in western capitals in washington d.c. so if donald trump say starts to tire of his penn power relationship with kim jong un and seriously considers you know a military strike against north korea is just the stores of war games that u.s. military planners will be looking at ok we're thank you. as security offices in afghanistan have confirmed that the taliban has taken control of parts of the northern a province of jaws john an area known as the calm just tricked district police officer says more than fifty of his men were surrounded by taliban fighters with casualties on both sides wounded officers say they did not have sufficient backup to handle the attack. still has her eye on al-jazeera why muslims in china say that being targeted by the government plus. i'm wayne hay on the banks of the mekong river in northern thailand just across the river is laos and downstream from

here the lao government is building another big dam we'll tell you why many people on this side of the river wanted stopped. hello despite strong winds ceasar the rain itself has not moved about very much particularly in europe in northern europe in norway these clouds in swimming's screams we've got a while now it's about to ease up i think but the circulating storms down here have reached as far south as cyprus off into turkey or up into ukraine as well fifty sixty millimeters thereabouts a little bit more on the east coast of spain not was thundery the total up in oslo not far away actually is far more than seventy with is i'm just giving you the last twenty four hours but i think it's about to change these storms are still studies circulating but this rain they're running through is at least briefly lighter and

then will disappear altogether likewise down in spain the forecast might refer to the cloud but as for rain nothing like as much as a quietening situation we still left with a few storms somewhere around the black sea monster even in today's side we did see some throw off storms in morocco and algeria and in the full cost of the possibilities he was here those but again he's a dying situation a lot of clouds to be generated and we still got a heat differential but it's warmed up in reba twenty nine degrees and it's thirty one in tunis so if anything morocco has got warmer and more humid.

and again you're watching al-jazeera has reminded of our top stories this. president is calling on the international community to take action to stop russian and syrian government attacks on the province over the warning comes as thousands of people have been displaced to do an increase and as strikes began last week on the rebel held territory. the u.s.

has threatened sanctions against the criminal court if it prosecutes its soldiers for war crimes national security advisor john bolton also confirmed the u.s. would be shutting the palestine liberation organization office in washington. and china's president xi jinping will be meeting russian president vladimir putin and a lot of us talk at the eastern economic forum where the two leaders third meeting comes amid an escalating u.s. china trade war and u.s. led sanctions against russia. iraqi armed groups have vowed to track down protesters who set fire to their offices in the past week. he has visited the city where people say corruption and neglect ruining their lives matheson has more from the capital baghdad. under pressure to resign the prime minister hide the body or arrives in the southern iraqi city of basra where protesters say his government is to blame for much of the corruption and neglect which have destroyed their water and power supplies and left thousands without jobs. what happened in

a bathrobe was one hundred percent true to a political conflict unfortunately some political blocs have military wings and some of them wanted to burn down to throw off but thankfully there was stopped by the cooperation of the peaceful civilians yet they're going to get a body is facing calls for him to step down over the crisis in basra the iraqi government is deadlocked disputes over the result of an election in may have left politicians wrangling over power in basra fighters from the iran bike group known in english as the league of the righteous have paraded through the streets their headquarters is one of several private and government buildings burned by protesters during a week of demonstrations against corruption which also targeted other pro iran shia groups the governor says the destruction is criminal part of many protest organizers and activists have denounced such actions and a criminal act should be denounced by the people of basra regardless of who had

carried it out but is only allowed to have peaceful protests in order to deliver the people's messages to the government. three hundred kilometers to the north of basra is the city of samarra protesters there tried to storm the offices of the hickman political party but were pushed back by police the party's leader is shia cleric anwar al hakim who is also part of the parliamentary coalition headed by fellow shia cleric. seen as a nationalist and iran solder is vowing to fight corruption he's demanded the protests should hold for forty five days in that time he says the government should demonstrate that it's doing something to help bus but critics say this short visit by the prime minister won't achieve much. in basra there's a heavy military presence but there are fears that might incite more violence now there are armed groups too that could make politics and security even more complicated in basra and rob matheson al jazeera back down and eighteen people have

been killed in central minds' area after a gas depo exploded it happened in the theater the capital of nasr state more than forty others were taken to hospital with serious burns. the body of former united nations secretary general kofi annan has been flown back to his native gone for a state funeral and islands wife and children accompanying the costs which is draped in the blue un fagged announced body will lie in state before the funeral on thursday never laureate and first african to serve as un secretary general died last month in switzerland he was eighty years old. the united nations human rights chief has called on china to allow an independent investigation into allegations beijing mistreats hundreds of thousands of weekend muslims human rights watch accuses the chinese government of conducting a systematic campaign of rights violations in shin jiang province and one can

reports just practicing islam has become a problem for the chinese government. this man says he survived what the government calls a reeducation camp muslim not enjoy any longer they want to exterminate muslim nations muslim writing muslim dress they are planning a nation that's a margin us everyone has to be chinese. and then end up with to make it then and at the camp they taught us the national anthem songs praising mousy dong a song wishing one thousand years of life to president paying and the overall great history of china that you can download all the rights group says interviewed fifty eight people including many ethnic weekers and kazakhs they accuse officials of all the true detention religious repression and surveillance against thirteen million muslims the government says it set up the reeducation camps with the sole purpose of eradicating religious extremism and terrorism and to cure what it calls ideological diseases. the un's new human rights chief of michelle bachelet has

called on china to allow international monitors into asian yang to look into what she calls a deeply disturbing situation human rights watch china director sophie richardson welcome the call but says much more needs done one of the challenges that everybody faces is of course chinese government restrictions on access to the region and beijing really has nothing to hide then it's time to directions i in areas perceived by beijing as anti-government hotspots many interviewee say half of their family members are in prison or in these so-called reeducation camps the report also cites what it calls disturbing. high-tech my surveillance and says officials have a database of everyone's biometric data including their d.n.a. the chinese government has not yet commented on this report but it has denied accusations of mistreatment of muslims engine yang it says the increased security

measures a guard against the threat of separatists in the region in morocco deserve. the u.s. is planning a second meeting between donald trump and kim jong un the first request by the north korean leader to the white house meanwhile the new u.s. envoy to pyongyang is on his first diplomatic visit to the region stephen bagan is in seoul. and south korea's president says he wants to ease tensions with along the border with north korea will visit the north capital pyongyang later this month for his third meeting with its leader kim jong il and talks are expected to focus on the denuclearization of the korean peninsula and regional stability. lawyers for brazil's jailed former president lee said last year lula da silva says that he'll keep fighting to run in the next month's presidential election little has been barred from running jews who are corruption conviction and the supreme court has rejected his latest appeal on monday he bets with fernando had dads who could could replace him as the workers' party candidate alas in america is to lose in newman is

where lula is in jail. it's a race against time for former president lula da silva and his workers party this is the federal police facility where the former president is serving out a twelve year prison sentence and it's here that the would be presidential candidate spent the day meeting with his running mate for the had that it was widely expected that lula would give him a letter naming him as his successor to allow him to register in his stead as the party's candidate before a tuesday evening deadline for doing so runs out. outside supporters who've been camped out in front of the prison facility remained on vigil. the man made them. we vote for liz ideals we have a program for our country voting had dot vote it's the same thing for us because we're voting for a program but instead of a new candidate what they got was the message there is still not giving up hoping

against the odds that one of two superior court appeals that he still has open will overturn an electoral court decision barring from running experts say it's highly unlikely that this will happen although legally lula still has options unless there's a favorable decision before september seventeenth it will be too late for him to run and that brings us back to the original question and the workers party risk it all and wait or will they give another candidate had that the chance to run. they have almost no time left to decide tuesday marks the seventieth anniversary of the september eleventh attacks nearly three thousand people were killed in the u.s. of the world trade center size in new york almost everything has been rebuilt except one particular building which remains in the greek faith from that day reports from new york it was an unassuming structure that for more than eighty

years was home to the st nicholas greek orthodox church in new york. and for decades it stood in the shadows of the world trade towers until september eleventh two thousand and one when the towers fell the debris crushed the church. we stood there frozen. by our allies. and. st nicholas was the only place of worship destroyed on nine eleven well the whole history of zero zero or one hundred s. . courts. other archives. but also the memories of those the with chris and those now with mara do those the way our. visit that the church the greek archdiocese vowed to rebuild st nicholas at the very world trade center site and this video animation shows their big plans

a new church and towering shrine made for more bull and glass inspired by the byzantine churches of his stand. famed spanish architect center. was hired to design the new church he also designed the oculus structure at the world trade center site and then something happened work on the project suddenly stopped so the question becomes why the budget balloons to nearly eighty million dollars double what the archdiocese says raised now there's simply no money left to finish the project a plastic tarp now covers the construction site there are no signs of workers and no signs of the doors opening any time soon their course of action stopped because the origin of course fortunately were not i could rate.

huge cost overrun. but as tourists visit the nine eleven memorial site off to the side most are oblivious to the construction site of the church the grand structure remains unfinished with nobody able to say for how much longer gabriel is on doe how does it in new york. one million people in the u.s. have been ordered to evacuate as a powerful storm approaches the country's east coast in florence is expected to make landfall on thursday in north or south carolina already a category four storm is predicted strength them in the coming days. now says pushing ahead with plans to build more downs along the mekong river despite a deadly collapse in july it was to become asia's power source exporting electricity to its wealthier neighbors but critics say the rapid down building is harming the environment and threatening livelihoods as wayne hale of course. fishing on the mekong river has never been an easy way to make a living but here where the river flows between thailand and laos fisherman say

it's almost not worth the effort these days. in the past there were plenty of fish here and they were big i could catch more than twenty every day now i've been fishing here for three days in a row and of course nothing. many people in chiang kong northern thailand blame it on overfishing and dams built on the upper reaches of the mekong river in china the mekong is the largest inland fishery in the world and the people in this community want the dam stopped the been protesting against government plans to build a dam downstream from here in park bang which they say will impact the ability of fish to migrate up and down stream where it can charm can remain on the dams that have already been built have changed the rivers. the currents have been altered which is causing the ecosystem there's a malfunction of. construction of two dams on the main stream of the lower mekong

in laos is well underway there are plans for at least seven more including being the government wants to become the battery of south-east asia by exporting elektra's from hydro power projects mainly to thailand. much of the push to develop hydro power projects in laos is driven by electricity demand in thailand under the original proposal around ninety percent of the electricity generated by the pop bang dam was to be exported to thailand but that's now in doubt after the thais decided to hold off signing an agreement to purchase power from that project the electricity generating more authority of thailand wouldn't grant al-jazeera an interview but it seems it's realised that it may have enough power and would need to buy more from laos critics say another reason to reassess was july's partial collapse of a dam in southern laos which killed more than thirty people i think down business is quite loud soledad is no stand out guideline save the procedure that

way in case of backup who you know live in the dam break you know. the warning system roared access to roach through a problematic involves. the lao government says harnessing the energy of the mekong is vital to its plans for economic growth opponents believe the cost to the environment of livelihoods outweighs the benefits not only for laos but the whole region wayne hay al jazeera gen kong thailand. without zero these are our top stories to take as president is calling on the international community to take action to stop russian and syrian government attacks on the province of. the warning comes as thousands of people have been displaced due to an increase in as strikes that began last week on the rebel held territory. here stress and sanctions against the international criminal courts have

to prosecute set soldiers for war crimes national security adviser john bolton also confirmed the u.s. would be shutting the palestine liberation organization office in washington. china's president xi jinping is soon to meet russian president vladimir putin in vladivostok at the eastern economic forum will be the two leaders third meeting comes amid an escalating u.s. china trade war and u.s. led sanctions against russia. security officers in afghanistan have confirmed that the taliban has taken control of parts of the northern province of jaws jam in an area known as the calm strict district police officer says more than fifty of his men were surrounded by taliban fighters with casualties on both sides wounded officers say it did not have official backup to handle the attack. eighteen people have been killed in central nigeria after a gas exploded it happened in latvia the capital of the state more than forty

others were taken to hospital with serious but. the u.s. is planning a second meeting between donald trump and kim jong un it follows a request by the north korean leader to the white house meanwhile the new u.s. envoy to pyongyang is on his first diplomatic visit to the region it's even begun is in seoul and south korea's president says he wants to ease tensions along the border with north korea will visit the north capital pyongyang later this month his third meeting with its leader kim jong un talks are expected to focus on the denuclearization of the korean peninsula and regional stability. one million people in the u.s. have been ordered to evacuate as a powerful storm approaches the country's east coast our conference is expected to make landfall on thursday in north or south carolina already a category four storm is predicted to strengthen in the coming days. the update now with all the headlines we're back with another news bulletin here on al-jazeera

after inside story. with the three. victims of warfare millions of children in some of the worst conflicts around the world are at risk a report warns many could die of hunger has starvation now become aware of conflict this isn't science story. hello and welcome to the program i'm had up there how meet one child living in

a war zone could die of hunger every minute that's a startling assessment from the u.k. based charity save the children it's released a report on the use of hunger as a weapon in some of the world's worst conflict it says four and a half million children under five will need treatment for severe malnutrition before the end of this year that's a twenty percent increase on two thousand and sixteen tens of thousands of children could die in yemen of one hundred stern and south sudan but the biggest number of fatalities is expected in the democratic republic of congo where three hundred thousand are at risk children warn starvation is increasingly use as a weapon with warring parties blocking food and medicine leading to devastating consequences under the statute of the international criminal court intentionally starving civilians is a war crime civilians must be provided food and you money tarion supplies while

under siege. the report has listed ten countries that have committed the most grave violation against children we'll bring in our guests in a moment but first laura burden manley's sets up a discussion more than three million children have been born into yemen's war one that george three years of violence displacement disease and starvation a save the children report says obstructions of food and aid deliveries to the war inside the usa led coalition and three rebels has put the country on the brink of famine it room as many as thirty five thousand children may starve to death the nutritional impact on children the first to take in the first two year is of life say can actually be unstrung aeration also. the cognitive and physical development impediments from that can be passed on from generation to generation so we're not only a risk of failing to raise children we're potentially at risk there and we're. in the cosign region of the democratic republic of congo three quarters of

a million children are suffering from acute malnutrition two years ago fighting broke out between the army and. rebel fighters leaving more than a million fleeing the majority unable to find food. guns a fall in silence but hunger remains as farm a struggle to replant fields that have been pillaged i'm actually very shocked by what i saw and what i heard. visited several hospitals where children were treated for complication of. these children were struggling to survive in syria the government's been accused of war crimes after using a strategy of surrender or starve areas including. refugee camp were held under siege while crucial food and medical supplies were blocked all the while the regime continued to mount bombing campaigns the new report by save the children

says starvation is being used as a weapon of war other countries it listed as most dangerous to children including iraq afghanistan somalia nigeria south sudan and the central african republic. global hunger is now on the rise reversing two decades of decline as aid organizations are calling governments to account for blocking aid and attacking aid workers as they continue to grapple with chronic funding shortfalls possibly preventing them from getting food to where it's most needed for inside story lore about a manly al-jazeera. thank you ok so listen to our panel joining us here in doha and bark at the rector of the center for conflict and humanitarian studies at the door high institute for graduate studies in sheffield in the u.k. just to help my research fellow in global food justice at the university of sheffield and joining us in london cayennes a lark

a spokesman for save the children welcome to the program can let me start with you mean your report also says that say save the children is making an assessment that between august and december of this year about four hundred ninety thousand children are likely to die as a result of hunger just how do you reach that number how do you reach that conclusion in the first place. i thank you for having us on the show so i think the first thing to say with the number in the report is the number the five hundred ninety thousand children are estimated for the entirety of the year so i think there was a star in one of the versions of the paper so we're talking about five hundred one thousand for the entirety of twenty eighteen that said we worked out all of these numbers are the big four point five million which is a huge huge number and the scale of the problem we just can't hide from four point five million so total number estimated by u.n. figures that will require treatment for human interaction in twenty eighteen then based on the estimation of how many people agencies and u.n.

agencies are going to reach are left with five hundred ninety thousand which probably won't get covered and potentially as an underestimate as well and then of those obviously a huge amount likely to be dying before the end of the year but the number is for the total of twenty eighteen and as the piece at the beginning said there's twenty percent up and twenty sixteen and actually we're expecting figures from here for you know in the next couple of days which will probably be pushing us even higher up the scale. just a twenty percent increase since two thousand sixteen is that because they are more wars or dare i do reasons as well i think this is a very timely reports from save the children and i think it's really important that politicians also respond to this it's important to remember as well though that hunger and malnutrition are being reproduced systematically in today's food system so it's not only conflict that causes it's a cause of hunger and malnutrition but at the moment it's a major it's a major driver ok. i mean the report is focusing on ten countries

most of them have some sort of conflict ongoing. we always see aid organizations new mini tour u.n. workers in the field so why is it so difficult to actually reach those people. or the number of combined difficulties and they kind of kind of contributed charter the first one is is one a simple one of axis starvation has always been a weapon of war and historically this was the one of the main ways you get communities to surrender is by sea laying siege and cutting food and water supplies and so on now in the in the recent years the international law has regulated the ability to see if there was a. and as a city militants s.t. but with supplies of food now that is not always respected is not respected by the

size that are laying siege and occasionally and quite often in some parts where there is total broke breakdown of government it's not respected by the resistance groups militias as such or so access is very important aspect the other aspect is displacement that when conflict people get displaced when the displaced they lose access to their own grounds their own fields that not able to produce food so there's less supplies in the market and also there is the purchasing power of communities they are less likely to have the ability to purchase food and of course to diversify the type of food intake the consuming and that leads to some forms of malnutrition ok so again we are talking about access and maybe probably when one talks about starvation of men with derision these days yemen comes to the forefront . probably you have the same situation in other conflict zones how difficult it is

for your workers to be able to reach the populations in the them i'm supposing they have to sort of negotiate every stretch of the road until they reach their. yes we're going back to the number of five hundred ninety thousand children this year that's likely to die that's obviously a huge huge number so one part is resources say another part of it is getting access to these communities in the most in need and i think it manifests itself differently in different countries so you gave the example of yemen where actually there's been examples of aid agencies having the resources having the aid ready to go but the country wide blockades meant that we couldn't get there in other cases it might just be general insecurity or the weather or difficulty trying to turn transporting food in some of these contacts varies from place to place i think the one thing i would say is it's difficult but we can reach a lot of these children and they weren't they were they were definitely we don't you can just tell you are good at talking about. food insecurity and conflict at

the same time is basically stating the obvious so how does one get around the i mean how does there are laws around there are charges around but how does one make sure that they're actually applied. in those areas. yeah i think what we need to recognize is more widely within the global food system inequality and power are being reproduced in a number of different ways and often there is a tendency to portray hunger as the outcome of exceptional circumstances be that a complex situation or air the outcome of say natural natural disaster but what we need to pay much more attention to is how hunger and inequality are actually systematically being reproduced within that food system at different levels so at the global level but also at the national level and there is very much a reluctance on the account of governments to intervene within what is often seen

as a global a global food market so there are all sorts of different ways in which inequalities are already being reproduced not only when it comes to a situation like in conflict and we need to recognise that much more widely than we currently do so just adding to it just i was saying is it a matter that conflict brings food insecurity or you also have diverse that food insecurity could lead to conflict well i mean my understanding globally food insecurity has been on decline over the last ten fifteen years in fact if you compare the statistics from the global hunger index nineteen nineteen nineteen eighteen nineteen ninety's two thousand and eighteen there's been a significant reduction globally but within conflict there has been a spike in terms of malnutrition hunger and starvation in certain communities so i think although i agree that inequality has not been addressed and some rich

countries continue to produce and some places dump food in order to protect the market price of food production in their own countries and some poor countries still have less access to food conflict does produce very specific circumstances that creates these spikes in statistics and requires special. attention axis we talked about it is is is is key but increasingly agencies are reluctant to take the risk as they used to do in the past because of what has happened in iraq in syria and afghanistan the many cases of aid workers being killed aid convoys being being attacked so now they require a degree of guarantee before they start the journey to to bring food into the country at the same time they have developed and evolved and they develop strategies to to create greater resistance resilience our story within those

communities so you see for example within syria the but i red crescent recently produced. or encouraged the ability to produce wheat under siege so there are areas that have no access to the international market but people have gone back to producing food within those areas and like there are many programs agencies are trying to. build in those areas because the nature of the conflict is different we are now living increasingly protracted conflicts that are going on average six seven eight years and it means you can't just rely on aid agencies bringing the of a load of food every now and then so you have to go back to the very basics of communities and help them produce food locally where i know you saying that wars last seven eight years but i think also this place people displacement can become a way of living for decades in some cases now can just picking up on the difficulties the logistics underground for bringing food security to the

populations in need i think isn't there a danger that with the amount of conflicts that exist these days maybe a bit more than a decade ago or so. it's becoming the new normal that you know children are suffering that people are displays that people are hungry and maybe they'll be a danger also that the international community won't show much interest. yeah i think it's always a risk in kind of doing fatigue and public fatigue but what we've seen over the last couple of years in particular if you look at the example of somalia last year there was very nearly a massive famine in somalia in twenty seventeen but i think even though there was one in twenty eleven where two hundred fifty thousand people did die the public did mobilize governments didn't mobilize so i think the sentiment is that support because they know that the quality of aid is they know that we can save these lives so it's definitely something that we need to think about i think probably

a bigger barrier is getting the right resources in and i actually have to agree with a lot of what the other panelists have said you know in the protracted nature of some of these crises it's not just about kind of aid agencies coming in and it's about all of the communities the local national regional and global level coming together holding people to account for violations of international law or just violations of the kind of the rules in the norms around protecting children and civilians in conflict as well as building food security and trying to eradicate some of the economy inequalities which are all kind of most acute in conflict settings and result in the numbers that we have today which is one in one children potentially dying every minute because of my nutrition in conflict zones i mean it is there's a nice quote from one of our directors earlier you know war is being played out on the bodies of children and it's avoidable we need to do something about a certain let's bring in let's talk about yemen for example because famine doesn't happen overnight there's warnings. n.g.o.s many cherry in world.

issues reports and statements there brooke it's happening but nobody does anything at the end for example yemen it could have says situation that could have been avoided because it's completely manmade isn't it it is and in yemen before the war relied a little bit on imports of food but quite a lot on production of food internally now with the war the infrastructure has been destroyed some communities been displaced unable to work the land as they used to in the past in the past and they're not able to market their products across the country so that has created some problems added to that of course now. the food supplies that's coming in chairman particularly food aid. the majority of it is coming through all her data port and this has been under attack since earlier this year and it hasn't really been won by either of the sides from the so do perspective they see it as a source of income for the houses because the house these tax the imports of the

port and they would like to cut that source of from the other side from the community side it's the only and main entry point for food and from the aid agencies every day that she's bringing majority of their aid through her data and they will really struggle to find an alternative port if the how they deport is goes so just so we have a situation that's one example yemen but it's a situation that's perpetrated in other areas where basically to civilian population is sort of held hostages from for if i may use that word from all sides we keep on saying that survey showing is a war crime does a un resolution as well but at the end of the day who is responsible. who do you bring accountable for the situation yeah i think this is a very good question and it's it's not necessary and an easy answer to that there are multiple so. that the moments where we face protracted crises and where

embodied has an enormous influence on food security there is a working group at the united nations committee reform committee for food security that precisely looks at least issues and there have been many different n.g.o.s also like save children working on this coming up with recommendations so some recommendations are that there needs to be more direct reporting to desex the u.n. secretary general the need to be more early warning systems as to when and where hunger is being used as a weapon west of asia is being used as a political weapon. and the u.n. the director general of the of the u.n. . it has been recommended by reports reports the swiss federation and the dutch government would i should be asked to name people who are responsible for causing these situations and who are using hunger as a weapon of war so what i'm trying to say is there are a lot of direct recommendations being made by organizations like save the children

and many others but often the issue is that these reports are not followed up upon and there is a lot of data out there as a fellow analysts have always made also made clear and there are a lot of things that can be done but what is really important is that the political will is there and that the u.k. government in this case but also individual politicians are willing to respond to these figures and actually state their own responses to what these reports tell us and are willing to take that kind of political responsibility and in my view that's often what is lacking. so again. lack of political responsibility what do you think about that because governments do acknowledge that there is a problem but then does anything else happens i mean there's a lot of noise each time. what a report similar to the one we're discussing this program comes out then what's a follow up you know again agreeing with my fellow this is there is definitely

a lot of political action in follow up to some of these numbers and i think particularly in this case you know hunger. reproduce kind of in agreement that it is likely to increase in conflicts and things like that there isn't the same sense of kind of moral outrage with hunger as a risk with the use of for example chemical or chemical weapons or explosive weapons or why their effects which we are starting to see over time seem much more action both of the kind of the global market up to level by individual governments and state so. i think what we saw happen is when you talk a little bit of a coming together between hunger and some of those morally. reprehensible kind of other types of crimes because this is trauma on children it's a form of violence a report earlier this year from save the children says one in six children are living in conflict zones and there are more risk than ever in conflict zones. so you know it's just a matter of marrying the two things together that the type of action that we're

seeing in other sectors and with other issues for this. sauterne just you know this outcry when chemical weapons are used why wouldn't it be a similar i cry when children the most vulnerable the ones humanity has the obligation to protect our left to die of hunger in a world where does an abundance of food let's be fair. well that depends on how were reported the context is and as you know in yemen it wasn't were reported at the start of the conflict and a little bit by little as the public opinion shifted and people started to discuss or read differently. media outlets including al-jazeera was covering it much better than they did in the past so i think there is an outrage out there about what's what's going on the difficulty with the hunger is that it kind of creeps in among nutrition it creeps in slowly it's not a sudden phenomenon that you see it and you can really bring in the cameras and

talk about it immediately it is a gradual process you lose access you lose supplies you lose your ability to buy food you get displaced you start saving on what you eat you start making very hard decisions as to who you feed in your family you know and for some families on a daily basis and children are not necessarily given priority in time when you have to feed men and fighters and so on so in communities where there's little food the priorities are considered differently and of course when you get that mixed up with the politics of it all it becomes much more difficult to to untangle and i think just to try and answer your earlier question the ultimate responsibility is with the warring parties and in particular with a party that is laying siege to an area that if you are concerned about smuggling weapons and this is the excuse given often is that in convoys of food weapons and smuggle the wall should the international we should be able to give guarantees that food convoys are only just that food can for convoys ok and just that just briefly

because we're nearly to the end of the program. one could argue that it's not the lack of food that is bringing man attrition starvation hunger but it's actually politics yes i mean this is a very broad question so it's a shame it's lost but it's i think in addition to what's been said before about. hunger kind of creeping in why it's very difficult to to tackle it i think we can see that in different places across the world and this is i'm making this point not to relativize what's going on in protracted conflict situations but support in south that actually reliance on food aid and food banks for example here in the u.k. has risen exponentially over the last couple of years and i am afraid that this kind of dependence on on a and food banks is actually becoming more normalized this is also to do because we primarily view markets are as our main point of access to

food whereas if we're talking about things like resilience for example we might think about accessing food more directly but our current food system contains the sun in many different linkages and is very fragile and we're very much dependent on that system to feed us. but that the kind of the pendency that comes from that is very new in a way if we look at say fifty sixty years ago free systems were more much more localized and we're more resilient as a result of it because we have more direct access to food so this kind of situation where there's only one way to access food which is through markets. excludes a lot of people who are then for one reason or another do not have access through the market become very very vulnerable because attendance is becoming more and more normalized ok well unfortunately we have reached the end of the program but i mean save the children is calling on a new protection strategy and one child dies per minute than in doing

this program at least twenty five children have lost their lives think about that well thanks to all our guests will turn baraka just a hotman and. i think you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle is at inside story from me how does that hamid and the entire eighteen years by for now. cape town's water running out of city hall stores he said people should use no more than fifty liters of time water per person per day. about

a third of the city's residents live in informal settlements like this one any consume about four percent of the water for generations they've already been collecting it through communal taps all sources say the city will reach day zero on the ninth of july that's when they'll turn off the water in the homes to have it be the communal times will stay on. the city's taps of fed by reservoirs this is one of the largest. because they'll gallop where four years ago they would have been on the twenty five metres of water since then the province has suffered the worst drought on record. water saving measures have already postponed day zero bice three months everyone here is hoping the winter will soon bring enough rainfall to make sure the days erode never come. and then just may third and enjoy as much cereals like jewel finds as beautiful as brownstein joins me live he doesn't do we need to. do sports news just this just for you to just see the flag. i am

mentioning i've only done. all. my nigerian on al-jazeera. and all the warning from takis president about the consequences of syrian and russian attacks on a fence. all of them are a collar says our sara live from doha also coming up russian and chinese relations grow closer with the leaders meeting and the largest wargame since the end of the soviet union. the us threatened sanctions against the international criminal court

and confirms the closure of the palestinian mission in washington. and seventeen years after the nine eleven attacks why the reconstruction of a historic church near the site in new york and. turkey's president has warned of a severe humanitarian crisis if the syrian government goes ahead with its offensive in rebel held it live province rising in the wall street journal newspaper adept. warned the syrian government against sacrificing innocent people on counter-terrorism grounds so it cannot be left in the hands of bashar al assad says and russia and iran must take responsibility for preventing a humanitarian disaster in its lip if the international community fails to take action not only innocent syrians but the entire world stands to pay the price a political solution is needed he writes as the expected offensive would create

a massive security risk for turkey europe and beyond let's go live down stephanie decker she's in antakya on turkey's border with syria says strong words of warning from. what preparations we seeing turkey making ahead of this expected offensive. well they've been beefing up their borders two fold really aid to make sure that no one no civilians cross into turkey and be also to stop any what they call so-called terrorists from crossing into the borders it's interesting in that editorial or as well everyone again calling out. as a terrorist organization they only recent research. added h.g.'s to the list this is of course the group forming known as the norse or front. of what russia and syria use as a reason to attack it live province turkey is the one talking to them behind the

scenes trying to get the group to decide to dissolve or disband or merge with other groups to disarm it's a very complicated picture but you know the question is whatever happens to h.g.'s with a good agree to that or not and that still hasn't really been decided is then well it will damascus be happy with that because it seems that they want to take back the entire province its main concern of course laura is also the humanitarian situation cherokee warning that in the first wave and that hasn't happened yet of course but in the first wave up to half a million people according to turkish red crescent could flee towards its borders so this is why those political negotiations still very active behind the scenes to try and figure out how to move forward on this just remind us what fighting we've seen so far already in this area. well over the last week or so there's been a lull in airstrikes for almost over three weeks and on tuesday it started again syrian helicopters dropping barrel bombs russian jets also an exchange of artillery

and rocket fire all of this laura in the southern part of the province in the north and part of how my province this is close to of course the front lines with the syrian government forces this is countryside these areas are less populated people have left please villages quite a long time ago yes we've seen some movement but people will tell you that this is a low level start also there's been a lot of rumors ahead of this that this would be the area that would be targeted first why strategically also aid to keep the russian base how may mean in the safe in terms of they want more of a buffer zone to to strategic highways run through this area one from aleppo all the way down to damascus the other one from aleppo to latakia so this is all. it's been a sort of expected phase the real issue will be when the fighting gets closer to the cities the populated areas and that is what they're trying to think what is clear is that it hasn't really been decided yet how much of

a military offensive this is going to take and how much of the political solution would be dealt with when it comes to figure it out ok stephanie reporting there from thanks very much for the update. the u.s. is threatening sanctions against the international criminal court if it's pursues that investigation into american troops in afghanistan national security adviser john bolton issued the warning in his first major speech since joining the trump administration in april in the same address he confirmed the u.s. is closing palestine's diplomatic mission in washington a white house correspondent kimberly holcomb reports. protest in the west bank news filtered out washington was making good on its threat national security advisor john bolton made it official the u.s. is closing the washington office of the palestine liberation organization effort to put pressure on palestinians to return to the negotiating table amid stalled peace talks with israel the trumpet ministration will not keep the office open when the

palestinians refused to take steps to start direct and meaningful negotiations with israel the threat of the mission's closure seen by many as retaliation for actions by the palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas last year at the united nations calling for the investigation and prosecution of israeli officials through the international criminal court the actions and raged miti in the united states who see the i.c.c. as a body rife with abuses and an infringement on u.s. sovereignty on monday bolton called for criminal sanctions against the i.c.c. if it moves ahead with investigating allegations of us work crimes in afghanistan those sanctions could even include. blocking i.c.c. judges from entering the united states the united states will use any means necessary to protect our citizens and those of our allies from unjust prosecution

by this illegitimate court senior palestinian officials are enraged by the u.s. announcement following similar announcements of cuts to palestinian aid the move of the us embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem and its blind eye to ongoing israeli settlement expansion on disputed land this is an effort of mission of the us yeah administrations that to diminish and. who continue its policies of blackmail and extortion yeah undermining the peace process and the two state solution the palestinian mission opened in nine hundred ninety four here in washington and palestinian leaders have long held that any closure of this office would undermine peace efforts despite ignoring these warnings the trumpet ministration says it's still committed to peace could roll out its plan in the coming months kimberly help get al-jazeera washington well just in the last few minutes the i.c.c.

has said it will continue to do its work on the ten deter despite john bolton's threats. china's president xi jinping is meeting a russian president vladimir putin and that of all stocks during the recent economic forum the three day meeting brings together the leaders of russia china japan and south korea as well as five thousand delegates from sixty countries will be the two leaders first meeting and comes amid an escalating u.s. china trade war and u.s. led sanctions against russia let's go live as we're challenging them but have all stuck where we would have been haring coming out of this china russia leaders meeting. well vitamin a person. some are putting words the beginning of the meeting basically saying. it was going to be an atmosphere of trust and that the two countries had much. to talk about ways that they could work together politically economically and militarily as well

now it does make sense for russia and china to be getting closer together at the moment they are both eurasian giants their neighbors sharing a border. china has a vast economy which it needs to keep to be to keep it keep feeding it with resources and russia has lots of natural resources then there is also the growing. competition with the west particularly the united states russia is under u.s. sanctions china is in the opening stages of a trade war with the u.s. and so it's this relationship with the west which is giving the russia china strategic partnership kind of fresh impetus so they are doing more and more business together was talking about one hundred billion dollars worth of business this year. they'll be talking about international affairs as well because in many aspects of the world regional conflicts these two countries see eye to why as

well and the chinese are taking the largest military drills in russia's history of rory what does that involve. yeah this truce is an interesting interesting move stock two thousand and eighteen this vast drill that's beginning in russia's pacific region the far east is going to include thirty chinese aircraft helicopters and jets and also three thousand two hundred chinese troops as well now the chinese have been invited i think for a number of reasons one of the reasons is to assuage any fears in beijing that these vast military drill. might be targeted them but then it also gives these two countries practice working together with each other in the military sphere they are both modernizing and strength there are many navies and air forces at the moment

so taking part in a drill together gives them experience fighting side by side gives the mind and idea of how they might better integrate weapons systems and command structures and that sort of thing and it of course sends a message to the west that if push came to shove russia and china could in certain circumstances fight alongside each other now they don't have nato level. allegiances between them or coordination levels between them but this kind of military exercise will certainly be noticed in washington d.c. and say if donald trump ever got bored with his pen power relationship with kim jong un and decided to take him seriously a military strike against north korea their military planners in washington d.c. would certainly be looking at a potential alliance between russia and china ok worry chalons joining us there

from sunny thanks very. as you carry our visitors and afghanistan have confirmed the taliban has taken control of parts of the northern province of jones john and in an area known as the calm district the area's police force says more than fifty of his men were surrounded by taliban fighters with casualties on both sides who were his officers say they did not have official back up to handle the attack. still ahead here on al-jazeera why muslims in china say that being targeted by the government plus. i'm wayne hay on the banks of the mekong river here in northern thailand just across the river is laos and downstream from here the lao government is building another big dam we'll tell you why many people on this side of the river wanted stopped.