express condolences support and readiness to help help in fighting with the heinous event that we've witnessed in. russia knows unfortunately firsthand. what world terrorism is is all about we is still are extending a hand to all of the countries and with think that it is our duty to combat this scourge together. and to witness that our proposal to create a broad international coalition to combat international terrorism will madam president. we can see if there is. interest in the event on this of them some time brant iran which is the third summit of the guarantors of the astronaut format therefore would decided to brief the security council of on its main outcomes this event became

a major milestone in or restoring peace and ensuring a lasting settlement in the syrian arab republic. the. concluding statement together with. iran in turkish politics were disseminated to in as an official document of the security council. the statements made by the three presidents in the course of the summit and also at the press conference as well as the joint statements made to send a very clear signal to the international community namely that russia iran and turkey are ready to spend maximum energy in order to continue helping with it defend him defend it to elimination of terrorism in syria ending the suffering of the civilians in post conflict rebuilding of the country ingenue limb from moving forward the political process which is to enable the syrians themselves to determine their future what's important is care as the guarantor states have once

again expressed their commitment to the sovereignty unity political independence and territorial integrity of syria as a basis for all of their work within the context of this crisis. in teheran we had a very specific discussion of the situation and it led where tens of thousands of fighters from job nuestra eisel and i think groups are constant try to concentrate concentrated the security council have declared them outlaws at the end because they are terrorists. and then through guard oh doing to determination by russia iran in turkey was expressed to end the remains of terrorism and all throughout to syria as a threat. and the security of the region. that this same time maximum attention was paid to making sure the victims among the civilian population have prevented the possibility for conciliation for those who are ready for dialogue should not be

missed and we expect that this is a kind of appeal that will be heard and it lead. we demand the armed groups start shelling peaceful towns and villages this is something that happens regularly. like a couple of days ago there was a missile strike on harder in the north of hama and this resulted in nine fayed tallet is including children tens of people were injured some rockets wars old so launched against the neighboring cell disco b. and three people died there. the joint statement on city only notes others are not didn't need to separate the armed opposition which just cited to go over but it also meant to separate them from terrorists this is the kind of separation distinction in the view of the summit participants that will be decisive important to making sure that there are no victims against preventing victims against civilians and that explains the appeal in tehran in the appeal is to all members of

international community who can exert pressure on the armed groups and it led to help separating them from terrorists and the same time we have we cannot allow terrorism chair or ists to hold hostage and use hundreds of thousands of people in it live as human shields. coexistence with terrorism is impossible and this is something that is clear in all of the un decisions it is also on acceptable to spare terrorism because all of all all of them are the branches and manifestations over the of al qaeda of the al qaeda that we started fighting against in the wake of the terror attacks on the eleventh of september two thousand and one and from which we can expense expect the most terrible strikes anywhere in the world to it is today the day that we are remembering those tragic events of the

summit in tehran yet once again showing that there is no alternative to a political settlement in syria and we expect that this signal sent by the three a guarantor states will be heard by everyone this is the kind of position that is becoming particularly important against a background off threats where you know you would to in becoming engage in military interference in syria to strike government facilities supposedly in reaction to the use by damascus of toxic chemicals are allegedly. president assad ordered the use of chlorine. this syrian authorities have no intention of doing this they do not have chemical weapons once again we're asking you to hear us when where is saying that the use of chemical weapons by damascus from a military viewpoint cannot be justified and from the minute before and and

politically to militarily it's damaging to the because doing this would be an invitation to the western troika to strike syria and that's exactly what they are threatening using the pretext of chemical weapons use of records by the private patients of the opponents of damascus who are counting on the support from from abroad very possible and we have irrefutable proof of such a preparations the third meeting high level meeting in a format khan group trusted such military attempts with the political process which could be led and implemented by the syrians themselves without any kind of pressure from outside. and in line with the directions issued by the three presidents high representative of russia iran and turkey on the tenth and eleventh of september are conducting consultations with the special envoy of the secretary general on syria mr stuff under mr up and the goal here is to put

together in geneva as quickly as possible a constitutional committee as a representative as possible and committee which is to reflect the interests and aspirations of all of the syrians without exception and also to launch its work in line with their it decisions issued by the syrian national dialogue congress issued in sochi on the verge of the january twentieth and in line with the resolution twenty two fifty four of this council were you when you had a great deal of attention to her on was paid to the issue of post conflict rebuilding in the syrian arbor public to their own condition conditions are ripe for that. and there are many acute humanitarian needs and they range from food issues to dim humanitarian demining to rebuilding basic infrastructure really beautiful and the same time we we are we have to make sure that there is no political blackmail or political blackmail blackmail that many western capitalism gauge then. the promises of bread and butter in exchange for political regime

change in damascus does no honor to those who at donor conference are talking about humanitarian problems and issues but are impeding extending genuine assistant to syrian people by maintaining unilateral sanctions with an important item on the agenda of the summit was the discussion by the three guarantor states of the issues of facilitating the massive return of syrian refugees and i.d.p.'s into their places of origin to come to syria as is well known has issued to the relevant security guarantees there's a great deal of interest in this on the part of the neighboring countries we are convinced of that at a certain step. so your contribution to that will be called for if there were an international conference and we are together with iran and turkey are working on the convening of such a conference there would be amongst more important outcomes of the summit was the

unanimous exceptions of the effectiveness and the need for the astronaut format rushing around in turkey has shown not inward but indeed that we can find compromises in the most difficult situations when this is required and their interaction has enabled us to stop large scale violence in syria provide for long term stabilization create the necessary conditions for the genuine launching of the settlement process and holding political transformations for the benefit of all syrians you know it was stated very clearly into iran that this kind of work will continue it will be broad and will cover the widest possible range of issues in syria the next summit will be held in russia i thank you for your attention. the russian ambassador to the united nations briefing the security council this tuesday about the results of the tehran summit held with iran turkey. in tehran on friday on the fate of syria's province on friday the presidents of iran russia and

turkey failed to agree to ring the summit on how to stave off military action on the northwestern province in syria the last rebel stronghold where nearly three million people have sought refuge will be hearing also from the iranian and turkish ambassador is a little later here on al-jazeera when not to you live in the meantime let's go to our diplomatic editor james bays at the new un who's been listening in to the russian ambassador there what is his message it doesn't sound james like russia wants to avoid a million military action in italy. no it looks like russia is supporting military action that it would be a key player in along with the assad regime he was briefing the security council on that meeting in tehran that took place on friday a meeting between the so-called garraun ters of this process and that is turkey

iran and russia pointing out that they come up with this communique this is the communique they came up with on friday but it's worth telling it in this communique the word it live isn't even mentioned and certainly there's no agreement between russia and iran on one side and turkey on the other which are on different sides of the argument about an offensive in a glib or so that's why i think it's going to be interesting to hear later on in this meeting the comments of the turkish ambassador and also of the iranian ambassador also i think worth mentioning the issue of chemical weapons because some countries most notably the u.s. and ambassador nikki haley have made it clear that if chemical weapons they use then they will consider taking military action now he said the russian ambassador. that syria had no intention of using chemical weapons and they felt that the chemical weapons issue was being used as a pretext for possible military action now that's as far as he went but it's worth

telling you at the same time that some russian media outlets are actually claiming that a chemical attack is about to be fabricated they say and they're putting the finger towards the u.k. so it's interesting his comments are coming at the same time as russian controlled media outlets are making this very provocative claim and certainly some diplomats on the security council believe this is all distraction russia called this meeting today so that they could change perhaps the narrative when many of the council members including for example the madeline speaking now are warning about a humanitarian catastrophe if this all out assault goes ahead. thank you very much james fraser our diplomatic editor who will keep monitoring that briefing for us at the security council on syria today we'll bring you all the latest lines when we have them here on al-jazeera and all you need to know about the looming battle for ad libbed al jazeera dot com who are the main players what are the likely scenarios

and what will be the human cost all your questions answered on this page and we've also got a special spotlight page up on al-jazeera dot com with all the latest lines on it live as well as analysis and discussion. and would love to hear from you on this and other stories we're covering on the news great today connect with us using the hash tag a.j. news great all the other different ways to get in touch on your screen right now and one comment already on facebook from mom says the international community must raise its voice against syria's offensive on it live thank you for your comment again a.j. news great is a hash if you want to connect with us moving on now to other world news and russia is seeking to strengthen its alliances in the east says it struggles under international sanctions spearheaded by the u.s. president vladimir putin is hosting an economic forum invited welcoming leaders from across the region including china south korea and japan it's also building military ties with china the two nations are holding war games that are being

touted as the biggest in russia's history now the e.u. united states canada and australia are among those who slap sanctions on moscow over it's an extension of crimea in two thousand and fourteen but vow to meet putin has found common ground with china as beijing is embroiled in a growing trade war with the u.s. both leaders are pledging to work together to fight against what they call unilateralism and trade protectionism military cooperation is also on the cards thousands of chinese and mongolian troops and joining three hundred thousand russian soldiers in russia's biggest ever war games and a warning japan a long time u.s. and i is also part of russia's charm offensive the two sides are pledging to resolve a long running territorial dispute dating back to the second world war there is already challenge has this report from dr off talk. with the slight awkwardness of two leaders who probably don't spend much time in the kitchen sheeting paying hands bloody made through tin conducted some pancake diplomacy and

blood of all stock the chinese president is here for the eastern economic forum and his meeting with putin this year despite the presence of other asian leaders it's russia and china strengthening ties that are the bedrock of this event and with caviar and vodka the two presidents were happy to let the world know how close they become we were constantly meeting this year for example in beijing in johannesburg and now here we are in flight as a hostile if we keep close contact with you it means we have good relations i am ready to strengthen these relations from now on including the exchange of ideas through close cooperation china has the largest delegation with almost a thousand people it is quite clear we have a really close cooperation we had eighty seven billion dollars of trade last year this year will almost certainly reach one hundred billion dollars the corporation makes sense the two eurasian giants are next door neighbors and china's hungry economy needs natural resources which russia has in abundance this growing

relationship is about more than just the kind of business and energy deals on offer here at the eastern economic forum it's about the threats that both russia and china feel a share in the modern world. while she jinping and putin were talking the heavy metal of russia's military was moving into place china's two it's been invited to take part in two thousand and eighteen russia's biggest war games since one thousand nine hundred one a sign of friendship and a message to one particular aggressor is the only way we can see continued. to push more between russia and china because of for a very assertive line of the united states. against both countries and in this regard because we can. say the problem is the major patter on of russian chinese. cozy relationship washington has imposed sanctions on russia

hams trade tariffs on china each country is too independent minded to make a full alliance at all likely but they still want the us to know that if a regional crisis ever exploded into conflict with russia and china could present a united front one more each islands how does it give us talk with you or them on this let's speak to care giants he's a senior consultant fellow at chan houses russia and eurasia program is live from northamptonshire in the u.k. thank you very much for being with us as a rush increasingly looking east both for economic and military reasons it seems how much of it do you think is driven by the actions of the current us administration or russia of course would like us to think that everything is down to its russia itself being under threat from the united states from the west from nato and this is why it needs to cozy up to china of course the reality is nothing like that is furthest from the minds of nato or the united states actually at any

hostile intentions toward russia but there is this ongoing process of rearmament and reorganizing and reequipping the russian military and vast expense to repel this largely imaginary threat but at the same time of course the exercises are aimed for another audience elsewhere it's aimed at china despite the fact that this is in cooperation with china they are practicing for with on an enormous scale that would not be seen in the european part of russia they're practicing moving large numbers of men and equipment across enormous distances so that they can be where they need it to repel or to inflict any aggression around russia's periphery wherever it's needed right this approach is indeed interesting because russia and china have always had a mutually suspicious relation do you think there's a new dynamic here and what's in it for the chinese. i don't think the mutual suspicions will have gone away this reproach one is very lopsided it's a very uneven relationship it's very much in russia's interests to have a cozy relationship with china because russia knows that china is the only real

threat to it now if you read any of russia's strategic planning documents like the military doctrine or the national security strategy it's amazing that this isn't china doesn't even exist because they know that they can pretend there's a threat from the west as long as they like and criticize nato and the us for the supposed that expansionist and aggressive intentions but the moment they suggest anything is at all wrong with the relationship with china they suffer immediate diplomatic economic and political pain therefore you see this language of very close relations with the between putin and china to try to is not a new phenomenon any it's not just china that the russians are wanting to cozy up to and seems also taking its aims better relations with the japanese do you think that on its own that russian can exercise influence on the scale of the u.s. or china in this region in southeast asia russia is looking for influence wherever it can find it is not just in southeast asia it's actually across the world reactivating that diplomacy and latin america in africa and so on in the case of

japan japan itself has been seeking a better relationship with russia very steadfastly and persistently over decades particularly over these disputed territories and has from time to time been rebuffed by russia so it is interesting to see whether this new proclaimed relationship will finally actually lead to some kind of represented between russia and japan as well as very interesting to talk to you thank you very much for joining us there. thank you and if you get a chance to check out this interesting discussion on inside stories coming up now about china and russia is growing influence both countries are part of the shanghai cooperation council which was launched in two thousand and one to combat security concerns across central asia and if it were on a man or a guest discuss the importance of the grouping at a time of mixed messaging from u.s. president donald trump that's on inside story to watch the show just click on the show. dot com and then inside story not to zimbabwe where the capital harare is

dealing with an outbreak of cholera the health ministry says at least twenty people have died and two thousand others are infected it's not the first time zimbabwe struggled with the disease a major outbreak in two thousand and eight killed more than four thousand people and speak to our correspondent in harare. as we've said such outbreaks sadly not uncommon in zimbabwe just how serious is this new crisis. well the calling it an emergency was suggest they are probably taking it seriously they say that this latest outbreak started last week monday in gainesville it's a poor neighborhood in harare it's a little crowded meaning they don't have access to clean a running water is thought that some people who visited the area then left and other parts of the country which explains why the outbreak is spreading this is the areas in harare we people are stick it in quarantine and the city of islamists is involved in telling them that this is how you must keep safe and if you feel your stick please go to the nearest health facility now some people in the urban council

officials who work they say the problem is to thank that there is no money there's been no money coming in many years that means they can't buy chemicals to treat water is he that means they can make sure all households in zimbabwe in harare and they've always have clean running water and they say they can't replace old dilapidated sewer pipes many of which have burst in some parts of harare now health officials are saying that this problem is only going to persist and carry on each and every honest something is done about it they say the government must prioritize health water and sanitation this is just it's illustrating so much money on to things and agriculture there's a crowd has water and sanitation to find the money from somewhere to measure the flow of pipes or a burst had been fixed and those are given treatment as quickly as possible and of course put more money into education awareness to make sure that if there is another outbreak not so many people who get sick and i thank you for that harm to us ally for us in harare and more on this now to speak to. do on skype he's an

associate professor of african politics and oxford university and he studied the last major operate of cholera in zimbabwe in two thousand and eight thank you very much for joining us why does this keep happening year after year in zimbabwe. thank you very much for having me on the program. the caller id crisis that we saw in two thousand and eight those that immediately preceded it and those that have come since are the product of political economic and historical factors that have attained for a very very long time these poses can actually be traced as far back as their very founding of had it back in the late. nineteenth century and it's built over to the twentieth century to the present they relate to problems around the planning of urban town and ships where many of the urban poor live given poor live these areas have long been underserved in terms of housing. overcrowding has been

a perennial problem the water and sanitation facilities in beef areas places like glenview and what do you know which are currently affected by cholera. is in adequate for the number of people there the underlying or trigger structure the water pipes for the delivery of household use run parallel to the sewage pipes and are prone to cross contamination when pipes burst and then on top of all of this there's been a political dimension to this the management of of urban war term particularly in the last two decades has been an area of contestation between the ruling party in the national government versus the opposition party which is often if run water services through the municipalities it's interesting that you talk about the political dimension of this house cry forth do you think that the new government in zimbabwe you've got a new leadership in place can tackle this crisis better than the previous ones.

i think that remains to be see it's important to understand just a little bit of the history of why would treat such has been so intensely politicized in areas by way of summary the payment of what to rates has been an important source of revenue for municipalities particularly in the early two thousand when the opposition party began to run many of the municipalities in the capital city and in urban areas it became an arena in which they could demonstrate their competence in terms of governance as well as a group capital for the investment in public services but when the health services became nationalized in around two thousand and by. opposition politicians were booted out of the out of any role in urban governance all water much of the water rigs that would pay for local service delivery was in fact looted much of it going towards the military and to political and so does when water pipes

both when they were broken there was no money to pay for engineers to fix them on top of this years of capital investment had been lost the country has still not recovered from those problems the present government seems to be much more aware and is bigger much more publicly about the need to improve infrastructure and is making attempts i believe to distance itself from some of the toxic legacies of the of the mugabe government very much in a letter that you know i don't need to be seen yet it'll be interesting to see how they handle this new crisis thank you very much for speaking to us and we go to associate professor of african politics at oxford university thank you for your time it's a pleasure. now the european union is debating whether hungary should lose its voting rights in the brawl congress prime minister viktor orban is accused of implementing policies that go against the e.u. is democratic values critics say his undermining the electoral system judicial independence and press freedom is cracked down on immigration has also proved

controversial speaking in the parliament obama defended defended his record on law is less likely schmidt retiree we do have contentious issues and we will have them in the future we have a different picture about the nature of christianity in europe about the role of nations national culture we think differently about the essence and purpose of the family and we endorse a radically different view on immigration if we want to be united in just these differences cannot be a reason to brand other countries and have them be excluded from joint decisions there isn't a butler has the latest from the european parliament in strasburg. well victor orbán hungary's fov right prime minister had come to strasbourg to defend himself and he made a defiant speech he accused the european union the european parliament of trying to blackmail him now this is all in the context of any piece debating on whether or not sanction hungary over some of its policies seen as breaching e.u. values and principles

a draft report has been tabled any piece are examining it's and it talks about things like detailing people's freedom of speech eroding the rights of minorities and hungry and if you think back to twenty fifteen at the height of europe's migration crisis hungry built a fence along its border with serbia and croatia to try and keep refugees out one on wednesday m.b.p.s. would then vote on whether or not to trigger article seventy eight is the highest form of punishment by the european parliament it would mean that hungry could possibly be stripped of its a u council voting rights that would have caused damage hungary's international standing as bring in our social media producer and watch the conversation online under about this of only a number of civil society groups and human rights organizations have been very vocal in campaigning for article seven to be activated and for the european parliament to stand up for freedom and democracy there using

a hash tag called vote yes for hungary to say that european leaders have accommodated coaxed and warned the government of hungry so many times that the lack of clear action has actually emboldened and bold and the increasingly autocratic leadership in budapest and is libya points out and we did see her followers earlier there were also seven u.n. human rights experts who spoke up on tuesday ahead of the vote which is on wednesday they say that since the last general election hungary's government has engaged in smear campaigns against civil society and encourage threats against. human rights defender this just some of the issues that they raise there was also that incident last month where the government stopped giving food to detained asylum seekers in transit zones and it took five emergency orders by the european court of human rights for the meals to be provided again and well in a joint op ed in the e.u. observer the heads of amnesty international and human rights watch have accused orbán of trying to spread his liberal democracy beyond hungary's borders they say

officials in hungary justify these measures by citing their party's electoral victories but winning an election does not give any government a blank check to undermine human rights protections at stake is not only democracy in hungary but also the founding principles of the european union. absolutely. and before setting off for strasbourg or been pushed back on this kind of criticism he's receiving and he addressed his supporters on facebook saying that the european parliament was getting revenge against hungry because it decided not to become an immigrant country so let us know what you think about this and what decision the european parliament should take better yet you can send us a video with your thoughts and we may feature you on wednesday's show you can send us that video on twitter using the hash tag newsgroup or message it to me directly i'm at ali thank you for that and you know since coming to power the oban

government has devoted considerable energy and resources to restructuring the domestic media landscape in its favor this episode of the listening post on al-jazeera dot com takes a look at the government's media strategy the combination of tightly controlled state media and private outlets owned by government friendly tycoons means that most of hungary's media is on the same page when it comes to some of the most important issues such as opposition figures critical voices at the european union and refugees you can watch that show on the listening post that al-jazeera dot com . the international criminal court says it will continue to do its job undeterred it was responding to threats of sanctions from the u.s. national security advisor john bolton if the tribunal investigates u.s. military activities in afghanistan then a harder has our report from the hague it wasn't too long ago when the international criminal court in the hague celebrated its twentieth anniversary for some it has achieved a measure of justice for victims of war crimes and genocide when national

jurisdictions were unable or unwilling to do so but the united states regards the court's mandate as dangerous to its sovereignty washington has been a longtime critic of the i.c.c. but it is now threatening action following the chief prosecutor's decision to investigate alleged war crimes in detainee abuse by u.s. forces in afghanistan as well as israeli actions against palestinians if a powerful state like the u.s. believes the courts then monitor the states might be might be feeling less inclined to support the court john bolton the u.s. national security advisor try to undermine the court when he was serving in the george w. bush administration but on monday his latest attack included a threat to go after i.c.c. officials united states will use any means necessary to protect our citizens and those of our allies from unjust prosecution by this illegitimate court some fear

support for international justice for the millions of victims and survivors is at risk political support for the court they say has diminished in recent years and the u.s. campaign against it will only make it worse the courts depend on the support of states for its money for its arrest warrants. for the court to investigate a case it requires a request from the state in question or a referral by the u.n. security council but world powers like russia china and the u.s. are not members of the i.c.c. and they have veto power in the council the prosecutor however can also open a case if the courts and judges give authorization the trumpet ministration is threatening to curb what it calls the court's sweeping powers some human rights activists are accusing the us of double standards and of using the court as a political instrument to serve its own interests for example in two thousand and eleven the united states voted at the u.n. security council to refer libya to the i.c.c.

after alleged war crimes by moammar gadhafi government the i.c.c. is reiterating its commitment to what it describes as its in the pen that an impartial mandate it hasn't yet officially responded to the u.s. threats and whether they will affect plans to investigate and prosecute the afghanistan case and address the situation in palestine this statement by bolton certainly is an attempt to instill fear in the court and to instill fear in human rights defenders working with the court we believe that the office of the prosecutor is going to remain firm and unwavering in her loyalty to develop statute we are putting our trust in her the i.c.c. will do what it can to continue its work but in many ways the court is hostage to the political will and cooperation of the international community. the hague meanwhile palestine's chief negotiator has denounced the united states as an unreliable broker in the peace process with israel appeared organization secretary

general cyber cat accused the trump administration of doing israel's bidding by allowing more illegal settlement building and cutting aid is remarks came a day after the u.s. nonce plans to shut down the piano's mission in washington d.c. when the united states has done so far. there they left the negotiating table. they did not honor the commitments made to us by president trump. on the meeting at the white house and method of two thousand and seventeen which he pledged that he would give a peace process chance for one year and he would refrain from any actions that may preempt or prejudge issues or for parents to address and then he decides to jerusalem as israel's capital and he decides to fiji's from that file of negotiations and he decides that settlements are illegal yesterday his national security adviser bolton became the first american official to describe their legal

settlements as housing projects. because of the two state solution six seven and then they threatened. them because. they close offices because we didn't come back to the negotiating table what negotiating table in every single meeting we had with them we request of them to with us with israel. so what they have done with all its decisions so far and we never for a confrontation with the u.s. by the way but how can anyone in their sin mind with all these american decisions drums decisions believe that these people can be honest brokers facilitators arbitrators in any peace process. as i barrack out also touched on the issue of. a palestinian village in the occupied west bank that israel wants to demolish his find a war crimes claim against israel at the international criminal court activists have set up makeshift homes in the village angry over last week's high court decision to approve the demolition of judges said there is no evidence the buildings were built

illegally the e.u. has edges around not to destroy the village which is home to two hundred people. now of all the stories making the rounds today the stop top story on our website is about american tennis champion serena williams she lost the u.s. open as you know a few days ago but to the well can't stop talking about this and another controversy a cartoon now and let me tell you about it well so this cartoon that's making the rounds online is supposed to be a parody of what happened that day at the u.s. open final no williams as i'm sure you remember and a spoken of yelled at the umpire over one of his calls smashed her racket and ultimately colt him a thief when he did ducted a point from her that last incident led carlos ramos to take an entire game from williams which made her even more upset a lot of people have accused ramos of being racist or sexist or both for what they call is unjustified penalties. well this twitter user posted an entire thread of

incidents were famous male players like novak djokovic and andy murray and white female players like coco van de way and victoria azarenka shouted at ramos without receiving any penalties the ramos isn't the only one accused of racism here the cartoonist mark knight from an australian newspaper the herald sun has been called out for drawing this cartoon one person who criticized him was j.k. rowling she says this cartoon reduces one of the greatest sports women alive to racist and sexist tropes and turns a second great sports woman into a faceless prop so there's a lot of tweets also criticizing this cartoon for what some people describe as white washing the u.s. open champion naomi osaka who's shown on the right there talking to the referee while she's half japanese half haitian and very clearly a woman of color critics accuse mark knight that that's the cartoonist of misrepresenting her race to appeal to his audience more but this is how he responded. i didn't anticipate this sort of reaction it you know once upon

a time you would get a two this letter from a reda now you have the whole world i.e. million people piling on you i didn't anticipate that with this cartoon which was basically just a cartoon about a sports woman having he feet on center court at the u.s. open but can't sign my defense. i've done on the rice list. of done cartoons supporting adam goodes in he's doing situation i was drawing cartoons about. russian politics in south africa before most of these people were born to have j.k. rowling trolling me as well it's something i didn't expect in life but yeah it's happening you know we're working for the herald sun we're but we're church and i take pride in tackling all the issues and caught in everything now when serena williams has a dummy spit on center court on not going to contra all that because that's

a no go area. that way i mean what does that side about the way the world's going. now a lot of people have come to nights defense saying that the cartoon is a normal caricature not aiming to be racist in any way and the herald sun has decided to double down on its support for ny this is going to be the front page of the newspaper on wednesday showing a number of cartoons that have been previously used and published by the magazine which are also heavily criticized the headline which you can see here welcome to the p.c. world but one of the most popular tweets on this is from one person who's trying to change this conversation and push it forward in a different direction it says to combat the spread of that awful racist cartoon this is the image that should go viral of these all some women supporting each other in the moments so let us know your thoughts on mark knight's cartoon of serena williams you can tweet us your thoughts using the hash tag it's a newsgroup andrew thank you very much for that mistake

a quick look at the other stories making headlines around the world now this hour in afghanistan a suicide bomber has attacked a notch crowd of protesters and he said he two people were killed and dozens of others injured in the brass near the eastern city of jalalabad that gathered to show their anger against a local police commander provinces one of afghanistan's most volatile regions. the number of people suffering from hunger is on the rise which is the the un's which anyone says both unacceptable and inexcusable is food and agricultural organization says one of out of every nine people doesn't have enough food it rains war and primate change for the alarming numbers and says a child dies from hunger every five seconds but at the same time obesity is also increasing with six hundred seventy two million adults more than one in eight considered obese. one million people in the u.s. have been ordered to leave their homes as

a powerful storm approaches the east coast hurricane florence expected to make landfall on thursday in north and south carolina already a category four storm is predicted to strengthen in the coming days u.s. national hurricane center is warning of one hundred ninety kilometer an hour winds flooding and coastal sages. let's now turn to sports and joe is here to tell us what's trending in the world of sports absolutely and you won't be surprised because it is still serina before the break we showed you or just a few minutes ago in fact we showed you the cartoon of serena williams that sparked a huge debate online but let's take it back to the very start because her argument with the umpire started when her coach patrick moore totally was caught coaching her from the stands he says her angry at reaction was justified for her i mean her integrity is the most important thing she felt that she was insulted she felt that she was. she was treated a cheater. and that of honor and it does was she felt completely ameliorated that's

why she regularly got well men in charge of the australian open says the whole serena saga could have been avoided if there were clear rules on coaching from the stuns the sport has to really get itself sorted out on what it does with coaching and to just to be clear we are we going to have coaching we're not going to have coaching and what's it going to look like are you talking to a coach here so you have a specific view on it and and the view would generally be there has to be a certain element that that that needs to be allowed in the sports and and i think that needs to be looked at so the sport needs to get together and really sort that out and then i think once that's all right you don't have the issue that you had in the phone from a tennis player zina garrison is on serena's side the wimbledon finalist says she's proud of monday athletes who speak up and defend themselves especially women. people are saying you know they're too outspoken they're acting like a man and all of that but then a black woman on top of that you know the angry black woman who does she think she

is you know she doesn't have more power of the sport and when literally she was just you know i keep going back to it was about her character because they they criticized you know her being a cheater in the time that i was growing that i was growing up and athletes really want to allow to really speak out. and because you know quote unquote you're not going to get indorsement you know i heard that for years you know in five years with no endorsements and i was in the top ten in the world and i'm really proud of the athletes that are speaking out now. especially the black athletes and you know le bron and what serene are doing for just the younger generation not just black but just you know young people and you know they have a voice now well here's another story that's also raised a few eyebrows a football legend and recovering drug addict diego maradona has made a new start but it's the location of his latest coaching post that's been drawing

attention he's moved into a new club in mexico the heart of the country's drug lands the argentine has taken over as coach of mexican second division club the adults he's held his first training session a news conference the club is based in the hometown of the sylow a cartel which is one of the most powerful drug trafficking organizations in the world america has been warning children to learn from his experiences with substance abuse. you know little all. the i made a lot of mistakes in my life i'm now fifty seven years old and i'm assuming this responsibility like someone who has a new child you could say a lot of things but since i overcame my sickness fifteen years ago and when they were talking about drugs it was just dragging me down i was just wasting away i want to explain this to kids that when i used to consume drugs i was going backwards and what a football player has to do is to go forward what happened i stopped all of this

thanks to my daughters when you can let me know your thoughts on any of the stories that we cover you can tweet me at pizza we'll be back with more at eight hundred g.m.t. but for now. thank you very much joe for that that will do it for today's news great remember to keep in touch with us on social media at all times ageing is great for me for me back to one whole team thank you very much for watching al-jazeera is live from london you're center next to stay with us. it was a big problem because it was different people admired him it was the center of nightlife in being ruled and he married miss universe hugh was

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need to. do for the. club. i am sure i've only got. my nigerian on al-jazeera. high stakes diplomacy in geneva and at the un as fears grow of a humanitarian catastrophe in syria as a blip province. i know i'm marianne demise in london you with al jazeera and so coming up

a defiant victor all ban defends hungary's tough order policies as the e.u. debates imposing sanctions on his country. a state of emergency is declared in the capital of zimbabwe after a cholera outbreak kills twenty people and infects two thousand more. and shocking statistics from a new u.n. report reveal that around the world one in every nine people suffers from high. we begin this hour at the united nations security council where russia has requested a meeting to brief members on the situation in syria's a province syrian forces backed by russia and iran are preparing for an all out military assault on the last rebel held province a russian ambassador to the u.n. a stressed to the council that no chemical weapons will be used because of the mcgillis polluted school. there is no alternative to political settlement in syria

and we expect that this signal sent by the free government or states will be heard by everyone because this is the kind of position that's becoming particularly important against a background of threats in order to become engaged in military interference in syria to strike government facilities supposedly in reaction to the use by damascus of the use of chemical weapons allegedly president assad ordered the use of chlorine the syrian authorities have no intention of doing this they do not have chemical weapons once again we ask you to hear was when we're saying that the use of chemical weapons by damascus from the military viewpoint cannot be justified and i diplomatic editor james bays is live from the u.n. in new york now why did russia call this meeting. well i think we've seen this before in the past when russia has been under pressure it tries to seize the initiative and then tries to control the narrative and certainly the russian

ambassador was making it clear that he wanted to talk about the meeting that took place in turan at the end of last week which didn't achieve anything with regard to it live because the three players that were at that meeting russia turkey and iran disagreed turkey disagrees with the other two on whether there should be an all out assault on the ad libbed but we also want to raise this issue of chemical weapons and said that the syrian government wouldn't be using chemical weapons he said they didn't use chemical weapons he said this was a pretext for action by military action by western countries and it's worth noting that some russian media currently saying that they believe there is a an effort to fabricate a chemical attack currently underway in province now that's the russian view if you ask other members of the security council they believe this is all mass destruction they believe that the russians know that everyone else is putting pressure on the

russians and on the syrian government not to launch this all out offensive on the ad lib and russia here by raising this in this meeting by calling this meeting is trying to confuse matters all right thank you very much our diplomatic editor james bays at watching that meeting at the u.n. security council meanwhile delegations from russia iran and turkey have been meeting in geneva for a second day of talks on the expected offensive it is gushes were led by the u.n. special envoy for syria to found a mystery and ended with no comment from the parties involved the u.n. says thousands of people have been displaced in the rebel held province because of continued syrian and russian airstrikes aid organizations want any military campaign to retake their reach and let's talk a humanitarian crisis stephanie decker has more from and taqiyya on turkey's border with syria. it live is the place where people went in the end whether it was internally displaced civilians who were displaced from from city to city to village

and ending up in italy or the rebel fighters the different opposition groups who didn't want to stay under government control under these so-called reconciliation deals and came with their families to live this is why you've seen the population swell so much so at the moment the displacement that we've seen as a part of this latest offensive and it is an escalation in the south of of the provinces sort of more country area open and a couple of thousand people displaced they have gone to various places but mostly close to the border with turkey because that's where they feel safest we've been speaking to people who left and one man telling us that he didn't feel safe anywhere because people expect this offensive to move into the cities into all areas because you know the rhetoric is that the entire province will be taken back by the government backed by russia the truth is there remain intensive diplomatic talks behind the scenes to try and resolve this somehow i think it's clear we will see some form of operation how much of that will be military how much of it will be

negotiated remains to be see but certainly those talks are proving to be very very complicated indeed. european parliament has been debating whether to strip hungry of its european union voting rights ahead of a vote on wednesday there are major concerns over the direction the government has been taking no chablis on immigration issues. and prime minister viktor orban defended his government and its policies in an address to the european parliament in strasburg oban accuse the e.u. of blackmail over its threat of sanctions. we start out the. president let's be straightforward with each other hungary is going to be condemned because hungary and people have decided that this country is not going to be a country of migrants with all due respect but very firmly i have to refuse threats the blackmail and defamations by forces supporting immigrants and migrants against

hungary and hungary and people i must state that whatever you decide hungry will protect its borders stop illegal immigration and defend its rights if needed we will stand up against you. at ash about as following events for us in strasburg how was oban speech received in parliament. well i think. they're today really didn't expect anything different they weren't surprised by viktor orban speech because he stuck to the sort of narrative that we've heard from him ever since he came to power he came to to defend his reforms defend his policies and his leadership style saying as you heard there that he believes the european union is trying to blackmail him lead some sort of witch hunt against hungry now we're actually trying to decide whether or not they are going to punish hungary with sanctions on wednesday there will be

a vote here at the european parliament on whether or not to norwich article seven that is the highest punishment that the e.u. parliament could actually give in fact they've never they've never launched that action before and it could lead to hungary losing its e.u. council voting rights it would be very serious indeed for hungry in terms of its international stature but there are some experts say that for somebody like victor or bond it might actually play in his favor by the way bolstering his image back home is that anti e.u. far right leader but i did speak to one green opposition hungary an m.p. who said something very interesting he said you know that although there's a lot of focus on immigration here we're talking about. strategies and policies of the refugees he said but for him and many hunger is the real concern is the fact the civil liberties are really being eroded across the country thank you very much from strasburg natasha but. at least thirty two civilians have been killed in a suicide attack in eastern afghanistan it happened during

a large protest against the local police in the province of nangarhar more than one hundred twenty people were injured the taliban has denied any involvement. there's been a cholera outbreak in the zimbabwe capital harare the health minister says at least twenty people have died in two thousand others are infected. more from harare. government officials say this latest outbreak started last week monday in glenview it's a poor neighborhood in harare it's overcrowded and people they don't have access to clean or running water it seems some people would visit the area live the city and with other parts of the country that could explain why the outbreak is creating the governors who have areas in our area where people are sick they're being quarantined and this you know isn't it is all the body telling you that this is how you must keep state and if you are sick please go to the nearest health facilities people who work in the urban councils we. are not state of the issues a lack of money they say for many many years of not being able to buy enough

chemicals to treat the water they not been able to make sure all household income have access to clean running water in the city don't have the money to replace so it has been a burst some of them have never been the case since the one nine hundred eighty s. so health officials also say that these are only going to continue each and every year and if something serious is done invited they think that perhaps the government should stop spending so much money on defense and concert for example and put more money into water sanitation and health it's a tall order the government says it has no money at the moment because of the economic crisis but people in thinking that just mean the government spending right now is the bomb was a being told to remain calm not to panic the government they may try and contain the situation palestine's chief negotiator says the united states is not a reliable broker in any future peace talks with israel p.l.o. secretary general cya also accuse the trump administration of doing israel's bidding by allowing more illegal settlement building and cutting desperately needed

aid his remarks come a day after the u.s. announced its shutting down the p.l.o. his mission in washington d.c. when the united states has done so far. of the negotiating table. they did not honor the commitments made to us by president trump personally when the meeting at the white house and myth aired two thousand and seventeen which he pledged that he would give a peace process chance for one year and he would refrain from any actions that may preempt or prejudge issues or is it for parents to address and then he decides to jerusalem as israel's capital. and he decides to drop it if it is from that file of negotiations and he decides that settlements are illegal yesterday his national security adviser bolton became the first american official to describe their legal settlements as housing projects because of the two state solution six seven and then they threaten us and they come to aid them because of this and because of the

close officers because really didn't come back to the negotiating table what negotiating table in every single meeting we had with them we request of them to with us with their israeli their if used. so what the united states have done with all its decisions so far and whenever you need to have a confrontation with the u.s. by the way but how can anyone in their sin mind with all these american decisions drum's decisions believe that these people can be honest brokers facilitators arbitrators in any peace process so that for you on the program activists set up makeshift camps in the palestinian village which is due to be demolished by israel also. 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 want it stopped.