some had let out just. none have cleaned. the united nations says war crimes may have been committed by all sides involved in yemen's war. you're watching al-jazeera life from a headquarters and. also ahead the u.s. argues that the u.n. doesn't have the jurisdiction to weigh in on iran's case against sanctions canada faces pressure as the u.s. and mexico reach a new trade deal that replaces nafta. and that's not a little thing that you know all of us really enjoy women have been wondering how much time we'll have to live inside of a few. ranges call for concrete action after a damning u.n.

report indicts mean mars military for a genocide against their community. fellow a united nations panel has blamed all sides involved in yemen's war for committing possible war crimes a report by the un experts say there is reason to believe that the governments of yemen saudi arabia and the u.a.e. are responsible for human rights violations it says the internationally recognized any government and the saudi u.a.e. coalition may have conducted disproportionate attacks that could constitute war crimes the group also presented evidence that's who the and other rebels have committed potential war crimes which include torture attacks on human dignity and engaging child soldiers under the age of fifteen. individuals in the government of yemen and the coalition including showed you arabia and the united

emirates. have conducted. in violation of the principles of distinction proportionality and all precautions which may amount to. and also acts that may amount to walk crimes including cruel treatment and torture outrages upon personal dignity rape and conscripting or enlisting children under the age of fifteen or using them to participate actively in hostilities. individuals in the de facto will sources have committed acts that may amount to war crimes including cruel treatment and torture outrages upon personal dignity and conscripting or enlisting children under the age of fifty or using them to participate actively in hostilities. joining us from neighboring djibouti was

the message that was being sent out by this report alan. well certainly it's a very harshly worded statement it was very critical of both sides but pointing particularly at the so you laid western backed coalition saying that a number of people there were systemically in mourning orders and carrying out what something could be construed as war crimes and certainly the panel said it compiled a confidential list of names of people that they believe could possibly be charged with war crimes and handed it to the high commission it said that there were real concerns about the use of child soldiers it said that civilians were being targeted disproportionately and also said to quote exactly that sexual abuse is horrendous that this is the second time in twenty four hours that the saudi led coalition has come in for some strong criticism from the international community you remember it

was just on monday that human rights watch said that the saudi led coalition simply wasn't meeting international standards when it came to investigating allegations of war crimes that it is too often saying that those reports were being whitewashed not enough was being a done to address the concerns of those who had been impacted you know the three man panel that went off they carried out fourteen fight finding missions they compiled this forty one page report they gave a copy of the court to all the governments that were named certainly no reaction from them as yet but we do know. that there will be increased pressure on the saudi led coalition and others including the united states and the united kingdom will get back to that in the second to bring an end to the fighting in yemen he certainly did not need me names he said that the international community had to stop providing weapons to do is engage in the conflict in yemen not naming names means not mentioning go around who we know are supplying them with us and not

mentioning the united states and the united kingdom who are backing the saudi led coalition and it'll be interesting in a couple of hours james mattis who is the u.s. defense secretary has a very real briefing at the pentagon on camera and me will be asked about what is going on here but i says i think there are those who know that this report will put pressure on everyone to try and bring an end to the fighting but also pressure on both sides as you look ahead to u.n. sponsored peace talks about yemen starting on september the six all right let's. thank you for that update from djibouti and i will take all of this on with that mohamed jamal he's a columnist an editor with a lot of newspapers he's joining us from london so as alan was saying there's been no reaction from the governments named in this u.n. report but how concerned will the saudi led coalition be by the findings. well i think. it's very concerning to them and it's not new by the way it's not something that you know. while crimes. or crimes which could mount

to be walk rheims in yemen by both sides according to him this is report and also according to. human rights. on monday. that question and now about the timing of this report is it going to be held formal in advance in front of the negotiation which is going to be on the second of september. and what is next if this report is talking about all these crimes. in civilian. child soldier. attack and. infrastructure is it going to move forward to a peace negotiation and what is going to be happening next of what. is this room or you're going to have in those in those u.n. sponsored peace talks how next might. well i think this report will put more

pressure on both sides to make any sort of advance we know according to the leaking of the of the negotiation in geneva that they are going to discuss the airports the seaports they are going to discuss the humanitarian. going to discuss the war prisoners impose size so all these are not to do with a political solution it's all about some humanitarian issues but is this report going to put more pressure on both sides. and to do something rigid in terms of. any sort of political solution in the country and. that countries like the. united states and the united kingdom allan was just discussing that they provide support to the saudi led coalition so does this put any sort of pressure on those countries to at

least reduce their military support of course because i think so because. so many like. pressure groups both countries in the congress on in the parliament in london and not only that but iran as well i think iran should be. concerned because they are supporting the whole of these the whole these cannot continue this war for more than two years without any sort of support from iran we know that so i think all countries are involved in this in this conflict it is. a political solution to this. meeting are they going to transfer. to the united nations security council or not this is the main question right so we will see what happens behind the drama we thank you for joining us from london. u.s. government lawyers say the top u.n.

court doesn't have the jurisdiction to weigh in on iran's case against sanctions iran wants the international court of justice to suspend u.s. sanctions imposed three weeks ago its argument is based on a nineteen fifty five friendship treaty signed two decades before the islamic revolution when iran was a u.s. ally let's find out more about the what the united states had to say on day two and that is where lawrence lee is joining us from from the hague lawrence. yes as you say the overall for the united states side in being represented by legal advisers from the state department is that effective is trying to manufacture. here and they say that iran is complaints against the united states isn't really about these nine hundred fifty five. agreements of friendship or amity it's all but it's actually about the iran being very unhappy with united states pulling out of the

joint conference a plan of action the way the iran nuclear deal and then reimposing a very harsh sanctions against iran and so because of that the lawyers are arguing that the court because that's a political acts are not illegal acts that the court doesn't have the power or the jurisdiction to decide one way or the other whether or not iran's case has any merit and so in terms what they're trying to do is to get the inside thing throwed out before it goes any further but they are addressing at the same time iran's core complain that the united states is behaving in an unfriendly way in breach of these nine hundred fifty five agreements that in fact ever since nine hundred seventy nine that's exactly what iran has been doing to the united states is what jennifer newstead from the state department had to say. mr president iran's request warrants another observation before i proceed it rests on the basis of a treaty to central purpose friendship with the united states iran has expressly

and repeatedly disavowed since nine hundred seventy nine in its words and actions by sponsoring terrorism and other malign activity against united states citizens and interests. in other words the situation that the parties find themselves in today is nowhere near what was contemplated when the treaty was concluded in one nine hundred fifty five. the minister went on in some detail to outline what the united states believes all those actions as she put it were from the islamic revolution itself in one hundred seventy nine to the taking of american hostages to the islamic revolutionary guard going to syria and propping up the assad regime. the. attacks on israel and all of these things over the over the course of decades arguments are continuing to ring through this morning lawrence lee thank you still ahead on al-jazeera reports from saudi arabia. overruled his son on

a key policy decision plus taking to london's notting hill carnival europe's biggest street party back in a moment. hello there were scenes of violent thunderstorms over parts of borneo recently they really have given us some very heavy downpours and you can see the cloud responsible on the satellite picture i think as we head through into wednesday we're going to see yet more showers here and again from of them are going to be very very heavy but they'll gradually begin to ease as we head into thursday and thursday should therefore be a far brighter day further north still a good deal of cloud over many parts of the philippines lots of showers here and the showers continue as you head further west with them putting together there over parts of thailand giving some of us rather a sucky day all together if we had down towards australia for some of us here it's

a pretty wet we've seen yet more showers graze the southwest corner here but the scene another seven millimeters also in the last twelve hours bringing our total this month two hundred sixty four that's really quite impressive given the average is only one hundred twenty two and if we make it up another twelve millimeters we'll have had the wettest august on record and the records go back to ninety ninety three so plenty of wet weather here and there will be more showers as we head through the next few days as well wednesday being the west today then the system edges its way eastwards and it does look a bit drier forest that rainbow will give us some heavy showers on thursday through parts of south australia. struggles. is. what it's pretty much full of pleasure. out of the good in this

a little bit about what i mean. what an intimate look at life in cuba today. but the. top stories on al-jazeera a united nations panel has blamed all sides involved in yemen's war for committing possible war crimes a report by the un says there is reason to believe that the government of yemen saudi arabia and the u.a.e. are responsible for human rights violations it also says that the rebels may have

tortured prisoners the united states says the un's top court doesn't have the jurisdiction to hear iran's case over u.s. sanctions to her on the international court of justice to suspend the sanctions they were reimpose three weeks ago off the donald trump pulled out of the twenty fifteen nuclear agreement. opposition politicians in the philippines are challenging president rodriguez the territories decision to unilaterally withdraw from the international criminal court the supreme court in manila is due to hear arguments against two territories that move as activists and the families of victims in the philippine president's drug war filed a petition with the i.c.c. accusing him of crimes against humanity it's the second complaints against a territory the first one to the i.c.c. to open a preliminary investigation earlier this year. and has more from manila. presidents would be good that their decision to pull out from the international criminal court

is a response to the two thousand and sixteen petition filed against him for crimes against humanity this is in relation to his deadly drug war that has left thousands of filipinos dead and that is exactly what the oral arguments at the supreme court is about here in manila british in theirs are saying basically that do terence said they exist is executive powers basically does not allow him to pull out from an international treaty and that only congress has the right to do that but whichever way the court goes it will not change anything because i.c.c. rules indicate that that once a petition has been filed nothing can basically stop it not even a withdrawal from its membership so the investigation against the terror day will continue and interestingly enough today a second petition has been filed against him for the scene case but what makes the second petition distinct is that number one it has been filed by families and

victims themselves of the drug war that it is a petition filed against a sitting heads of state and it is a petition versus an ongoing policy being committed by a government. says north korea still a serious threat since it hasn't started to remove its nuclear weapons research japan's been carrying out its annual review for its own military capability the report needs to boost its domestic missile defense capabilities until more concrete changes are made by pyongyang u.s. president donald trump on the north korean leader kim jong un agreed to work towards the denuclearization of the korean peninsula during a summit in june. time ago as foreign minister is heading to the u.s. for trade talks the united states and mexico reached a new agreement on trade on monday it will replace their original contract set out in the north american free trade agreement known as snuffed up and donald trump says he hopes canada will be part of it our white house correspondent kimberly

halkett reports. frequently accusing the news media of not reporting on his accomplishments u.s. president donald trump brought reporters into the oval office. oh to listen in real time to a phone call with mexico's president. for you this morning thank you and congratulations together the two leaders jointly announce their breakthrough by lateral deal changing parts of the north american free trade agreement that trump says hurts us worker i like to call this deal the united states mexico trade agreement i think it's an elegant name i think nafta has a lot of bad connotations for the united states because it was a rip off. the now after agreement was signed twenty four years ago between the united states mexico and canada it saw many manufacturing jobs move south to mexico as

a result where labor was cheaper one of the worst trade deals ever on the campaign trail trump promised to renegotiate nafta and bring back jobs particularly in the auto sector the new deal will require seventy five percent of an american car to be made in mexico or the united states up from sixty two percent workers making those vehicles must also be paid a minimum sixteen dollars an hour but missing from this latest agreement is canada will start negotiating with canada irrevocably soon they want to start they want to negotiate very badly relations between the two countries have been frosty since trump slapped tariffs on canadian steel and aluminum canada's foreign minister will travel to the u.s. this week to restart negotiations but it's not clear canada will agree to the changes the nafta changes still need to be approved by the u.s. congress follows weeks of negotiations between the united states and mexico their

agreement now puts pressure on canada to remain a part of the pact kimberly helped at al-jazeera the white house. the world the us president donald trump and kenya's leader who are can you. i have agreed to boost trade and security after holding talks at the white house wants more access to u.s. markets for kenyan business trumps been wanting to discuss security and china's significant investment in african countries. very good excellent cooperation especially in our fight against terrorism because of the neighborhood we're in. for it with united states will be very strong. solid. but more importantly we're here to push to strengthen trade and investment ties. you case prime minister to resign me isn't south africa is part of a trade trip aimed at boosting post fortunes it's her first visit to africa since

taking office she's in cape town to try and strengthen bilateral trade and investment with top investment countries the u.k. was south africa's sixth largest trading partner last year may will also travel to nigeria and kenya. we have been working with african nations with african governments in the past what i'm talking about today is a new partnership for the future recognizing the challenges that we both face we've already seen the benefits of the growth in the economy the stability here in south africa in the investment we've seen from the u.k. i think there are huge opportunities for us to work together both the u.k. and south africa to increase investment in the future to the mutual benefit both of south africans and the united kingdom i mean mars government has dismissed a damning u.n. report which calls for some of its top military generals to be prosecuted for genocide u.n. investigators have documented what they called the grave worst crimes under

international law against muslims they estimate at least ten thousand people were killed during military attacks that began last august the u.s. says the probe the growing evidence against me in march mohamed. in june reports. the u.n. says military commanders in me and more should be prosecuted for genocide against the real hinge or following their recent fact finding mission on me and more three investigators presented their report in geneva on monday. included among the findings that me and mars armed forces also known as the top of my down took actions that in the words of the un investigators undoubtedly amount to the greatest crimes under international law the mission has concluded that criminal investigation and prosecution is warranted focusing on the top to the door generals in relation to the three categories of crimes under international law genocide

crimes against humanity and war crimes after attacks by rohinton gunmen in iraq and state a year ago government forces began a crackdown against the rohingya the un says reports of up to ten thousand killed are conservative estimate. around three quarters of a million of the muslim minority fled to neighboring bangladesh many live here in code to belong camp the largest refugee settlement in the world the report from un investigators includes accounts of numerous atrocities including gang rape in slave meant and the killing of children. there are hendra who are among the most persecuted minorities in the world have faced decades of persecution and sadly they've grown accustomed to the international community ignoring their flight reacting to the investigators findings rohinton rights activist who says she's cautiously optimistic but wants action because the ne that i love it it's been

a year now since you. say many international organizations have come here but we haven't seen any solution it's all of us will handle women have been wondering how much time we will have to live inside everything. that's one of the reasons say many women went out demonstration saturday. those large protests show they were him joe are growing tired of waiting for the world to act they mourned the first year anniversary of the beginning of the violence in iraq and state or is the real hindu demonstrators called it genocide remembrance day as chairman of the hinges society for peace and human rights. has been working for months to document crimes against the rohinton he's not at all surprised by what the u.n. fact finding mission reported yet. the genocide against his has been going on systematically for thirty years and the world didn't know now the u.n. fact finding mission has a lot of the world to know with their work so we're hoping that this will be a lesson to the world so no other countries go through what we went through this is

why we're working for justice. will less is there a hinge a will continue to demand justice even though justice isn't likely to be delivered soon. at the coop along a refugee camp in cox's bazaar on the dish. the router is news agency is reporting that saudi arabia's king solomon has stepped in to prevent the national oil company from issuing shares to the public his son crown prince mohammed bin said mine wants to sell five percent of the company which is known as a ram ko such divestments would open up the company's finances to independence auditors but the reuters report says the king doesn't want to do that roberts is a senior analyst at the group that's a consultancy and advocacy organization he says that saudi arabia is economic outlook is improving. we have to remember back when this i.p.o. was announced it was early two thousand and sixteen the economic context was very

different than it is now saudi arabia was coming off of a year where their budget deficit reached close to one hundred billion dollars the price of oil was still low there were a lot of reforms that were on the agenda but had yet to be implemented and i think we have to remember that that's the context within which the i.p.o. idea came about now. after the enthusiasm around that i.p.o. has subsided we see a very different economic context in saudi arabia the i.m.f. issued relatively positive consultation that they concluded in july we saw growth not oil growth reaching about two point three percent a decrease in the but year on year budget deficit from about nine to four point five percent expected in two thousand and eighteen and also the introduction of various other economic measures like the value added tax and reducing fuel subsidies so of course there's going to be some disappointment from global

investors that we're very hungry for to be part of this i.p.o. there will certainly be disappointment from some policy makers within saudi arabia that hope that they could generate approximately one hundred billion dollars from this that would then. feed into the public investment fund a new cabinet has been sworn in in australia it follows the ousting of malcolm turnbull as prime minister last week he's been replaced by scott morrison turnbull is expected to resign from parliament on friday and that will put more pressure on the government's already slim majority. europe's biggest street party has been held in london the notting hill carnival celebrates afro caribbean culture but the british government's win dress deportation controversy threatened to spoil the party for some reports. it's noisy colorful and exuberant and hugely popular but as well as bringing visitors from around the world onto the streets of west london the nazi hill carnival is

a chance to celebrate the history of britain's caribbean population. this year is seen a political scandal over how badly some of the so-called wind generation and their descendants have been and are being treated seventy years on from the first arrivals arrival of more than four hundred headed to macon because of a hardening of home office rules hundreds have been deported or threatened with deportation others lost their jobs and their right to health care despite being longstanding british citizens. this year is also the sixtieth anniversary of the so-called race riots in notting hill when white youths went on the rampage attacking west indian immigrants and their property. and at this year's opening ceremony children performed a song remembering past and present struggles in trying to celebrate the pioneers upon the full without him we wouldn't have called it will call it was it a unique a baby and this is come about by the contribution of many people over many years so

it's important we recognize as being. one of the is matthew's father client who came to the u.k. from trinidad in one hundred sixty one five years before carnival as we know it got going he says even some in his community was skeptical at the start i don't. know but as i recall more or less he will. feel good media and did talk well we model something on the street about his schools and then gradually people put on course to. systems. and a different game. for years now carnival has been britain's main showcase for carrying culture not just music but everything from watching troughs to food and it's taken a sustained fight to keep it in this area but for now it remains rooted in a particular place and a particular community. of course it's now

a policy that everyone is invited to but it's determined to hold on to its identity . getting bob al-jazeera. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera united nations panel has blamed all sides involved in yemen's war for committing possible war crimes a report by the un experts says there is reason to believe that the government of yemen. saudi arabia and the u.a.e. are responsible for human rights violations it also says that hold the rebels may have tortured prisoners the united states says the un's top court doesn't talk of the jurisdiction to hear iran's case over u.s. sanctions iran wants the international court of justice to suspend the u.s. sanctions imposed three weeks ago its argument is based on an one nine hundred fifty five friendship treaty signed two decades before the islamic revolution when iran was a u.s. ally mr president iran's request warrants another observation before i proceed it

rests on the basis of a treaty who central purpose friendship with the united states iran has expressly and repeatedly disavowed since nine hundred seventy nine in its words and actions by sponsoring terrorism and other malign activity against united states citizens and interests. in other words the situation that the parties find themselves in today is nowhere near what was contemplated when the treaty was concluded in one nine hundred fifty five canada's foreign minister is due in the united states for talks off to donald trump announced a new trade agreement with mexico the us president says he hopes the canadians can be part of the new deal to replace the north american free trade agreements known as. mean mars government is dismissing a scathing u.n. report calling for army generals to be prosecuted for genocide of the. u.n. investigators documented what they called the grave crimes under international law

against the muslim minority they say at least ten thousand were killed since the military crackdown began last august. the prime minister to resign raise in south africa as part of a trade trip aimed at boosting fortunes it's her first visit to africa since taking office she's in cape town to try and strengthen bilateral trade and top investment countries the u.k. was south africa sixth largest trading partner last year may also travel to nigeria . as well. those are the headlines my cube. coming up next right here on. the news hour with. china is keen to win friends and influence you need oil rich spark the wrong line of china to secure resources for the future. as a whole the growth we bring you the stories the economic world we live in counting

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