the former u.n. secretary general and nobel peace laureate kofi annan has died at the age of eighty . you're watching al-jazeera life from a headquarters and. also ahead calls for action as evidence suggests the bomb used by the saudi led coalition that killed forty children in yemen was made in the united states hundreds killed and hundreds of thousands displaced. by the worst floods in a century and

a new leader at the helm takes charge of pakistan's prime minister promising a corruption free government. hello the former u.n. secretary general kofi annan has died he served from one thousand nine hundred seven to two thousand and six and was the first to rise to the top job from within the ranks of the organization stuff received the nobel peace prize along with the u.n. in two thousand and one for his humanitarian service our diplomatic editor james bays looks back at his life and legacy. a towering figure on the global stage bringing the peace bell of the united nations a man who did so much in the cause of global peace. u.n. secretary general for ten years a nobel peace laureate. kofi annan was born in ghana joining the

un in one thousand nine hundred sixty two rising through the ranks to be the organizations head of peacekeeping at the time of genocide in rwanda eight hundred thousand people were killed he later said it was one of his greatest regrets that he was not able to do more to halt the bloodshed i am happy on and i will be and. when he became the first u.n. staffer to take over the top job he prepared the u.n. for a new millennium. his tenure coincided with the arrival of a new president in the white house is. after nine eleven the u.s. invaded afghanistan. and then dividing the u.n. security council. iraq he had tried to avoid war with tireless diplomacy and by keeping a team of weapons inspectors in the country until the last moment later the un went

back into baghdad after the invasion but its compound was then bombed with twenty two staff killed iraq was also the biggest controversy of his decade in the un job the oil for food program set up to help iraqis lead to massive corruption with the secretary general's own son kojo implicated. when he stepped down at the u.n. he addressed these remarks to his successor banki moon. you're to take over the most impossible job and end of quote. while that may be true i would add i would add this is also the best possible job that. he did not choose to go into quote retirement he was the u.n. arab league envoy to syria in two thousand and twelve coming up with

a plan that would have ended the war six years ago. but it was ignored by the parties that continue to fight. more recently he went to myanmar coming up with proposals that form the basis of the international community's approach to the rohingya crisis the result once again of his own personal style of diplomacy strong words but softly spoken even if you get into the shouting matches sometimes the bigger megaphones and you have and it doesn't necessarily get you where you want to go there are times when you have to raise your voice and there are times when that i had to but generally i can get results without out there and now let's bring in jordan she's joining us live from the u.n. headquarters in new york how are the diplomats there in his former colleagues remember him him. well we did hear from of the

secretary general antonio terrorists who made one of the early announcements of kofi on and then indicated that he was very very sad to learn of kofi annan passing came as a bit of a shock to most people because he had been working quite vigorously and traveling around the world and so this is coming as a bit of a shock the u.n. has lowered its bright blue flag to half staff for the next three days in on or of the former secretary general and certainly there's been international reaction as well daryn we have heard from the former outgoing i should say high commissioner for human rights a president hussein who said that he was grief stricken by the loss of someone he considered not just a friend but also as a mentor a similar reaction from the reverend does been to two of south africa who was

active in the empty apartheid movement we've heard a consummate humanitarian the words of christine lagarde the head of the i.m.f. as well as other comments coming from former u.s. presidents and other leaders around the world a real loss all of these people are saying for humanitarian work for efforts at peace building. efforts and trying to make the world a better place for the more than seven billion people on the planet yet roles that he's just been involved in so much work around the globe whether it was his time at the u.n. or of the work that he did after he left the united nations and there have been successes and there have been scandals one wonders what his legacy is going to be. well certainly there has been an early recognition that kofi annan its legacy is going to be a mixed one because while he was in charge of u.n. peacekeeping the genocide in rwanda happened in one nine hundred ninety four he

always said that it really it really pushed him to try to make certain while he was secretary general that other wars could be avoided of course the u.s. then invaded iraq in two thousand and three and that led to a very public disagreement a very public and bitter spat in fact between kofi annan and the administration of george w. bush and in fact republicans in washington spent a lot of time trying to discredit credibility and his leadership at the united nations even going so far as to suggest that he might have been involved in corruption notably in the oil for food scandal that arose during that time but on the whole people are saying that because on and was very transparent and was very upfront about his shortcomings they felt that elevated his stature overall ok rosen jordan giving us the update from the united nations thank you now the bomb

used by the saudi led coalition in an attack that killed forty children in yemen last week was made in the u.s. according to media reports there has been growing calls from politicians in washington to track american made weapons that are being used in what they call a war crimes in the middle east's poorest country the u.s. is the main supplier of farms to the u.a.e. and saudi arabia and provides logistical and intelligence support to their military campaign in yemen and gallacher joining us from washington d.c. first of all has there been any reaction from the u.s. has the u.s. commented on the origin of this particular bomb in that incident in yemen last week . not yet but what we're talking about is that august the ninth bombing of a school board in which more than fifty people were killed forty of them children and this comes down to one thing for the united states and that is culpability what we're seeing is a growing body of evidence that these weapons used in these attacks by the

coalition are in fact made here in the united states some of the pictures we're seeing on social media some of the reports we're seeing referred to the serial number that was seen on the shrapnel after that attack happened on august the ninth i'll just read what that indicates that it is a two hundred twenty seven kilogram laser guided m k eighty two bomb made by lockheed martin here in the united states now there is growing pressure on the trumpet ministration because you have to remember back in two thousand and sixteen president obama banned the sale of these precision type weapons to the saudi led coalition because of concerns about human rights that was undone by the trumpet ministration when they came into office but there are now growing voices here in washington from politicians on both sides saying look the united states holds itself to a fairly high degree when it comes to human rights there are serious questions about how these weapons these precision weapons are now being used by the saudi led coalition but no reaction so far from the state department or the defense

department no denial either we know that there are huge weapons deals going on between the united states and saudi arabia and as you said before there is support in refueling aircraft and even intelligence sharing and if you followed this. yemen the war in yemen over the past few years this doesn't come as a surprise similar weapons have been used before in attacks that have led to the deaths of a lot of innocent civilians and that pressure you speak of i suppose the question is will it make a difference to the trumpet ministration. i mean that is the key question here you have to remember that the relationship between saudi arabia in the united states appears to be closer than it has been in a very long time obviously these defense contracts these sales of weapons from the united states to saudi arabia are worth billions to the u.s. economy so it is not known at this point what the president will say or how the

trumpet ministration will react but as i said that pressure is starting to grow one democratic politician tweeting out that the war in yemen is becoming increasingly reckless. ok and a gallagher thank you hundreds of thousands of people in southern india have been forced to leave their homes are some of the worst flooding in a century sweeps right across the state of carolina at least one hundred sixty six people have been killed just in the past ten days the prime minister narendra modi has flown over some of the worst affected areas to assess the damage which has been made worse by continuing rains have been morgan has more. homes nearly submerged in floodwaters. people forced to leave their properties behind in order to avoid the floods or landslides this has been the scene for over a week as the southern indian state of corella battles heavy rains. the subsequent floods are being described as the worst in nearly one hundred years. what

a little surprising since yesterday the rains have been heavy it's still ongoing people are worried. the floodwaters and mudslides have killed hundreds of people since the start of the monsoon season in june. some parts of the state have received nearly double the average annual rainfall. ordered three thousand people have been forced out of their homes. and that has not been easy as waters flood access points in many areas leaving air evacuation as the only option the language of. the rainfall has led to massive landslides where chunks of the mountain of come down blocking the entire stretch although the clearance team is working to open the road it's unlikely it will happen people have been shifted to camps in the nearby areas. weather forecasters say heavy rains will continue over the weekend but will ease afterwards but while that is good news for those affected in kerala the rains

will likely be drifting to other states in the country people morgan. there with al-jazeera still had a state funeral and italy has more bodies are recovered from the site for bridge that collapsed in that genoa vladimir putin is in germany holding talks with chancellor angela merkel will be live from berlin with the latest on that in just a moment it's. hello and welcome back to international weather forecasts well across the caspian we have been seeing some clouds pushing through with these clouds across back who we have also see some rain showers in the forecast and as a system pushes through winds are going to start to come out of the north and what that's going to do is start to bring those temperatures down slightly over the next day so on sunday we can expect to see a time to they have about twenty nine degrees but as we go towards monday twenty seven degrees for you much different down here towards the south where kuwait

you're going to be seeing it quite city temperatures into the mid to high forty's forty seven degrees the expected high there and as we go towards the beginning of the week we do expect that dust to start to settle in visibility come down as well here across much of the middle east what we're looking at doha sing about forty three degrees a little bit of clouds pushing over towards the with a higher relative humidity there but clouds are improving along the coast of oman as well as yemen where we saw a lot of mostly cloudy conditions a close coast where salada still cloud if you at about twenty seven degrees and more clouds pushing in as we go towards monday but up towards muska we do expect to see thirty degrees in your forecast then down here towards the southern regions of africa we are watching a film about to make its way across the southern portions of the atlantic that's going to be coming into cape town over the next day bring those temperatures down from about fifteen degrees on sunday to about thirteen degrees as we look to monday .

hello again the top stories on al-jazeera the former u.n. secretary general kofi annan has died at the age of eighty he served as the seventh

secretary general from one thousand nine hundred seven to two thousand and six and received the nobel peace prize jointly with the united nations in two thousand and one the southern indian state of carolus says more than fifty eight thousand people have been rescued on saturday as the region struggles to cope with heavy rain and flooding more than six hundred sixty thousand people are in camps after what's being described as the worst floods in a century u.s. media reports suggest saudi arabia and the u.a.e. used american made bombs in an attack that killed forty children in yemen earlier this month there are growing calls from politicians in washington to track american made weapons that are being used what they call work crimes in the middle east's poorest country. the russian president vladimir putin is in germany for talks with chancellor angela merkel they are expected to discuss tensions in ukraine the war in syria and a planned gas pipeline link between russia and germany well the u.s.

president donald trump has criticized berlin for cooperating with moscow on that project dominic cain following the story for us out of berlin and we heard them both speak right before they went into the meeting what did they say. well from the perspective two really important issues there and one as you say the north stream to gas pipeline the other syria the humanitarian situation in syria regarding the pipe. he said look this is an exclusively economic projects one which will link russia with germany through the baltic sea and allow gas to be transported that way remember one of the central problems from donald trump's perspective is the amount of energy that germany buys in from russia the other point to make is that the way that affects the ukraine crisis because the ukrainian government is very much opposed to nordstrom too so mr putin trying to poil on troubled waters saying that it's exclusively economic no strategic political aims.

and for germany what is it went from russia. well the point here is this is the second time the tangle america would have meant to me a putin in the past three four months she met him in may insult she and so you have a sense here of a bit of diplomacy going on a shuttle diplomacy as it were it's also worth reporting that she met the foreign minister of russia said gay lover of us an important military dignitary from the russian government just a month ago and they've been trying to push to get us together as i say some sort of way forward in a humanitarian sense regarding syria so from her perspective she wants some movement some progress on that but also she's been very key in stressing that the ukraine crisis that moscow really needs to to to agree to implement the minsk agreement that was the agreement the brokered the cease fire between separatists

and government forces so many years ago she says that the russians should do more to implement that that's what she wants from this meeting all right dominic cain thank you. qatar is accusing saudi arabia of walking its citizens from performing the muslim pilgrimage the qatari government says its nationals are unable to get permits to travel to mecca saudi arabia denies this saying an unspecified number of categories have arrived for the pilgrimage the u.a.e. saudi arabia bahrain and egypt cut diplomatic ties with qatar more than a year ago they accused of supporting terrorism a claim the qatari government strongly denies from qatar is capital of. the reports. this small skin doha's education city suburb is famous for its architecture the impulse was of the car on the wall and a building that rests on five pillars representing the five requirements of islam.

one of these is to attend the hutch pilgrimage in saudi arabia. west but abraham says since the saudi imposed blockade on cotton he's been unable to do so i applied last year just two days before the plane. and it happened that. i paid and gave my passport to. the blockade happened just two days later so i was able to go. from france but lives in qatar and is attempted to gain a visa many times over but he's constantly told the same thing apply for me a country of origin so yeah i see that yes you need the stamp on them but. it was not if i was not able to get the visa or his case isn't unique many worshippers here in ca to have faced the same difficulty it's not possible to fly anymore that is more like saudi arabia and a counselor at embassy is to apply from so it's not possible anymore this shouldn't

happen and for any muslim anywhere in the world i don't think that. something like this has to do with them political issues it's something religious people attending this mosque live in qatar but have come from all over the walls many here say they'd like to apply to had but if found the ok mechanism to do so instead many said they have no choice but to apply for the own country something they say is time consuming costly and against the core principles of islam saudi authorities say that cesspool of websites to handle requests from countries who wish to go to hardship but his ministry of religious affairs says the border crossing remains closed there are no planes to. unsparing people from doha and this new clearly defined way of applying the hotch agencies to organize hutch travel from say that also be banned by saudi arabia i've heard a lot of things about going to another country and then applying for heads from

there which is not very convenient for a lot of people prior to the blockade jasmine says she would simply drive to saudi arabia with her family it was almost time the issue merrick like a vote saying was really fine justin says she's more familiar with saudi arabia than her country of origin and since she lives so close to the border she doesn't understand why it's become so difficult to perform hotch. the al-jazeera doha. the former cricketer emraan has been officially sworn in as prime minister of pakistan it's taken more than two decades to get the top job after retiring from the sport and turning his attention to politics he was elected prime minister in a vote at the national assembly on friday has to headache and soft party won the most seats in elections last month come all highs are has more from islamabad. imraan khan take the prime minister of pakistan the old board minister

by the president of pakistan mr mom known hurricane and a sympathetic many hailed at the presidential palace and if. it didn't border nor did enron had got a great do d. will be big again good option in a country where corruption in diffusion ally. said that he will provide employment in good a young in a country where the majority of the population is below the age of thirty emraan han of god had a huge dog go ahead of him the country's economy is in poor shape relations with the united states are rock bottom relation rid of one is gone need to be improved. emraan had already spoken to the president and draw may go with don extended an olive branch to india thing there dave the indians are willing to discuss outstanding issues again looting their key issue of read their progress can really

take the extra step and border endure nor his. young leadership who have replaced the old guard who have ruled this country for several decades. naga single largest party in our country but he also has to contain read many jalen gauge board on the internal and external front. for days off to taliban fighters were pushed out of the afghan city of gaza's need the un says it's not safe for civilians or aid workers to get in or out of the city more than two hundred civilians were killed and hundreds more wounded during the five day assaults charlot bellus has the latest. the un's humanitarian chief in afghanistan visits patients wounded in the taliban assaults on me but this is not in gosney this is the capital kabul one hundred fifty kilometers north they were brought here because the city's hospital is too crowded and the road is to be here quite right dangerous

and not open all the time that a multiple truck pulls all of these questions are raising doubts about what had been going to say for i have to call the hospital to the person that is going to the life of. patients to scatter to hospitals across kabul more than fifty have arrived at this one is suffering from head and chest injuries and blast warns from bones. so far this year has been the worst that we have seen in terms of the damage done and the number of people killed. is. a very serious situation which we hope is now subsiding. into an urban battlefield last friday people were trapped for five days in their homes as thousands of taliban fighters and afghan soldiers fought in the streets u.s. helicopters drones in a b. one bomber patrolled over here when they emerged on wednesday the city was barely

recognizable red cross workers recovered two hundred fifty bodies from the streets people here say u.s. airstrikes also killed civilians there were more than thirty across the five day assault the u.s. military says it takes geishas of civilian deaths seriously during a visit to go on friday prison ashraf ghani had this exchange when a reporter brought up the issue of civilian deaths. the court has to be clear assessment these don't make conclusions or judgments in what is not your area of expertise if there is a claim to senior officials here are actual service give the documents if true absolutely. in a convoy of helicopters prison ghani flew out leaving behind a city cut off for days after the taliban assault ended the roads and now are infested with mines and the you when it's struggling to get in instead its work is

visit the wounded in kabul those brave disparate enough to make the journey challenge balance. civilians are fleeing adlib in northwest syria ahead of a planned offensive by government forces it libbers one of the last strongholds held by opposition and rebel fighters the un has warned that a military operation would put three million civilians at risk many are taking refuge in camps near the turkish border the company who operated the bridge that collapsed in italy says it's setting up a fund to help families of the victims top executives. offered sympathies to those who lost loved ones and thanked emergency workers for rescue efforts more than forty people died in that disaster the cause is still being investigated the transport ministry has already demanded that the company rebuild the bridge and pay to restore buildings damaged by that collapse.

there are three commitments that must be honored one about being close to the relatives of the victims to the injured to the families that were forced to leave their homes because of the risk of further collapse the commitment to a quick and rigorous prosecution of those responsible and the obligation to grant road safety and have a safe transportation system in our country these are commitments made by italy to general but also to the whole country david chaytor has more from genoa. after so many days of anger and grief following this tragedy this is the first time that the senior executives of actually appeared in public to actually tell us exactly what they intend to do in the aftermath of this bridge collapse they said first and foremost that it was the sympathy they wanted expressed with the pain those being felt here in genoa and not only of course in general but across many countries in the world where they also had victims they said their priority was to build a fund a plea to disperse to the victims and their families to help them with this tragedy

a second priority was to try and and clear away the extruding number of high rise blocks and towers that are sandwiched underneath what remains of that bridge they were built so close those have to be demolished and the company also admits that they will have to create a fund to help many hundreds of those residents find new homes and you houses that's not going to be easy that's going to take a long time but they also said they were going to rebuild the bridge they said it would take about eight months they've also got a problem with trying to get the heavy goods vehicles from the ports into the right areas and back on to the motorway system they'll have to look at some sort of new by way and also new by way to get to the airport because this was the main route to the airport so they have a huge number of problems and they say they are really taking it seriously they're

taking action right now and there will be daily reports on the progress of those actions venezuela's president has confirmed his government is making its cryptocurrency an official form of payment alongside the body far the digital dollar is called a petro and is backed by venezuela's crude oil reserves the largest in the world country has been battling hyperinflation which has left it on the brink of economic collapse. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera the former u.n. secretary general kofi annan has died he was eighty years old he served as the seventh secretary general from one thousand nine hundred seven to two thousand and six and was the first to rise to the top of the united nations from within the ranks of the organization he received the nobel peace prize jointly with the united nations in two thousand and one for their work towards a more peaceful world the bomb used by the saudi led coalition in an attack that

killed forty children in yemen earlier this month was made in the u.s. according to media reports there has been growing calls from politicians in washington to track american made weapons that are being used in what they call war crimes in the middle east's poorest country the us is the main supplier of arms to the u.a.e. and saudi arabia and provides logistical and intelligence support to their military campaign in. the southern indian state of carolus says more than fifty eight thousand people have been rescued on saturday as the region struggles to cope with heavy rain and flooding more than six hundred sixty thousand people are in camps after what's being described as the worst floods in a century andrew thomas has more from the state capital. no it is coming in now from neighboring states bangalore chennai and others around here it's also coming in from other countries from the middle east particularly where many people have family members working the numbers that are that need that made huge will the three

hundred thousand people now living in camps able to be in their own homes and that's a number that is bigger than the population of some small countries there really is staggering we were talking to a colonel in the indian army here on saturday he told us that fifty three military helicopters are now working flat out to rescue people some eighty thousand people have been rescued so. former cricketer imran khan has been officially sworn in as prime minister of pakistan it's taken khan more than two decades to get the top job after retiring from the sport and turning his attention to politics he was elected prime minister in a vote at the national assembly on friday his to headache and soft party won the most seats in elections last month. those are the headlines on al-jazeera inside story is coming up next then it's the news hour i'll see you then buy.

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hello welcome to the program how about that hamid in one hand had campaigned for what he called a new pakistan promising to end corruption and to fix the struggling economy but the cricketer turned politician has numerous challenges ahead chief among them bringing stability to cities and towns that have seen their share of violence over the years how was officially sworn in during a ceremony in islamabad on saturday this marks a new beginning for pakistani politics for years it was dominated by two mainstream political parties sometimes interrupted by military rule hands to how they can soft party or p.t.i. one of the most seasoned national elections last month but will have to form a coalition to govern.