds gathered in northern yemen for the funerals of people killed in a saudi and iraqi coalition air strike last week more than fifty people died in the attack forty of them were children in the strike spot an international outcry led to calls for an independent probe mama do reports from neighboring djibouti. files

on the funerals a convoy of vehicles fitted to the bodies from the mall and the king through the streets of the city stronghold. the coffins draped in green square in the city portraits of the victims lined up on the ground head of a special prayer for the. mourners shelter again so that every year and who they say is its biggest supplier the united states these people have come from various parts of the country to give a proper sendoff to those who died in the latest so the. strike. security was tight at the ceremony which was attended by several high ranking officials the fingal's was supposed to take place on saturday while postponed due to security fears the children water tunning from a school summer camp when their boss topped at the busy market it was targeted by

air strikes unicef has called the carnage the single biggest attack on children since the war in yemen escalated in two thousand and fifteen. images of the children covered in blood and reeling from shock provoked into much more condemnation we request all parties to the conflict to end the attacks against civilians against children in particular against infrastructure and we plea for them to enter into a situation of hostilities to put an end to these war the cerruti i'm about to call you should initially denied aiming at civilians and defend the incident as a legitimate military operation a response it's a top ballistic missile fired into so that it be of the previous day but hours later the coalition promised to investigate i don't think it will be accepted that the side that has committed this crime. is allowed to investigate it because we

know that it's old idea the saudi that coalition has investigated many. crimes like the great funeral hold of a strike they did on that is notice all toss come from this investigation the united nations security council has called for credible and transparent investigation into the talk the war in yemen has left a list of them. to what the u.n. describes as the world's wost humanitarian crisis the u.n. special envoy to yemen must think that if it does invite that parties in the conflict the talks in geneva from the sixth of september. to get a cease fire deal before them so far failed. djibouti. also to come here on the news hour including afghanistan's military sends in reinforcements to help defend a city that's been under attack by the taliban for more than four days. we report from sierra leone where a vigil marking the first anniversary of

a devastating mudslide has been held. in support groups coco wins another major trophy but the final stage of the p.g.a. championship all about the player who finished second. iran supreme leader ayatollah ali harman a has refused u.s. president donald trump's offer for direct talks hominidae says he's banned iranian leaders are meeting with trump saying the u.s. never follows through on promises it makes during talks he also ruled out the possibility of war with the united states well in an exclusive interview with al-jazeera iran's foreign minister mohammed very said the u.s. has proven not to be trustworthy he says president trumps decision to pull out of the twenty fifty nuclear deal has further strain ties between washington and tehran . it would we have no problem with dialogue but as mr trump really serious about

talks if he is serious about talks without preconditions well the secretary of state put some conditions for talks two hours after trump's comments impossible conditions the first question is if they themselves have reached an agreement inside the u.s. about talks with or without preconditions our policies in the region are totally clear it's the us who needs to be accountable for policies in the region and the same bus ravi has more now from the iranian capital. it has to be said there's nothing necessarily new in what the supreme leader of iran has said today but every time he speaks on any given issue with lends a certain amount of religious weight to the issue that he is discussing and so if you follow the arc of that logic now it is the law of the land of to not negotiate with the united states but as is the case with most of what officials in iran say there are it's the supreme leader it later in that address said that if iran is in a position to resist economic pressure and if iran is strong enough to negotiate

with the united states on more equal footing and if the united states becomes more human towards iran then then iran may enter back into negotiations with the united states so there is a subtle nuance there but he said as far as the trumpet ministration is concerned there is no way that iran will ever negotiate with the current white house and iran has unveiled a new generation of short range ballistic missiles the defense minister says the fact a missile also known as being or the divine conquest is capable of hitting both ground and sea targets iran is said to have conducted over twenty missile tests since twenty fifteen. afghanistan's military is sending reinforcements to help defend the city of the taliban attack more than three hundred people have died in four days of fighting the president called an emergency meeting with police and military chiefs while the u.s. has carried out air strikes on taliban positions guy's name is just one hundred fifty kilometers south of kabul on the main highway connecting the capital and

southern afghanistan salability reports. the taliban has turned the ancient city of gosney into an urban battlefield the assault is now in its fourth day with two hundred seventy thousand residents locked inside their homes casualties of the offensive lissa the streets. those that reach the hospital find it overwhelms space and medicine rationed between soldiers and civilians there's so many from our cases and too little capacity. with into order international humanitarian partners and the u.n. we will try to bring in trial markets essential drugs and medical supplies as soon as possible. and he became the front line of the war between the taliban and the afghan military on friday morning the taliban launch rockets at the police headquarters into chick points publishing tweets and videos declaring victory

afghan special forces responded with u.s. support but the taliban bunker down and residents harms a p.r. war his followers the government has defiant is under their control. child was younger the storm one hundred ninety four taliban fighters including pakistani and foreign fighters were killed i hold the taliban responsible for what has happened in the city all the destruction and torching of buildings. with foreign mines cut only residents who have escaped can reveal the reality is face is undecided. they were burning buildings and there were dead bodies everywhere in gaza new city the fight was ongoing the. it was a very bad and all the shops were closed. the taliban badly want to go they briefly held parts of the western city of far in may two years ago but neither are a significant is this is a large provincial capital just one hundred fifty kilometers from kabul it lies on

the motorway that connects kabul with southern afghanistan if gosney falls kabul is cut off the government is trying to keep the road open despite frequent taliban ambushes. we have launched checkpoints for the safety of our people using the highway we are here to serve them or not afghans are watching nervously they won't guarantees of safety demonstrators gathered outside the ministry of defense headquarters in kabul questioning what security their tax dollars provide. with upcoming elections president danny is looking to come concerns on sunday he had an emergency meeting with military and police chiefs and tweeted he would seen green folks minutes the red cross is sending reinforcements to dropping forty body bags bandages and medicine at the main hospital charlotte dallas. u.s. president donald trump is called a former white house aide wacky and a low life on the show accused him of racism i'm a rose a month ago newman was fired in december and secretly recorded conversations she

had while she was working in the white house she's also written a book about a time that can really help get ripples there sometimes strange relationship goes back years you're fired omarosa manigault newman was a contestant on donald trump's reality t.v. show the apprentice when trump became president he brought her with him to the white house she was one of the only african-americans among trump's west wing staff was but months after general john kelly was made chief of staff omarosa was fired in a new book she details how she was pushed out without being aware of the decision something she recorded without his knowledge or. what happened in general kelly general kelly came to me and said you guys wanted me to leave you know nobody even though i had a blind spot working to donald trump i wanted to see the best in him but she says

she failed miserably in her tell all book about her experience she charges the president is a racist donald trump is a con and has been masquerading as someone who is actually open to engaging with diverse communities trump lashed out on twitter on monday calling her wacky describing her as not smart. many of us argue trump has done much to aggravate racial tensions in the united states and what we see most polls show a large majority of black americans still disapprove of trump but the strong u.s. economy and declining black unemployment has led to support from some african-americans notably the musical artist kanye west however it's unlikely. will change anyway. it's perception of president trump no matter what happens no matter the outcome of anything like this that low forty percent high thirty percent

of support that he gets that's baked in and that's not going anywhere at any time still the perception that this white house is not sensitive to the needs of african-americans persists almost eight months after omarosa was fired the trumpet ministrations still has almost no senior african-american staff can really help at al-jazeera the white house well the f.b.i. agent who criticized president trump and text messages during his twenty sixteen presidential campaign has been fired peter strong because the third eye ranking official to be let go by the agency one of the trumpet ministration bicycling reports peter struck was one of the f.b.i.'s top investigators in charge of looking into whether hillary clinton broke the law by using private e-mails and also whether the trump campaign colluded with the russian government he was on special counsel robert mueller steamed in till last year when it emerged that he was having an affair with a fellow f.b.i. employee lisa page. they texted from their work phones and they were very critical

of candidate trump in one she wrote trump won't be president right he responds no we'll stop him last month in a sometimes heated testimony before congress how many times did you look so innocent and to your wife and a lot to her about this is you're missing the rage you're going to believe that you were in his shame on where you stay very struck tried to explain that in terms of the texts that. we will stop it you need to understand that that was written late at night off the cuff and it was in response to a series of events that included then canada trump insulting the immigrant family of a fallen war hero and my presumption based on that horrible disgusting behavior that the american population would not elect somebody demonstrating that behavior to be president of the united states president trump and his allies in congress have used

these text repeatedly to discredit the moeller investigation even though muller removed struck immediately trump responded to his firing on twitter writing agent peter struck was just fired from the f.b.i. finally the list of bad players in the f.b.i. and d.o.j. gets longer and longer based on the fact that struck was in charge of the witch hunt will it be dropped it is a total hoax no collusion no obstruction i just fight back lawyer says he was improperly fired the f.b.i. isn't commenting president trump's attacks on the f.b.i. and its agents is unprecedented but he obviously feels he needs to discredit the investigation into his campaign and now he can point to the firing of one of its top agents as proof he is right. al-jazeera washington. time for a short break here on al-jazeera when we come back zimbabwe's president makes his first public address since winning a disputed election again blaming the opposition for inciting violence. and his

board one of world targets biggest names unless the outcome of this trial for a friday and you say without still gonna stay with us. how the recurring nature of rain up in the northeast corner of the us in new jersey new york for example just keeps going is causing flash floods fairly readily and you see from that cloud hasn't disappeared it is hinting it wants to go but not gone yet tuesday's four costs from more or less virginia north woods is a potentially wet one off into the east side of candor as well you're right in toronto warmer twenty nine and then the storms out in the big west on the sudden and central plains that this is the punishing or rather lack of rain actually over the summer and the storm is going to hang on here just a bit further south to oklahoma down towards northern texas during wednesday by

which time new york's back in the sunshine and new england should be back in the sunshine what's on the ground is a different matter all this time we should see some decent showers in southern california new mexico arizona and a hint of cloud bit further north but of say only a bit of a hint to be quite honest if we jump south of the constant to the gulf next here's the caribbean have been some big showers recently also in hispania in cuba and you can see that was the blue in the satellite picture they could easily be repeated wind also alongside the heavy rain down in panama.

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welcome back a quick reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera turkey central bank has stepped in to try and put a halt to the country's currency crisis restrictions on how much leader and foreign currency banks need to hold the been eased president accuse the u.s. of a trial after imposed sanctions. huge crowds are gathered in northern yemen for the funerals of people killed in a saudi and erotic coalition air strike last week more than fifty people died in the attack forty of them were children on a school bus. and iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali hominidae has rejected president trumps off of the direct talks to rein in leaders a meeting with trump saying the u.s. never follows through on promises it makes during talks. mollies opposition candidates plans to reject the results of the presidential election which has been mob violence and accusations of fraud will vote counting is under way after

a tense presidential runoff observers declared the second round fairly peaceful despite a polling station official being killed in timbuktu more than a hundred stations are being closed for security purposes president abraham is the front runner in the vote mohamed valas more from bamako. as the counting of ballots continued on monday we also continue to receive more information about what happened on sunday during the run of vote and that includes allegations of fraud and other violations leveled by the opposition side against the ruling party they may shinde their finding of stocks of ballot papers that have been signed and stamped with the name of president before him but also mention the missing ballot papers inside polling stations across the country other violations and disruptions have caused the dysfunctioning of the closure of about one hundred polling stations particularly in the center and in the north the oversea of

a polling station in the region of timbuktu was killed by unknown gunmen however today a group of observers representing the hell and somehow a group of nations in africa organized a press conference they mentioned some of these disruptions but they said that they do not amount to what can be used to disqualify this election also we have been in touch with the electoral commission about the turnout figures some of those some of the sources talked about twenty two points thirty eight percent turnout yesterday the electoral commission deny that figure and said that the turnout so far is calculated up between thirty and forty percent they also mentioned that they have counted up to now more than eighty percent of the ballot papers but the official results can be announced only in a matter of two or three days zimbabwe's president elect is urging the country to

move on from last month's disputed election he made the remarks as the country celebrates thirty eight years of independence. was supposed to be sworn in on sunday but the ceremony can only go ahead with approval from the constitutional court how much gas as in the capital harare. president elect a misdemeanor us political leader. to remain calm it's his first public appearance since his inauguration was postponed after the main opposition alliance filed court papers on friday preventing it from going ahead zimbabwe is even more divided since last month's disputed election and post election violence we are of course. these are live has heard violence post of me and there for our lives you see result. in that there is also you know us and citizens maybe our souls where did all these armed men stood a commission of inquiry i guess the first gate you met i. it is

not. the lives. we are and. heroes day is one of the most important national holidays is to remember those who fought in the civil war to end white minority rule in one nine hundred eighty some of those veterans are still in the government and opposition supporters blame the ruling party for the violence. earlier this month six people were shot and killed when the army dispersed opposition supporters protesting against election results the international community has called for the military to use restraint zimbabwe isn't limbaugh all people can do is wait the swearing in ceremony will only happen after

constitutional judges give the ruling. because. of the. courts the only other implication is that the decision. is final so politically it will be very interesting election. judges could declare the winner and he sworn into office within forty eight hours or they could order a recount or a fresh election within sixty days if political leaders refused to accept the court's decision that could create more political and economic instability. hundreds of people are still missing one year after devastating mudslides on the outskirts of sierra leone's capital more than a thousand people died after torrential rains and mud and rocks hurtling down a mountain on the outskirts of freetown crushing the surrounding villages thousand people lost their homes the government's been criticized for not doing enough to

reales them. from for a child. right over there is the sugarloaf mountain and you can see exactly what happened on the fourteenth of august two thousand and seventeen a lot chunk of that mountain came kus kidding down right where those. debris are in fact homes from the top down there and then the mud and the and the other debris just just hit it right down and into the ocean which is not far from where we starting right now so a lot of people are still missing it's estimated that one thousand two hundred people have been killed only five hundred people or body pods have been recovered so far so right down there there are a lot of bodies trapped. in the nation's government says it will take a long time for people to rebuild their lives after this month's earthquake on the island of numbers at least four hundred thirty six people are now known to have died in the damage bill has risen to more than three hundred forty million dollars

even more than reports. rescued alive from the rubble this boy is one of the lucky ones he's at least being treated for his injuries but his mother says even that was a struggle because the earthquake destroyed thousands of buildings including hospitals and medical centers at mabille and that the had he didn't know if my son had fractures or not and there was no facility i was told to stay away from home remedies and that's why i came to the military hospital where there are volunteers that have been up for. more than a week after the six point nine quake struck the search for survivors is drawing to a close more than four hundred thirty bodies have been recovered but many more remain missing treating the injured has also been a major challenge as many parts of the island are almost impossible to access now. volunteers have been doing their best to find out tenets of routes through the destruction of the force of another hundred patients but frank says come to us

because we have five operation rooms and our doctors of volunteers who join the military team we have five operations today here. but that's not enough for the thousands of people affected they're still discovering people who haven't been reached with assistance and at the same time they're delivering very basic emergency assistance food water medical care shelter the damage hasn't been assessed so there's a lot of uncertainty about the future thousands of people remain displaced and afraid to go home because of the fear of more earthquakes and aftershocks they've already lost family friends in many cases their homes and most of their belongings they don't know how much more they can lose people morgan are just. one of the fires scorching california is threatening a retirement community prompting evacuation orders for thousands of senior citizens the so-called holy fire has already destroyed sixteen structures near lake elsinore in southern california police say

a fifty one year old man is under arrest on multiple austin related charges well the fire has forced more than twenty thousand people from their homes this is one of nearly twenty wildfires burning across the state. argentina's former president. caught questions relating to a corruption probe that's related to his notebook that alleges many. business. reports. that. she was once argentina president but things have changed. since leaving office she's faced a series of allegations over corruption. reportedly mentioned in the notebooks of a driver in the ministry in which he details how millions of dollars in cash were moved. and delivered to the presidential palace. and then christina waring office in the past week and politicians came to this courthouse to testify in this

enormous corruption investigation several businessmen. millions of dollars in bribes to members of the previous administration in exchange for contracts. was the first one to see the notebooks as. a neighbor had a friend who was a driver who gave them a series of notebooks which described how corruption operated in the previous administration and he was supposed to reveal them only if something happened to his friend. carried out the investigation but did not publish the findings instead he took the notebooks to a state prosecutor so he could initiate an official investigation. not only for the case to move forward but also for his own safety. i held back publishing because i believed much more needed to happen only published it when the investigation was on those involved are being questioned what it shows is

that the history of corruption in public works is not unique to the previous administration but it did happen and it is this that brought christina again to court. on monday she tweeted that this is a regional strategy to prescribe leaders of movement some political forces that have increased people rights and allowed thousands to leave poverty behind for many the corruption investigation is the biggest in a country that has failed to prosecute white collar crime over the years you know. the reality is bigger than what we imagined we all knew that there was corruption but not that it was systemic like the notebook's revealed it is a difficult case to put on trial because it involves so many things it forces us to rethink the whole judicial process the former president her aides an important businessman for the prosecutors say all part of the same plot that shows for the first time the vicious cycle of corruption between private companies and the state

. well in kenya seventeen senior government officials and businessmen involved in a multi-billion dollar right away project have been arrested for corruption the railway which is funded by china connects the capital nairobi with the port city of mombasa kenya as governments acting on its pledge to stamp out corruption as the details this is the latest corruption case involving the construction of a really line in kenya the biggest and most expensive infrastructure project in the country at the moment the heads of the national land commission the state trade we and other business people have pleaded not guilty to one thousand charges including fraud corruption and abuse of office they're accused of authorizing payments for compensation of land used in the construction of a section of the really about three million dollars paid to people off the land that did not exist or that was already owned by the release corp this year the government has intensified its crackdown on corruption in

a way kenyans have not seen in the long time no matter how powerful you think you are. no matter how much you think you know people in high position no matter how much money you have large will not save you corruption has been a major concern. has been an artist in several public offices government officials politicians and powerful business people have been implicated have been brought to court i report by the auditor general's office shows that a bad of the country's budget is lost to corruption and mismanagement every part of where i'm optimistic is that for the first time it's not just the job of the director of public prosecutions or the and the corruption commission it's a multi agency so we're going at this with everything that we have. and in the spirit of the crackdown demolitions of buildings of reserves and the pardon land say to have been acquired for me is ongoing so this is one of the

buildings what millions of dollars that have been brought down by the government in the last few weeks if it's right next to an important stream the next one to go is that the owners have already started bringing down the path for demolition. this is president hu king at his last time in office and he's promised more jobs through the manufacturing industry he vassal health care affordable housing and food security for that to happen he needs to deal decisively with corruption and i think he understands that this is the only shows that he has. to basically break away from the past which is basically i break the law but i have friends in high places that make a phone call and this is going to go away many kenyans say they're happy with what they see there however also calling for speedy trials convictions and the assets of those found guilty to be confiscated catherine saudi al jazeera. china is denying

allegations from the u.n. that it's holding a million muslim wiggers and internment camps. a un committee said on friday that it has credible reports of people being detained in secret jails engine chang in the north west china's delegation says the country is clamping down on what it calls terrorists in the semi autonomous region but denies targeting ethnic minorities rights groups say many have been held without charge north and south korea have agreed to hold a summit in pyongyang in september following april's historic meeting in the diem demilitarized zone a trip by the south president mungy into the north capital will be the first such visit for more than a decade both sides say they're committed to a thaw in relations despite pyongyang's continuing dispute with the u.s. over the terms of its denuclearization deal the us media is reporting the queen of soul aretha franklin is gravely ill the seventy six year old american music legend is known for a distinctive voice and powerful live performances franklin as one aide.