underworld do a criminal turned. on al-jazeera. using starvation as a weapon of war more than one child could die of hunger every minute this year in conflicts a. kind of armor of. a life from doha also coming up gunmen attacked libya's national oil headquarters in tripoli at least five people are dead. at least six people have been killed in a car bombing in somalia's capital mogadishu. and iraq's prime minister arrives in basra after days of protests against the government.

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 he says four and a half million children under five will need treatment for severe malnutrition this year 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 is expected in democratic republic of congo three hundred thousand are at risk save the children starvation is increasingly being used as a weapon with warring parties blocking food and medicine leaving to devastating consequences. i'm going to just is live for us in the southern nigerian city of calabar that was one of the areas most affected but maybe least reported on is the lake chad region how is conflict affecting the food situation there.

the situation laureus critical in the northeast of nigeria we recently returned from a trip in know this to niger in borno state in particular we visited two facilities health facilities run by a billion one governmental organization doctors without borders in my degree the capital city where you have hundreds of thousands of people fleeing boko haram fighting in other parts of the state and other parts of the northeast now what we saw there in one of the facilities that are more than one hundred children in a ward and the ward cannot take more much more than that and in another facility is run by the same organization i seventy is getting better i located four children and all of them are suffering from what the doctors call i cood and serve them on the trees in cases and aid workers are telling us it reflects the situation across the region not only in nigeria but also across the border in the chad cameroon and

. the northeast in particular off nigeria where a lot of people have been displaced we're talking about more than eight million people impacted by nine years of war quite i mean literally in the next that region and more than two point five million people displaced by the fighting now last year there was a huge effort to prevent starvation and hunger in the northeast of the country went going as i contributed a lot of money hundreds of millions of data that the doctors and aid workers say have contributed immensely in advising a major crisis major deaths in that part of the country now some of the fighters some of the fighters are still active in the northeast of nigeria in chad in cameroon and the general public now a lot of people thousands of them of return home to their ancestral homes but there are also accounts. in the cities they cannot go beyond city limits because of what lattimer to do so you can imagine hundreds of thousands of people moving to those

areas but will still require food assistance they cannot go too far because if they go out they get slaughtered by boko haram and boko haram taggart also aid convoys coming to these isolated villages to deliver for items to them so it's a critical situation in the lake chad region. ok i just thanks very much for laying out the scene there in the lake chad region for us. now gunmen have killed at least five people during an attack on the headquarters of libya's national oil corporation in tripoli security forces cordoned off the area and have been fighting the attackers as comes after un brokered talks between several armed groups find for control of the city agrees to halt the fighting. joins us now from tripoli would give us an update on the situation there. well laura according to the interior minister. of g.n.a.t.

there's the national accord government at least five masked gunmen stormed with the headquarters of the national oil corporation and they have taken the employees inside as hostages now especially turns force that is the security apparatus of policing the capital tripoli says that its individuals have shown body parts of a suicide attacker he's believed to be one of the five gunmen who was talking with the headquarters of the national oil corporation according to eyewitnesses the gunmen used automatic rifles including a k forty seven rifles and hand grenades now the national team managed to risky with the men of the national oil corporation most of them are law and many other employees now there is a state of panic around headquarters and in the neighborhoods in the in the around

the headquarters of the n o c and security measures have been tightened especially in front of the state institutions and facilities now this reminds us of the attack on the high national election commission last may that was implemented by ice and members but so far until this moment the special deterrence force says that it's individuals are the identity of the of the hour salience so no claim of responsibility at this point but one wonders who might be responsible because as we said the armed groups involved in recent fighting in tripoli have signed a cease fire. well this particular attack does not does and apparently does not seem to have to do with the conflict in the southern suburbs of the libyan capital tripoli as you know laura the conflict in the southern suburbs of tripoli that has been going on between rival groups over

control of the city all over control of the strategic locations in the southern suburbs of the libyan capital but this current attack seem to have. the signs of an extremist attack though it has not been confirmed yet ok. thanks very much for the update there from tripoli at least six people have been killed in an explosion in somalia's capital mogadishu the blast was caused by a car bomb near a district government building huge clouds of smoke could be seen rising above the city no claim responsibility for this attack either but al-shabaab has waged a bombing campaign against the u.n. backed government in market issue. earlier we spoke to bulbul who's a radio and t.v. journalist based in mogadishu. after the explosion and gunfire the firing while deployed is and is why dispersing the these if we knew is where the explosion

it is just a quick. explosion and you see it was the week is the next one car bomb explosion in through that district in mogadishu in other fighters they turned out they are actually is the they have attacked or the are with the big cat at frequent attackers in the militia somali capital they are the last week they attacked in hollow that districts by killing suit and today they are hardened districts and it is a people many people are there and there were a growing b.l.o. is in daily life like food that this will be exacted kushal it's no it cannot be identified it remains. so nobody can say up there could be exact a number but when this is done told me that. is very he iraq's prime minister hyderabadi is based in the city of basra following

a weeks of deadly protests the latest wave of demonstrations began after thirty thousand hospitalized for twenty polluted water presence have complained of water and electricity shortages and of widespread corruption amongst officials spain out of all math and he's joining us from baghdad so what's a body hoping to achieve. whether in realistic terms i don't think he's probably hoping to achieve anything i think he's probably just trying to be a presence in the city to try to answer if nothing else the demands of the people of buzz are who for months have been complaining that despite making this bringing so much attention to the problems that the city is facing that the salinisation of their water this poison thousands like the power outages that stop the air conditioning from functioning in the heat of the day and of course thousands of people out to work that despite having raised it to raise awareness of all these problems for so long nobody from the government at any level has actually bothered to come and see them and to talk to them about it so i think there's probably

a degree of skepticism on the part of the people of basra who will be asking well what can be achieved in the space of a visit in a visit that is likely to just be taking place in a couple of hours but it is important to note that he has actually made this trip of course prime minister nobody is battled back in baghdad in the parliament he's facing calls to resign over the situation in basra the iraqi parliament itself of course is in the middle of a blockage if you like it's only able to proceed with any legislation so that too is adding to this whole difficulty that the prime minister is facing because he had originally promised an aid package worth of about three billion dollars that was quoted but certainly many billions of dollars to try to solve the problems in basra but because of the blockages in the parliament that can't happen so he's come to try and talk to people to try to get a sense of what's going to happen interestingly a part of the some of the groups he will be talking to will be some of the tribal

leaders some of whom have said they're not going to speak to him that's not really a surprise because the tribal leaders he's most likely to speak to are going to be the ones with whom he and the government already have links those who are refusing to talk to probably have allegiances elsewhere he has made a statement. just a few hours ago the prime minister said. that he totally rejected any attack on the diplomatic missions and consulates and of course let's not forget that during the violence that we saw last week in several public buildings were burned down private buildings as well but one of those was the iranian consulate and that sparked a tremendous amount of anger from iran and let's not forget of course that iran has a tremendous amount of influence here in iraq there was a brief you have the weekend what's the situation now in basra people still just as angry. there is a sense that from the people that we're talking to on the ground yes people are

angry but they're waiting to see what happens next the prime minister at the behest of the governor of bosnia had sent in a large number of security forces to keep order on the streets and we saw them having that presence a couple of nights ago when that curfew was in place that certainly that was there was no violence overnight there is a concern in basra however that the very presence of the security forces may incite some protesters to go back onto the streets and to demonstrate again and interestingly as a result of the violence that happened last week in the burning of the buildings we did see yesterday sunday there was an iranian backed on group called in english the leader of the righteous which held a parade they they drove in pickup trucks and vehicles carrying their flags through the center of basra now this is a pro iranian group and their headquarters were some of the headquarters that were burned down during those protests and they say that they are looking to find those

responsible so with the heightened security on the streets and the troops on the streets as well there is always a risk that the situation may again get out of control. voting now from baghdad thanks very much. still ahead on al-jazeera. promises to hospitals come from u.s. financial anchor. and one of europe's most liberal nations takes our rights ten we'll tell you about sweden's political deadlock. hello again we're here across north asia we are watching still some very heavy rain across japan but as we go to the next couple of days it is going to be a little bit drier that's all due to this frontal system right here but as we go towards tuesday that starts to make its way out towards the pacific and behind it

temperatures in this area are going to be coming down and it's going to be a little bit drier but that is not going to last very long as we go towards wednesday more heavy rain starting in from the south with the sockets in those heavy rain showers as well for the korean peninsula not looking too bad a little bit warm there for so and partly cloudy at about twenty eight degrees we are watching what has happened out here across taiwan very carefully notice out here with the clouds that is a tropical disturbance now over the next few days we do think that that is going to start to form into a tropical storm making its way out here towards the west so very heavy rain across parts of northern luzon as well as taiwan here on tuesday hong kong you can be seen because some gusty winds temps are there about thirty five then as we go towards wednesday that system moves into the the south china sea and we are going to be seeing maybe some showers maybe some gusty winds to hong kong at thirty three but up towards the north shanghai is looking particularly good on wednesday with the temperature there of twenty m. in for show at about twenty eight as well.

brazil's constitution grants its people the right to a sins but it's been a long struggle and the system is constantly challenge side because. i know that nine some one medical treatment could lead to good death but on the other hand i also know that because of providing that treatment would have a negative impact on the rest of society. brazil's real drugs war on the people's health on al-jazeera.

hello again you're watching. our top stories more than one child expects to die every minute from hunger in war zones this year going to save the children charity is warning that starvation is now frequently used as a weapon of war. at least four people are dead. the headquarters of libya's national oil corporation the capital tripoli security forces have cordoned off the area attack comes off talks between several groups vying for control of the capital agreed to halt fighting. iraq's prime minister. following weeks of deadly protests demonstrations began after thirty thousand hospitalized. have complained of electricity shortages and widespread corruption amongst officials. the united states is to shut the palestine liberation organization

mission in washington d.c. it says the decision is in response to the palestinian government refusing to enter peace talks with the united states and israel and the it comes just weeks after the trumpet ministration cut two hundred million dollars in aid to the palestinians force that joins us now from ramallah so what we're actually seeing from the palestinians well they are obviously extremely angry they're putting this in the context of what you just talked about the vast array of measures that the united states has recently been rolling out in terms of the its relations with the palestinians cutting two hundred billion dollars in aid to the palestinian authority ending its support for the u.n. agency that deals with palestinian refugees just this weekend cutting twenty five million dollars in aid to palestinian hospitals in occupied east jerusalem and so as far as the palace ins are concerned this is yet another attempt to try to bully them as the united states prepares to roll out its own and publish its trump peace

plan for a resolution of the conflict between the israelis and the palestinians as far as the person who holds the the seniority of that mission that's just been closed down in washington who sums up what he's been here since may since he was withdrawn by the palestinian president he said the u.s. isn't so much trying to bully us into talks they are simply carrying out the wish list of the israelis and on this particular issue he says that when he was informed early this morning by the united states administration that this would take place that it was explicitly in response to palestinian moves to try to bring israel before the international criminal court on various issues and we also spoke to the secretary general of the p.l.o. cyber erekat and this is how he characterized the trumpet ministrations position. we will pursue our if errors to the international criminal court and those who are

about going to courts should stop committing crimes and in the next forty eight hours our response will be to make a new will be fair and on the. decision by the israeli higher court could demolish this village. so how whether the palestinians go from here. well as you just heard say they will continue to pressure the i.c.c. to bring before itself to investigate and indeed try israel on issues such as palestinian prisoners israeli aggression in gaza as and as well as i bring in bring a new case to the court on the impending destruction it seems of this bedouin village in the occupied west bank. the israeli high court ruled last week that that the demolition could go ahead and so they will continue to make those claims and to put pressure for

a criminal trial in the international criminal court as far as united states is concerned that is the reason although they haven't yet announced publicly we do hear from the palace is that is the reason this pressure on the trying to bring israel before the court is the reason for this closure and they say. it's in an attempt to change the palestinian course in terms of the total rejection of the united states under the trumpet ministration as any kind of internal cuter with the israelis given what has happened in terms of the recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital moving the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem as well we were speaking to one senior advisor to the palace in president mahmoud abbas saying that this is really just another iteration another reason that they simply have to look elsewhere for support do what they can to try to impede israeli settlement and other issues while they wait for a new administration in the u.s. force that trying is that for a while or thanks so much kerry. about

a say in all thirteen says it will provide part of the twenty five million dollars of aid the u.s. scrapped the six hospitals in occupied east jerusalem in a statement prime minister rami handle us as the decision to fill the void as the government considers jerusalem hospitals as part of its network washington and now it's on saturday to cut one of its last remaining programs for palestinians and spend has the latest from occupied east jerusalem. this is the children's dialysis unit in the old victoria hospital in occupied east jerusalem it services patients from across the occupied west bank and garden is 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 the spend 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 know of a 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. has 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 so we don't face as a period of lengthy political wrangling after an election which no single party won a majority of the far right sweden democrats made significant gains as gena 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 governed with this since it's really hard to see.

how to how to make a staple of government this is an election that seemed 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. regards me as 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 but 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 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 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 a 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 the 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 extreme politics are in sweden to state now many of the swedes see trouble ahead joho al-jazeera stocco united nations new human rights chief has urged for a new body to be set up to investigate alleged crimes committed against me and minority i also welcome efforts by members think that this council to stablish an independent international mechanism for myanmar to collect consoli the peace of and then there lies evidence of the most serious international crimes in order to

expedite fair and independent trials in national and international courts this mechanism would also complement and support the preliminary examination of the i.c.c. prosecutor i urge the council to pass a resolution and refer the matter to the general assembly for its indorsement so that such a mechanism can be established. a former cambodian opposition leader has been released from prison and placed under house arrest him sokol was arrested a year ago for treason but it's yet to go to trial when haye has more from bangkok . after spending a year in a remote prison camp was finally able to return home but he's not free as cambodians awoke to news the opposition leader was released on bail and placed under house arrest a small number of supporters and media gathered outside his home in phnom penh but he said he had a clue what i'm very excited to hear that he's been released when i first heard the news i grabbed my shirt and came straight here. was arrested in september

last year on treason charges in a case widely dismissed as politically motivated the supreme court then dissolved his cambodian national risky party the largest opposition political party more than one hundred of its members were banned from politics for five years it came amid a broad government crackdown on dissent independent media outlets closed and rights workers harassed or arrested with no credible opposition prime minister hun sen's cambodian people's party won every seat in the national assembly in july his election. last week swearing in formality confirmed one since thirty three year rule would be extended for at least another five and with that it appears the time was right to release. the release of. and other opposition party political leaders like me i hope that they are signing your light street a path to national unity and reconciliation that seems unlikely at the moment as

kim so car still awaits trial and never afraid to intervene in the judicial process one sin says if he goes unpunished cambodia will descend into civil war wayne hale jazeera bangkok celebrations have been continuing in the north korean capital pyongyang to mark the seventieth anniversary of the country's founding tens of. have been taking part in the arian mass games and event that showcases the country's and chief men's theme time pulling in the tourists. ports himself. 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. leave this display also promotes the message of strengthening relations with the international community after years of isolation. and i think our country should be very unified soon and go out into the world he said. 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. without there these are the top stories 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. at least four people have died as gunmen attacked the headquarters of libya's national oil corporation in the capital tripoli security forces have cordoned off the area it back comes after u.n. brokered talks between several armed groups vying for control of the capital agreed to halt fighting. at least six people have been killed in the explosion and somalia's capital mogadishu the blast was caused by a car bomb near

a district government building huge clouds of smoke could be seen rising above the city has been no claim of responsibility for the attack but al-shabaab has waged a bombing campaign against the un backed government in mortgage issue. iraqis prime minister hyderabadi is visiting the city of basra following weeks of deadly protests the latest wave of demonstrations began after thirty thousand were hospitalized for drinking polluted water residents have complained of electricity shortages and widespread corruption amongst officials in the united states is to shut the palestine liberation organization is mission in washington d.c. and says the decision is in response to the palestinian government refusing to enter peace talks with the united states and israel the move comes just weeks after the trump administration cut two hundred million dollars in aid to the palestinians . our. to the international criminal court and.

about going to courts should stop committing crimes and in the next forty eight hours our response will be. on the. decision by the israeli high court to demolish this village. russian president vladimir putin has invited his north korean counterpart to visit russia a letter from him was sent to kim jong un on monday and i found the details were unveiled for god in a time and location and meeting and was invited to attend an economic forum and. she's day that of russian official confirmed he will not. say now with all the headlines of the news continuing here on al-jazeera the inside story.

more death sentences imposed in egypt seventy five people for allegedly protesting against the two thousand and thirteen coup would it to turn opponents of the government where we see another military crackdown and is the 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 fly.