come on the nato forces in afghanistan general scott miller of a sworn in to his new role in a handover ceremony in the capital kabul say it has been facing criticism over its security strategy in the country for the spike and taliban attacks recently. world recognizes that afghanistan cannot be a safe haven for terrorism. the world recognizes we cannot say that. i know this is not a long fight and it has been generations. for us. for the afghan people. i understand the reason we're fighting i know why we're here and i know terrorists igs a pretty good sport for murder. and threaten everybody's word once. again it's going to get reacquainted with our afghan partners. my distinct honor to work with the afghan government and the afghan people. at least six people

including two children have died in a suicide bomb attack in somalia's capital mogadishu the bomber detonated his vehicle by a checkpoint outside a local government headquarters the armed group al-shabaab has claimed responsibility. has more details. the loud explosion was heard across the somali capital mogadishu soldiers stationed near the entrance of district headquarters tried to stop the suicide bomber. tried to enter the compound with an explosive laden car and when the security tried to stop it the car exploded killing three of the soldiers the deputy commissioner for security and politics was also injured in the attack children were among those killed and injured as a nearby school collapsed. i saw bodies scattered on the ground after the explosion before the ambulances and the paramedics reached there and the whole scene was very . the roof was blown of a mosque and homes in the area were also damaged. as you can see the explosion

caused a lot of destruction there are mosques and islamic schools next to the district compound where. the hardline group says it was behind the attack a statement says the meeting in the district office was the target. has been carrying out attacks for more than a decade that includes a deadly truck attack last year which can more than five hundred people the u.n. backed government which took charge in twenty twelve has not been able to control much territory beyond mogadishu. somalia has devastated health infrastructure to struggle to deal with casualties in the past. and as the war regarding the one nine hundred ninety s. goes on somali civilians continue to suffer. out of there. as was still to come on this program. once banned from attending school we report on their enjoy refugee children given a chance to learn. the guatemalan farmers struggling to revive land destroyed by

volcanic ash. and for hours hopes of winning the formula one grand prix on home turf in italy take a nosedive we'll explain. 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 rights group is accusing the military coalition of committing war crimes in yemen on saturday the saudi and iraq the coalition admitted the attack was unjustified fifty one people including forty children were killed this week the un will leave talks to try and end the conflict or the warring parties won't be meeting face to face well earlier i spoke to build on as well from human rights watch and i began by asking him why weapons need to be banned from being sold to saudi arabia. well we've been saying for really

a long time now that countries like the united states the united kingdom and france that continue to supply weapons to the saudi led coalition despite an incredible amount of evidence that those weapons are being consistently repeatedly used in unlawful attacks that those countries officials in those countries could themselves be complicit in war crimes of war crimes are being committed by the coalition in yemen it's noteworthy that even though the united states and the u.k. continue to enthusiastically supply the coalition with weapons other countries have really curtailed their supplies germany has cut them off countries like belgium norway sweden have all reduced or ended weapon supplies to the coalition so we're looking at some bad apples and some outliers who seem to be more interested in business as usual which is a multibillion dollar arms deals then in compliance with the basic laws of war or

the continued lives and welfare of yemeni civilians now the u.s. has counter-intuitively said that they're backing saudi arabia has reduced what could be as civilian deaths collateral damage they say they're precision but weapons and the training that given has limited a lot of the collateral damage which would have been taken place without their weapons or without their training right this is one of the most astonishing claims that the united states has made they say that their precision guided munitions there in air refueling and there are others intelligence support for the coalition is reducing civilian casualties and that they're not parties to the conflict despite all of that support neither one of those things is verifiable the first is not verifiable the second is absolutely not true we continue to see a massive number of civilian casualties caused by air strikes from the coalition and the united states is absolutely a part of the conflict that can't. wash its hands of all this human rights watch

alone one organization has found united states made munitions at the sites of twenty four unlawful air strikes in yemen by the coalition so the idea that the best way to stop somebody from killing more civilians is to give them more bombs is absolutely counter-intuitive and wrong. now there is an argument if not the u.s. u.k. or france or other countries will be supplying those weapons wouldn't it be better to be coming from countries that perhaps could be held accountable or would admit to being accountable well at the moment we're not seeing any real current curtailment of weapons supplies from the supposedly human rights friendly weapons suppliers to the saudi led coalition so it's a bit of a it's really irrelevant to say that another country's weapons supplies would be even worse when we haven't seen any improvement so far what we have seen instead is a conflict since march two thousand and fifteen when the coalition started its bombing campaign has killed or maimed five children every single day and we have

seen virtually no accountability for the coalition side of that intense suffering it's not to say that the who the side is not also responsible for very serious violations which my own organisation has helped to document including the use of child soldiers kidnapping aid workers stealing humanitarian supplies indiscriminate shelling into populated areas but let's not have a false discussion here that we must either choose to completely turn a blind eye to wrongdoing by the saudi led coalition or otherwise we're just allowing the iranians and the who or whoever the enemy is to overtake the country that's not the question the question is what can be done and what is legally required to be done to limit civilian suffering. well yemeni president. he is preparing to travel to the united states for medical treatment how do you has been treated for a heart to continue condition since two thousand and eleven he's been living in

exile in saudi arabia since iran backed with the rebels took control of yemen's capital sana'a and twenty fifteen why does news agency is reporting how they will stay in the us and so the un general assembly meeting at the end of september. four months off to iraq's contentious election progress is being made in forming a new government sixteen iraqi political groups have merged to create the largest bloc in parliament most crucially lawmakers from blocs loyal to the shia cleric with other and prime minister body have joined the call coalition the group is made up of one hundred seventy seven lawmakers meaning that it needs just three more seats to have an outright majority it will elect a new speaker and start forming a government on monday. police have used tear gas to disperse three thousand protesters in southern iraq as unrest continues over for public services and corruption the protesters who are rallying outside the local government building in the oil have of basra also set fire to tar's and clash with police they want the

government to improve basic services and address their complaints over on safe drinking water all exports from bonds or account for ninety five percent of the country's revenue but the city's residents say they're not getting a fair share of the wealth. and israel's navy has blocked boats attempting to breach the naval blockade on gaza the palestinian vessels are part of a flotilla that planned to sail off the gaza strip to join an international campaign against the siege that carrying students activists and several patients who can't get urgent treatment they need due to the strict blockade imposed by israel now the israeli prime minister has welcomed a u.s. decision to stop funding the un agency that's helping palestinian refugees. the agency provides schools health care and food to millions and the palestinians have been called to have called the move a cruel and responsible but benyamin netanyahu says perpetuates the problem instead

of solving it. the u.s. has done a very important things by halting the financing for the refugee agency known as on road it's finally beginning to resolve the problem the funds must be taken and used to genuinely help rehabilitate the refugees the true number of which is much smaller than the number reported on the road this is a welcome change. the body of john mccain has been buried as a naval academy in the u.s. state of maryland a private service was held for the senator at the cademy in annapolis where he graduated sixty years ago crowds gathered along the way to watch the motorcade motorcade with his body passed by the career politician and former vietnam prisoner of war died from brain cancer last week at the age of eighty one. volcanic eruption in guatemala in june is still having a knock on effect on farmers in the area they're struggling to rebuild their

livelihood since a huge swathe of agricultural land was destroyed by volcanic ash david mercer travel to not go to visit the farmers in that region. the rich black soil on the side of this volcano in guatemala is normally the stuff of farmers dreams but on the ground knows firsthand that what the volcano can provide in bountiful harvests it can just as quickly take away the flag of volcanoes deadly eruption in early june dumped tons of rocks an ash onto his field the twenty eight year old was counting on this corn harvest to feed his young family for the coming year but all was destroyed. a thought. they'd think that. there was a layer of ash here thirty seven meters deep that was super hard like cement so. it's off now because we've tried our best to work the ground but this corn won't give us anything like this plant here no cob no nothing. the rep sheen of

killed hundreds of people a few kilometers north of the scene of the disaster ashen volcanic rocks not only damaged thousands of hectares of corn and beans but also cash crops such as vegetables coffee avocado and fruit trees ronald is just one of fourteen thousand smallholder farmers who lost their crops after june's volcanic eruption these people are already some of the country's most vulnerable and now they say they need help. in the highland town an hour away government help is starting to arrive guatemala's ministry of agriculture is providing shovels machetes and other tools to thousands of farmers official say that those who lost all their subsistence crops will also receive food assistance for up to three months. this is the agriculture ministry is first response but soon will be providing new coffee plants

will also be giving away seed so farmers can replant their fields but these are medium term plans it will take two or three years to be able to recover these crops . in the meantime family is relying on public donations in order to survive their year had begun with such promise his family rented extra land and planted all the seeds that saved from previous year's harvest in the hopes of getting ahead now they have nothing to show for their efforts. paying for corn means buying one hundred to two hundred pounds every month depending on the size of your family so you could be paying around fifty dollars a month for corn but often you only make twenty dollars and we both work on. and our goals are the money doesn't go far enough. despite the setback ronald and his family are determined to get through the year ahead he and other farmers here have faith that the same volcanic ash that killed this year's harvest will help produce

a bumper crop next year david mercer al-jazeera and the department of. what i'm all . and still ahead on this london news hour. i'm adrian brown in beijing where a major summit 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 we'll tell you how new york scientist through a vibe the city's when playing always to population to twenty six million. and find out what happened when stephen girard came up against one of his former managers and scottish football's peers this contest tatiana will have all the details in sport.

how i was still got some very lively weather into central parts of here this area cloud is slowly making its way further race with so still seeing quite a crop of showers some of them thundery around the outside around the impulse of the balkans pushing right up across tech republic into the baltic states and knotting a little further east with so warm weather coming in here as we go on through monday to the east of that mohawk sunshine thirty celsius in kiev bequest at thirty two degrees the thirty four there for athens behind nazi bad getting up to twenty four in london and also in paris but an old saying as we go on it's cheese day maybe even east of north the temperatures then twenty degrees celsius it will feel noticeably fresh air pushes stay dry thirty two celsius there for madrid botches day that west the weather will just make its way a little further east was into hungry i think i was towards rumania further south fine and dry warm sunshine right across the other side of the mediterranean. more the car i thirty eight celsius tripoli at around thirty four degrees

a little bit of cloud there just around the mountains of morocco and algiers that should thin and break by choose day warm sunshine coming in at this stage we're back to twenty five degrees celsius i'll just get up to thirty and a hot one in chino this thirty nine. this is life on the streets of l.a. . for maria the discovery of theater is an opportunity to ski and become someone asked for the tuition of a plane and perhaps a life time. later princess part of the viewfinder latin american series at this time. taiwan. a sovereign island state or a renegade province of china that must soon return to mainland control. as the

battle for taiwanese hearts and minds intensifies. people in power investigates the tactics of those to whom reunification is only a matter of time. taiwan spies laws and prostrate toys on our josie. well again his reminder for top stories and al-jazeera libya to u.n. backed government has declared a state of emergency in the capital tripoli after five days of fighting between rival armed groups at least thirty nine people have died in the violence. the u.s.

is canceling three hundred million dollars in military aid to pakistan saying it's failed to take action against armed groups including the haqqani network and the afghan taliban. and six people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack outside a local government headquarters in somalia's capital mogadishu children are among the. thousands of people across russia have once again held protests against a government plan to increase the pension age that's just by president vladimir putin watering down the original proposal to try and quell public anger and you all would see the retirement age rise from sixty to sixty five for men and from fifty five to sixty for women. the move is necessary to prevent the cost of pensions from bankrupting the country. sky is a fellow at the washington institute focusing on russian's foreign and domestic policy and she says putin's government didn't think that be such

a big public outcry. the way the government announced these reforms was at the time russia were still hosting the world cup sort of hoping that the public wouldn't 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 is 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's 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 you know timidly 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 what a process most famous and has to are excited to celebrating its ninetieth birthday this week over the decades because corkey park has been reinvented many times much like the city itself correspondent rory chalons takes a look back now at its past and its possible future. 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 decay to 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 need in 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

a rest. was. its energetic director betty glam invited the u.s.s.r. most talented artists and architects to shake the park even during world war two the park stayed open but when the soviet union collapsed in the early nineties corkey parks crown slipped to it hosted some of russia's first raves and metal concerts but it's fair ground rides became a shabby he developed a reputation for crime that's all been swept away now beginning in twenty eleven a radical overhaul brought wife i she cafes labrat playgrounds and more these days gorky park is alive with visitors go he parks modern reef it was the shape of things to come moscow it was the first major project of a huge of an regeneration program that has been rolled out across the russian capital at a cost of billions of dollars. now much of modern moscow gleams to with

riverside viewing platforms roadside swings and cycle paths the capital needed to revamp. some of those who've watched moscow's transformation say it's no coincidence this all followed the anti-government protests of twenty eleven and twelve. analyst alexander bound of things or thirty's chose to ignore calls for political freedoms but grants the urban classes a more livable city they try to isolate and by nish their their protest activists but they made a lot of we can call it concessions we can call it improvements eliminate you almost completely low level corruption and in the improvement of city and water and and there gorky park was the first broaddrick and the first step to this direction. down or says the opposition is now split about whether to accept such

gifts from the authorities everyone else meanwhile is down in the park ridge allen's al-jazeera moscow church groups have gathered in the german city of kenneth's to call for peace after days of violence anti immigration protests tensions have been wising up to an iraqi and syrian were arrested over the fatal stabbing of a german man thousands of far right supporters clashed with police on saturday demanding chancellor angler make her radical step down other demonstrations also drew counter protests from groups loyal to mark all three. children banned from school by me and larson army are struggling to get a formal education and the country they escaped to three hundred eighty thousand kids moved to bunker there in the past year and many aren't in school but one charity is trying to give them a chance to learn lama job joe reports. in this child

friendly space in bangladesh young real hinge refugees are getting a chance they were never afforded back home in me and more. and they're in a happy mood is the 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

used to dream of becoming a doctor and then a one month of one now i don't know if i can continue to study i would be able to do anything with my live 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 or 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 does. it and i think we were on our way to class b. used to stop us and ask where are you going we said we were going to school they'd ask us what are you doing going to school unicef simon ingram explains how dire the situation has become 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 the 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 german jews eat it at the could you belong refugee camp in cox's bazaar bangladesh china is expected to commit billions of dollars in aid and investment to africa at a summit in beijing on monday president xi jinping has been welcoming leaders from fifty two african nations head of the foreign on african china africa corp major item on the agenda is seize belts and road infrastructure initiative but there are concerns the project is overloading poor countries with debt more than a million chinese migrants that work and live in africa while the number of africans in china is thought to be around half of that and as adrian brown reports the relationship has also led to arise mixed race families. 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 and her husband decided to stream their day to day lives fans send virtual gifts which represent money and dollars but on one door china everyone is envious of me everyone likes to see me happy i do i like to see me dancing like me they're all my friends i'm missing nothing sandra and xhosa and shouldn 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. to our days there are more and more international married is in china he was some other friend also married foreigners the chinese have become more accepting of intermarriage. to begin with those mother was not so accepting. how contain nice marry a black woman she can leave at any time so why at the beginning both my husband i

say no to this marriage. sandra's had more success making friends on social media having now mastered enough mandarin to thank them in song oh. adrian brown al-jazeera in northeast china. new york city is home to more than eight million people and now thanks to a small group of scientists more than twenty six million oysters as well scientists have brought the oyster population back from nothing after decades of overhunting about our domestic though they get to a billion by the year twenty thirty five kristen salumi has been following their efforts. 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 fix two hundred it was tough to navigate the waters because there are so many i study it's over two hundred twenty thousand acres so this is a project that is native to new york's history. 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 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 reef have huge benefits for the local ecosystem. i have a little superhero 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 oysters slide in like a file cabinet so in the city there's not many options to really connect with nature it's mostly asphalt 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 kristin salumi al-jazeera brooklyn new york. and there was still to come this hour of news. i'm sorry for certain one of the last places you might expect to find high level showjumping right here in the gaza strip. and then support defending us have been chan. which is the last day to new york we'll have the details but.

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.