to the un brokered peace table 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 support will put pressure on both sides as we approach un sponsored peace talks starting on september the sixth alan fischer al-jazeera djibouti well you heard john allen fishes report from u.s. defense secretary jim mattis he was asked about the u.n. report on yemen during a rare press briefing at the pentagon had to go has more now on how he responded to multiple questions on washington's involvement 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 terris is urging the security council to take seriously and your report by u.n. investigators which calls for myanmar as army chief to face prosecution for genocide and more than seven hundred thousand head to 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 good natured 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 deserve serious consideration by all relevant united nations bodies and the meeting of the un security council was

presided over by your case lord tariq ahmed he's the minister for a commonwealth and united nations and he joins me now from the united nations thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us from what i can understand one of the main messages about meeting was accountability and how that is required for genuine reconciliation can you tell us more tell us more about that absolutely i think what is very clear from the deliberations we heard today in what was a very open session we also heard not just the sec region rule we had cate blanchett in her role as a special representative on u.n.h.c.r. also giving her first hand account of the testimony this year she heard that those who have committed these crimes these heinous crimes against the ranger community must be held to account there can be no impunity and justice must be served and that was a very clear message coming through consistently consistently across many members

of the security council today. and so obviously that me and my government and military will not willingly take responsibility for these actions so what are the next steps what actions can the un security council take. well if you look at the summary report that was issued by the fact finding mission a couple of days ago some of the steps are already being taken for example we've seen sanctions against military commanders we ourselves in the united kingdom have led the charge with colleagues with that in the european union to ensure that those leaders those military leaders who've been committing these crimes against the range of community are not only held to account that will happen in due course but there are sets of rosen's that we can impose sanctions against them to ensure that they are feeling the pressure of the international community an action that we can take right now and i believe that those can continue to take place for the medium

long term and there is a long term issue we cannot guarantee the safe return of any ranger members of the ranger community until such time that the government in burma mine maher actually take full responsibility to ensure that their safety security and indeed their rights can be guaranteed let's not forget that the government doesn't even recognise the ring of community exists so there's an important first step to be realized before we can even think about the repatriation of any members of the community from bangladesh indeed and you know it's almost exactly to their week when we saw that massive influx of refugees from me in march flee into bangladesh about three hundred thousand of them with their no we so what what they're been there a year we've heard all the afore they atrocities and crimes committed against them what happens to them now. well there's three things that need to be happening first and foremost you mentioned about

a year on we've seen that tragedy unfolding in front of our eyes there is some hope and some positive steps that have happened over the last twelve months if we go back to the situation twelve months ago the burmese authority the civilian administration mind mark did not even recognize that this kind of ethnic cleansing was taking place if we fast forward twelve months on we've seen no use being signed between bangladesh and the government of mine maher we've also seen memorandums of understanding being signed with the u.n. agencies and i think that is a positive step forward but there is much still to be done in terms of the refugees themselves when you look at the plight anyone who visit visits cox's bizarre indeed as we heard from cate blanchett directly from her experiences from the testimonies of young children young girls who have been raped who have been subject to the worst kind of crimes against the person it's important that we provide the psychological support the health support they need to ensure we can create the climate where their testimonies can be actually recorded effectively and indeed

over the medium term that those who committed these atrocities the perpetrators of these crimes can be held to account for tara god minister for the commonwealth and the united nations thank you so much for taking the time to talk to us today and welcome. donald trump has hinted that here is considering regulating google more tightly the us president claim to search engines you section is rigged against right wing media voices as also taken aim at facebook and twitter. yeah i think google is really taken advantage of a lot of people and i think that's a very serious thing and it's a very serious job i think what google and what others are doing if you look at what's going on or 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. we could not get her also in jordan hoods and washington for us so roz that was exactly what is trump upset about and can he instigates more regulation for these social media sites. well the president is upset as are some members of congress about this belief that these social media organizations basically slant the results of their search engines or of the content in there on their websites these are allegations which all of these companies deny they say that whatever the personal or political beliefs of their employees they're basically writing software and the software is not slanted towards one political view or another however the president very

early on tuesday morning here in washington went on a twitter twitter rampage as it were accusing google and other social media of basically making it impossible to find any good news about the president himself or about his administration's accomplishments and so he has basically continued this allegation that something needs to be done about these three private companies and about how they actually do their work the challenge to via is this these are private companies they're not public utilities which can be regulated by both state and federal government agencies and so unless someone can actually make a valid claim that these companies are deliberately and cooperatively trying to crowd out one part of the political spectrum it would be very very difficult to try to regulate their sort of business they're not governed by any sort of laws on

public accommodation for people's political views they could very well argue as they have argued in the past that if people want to see websites or search engines that huge to a certain political outlook that it's free for anyone to write the software set up the website and go into business. so this is something that certainly is attractive to the president's political base which is very conservative and certainly the leaders of these companies or representatives of these companies are going to have to defend their business practices when they testify before congress next week but again it does appear to via that there might be some sort of legal restriction in trying to restrict what these companies are doing because there's no such thing as a protected political speech you know under the first amendment here in the united states you can say whatever you want but

a private company can decide whether or not you should be allowed to see it in their place of business rosalyn jordan in washington thank you canada's top trade negotiator is holding talks with her mexican and u.s. counterparts in a bid to remain part of their events trilateral north american trade pact now on monday u.s. president donald trump and anstey had reached a deal with mexico that would replace nafta putting pressure on canada to accept the new terms are face an escalating trade dispute with four shinton than a lack has more from toronto. several very tricky days lie ahead for the canadian trade negotiators in washington d.c. the foreign minister chrystia freeland has gone there to lead the team and the people that have been working with her on this file throughout are also there and they'll be scheduling sessions with the u.s. and mexico in the coming days and fridays the deadline let's not forget there's a fairly tight deadline here assuming the canadians stick to it the prime minister

justin trudeau has been speaking about this and he said that their eyes are on the prize of a new deal we will engage in a positive and constructive way as we always have been and look forward to ultimately signing a deal as long as it is good for canada and good for middle class. but reaching that elusive agreement that suits all parties isn't going to be easy for the negotiators there are a number of sticking points that the canadians have mostly with the u.s. that weren't addressed by the u.s. and mexican arrangements announced on monday one of them is dispute resolution canada one independent trade arbiters and the americans are saying no we can't have that another one is the dairy eggs and poultry industry in canada which is heavily regulated which you know does not allow imports of many of those goods and the united states wants that for its farmers canada saying no in fact the prime minister saying as recently as tuesday that that wasn't going to happen it's a week of negotiations compromise may be on the table but for now we've just got

several days of hard bargaining ahead of us. and start to come on this program sending a message to emanuel knock on frances environment minister quit his job during a lie brady zero interview. that indefinite curfew is in southwest nepal as protesters demand justice for normal thirteen year old wait and killed in july. hello now you probably well aware that the eastern side of australia there is a long lived and rather big drought and that's not going to change however further west coming to west australia particularly perth the cloud is back again and this revolving rather active system will bring yet more rain which might end up bringing the wettest period for well twenty thirty years that sort of water that ninety

three is we have to go back to season so much rain so shame we can't transfer these as we can't it's dry and warm in adelaide twenty three degrees and that cools down to seventy is the rain does come across south australia and you see someone thirsty but still virtually nothing in new south wales or in queensland it's in victoria if you're lucky sasa straightly and the whole system does keep movies within the last rather active one is just curling up in the tasman sea which means heading towards new zealand wrapped in increasingly warm air as it happens just intent hans's the amount of rain you don't see in temp she says eleven degrees in christchurch in the wet that's a wednesday warmer in or clint showing a bit of tropical water i suppose and eventually don't wrap seventy warmed up in christchurch but notice the circulation system of potential i think big waves coming off the west coast of south island as weather improves on thursday.

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has accused all sides in yemen civil war of committing war crimes pro-government forces their saudi led backers and both are accused of causing civilian casualties as well as force disappearances and recruiting child soldiers. the u.n. secretary general has asked the security council to seriously consider calls by investigators to prosecute generals in man march for genocide and would follow as a u.n. fact finding mission which called for charges to be brought against five generals and me and mars army chief crackdown on minority ringette muslims. donald trump has accused google of promoting negative news articles about him on its search and engine problems also accused facebook and twitter of silencing conservative voices and valve to address the situation. process environment minister has shocked the french president by resigning on live radio without telling his boss first nicolaus who was a popular t.v.

presenter and campaigner before joining politics says the government just isn't making enough progress on fighting climate change that's not about law or has this report from parents. it was on french radio that nicolas will announce 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 really 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 always a 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 a visit to denmark when he learnt to the resignation who had not told him beforehand what the two i hope still to be able to count on him in one way or another i think that info.