it's negotiations i believe these reports findings and recommendations these are of serious consideration by all relevant united nations bodies effective regional cooperation will be critical to ensure that the come to believe the mechanisms are credible transparent impartial independent and comply with myanmar's obligations and the international law but the british ambassador indicated that no immediate action is imminent she said it's likely that the report must first go to formal debate within the human rights council which commissioned the report in the first place before the security council takes a decision this is a report by the fact finding mission it will go in september for formal debate in the human rights council and then we hope we will debate it or deal with it in sam suitable way in the security council but many members of the security council insistent that action must be taken sooner rather than later strong words from the

us ambassador we are now all armed with the devastating eyewitness accounts of the rohingya which lead us to the following conclusions children they be women and men suffered unspeakable crimes the attacks were planned premeditated and coordinated. the perpetrator was the burma's military and security forces the whole world is watching what we will do next and if we will but one point of agreement that the security council must act in a united pilots of the issue the problem of china it is perceived as being against immediate action based on the un report the chinese foreign ministry issued a statement saying that myanma does not cope well with pressure. this go to our correspondent mohamad judge and now he is joining us live from. near the border

with myanmar and those horrific crimes muhammad in the latest reports has been against the people committed against the people that you all with are they aware of this report. well there's a bit of the small but growing community. activists who are located here into it to prolong camp which is the largest refugee settle in the world they are certainly aware of the reports they are glad that the report came out and they believe that it could potentially lead to some type of change that would help them but they are also aware that this process will take some time but we spoke to a lot of other rowing in general today in another part of the camp and most of them did not know anything about this report they were not aware that this report had been made they were not aware of the fact finding mission they were certainly not aware that the u.n. security council or members of the u.n.

to see have been talking about their plight and about these recommendations to charge generals and even more with crimes of genocidal intent now i spoke with one woman just about an hour ago she has five children they all fled from me and more here are two cox's bizarre bangladeshi good to belong can for they've been the past year and she was telling. these were horrific stories about atrocities that she witnessed against the other women in her village as she and her children were fleeing the rapes and the killings that had been committed and she was saying it's about time that international bodies such as the you when did something about this she was heartened by this talk that there could potentially be charges brought about against these generals and me and more she said if that happens it will be good but it really at this point doesn't impact their daily lives here elizabeth and mohamed despite the severity of you know the allegations the crimes that have

been committed against them the talk of repatriation to the place where the cotton crimes were committed continues is there any update on those repatch ration plans. elizabeth this process is completely stalled there has been a lot of talk about it this constant year there was a memorandum of understanding that was signed in the past couple of months between the united nations and the government of myanmar that was going to try to set up some kind of a mechanism by which we inject could be repatriated back into me and more that is gone no where there have been many many discussions between the government of bangladesh and the government of myanmar there have been deals that have been made to try to respond create the ringette from your back into myanmar nothing has been done and we have been told that there may be a few one hundred that have gone back as

a result of these repatriation do deals line between bangladesh and more but it's very hard to verify and. here's say that that's really just propaganda on the part of the government of myanmar the fact of the matter is the government of myanmar blames a slowdown on the government of bangladesh and the government of bangladesh blunt blames a slowdown in this process on the government of me and more so it's a very opaque process but the fact of the matter is this the over seven hundred thousand growing indirect eugenides that led me in march since this past august of two thousand and seventeen they are here they don't believe they are going to be able to go back to myanmar any time soon although many of the ones we spoke with just today when talking about the un report said look we don't want to be here we don't want the world to think that we want to be here in this refugee camp outside of our country we want to go back but there is no safe way for us to go back elizabeth thank you very much for that for now that is the home of john john with the very latest live and thank you. we have plenty more ahead on the news hour

including a heated political climate in france as the environment minister quits saying the government is failing to do enough and the sports crowd trouble at a football match in brazil forces the game to end early you will have the details coming up later. a suicide car bomb in iraq has killed at least seven people and injured others the attack was in the border with syria the target was a checkpoint jointly manned by the iraqi army and allied shia fighters. iranian government lawyers or the international court of justice a third day of hearings to challenge u.s. sanctions the u.s. government says the call to end the netherlands has no jurisdiction to hear the case iran is arguing that it's a victim of economic strangulation and the rain position of sanctions violates

a sixty year old friendship treaty let's get more on this now our correspondent is joining us live from the hague so how has the iranian side responded to the us today launce. once again as you said they've been trying to impress upon the judges the seriousness of what they say the americans that the new american sanctions regime has done to their economy yesterday on shoes day the american side was one point trying to argue that in fact in their view the sanctions haven't been anything like as severe as the iranian side had suggested and even put forward the notion of the collapse in value of the iranian ryall the currency might have some beneficial effects. as opposed to being disastrous suited to iran the iranians obviously were absolutely furious about all last and spelt out in detail their view that for example the collapse in the real heads at the savings

of very many people that the sanctions regime has had forced outside investors investors to back off in case they themselves became targeted by the american sanctions and that they said it called one hundred thousand jobs in iran and that the new wave of american sanctions yet to come was going to be very very bad for their oil exports and so all in all they were trying to refute the american argument that sanctions weren't that bad after all and indeed reminded the judges that very many american officials had had expressed their pleasure. at the collapse in value of the iranian currency and said it was obviously it was obvious that the sanctions regime was heating heating iran very hard iran what he's trying to get the judge to do in their immediate decision is to force the united states to suspend its sanctions program while these big question of whether sanctions are in breach of this one hundred fifty five arcane cheesey of friendship actually has has

any value but they will take the judges some time to decide even on that and so what are we expecting you know what happens after this week's hearings. well on the last day tomorrow the americans have their final say the judges then don't make a decision go away for at least a month to decide what they're going to do i think the iranians immediately are trying to suggest they're very worried about a new to the sanctions that supposed to come in the van which is why they want the judges to act immediately to suspend those in the in the short term i think most people suspect that that's not going to happen anyway even if the judges did decide on this in iran's favor that decision is binding but they have no power to enforce it given what we know about president trump's attitudes towards different u.n. bodies of which is obviously one of the un's high's legal body there's no reason to suggest you actually take any notice of what the court decides anyway but a lot of iranian media been here broadcasting and reporting all this back to iran

and i think that's probably one of the things they're on trying to get out of this is demonstrating to its own people but it's trying everything it can to stop the sanctions even if ultimately it's likely to be unsuccessful thank you very much for that for now that is lawrence lee live with the latest from the hague thank you. now the u.n. security council has discussed syria and the threat of a government offensive in the last remaining rebel held province western governments say russia is trying to sow confusion by saying rebels and province may stage a chemical attack and blame it on government forces the torah gayton be report this morning through 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 dismiss that idea as ridiculous i think even the egregious stand russian propaganda this is an extraordinary fake news story of course we are not going to

do anything remotely a kin to a chemical weapons attack we take our chemical weapons prohibition responsibilities extremely so. 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 to must because it's just saber rattling to deal with internal domestic issues. you know the countryside of hama and provinces to the last remaining rebel held areas the syrian government is back to recapture so-called terrorist areas the u.s. is down a strong reaction to any chemical 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 assad's forces backed by russia and iran victoria gates and be al jazeera. leaders of libya's internationally recognized government paying for calm following three days of fighting between rival armed groups in the capital a cease fire is now in place after the killing of at least five people and artillery shell fire destroyed homes markets and mosques luckily that that one had reports from tripoli were you a little did you know that

a ceasefire is in force fighting in the south east village capital of the evil armed groups conclude the seventh brigade from the. which commanders say is part of the presidential guard in. the clashes resulted in terrorizing civilians in the southern suburbs of tripoli we are currently working on a cease fire to bring things back to normal we are calling on all parties to refrain from violence in tripoli tripoli the capital libyan. heavy weapons have been fired in the fighting for control over strategic locations in tripoli random shelling has damaged buildings including homes markets and mosques despite the ceasefire hospitals remain on high alert to receive casualties.

to the victims of this war include anderson civilians whose houses were accidentally causing the cross-bar. of the u n backed national accord the government has condemned the attacks and says the seventh brigade any affiliates are outlaws libya's interior minister says the terms of the cease fire agreement provides for the hand over of the headquarters of the seventy brigade to government forces but that's in doubt because the government is not thought to be strong enough to rein in the. hold up through. tripoli. now it's been revealed that the number of puerto ricans killed by hurricane maria is almost fifty times higher than originally admitted provoking further criticism of the u.s. government the most powerful storm to hit the u.s. territory in one thousand years was reported to have killed sixty four islanders since it hit and september the white house said the relatively low number of deaths

was a good news story now the caribbean islands governor admits mistakes were made and the estimated number of dead is almost three thousand. it is time to show solidarity with all those who've lost a family and friends it is also time to reflect on what you've done and what we did we need to find it hard to correct so that we can respond in future ruslan join has more from washington d.c. . for nearly a year after hurricane maria plowed through puerto rico the official death toll there has been set at sixty four that's on an island of several million people well now a research report conducted by the george washington university and the university of puerto rico has determined that the number of people who were killed in the aftermath of hurricane maria actually was two thousand nine hundred seventy five

and that's because this calculation includes an important definition how many people's health was impacted negatively by the hurricane or some other natural disaster after the immediate passage of the storm people who were older and presumably in poor health people who lived in poor communities and who did not have electricity or clean water or access to regular medicine were much more vulnerable and thus experience higher death rates in those parts of puerto rico the report is calling for improved during physicians when they're looking at diagnosing the cause of death after a major disaster such as a hurricane or a blizzard they're also looking for better ways of preparation for particularly vulnerable communities to make certain that there are enough emergency supplies emergency generators and other steps taken to protect people who can't get out of

the way of a major natural disaster. in a few moments we'll have the weather with steph but still ahead on the news hour venezuela's government is moving ahead with plans to raise the price of petrol to ease the recession and hyperinflation and as for china claims that one hundred gold medal at the asian games. the nice big sky used by the taj mahal. or is the sunset in the city of angels. hello there we've seen yet more rain for perth and that's never a bad thing to see rain in australia perth has had another eight point eight millimeters of rain from the system the swelling across us you might not think eight point eight million millimeters is that the thing to write home about but it's pretty decent especially on top of the remove already seen so far this month

so now we've seen a hundred and eighty four millimeters of rain this month which makes it the wettest august for the last fifty years so incredibly wet there but just to show you that just because it's raining in perth doesn't necessarily mean that it's good news for all of us in western australia this is the drought map this is the last of four months of rainfall that we've seen the worst drought that is all record of a very dark red so you can see just east of perth we've got a very dark red patch there indicating that we've got the worst drought on record despite the fact that perth has had the most rain for fifty years it looks very close but actually that's around five hundred kilometers because remember all straight is absolutely massive now in the east that's why we've also got plenty of drought the moment and it looks my el nino will develop in the waters of the pacific over the next few months and if it does we also expect more drought conditions in the east so that won't be helping us at all. the way sponsored by

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health on al-jazeera. good to have you on the al-jazeera news hour these are our top stories the u.n. estimates around four million refugee children did not go to school last year that says enrollment is failing to keep up with the growing number of displaced people at once governments and aid agencies to make education a question aliment of the international response to refugees. international pressure is going to prosecute military leaders for the genocide of muslims the un security council to discuss the mass killing and gang rape detailed by

investigators myanma says the allegations of. it's. now proximately five hundred and thirty thousand palestinian refugee students are heading back to classes today and three hundred and seventeen u.n. schools are the u.s. is considering ending all funding to the un agency that aids palestinian refugees the u.s. has been providing. three hundred and fifty million dollars a year. now in just about four hours negotiations from canada and the u.s. will sit down for another day of trade talks on. some sort of compromise as they look to the north american free trade agreement on nafta or briefing reporters on tuesday canadian prime minister justin trudeau said progress is being made on monday u.s. president donald trump announced a new deal with mexico that could replace nafta he says it will go ahead with or

without canada and he warns that canada will face tariffs if it doesn't join the new pact. we will. this negotiation stand up for the canadian national interest and fortune in values while looking for areas where we can find it on for everyone to listen to daniel has more from the canadian city of 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 throughout her 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 gauge you know positive and constructive way as we always have been

and look forward to ultimately selling a deal as long as it is good for canada and good for middle. 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 in 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 just got several days of hard bargaining ahead of us. colombia and it's over have agreed to set up a joint database off venezuelan migrants both countries are struggling to manage

the rapidly growing number of venezuelans crossing their borders they're fleeing a defining political and economic crisis at home and the u.s. has more than two million venezuelans have left their country since twenty fourteen the sounds around the f.t. has the latest from the colombian capital involve us either. columbia md 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 and announced that they will begin sharing more information about the migrants they are receiving they plan to implement a shared database in new technology at the border to do so they also agreed that this crisis will continue to grow unless there'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 this in

a coordinated manner if it's a regional effort we can achieve good results handling it in a unilateral an individual way and he creates more illegal immigration and more problems not less doing i hope that their agreement will be extended to the other countries affected and that they're really doing this time at the foreign ministers level has been announced for next week in ecuador venezuela notorious have also been invited but. they haven't had any communication with their. counterparts on this issue for the last two years and that's been it continues to avoid recognizing the crisis. now menswear is going ahead with plans to raise the price of petrol but hyperinflation forecast at a million percent by the end of this year and the government is desperate to find ways to increase revenue and stop a billion dollar market and oil contraband you see in human reports from the capital caracas. in an oil rich country like than israel and it's one thing to

subsidize he'll fight another is to give it away him but i don't know it's a gift pay is not even enough been returned. thanks to. one u.s. dollar and imagine this if you can a one thousand. point zero zero one of a cent. took them out of. except here. and is incredible is that i can still use it to buy a hundred and sixty six leaders. at the venezuela colombia border where small and large scale smugglers operate in broad daylight the price distortion feeds a lucrative black market with billions of dollars but now in an attempt to rescue venezuela's drowning a commie president. has announced

a plan to stop the leak. in israel and have until the end of the month to register their cars for an unspecified amount of subsidized petrol before prices go up dramatically for everyone else. this would put the lucrative black market out of business but there's a problem. you can stop. the members of the national guard stationed on the border patrol and allowed to cross the border. venezuela could certainly benefit from cracking down on corruption on its side of the border and selling the. international prices just as necessary finally seem serious about raising prices at the pump. is going to cost.

raising the price of petrol has been a controversial and explosive issue. in venezuela. yes even the most skeptical admit the giving away petrol is less of a gift than the symbol of an economy in freefall. al-jazeera. donald trump is accusing google and facebook of political bias he says google is hiding conservative news and search results and promotion negative stories about him a white house correspondent kimberly hellcat has. really taken advantage of a lot of people and allegations from u.s. president donald trump that tech giants like google and facebook are silencing conservative opinions we have literally thousands and thousands of complaints coming in and you just can't do that so i think that google twitter and facebook

they're really treading on very very troubled territory and they have to be careful it's not fair to large portions of the population trump's comments follow a tuesday morning tweet we're trying claim to google the search term trump news with negative results he says online searches are rigged by liberal owned media groups to shadow ban or silence conservative viewpoints that's why trump economic advisor larry kudlow says the administration isn't ruling out action even regulation but. in a statement google denies it searches are selective it says that when a user types a query into the google search bar its goal is to make sure they receive the most relevant alzheimer's in a matter of seconds search is not used to set a political agenda we don't bias our results toward any political ideology is not accurate this tech industry analyst says trump's allegation that tech giants are

systematically biased against conservatives is nothing new if trump is google searching himself in finding that a lot of people don't. like him that's because a lot of people don't like to be clear that would also been true if barack obama had googled himself but conservatives in the us are pushing back it's basically an intergalactic invasion. people they point to the recent removal of controversy all right wing radio host alex jones from facebook you tube and spotify private tech companies say they're legally within their rights to ban offensive content critics say there's silencing dissent some republican members of congress are even arguing today's big tech companies are monopolies in the marketplace and should be regulated to foster political debate from all sides a move the white house now appears to be considering can really help get al-jazeera washington world we have the sports news to the head on the news al and claims of

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bus workers tell their boss when they're quitting their job but not the french and varmint minister nicolo to shocked radio listeners by resigning live on air he says the government isn't doing enough to fight climate change well from paris that has more it was on french radio that nicolas he 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 anymore 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 would be made in other areas such as rolling back nuclear power before entering politics you know is a popular t.v. presenter of environmental programs and campaign. this makes it clear that the government isn't interested in german violence 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 state visit to denmark when he learned to the resignation who had not told him beforehand what

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.