story. of. this documentary. is being friend to thousands and. former u.n. secretary general kofi annan dies at the age of eighty. and welcome to life from my headquarters in doha with a problem also ahead media reports claim the u.s. supply the bomb that was used in an attack that killed forty children and yemen earlier this month the indian government drops relief packages to those stranded by floods and kara and a defiant president just

a. threatening. the united nations for a decade want to know about peace prize and campaigned tirelessly for global peace leaders around the world have been praising kofi annan who died on saturday at the age of eighty diplomatic editor james bass 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 hope you and sullenly souad 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 and when he stepped down at the un he addressed these remarks to his successor banki moon. you to take over the most impossible job on end of quote. while that may be true i would. i would add this is also the best possible job. he did not choose to go into quote retirement he was the u.n. an 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 continued 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 you have bigger megaphones than 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 shouting. now edward mortimer served as chief speechwriter and as the un's director of communications and has has made a strong and positive impression on the people who work for him. he's an extraordinary nice man and that was true in private as much as in public he was

very considerate he was friendly he was generally cheerful it was fun working with him and he actually he wanted you to have fun and that might sound a frivolous thing could sector genov the united nations but i think it's actually quite important. that we'll have to sort of keep a sense of proportion we all liked him we all felt that we had a stake in his success a safety general one step said i remember from relatively early on was when nato sunday bombing yugoslavia in one thousand nine hundred nine and this was a very difficult moment for him because he had actually been warning about the problems in kosovo and not wanting to see a repetition of what happened in bosnia with the across avaaz being massacred or subjected to genocide when the fact is that there wasn't a resolution of the security council both arising this and of course he was also

very strong on the need to do things correctly and according to international law and you know we had to support concoct a statement which kind of made both of these points which went rather in opposite directions and i was remember him looking at the draft of the same mint and saying this is the most difficult statement i've had to make since i've been secretary general well that was in one thousand nine hundred nine and perhaps there were some equally or more difficult ones late but it was it was very honest and i think to say that you know in front of relatively junior members of staff and one one felt that this was a job he took very very seriously and he really wanted to get it right. let's move on to other news now the trumpet ministration is facing mounting criticism over its role in the war and yemen u.s. media reports say an american made bomb was used in an attack on a school bus that killed fifty one people earlier this month forty of them were

children and a gallagher has more from washington. in northern yemen graves who recently dug for the victims of a saudi led coalition bombing that shocked the world but on august the ninth a school bus was hit in an attack the coalition called legitimate military action more than fifty people were killed at least forty of them children aged between ten and twelve dozens more were injured. the u.s. has provided support to the saudi led coalition with intelligence and aerial refueling now there are renewed questions about the weapons being used in the war reports suggest the bomb used to attack the bus was made by lockheed martin and according to c.n.n. supplied by the u.s. government as part of a sanctioned on deal politicians in the united states are demanding answers senator chris murphy who's announced a measure to hold military assistance to the coalition tweeted the following last week the saudi led coalition in yemen bombed a school bus killing forty four innocent kids and they did it with us supplied bombs intelligence support in midair refueling democratic house and senate members

are also asking questions about u.s. involvement in a war that's been raging for more than three years the key concern is that the u.s. may not only be culpable but potentially violating international laws in two thousand and sixteen president obama banned the sale of precision guided weapon way to saudi arabia citing human rights concerns that measure was undone when the trumpet ministration came to power the u.s. has since sold on to saudi arabia as part of a multi-billion dollar deal and gallacher al-jazeera washington that summer and humbling is a visiting fellow at georgetown university and she says the u.s. provides more than weapons to sell before the war. that this point this is not the first attack where saudi missile that is supplied by the united states says attacked civilians and resulted in their death before and the reason that the span was in place and the reason that the obama administration put in place as because they were afraid of of violating an armed conflict law because these missiles

continue to target hospitals they targeted funerals there have been situations just in two thousand and fifteen and two thousand and sixteen actually there was a funeral that was attacked and one hundred fifty five yemenis were killed in that funeral and the band came right after that incident it was removed with the new administration now we're going to talk about how does the senate feel about the war in yemen versus how the trump administration and trump himself feels about his relationship with saudi arabia we are talking about you know not just american weapons are supplied in this in this war they're also refueling these coalition airplanes in the in the middle of the air so it's not just about supplying them with weapons it's also about continuing to do so knowing that these weapons are killing civilians are killing children and then also aiding in the or fueling process in which these planes kind of go into yemen and launch attacks officials in

the indian state of carola say they need more rescue equipment to help save hundreds of thousands of people stranded in remote areas by heavy flooding monsoon rains continue to battle the region three hundred twenty four people have been killed more than one hundred ninety of them in just over one week andrew thomas reports from. holmes near the super flood water people forced to leave their properties behind you know to to avoid the floods and landslides. this has been the scene for over a week as the southern indian state of kara battles heavy rains. the subsequent floods are being described as the worst in nearly a hundred years. water levels are rising 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 to receive nearly double the average annual rainfall. three hundred 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 is the only option for language. 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 off towards but while that is good news for those affected in kerala the rains will likely be drifting to other states in the country. but it's for the future though right now the relief effort is in full swing here in the state capital which is far enough south of the state the west the floods for a fly collective hundreds like this one each with hundreds of volunteers old sourcing for donations and putting them on the trucks to send all. their biscuits

rice medicines and toiletries and then the irony in kerala right now what is needed most is water under thomas al-jazeera to do that on top of carol. the turkish president of wattles striking a defiant tone a day after two major ratings agencies for the downgrade of the country's debt and the man made the comments at a meeting of his ruling ak party the turkish lira has lost forty percent of its value against the dollar the syria at a lot and cysts the growing economic crisis as part of a plot against his country. today some people are trying to threaten us through the economy through sanctions foreign exchange interest rates and inflation we are telling them we've seen your games and we are challenging. so on you guy you go has more from istanbul a brisk business that's expanded along with turkey's middle class. act your cars

been selling products made by turkey's largest home appliances company for twenty five years but lately his sales have taken a hit because you can design we've had to put our prices up because of the current economic situation and that's affected our sales. despite this he is optimistic that he and the country kind of weather the current economic storm which began as a war of words with tuckey's nato ally the us over according to the president donald trump the arrest of evangelical pastor andrew bronson sparking a trade spat between the two countries is the start of the holiday week ahead in turkey and despite the slump the shopping malls them are all packed with people but prices have shot up in recent days and people are feeling the pinch too good to know it's affected us a lot of my pension is already gone because of this i don't know how all afford

holiday presents for my family over again we need money to shore because do anything about it. this is about the games being played between global policy it's kind of a cold war. the devaluation in the turkish lira may be good for exporters but the uncertainty and continuing antipathy with the us has rattled the economy even as the current stabilized last week mark i'm going to come. of course the terrorists. in another financial times have affected turkey's economy it's borderline economic exploitation by the us as it's affected our sales president has placed much faith in an agenda of growth at all costs but that has had its own drawbacks billions of dollars have been borrowed and spent particularly in infrastructure and construction projects a tactic that could become unsustainable if there is further instability in turkey's economy. our jazeera istanbul. still ahead on the bulletin

a revival of groups of protesters take to the streets of his capital and no one knew their names we visit the graves of the thousands of my been through trial and while trying to cross the mediterranean. by the springtime flowers of a mountain luke. to the first smoke for on a winter's day. and i guess we're seeing quite a few showers over the southern parts of china at the moment they're pushing their way north woods as well so on sunday we'll see some around hong kong and then eventually as we head into monday that we're pushing further inland to force in shanghai the temperatures up at thirty three degrees and not too hot at the moment and the rain has eased here a bit further towards the south and we've got plenty of showers over the philippines currently some of the wet weather really very heavy and it is causing

a few problems with flooding to the south about this for more in the way of dry weather across many parts of borneo down through job and into bali further west though the showers begin to get going once more particularly over thailand where some of us here seeing some very wet weather and that's the way it's going to stay on sunday until monday as well a monday i think some of those showers of pushing for the southwards too so some of us in k.l. and singapore a lot need to see some rather lively downpours now for carol of course there's been horrific rains have recently really has been incredibly wet and the wet weather is likely to stick around as we head through the next twenty four hours all say but off to that it should eventually begin to ease so i think monday should begin to be a little bit drier across this region further north there will still be a fair few showers along the west coast and also in the eastern parts of india is also looking very wet as we head into monday. the way sponsored by qatar airways. national board to the debate on migration is how to write into. the struggle this

is our clothes and i guess how do you define an indigenous person who do they tend to think isn't this more about living the difference and you know in pieces and who do they contain. have the right to live anywhere in the world for the right to leave their country maybe his son goes head to head with a clue coming on al-jazeera. good to have you with us on al jazeera these are our top stories world leaders are remembering former u.n. secretary general kofi annan who died on saturday aged eighty. seven to two thousand and six and received the nobel peace prize in two thousand and one. 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 politicians in washington asking the government to stop selling weapons that are being used in what they called war crimes and more rescue equipment is needed in the indian state of carola where hundreds of thousands of people remain stranded by floods at least three hundred twenty four people have died more than one hundred and ninety of them in just over one week the government has pledged seventy million dollars in aid. has been sworn in as prime minister of pakistan 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 voice at the national assembly on friday his take and soft party won the most seats that elections last month come all hi there has more. imran khan

take the prime minister of pakistan the order administered by the president of pakistan mr mom. in a simple as that in many the presidential palace in islamabad it is important or nord that emraan had already said that he would be big against corruption in a country where corruption and. said that he will provide employment today young in a country where the majority of the population is below the age of thirty imran khan of course had a huge stock ahead of him the country's economy is in poor shape. but the united states are rock bottom relations read of one it's done need to be improved emraan had already spoken to the president and the wizard of londonistan he had also extended an olive branch to india thing that really discussed outstanding issues and including the key issue of that pakistan really take the extra step also

important to. his party it consists of young leadership who have replaced the old guard who have ruled this country for several decades his party is now the single largest party in a country but he also has to contend with many challenges both on the internal and external fronts. to had. protests are taking place in the capital both for and against the government of than you know i think our opponents accuse him of using heavy handed tactics to crack down on demonstrations more than three hundred people have been killed since april john holliman has more from the protests and managua. has tends to happen in nicaragua when i see government protesters take to the streets those who support the government who so you turn now in full swing and they're here right now to show their support for the president on the it will take a he said that things a back to normal in a could are what they say they agree with what we've seen over the last couple of

days is that there is some truth in not there are so many people just starting to return to buzz and restaurants off the months in which people were quite scared to go out at night scared because a paramilitary groups principally roaming around the streets to do so saying that there's a lot less presence oh those groups in those days the people here say who saw that that munching that's was for justice especially in the case of the twenty two policemen that have been killed in the course of the protests among others all of. the deaths during this attempted coup are the most unjust thing that's happened to nicaragua a country in peace has been shaken by a bunch of bundles and criminals just a few streets away this is the anti-government margin is substantially bigger than the government won the title of this march is that things. they got naked eye when might be come up rather than in previous months with us to come to not be

a rather than contentment they point towards the number of people how to relate to neighboring costa rica to avoid what they say is a government crackdown well the people that are in hiding within the country themselves they say that there's been government repression as a result of the recent protests of that they're not going to give up including for a change and cooling for changing the government. the president i'm going to take a step back and then i will daniel ortega is a dictator who has done whatever he wanted his reelection returns us to the times of the dictator what we want is a free nicaragua like you can see from these two opposing marches this is a country in which even though the barricades are very close might be cleared out and the government support for a military group might not be so apparent on the streets is still incredibly tense some polarized now venezuelans and lined up along the ecuadorian border trying to leave their troubled nation boss many a stuck government has tightened entry requirements of

a possible want to gain entry previously they only needed their national i.d. economic cross has forced many to move to other south american countries. we want them to help us at least with processing the temporary travel card or something at least to facilitate it for us because it was too short a notice we were on the road already when they put out the news just like that boom on wednesday we left and all of a sudden they tell us that today well maybe it was saturday i think it's saturday because i'm still a bit disoriented so geez we would like them to at least facilitate that for us or that the ecuadorian institutions at least help us on that part a man in the u.k. has been charged with two counts of attempted murder and relation to an incident outside parliament on tuesday the twenty nine year old is alleged to have used a car to hit cyclists and pedestrians three people were injured the incident is being treated as terrorism by police as some of the attack on march twenty seventh

teen left six people dead. now the un migration agency says that more than sixty three thousand migrants and refugees have entered europe by sea in twenty eighteen forty two percent of them have been arriving in spain but many others undertaking that treacherous journey don't make it alive karl penhall reports from thirty four in southern spain where burying the on noir has become all too common. nobody knew their names and soon the letters spelling out on no migrant will peel away to you to give. you nothing but grave digger packer glaziers remembers where they're all buried a lucky few have been identified merlin you. little hope. all know that they know destiny we all have our own destiny we all know when we're born but none of us really know when we're going to die it's packo's work to this

symmetry into reefer on spain's southernmost tip for fifteen years when a refugee or migrant dies mourners rarely come. i've got a heart and we're all human beings whether you know them or not you must treat them well if this ever happens to me i'd like to think somebody would help me to this crossings to the spanish coast of surge this year migrant drownings have tripled spanish authorities spend months trying to identify remains and repatriate them if possible. calls these the pioneers twenty two moroccans washed up two decades ago. flower seller antonia of alaska has a message for the mothers of all those buried here. they are here and we're treating them well they are dead but if i can i will put a flower on their great there are some kind people here along the coast it's

a short distance to the town of a part of batty. grave digger claims shows me the tomb of the five year old congolese boy some well was swept ashore here his mother was found dead on the other side of the mediterranean in algeria. it's outrageous there's so much power and money in the world and yet the rich don't invest more in the countries where margaret's come from so they don't need to travel here like animals. until those in power heat that advice the grave diggers just help juggle the consequences . as i bury these migrants i told them that they didn't find a better world down here but i'll ask god to give them a better life out there they have sacrificed everything and this is what is left another monument to a wandering son or daughter name another. culprit whole al-jazeera to refer to spain. now the muslim pilgrimage are just taking place in

the saudi arabian city of mecca this week the annual gathering attracts millions of muslims from around the world but let's cut their face for a second year under a saudi led blockade or many muslims in the gulf countries say they're able to fulfill this important religious ritual lower burden manley 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. 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 to get my passport to. the blockade happened just two days later so i was able to go. from france but lives and has attempted to gain a visa many times over but he's constantly told the same thing apply for me a country of origin. to see that we need them and it was not if i was not able to get the visa lost his case isn't unique many worshippers here in qatar face the same difficulty it's not possible to fly anymore that is more like saudi arabia and a consulate embassy used 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 a found ok mechanism to do so instead many said they have no choice but to apply

for that own country something they say is time consuming costly and against the core principles of islam. saudi authorities say that cesspool website to handle requests from countries who wish to go to hardship but carter's ministry of religious affairs says the border crossing remains closed there are no planes transferring people from doha and there's no clearly defined way of applying for. agencies that organize hutch travel from qatar say they're also be banned by saudi arabia and i've heard a lot of things about going back to another country and then applying for such 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. issued in america like a road trip it was really fun justin says she's more familiar with saudi arabia

than her country of origin and since she live so close to the border she doesn't understand why it's become so difficult to perform hotch. al jazeera doha. and just remind of that you can always keep up to date with all the news and much more on our website that's at al-jazeera dot com. and again i'm elizabeth rodham and the headlines on al-jazeera i'm well as late as a member of the former u.n. secretary general kofi annan has died aged eighty. seven to two thousand and six and receive the nobel peace prize shortly with the organization it is. really bad for the world we have lost the moral voice of the world today. is bad for the world in many many other ways he was

a peacemaker he was. always in the forefront of trying to help people it's devastating for me personally he was a mentor he was a role model he was a friend. you flew the piece you flew the flare of collaboration throughout the world with very difficult and challenging problems we were filled with pride to see an african leader dealing with world problems and finding solutions for them in other news the u.s. media reports suggest that saudi arabia and the u.a.e. used american made bombs and an attack that killed forty children in yemen earlier this month they have been calls from politicians in washington to stop selling weapons that are being used and what they call war crimes more rescue equipment is needed in the indian state of care about to help save hundreds of thousands of people stranded and flooding at least three hundred twenty four people have been

killed more than one hundred ninety of them in just over one week the government has pledged seventy one million dollars in aid. turkish president says he will challenge those who he says are playing with the economy a day after two major ratings agencies further downgraded the country's status and the one made the comment settling off his meeting rather off his ruling ak party the turkish lira has lost forty percent of its value against the dollar this year out of the one insists the economic issue is a part of a plot against his country venezuelans are lining up along the ecuadorian border trying to leave their troubled nation but many a stark sense ecuador's government tightened requirements to enter the country venezuelans must now hold passport to gain entry previously they only needed their national id and side story is coming up next.

he has promised to improve pakistan's battered economy and fight the rampant corruption now that imminent kind has been sworn in as prime minister can he deliver on those from a says this isn't sad story. 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.