using starvation as a weapon of war more than one child every minute is dying of hunger in conflict zones. and. there are live from doha also coming up one of europe's most liberal nations takes a right turn will tell you about sweden's political deadlock. in opposition a to come so car accused of treason is released from prison. and afghanistan tries to protect its female police officers by building them their own fortress.

six hundred thousand children that's more than one a minute are expected to die from extreme hunger and war zones this year as according to a report by the charity safe the children it says four and a half million children under five will need treatment for severe malnutrition this year that's a twenty percent increase on two thousand and sixteen tens of thousands of children will likely die in yemen afghanistan and sudan but the biggest number of fatalities is expected in the democratic republic of congo where three hundred thousand could die save the children one starvation is increasingly used as a weapon of war with warring parties blocking food and medicine leading to devastating consequences. andrew symonds is reporting on the war in yemen from neighboring djibouti andrew this is such a hard hitting statistic in yemen is one of those conflicts where civilians are

most bearing the brunt of the war. without any shadow laura let me just bring you up to date with the situation is deteriorating a by the hour we have now reports of more attacks overnight we have more. probable casualties in the area who data the port city the key port city because so much aid comes in through this poor food particularly and also the airport which is another major target of the u.n. a u.a.e. and saudi backed coalition there is really a crisis in the making an even bigger crisis should i say because if this area is devastated as it could be the case is already very badly damaged if the city itself a gets obliterated then along with half a million civilians more than a half

a million civilians then the other upshot to this is that the bridge between the ports and the capital sana'a is going to be cuts that's an obvious military target but it's in the humanitarian disaster if that happens simply because the capital will be cut off from food and aid supplies particularly medicines for the injured so we have here really a. perfect the wrong word but a real example all how aid and food can be a weapon but you could argue that that's a really. direct weapon but there are other examples particularly in syria but i'll stick with the yemen other many many examples of how food is used as a weapon i'll give you warm simple incidents simple again being perhaps wrong certainly a vivid. example of what's been happening recently there was

a truck in a province that came under attack no one knows exam. which group attacked this truck but it had enough food to feed two thousand people for a month a driver a w f p driver with clearly with a w f p world food program on his truck was seriously injured we understand he is now making a recovery but the point is this that truck was targeted for one reason to stop supplies getting in to sign it would seem this is one of many many examples but this one is documented this one is one which the u.n. has made a complaint but who is responsible which side possibly both but certainly right now we have a double act going on with saudi arabia because they're pumping millions of dollars into the world food program coffers and in fact they were the biggest contributor in two thousand and eight with five hundred million dollars going to be but if

they're doing one thing with their donations or another thing with their military action there's a cancer itself well certainly if you are civilians about that it's diabolical it's inexcusable it's got to a stage now where the world food program that same. u.n. operation that we see that donation and every year receives donations in saudi arabia very big ones is now in a position whereby it's predicting eight point four million or on the brink of famine and that number hasn't been updated recently it's going to get larger ok thanks very much for that update on the devastating situation in yemen all stephanie decker is also following this story for us and she joins us now from my family in turkey starvation being increasingly used as a weapon of war stats i mean this is particularly evident hasn't it just over the border there in syria. absolutely it's

been a very effective tool in this war employed by both sides both the syrian government the syrian government allies on the ground and the rebels the opposition forces what they've done over the course of this war and you can see that behind me some of those people that province in that camp were part of some of these besieged areas how they made this work that there would be a siege certain areas most particularly yet camp in damascus. close to damascus there were horrific pictures coming out a couple of years ago of a macy's macy age and malnourished children which did sort of cool the world's attention for a bit you know and they would either bombard but certainly starve them into submission if you will also when a trucks were allowed to go in they would be stopped many reports of verified government checkpoints would stop these trucks and take out specific whether it was baby formula or whether it was certain medicine so and again this was also done by

the rebels so what many people will tell you is that this led to a so-called surrender the pattern of reconciliation deals that has led to where we are today in this war having the government taken over you know areas in areas those who did not agree to those reconciliation deals are now inside problems facing a potential imminent offensive some of the rebels we were talking to for a story we did about a week ago would tell you that we surrendered because of the hunger so it's been a very effective tool in syria's war is of course against international law but no one seems to be adhering to that. ok thanks very much for bringing us the situation inside syria. in other news sweden faces a period of length the political wrangling after an election that ended in stalemate with big gains for the far right the center left bloc led by the prime minister stephan loaf and came up with just over forty percent of the vote the

center right alliance led by the moderates say they've been given the mandate to lead the country they won virtually the same share as the leftist outgoing bloc the far right and the immigration and sweden democrats led by you me. again support seeing their vote rise to seventeen percent talk to form a new government will begin on monday but all parties have so far refused to work with the sweet democrats. but the fact of course i'm disappointed that a party with nazi roots. wants ground it's a party that in this election has had representatives that want a journalist to die which is glorified hitler and humiliated victims of the holocaust this weekend democrats could never offer the change or improvements in society the only thing they could offer is widening the gap in society and growing hatred and a whole report from stockholm. the center left social democrats have been the

biggest party in every swedish election for a century true again this time but not by far and it's a relief it's been their worst result ever i think it's fine the problem now is how can we make it. how can you be government with this since it's really hard to see. how to how to make a staple of government this is an election that seen support shift from the center to the extremes coalition building will be tough one big winner has been the empty immigrant sweden democrats are not as big as they'd hoped the story of the night is that while the far right has become a force in swedish politics they won't be taking over just yet what would seem harry is a political earthquake. really brought me this political history and i think that they're the leaders of the two big parties social democrats and the moderate party need to listen to this single from the swedish people need to do saying it's the

policies that the sweetest people want to see the rise of the far right in sweden meant voters took to the election with customary enthusiasm even if many harbored deep concerns terrible i just want to cry when i think about it they see. awful things i mean yeah of course we have a lot of refugees here we need to take care of them they come from a terrible place terrible course we can't just throw them out immigration and integration have been front and center in a divisive vote with this country's famous values of tolerance and openness at stake so sweet and isn't in danger of becoming a far right state and nor are the sweden democrats even likely to make it into government no party at this stage will even talk to them but they are likely to continue to exert and in direct influence on the way ahead having already succeeded to the horror of many. in putting nationalism and identity politics on the swedish

agenda peter waller dusky he's editor in chief of one of sweden's major daily newspapers the tone has already changed it has changed a lot and i think the major change came in two thousand and fifteen after the big refugee crisis a lot of refugees came in sweden in a very short time span and the systems here didn't work properly and lot of people reacted to that and the sweden democrats sort of logical consequence of the well they searched in the polls as a result of that crisis and they've stayed on that kind of result since some swedes will tell you the rise of the far right is overblown that this country has never been happier or more prosperous but extrusion politics are in sweden to state now and many of the swedes see trouble ahead jonah hill al-jazeera stocco sudan's entire government has been sacked by the country's president and while they

dissolve the government and cut the number of ministries from thirty one to twenty one in a bid to tackle a growing economic crisis he has picked a new prime minister but no other appointments have been and now. still ahead here on al-jazeera the former leader of cambodia's opposition party is out of jail but why is he still not free. how i was there got plenty of sunshine across central parts of year a pathetic cloud over towards ukraine up towards the black sea there you go with swathes of fine weather right the way down across the balkans just pushing up into an old policy of italy twenty. for someone looking at highs of around thirty their full run and getting up to twenty six in paris on monday off they've got

a twenty one in london a fair amount of clout and a fair amount of clout to just around that western side of the mediterranean still east and parts especially just right about we are still seeing some lively showers but it brightens up is fine and dry here as we go want to choose ice and more sunshine coming back in about she's day we could touch twenty eight degrees paris so a fair few showers around the black sea towards ukraine but south of that is form dry sunny thirty celsius there for athens and lots of sunshine two on the other side of the med center the case into egypt into libya and a bit of cloud there just spinning out of the western side of the mediterranean into algeria at all since the northern parts of china zero brighten up here as you go on into cheese or by cheese they notice more the way a cat it's a western parts of algeria maybe a few spots of right possibility of some rain to into iraq.

again you're watching all. of our top stories more than one child will die every

minute from extreme hunger in. children born in that starvation is now frequently used a weapon of war. more than eighty people have been killed after fighting flared up in and around the yemeni port city of hadera hospital staff say the dead include hooty rebel fighters and government troops. and government troops and tens of thousands of civilians in the region. and sweden faces a period of lengthy political wrangling after the election has ended in stalemate with big gains for the far right bloc led by the prime minister came out with just over forty percent of the vote. but the moderates say it's been given the mandate of the country. and we're just getting some news in we're hearing of a huge blast in the somali capital mogadishu witnesses in the news agency that was followed by gunfire and that they've seen huge plumes of smoke rising above the

city it's not clear at this stage what. caused that blast but will of course be a close eye on developments in the somali capital mogadishu. iran's revolutionary guard says it was behind artillery attacks on kurdish positions in northern iraq on saturday the democratic party of iranian kurdistan says fifteen of its fighters were killed under around forty others injured kurdish military sources said it was the first such attack by iranian forces in more than twenty years matheson reports from baghdad. this was the moment on saturday when iran launched an attack against fighters in the northern kurdish region of neighboring iraq the target was a camp run by a group calling itself the kurdish democratic party of iran several fighters were killed dozens more injured. this attack in particular was very well orchestrated very well timed it was an attack on. the could it opposition

while the leadership was in meeting on one hand it also demonstrates military prowess. missiles that hit the targets were very precise they had the very room or the meeting was taken place and there was a drone surveillance to take a picture of this so this also sending a message that this iran of today is more powerful than that you're one of a couple of years ago when they try to attack some targets in syria and the missiles were subject for ridicule. the group is iran's oldest kurdish movement it's been fighting for more autonomy for kurds in iran the iranian government says it carried out the attacks because of what it calls terrorist teams attacking revolutionary guards in towns inside iran's own kurdish region iran says leaders of the group that attacked on saturday have been ignoring its warnings to dismantle their camps this is a rainy an attack comes just a couple of days after violence on the streets of the southern city of basra

a jury in which the iranian consulate was one of several buildings that were attacked and burned now there's no evidence to suggest that that incident is in any way connected with this latest attack but iraqis are speculating here that this is iran's way of showing it can strike back and strike back powerfully iran's missile attack has been condemned by must the former kurdish president he says he's urging all sites not to use the kurdish region to settle their confrontations iraq's foreign ministry has also criticized what it's calling a violation of iraq's sovereignty but it didn't mention iran by name in its statement this is a sensitive time in iraq with protests over corruption and lack of jobs on the streets as well as i'm going in a stalled parliament that iran has a lot of influence here rob matheson. backed down.

says it will provide part of the twenty five million dollars of the u.s. scrapped to six hospitals in occupied east jerusalem in a statement prime minister romney how says the decision will fill the void for to fill the void says the government considers jerusalem hospitals as part of its network washington announced on saturday to cut on the last remaining programs of palestinians which affects cancer patients and children serious heart conditions and move comes after the u.s. and a two hundred million dollars of financial assistance in the west bank and gaza last month and spent joins us from occupied east jerusalem in and did that hospital and it must be some relief that the pay will pos of this funding and about how desperately to palestinians need the services offered by this hospital. a lot of this is the aug of victoria hospital in occupied east jerusalem and it services palestinians coming from not just the screw slumber from the west bank from garz of the palestinian or farty says it will cover the shortfall from the funding that the

us is cut and this is one of those places i'm in the children's dialysis unit and this is one of those places where funding of course is critical and any interruption to funding is critical risks of lives and i think that's one of the reasons why the palestinian authority stepped in pretty quickly to say they're going to cover this shortfall this is the sort of place where chemicals that they use for dialysis for example they spend millions and millions of dollars on chemicals every year they need those of course constantly to make sure these children get dialysis you have patients here one woman's travel three hours today with her baby daughter from the west bank she does that every day home and back to make sure that her daughter gets dialysis so relief yes that it will carry on the hospital going to tell us a little bit later on what all of this means but at least the funding shortfall the palestinian authority has an annual budget budget of five million a five billion dollars i beg your pardon eight eight billion dollars out of your

pardon this year it's going to fill that fund the money in that to fill the gap for the funding for this hospital so that's for the hospital benefit of unlikeness can be able to cover the whole shortfall that u.s. cuts are going to cause what's going to be the impact of that. well the palestinian authority says they will cover the shortfall in the funding that the us is that the us is taking away from these hospitals in east jerusalem of course that money has to come from the palestinian budget the palestinians are already short of funding about seven hundred million dollars of the five million annual budget comes from foreign aid the rest of it sort of from tax revenue and customs receipts so that twenty million dollars while is itself a small amount in the grand scheme of things will undoubtedly come from somewhere else in the budget and the palestinian authority are always struggling to find money the foreign minister has said that the u.s. cuts are part of an attempt to liquidate the palestinian cause so they say that

this is really the u.s. trying to really squeeze the palestinian authority to force them to bow to u.s. demands ok to many thanks brings the scene there in east jerusalem hospital. now the former cambodian opposition leader has been released from jail he's been in prison for about a year awaiting trial on treason charges so cars daughter says he's been freed on bail and put under house arrest and supreme court dissolved has come to a national rescue party last year at the request of the government at the time the party supporters said the move was politically motivated ahead of elections when haye has more from bangkok. there had been speculation for some time that kemp could be released and that's exactly what happened in the early hours of monday morning he was released from the prison where he's been kept for the past year and placed under house arrest in his home in the cambodian capital phnom penh the

timing of this is suspicious to say the least given that over the course of the past year and his lawyers have repeatedly asked for bail repeatedly os that this case be thrown out only for the courts to reject those appeals and now that we've had an election at the end of july an election that was won by the ruling cambodian people's party of prime minister hun sen in fact they won all one hundred twenty five seats in the national assembly because the cambodian national rescue party of kemp was unable to take part in that vote because it was dissolved last year now the new government has also being sworn in led by one sin who will rule for another five years so it is out of jail but of course he is not free he's still awaiting the trial to begin after he was arrested last year on treason charges. celebrations of being continuing in the north korean capital pyongyang to mark the seventieth anniversary of the country's founding tens of thousands have been taking

part in the so-called mass games is an event that showcases the north's achievements was at the same time pulling in much needed tourism dollars as from a bride reports from seoul. taking months to prepare and involving tens of thousands of citizens to perform them the games are an extravagance north korea can ill afford. they haven't been staged for five years but the country's leader kim jong un clearly believes this period of improving relations is worth celebrating. him and bracing his south korean counterpart while korean characters declare a new era of reunification eat this display also promotes the message of strengthening relations with the international community after years of isolation. you know i think our country should be reunified soon and go out into the world he said that little. north korea's neighbors may be prevented by international

sanctions from trading with it but tourists face less restrictions tickets for foreigners to witness this spectacle cost hundreds of dollars and thousands are expected to visit during the coming months. kim jong un has personally overseeing the development of new tourist resorts as a way of attracting visitors and their cash. neighboring china is allowing direct number of tourists to visit north korea providing a much needed boost i'm pyongyang wants to reopen a resort on its side of the d.m.z. border to allow return of tourists from south korea. this is an impoverished country still under maximum international pressure not that you would know it from this display robin pride al-jazeera so eisel says it was behind a suicide bomb attack in kabul that killed at least seven people the blast happened

closer procession the afghan capital was commemorating the death of former and he said it was essentially to ahmed shah massoud early on sunday another suspected suicide bomber was shot by police before the device was triggered. construction has begun on a town solely for female police officers in the afghan capital kabul around three thousand female officers in the country just two percent of the total force in an effort to get more signed up the government is offering secure housing to female recruits and their families challah bellus reports from kabul. female police officers are a relatively new phenomenon in afghanistan. the police force was rebuilt sixteen years ago and there are now one hundred sixty thousand officers but only three thousand women. that i can feel there is danger for female police officers in afghanistan but when i joined the police i decided on that day country or coffin

which means i kept the danger i want to be a role model for our people to serve them sincerely so the culture changes and lots of women join the. finding and retaining women is a challenge is a cultural hurdle convincing parts of society that women should work it's also dangerous as eisel in the taliban specifically target the military and police during shift and afterwards. one of the nation's most senior police woman brigadier general hekmat shah who had no idea to improve the female to male ratio build a town only for police woman to protect them and their families as a gift from the government. i am also a mother and i'm looking for the safety of these women i know how difficult it is place to make a city for them it's all for the safety from where i'm standing rise the first of ten five story buildings to be built across the site for three hundred policewoman

and their families around the perimeter will be a high security wall with six guard towers to protect the people inside. the plans include a daycare center and school for nearly seven hundred children along with a medical clinic and gym for women. the total cost is. one hundred twenty million dollars canada has put thirty million towards the first phase of building the issues security is not a hypothetical one earlier this year al-jazeera spoke with the family of nor hire a menorah two sisters who are working as police officers and badakhshan province when they were targeted and killed by the taliban. in kabul the security elite a watching these stories where they hurt recruitment even without a brick laid the site is already listed with towers and armed guards building confidence that they can and will protect women as they push towards the goal of five thousand female officers by twenty twenty i think it's responsibility and duty for every afghan woman our men should stand side by side and fight for our country

there are no short cuts to equality in this nation moving security and gender equality and the right direction comes one shovel at a time shell of dallas al-jazeera kabul. ahead of us media giant c.b.s. les moonves is stepping down after new allegations of sexual harassment and sexual assault of come to light his resignation is effective immediately the new yorker magazine reports the latest accusations we invest one of hollywood's most powerful executives of knowledge is relations with three women but says they were consensual six other women made accusations last month. thousands of people in haiti have taken to the streets to protest against corruption demanding an investigation into allegations of misuse of funds dozens of former government officials are accused of embezzling money from venezuela sponsored oil and schemed protesters say that money could have helped alleviate poverty in haiti the poorest country in the western

hemisphere and. plenty more can be found on a website that's the address at the bottom of your screens al-jazeera. go down to zero these are our top stories and we've got some breaking news out of somalia reports of a loud explosion in the capital mogadishu followed by gunfire now witnesses the same huge clouds of smoke can be seen rising above the city because of the blasts is still not immediately clear we are keeping a close eye on that story for you. more than one child is expected to die every minute from extreme hunger in war zones that's according to save the children the charity is warning that starvation is now frequently used as a weapon of war. well the eighty people have been killed after fighting flared up

in and around the yemeni port city of data the fighting between saudi backed government troops and rebels as a space tens of thousands of civilians in the region. sweden is facing a period of lengthy political wrangling after an election that ended in stalemate with big gains for the far right the center left got there by the prime minister stephan lowville came out with just over forty percent of the bloc used to. the fact of course i'm disappointed that a party with nazi roots could gain so you want ground it's a party that in this election has had representatives that want a journalist to die which is glorified hitler and humiliated victims of the holocaust this weekend democrats could never offer the change or improvements in society the only thing they could offer is widening the gap in society and growing hatred sudan's entire government has been sacked by the country's president bashir has dissolved the government and cut the number of ministries from thirty one to

twenty one in a bid to tackle a growing economic crisis he's picked a new prime minister but no other appointments have been announced the palestinian authority says it will provide part of the twenty five million dollars of aid the u.s. scrapped for six hospitals in occupied east jerusalem in a statement prime minister says the decision to fill the void shows the government considers jerusalem hospitals as part of its network washington announced on saturday to cut one of its last remaining programs for palestinians which affects cancer patients and children with serious heart conditions. you update now with all the headlines we're back with more news here on al-jazeera after inside story stay with us. as india was updating its citizenship records around four million people in the state are at risk of becoming statements today deals with. infantry these are the majority of both. how does it michael both sides of this

issue talk to al-jazeera. more death sentences imposed in egypt seventy five people for allegedly protesting against the two thousand and thirteen coup would it deter opponents of the government where we see another military crackdown and is a reconciliation even possible this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. there's been a strong condemnation from here were riots groups of the latest wave of death sentences imposed in egypt most of the seventy five convicted what taking part in a sit in a public square in cairo a fire.