experiences. the returning migrants now determined to discourage others from following the same. back. from al-jazeera. saudi arabia and the admit that last month's bombing of a school bus in yemen was unjustified. watching all just their live from london also coming up. the u.s. cuts off all funding to the un agency that provides schooling and health care to five million palestinian refugees. killed in a cafe bombing in ukraine the death of a pro russian rebel leader brings a sharp response from moscow. and

a final farewell to republican senator john mccain we're live outside the cathedral in washington. and i was start with some breaking news out of saudi arabia and the u.a.e. have admitted that last month's bombing of a school bus in yemen was unjustified forty children were killed in a coalition air strike and who think controlled sunday in august that incident sparked widespread condemnation the coalition said those responsible would be held accountable. when i learned what they are a subject that the joint team based on the up of fact is of the opinion that the coalition forces should initiate legal actions to try and penalize those responsible for the mistakes which cause collateral damage in that area these mistakes include that the orders to target the bus should have been delayed as the executing warplanes should have waited for the target to approach

a clear area and justify collateral damage in line with the rules of engagement adopted by the coalition forces article fifty seven and fifty eight of the first protocol of the geneva convention. alan fischer is monitoring the situation in yemen from djibouti and joins us now live there are so alan iraq concession from the saudi led coalition what was said. well it's interesting that just a few days ago they were insisting that this was a legitimate military operation that if you look at the actual wanting of what they're seeing in this report they're not saying that there was a problem with killing children what they're saying is that this attack should have taken place when it did because they were targeting with the leaders and you see they continue their intelligence pointed in that direction but those leaders at that stage did not present a threat to saudi led coalition forces and therefore that operation should have

happened at the time the state intelligence was passed to the pilots who fired the fatal missile but never got there in time and that is why we saw in the market sarin fifty one people killed forty of them children as you'll remember there's also interesting that this report comes out just a few days after a couple of critical reports of this thirty led coalition and others in the war in yemen first of all with human rights watch complaining that when there is a saudi led investigation by this task force then it tends to be not transparent not meeting international law and in the words of human rights watch was essentially airbrushing any criticism of the saudi led coalition that could lead to them being accused of war crimes and then just a couple of days after that with a three person panel three expert panel from the united nations saying that some incidents that have happened during the war in yemen on both sides could well lead to the possibility of war crimes but they see that would be for

a court to decide so for the saudi arabian coalition to come out and say this at this point is very interesting but we do know there's been a lot of pressure on the saudis from the united states and they were told that that was a bomb that was used in the attack on the marketplace and so the saudis may well have responded to that pressure by coming out with this record in the last few hours allan session djibouti for us thank you. after nearly seventy years the united states has cut all funding to a key u.n. agency that supports millions of palestinian refugees it's accuse the united nations relief and works agency of being irredeemably flawed of the palestinian leadership is calling it a flagrant assault on its people are a force that has more from raw in the occupied west bank. just this week in the

face of its funding crisis on row was celebrating the start of the academic year at the reopening of its schools girls' arriving for class in a jealous zone refugee camp in the occupied west bank welcomed by the agency's chief on raw has been scrambling all year to drum up the money to maintain its services after the us withheld more than three hundred million dollars in funding now comes confirmation that those cuts permanent the u.s. state department saying the fundamental business model in fiscal practices that have marked an ra for years tied to a rise and this leant exponentially expanding community of entitled beneficiaries is simply unsustainable the united states will no longer commit further funding to this irredeemably flawed operation for the palestinian leadership the decision is not about the specifics of a un agency rather an attack on the palestinian cause the us may argue that it's taxpayers' money and there are free to do whatever they want to do with it yes but

it will give them the right garber of the stealing of my land my future my spirit in my hopes my capital maxim was my only sceptic or church they have no right whatsoever. for palestinians the final status of the more than five million refugees who assert a right of return to present day israel is like the status of jerusalem an issue to be settled by the go see a should not by a preemptive u.s. position that position is referred to at least in the language used in the us statement when it talks about the exponentially expanding number of people who rely on that suggest this isn't just a move against one specific agency but also against the continued refugee status of millions of people. for the sufi family home is the village of beit in the balance now in israel not the jailer's own refugee camp where most of them were born and raised. relation with what can i do if i go back on my own a car to tend the land i want my children there before me we want them where the

future is there and their children that have been used for a sufi has seventy grandchildren and great grandchildren among israeli jews there is all but political consensus that allowing all such families to return would destroy the jewish character of the state but there's also concern not least reported within the israeli security establishment about the effects of killing off their main provider of aid in order to disrupt the politics but i think people are asking whether what we're seeing is the political instrumental isolation of aid and what you say is the wrong ability and the needs of the people are simply too great in the short term un role will continue to seek ways to plug its funding gap germany among the first donor nations to promise extra money warning of an uncontrollable chain reaction if we're forced to shutdown ari force it out zero refugee camp in the occupied west bank. the newly appointed u.s. representative to syria james jeffrey is making his first trip to the region and

his visit comes as speculation grows that russia and syria are planning a military offensive and it led the un has warned that an all out attack on the upper house province would cost many civilian deaths and for their displacement stephanie decker has more from un taqiyya which is near the turkey syria border. what you're looking at is the province and these are just some of the tents of the internally displaced along the border with turkey around eight hundred thousand tents lined this border area the border with turkey is of course closed and also the other situation is that people here will tell you that they have nowhere to go they have been coming over the years from areas where fighting was inside syria now most of those areas are under government control and of course there is a feeling that this operation this offensive by the by the syrian government and the russians will take place at some point this is why you have intensive diplomatic efforts underway between turkey between russia and the syrian government

trying to figure out how to limit this turkey's nightmare situation is to have these people try to cross into the border areas also how do you maintain the aid flowing to the people over a million people inside of the dependent on aid so a lot of different challenges under way it's also different this province the last held rebel territory inside syria because this is the area where people have been bussed to rebels and their families will sit internally displaced who did not want to stay in those areas now under the control of the syrian government under those reconciliation deals so this is why it's different this is why it's a huge challenge where they're going to go. the u.s. italy and france and the u.k. are all condemning the growing violence and around libya's capital tripoli there's been a lot of infighting there between armed groups after several days of violence killed almost forty people and injured more than one hundred most of those casualties are civilians gun battles and shelling have caused serious damage to areas around

metabo airport near tripoli and the groups are officially aligned to the u.n. recognize the government of national accord. now russia has warned that diplomatic talks to resolve the conflict in eastern ukraine are now impossible after the killing of a kremlin backed separatist leader on friday moscow has accused ukraine of killing alexander genco in an explosion at a cafe in donetsk where we challenge has this report. this is the aftermath of the blast that killed at xander as a car chink or a blackened body can be seen lying on a stretcher outside the cafe don't yet squint into lockdown after the killing with moscow and the russian backed breakaway republic itself calling this an act of international terrorism the. security measures in the republic are heightened all the borders are closed a few people have already been detained they have already given evidence confirming that this was a ukrainian act of sabotage. the last pictures of her alive were from

thursday laying flowers for the donbass born singer years of cubs one who died earlier in the day so had been the prime minister of done yet since november two thousand and fourteen he was shuffled into the position at a time when attempts were being made to make the war in ukraine's east look less like a foreign operation run from moscow more like a homegrown independence movement as a disney esque native and rebel military commander who fit the bill second or was present both peace summits in minsk a negotiator of the first the d.n.r. representative and signatory had the second three potential theories spring to mind for who might have been behind this killing it could have been ukraine secret service the s.b.u. perhaps it was separatist infighting or maybe it was moscow doing some extreme housekeeping amongst the rebels plenty of other separatist commanders have met

similar fates like the man with the nom de guerre give killed last year and motorola who died in two thousand and sixteen but this ukraine analyst thinks one theory of a psychotic is death stands out as the most likely to me it looks like this was an internal operation from the past few weeks and months. has been critical of some of its colleagues other deputies and that's all the. n r r m n i t control the t.v. station which pretty much humiliated and their colleagues so i think become kind of the writing was on the wall that perhaps it's day or were numbered moscow and kiev of both accusing each other of having a hand in second because death the most significant yet of the many murky deaths that have been ongoing feature in this murky war rory chalons zero mosque or and still to come on this program. i'm wayne hay in northeast thailand where we'll tell

you why some are blaming the emergence of a flesh eating disease on a big increase in sugar cane plantations. cutting back on facebook bought a warning about the impact of too much social media. how i once again well it's been a pretty wet week for southeastern parts the chardon places say things do look a little dry as we go on through the next couple of days still a fair amount of cloud right close to hong kong at present over the next twenty four hours or so you might still see some of the winds still continue to push their way in from the southwest north of that whilst of will be getting up into the low thirty's we go on into monday and there's the dry weather coming through once again maybe some showers there for shanghai before much of southeastern china sitting

with them a lot better than it was sunday looking much better for taiwan maybe a few showers there into the philippines some showers too into a good part of the joining up with the showers that we have across much of indo china still looking pretty wet over towards at least the side of the by a bingos a shot was never too far away from me i'm on the far northeast of in the northern parts of india this is just to the northeast of new delhi actually work on to seen some very very heavy rain recently and those heavy downpours have led to some mudslides and rockslides as well we will see the showers continue his or go on through the next couple of days longer spells of rain to become further south as the came dr fine and sunny. an instantly shifting news cycle receiving change over the listening post takes pools of questions the world's media will be of the details the kind that cannot be

conveyed in two hundred eighty characters or fewer exposing how the press operates is their language is their culture it's their context of why certain stories take precedence while others are ignored we can have a better understanding of how news is created we're going to have a better understanding of what the news is the listening post on al-jazeera. hello again here's a reminder for top stories on our. side to arabia and the u.a.e. says last month's attack on a bus carrying children was unjustified forty children were killed in the airstrike and would be controlled a few weeks ago. the u.s.

has cut all sunday into the un agency which supports five million palestinian refugees the trumpet ministration says the agency is it ridhima to be flawed. russia says that diplomatic talks to resolve the conflict in eastern ukraine are now impossible after the killing of a kremlin backed separatist leader on friday last co has accused ukraine of killing alexander go and an explosion at a cafe in donetsk. politicians across the political divide have come together to remember u.s. senator john mccain who died last week aged eighty one former president barack obama george w. bush and bill clinton are all of those attending a service which is underway in washington. but the family of the vietnam war hero have not to invited the president donald trump gabriel i was on though is keeping track of what's happening there for us gabriel as we said you know more notable and

his absence the sitting us presidents tell us about what's been the lead up to that and what's happening today. yeah it's really unprecedented that you'd have such a beaut big memorial service for someone such as john mccain someone of his stature more than twenty five hundred invited dignitaries here in the cathedral behind me but the current president donald trump is not here and he's not here because quite frankly he was not invited the mccain family and mccain himself before he passed away they made it very clear that they did not want president trump here again very unprecedented to see that it's just it goes back to that contentious relationship that the two men had for so many months now dating back really to when trump was running for president and while trump's name was not directly mentioned here at this memorial service many of the speakers very much were speaking about john

mccain but also rebuking the politics of donald trump listen to a little bit of what mccain's daughter had to say when she spoke here just a few minutes ago. the america of john mccain is generous and welcoming and bold she is resourceful confident secure she meets her responsibilities she speaks quietly because she is strong america does not post because she has no need to. the america john mccain has no need to be made because. we heard similar messages from the two people that gave the eulogy as george w. bush and barack obama both of those two former presidents were chosen by mccain

before he passed away to give this year and it was really mccain's last message to america and really to the world a message that he wanted these two former presidents to give the eulogy because he wanted to give a sign that this was a country that needed to come together reach across political lines reach across political divides and that's the message that you really heard from both former president george w. bush and barack obama both of them extolling the virtues. of mccain but also saying the country needed to live up to mccain's legacy a legacy of really reaching across the political lines to do what's best not only for the country but the world. john mccain. thank you very much. for the first time in more than twenty years there will be a majority of leftist politicians in mexico's congress new m.p.'s from the

president elect's party dominate both the lower house and the senate and there is money well lopez obrador is promise of an overhaul of the way congress works include slashing politician salaries john home and has this report from mexico city . it's a historic new mix can congress for the first time since democracy the left has a clear majority. for your own party more in and its allies with the board giving populist president elect and his money well lopez obrador a legislative power not seen in twenty years it's used to promise a new austerity plan that would have the salaries of lawmakers and dramatically cut their perks bodyguards teams of consultants and international travel they say something that a public tired of rich out of touch politicians needed to see where there can't be such a marked inequality in society so much poverty in the countryside or in

a group of privileged politicians with everything. there's another big shift for the first time they'll be almost as many female lawmakers as men in part the result of a quota system where. there could be a different vision with women involved in the country's direction not just to highlight the problems we have like femicide domestic and social violence but to do things differently with sensitivity honesty dedication those values are more prevalent in women but there's a challenge ahead say female lawmakers getting more access to big policy decisions rather than just being relegated to so-called women's issues we can't yet see how this is all going to play out but congress is definitely opening with a real change of tone in particular the cuts to pay and perks of grab the attention but analysts say what's going to really make a difference is better oversight to how lawmakers are spending public money not

just blanket cuts up until now there's been a real lack of checks and balances what a media change that should make politicians more willing to play the transparency game is reelection introduced for the first time i expect and i hope that this incentive structure will really focus on politicians to go more to their grassroots result in a virtuous circle of going more to their constituency and really try to to get good results source so us tour and bought this three years for the new lawmakers to prove all know that this time around they're prepared to put the country before themselves john home of. mexico city. thailand's government is reconsidering the use of three toxic weight killers one of which is already banned in more than thirty countries paraquat has been blamed for flesh eating bacteria diseases that a maned and even killed some farmers when hay has the story. in parts of rural

thailand red marks the spot it's an indicator that farmers used to show that sprayed paraquat a toxic weed killer banned in many countries and the european union its use is blamed on a number of illnesses including a flesh eating bacteria disease which is emerged in northern thailand some farmers have died others have lost limbs in the province of non-board who where researchers say contamination from agra chemicals is severe. i really want to see people stop using the chemicals last time i went to the provincial hospital the staff told me there were a lot of patients with similar symptoms as i had thailand's become one of the world's biggest uses of paraquat partly because of its effectiveness on sugarcane plantations as the price of rice fell the government encouraged farmers to grow other crops like sugar which in turn increased demand for paraquat the health ministry recommended that it be banned along with two other chemicals but that was

ignored and they continued use approved by a government appointed committee there are now allegations that some members of that committee had conflicts of interest with companies involved in importing the chemicals it allowed or doubt i. look at the members of the committee their position is not groundless but so far we have no imperial evidence to accuse any of them. thailand wants to become known as the so-called kitchen of the world but the largely unregulated use of toxic sprays is leading to concerns about food safety most of the world's paraquat is made in china which has also decided to ban its use in thailand it's important mainly by foreign companies the biggest tie company dealing in its is c.p. group were jones among other things convenience stores it's also one of the world's largest food producers. al-jazeera contacted c.p. group and other companies involved but none would give an interview and none have

ever been to see see to put to ask him what happened he says he can never farm again but hopes one day the fields here will be chemical free wayne hay al jazeera . thailand. one of the world's largest urban forests and johannesburg but its future is not threatened by man but by a tiny beetle from either miller explains from johannesburg with ten million trees johannesburg is regarded as one of the world's greenest cities but hundreds of thousands of trees could be under through it from a tiny beetle and the fungus it carries. it's a it's a crisis. manmade forests is under threat because of those people. and you are not enough is being done from a. maybe a government or a city level at a local school trees seargent julian or trying to stop the spread of the beatles

which point to trees the fungus that the beetle brings to the tree is actually clogging up in layman's terms of vascular system in the tree that's transporting the water the nutrients up and down the tree so it interferes with that and that's basically because the water in your transcon pass through that affected area or that damaged area it's the tree on the top dies back. so it's basically starving the tree nearby an entire tree lined streets has been infested south africa's not the first country to be affected the beetle which originates in vietnam has already dismayed to trees in israel and the united states now a south african company has developed what it says is the world's first effective treatment it's a combination of a pesticide and an antifungal solution that penetrates the tree the company says while the treatment will be sprayed on to trees it's safe for the environment but there's by killer still has to be approved before it can be used but that could

take time and even if some trees are cut down the bug could spread if the trees are not properly disposed of after discovering that trees in his backyard had been affected little frier developed an app to monitor the spread of the brutal beetle across south africa the various interest groups have all been paying attention and collaborating. and certainly the people in the private space are working very aggressively to try to find solutions the institutions like the department of agriculture there were some really great people but they're under resourced and they're also dealing with other crisis some say the infestation is reaching crisis point and up to half a million trees could be lost in the next five years if nothing's done and experts are worried that the pissed if not stopped could hit farm crops next for me to miller al-jazeera johannesburg. urging people to stop using social media

for a month warning that high usage can lead to increased anxiety and depression around three billion people about forty percent of the world's population is social media with many spending more than an hour every day on different platforms a word report. sometimes it feels like we are constantly connected liking posting uploading and updating social media is a big possible lives whether it's checking for the latest news on twitter watching the british prime minister dance or dog drive a speedboat i feel like most of us are addicted to it and if the people that say that they're not that just. the way that the campaign is in britain or urging people to take a break from personal social media for september or reduce usage to give them time to re-evaluate what makes us feel good and what makes a scale bad but the balance of the impacts for most young people from research we've done does of the name seem to be a negative one where actually young people consider comparing themselves to

district but the idea is on base real estate depictions of people's lives globally instagram has an estimated billion followers facebook more than two billion users and twitter hundreds of millions many of us around the world to have at least one social media accounts here in britain more than forty million people now subscribe and teenagers are the biggest consumers of social media some are on it but more than four hours a day scientists have warned about the dangers of becoming addicted to social media and link it to pull sleep and depression it is compulsive at the berry least giving it up then or at least turning off the traffic even for a few days isn't an easy prospect lake you mean it takes. two to never bring. rain. and such a day here bieber sound in his posse for your thoughts what

a. little much of time to be honest. thanks to disconnect some people might need to be reminded that life is more than just you know showing other people what your life. closing down social media to thirty days may give some people a much needed break campaigners say companies and individuals who use it need to think before they post about the impact the next click might happen and they would in london. again here's a reminder for headlines on al-jazeera an investigation by saudi arabia and the u.a.e. says that the bombing of a school bus in yemen was unjustified forty children were killed in a coalition air strike and who think a trial souther in august that incident sparked widespread condemnation the

coalition said those responsible would be held accountable alan fischer has more from djibouti well it's interesting that just a few days ago they were insisting that this was a legitimate military operation if you look at the actual wording of what they're seeing in this report they're not saying that there was a problem with killing children what they're seeing is that this attack should have taken place when it did because they were targeting who the leaders and the city continue their intelligence pointed in that direction but those who are leaders that they did not present a threat to thirty local issue in forces and therefore the operation should have happened at the time they see the intelligence was passed to the pilot to quiet the people mr but never got there in time and that is why we saw in that market fifty one people killed forty of them children the u.s. has cuts all funding to the u.n. agency which supports five million palestinian refugees nearly a third of u.n.

refugee agency is funding comes from the u.s. the trumpet ministrations says the agency is every dream of being flawed and president palestinian president mahmoud abbas calls the cuts a flagrant assault on palestinians. the u.s. france and the u.k. are all condemning the growing violence in and around libya's capital tripoli has been a lovely and fighting between armed groups there nearly forty people have been killed and more than one hundred injured and fighting and a memorial service for the senator john mccain is being held in washington d.c. former u.s. presidents barak obama and george w. bush are leading tributes to the career politician and the vietnam war veteran again died of brain cancer on august twenty fifth people in power is next.

desperate for a safer more prosperous life for millions of people have sought refuge in europe sometimes the dreams have come true sometimes disenchantment until stability have driven them home in the second of two films in these conflict experiences people in power has been stricken beaten or disillusioned for them like us a trying to persuade others from falling into saying oh oh.