to uses a new service it's called little droid it's for women plus a just only a drum by women drivers pull for some extra features like a panic button in twenty force of among the trees of dr is. saudi arabia and the u.a.e. admits last month's bombing of a school bus in yemen was unjustified. hello from doha everyone i'm come all santa maria this is the world news from al-jazeera the u.s. cut off all funding to the un agency to provide schooling and health care to five million palestinian refugees killed by a cafe bombing in ukraine the death of a russian rebel leader brings a sharp response from moscow. he made us better prospects just as he made the sun

a better just as he made this country better and words of praise for john mccain from former president barack obama as he eulogized is the late senator and vietnam veteran. so saudi arabia and the united arab emirates say that last month's attack on a bus carrying children was unjustified an investigation by the coalition concluded that those behind it should be held accountable you'll remember forty children were killed in that airstrike in sabah which is controlled by the hutu rebels the incident sparked widespread condemnation and calls for independent investigations from the united nations secretary general. they are a subject that the joint team based on the above facts 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 is alan fischer with the latest on this one from neighboring djibouti you were saying to us earlier alan that really that the devil is in the detail in exactly what the saudi coalition has said. exactly the saying the mistakes were the killing of the children the mistakes were that the operation which was targeting who's the leaders didn't have to be carried out when it was carried out because they were travelling in a way that was no immediate danger to saudi call ition forces they also say that information was passed to the pilots that fired the fatal missile but it didn't get to him in time so no real apology there for the death of forty children and eleven

other adults certainly you remember at the time the saudis said that this was a legitimate military operation again they're saying in their official report that they were targeting with the leaders and this comes just after two reports in the last week that severely criticized the saudi led coalition and others in yemen you remember that first of all we had human rights watch saying that when the thirty led coalition investigates allegations into incidents like this past attack then they don't do so with transparency they feel to meet international standards and they say that too often it just ends up being a whitewash and then just a couple of days later when a u.n. panel of experts saying that there were incidents in the war in yemen that could well lead to the possibility of war crimes being raised against a number of individuals so it's interesting that the saudis have decided to come out with this report it is a huge turn from the physicians as it has taken and it's interesting as well that over the last number of days particularly since those two reports that the saudis

have come under u.s. pressure to try and do a lot more to reduce the number of civilian casualties in the war in yemen which is now stretching on to almost four years and the other thing to note as well as this report comes out just five days before the saudi allied coalition and others involved in the conflict in yemen are due to sit round the table and talk peace but of course coming underneath the umbrella of the united nations thank you for that update alan fischer in djibouti. we've also got hussein here with us who is a yemeni journalist former editor of the news of yemen website he's in so what do you make of this as alan was saying that the words are important unjustified is the headline but it's not an apology. as you say it's not apology and this statement is actually an insult to injury because remember that the saudi

that coalition when they targeted the great hall in sanaa in. two thousand and sixteen because the crime that killed two hundred forty people injured five hundred people took the attention of the international led media the so dalit coalition has came with the same statement they say that it was incorrect information and action must be taken against be able to sponsible on who caused this incident the same thing on the twenty fifth of august two thousand and seventeen after the saudi that coalition talking to the homes in sanaa killing twelve civilians including seven kids and one of the injured little girl her name is butane is the one that went the famous international media because she couldn't open her eyes she had used to hunt the saudi came with the same statement just imagine what action have they done against those who are responsible it just because those three crimes were what comes out of the widely known international

media those three crimes the saudi that coalition has used. american made bombs in those three crimes so i think it was kind maybe just to cover up the other crime because since the beginning of this war they have committed many many crimes and they only regret or release such a statement only if that crime has been covered widely on on the media remember they have time to think. killen hundred of them forty do you think there are also alluded to this time and given that there is going to be an attempt to sit around the table and talk peace very certain that maybe this is a church or that sort of saying well we will admit that something went wrong here. it could be but i think it's because as well of the you in expert report that has actually. blamed the saudi for war crime in yemen with

the saudis they want to look like that they are if they do a mistake they admitted this we did this only maybe three or four mistake they have done through this war this means that the fifteen thousand civilians that the saudi led coalition direct air strike has been killed is not a mistake and we remember al maliki statement straight after the strike on that bus that killed fifty civilians including forty one children he came and he said it was a legitimate target against people who were responsible of firing missiles five days after the saudi that coalition ambassador in the united nation has handed the letter to the united nations saying that the bus was carrying be people who are responsible for children in this conflict the statement just show you that they're so good at coalition no from the first minute that they were that they have targeted this bus but this is just to deceive the international media to deceive the international community as well to cover up for the crime that was reported in

the united nation. days ago. joining us from sanaa thank you as always. to other news and after nearly seventy years the united states will cut all funding to a key u.n. agency that supports millions of palestinian refugees donald trump's administration says the united nations relief and works agency is irredeemably flawed palestinian leadership has called it a flagrant assault on palestinians and in violation of un resolutions more from harry for third from the jalazone refugee camp 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 the refugee camp in the occupied west bank welcomed by the agency's chief unruh 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 us state department saying the fundamental business model in fiscal practices that have marked an rougher years tied to an endlessly and 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 and my hopes my capital maxim was my holy subject her church they have no right whatsoever. the 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 ca sion 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. with a sufi family home is the village of beit in the balance now in israel not the jealous on refugee camp where most of them were born and raised. well a human what can i did if i go back on my own a car to tend the land i want my children there before me we want them that the future is less and their children. user 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 or aid and what you say is that the amount of minutes and the needs of the people are simply two grades 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 herefore sit out zero jealous on refugee camp in the occupied west bank . a newly appointed u.s. representative to syria is making his first trip to the region it is james jeffrey expected to discuss the syrian conflict and his stops in israel jordan and turkey his visit comes as speculation grows that both russia and syria are planning a possible military offensive in laid on friday it might pay of the secretary of state warned an attack on the rebel held province would be a major escalation of the conflict on geoffrey's visit to the region this is what the state department says he will also underscore that the united states will

respond to any chemical weapons attack perpetrated by the syrian regime more from stephanie. in the 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 a 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 and russia one of the keep backers of the syrian president bashar al assad is flexing its military muscle with a week of drills in the mediterranean sea it says the exercises will focus on and air an anti submarine defense systems describing it as russia's largest naval deployment in the area since it intervened in syria's war three years ago they said it early reports of the buildup of russian forces in the mediterranean. russia has warned that diplomatic talks to resolve the conflict in eastern ukraine are

impossible after the assassination of the kremlin backed separatist leader on friday moscow has accused ukraine of killing alexander as i could go was killed in an explosion at a cafe in donetsk or challenge reports now from moscow. this is the aftermath of the blast that killed alexander as a car chink or a blackened body can be seen lying on a structure outside the cafe donetsk went into lockdown after the killing with moscow and the russian backed breakaway republic itself calling this an act of international terrorism with. 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 i have 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. or was present both peace summits in minsk and negotiator at the first the d.n.r. representative and signatory had the second three potential theories springs 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 and it turned all our operation for the past few weeks and months. has been critical. colleagues other deputies and that's the. an argument he controlled the t.v. station which pretty much humiliated and their colleagues so i think come kind of the writing was on the. or were numbered moscow and kiev a both accusing each other of having it because death is the most significant yet of the many deaths that have been ongoing feature in this murky war chalons zero moscow now there are rival rallies being held in the east german city of kennett's government immigration policies and these are the live pictures. the background is that the protests after the arrest of two asylum seekers who are suspected of

killing a german man last sunday but what you're seeing now is the police getting in between the two. rallies and say that the far right and the left ones there have been a series of anti migrant protests over the past week held by the far right and speeches being given there we've been covering those on al-jazeera but now you see the two sides opposing each other and the police making sure they are right in the middle of it keeping them apart more than twelve hundred policemen have been deployed will be keeping a little eye on that one saying if it does stay as it is. but still ahead for you on al-jazeera this tiny little place there but he's threatening to destroy one of the world's largest urban forests. and first. session many surprises mexico's leftist majority congress kicks off with more women and many plans.

the weather is looking lousy dry across much of the middle east not great surprises here we still going to the legacy of shower was just around the black sea so southern parts of russia pushing into georgia. maybe a little bit of wet weather that into armenia but essentially it doesn't dry and sunny you might just catch shall you notice that just around the southern end of the caspian as we go through sunday but for much of the region they got plenty of sunshine into the low thirty's full by roots for jerusalem which in the mid forty's over a bag that had also for kuwait you come down into the arabian peninsula and have it again lousy dry a little bit of cloud into southern parts of saudi arabia but it's largely looking settled and sunny on the human side from time to time the least haricot i will be the case the around the u.a.e. also expect that humidity to be picking up so where the morning mist and folks setting the issues to go on through the next couple days and feeling

a little on the sticky side pham ounce of plateau to some pos of south africa as we go on through the next hour so this massive cloud diving it's y.m. will produce some useful rainfall i suspect as we go through the next thousand tattles sunday looking wet fifteen degrees celsius seven cable's i seeing some wet weather at a sluggish way for the east was that some shine coming in behind. top

stories for you this hour on al-jazeera saudi arabia and the u.a.e. say last month's attack on a bus carrying children in yemen was justified an investigation by the coalition concluded that those behind it should be held accountable for see children were killed in the air strike and hooty controlled sabah in august the u.s. has cut off funding to a key u.n. agency that's been a lifeline for palestinian refugees jordan which has two million of them is one of the dangerous consequences to regional stability while israel says the cut to aid is a realistic view of the situation and supports israel's position palestinian leaders

that have called this a flagrant assault on palestinians. now at the national cathedral in washington d.c. today a funeral service has been held for senator john mccain in fact just concluded a short time ago leaders from across the political divide gathered to pay tribute and to remember mccain former presidents barack obama and george w. bush both of whom of course defeated mccain in their bids for the over last office eulogized the lights and i said. back in the day he could frustrate me and i know each say the same thing about me but he also made me better in recent years we should talk of that intense period like football players. remembering a big game in the process rivalry melted away in

the end i got to enjoy i want to life's great gifts the friendship of john mccain that's perhaps why we honor him best. by recognizing that there are some things bigger than party or ambition or money or fame or power but there are some things that are worse risking everything for principles that are eternal truths or abiding. that is best. showed us what that means gabriel is on the reporter now from outside the cathedral in washington incredibly somber incredibly moving woods actually from everyone today was in it. yes this was a memorial service that was quite patriotic because you could maybe imagine for

a man that really represented america in all of its glory as many people here at this memorial service said it was over two thousand invited guests that were here at the national cathedral paying on or to the life and legacy of john mccain now one person that was not invited was current president donald trump and that was by design mccain and his family did not invite him because they had a long and contentious relationship and they asked the president to stay away but even without mentioning trump's name there was some of that in some of the speeches particularly by mccain's daughter a real rebuke of trump style politics listen to a little bit more of what mccain's daughter had to say about that. in america 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 boast because she has no need to. the america john mccain has no need to be made great again because america was always great. now on sunday there will be a small private burial for mccain at the u.s. navy academy in annapolis maryland and that will essentially be the culmination of what has been a week long celebration and remembrance of the life and legacy of a man that will go down as one of america's most important political figures of his era thank you gabrielle is on there at the national cathedral in washington. mexico's first leftist majority congress is now in session the new government on

the president elect on the rest manuel lopez obrador is expected to unroll several austerity measures and to tackle corruption john heilemann looks at that. a little bit it's a historic new mix can congress for the first time since democracy the left has a clear majority. four year old party morena 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 hold 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. there can't be such a marked inequality in society so much poverty in the countryside and 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 the constituency and really tried to to get good results source source turned about 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. funding to south africa where johannesburg is home to one of the world's largest urban forests but it's come under threat from a tiny beetle scientists desperate look for a solution many of the city's trees are dying has our report. 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 crisis. manmade forest says under threat because of this. 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 bore into trees a 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 it's basically because the water neutrons can't 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 street has been infested sub africa's not the first country to be affected the beetle which originates in vietnam has already decimated treason 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 fryer developed an app to monitor the spread of the brutal beetle across south africa and 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 in this station 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. this is al-jazeera these are the top stories saudi arabia and the u.a.e. thirty last month attack on a bus carrying children was unjustified an investigation by the coalition concluded that those behind it should be held accountable forty children were killed in the airstrike in the hooty controlled solder region in august. they are a subject that the joint team based on the above facts 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. and other news the us has cut all funding to a key u.n. agency that's been a lifeline for palestinian refugees jordan which has two million of them is one of the dangerous consequences to regional stability while israel says the cut to aid is a realistic view of the situation palestinian leaders have called a flagrant assault on palestinians in defiance of u.n. resolutions. russia has warned that diplomatic talks to resolve the conflict in eastern ukraine are impossible after the killing of the kremlin back separatist leader on friday moscow is accused ukraine of killing alexander's like a chant go who died in the spurgeon at a cafe in donetsk a funeral service for u.s.

senator john mccain has wrapped up in washington leaders from across the political divide gathered to pay tribute and to remember mccain former presidents barack obama and george w. bush both of whom defeated mccain in their bid for the oval office eulogized the late senator. and rival rallies are being held in the east german city of candidates over government immigration policies this is after the arrest of two asylum seekers suspected of killing a german man last sunday him it's a scene a series of these anti migrant protests over the past week in this case there are rival right and left wing protests going on in the police trying their best to keep them apart in the german city of events that's a look at the headlines here on al-jazeera inside story starts right now.

a show of strength by german is angry protests after the killing of a young man. accused of his death migrants sentiment growing in germany and how much of a threat does he suppose this is inside story. welcome to the program. the city of candidates in the east german state of saxony has seen a series of violent and to protests they began last sunday after the fatal stabbing

of a thirty five year old german man and the arrest of two suspects asylum seekers from iraq and syria the streets.