attack shouldn't have gone ahead because they pose no direct threat to the alliance forces at that point they didn't apologize for killing so many children but they said that lessons had to be learned and people who were responsible had to be punished document rights watch is also saying that those who supply the weapons could well be complicit in war crimes and this is aimed specifically on the side you cite the united states the united kingdom and france as we know the united states have been providing a great deal of weapons and support to this saudi led coalition what the department of defense in washington has said is that it welcomes the saudi report which identified the errors that had been made the mistakes that had been made and it was working with its coalition partners to try and reduce the numbers of civilian casualties but as i say human rights watch clearly this report compiled it before hearing from the saudis because just last week they said that when the saudis investigate incidents like this they don't do

a good enough job and if we just briefly look ahead to this month expectations are already low on a with news that the two sides went even to meeting face face to. exactly but i don't think anyone expected that come the sixth of september both sides would sit down around the table you know a bit the top of the table and say right there must have a deal and something with suddenly materialize there has been really a half years of fighting there's a lot of animosity between both sides both sides have red lines that they probably won't cross but there is growing international pressure on both sides it's not just the saudis we had the u.n. experts report the panel of experts report just last week saying that too many civilians are dying in this there is the possibility that there are a number of people who are responsible for war crimes the point that it would be a judge that would decide that a court that would decide that but there is a growing pressure on both sides to try and bring an end to the fighting to get to a place where they can at least talk about a procedure to put in

a peace deal but as you rightly point out in the talks get under way on the six is that it would even be in the same room at least in the initial stages. places there from djibouti thanks very much allan. corey is a former u.s. at mass and deputy chief of mission in yemen he says the coalition's explanation for the strikes is not credible. there was an admission of an error but there wasn't aerial explanation supposedly there was some other target and they didn't want to wait until the target was in the clear and away from other civilians but they don't explain what the target was from all other reporting there doesn't seem to have been any other target. i think there there are different ways of targeting some of them depend on intelligence that is than you were from

the ground or from command and control center and riyadh to the pilot and then it's all electronic but there are other targets that are targets of opportunity where the pilot sees something and may or may not see permission before bombing in this case the bus seemed to be in the clear and there was nothing else around it that it could have been mistaken for. so i'm afraid that. you know this sort of thing has happened so many times before and for them to admit a mistake now seems a bit fishy there wasn't even a genuine apology to the families of the victims and to the yemeni people. i'm afraid. twenty more still ahead here on the news hour including

explosions late at night near a syrian abbes but the government in damascus says it was not an israeli attack. and they were once banned from school now ranger refugee children have a chance to. send sports will have action from the u.s. open and a moment of genius from belgium fetter. the situation in the libyan capital tripoli appears to be to tary saying as rival armed groups battle for control at least forty people have been killed in several days of fighting general is calling for an end to the violence the u.s. is the france and the u.k. a warning that those who undermine stability will face consequences. has this report from a civilian home in tripoli that was hit by a rocket. this is part of the rocket that killed the two little boys

since the beginning of the clashes that broke out a week ago. many civilians were killed by ugandan rockets as the minister. says and as the family members tell us here they're ok but it landed here and killed but there are talks arms and you can also see you know there. remains of exclusion here on this wall a. whole. team that the rocket was the explosion was very strong that. is hard to watch here was also destroyed by the explosion. it is a state of panic among civilians especially with which random rockets stray rockets landing in densely populated areas and it seems that the government of national accord is not a strong enough to put in to this conflict people here and so many people in

tripoli. are blaming the government for not doing enough to stop this conflict so i'll back the political analyst and former advisor to the negotiating team of the high of the council of states to joins us now from tripoli thanks very much for your time can you first of all explain to us who is fighting and what they're fighting for. ok i think basically to understand what's happening here we have to go back to the libyan conflict after the fall of gadhafi it's been characterized by a fight among several grooves over who controls the resources of the state this is the same type of fight however is restricted to one geographic area which is the tripoli proper. there are. many armed groups

inside tripoli they are tripoli tanya's so to speak. they are into police for now since two thousand and fourteen and there are other groups that are coming from towns and areas outside of tripoli and there are fighting over who controls the government in tripoli or the resources of tripoli that's the basic premise that we have to work by ok and what is the power of the government in tripoli the the jna the un backed internationally recognized government to control this fighting and take back control as it were of the streets now you see here's the thing in the east the. the armed groups have to and karama controls the government. and the. house of representatives here and to bully the other militia groups that control

the g.n.a.t. now there is a fight between other other groups want to be in on the on this thesis and they want their share so when you've got the the u.s. and and european countries warning of consequences for those groups who are undermining stability i mean is anyone heeding those warnings that they care about those warnings what might those consequences be. well you see i don't know of the of these militant groups recognize that but what we have learned from the previous statement four days ago and this statement is that. the participants in the statements were in a quandary they wanted to to have strong language but at the same time they didn't want to appear to be siding with the military the armed groups that are inside

tripoli against the armed groups coming from outside tripoli so you see this statement that's really not very strong at the same time it has the standard language of we calling for calm and allowing mediators to intervene and we punish those who who do not comply but the fact is that they are really in a quandary and they don't know what to do and will fear is that this fighting is going to escalate we've already seen it from our correspondents reports he says hitting densely populated areas what fear that is going to escalate and create sense of mass casualty situation in the capital well the e.c.u. reports reported that forty casualties there probably between a hundred and two hundred people injured but this is while the fighting is happening on the edges of tripoli which are big open areas now

the situation will get more complicated and probably there will be more casualties at the fight as the fighting approaches the center of the city and i think if nothing done within the next day or two i think we are probably unfortunately facing more casualties and i'll get to speak to that from tripoli thanks for bringing us to the from the capital of letting up. syrian state media has denied the israeli attack on a damascus on saturday night. blasts have been heard near the base in the western outskirts of the capital city media says an electrical faults led to the blasts munitions depo seventy seconds more from attack it near the techie syria border. the first you know the first thought and the first for

a lot of people certainty is that israel would have been behind this it's not the first time that israel has struck this military base outskirts of damascus israel's concern of course is always iran weapon shipments to iranian forces particularly hezbollah that can bend threaten israel security israel never comments on these strikes however they do admit that yes they do target these kinds of weapons shipments or weapons storage is syrian state television quoting military sources saying it wasn't israel it was an electrical fault but there is a lot of skepticism about that there's other syrian military sources being quoted saying that israel was behind it the syrian observatory which monitors the war saying that israel was behind the work we do know there were reports of ambulances racing to the scene last night multiple explosions so again these things are very difficult to confirm independently always of course a lot of skepticism when it comes to a particular attack like this or an explosion in a weapons depot in a very important military base whether that was

a form of an electrical hook up or whether that was israel terms we won't be able to confirm but certain a lot of skepticism about that denial from syrian state television. we're going to tell her i'm banned from school by struggling to get a formal education in the country there scapes to three hundred eighty thousand children moved to bangladesh in the past year and many still until school one charity is trying to give them a chance to learn about a time to reports. in this child friendly space in bangladesh young real hinge a refugee are getting a chance they were never afforded back home in me and more. and they are in a happy mood as they proudly show off their reading and reciting skills. save the children's daphne cook tells me how the informal program aims to teach more than just letters and numbers these are kids that haven't had any kind of education at

all what that means is they might not know how to cross the road safely they might not know how to wash their hands so it's really basic stuff like that to keep kids safe and healthy in their day to day lives outside the learning center though a grim reality confronts you at almost every turn like these children who should be in school instead they're selling vegetables to help support their families or these teenagers who should be having fun with their friends instead discussing what little they have to look forward to before fleeing to bangladesh sixteen year olds yob used to dream of becoming a doctor. if i can continue to study i would be able to do anything with my life i wouldn't have any skills i'm very worried that this could mean i might end up a thief one day just so i can survive i want to study z. obl completed the seventh grade in me and more but he hasn't been back in a classroom since he and his family fled the violence there. go to almost any camp

for the displaced practically anywhere in the world and you find more often than not that in those settings it's extremely difficult for children to get access to a proper education but when you speak to are hindu refugees who fled me and more over the course of the past year you find out that their education crisis started long before they arrived here it's estimated that upwards of sixty percent of the or hindu are illiterate when you hear how these boys were often barred by soldiers from attending school in myanmar as rak kind state it's easy to understand why and at it when we were on our way to class the army used to stop us and ask where are you going with said we were going to school. what are you doing going to school unicef simon ingram explains how dire the situation has become so i'm over the past year we've had something like three hundred eighty thousand school aged children

arriving here from across the border trying to get them into some kind of learning activities give them some sort of shape to their lives give them some sort of hope for in terms of learning and their education for the future that has had to be one of our biggest priorities while aid workers are cautiously optimistic that consultations with the government of bangladesh will result in a formal curriculum that's ready to roll out by october most of the refugee children don't hold out much hope for while they may not be in school they learn each and every day just how cruel the world can be mohammed atta at the could do belong refugee camp in cox's bazaar bangladesh. i thought enough of the weather and his kevin kevin's if ever miserable holiday weekend is that salem have heat we have storms and we have a tropical system on its way we're going to be watching that as well take a look what's happening here across united states never saw the clouds two thirds

of the country either dealing with storms flooding or it is going to be that he wanted to go to kalamazoo take a look at the video that came in from last night major tornado went through this area there were no injuries with this tornado but there was a lot of structural damage because this was a very very wide tornado that passed through two counties we're also dealing with flooding and flooding has been a major issue the summer because of the weather pattern over here in parts of pennsylvania and richard video showing this how one backyard getting really hammered by all this flash flooding going on you can't even see the pool that is underneath that muddy water right there so as we go through the rest of the weekend this is what it looks like we're going to be seeing some very warm weather the water could be the most just coming in from the south that's going to mean more flooding very high temperatures as well as high humidity making it feel very warm new york is looking at thirty one degrees as we go to the next couple days then as we go here towards tuesday we're looking at thirty three degrees so very very hot

very muggy for the beginning of september but i want to show you what's going to be happening down here in the gulf the national hurricane center is washing one particular system make its way across. into the keys and then on tuesday it could be a flooding factor for parts of new orleans. so i had hair on al-jazeera about their policy for a muslim and mosque and jungle plus. i'm a green brown in beijing where i'm a just some it is underway to discuss china's deepening economic engagement with africa but this is a relationship about more than just trade find out why here on al-jazeera. and coming up in sport tiger woods fights back and the fed ex cup playoffs with some great shots and boston as you know we have the best of the action. capturing a moment in time. snapshots of other lives other stories. providing

a glimpse into someone else's world. on al-jazeera. september on al-jazeera the fourth eastern economic forum is to be held in the city of london for stock as russia looks to expand its influence in the asia pacific region on television and online the stream continues to tap into the extraordinary potential of social media to disseminate news the presidents of russia turkey and iran will meet in teheran for another summit seeking an end to the war in syria we'll have extensive coverage people in power continues to examine the use and abuse of power around the world the united nations general assembly holds a seventy third session what action will it take on atrocities in me in march and yemen we'll bring you all the news september on al-jazeera.

and again you're watching al-jazeera has a reminder of our top stories this hour the u.s. is planning to counsel three hundred million dollars in military aid to pakistan saying it's failing to take action against all md groups next on denies giving taliban fighters safe haven after launching offensives in neighboring afghanistan. responsibility for a car bombing in somalia talk to the local government headquarters in the capsule mogadishu there are reports children and neighboring school were killed in the blast. and human rights watch is calling for an end to all weapons sales to saudi arabia following the bombing of a school bus in yemen last month. the coalition of the attack was unjustified fifty

one people including forty children were killed. in russia more protests are being held against the government's plans to change the pension age repos will would see the retirement age rise from sixty to sixty five for men and women from fifty five to sixty a recent concession by president vladimir putin so the women's age lowered from sixty three but it's failed to dampen widespread use and says the cost of pensions could bankrupt russia but the changes have hurt his popularity. as a fellow at the washington institute focusing on russia's foreign and domestic policy and she joins us now from washington d.c. via skype good to have you with us so the push in the softened some of these reforms was clearly not enough for many people while they still protesting. well thank you very much it's good to be here as always you know the pension reform has

been hugely unpopular across the board and there's several reasons to explain the first look the way they did the way the government announced these reforms was at the time when russia was still hosting the world cup sort of hoping that the public would notice trying to trying to soften the blow so to speak but more importantly the larger issue here is that these reforms demonstrate russia's economic decline of the government's inability. to handle development because russia has a system that is not geared towards development of the country rather it's a system built on loyalty to the kremlin where those that are close to the kremlin get rewarded. and you know there are such things as for example the government had stopped contributing to the pension fund to finance the crimea and excision. the witnesses so it's prioritizing political motives funding foreign adventures over

domestic development notably never took responsibility when he made these concessions that he sort of presented himself as this fatherly figure that is stepping in at the last minute to intervene to save everyone but ultimately the public holds him responsible so because of the way the economy has been handled it is necessary then for russia to make these reforms or it doesn't have the money to kate paying pensions in the way that it has been. well unfortunately you know it does russia is how is struggling to find the money and out what's interesting is earlier in the year putin high as has me. demanded that his government continue continue funding more social programs but the government has been struggling to find the funds for it the problem is. that ultimately the government has prioritize things like foreign adventures and you know benefiting

individuals close to the kremlin so yes the government is struggling to find the money but the fact of the matter is the way this reform has been has been rolled out the way the government you know the way the overall development of the country is going it's hard to tell what the future what lies ahead in the future and how damaging has all of this been a will this before put it. it's hard to tell at its end that's a that's a great question and i think that is the question. you know in the past look he's been in power for eighteen years now and he's proven remarkably unfortunately remarkably successful at coming out whenever there's a problem whenever there were there were major protests against putin in late two thousand and eleven early two thousand and twelve tens of thousands of protesters against against the regime and he was very skillful at quelling the protest so so he has that skill. to do that so it isn't me you know that it remains to wait we

will have to wait and see how this turns out but it but you know it's economic problems that show that ultimately whatever approval putin has is quite tenuous. great to get your opinions there from washington thanks very much for joining us thanks for having. china is expected to commit billions of dollars in aid and investment to africa at a summit in beijing on monday presences in ping has been welcoming leaders from fifty two african nations ahead of the foreign on china africa cooperation on the agenda sees a belt and road and they step which is the trillion dollar infrastructure plan that our concerns the project is overloading poor countries with debt well more than a million chinese migrants now work and live on the african continent whilst the number of africans in china is thought to be around half that and as our china correspondent agent brown reports it's a relationship that's about more than just trades. and only something sandra's from

cameroon but her son is chinese because he was born here both appear a lot these days on a popular chinese social media network marriage between a chinese man and an african woman is still a curiosity here so she under husband decided to stream their day to day lives fans send virtual gifts which represent money dollars too long i adore china everyone is envious of me everyone likes to see me happy i do i like to see me dancing they like me they're all my friends i'm missing nothing sandra and so shown should married a year ago after returning to his village near dandong in northeast china. life can be harsh here especially in winter when the temperature drops to minus twenty in cameroon it's hot and humid most days. given the tiny kisses and hearts

flashing on the screens of their smartphones symbols for virtual gifts it's going to be a profitable day in a good month they can make a thousand dollars china's economic courtship of africa began twenty years ago one of the consequences of that relationship a new generation of mixed race children forty years ago it was all but impossible for a foreign man or woman to live in china let alone marry a chinese but today marriages like this are no longer exceptional marrying a foreigner is no longer regarded as marrying down in the way perhaps that it once was here. dolly days and there are more and more international married is in china or some other friends also marry foreigners the chinese have become more accepting of intermarriage to begin with though zose mother was not so accepting. how contain nice marry a black woman she can leave at any time that's why at the beginning both my husband

i say no to this marriage. version sandra's had more success making friends on social media having now mastered enough mandarin to thank them in song. adrian brown al jazeera in northeast china. new york city is home to more than eight million people and thanks to a small group of scientists now more than twenty six million oysters scientists brought the oyster population back from nothing after decades of hunting and now optimistic they can get to a billion by the year twenty thirty five kristen salumi has been following the efforts in brooklyn. long before lady liberty graced new york harbor its waters teamed with oysters sustaining generations of native

american cabinet out in the water scientists along with volunteers are now attempting to return new york's waterways to their former glory as part of the billion oyster project in the fixed hundred it was tough to navigate the waters because there are so many my story it's over two hundred twenty thousand acres so this is a project that is native to new york the story. this site in brooklyn is one of eleven where the project is attempting to recreate reefs with shells collected from local restaurants and baby oysters some from farms on the east coast others grown at a local school with the help of students by nineteen zero six new yorkers had every last oyster their reefs had been dredged up or covered in silt and the water quality was too poor for their regeneration it stayed that way until one thousand nine hundred seventy two in the passage of the clean water act which prohibited dumping sewage and waste into the harbor even now the waters aren't clean enough to eat what lives there but he always to reefs have huge benefits for the local

ecosystem. in little superheroes very tiny about they pack a punch and they really they provide such habitat for in the biodiversity of new york harbor nicholas jacobson helped make the metal cages that create the reefs and volunteered to help place them in the water the oyster slide in like a file cabinet so in the city there's not many options to really connect with nature it's mostly concrete and steel. but this really gives an opportunity within the city to kind of connect with nature and. i guess just give back to the environment because we do take a lot and when it comes to the health of new york's waterways cultivating that connection may be just as important as cultivating oysters kristen salumi al-jazeera brooklyn new york. john mccain was buried on sunday a day off to politicians across the political divide paid tribute at his funeral

service full of president obama george w. bush and bill clinton were among those who attended it was on that has more a farewell to a giant of american life a man who served his country in war and in politics for over a half century more than two thousand invited guests at the national cathedral at the memorial service of senator john mccain. some of the most powerful people of american political life were present to pay their respects president donald trump was not there mccain's family did not invite him at the memorial service nobody spoke trump's name but it was hard to miss their repudiation of his politics while channeling mccain's spirit the america of john mccain has no need to be made great again because america was always great thanks so much of our politics a public life or public discourse can seem small and mean

and petty it's a politics that pretends to be brave and tough but in fact is born of fear john called on us to be bigger than that george w. bush spoke of mccain's courage perhaps above all john detested the abuse of power could not abide bigots and swaggering despots there was something deep inside him that made him stand up for the little guy. just before forgotten people in forgotten places outside the cathedral people gathered to watch and listen to the memorial service any way they could there was deep respect for mccain i think he's a great politician an american hero and a great person and i think that democrats and republicans should emulate him alike mccain embodies that whole brotherhood of veterans. he's not just

a military hero but he's an american hero on sunday mccain will be buried at a small private funeral at the u.s. naval academy in annapolis maryland it will be the culmination of a week long celebration of the life and legacy of a man who will go down as one of america's most important political leaders of his era gabriels andro al-jazeera washington is ready prime minister has welcomed a u.s. decision to stop funding the un agency helping palestinian refugees and he says an rov a pet choice the problem instead of solving it the body provides schools health care and food to millions the palestinians have called the u.s. move cruel and irresponsible. the funding cuts could haul reasonal security. mosco is celebrating the ninetieth anniversary of one of its most beloved places goalkeeper hawk or a challenge takes a look at the landmarks role in shaping the city and its history. ninety years

old and looking pretty good for its age gorky park has firmly reclaimed its position as one of moscow's most popular attractions but the city is part of gorky has been reinvented numerous times through communism and post soviet a k two its current sleeker more modern face but it is. the park appeared and nine hundred twenty eight it was designed for their proletariat the new and young state needed a new and young place where their protests could relax there was an idea to create a park of culture and leisure where people could get educated and take arrest may. not its energetic director betty glam invited the u.s.s.r. as most talent.