here what do you think are the challenges for the west when it comes to dealing with latin may putin and what implications the see this admission today having on the u.k. russia relations. well there's a couple of different aspects of that the first one we should note is that russia despite the the outward appearance of the monolithic kremlin is changing and domestic politics is happening in russia this weekend we saw united russia the ruling party putin's party did surprisingly poorly in local elections particularly in the resource rich far east the pension reform issue that has been going on the this matter of raising the pension age has resulted in extraordinary mass protests and it's put putin on the wrong side of an issue which ninety percent of russians oppose this week we also saw that that was all a thought the head of the the national guard recording a somewhat bizarre you tube video challenging anti-corruption campaign or lexan of only to a dual so there is this degree to which you know russia itself putin is he's not

losing control but he's still half in to establish control of the domestic situation and in that circumstance foreign policy adventurism picking fights with the west is a very good way to generate a rally around the flag effect at home and try and put a lid on these issues for the west itself we're in the middle of breck's it we've seen tremendous political changes in the united states with regards to their foreign policy outlook under the trump administration and so the question as to whether there is a west operationally speaking in the same way that there was during the obama administration to counter and to do you know to be the opposite side to russia is still an open question and frankly as we've seen in your previous point here you know the european union has very big issues of its own to deal with them and the u.k. is occupied with threats that the you know the bandwidth is being flooded right now in our schooling on interesting times thank you very much for speaking to us now

russia affairs analyst joining us on the news great from london thank you and if you get a chance worth watching this episode of the listening post which looks at how the script poisoning story has been covered in british and russian media as that news bulletin in both countries for weeks this summer much of the coverage as you'll hear has been low on facts and high on speculation washer report by clicking on the show stab at al-jazeera dot com and then on the listening. syria now and a u.n. commission of inquiry on syria is warning that more people have been displaced in the country this year than at any other point in the seven year conflict the commission says more than one million syrian men women and children have been forced from their homes most of those displaced are now in edler province the last rebel held and played in syria the population this two point nine million almost three million they are not there because they decided to go to sleep . they are there because of the recall

civilization. four months this people they were transported to a leap the army is is but tactic that this population transfer through the league is supposed to to come to be confronted with this bombardments nevan is in geneva for us joins us now live needs an unprecedented level of displacement tell us more about what these u.n. investigators have found. well the commission of inquiry reports goes from the period of mid january to mid july so six month period the report says as you mentioned there the million people during that period have been displaced men women and children from six different conflict zones around the country many of them have sought refuge in italy province and of course that raises some big questions about what might happen if there is an escalation of the

offensive in ablett these are people that have already seen a tremendous amount of upheaval in their lives they're living in dire situations many of them without food water medical supplies and shelter and going forward of course the u.n. is deeply worried about another brewing massive humanitarian crisis on its doorstep earlier on in the week we were told of the u.n. is short of two hundred seventy million dollars from its the military and aid budget in being able to deal with another massive internal refugee crisis within the country people are watching the situation develop with great concern and great worry here earlier i spoke to one of the commission is responsible for writing this report this is what she had to say no one is who is acting according to their responsibilities human rights wise or otherwise humanitarian responsibilities everyone is to blame everyone is sort of following their own star or their own

particular interests and it's it's a disaster for the people who have no way to defend themselves. well you heard there from karen abizaid one of the commissioners responsible for writing the report she believes that all sides in this conflict are to blame the report actually went on to catalog examples of violations carried out by some of the forces involved in the battle there in syria in this seven year conflict the report says that turkey in the attempt to control african was responsible for hitting archeological sites for hitting a convoy that was carrying medicine that kurdish fighters who are responsible for bombing a psychiatric hospital and the syrian government its forces have once again been accused of using chlorine gas inside specially customize rockets made in iran it appears in this bitter bitter conflict nobody is free from blame neve thank you

very much for that needs parker live for us in geneva as you heard a lot of concern for the people displaced in their province and last rebel stronghold we've got a special page up on al-jazeera dot com on the battle for government offensive you find all the latest news on the fighting and humanitarian situation in that syrian province in the northwest on al jazeera dot com. fighting has resumed in yemen for city of who data between hoofy rebels in saudi iraqi led forces that news comes as u.s. secretary of state michael bell says saudi arabia and the united arab emirates are working to avoid civilian casualties in yemen his certification clears the way for the u.s. to continue providing weapons and support to the military alliance. come pain has been widely criticized for causing civilian deaths there was international outrage in august when forty one children were killed in the bombing of a school bus inside a province well my compel said in

a statement that the governments of songe arabia and united arab emirates are undertaking demonstrable actions to reduce the risk of harm to civilians and civilian in source fact infrastructure resulting from military operations of these governments the chant administration he says has been clear that ending the conflicts in yemen is 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 that's been in was in jordan now in washington d.c. ross what are we to make of this assessment from my comparable. well without actually seeing the details of the certification to congress it is difficult to determine whether the u.s. is making this determination in good faith and based on the evidence now it is important to stress that the secretary of state mike pompei o was mandated by

congress in in the new defense budget act to make this certification by today wednesday here in the united states certainly it's been a controversial was situation with the saudi led coalition conduct in the war in yemen because of the repeated incidents of civilians being caught in the crossfire now what the saudi coalition and what u.s. officials have said in the past is that those targets have been hit not because the the saudi coalition is going after civilians which of course is against international law but that they are going after a rebel group the fighters who are using civilians as human shields and that evidently civilians may be caught in the crossfire but they're saying that this is not a demonstrably determination by the saudi led coalition to try to put down the civilian

population in order to try to help the yemeni government of president hadi regain control of the entire country the military support that the u.s. provides to yemen and the saudis coalition is conditional and there's been a lot of criticism of that support even from the united nations how much concern is stay within the united states about the growing civilian death toll in yemen and could we see the u.s. be forced to reconsider its support in the near future. well foley there is definitely a conflict between what the congressional directive has mandated the state department to do which is to was say whether or not the saudi coalition is taking enough precautions to protect civilian lives as well as with the leahy act which says that if it is found that a recipient of u.s. military support is engaged in using that equipment against u.s.

law and against international law of war that that support needs to be cut off and so what's really the concern particularly for human rights groups is that there has not been any real pressure from congress to try to insert to try to ensure that the u.s. is actually holding other calgary's to account under the terms of the lahey act is there any general concern across the united states there isn't that much concern but certainly within human rights circles there is great concern that the u.s. may be doing this without having any real due regard for the lahey act again we've asked for more details from the state department about how they have actually made this determination and we will pass that on if we get it thank you ross we'll check in with you later of course here on august eros in jordan in washington d.c. for us and we stay in the u.s. for this next story a monster storm is heading towards the east coast of the united states president trump is urging americans to take the storm seriously calling it

a big one more than a million people in coastal areas have been ordered to get out of the path of hurricane florence forecasters expect two hundred forty kilometers an hour winds and flooding in north and south carolina in the next two days is more of what the president has been warning about thema and first responders are out there they're going to stand through the danger of this storm. get out of its way don't play games with it it's a big one we want you safe get out of the storm's way listen to your local representatives south carolina north carolina virginia chatting your way it's probably not going to change path it's going to be hitting pretty soon be ready and god be with you jay gray has more now from north carolina the storm right now tracking toward this area and it looks like landfall is going to be sometime early

friday morning maybe around daybreak and then it appears that the storm is just going to linger and that sets up a scenario for what could be a story flooding not only here on the coast but inland as well so a lot of people boarding up using sandbags to try and prevent that flooding and then packing up and moving to higher ground that's the good news a lot of people trying to get out of the way before florence moves in it's really troubling especially for a lot of those first responders and and the officials here on the ground who are just really at this point almost begging people to change their minds while they have time the window of opportunity to get ready or get out is going to start closing pretty rapidly today i think by the end of the day conditions just won't allow for people to move out of it will be too rough and so that's why they're really urging this morning for the people who are remaining and i think most of gone but those who are still here to get out. our from on the suspect our resident weather expert kevin corriveau who joins us now on the news great this is being called a storm of a lifetime what is making for and so dangerous one it's just

a huge very powerful storm and we haven't seen a storm of this category making its way close to the carolinas for decades so a lot of people don't even know what this storm can do but what makes this particular storm so dangerous is that right now it's it's making its way towards the coast once it gets to the coast and we've had some uncertainty about what it was going to be doing once made its way to the coast the newest model has just come up and that's what the use forecast models they bring it to the coast and now the storm is going to slow down and potentially stall right off the coast as a major hurricane as a category four so if you take the power of a category four you stop it and just continue to let it spin in one location you can imagine we have i mean storm surge is going to continue in one location the rain is going to continue in one location as well as the winds in one location wherever it hits kevin whether it's north or south carolina it will have far

reaching consequences one it that's really i've been reading a lot from the national weather service all the local agencies and they don't use terms like catastrophic lightly and when they put that out they put that out days ago you have to go that and people are not evacuating which is a very i don't understand the whole concept anyway but this is definitely life threatening we are going to see billions of dollars in damage this could be one of the most damaging storms that we have seen in decades because of bias non movement and it's not just foreign scientists and there are other storms out there later yet you know how why how dangerous is that a live in there was trouble storm made its way over hawaii now what made that interesting is a wind doesn't normally see tropical storms or hurricanes pass over them we had one previously hitting the big guy or come close the big island so much flooding with that so it doesn't take much in this area to. was a lot of flooding now just coming back to florence we heard the warning there from president trump telling people to move but as you say

a lot of people in these situations very often choose to stay what sort of dangers on a face so when when this storm comes we have a lot of people that are on smaller islands or barrier islands in this area we have a lot of people that are close to rivers and the water is actually going to be pushed up the rivers so we can be seen a lot of flooding on the sides but what's going to be happening is once these winds start we're talking about two hundred ten two hundred forty kilometer per hour winds that is going to cause a lot of structural damage power outages are going to be out then of course we're going to see. wave heights on top of high tide that is actually going to go over some of these barrier islands so think about being in that situation for eight twelve twenty hours extremely worrying thank you very much for that kevin now as hundreds of thousands of people are evacuating their homes to avoid the hurricane there's one group whom it seems will be forced to weather it out a thousand prison and prison as inmates and guards in a soft carolina facility and joe is here to tell us more about this and thankfully

while the south carolina department of corrections has decided not to remove inmates from one of its facilities they say it's safer to stay put and we're talking about the ridgeland correctional institution here the guards who are scheduled to work during the hurricane won't be given a choice to opt out now the government has lifted a mandatory evacuation order for this county it's jasper county there that's where this prison is located you might be able to see it's still in the red zone in this map from the state's emergency management division and it's less than fifty kilometers from the coast so there could still be some heavy flooding in this area . now the southern poverty law center has tweeted that the decision is wrong that it's unacceptable for states a gamble with the lives of those in its care governor henry mcmaster has been criticized personally for the decision in light of his press conference on tuesday this is do a very dangerous dome most take it very seriously the will of the

man who you know those are all predicting that this is a unpredictable storm or hurricane and so we must be vigilant we are in a a very deadly and important game of chess with hurricane florence and what we are doing pm south carolina doing is doing is staying one step ahead well that unpredictability has also created a lot of fear as the hurricane nears and as we mentioned earlier president donald trump is urging people to take the storm seriously but he also says he has faith full faith in the emergency preparations and cited what he calls as a past success. order rate go was any credible. success texas we have been given a plus as for florida we've been given a pluses for i think it a certain way the best we did was quarter rico but nobody would understand that i

mean that it's harder to understand it was a very hard very hard thing to do it because of the fact they had no electric before the storms hit it was dead as you probably know well the mayor of the capital san juan her name carmen cruz you may remember she immediately criticized that response saying that president trump thinks that losing three thousand lives is a success can you imagine what he thinks failure looks like hurricane maria devastated puerto rico in addition to the high death rate thousands of people also lost their homes and there were power outages across the island for nearly a year after the storm made landfall and the u.s. government was accused and still accused of not doing enough to help the people of puerto rico but the federal emergency management agency they released a report a couple weeks ago which acknowledge some of the shortfalls of that response last year but blame has also been thrown around at the puerto rican government as well no one serious error was discovered earlier this week and has since gone viral on

twitter. the pictures were taken by a man named abdiel santana mr centeno works for fuel it's a police agency on the island i just spoke with him by phone he said he first noticed the water sitting on the runway in sable puerto rico last year and on a recent trip to the airport in cebu while he was working he noticed that the water was still sitting there so the pictures were posted on social media they went viral fema says the water and we're talking what could be millions of bottles of water were brought to the island by female last year fema tells me the water was turned over to the central government it's believed that the water was given to the general services administration the question is what happened after that where was the breakdown where was the failure of distribution the water kept in sable was kept in an area that was pretty hard hit during the storm and could have used all

the water they could have gotten well hopefully these kinds of errors don't happen again with hurricane florence this week if you're watching us from the east coast let us know if you think the carolinas in particular are prepared you can tweet us your thoughts using the hash tag it is good and to thank you very much as americans batten down the hatches the philippines is repairing for a huge film of its own typhoon mungo to set to bring winds of two hundred kilometers per hour to the northern islands the government has stockpiled food and medicine and imagines he said this is on high alert and twenty thirteen super typhoon haiyan battered the philippines killing more than six thousand people and displacing hundreds of thousands if you're watching us on facebook live coming up a special report from my colleagues that on just their online about a kenyan entrepreneur who is turning fish skin in to let that and still ahead on the grid the death that cause it political earthquake in lebanon a report from the un tried to unite investigating the assassination of former lebanese prime minister rafiq kerry.

the weather as per usual is lost the fine a dry across the arabian peninsula had to get a good deal of the middle east further north we have got a fair amount of cloud just rolling between the black sea and the caspian sea but even here on the caucasus it should be largely dry can't quite say the same for turkey it was a chance of one or two showers there to the western side of the country and then pushing a little further east as we go through friday south of that pleasant sunshine around that eastern side of may twenty ninth celsius in beirut but the hot sunshine continues for baghdad and also for kuwait city warm enough across the reagan potential fine and dry here highs here in doha around forty one celsius over the next couple days fabulous time of year of course and that pleasant weather will continue right into the weekend and beyond meanwhile this present across

a good parts of southern africa are largely clear skies a little bit of a cloud just drifting over towards the eastern cape but for the most part it does that fine and dry something might just see one or two showers a lapping along the coastal shores as we go through friday but these will make their way further east and much of the region will be dry fine and sunny they want to sunshine the showers across central parts of africa all the way to the west. al-jazeera recounts the shocking story of the assassination of count folke abene dot. the first u.n. envoy trying to bring peace to the middle east how is negotiations with him helped save thousands of jews from nazi concentration camps and how these mediation skills put him at the vanguard in the quest for peace in the middle east. killing the

count on al-jazeera. in germany's capital there's a barber like no other sort of what it is to harlem move on iraq of course from cross what you have. but as his city changes he's moving with the time. and going on the roads. the stories be tunes i often hear told by the people who live there. the master barber of berlin this is europe on al-jazeera bang. bang.

headlines on al-jazeera and the stories you're looking at al-jazeera dot com the top trending story is russia and china staging military massive. terry exercises at the border at number one also trending the european parliament's vote to sanction hungary's prime minister victoria bans government a story that we've covered on the news great today our top story here also still trending on our website the controversy over that cartoon of serena williams drawn by an australian cartoonist all those stories and much more on our website at al-jazeera dot com. let's take

a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world now and lebanon's prime minister designate saad hariri says he is not seeking revenge for the assassination of his father he was in court in the hague to hear closing arguments in the trial of those accused of killing former prime minister rafik hariri united nations backed tribunal is trying for members of the never nice party has one law xina reports. the closing arguments are the final step before judges issue their verdict that is not expected until sometime next year the assassination trial of lebanon's prime minister if you can head eighty began in early two thousand and fourteen the prosecution is meant taining its argument that the syrian government was at the heart of the plot which was carried out by members of the political armed party has below these men are being tried in their absence from the un backed tribunals. the two thousand and five assassination was a political earthquake that tore lebanese society apart political and sectarian divisions that emerged continue until today how do you do as the leader of the

sunni community in the suspects belong to a shia group his son and political heir three time prime minister saddle had eighty flew to the hague for the culmination of the trial he is in a difficult position has been and its allies gamed political power at his expense how did he said the perpetrators will face justice sooner or later but added he needs to put his feelings aside as prime minister designate. it took a long time for justice to be served but maybe time allowed us to be more rational i'll deal with this issue as a responsible official who has the responsibility to protect the country and the lebanese people. the prosecution said his father's killing was politically motivated because he wanted to end syria's domination of lebanon the court appointed defense challenge what it described as circumstantial evidence the prosecution says analysis of mobile phone network calls undeniably links the suspects to the attack and they had been monitoring heavies movements for months

prosecuting lawyers say phone lines stopped working moments before the massive bomb blast in beirut the court has again asked lebanese authorities to carry out their obligation and arrest the defendants and transfer them to the hague to face trial but has by law which is the most powerful political party and military force in the country has vowed that the suspects will never. caught twenty one other people were killed and dozens injured in the assassination for many the suspects are not the only ones who should be tried and. they didn't act alone there are definitely people backing them they should be handed over to justice so that we know the people behind them who played a bigger role the truth is what her family and his supporters have been demanding for years but some of them fear political stability may take precedence over justice at least if the prevailing balance of power doesn't change. the hague civilians are paying a higher price than ever before in the war in afghanistan seven thousand eight

hundred were killed in the first six months of this year the highest figure since the u.n. started keeping records thousands more were wounded often with life changing injuries 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 girl you. might imagine we found a bomb and stored the plane with one of 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 front lines 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 once they got out. i heard the sort of the explosion and ran towards the place i saw the children and they were scattered here that 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 molly. twin sister and her mother bridged nearly all casualties from unexploded bombs in afghanistan the children yet there were many like the go family flocked to cities for treatment. turning to the red cross and charities for long term support some going to fly fast official limbs to be fitted when the stumps of heels the girl children or prefer 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 or others like me have lost many more will also lose thirteen year old chief equal are on the far right now a double amputee and wilshere bound carries on. you can see all seven of us are amputees if the pace comes in our country won't bring us back our legs but it will benefit other people in the province pace is particularly elusive there are many taliban in ice will fight is they fight each other and they fight the government from april to june one hundred sixty civilians were killed and a half and nearly five hundred wounded most of those casualties were no accident. i saw the last three quarters of their fighters and afghan and american operations last year in response they targeted civilians and urban areas a strategy born out of desperation but one that civilians and must live with. has been a busy day at the eastern economic forum invited china's president xi jinping and

his russian counterpart vladimir putin vowed to work together to ensure regional stability and there were also a few surprises. bloody vostok has been russia's window in the pacific since ships like these commanded the oceans the city's name means owner of the east that's more ambition the reality. see there have always been larger powers in the region a lot of our stock is much closer to beijing tokyo and seoul than it is to russia's own capital moscow so it makes sense to reach out to asian countries from here and since russia's isolation from the west escalated in two thousand and fourteen has become a strategic necessity creating the eastern economic forum was one response to that shift flying in for the fourth year of the annual forum with the prime ministers of japan and south korea as well as the presidents of mongolia and china the main focus of russia's attention. we should strengthen trust for the sake of peace and

stability in the region even complex changes underway in the international situation the politics of force unilateral approaches and protectionism are rearing their heads that was clearly a dig at u.s. trade policy but the americans have allies here the japanese prime minister spoke up for the u.s. president's approach to north korea. president donald trump in gauge the confidence building with chairman kim jong un he also shared with him the broad future that would emerge through denuclearization and urged him to take action and doing so he dumped a new approach that no one else had tried before with russia and japan have a seventy year old dispute over the korea that's prevented them formally ending the second world war but saying the idea had just occurred to him putin suggested turning the disagreement on its head let's sign a peace treaty not now but before the end of the year without any preconditions i

haven't asked the audience to support me with applause but i'm grateful for the support ok and then based on this peace treaty trying to solve all the remaining issues later as friends putin likes to throw such surprises it also highlights what events like this one can be used for as the name implies this forum is all stance of about economics but the presence of so many presidents and prime ministers shows it has deep. mattick value to this is a chance for them to meet and talk together in a relatively unpressurized environment snopes summit style agendas here and as a useful way to explore regional problems and perhaps find solutions that have otherwise eluded them retellings al-jazeera but it will stop and not just jury out of china it involves a famous actress and no credit score and a mysterious disappearance sandra is here to tell us more. well this story has all the ingredients of a blockbuster mystery movie but this is a story of a chinese megastar who has disappeared without

a trace in the government's lips are sealed about her whereabouts now her fans are lighting up social media asking a simple question where is on being being. the thirty six year old actor model and singer is one of china's biggest celebrities and one of the highest paid actresses in the world she played blink in the x. men franchise she's also the face of blank car to leave a ton l'oreal mercedes benz and as you can see in this ad here the world's largest diamond company deers now the beers used to have a very glowing profile on its website but if you go and click now you'll see that that page has been taken down and found being being hasn't been seen on the internet or in real life for two months now but such a massive celebrity can't just go missing when her face is literally everywhere so this has become a major mystery as time goes on and as my former colleague melissa chan points out

here for comparison it's like taylor swift or can car dash and suddenly disappear and also as she points out the leading suspicion is that she is in government custody now that are those suspicions grew on tuesday when funding beings social credit score was released to the public the social credit score you may know it ranks citizens from zero to one hundred based on their professional work their charitable actions and personal integrity and as a state affiliated state affiliated rather institute said that only nine stars on this list received a passing score that's above sixty in case you're wondering so if we scroll down all the way to the bottom fund being being she has a score here she's one of two people with a score of zero so what's happening she's accused of using something called yin yang contracts that's when you sign one contract with your real salary and. then a second with the smaller figure and then you submit that to the government well in june chinese regulators kept actors pay so there's a greater interest in these allegations and cracking down on this exorbitant pay

than before her studio has denied the accusations but this mystery just keeps growing last week china's state run securities daily reported that fon was quote under control for tax evasion and would accept a legal decision hours later that article was then removed from the internet and there's been no official news or response from the government but social media censors are said to be removing posts from her fans expressing concerns about her whereabouts so an interesting story for sure we will keep watching this it's interesting on so many levels so let us know what you think using the hash tag. thank you very much for that and would love to hear your thoughts on that story that under just talked about with us using the hash tag. other ways to get in touch on your screen right now all of our online platforms on there on twitter. as a hashtag and also the what's up number is on the right if you're watching us on

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in the spine doubtless training in the world of sports joe yeah farley thank you can your president play football while liberia's president can george way captained his country's football team in an international match he's not as fit as he used to be but he's pretty well qualified as a form a strike of ac milan the p.s.g. chelsea and the only african ever to be named player of the year back in one thousand nine hundred five it was a friendly against nigeria organized to retire his famous number fourteen shirts where didn't school but lost to seventy nine minutes before being solved liberia lost the game to one. and as ware retires his shirt his son tim way is right at the start of his international career the eighteen year old here place for his dad's

old club p.s.g. and was born in new york represented the usa against mexico in nashville on choose day will some cheeky tweets coming from nigeria on this show your asks if her president mohamed bihari can play midfield like george where g. day says at fifty one george was free kick and tricks prove you're never too old to fulfill a dream but not everyone was a fan of ways appearance i thought the match was meant to be in honor of him and not to bring him out of retirement says. this tweet from my dear also says that where playing for liberia is a joke and disrespectful of the super eagles it was supposed to be a serious much well regardless of what you think of george whereas appearance many of you still think it's pretty cool that george ware and his son tim are the first father and son to feature for two different countries in football matches on the same day well this sunday formula one's top drivers will compete on the street

circuit in singapore is the latest stop on their calendar but it's been a pretty busy week leading up to the race with the team sorting out the lineup for next season among the movers is ferrari's kimmie reichen who's leaving the italian team for a second time he's moving to salvo with monegasques rookie charlotte clerk swapping sweet seats and going to ferrari but kenny's uncertain future in the sport was very upsetting for f one fans who love him in fact almost ninety thousand of them have signed this petition as you can see and it's addressed to the team principal ferrari to keep the finnish driver at the team for another year and despite the move the position is actually still going to f one journalist phil duncan about the swap deal and why fans a subset to see kimmie the ferrari. i think kerry rock in just has a real cold following in the sport which is quite surprising in a way given his sort of monosyllabic and monotone sort of press conferences and

interviews that he gives but given that he's been this for the best part of two decades he's just a driver the fans of really warms and i think the petition was basically started in the sense of fearing i guess that he wouldn't be around next year so in a way the positions were because he's staying informed want to be the south but i guess the ninety thousand people who will have many that were on the end that signed it won't see him in the ferrari red next year i mean they've finally got a car that can compete against maceda vessels up against here is how listen but i think they just finally thought in terms of constructs his championship they might need a driver who can perhaps put the wind up best to give a bit of a run for his money and then look the hoping he's the man to do that i mean he's only twenty he's going to be the second youngest driver for ferrari in for one history which is quite remarkable really when you think about it but they think he's the man who can take that challenge forward and perhaps you know be the main

man for the future i think they just got used to writing and been alongside beso and in a way surprising us here because it has been rocking ans one of the rotten best seasons he was in over the last race in italy but i think they just really thought that now you know right instead. let's get the new guy in and see what what mcclurkin so when it goes up against us well next year you can tweet me your thoughts at scott with your comments peter we're back with more eight hundred g.m.t. before now back to folly joe thank you very much for that from smiley faces to hand gestures emoji is have become part of the way many of us communicate on line they were invented in japan where a complex alphabet made texting difficult while not being used in art exhibitions and the fight against malaria and mahela to read for some land that. a picture can paint a thousand words happy thoughtful even horrified with one tap there's a short cut to human emotion and emote and now making it into the art world that's

a new exhibition in london artist and twang khattala is exploring their impact on society a video loop of a conversation and silicone emerges plant to show how a few words and symbols can change the way we talk think and react written language is sort of fixed but oral language changes over time is different means of transmission of mission and emotions we don't know how they will look like in ten years the tax will read the same and so it's kind of interesting to think of it. and how we look in ten years more than five hundred sixty billion texts are reported to be sent worldwide every month we've been sending text messages to one another for more than twenty five years they have totally transformed the way we communicate but they've also been blamed for encouraging bad spelling and reducing

emotion down to a simple. and dark has always been about emotion and expression none more so than at the victoria and albert museum in london among other highly politically charged exhibit sits an emergency which will be soon added to your phone or tablet shows a mosquito and it's part of a public health drop which will let scientists track the occurrence of mosquitoes this emerging may be used by you and i after a barbecue one evening having been stung one too many times but it's also about how you might track the movement of mosquito across place so scientists can use it to understand where the mosquitoes are art and science are always reaching out but new ways to try to grab people's attention changing lives could. just a click away emma he would al-jazeera in london and that will do it for today's show remember to keep in touch with us here on the news grades at all times using

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internal displacement has reached unprecedented levels russia's president says the two suspects in the poisoning of sergei screw probably and his daughter in the u.k. are civilians not military intelligence. and rocket fire forces libya to again close the only functioning airport in the capital tripoli. thank you for joining us hungary says it will challenge proceedings against it for breaking the rules on the mako see and civil rights the european parliament voted by a large majority for sanctions against hungary prime minister viktor orban has put pressure on courts and non-governmental groups while refusing to take an asylum seekers' the vote launches the so-called article seven process which could lead to hungary being stripped of its voting rights in the e.u.

but only if member states agree or brad has accused the bloc of blackmail well hungary's foreign minister says the vote is petty revenge for the country's immigration policy. legally speaking this decision goes totally against the procedures put forward in the european treaties and it is absolutely obvious that this debate is about migration. there are forces in the european parliament which basically hate the migratory policy of the current government and this is reflected in their decision well the commission presidential one hero code the fender the parliament's unprecedented action in triggering article seven of the e.u. treaty we need new. the european commission pays all attacks on the rule of law we remain concerned by the developments in some of our member states article

seven must be applied whenever the rule of law is threatened so that there has more for us from strasburg. well the first time any piece of chosen article seven against a member state in this case they took the unprecedented move all voting for this process is procedure and gets hungry because they say it. has been breaching values and principles and i was there talking about the rights human rights being eroded in the country civil liberties being curtailed what this means is a step in what will probably be a long drawn out process first a formal warning for budapest and then it's a later date a vote on whether to strip away e.u. voting rights from hungary vat of course would be a major blow for the country on the international stage it would damage its reputation but it won't be much of a surprise to the country's far right prime minister viktor orban he was in

strasbourg speaking to every piece on tuesday and he said that the e.u. is simply trying to blackmail him to fall into line with what they want rather than what hung guerin's want. syrian government forces a fired chlorine of banned chemical weapon on rebel held areas three times this year so united nations human rights investigator that's what they've been saying the un commission of inquiry also said internal displacement in syria this year has reached levels not seen before in the seven year conflict more than one million syrian men the women and children have been forced from their homes the commission says the chemical attacks constitute war crimes and there have been thirty nine such attacks since two thousand and thirty. most battles documented in the in the

report before you today we're market by a series of walk rhymes which we have detailed extensively mainly launching discriminate attacks deliberate attacking protected objects using pre-built weapons . force to displace it including by armed groups and terrorists is what we have identified is. rockets that were many factions in iran that have been adapted in syria and have been adapted in a way that they could be used it seems. to then be filled up with with chlorine and used in some of these chlorine attacks. as there is parker has more now from. the independent international commission of inquiry was set up in two thousand and eleven to investigate allegations of human rights abuses in syria it has produced a long list of reports twenty in total so far and now

a new report focusing on the period from january to july this year during this period the u.n. says that a million people have been displaced that's more people than any other similar period during the entire seven year conflict these are men women and children many of them living in dire conditions without food without water and without shelter and the commission says that all sides are responsible for flouting their responsibility to these internally displaced people the commission also went on to say that all sides are to responsible for carrying out a whole variety of human rights violations turkey is being accused of bombing a convoy that was bringing medicine to much needed areas kurdish forces have been accused of destroying a psychiatric hospital and the syrian government of once again being accused of using quarrying gas against civilian populations all of these findings say into a kind of warning sign really for what could happen in italy it should the

escalation in the offensive there happen should violence intensify earlier we spoke to one of the members of a three person commission this is what she had to say about edward no one is who is acting according to their responsibilities human rights wise or otherwise humanitarian responsibilities everyone is to blame everyone is sort of following their own star or their own particular interests and it's it's a disaster for the people who have no way to defend themselves so the un commission of very eager to make sure that the three million people in labor don't also find themselves punished and the hunt to destroy the ten thousand or so so killed terrorists. in the syrian government's final offense. if in the country the hoop is that all of the hard work that's been done by the commission since it was set up in two thousand and eleven to look into violations of human rights abuses in syria

all of that one day when the war is over whenever that may be will form the backbone of legal proceedings in the hope of bringing those guilty of war crimes guilty of violating human rights to justice. yemeni government forces backed by a saudi led coalition have seized the two major rebel supply routes into the key port city of her data fighting is once again broken out in the city who the rebels and fighters loyal to the government are battling for control last week un brokered peace talks aimed at preventing an escalation of violence collapsed the un envoy to yemen has said he'll be visiting the region in the hope of securing commitments to continue to talks andrew symonds has been following the developments from neighboring djibouti. the fighting is escalating once again around today to the port city held by hooty rebels the vital city for a supply line going from the port to the south the. now we're getting unconfirmed reports that the u.a.e.

saudi led coalition backing up government troops has in fact gained a block to keep those sixteen which is a major supply route between the capital and the port city not only that it's also kiloton which is another less important but nevertheless very him very very essential supply line from a round the outskirts of the city now we don't know casualty numbers we're not sure of civilian injuries and deaths 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 griffis 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 through amman and on from there to sana'a 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. you know secretary of state has said he certified the congress the saudi arabian the united arab emirates working to avoid harming civilians in yemen this means the u.s. can continue to provide support to it sounding and. more than ten thousand people have been killed in three years of war the conflict is widely seen as a proxy battle between regional rivals saudi arabia and iran a statement follows a string of coalition airstrikes which have killed thousands of civilians including many children. now one of the russians named by the u.k. as a suspect in the service crippled poisoning says he will make a public statement next week that's according to russian state t.v. it comes after president vladimir putin said the russian authorities had located the two men specifying that they are both civilians the u.k.

has issued european arrest warrants for the men who they suspect of working for a russian military intelligence former double agent script file and this daughter survived the poisoning but a u.k. citizen later died. of course we looked into these people are we know who they are we found them already i hope they will come forward and tell us about themselves it will be better for everyone there's nothing special nothing criminal about it i'm telling you we'll see in the near future global risk consultant darryl mcdowell believes it is unlikely the two suspects will face any repercussions in the u.k. . there's a constitutional prohibition in russia on the extradition of civilians to other jurisdictions anyway so there is no way that the the u.k. can really grab a hold of them unless they leave the country into a more friendly jurisdiction for the u.k. home secretary sajid javid has already said they've taken steps to ensure that if they go into the e.u. they will be subject to european arrest warrant the actual statement so far will

probably simply be a an exercise in propaganda they will insist that of course they had nothing to do with this terrible crime and then go off to back to their lives we might see what happened with lugovoy tune the budget assailants in the case that they eventually make their way into the gym or some sort of political structure as a reward for their actions but really no nothing to fear from them so long as its repercussions are concerned. putin was speaking at the eastern economic forum of leadenhall stock where he's been meeting leaders from russia's eastern neighbors he vowed to work with this child chinese counterpart to ensure regional economic stability and he's found a surprise on the japanese prime minister or a challenge as following events in russia's most eastern the major city. bloody vostok has been russia's window in the pacific since ships like these come on to the oceans.