forced to increase hear their story on talk to al jazeera. al-jazeera. hello and welcome to this news hour live from our headquarters in doha i'm fairly bad people coming up in the next sixty minutes they were not seen any trollish disregard by the people we're working with the u.s. stands by the saudi and iraqi military coalition after a un report accuses all sides in yemen's war of committing war crimes with trillions in trade on the line canada dispatches its top diplomat to washington hoping for a place in a revamped nafta also the solid growth rate and they'll come a manmade botanical garden in south africa draws crowds as the continent's rain

forests face destruction. i'm joined again go with the sports plays underway at the u.s. open and manchester united a standing by there under pressure manager joe is a marine you're whose demanded respect i wore more alone than the other monk you managed to get. for me and for them the receiver in the response was very. thank you for joining us all sides in yemen's conflicts may have committed war crimes involving deadly air strikes rampant sexual violence and the recruitment of child soldiers so says a team of u.n. investigators in their first report for the human rights council they describe saudi emirati coalition strikes as the single most deadly force in the fighting over the past year but they also point to possible crimes by hoofy rebels who are

battling against the coalition and yemen's government alan fischer reports from neighboring djibouti. none have clean hands a un panel three experts investigating and a damning conclusion individuals in the government of yemen and the coalition including saudi arabia and the united arab emirates may have conducted attacks in violation of the principles of distinction proportionality and all precautions which may amount to war crimes. the u.n. top human rights body commission the investigation into the ongoing fighting in yemen of war that has lasted almost four years the panel of experts meet fourteen fact finding missions spoke to victims and eyewitnesses and express concern about the targeting of civilians the use of child soldiers and the use of sexual abuse as

a weapon which was described as horrendous. conscripting or enlisting children under the age of fifty or using them to participate actively in a still it is is a war crime. the panel called for an end to the fighting and without naming names or to the international community to stop providing weapons for the conflict iran has been supplying hooty fighters or the u.s. in the uki has been backing the saudi led coalition the panel also criticized the hooty site in what was a strongly worded report they need to send investigators into yemen and would have been welcomed by the whole the many many time so when they have a good evidence then they can bring anyone to justice either for all and solidarity movement or from the saudi led coalition. or in yemen erupted in march twenty fifteen saudi arabia and the united arab emirates and leading

a western backed coalition trying to restore the internationally recognized government of exiled game any president who mansour hadi who was forced out of the capital sanaa by iranian backed the fighters it's the second report in twenty four hours criticizing the saudi led coalition on monday human rights watch cleaned it it field to adequately investigate reports of human rights abuses and too often whitewash the results responding to the panel's findings the yes' minister of state for foreign affairs tweeted we should review and respond to the un experts report published today adding the coolish and is fulfilling a true and reclaiming the yemeni state and securing the future of the region from iranian interference in washington at a real briefing u.s. defense secretary mattis give his response to the report and i think that what we have to look at here is probably can we get to the u.n.

brokered peace table. all the that the u.n. special envoy. is trying to get it to that that is the goal that doesn't change no matter what credit he happened on the battlefield all the governments named in the forty one page report received an advance copy the panel says it has compiled a list of the names of people it believes may be responsible for war crimes and passed it on to the appropriate authorities and there are those who hope that this report will put pressure on both sides as we approach u.n. sponsored peace talks starting on september the sixth alan fischer al-jazeera djibouti now the world news the threat of the syrian army offensive in the last rebel stronghold in the north has been at the center of an urgent u.n. security council meeting it was called by president bashar assad's ally russia earlier the russians warned the u.s. against taking any quote reckless temps after washington promise a strong response to any chemical or biological attack in it led by government

forces russia's ambassador suggests it is so rebels who are planning to use chemical weapons there which will be used to justify a western strike against syria's military. one of. the syrian armed forces do not have chemical weapons and have no plans to use them there is no military need for that we have stated this more than once people in their right minds would not use means that are used as from a military point of view that would trigger reprisals by three major powers published city of an expected propagation could only strikes thank you for the warning we also want to warn you that we are absolutely aware of your unsavory plans we strongly suggest you refrain from them carrying out these plans with further deliver a strike against a peaceful resolution in syria we are seeing how some western countries are clearly supporting al nasra fighters the chemical topic is cruelly manipulated to put pressure on damascus just saber rattling to deal with internal domestic issues well

the u.k. some bastard of the un flatly denied supporting our nasir fighters in syria being part of any chemical weapons plot i think even reach a stand of russian propaganda this is an extraordinary fake news story the commander of british forces in the coalition major general felix get who is based in kuwait has said already that the claims are ridiculous. of course we are not going to do anything remotely a kin to a chemical weapons attack we take our chemical weapons preposition responsibility sixty me seriously well joining us now on the news hour is richard vines in washington d.c. he's the director of the center for political military analysis at the hudson institute thank you very much for being with us again on al-jazeera so claims by the russians of an imminent chemical attack in syria is there any substance to this

in your opinion. well the poles themselves may have been sent to use chemical weapons if they think that could pull in an allied response but the the the claim that is being made that the us and britain are encouraged. to sell it stating such a plot to try and serve as a prefect pretext to allied milena intervention on incredible but does that is the russian narrative they've been claiming for several years now that in syria and other places the us and its allies have been either overlooking or encouraging terrorists that are fighting pro russian regime so this is not new it is incredible and it's not believable but do you see

american action american involvement if they were to be a chemical attack in northern syria if it was to happen they have warned against this of course but would they get involved at this stage in the conflict. yes i think that the that is a very credible threat the u.s. and its allies are making because they've already used force twice before after a chemical weapons attack and in fact that's one reason that it's been used it for a major u.s. military strikes against the syrian government so i find that threaten very credible and i think that that was reinforced by all the national security advisor bolton told the russian officials this weekend in moscow and obviously what happens in adelaide right now is very important and very crucial because this is the last remaining rebel stronghold in syria the russians and americans had been cooperating on a peace deal in syria recently what impact do you see

a full scale government offensive on it labe right now having on those efforts by the americans and russians to find a deal yes when president trump a selected there was a lot of focus on trying to work with the russians on some kind of a peace agreement but for the past year those efforts have really made much progress i mean what's been happening with the russian and the russians have been using their own preferred channel through and the astana process in which the u.s. this involved so it wouldn't just rob those efforts so much what happens in syria i think that that is this difference over chemical weapons is one of several issues that have been impeding russian u.s. progress so even if in syria even if we overcome this one i just see there's us major differences of a question of the ask that government questions of the iranian presence so i don't think that any cooperation is going to be minimal matter what happens and

interesting the rich advised even among syria's allies this seems to be differences as far as what to do in what does that suggest to you. well yes i mean this is it's tactical differences i mean think the objectives of the russians and the syrians and hezbollah are for the syrian government forces we occupy all of syrian territory and then reestablish the kind the kind of government we need for some not a very broad based peace process not an except in u.s. or other foreign fighters. for a foreign government forces in the territory on the territory of syria that said there are probably some tactical differences i mean i think that the ukrainians sometimes appear to have their own agenda they have want to use syria as a platform for waging their their confrontation with israel or intervention lebanon whereas the syrian government and the russians might want to focus more on sharing

government reconstruction so they want to avoid antagonizing turkey or growing in western intervention. but again these are basically i think that in the broader goal poles of a kind of end state they want to see in stereo itself they're pretty overlapping thank you very much for your thoughts very good to get your insight on this rich advice from the institute joining us say from washington thank you very. canada has rejoined talks with the u.s. to try to solve the north american free trade agreement nafta or a new version of it canada is under pressure after u.s. president donald trump announced on monday that he'd reach a deal with mexico that could replace not-a all three countries had been working on a new agreement since last august but mexico and the u.s. recently began negotiating on their own let's go live to. in toronto daniel what's the reaction from the canadian government to this deal between the u.s. and mexico are they worried. i think they are i think there's

a sense of urgency here that they have been not involved directly in the negotiations now for several weeks and all of a sudden the deal seems to have between us and mexico seems to have caught them by surprise the foreign minister who handles the trade file chrystia freeland she had to cut short a visit to europe and she's just arrived in washington d.c. to join the talks along with her advisors and people that she works with on trade i think canada has to really make a decision this week because they're talking about friday this friday is the deadline for reaching a deal that all three countries can be involved in that mexico needs to get it to its government that's going out of office by december first get it approved and president trump would like it approved before the mid-term elections in november canada's got a lot of thinking to do in the days ahead and i mean in the days ahead this week. because the deadline of course isn't just a few days what kind of a deal is can that looking for exactly and what have been the sticking points with

the u.s. . canada has been concerned about a number of things the agree the agreement between mexico and the us largely talks about cars automotive parts that sort of thing canada's vaguely with the united states on that so no problem there but canada also wanted a dispute resolution mechanism mostly to deal with the american problems as they would see it and the united states and mexico have agreed not to have that also canada protect its dairy industry its poultry industry it's a good industry and the americans do not want that president trump has singled that out and said american poultry dairy eggs need to be allowed into canada this is a politically sensitive topic here and there are other issues too that the government has to make tough decisions on in the days to come we'll see if they can do a deal this week they may not be shut permanently out of any new nafta or new deal but if they don't do it this week it's going to be hard to call it a north american free trade agreement than you lachlan for us in toronto thank you

now a short time ago i spoke to former u.s. ambassador to canada bruce heyman he says this is a crisis of the american president's own making. well i think it's a hostile message but one in which the canadians i think those people that know canadians around the world they'll take it in a disciplined and calm way and there is an opportunity for canada now to join the talks and to come up with a very quick deal but the fact of the matter is this president like an arsonist who becomes the fire fighter puts the fire out there was no crisis here in nafta until the president created one the markets reacting to the fact that the president created the crisis and everybody was fearful that nafta was going to blow up that he was going to continue to put additional tariffs on auto and related on many of our partners around the world and people are interpreted in this as the president's moving back from many of his terror threats so the market is rallying as a result of backing away from the crisis that he created the reality is as you

describe this is one of the best trade deals in the entire world two of the three top trading partners with the united states or canada and mexico and north of a trillion dollar deal creating millions of jobs. plenty more ahead on this news hour including a heated political climate in france says the environment i'm vironment minister quits saying his government is failing to do enough plus is pollution clouding our minds will tell you about the study that says it is and in sports a round up of the asian games action as the world's seventh highest paid female athletes has to settle for sell their. iranian members of parliament have rejected the president's blaming of u.s. sanctions for the struggling economy has on rouhani was summoned to parliament for

the first time to explain why prices and unemployment rising while the value of the reigning currency is falling parliament voted earlier this month to sack both the labor and finance ministers chaired only there i will tell you. 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 dealt we must get rid of we will not allow a bunch of anti iranians that today have gathered in the white house to plot against us the white house will not be happy with the end of today's session. while iran and the us secondly facing off at the international court of justice way iran is challenging the us sanctions iran says it's the victim of economic strangulation and auggie is the sanctions violate a friendship treaty that they signed way back in one nine hundred fifty five the americans on the court has no jurisdiction to even hear the case lawrence lee has

more from the hague. well they serve this hearing it's been the united states state su iran's core allegation that the us has been in breach of this obscure nine hundred fifty five agreements of friendship between the two countries by the reimposition the sanctions and the overwhelming overarching argument from the u.s. side is that iran's argument is entirely deceitful because it's effectively confusing legal and political arguments in the us his argument is that iran's complaint isn't really about the nine hundred fifty five agreements it's all bus about the united states pulling out of the nuclear deal and re imposing sanctions and based on that it says the call doesn't actually have the power the jurisdiction to rule on this or so effectively they're trying to get the case thrown out before it gets any further but they have at the same time addressed iran's complaint that the u.s. has been guilty of unfriendly actions by re imposing sanctions bargain that in one thousand nine hundred ninety and words from the islamic revolution that's exactly

what iran has been doing to the united states 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 us side then went on to list all their complaints about iran's behavior towards the u.s. over the decades unfriendly actions it would say in breach of the nine hundred fifty of five agreements the islamic revolution itself taking of american hostages support for his ball and therefore attacks on israel using funding when the sanctions have been lifted to pay for proxy wars in the middle east and support the

assad government in syria as well all of these things the u.s. says would be iran behaving in exactly the same whether they're accusing the united states of they also say that nine hundred fifty five agreements actually specifically excludes issues to do with national security and nuclear materials as well but in terms of saying the case has absolutely no merits or let's get the view now of william chavis he's a professor of international not at middlesex university his via skype from paris thank you for being with us on our al-jazeera so the u.s. is arguing that the i.c.j. has no jurisdiction to rule on the sanctions are they right the sanctions legal under international law. well the court's going to decide that question but i think that iran has a good argument that the court has jurisdiction i would not think the united states is going to win and i'll never argument but courts already had cases dealing with this treaty from one nine hundred fifty five and it's been applied so i don't think

that's really where the heart of this is going to lie what's going on right now actually is a big skirmish about the legality of aspects of donald trump's foreign policy and i see that there's been a real battle that's happening before the international court of justice this is a preliminary type of hearing because all the corners the starting of this point is whether to make an interim order that the heart of this case won't be decided for probably two years until there been the exchange of documents and so on and much more argument before the court this is just to decide whether there's going to be a sort of an emergency order against the united states to suspend the saying actions that began in may of this year as you say the iranians have cited a friendship treaty signed in one nine hundred fifty five given today's current political climate and the tensions does this treaty even have any validity. well the treaty is valid i don't think that's really

a big issue and all that iran has to do that when the when the debate this week is to establish that they have a plausible argument the hard part of iran's cases demonstrating to the court that they need urgent matters because of the disastrous because of the disastrous consequences that will take place if the if the sanctions are not stopped immediately and the rounds problem as i see it is that they've lived with the sections for many years they've lived with the hardship that imposed they were brought to an end by the nuclear agreement and now they've been reimposed but iran has to demonstrate that they just can't withstand the situation in the foreseeable future i think that's the hard part of the case they have to me and even if the i.c.j. sides with iran what then what happens after that can a force the u.s. to lift the sanctions well you know international law is a mixture of courts making decisions that are binding on states and convincing

states that they actually will live in many states comply with decisions of the international court of justice in a very routine manner because they see an interest in the maintenance of the international legal order it's not so clear that that's the position of the current american administration so if they were to lose a decision even this immediate decision on interim measures i think there are a big question mark over whether we could expect the united states of america to comply even a little bit such an order and just coming back to this friendship treaty that the iranians are using as a basis for their argument the americans have also used this treaty our back in one thousand nine hundred nine i believe but i wonder you know if iran and america face tense relations today why bother keeping this treaty in effect. well that's it's been i suppose for both of them at different times seem to be a treaty of mutual interests and so they've left it in force and they've used that

you know litigation before the court and obviously they could agree to bring it into it or one of them could denounce it for the future but we're dealing with the current situation and they count the nouns of the past so that treaty is is there and i don't think the debate in the court has been used on whether or not the treaty is lawful or not thank you very much for your insight william chavis professor of international law at middlesex university thank you for your time francis environment minister has shocked the president by resigning on live radio without telling his bosphorus nikolai you know as a popular t.v. presenter and campaigner before going into politics he says the government isn't doing enough to stop climate change natasha but everything for some paris. it was on french radio that nicholas who lost an ounce to sudden resignation as france's environment minister the pre-mortal the first time i'm going to take the hardest decision of my life i don't want to lie to myself any more i don't want my presence in this government to be taken to mean that we are doing enough to tackle this

challenge who had spent fifteen months in government under president emmanuel michael during which it helped stop controversial plans to build an airport on farmland but he said too little progress had been made in other areas such as rolling back nuclear power before entering politics is a popular t.v. presenter of environmental programs and campaign. this makes it clear that the government isn't interested in german violent considering the project as a gesture to the low but on every other important issue concerning our future such as pushing for an environment tax nothing has changed. macro was almost a visit to denmark when he learned to the resignation who had not told him the forehand to the two i hope still to be able to count on him in one way or another i think that in fifteen months this government has done more than any other in the same time on the same subject and those departure is a blow for mycroft who's positioned himself as

a leader on the environment last year he criticised donald trump's decision to pull out of the paris climate accord make our planet great again micro also hosted an international conference on climate change right here in paris it was attended by dozens of world leaders environmental experts and campaigners michael likes to present himself internationally as a leader friend of until issues on climate change and here you know says i did really what i could i did my very best for one year and three months i did not succeed because this president obviously does not consider a run of the issues as primary issues so that's a really tough tough road for michael the resignation adds to its. few months for the president's opinion polls suggest his popularity has fallen some people say he focuses too much on economic growth and not enough on social issues now his commitment to the environment is also being called into question. paris with image

and ahead on this second half of this news hour another setback for peace south sudan's rebel leader shines a peace deal at the last minute and in sports is defending basketball team about to get a boost from a national growth spurt job here with the details next to stay with us. hello there is generally quite quiet across many parts of the middle east at the moment it's hot and sunny for most of us but there are a few areas where there's slightly different types of weather we're seeing a bit more cloud up in the far north eastern parts of our map and that's giving us one or two showers and i think for the northern parts of turkey we're also seeing some more cloud there for wednesday and there's a chance of a few outbreaks of rain as well that system gradually edges its way eastwards as we

head through thursday though and so most of us here should see dry weather to elsewhere is just pretty hot at the moment with baghdad all the way up at forty seven degrees now here in doha it's not quite that hot because things have suddenly got more humid and they'll stay humid over the next few days so our maximum on wednesday thirty nine degrees but expect it to be a very sticky thirty nine there's a bit more cloud on the south coast to rome and that's pushing its way further inland as we had three thursday so think a cloud over parts of a man into yemen just about into saudi arabia as well and that will be giving us one or two showers around the coast around salada as you'd expect around this time of year at and towards the southern parts of africa largely fine enjoy be can see the winds bringing in a little bit more moisture and that's what we'll see as we head through wednesday so a few showers around mozambique maybe a couple in madagascar as well but away from there it's fine and dry sixteen the maximum in cape town.

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this is a news hour on al-jazeera with me for a reminder of our top stories the united nations has held an emergency security council meeting about a possible offensive in syria's province russia called for the meeting where it denied that the syrian government would conduct a chemical attack. canada has rejoined talks with the u.s. to try to salvage the north america free trade agreements nafta or a new version of it canada is under pressure after u.s. president donald trump announced on monday he'd reached a deal with mexico that could repay snuffed out and a united nations panel has blamed all. all sides in yemen's civil war of 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 hope the rebels may have tortured prisoners. now a day earlier the u.n. accused me on mars military of the grave this crime scene clued in genocide and call for top military generals to be prosecuted a u.n. fact finding mission examines particularly the military offensive in rakhine state that's for seven hundred thousand writing a muslim stiffy to bangladesh myanmar's government has dismissed the allegations but fortify writes an asia base human rights group says the ruling the refugees have captured the genocide on their mobile phones and have enough wrong video to make a case at the international criminal court the organization is urging prosecutors to work closely with refugees and quickly because they worry that evidence will be lost the phones are damaged in squalid flooded camps and

a meeting about myanmar will start soon at the u.n. secretary general antonio terrace and australian actress cate blanchett who is also a u.n. goodwill ambassador will be briefing the security council let's cross to mike hanna at un headquarters in new york for us what else do we know about this meeting mike . well this meeting had been previously shared jewel it is a monthly meeting on the situation to be briefed by the secretary general as you mention but obviously this is got added importance given that report that was released within the last forty eight hours commissioned by the human rights council which held the myanmar military primarily responsible for what it called or amounted to acts of genocide very strong words in this particular report now the security council is the body that would have to decide whether this matter does go to the international criminal court or some other tribunals be set up to

investigate all the allegations made in that particular report now within the security council itself there has to be discussion about what form the investigative mechanism would take certainly be heard some very strong words from some members of the security council as such as britain such as the united states such as holland however indications are that china may hold out in terms of any immediate action we've heard from the chinese foreign ministry a spokesman saying that myanma doesn't give in to any form of pressure so we will have this meeting starting in just under half an hour to be briefed by antonio good terrorists and it will give us some indication of which way the security council is going to go in the wake of this damning report and we will of course go back to you mike throughout the evening here on our air for the latest that happening at the united nations to thank you. but he's in india have arrested five human rights activists lawyers and journalists for suspected links to left wing ultra left wing

mollies groups have been since similar tenuous raise across five states in their homes and offices the poet varvara rao was one of the activists arrested they're accused of delivering speeches that triggered protests and violence between diets and right wing groups last year groups like amnesty international india and oxfam have condemned the crackdown. south sudan's rebel leader has refused to sign the final peace deal with the government according to the foreign minister off sudan who's been trying to mediate it was hopes that the years of conflict would end after a breakthrough was reached with president salva kiir both sides had agreed on a power sharing deal last month more from our correspondent to morgan. well one of the main points of contention between the two sides is the number of states in south sudan three three years ago the number of states was ten and the president went on to change the number of states of thirty two the opposition and the wrecked

my chair and other opposition groups who have also objected to signing this draft of the peace deal think that this number of states a thirty two number of states give the president more power it gives his tribe more control over not just the landmass but the resources of south sudan so that's one thing that they are against they think that for them to be able to negotiate and move forward the number of states in south sudan should go back from thirty two to ten and then they'll be able to discuss further earlier this month they signed a power sharing agreement and agreed that the president will remain president and that there would be four different vice presidents they still have to talk about the power of the vice president what they should do who gets which ministry they have talked about security arrangements they have to talk about military forces and how to reintegrate them khartoum sudan and other regional leaders are trying to do to force a breakthrough between not just the opposition and direct my char and the president but between various other sides and they will continue to bring all the sides together and negotiate hoping that they would sign

a peace agreement even if it's one thing or close at a time. u.s. and chinese scientists in a joint study have found that chronic exposure to air pollution can harm the way our brain processes information twenty thousand people in china were observed for four days along the way their skills in mathematics and basic verbal abilities were assessed the study indicated some cognitive decline in the test group and that older men with lower education were affected the most the study concluded that the results are relevant globally since eighty percent of the world's urban population believe is de t. heir of more in this thread speak to barbara marsh is a professor of environmental science at manchester university thank you very much for being with us this is a rather alarming report it establishes a link between pollution and lower test scores is a cause and effect you think. so this is very difficult because there are now increasing studies which have demonstrated links or statistical associations

between exposure to our pollution and some sort of damage to the brain here it's looking as intelligence and cognitive abilities but other studies are looked at behavior and criminality of behavior and some studies have identified for example loss of white matter volume in the brain related to exposure to our pollution the problem with all these studies is although there identify a link between exposure to our pollution and the reduced cognitive performance or damage to the brain these studies cannot identify the mechanism the process by which the pollution is actually causing the impact on human health so so that's really were signs must go and must go on gently which is try identify which components of the pollution mix are actually causing the observed effects on human brains and human brain health and what do you think is the most dangerous element

that we should be taking notice here with all these various studies ok so i've been doing some work myself on looking at the effects of very tiny particles in a solution so these are so small they're called manno particles and one particular problem with nano particles is that they are so tiny that they can actually avoid the body's natural defenses and they can in the case of the brain they can access the brain directly so if you or i are standing at a busy roadside and we're breathing normally at the roadside we'll actually be breathing these now particles up through our factory up through our net. and they can actually those particles can access directly the frontal cortex of the brain so it's not proven that these particles are causing these damage to the brains that's been observed but it's entirely possible it's entirely plausible and of course

urban people who live in urban areas are the most at risk. well that's that's where we are currently isn't it most people now live in cities and so most people are were most of the pollution actually is. that's talking about outside pollution i suppose the other thing with pollution we shouldn't forget indoor sources of pollution so when people are using fires in the indoor environment is focusing in the indoor environment this is another potential and powerful route for these particles to form and again for them to directly access the brain so we have to think about about both outof aleutian and indoor pollution sources as well. thank you very much for speaking to us barbara marr from lancaster university joining us say from the u.k. thank you jim now as our agates more polluted the lungs of the earth forests are in retreats rain forests in africa are just says endangered as some of the continent's best known animals such as rhinos elephants and lions now though

a manmade forest planted twenty three years ago in south africa gives visitors a rare taste of what they're missing there is catherine sawyer reports from south africa in the first forests under threat series. one of south africa's botanical gardens is on the edge of the kruger national park the statue action is undoubtedly the manmade tropical african rain forest is thriving in a continent where natural forests are being wiped out by illegal logging is poachers and climate change are additional threats caretaker's he worry that they'll all be gone from africa in a few decades thirteen thousand square kilometers that are being wiped out. that's a massive amount of rainforest disappearing we might even be wiping out species before we even know they exist thousands of students tourists and researchers who might not be able to go to the congo basin in central africa home to the world's

second largest tropical rainforest or to the coastal rain forest in west africa that has almost all been felled visit this site i fix bunions that years ago when. people with the area they reaped all forests left right and center to plant sugarcane and it seriously what is me because they don't replace the trees the botanical garden is not just a showcase of the ecosystem it's also home to some of south africa's rare is trees highly prized by poachers one of the things that stands out in this botanical garden is a psycho tree it's critically endangered slow to grow but also very lucrative in the black market so researchers say that in toms of endangered species the sikat isn't as much danger as the rhino. a most was a book or has protected and grew in the prehistoric cycle for years and proudly

oversees the biggest collection in south africa this is the main. of federal. i have to take. before we open to started tool to pull in it is called in the forest students learn about the different plants and animals how the ecosystem works and just how critical it is to conserve and protect what remains of africa's tropical rainforest catherine soy al-jazeera longer south africa and our series on the world's forests continues as we head to malaysia where a boom in biofuels is posing a major threat to the region's rain forests florence three we'll have that story right here on al-jazeera. opposition bodies in the philippines are challenging president rodrigo to head his decision to withdraw from the international criminal court the supreme court in manila is due to hear arguments against attack is move that says activists and the families of eight victims in the philippines

president's drug war filed a petition with the i.c.c. accusing him of crimes against humanity it's a second complaint against a tatty the first one prompted the i.c.c. to open a preliminary investigation jimmy linda again has more from manila. president would be good that there does 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 of the supreme court is about here in manila british in theirs are saying basically that do terror day 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 once a petition has been filed nothing can basically stop it not even

a withdrawal from its membership so the investigation against the terror to 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 and you cabinet has been sworn in in australia the governing party ousted malcolm turnbull us foreign minister last week replacing him with scott morrison turned turnbull is expected to resign from parliament on friday and that will be a big problem for the government as it only has one seat majority in parliament. officials from colombia ecuador peru and brazil are meeting in colombia's capital bogota to discuss the growing influx of venezuelan migrants reaching their borders

to escape the economic hardship back home thousands of people have been arriving daily to start a new life in a foreign country money on a sanchez reports from the peruvian city of to mess. a physician turned cookie vendor on the pan-american highway and ate a cylinder santa and her husband hosts a left thirteen inch sons back in venezuela they now make less than ten dollars per day but that she says is good it was that allows us to eat and so on the kids money only for them to eat the little they can get we can't even buy them a pair of shoes or found to talk to them i was ready to sell and horses settled into the city twenty five kilometers south of the border many proven its winners who couldn't afford the journey to the capital 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 high risk 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 where laurels come your need all knowing that truck drivers picked us up fed us gave us money i sold my phone and with all that bought tickets for the bus to get here by 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 build. taught him the meaning of humbleness you know. you learn to be humble after having thought about those figures who are here and there to live. because we've had to do.

however survival was at stake. 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. and you see. what his most as he makes the transition from football.

welcome back u.k. prime minister to recently is in south africa looking for new trade opportunities as our country leaves the european union but it's her uncomfortable attempts to get footloose with schoolchildren in cape town dominating a lot of the online chat and so far c.e.o. it's a serious mission minister may want to make britain the biggest investor in africa from the developed world she will later chattel to nigeria and then kenya. in time for sourcing his job you know quite the moves like jagger is a folly there underway on day two of the u.s. open in new york the play is a battling the heat as temperatures are expected to peak at thirty eight degrees and stay hot until later on wednesday second seed caroline wozniak he did will bow in her first round match against two thousand levon champion sam stosur she came

through comfortably in straight sets six three six two she plays less hits her then coach of ukraine next. while fifty petrik fit of a came from four one down in the second set to advance past you know which maya and into the second round. over in the men's draw two time champion novak djokovic has taken the first set against hungary's malts on foot to bitch seventh seed and chill it came from five one down in the first set to take control of his match and marius couple only for his romanian opponent to retire in the. the asian champions league is at the quarter final stage japan's cashman and liz took advantage of being at home in the first leg as they beat changi in. two nil brazilian leo silver and said junior with the goals in two states all the game cattles al the hail beat iran's persepolis one nil now much seen i did continue to

back manage enjoys a marine year despite their three male defeat to tottenham is the us home result of his career paths in an extraordinary and his news conference the under pressure manager demanded respects from the media. not just unfinished you know what was the result serena serino you know what this meant sri knew but also mean sri premierships and i won more premierships alone then the other one thousand managed to get them. for me for them receiving respect. for. what we're used to seeing you same boat move fast but as he prepares for his first competitive football match he admits he's finding it hard to stop bolton's trying to secure a contract to the australian side central coast mariners and is expected to play fifteen to twenty minutes in a pre-season game on friday but it's been training hard but says some of the new

skills have taken some getting used to it's a stop and go you know i mean the tip that because i'm not used to picking up speed on back down up and down up in the back and forth i think that's the most challenging definitely would be nerves it's not like it's a charity game anymore this is a career that i'm a person with. china have passed the two hundred medal mark at the asian games and one of their golds today was won by twin sisters the jang sisters tinting and when when won the women's jewett synchronized swimming is the third time they've taken the asian games title and you can see them in these pictures but there was actually another set of twins that took bronze alexandra and you're capturing an image from kazakstan china to gold in the men's team pursuit as well but only after the favorite south korea crashed out a nasty one they missed out on a medal all together china progressed and beat hong kong to take the title. when it

wasn't all bad for south korea there as they won two golds in the archery their compound women's team india to claim gold and their men's team also got the better of india in their final winning it in a shoot off against the defending champions. there were emotional scenes in the septic tank crow malaysia from behind to beat host indonesia in the men's regular final with a spectacular winning point lots of tears all show as they ended a twenty four year gold medal drought at the asian games last time they won gold was at the hiroshima games way back in one thousand nine hundred ninety four. despoina friendly sure there but not on the badminton court kristie jonathan when beat taiwan's chair chen to win the men's singles finally took it two sets to one there was disappointment though for india's superstar peavy still do she was beaten to the gold medal by taiwan's world number one tied to you is cindy's fifth straight loss in

a major title but she's not doing too badly as forbes named the seventh highest paid female athlete in the world but the best of the action of the day was in the badminton men's doubles where there was an all indonesian final watch this amazing rally and see if you can spot the moment one of the players in red runs of course to change racquets. it was with you through with the with thank was with thank you with thank you thank old.

very enjoyable stuff well the philippines basketball team are on their way home without a medal even though the sport is really popular that many people feel that height is holding the country back but is a nationwide growth spurt about to change all that. basketball is big in the philippines but traditionally its people are not. they haven't qualified for in the olympics in four to six years participation is not the problem. size yes but not a national growth spurt yet about to change things there seems to be that trend that the females are getting taller taller kids are being brought to metro money and the training at the younger age so their bodies are also stimulated physically to grow their they're given the best training the best attrition to 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 moody to the philippines growth spurt theory this son of a former filipino pro the sixteen year old already stands out amongst to steve meets at seven. one of the high places they said this life so it's going to be a huge advantage especially when you're playing against like slowly like one of the things that you just you just really really like about or against them so to me this is going to start using me even to sort of stature may be extraordinary this coach says in general he's definitely seen a shift in philippi the players getting taller the last time i checked bard average height of a filipino is around five four now at the pro knee bridge the baby 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 i want to make it 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. dogon al-jazeera manila. all right that is a useful find out that just thank you very much and that's it for this news hour on al-jazeera from me funny back to the home team thanks for watching i found out.

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we'll explore the mood of the nation as american celebrates labor day on television and online the stream continues to talk into the extraordinary potential of social media to disseminate news sweden the country known as the happiest in the world has been shaken by a recent spike in violence and it's now preparing for a general election people in power continues to examine the use and abuse of power around the world. the main body of the united nations general assembly is to build its seventy third session we'll bring you all the updates september on al-jazeera. getting to the heart of the matter unless we have new generations growing up to understand better our relationship with the natural world then soon there will be nothing left facing reality it's all over the friends and allies played a positive role in the fencing and his condition from taking place here there's a story on talk to al-jazeera.

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