deputy minister for foreign the u.n. security council being briefed there about the situation in syria specifically about this situation in a province in northwest syria the last rebel stronghold which is under threat of a government offensive we heard from the u.n. humanitarian operation chief john gang just a short while ago before that stefan de mistura the u.n. special envoy for syria we heard warnings of a bloodbath a humanitarian catastrophe if the syrian government were to go ahead with the unexpected military offensive in it live province and last rebel stronghold once again but there are some three million people who live in the province as well this briefing of the security council coming just hours after a summit in tehran between russia iran and turkey the three countries agreeing to jointly look for ways to resolve the situation in a rebel held it live province in syria i want to bring in our diplomatic editor james frey's who's been listening into this briefing at the security council for as james talk us through what we've heard so far from both the u.n.

special envoy for syria and the humanitarian operations chief. well i think we've heard some very important things both with regard to the humanitarian situation the dye humanitarian situation and the prospects of any sort of break on a major military operation which looks like it could be very imminent let's look at the humanitarian situation first folly and what we heard from mr again and the last part i think was the most important in some ways he is saying and warning that in the worst case scenario a military assault on it live could completely overwhelm all the resources the international community and the u.n. have for syria it could be the worst humanitarian emergency to happen in this syrian war which remember is now at last it more than seventy years were in the eighth year of this war and he's saying this is the worst thing that could possibly happen and that i think is because of the size of the number of people affected let

me remind you the figures of the gay he said two point nine million people would be affected two point one million of those already are in need of humanitarian assistance and all of those one point four million are people who are internally displaced people who already have been moved from another part of syria and of course it is the last and biggest piece and there is really nowhere to run if it lives is attacked worst telling us to to again was speaking we got communication from unicef the part of the u.n. that deals with children it said the lawyer of over one million children are at risk in a dalit so a very very dire situation we heard thunder mr as saying that there is no other meaning that if there was to be a military offensive that the people who live in it live would have nowhere else to go john getting james also made a number of recommendations towards the end of his statement there what action if

any can the u.n. security council take. well the u.n. security council is unlikely to be able to take any action to pass any resolution because on the issue of syria there is or it always division and russia has proven that it is prepared to use its veto to back its military partner on the ground remember russia is directly involved russia is carrying out an air strikes and has been carrying out strikes in the area of it lib mr de mistura said this was a perfect storm but not sure about the word the use of the word perfect because it sounds like a really a very difficult situation he made it clear that ninety eight point five percent of the people are civilians and will be affected now what's worth telling you is that the u.s. is currently the president of the security council they instituted a new rule for their month as president which is everything is going to be in

public right now mr de mistura said at the end of his speech i have a plan that i'd like to present to you in private to separate the what he calls the terrorists from the ordinary civilians and about the he said well if you want to present your plan you need to present it in public so when we heard all the security council members speak all fifteen were on the first right now the deputy foreign minister of kuwait when we've heard all of those fifteen we're going to get a rare moment that a plan that would have been presented in secret is going to be presented to us in public by mr de mistura i have to say mr di mr also referred to what went on in terror on but seem to not be aware of the conclusions of course we've seen the live news conference from tehran from that meeting between russia iran and turkey in fact we have the communique from the end of that meeting and it's pretty clear that that meeting really has not achieved any sort of breakthrough the turks wanted the

word ceasefire in there the word isn't even in the communique right n. and the russians then even. rejecting the idea of a cease fire anyway i just want to come back to nikki haley james and the u.s. as you say the u.s. holding currently the rotating presidency of the security council we've heard strong warnings also from washington from the u.s. on the use of chemical weapons in syria but what about this military offensive this expected military offensive are they for or against it. they're certainly not for it but the question is would they take any action to stop it they've made it very clear and ambassador haley said it in the last twenty four hours in the security council meeting on syria chemical weapons if chemical weapons are used the u.s. has acted before president trump has authorized airstrikes and she made it very clear that was likely to happen again but in terms of a conventional battle in very big battle no indication the u.s.

would launch any sort of military action and thus the holy though has been speaking using the president's fame favorite form of communication twitter in the last couple of hours she said the security council will meet to warn of the dark consequences of the assad regime striking where three million people are at risk that seven times the number of people attacked in eastern guta and ten times the number of people he trapped in aleppo it's not at all clear whether after russia and syria and iran will perhaps pause even though there's no mention of a ceasefire in that communique i put the question to the syrian ambassador bashar jeffrey is here arrived at the security council do you go ahead with your onslaught on it he refused to answer the question james for the moment thank you very much we will of course check in with you for all the latest developments at that u.n. security council briefing on syria in the meantime let's go over to stephanie

decker was monitoring the situation inside syria for us from ray hanley that's on the techie syria border stephanie we've heard warnings of a bloodbath of a humanitarian catastrophe in a live province if this expected government offensive where to go ahead you're not far from a lead province tell us about the current situation there and just how worried people are about this possible onslaught. extremely concerned filey and you know a lot of these people as we've been reporting and everyone's been saying of in displays throughout the years of this conflict from playing. to place ending up right behind me that's the biggest come for the internally displaced inside syria that is around eight hundred thousand people so people are exhausted people are destroyed they want the war to end but the problem with that is that you know they don't trust the syrian government that if they do take charge of where they are that there are repercussions and of course is a huge concern of military action when it comes to civilian populated areas like

the big cities i think reading between the lines of this conference is dangerous saying nothing really clear coming out of it but we've been speaking to a couple of people trying to sort of read between the lines some people will tell you that yes this is offensive will get under way but it may be slow sort of inching in the sort of southern and eastern front of the area seeing what kind of civilian movement there will be what kind of international reaction there will be because it does seem clear folly that both russia and iran and let's be honest russia is really the one who calls the shots here are in consensus that damascus should be taking back the entire province yet the u.n. special envoy for syria to found a mystery in his briefing to the security council just a short while ago said you know there is no other meaning that if this region this area was to come under attack the people who live there wouldn't have anywhere else to go and also talked about the fact that it's extremely difficult to differentiate between the fighters who the syrian government will be going after and the

civilians who live in this area. absolutely this is one of the concerns that the president of turkey's red crescent was telling us two days ago and he came out of it lib saying that you know within the urban populated areas these groups and there's many different fighting groups inside it literally it's going to be very different to distinguish and this is why they're concerned of this potential bloodbath also remember when you talk about there is no other id live this is why it's such a different context of this war all the rebel fighters who didn't agree with these reconciliation pro you know processes or he. there are incited lives so they already refused and they're here now the people also now have nowhere to go other than government areas or a sliver of territory controlled by turkey but there's other dynamics on the ground that are difficult to it's so complicated and i think this is why turkey is really pushing back to try and get time to try and get the rebel groups to dissolve but when they do that where do they go so i think the ground is going to tell us how this is going to unfold and those concerns of course remain of large civilian

casualties stephanie decker in randi thank you very much for that stephanie now as we mentioned the leaders of iran russia and turkey have met in tehran today at a summit to try and find a political solution for the war in syria the president all here on iran has some rouhani emphasized the need for not just a political solution but also a military one taken as. to fight terrorism an adlib isn't an inevitable. part of a mission to bring about peace and stability and. we should make sure the civilians are not harmed in this process. we are fighting for peace war for war is a mistake from our point of view zain is our correspondent in tehran zain this summit was described as a meeting a summit on the future of syria but really no major breakthrough there it seems to

me. absolutely i mean these are the architects of the astonished talks and in many ways the architects of the ongoing civil war that's gone on for eight years now so one would expect that they do agree on most things and in essence they do but there was a major point of divergence that will no doubt be immediately impactful for syrian people especially those living in the well the iranian russia spoke about the future they talked about a new constitution the president of iraq hasan rouhani even talked about future syria elections and all kinds of political reform reconstruction the return of refugees the exchange of prisoners. and president putin talks about national security and ridding syria finally of what he called terrorism but when it came to turkey. there were on a totally different page turkey's major concern is that the president stated

clearly that turkey is already home to three point five million refugees more than three million people live in ad libbed and he's very concerned that is the country with the biggest border with syria that turkey will then have to inherit more refugees as a conflict and plays out so his warning was that there should be a cease fire and his colleagues around the table the leaders of turkey sorry the leaders of russia and iran should report to support the turkish position but perhaps an ominous warning came in the form of a response by president putin to a question about whether there's been any agreement on it and he simply pointed to the fact that if if armed fighters use syrian civilians as human shields then what happens to them will be the responsibility of those armed groups so where do they go from here zain i believe they're planning on another summit in russia. yes that's correct and you know as far as the loop is concerned there are still several question marks i think what we also heard from these leaders was that it

was time for the international community to come together to focus on rehabilitation to focus on refugees returning so i think it's in essence if you if you look at the subtext of what was said at this summit they really are sending two signals to the west that we didn't need you to bring stability to syria we're able to do that in this region ourselves but we do want to involve you when it comes to paying for the bill of the conflict in terms of humanitarian aid and reconstruction so what happens in may be a sort of a carrot and stick approach where if we are to move forward in terms of rehabilitating syria then the international community needs to be involved but again the question marks hang over it look at what happens to the syrian civilians living there zain as robin reporting live from tehran thank you very much zain now while the talks go on over syria meeting on the war in yemen has hit a snag with the rebels haven't yet managed just lie to the swiss city of geneva for negotiations with representatives of yemen's government the u.n.

special envoy for yemen martin griffith is a ready that he says he has discussed issues including prisoners and humanitarian access with yemen's foreign minister had a chance to has more from geneva. the u.n. special envoy for yemen is still holding out hope that these consultations talks start but he doesn't know exactly when it could be saturday could be sunday it could even be monday but you still holding out hope the question is exactly how long can the yemen government delegation sitting on their own here at this hotel in geneva how long can they actually wait when will their patience run out. still on the ground in yemen capital is the hoochie rebel delegation they're demanding the chance to put injured fighters on the plane for treatment in the amman the capital of moscow but the yemeni government spokesman here told me this not only the

injured fighters they're trying to get on that plane let's hear what he said they said yesterday that they want to. have information from our side from there from sanaa those are not injures they are. a group of hezbollah experts who were. programmed that. they are training who they have been training for the for the last three days years it's been described by the united nations as the worst humanitarian crisis in the world more than ten thousand people have died two thousand or so have been children every day these peace consultations are delayed means more lives are put at risk. frontline presidential election campaign. and europe's new frontier.

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ard. our top stories this hour the u.n. special envoy to syria says the situation in adelaide is set up for what he calls a perfect storm found a mystery has told the u.n. security council a short time ago that the expected military offensive against rebels in the province will be an horrific battle and techie's president is warning of a bloodbath in it leave his bed in iran which is also hosting russia's president

for a summit on the expected offensive in northwest syria and the first bond peace talks in two years between yemen's government leaders and with the rebels have hit a hurdle though fees say they can't get authorization from the saudi iraqi coalition to fly to geneva. they sent to other world news now and a suspect is being questioned in brazil after a presidential election candidate was stabbed as he campaigned doctors say giant ball sonora is in grave but stable condition in hospital the far right candidate is popular in opinion polls despite racist and homophobic comments gay but it is on the reports. it was an attack that happened fast. on a brazil's top presidential candidates being carried on the shoulders of his supporters at a campaign rally in his july state in south eastern brazil and then he was stabbed by someone in the crowd. cellphone video from various angles captured him

clutching his abdomen and paying his supporters rushed him into a waiting ambulance made panic and confusion. here arrived at a local hospital in grave condition with the stab wound that punctured his liver and other organs after four hours of emergency surgery he was stabilized doctors say he'll spend at least a week in the hospital but is expected to make a full recovery. the assailant a middle aged man was immediately arrested his motives remain unclear brazil's president quickly condemned the attack my use to rivera. this reveals to is something that rises alwynne because it's intolerable in. a pool released this week showed also maddow leading all other eight eligible candidates ahead of the october seventh vote also not always a far right politician who likened some self to donald trump person adams

detractors say he's homophobic racist and sexist. but his campaign message of cracking down on crime and violence has won him loyal supporters and a leader in the polls but because he's so controversial he's going to often wear a bulletproof vest at campaign events but it does not appear he was wearing one on wednesday when he was stabbed. how does either. iraq's parliament has called an emergency meeting for saturday to discuss days of anti-government protests in basra at least eleven people have been killed in the offices of political parties an iranian backed group and a state run t.v. channel set on fire protesters in the southern oil rich region say they're sick of government corruption as well as the lack of jobs water and electricity. israel has banned palestinian teenage activists i had al-timimi from traveling abroad the seventeen year old and her family were to head to europe on friday she was due to

attend events to talk about the palestinian resistance movement and her experience in prison timmy was arrested in december last year in jail for eight months for stopping any israeli soldier. the presidents of serbia and kosovo have called off face to face talks in brussels on friday just moments before they were due to meet they had been expected to consider a land swap deal twenty years after the war in kosovo instead the european union stopped diplomat federica more greeny met them separately to keep negotiations going on the possibility of rejoining the border the pressure of a valley in southern serbia where the population is multi ethnic albanian would join kosovo in return serbia would take control of the majority said area of kosovo but it's a gamble that could provoke further tensions in the balkans sonia gago reports. it's the first week back at school for these young students at the ybor him

kelmendi primary school in the town of pressure it's the largest one of its kind in serbia. all the pupils are albanian as they settle in the school itself prepares for what could be the last time it teaches the serbian curriculum and what they hope will be a fresh start for the school. in their twenty's and there's hardly been any investment here since ninety sixty five everything's in full condition and we have no problem being in textbooks. the possibility of a land swap between serbia and kosovo has been uppermost in people's minds here pressured us population is ninety percent ethnic albanian the us and the european union had always discouraged the idea until now and apparently straightforward solution on the surface but has the potential to reopen old wounds in this part of the balkans which has already suffered brutal conflict following the breakdown of

yugoslavia. one of the plans that people here fear is being discussed is moving the border to this railway track now while but what put the town of pressure firmly within the borders of kosovo it would mean that these outlying villages would still be in serbia and the thousands of other albanians still stuck there. moreover there is still uncertainty as to what serbia would want to return but would likely dominated northern kosovo which it views is non-negotiable yes we would like to be part of. the we have to be very careful in order for asians in terms of you know for republic of course all to be created a lot of sacrifice has been done by all the including the veins of. we don't want to interfere in this process. this also poses another dilemma for the region's leaders if borders are to be redrawn on the basis of ethnicity it could provoke

more calls for land swaps from macedonia which has more than half a million albanians living along its front is even the goal of eventual e.u. x. session football can countries cannot. disclose we don't find discussion about and between kosovo and serbia conducive to reaching the goal we think it will reopen too many old wounds in the population eyes and that is why we have very skeptical it is a huge gamble with the risk of reigniting ethnic conflict here a political process that will take a good normal amount of delicate negotiation from all parties involved. al-jazeera . sniffer dogs are helping the search for earthquake survivors in northern japan buildings collapsed and damage is widespread on the island of. nuclear power stations and electricity supplies remain disrupted rob matheson has our course.

parts of the city of sapporo life shattered by the magnitude six point seven quake that hit in the early hours of thursday. this is shocking i have always walked on this street and i would never imagine this road could collapse in such a way but if you think positively imagine i was walking here when it took place then i could have lost my life. because. further south in the town about suma landslides have crushed and smothered buildings here as in other parts of the island teams of rescuers have been drafted in there using bulldozers and sniffer dogs to look for dozens of missing people feared trapped under the rubble. large parts of the island remain blacked out although at least half the five point three million islanders now have had some sort of power restored but electricity is being limited to reduce the strain and the network long queues have been forming a temporary charging centers for mobile phones which in a crisis can be

a lifeline must caution them. in order to supply electricity to as many areas a spa civil were asking residents in the areas where the supply was started to conserve electricity you know seventy rail networks in several areas are at a standstill because there's no power stranding some passengers others are using ferries while some roads are jammed with traffic about twenty percent of the world's earthquakes measuring magnitude six and above shake japan every year those days quake came just two days after typhoon gebbie the most powerful storm there in twenty five years as quake victims try to get their lives back to normal warnings of aftershocks and more quakes are being issued and there is growing pressure to get power back to all of hokkaido rob matheson al-jazeera. palestinian children have only just returned to their classrooms but

a school in the occupied west bank could be demolished within a week i may not be the only one up to forty are facing the bulldozers as israel looks to make way for illegal settlements then a smith went to meet people then teaches in the bedouin village of qana on mars. one day soon on their way to school these palestinian children expect to find their path blocked by israeli police and bulldozers they'll be no warning it could happen any time after the next six days. israeli supreme court judges have ordered the demolition of the school along with the adjacent bedouin village the judges say that can be no more appeals. i've been very tense i couldn't work out a bit paranoid and very stressed i didn't take it well it's a huge responsibility i haven't slept it's too much how will the kids learn. the school was built by an italian charity nine years ago that educates around one hundred eighty pupils from nearby bedouin communities misses

a hiker says she could never really believe the demolition would actually happen well i won't be here doing this i said they'll never demolish the school i thought maybe they transfer one of the communities it never occurred to me that they would demolish a school because every child has a right to education and she thinks most children won't go to where the schools because they're too far away from our have to cover the closest school is far and my parents are scared to let me go because of the highway or probably end up tending the sheep but i want to come to school and i want to study when i grow up i want to be a dentist but now i end up tending sheep the palestinian education ministry has told the staff not to prepare to move not to pack up not to move the furniture the school the ministry says must continue teaching until the very last minute the land the school is built on is wanted by israel to expand illegal settlements occupied east jerusalem and hands up how many more schools are under threat of destruction

in the occupied west bank around forty says the charity save the children which it says is a breach of internationally recognized provisions to protect schools in conflict areas bernard smith al-jazeera. hello again i'm fully back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera the u.n. special envoy to syria says the situation in it labe is set up for what he calls a perfect storm seven hundred mr at all the u.n. security council the expected military offensive against the rebels in the province will be an horrific battle the u.n. is warning of the worst humanitarian crisis since the war in syria began turkey's president meanwhile is warning of a bloodbath in its lead he's been in tehran as iran also welcomed russia's president for a summit on syria as a talks began iran's president has some rouhani emphasized the need for

a political and military solution. to fight terrorism an adlib isn't an inevitable. part of a mission to bring about peace and stability and. we should make sure that the civilians are not the harmed in this process. we are fighting for peace war for war is a mistake from our point of view. the first plan peace talks in two years between yemen's government leaders and healthy rebels have hit a hurdle though the say they can't get authorization from the saudi erotic coalition decided to geneva the u.n. special envoy for yemen is already in switzerland with yemen's foreign minister to discuss humanitarian access and prisoner issues. iraq's parliament has called an emergency meeting for saturday to discuss the anti-government protests in basra at least eleven people have been killed in the offices of political parties any rainy

unbacked and a state run t.v. channel set on fire protestors in the sudden oil rich region say they're sick of government corruption. israel has banned palestinian teenage activists i had al-timimi from traveling abroad the seventeen year old and her family were to head to europe on friday she was due to attend events to talk about the palestinian resistance movement and her experience in prison timmy was jailed for eight months so slapping an israeli soldier. and mass graves have been found in mexico containing more than one hundred sixty human skulls burial pits were uncovered in a field in vera cruz the stage is notorious for the legal drugs war and cartels smuggling cocaine north to the united states europe say with headlines on al jazeera coming up next year it's a stream to stay with us. as india was updating its citizenship records around four million people in the street or at risk of becoming stateless goodness to be rude

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