in real language about what's going on essentially the u.s. congress requires the trumpet ministration to say that in this conflict that the u.s. military support in that conflict that's been going on since two thousand and fifteen in order for that military assistance to continue there must be a certification from the u.s. secretary of state that those nations saudi arabia and u.a.e. are doing all that they can to prevent civilian deaths so that's what we have we have this deadline and now the statement from the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o saying that the governments of saudi arabia and the united arab emirates are undertaking demonstrably actions to reduce the risk of harm to civilians and civilian infrastructure resulting from military operations of these governments the troubled ministrations been clear ending the conflict in yemen's a national security priority we will continue to work closely with the saudi led coalition to ensure saudi arabia and the u.a.e. maintain support for u.s.

led efforts to end the civil war in yemen ok so that's the statement but certainly there is going to be some pushback in congress about that statement because there are some serious questions given as you mention the recent attack on children in a school bus where dozens were killed as well as multiple other attacks were civilians were killed how this certification could be made in light of those attacks kimberly you say there will be some pushback will pay or any of the senior member of government have to justify provide evidence as to why he's come to the judgment will he have to provide proof if you like of what they're doing. you know it doesn't appear to be required yet congress is the one that has the check and balance over the executive or the trumpet ministration and certainly they are going to be called on occasion up to capitol hill to testify and this will certainly be one of the things they could be. in questioning on given the fact that

there are a growing number of democrats and republicans in congress who are going wait a second the actions of saudi arabia the u.a.e. do not line up with the statements of the trumpet ministrations saying that they are making their best efforts to reduce civilian casualties not only are we talking about the multiple attacks but also as a direct result of actions that are blocking humanitarian aid the trumpet ministration has has largely been silent except for a few statements with regard to the blocking of seaports airports that would allow humanitarian aid in as that crisis continues to to worsen so certainly in light of the certification there are increasing questions by both democrats and republicans who are saying that the actions are not lining up with the statements but again what we've seen with the trumpet ministration is this deepening of ties with saudi arabia this deepening of ties with the u.a.e. even reversing things such as the hold on arms sales that was put in place by the obama administration so there are going to be questions about this all right

kimberly thanks very much indeed for that well. the administration and the rest of congress is likely to be focusing on the fact that fighting has resumed in yemen's port city of data between rebels in the saudi iraqi led forces u.n. peace so it's collapsed last week there were aimed at preventing an escalation of violence in her day the u.n. envoy says he'll be making several trips through the middle east on wednesday in the hope of securing commitments to resume talks andrew symonds has been following this from. the fighting is escalating once again around the port city held by rebels the vital city for a supply line going from the ports to the. saudi led coalition. government troops has in fact gained a block to keep sixteen which is a major supply route between the capital and the port city not only that also

kiloton which is another less important but nevertheless very i'm very very essential supply line from a around the outskirts of the city now we don't know casualty numbers we're not sure. but this is certainly a major escalation with reports suggesting that the rebels are now mounting an offensive basically a counterattack using artillery the government troops so this is getting more and more critical martin gryphus the u.n. special envoy is attempting to try to calm down the fighting to try and really get some. sort of dialogue going having failed to get the sides together in geneva he's traveling to amman and on from there he hopes and from there to riyadh but this is a desperate situation he has a lot on his hands to try to calm this down. between

the. two men. in the u.k. . ians he made the remarks at the eastern economic forum in vladivostok last week the british prime minister trees amaze said the suspects were members of the russian military intelligence service u.k. prosecutors issued a european warrant for their arrest russia denies it was behind the nerve agent attack in saul's free in march rory chalons has more from the conference in vladivostok. a big change in tact from him about the script

now up until this point the russian government's or thorazine in the form of the foreign ministry has basically said that the identities of these two suspects are completely unknown to them well putin change that in light of all stock he said yes we've found them we know who they are they are civilians nothing particularly special or criminal about them and he hopes that they'll appear at some point soon to give an account of themselves now there are so many questions that u.k. police aren't as to whether we'll get those remains to be seen but certainly the u.k. wants to know whether these are their real identities alexander petrov bashir of if they're not the real identities why were they traveling under false names if they are the real identities why were they using two passports issued in the same year with only one digit that separates them why did they come for

a short trip to the united kingdom coinciding with the poisoning of the scrip owl's why did they travel to saul's bre and were caught on c.c.t.v. in the vicinity of the scribbles housewife before they left to go back to moscow did they leave traces of nova chalk in their london hotel room. that's the situation with the script but of course what was going on in blood of all stock was not about that it was about economics is about regional developments and it was about outreach russia to other. countries asian nations essentially and we heard from putin and the chinese president xi jinping something of a united front s'posed them talking against protectionism saying that this was rearing its head again in the world now they were naming the united states specifically but of course this was a dig at the current policies of donald trump and his emerging trade war

against china russia has long been saying that the sanctions that it is under from the united states amount to a trade war to. five european countries have made a last minute appeal to israel to ask it not to go ahead with the demolition of a better way of village in the occupied west bank the plan to destroy. where two hundred people live has drawn international criticism activists are holding a sit in to try to save the village bennett smith reports. it is a last supper of sorts for qana like most residents who along with activists and supporters are waiting out the hours days weeks no one knows how long before the israeli authorities send in the bulldozers safin the feeling is indescribable the uncertainty the instability the threats of the occupation the fear of the children and the woman the situation in this community is miserable. it's very painful what could be votes than losing your life and it's very difficult you may see this land

as a desert but for us bedouin it's like. they're destroying the either live a blight on our land. the almost ten year long legal battle to save has drawn support from across the world and closer to home competence for peace is an israeli palestinian group that feels increasingly isolated in this country to me. i think the situation in israel in the last few years as the to be related to state to we have to have support national international. support groups inside the israeli society that in the past were except and respected today are being attacked and i'm here because. i think that you know i like the phrase you know none are free until we all are i think it's something that i like to live by when the bulldozers do move in they'll be clearing the way for the expansion of illegal israeli settlements that will eventually cut

through the occupied west bank several major european countries have tonight again asked israel not to go ahead with a demo. referring particularly to the seventy years the palestinian bedouins of course this area but the only official israeli reaction there's ever been since the supreme court ruling came down was from defense minister or lieberman and he said no one will prevent us exercising our sovereignty burnet smith al jazeera. and millions of americans are being warned to expect the largest storm in thirty years hurricane florence is building strength in the atlantic and is heading for the east coast of the united states forecasters expect two hundred forty kilometers an hour winds and flooding in north all south carolina over the next two days we go live now to jay gray he's our correspondent in north carolina jason tell us exactly where you are and what conditions are like.

martine we are in wrightsville beach a little island one of the barrier islands that's around this state right now it's beautiful nice sunshine and a bit of a breeze that's going to change dramatically over the next several hours and through the day here we expect to see the rain pick up as well as the wind and once those conditions set in it's going to go from bad to worse very quickly here going to see a strong storm surge and the storm expected at this point to make landfall sometime early friday morning but then forecasters say it's going to stall a bit and that's going to set up a situation that could mean it's story flooding in not only here on the coast but in line as well so it's going to be very tough go for several days as the storm moves through and i can't see any anybody any people in the shot in which you are but what about the more populated areas are you aware of people packing up

moving or are they just battening down and preparing to sit it out. no martin i would say a majority of the people are packing up and moving to higher ground there's a mandatory evacuation order in effect really in the coastal cities from virginia through the carolinas that affects more than a million people and most are moving to safety there's always some who ride these storms out and i've talked to several of those but they i've been through before and i'm going to stay here at home this is where i feel like i belong officials almost begging at point for people to reconsider that while they still can and move out because they say this storm different than any other is definitely the most powerful to reach this area and last few decades and it's going to sit hover for a while when it makes landfall and that rain is going to be the primary issue flooding is going to be

a very serious problem all right thanks for that jay gray at reporting live there from north carolina but now let's go to the threat everton meteorologist and how big an area of these cases the united states is likely to be affected by florence well if i say martine of the storm itself is larger than the entire state of north carolina that gives you an idea of just how big this system is we're talking something like the eight hundred kilometer so it's a massive storm the slowed lumbering based as you can see on the satellite picture is making its way towards the eastern seaboard and there's been some subtle changes in the full cost from around twenty four hours ago but the winds are still up there at around two hundred fifteen kilometers per hour with gusts significantly higher than that we're talking damaging winds and the movement will move us about twenty kilometers per hour but as jay was saying there the system's going to make its way up towards the coast it will stall and then it will just maybe just run along the coastal fringes of south carolina now i think we may find that the generous self

pretty much out of the woods in terms of the worst of the conditions but you push further south and this. it will be a massive flood maker so we're talking storm surge of two to four meters we're talking rainfall up to six hundred millimeters of rain over the next few days because it will stagger along and she's copious amounts of rainfall all in all we are looking at the possibility the likelihood of catastrophic flooding then take a little a little closer than we make our way towards that eastern seaboard this is the situation now just offshore there we go with the system there the clear skies again the chad was talking about nazi bad at the moment but this will stagger its way further eastwards and over the next eighteen twenty four hours or so it will be lumbering along the coastal fringes of the of the east coast there very close to north carolina very close to the count north carolina south carolina border but look how little it moves as we go through friday into saturday barely moves at all

so you have rainfall over a similar area and what will inevitably be the result of the widespread flooding not seeing everton thank you very much indeed now closing arguments for the assassination trial of rafik hariri are underway in the hague it's been thirteen years it's lebanon's former prime minister was killed in a massive truck bombing in beirut the u.n. backed special tribunal for lebanon indicted members of the lebanese party has ball or the court will not issue a verdict until next year but political tensions over its findings are again resurfacing then a hoarder. the assassination of prime minister in two thousand and five was a political earthquake that. apart the aftershocks of the massive bomb blast in beirut are still being felt today. was the leader of the muslim community and the man accused of his murder belongs to the political group.

this months. 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 tensions are resurfacing. and its rulings. on the tribunal creating a new situation. 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 in two thousand and sixteen has been involved. and accuses the court of being. never to hand over the suspects. 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 explained. operatives to the syrian government would have sufficient motive to . kill. president. political era was pressured to stop cooperating 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 the younger heidi is now trying to form his third government.

he's in a difficult position was the verdict is announced what position would he take and. in this neighborhood of thirty ish d.-d. loyalties are to the family there demanding the truth behind. they also want justice but that could be at the expense of stability in lebanon. beirut. lots more to come here on the al-jazeera news including the former brazilian president lula da silva drops out of next month's election and his running mate takes his place. on the seven children from one family who paid the price of war in afghanistan. installed liberia's president captain of his national football team paul will tell you all in sport. climate change is married to a manger as much

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travis take a look at the top stories here on the al-jazeera news the european parliament has for the first time voted to punish hungry for flouting democratic rule four hundred forty eight members approved the measure which is known as article seven and set in place a series of sanctions that could end with hungry losing its voting rights. a u.n. commission of inquiry on syria says there's been an unprecedented level of internal displacement in twenty eighteen mostly in italy the commission pleaded for all parties to halt hostilities in syria and to find a solution. your secretary of state mike compares to saudi arabia and the united arab emirates are working to avoid civilian casualties in yemen and this is

a key requirement for this year's u.s. defense spending bill that follows multiple cases of mass civilian deaths by saudi led airstrikes in u.t. controlled parts of yemen. by this go back to the top story of the day that of the european parliament which is voted on hungry we can now talk to early who is a professor in european studies at stanford university in berlin he's joining us live from there thanks for talking to us what specifically do european parliamentarians think that hungary is guilty of. well the decision was taken on the basis of a report from a dutch member of parliament who listed a long list of serious problems with the functioning of the misfunctioning of democracy in hungary or starts from the independence of the judges the separation

of powers the freedom of speech minorities are treated whether it's actually possible to change the government given the situation of streamlining everything so it is a long list of problems and that needs to be openly addressed and one of the issues or one of the issues that have perhaps got the most attention was hungry is approach to not only minorities but to migrants to asylum seekers and refugees. well in a populist agenda it's always very useful to play a play get a blame game and the blame game here is we are afraid of foreigners they are not perfectly hungry area and we are the titular nation and we don't want to have anything to do with a europeanized migration policy this is not necessarily a serious challenge in numbers but it instrumented lies this people's fears and it

also plays a blatant game against western countries and most pacifically germany who's accused of being the trigger of the problem as if germany invited refugees why instead germany gave a helping hand to people in the indeed it does reveal doesn't it an enormous rift if you like within the european family but there are other countries out there that have recently swung to the right and thank you austria and italy in fact i mean could they also be open to could they also be subjected to the same kind of disciplinary measures. well what we see with the vote of the european parliament is not automatically a punishment of hungary it's more that they put on stage and its naming and shaming procedure not so much what is called the nuclear option that at the end of the process you will keep out hungary if this is not happening because there are too

many other countries who flirt with similar ideas compared with what stands for we have already poland under investigation but this was not triggered by a vote of the european parliament and what is happening in italy remains to be seen because they just elected a new government that uses as their role model and as you rightly say we see a rift within a pro western type democratic group of countries like germany and the netherlands and france as mark all but we also see a growing number of populists and liberal democracies and this will clearly affect the upcoming elections for the european parliament next may indeed so how how big a challenge how big a threat would you say this is this process that was perhaps started ignited by the twenty fifty refugee crisis to the actual to the very existence of this and the

european project. well if you would have asked me ten years ago i would have said we are so profoundly organized and well established and the institutions work perfectly well that there is no chance that the whole thing could fall apart but it is man made and history has proved my optimism wrong in the last list of crisis from the financial crisis to a democratic crisis and what is considered a refugee crisis which is certainly an awful problem because it makes human beings a part of a problem and they are not the problem it is more the lack of support in relatively rich countries to give a helping hand to people in need from country is that suffer from problems that europe is far from and that is the main divide between countries that are

supportive and those who do not only want a different migration policy but want a different europe and that will be the conflict in the coming years early broker thank you very much indeed for joining us live from berlin. the asian leaders meeting at the world economic forum in vietnam and made veiled criticisms of the united states which is involved in a worsening trade dispute with china the criticism is led by china's vice premier he said protectionism must be rejected when he reports now from the vietnamese capital hanoi. the theme of this forum is embracing new technologies but embracing free and multilateral trade quickly became the main talking points pervious the world economy speaking up but uncertainty is on the rise particularly with some countries protectionist and unilateral measures the gravely undermining rule space multilateral trade posing a very serious hazard to the world's economy. he didn't mention it by name but

china's vice premier was clearly criticizing the united states amid a worsening trade dispute between the two countries with predominantly export manufacturing lead economies southeast asian nations will be affected by the like for like tariffs but it's clear they favor china's multilateral trade philosophy over bilateral deals being pursued by the united states. southeast asian countries planned the sixteen nation trade deal known as the regional comprehensive economic partnership it's now backed by china but excludes the u.s. us young is also working with like minded partners to strengthen. multilateral trading system it's a system that is under growth and stability but is under pressure even through it and that's why our. progress on the regional comprehensive economic partnership and hope to achieve a substantial conclusion to the r.c. by the end of this year. is not yet

a short china is also at the center of territorial disputes with several countries in the south china sea where around five trillion dollars worth of trade is shipped each year with the chinese government claims almost the entire area and is fortified several islands and reefs that are also claimed by the likes of the philippines brunei and vietnam despite the tension china is vietnam's biggest trading partner and it also wants good relations with the united states both in trade and security but the tariff war between china and the us is likely to push hanoi closer to beijing away from trade this is on sun suit cheese first major public appearance since a damning u.n. report last month on the ringgit crisis and the state council made no mention of the minority here all the accusations of genocide wayne hay al jazeera hanoi brazil's jailed former president louis in the field has been replaced as the worker

workers' party candidate for next month's presidential election the former marriage south paolo fernando a dad will now represent the party here's a latin america editor lucien human. oh it was it was choreographed for maximum political and emotional impact in front of the detention center with former president lula da silva is serving a twelve year sentence for corruption a defiant message from him to the brazilian people was read out by a member of his workers' party movement i am living it. i am asking the party that fernando had doug who until now was mine lol running mate substitute me as a presidential candidate he'll be my representative in this battle if they think they have silenced my voice for social justice they are very mistaken now our name is a dud. in actual fact it's the nunda had that will have to try to fill the shoes of brazil still most popular politician many fought

back the tears as he was named. we all share the same pain but not time to go home downtrodden it's time to go on to destroy each with our heads held high and when disaffection when does a lection end afford to p.t. oh dear. but it's unclear how much of luna's popularity can be transferred to her dad a former mayor who is now being investigated for electoral corruption allegedly committed in two thousand and twelve he denies the charges for the superstitious was jinxed from the onset his party's number on the ballot is thirteen unluckier not. to continue calling the shots in what's left of this campaign like in the play is no longer be the lead actor but rather the director behind the scenes or in this case behind bars. while he still has appeals to his sentence pending time had

run out to register an alternative candidate now had that has less than a month to convince the electorate that he can indeed carry on the legacy of the former metalworker remembered as the man who lifted more than thirty million brazilians from poverty and social exclusion. only to see in human al-jazeera brazil. the authorities in zimbabwe have banned public gatherings in an emergency measure to try to control the spread of cholera this highly infectious disease has already killed twenty one people in the capital harare in the last week alone and police say the ban will help stop the spread of it and have not said how long the ban will same place its current size with a rally that was due to be held on saturday by the opposition leader nelson. civilians are paying a higher price than ever before in the war in afghanistan seventeen hundred civilians were killed in the first six months of this year that's the highest figure since the u.n.

started keeping records thousands more are wounded often with life changing injuries charlotte ballasts reports from kabul. the clunk of the missile against the parched afghan countryside. a village seven children between four and thirteen years old from a single family lost limbs one morning in april. in. mathematics we found a bomb and started playing with one of the exploded i saw blood everywhere i didn't feel anything at the time when i looked at my leg it was cut off and then i fell to the ground. for the go families villages in eastern province on the frontlines in the fights between the taliban and government forces the children heard gunfire and explosions during the night the next morning they found an unexploded bomb curious they played with us and they got out to my home i heard the sort of the explosion

and ran towards the place i saw the children and they were scattered here then after a while i took one of my daughters a diet about seven of my children lost their legs the explosion killed four people including four year old twin sister and her mother bridged nearly all casualties from unexploded bombs in afghanistan the children what do you think what many like the go family flock to cities for treatment turning to the red cross and charities for long term support. some can apply for artificial limbs to be fitted when the stumps of heels the girl children are preferred to be harm in the village worried they'll get behind in school if they're away for too long. after all these problems we would like that there should be peace in the fighting should and because there is no benefit in the fighting what i have lost all others like me have lost many more will all.