that even we're not directly engaged you know still it is their obligations and their common article of the geneva conventions quote to respect and to ensure respect for the conventions the. end of what remains fear of her and their search they have to use their influence to that unlawful behavior by their our lifes it up to the parties to the conflict and big government that support such parties to protect the civilian police to leave and across syria the laws universally accepted by government to protect in situations of firemen who flee conflict tell dan clearly how to accomplish this goal all that is required is the will to fall of the law to a vet agreed to the task of needly did the test or will be sick

will eat in a few hours and then you'll have access and also. lead to but i thought the death will be in our economy interest to become aware that we are issuing this is that thank you very much thank you problem is not stable will be circulated to you later on today. for your questions please. long. it also illustrates newsagency so you just mentioned situation in leave and in the scenario of possible larger offensive in the days to come but there were already some air. bombardments beida russian forces of view already received some indications about possible violations in that regard and can you already tell us today that you

plan to open a separate investigation even if there would be that scenario of a larger offensive. so i thank you of course we are following a very close with the distortion and that is precisely because this statement was not for now is because we want to see what is happening. this morning or i think that i would like very much to add to it mind to direction and to d. the text of the statement that the police and. these two point nine million almost three million they are not there because they did side of to go through. they are there because of. record sillies shown. formats this people they were transported to read lead the army

is is the tactic that this population transferred through the lead is supposed to. be confronted with this bombardments that we have just to describe but i think that's very important that the communication among. depressed pole influential countries is not interrupted. this is continuing at this very moment that we are here and we spect that this political conversation will prevent this carnage that is what we feel. that is our don't think is necessary the two or three that will do

a specific investigation leap we are obliged to investigate we have to swallow and we need leap. and in the first part of the question have you already received testimonies by people on the ground about possible violations in that there is a we have a recently has received of course information from the ground. it seems that. you want to. you know hi. lisa shalom voice of america. and now you want the powers of influence to get involved in this new hope that the dialogue which i guess will be going on tomorrow friday here among the political dialogue will help in some way now regarding the united states it seems that. there is

a kind of fixation by the trump administration upon the use of chemical weapons again crossing a red line i mean not that i approve of the use of chemical weapons but do you think that this is helpful in is it just bluster or is this a way of getting some kind of action to stop the warring parties from actually going after the population especially when you consider the amount of damage and destruction that occurs from the barrel bombing and other heavy bombardment how do you view this situation i mean is it talking whistling in the wind. sorry i'm destructive to do. but it's usually we don't want to comment on room ups. or bar. specific

use the minutes by. the garments of racial if racial bias. i was referring to do d. members three. we are involved in the. initiative. all the all the four marked off the. d. conflict the. use one of the very areas of this. effort but. we are not in a position. to qualify. the wards of. the government of the members three to that you mention. i just heard two all right so that's the panel the international commission of

inquiry they have been investigating the situation regarding human rights in syria first specific period between january and july this year that was paolo pin yetto introducing basically giving the executive summary of the report listening to that is our correspondent in geneva need barca and needs understandably. took up an awful lot of his attention when he was giving us his opening remarks and he was quite specific as to what was at stake and that the human rights of the civilians in italy were being violated almost on a regular basis. yes he did the main thrust of this report they did not focus on it but clearly what is going on there with the potential of an all out offensive and it cost

a long shadow on all proceedings happening here in geneva over the course of the entire week the main thrust of the of the report was on internally displaced people he said a million people have been displaced over the course of the first six months of the year men women and children and that all sides all warring sides in syria have failed to meet obligations to provide shelter health care medicine and that the main message of the commission should be to reply or ties to those people who have been internally displaced and of course there is a message going forward for what could potentially happen in italy if the u.n. has already warned that if there is a major offensive as many as eight hundred thousand people could be on the move we know also from comments made here in geneva early on in the week that the u.n. is short of two hundred fifty to two hundred seventy million dollars in its refugee budget in being able to deal with any worsening situation there according to plan a premier of the chairman of the commission there will be

a report later on in the day here the main title of that is that the presence of so-called terrorists and it should not be used as an excuse to flout humanitarian law so we wait to see what the main the main focus of that report is later on and what will become of this report we often have reports. which detail the chronic situation affecting particularly the people of syria what actually happens to it. report all twenty five pages of it will be presented to a human rights council on monday but of course this is one report of many the commission have produced twenty since it was formed back in two thousand and eleven but actually allowed to work in syria they draw their information from images from video from witness statements taken by skype or phone from people in syria or from interviews and from people who are in neighboring countries all of this of course

will form eventually the backbone for legal prosecutions it is something of a lifeline of hope for people who are witnessing all these. atrocities in syria that maybe one day people will be brought to justice all right thanks for that. our correspondent live in geneva well from the halls of the u.n. in europe let's go to an attack here that's in southern turkey right on the border with syria a correspondent there is stephanie decker and as i say a million miles away from from the discourse is going on in the u.s. i'm wondering what the situation is on the ground because we were expecting a rapid engagement on the part of the russians and the syrians to retake italy but they seem to slow down somewhat. yes in the last few days they've been no reports of airstrikes or barrel bombs yes there's been

sporadic artillery fire across those front lines but that's about it and the language yesterday quite interesting from russian special envoy to syria and when he was asked whether this offensive was put on hold he said that that was entirely dependent on the international community to be able to separate moderate rebels from terrorists now reading between the lines that's basically the job of turkey these days it is incredibly challenging we've been speaking to people inside that are affiliated with h.t. as. the group really that it's all about probably known as the industry front and what they. consider affiliate with al qaeda well you know the feeling is that they're not going to disband and they're not going to lay down their weapons so it is a challenge but for now the complicated issues have not gone away but the military offensive at the moment seems to be silent seventy dekker live in antakya thank you very much. those want to come on this al-jazeera news hour including bracing for hurricane florence millions are ordered to evacuate the u.s.

east coast and in sport they may be sent to the world cup but there was no love lost between the u.s. and mexico in this so-called friendly. there is a european union prepared to strip hungary of its voting rights that's what members of the e.u. parliament jus to consider. now defending his country on monday the hungary and prime minister viktor orban accuse the e.u. of blackmail over the threat of sanctions the e.u. has accused hungry of failing to respect european law and its shipment of asylum seekers its constitutional amendment and a lot of press freedom the bloc also says the hunger in government is harming the rule of law. all right let's go live to natasha butler our correspondent who's following developments there at the european parliament is there an appetite then

do you think among parliamentarians to issue. an end to take it to its logical conclusion because of course it has been done before in the case of poland. well there is certainly an appetite for triggering article seven on the side of the any peace who believe that hungary has been preaching values but then of course on the other side you have any peace who you support and his talk of just trying to protect the sovereignty of his country the sovereignty of voters that was certainly the message he gave parliamentarians here in strasbourg on tuesday he said the e.u. was basically trying to blackmail him to change his policies and changes ways but he said look i was voted for with a majority i'm doing what the hungary people elected me to do and that's my democratic right but any piece here say that hungary has repeatedly flouted

principles that it's basically not up holding the rights of minorities and crushing civil liberties in the country in that something must be done to punish it if article seven is triggered and will know that shortly because every piece of gathering to vote will set in place a procedure for hungry which will see it perhaps in the future stripped of its evading rights all right tasha thank you for that. now more than five million people have been issued storm warnings on the east coast of the united states as hurricane florence builds in the atlantic one and a half million people have been ordered out of their homes expected to be the worst storm in thirty years is likely to make landfall in either north or south carolina within the next few days forecasters are warning of winds of up to two hundred forty kilometers an hour flooding and coastal surges president trump's already signed emergency declaration to free up federal funds for the response. when asked

about preparations for hurricane florence president trump said the federal government is totally prepared he also talked about his success after hurricane maria when it hit puerto rico. order a go was any credible. success texas we've been given a pluses for florida we've been given a pluses for i think in a certain way the best job we did was quarter rico but nobody would understand that i mean that's it's harder to understand it was a very hard very hard thing to do. because of the fact they had no electric before the storms hit it was dead as you probably know when a recent report found that actually killed almost three thousand people making it the deadliest natural disaster in recent u.s. history the song calls an estimated one hundred billion dollars worth of damage the puerto rican governor. responded to mr terms comment saying the island's basic

infrastructure has been devastated and many people are still struggling to survive . in a few moments we'll actually have the weather with everton and also coming up on this al-jazeera news out of the brazilian president ignacio lula da silva drops out of next month's election and his running mate takes his place. u.s. china trade war dominates the agenda as leaders in southeast asian countries meet in vietnam. and we'll tell you what i've said ferrari fans are doing to try to keep their favorite driver with the team that's coming up with. through tranquil rave you can you. can free rooms and if you don't deliver. so we have all eyes on the atlantic at the moment then it's not just about florence we've got another couple of storms of course as we've

been talking over the last couple of days here we go with helene making its way up into the open waters and then we have tropical storm isaac and isaac is going to make its way towards the lesser antilles it's looking like is going to make a beeline for a dominate over the next couple of days it will smash its way through pretty quickly and that is good news domenica suffered from maria last year as it made its way on its way towards beating up a puerto rico further north here we go with florence not too far from the coast now just to the south west of bermuda sustained winds of two hundred fifteen kilometers per hour gusting to around to sixty now it looks likely to intensify a little more as we go on through the next day or so and then it will weaken as it pushes towards landfall and by the time we're looking at landfall we do still have it making landfall somewhere around wilmington north carolina so that part of the track is still the same but elsewhere as it makes its way inland we got some subtle

changes that have now taken place in our forecast is making more of a left than a right turn it's pulling away from virginia in may even just track along the south carolina coast so that's going to bring major problems into that area a storm surge at the moment looks to be around two to four meters could even be higher than that so that's something to watch out for there will be widespread flooding of course and then there's the rain looking at around six hundred millimeters of rain for some over the next four or five days because it is such a slow moving system power outages of course inevitable at the moment this is the position of the storm and then it's slowly it's going to stagger slowly makes its way to the east coast. the weather sponsored by qatar and race. as we embrace new technologies rarely do we stop to ask what is the price of this progress what happened was people started getting sick but there was a small group of people that began to think that maybe this was related to become

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year with al-jazeera time presses take a look at the top stories here on their knees. says he knows the identity of the two men charged by british prosecutors with the attempted murder of the former russian spy sergei scott a pal and his daughter russia's president said the men are what he called civilians and says he hopes they will emerge soon to tell their story a u.n. commission of inquiry on syria says there's been an unprecedented level of internal displacement in twenty eighteen most of it in the commission play. for all parties to hold hostilities in syria and find a solution. members of the european parliament are preparing to vote on whether to strip hungary of its voting rights defending his country on monday that hungary and prime minister viktor orban accuse the e.u. of blackmail and the threat of sanctions. asian leaders at the world economic forum

in vietnam have criticised the united states which is involved in a worsening trade war with china territorial tensions in the south china sea they're also being discussed along with how a growing can compete against automation and artificial intelligence we'll go live now to hanoi and our correspondent who's covering the event wayne hey wayne. yes martin well the official theme for this world economic forum on southeast asia is technology new technologies and how the nations in this region can base capitalize on things like artificial intelligence going forward but there's no doubt that another big issue has overshadowed those talks to an extent and that is the trade dispute between china and the united states and that's certainly been the feedback from the leaders who are present here when they have been speaking let's find out some more about that now and joining me is look fisa dickey from the

london school of economics thanks for joining us what is the atmosphere like in the meeting so far today people talking about this trade dispute your will firstly it's always positive and there's always a lot of energy at aussie on meetings there's a lot going well for them by in twelve years' time they're going to be the fourth largest economy in the world if they operate as a single economy the digital collaboration are the other key words here but it's also true that there is a not a pall of gloom but a tinge of concern about trade war i have felt in the cost of that every time there were jitters in emerging markets there was a tendency for us here to say that's nothing to do with the. that sergeant tino that's turkey. we're good we're cool over here and now china is too close to home the dependence of this region on china on the trade front is quite considerable and there's also a dependence on the u.s. dollar on the boring side of the equation and both of those are on favorable right

now. if we look at the trade war between the u.s. and china is it all doom and gloom for the likes of vietnam other association of southeast asian member nations or are there some positives that could come out of this for them so i wouldn't say doom and gloom so it's concern rather than the law and within us here on this huge variation so dependence on china varies from philippines and indonesia at the upper end to vietnam which is at the lower end but the entire region is affected when the two largest economies in the world fight you're bound to be affected the positive if you can call it that is there is the impetus for greater cooperation for greater economic integration within our sea on because they need to benefit from the economies of scale and scope in order to face solve these headwinds and generally looking at the economies in this region here we are in vietnam one of the fastest growing economies in the world for the past few years as

a thing still looking up some warning signs as well things are looking up on a long term basis the secular trends the young population the fundamentals are strong in there remains so and the potential has also been identified they need to be executed on the jitters they're all around the financial overlay the capital flows the currency in the near term and those need to be managed central banks need to communicate with markets and so it's going to be tricky but as i said nowhere near a crisis and a lot of the talk about new technologies and the need for a decent troll is ation in countries like vietnam again does that pose a problem in countries like this who are very much about centralized power. it's. allowing for platforms to connect to take advantage of the network benefits that you get between boys and sellers in an economy whether this within an economy or across borders so the more the entire region can operate as close to a seamless economy as possible the better and that economic benefit is not lost

many thanks very much this looks from the london school of economics so a lot of talk about trade dispute between the united states and china about multilateral deals which vietnam is very much involved with along with china and the regional comprehensive economic partnership we heard from singapore's prime minister. saying that they still hope to get that deal finalized by the end of this year when hey live in hanoi thank you there have been renewed clashes in yemen's will city of her day there between who the rebels and saudi amorality lead fighters u.n. very good piece also last week collapsed they aimed to prevent an escalation of violence in her data the u.n. envoy to yemen says he'll be making several trips through the middle east on wednesday in the hope of securing commitments to continue the process. palestinians in the u.s. have criticised the trumpet ministration for closing their diplomatic mission

saying it further erodes any chance of a peace deal the palestinian liberation organization office acted as an unofficial embassy for the quarter of a million palestinians in the us. has more from washington. the flag of palestine has waved above this brick building in washington d.c. for more than two decades a symbol of struggle controversy and for mohamed a wise pride especially when you don't have anything for your identity except the flag. rest of. it is under occupation that us of our identity is that if you are there and everywhere in the us a wise was born in a refugee camp in lebanon that's myself here my sister. my brother after moving to the us he became a businessman and a white house advisor who took part in the one nine hundred ninety five negotiations between israel and palestine we had hopes for peace but after getting

closer to the peace process i realized there is no way no way at the time for a comprehensive peace agreement but there was progress like the strength and acceptance of the palestine liberation organization as the official representative of the palestinian people in the us there are about quarter million palestinians like me who live here we have business we have families we have things that we need documents to be attested by the author of the in order that's for land best certificated marriages a set the fits all these things while the palestine liberation organization is officially recognized by much of the international community it remains a pariah to the trump administration the order for it to now close its u.s. offices may be a calculation to pressure the palestinians politically but it's on a personal level that palestinian americans are counting the cost i believe that

this is going to be temporary because political change is coming through the united states and once again december so it will open up and the palestinian flag will fly over the pursuit but that outlook is uncertain polls of the american public show a widening partisan gap regarding middle east conflict with eighty percent of republicans sympathizing with israel trump's closure of the p.l.o. office plays to his base while palestinian americans pay the price. castro al-jazeera washington. there's been thirteen years his evidence former prime minister rafik hariri was assassinated in a truck bombing in beirut a un backed special tribunal has been investigating the murder it's indicted members of the lebanese political movement has bala but isn't expected to issue a verdict until next year zena holder reports from the hague. the men indicted are

members of hezbollah hezbollah does not shy away from the fact that they are in fact what what they call the men of the resistance and the hezbollah leader hassan nasrallah has repeatedly said that they will never give these men up and hand them over to the hague the court has reiterated a call on the lebanese authorities saying that you are obliged to arrest these men and hand them over for trial but levanon as we all know hezbollah is the main political power in lebanon the strongest if you like and it is its military power is stronger in many ways than the state so they're unlikely to appear in court but the prosecution pushing ahead with this trial wrapping its case saying that this was a skillful a sophisticated attack saying that syria the syrian government was at the heart of what it called the conspiracy and there was this one that carried out this is fascination that graphic and how did he was killed because of his political activities because of his opposition to syrian dominance in lebanon he was seen as

a pro western leader which was a threat to the syrian government and its allies so the prosecution wrapping its case relying really on circumstantial evidence which they say is more compelling than direct evidence analyzing a sophisticated and interconnected mobile phone network. the assassination of prime minister if you can how d.d. in two thousand and five was a political earthquake that tore lebanese society apart the aftershocks of the massive bomb blast in beirut are still being felt today. was the leader of the sunday muslim community and the man accused of his murder belong to the political group hezbollah. this month the un backed tribunals investigating his murder is due to hear closing arguments after the prosecution laid out its case a verdict is not expected until at least the middle of next year but already political tensions are resurfacing.

and its rulings are of no value to those betting on the tribunal creating a new situation that could be capitalized on do not play with. five members of hezbollah. a few years ago. and top hezbollah commander must. charges against him were later dropped after his death in syria and two thousand and sixteen hezbollah involvement. and accuses the court of being. the lebanese armed group never to hand over the suspects. in. the prosecution's evidence is based on an interconnected mobile phone network allegedly used by the suspects in the months before the assassination one of the networks stopped working just two minutes before the truck explosion that killed twenty one other people. the prosecution also explains why senior

operatives tied to the syrian government would have sufficient motive to carry out the. killing. and his worsening relationship with syrian president. and political pressure to stop with the tribunal ministers affiliated to has brought down his first government in two thousand and eleven but years later his political calculations changed he formed a unity government with a group that has since grown stronger politically weakened in the recent elections . trying to form his third government. yes. he's in a difficult position was the verdict is announced what position would he take. in this neighborhood of thirty ish d.d. loyalties are to the family they're demanding the truth behind. they also want

justice but that could be at the expense of stability. a medical emergency has been declared in zimbabwe's capital after twenty people died of cholera it's reignited fear is of a repeat of the outbreak that killed thousands in two thousand and eight. from harare patients who are suspected of having cholera had been quarantined in the capital health officials say this is an emergency but i realize that the numbers is growing by the day the number of cases and to date. we have about two thousand over two thousand cases. is that the big problem is the problem is that it's volatile. zimbabwe's health six and other departments in the country has been underfunded and poorly resourced for decades government officials blame the current economic crisis and say they lack resources opposite.