richard is a journalist. getting to the truth as it always does with his jokes. this is zero. hello i'm to be gov palin you're watching the news hour live from london it's good to have you here with us coming up in the next sixty minutes another grim report on the war in yemen this time from the u.n. it accuses all sides of carrying out a possible war crimes. the mass killing of muslims in myanmar takes center stage again the u.n. and the new good there is says a new report detailing genocide must be taken seriously. and the plan that is as endangered as the right to conservation is one that africa's rain forests are on

the brink of extinction. i'm joining us are also with the sports the extreme heat hits the players hard at the u.s. open and i'll tell you why the head of world cup will so you don't trump the red cards. the united nations is accusing all sides involved in the war in yemen of committing possible war crimes a report by u.n. rights experts says the yemeni government forces are saudi led backers and rebel hoopy fighters have done little to minimize civilian casualties the warring parties are also accused of recruiting children forces appearances and arbitrary detentions alan fischer has more 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 walk crimes. the un 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 made fourteen fact finding missions spoke to victims and eyewitnesses 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 the midst of that

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 around has been supplying hooty fighters or the u.s. in the uki has been backing the saudi led coalition the panel also criticized the who to cite in what was a strongly worded report they need to send investigators into yemen and which have been welcomed by the whole of the many many time so when they have a good evidence then they can bring anyone to justice either for the solidarity movement or from the led coalition. war in yemen erupted in march twenty fifteen saudi arabia and the united arab emirates and leading a western by coalition trying to restore the internationally recognized government of exiled gave any president. who was forced out of the capital sanaa by really

impact the fighters. it's the second report in twenty four hours criticizing the saudi led coalition on monday human rights watch cleaned it it failed 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 truly reclaiming the yemeni state and securing the future of the region from iranian interference in washington but a real briefing u.s. defense secretary mattis gave 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 that that the u.n. special envoy. is trying to get it to that that is the goal or 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 of 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 the u.n. sponsored peace talks starting on september the sixth alan fischer al-jazeera to pretty well and alan fisher's report you heard from the u.s. defense secretary jim mattis he was asked about the un's report on yemen during a rare press briefing at the pentagon atika has more now on how we responded to multiple questions on washington's role meant in the conflict. this is somewhat different because we don't normally hear very often from secretary of defense jim matheson or the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff they called a press conference and all the questions really spanned the globe but much of the focus was on the u.s. support of the saudi led coalition that is bombing in yemen secretary mattis said

they did a review when they first came into office and decided that they should continue the mission that they said the saudis have a right to self-defense and in his words it was their goal to reinstate the legitimate government in yemen and he was somewhat defensive when asked about the u.s. support for missions that are have gone wrong and seen civilians innocent civilians killed the training that we have given them we know has paid off we have had pilots in the air who recognize the danger of a specific mission in decline to drop even when they get the authority we have seen staff procedures that put no fire areas around areas where there is hospitals or schools secretary mabus was also asked what the goal is in yemen what does the u.s. want to see happen and he said the goal right now is to try and get all sides to sit down as part of a u.n. brokered cease fire try and figure out a long term political solution the u.n.

secretary general antonio terrorist as urging the security council to take seriously a new report by u.n. investigators which calls for me and maurice army chief to face prosecution for genocide and more than seven hundred thousand men just have been forced to flee the country since a military crackdown was launched in august twenty seventeen its reports issued yesterday phones and i quote bantams of gross human rights violations in the buz is committed by the security forces which is sad and i call to gain and the love to be a moment of the grievous crimes in the international law and of. i believe these reports findings and recommendations these are of serious consideration by all relevant united nations bodies. by kana as at the u.n. for for us mike says he said they're one of the most strongly worded reports on the treatment of their hand as we've heard some of what the terrorists had to say what

else has been so the meeting what one must remember that this meeting was shared told before that report from the human rights un human rights council was actually issued however the report itself overshadowed the entire meeting obviously all delegates mentioning the report in terms of the speeches they made to the council earlier we heard from the british delegates saying that before the security council decides how to act on the report it needs to go to formal debate with the human rights council which commissioned the report in the first place some other members wanted more immediate action from the security council we heard a very strongly worded speech from the u.s. ambassador who had this to say we are now all armed with the devastating i witness accounts of the rohingya which lead us to the following conclusions children they

these women and men suffered unspeakable crimes the attacks were planned premeditated and coordinated the perpetrator was the burmans military and security forces the whole world is watching what we will do next and if we will. so is there any indication of what kind of action they were going to do next to what was going to happen to their end just who are nearly a million of them in bangladesh. well it is a matter that does have to be decided by the security council that is the body that will decide whether to refer the matter to the international criminal court or whether to set up its own tribunals to investigate the whole crisis on the basis of that u.n. report however there may be some divisions within the security council it's known that china is reluctant to take any strong action against myanmar at this

particular point we heard from the chinese foreign ministry earlier in the day saying that it is counterproductive to apply pressure on myanmar but this is something that will be discussed in the security council in the days and weeks ahead members are will aware of the strength of that u.n. report remembering that it said that those military commanders that it held responsible for actions in iraq and state acted it says with genocidal intent so certainly there will be pressure on members of the security council to take some firm action and many members are insistent that the security council will take a decision on this matter as soon as the possibly can on a united basis i can add the united nations thank you donald trump has hinted that he is considering regulating google more tightly now the us president claims the search new search engines new affection is rigged against right wing media voices trump is also taking aim at facebook and twitter

yeah i think google is really taken advantage of a lot of people and i think it's a very serious thing and it's a very serious. i think what google and what others are doing if you look at what's going on at twitter if you look at what's going on in facebook they better be careful because you can't do that people can't do it we have tremendous we have literally thousands and thousands of complaints coming in. that's not jordan who's in washington roslyn it's funny to hear that from a man who uses twitter so much but what what are his issues with google facebook and and his social media sites. well president donald trump essentially is calling complaints from members of the right wing political spectrum that social media is staffed by people with left wing political views and so the way that they operate these websites is by definition biased against people with

more conservative or right wing views this is a point that has been raised by members of congress earlier in the year or representatives of these three companies had to basically defend their business practices in a public hearing and of course because this is once again come up as an issue of discussion on fox news which the president watches avidly he was very early on tuesday morning tweeting about how the all the news that is published about him and about his ministration is apparently negative and he blamed google in fact for spreading that kind of information when people use the search engine to try to get more information so what's the general reaction there and how likely is it that trump and the administration will be able to tighten that control over google.

well this really runs up against a couple of legal principles one these are private companies they're not public utilities which the federal government and which state governments can regulate quite strictly in order to make certain that everyone has equal access and receive an equal service however again these are private companies and republican party is generally thought to be a party that supports businesses ability to do what they want just as long as they're not violating federal anti discrimination laws political views are not protected by federal anti-discrimination laws so there is going to be there will be two problems i should say to have one trying to dictate how a private company sets up its operations and to trying to was put in any regulations on something that is not considered essential to people's lives even though we all seem to think that we need to rely on social media and search engines

on the internet writ large in order to conduct our lives in the twenty first century it raises a lot of very interesting legal tensions and is certainly something that you're going to see not just google and its parent company alphabet argue next week on capitol hill but you'll also see representatives of facebook and twitter making similar arguments that they don't have a political slant in the way that there are computer software was written or in the way that people get information from them if anything you could probably expect to hear these companies say it's a big world anyone who knows how to program could actually set up his or her own social media website and try to make it so that people on the right side of the political spectrum feel that they have an equal shot at being discovered by the general public it will be a very interesting discussion on capitol hill the first week of september definitely thank you very much ross on jordan in washington for us. meanwhile

a backlash towards trump's policies and rhetoric has been credited with an increased number of muslim candidates in the u.s. primary elections this will decide who controls the house of representatives and have influence in the senate and some states the number of muslim americans running for office has risen dramatically and gallagher profiles one candidate hoping for a victory in our zona but i could tell the most meaningful thing to him was just being listened to johnny morton has been knocking on doors in mesa just east of phoenix two weeks the twenty five year old democrat has long been a community activist is openly bisexual and converted to islam several years ago he's also one of a growing number of first time candidates who happens to be muslim i want to put all of that emphasis on my policies on saving our schools and giving our teachers competitive pay on banning private prison contracts in arizona these are the things that are really important to me. hopefully someone will just get used to the fact

that i'm also a queer muslim but that's not what this campaign is about across the u.s. other muslim americans are getting involved in politics abdul el slade's bid for governor of michigan gained a lot of attention but he's far from alone so i think he had an uphill battle representative athena solomon says it's partly a reaction to hateful rhetoric coming from the white house we're trying to right under the radar and we're still on the menu and we're still being attacked so now we have to step forward we have to step up and actually actively insert our own voice in our own truth into the conversation because the other alternative was not working in arizona muslims make up about one percent of the state's population and making political inroads here won't be easy but some residents are ready to embrace candidates like johnny we need people like them who are honest people instead of crooks who just for themselves. it was miller that was for more than me the truth.

and if you could do it god bless america if they are written goal of the trumpet ministrations anti muslim rhetoric is to scare people away from public life it seems to be back firing from school boards to congress muslims are running for public office in unprecedented numbers for his part johnny martin says his religion has very little to do with his political ambitions but how people vote for these candidates in the coming months will be very telling hi i'm johnny martin as part of his civic duties joining martin spends time talking about his faith he says he wants to help break down stereotypes but his ultimate leap more interested in politics than religion and he gallacher al-jazeera mesa arizona. they're watching our news hour live from london there's much more to come on this program. sending a message to. minister quit his job during a live radio interview. there setback in the long struggle for peace in south sudan

rubber leader my chars deal at the last minute. sports find out of this badminton rally ever and the best of the action from asian games coming up and joe. has declared a health emergency at its northern border as thousands of venezuelans continue to stream into the country some countries like have imposed entry restrictions to stem the flow but it has had little impact on the numbers crossing the border but anastacia has traveled to the city of to miss where she spoke to migrants who say the fled so that they can feed their children back home. a physician turned cookie vendor on the pan-american highway and ate a cylinder santa 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 it was 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 phone to talk to them i butted in a cell 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 p 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 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 predict. his so high miss says the deals taught him the meaning of humbleness but in the course of that employee you learn to be humble after having thought about those pigs who asked for a coin here and there to live now you realize life is a russian roulette because we've had to do the same however survival was at stake says my data center. i would like to tell the world that i'm not here because i wanted to migrate or because i wanted to take a job away from anyone else i'm here because my children had nothing to. live in this will was the only option they say they hope one day this journey will take

them back home many innocent just to see that. officials from colombia ecuador perry and brazil have been meeting in the colombian capital to find a shared solution to the migration crisis and i found that i'm here at the. colombia and peru were the two countries that have so far received the highest number of venezuela migrants and are now agreeing that they need to cooperate more to confront this unprecedented exodus of people migration authorities met for two days in bogota and announced that they will begin sharing more information about the migrants they are receiving the plane to implement a shared database in new technology at the border to do so they also agreed that this crisis will continue to grow a lester's real change in venezuela and colombia's officials insisted on the need to end unilateral entry restrictions imposed by some countries in recent weeks we

need to do with this in a coordinated manner if it's a regional effort we can achieve good results handling it in a unilateral an individual way only creates more legal immigration and more problems not less. true in colombia hope that their agreement will be extended to other countries affected another meeting this time with the foreign ministers level has been announced for next week in ecuador venezuela notorious have also been invited but in colombia said they haven't had any communication with their venezuelan counterparts on this issue for the last two years and that's been it continues to avoid recognizing the crisis francis said bar and environment minister has shocked the french president by resigning on live radio but that telling his boss first nikolaus a lot who was a popular t.v. presenter and campaigner before joining politics says the government isn't making

enough progress on fighting climate change or has this report from paris. it was on french radio that nicholas who last announced his 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 markov 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 the popular t.v. presenter of environmental programs and campaign. this makes it clear that the government isn't interested in the on the violent considering 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 in this macro was almost

state visit to denmark when he learnt to the resignation who had not told him before hand what 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 use departure is a blow for mycroft holmes 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 a friend 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 irrelevant issues as primary issues so

that's a really tough tough row 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 you. paris with the mid south sudan's foreign minister says rebel leader eric machar has refused to sign the final peace deal with the government opposition groups had hoped that years of conflict would end after a breakthrough was reached with president salva care about sides had agreed on a power sharing deal and an end to fighting in the city's capital khartoum last month. morgan has reported extensively from south sudan and she says the power sharing deal has many loopholes that still need to clarify. 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 wreck much are 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 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 tomorrow or sudan and other regional leaders are trying to to to force a breakthrough between not just the opposition under 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 close at a time stay with us on this news hour still ahead and definite curfews introduced in southwest powers protesters demand justice for a normal thirteen year old raped and killed in july. britain's prime minister begins a three day visit to africa where the big focus is drumming up business ahead of brecht that. is the philippines a basketball team about to get a boost from a national growth spurt i'll explain in sports. hello the vigorous thunderstorms that we've seen recently in greece and floating around turkey satellite picture reveals them are about to become rather less decreases all the energy is transferred to the other side of the mediterranean over

spain tickly western front to the area of low pressure is associated with increasingly warm air and the whole loss is pushing up some big thunderstorms the west in france and i think we further north with the heat now the moment you see that's the dome of warmth and in the middle of europe where i suppose germany poland is down to twenty or below and that scandinavia too with the water either side of that i think anything that cooler weather will try and push each is not get very far the next batch of biting winds and rain will try and edge into france as you can see it gets in there that'll be the thunderstorms paris as a result ends up with about twenty degrees the whole lot blows through some i think big downpours as this pushes through the alps and yes there is the winds from the north but the chill coming to the low countries so this middle bit germany and poland will see the cool and to the west the want to be replaced by breezy went with her and south of it all enjoy the sunshine be too hot maybe thirty nine down

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father and my most aware or to fall to the personal story to discover the source of one of the most expensive commodities sent from heaven and just say. hello again here's a reminder of our main stories on our desire the united nations has accused all sides and they have been civil war of committing war crimes pro-government forces backers and who are accused of causing civilian casualties as well as force disappearances and recruiting child soldiers. the un secretary general has asked the security council to seriously consider calls by investigators to prosecute

general zinni and maher for genocide it follows a u.n. fact finding mission which called for charges to be brought against five generals i mean mars army chief of over a crackdown on my. and google are promoting negative news articles about him on a search engine companies also accuse facebook and twitter of silencing conservative voices and vowed to address the situation. but threat of a government offensive in the last major rebel stronghold in syria has been the at the center of an urgent u.n. security council meeting russia's warning that rebels and provinces might stage a chemical attack and then blame it on government forces western governments say russia a key ally of syrian president bashar assad is trying to sow confusion toria katyn the reports. russia called this emergency meeting of the un security council to warn the syrian rebels supported by western governments might stage

a chemical attack then blame it on syrian government forces western diplomats dismissed that idea as ridiculous i think even the stand of russian propaganda this is an extraordinary fake news story of course we are not going to do anything remotely kin to a chemical weapons attack we take a chemical weapons prohibition response but it is extremely seriously western governments say russia's claims are meant to say confusion and pave the way for yet another chemical weapons massacre by syrian government forces russia's ambassador strongly denies this. 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. no the country side of hama and provinces are the last remaining rebel held areas the

syrian government is back to recapture so-called terrorist areas the us is that a strong reaction to any chemical or biological attack that is a very credible threat the u.s. and its allies are making because they've already use force twice before after a chemical weapons attack and in fact that's the one. that has been used. for a major u.s. military strikes against the syrian government from the joint syrian russian command post the message is clear it label face the same attacks as all other rebel held areas liberated from what they call terrorism this is what that liberation looks like whether in homs or aleppo areas back under control of president bashar.