opposable the. story on. iran russia and assad don't go there we're not going to accept it it's not ok. sworn the use of chemical weapons in syria is the problem. the last rebel held stronghold. zero life from a headquarters. also ahead libya's warring factions agreed to a cease fire in the capital tripoli after days of fighting kills people. battered by the worst typhoon in twenty five years killing at least nine people in the west of the country. the white house rejects

a top reporter's highly critical account of president donald trump's administration . hello we begin in syria where air strikes have hit the last rebel controlled region the un security council plans to meet on friday on what could become the bloodiest battle yet province it's believed more than twenty separate airstrikes have been carried out killing at least seventeen people five of them children well russia a key ally of the syrian government says it's aware of the army is preparing for a full scale offensive on calling it a cradle of terrorism and that's got the united nations warning of a post bloodbath well home to three million people rebels fighters and civilians who moved there from other areas the government took back control of the u.n. special envoy for syria has called on the russian and turkish presidents to solve

the looming crisis. well i would like to take the liberty frankly myself to address myself if you allow me to through you to praise him putting into place didn't. you have been there once at the beginning and i know because i was very much witnessing what happened at the end of the siege and the fighting of aleppo you were the ones who actually were able to talk to each other make a telephone call organize a formula that allowed the end of that horrible period not to be worth. a telephone call between the two of you would make a big difference well the u.s. has warned that it will not tolerate the use of chemical weapons in the province our diplomatic editor james bays has more from the united nations the us 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 live 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 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 u.n.

security council meeting about the situation in the lead is now being called for friday morning but things on the ground are moving fast and the situation could have changed a great deal by then well the syrian president bashar assad has vowed to recapture every inch of territory from the rebels and that slowly been happening the syrian government has made major gains especially since russia joined the war three years ago but is now the last remaining major prize for an aside and right now the turkish army controls a string of military posts around it live trying to prevent a government assault stephanie decker has more from a highly near 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 area of additional sure 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 live is majorly important it is seen as the last rebel stronghold it will be the last battle is one rebel

told us who is inside it 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 or the syrian state news agency says era defenses have intercepted missiles fired by israeli jets they reportedly attack targets in the provinces of how montages troops at least one person was killed and twelve injured state t.v. released this video showing what it says was the missile israel also made a rare admission that it had carried out more than two hundred attacks against iranian targets in syria in the last two years. six protesters have been killed and the state of emergency has been declared in the southern iraqi city of buswell fighting broke out when security forces moved in to contain the protest over poor state services and corruption a government building was stormed and set on fire demonstrations have spread across

cities in the south in recent weeks more now from. arabic spiro chief in baghdad. handlings of a protestant as they look at the streets the main building of the menu simple council of buffalo and what happened after that according to this source is the protesters they invaded the building and they said a fire inside the building also clashes happened between the police and some armed people they were among the protesters the police of bosler they accused some of protestors of opening fire against them now the situation in basra is very tense security austerity declared declared there care if you and the whole city of basra iraqi prime minister has allowed by the doc today in a press conference and he's used some parties of being trying to a scholarly security situation in basra he said they are trying to add fuel to the

fire but he didn't name ghost party at this moment it is we can say that security is under control of police especially after declaring the curfew and the whole city of basra but witnessing in the last few weeks many protests and there is a process that was calling to enhance that basic services they are calling the authority to provide electricity cleaning water and find jobs for tens of thousands of jobless among young people as i said the situation in basra now is very tense but according to our police sources it is under control especially after declaring that got a few in the whole city of basra. the u.n. says a ceasefire has been agreed between rival factions in libya who've been fighting in the capital for more than a week at least sixty people have been killed and one hundred fifty more injured in

and around tripoli under the deal all fighting will end in the city's airport will reopen earlier hundreds of refugees and migrants were released from a detention center because of the arrests. 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 the 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 the. area where 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 a powerful typhoon has slammed into western japan flooding in closing an international airport and crashing a tanker into a bridge the government urged more than a million people to leave their homes and move to safety at least nine people have been killed and three hundred others injured as

a hayward reports. japan's most powerful storm to nearly twenty five typhoon finally makes landfall. ripping apart. building. and sending daybreak in kyoto 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 run chill rain and disruption several thousand people were left stranded when water poured into can saya international airport little could be done to keep the floodwater out and tundra the plights of being cancelled a tank 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 were thirty's in japan have a buys 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 suburbia weather systems to hit japan in recent months typhoon has already claimed lives and caused dozens of injuries many here and now hoping for a break from the deluge and the heywood al-jazeera still ahead on al-jazeera. a rocky start to the confirmation hearing for donald trump's a supreme court nominee and big money promised for the humanitarian disaster and the region but is it a drop in the ocean. from the waves of the sounds. to the contours of the east.

how the amount of rain has full night of a sudden china recently has left flooding on the ground it's being pumped typed in some places now for a full cost point of view there's not much more to come there are few shots of right on the coast to grand or hong kong might just be involved for potentially wetting the line more or less joins up with situation in fact that might well develop a lot of rain developing right up here so we'll watch that but the ground to dry east picture least for the time being is nothing like as wet for the south oliver north vietnam nothing really in the way of showers in the satellite picture reveals this is the active zone across the middle of the philippines back towards cambodia and particularly thailand northern sumatra that's where the cloud is also the rain has been is where it's going to be repeated i suspect possibly singapore involved there was more and more showers developing in indonesia particularly in southern borneo and some away sea but java looks dry but would you guarantee that jakarta

was quite likely to be now in india with retreating monsoon the rain could be heavy virtually what it looks like a circulation is setting itself up in the northern bay bengal not particularly good news for bangladesh west bengal already. the weather sponsored by cats on race. as europe's public opinion shifted slavery's abolition. human exploitation took on you as that became the face of europe's industrial revolution these troops leave usenet the black history and it's not just the history of white colonization but the history of human equality it is the legacy for all of us the slave. three of slavery it's on al-jazeera.

hello again the top stories on al-jazeera airstrikes have had serious problems at least seventeen people have been killed russia says it's aware the syrian army is planning an all out. last rebel held bastion the u.n. is warning of a potential bloodbath there a cease fire has been agreed between rival factions and they've been fighting in the capital for more than a week at least sixty people have been killed in one hundred fifty injured in and around tripoli. all fighting will end up in the city's only airport will reopen. people have been killed as typhoon. has issued evacuation advisories

for more than a million people and canceled hundreds of flights reportedly the strongest typhoon to hit japan in twenty five years. president donald trump supreme court nominee bright kavanagh has faced a chaotic confirmation hearing in the senate democrats accuse republicans of withholding documents. it's about kavanagh's past white house service dozens of protesters were dragged out during yet another session highlighting the political divisions in the u.s. jordan reports from capitol hill. hearing from the moment brett kavanaugh sat down for his confirmation hearing to become a u.s. supreme court justice outburst after outburst at least thirty people were arrested on tuesday for disorderly conduct then it was the democratic senators turn to disrupt the hearing. is determined we have been denied we have been denied real access to the documents we need to a diagram and regulators called which turns this hearing into a charade and

a mockery of our norms well mr chairman i therefore moved to adjourn this hearing the democrats and her aggressive groups are trying whatever they can to stop kavanagh from joining the high court they accuse the appeals court judge of wanting to outlaw abortion of favoring businesses over employees unions and consumers and of wanting to end overstretch and on firearms ownership democrats are also accusing republicans of trying to rush through kavanagh's confirmation for political purposes namely to protect the president donald trump the interruptions in accusations angered republicans who run the jujitsu kerry committee this is the first confirmation hearing for a supreme court justice i've seen basically according to mob rule can i ask my colleagues on the other side of the aisle how long you want to go on with this because i'm not going to entertain any of the motion and you're making do you want

this to go on all day because i have been patient at the end of the day haven't all finally had a moment to speak and he addressed the question about his ability to be fair. over the past twelve years i've ruled sometimes for the prosecution and sometimes for criminal defendants sometimes for workers and sometimes for businesses sometimes for environmentalist's and sometimes for coal miners despite the protests and the parliamentary maneuvers it does appear that judge brett kavanaugh will be joining the us supreme court republicans control the senate as well as the judiciary committee and they're convinced that they have the votes as well as the confidence to get their man on the high court rosalyn jordan al-jazeera capitol hill well a new book by the washington post journalist bob woodward has revealed that president donald trump wanted to have syrian president bashar assad assassinated

last year a request that was ignored by his defense secretary the book titled fear trump in the white house has quotes from the president's own aides questioning his ability to lead the white house says the book is full of fabricated stories many by former described told employees told to make the president look bad woodward is known for his investigative reporting to help bring down president richard nixon in the watergate scandal for the washington post has revealed audio has released her audit of a telephone conversation between trump and woodward and which they apparently discussed the book. oh look at the roof. breach in. the right well i assume that means it's going to be a negative book but you know i'm sort of fifty percent used to that so right some are good and everything it's going to be a good work well just a short while ago the u.s. president took to twitter to respond to the book saying this the woodward book has

already been refuted and discredited by defense secretary james mattis and chief of staff john kelly there quotes were made up fraud it's a call on the public likewise other stories on quotes woodward is a operative notice timing political hay in the latest from washington d.c. . really explosive reporting coming from bob woodward the preeminent and privily one of the more credible journalists in the entire country his book comes out and he says that the president don't terms top aides had some very disparaging things to say about their boss he says that john kelly has called the president an idiot saying he has come often gone off the rails and saying this is crazy town he reports that secretary of defense jim mattis basically compared the president's ability to understand to a fifth or sixth grade level and that he reports to gary cole once the president's chief economic adviser once took paperwork trade paperwork off the president's desk saying that he wouldn't remember and he was trying to protect the country you also

reports that the president has had very nasty things to say about his top aides including attorney general jeff sessions according to woodward trump said that he was mentally retarded and he referred to him as this dumb southerner out there white house is pushing back on this releasing a statement saying that this is basically fake news and the president's come out and said that bob woodward has a credibility issue he really hasn't ever had a credibility issue and he has said today he stands by his story still the president's taking to twitter we've seen kelly matt is the transformer lawyers come out and flatly deny all of these allegations again the president saying that this is fake news bob woodward say that he stands by his reporting or spain has confirmed it's canceling the sale of four hundred position bombs to saudi arabia amid fears the weapons could be used in yemen for more than three years a saudi led coalition has been bombing hoofy rebels in the country thousands of civilians have been killed germany the netherlands norway and belgium have all

suspended licenses for arms sales to countries in the saudi led coalition france italy in the u.k. still so arms to the kingdom despite domestic campaigns for them to be suspended nearly half the u.k.'s arms exports go to saudi arabia since twenty fifteen london . has sold five point eight billion dollars worth of arms to riyadh and that's worth by the u.s. though which last year signed an arms deal worth three hundred fifty billion dollars over a decade russia to him is an arms control research or at amnesty international she says that while spain's move is a positive one there must be more action by the international community these kinds of munitions have been used in attacks against hospitals homes and markets and yemen time and time again and on the scene other organizations have documented serious violations of international humanitarian law including possible war crimes so you know it's high time that such action has been taken however this is just

a first step and we call on the spanish government to cancel all exports to saudi arabia they've just canceled this specific set of precision guided munitions but what we're calling for is a comprehensive suspension on the saudi arabia led coalition and all warring parties in yemen in fact given the serious violations now the spanish government will have a meeting on friday where the secretary of state will appear before the parliamentary committee the defense parliamentary committee to to discuss further action to take and we're hoping that spain will announce hopefully on the nineteenth of september that it will impose a comprehensive suspension on all on exports to the saudi arabia led coalition inside yemen protests have been going on in the south against the saudi erotic coalition's military campaign. demonstrators and the latter governor it chanted for the coalition to leave calling it

a puppet of the us some yemenis blocked off main roads and carry press cards blaming the coalition for the deteriorating economy. the u.s. vice president mike pence has called on me and maher to immediately release to reuters journalists jailed for seventy years on charges of spying earlier the wives of wallowing child so held a press conference in yangon the journalists were investigating the execution of ten men by mean more soldiers and militia men the chinese government is there naing trapping african countries in dozens of african leaders are flying home from a two day summit in beijing president xi jinping promised another sixty billion dollars in financing and loans and told them there were no strings attached but critics accuse the chinese of debt colonialism by giving loans african countries can't repay africa is also being promised money from another part of the world but

this time international donors are addressing the crisis the scribed as one of the greatest humanitarian disasters off our age chronic poverty and water shortages in the lake child bason are being compounded by violence at the hands of the armed group boko haram paul brennan is in the german capital berlin where the pledges for meet. the slide into crisis in the countries which surround like chance has been slow painful unlaunched be ignored by the rest of the world almost a decade of chronic poverty and food and water shortages two and a half million africans displaced from their homes and ten million made dependent on humanitarian aid the crisis is compounded by the bomb and gun attacks of the boko haram group. and in the order history we have seen young girls are your boys being strived improvises. bombs and yours in them but what i was in there was instrument of war these thousand there were one anywhere before the level of

displacement of gender based violence that girls particularly adolescent girls are going through it's unbelievable famine in the lake chad region was only a verted after an emergency donor conference in norway last year the latest donor conference in berlin aim to push on from that. at the heart of this conference has been the need to look beyond the immediate crisis ongoing focus her am attacked the ongoing food and water shortages and to start to contemplate strategies for long term stability and resilience in the region and to tackle what's been described here as a crisis of protection one important strand of that is to make sure women's skills and abilities are enabled in the four countries which surround the lake nigeria chad and cameroon education provide them access to resources change some of the obstacles that they might friends in terms of land ownership in terms of inheritance and also try to address issues a forced marriage the u.n.

had estimated the funding requirement as one point five six billion dollars this conference has raised two point one billion assuming of course that the money pledged is donated i think it's a fair question and i hope people keep asking it because the worst thing to do is to make a pledge and not deliver it that's worse than not making a place in the first place because you create expectations and you undermine confidence in the system if you then don't deliver delivering a solution for lake chad is seen as extraordinarily complex but as the meeting in berlin shows the crisis described as the world's most neglected is getting much needed wider attention and pledges of help from millions in need of brain and al-jazeera. the market value of online retailer amazon has passed eight trillion dollars it's the second us company to reach that figure following tech giant apple last month this comes twenty four years after the founder jeff bezos

board money to sell books on the internet. critics have burned nike trainers and clothing and protests that call and cabernet being made the face of the brand's new advertising campaign the former n.f.l. quarterback began a controversial figure became a controversial figure after refusing to stand during the american national anthem as a symbol against a racial injustice and police brutality kristen salumi has more 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 my favorite pair and nike is your 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 nike products nike is no cullen but supporters say it's meant to call attention to racial injustices and is respectful expression of the 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 capping make shoes and t. shirts. sports branding experts say it's a calculated business decision to my take going to be a rallying cry for those people to come and support nike ford has done because it's bold it's brave it has risks we want that from brands we expect that from brands and nike is 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 christian salumi al jazeera. the headlines on al-jazeera airstrikes have hit syria's admitted province at least seven to seventeen people have reportedly been killed russia says it's aware the syrian army is planning an all out offensive on a globe the last rebel held bastion the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. says a lot 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 reached between armed factions fighting over the libyan capital for more than a week rival armed groups have been battling for control of the capital tripoli more than sixty people have been killed oakley's line people have been killed as typhoon batters japan the government has issued evacuation advisories for more than a million people and canceled hundreds of flights. a new book by the washington post journalist bob woodward has claimed that president donald trump wanted to have syrian president bashar assad assassinated last year

a request that was ignored by his defense secretary the book titled fear trumping the white house is set to have quotes from the president's own aides questioning his ability to lead the white house says the book is full of fabricated stories many by former disgruntled employees told to make the president look bad so. there have been protests on the first day of the senate confirmation hearings for u.s. supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. president trump's pick to replace retiring justice anthony kennedy those are the latest headlines on al-jazeera we'll have more news in less than thirty minutes time that's right after inside story coming up.

are african countries getting into a dextre with china president xi jinping i'm not high level the king of egypt and promises no strings attached billions of dollars in new financing but what are the long the financial risks this is inside story. i know that welcome to the program i'm laura kyle china is africa's largest trading partner and he spent billions of dollars in investment and loans with the promise of much more to come from roads and railways to ports the chinese government is backing large scale projects across africa as part of its so-called bell.