it's. the return of the president on al-jazeera. gunmen attacked libya's national oil headquarters and tripoli. hello this is a live from doha also coming up at least six people have been killed in a car bombing in the capital of somalia. using starvation as a weapon of war more than one child could die of hunger in conflict zones every minute this year. and afghanistan tries to protect his female police officers by building them their own fortress.

we're getting reports of gunman attacking the headquarters of libya's national oil corporation in the capital tripoli witness says a saying that the harrowing heavy gunfire inside and around the building security have cordoned off the area and are engaging the attackers so as mahmoud uphill he joins us now from tripoli with this attack is happening as we speak what are you hearing. we'll laura the situation is still very uncertain. the headquarters of the sea that is the national oil corporation here in tripoli is that the security forces or a special deterrence force. of the area and it seems that during gauging with the gunmen inside the building there is no certain number about the casualties as of now but the interior minister and

a national called the government spoke to one local television here and says that the attackers have stalled with the main gate and they are now being besieged inside the building by security forces and meanwhile why in all we're getting reports from the headquarters of the national oil corporation showing pictures of employees calling. calling the like addressing estrus call to the people from the upper stories and now the people living close by this have billions living close by the headquarter are trying to help if they can with the employees from other gates now this security situation is so for a jail in the capital tripoli and that reminds us also of the attack on the national election commission last may. that took the same the same the same scenario that the gunman is told with at the headquarters of the. national oil

corporation now there according to security sources the whole area is closed and the streets leading to the headquarters of the national corporation has been blocked temporarily by security sources one wonders who these attackers might be because of course there's been fighting extensively in tripoli the past week or so and yet there was a ceasefire agreed to by the armed groups involved enough i saying. will it see it doesn't seem that it has to do with the with the fighting because the fighting in tripoli that has been going on in the southern suburbs of the libyan capital tripoli and there was between rival groups in the southern outskirts of the capital now this attack as according to security sources has not been identified who is behind this attack yet but we are aware well laura that we're

worried that there is a ceasefire agreement that has been brokered by the united nations last week and it has been consolidated yesterday and until today the both rival. groups have been committed to the cease fire agreement so in this case according to security sources also it doesn't seemed it has to do with the with the current attack on the international operation but i think that by doing the coming think. it's going to be clearer than this absolutely will certainly keep a very close eye on developments there at the national oil headquarters in tripoli and thanks very much for the update. at least six people have died an explosion that's taking place in somalia's capital mogadishu a report caused by a car bomb near a government building huge clouds of smoke could be seen rising above the city. has for more than ten years waged a bombing campaign against the u.n.

backed government in mortgage dishes been no claims of responsibility though for this blast earlier we spoke to mohamed bulbul who's a radio and t.v. journalist based in market issue. after the explosion and going to fire the firing deploy is unscrupulous is what dispersing the these it really is where the explosion it is at the second rick. explosion and you see it was to ricky's grow and expand carbon exclusion kids in grow that district in the british in other fighters they turned out they are tuckey's the they have attacked to the hour with a cat at frequent attackers in the vicious somali capital you know are the last week the attacks and follow that districts by killing getting and today they are hardened districts and it is of. many people out there and there were a growing there was in daylight life and in that this will be exacted kushal

it's no it cannot be identified it remains still cheap so nobody can say up there could be exact a number but when this is just told me that agricultural it seems is very he. turning out to other needs six hundred thousand children that's more than one a minute are expected to die from hunger in war zones this year that's according to a report by the charity save the children and says four and a half million children under five will need treatment for severe malnutrition this year as a twenty percent increase from two thousand and sixteen tens of thousands of children could die in yemen afghanistan and sudan but the biggest number of fatalities as expected in democratic republic of congo where three hundred thousand are at risk save the children warns that starvation is increasingly being used as a weapon with warring parties blocking food and medicine leading to devastating

consequences. i understand and is reporting on the war in yemen from nearby djibouti and under yemen's long before the world's worst humanitarian crisis it really is one of those conflicts isn't it west civilians are bearing the terrible brunt of war absolutely very much so. the situation there right now there is an example example of the way food can be involved not directly but certainly indirectly to catastrophic proportions potentially i'll give you an example seven ships with wheat from oregon just at the end of august they were filled with enough supplies to the many many people part of the world food program that now how do those ships get in the harbor when they're faced with a hostile force the. coalition which has the armaments the

firepower the air and on the ground to stop it well it may get through it may actually get through but what happens if the offensive under way which is showing definite signs of escalation stops it. well look the mountain griffiths the u.n. special envoy who tried to warn the world that this is not only the world's biggest humanitarian crisis ready it could get a lot worse because of the economic situation economic is too tame a word to use for it because we're talking about starvation potentially eight forty eight point four million people according to the world food program. and on the point of starvation those figures have yet to be updated it could be a lot higher so what we're seeing right now is an escalation with twenty four hours of fighting in which at least eighty people were killed according to unverified

reports certainly there were dozens if not scores of people killed in the fighting that followed all from not the collapse but the failure is a better word of dialogue between the two warring sides martin griffis is now we think on his way to amman he's keeping a really quiet position on this now he wants to engage with the hootches directly or indirectly in terms of meeting them he wants to go to two to amman he wants to get a santa after that what is going to happen is unclear does it accelerate even more to the point where the who does that want to speak to him well it's it's dangerous but all of this diplomacy is irrelevant to the people of civility to the civilians of yemen right now because they're crying out desperately for the fighting to stop and the word cease fire hasn't been used once in public statements yet it's dialogue a desperate need for dialogue along with the desperate situation for the civilians

of yemen. and a needed spite for them as well that's the situation in yemen andrea thank you stephanie daiquiris also following the story she joins us from rouhani and that turkey and stuff we had to report starvation increasingly being is as a weapon of war and this seen throughout the more in syria and this report now released just as another offensive that leans. that's right and i think it live is a very good example to illustrate that exact issue of using aid of using food as a weapon of war the population of it was around one and a half million before you saw an influx of more internally displaced particularly rebels and their families who were some of them in these kinds of areas that were besieged eastern for example we had in homs also parts of aleppo besieged by government forces by government backed forces using food using aid as

a tool to sort of starve people into submission it has to be said that the rebels have used similar tactics on other areas to try and get you know political weight when it comes to some form of negotiations but it really say has shaped the syrian war somewhat so a lot of people inside it live and that's the camp you see behind me that's the biggest count for internally displaced inside province they were in places under siege starvation i mean we can you know in two thousand and sixteen aid agency said that almost a million people inside syria were living under siege like conditions i mean we saw times when you had you know referring back to what andrew was saying there's also the politics of aid you have you whether it's the united nations or other groups trying to get aid convoys into the these besieged areas well they need to be approved by either the government or rebels then it is how long do they take to allow the paperwork or to allow the convoys to go through then when they say yes they're going to go through they're stopped at checkpoints and items removed who have documented this various times throughout this war so certainly when it comes

to syria's war which is entering a different phase let's say if you will these kinds of tactics were extremely effective particular when it comes to the government taking back all the ground that it has done so far absolutely ok leave it for the moment thanks very much for joining us there from the techie syrian border. well sweden faces a period of lengthy political wrangling after an election in which no single party won a majority but the far right sweden democrats made some gains in the center left bloc led by prime minister stephan loaf and came out with just over forty percent of the vote on the center right opposition alliance say they've been given the mandate to lead the country they won virtually the same share as the leftist outgoing government bloc and the far right anti immigration sweden democrats led by jimmy outcomes and gained support seeing their vote rise to seventeen percent talks to form a new government will begin on monday but all parties have so far refused to work

with the far right. 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 a change or improvements in society the only thing they could offer is widening the gap in society and growing hatred. join a whole reports 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 be 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 his 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 sings 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 but we need to take care of them who 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 it 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 wall of 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 and 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 many of the swedes see trouble ahead jonah hill al jazeera stock. still ahead on al-jazeera the palestinian authority promises to fund its hospitals costs all from the u.s. financial aid. and iran's revolutionary guard says it's behind an attack on cash positions in northern iraq.

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i don't know what is there has reminded of our top stories gunman in libya are attacking the headquarters of the national oil corporation in the capital tripoli witnesses say the haring heavy gunfire inside and around the building. cordoned off the area and are engaging the attackers. at least six people have been killed in an explosion in somalia's capital mogadishu the blast has a local government office and is believed to have been caused by a car bomb. and more than one child is expected to die every minute from hunger in war zones this year as according to save the children charity is warning that starvation is now frequently used as a weapon of war. 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 and around forty others injured kaddish military sources say it was the first such attack by iranian forces in more than twenty years from office and 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 a 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 the iran 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 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 both zani the former kurdish president he says he's urging all sides 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 anger in a stalled parliament that iran has a lot of influence here rob matheson al jazeera back down. the palestinian authority says it will provide all of the funding the u.s. scrapped a six hospitals in occupied east jerusalem and a statement prime minister says the decision to fill the twenty million dollars 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 than a smith has the latest from occupied east jerusalem. this is the children's dialysis unit in the victoria hospital in jerusalem a service his patients from across the occupied west bank. it's one of those places where any interruption to funding can have direct consequences on people's lives and the quality of life of the millions and millions of dollars for example spent here on the chemicals that are used for dialysis there can be no interruption in the supply of those chemicals because there are children here that come on a daily basis for dialysis many of them traveling many hours a day from the west bank here and back to get this critical treatment there are no others no other hospital in the palestinian territories that provide the sort of services are needed here that is why one of the reasons why the palestinian authority stepped in very quickly to say it will provide the twenty to twenty five

million dollars funding shortfall the u.s. is taken away but the palestinian foreign minister said this whole idea of the u.s. cutting funding to the palestinians is part of a u.s. attempt to liquidate the palestinian cause. sudan's president has sacked his entire government i'll bashir has dissolved his cabinet and cut the number of ministries from thirty one to twenty one and a bit to tackle a growing economic crisis he's picked a new prime minister but no other appointments have been announced. the former cambodian opposition leader came so carr has been released from jail he's been in prison for about a year awaiting trial on treason charges so cars dorset says he's been freed on bail but put under house arrest the supreme court dissolved his company a national rescue party last year at the request of the government at the time the party supporters said the move was politically motivated. celebrations have been 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 arian last games annual event that showcases the country's achievements was at the same time pulling in taurus as well but pride reports from self. 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 bracing his south korean counterpart while korean characters declare a new era of reunification. you know this display also promotes the message of strengthening relations with the international community after years of isolation. that you know i think our country should be reunified soon and go out into the world he says. 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 overseen the development of new tourist resorts as a way of attracting visitors and their cash. neighboring china is allowing a record 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. i still has claimed responsibility for an attack in kabul that killed at least seven people it happened poster procession in

the afghan capital crowds had gathered to remember the death of a former soviet resistance leader. and the afghan government has begun construction on a town solely for female police officers in kabul around three thousand female officers in the country just two percent of the total force and an effort to encourage war women to join the government is offering them secure housing 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 he says. 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 him 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 guards how 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. one hundred twenty million dollars canada has put thirty million towards the first phase of building the issue 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 offices and 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 kubel. our top stories in libya are attacking the headquarters of the national oil corporation in the capital tripoli witnesses say they've heard heavy gunfire inside and around the building security forces have cordoned off the area. as at least six people have been killed in an explosion and somalia's. blast as a local government offices believed to have been caused by a car bomb. more than one child is expected to die every minute from hunger in war zones this year that's according to save the children the charity is warning that starvation is now frequently used as a weapon of war. sweden is facing

a period of lengthy political wrangling after an election that ended with no party winning a majority it was some gains for the far right the center left by prime minister and lovin came out with just over forty percent of the votes. but 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 of the palestinian or says it would revive all of the funding the us scrapped for six hospitals in occupied east jerusalem in a statement prime minister rami handler says the decision to fill the twenty million dollars 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 a move that affects cancer patients and children with serious heart conditions that comes after the u.s. ended a two hundred million dollars financial assistance package to the west bank and gaza last month sudan's president has sacked his entire government or al bashir dissolved his cabinet 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 and several other appointments have also been announced. you are up to date with all the headlines more news continuing here on al-jazeera after witness. that is the perfect formula for authoritarianism and you can hear me let me ask you straight up here is the two state solution now where the lights are on and there's nowhere to hide up front which hands on al-jazeera.

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