to admit to what this offensive may mean but as sam speaks frankly he came to the problems from southern damascus he too was an opposition fighter there are those. that if the regime takes over it that means we have lost the whole revolution everything it's like if we took damascus the whole of syria would fall to us it will it is our damascus if they take it it's over and many predict that is only a matter of time. let's also come here at al-jazeera including a u.n. commission investigating human rights abuses in the ending presents its findings. around the rocky start to the confirmation hearings for donald trump supreme court nominee. september on al-jazeera the fourth eastern economic forum is to be held in the city

of bloody bostock as russian looks to expand its influence in the asia pacific region on television and online the stream continues to talk 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 hold the 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. a significant.

and so to the top stories here it out is there british prosecutors have charged two russian men with the attempted murder of former spy gay's cripple and his daughter as well as a policeman police say they were traveling with russian passports under the names of alexander petroff and her slender share of the two flew from moscow to london two days before the novacek poisonings and march al-jazeera has learned that he delegation has delayed its departure for geneva to take part in talks with the yemeni government the rebel group says preconditions agreed by the u.n. have not been met. warplanes have bombed the last remaining rebel stronghold in

syria killing at least seventeen people the u.n. has warned ever humanitarian disaster and it led where an all out offensive is expected by government forces and their russian allies. right let's go live now to the occupied west bank to a team of lawyers who are representing the village that has just been ruled upon by the supreme court let's listen to them. war to demolish the palestinians houses and to start a new era after the nineteen forty eight after the next world the quality nears who were displaced their houses were demolished as well is now starting a new era in destroying the villages of the palestinians in their receive starting from the law but to which extent this operation.

the international. cover given to those. and by the not the states we are not surprised by the supreme court decisions we were barely got says for this difficult moment an older to be able to stand against this decision and this ruling and to abort the pro direct of displacing quantised teen years as well as it has been done in legend and several and soon yeah and seven yesterday and the day before yesterday in our schools and. and to believe and. and other places of land israel has moved from this particular point in to the collective demolition of our

gatherings of our houses and that therefore taishan of our people this is that decision of the supreme court overs royal now it's a sort of a cleansing we have seen and now the papers and documents given by the lawyers and by the citizens of ok on the law for most of these documents show their own a ship of the houses and of the lands and these sit quiet ready to put into their consideration they quieted area the lows of occupation and organizing their affairs of their village they were ready to transfer their school to another place and to be away from the main highway the ministry the have submitted applications for their houses built on the civil

administration has refused to discuss any ways of giving licenses to them the lawyer will talk to you in the days but the day after this decision the libyan man said that he has to express his appreciation to the supreme court of israel and he said something about an attack on the palestinian president isn't because we need not to accept that and we will face the sentry dean we will confront the occupation and will prevent the potations of palestinian people we support the position of the president as and when he want to fuse to deal with the american administration and with the occupation until. the

basics. of these political operation have been changed we need to know that they are committed to the international law. so they see representatives over that bedouin community who have had that ruling from the israeli high court the israeli supreme court which said that their village their community could be demolished the structures in their community could be demolished the people themselves all one hundred eighty or so they're not evicted apparently this is a technicality of course but the school in particular and other structures in this community said to be demolished within seven days so that's the latest and to come from the occupied west bank. the u.s. secretary of state is in pakistan just days after three hundred million dollars worth of military aid was cancelled and his first official meeting with the newly

elected prime minister imran khan my pump is expected to focus on counterterrorism relations between the two countries have worsened in the past year come all centers this from islamabad. the u.s. delegation down in islamabad for war didn't expected to be crucial just before the u.s. secretary of state. dies which were frozen different. president drums policy which gave india a more dominant role in afghanistan pakistan of course objecting to that policy also on the card will be crucial talks on the fate of the conflict america's longest war. there's already faired there did warn of one. and that bug is gone also warns speed and of honest on now the united states is

trying to get on that it has to do more to meet their demands of the united states . still harboring groups that are operating across the border and attacking u.s. forces in afghanistan but up against on it will be saying as they have said all along that there are no daters sanctioning head in pakistan difficult between the two sides why did they expect. this will indeed be and it came to be said that relationship and. perhaps turn a new page. right we can speak to masood who's a security analyst and retired so he's joining us from. thank you very much indeed for talking to us. on the americans have made their views perfectly clear haven't they they've been very critical of the pakistani authorities accusing them of harboring or at least providing sanctuary to many of the armed groups who are killing american and other foreign soldiers in afghanistan how will the newly

elected imran khan approach this relationship. thank you i think it's going to be. a while. for your word lake to convince pakistan mainly mainly to tackle the problem who are allegedly on the other side of the border and carrying over tax in on their front thirty three pakistan can are afforded to take them on military leave physically because of a backlash we already have a backlash from the pakistani taliban who are across the border but more importantly pakistan is also a lost lot of clout with them so that it can you can push them onto the board shooting table search want to be left out but mainly not only that we differ on these issues we differed on the core of national security interest namely we love to defend nuclear option be enough to. liberate kashmir from india we don't want

india to dominate. because otherwise we will have a printer from both sides of our border and the east end of our border in the west we cannot afford to have their. those negotiations are going to be right enough to have the three hundred million i was good i was actually going to go into that said i understand the point you're making as to pakistan's position but pakistan also desperately needs and all the help the outside help it can get is got a crumbling economy and that three hundred million intensive military support is oh say vital. campaign against militant groups within country. absolutely would love to have these three hundred million dollars but you feet notice during the course of water after the soviet invasion of crimea stop and of course ran the nine one one happened we somehow had national security interest that

we incited moved in the same direction today it's not true and if the americans expected people to take on their front taleban nodded toward your feet think if they think that we can push them across are good negotiating if you do our best but i think the club is not there but yes three hundred million dollars more do a lot of good to us quite like can't pakistan the pakistan military authorities deal with these groups that are operating from the tribal areas apparently. why can't the pakistan military actually take them on and do something about them. first of all the pakistani nation to be involved with the fact that these very groups when created at the behest of the americans during the course of water after the soviet invasion of afghanistan and forced nine one one between them on

that we have for the americans were giant the marsh think it could be taliban could be number two these people in them want mainly that indeed we already have a problem of content off instead of the n.c. by good luck standard taleban we have a problem of better design in the secondary has we can order for to haue a backlash from the group and other people who are supposedly allegedly operating from our side of the border into afghanistan because pakistan's military and buck is tiny about our military security forces really not be able to take them on and afford to take that back that. very interesting to see thank you very much. the leaders from pacific island countries are meeting in the tiny island nation of now room to talk about common issues but that forum began with a roué over a back of media access to the event and indeed the detention by police of one of the few journalists who've been allowed in andrew thomas reports from sydney. the

leaders of pacific island countries have a lot of issues to discuss climate change and rising sea levels disaster preparedness vulnerable fish stocks and the growing influence of china all those issues are on the pacific island forums agenda but all that being overshadowed by where the forum is happening tiny no room is one of the two places australia's government to send and held for years refugees who've tried to get its shores man aside and in papua new guinea is the other i missed the international human rights watch and united nations agencies have all condemned conditions on the islands australia's refugee council and its asylum seeker resource center has just published a joint report it says poor living conditions on the roof and the lack of a long term plan for the families being held has left refugees including children broken nauru's government and some think australia is too sensitive to the criticism most refugees support organizations aren't allowed to visit the country

that's outrageous you never you don't have to hide anything that's good right it's trailing government is doing everything it can to try and prevent the reality of the impact of their policy from the straightly and people for years to journalists including those from al-jazeera have been banned from the route for the pacific island for there is said that a very small number of journalists know more than thirty in total a nobleman three from any one country would be allowed to visit but they still said no to us and for the few who they did let in there was strict conditions on their visas they would report only on the pacific island forum and not engage in any activities that would cause or encourage disruption that night in the being poor if there was any doubt on choose day it became clear that meant talking to refugees the police showed up and. wanted to say my visa said i was breaching my visa

conditions are so i was taken to the police station the president's frustration with the forum being disrupted in this way he was clear we don't deserve this at all. don't tell me about you know refugee be an issue have to be an issue for for for. for to give us. no it's an issue for staying here and all those refugee advocates new zealand's prime minister flew into the pacific on a forum for the region's newest leader australia is missing scott morrison has been to naru before as immigration opposition spokesman and then immigration minister he oversaw the island's refugee prison but as prime minister he's doing a revisit andrew thomas al-jazeera sydney united nations investigators have warned that crimes against humanity a continuing unabated in burundi and they blame other serious violations partly on

hate speech by the president our metacity reports. some political analysts say brandy's recent problems began three years ago when president announced he was running for a third term the constitutional court ruled in his favor. the protesters took to the streets if they could indeed there was a violating the constitution which then limited presidents to no more than two terms in office security forces fired in the first protesters killing some injuring an arresting. some army officers organized a coup when couldn't is there was at a summit in neighboring tanzania but it failed the government shut down some privately owned radio stations accusing them of participating in the overthrow a tent. tens of thousands of civilians continue to feed to tanzania rwanda and the democratic republic of congo meanwhile currencies are pushed ahead with plans to

stay in power in july that shia he won a third term in the presidential election with seventy percent of the votes many in the international community say the election was marred by violence and intimidation and try to intervene the african union wanted to stand in five thousand troops to protect civilians two years ago the boring the government refused to accept outside interference. here opinion suspended direct financial aid to the brutal indian government in protest against the violence in defiance indeed became the first country to officially withdraw from the international criminal court. shortly after the pullout last october i.c.c. judges announced they were investigating whether they'd been crimes against humanity in burundi and why at least one thousand two hundred people were killed in the last three years the streets of beijing border are now quiet there be no major

protests in a while opposition leaders say that's because many of their supporters have fled or a scared local groups such as the people attached to the ruling party the in-born are occurring which is really a party as you swaying are taking land of people taking property of people and doing sign a climate of total impunity because the government won't tactic against them because these are the people in two thousand and sixteen who went on the streets beat protesters and so forth and so the government feels it owns these people. the indian government denies security forces targeted government critics the leaders of the ruling party say many people have returned from exile but aid workers and human rights workers say many are.