airstrikes rained down on russia this mrs president trump's warning not to recklessly attack the syrian province. hello i'm barbara sara this is al jazeera live from london also coming up on the program at least fifty dead after a week of fighting in libya's capital but the u.n. says the warring sides have agreed to a ceasefire japan is hit by its strongest typhoon in twenty five years battering the west of the country and whipping up massive waves and profane outbursts and impulsive decision making a new book gives an alarming insight into life in the white house.

activists say syrian and russian jets have attacked the last rebel controlled province in syria from the air that's the spy the white house warning syria's government against the reckless escalation in the area it's believed more than twenty separate air strikes have been carried out killing at least seventeen people five of them children the united nations as warned that a full assault on a blip could spark a humanitarian catastrophe on a scale no yet seen in syria's seven year war stephanie becker has more now from rehana leave here turkey's border with syria. after three weeks of quiet skies air strikes have resumed on the province particularly the southwest of the province there have been civilian casualties including five children and most of the airstrikes were around the arab world this is an area that rumor over the last couple of weeks had it that perhaps

a first phase of this expected offensive would take place it's too early to tell whether this is the start of the offensive certainly has been quiet over the last couple of hours but there are huge concerns when it comes to this looming offensive when it comes to the civilians to the internally displaced that is it look province just behind us you can see how tightly packed those tents are those are the internally displaced that's just a tiny snapshot of just how massive this problem is and we've been speaking to the head of turkey's red crescent he just went into it lib to do a recchi so to speak saying he was incredibly concerned about the situation for the civilians that they were trying to put you know extra extra tents in place to receive what they know will be an influx of people they don't want to open the borders with turkey and they also said that there is no light at the end of the tunnel for the rebel groups there could only be a political solution when it comes to the opposition it lib is majorly important it is seen as the last rebel stronghold it will be the last battle as one rebel told

us who is inside of live who came to live from southern damascus saying that it live is our damascus and if the regime takes it back if it takes back that means for us the revolution is over well the u.s. has warned that it will not tolerate the use of chemical weapons in it the province or diplomatic editor james bays is more now from the united nations. the u.s. has just assumed the monthly rotating presidency of the un security council ambassador nikki haley has tweeted about the situation in the ad lib as has president trump both said they don't want there to be an all out assault but listen very carefully to her words when i asked her about the situation ambassador hailey didn't seem opposed to them taking over it lead only to the use of chemical weapons what you're saying from us and the fact that the security council wants to talk about it is do not let a chemical weapons attack happen on the people of it led the people of syria have

been through too much this is a tragic situation and if they want to continue to go the route of taking over syria they can do that but they cannot do it with chemical weapons they can't do it assaulting their people and we're not going to fall for it if there are chemical weapons that are used we know exactly who's going to use them and this is the exact same playbook that russia and iran and assad have used every time a u.n. security council meeting about the situation in adlib has now been called for friday morning but things on the ground are moving fast and the situation could have changed a great deal by then. a cease fire has been agreed between rival factions in libya who've been fighting in the capital for more than a week at least fifty people have been killed and least one hundred fifty more

injured in and around the tripoli under the deal all fighting will end in the cities only airport will reopen earlier hundreds of refugees and migrants were released from where the tension center because of the fighting all around them luck with a bit of what he has more now from tripoli. the united nations support the mission in libya has announced that it has reached a cease fire between the warring groups we understand that the united nations support the mission in libya has held that meeting with representatives from the groups in tripoli alongside the representatives from the internationally recognized government of national accord and aim of that meeting was to put an end to this conflict in tripoli and to save the lives of civilians who understand that the conflict or the clashes that have been going on for more than a week now have taken a heavy toll on civilians more than a thousand illegal migrants who have been detained in

a detention center close to their. word the clashes are going on they have been released by the illegal migration combat department and supervisors of that illegal immigration combat department say that they had to release the illegal migrants in order to save their lives we understand also that many civilians have been forced out of their homes in the southern suburbs of the libyan capital tripoli since the beginning of the clashes on the twenty seventh of august also the have been a lot of random stray rockets landing in densely populated areas and more than forty people have been killed since since the beginning of the clashes and many of them many of them are civilians six protesters have been killed in a state of emergency has been declared in the southern iraqi city of basra following clashes between security forces and protesters fighting broke out in the security forces moved in to contain the protests

a government building was stormed and set on fire anger over poor government services and corruption has swept through cities in the south of iraq which is really the country's shia heartland in recent weeks. at least eight people have been killed and thousands are stranded after a powerful typhoon hit western japan the storm inundated the region's main international airport and blew a tanker into a bridge the struck thing land then the air travel gebbie is the strongest typhoon to hit the country in twenty five years and follows a torrid summer for japan and the hayward reports. japan's most powerful storm twenty five years typhoon finally makes landfall. ripping apart buildings. and sending daybreak in kioto station.

with winds of up to one hundred eighty kilometers an hour the full force of the storm struck japan's western coastline bringing with it to rain chill rain and disruption several thousand people were left stranded poor into can saya international airport little could be done to keep the floodwaters out and tundra the plights have been counseled atenco which had been sheltering from the storm career it into the bridge which links the airport to the mainland the crew on board a said to be say there are thirty is in japan have advised more than a million people to evacuate their properties one point six million homes are without power. this is the latest in a series of superior weather systems to hit japan in recent months. has already claimed lives and cools dozens of injuries many here and now hoping for a break from the deluge ever heywood al-jazeera. a new book by famed

watergate reporter bob woodward has revealed that president donald trump wanted to have syrian president bashar al assad assassinated last year a request that was ignored by his defense secretary xx. it's from the book which is called fear trump in the white house for trey's the president as prone to profane outbursts and impulsive decision making the book is the latest the detailed tensions within the white house on the trans presidency well the washington post has published the ordeal of a telephone conversation between trump and bob woodward in which they discussed the book. breach of. the right to reuters your image is going to be a negative book but you know i'm sort of fifty percent used to that i've heard so much good and very very good to be a. while let's go live to patty culhane in washington let's look first at that

allegation that donald trump allegedly a wanted that the syrian president bashar al assad assassinated last year and that didn't go ahead because effectively his defense secretary. refused to do it and we've actually had a statement from jim matheson over it what did he say. we have the new doesn't go through the exact charges but the secretary of state says basically it's a long statement but to sum it up that contemporary contemporaneous words about the president tributes to me in the woodward book were never uttered by me or in my presence he was on to say that he would never show contempt for the elected commander in chief nor would you tolerate disrespect to the office of the president within our department of defense so a fairly strong denial there from secretary of defense jim mattis we've seen other denials as well but if you go through this book and so far it's not released yet but just the excerpts that are out there from the washington post where bob woodward is an editor they seem fairly damning and along the lines of things we've heard from within this administration from other journalists and authors one report

says a john kelly called the president an idiot basically were in crazy town he said this is the worst job he's ever had the book says that the president looked at his commerce secretary wilbur ross and basically said he was passed as prime very insulting to jeff sessions we know he's got a big problem with his attorney general he goes on twitter and talks about it almost every day it seems but apparently he called just that again harsh words not from me but like allegedly from the president he called him mentally retarded and a dumb southerner and medicine parent he said that the president has the understanding of a fifth or sixth grader but again medicine is now denying this also hearing from the president's past lawyer denying these allegations but in the woodward book it says that he basically said that trump couldn't has to be for special counsel robert mueller because he'd be an embarrassment and he'd end up in an orange jumpsuit of course he's denying that as well right now. so pretty explosive stuff

and i guess all of president trump supporters would label this you know many will a fake news as the president on many things what impact does it have though that this book is actually by bald woodward who because of his watergate work is probably one of the most famous and respected journalists not just in the united states but in the world. he really is i mean let's think about this this is bob woodward this is the bad who took down richard nixon he has written books about every single u.s. president since then he has more sources than any journalist basically in the entire country within washington within america he is respected so this will stretch that argument that this is fake news because he's got decades of history proving that he doesn't do fake news he does well sourced interviews that have stood the test of time so it's the white house thinks that they're going to be able to skate past this calling this fake news just from ploys some of them are on the record not clear exactly how much this is going to stick i can tell you that in

washington this will have an impact because woodward is expensive because he is so respected and because it's about woodward and these are really explosive allegations now is it going to filter down to trump's base well we are starting to see for the first time in his presidency that that base is eroding not in huge numbers but he is starting to lose support among people who identify themselves as republicans and we're also starting to see something like fifteen million people say they no longer consider themselves republicans this is all shaping up as we head into the midterm election and make no mistake is being summed up as do you want to have a congress that will check the president then vote democrat if not vote for a republican so this could have an impact especially on those a lot of the very least to be a very interesting read has equal hane live from washington d.c. thank you. so this half hour how technology and greater awareness are allowing hong kong residents to see their air pollution problem

a little more clearly and the protests on social media but backing from sports stars after nineteen makes american football or. one of the faces of its campaign. hello there's been some i think welcome rain in southern queensland and new south wales this massive cloud here of brisbane stretching down towards sydney gives some locally quite useful downpours as mud rather than dried weather do much good in the long run hard to say but it's a bit of a brief change anyway the onshore breeze suggests more showers in southern cuisine during wednesday dry typically though further west nineteen adelaide you'll see in the sunshine is becoming rather cloudy in perth at fifteen degrees the southerly breeze and running through the bite a weak system which will bring some cloud and rain i think through adelaide down

towards victoria catching melbourne then by thursday which time queens and looks sadly dry as does most if not all of new south wales and after the really quite amazing weather of new zealand is still a massive cloud over north island an unusual wind directions well south easterly for you so rain is possible from that direction all can probably dry christchurch cold a bit dry and probably in the sunshine so the next two days look generally similar on the rest less rain on thursday then on wednesday we say goodbye to typhoon went across very quickly it's wrapped up in this flow now it might just swell if you catch the edge of her car and the rain remaining could be noticeable in tokyo. at night in a stalking. patrol the streets police. look of.

gang violence the youth the maternal approach to prevent crime i mean love. devoted . a doomed little bit to. the stories we don't often hear told by the people who lived them mothers of rain could be this is europe on al-jazeera. welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera activists say the last rebel controlled province in syria is being attacked from the air despite president trump warning against recklessly attacking the area at least seventeen civilians have been killed

including children a cease fire has been agreed between rival factions in libya who've been fighting in the capital tripoli for more than a week at least fifty people have been killed one hundred fifty more injured in the unrest and japan has been battered by its strongest typhoon in more than twenty five years causing at least eight deaths and the hundred and sixty. well tropical storm gordon is expected to strengthen into a hurricane on tuesday as a bears down on the u.s. gulf coast a state of emergency has been declared in mississippi louisiana and parts of alabama the storm is expected to drop about thirty centimeters of rain in areas that are still recovering from last year's powerful hard hits to get more now from jay graves in new orleans for us jason first of all how are people there preparing for gordon. yeah barbara we've actually moved up the coast a little bit to gulfport mississippi where if this storm holds its track this will

be the strike point they are preparing as you would expect here they're gathering food water and medicines keeping enough on hand to sustain them for a week or more because of concerns that the power is going to go out here and that's a very real possibility with the strong winds that soaking rain you talked about but also storm surge that's going to be an issue here we expect to see the water coming up and out of the gulf as the surf really grows here and pushing into areas it's not supposed to be so with that said we have a few people out and getting some quick pictures at the beach but before. the hard stuff comes in we expect that in the next couple of hours when people will be locked down waiting and wondering where this storm is going to go next right now about one hundred miles or so off the coastline here and moving quickly as it heads this way. and of course it's meant to hit in parts that have still recovering from last year is a powerful hurricanes i mean is this becoming a bit of

a you know the occurrence that people are just getting used to in that part of the wall. yeah unfortunately barber it really is they're having to deal with these storms and much bigger and more difficult storms year after year here and when you talk to a lot of the people here there's the stress of getting ready for this storm the latest storm but there's the mental fatigue of living through storm after storm and the physical wear and tear that it takes not only on the property here but people's lives and so yeah there are a lot of people still trying to work through what happened last year now they get ready for this storm and i've even had some talk to me about the fact that they've looked at the long range forecast and they're more systems that could develop so it is something that's constantly on the minds of those who live along the u.s. gulf coast. gray with the latest there from the u.s. gulf coast jay thank you. now it's been a bumpy start to the senate confirmation hearing for president trump's

controversial pick for the supreme court brett kavanaugh around two thousand protesters were dragged out and democratic party senators tried to have the whole thing adjourned complaining that the republicans are blocking access to documents stemming from kevin his previous work in the white house and the george the bush. i welcome everyone to this confirmation hearing on the nomination of mr brett kavanaugh mr chairman i very warm welcome not they don't even have. to have a meeting his wife. their two daughters mr chairman or and i agree with and i ran into harris mr chairman of the revenue already larger than documents that we have and everyone else joined we know you last night and we believe this hearing so you know those known to you are you're out of order i'll proceed. pretty unprecedented scenes there wasn't jordan has more now from outside the hearing.

it's the first of four confirmation hearing days for judge brett kavanaugh he's hoping to join the u.s. supreme court the hearing which started tuesday morning has already been interrupted dozens of times and at least twenty two people have been arrested by capitol police for interrupting the proceedings democratic senators also interrupted her seedings they tried it first to adjourn the session because they said they haven't received nearly enough information about kavanagh's record both on the high court that appellate court i should say as well as serving in the administration of george w. bush and they say that a late night dump of papers on monday is simply irresponsible however republicans say that they are not worried about kavanaugh his record they say that he exhibits the kind of judicial temperament they want to see on the high court and they believe that he would hold the rule of law those who object to his nomination

however say that he is a threat to a woman's right to choose an abortion to reproductive rights in general to gay and lesbian rights as well as to the rights of his workers of immigrants and of those who believe in a clean environment they're trying as hard as they can including with this rally behind me in order to darrelle the nomination but because republicans control the house and because they control the senate and the judiciary committee it's almost certain that he's going to become the ninth member of the u.s. supreme court. after more than five hours of the scuffles the u.k.'s labor party has voted to adopt in full an international definition of anti semitism there have been calls for opposition leader jeremy corbyn to resign over accusations that he has anti semitic views and this reluctance to expel party members who expressed opinions against. as cities around the world struggle with air pollution hundreds of campaigners and

scientists have gathered in south korea to find new ways to tackle the crisis while the spotlight's been on cities like new delhi or beijing hong kong is also suffering high levels of pollution but as rock mcbride reports a group of activists are trying to find new ways for people to reduce their exposure to pollution. and awareness event by pollution campaigners in a city that is becoming aware of the growing danger. this hong kong like much of mainland china has been experiencing record levels of ozone a complex mix of pollutants from vehicles and industry that's made worse during heat waves and a problem not helped by climate change. has the highest level of home for the last two decades and right now we do not know how to do without and it is

a problem for hong kong and anti china polluted air has long been in the necessary cost of rapid economic development that's only recently been tackled. they just lation has been passed to control the industrial emissions as well as from vehicles and shipping and there's a drive towards using renewable sources of energy instead of coal. cities like beijing have been enjoying far more so-called blue sky days critics say the chinese and hong kong governments have been forced to act for fear of social discontent if they didn't but the outcome for china's cities has been the same after years of deteriorating air quality finally signs of improvement i think the political climate has changed a lot and there's a lot about how our pollution being not acceptable alexis lal leads a university team that has developed a mobile app giving real time pollution readings at street level anywhere in the

city. people can then plan their daily routines to be as pollution free as possible then they have i said look information they can choose our i think that will keep them some help in time all trying to reduce their exposure to improving scientists and activists helping to empower a generation of city dwellers increasingly concerned about the air they breathe. but bright al-jazeera hong kong. china has been forced to defend the plans to spend as much as sixty billion dollars in investment aid and loans in africa over the next three years the package was announced by president the today gathering of african leaders in beijing which wrapped up earlier she says there are no strings attached to the money but analysts have accused them of that. there are fears china

is making loans it knows the states cannot repay it will then use that that as leverage to secure land or strategic infrastructure aging began investing in africa eighteen years ago back then trade between africa and china was worth ten billion dollars a year it's now worth more than two hundred twenty billion dollars with china doing three times more trade on the continent than the u.s. that investment has given china access to africa's natural resources including oil diamonds and metals to power china's industrial sector there are about a million chinese citizens living and working in africa are china correspondent adrian brown has more. well chinese and african leaders are hailing the outcome of the summit but online on social media there is anger and criticism over the decision by china's government to extend sixty billion dollars in loan to africa much of that criticism has been appearing on way bo that's china's equivalent of

twitter many of those posts have now been deleted by chinese censors but we managed to retrieve save some before that happened let me give you a flavor of what they said why can't we use the money to improve the quality of our lives it's ok that chinese children are starving so long as those in africa being fed money earned with our sweat and blood is being used to build the friendship bridge between china and africa that is a measure of some of the described them and well that summit has now wound up president xi jinping said that it showed the relations between africa and china were at an all time high cyril rama poser the president of south africa and the co-chair of this summit said that it was the best china african forum so far but the shared your news conference was delayed by more than two and a half hours and journalists were not able to ask either man a question and more importantly no reason was given for that delay nike's new

advertising campaign is causing controversy as for its well manufacturer has hired on the cap and former n.f.l. quarterback who sparked a national outcry bang ruling during the american national anthem the symbolic gesture was in protest at racial injustice and police brutality chris says suddenly has more now from new york. believe in something even if it means sacrificing everything nike's new just do it ad campaign is proving as controversial as one of the stars chosen to deliver it former national football league quarterback collin capper nick he hasn't played football since repeatedly refusing to stand for the national anthem before games during the two thousand and sixteen season prompting other players to follow suit not only my burning in my favorite pair and nike is you're burning your sales ad like the protests have provoked anger among some n.f.l. fans and president donald trump they consider it disrespectful to the american flag

and the military some have called for a boycott of ninety five love nike nuff cullen but supporters say it's meant to call attention to racial injustices and is respectful expression of free speech nike which has a contract with the n.f.l. to supply uniforms and sideline clothing appears to be taking their side also announcing a new catalogue of capper nick shoes and t. shirts. sports branding experts say it's a calculated business decision to my take that going to be a rallying cry for those people to come and support nike ford has done because it's bold it's brave has risks we want that from brands we expect that from brands and nike's the kind of brand where you demanded to be on the edge all the time the former quarterback says team owners have colluded to keep him off the football field and if all ratings have been in decline though the reason is open to debate. the n.f.l. has struggled to come up with a policy regarding conduct during the national anthem that satisfies both players

and critics such as the president and with the opening game of the season scheduled for thursday fans are just as likely to be focused on the sidelines as they are on what's happening on the field kristen salumi al-jazeera. the watching al-jazeera here's a reminder of our top stories activists say the last froebel controlled province in syria is being attacked from the air that's despite the white house warning syria's government against a reckless escalation in the area it's believed more than twenty separate air strikes carried out killing at least seventeen people five of them children the united nations as warned that a full assault on it live could spark a humanitarian catastrophe on a scale not yet seen in syria's civil war well the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley says the u.s.

will not tolerate a chemical weapons attack on. what you're saying from us and the fact that the security council wants to talk about it is do not let a chemical weapons attack happen on the people of it lead the people of syria have been through too much this is a tragic situation and if they want to continue to go the route of taking over syria they can do that but they cannot do it with chemical weapons they can't do it assaulting their people and we're not going to fall for it if there are chemical weapons that are used we know exactly who's going to use them and this is the exact same playbook that russia and iran and assad have used every time. a ceasefire has been agreed between rival factions in libya been fighting in the capital for more than a week at least fifty people have been killed in one hundred fifty more injured in and around the tripoli under the deal. in the city's only airport will reopen earlier hundreds of refugees and migrants were released from of the tensions and

because of the unrest. at least eight people have been killed and thousands are stranded after a powerful typhoon hit western japan the storm inundated the region's main international airports and destructive land then the air travel it's the strongest typhoon to hit japan in twenty five years and the new book by famed watergate reporter bob woodward has revealed the donald trump wanted to have the syrian president. a request ignored by his the fence secretary excerpts from the book which is called fear trump in the white house for trade the president as prone to profane outbursts and impulsive decisions. so from us this is your business by china is keen to win friends and influence you need oil rich middle east business spark the wrong turn line of china to secure its resources for the future. region as a whole dollars expect to grow we bring you the stories the economic world we live

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