yes and humanity we saw the u.s. going to europe to germany to spain even under the obama administration pressuring those countries to sgt loz investigations that attempted to do what the us government and the us judicial system failed to do that is to hold the bush administration officials accountable for very serious crimes committed in the in the armed conflict in afghanistan delegations from russia iran and turkey a meeting in geneva for a second day of talks on syria this as the un says thousands of people have been displaced in the last rebel and play of the syrian government and russian as strikes continuing the population of it has swelled over the years of conflicts with the arrival of hundreds of thousands of people escaping battles in other parts of the country aid organizations warn any military campaign to retake the region to spot a humanitarian crisis david satter joins us now from geneva so david what are the diplomats actually discussing the. laura

i actually meant to be discussing the formation of a so-called constitutional committee this is a pet project that stefan the mistura who's the u.n. special envoy for syria syria is very very keen to get on to the table but he realizes of course that the events in libya the looming escalation that we're seeing in that province will no doubt hijack it but at the moment there are sticking points between the tripartite delegations about who exactly should be on that committee some forty seats have to be chosen and de mistura does want a decision on this because he wants to kick start the political process he wants a decision on this before the u.n. has its general assembly meeting later this month but we have seen some comments from the delegations going into the closed door meetings. in representative was

asked. century will the humanitarian discussion be included in these talks he said yes he also said that he expected what he called a good result the russian delegate the deputy foreign minister was asked would his country stop the bombing he walked away and said no comment and there was no comment at all from the turkish representative so i think all eyes are really on the growing humanitarian crisis in italy and on that front one of even hearing from the u.n. about the situation. quite a bit laura first of all up to thirty thousand people have been displaced by the bombing campaign that's been going on over the last three days that's proving a problem for the u.n.h.c.r. they say they're short of funds some two hundred seventy million dollars short which they need to look after the refugees the growing number of refugees at the

moment those thirty thousand people only half of them are actually in specially constructed camps the rest are being taken in by local families and the others are having to fend for themselves build their own shelters we've also heard about actually the targets of the bombs for hospitals have been hit so far in the opening days of this bombing campaign now what is the situation as far as the the medical side is concerned we've been hearing from n.g.o.s as well there are some five hundred doctors in the province to cover three million people and only fifty hospitals but they have got two hundred medical centers and now they've dispersed them right across the country they keeping them very very small they've learned their lessons from what happened in news eastern ghouta so if one of them is taken out by a bombing campaign there are more medical centers that the people can go to for

medical treatment so of course they're also calling on the on the world to help try and build funds to cope with what is expected to be a major humanitarian crisis but i think all eyes will be on the united nations to try and get some sort of delay to try and push the delegates here at the moment who are supposed to be discussing the new constitution of syria to actually try and come to some form of agreement so this humanitarian crisis can be avoided but at the moment because it's behind closed doors we've had very limited comments and we don't know the result of that pressure. so what does come out of these meetings that's a day thanks david. so has he. on al-jazeera i mean the u.n. report says that around the wild a one in every nine people suffers from hunger. hello

again we are looking at some ash ours here across parts of northern japan that are pushing off right now we have a front that's going to be fairly stationary across that region so a few pop up showers a little bit cooler to the north of that front but we are seeing a lot of high pressure dominating much of the area across the western maritimes over here towards parts of the korean peninsula forecast looks like this showers down towards osaka tokyo twenty three degrees that's a nice change for you with that front just to the south but of our stock though some clouds in your forecast at about nineteen degrees maybe getting a little bit better but more showers coming into play that france going to slip a little bit more to the north and that's going to mean showers and clouds with moderate temperatures there we are watching a system coming out of the northern part of the south china sea right there a tropical storm that is going to continue to make its way towards the west we do think that we're going to be seeing

a land fall probably coming over towards high now and then into vietnam over the next few days a lot of rain across the southern parts of south china right there hong kong thirty degrees for you with rain in the forecast and then there we go the circulation coming over high non on thursday and then as we go towards friday and saturday it is going to be vietnam in hanoi you're going to be seeing some flooding rains in your forecast.

and there again you're watching al-jazeera has reminded of the top stories of these ten be people have been killed and forty one of those injured in afghanistan a suicide bomber talks of protests and districts in the eastern province around eight hundred people were gathering and protests against local police and the security instability in the region. has accused the u.s. of doing israel's bidding by allowing more illegal settlements and causing desperately needed aid to palestinians that says the u.s. has left the negotiating table breaking its own commitments made by president trump

last year. and delegations from russia iran and turkey a meeting in geneva for a second day of talks on syria this is the u.n. says thousands of people have been displaced in the last rebel and play of the syrian government and russian as strikes continuing. china's president xi jinping has met russian president vladimir putin and that of all stocks during the eastern economic forum she said both countries should oppose protectionism meeting comes amid an escalating u.s. china trade war and u.s. led sanctions against russia were chalons as the latest from that of a stark. opening his meeting with cheating paying putin said that the two countries were working together in a spirit of trust and that they had much that they call could cooperate on politically economically and militarily as well now there is good strategic sense in russia and china getting closer together at the moment they're both eurasian

neighbors with each other they share a border. huge countries china has a vast economy that it needs to keep fed with the resources and russia has lots of natural resources now they are working together in the military sphere as well as groups in painted out there the stock two thousand and eighteen military drills just starting in russia's far east and china has been invited to take part in that now that's a sensible move from the russian part because it shows to china that any fears that beijing might have that these drills are actually focused on china are untrue and it also gives russia and china two countries that are trying to modernize and strengthen their armies navies and air forces at the moment. valuable experience at working together with each other now the chinese commitments is in huge say three thousand two hundred troops and thirty aircraft parts it does perhaps show them

that they can work together that they could at some point integrate weapon systems and command structures and of course it sends a message to the west as well russia and china both have an increasingly antagonistic relationship with the united states and. if say push came to shove and there was any future conflict or the russian trying to don't have nato levels of alliance or coordination perhaps they might fight alongside each other and you know if donald try. relationship. gets boring for the u.s. president and he decides to consider seriously a military strike against north korea then these sorts of games are just the kind of thing that military planners in washington d.c. will be taking into account. leaders of ethiopia and celebrating the reopening of

a joint border crossing for the first time since a full twenty years ago the border post is on the main road linking the two horn of africa. in the same border area that killed tens of thousands of people the move a peace deal. that there's been a cholera outbreak in the capital harare health minister says at least twenty people have died in two thousand. from her. recent outbreak started in harare last week monday it's the people who were in the chapel at that time some of them travel to other parts of the country and that the are quick to wade through a lot of the problems in the. areas where people had been quarantined are they or they're not even in to the bobbing problem if you have innocent and very sick to go to the nearest house of syllabi the part of the probably because of poor sanitation for twenty years or the lack of money and economy has been in decline so the

council the urban council haven't really been able to clean running water at many houses in harare and also here are not been able to buy chemical disappear or five water to clean the water. the number of people in the while suffering from hunger is rising one out of every nine people is now malnourished that's according to a report by the un's food and agriculture organization it blames war and climate change as the main reasons behind the alarming numbers stunting or lack of growth through to chronic malnutrition is now affecting nearly one hundred and fifty one million children under the age of five but also the number of undernourished people is increasing at the same time obesity continues to rise as of today six hundred seventy two million adults us more than one in eight are considered obese guatemala has one of the highest rates of childhood stunting in the world almost half of all children under the age of five

a chronically malnourished and an indigenous mayor communities that number is much higher successive governments a promise to tackle chronic child malnutrition but progress has been slow david has moved from the guatemalan highlands. inside this makeshift kitchen in guatemala highlands mark to hwy prepares lunch for children her son alex looks healthy but the one year old is in medical terms chronically malnourished traditional diets here lack vital nutrients meaning children can be fifteen centimeters shorter than they should be but stunting also affects brain development and a child's ability to learn making it harder to break the cycle of poverty for those not close. our children eat the same things that we eat and when there's a possibility to give them something extra you do it because you want what's best for your children i give my children what i'm able to but sometimes it's a struggle. around half of what i'm all and children under five are chronically

malnourished and in indigenous communities like mark that number is even higher what tomorrow might be one of the region's main agricultural producers but it also has the world's sixth highest rate of chronic child malnutrition it's a combination of. lack of access to education and lack of access to health care that's causing the problem but one group says that they're trying something new to resolve this. and those a day khun brings health care to the rural families who need it the most armed with scales and measuring board and nutrition booklets rosa visits mothers with children under two to combat stunting the ngo she works for focuses on the first thousand days of life raising awareness and empowering women is key but building that trust takes time. some others simply don't know about child malnutrition or the importance of complementary foods it's good for them to

learn how to look after their children better and you see how happy they are when their children game weight. the programs project manager says this personal approach is paying off a lot of money as i'm about in the communities where we've been should use this program we've seen a reduction in chronic child malnutrition by up to twenty percent over the last two or three years this is a big achievement people here are becoming more aware that this problem exists it's not just families like marta's who pay the price for chronic childhood malnutrition it's estimated that stunting cost around three point five billion dollars a year but without a major investment by the government or private groups millions of children here will fail to reach their potential david mercer al-jazeera in guatemala. today marks the seventeenth anniversary of the september eleventh attacks of the world trade center site in new york rebuilding continues but what for a place

a greek orthodox church crossed during the attacks has been suspended off the project hit financial problems. 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 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. a but also the memories of those the way out of chris and those the. those that were

. visited 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 marvel and glass inspired by the byzantine churches of his stand will. the 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 the 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 what original cause for twenty. eight. huge cost overrun. but as tourists visit the nine eleven memorial site to the side most are oblivious to the construction site of the church the grid structure remains finished with nobody able to say for how much longer. i'll just york. and without is there are these are our top stories at least ten people have been killed and forty one others injured in afghanistan a suicide bomber targeted protesters and daraa district in east sonangol province around eight hundred people were gathering in protest against local police and security instability in the region. hasn't achieved negotiators accuse the u.s.

of doing israel's bidding by allowing more illegal settlements and passing desperately needed aid to palestinians. says the u.s. has left the negotiating table also breaking its own commitments made by president trump last year. delegations from russia iran and turkey a meeting in geneva for a second day of talks on syria this is the united nations says thousands of people have been displaced and it led the last rebel enclave with syrian government and russian astronauts continuing activists have set up several makeshift homes in front of a palestinian village in the occupied west bank in defiance of an israeli court order to demolish the area high court judges approved the demolition of the village last week saying there was no evidence to prove the buildings in qana were legal israel wants to relocate the bedouin tribe the lives or to an area next to a landfill which advocates say is against international law. china's president xi

jinping has met russian president vladimir putin in that of a structure in the eastern economic forum she said both countries should oppose protectionism the meeting comes amid escalating u.s. china trade war and u.s. led sanctions against russia. south korea's president says he wants to ease tension along the border with north korea moon will visit pyongyang later this month for his third meeting with north korean need to kim jong il the leader here and eritrea are celebrating the reopening of a joint border crossing for the first time since they fought a war twenty years ago the border post is on the main road linking the two horn of africa nations the conflict began in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight over dispute in this same border area tens of thousands of people were killed the move follows a peace deal in july there's i had lines more news on al-jazeera the inside story.

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 good at that 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 save the 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 burdon manley sets up a discussion more than three million children have been born into yemen's war one that ensured three years of violence displacement disease and starvation a save the children report says obstructions of food and aid deliveries to the warring sides the u.a.e. led coalition and with the 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 in the first potato in the first two year is of life say can actually be unstrung rationing so that 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 kasai 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 marine 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 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 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 sultan baraka at the rector of the center for conflict and humanitarian studies at the doha 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 ky answer like

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 it was a 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 it's 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 that'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 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 the 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 there's 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 is not respected by the resistance groups militias as a child so access is very important aspect the other aspect is displacement that when conflict people get displaced when the displays they lose access to their own grounds their own fields that not able to produce food so there is 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. rights of a number of five hundred ninety thousand children this year cited so 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 countrywide located 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 contexts so 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 conflict 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 recognize 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 security has been on decline over the last ten fifteen years in fact if you compare the statistics from the global hunger index nine hundred ninety in nineteen eighteen nineteen ninety's and two thousand 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 in 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 a journey to to bring food into a country at the same time they have developed and evolved and they develop strategies to to create greater resistance resilience story within those.