al jazeera is a fall into a true media network. iran russia and assad don't go there we're not going to accept it it's not ok the u.s. warns against the use of chemical weapons in syria's province as airstrikes of the last rebel held strong hold. on as i'm seeking this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up libya's warring factions agreed to a cease fire in the capital tripoli after days of fighting kills at least sixty people. the worst typhoon in twenty five years batters japan killing at least nine people in the country's west. plus the white house blasts of top reporters account

of a dysfunctional donald trump presidency. alone we begin in syria where airstrikes have hit the last rebel held can rebel held region the u.n. security council plans to meet on friday on what could be the bloodiest battle yet in the province more than twenty separate air strikes have reportedly been carried out killing at least seventeen people five of them children russia a key ally of the syrian government says it is aware the army is preparing for a full scale offensive on it calling it a cradle of terrorism that's got the united nations warning of a potential bloodbath in libya is home to three million people rebels and civilians many of them were moved there from other areas as 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 i would like to take the liberty frankly might serve to address myself if you're low on me to through you to president putin. and to president doug you have been there once at the beginning and i know because the wall of very much ado with nothing 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 the worth of a telephone call between the two of you would make a big difference the u.s. has warned that it will not tolerate the use of chemical weapons in a liberal diplomatic editor james bays has more from the united nations the u.s.

has just assumed the monthly rotating presidency of the u.n. 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 illinois 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. syrian president bashar al assad has vowed to recapture every inch of territory from the rebels and that is slowly been happening the syrian government has made major gains especially since russia joined the war three years ago it was now the last holdout for asset right now the turkish army controls a string of military posts around it live trying to prevent a government assault. a government offensive means there will be no place left for rebel fighters and their families to go stephanie decker reports from the turkey syria border. this northwestern corner of syria represents the last hopes of the rebel opposition government forces have steadily recaptured region after region

under so-called reconciliation deals the fighters they didn't want to live under government control here with their families how little ahmed was a fighter in the southern province of that are the most recent area taken back by government troops he shows us video of when he was involved in the war and like so many others who chose to leave he doesn't trust the government. i see the reconciliation is a big mistake because the regime will start arresting us all through wall and put us in prisons we've already heard of a few people being killed by the regime or. even a mob came to live from ottawa in homs the area was besieged by government forces for almost three years and he's now joined one of the local armed groups and it led . to the we left because of the heavy bombing and the siege we were starving i didn't agree with the reconciliation the regime says they will take it live let them say what they want we have dug trenches and tunnels god willing we are ready.

the various rebel groups are preparing for the expected government offensive in it there is a complicated mix of armed groups on the ground here each with different allegiances and they were often turn their guns on each other but most say they will fight together against the expected offensive it is home to almost a million internally displaced syrians in those tents that you see crammed together behind me that's province and that's just a small snapshot of what is a major problem in the united nations as warned of a humanitarian catastrophe if there is an all out military offensive on eleven turkey's borders remain closed many opposition supporters don't want to admit what this offensive may mean but has some speaks frankly. he came to the problems from southern damascus he too was an opposition fighter there are ghosts. if the regime digs so it lip that means you have lost the whole revolution everything it's like if you took the mask of the whole of syria would fall to us it was our damascus if the tickets so many predict that is only

a matter of time stephanie decker al-jazeera on the turkey syria border of the syrian state news agency says air defenses have intercepted missiles fired by israeli jets they reportedly attack targets in the provinces of hama and tartarus at least one person was killed and twelve indian 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 of the u.n. says 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 sixty people have been killed in one hundred fifty more injured in and around tripoli under the deal all fighting will end in the city's only airport will reopen earlier hundreds of refugees and migrants were released from a detention center because of the unrest mahmoud up there why has more 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 a 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. 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 at least nine people have been killed as typhoon gebbie that is japan's government has issued evacuation advisories for more than a million people and cancel hundreds of flights gebbie is the strongest typhoon to hit japan in twenty five years let's get more now from fairly cellaring who is live in tokyo for so if anyone is the latest there.

by saying then jimmy has moved away from the japanese on t.v. though it's not all the island of hokkaido as north and japan. send out to. look at your system must deal with the officials on the coastal people in question in ok though as i mentioned the one on one of japan's largest island to be cautious caution no high waves and long range. now will send the siphon has moved away people now aren't buying things anyway that damage is the main focus was in the studio for second then the second largest. video group and will not show up in japan it's and they put in the city was flooded with water and about five thousand people were stranded there and actually they spent the night there and today they are ferried out. by ship because the breach which is connected.

with the city was damaged due to. do to the accidents on the always duncan which is what i can that bridge yesterday and today it was towed away from the beach but still in the. situation is not so clear so. you. risk your workers are evacuating people by ferries and harder than that so that is still a blackout in a huge area and when i think i'm going to be entities and refer to these are growing students who have the function of some public identity which have been damaged like. the ones in central station that was there was a lot of need destroyed by the wind yesterday and today they're trying to restore this damage there yes it's just have. said he said i mean life and in tokyo. our tropical storm gordon is expected to strengthen into a hurricane as it moves near the border between the southern u.s.

states of louisiana and mississippi j. gray as the latest. if the current track holds this would be the strike point right now gordon continuing to churn of those warm gulf waters it's building strength and momentum as it starts to move in here the biggest concern is the water associated with this system we're going to see strong rains for a long period of time that's going to cause flash flooding in some of the low lying areas here there's also a worry about what could be a significant storm surge we could see water from the gulf up into places it's not supposed to be here throughout the day we've seen people getting ready stocking up on the food water and medicines they may need for a full week the concern there is that we may lose power and that could be a big issue for an extended period of time we've also seen sandbags moving into those areas to make sure they stay safe here this storm is moving quickly as it makes landfall it will continue and move up into the midwest won't be

a tropical storm or if it reaches hurricane status not a hurricane status anymore but it will still continue to deliver that soaking rain that's going to be a problem all right still ahead on edges it out when we come back pacific on leaders meeting now or as australia's optional prison camps for refugees continues to cost a shot. and protests on social media but backing from sports stars after nike makes an american football player calling a captain in the face of its latest campaign. having we've had some pretty big showers in the middle of the u.s. fixing the midwest recently but the eyes really a focus for the sasabe lower right in the texas coast and so you don't really see it is a secular nation that might prefer to write her

a can. heading for the coast of louisiana just east of new orleans now doesn't show much in circulation those winds aren't the problem that they might be strong for a time but the rain which of course is that enhanced is already there could cause some reform in louisiana possibly alabama and there's been a bit of a tidal surge as well now it's gone through fairly quickly we end up then by thursday with significant showers around particularly you this is further west we've seen some significant hail in arizona recently it's not the temperatures back from the middle forty's to the middle thirty's more typically if we drop size in the u.s. over the wall morse's of the gulf is not quite as war in cuba and that's where most of the energy is gone the showers over land that develop every day would not be quite as vigorous the next day or so you might get away with a dry day in jamaica and his spaniard but not entirely so however where the winds come together this is an indication of the rains thank sites with the sun and over costa rica in particular suggests maybe persistent sometimes pretty heavy rain

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zero again you're watching al-jazeera mind of our top stories this hour air strikes have hit syria's province at least seventy people have been killed russia says it is aware the syrian army is planning an all out offensive on in the last rebel held bastion the u.n. is warning of a potential bloodbath there. 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 sixty people have been killed in one hundred fifty more injured in and around tripoli under the deal all fighting will end and the city's only airport reopened. at least nine people have been killed as a typhoon that is japan's government issued evacuation orders for more than a million people and canceled hundreds of flights gebbie is thought to be the strongest typhoon to hit japan in twenty five years. a cambodian m.p.'s are being sworn into office and every one of them is a member of the ruling people's party

a long time leader who ran virtually unopposed in july's election after the main opposition group was outlawed late last year he's been criticized by rights groups for cracking down on dissent on sent plans to form a government later this week. flora's louis reports from kuala lumpur in neighboring malaysia the prime minister who sends party the cambodian people's party is in full control of parliament who can send himself has ruled cambodia for thirty three years and he said he intends to be in power for at least another decade and the general election held in july was widely considered a sham by political observers and human rights groups and the results were hardly a surprise to anyone over the course of the past year and has systematically destroyed all forms of opposition to his government he imprisoned can soak up the co-leader of the main opposition party last october on charges of treason. still in

prison awaiting trial and not long after the courts which are known to be under the control of one cent or at the very least supported his government or that the main opposition party the national rescue party to be dissolved forcing hundreds of its members into exile independent media who are less joe sol and more critical of consent in his government have also been shuttered so this is the cambodia that putin's government over the election results and wednesday swearing in of members of parliament all of whom come from bluefin's political party i suppose is a way to give the can vote in government a veneer of legitimacy and after all defying international consensus maintains that he won the election in a free and fair manner and that the polls were held in a free and fair way but there's no escaping the fact that cambodia is now a de facto one party state. a leaders of pacific island nations have been meeting

in now that's where australia has an offshore prison camp for refugees before a forum is focusing on regional peace and security and improving the health of the island's people but the prison camps and the treatment of the refugees there is casting a shadow over the conference around one thousand six hundred people are being held in two camps one in our route they are they in papua new guinea's mannus island andrew thomas has more from sydney. well the leaders of most of the golan countries are attending including new zealand's prime minister one notable absence the new prime minister of australia scott morris and he has not gone he sent his foreign minister instead in part i imagine because scott morrison was australia's immigration minister for some time overseeing its off shore presence including the one in the room the picture of community as they're called here why not go down too well if he were there and not really visiting the refugees that he sent to the route but the big issues formally being discussed will climate change that is an existential threat to many countries in the pacific region rising sea levels may

see some of those countries cease to exist in coming decades regional security as well and this balance between balancing china's interests in the pacific and the us and allies of the us in that region and fisheries fish stocks in the pacific are threatened they're vulnerable they're low managing particularly chilling the fish stocks in the pacific is a big issue that many countries face so those are the issues on the formal agenda and we should see those being mentioned in the communique that comes out later on wednesday or on thursday what you probably won't see in that communique though is any mention of refugees despite the fact that way and others are talking about that more than any other single issue and six protesters have been killed in a state of emergency has been declared in the southern iraqi city of basra fighting broke out when security forces moved in to contain the protests over corruption and poor state services a government building was stormed and set on fire demonstrations are spread across

cities in the south in recent weeks and more now from need abraham mahmoud al jazeera arabic spiro chief in vanka. and it is a practice that is very focused at the main building of the menu simple council of basra and what happened there from that according to the source is that the protesters they invaded the building and they said. a fire inside the building also clashes happened between the police and some aren't people they were among the protesters the police of buster they accuse the summer protesters of opening fire on them now the situation in basra is very tense and security authority declared declared their care a few in the whole city of basra iraqi prime minister hyder labadee talk today in a press conference and he's accused some parties of being trying to

a skull relate the security situation in basra he said they are trying to are fuel to the fire but he didn't name dos parties at this moment it is we can say the security is under control of police especially after declaring the curfew and the whole city of busta busta witnessing in the last a few weeks many protests and there is a protester calling to enhance the basic services they are calling the authority to provide adequate three city cleaning water and find jobs for tens of thousands of jobs less among young people as i said the situation in basra now is very tense but according to our police source it is under control especially after declaring that got a few in the whole city of boston. spain has confirmed it is cancelling the sale of four hundred percent of bombs to saudi arabia it fears the weapons could be used in yemen

a saudi led coalition has been bombing who the rebels in the country for more than three years thousands of civilians have been killed germany the netherlands norway and belgium of all suspended licenses for arms sales to countries in the saudi led coalition france italy the you and the u.k. still sell arms to the kill kingdom despite campaigns for them to be suspended nearly half the u.k.'s arms exports go to saudi arabia since twenty fifteen the u.k. has sold five point eight billion dollars worth of arms to saudi arabia that's too often by the u.s. though which last year signed an arms deal worth three hundred fifty billion dollars over ten years russia. is an arms control researcher at amnesty international she says that while it is a positive move 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 arms exports to saudi arabia they've just cancelled this specific cell of precision guided munitions but what we're calling for is a comprehensive arms 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 arms exports to the saudi arabia led coalition a new book by washington post journalist bob woodward has said that u.s. president donald trump wanted to have syrian president bashar al assad killed last

year the request was ignored by his defense secretary 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 in its words full of fabricated stories woodward is known for his investigative reporting that helped bring down president richard nixon in the watergate scandal at the washington post has published all yo of a telephone conversation between trump and bob woodward in which they discussed the book. very much is going to be a negative book but you know. my goodness. a particular line has more now from washington. some really explosive reporting coming from bob woodward the preeminent and prickly mole 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 chief of staff john kelly has called the president an idiot saying he has come off and 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 coleman 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. their 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 saying that he stands by his reporting. well as patty mentioned trump's been tweeting his response he quoted a statement from secretary of defense james mattis that said the contemptuous words about the president attributed to me in woodward's book were never uttered by me or in my presence while i generally enjoy reading fiction this is a uniquely washington brand of literature and his anonymous sources do not lend credibility and another from chief of staff john kelly saying the idea i ever called the president an idiot is not true as i stated back in may and i stand still firmly stand behind i spend more time with the president than anyone else and we have an incredibly candid and strong relationship our market value of online

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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. this is a zero it's going to round up now the top stories air strikes have hit serious problems at least seventeen people have been killed russia says it is aware the syrian army is planning an offensive on a deliberate the last rebel held best in the u.n. is warning of a potential bloodbath. the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. says it will not tolerate a chemical weapons attack on italy 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 cease fire 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 tripoli more than sixty people have been killed and one hundred fifty injured under the deal all fighting one end and the city's only airports will reopen a least nine people have been killed as typhoon gebbie batters japan the government

has issued evacuation advisories for more than a million people and canceled hundreds of flights gebbie is the strongest typhoon to hit japan in twenty five years. a new book by washington post journalist bob woodward has claimed president donald trump wanted to have syrian president bashar al assad killed last year the request 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 in its words full of fabricated stories woodward is known for his investigative reporting that helped bring down president richard nixon in the watergate scandal those are the headlines my cuba is next one of the best health care systems in the world. with local doctors as the gatekeepers we have really good concepts you can never be cool while makes you about a lot of the population ages what challenges does the u.k.'s national health

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