saudi monarchy coalition air strike in yemen has reportedly killed at least thirty one people including women and children the media says it happened in the day the province the group was near a camp for internally displaced people the u.a.e. says rebels were launching missiles from the area paul chata jan reforms. civilians once again have been the targets of saudi led coalition jets in yemen. iranian backed rebels say at least thirty one people including women and children were killed in an attack on their convoy in the western province of what data dead children and women disgusting crime. the victims were trying to escape a camp in al couey which the coalition says was being used to launch missiles. they hit us while we were on the road this little boy was spared unlike the forty four children killed two weeks ago in another strike that aerial bombing on august ninth targeted a bus full of kids returning from

a summer camp they were full of joy and all smiles just hours before happy to be returning home to their families the charity save the children says yemen is to worst place in the world to be a child one broken hearted father scoured the scene for of a dence his child may have been spared. i just found some of what my boy was wearing i didn't find any of his remains on his finger. not his skull. a day later their families were weeping over the child sized graves inside the province their final resting place save the children estimates an average of one hundred forty children have been killed every day since the beginning of saudi led coalition strikes against who these if they night will not conduct their own investigation and i believe that that's how did it will continue the sensational news that american made smart bombs were used in that strike grabbed headlines in

the u.s. but just for one day the case against the u.s. being implicated in these murders and these war crimes is a very strong one. the two thousand and fifteen saudi led and u.s. supported intervention in yemen has created what the u.n. calls the worst humanitarian crisis in the world thousands of people have been killed millions have been displaced and twenty two million yemenis desperately need humanitarian help every day but the war in yemen seems to have no ending paul chowder gian al jazeera. so bob wise highest court is said to rule on an appeal by the opposition against the result of last month's presidential election and d.c. alliance didn't elson jimmie's a says the vote was rigged in favor of the president emerson and god were zanu p.f. leaders inauguration has been postponed until the court delivers its verdict uganda newsagent turned politician bobby wian has been charged with treason one was

rearrested just minutes after being freed by a military court where he'd been accused of inciting his supporters to attack a convoy carrying president yoweri museveni the government has denied accusations one was beaten in custody catherine sawyer reports from kampala. this is the man many ugandans had been wanting to see of you wind up popular musician and member of parliament appeared in military court in the north and town of good looking weak and in pain he had been in military cassidy's since last wednesday he was arrested following balancing local election campaigns in the north after presidential in the seventies mottaki it was attacked the state withdrew the military leaders charges of possession of firearms and ammunition you are politically set free i lived in here on out i just. it was an emotional moment for wine but he was not truly free in the future when you want to and they're arresting him now he was immediately

taken to a magistrate's court where he was charged with treason with intends to go home to the passing of the president of the republic or uganda i don't know fully. understand moved towards them. and smile she. the real when screwed over the prison. in kampala the government deployed police and soldiers in some parts of the city that i've seen as hot spots if you living where we are right now we're trying to prevent people from gathering or trying to get to their town fantastic you forces also blocked several opposition politicians from leaving them. opposition leader who has been arrested and detained often over the years was again taken by police he had talked

to the media cutting off been the people cutting off forty million people. so whenever the they must be able to rule what can we do what of the power of the magistrate in gulu order that wine gets argent medical care and that doctors be allowed and he needed access to him he will remain in cassidy until the end of the month when he appears in court the thirty two others are also charged with treason god was all the while he supporters including cheered him on saying the winterland and to us from catherine so i al-jazeera compound. still ahead on al-jazeera the un no just south american countries to ease entry for venezuelans fleeing a worsening economic crisis we have the latest from venezuela and.

hello there we've got some cool weather spreading its way across europe now the look too impressive really on satellite picture is this blob of cloud here that's the leading edge of it giving us some areas of rain and as it works its way eastwards we see the cool air russian behind that so it's a liquid blustery for some of us here and certainly not warm a maximum temperature of nineteen degrees in london and around twenty in paris that leading edge as it works its way across the eastern parts of europe is hitting this hot air that's been sitting across the eastern parts of europe over the last few weeks and as it does say is going to see an intensification to the rain on it so we'll see wetter weather spreading its way across the eastern parts of europe it will turn heavier here before the towards the south are for many of us across the northern parts of africa it's fine and settled at the moment not quite for all of us though we are seeing one or two showers around the northeast in parts about syria and the northern parts of tunisia some of those really quite violent

thunderstorms they are gradually working their way away from us an easing though as we head through the next few days so it does look like such a saturday should be a dry a day for the central belt of africa plenty of showers here as you might expect or rattling their way towards the west was in quite a few of them over cameroon and into nigeria and quite a few will the next year as well. the challenge. ethiopia's economy has grown at a faster rate than any other african country journalists. were heard here. just how close the fighting groundbreaking documentary. discussion just six months ago we were at the brink of al-jazeera programs take you on the journeys around the . police on al-jazeera.

you're watching out zero time to recap headlines australia will soon have its sixth prime minister in eight years after malcolm turnbull was dumped by his party and replaced by scott morrison the turmel says he will quit politics in the coming weeks forcing a byelection government has a majority of just one seat. the coalition air strike near a camp in yemen has reportedly killed at least thirty one people including women and children both the media says it happened in one day the province says rebels were launching missiles from the area a judge in uganda has ordered urgent medical treatment for arrested opposition

leader bobby wine who says he was beaten in custody but the pop star turned politician will be back in court on treason charges within weeks. nearly a million people remain displaced from their homes in the southern indian state of carola recovers from the worst floods in a century many now questioning whether the disaster could have been avoided and as andrew thomas reports from the town of karbala some blame overdevelopment and the mismanagement of reservoirs. hundreds of people have died more than a million fled their homes but how that trial was carolyn's disaster the quantity of rain was unprecedented two and a half times the normal figure for office so far but environmentalists say properly managed its land and rivers would have absorbed it and channeled it to the sea over development in flood plains is to blame left. claiming that even as an wetlands for

other uses that is one of them a good thing which i agree with of the situation either way though flood plains in the form of piety relies on about plants would have begun to accommodate and most of those water. the floods were made worse a environmentalist by quantities of plastic rubbish cloaking rivers stopping them flowing faster instead the rivers burst their banks but even with those issues the floods say some could have been avoided aside from the long term impact of environmental mismanagement and pollution there is another way that some here are seeing this as a manmade disaster they're blaming those who manage the dams and reservoirs carola has fifty three large reservoirs where the collective capacity of nearly seven trillion liters of water they are managed primarily for hydro electricity production and irrigation for farmers many operators are reluctant to let the water go when it's not needed so they were near capacity before the worst of the rain fell when it did the water had to be suddenly released to stop dam walls breaking

people think infrastructure is a security against flood but more of the flood waters did not come from the rain they come from the release of their downs never happened before if we know too much rain is coming dams should releasing water as gently and not impounding the last drop and then flooding people's out of their homes it's likely no one factor caused carolus flooding but human activity and inactivity seen. to have made it worse and written us al jazeera. the u.s. attorney general has hit back at president donald trump's latest criticism saying he won't be influenced by political pressure trump has accused jeff sessions of not being in charge of the justice department the president is facing legal and political troubles after his former lawyer implicated him in a crime heidi jocasta has more from washington d.c. . impeachment is

a real possibility for trump if his party of republicans lose control of the house come the november midterm elections and so while the president's statements that essentially say if he is impeached everyone may be poor may sound surprising on its face but when you look at it it may be a motivator the in the president's belief to turn out his base in november it's notable that on tuesday the same day that two of trump's most closest allies became convicted felons was the same day that the american stock market rallied to record highs and recent polls show that ninety percent of republicans think trump is doing a good job in office and so trump is adamant in issuing this threat or warning however you look at it to his base that they have to turn out in november or ause perhaps risk their pocketbooks now in this long and winding interview with fox news

president trump also went on to renew criticism of his attorney general jeff sessions he renewed the the refrain that sessions should not have recused himself from the russian investigation and should have us at a stand simply done a better job to protect the president sessions who has long been quiet amid these criticisms did shoot back with a strongly worded statement saying that he would not be influenced by political considerations many are seeing this as the attorney general drawing a line in the sand between himself and the president and it remains to be seen what action if any the president will take finally on this day of much intrigue and breaking news surrounding the white house the wall street journal reporting that david pecker a longtime friend of donald trump and the publisher of the national enquirer has made a deal with federal prosecutors that implicates trump in the pay off of two women who claim that they had sexual relationships with trump to buy their silence. south

africa has summoned the top u.s. diplomat there to officially complain about don't transplant to investigate land reform it says it's disappointed by washington's failure to use diplomatic channels south africa has accused trump of fueling racial tensions after he said land was being seized from white farmers and that many of them were being killed he's asked his secretary of state to examine the policy one of south africa's biggest farming organizations says killings are at a twenty year low police in argentina raided homes owned by former president cristina kirchner they're investigating widespread corruption involving former government ministers and top businessmen and the corruption officers are following leads from the notebook of a former chauffeur alleged to contain details of bribes. the un has called on latin american countries to ease entry for thousands of people fleeing venezuela's

deepening economic crisis the call came after neighboring accord or in peru announced tighter entry of requirements for venezuelans they will now need valid passports venezuelans were previously allowed to come in with just their id cards our latin america editor lucy newman is in the venezuelan capital caracas. this is santa angeles is last day at her home in her working class caracas neighborhood she sold everything possible and packed the rest as she enters sister her two daughters and their four small children prepare to abandon israel. i have to get my daughter out of here before it's too late. friend jealous three year old can't speak since she had a stroke provoked she says by the lack of medicine to treat her repeated convulsions half of them will go to peru the rest to chile to join husbands and sons but sandra is angry. we wanted to remain here in my beloved venezuela the best country in the

world until my door destroyed it we're leaving half of our family behind our family smell scattered. indeed oil rich venezuela is on recognizable disease hunger uncontrollable violence and hyperinflation are driving millions from a country where poverty has reached eighty percent president nicolas maduro blames u.s. financial sanctions but they don't begin to explain a crisis that began long before they were imposed a year ago. what is happening is of such gravity that it looks as though we were going through a terrible war like syria except there is no war and if the expectation that things will get even worse it is nourishing the stampede. not that it's easy to leave a passport is worth its weight in gold to my money that i need but hell there's no way to get

a passport at least to pay two thousand dollars under the table which i don't have . that's when the passport office official asked us to move away. those lucky enough to have a passport come here to catch a bus going to peru via colombia and ecuador like everything else the bus tickets go on day by day so the people who are lining up here are doing so not to get a new ticket but to pay the difference from one they bought a month ago at four hundred and forty now they have to pay eight hundred eighty what they can't get on the bus it's prohibitive so like many others alexander is leaving for peru to try his luck with his pockets empty. there's no work a consequence my family obama milk and diapers my baby so i have no choice. as the departure time nears the waiting room begins to look and feel like a mass funeral parlor. husbands wives children and fiances say

goodbye to each other and certain what will become of those who leave. all of those who miss stay behind a tragedy that's taking place every single day in every corner of venezuela. you see in human al-jazeera got back. at least one hundred fifty migrants are stuck on a coast guard ship after being refused entry to italy the interior minister says those on board are illegal immigrants and won't allow them to set foot on the tally and soil he wants of the european union nations to take in the refugees. and let's take you through some of the headlines here in algeria now australia will soon have its sixth prime minister in eight years after malcolm turnbull was dumped wives party and replaced by scott morrison mr turnbull says he will quit politics in the coming weeks forcing a by election the government has

a majority of just one seat we have a lot of challenges as a country and we will get through them as we always have together now our job particularly for joshing on as we take forward this new mantle of leadership is a new generation is to ensure that we not only bring our party back together which has been bruised and battered this week but that will enable us to ensure we bring the parliament back together that we can continue to work to ensure that our country stays close together a saudi amorality coalition air strike near a camp in yemen has reportedly killed at least thirty one people including women and children who three media says it happened in a day the province the u.a.e. says rebels were launching missiles from the area. south africa has summoned the top u.s. diplomat there to criticize president donald trump's tweet on land reform it says

it's disappointed by washington's failure to use diplomatic channels south africa has accused trump of fueling racial tensions after he said land was being seized from white form farmers rather many of them were being killed trump had asked his secretary of state to examine the policy a judge in uganda has ordered urgent medical treatment for arrested the opposition leader bobby wine who says he was beaten in custody but the pop star turned politician will be back in court on treason charges within weeks the u.n. has called on latin american countries to ease entry for thousands of people fleeing venezuela's deepening economic crisis the call came after a neighbor called on pota announced tighter entry requirements for venezuelans now need valid passports venezuelans were previously allowed to come in on their id cards it's inside story now stay with us here on al-jazeera. well there are

three big challenges facing humankind in the twenty first century they are look real war climate change and technological disruption especially the rise of artificial intelligence in bioengineering this will change the world more than anything else professor you know harare talks to al-jazeera. former us presidential aides guilty of federal crimes as congressional elections draw closer how will it impact the midterms what would any change in congress mean for the world this is inside story. hello and welcome to the show i am sam he's a damn it's been a bad week for donald trump starting with the conviction of his former campaign

chairman poor man a full financial crimes and fraud then came the guilty plea by his former lawyer michael cohen who said he broke campaign finance laws on trump's orders but cohen's willingness to help them all or investigation could mean even bigger war is ahead for the u.s. president he denies he's done anything wrong and says cohen's making up stories will bring in our guests in a moment but first and the gallacher reports from washington d.c. . he once said he'd take a bullet to donald trump now michael cohen is offering to help an investigation the president has repeatedly called a witch hunt on tuesday don trump's longtime lawyer and fixer pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations cohen told the court he was directed by trump to make payments to two women he's alleged to have had affairs with cohen's lawyer says the fifty one year old is now more than happy to help special counsel robert muller's investigation into alleged collusion between the trump campaign and russia my observation is that michael cohen knows information that would be of interest

to the special counsel in my opinion regarding both knowledge about a conspiracy to corrupt american democracy by the russians robert maas investigation centers on a meeting between campaign aides in a russian delegation that promised to dish political dirt on hillary clinton cohen's lawyer has indicated his client has direct knowledge of the meeting with claims don trump knew it was happening something the president denied of the president knew about it and there is other evidence in addition to michael cohen just basically saying it on his own then the president at this point could be went his way very fast paced to impeachment at the first press briefing since cohen's appearance in court so how could be sanders says the president has nothing to hide as the president has stated on numerous occasions he did nothing wrong there are no charges against him and this just because michael cohen made

a plea deal doesn't mean that implicates the president. on the same day cohen pled guilty in new york the president's former campaign manager paul manifold was found guilty on eight charges of tax and bank fraud both cases sprang from well as team leading one republican to say it's proof miller's investigation is anything but a witch hunt democrats say trump's legal woes are far from over to take a step back. president trump's campaign manager was convicted of federal crimes president transpersonal attorney pled guilty to federal crimes president trump's first national security advisor pled guilty to federal crimes a foreign policy adviser to his campaign pled guilty to federal crimes and more trials are coming these two cases may now be the biggest threat to donald trump's presidency cohen's lawyer says his client is now liberated to speak truth to power and there are unconfirmed reports cohen has tapes from space will remain loyal but with november's midterm elections approaching the stakes have never been higher and

he gallacher al-jazeera at the white house. well let's bring in our panel we have joining us from london james boys an analyst on u.s. politics in lubbock texas we're joined by all of a maggie on skype he's an advisor at the national diversity coalition for trump and in brussels steven erlanger who's also on skype the chief diplomatic correspondent for europe at the new york times welcome to you all if i could start with stephen have the last few days been a turning point in terms of the vulnerability of the white house yes i think they have no this is a story that has a long way to go but this is the first time that president trump has been quite clearly implicated in a crime is personal lawyer is considerably airy if you like but knows where

a lot of the secrets are kept. pled guilty and testified that he had committed a crime at the instigation and then coordination with the president of the united states but they haven't let me say i mean i'm going to try as i'm sure you know trump supporters would argue he hasn't been charged himself trump hasn't been charged themselves not why does this make him vulnerable then. well we don't indict sitting presidents but i'll tell you if he wasn't a sitting president he probably would have been indicted ok i can see oliver is shaking his head in horror i'm sure he has something different to say about this go ahead all of our. whole heartedly agree with you it's very difficult to indict a president who's done nothing there's no collusion collusion isn't a crime it's a wink wink nod nod or hang on all over let me think it leave interrupted we don't know yet that he hasn't done anything we can only say so far the investigation is

ongoing we can only say so far no charges have been brought or accusations leveled against him bryant. the investigation is going on for five hundred days still no collusion has been found we basically are basically indicting everyone else in the world except for implicating donald trump this is a man who is basically campaigning that for. dozens of campaigns every forty eight hours to ten thousand people he was speaking in front of cameras when did he have time to collude with the russians not at all he was too busy beating hillary clinton in the campaign and he was out on the road so this is very difficult to kind of make that stretch into colluding with apparent power when he wasn't in charge of the united states so i think that's a reach for the democrats i think they're overstepping i think they have over comp despite all the bias and i think there's a quite silent majority in america they're saying we're going to go to the polls in two thousand and eighteen in a few days and we're going to vote like we were putting in two thousand and sixteen because right now this election is about enough i think all of

a you kind of an all right let stephen come back and then we'll go through james' point. the michael cohen case had nothing to do with russia the michael cohen case had to do with paying off two women for their silence so that donald trump as the republican candidate was not embarrassed during the election campaign rushes an entirely different issue cohen accuses trump of instigating a crime about campaign finance russia is another matter and which we can talk about that is exactly the point i was going to raise thank you for doing it with even let me say that's five let's take it on a step forward though and ask the question to james in london i think where we're going now with this discussion is the question that if the president's lawyer eggs lawyer is now facing jail time for doing something that he says he did on the

orders of donald trump can donald trump at some point face charges himself. you know what's interesting i think about how both robert mueller is building this case and have donald trump is responding to it all the interesting overtures to how one would build an respond to a case invest in get it regarding organized crime so we see it going after the lower level individuals getting convictions against them then facing serious jail time and then them to use donald trump's words flipping against their higher ups that's exactly how criminal cases are built against organized crime organizations and now donald trump of course has come out and praised. for staying silent and attacked. the chap for basically basically spilling the beans and and talking about the situation. how it is this face don't trump legally well as

pointed out under the constitution and d.o.j. guidelines united states simply doesn't indict a sitting president but we're no longer to be president either through his resignation his impeachment and removal from office or is eventual stepping down from the presidency at the end of one or two terms he could then face legal jeopardy if indeed there is evidence to bring to court after that time period you raise the ire you were there impeachment let me take it back to all of those the real threat to the president from all of this perhaps. tied to what happens in november if the republicans lose the control of congress does this open the door for proceedings against the u.s. president within congress. i think the democrats are overreaching about the twenty eight thousand midterms i think that we're going to see a very big surprise what's interesting about this upcoming midterm election is this

is going to be about donald trump not on the ticket but he is going to be on the ticket i think voters on the trump side are going to go. just like they did in twenty sixteen a silent majority and they're going to vote straight down the g.o.p. ticket because they don't know what's happening they know this is a witch hunt they know that this is a state news they know that this is basically basically just i. think it was brought in by the hillary clinton campaign who said she was going to accept the election as it was and now we're into a russian collusion delusion right now but also we're now gone into five hundred days investigation to all kinds of given for camping and again all of us so just to clarify what you mean when you say it's a witch hunt there's already been admissions of guilt are you saying that the u.s. justice system is politicized it is not fair that conveys the charges brought against manifold the guilty plaiting by cohen himself all of that is a political witch hunt sammy what i'm saying that this is

a political persecution not a proper prosecution this is designed for a stage in the court of public opinion and then to basically demolishing the u.s. justice system although no i'm not polishing the u.s. justice system i believe in the u.s. justice system but i also know how could it be a political witch hunt and it can be a credible justice system at the same time explain that to all of you i know what. well we know at crime supporters we know what the miller best occasion is this is a witch hunt we know that basically is trying to go into tangency that someone's trying to prosecute you stabbing and they can find anything they can find anything to base a prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich so that's essential what we've got is no way to get depressed that could defend himself and not get nowhere nor can trump supporters so we're not paying attention to it we're just simply stand this is enough is enough we're going to vote straight down the ticket for donald trump in the g.o.p. and that's when we're going to preserve his presidency i really and i think trump supporters do as well they find it insulting that they want to impeach his

president just merely because he beat hillary clinton that is not going to work so i think we're all going to wait in a few days the election it's another surprise if the democrats were smart they would basically play it cool and they were basically let their base come out and vote vote straight up and all of a sudden you could have a flip in the congress and house but they always do that in midterms but given this type of emotional trumped arrangement central guys take place we're going to cut and grow some are just going to simply go into resistance to what that's happening in the media right now against the g.o.p. let me take you know your vision of what's going to happen in the elections to stephen do you see it that way do you think any of these issues that the convictions the guilty pleadings the scandals is any of that going to impact the trump base in midterm elections do you thing well i think to some degree of energizes that i think you've been here that from all over and one hears it elsewhere i mean trump has presented its president see it as an anti and lead us

troops say against the swamp he says it's been a drain the swamp that what is the swamp the swamp the the f.b.i. the swamp this intelligence agency is the swamp this congress this one of those anyone who actually criticizes him and we have a very partisan very divided country and the midterm elections will be that they are. by definition politicized and they will be very divisive what will be interesting to see i'm sure the trump people will come out his supporters will come out but his presence is also energized a lot of antitrust voters a lot of democratic voters some of whom don't like hillary clinton by the way and so it really will be an interesting test or is quite right trump is not on the ticket but to some degree we will always see the midterms as a kind of referendum on the president when he when it stephen i mean forgive me for jumping in but i mean look for the narrative that you know he's vilifying the

entire intelligence agencies the f.b.i. his side of the story at least is that he's targeting the elite in some of these government institutions not the rank and file with that sort of narrative perhaps resonate with the average american who will see themselves a bit disenfranchised from for a variety of economic and other reasons. well it does resonate but of course there have been you know some of these people have been in franchise because they have elected donald trump president after all but what you will have is i believe the democrats will finley take control of the house the republicans will retain the senate and don't forget in the obama presidency he got pretty much everything he got done in the first two years when the democrats controlled both houses of congress if the republicans lose the house i think quite

a lot of what donald trump would like to do at least through congress will get stymied it will be much more difficult for him as it was for obama but we'll have to see what happens. i'm not doing prophecy but there's no question trump is appealing to his base is base is you know thirty percent of the electorate maybe but people come out and vote we'll see how many people come out and vote for democratic candidates who are opposed to donald trump. we've got a bit of time between now and november james in london how crucial do you think the next three months are going to be in terms of the rusher investigation not so much the bank fraud charges and what happened with campaign finance but the actual russia investigation you know michael cohen's lawyer is also already talking about how his client has things to say which could link the u.s. president more directly to russian efforts to allegedly interfere in elections do

you think that kind of stuff might have more of an impact on voters as if stuff like that comes out closer to the elections. well i doubt the anything that michael cohen knows will be made public quite frankly say what you will about robert muller . and his investigation he's kept a very tight ship there's been relatively few if any leaks coming out of it and as a result i think whatever michael cohen decides to proffer with regards to robert melo will stay relatively secret as long as mullah wishes that to do so i think what's going to be more important moving forward of course we have a man a fort second trial in d.c. taking place in september that will be very very telling i think that of course is when he's accused basically before to the united states in failing to register as a foreign agent in the service of the ukrainian government we've also got of course sentencing coming up for various individuals between now and the end of the year

including of course mount a forward for the trial that concluded this week and for michael flynn as well so we've got a series of incidents what will trigger reaction i think is the president's response to the poor man afford it particularly after the second trial in d.c. if you were to pardon his former campaign chair for example that might i think on the surface be considered prime facia evidence of an attempt to obstruct justice that could trigger a backlash amongst the sceptically moderate republicans i think and also if you testify on robert muller now that some in the white house's steadfastly said he has no intention of doing unfortunately as the tapes of came out in the last couple of weeks of revealed this is the syrian president one can always take on his word but certainly if the president were to try to find mullah and to pardon poor man of four i think that would have an interesting a dimension moving into the midterm elections in about seventy days from now.

oliver if we come back through stevens i don't say prophecies made a very close not in the business of prophecy let's call it prediction if we could all analysis that we could see a scenario where the democrats take over at least the house the house of representatives in the congress how real does the possibility of impeachment become in that scenario. well if the democrats take over the house or it could be just the opposite the democrats take over the senate and not the house i think politics in washington is always changing it's like creating sausage i think they may absolutely upset their base and slow up impeachment they may slow up the process of doing that because once you're in power and you also are away from campaigning that you know how and you now have to govern congressmen are basically trying to govern for two years and then in one year in their term they got to get reelected raise

money so they may find that the obstruction of killing the country putting to a presidential pietschmann may not be politically savvy in washington so you may not have that it all things may change the president or change the congress will change because it will be about getting things done what we're seeing right now is the stored say in the guns and all kinds of things then sync with each other because we're trying to get into a rough and tumble midterm election and this is something to each side of the base is trying to over promise and under promise right so i think it's a little bit of an overconfidence bias a winners' curse that leads to real obstructions in judgment and inputs are perfect prognostications than pretty predictions no one really knows what's ahead but we do know but it sounds like you're saying the impeachment is not such a serious possibility let me take that i think i can see james in london shaking his head do you agree with that though in moving actually despite what people the transpose might call the media hype are we actually moving further away from

a trump impeachment. i don't think we're moving away from it but i think the the impeachment word is bandied around far too lazy unfortunately i remind everybody there's not been a successful impeachment and removal from office under the full process in american history there's been two cases where american presidents andrew johnson and bill clinton were impeached and they retained their office afterwards there was no were vote to remove and richard nixon of course resigned before the impeachment process could be concluded so this is not by any stretch an easy process if the republicans were to lose the house and the democrats control that will they could in theory introduce articles of impeachment but if the dems the republicans controlled the senate moving forward then any trial in the senate would almost certainly fall as it did in one nine hundred ninety s. along pretty straight parties and lines and donald trump would repeat would receive five an impeachment trial quite frankly so the idea that somehow you know donald

trump could be impeached at the drop of a hat i think is certainly a misnomer all right stephen do you think whatever happens do you think that the white house is going to be weakened the donald trump presidency is on a course to be weakened even if this doesn't end in an impeachment in some kind of impeachment process in one of the houses of congress. well first of all i think james is quite right i mean there are democrats who are arguing that if they do win the house and do vote to impeach clearly it will fail and that may energize trump space and actually help help donald trump but i think the swing will be visible away from trump in the ember i think the white house has already we can by its own divisions and its own obsession with us muller and what happens to the president also spends

a lot of time trying to keep track of donald trump's moves the other thing one should say though which i think is quite important is that there are a lot of business men in america who love donald trump i mean he's brought them a big big corporate tax cut. the stock market has record hires. there are lots of. corporate people in america who think you know he's been manna from heaven so you know don't just lump tunes is supporters into this narrow group of disenfranchised people that's really being quite unfair to him ok let's shift focus a little bit and james i'm wondering does a weakened white house in any way need in the u.s. perhaps pursuing a different trajectory on some of the issues don't trump has done a one eighty or appears to be doing a one eighty on when it comes to whether it's global free trade strained relations with allies like canada our nato ally turkey the palestinian israeli issue the iran

deal and so on and so forth is there any reason to believe there might be a change in tone if not substance on some of those issues. difficult to see don't trump changing his tone quite frankly he's been pretty consistent throughout most of his career both as a businessman and as a more recent politician. when you think about the potential for a lack of a loss of control over the house of representatives difficult to see how that's going to impact foreign policy too greatly very often in fact almost always through this because of an american presidency you see it beginning with a domestic focus and moving more and more towards an overseas focus as the president's ability to get anything through congress diminishes and i think stephen brought eluded to iran we've seen this happen in the past the idea that you're

going to see a shift away from a domestic focus as barack obama got everything done effectively in his first two years in office if the republicans lose control of the congress i think what you see is president trump moving to be come more of an internationally focused president as ok to get in think done domestically got thirty seconds left let me give in thirty seconds all of a do you agree with that does a post from president post midterm election trying presidency look any difference different now approaches the world i wholeheartedly agree that a west virginia he's created ten trillion dollars in value since he's been elected and the world leaders love it the world countries right now are all about the g.a.a. in and nato countries about growth fast growth and fast capital investment knology so this is basically transactional diplomacy is in the trump age different than relational diplomacy there was post world war two so we're in a new century and so right now leaders around the world right lessing around that

right now if i were donald trump's advisors right now it's in a broad because it's polls go numbers go straight up when it goes from foreign and international trips might depend where he goes though let's leave it there for now and thank our guests james boys all of them they gave me and steven erlanger. and thank you for watching the show you can see it again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for the discussion go over to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle there is at a.j. inside story from me sam has a band and the entire team here for now it's good buy. he is a self-proclaimed messenger of god plenty millions of devoted but his path to enlightenment involves the rape and abuse of his followers when he used investigates the fall of

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threat. the un urges south american countries to ease entry for venezuelans as thousands try to escape a worsening economic crisis. and carolers worst floods in a century sent more than a million into shelters was it all of that or disaster violently say no. to the rebels in yemen say thirty one people have been killed in an airstrike by the saudi amorality coalition the media say warplanes targeted a camp for internally displaced people and day the province at least twenty children are believed to have been killed in the incident. and fisher is following developments from neighboring djibouti joins us now live from there alan first of all take us through the facts that we know about what happened at this point. well this stage nothing has been independently verified with

a number of claims but certainly the reports we're getting from the ground in yemen all point in a similar direction and what these seem to be suggesting is that late on thursday night there was a near strike it was the kill coalition that targeted a number of vehicles twenty kilometers west. of who did a poor there are a number of people were killed here are saying that at least twenty children were killed that these people were internally displaced people essentially refugees from the war in other parts of yemen who had moved into the area for safety but had decided to leave the camp they were staying in because they believed it was being used by the with these to fire missiles towards so to reappear certainly initial reports suggest that at least twenty children have been killed more than thirty in total and those reports are being backed up by the health ministry and so not all

those going to be said there are a number of the media there saying that the number of dead is much less this will lead to calls for an inquiry you remember it was just two weeks ago that this led coalition hit a school bus that was on its way back from a summer camp there forty children were killed eleven adults were killed in that attack the saudis at the time defended the action saying it was a legitimate military action claiming that they were indeed were targeting the leaders but they promised to investigate that attack as for the united arab emirates well the state media are saying that this attack simply didn't happen that launched a missile attack that killed one. child in that area and the two are investigating these reports but as i say the reports that we're getting from the grown from journalists in yemen all point in a similar direction and that is that at least twenty children certainly a number of children have been killed in this led coalition attacked. the same time

we've got human rights organizations issuing reports critical of what's going on there take us through what they're saying also interesting this comes a city leaders are saying that there isn't enough attention being paid by international bodies to what's going on in yemen and that their silence particularly about the attack two weeks ago and this recent attack is shameful but use human rights watch issuing a report just in the last few hours they say they've been looking at the operations of the joint incident assessment team which is the sole you led coalition way of looking into various reports of civilian casualties and human rights watch are saying that this is falling short of international standards that it fails on transparency on independence and impartiality and says simply that the saudi led coalition isn't doing enough to address the concerns of civilians who are caught up

in these attacks there is a see for the attack from two weeks ago the saudis say that they will investigate it but there are many people around the world who are suggesting that the saudis shouldn't be investigating this they're essentially investigating themselves and this should be an international body that is allowed access to view the evidence to view the scene to speak to witnesses and then make an assessment of what's happened and certainly that view would be backed up with human rights watch issued just in the last few hours all right alan fischer that thanks avast. my australia is getting its sixth prime minister in eight years after a leadership change that could yet have wider political implications malcolm turnbull was pushed out after the second challenge by his party this week now and says he will resign from parliament in the coming weeks forcing a byelection the ruling coalition has a majority of just one seat now this is the man who'll be sworn in as the new prime minister scott morrison served as turnbull's treasurer he was one of three challenges to turmel when the leadership was put to

a vote scott morrison addressed the nation a short time ago we have a lot of challenges as a country and we will get through them as we always have. together now our job particularly for josh and i as we take forward this new mantle of leadership is a new generation is to ensure that we not only bring our party back together which has been bruised and battered this week. but that will enable us to ensure we bring the parliament back together that we can continue to work to ensure that our country stays close together and malcolm turnbull is the fourth sitting astride the prime minister to be thrown out of office since two thousand and ten just before that year's elections then labor leader kevin rudd was replaced by his deputy julia guillard rudd really took the leadership from june that in june two thousand and thirteen but his party was beaten in that year's election by the liberals led by

tony abbott abbott then lost a leadership challenge to malcolm turnbull in september two thousand and fifteen kathy novak has more from sydney. well once again australians are being introduced to a new prime minister the outgoing prime minister malcolm turnbull had been facing a leadership crisis all week that malcolm turnbull represents the more moderate side of the ruling liberal party of australia and his opponents wanted to see him replaced with a more conservative leader and he said that he had been facing a campaign by what he called insurgents from within his own party and outside of it so the former minister peter dutton called for a leadership ballot on tuesday that was unsuccessful but malcolm turnbull did not seem to do enough to shore up his leadership and today peter dutton came back and said this time he had the numbers and wanted

a nother vote but then surprisingly it was not peter dutton who emerged victorious and instead now the former treasurer and former immigration minister scott morrison will become the country's new prime minister and now australians on the whole really are fed up with what they see is a bit of a revolving door when it comes to the position of prime minister here in australia and scott morrison moved to try to reassure the population saying that amid all of this talk of whose side people are on he remains on the side of australians and he now faces the very difficult task of uniting his fractured party as it heads into a federal election in less than a year south africa has some on the top u.s. diplomat in the country to criticize president don't trump tweets on land reform it says it's disappointed by washington's failure to use diplomatic channels south africa has accused trump of fueling racial tensions after he said land is being

seized from white farmers and many of them are getting killed. his secretary of state to examine the policy of south africa's biggest farming organization says killings are a twenty year. for me the mill is live for us in johannesburg so is this diplomatic right now. well at this point it appears as if these african government is being as cautious as it possibly can with regard to dealing with this issue in their tweets specifically from the president of the u.s. it has said that these are african public is unhappy but i think the main issue for the south african government is the way in which it was handled in that a tweet was sent out rather than as you say using diplomatic channels but also they in accuracies in that tweet or what they also say are untruths in that the constitution in south africa had been changed to allow for the explode creation of land specifically that of course isn't the case much of the statement from the

south african government was also about explaining what has happened until now that there is wide ranging consultation public hearings discussions with civil society and this is a process that will be based on the constitution and within the framework of the law the issue really is just how the u.s. president has dealt with an issue that is sensitive in south african often based on racial divides and and one that could potentially stoke already existing tensions in south africa. thanks for that. zimbabwe's highest court is set to rule an appeal in the next few hours by the opposition against the result of last month's presidential election m.d.c. alliance leader nelson chamisa says for was rigged in favor of president emerson and. zanu p.f. leaders or gratian has been perspire on to the court delivers its verdict.

judge orders urgent medical treatment for ugandan opposition leader bobby wine may be back in court on treason charges within weeks. and hundreds of kids in chicago turned a busy street into a basketball court in an effort to promote peace. by the springtime flowers of a mountain lake. to the first snowfall on a winter's day. hello get a welcome back to international weather forecast for this hour want to take you to the czech republic we have had a few thunderstorms across the region but i want to particularly show you some video that has come across this is the elbe river now in this river because it has gotten so low there has stones that have been revealed here the called the hunger stones right there and on the stones there are carvings from sixteen sixteen very

old carvings there the carving translates to when you see me cry because when the water gets so low of course that is a very dire situation for the region we're going to sing a few more showers across the area because we do have a frontal boundary that is coming through you can see it right there so that is can provide a little bit more rain and showers across the area as we go through the rest of day today we could be seeing some gusty winds with this as well where the storm system pushing through now that is going to continue to make its way to the east and then down here towards the south across parts of northern italy and across the alps too so we'll be seeing a little bit cooler weather to the north in very windy conditions as you can see london always sing about one thousand degrees there and paris one thousand degrees as well very quickly i want to take you over here towards tunisia we're still looking at a lot of active weather here along the coast where those thunderstorms are going to pop up in the afternoon and we do expect to see a temperature of about thirty two degrees. there with sponsored by qatar and always .