a protest has been held in the yemeni city of tire ahead of friday's un peace talks to end the country's three year war protest as the warring parties in the geneva meeting to address the plight of tires residents that have been living under siege for years talks of the first between yemeni government government and who has two thousand and sixteen was postponed by a day but the u.n. special envoy says he's confident it will still go ahead as planned. new protests in the iraqi city of basra have forced the port of to close the key access point for food imports into the region major demonstrations demanding jobs and improved public services have been ongoing in the city since july in recent days there's been an escalation in violence at least nine protesters have been killed in confrontations with security forces the army blamed on identified gunman head of the biggest coalition in the country's parliament. there's also other provinces to

send aid to. north korea's leader has told south korean diplomats he has faith in donald trump and wants to get rid of nuclear weapons before his first. at a meeting in pyongyang and also agreed to a third summit with south korea's president later this month is actually canceled a visit to the north last month after complained the lack of progress on. more from seoul. news that this into korean summit will take place had been expected nonetheless confirmation of it has come as something of a relief given the state of stored relations between pyongyang and washington south korea's security chief. has been briefing the blue house the presidential office here in seoul and also be via the event will take place in pyongyang between the eighteenth and the twentieth of september as also reported that north korea remains very much committed to the whole process for the denuclearization on the long term

peace of the korean peninsula state run television in north korea has been showing the meeting between kim jong un and the south korean delegation it has all been smiles and handshakes it is also being confirmed that the south korean delegation has been given a personal message from kim jong un to convey to the americans and to president donald trump presumably this is a message of goodwill expressing that north korea is still very much wanting to continue the dialogue of peace couldn't continue the dialogue with washington but chong did also expressed the view that kim jong un is feeling a sense of frustration that according to kim it has been north korea that has made a lot of the concessions such as the dismantling of some of its nuclear testing sites and that the international community and for that you can read the united

states has not reciprocated in kind. a number of people are missing after a powerful earthquake struck the northern japanese island of hokkaido a six point seven magnitude quake has called what caused widespread devastation at least thirty people a fair dead she has had four reports. a desperate search for the missing after a powerful earthquake hits northern japan in the early hours of the morning damaging a town. and cutting power to millions across the island three reactors at the tamara nuclear plant were running on backup generators landslides were triggered in dense forests on the mountainside of the rural town of a tsunami covering homes a relief and rescue command center has been set up. a whole day i've heard reports such as people having cardiac arrest landslides collapsed buildings and large scale blackouts saving people's lives is a priority while the government deals with the disaster relief we will deal with

this crisis made by. the governments deployed thousands of troops to help with the rescue operation the quake also shut down all transportation services including the airport and hokkaido telephone lines and mobiles a down it's been a difficult week for japan on tuesday typhoon gibby the most powerful to hit japan in twenty five years killed at least ten people the largest airport had to be evacuated in the wake of the storm and millions lost power in various cities now people are left to deal with another natural disaster japan sits on the ring of fire of volcanoes and oceanic trenches experiencing around twenty percent of the world's up quakes of magnitude six and high of japan's very well prepared for natural disasters you may have noticed that we've had quite a few lately and that's not terribly unusual for japan it's a natural disaster country but at the same time there's not much preparation you

can do when a when a mountain collapses on to homes so clearly they're going to need to bring out equipment that can bury the houses and that's going to take time so it's probably going to be quite a bit of time before we know exactly how many people died in those landslides. and as the people affected wait to hear about their loved ones there are a few areas of off the shocks or even another serious earthquake that seismologists one could strike at any time she hears i've got food al-jazeera. oh my whole plan is president of she gets a news agency he says was japan is used to this is all says it will take time for rescuers to assess the scale of this quake in a general sense of course japan's very well prepared for natural disasters you may have noticed that we've had quite a few lately and that's not terribly unusual for japan it's a natural disaster country but at the same time there's not much preparation you can do when a when

a mountain collapses on to homes so clearly they're going to need to bring out equipment that can bury the houses and that's going to take time so it's probably going to be quite a bit of time before we know exactly how many people died in those landslides there were some major aftershocks a few hours later and the authorities are warning that they could be up to a week before the aftershock danger has has passed and at the same time another thing to bear in mind is that electricity services on the island of hokkaido been wiped out train services all public transportation it's mobile phone services it's all down right now essentially people living in hokkaido are are cut off from the world. you know i've heard reports such as people having cardiac arrests landslides collapsed buildings and large scale blackouts saving people's lives is a priority while the government deals with the disaster relief we will deal with this crisis yes anna says have questions executives of facebook and twitter about

foreign influence and election campaigns social media giants have been warned that new laws could be on the way to stop them from being a platform for election fraud how is your castro has more from washington d.c. . the era of the wild west in social media is coming to an end so says the vice chairman of the senate intelligence committee telling the bosses of facebook and twitter that government regulation is coming and i'm skeptical that ultimately you'll be able to truly address this challenge on your own i believe congress is going to have to act i think both are serious samberg of facebook and jack dorsey of twitter began their testimonies with sober assessments of their own operations leading up to the hacking of the us elections two years ago we found ourselves unprepared and ill equipped for the immensity of the problems that we've acknowledged lots of them on notably missing was the chief executive of google's parent company alphabet larry page who declined the committee's invitation to

testify i'm deeply disappointed that google one of the most influential digital platforms in the world chose not to send its own top corporate leadership to engage this committee the tone toward the tech exacts who did appear was more positive senators praised facebook's efforts last month to remove more than six hundred accounts linked to fake users based in iran and russia facebook said it has hired more than twenty thousand content monitors who speak fifty languages let me be clear we are more determined than our opponents and we will keep fighting. when bad actors try to use our site we will block them when content violates our policies we will take it down and when our opponents use new techniques we will share them so we can strengthen our collective efforts. the tech giants say they'll work with government to develop regulations but it remains to be seen when new

rules would be coming the u.s. intelligence community including the f.b.i. and the cia saying what is clear is that the integrity of the u.s. elections in the upcoming midterms in november is under attack and the giants of social media and government are being challenged to move swiftly in response. castro al-jazeera washington. senior members of the trumpet ministration of working to undermine his policies that's according to an offical and the new york times the anonymous attack is said to be a lesson by a senior white house official trump has called on the paper to reveal the identity of the author for the national security purposes and has the latest from washington . according to the new york times someone close to the president wants the world to know they think he is unfit to hold the highest office anonymously writing this op ed describing the president as a moral and his leadership style as impetuous adversarial petty and ineffective

they also say the cabinet considered invoking the twenty fifth amendment which could have removed him from office but say they chose not to provoke a constitutional crisis this is an extraordinary step and the label of senior official means it was likely written by someone close to the president he was quick to lash out so when you tell me about some anonymous source within the administration probably was failing and probably a year for all the wrong reasons now and the new york times is trailing if i weren't here i believe the new york times probably wouldn't even exist the white house spokesperson issued a statement calling on the author to quit labeling them a coward meanwhile some republicans were quick to try and downplay this unprecedented editorial but i didn't think that anything was relayed. and that that was you know you think this is what all of us have understood to be the

situation from they want so again it's not very it didn't reveal much to me i understand this is the case the president took to twitter casting doubt on the existence of the source but then said if they do exist they must be turned over to the government for national security tweeting a simple word treason this is a president in many ways under siege under pressure for multiple investigations and now undermined by a member of his own staff in a most public way pedicle hain al jazeera washington. more than three hundred people have been killed in four months of anti-government protests in nicaragua a place in military have been widely accused of using excessive force against protesters say there's a climate of fear some full of police officers spoken out against the government crackdown putting themselves at risk from john holdren has more. until recently this young man was

a macand i would police officer now he's had to flee the country all he says because he disagree with his government's crackdown on protests. killing an innocent a young person that doesn't sit well with me their students and not criminals. human rights groups say the officers who spoken out against the government's often heavy handed tactics and now in danger this one says he was slung in jail and interrogated by police intelligence off to criticizing authorities in a what's. going to be said to tell them everything because if they found anything more or that i was involved with other people they'd have to put my parents and my family my wife in prison. offices totus just asking to be discharged can result in a rest one human rights office processes policeman's resignations for them taking their weapons and uniforms to their superiors so they don't have to risk going in

person cherry garcia you can be in prison and tried for crimes by the supreme court that's what's happening now or you could end up dead father lopez's mother says he was killed because he wanted to leave the force the police told her that he was shot on duty by protesters but of friends again we showed video and photos of father's body said that he was tortured and then beaten to death his mother talked to us via skype she's in hiding it just really that good what a coincidence that friday he says he's going to resign and then somebody my son is that and they had his stuff they lied to me why al-jazeera repeatedly asked the police for its response to these allegations there was no answer but both the u.n. and human rights groups have criticized the force and. unfortunately the police haven't just committed murders of nicaraguan students compass you know but also torture i mean humane treatment illegal detentions sexual abuse of young people.

it's a far cry from the days when the police were respected at home and abroad a few years ago in nicaragua as police and the other crime so countries in central america it's community based approach helps to keep homicide levels relatively low and to build trust with the public now that trust appears to have turned to fear not just for much of the public but for dissenting officers within the force themselves john hoeven menar work. in just a few moments with staff and that the ahead here on al-jazeera pregnant women and beyond the dash getting medical care some for the first time. tough times tough measures while hundreds of protesting against argentina's economic decisions. and as board a strike by denmark's world cup players puts the team's future in doubt as european football it's an overhaul.

from the neon lights of asia. to the city that never sleeps. hello there we've got plenty of thunderstorms across europe at the moment we've got two main patches really the first one is in the east this swelling massive cloud here this is given us some very heavy downpours including in hungary and you can see the flooding that we've got there i wouldn't open if i were him looks like we're going to see more wet weather there over the next few days but another region we're also seeing plenty of thunderstorms is over parts of spain now for valencia we've seen some rain and it looks like the rain here is going to turn increasingly heavy during the day today and we've also seen some very lively and impressive looking thunderstorms a little bit further north as well along the northern parts of spain and the whole system is now shifting its way towards the east as it does so i think some of the

heaviest of the downpours today will be over the northern parts of italy so particularly this evening and overnight we'll see some very heavy downpours here with some large hail and some damaging gusts of wind as well and then that will gradually continue its way eastwards as we head into friday so by around lunchtime on friday then we've still got the heavy rains over the northern parts of italy and they're stretching further north now into the eastern parts of germany and to the west of that is a lot cooler than it has been those thunderstorms further if they're still clinging on here and working their way across the black sea as well watch out for these but we some very large hail stones as well. there with sponsored by the time. september on al-jazeera the fourth eastern economic forum is to be held in the city of le divorce stock as russia looks to expand its influence in the asia pacific region on television and online the stream continues to tap into the extraordinary potential of social media to disseminate news the president 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 hall the seventy third session what action will it take on atrocities in me and maher and him and we'll bring you all the news of september on al-jazeera. in indonesia palm oil is a billion dollar business want to win east investigates the price the country is paying. to feed the world's oil addiction. on al-jazeera.

top stories this hour france's military chief says he's prepared to strike syria if chemical weapons are used during an upcoming syrian government offensive forces chief was speaking to reporters and paris u.n. reports have blamed forces for chemical weapons attack during several previous operations. petro chemical strike around three thousand employees. are unhappy that black workers have exclusively been offered companies. african law requires firms to meet quotas on black ownership. south sudanese soldiers have been sentenced and ordered to pay compensation for the right to five aide workers in the murder of a journalist in two thousand and sixteen. ranging from four years to life for the attack on the train hotel in the capital juba. will by the government of president

salva kiir to bring accountability to the military. defense secretary james mattis are in india for talks that washington had cancelled twice this year the focus will be on strategic and security issues including washington's demand that india stop buying oil from iran. a russian weapons system. well the meeting in india follows pompei his visit to pakistan where he met with newly elected prime minister and one come only days earlier the u.s. council three hundred million dollars in military aid to pakistan and the country has failed to rein in armed groups they said he wants to reset between washington and islamabad have him on jacob as an associate professor of diplomacy and disarmament with the school of instructional studies at java. university and he joins us now live from new delhi semite pump a visit to india is like a slightly easier one isn't it than his visit to pakistan.

hello can you hear me. yes my compares visit to there in india is like to be easier than the one to pakistan. i'm sorry and i know i don't know i'm an adamant jacobs going to try one more time with you i'm just saying that might pump a is visit us secretary of state in india and it's likely to be a slightly easier visit then his one before to pakistan. absolutely i think. the visit to of the two principals from the united states the defense secretary and the secretary of state to india in fact erases the u.s. relations a completely new level india has never been disclosed to the united states and

therefore you are looking at the very very interesting. conversation that is happening in new delhi between the united states and india and yet i must hasten to add that the two plus two talks between the united states and india is looking like a one sided affair it is clearly a do on days the united states and i'll tell you why i am seeing what i am. seeing there is a lot profile pressure that is being put on india and india is trying to wriggle out of the unprecedented m.o. and the pressure that is being put on a day by the united states of america on seven fronts one on the indian the importer of the indian energy from the front from iran and from iran and secondly the indian perseus off the russian veteran systems and thirdly the trade deficit between india and the united states so the united states would like india to completely stop. buying iranian energy and instead by natural gas from

the united states the united states also would like india to stop buying russian veterinary and by the american government of the instead and thirdly the united states would like india to reduce the trade deficit which is almost twenty two billion dollars and do so by way of the buying civilian aircraft from india and from the united states and importing sort of natural gas from this or indeed start trying to look for ways to manage this pressure from the united states at this point of time how likely india is going to agree to any of those points. i think i think there will be one or waivers probably given to india especially on the buying of s. four hundred. system from from russia but on the iranian question i think the

jury's still out whether india will be able to withstand the pressure from the administration on brushy it is likely that india will get a waiver on trade i think this is an ongoing one in one day this issue can be sort of dictated because it can be decided up on in a day or two so that is an ongoing affair but i think this is a test case for india's negotiating. i never tell how likely is it that india is going to be asking the u.s. to help it counter the rise of its very powerful neighbor china. it is interesting. why in the united states worldwide the united states is very important for india as standing at the influence and hands of the daughters of its power in the region there is a rising power. if i may add that is the people's republic of china in other states

and states as an offshore superpower and china next door rising superpower so i think india will need to keep in mind. striking a balance between its relationship with the united states and. its. neighbor which is china there is no way that india. nor look at the concerns that all pakistan or iran or russia may have. furthering all started the dice with the united states so i think india would need to play a very very balanced sort of tightrope walk at this point of time high level meetings between the u.s. and india already twice canceled this year the u.s. has said that more important things came up to that upset india. i think we may have we may have lost him on jake of the financing to get his points

of view on the india relationship. now pregnant women are amongst thousands of rango refugees struggling to survive in bangladesh aid agencies are warning of a growing health crisis and more calling on the calling for more binge wives to help. reports. during the hottest hour of the day in the world's largest refugee settlement these row hinge it. additional midwives are searching for a woman who needs their help raji a big woman and sob are two of the one hundred thirty community health care workers who have been recruited by the united nations population fund or un f.p.a. from among the or hinge of residing here in bangladesh. when they find regime who already has two children and is about to give birth to a third they explain how they'll assist with her delivery and outline all medical options available. hells me she had no idea care like this was possible.

that he had gotten out of i didn't get to see any doctor recently the doctors stare i buddhist they wouldn't treat us because we are muslim in another part of the camp these newborns and their mothers are being looked after in a facility run by un f.p.a. . a novel experience for a population of refugees harboring largely conservative attitudes toward reproductive health one of the biggest challenges has been trying to convince her hinge all women here to voluntarily go to clinics and that's because of the unrelenting persecution they faced in me and more it's left many of them distrustful and fearful of medical facilities like this one since august two thousand and seventeen saudia bag has come to the aid of numerous for him to women subjected to extreme physical psychological and sexual violence by members of me in mars military. as plainly and painfully as she can she explains why the women she

helps are so fearful. the lawyer five thousand half of them these women are always scared that the doctors will kill their babies despite the obstacles aid workers say providing services that aim to ensure not just safer pregnancies and childbirth but also options for family planning are already having an impact and we've seen a real increase in the number of women. to have for a long acting contraceptives also saying in big increase in the number of men who are being supportive of their wives during the act a lot of women have decided that they've had enough children. and they want to get on with their lives learning skills and don't have any children down another alleyway rosea and saudia locate a refugee pregnant with her first child. dispensing wisdom to the anxious mother to

be they do what they can to provide a kind of comfort this woman has never known so much as it at the could to prolong refugee camp in cox's bazaar bangladesh. and emirates plane is being quarantined in new york off to several passengers became el aboard a flight from dubai the flight landed and jeff cap port on wednesday morning with the passengers receiving medical attention but try case in the reports. the emirates plane had five hundred twenty one passengers on board during the footie now flight from dubai to new york the u.s. center for disease control says as many as one hundred people reported feeling sick very very deep intense fire let me say going into that area i. mean it's so tough to see this helipad here and like you have to get on a plane and keep her for so intensely sick and nobody checking her stupid question

is a spokesman for new york's mass says the flight stopped in the saudi arabian city of mecca which is experiencing a flu outbreak the plane a double decker bus three eighteen landed in new york at around nine in the morning local time and was immediately taken to an area away from the terminal as passengers disembarked that temperature was taken somebody is temperatures higher than astable some of the election my temperature is not more than ninety nine. i was asked to come to confirm that in response to the sickness on board the dubai based and mine tweeted emirates can confirm that about ten passengers on ek two zero three from dubai to new york were taken ill on arrival as a precaution they were attended to by local health authorities it later emerged that seven out of the ten people taken to hospital were crew members passengers say the experience was surreal to see. that the customs. there's even the

people have to help you with luggage they wear masks and gloves and then of course we had the passengers no one offered us at the airport and so there was a meeting about the real health officials in new york a processing test to find out why people fell ill they say symptoms point to the flu victoria gate and be out there. to make a series of spending cuts and an effort to stabilize the country spiraling currency crisis off the pace they lost more than half its value this year the government and outs pass to slash half of its ministries one of those affected is the ministry of health tris about areas where hundreds of doctors nurses and other health workers of state stays demonstrations in the capital. the doctors nurses and health workers gathered outside the health ministry when a site is to protest against the government's decision to reduce this ministry into a smaller department with a smaller budget as i was going to meet the neos. the government wants to dissolve

the health ministry and it's a risk which is not only a change in name but also a budget cut in the amount of workers and in the programs that depend on the ministry. a message for the government of haiti who is pushing austerity measures to reduce the fiscal deficit that has put argentina's economy on the line these people fear that the government measures will have a direct impact on public health which in argentina is a universal right they also say that budget gaps between the rate groeschel health programs like those treating people with hiv be at a regular basis. is proud of argentina's health care system he has a child and has always been able to receive free treatment for his to seize every month he comes to this hospital to get free medication. finally i'm being tested negative and they treat me in this hospital and it's for free we don't want

anyone to change that we've already started gathering signatures so they don't close this hospital and we don't lose access to the medicine we get. the health ministry plays a crucial role in a country with large levels of inequality and high poverty rates forty medical associations have requested a governmental reverse its decision saying that vaccination plans and the treatment of chronic diseases should be affected by the ongoing economic crisis. in the health center in argentina has problems even as a ministry what worries us is that these messages of austerity that argentina is showing do not have a human rights agenda any public policy needs to have human rights at its core. in spite of the problems argentina has long prided itself of being able to provide free and universal health care that's why people here claim that health costs are

the one issue the government of. shouldn't dare touch. well argentine a sinking economy is starting to have a negative impact on one of latin america's most stable countries they were in chile has seen its paces slump in what's been called the tango effect that's america less to loose in human reports. santiago's cost the net a center is one of latin america's largest and most modern shopping malls until recently it was full of origin times conspicuous because they'd come with suitcases to shop till they dropped and now they're still conspicuous by their absence i think you know but i'm also told argentina represents fifty two percent of our tourism maybe we've been too dependent on them because when they fall into their periodic economic crisis the empacher here is very strong. the fallout from argentina's currency crash has already reached chile arguably latin america's most stable economy.