on al-jazeera. oh. this is al-jazeera. hello and welcome to this al-jazeera news hour live from doha i'm martine dennis coming up in the next sixty minutes a total disregard of the suffering of the people of yemen the u.n. accuses all sides or suspected war crimes in the conflict in yemen. the u.s. argues that the top u.n. court doesn't have jurisdiction in iran's case against sanctions. looking for

business british prime minister to resign may make her first trip to africa in order to boost post bret's it trades. as tens of thousands of venezuelans escaping economic crisis try to make ends meet in a new country. and i'm tatiana phantasy with all of the day's sport to including gold medal delightful hyphenation indonesia on the top and think oh i'll have a story on a lot more later in the program. that is being described as the world's forgotten war all sides in yemen are responsible for blatant human rights violations that's according to u.n. experts who are accusing both yemen's internationally recognized government saudi arabia and the u.a.e. of possible war crimes including torture rape and illegal detention also accuse the who the fighters as well as other fighting groups all. sides are accused of

recruiting children to fight on the front lines of the war that has killed at least ten thousand civilians and that's considered a conservative number the u.n. is calling for an immediate end to fighting and for countries to stop selling weapons which are fueling the conflict with millions of yemen is losing their homes they face famine and disease as a constant threat the u.n. says they have suffered enough individuals in the government of yemen and the coalition including saudi arabia and the united emirates may have conducted attacks in violation of the principles of distinction proportionality and all precautions which may amount to walk crimes individuals in the de facto war 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 ok we can see the shiban now who is the middle east and north africa researcher with the reprieve and he's joining us live from the malaysian capital kuala lumpur thank you for talking to us what do you make of this this being the un's first effort presenting an extensive look at the situation confronting the people of yemen. i think the united nations and the coalition has been for the last for the last couple of years trying basically struggling with each other the u.n. is trying pushing so hard to form an international mccann ism while usually member states usually resists the attempts by the un to form such international can isms to investigate their own their own are indeed because the

call for national this world is something enough communism's so sorry to interrupt you just to make the point that this was something of a compromise wasn't it because the saudis had effectively blocked an effort by the un to go for a much more extensive much more wide ranging commission of inquiry which could have possibly left lead to referrals to the i.c.c. so this does represent a compromise isn't it. i don't think so i mean i think the publishing of this report at this time is basically before the u.n. human rights council are meeting in geneva next month so i think it is if you would like to say basically trying to prepare the ground coming for a possible coming un resolution coming coming next month so i think we'll see next month again another round of struggle happening between. mainly saudi

arabia and of course the yemeni government with saudi arabia is backing it and the u.n. and the u.n. agencies and then we'll see another round of course of conflict happening at the u.n. human rights council saudi arabia will try to convince member states to. vote . on a compromised resolution while i think the u.n. and the u.n. agencies will try to push for international mccann ism so i and this has been going by the way for the last for the last for the last three years usually members member states try to resist the attempts of you and to form such a kind of them all right so now we have this report which is pretty uncompromising in terms of the blame that it does blame all parties to the conflict it also has was of condemnation for those international players who are actually providing the weapons that are being put to such nefarious use in yemen.

the reports although it does blame all sides of the all sides of the conflict but the saudis have repeatedly and including their many governments have repeatedly accused the un that they are not investigating the violations as much so they think that they were the reports published by the un are more biased towards benefiting the truth is because the report does say that most of the civilian casualties are caused by the saudis by the saudi led coalition and of course you have been wide range of violations happening like charge of crude cements you have constant shelling you have hunting of of landmines in residential areas and at the end of the day we need to remember that all of this at the cost of the yemeni people who continue to suffer and i think will enter now the is entering another the fifth year of the fifth year of conflict with no end in sight all right barbara thank you

very much indeed for talking to us live from kuala lumpur. right we go to our correspondent now alan fischer who is just across the water from yemen he's in djibouti and allan this report represents a year's work by this u.n. monitoring team but it seems very much to say it won't do anything to stop in the immediate sense the war in yemen and the suffering of the yemeni people. well certainly we know that the three passed in panel fourteen despite finding trips they spoke to eyewitnesses they spoke to victims it took them a while to compile the report we sent advance copies of the report to all the gum governments named today and it was a very strongly worded report they are saying that war crimes could have been committed and they believe that those who are responsible for war crimes have nothing to do on the left and we are going to send them to the appropriate

authorities there criticize both sides and there is also a warning without naming any names to the international community to stay out of the conflict in yemen you know we know that the iranians have been supporting the who sees we know that the saudi like coalition has received weapons from the united states in the united kingdom in fact if you remember when the saudi crown prince went to the white house and sat in the oval office with donald trump he produced essentially a posterboard of the weapons that saudi arabia was buying from the united states certainly when we saw the attack on the bus just a couple of weeks ago there were calls on the united states for the u.s. to reconsider its position those calls me well get louder given this report coming from this three man panel of experts but what we're unlikely to see is any immediate reaction from any of the government certainly we've heard nothing from the saudis from the government in sendai self or from the united arab emirates but there are those who will hope that this will put pressure on all sides particularly

as the united nations is brokering peace talks between both sides which get under way on september the sixth they will hope that the international pressure as it comes from this report and also you remember the human rights watch report of twenty four hours ago they said the saudi coalition is an investigating allegations of war crimes to international standards that might just do enough to force other countries to speak out and get both sides around the table and a peace deal started to end what is now almost a four year war. alan fischer live in djibouti thank you. now the u.s. has told a top u.n. court that it has no jurisdiction to rule on terror on's legal challenge against washington's renewed sanctions iran will see international court of justice the i.c.j. to suspend the sanctions after washington pulled out of the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal tehran has accused the u.s. of plotting what it calls economic strangulation we go live to our correspondent

lawrence he's there at the hague as a yesterday we saw the arabians put forward their legal argument today is the turn of the americans lawrence. yes it is and they're trying as hard as they can to demolish entirely the iranian case by arguing as you as you said that it has no basis in those standing in the court has no jurisdiction the overarching american point really is that the iranians have been dissembling in trying to say that it's a legal dispute by bringing up this nine hundred fifty five agreement when in reality the americans are claiming the iranian complaint is actually about the u.s. pulling out of the j.c.b. away nuclear deal and re imposing sanctions that obviously is a political rather than a legal issue and so it's based on that they say the court has no jury no jurisdictions are trying to get it kicked out of the earliest possible stage but they have also gone into iran's claim as well by saying that is all very well iran

saying that sanctions are in breach of this treaty of amity and friendship from nine hundred fifty five but ever since nine hundred seventy nine the americans say that iran has been doing nothing from behaved behavior towards the united states side. 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. and she then went on ms newstead sue outlined a very many of the examples she was talking about of this hostile emotional malign

behavior from the iranians at anything from the islamic revolution itself to take of american hostages proxy wars in the middle east support the assad government's support and attacks on israel and so on and so on over the course of decades and another lawyer from the state department has since then been arguing that even in times of the one hundred fifty five treaty itself there is a specific exemption that allows the two nation states of the united states and iran to exempt themselves from the treaty and through their own security arrangements which also bring in nuclear materials. lawrence lee live at the hague thank you very much well meanwhile the iranian president has appeared before polman to answer questions about his government's performance with regard to the economy and he says the new impose u.s. sanctions will be overcome he said he won't allow the what he called an anti iranian plot in the white house to succeed as some rouhani as i said was summoned

to parliament to defend his economic policy which has provoked protests against rising prices and unemployment. cherno you know. why have the people's hopes changed why in regard to ron's future they are in doubt and beyond that even in regard to the glory of the system the strength of the system growth for the future they have dealt with this is we must get rid of we will not allow a bunch of anti iranians that today had gathered in the white house to plot against us the white house will not be happy with the end of today's session. coming the sound is here news hour including putting pressure on me and mom would solve anything china weighs in on the red crisis. and find out how air quality could affect the way your brain where the findings of a new study we're talking about just a little long and in the sports world number one rafa nadal is giving an easy pass

through to the u.s. open the second round. now russia has called for an emergency meeting of the u.n. security council to talk about an expected offensive in syria's province earlier the kremlin heard wolf the u.s. against taking any reckless steps after the u.s. filed a strong reaction to any chemical or biological attack there it is the last remaining stronghold of the opposition in syria and it's encircled by government forces well let's go live to our correspondent there rory chalons and rory what spin high and this russian fear that there is going to be something dreadful about to happen in italy province. you know the russian

deputy foreign minister sergei riad cough says that the russians have information they believe the group that used to be cool. is now called. he's planning walks. calling a chemical provocation and this is going to be taken somewhere in the loop on the borders of villepin the you know the the other parts of syria and the russians very much want to have a u.n. security council meeting to talk about all of this now they are saying that the united states and germany could perhaps use their influence with the groups on the ground in the ad lib to make sure this doesn't happen. but that they don't believe that the united states at least he's going to do that now the background to all of this is that of course russia at the moment has a bit of a problem damascus as you say he is preparing for an assault on the last rebel

stronghold ideally damascus wants to storm it live basically finish the rebels once and for all. washington moscow is being a bit circumspect about this it doesn't necessarily want this to happen certainly it's getting a lot of pressure from the outside world to stop this from happening even its partners like turkey in certain parts of syria partnership anyway is holding up said that this would be a catastrophe so you know it is perhaps possible that if russia talks up the possibility of a chemical attack from the rebels. and maybe the opposition to some sort of assault final assault on it would lessen somewhat and rory there's a there's another line emerging from moscow today and that is apparently that it's preparing for its largest military exercises for decades to take place with china next month hundreds of thousands of troops and a thousand warplanes

a jew what are being called the east twenty eighteen war games roy what more do we know about that. yeah so this is one of these large shed ules military exercises russia has a kind of a rolling churchill of moving these military exercises around it's huge territory this autumn russian autumn it is the eastern military district and central ministry military district which is going to be hosting these war games called vostok two thousand and eighteen last hakim's i mean eastern in russian so so show you the russian defense minister is saying three hundred thousand service personnel are going to be involved in it thirty six thousand tanks armored personnel carriers and other vehicles one thousand aircraft as you say it is. sure you say is going to be the largest military exercise in russia since the zapper and exercises of

nine hundred eighty one he says that in some ways it might even exceed in size those military exercises the involvement of china i think is is is quite important in some ways. for one thing it solidifies this strategic partnership that russia and china have been building over the last few years but also i think it shows that china perhaps that this is not a military exercise that is focused on beijing that beijing should not be worried about it come and join in moscow perhaps is thinking and you know we can do this together it will show you that we're not in any way antagonistic to you i think it's also worth noting that there was a lot of fuss about last year's large military exercises that by two thousand and seventeen ones which are on russia's western borders bordering nato countries those

ended up being not nearly as big as the russian defense ministry had touted them to be so i think we'll have to do accounting in the aftermath of this one to see whether this really is as big as it's being advertised all right thank you for that challenge lies in the scale. now the british prime minister is in south africa as part of her first trip to the continent since she took office to resume a is in cape town and she will strengthen bilateral trade and investment aimed at boosting the u.k.'s post fortunes last year britain with south africa's sixth largest trading partner she will then go on to nigeria and to kenya we have been working with 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 that investment in the future to the mutual benefit both of south africans and the united kingdom by let's go live to our correspondent in south africa she's in johannesburg for me to miller for me to say mrs may traveling to africa to the african continent for the first time since she's taken office and she's traveling with a rather large business delegation. and very much of the strippers she says are the snooze partnership is based on what she calls shared prosperity and shared security that very much the focus of this tour around africa the reason mays outlined some of the plans that the u.k. is looking at saying that she wants the u.k. to be the biggest g seven investor in africa by twenty twenty two and so far has announced that six of rather five billion dollars will be invested in african

countries and a further five billion dollars from private investors that to come later this is very much about renewing ties with africa looking at various african economies but also cementing the relationship that's been established so far the u.k. to some extent has taken a back seat to other trade partners specifically in relation to south africa such as china germany the usa even parts one and the may be so this is very much linked to what happens after a break now aside from trade ties and investment is also looking at stability and security across the continent outlining some of the military assistance that the u.k. has provided to countries like kenya mali as well as somalia so really looking at what's important of all the u.k. going forward and just how some of these aims will be achieved with regard to our travels here including kenya and nigeria as you pointed out and also what's important to realize this is the first trip to africa since twenty eleven twenty

thirteen rather and with regard to kenya it's been thirty years. i mean so really an effort to push forward with the african relationship for me to let's just concentrate on south africa shall we because i'm just wondering whether she's had the temerity if you like to dip her or into the controversy that is raised raging particular south africa but also other countries as well and that of course is the project of land reform which is of course the the one talking point is in africa and as i say beyond. well the prime minister touched it and very briefly saying that the u.k. was in support of the south africa's land reform program in general but you would be speaking to president during the day around what will happen next and as you say their land explode creation without compensation being a very sensitive issue in south africa i just have to touch on this coming up again

because of the attention that's been paid internationally most recently by the president of the united states donald trump in terms of what happens to white farmers specifically in south africa so the africa of course has a long way to go in terms of how exactly it will handle the explode creation of land just who will be given that land and what that means for potential investors if the u.k. is coming in to south africa in a stronger manner of course investors want to be assured that their investments will be safe and land exposed creation wouldn't harm them negatively for me to live in johannesburg thank you. now opposition politicians in the philippines are challenging president eternity's decision to withdraw from the international criminal court the supreme court in manila is hearing arguments against the president's move activists and the families of eight victims in the president's drug war followed a petition with the i.c.c. accusing him of crimes against humanity now this is the second such petition against president to say the first one prompted the i.c.c.

to open preliminary investigations earlier this year. china says international pressure on me a mass government will not help result of the ranger crisis mammals government is one of beijing's strong regional allies and beijing dismissed the damning report of yesterday from the un which calls for some of its top military generals to be prosecuted for genocide mohammed reports from neighboring bangladesh where hundreds of thousands of ranger taking refuge. 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 mean more is armed forces also known as the top of my down took actions that in the words of the un investigators undoubtedly amount to the gravest

crimes under international law the mission has concluded that criminal investigation and prosecution is warranted focusing on the top to mentor 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 estimates. around three quarters of a million of the muslim minority fled to neighboring bangladesh many live here in ca 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 plight 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 he. say many international organizations have come here but we haven't seen any solution it's all of us for him to women have been wondering how much time we will have to live inside and i think. 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 roof. 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 are working for justice. he will less as there were hinge i will continue to demand justice even though justice isn't likely to be delivered soon. at the critical long refugee camp in cox's bazar bangladesh. in a moment steph will have the weather also coming up here in the news hour canada faces pressure as the u.s. and mexico reach a new trade deal that replaces nafta and install tatiana will be here with the details on the latest setback for man united boss jersey a glittering year. from

the waves of the snow. to the contours of the east. hello there do you remember tropical storm that hit china a few weeks ago i know the names roll into one after a while that they especially in this part of the world because we see more storms and sightlines here than anywhere else even around the americas or in the indian ocean so plenty of them from b. ago hit shanghai then worked its way northward and it did that on around the nineteenth of august that's the last time we saw some heavy rain in shandong province but this is what it looks like at the moment there still an awful lot of water on the ground here it hasn't gone down properly and it just goes to show that although the rain is out of the news it's not necessarily back to normal for the people who live there certainly it doesn't look like we've got more significant rain here over the next few days instead the heavier rain is going to be

a little bit further towards the east for north and south korea there's been a loss of very wet weather recently and that has stretched all the way across into this little belt of horn chute here in japan and here this is the risk of seeing some landslides over the next few days as well so this region here really quite wet at the moment and this is what it looks like in south korea clearly that water shouldn't be that high on the banks of the river have been overflowed so lots of what weather coverage that rain still with us at the moment particularly heavy over north korea and south korea slowly it's trying to edge eastwards. the way sponsored by qatar. hand in hand with growing old. refusing to be defined by their mexican women and bringing out their dancing machine. and rediscovering their youth in one step at a time. my dancing hot part of the viewfinder latin america. this

time on al-jazeera. and hundred forty on. u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of the days looking forward to full dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their countries have been truly unable to escape the york.

times has taken over the top stories here on the al-jazeera news a u.n. panel has blamed all size involved in yemen civil war for committing possible war crimes a report by the experts says there's reason to believe that the government of yemen saudi arabia are responsible for human rights violations it also says goofy rebels may have tortured prisoners. the u.s. has told the un's top court that it has no jurisdiction to rule on terror will challenge against washington's renewed sanctions iran wants the i.c.j. to suspend sanctions after washington. called out of the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal. britain's prime minister is in south africa as part of her first trip to the african continent since taking office to reason me is in cape town she's trying to strengthen bilateral trade and investment aimed at boosting ukase post bret's it fortune she'll go on to nigeria and to kenya. so as mentioned

she is visiting three commonwealth countries with a twenty nine strong business delegation she says she will sue u.k. to become the biggest investor in africa by twenty twenty two the u.k. is already investing ten billion dollars in the continent her first stop south africa is the u.k.'s largest trading partner in africa next year go on to nigeria its main export to the u.k. is crude oil its top import refined oil and on the final leg of her trip she'll become the first british prime minister to go to kenya in more than thirty years there are fears that bret's it will threaten its reacts to the e.u. through the u.k. are we can talk. his joining us live from london she's head of africa research at the bank standard chartered thanks for talking to us. clearly the reason may is on a mission isn't she she's looking for whatever to drum up as much trade as much

business as she possibly can in readiness for britain's pulling out of the european union. well there has been a longstanding focus on deepening the economic relationship with key sub-saharan african economy is a lot likely preceding this trip for some time however there is this greater impetus behind being able to secure additional trade agreements looking post twenty nineteen most african countries certainly the key ones with which the u.k. has engaged have had a reasonably robust growth track record and this is what this trip has to be seen in light of being able to strengthen those existing economic ties so it's win win pretty much isn't it south africa let's just concentrate on so that ruka for today but it is win win is the south africa is in dire need of as much business as it can possibly drum up for its own economic prosperity which is in the doldrums at the

moment. certainly if we look at the regions two big economies south africa and nigeria growth are certainly disappointed in the recent past anything that can be done to raise the level of investment to raise the level of private sector in gage meant will be seen as a good thing and as much as we have seen this strong growth trend within africa as a whole a lot more needs to be done for african countries to trade at steadily as well as to trade more with each other so every little bit of thing does help and how big a threat if you like to economic prosperity in south africa today is the looming controversy surrounding the expropriation of land i mean this is something that we know donald trump has already got himself involved in treason may seem to be playing a much more a much more sort of cautious role well it comes to this but how big a perspective threat is this to genuine growth for south africa. that's

been a lot of external misunderstanding about exactly what south africa is grappling with many years after the end of apartheid there is still great inequality in terms of the existing ownership patterns whether that's rule or urban land the suggestion has been made within a leadership conference of the top of the ruling party in south africa top leaders that there should be a move to perhaps change the constitution in order to accelerate the process of land reform now at the same time there has been a palm entry process underway that is looking at this issue what needs to be done to accelerate the pace of land reform but at the same time provide the safeguards that are needed to satisfy on private property rights to ensure that the investments environment is not negatively impacted what we've seen from the u.k. is a very middle of the road very considered approach to the south africa landry formation

is that that country has to grapple with rosie accounting just live from london thanks a lot. the south sudan's foreign minister says the rebel leader has refused to sign the final peace deal with the government it was hoped that years of conflict would end after a breakthrough was reached with president salva care both sides had agreed to a power sharing deal and an end to fighting in the sudanese capital khartoum last month. canada's foreign minister is heading to the u.s. for trade talks the united states and mexico reached a new agreement on trade just on monday and that deal will replace the original contract as set out by nafta the north american free trade agreement donald trump says he hopes canada will want to join and be part of it his our white house correspondent kimberly how it. frequently accusing the news media

of not reporting on his accomplishments u.s. president donald trump brought reporters into the oval office well to listen in real time to a phone call with mexico's president. where you good 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 past kimberley health at al-jazeera the white house the french environment minister has resigned citing a lack of progress on environmental issues nicola admitted during an interview that he hadn't yet told president emanuel mccrone he says the country has been inadequate in tackling climate change defending biodiversity and addressing climate change he's known to score high in popularity polls at the same time own ratings has plummeted to new lows. i have an immense friendship with this government and i offer my apologies but on a challenge this serious i find myself resigned to it every day adapting to it a little more each day even though the global situation with a planet that's becoming a sauna requires us to change our scale change our scope and change our thinking

our let's go live to our correspondent who is in paris the treasury it seems a little bit old should we say that the environment minister is announcing his resignation in a national radio interview and admits that he has not she told the president is this a a massive blow for emanuel mackerel. it is a huge blow for a man or michael i mean it seems nicolas ullo took this decision perhaps of the last minute and he he decided to make this announcement in the middle of this radio show even before he'd really thought it out and that's perhaps why he hadn't told the president either way it's not good news for emanuel because young french president has been trying to build himself something of a reputation as a leader on environmental issues it was just two years ago that he criticized donald trump for pulling the u.s. out of the paris climate deal in last year in paris a man or mark or hosted this really big planet summit one planet summit it was

called and it was all about he said trying to do something to combat global warming saying that time is running out on the issues important to show leadership and even the fact that markov managed to persuade nicola lo to join his government in the first place was seen as a real coup for the president because previous presidents had wanted nicole this very popular television presenter and environmental campaigner to join their governments but they've not managed to persuade him so now we have nicholas low basically saying that the french government is inadequate when it comes to environment issues they're not putting the environment first they're not making it a priority and that is not good news for emanuel mark or who's already suffering at the moment in opinion polls because they suggest the french people feel that he's putting other issues like the economy financial growth before things like let's say

poverty and now environment natasha thank you for that matter the live in paris that is a really worrying development there's a new report out that says that chronic exposure to air pollution can actually reduce your intelligence researches to twenty thousand people in china over a four year period and they tested their matter. skills along with their verbal skills now is a joint u.s. china study and it found that the impact of breathing in polluted air increased with age affecting men with lower education the most they say the results are relevant globally because around eighty percent of the world's urban populations breathe in unsafe levels of air. ok we can speak to one way who is in beijing she is climate an energy campaigner greenpeace's east asia office thank you for talking to us i'm guessing that what's in this report is of no real

surprise to you given that you work on this issue and you're in beijing which is one of the most polluted cities in the world you know so i would say also it's not all of the driving. you know the link between air pollution and how long has been established for a very long time but he used to be focusing on the the loss. and also heart disease and in terms of need is. more. because you are their organs are not sure enough so that i wasn't to conclusions outside the first that scientific records. are of the natural for our. own community performance so i think this study comes in from a very new angle and further last us about the impact of

a deviation and when we say cognitive performance what do we actually mean i mean the report talks about those men with less education being most affected by breathing in pollution so what exactly how exactly is their performance in life hampered by breathing in a bad air. so these that it's that big between how an evolution for the sat your brain is still too big to discover because this report was the only sort of psychological path and the cognitive tests it's not a physiological tasks which. coming from a you know explaining how exactly we'll have to break but more shows just let it decreasing performance and verbal and math past so i think i hope that this report could further inspire other scientists to further investigate how to

compare pat on the brilliance kwang way thank you very much really interesting to talk to you thank you. now the economic crisis in venezuela is forcing many to escape pretty much the were ever they can go many people have poured into peru so they can feed their children who they've left back home marianna sanchez reports now from told as. a physician turned cookie vendor on the pan-american highway. and her husband hoarsely left their teenage sons back in venezuela they now make less than ten dollars per day but that she says is good but. that allows us to eat and some the kids money only for them to eat the little they can get we can't even buy them a pair of shoes or a phone to talk to them. but here to sell and horses settled into the city twenty

five kilometers south of the border many proven as winners who couldn't afford the journey to the capital even so candy or food to make ends meet this pipe dangers and restrictions venezuelans are pouring into b two bus stations are packed with passengers heading south more than four hundred thousand venezuelans are already living in the country. with the help of a nongovernmental organization twenty five year old nancy harris found a small house received basic kitchen tools and mattresses nearly a miracle she says for a family who ventured out on the road penniless and hitchhiking with laurel's come your need all knowing that truck drivers picked us up fed us give us money i sold my phone and with all that bought tickets for the bus to get here the way venezuelans can still come into it without a passport is by requesting for asylum it would allow them to apply for a work permit while they live in the country. and they can request

a humanitarian visa it's a policy that first drew the high miss family to predict. taught him the meaning of humbleness. you learn to be humble after having thought about those bigots who are here and there to live now. because we've had to do. think. i would like to tell the world that i'm not here because i want to migrate or because i wanted to take a job away from anyone else i'm here because my children had nothing to eat. when i was the only option they say they hope one day this journey will take them back home. so it's. good. that the u.s.

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time for the schools use values to thank you very much montane though with a double gold medal the life for host nation indonesia at the asian games in jakarta on tuesday on the badminton court fast top christie johnson faced choosing chang of chinese taipei in the men's singles final jonathan taking the onus two sets to one. it was a case of two from two for the host nation is that men's team took gold in the doubles final as well it was

a sure thing as both teams were indonesian marcus finale gideon and kevin sanjaya so proving to be the winning. and in the interest of giving from one else the time when no indonesian competing in the women's singles final ties are yang of chinese taipei winning gold that. the philippines basketball team was knocked out of the asian games on monday it's the nation that continues to underperform even though boscobel is hugely popular that many feel it's the nation's short stature that's holding it back but is a nationwide growth spot about to change that development i can report. basketball is big in the philippines but should this should leave its people are not. they haven't qualified for in the olympics in four to six years. participation is not the problem oh signs did. but could a national growth spurt yet bound to change things there seems to be that trend

that in the females are getting taller taller kids are being brought to metro money in the training of the younger age so their bodies are also seemingly physically grohl on their they're given the best training the best nutrition they travel abroad to play against tougher competition so that also strengthens them so their children in turn become taller and bigger and stronger. i saw a slam dunk contest to bodie to the philippines growth spurt theory the son of a former filipino pro the sixteen year old already stands out amongst to steve meets at seven foot one if you're on the high list i said typists my soul is going to be a huge advantage especially when you're playing against legs slowly like one of the things that you just know it's just going to be like a dollar against them so to me business is going to store you see even those sort

of stature may be extraordinary his coach says in general he's definitely see a shift in philippi the players getting taller with us by the way take gardai average height ok if your libido is around five for now at the brewer the average height the baby you gave around six four he's already had offers to play in europe and the states but there's no doubt what the ultimate goal is for soccer. major in the n.b.a. the learn of the n.b.a. is everywhere and for kids here it would certainly provide a golden ticket but individual ambitions aside filipino basketball fans would just like to see the country competing back on the international stage. nine hundred seventy two was the last time the philippines basketball. team competed at an olympics but the passion for the game is a strong as ever. and who knows if kids are indeed getting taller it

may not be too long before they're back competing for medals jamila and dugan al-jazeera manila. china a miles ahead of japan in the medals table to have eighty nine golds compared to the japanese halle of forty three south korea all key pipe third ahead of hosts indonesia who have seventy two medals in total. tennis now and while the number one rough in a dollar has won his opening match of the u.s. open the defending champion advance to the second round off to fellow spaniard david forever was forced to retire after losing the first that for i wasn't looking as best in required on court treatment despite winning the game on his serve the thirty six year old was on able to carry on if finished six three three four. ladies and. also bad news for eighth seed grigor dimitrov who was knocked out in three sets by standard brinker is

a repeat of the first round of wimbledon the same outcome the swiss is on state of the tournament offering injury this season. twenty three time grand slam champion serena williams has moved a cautious step closer to a wreck already calling twenty fourth grand slam titles the raina who's a six time winner at flushing meadows beat mark the next opponent to advance to the second round of the us open the new mother winning comfortably six four and that fellow. i feel pretty good at first match of the grand slam is always good to get through so. you're. defending u.s. open women's champion sloane stephens has the gun the defensive title the american beating of jenny ever dina in straight back and seventy five. the world number one the mona holiday has been knocked out in the opening round the

top seed was right in saying she had a tough stroll she struggled against kaia kanepi due to the opening that her absurd was broken five times as she took her frustrations out on her racket estonia's canada he won the second set but. it's always tough to lose a match because i'm very competitive player and also when i go on court i want to give everything i have so it's tough to lose sometimes i have to use it's normal but now i feel better i feel that just was. a bad day and move on fast everybody can be that everybody on a good day so that's what i thought that i know she is number one she plays constant three constantly really well but i can play well to. manchester united manager jos a marine who has suffered

a second defeat in as many games in the english premier league on monday has team hosted tottenham spurs took the lead through harry kane that was before look at mora netted a double to inflict a three male defeat on united at old trafford if marino biggest ever home defeat as a manager at any club in any competition off to as he was defiant despite thousands of fans leaving the ground early. i'll do the same losing losing three new losing string you taking two hours from here to the center of manchester because it's where i live and i know that after matches it takes two hours to the same so keep trying keep trying. keep trying we lost last season here against civilians and we were booed because we deserved because we were not good because we were not dangerous enough because they really deserved to win to win the match we were booed

and deservedly and today the players they left the peach after losing at home and they were applauded because they deserved because i was a player the self would create the belief the faith was the most fantastic. nobody defeat. the stadium like would definitely do. it's not easy to win. while the faeries champions the houston astros continued good form good form in major league baseball about softer one hundred eleven to four when a villa found. the new york yankees trip top against the chicago white sox on monday it's the fourth straight day whenever the white sox had major league baseball they also won ten thirteen laugh again that's the thing i can't stand now six and a half games behind the league ladies boston red sox. chances that fill a full phenomenal life and watching tatiana thank you very much indeed an ounce of

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